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Hace 1 día · Mentioned in Despatches. Order of the White Eagle [1] 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.
28 de mar. de 2024 · Role In: Forty-five Rebellion. Sir John Murray, Baronet (born 1718—died December 6, 1777, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, England) was a Scottish Jacobite, secretary to Prince Charles Edward (the Young Pretender) during the rebellion of 1745–46. He damaged the rebels’ cause by his nervous collapse in March 1746 and later by his incrimination of ...
29 de mar. de 2024 · British nobility, in the United Kingdom, members of the upper social class, who usually possess a hereditary title. The titled nobility are part of the peerage, which shares the responsibility of government. The peerage comprises five ranks, which are, in descending order, duke, marquess, earl, viscount, and baron.
30 de mar. de 2024 · Biographical Summary. " Donald MacDonald, formerly Gorme, of Slate, in the Isle of Skye, co Inverness, son and heir of Archibald MacDonald, of the same, by Margaret or May, daughter of Angus MacDonald of Duniveg and Glennis, succeeded his uncle Donald MacDonald, otherwise Gorme, of Slate, 1616, and was created a Baronet [S], 14 July 1625, with ...
25 de mar. de 2024 · Sir William Hay Macnaghten, Baronet (born August 1793—died Dec. 23, 1841, Kābul, Afg.) was a British interventionist agent in Afghanistan during the First Anglo-Afghan War (1839–42). He was created a baronet in 1840. Macnaghten went to India in 1809, where he served as an administrator and a diplomat in Madras and Bengal, acquired a ...
1 de abr. de 2024 · March 11, 1863, Pau, France (aged 60) Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet (born Jan. 29, 1803, near Butterley, Derbyshire, Eng.—died March 11, 1863, Pau, France) was an English general and political officer in India known, because of his reputation for chivalry, as “the Bayard of India” (after the 16th-century French soldier Pierre Terrail ...
29 de mar. de 2024 · Sir Stafford Henry Northcote, 8th Baronet (born October 27, 1818, London, England—died January 12, 1887, London) was a British statesman and a leader of the Conservative Party who helped to shape national financial policy. On leaving Balliol College, Oxford, he became in 1843 private secretary to William Gladstone at the Board of Trade.