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Hace 2 días · University of London. Citation: Dr Iain Sharpe, review of Edwardian Requiem: A Life of Sir Edward Grey, (review no. 1503) https://reviews.history.ac.uk/review/1503. Date accessed: 29 May, 2024. Sir Edward Grey’s 11-year tenure as foreign secretary between 1905 and 1916 remains the longest continuous period that anyone has held the post.
Hace 5 días · Moreover, many British leaders, including Prime Minister H. H. Asquith and Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey, were reluctant to involve the country in a continental war. However, Britain did have a moral and strategic interest in upholding Belgium‘s neutrality, which had been guaranteed by the Treaty of London in 1839.
Hace 3 días · Sir George Grey, KCB (14 April 1812 – 19 September 1898) was a British soldier, explorer, colonial administrator and writer. He served in a succession of governing positions: Governor of South Australia, twice Governor of New Zealand, Governor of Cape Colony, and the 11th premier of New Zealand. [2] He played a key role in the colonisation of ...
Hace 4 días · However, whilst not challenging this view, Phoebe Chow contends that, as the title of her book implies, the seeds of ‘imperial retreat’ had already been sown in the Foreign Office mind: by 1901, there were, she says, ‘subtle changes in how opinion-makers and policy-makers wrote about China’ and, by 1906, Sir Edward Grey, the Foreign Secretary in the newly-elected liberal government ...
Hace 2 días · The Foreign Secretary Edward Grey argued that the secret naval agreements with France created a moral obligation 'to save France from defeat by Germany. British national interest rejected German control of France, Belgium and the Netherlands.
Hace 4 días · John Simms. Field Marshal Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, 1st Baronet, GCB, DSO (5 May 1864 – 22 June 1922) was one of the most senior British Army staff officers of the First World War and was briefly an Irish unionist politician. Wilson served as Commandant of the Staff College, Camberley, and then as Director of Military Operations at the War ...
Hace 2 días · They were especially associated with two houses on the east side of the green: the Corner House (Pyott's) and Kirby's Castle. (fn. 16) Among other inhabitants were Edward Grey, Lord Powis (1533-1544/9), (fn. 17) the lord mayor Sir Richard Gresham (d. 1549) and his widow Isabel (d. 1565), (fn. 18) Sir John Gates (d. 1553), chancellor of the duch...
