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Events from the year 1887 in the United Kingdom . This year was the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria.
Stafford Henry Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh, known as Sir Stafford Northcote, 1st Baronet from 1851 to 1885, was a British Conservative politician. He served as Chancellor of the Exchequer between 1874 and 1880 and as Foreign Secretary between 1885 and 1886
Henry Stafford Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote, was a British Conservative politician who served as the third governor-general of Australia, in office from 1904 to 1908. He was previously the governor of Bombay from 1900 to 1903, as well as a government minister under Lord Salisbury.
Earl of Iddesleigh, in the County of Devon, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1885 for the Conservative politician Sir Stafford Northcote, 8th Baronet, of Pynes in the parish of Upton Pyne near Exeter in Devon and lord of the manor of Iddesleigh, 28 miles north-west of Pynes. He served as President of the Board of Trade, Secretary of State for India, Chancellor of the Exchequer, First Lord of the Treasury and Foreign Secretary and was Joint Leader of the Conservative Party from 1881 to 1885. Northcote was made Viscount St Cyres, of Newton Saint Cyres in the County of Devon, at the same time he was given the earldom. This title is also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm, 1st Baronet, was an Austrian-born British medallist and sculptor, best known for the "Jubilee head" of Queen Victoria on coinage, and the statue of the Duke of Wellington at Hyde Park Corner. During his career Boehm maintained a large studio in London and produced a significant volume of public works and private commissions. A speciality of Boehm's was the portrait bust; there are many examples of these in the National Portrait Gallery. He was often commissioned by the Royal Family and members of the aristocracy to make sculptures for their parks and gardens. His works were many, and he exhibited 123 of them at the Royal Academy from 1862 to his death in 1890.
Sir Geoffry Alexander Stafford Northcote, KCMG KStJ was a British colonial administrator.
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Events from the year 1890 in Ireland.
Events from the year 1889 in Ireland.
Events from the year 1868 in the United Kingdom.
Events from the year 1884 in the United Kingdom.
Events from the year 1857 in the United Kingdom.
Stafford Henry Northcote, 4th Earl of Iddesleigh, styled Viscount St Cyres until 1970, was a British peer, a member of the House of Lords from 1970 to November 1999, when the House of Lords Act 1999 came into effect.
Events from the 1400s in England.
Events from the 1480s in England. This decade marks the beginning of the Tudor period.
Henry Gales (1834–1897) was an English painter, most well known for his portrait of the 1867 Derby Cabinet.
Pynes House is a Grade II* listed Queen Anne style country house built by Hugh Stafford between around 1700 and 1725, situated in the parish of Upton Pyne, Devon, 3 miles northwest of Exeter. It was the manor house for the Manor of Upton Pyne, which included the village of Upton Pyne.
St James's Place is a street in the St James's district of London near Green Park. It was first developed around 1694, the historian John Strype describing it in 1720 as a "good Street ... which receiveth a fresh Air out of the Park; the Houses are well-built, and inhabited by Gentry ..." Henry Benjamin Wheatley wrote in 1870 that it was "one of the oddest built streets in London."
Events from the year 1809 in Scotland.
The 1885 Dissolution Honours List was issued in June 1885 prior to the general election of that year.
Walter Stafford Northcote, 2nd Earl of Iddesleigh CB was an English landowner, peer, civil servant, and author, a member of the House of Lords from 1887 until his death.