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91Burleigh Castle — The remains of Burleigh Castle are located just outside the village of Milnathort, 1.5 miles north of Kinross, in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. The castle dates from the 15th and 16th centuries, and now sits beside the A911 road, opposite a 19th… …
92Darwin–Wedgwood family — The Darwin–Wedgwood family is actually two interrelated English families, descended from the prominent 18th century doctor, Erasmus Darwin, and Josiah Wedgwood, founder of the pottery firm, Josiah Wedgwood and Sons, the most notable member of… …
93Dale Campbell-Savours, Baron Campbell-Savours — The Lord Campbell Savours Member of Parliament for Workington In office 3 May 1979 – 7 June 2001 Preceded by Richard Page Succeeded by Tony Cunningham …
94Nuneaton by-election, 1942 — The Nuneaton by election, 1942 was a parliamentary by election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Nuneaton on 9 March 1942. The seat had become vacant when the Labour Member of Parliament Reginald Fletcher was raised to the… …
95Lord Chief Justice — the presiding judge of Britain s High Court of Justice, the superior court of record for both criminal and civil cases. * * * ▪ English and Welsh judge in England and Wales, the head of the Queen s (or King s) Bench Division of the High… …
96CLIVE, ROBERT, LORD CLIVE AND BARON PLASSEY — the founder of the dominion of Britain in India, born in Shropshire; at 19 went out a clerk in the East India Company s service, but quitted his employment in that capacity for the army; distinguishing himself against the rajah of Tanjore, was …
97LAWRENCE, JOHN, LORD — the Saviour of India, born of Irish parentage at Richmond, Yorkshire; entered the Bengal Civil Service in 1829, and on the annexation of the Punjab was appointed Commissioner and afterwards Lieutenant Governor; by his justice and the reforms… …
98Cash for Honours — (also Cash for Peerages, Loans for Honours or Loans for Peerages) is the name given by some in the media to a political scandal in the United Kingdom in 2006 and 2007 concerning the connection between political donations and the award of life… …
99Australian peers — Australians, then being British subjects, were originally eligible to receive British Imperial Honours. Such honours included peerages, which at that time were all hereditary and automatically meant membership of the House of Lords neither of… …
100Earl of Seaforth — was a title in the Peerage of Scotland and Peerage of Great Britain. It was held by the family of Mackenzie from 1623 to 1716, and again from 1771 to 1781.The Mackenzies trace their descent to Colin of Kintail (d. 1278), and their name is a… …
