Sir Desmond Pitcher | |
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Born | Desmond Henry Pitcher 23 March 1935 Liverpool |
Nationality | British |
Alma mater | Liverpool College of Technology |
Sir Desmond Henry Pitcher FIEE FBCS FRIAS FRSA (born 23 March 1935) is a British businessman and former Deputy Chairman of Everton Football Club. [1] [2] He was knighted in 1992 for his services to Merseyside. [3]
Baron Lawrence, of the Punjab and of Grateley in the County of Southampton, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1869 for Sir John Lawrence, 1st Baronet, the former Viceroy of India. He had already been created a Baronet, in 1858. His son, the second Baron, served in the Conservative administrations of Lord Salisbury and Arthur Balfour as a government whip from 1895 to 1905. The title became extinct on the death of the fifth Baron on 14 August 2023.
Roger Nicholas Edwards, Baron Crickhowell, PC was a British Conservative Party politician who served as an MP from 1970 until 1987 and as Secretary of State for Wales during the first two terms of the Thatcher government.
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Gerald FitzGerald, 14th Earl of Desmond, also counted as 15th or 16th, owned large part of the Irish province of Munster. In 1565 he fought the private Battle of Affane against his neighbours, the Butlers. After this, he was for some time detained in the Tower of London. Though the First Desmond Rebellion took place in his absence, he led the Second Desmond Rebellion from 1579 to his death and was therefore called the Rebel Earl. He was attainted in 1582 and went into hiding but was hunted down and killed.
Judith Cynthia Aline Keppel is a British quiz show contestant who was the first person to win one million pounds on the British television game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. She appeared on the former BBC Two, now Channel 5, quiz show Eggheads from its inception in 2003, until she retired from the show in 2022.
Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond, 1st Earl of Ossory also known as Red Piers, was from the Polestown branch of the Butler family of Ireland. In the succession crisis at the death of Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond he succeeded to the earldom as heir male, but lost the title in 1528 to Thomas Boleyn. He regained it after Boleyn's death in 1538.
William Feilding, 3rd Earl of Denbigh, 2nd Earl of Desmond was an English nobleman. He was the son of George Feilding, 1st Earl of Desmond, and his wife, the former Bridget Stanhope, daughter of Sir Michael Stanhope.
Maurice FitzThomas FitzGerald, 1st Earl of Desmond in Dublin Castle, Dublin, Ireland was an Irish nobleman in the Peerage of Ireland, Captain of Desmond Castle in Kinsale, so-called ruler of Munster, and for a short time Lord Justice of Ireland. Called "Maurice the Great", he led a rebellion against the Crown, but he was ultimately restored to favour.
James Butler, 9th Earl of Ormond and 2nd Earl of Ossory, known as the Lame, was in 1541 confirmed as Earl of Ormond thereby ending the dispute over the Ormond earldom between his father, Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond, and Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire. Butler died from poison in London.
Rudolph Robert Basil Aloysius Augustine Feilding, 9th Earl of Denbigh, 8th Earl of Desmond,, styled Viscount Feilding from 1865 to 1892, was a British Army officer and peer.
Sir Kevin Joseph Satchwell is a British educator who is headmaster of Thomas Telford School in Shropshire and the founding Chief Executive (CEO) to the Thomas Telford Multi Academy Trust (TTMAT).
Laurence Michael Harvey Parsons, 6th Earl of Rosse, KBE was an Anglo-Irish peer.
Alexander Stephen Rudolph Feilding, 12th Earl of Denbigh, 11th Earl of Desmond, styled Viscount Feilding until 1995, is an English peer and landowner. He was a member of the House of Lords from 1995 to 1999 and is the Grand Carver of England.
Desmond Wyndham Otho FitzGerald, 28th Knight of Glin was an Anglo-Irish hereditary knight and socialite.
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The MacCarthy dynasty of Muskerry is a tacksman branch of the MacCarthy Mor dynasty, the Kings of Desmond.
James fitz Maurice FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Desmond, also counted as the 11th, plotted against King Henry VIII with King Francis I of France in 1523 and with Emperor Charles V in 1528 and 1529.
Most prime ministers of the United Kingdom have enjoyed the right to display coats of arms and to this day, prime ministers have their ancestral arms approved, or new armorial bearings granted, either by the College of Arms or the Lyon Court.
WilliamRudolph Michael Feilding, 11th Earl of Denbigh, known as Rollo Feilding and Rollo Denbigh, was a British peer, advertising executive, and racing driver.
Pamela Underwood, born Pamela Richenda Cubitt Montgomery-Cuninghame and later known as Mrs Desmond Underwood, was a British florist and nursery woman. She was an early enthusiast for flower arranging and she wrote about "Grey and Silver Plants".