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See also:LORD See also:PRESIDENT OF THE See also:COUNCIL , in See also:England, one of the See also:great See also:officers of See also:state, and a member of the See also:ministry. It was only in 1679 that the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of lord president became permanent. Previously either the lord See also:chancellor, the lord keeper of the See also:seal, or some particular See also:court See also:official took formal direction of the Privy Council. In the reign of See also:Charles I. a See also:special lord president of the council was appointed, but in the following reign the office was See also:left unfilled. The office was of considerable importance when the See also:powers of the Privy Council, exercised through various committees, were of greater extent than at the See also:present See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time. For example, a See also:committee of the lords of the council was formerly responsible for the See also:work now dealt with by the secretary of state for See also:foreign affairs; so also with that now discharged by the See also:Board of See also:Trade. The lord president up to 1855—when a new See also:post of See also:vice-president of the council was created—was responsible for the See also:education See also:department. He was also responsible for the duties of the council in regard to public See also:health, now transferred to the See also:Local See also:Government Board, and for duties in regard to See also:agriculture, now transferred to the Board of Agriculture and See also:Fisheries. The duties of the office now consist of presiding on the not very frequent occasions when the Privy Council meets, and of the See also:drawing up of minutes of council upon subjects which do not belong to any other department of state. The office is very frequently held in See also:conjunction with other ministerial offices, for example, in See also:Gladstone's • See also:fourth ministry the secretary of state for See also:India was also lord president of the council, and in the conservative ministry of 1903 the holder of the office was also president of the Board of Education. The lord president is appointed by a See also:declaration made in council by the See also:sovereign. He is invariably a member of the See also:House of Lords, and he is also included in the See also:cabinet.
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