Hampshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in western South East England on the coast of the English Channel. Home to approximately 1.9 million people,Hampshire is the 5th-most populous county in England. Its largest settlements are the cities of Southampton and Portsmouth. The county town is Winchester. It is bordered by Berkshire to the north,Surrey to the north-east,Wiltshire to the north-west,West Sussex to the south-east,and Dorset to the south-west. The county contains two national parks:the New Forest and part of the South Downs,which together cover 45 per cent of Hampshire.
Supermarine was a British aircraft manufacturer. Although most famous for producing the Spitfire fighter plane during World War II,it also built a range of seaplanes and flying boats,and a series of jet-powered fighter aircraft after World War II. The company had successes in the Schneider Trophy for seaplanes,with three wins in a row in 1927,1929 and 1931.
Hampshire County Council (HCC) is an English council that governs eleven of the thirteen districts geographically located within the ceremonial county of Hampshire. As one of twenty-four county councils in England,it acts as the upper tier of local government to approximately 1.4 million people.
The speaker of the House of Commons is the presiding officer of the House of Commons,the lower house and primary chamber of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The current speaker,Sir Lindsay Hoyle,was elected Speaker on 4 November 2019,following the retirement of John Bercow. Hoyle began his first full parliamentary term in the role on 17 December 2019,having been unanimously re-elected after the 2019 general election.
The Borough of Eastleigh is a local government district and borough in Hampshire,England,bordering the unitary authority of Southampton,Test Valley,the City of Winchester and the Borough of Fareham. Eastleigh is separated from the New Forest by Southampton Water. Water bounds much of the borough,with Southampton Water and the River Hamble bordering the east and southwest of the district. The built-up nature of neighbouring Southampton and the urban area around the town of Eastleigh contrast with the rural nature of much of the borough,which lies within the Hampshire Basin.
Edward Algernon FitzRoy was a British Conservative politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1928 until his death in 1943.
Southampton,Itchen is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Royston Smith,a Conservative member of parliament. Discounting the Speaker returned in the early 1970s in two elections,local voters have elected the MP from only two parties alternately for various periods,with one party reaffiliation (defection) between elections when the Labour Party split in the 1980s.
Southampton Test is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1997 by Alan Whitehead,a member of the Labour Party.
Andrew Robert Frederick Ebenezer Hunter is a British politician and a member of the Orange Order. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Basingstoke from 1983 until 2005. From 1990 to 2001 he was Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Monday Club and was chairman as of 2008,succeeding Lord Sudeley.
The National Democratic Party (NDP) was a right wing political party that operated in the United Kingdom during the 1960s and 1970s. The NDP sought to position itself as an early rival to the National Front although ultimately it failed to challenge the position of this group.
Richard Charles Mitchell,commonly known as Bob Mitchell,was a Labour Member of Parliament (MP) in the United Kingdom. He represented Southampton Test for Labour from 1966 to 1970,and Southampton Itchen for Labour and then the Social Democratic Party from 1971 to 1983.
Woolston is a suburb of Southampton,Hampshire,located on the eastern bank of the River Itchen. It is bounded by the River Itchen,Sholing,Peartree Green,Itchen and Weston.
William Charles Whitlock was a British Labour Party politician.
Evelyn Mansfield King was a British member of parliament for both the Labour Party and then the Conservative Party.
Ralph Morley was a Labour politician in the United Kingdom. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1929 to 1931,and from 1945 until his death.
Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Thomas Ruscombe Wickham was a Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Taunton from 1935 until 1945. He had previously served in India from 1910 until 1935,first as an officer in the British Indian Army,and later a member of the Indian Political Department. From 1919 to 1921,he acted as officer in attendance for the European tour of the Shah of Persia,who awarded him the Order of the Lion and the Sun,3rd Class. He fulfilled the same duties in 1928 for the King of Afghanistan. During his time as an MP,he served as a Parliamentary Private Secretary to two Secretaries of State for War,led a delegation to Australia and New Zealand in 1944,and visited a concentration camp soon after the Second World War.
Richard Taunton Sixth Form College,until 2012 called Taunton's College,is a sixth form college in Upper Shirley,Southampton attended by approximately 1000 students.
The Southampton Itchen by-election of 27 May 1971 was held after the Speaker of the House of Commons and Member of Parliament (MP) Horace King retired. The seat was gained by the Labour Party. The by-election was noted for the strong performance of the far right National Democratic Party,who had developed a following in the constituency.
The Grangefield Academy is a secondary school with academy status situated in the heart of the borough of Stockton on Tees,on Oxbridge Avenue,Grangefield,Stockton-on-Tees,a market town in the ceremonial county of County Durham,North East England.
Royston Matthew Smith is a British Conservative Party politician and has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Southampton Itchen since the 2015 general election. Smith was previously a councillor on the Southampton City Council.
