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Hace 3 días · It is now held by Clement Attlee's grandson John Richard Attlee, 3rd Earl Attlee. The third earl (a member of the Conservative Party) retained his seat in the Lords as one of the hereditary peers to remain under an amendment to Labour's House of Lords Act 1999.
Hace 2 días · 1 Athelstan was king of Wessex and the first king of all England. 2 James VI of Scotland became also James I of England in 1603. Upon accession to the English throne, he styled himself "King of Great Britain" and was so proclaimed.
Hace 1 día · The Americans recognised that the British Empire was in terminal decline and had welcomed the Attlee government's policy of decolonisation. Churchill believed that Britain's position as a world power depended on the empire's continued existence.
Hace 3 días · The Lord Chamberlain has the Principal Command of all the Kings (or Queens) Servants above Stairs (except in the Bedchamber, which is wholly under the Grooms [ sic] of the Stole) who are all Sworn by him, or by his Warrant to the Gentlemen Ushers.
Sometimes VIPs are made Earls, and then they are Earl Lastname, e.g. Earl Attlee who was a Prime Minister. In conversation they would be called Lord Norfolk or Lord Attlee. John would have been called John Stirling until his father died and he inherited the Earldom.
Hace 4 días · Sir John Cross, born in 1766, was called to the Bar in 1795 and appointed serjeantat-law in 1819. In 1827 he was made king's serjeant and in 1831 was appointed a judge of the court of bankruptcy and knighted. He afterwards became chief judge.
Hace 1 día · Robert Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon, KG, MC, PC (12 June 1897 – 14 January 1977) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1955 until his resignation in 1957.
