Sir John Francis Edward Acton, 6th Baronet was commander of the naval forces of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany and prime minister of Naples under Ferdinand IV.
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Baron Acton, of Aldenham in the County of Shropshire, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 11 December 1869 for Sir John Dalberg-Acton, 8th Baronet, a prominent historian and Liberal Member of Parliament.
The title of Duc de Dalberg was created by the French Emperor Napoleon I on 14 April 1810 for Emmerich von Dalberg, the nephew of Karl Theodor von Dalberg, Prince-Primate of the Confederation of the Rhine and Grand Duke of Frankfurt. He died on 27 April 1833. His daughter and heiress married firstly Sir Richard Acton, 7th Baronet and secondly Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville, but as the Duke had no sons, the title became extinct.
Richard Gerald Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, 4th Baron Acton, Baron Acton of Bridgnorth was a British Labour Party politician and aristocrat.
John Emerich Henry Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, 3rd Baron Acton, was a British peer and soldier.
Richard Maximilian Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, 2nd Baron Acton, was a British peer and diplomat, ultimately Britain's first Ambassador to Finland in 1919–20.
The Fourth Imperial Diet of Speyer, also referred to as the Diet of 1544, was a Diet of the Holy Roman Empire, called together on February 20, 1544 by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. Charles called the meeting because he wanted to fight a war against France, which he acknowledged required the support of the Lutheran princes, many of them members of the Schmalkaldic League. He received their support by granting them concessions and almost completely abandoning his Catholic position, disregarding the wishes of Pope Paul III. It was decided at this meeting that no formal action should be taken against the Lutherans until a free council met.
Professor Edward David Joseph Lyon-Dalberg-Acton FRHistS is a British academic and former Vice-Chancellor of the University of East Anglia. His title from birth is The Honourable but is never referred as such professionally or on the University website.
John Charles Harold Ferdinand Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, 5e Baron Acton est un pair du Royaume et un écrivain. Il est un des descendants de Lord Acton, l'historien libéral catholique qui fut l'ami de William Gladstone et qui joua un rôle important lors du Concile de Vatican I.
John Arthur Edward Herbert was Deputy Lieutenant for the County of Monmouthshire. He was also High Sheriff of Monmouthshire in 1849.
The North British Review was a Scottish periodical. It was founded in 1844 to act as the organ of the new Free Church of Scotland, the first editor being David Welsh. It was published until 1871; in the last few years of its existence it had a liberal Catholic editorial policy.
Emmerich Joseph Wolfgang Heribert de Dalberg, 1st Duke of Dalberg was a German diplomat who was elevated to the French nobility in the Napoleonic era and who held senior government positions during the Bourbon Restoration.
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