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    Hugh Culling Eardley Childers (25 June 1827 – 29 January 1896) was a British Liberal statesman of the nineteenth century. He is perhaps best known for...
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    Robert Erskine Childers DSC (25 June 1870 – 24 November 1922), usually known as Erskine Childers (/ˈɜːrskɪn ˈtʃɪldərz/), was an English-born Irish nationalist...
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  • Barton Childers (1929–1996), Irish UN civil servant Erskine Hamilton Childers (1905–1974), 4th President of Ireland (1973–1974) Hugh Childers (1827–1896)...
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  • The Childers Reforms of 1881 reorganised the infantry regiments of the British Army. The reforms were done by Secretary of State for War Hugh Childers during...
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    (which becomes the Local Government Board later that year). August 1872: Hugh Childers returns to the Cabinet as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. October...
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    coordinates) Childers is a rural town and locality in the Bundaberg Region, Queensland, Australia. In the 2021 census, the locality of Childers had a population...
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    Westminster. Childers was born in 1866 at 17, Princes Garden, Kensington, into a prominent political family. She was the youngest of eight children of Hugh Childers...
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  • member of the original (unicameral) Victorian Legislative Council. Hugh Childers succeeded Grimes as Auditor-General by November 1855. Grimes died in...
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    incumbent Liberal MP, Hugh Childers, becoming Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Paymaster General. It was retained by Childers. It was the first UK...
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    state secret until the chancellor reveals it in his speech to Parliament. Hugh Dalton, on his way to giving the budget speech in 1947, inadvertently blurted...
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    Secretary. December 1882: Hugh Childers succeeds William Gladstone as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Lord Hartington succeeds Childers as Secretary for War....
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    constituencies covering the city area, all entirely within that area. Caused by Childers' appointment as Home Secretary. Caused by Harrison's death. Politics of...
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    James Hugh Calum Laurie CBE (/ˈlɒri/; born 11 June 1959) is an English actor, comedian, writer, and musician. He first gained recognition for his work...
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    second Baronet, married Reverend Eardley Childers Walbanke-Childers and was the mother of politician Hugh Childers. Sir Culling Smith, 1st Baronet (1731–1812)...
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    the Cabinet. For example, in 1886 she vetoed Gladstone's choice of Hugh Childers as War Secretary in favour of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman. Today, the...
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    action of the Board. In 1868 Prime Minister, William Gladstone appointed Hugh Childers First Lord, who would introduce a new system at the Admiralty. However...
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  • Erskine Childers, an Irish republican and author of the espionage thriller The Riddle of the Sands, was executed during the Irish Civil War. Childers was...
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  • held due to the incumbent Liberal MP, Hugh Childers, becoming First Lord of the Admiralty. It was retained by Childers who was unopposed. "Election News –...
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  • Battle of Waterloo. Childers was born at Cantley Hall near Doncaster, the eldest son by the second marriage of Childers Walbanke-Childers, who had assumed...
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  • Houghton and causing a by-election. Childers was appointed a Civil Lord of the Admiralty, causing a by-election. Childers was appointed First Lord of the...
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    Hugh Marston Hefner (April 9, 1926 – September 27, 2017) was an American magazine publisher. He was the founder and editor-in-chief of Playboy magazine...
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  • in this or in any other country". He was replaced in the council by Hugh Childers. Cassell had married Martha Bruford in Hobart, 1840; there were no children...
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    nationalist Erskine Childers and the paternal grandfather of the fourth president of Ireland, Erskine Hamilton Childers. Childers was born in 1838 in...
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    following his appointment as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Hugh Childers was re-elected as MP for Pontefract. The original ballot box, sealed...
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    Hugh Michael Jackman AC (born 12 October 1968) is an Australian actor. Beginning in theatre and television, Jackman landed his breakthrough role as Wolverine...
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  • Charles III, King of the United Kingdom and head of the Commonwealth. Hugh Childers, Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1882–1885 Randolph Churchill, minister...
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    that HCE's initials come from the initials of the portly politician Hugh Childers (1827–96), who had been nicknamed "Here Comes Everybody" for his size...
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    was as much based on Smith's controversial predecessor as First Lord, Hugh Childers, as on Smith himself. Smith held the office for three years until the...
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    daughter of Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster. They had one son and a daughter. Lady Isobel Gathorne-Hardy, was their longest-living child, living until...
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    publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh (1911). "Devonshire, Earls and Dukes of". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 8 (11th ed...
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