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Há 2 dias · In January 1855, British Prime Minister Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, dispatched a newly formed Sanitary Commission to the Crimea to investigate high mortality rates in the military hospital.
Há 5 dias · There is a long list of more recent portraits, which includes those of Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh and 2nd Marquess of Londonderry (17691822), a copy by E. M. Bennett after Sir Thomas Lawrence; Hugh Percy, 3rd Duke of Northumberland (1785–1847), by Thomas Phillips; Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784–1865 ...
Há 2 dias · Henry Temple, 2nd Viscount Palmerston, was born in 1739, and succeeded to the title on the death of his grandfather in 1757. In 1762 he entered Parliament and continued a member until his death. He did not attain to distinction in politics, but was fond of travel and social life, and the assemblies at his house in Hanover Square were ...
Há 5 dias · John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, KG, GCMG, PC, FRS (18 August 1792 – 28 May 1878), known by his courtesy title Lord John Russell before 1861, was a British Whig and Liberal statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1846 to 1852 and again from 1865 to 1866.
Há 2 dias · First Opium War. The First Opium War ( Chinese: 第一次鴉片戰爭; pinyin: Dìyīcì yāpiàn zhànzhēng ), also known as the Anglo-Chinese War, was a series of military engagements fought between the British Empire and the Qing dynasty of China between 1839 and 1842. The immediate issue was the Chinese enforcement of their ban on the ...
Há 3 dias · In 1680 his son Henry was described as of East Sheen, (fn. 87) which dates the acquisition of the place by his father as between 1677 and 1680. It belonged to the Temples till Henry Viscount Palmerston, his descendant, the eminent statesman, sold it soon after coming of age in 1805.
Há 2 dias · Admiral of the Fleet Albert Victor Nicholas Louis Francis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma [1] [2] [n 1] (25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979) was a British statesman, naval officer, colonial administrator and close relative of the British royal family. He was born in the United Kingdom to the prominent Battenberg family. He was a maternal uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and a ...
