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Page 289 - Liberals to power in 1880 he was appointed President of the Board of Trade, with a seat in the cabinet.
Page 232 - Cornwall ; in 1863 he became Keeper of the Great Seal of the Prince of Wales, as Steward of Scotland, which office, though honorary and unsalaried, is one of high distinction, ranking next to that of Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall ; and he was appointed Controller-General of the Exchequer and Chairman of the Board of Audit, July 27, 1865.
Page 271 - King of the French by the grace of God and the will of the Nation ". Charles X abdicated in favour of his grandson and went into exile for the third and last time.
Page 217 - The Broad Stone of Honour, or, Rules for the Gentlemen of England...
Page 352 - Academy, and one of his pictures was purchased in 1864 by the Royal Association for the promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland. The Council of the Royal Scottish Academy have offered a reward of 100Z. to anyone who will give information which may lead to the apprehension of Mr. Chalmers
Page 132 - be., and received an officer's share of prize-money. At twenty-two he was in command of a vessel, and in the intervals between his voyages he spent much time in the ship-building yards of the Tyne and Clyde, where he gained a thorough knowledge of naval architecture and the construction of the steam-engine. A visit to the Amazons first led him to study the subject of river navigation, and when in Australia, in 1848...
Page 11 - The degree of DCL was conferred upon him by the University of Oxford on the 15th of June, 1841.
Page 81 - FSA, was born in the year 1780, and was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA in 1808, as Second Wrangler and Smith's Mathematical Prizeman.
Page 2 - Manchester, was articled in his sixteenth year to Mr. Kay, a leading solicitor of that city. Losing his father at nineteen, he came to London to finish his term with Mr. Jacob Phillips, of the Inner Temple. Before he was of age he published the romance of " Sir John Chiverton," which was highly praised by Sir Walter Scott.
Page 19 - On the Duty and Necessity of Immediate Legislative Interposition in behalf of the Church of Scotland, as determined by Considerations of Constitutional Law," was an historical view of that Church, particularly in reference to its constitutional power in ecclesiastical matters.