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5 giorni fa · The chancellor of Oxford University is the largely ceremonial head of the university, who is usually an eminent public figure elected for life. Previous chancellors have included Harold...
1 giorno fa · See list. Admiral of the Fleet Albert Victor Nicholas Louis Francis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma [1] [2] [n 1] (25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979) was a British statesman, naval officer, colonial administrator and close relative of the British royal family. He was born in the United Kingdom to the prominent Battenberg family.
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4 giorni fa · In 1960, Hugh Trevor-Roper arranged for then-Prime Minister Harold Macmillan to run for the post in order to save Oxford from the “solemn, pompous, dreary, respectable Times-reading world which hates elections (indeed, hates life)”. Today, Macmillan would be barred from the higher office: the broadsheet-reading election haters finally won.
1 giorno fa · George Gordon Byron was born on 22 January 1788, on Holles Street in London, England [1] – his birthplace is now supposedly occupied by a branch of the department store John Lewis . Byron was the only child of Captain John Byron (known as 'Jack') and his second wife, Catherine Gordon, heiress of the Gight estate in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
5 giorni fa · Complete coverage of the Cabinet conclusions (minutes) and memoranda of Harold Macmillan's government. Margaret Thatcher's Complete Public Statements, 1945-1990 Free access to thousands of declassified secret documents from the archives.
21 ore fa · Previous inhabitants of Cadogan Place include an eclectic gathering from Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, anti-slavery campaigner William Wilberforce, writer and lover of Oscar Wilde Lord Alfred Douglas to the highly popular Irish comedy actress Dorothea Jordan who for 21 years was mistress to the Duke of Clarence, who later became King William IV and who had 10 children with the Duke.
1 giorno fa · Service number. 179215. Sir Edward Richard George Heath KG MBE (9 July 1916 – 17 July 2005), commonly known as Ted Heath, was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1965 to 1975. Heath also served for 51 years as a Member of Parliament from 1950 to 2001.
