Earl of Clarendon is a title that has been created twice in British history,in 1661 and 1776.
George Samuel Knatchbull Young,Baron Young of Cookham,,known as Sir George Young,6th Baronet,from 1960 to 2015,is a British Conservative Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1974 to 2015,having represented Ealing Acton from 1974 to 1997 and North West Hampshire from 1997. He has served in Cabinet on three occasions:as Secretary of State for Transport from 1995 to 1997;as the Leader of the House of Commons and Lord Privy Seal from 2010 to 2012;and as Chief Whip of the House of Commons from 2012 to 2014.
Baron Braye,of Eaton Bray in the County of Bedford,is a title in the Peerage of England. It was created in 1529 for Edmund Braye,1st Baron Braye. However,the family originally originate from Normandy,they are direct descendants of Chevalier Baudry de Bray who came over to England in the Battle of Hastings of 1066. The family's local area in Leicestershire played host to two battles in England of note,the Battle of Bosworth Field where the current family's ancestor's were on opposing side,and also Battle of Naseby during the First English Civil War,where the old manor house hosted King Charles I. The barony was created by writ,which means that it can descend through both male and female lines. He was succeeded by his son,the second Baron. He died from wounds received at the Battle of St Quentin in 1557. Lord Braye was childless and on his death the title fell into abeyance between his sisters.
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton,1st Baronet Buxton of Belfield and Runton was an English Member of Parliament,brewer,abolitionist and social reformer. He married Hannah Gurney,whose sister became Elizabeth Fry,and became a great friend of her father Joseph Gurney and the extended Gurney family.
Sir William Wedderburn,4th Baronet,JP DL was a British civil servant and politician who was a Liberal Party member of Parliament (MP). Wedderburn was one of the founding members of the Indian National Congress. He was also the president of Congress in 1889 and 1910,for the Allahabad session.
Sir David Dalrymple,1st Baronet,of Hailes was a Scottish advocate and politician who sat in the Parliament of Scotland from 1698 to 1707 and in the British House of Commons from 1707 to 1721. He served as Lord Advocate,and eventually Auditor of the Exchequer in Scotland in 1720.
Sir George Strickland,7th Baronet,also known as Sir George Cholmley was an English Member of Parliament and lawyer. He took the name Cholmley to succeed to the Cholmley estates in 1865.
Jane Hyde,Countess of Clarendon,formerly Jane Leveson-Gower,was the wife of Henry Hyde,4th Earl of Clarendon.
Arthur Divett Hayter,1st Baron Haversham,,known as Sir Arthur Hayter,Bt,from 1878 to 1906,was a British Liberal politician. He served as Financial Secretary to the War Office under William Gladstone from 1882 to 1885.
Sir James Whitehead,1st Baronet DL was a British merchant and Liberal Party politician.
Sir Arthur Brinsley Brooke,2nd Baronet,was an Anglo-Irish Conservative politician.
Sir George Russell,4th Baronet was a British barrister and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1898.
Sir Edmund Hope Verney,3rd Baronet FRGS,DL,JP was a British naval officer,author and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1885 and 1891.
Sir Julian Goldsmid,3rd Baronet,DL,JP was a British lawyer,businessman and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1866 and 1896.
The Trustees for the Establishment of the Colony of Georgia in America,or simply the Georgia Trustees,was a body organized by James Edward Oglethorpe and associates following parliamentary investigations into prison conditions in Britain. After being granted a royal charter in 1732,Oglethorpe led the first group of colonists to the new colony,arriving there in February,1733. The trustees governed Georgia,one of the Thirteen Colonies,from its founding until 1752,a period known as Trustee Georgia.
Sir Edward Littleton of Pillaton Hall,2nd Baronet,was a Staffordshire landowner and MP from the extended Littleton/Lyttelton family,who represented Staffordshire in the Cavalier Parliament.
The 1902 Birthday Honours were announced on 10 November 1902,to celebrate the birthday of Edward VII the previous day. The list included appointments to various orders and honours of the United Kingdom and the British Empire.
Sir Hugh Owen Owen,2nd Baronet,known as Hugh Owen Lord until 1809,was a British Liberal Party,Conservative Party and Tory politician.
William Ayshford Sanford,DL was a landowner,naturalist and Liberal Party politician,who served as Colonial Secretary of Western Australia from 1852 to 1855.
The Faure Electric Accumulator Company (FEAC) was a company founded in 1881 in London to supply electric batteries suitable for lighting and other purposes. It took its name from the French chemical engineer Camille Alphonse Faure. Lord Kelvin wrote a favourable review for Faure's new battery design that appeared in The Times. However he did not play a formal role in the company.
