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Hace 1 día · In December 1940, the Marquess of Lothian, British Ambassador to the United States, died suddenly. Halifax was told to take the job by Churchill, with the proviso that he could still attend meetings of the War Cabinet when he was home on leave in London.
20 de may. de 2024 · A royal warrant of precedence is a warrant issued by the monarch of the United Kingdom to determine precedence amongst individuals or organisations.
Hace 4 días · Clan map of Scotland. The following is a list of Scottish clans (with and without chiefs ) – including, when known, their heraldic crest badges, tartans, mottoes, and other information. The crest badges used by members of Scottish clans are based upon armorial bearings recorded by the Lord Lyon King of Arms in the Public Register ...
Hace 3 días · The offices of gentleman of the bedchamber were in the gift of the Crown. (fn. 1) From 1660 the office of first gentleman was invariably coupled with that of groom of the stole.
10 de may. de 2024 · William Kerr, 6th Marquess of Lothian, KT, FRSE (4 October 1763 – 27 April 1824), was a British soldier, landowner and politician. He was the son of William Kerr, 5th Marquess of Lothian . He served as a representative peer from 1817 to 1824.
29 de may. de 2024 · Rouge Croix or Red Cross took his name from the red cross of St George, badge of the Order of the Garter and sometime national flag of England. He is said to be the oldest of the four pursuivants in ordinary, but the earliest known mention of the title is in 6 Hen. V, 1418–19, when Rouge Croix was at Caudebec.
Hace 4 días · North Side Nos. 1–5 (demolished). When this site was cleared for the new American Embassy in 1957 only Nos. 2 and 3 of the five houses originally built here in c. 1729 were still recognisably early-Georgian buildings, but nothing significant is known of them. No. 1 had been refaced in stone in 1911–12, and so extensively reconstructed internally that the tenant was said to be 'practically ...
