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See also:SPENCER, JOHNPOYNTZ SPENCER , 5th See also:EARL (1835-1910), See also:English statesman, was the son of the 4th Earl and his first wife, a daughter of See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Stephen Poyntz, of Cowdray See also:Park, See also:Sussex. See also:Born on the 27th of See also:October 1835, . and educated at See also:Harrow and Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge, he was a member of See also:parliament for a few months before he succeeded to the earldom in See also:December 1857. His See also:long career as a Liberal politician See also:dates from his See also:acceptance of. 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 See also:lord-See also:lieutenant of See also:Ireland under See also:Gladstone in 1868, a See also:post which he retained until 1874. When the Liberals returned to See also:power in 138o he was appointed lord See also:president of the See also:council, but in 1882 be entered upon a second See also:term of office as lord-lieutenant of Ireland. The three years during which Earl Spencer now filled this position was a See also:period of exceptional disorder in Ireland, marked by a long See also:series of outrages and conspiracies associated with the " Invincibles," but the courage and firmness which he. then displayed won the admiration of all, and made his See also:adoption of the policy of See also:Home See also:Rule in 1885. an event of considerable See also:interest. In the See also:short Liberal See also:administration of •1886 he was lord-president of the council, and from 1892 to 1895 he was a very capable first lord of the See also:admiralty; it. is on See also:record that Gladstone, on retiring in 1904, would have recommended the See also:Queen, if she had consulted him, to summon Lord Spencer to. the premiership. From 1902 to 1905 he was the Liberal See also:leader in the See also:House of Lords, and See also:early in 1905, when a See also:change of See also:government
was seen to be probable, it was thought in some quarters that SPENER, PHILIPP See also:JAKOB (1635-1705), See also:German theologian, he would be the most suitable Liberal See also:prime See also:minister. But was born on the 13th of See also:January 1635, at See also:Rappoltsweiler in his See also:health See also:broke down just at this 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, and he took no further Upper See also:Alsace. After a brief stay in the See also:grammar School of See also:part in See also:political See also:life, although he survived until the 13th of See also:Colmar he went to See also:Strassburg in 1651, where he devoted himself
See also:August 1910, when he died at Althorp. For See also:forty-five years the earl was a See also:Knight of the Garter; he was lord-lieutenant of See also:Northamptonshire for upwards of See also:thirty years, and he had a reputation as a keen and daring rider to hounds. The See also:fine library, collected at Althorp by the 2nd earl, was sold by him for £250,000 to Mrs See also:Rylands, the widow of a See also:Manchester See also:merchant, and was by her presented to the See also:city of Manchester.
Earl Spencer had no See also:children, and his successor was his halfbrother,.See also:Charles See also:Robert Spencer (b. 1857), who became the 6th earl. As the Hon. Charles R. Spencer he was one of the See also:parliamentary representatives for Northamptonshire from 188o to 1895 and again from 190o to 1905, and was See also:vice-See also:- CHAMBERLAIN (0. Fr. chamberlain, chamberlenc, Mod. Fr. chambellan, from O. H. Ger. Chamarling, Chamarlinc, whence also the Med. Lat. cambellanus, camerlingus, camerlengus; Ital. camerlingo; Span. camerlengo, compounded of 0. H. Ger. Chamara, Kamara [Lat.
- CHAMBERLAIN, JOSEPH (1836— )
- CHAMBERLAIN, JOSHUA LAWRENCE (1828– )
- CHAMBERLAIN, SIR NEVILLE BOWLES (1820-1902)
chamberlain of the royal See also:household from 1892 to 1895. In 1905 he was appointed lord chamberlain, and in the same See also:year he was raised to the See also:peerage as See also:Viscount Althorp.
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