...restored Sir Edward Grey memorial For more on how the memorial came to be built see: http://issuu.com/fcohistorians/docs/fco896_gray_memorial_booklet_-_web_812e11dc3c95ff Keep tabs on the past. Sign up for our email alerts....
...an heir. Edith was significantly younger than Edward and may have seen him as something of a father figure – but she would certainly have known that the birth of...
The most detailed and literary diaries of all the occupants of 10 Downing Street were those kept by Harold Macmillan and William Gladstone. There are, however, two significant differences between...
...State Papers Domestic Charles I Vol. 10: 1636-1637, p. 250. [2] PC 2/44, pp.104-105. [3] Ibid., p. 83; pp. 22-23. Keep tabs on the past.Sign up for our email alerts....
...Walker offered his bloodstock at Tully in County Kildare to the British Government for the purpose of founding a National Stud. It was a significant offer; 6 stallions, 43 brood...
...but they were to cease the trade in slavery, north of the equator. Brazil declared their independence in November 1823 and Portugal eventually signed a Treaty, mediated by the British,...
...party in 1834-5. As Home Secretary after 1835 he reformed the criminal law, and as a result executions only took place for murder and high treason. He promoted the Education...
...3rd Viscount Palmerston Born 20 October 1784 Died 18 October 1865 Dates in office 1855-8, 1859-65 Political party Liberal Keep tabs on the past. Sign up for our email alerts....
...Earl of Beaconsfield Born 21 December 1804 Died 19 April 1881 Dates in office 1868, 1874-80 Political party Conservative Keep tabs on the past. Sign up for our email alerts....
...Geoffrey Smith Stanley 14th Earl of Derby Born 29 March 1799 Died 23 October 1869 Dates in office 1852, 1858-9, 1866-8 Political party Conservative Keep tabs on the past. Sign...