The Abbey Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul,Shrewsbury is an ancient foundation in Shrewsbury,the county town of Shropshire,England.
George Francis Rayner Ellis,FRS,Hon. FRSSAf,is the emeritus distinguished professor of complex systems in the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. He co-authored The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time with University of Cambridge physicist Stephen Hawking,published in 1973,and is considered one of the world's leading theorists in cosmology. From 1989 to 1992 he served as president of the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation. He is a past president of the International Society for Science and Religion. He is an A-rated researcher with the NRF.
Buildwas Abbey was a Cistercian monastery located on the banks of the River Severn,at Buildwas,Shropshire,England - today about two miles (3 km) west of Ironbridge. Founded by the local bishop in 1135,it was sparsely endowed at the outset but enjoyed several periods of growth and increasing wealth:notably under Abbot Ranulf in the second half of the 12th century and again from the mid-13th century,when large numbers of acquisitions were made from the local landed gentry. Abbots were regularly used as agents by Plantagenet in their attempts to subdue Ireland and Wales and the abbey acquired a daughter house in each country. It was a centre of learning,with a substantial library,and was noted for its discipline until the economic and demographic crises of the 14th century brought about decline and difficulties,exacerbated by conflict and political instability in the Welsh Marches. The abbey was suppressed in 1536 as part of the Dissolution of the Monasteries under Henry VIII. Substantial remains of the abbey church and monk's quarters remain and are in the care of English Heritage.
Greenock was a burgh constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1832 until 1974,when it was abolished and its area was merged into the new Greenock and Port Glasgow constituency.
Roger of Worcester was Bishop of Worcester from 1163 to 1179. He had a major role in the controversy between Henry II of England,who was Roger's cousin,and Archbishop Thomas Becket.
Richard de Belmeis I was a medieval cleric,administrator,judge and politician. Beginning as a minor landowner and steward in Shropshire,he became Henry I's chief agent in the Welsh Marches and in 1108 was appointed Bishop of London. He founded St Osyth's Priory in Essex and was succeeded by a considerable dynasty of clerical politicians and landowners.
Richard de Belmeis was a medieval cleric,administrator and politician. His career culminated in election as Bishop of London in 1152. He was one of the founders of Lilleshall Abbey in Shropshire.
Flint Boroughs was a parliamentary constituency in north-east Wales which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and its predecessors,from 1542 until it was abolished for the 1918 general election.
The first High Sheriff of Denbighshire was John Salusbury,snr,appointed in 1540. The shrievalty of Denbighshire,together with that of Flintshire,continued until 1974 when it was abolished after the county and shrievalty of Clwyd was created.
This is a list of High Sheriffs of Flintshire.
Robert Aglionby Slaney was a British barrister and Whig politician from Shropshire. He sat in the House of Commons as a Member of Parliament for the borough of Shrewsbury for most of the period from 1826 until his death in 1862.
Nathaniel Eckersley was an English mill-owner,banker and Conservative Party politician from Standish Hall,near Wigan in Lancashire. He sat in the House of Commons for three years in the 1860s,and two years in the 1880s.
The 1907 Anglesey by-election was a parliamentary by-election held for the House of Commons constituency of Anglesey in North Wales on 21 August 1907.
The 1878 Argyllshire by-election was fought on 27 August 1878. The byelection was fought due to the resignation of the incumbent Liberal Member of Parliament,the Marquess of Lorne to become Governor General of Canada. It was retained by Lorne's brother the Liberal candidate Lord Colin Campbell.
The 1878 Flint Boroughs by-election was fought on 5 July 1878. The byelection was fought due to the death of the incumbent Liberal MP,Peter Ellis Eyton. It was won by the Liberal candidate John Roberts.
The 1876 Burnley by-election was held on 12 February 1876. The byelection was fought due to the death of the incumbent Liberal MP,Richard Shaw. It was won by the Liberal candidate Peter Rylands.
The 1906 Eifion by-election was held on 5 June 1906. The by-election was held due to the resignation of the incumbent Liberal MP,John Bryn Roberts to become a county court judge. It was won by the Liberal candidate Ellis William Davies.
The Hokitika by-election 1878 was a by-election held in the multi-member Hokitika electorate during the 6th New Zealand Parliament,on 26 June 1878. The by-election was caused by the resignation of incumbent MP Charles Button and was won by Seymour Thorne George,who defeated Gerard George Fitzgerald. Thorne George was suggested as a candidate by the premier,Sir George Grey;he was the Premier's nephew,and lived in the North Island.
William Vansittart was a British Conservative Party and Liberal Party politician.
Audrey Eyton was an English animal welfare campaigner,journalist and writer. She is best known for creating the F-Plan diet,a high-fibre diet that has been criticized as a fad diet.
