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 Lord Privy Seal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Lord Privy Seal or Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal is one of the traditional sinecure offices in the British Cabinet.
The Lord Privy Seal is the fifth of the Great Officers of State, beneath the Lord President of the Council and above the Lord Great Chamberlain.
Since the end of the prime ministership of Margaret Thatcher, the position of Lord Privy Seal has frequently been combined with that of Leader of the House of Lords.
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 ROBERT CECIL, 1ST EARL OF SALISBURY - LoveToKnow Article on ROBERT CECIL, 1ST EARL OF SALISBURY
He was lord privy seal in 1852 and lord president of the council in 1858 1859; his son and heir was the famous prime minister.
In 1588 he accompanied Lord Derby in his mission to the Netherlands to negotiate peace with Spain,and sat in the parliament of 1588, and in the assemblies of 1593, 1597 and 1601 for Hertfordshire.
On Lord Burghleys death on the 4th of August both Essex and Bacon desired to succeed him in the supreme direction of affairs, but the queen preferred the son of her last great minister.
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 Clement Attlee - Free Encyclopedia
Attlee was Lord Privy Seal (1940-2), Deputy Prime Minister (1942), Dominions Secretary (1942-3), and Lord President of the Council (1943-5).
The third earl (a member of the Conservative Party) retained his seat in the Lords as one of the few hereditary peers elected to the House under an amendment to the 1999 House of Lords Act.
Lord Pakenham enters the Cabinet as Minister of Civil Aviation.
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 Pepys' Diary: Privy Seal Office
The lord privy seal first appears as a minister of state in the reign of Edward III.
Previous to the Great Seal Act 1884, all letters patent conferring any dignity, office, monopoly, franchise or other privilege were always passed under the privy seal before passing under the great seal.
According to an L&M footnote “the clerks of the Privy Seal took duty for a month at a time.” SP describes the first such changeover in the entry for 31 July 1660.
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 Pepys' Diary: Robartes, Sir John (2nd Baron Robartes, Lord Privy Seal)
In 1669-70 he had a disastrous year as Ormond’s successor as Lord-Lieutenant, and later served as Lord President of the Council 1679-84 and on the Tangier Committee.
Pepys’s chief as Lord Privy Seal, an office he held from 1661-73.
He did not fight for Cromwell although his son Robert was page-boy at the Protector’s Inauguration in 1657.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Marquess of Ripon
Gladstone's first administration he was lord president of the council (1868-73) and during this period acted as chairman of the joint commission for drawing up the Treaty of Washington which settled the Alabama claims (1876).
The offices he held were: under secretary of State for war (1859-61); under secretary of State for India (1861-1863); secretary of State for war; (1863-66), all under Lord Palmerston; secretary of State for India (1866) under Earl Russell.
When the Liberals again returned to power he took office as lord privy seal.
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 The Avalon Project : Washington Conference 1941-1942 - The British Lord Privy Seal (Attlee) to Prime Minister Churchill
The British Lord Privy Seal (Attlee) to Prime Minister Churchill (1)
Following from Lord Privy Seal for Prime Minister.
The Avalon Project : Washington Conference 1941-1942 - The British Lord Privy Seal (Attlee) to Prime Minister Churchill
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 BBC NEWS UK Politics A-Z of Parliament H-L Lord Privy Seal
The Lord Privy Seal is a largely ceremonial cabinet post.
In recent years the post of Lord Privy Seal has generally been combined with that of Leader of the House of Lords.
However, the holder of the office need not be a peer.
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 lord privy seal - Definition of lord privy seal - lord privy seal in Encyclopedia - DictionaryWords.net
Lord Privy Seal n : the senior cabinet minister in the British Cabinet who has no official duties
The office is now united with that of lord chancellor.
Keeper of the great seal, a high officer of state, who has custody of the great seal.
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 AllRefer.com - Queensberry, James Douglas, 2d duke of (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Restored to favor (1705) with the offices of lord privy seal and lord of the treasury, he worked hard for the union with England as commissioner to the Scottish Parliament.
In 1708 he was created duke of Dover (in the English peerage), and in 1709 he was made third secretary of state for Great Britain.
Duped by an intrigue of Baron Lovat, he falsely accused John Murray, 2d marquess and 1st duke of Atholl, of Jacobite activities and for that mistake was dismissed in 1703.
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 Holland, Henry Richard Vassall Fox, 3d Baron on Encyclopedia.com
He was a member of the Whig opposition party from 1797 and served as lord privy seal in the coalition ministry of 1806-7.
An opponent of the Act of Union with Ireland (1801), he continually advocated its repeal, at the same time working for Catholic Emancipation.
Lord Holland is, perhaps, best known for his influence on literature, politics, and letters through the hospitality that Holland House in London provided for the brilliant and distinguished people of his day.
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 Ramsay MacDonald
1933 - Stanley Baldwin ceases to be Lord Privy Seal, and his successor in that office is not in the cabinet.
1932 - Stanley Baldwin succeeds Lord Snowden as Lord Privy Seal.
Lord Amulree succeeds Lord Thomson as Secretary for Air.
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 Find in a Library: Memoirs of the Right Honourable Arthur, Earl of Anglesey, late lord privy seal intermixt with moral, ...
Memoirs of the Right Honourable Arthur, Earl of Anglesey, late lord privy seal intermixt with moral, political and historical observations, by way of discourse in a letter : to which is prefixt a letter written by his Lordship during his retirement from court in the year 1683
Find in a Library: Memoirs of the Right Honourable Arthur, Earl of Anglesey, late lord privy seal intermixt with moral, political and historical observations, by way of discourse in a letter : to which is prefixt a letter written by his Lordship during his retirement from court in the year 1683
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Lord Privy Seal
The Cabinet has about 20 members, or ministers, all of whom must be members of Parliament (MPs).
MSN Encarta - Search Results - Lord Privy Seal
Butler, Richard Austen: Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons
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 George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle: Information From Answers.com
He split with the Tories over reform and was later Lord Privy Seal in Lord Grey's government (1834).
He was First Commissioner of Woods and Forests and later Lord Privy Seal in the Tory governments of Canning and Goderich.
He was made a Knight of the Garter in 1837 and died in 1848.
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 Encyclopedia: Lord Durham
He was the last British Prime Minister from the House of Lords.
As Lord Privy Seal in the administration of Lord Grey he helped draft the reform bill of 1832.
The only other pair of descendants were Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Baron Minto and his grandson Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, the 4th Earl.
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 Sinecure - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Examples are the Lord Privy Seal and the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in the British cabinet.
A sinecure (from Latin sine, without, and cura, care) means an office which requires or involves little or no responsibility, labour, or active service.
Sinecures have historically provided a potent tool for governments or monarchs to distribute patronage, while recipients are able to store up titles and easy salaries.
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 Lord Halifax resigns as Lord Privy Seal February 8 in History
Lord Halifax resigns as Lord Privy Seal February 8 in History
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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 Politics Privy Council Office and the Lord Privy Seal
Privy Council Office and the Lord Privy Seal
Priorities: Ensuring the smooth progress of the government's legislative programme through parliament; investigating new means to modernise the work of parliament; ensuring that parliament is placed at the heart of the legislative process.
Key role: Respectively responsible for managing the daily and weekly business of the House of Commons and the Lords.
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 Translation of lord
lord in Hungarian is földesúr, fejedelem, úr, lord, mágnás
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 Canadian Chess
United Kingdom Cabinet posts: Chancellor of the Exchequer, Leader of the House of Commons, Lord Privy Seal
World Youth Team Championship, Mexico City, Mexico, Canada - Cuba, Board 3, Preliminaries Round 3, 1978
Famous quote: "Chess is a cold bath for the mind."
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The Lord Privy Seal will, at the same time, consult with the Viceroy and the Commander-in-Chief upon the military situation, bearing always in mind the paramount responsibility of His Majesty's Government by every means in their power to shield the peoples of India from the perils which now beset them.
He carries with him the full confidence of His Majesty's Government, and he will strive in their name to procure the necessary measure of assent, not only from the Hindu majority, but also from those great minorities, amongst which the Moslems are the most numerous and on many grounds preeminent.
and learned Friend the Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House has volunteered to undertake this task.
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 long records group 186 (1851-1860)
Framework for Government research and development / presented to Parliament by the Lord Privy Seal.
http://www.med.virginia.edu/hs-library/historical/kerr-white/long186.htm

  
 Proceedings before the King in Council, against Arthur Earl of Anglesey, Lord Privy Seal, upon account of a Book ...
Proceedings before the King in Council, against Arthur Earl of Anglesey, Lord Privy Seal, upon account of a Book reflecting on the Conduct of James Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, AD 1682.
Title: Proceedings before the King in Council, against Arthur Earl of Anglesey, Lord Privy Seal, upon account of a Book reflecting on the Conduct of James Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, AD 1682.
Publisher: A report extracted from Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials, London 1810.
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 Civil Defence Public Information Leaflet No. 4: Your Food in War-Time - U.K. Lord Privy Seal's Office
U.K. Lord Privy Seal's Office Civil Defence Public Information Leaflet No. 4: Your Food in War-Time
London Lord Privy Seal's Office 1939 fair London Lord Privy Seal's Office 1939 fair 4, wraps, pages darkened and soiled and small stains, small creases to pamphlet and small tears along edges
Civil Defence Public Information Leaflet No. 4: Your Food in War-Time - U.K. Lord Privy Seal's Office
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