Tag: British History

  • Capital Gains Tax

    Definition of Capital Gains Tax In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Capital Gains Tax : A tax charged on gains arising from the disposal of assets. The tax due is a proportion of the chargeable gain, which in general terms is the amount by which the […]

  • Constitution

    Definition of Constitution In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Constitution : The rules and practices that determine the composition and functions of the organs of central and local government in a state and regulate the relationship between the individual […]

  • Chancellor of the Exchequer

    Definition of Chancellor of The Exchequer In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Chancellor of The Exchequer : The minister who, as political head of the Treasury, is responsible for government monetary policy, raising national revenue (particularly through […]

  • Local Government Board

    Local Government Board History Set up in 1871 it took over responsibility for all aspects of local government from various ministries and the Poor Law Board. Succeeded by the Ministry of Health in 1919. In this issue about local government board, the book English Poor Law Policy [1] reads as […]

  • Lloyd Kenyon

    Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron (1732-1802), lord chief-justice of England, was descended by his father’s side from an old Lancashire family; his mother was the daughter of a small proprietor in Wales. He was born at Gredington, Flintshire, on the 5th of October 1732. Educated at Ruthin grammar […]

  • Henry I

    Henry I (1068-1135), king of England, nicknamed Beauclerk, the fourth and youngest son of William I. by his queen Matilda of Flanders, was born in 1068 on English soil. Of his life before 1086, when he was solemnly knighted by his father at Westminster, we know little. He was his mother’s […]

  • Henry Arrowe

    Henry Arrowe (?1550-1593), English Puritan and Separatist, was born about 1550, at Shipdam, Norfolk, of a family related by marriage to the lord keeper Bacon, and [v.03 p.0443]probably to Aylmer, bishop of London. He matriculated at Clare Hall, Cambridge, in November 1566, and graduated B.A. […]

  • Henry Iv

    Henry IV (1367-1413), king of England, son of John of Gaunt, by Blanche, daughter of Henry, duke of Lancaster, was born on the 3rd of April 1367, at Bolingbroke in Lincolnshire. As early as 1377 he is styled earl of Derby, and in 1380 he married 284 Mary de Bohun (d. 1394) one of the…

  • Richard Baker

    Sir Richard Baker (1568-1644/5), author of the Chronicle of the Kings of England and other works, was probably born at Sissinghurst in Kent, and entered Hart Hall, Oxford, as a commoner in 1584. He left the university without taking a degree, studied law in London and afterwards travelled in […]

  • John Shute Barrington

    1st Viscount John Shute Barrington (1678-1734), English lawyer and theologian, was the son of Benjamin Shute, merchant, and was born at Theobalds, in Hertfordshire, in 1678. He received part of his education at the university of Utrecht; and, after returning to England in 1698, studied law […]

  • John Desborough

    Life and Work John Desborough (1608-1680), English soldier and politician, son of James Desborough of Eltisley, Cambridgeshire, and of Elizabeth Hatley of Over, in the same county, was baptized on the 13th of November 1608. He was educated for the law. On the 23rd of June 1636 he married […]

  • Thomas Denman

    Thomas Denman Life and Work Thomas Denman, 1st Baron (1779-1854), English judge, was born in London, the son of a well-known physician, on the 23rd of July 1779. He was educated at Eton and St John’s College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1800. Soon after leaving Cambridge he married; and […]

  • Edward Baines

    Edward Baines (1774-1848), English newspaper-proprietor and politician, was born in 1774 at Walton-le-Dale, near Preston, Lancashire. He was educated at the grammar schools of Hawkshead and Preston, and at the age of sixteen was apprenticed to a printer in the latter town. After remaining […]

  • Richard Boyle Cork

    Richard Boyle Cork, 1st Earl of (1566-1643), Irish statesman, second son of Roger Boyle of Faversham in Kent, a descendant of an ancient Herefordshire family, and of Joan, daughter of Robert Naylor of Canterbury, was born at Canterbury on the 3rd of October 1566, and was educated at the […]

  • Elizabethan Settlement

    Elizabethan Settlement and the Church of England Elizabeth’s accession was hailed with pleasure; she was known to dislike her sister’s ecclesiastical policy, and a change was expected. An Act of Supremacy restored to the crown the authority over the church held by Henry Elizabethan settlement. […]