See also:SIR See also:JOHN See also:ELDON See also:GORST (1835- )
, See also:English statesman, was See also:born at See also:Preston in 1835, the son of See also:Edward Chaddock See also:Gorst, who took the name of See also:Lowndes on succeeding to the See also:family See also:estate in 1853
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He graduated third wrangler from St See also:John's See also:College, See also:Cambridge, in 1857, and was admitted to a fellowship
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After beginning to read for the See also:bar in See also:London, his See also:father's illness and See also:death led to his sailing to New See also:Zealand, where he married in 186o See also:Mary See also:Elizabeth See also:Moore
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The Maoris had at that See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time set up a See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of their own in the Waikato See also:district and Gorst, who had made See also:friends with the See also:chief Tamihana (See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Thomson), acted as an intermediary between the Maoris and the See also:government
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See also:Sir See also:George See also:Grey made him inspector of See also:schools, then See also:resident See also:magistrate, and eventually See also:civil See also:commissioner in Upper Waikato
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Tamihana's See also:influence secured his safety in the See also:Maori outbreak of 1863
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In 1908 he published a See also:volume of recollections, under the See also:title of New Zealand Revisited: Recollections of the Days of my Youth
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He then returned to See also:England and was called to the bar at the Inner See also:Temple in 1865, becoming Q.C. in 1875
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He stood unsuccessfully for See also:Hastings in the Conservative See also:interest in 1865, and next See also:year entered See also:parliament as member for the See also:- BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough of Cambridge, but failed to secure re-See also:election at the See also:dissolution of 1868
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After the Conservative defeat of that year he was entrusted by Disraeliwith the reorganization of the party machinery, and in five years of hard See also:work he paved the way for the Conservative success at the See also:general election of 1874
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At a bye-election in 1875 he re-entered parliament as member for See also:Chatham, which he continued to represent until 1892
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He joined Sir See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Drummond-See also:Wolff, See also:Lord See also:Randolph See also:Churchill and Mr See also:Arthur See also:Balfour in the " See also:Fourth Party," and he became See also:solicitor-general in the ad-ministration of 1885-1886 and was knighted
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On the formation of the second See also:Salisbury See also:administration (1886) he became under-secretary for See also:India and in 1891 See also:financial secretary to the See also:Treasury
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At the general election of 1892 he became member for Cambridge University
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He was See also:deputy chairman of committees in the See also:House of See also:Commons from 1888 to 1891, and on the formation of the third Salisbury administration in 1895 he became See also:vice-See also:president of the See also:committee of the See also:council on See also:education (until 1902)
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Sir John Gorst adhered to the principles of Tory See also:democracy which he had advocated in the days of the fourth party, and continued to exhibit an active interest in the See also:housing of the poor, the education and care of their See also:children, and in social questions generally, both in parliament and in the See also:press
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But he was always exceedingly " See also:independent " in his See also:political See also:action
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He objected to Mr See also:- CHAMBERLAIN (0. Fr. chamberlain, chamberlenc, Mod. Fr. chambellan, from O. H. Ger. Chamarling, Chamarlinc, whence also the Med. Lat. cambellanus, camerlingus, camerlengus; Ital. camerlingo; Span. camerlengo, compounded of 0. H. Ger. Chamara, Kamara [Lat.
- CHAMBERLAIN, JOSEPH (1836— )
- CHAMBERLAIN, JOSHUA LAWRENCE (1828– )
- CHAMBERLAIN, SIR NEVILLE BOWLES (1820-1902)
Chamberlain's proposals for See also:tariff reform, and lost his seat at Cambridge at the general election of 1906 to a tariff reformer
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He then withdrew from the vice-chancellorship of the See also:Primrose See also:League, of which he had been one of the founders, on the ground that it no longer represented the policy of Lord See also:Beaconsfield
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In 1910 he See also:con-tested Preston as a Liberal, but failed to secure election
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His See also:elder son, SIR J
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See also:ELDON GORST (b
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1861), was financial adviser to the See also:Egyptian government from 1898 to 1904, when he became assistant under-secretary of See also:state for See also:foreign affairs
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In 1907 he succeeded Lord See also:Cromer as See also:British See also:agent and See also:consul-general in See also:Egypt
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An See also:account of Sir John Gorst's connexion with Lord Randolph Churchill will be found in the Fourth Party (1906), by his younger son, Harold E
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Gorst
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