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Hace 2 días · Field Marshal Sir William Robert Robertson, 1st Baronet, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, DSO (29 January 1860 – 12 February 1933) was a British Army officer who served as Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS) – the professional head of the British Army – from 1916 to 1918 during the First World War.
- 1877–1920
- British Army
Hace 1 día · William Ewart Gladstone FRS FSS ( / ˈɡlædstən / GLAD-stən; 29 December 1809 – 19 May 1898) was a British statesman and Liberal politician. In a career lasting over 60 years, he served for 12 years as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, spread over four non-consecutive terms (the most of any British prime minister) beginning in 1868 and ...
- Himself
- Liberal (1859–1898)
- Sir John Gladstone, Anne MacKenzie Robertson
Hace 3 días · Heroic Minister, 1865-1898, (review no. 89) At the Gladstone Centenary Conference, held at Chester in the summer of 1998, one speaker pointed out that at that point in time there were ten or eleven new biographies of 'WEG' under contract. If such a high number of new works is indicative of Gladstone's enduring fascination and appeal, the length ...
Hace 4 días · Sir George Downing, 1st Baronet (c. 1623 - c. 19 July 1684) was an Anglo-Irish diplomat and financial reformer, who held office first under the Commonwealth of England, then Charles II. As Teller of the Exchequer , he carried out major reforms in public finance, including securing passage of the Navigation Acts , intended to protect ...
Hace 5 días · Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, 1st Baronet was a financier and Britain’s first Jewish baronet, whose work for Jewish emancipation in that nation made possible the passage of the Jewish Disabilities Bill of 1859, granting basic civil and political rights to Jews. Highly successful as a dealer in precious.
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Hace 3 días · Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe was an English lawyer and horologist notorious in his day for his disputatious demeanour but now better remembered as the designer of the highly accurate regulator incorporated in the clock in Elizabeth Tower (formerly St. Stephen’s Tower) of the British Houses
Hace 1 día · Birthplace: London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom. Death: August 02, 1873 (56) Wigan, Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom. Immediate Family: Son of Sir William Anson, 1st Baronet and Louisa Frances Mary Anson. Husband of Elizabeth Catherine Anson.
