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Há 3 dias · His (or Her) Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for India, known for short as the India secretary or the Indian secretary, was the British Cabinet minister and the political head of the India Office responsible for the governance of the British Indian Empire, including Aden, Burma and the Persian Gulf Residency.
Há 8 horas · The leader of the Conservative Party (officially the leader of the Conservative and Unionist Party) is the highest position within the United Kingdom 's Conservative Party. The current holder of the position is Rishi Sunak, who was elected to the position on 24 October 2022, following his unopposed victory in the party's leadership election. [1]
Há 14 horas · ON THIS DAY IN POLITICS: On July 25, 1886 Robert Gascoyne-Cecil (or the third Marquess of Salisbury, to his besties) became prime minister for the second time. He was described as “deeply neurotic, depressive, agitated, introverted, fearful of change and loss of control, and self-effacing but capable of extraordinary competitiveness.”
Há 1 dia · In 1886, the party formed an alliance with Spencer Cavendish and Joseph Chamberlain's new Liberal Unionist Party and, under the statesmen Robert Gascoyne-Cecil and Arthur Balfour, held power for all but three of the following twenty years before suffering a heavy defeat in 1906 when it split over the issue of free trade.
Há 4 dias · In 1599 Sir Robert Cecil, afterwards Earl of Salisbury, bought the house from Lord Herbert, together with the tenements on the north-west corner of Ivy Lane, and proceeded to pull them down and erect a new house on the site.
Há 3 dias · Gascoyne retained the remainder of the estate, which passed through his daughter Frances to her husband James Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury (d. 1868), who took the additional surname of Gascoyne, and to their son Robert Gascoyne-Cecil (d. 1903), the prime minister.
Há 4 dias · By the intervention of the Earl of Salisbury, the late Queen Elizabeth granted him an annuity of £40 which he was forced to assign to Francis Smallman for the discharge of certain debts, upon assurance that it would be returned to him when they had been paid.
