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Hace 1 día · 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: 27 April, 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 3 días · One of the many accomplishments of July Crisis is the rightful rehabilitation of British Foreign Minister Edward Grey. Perhaps no one more than Otte is poised to deliver a balanced, new biographical assessment of the often misunderstood and maligned diplomat.
Hace 18 horas · 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 2 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 previously mentioned Sir Edward Grey was one of the prominent members of the Milner Group that House corresponded with. Lord Salisbury introduced Lord Robert Cecil to the Cecil Bloc; he and other members, such as Arthur Balfour, Baron Quickswood, and Sir Evelyn Cecil, among others, frequently functioned as Lord Salisbury’s secretary and were also recruited from All Souls College. 8
Hace 2 días · The Foreign Secretary Edward Grey argued that the secret naval agreements whereby France deployed her fleet to the Mediterranean imposed a moral obligation on Britain to defend the Channel, even though they had not been approved by the Cabinet.
Hace 18 horas · In 1553, the young King Edward developed tuberculosis. It soon became clear he was dying. Not wanting his Catholic sister Mary to succeed, Edward wrote and signed the Devise for the Succession which passed over his sisters Mary and Elizabeth and settled the succession on Edward’s second cousin Jane Grey. Lady Jane Grey 1553 – Protestant
