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Hace 3 días · George Pottinger, a senior civil servant, lost both his status of CB and Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) in 1975 when he was jailed for corruptly receiving gifts from the architect John Poulson.
Hace 21 horas · Royal Victorian Order Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) The Right Honourable Charles John, Viscount Cobham, KG, GCMG, TD. Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) Brigadier Geoffrey Paul Hardy-Roberts, CB, CBE. Lieutenant-Colonel Eric Charles William Mackenzie Penn, CVO, OBE, MC.
Hace 2 días · The Royal Navy played a critical role in the Falkland Islands War (1982), although that conflict demonstrated the toll that antiship missiles could take on surface craft. In the early 21st century the power of the Royal Navy had declined somewhat, but it still remained one of the world’s top four navies, after those of the United States , Russia, and China.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Hace 3 días · British army, in the United Kingdom, the military force charged with national defense and the fulfillment of international mutual defense commitments. The army of England before the Norman Conquest consisted of the king’s household troops (housecarls) and all freemen able to bear arms, who served under the fyrd system for two months a year.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Hace 2 días · Discover the story of Princess Victoria, the young girl destined to be queen, in the rooms where she was born and raised at Kensington Palace. In November 1839, Queen Victoria announced her engagement to Prince Albert, which prompted one of the first biographies of the young Queen: Agnes Strickland’s Queen Victoria from her Birth to her Bridal.
Hace 3 días · Bevir suggests that the sequencing of the chapters holds interpretative significance, stating that their order ‘reflects the claim that Victorian historicism can be understood as arising out of a broad intellectual shift from a Newtonian view rooted in physics to a romantic organicism rooted in the life sciences’ (p. 9): this is suggestive and plausible, but it is not really picked up on ...
Hace 4 días · The wages of the master of the horse, originally amounting to £1,460, were reduced to £500 in 1679 but raised to £1,200 in 1685. (fn. 2) In 1702 the remuneration consisted of wages of £66 13s 4d (representing the old patent salary of 100 marks) and board wages of £1,200 making a total of £1,266 13s 4d. In addition, he was entitled to ...
