"purchased by the Houblon family. They were a wealthy family, originally from Lille in Flanders (now northern France) and included John Houblon who had been the first Governor of the Bank of England in 1694. While leaving the traditional woodland management techniques little changed, the Houblons probably sought the help of Capability Brown. As a result, the lake was created and exotic trees planted (i.e. trees not native to Essex). A picnic house was constructed overlooking the lake and this was decorated using British and tropical shells by Laetia Houblon and this ‘Shell House’ can still be visited today. It"
"manufacture the swords and obtained a charter of corporation as the 'Governor and Company for Making Hollow Sword Blades in England', granted 13 October 1691. The company obtained premises at Shotley Bridge in Durham. Granting of the charter plus two patents was on condition the applicants loaned the government £50,000, which sum was provided by Evance and Sir Francis Child in August 1692. Evance was appointed the first governor of the company, Peter Reneu the deputy governor, assistants Francis Tissen, Matthew Evans, John Carter, John Holland, Abraham Dashwood, John Samford, Robert Peter, Thomas Evans, Peter Justice, John Reneu, William Reneu,"
"corporations general objectives remained unchanged but its powers in respect of navigation rights and taxation were much improved. The organisation was to comprise a Governor, six bailiffs, 20 conservators and the commonalty. The first meeting took place at the Fen Office in the Inner Temple, London on 1 August 1663, where the various official were elected. The first Governor was William Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford, son of the original Undertaker, who held the position until his death in 1700, when he was replaced by his grandson Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford. On the 2nd Duke's death in 1711"
"around the country and, when it was finally erected, Sir Henry's son, Sir Henry Havelock-Allan, paid his first visit to Sunderland and met Gourley. The pair would, just a few years later, jointly represent in Parliament. As a Town Councillor, Gourley was diligent, energetic and popular. He was ""imbued with thoroughly progressive and democratic tastes,"" according to the Echo. Indeed, such was his popularity among fellow councillors and townspeople that, in 1864, he was unanimously elected Mayor. He was re-elected to the Mayoralty the following year and, in his second term of office, he had to guard the town against"
"which had seceded from the London Grocers’ Company in 1617 - and the crest of which - a rhinoceros - appears to also have been adopted by the Dublin guild.) In 1791, by Act of Parliament (31Geo.III), the Company of Apothecaries’ Hall was established, with a Governor and Directors. As noted in the Act, the first governor of the group was Henry Hunt (1707-1796), who had previously been appointed the first State Apothecary (1784)). He was born at Curragh Chase according to Burke's, the son of John ""of Glangoole"" Hunt and Margaret Bowles, his second wife. The Company was independent"
"John Archer-Houblon John Archer Houblon (1 December 1773 – 31 May 1831) was a British Member of Parliament. He was the eldest son of Jacob Houblon and his wife Sussannah Archer of Great Hallingbury, Essex and educated at Felsted School, Charterhouse School (1784–91) and Emmanuel College, Cambridge (1791). He succeeded his maternal grandfather in 1800, inheriting Welford Park, Berkshire and took the additional name of Archer by Royal Licence in 1801. He was appointed High Sheriff of Essex for 1801–02 and elected MP for Essex in 1810, sitting until 1820. He married Mary Ann, the daughter of Thomas Berney Bramston"
"1572 under a Royal Charter granted by Queen Elizabeth I to John Lyon, a wealthy local farmer. The Charter described this as a re-endowment, and there is some evidence of a grammar school at Harrow in the mid-16th century, but its location and connection with Lyon's foundation are unclear. Evidence for earlier schools, possibly connected with the chantry of St Mary (established in 1324), is weak. In the original charter, six governors were named, including two members of the Gerard family of Flambards, and two members of the Page family of Wembley and Sudbury Court. Lyon died in 1592, leaving"
"be rebuilt in stone 1675: Physic garden planted at Holyrood founded by Robert Sibbald 1678: First regular stagecoach to Glasgow 1679: Some 1200 Covenanters are imprisoned at Greyfriars after the battle of Bothwell Brig; some are executed in the Grassmarket; town council organises a Town Guard (or City Guard) for prevention of crime and disorder (disbanded 1817) 1681: Royal College of Physicians founded by Robert Sibbald under patronage of the Duke of Albany and York (later King James VII and II); Merchant Company of Edinburgh receives Royal Charter; Viscount Stair's ""Institutions of the Laws of Scotland"" published 1682: Advocates' Library,"
"at the Dutch outposts at Hartford, so he soon turned to farming. When the New Haven Colony established its administration, he was chosen as one of the ""seven pillars of the church"" acting as one of the 7 councilors who formed the body of freemen and elected civil officers. Their names were: Theophilus Eaton, John Davenport, Robert Newman, Matthew Gilbert, Thomas Fugill, John Punderson, and Jeremiah Dixon. He was elected as the first governor on June 4, 1639 and reelected each year until his death on January 7, 1657/8 (Julian Calendar timing). He was buried on the green in New"
"the Staple, and probably a member of the Mercers' Company, London. He had partially retired when, on the suggestion of a Scottish friend, he projected the Bank of Scotland which was established by act of the Scottish parliament in 1695, in the name of the Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland. The new bank opened its first branches in 1696. Holland was elected the first governor, and ultimately possessed seventy-four shares. One of the directors was James Foulis, with whom Holland had been associated in a scheme for introducing the manufacture of Colchester baizes into Scotland in June"
"year by Mr. Dermot G Mullan a former history teacher at the college who had left to be principal at St Patrick's Grammar School, Downpatrick. The original buildings were designed for approximately 800 pupils, but with an average enrolment of 1250 from the late 90s onwards it was clearly over-stretched. There were approximately 30 mobile classrooms in the form of 15 double-room mobiles. In March 2011 all teaching transferred to the new £25 Million building, constructed on the existing 18 acre site. The current (2018) Chair of the Governors is Leo O'Reilly, Permanent Secretary of Department for Communities in the"
"James Houblon Sir James Houblon (1629 – ""circa"" 26 October 1700) was an influential merchant and Member of Parliament for the City of London. James was baptised at St Mary Woolchurch Haw Church in London on 26 July 1629, the second son of James Houblon, a prosperous merchant and Mary, the daughter of Jean du Quesne, the Younger of London and Canterbury. Both parents were descended from French Huguenot immigrants. He invested heavily in the East India and Iberian trades, specialising in the import of Port wine. He held appointments in the East India Company and the Levant Company. With"
"George B. Holstead of Ruston, whose grandfather had been instrumental in the founding of Louisiana Tech, worked to increase state appropriations for both Louisiana Tech and Grambling State University during his legislative tenure from 1964-1980. On December 7, 2010, the Grambling State University Historic District, an area comprising 16 buildings dating from 1939 to 1960, was added to the National Register of Historic Places. Following the first President Charles P. Adams, Ralph Waldo Emerson Jones became the second president and the highly successful baseball coach from 1936 until his retirement in 1977. Five presidents served from 1977 to 2001: Dr."
"in August 1574. A month later Bishop Pilkington confirmed the endowments. A list of its scholars, comprising 114 pupils, is dated 1575. A governor of the school during the Commonwealth and after the Restoration from 1650 until 1691 was Thomas Willoughby, 11th Baron Willoughby of Parham, gentleman of Horwich. When the school lacked income between 1650 and 1660 he travelled to London, York and Durham to secure its rental income. He was chairman of governors in 1651, 1653–54, 1653, 1670, 1676 and 1683. In the 18th century Richard Pilkington, whose sons founded Pilkington Glass, was a school governor for many"
"and spoke from the porch, a position since reserved for U.S. Presidents. In its early years, Georgetown suffered from considerable financial strain, relying on private sources of funding and the limited profits from local farms that had been donated to the Jesuits by wealthy landowners. Some of these farms included African slaves. By September 1792, tuition had to be increased for the first time. In 1796, Louis William Valentine Dubourg arrived and became president. Dubourg brought with him a collection of books from his own collection and others from St. Mary's Seminary, the Baltimore Society of Saint-Sulpice, and these books"
"first governor, John Hindmarsh, who was the first owner and subdivider of section 353, Hundred of Yatala, the triangle of land having contiguous boundaries with both the historic and present suburb of Hindmarsh, south of Port Road. The inaugural councillors were Thomas Magarey, James Gibson, John Ready, John Packham, and Robert R. Torrens. In 1874 the Corporate Town of Hindmarsh seceded from the district council, leading to the effective end of the latter in the same form. The remainder of Hindmarsh district council moved its seat to Woodville and was renamed to be the District Council of Woodville in 1875."
"London for diplomatic assistance, which had some success in reducing tensions. Stoughton served as acting governor until 1699, while still also serving as chief justice. He remained lieutenant governor during the brief tenure of the Earl of Bellomont as governor, and again became acting governor on the latter's departure in 1700. He was by then in poor health, and accomplished little of note in his final year. The corporate existence of Harvard College had been thrown into turmoil by the recission of the colonial charter in 1684, upon which the Harvard charter depended. In 1692 the provincial assembly passed a"
"than the King—the Duke of Bedford—Lord Westminster—Lord Egremont, or the President of the Royal Academy — ""MR SEGUIER""."" When in 1832 two pictures by Richard Parkes Bonington, who had been dead only four years, were included in an ""Old Masters"" exhibition, Constable (who was twenty-six years older than Bonington) wrote that Seguier was ""carrying on a Humbugg"". Other founding Governors included George Legge, 3rd Earl of Dartmouth as President, the Marquess of Stafford, Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet, William Holwell Carr, John Julius Angerstein, Sir Abraham Hume, 2nd Baronet, Sir Thomas Bernard, 3rd Baronet, and others. They were essentially the"
"discipline of the school, as well as for much of the rest of the school's non-academic activity. The governors form the Board of Governors, also known as the Council of Management, which meets each term and is headed by a chairman. Past chairmen have included Donald Dalrymple ON, physician and Liberal MP for Bath (1868–73), J. J. Colman, head of the Colman's mustard company and Liberal MP for Norwich (1890–1898), Augustus Jessopp (1900–1903), James Stuart, founder of the University Extension Movement and Rector of the University of St Andrews (1903–1913), E. E. Blyth, first Lord Mayor of Norwich (1913–1934), David"
"first appeared under Charles VI. The ordinance of Blois of 1579 reduced their number to 12, but an ordinance of 1779 increased their number to 39 (18 first-class governors, 21 second-class governors). Although in principle, they were the king's representatives and their charges could be revoked at the king's will, some governors had installed themselves and their heirs as a provincial dynasty. The governors were at the height of their power from the middle of the 16th to the middle of the 17th century, but their role in provincial unrest during the civil wars led Cardinal Richelieu to create the"
"regulation of the school, and receive lands and possessions, so as they exceed not the clear yearly value of £40"""", but this limitation has been greatly exceeded. The incumbent headmaster in 1574, John Boste, later a Catholic convert and martyr (canonised by Pope Paul VI in 1970 as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales) was followed in 1580 by Reginald Bainbrigg, a considerable scholar, who made tours of Hadrian's Wall in 1599 and 1601, and corresponded with William Camden and Sir Robert Cotton on antiquarian matters. On his death (c.1613) he bequeathed some 295 volumes to the"
"as slaves. He was President of the Royal Society between 1686–1689, having been elected a Fellow in 1685. He was Colonel of the Regiment of Foot from 1673 to 1674 and Lord of the Admiralty from 1689 to 1690. On his death his titles became extinct. His estates passed to a cousin, another John Vaughan (1693–1765), who rebuilt the Golden Grove mansion. Vaughan married twice, first to Mary Brown, daughter of George Brown of Green Castle; they had no children. He remarried on 10 October 1682 to Anne Savile, daughter of George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax and his first"
"to some extent filled by a dean and chapter of rather unsure legal status, first established by Bishop and confirmed by Smith. It was only in 1685 that a successor was appointed by Rome, in the person of John Leyburn, a Doctor of Divinity of the Sorbonne and a former President of the English College at Douai, who was consecrated bishop in Rome on 9 September 1685. In 1623, Bishop had divided England into six areas, at the head of each of which he placed a superior with the title of vicar general, and this had remained the system thereafter."
"of Hinton St George in Somerset, Governor of Jersey and Captain of the Guard to Queen Elizabeth I and a sister of John Poulett, 1st Baron Poulett (1585–1649). He was a colonel in the Regiment of Foot in the Parliamentary army during the Civil War and was governor of Totnes. In 1659 he was elected Member of Parliament for Ashburton, Devon, in the Third Protectorate Parliament. He was re-elected MP for Ashburton in 1660 for the Convention Parliament and was re-elected MP for Ashburton in 1661 for the Cavalier Parliament. He held the seat until his death in 1677 at"
"governors to the Bank of France. Being heavily influenced by Saint-Simonism, he began by planting pine and drilled wells and was passionate also about agriculture : he was taking a lot of care and being very innovative with his properties in the countryside, be it in the over 300 hectares around the cistercian abbaye of Vauluisant that the Javal owned or in Andernos where he enlarged Audenge to Ares and to Lacanau to form a vast area of over 3000 hectares. The Javal owned the perfume house Houbigant, the second oldest perfume house in Europe. Operating since 1775, the House"
"in present-day terms). Problems with his bequest meant that it was not received in full for about 25 years. As the college had no other donors at this time, ""for many years the college had buildings but no revenue"". The main benefactor, other than the King, was Eubule Thelwall, from Ruthin, North Wales, who became Principal in 1621; he succeeded in securing a new charter and statutes for the college from James I, having spent £5,000 of his own money on the hall and chapel, which earned him the title of its second founder. Thelwall died on 8 October 1630,"
"the disaffected western shires of Scotland to highland raids, before joining Hamilton's faction. He was appointed Lord Justice General in 1682 and an Extraordinary Lord of Session on 16 November the same year. He introduced the use of the thumbscrew in Scotland. He was also Lord Chancellor of Scotland, 1684 - 1688. He was a partner with William Penn in the settlement of East New Jersey in 1681. As one of 24 proprietors of a large parcel of property that took up much of what is now the State of New Jersey, Perth sponsored an expedition in 1684 to establish"
"peak in the 1684 election, in which Danforth stood for election as governor representing the hardline party. He was narrowly defeated by the more conciliatory Simon Bradstreet, but retained the post of deputy governor. The colony's attempts at moderation were in vain—the charter was formally annulled on June 18, 1684. In 1686 King James II established the Dominion of New England as a new colonial entity to govern all of New England. He appointed Massachusetts native Joseph Dudley as its first governor; he was replaced later that year by Sir Edmund Andros. Both Dudley and Andros excluded Danforth from their"
"designated a bishopric; Scottish coronation of Charles I at Holyrood Abbey offends Presbyterian sentiments 1635: First public Post established between Edinburgh and London by royal authority 1636: Edinburgh buys Regality of Canongate together with North Leith, parts of South Leith, and Pleasance; construction of the Tron Kirk begun; population of the town c.30,000 1637: Riots in protest at the introduction of a new Prayer Book; supplication to remove bishops from the privy council 1638: National Covenant signed in Greyfriars Kirkyard 1639: Decisions of Glasgow Church of Scotland assembly ratified 1640: Completion of Parliament House 1641: Birth of Sir Robert Sibbald,"
"into the hands of Lord Chancellor William Crichton in the reign of James II (c.1449). They passed through numerous hands down the centuries, including Francis Stewart, 5th Earl of Bothwell (1581) and Walter Scott of Buccleuch (1594), until they were increasingly subfeued in the 19th century, the feudal superiors being, from 1890 onwards, two brothers named Reid. One feuar was the Order of Ursulines which established St. Margaret's Convent (now the Gillis Centre) in 1834, the first Catholic institution established in Scotland since the Reformation. When the Earl of Hertford attacked Edinburgh in 1544 as part of what was later"
"majority of the votes cast), and the choice was given to the General Court to decide. Its first candidate, James Bowdoin, refused the post, as did the second choice, James Warren, and the choice went to Cushing on the third ballot. He then served in the post, most of the time serving under his friend John Hancock, until his death in 1788. In early 1785 Hancock offered his resignation to the legislature, partly as a political maneuver (although he claimed to be suffering a particularly bad case of gout at the time). The legislature did not insist that Hancock remain"
"the duchy – passed to the French crown. The advantages of Brest's situation as a seaport town were first recognized by Cardinal Richelieu, who in 1631 constructed a harbor with wooden wharves. This soon became a base for the French Navy. Jean-Baptiste Colbert, finance minister under Louis XIV, rebuilt the wharves in masonry and otherwise improved the harbour. Fortifications by Vauban (1633–1707) followed in 1680–1688. These fortifications, and with them the naval importance of the town, were to continue to develop throughout the 18th century. In 1694, an English squadron under Lord Berkeley, was soundly defeated in its attack on"
"It was the first seminary west of the Appalachians. Their St. Thomas Catholic Church, built there in 1816, is the oldest surviving brick church in Kentucky. In 1796, Louis William Valentine Dubourg arrived and became the president of Georgetown University. Later he became the first bishop of the Louisiana Territory. A decade later, Dubourg was instrumental in the transfer from New York City of the widow and recent convert Elizabeth Seton, who had been unsuccessful in her efforts to run a school, in part to care for her family. With his encouragement, she and other women drawn to the vision"