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Wellington and Money
The Napoleon Series Wellington and Money By: Richard Tennant FCA/CPA Background on Currencies British Money Pound Sterling The pound sterling is the world's oldest currency still being used today. Silver coins known as "sterlings" were issued in the Saxon kingdoms, 240 of them being minted from a pound of silver... Hence, large payments came to be reckoned in "pounds of sterlings," a phrase later shortened...— Encyclopædia Britannica, entry "pound sterling" The origins of sterling lie in the reign of King Offa of Mercia (757–796), who introduced the silver penny. The accounting system of 4 farthings = 1 penny, 12 pence = 1 shilling, 20 shillings = 1 pound was adopted from that introduced by Charlemagne to the Frankish Empire. Written Charlemagne English £ or l. librae pound s. solidi shilling d. denarii pence Therefore written as either as 2l.3s.6¾d. or £2.3s.6¾d. = two pounds, three shillings and sixpence, three farthings The English currency was almost exclusively silver until 1344, when the gold noble was successfully introduced into circulation. However, silver remained the legal basis for sterling until 1816 when the gold standard was adopted officially During the American War of independence and the Napoleonic wars, Bank of England notes were legal tender and their value floated relative to gold. The Bank also issued silver tokens to alleviate the shortage of silver coins.1 Bank of England Notes The Bank of England was founded in 1694 and it issued its first banknotes in the same year, although before 1745 they were written for irregular amounts, rather than predefined multiples of a pound. -
Gladstone and the Bank of England: a Study in Mid-Victorian Finance, 1833-1866
GLADSTONE AND THE BANK OF ENGLAND: A STUDY IN MID-VICTORIAN FINANCE, 1833-1866 Patricia Caernarv en-Smith, B.A. Thesis Prepared for the Degree of MASTER OF ARTS UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS May 2007 APPROVED: Denis Paz, Major Professor Adrian Lewis, Committee Member and Chair of the Department of History Laura Stern, Committee Member Sandra L. Terrell, Dean of the Robert B. Toulouse School of Graduate Studies Caernarven-Smith, Patricia. Gladstone and the Bank of England: A Study in Mid- Victorian Finance, 1833-1866. Master of Arts (History), May 2007, 378 pp., 11 tables, bibliography, 275 titles. The topic of this thesis is the confrontations between William Gladstone and the Bank of England. These confrontations have remained a mystery to authors who noted them, but have generally been ignored by others. This thesis demonstrates that Gladstone’s measures taken against the Bank were reasonable, intelligent, and important for the development of nineteenth-century British government finance. To accomplish this task, this thesis refutes the opinions of three twentieth-century authors who have claimed that many of Gladstone’s measures, as well as his reading, were irrational, ridiculous, and impolitic. My primary sources include the Gladstone Diaries, with special attention to a little-used source, Volume 14, the indexes to the Diaries. The day-to-day Diaries and the indexes show how much Gladstone read about financial matters, and suggest that his actions were based to a large extent upon his reading. In addition, I have used Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates and nineteenth-century periodicals and books on banking and finance to understand the political and economic debates of the time. -
The Old War Office Building
MINISTRY OF DEFENCE The Old War Office Building A history The Old War Office Building …a building full of history Foreword by the Rt. Hon Geoff Hoon MP, Secretary of State for Defence The Old War Office Building has been a Whitehall landmark for nearly a century. No-one can fail to be impressed by its imposing Edwardian Baroque exterior and splendidly restored rooms and stairways. With the long-overdue modernisation of the MOD Main Building, Defence Ministers and other members of the Defence Council – the Department’s senior committee – have moved temporarily to the Old War Office. To mark the occasion I have asked for this short booklet, describing the history of the Old War Office Building, to be published. The booklet also includes a brief history of the site on which the building now stands, and of other historic MOD headquarters buildings in Central London. People know about the work that our Armed Forces do around the world as a force for good. Less well known is the work that we do to preserve our heritage and to look after the historic buildings that we occupy. I hope that this publication will help to raise awareness of that. The Old War Office Building has had a fascinating past, as you will see. People working within its walls played a key role in two World Wars and in the Cold War that followed. The building is full of history. Lawrence of Arabia once worked here. I am now occupying the office which Churchill, Lloyd-George and Profumo once had. -
Inventory and Survey of the Armouries of the Tower of London. Vol. I
THE ARMOVRIES OF THE TOWER OF LONDON MCMXVI McKEW PARR COLLECTION MAGELLAN and the AGE of DISCOVERY PRESENTED TO BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY • 1961 1 > SeR-GEokGE Ho\W\RDE KNfioHTAASTEFl oF THE Q.WEN£S*AA)EST/FS ARMORYAWODOn, <»^^= — ^F^H5^— r^l 5 6. : INVENTORY AND SURVEY OF THE Armouries OF THE Tower of London BY CHARLES J. FFOULKES, B.Litt.Oxon, F.S.A. CURATOR OF THE ARMOURIES n> Volume I. r LONDON Published by His Majesty's Stationery Office Book Plate of the Record Office in the Tower by J. MYNDE circa 1760 To The King's Most Excellent Majesty SIRE, laying this History and Inventory of the Armouries of the Tower INof London before Your Majesty, I cannot but feel that, in a work of this nature, it would be unfitting that I should take credit for more than the compilation and collation of a large amount of work done by others in the past. In tracing the changes that have taken place from the time when the Tower was a Storehouse of Military Equipment up to the present day, when it is the resting place of a Collection of Royal and Historical Armours many of which are without equal in Europe, I have availed myself of the National Records and also of the generous assistance of living authorities who have made a special study of the several subjects which are dealt with in these pages. I therefore ask Your Majesty's gracious permission to acknowledge here my indebtedness and gratitude to my predecessor Viscount Dillon, first Curator of the Armouries, who has unreservedly placed at my disposal the vast amount of notes, photographs, and researches, which he had collected during over twenty years of office. -
Bones in the Tower: a Discussion of Time, Place and Circumstance. Part 2
Bones in the Tower: A Discussion of Time, Place and Circumstance. Part 2 HELEN MAURER WHILE BRITAIN struggled through the Cromwell interregnum, no one had time to ponder Princes' bones.1 The monarchy had had its head cut off. Dead Princes - reminders of a seemingly dead past - might have seemed irrelevant. As society changed, so did the uses of the Tower change. No longer a royal residence and used less frequently for the incarceration of political prisoners, its importance grew as a repository for arms and ammunition, which had become the symbols of sovereignty and power in this new age. This emphasis increased after the Restoration as larger areas within the Tower precincts were given over to the Board of Ordnance. Nor did the Restoration mark a real political return to the past. The resumption of the monarchy under Charles II did not resolve the conflict between King and Parliament. Questions of power remained, and the uncertainty of Charles's tenure persisted. This was the milieu in which another discovery of juvenile bones took place. In discussing this later find, I shall be dealing with two timelines. The first involves a series of profound changes in the physical fabric of the Tower of London. The second traces some of the vicissitudes of Charles II. The discovery of bones provides a nexus of these two lines: a nexus that must be appreciated in order to understand what the bones represented and why they were elaborately commemorated with an urn. Changes in the Tower The use of the Tower of London as a storage place for arms probably goes back to its beginnings. -
Substance and Practice
SUBSTANCE AND PRACTICE BUILDING TECHNOLOGY AND THE ROYAL ENGINEERS IN CANADA Elizabeth Vincent .... Environment Canada Environnement Canada • ""!"'" Parks Service Service des parcs SUBSTANCE AND PRACTICE BUILDING TECHNOLOGY AND THE ROYAL ENGINEERS IN CANADA Elizabeth Vincent Studies in Archaeology Architecture and History National Historic Sites Parks Service Environment Canada ©Minister of Supply and Services Canada 1993. Available in Canada through authorized bookstore agents and other book stores. or by mail from the Canada Communication Group - Publishing. Supply and Services Canada. Ottawa. Ontario. Canada KIA OS9. Published under the authority of the Minister of the Environment. Ottawa, 1993. Editing: Sheila Ascroft Desktop Production: Lucie Forget Cover: Rod Won Cover illustration: front elevation of the Officers' Quarters. Fredericton, N.B.• 1851. (National Archives of Canada. Map Collection) Parks publishes the results of its research in archaeology, architecture and history. A list of publications is available from National Historic Sites Pub lications. Parks Service, Environment Canada. 1600 Liverpool Court, Ot tawa. Ontario. Canada KIA OH3. Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data Vincent. Elizabeth Substance and practice: building technology and the Royal Engineers in Canada (Studies in archaeology, architecture and history. ISSN 0821-1027) Issued also in French under title: Le Genie royal au Canada, materiaux et techniques de construction. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN Q-660-14820-X DSS cat. no. R61-2/9-60E 1. Great Britain - Army - Military construction operations - History 19th century. 2. Canada - History, Military - 19th century. 3. Building materials - Canada - History - 19th century. 1. Canadian Parks Service. National Historic Sites. Il, Title. Ill. Series. UG413.V561993 725' .18'0971 C93-099413-2 ~~_ll~~ .~(~~ _ <:OIl1I1lUnic..ition Cnmmunicutiou Ii --_._--~-_.._-_._--.- - I'uhtishin/.! FJitill1l TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword. -
A General History of Its Interior Organization and Administration
\ COMPLETE REGULAR ARMY REGISTER OF THE UNITED STATES: \. FOR ONE HUNDRED YEARS, (1779 to 1879.) 'TOGETHER WITH THE VOLUNTEER GENERAL STAFF DURING THE W AR WITH MEXICO, AND A REGISTER OF ALL ApPOINTMENTS BY THE PRESIDEN1' OF THE UP,'1'1!D. J ",,' STATES IN THE VOLUNTEER SERVICE DURING THE 'REBELLION, WITH TUE OFFICIAL MILITARY RECORD OF EACH OFFICER. ALSO, A MILITARY HISTORY of the DEPARTMENT OF WAR, ) AND OF EACH STAFF DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY. WITH VARIOUS TABLES RELATrN( , TO THE ARMY AND OTHER IMPOR'l'ANT MILITARY INFORMATION, - '1 COMPILED FRO)I THE OFFICIAL RECORDS. COMPILED, EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY THOMAS H. S. HAMERSLY. WASHINGTON, D. C. T. H. S. HAMERSLY. 1880. .--.. REB ( A MILITARY HISTORY of the DEPARTMENT OF WAR, ANn OF' EACH STAFF DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY. ,VITH VARIOUS TABLES RELATIN TO THE ARMY AND OTHER IMPORTANT llILITARY INFORMATION, COMPILED FRO)[ THE OFFICIAL RECORDS. COMPILED, EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY THOMAS H. S. HAMERSLY. WASHINGTON, D. C. T. H. S. HAlVIERSLY. 1880. I I . I THE WAR DEPARTMENT O~' THE UNITED STATES: A GENERAL HISTORY OF ITS INTERIOR ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION. THE ADMINIS'l'RATION OF THE 'VAR OI"FleE DURING 'l'Hff, REVOLUTION. On 12 June, 1776, the report of a committee which had been appointed ill the Con tinental Congress, to consider the expediency of establishing a'Var Office, was taken up in that body for consideration, when the following resolution was passed: * "Resolved, That a 'Committee ofCongress ' be appointed by the name of the 'Boarel of 'Val' and Ordnance.' to consist of five members. -
Royal Artillery Barracks and Royal Military Repository Areas
CHAPTER 7 Royal Artillery Barracks and Royal Military Repository Areas Lands above Woolwich and the Thames valley were taken artillery companies (each of 100 men), headquartered with JOHN WILSON ST for military use from 1773, initially for barracks facing their guns in Woolwich Warren. There they assisted with Woolwich Common that permitted the Royal Regiment of Ordnance work, from fusefilling to proof supervising, and Artillery to move out of the Warren. These were among also provided a guard. What became the Royal Regiment Britain’s largest barracks and unprecedented in an urban of Artillery in 1722 grew, prospered and spread. By 1748 ARTILLERY PLACE Greenhill GRAND DEPOT ROAD context. The Board of Ordnance soon added a hospi there were thirteen companies, and further wartime aug Courts tal (now Connaught Mews), built in 1778–80 and twice mentations more than doubled this number by the end CH REA ILL H enlarged during the French Wars. Wartime exigencies also of the 1750s. There were substantial postwar reductions saw the Royal Artillery Barracks extended to their present in the 1760s, and in 1771 the Regiment, now 2,464 men, Connaught astonishing length of more than a fifth of a mile 0( .4km) was reorganized into four battalions each of eight com Mews in 1801–7, in front of a great grid of stables and more panies, twelve of which, around 900 men, were stationed barracks, for more than 3,000 soldiers altogether. At the in Woolwich. Unlike the army, the Board of Ordnance D St George’s A same time more land westwards to the parish boundary required its officers (Artillery and Engineers) to obtain Royal Artillery Barracks Garrison Church GRAND DEPOT RD O R was acquired, permitting the Royal Military Repository to a formal military education. -
National Identity and the British Common Soldier Steven Schwamenfeld
Florida State University Libraries Electronic Theses, Treatises and Dissertations The Graduate School 2007 "The Foundation of British Strength": National Identity and the British Common Soldier Steven Schwamenfeld Follow this and additional works at the FSU Digital Library. For more information, please contact [email protected] THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE ARTS AND SCIENCES “The Foundation of British Strength:” National Identity and the British Common Soldier By Steven Schwamenfeld A Dissertation submitted to the Department of History In partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Degree Awarded: Fall Semester, 2007 The members of the Committee approve the dissertation of Steven Schwamenfeld defended on Dec. 5, 2006. ___________________ Jonathan Grant Professor Directing Dissertation _____________ Patrick O’Sullivan Outside Committee Member _________________ Michael Cresswell Committee Member ________________ Edward Wynot Committee Member Approved: ___________________ Neil Jumonville, Chair History Department The Office of Graduate Studies has verified and approved the above named committee members. ii TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Tables iv Abstract v Introduction 1 I. “Thou likes the Smell of Poother” 13 II. “Our Poor Fellows” 42 III. “Hardened to my Lot” 63 IV. “…to Conciliate the Inhabitants” 92 V. Redcoats and Hessians 112 VI. The Jewel in the Crown of Thorns 135 VII. Soldiers, Settlers, Slaves and Savages 156 VIII. Conclusion 185 Appendix 193 Bibliography 199 Biographical Sketch 209 iii LIST OF -
The Activity and Influence of the Established Church in England, C. 1800-1837
The Activity and Influence of the Established Church in England, c. 1800-1837 Nicholas Andrew Dixon Pembroke College, Cambridge This dissertation is submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. November 2018 Declaration This dissertation is the result of my own work and includes nothing which is the outcome of work done in collaboration except as declared in the Preface and specified in the text. It is not substantially the same as any that I have submitted, or, is being concurrently submitted for a degree or diploma or other qualification at the University of Cambridge or any other University or similar institution except as declared in the Preface and specified in the text. I further state that no substantial part of my dissertation has already been submitted, or, is being concurrently submitted for any such degree, diploma or other qualification at the University of Cambridge or any other University or similar institution except as declared in the Preface and specified in the text. It does not exceed the prescribed word limit for the relevant Degree Committee. Nicholas Dixon November 2018 ii Thesis Summary The Activity and Influence of the Established Church in England, c. 1800-1837 Nicholas Andrew Dixon Pembroke College, Cambridge This thesis examines the various ways in which the Church of England engaged with English politics and society from c. 1800 to 1837. Assessments of the early nineteenth-century Church of England remain coloured by a critique originating in radical anti-clerical polemics of the period and reinforced by the writings of the Tractarians and Élie Halévy. It is often assumed that, in consequence of social and political change, the influence of a complacent and reactionary church was irreparably eroded by 1830. -
Trp Alfred Michael John Russell and Dr Alfred John Peel
Trp. ALFRED MICHAEL JOHN RUSSELL PEEL (1863-1907) and Dr. ALFRED JOHN PEEL (1864-1937) These research notes are prompted by an entry in a medal auction catalogue i, author unknown, which read as follows: Mashonaland 1897 – no bar Trpr. A.J. Peel B.S.A. Police The name “A.J. Peel” is reflected twice on the B.S.A. medal roll and it would appear that a duplicate medal was issued to this interesting recipient. Referring to the cataloguer’s copy of the original microfilm roll held in the Salisbury Archives, rather than the published Forsyth and Owen medal rolls, p. 5 of this roll for Mashonaland 1897 medals awarded to members of the B.S.A. Police includes the following details (set out in columns): Name: Surgeon / Dr. Peel, A.J. / Medal (for 1897 rather than clasp) / B.S.A. Police / Address: Salisbury, Rhodesia / with the handwritten note: “or Gerwyn Wrexham in Wales – to go to H.Q. Dr. Peel – has returned to Salisbury”. A further entry under p. 21 (which is partly obliterated) records the following: No 287 / Trooper; Peel, Alfred?? John / Medal (for 1897 rather than clasp) / Address: Mr. Peel, Gerwyn Wrexham N. Wales / with the handwritten note: “Magistrate Office, Salisbury, Rhd.” A further marginal note reads “Page 5” and based on other similar marginal notes presumably means that Trooper Peel and Surgeon Peel referred to the same person. Dr. Peel obviously played a significant and noteworthy roll during the Mashonaland campaign of 1897. Richard E.R. Martin, the Deputy Commissioner for Bulawayo, when writing his final Despatch on the Mashonaland disturbances to the High Commissioner in Cape Town dated 15 November 1897 recorded the following: “Doctor Fleming, Medical Director of the British South Africa Company and Principal Medical Officer, British South Africa Police, was in charge of the medical arrangements, which, owing to the size of the country over which the operations extended, required careful organisation. -
CHAPTERS from TURF HISTORY the Reform Bill He Won the Two Thousand Guineas with Archibald, a Small Horse of Exquisite Quality and a Great Favourite with the Public
VI THE FRAUD OF A DERBY Why, what an intricate impeach is this ! And I was ta'en for him, and he for me. Comedy of Errors, Act V, Sc. i. Castigatque auditque doles subigitque fateri. ^neid, VI, 567. In the month of September last a Judge of the High Court was engaged for many days in trying a series of Turf frauds. The prisoners were con- victed of conspiracy and of obtaining stake moneys by false pretences in relation to certain races in which horses had been substituted for those originally entered. Complicated and tedious as were the charges, they recalled to the minds of many readers the most famous case of fraud which has ever stained the annals of horse-racing. It is an old story : but perhaps its importance in the long tale of racing life deserves that it should be rediscovered from its burial in the dust- heap of drowsy documents. The race for the Derby of 1844 was won by a horse called Running Rein. This animal was subsequently proved to have been a four-year-old whose real name was Maccabaeus, and who was disqualified. The race and the stakes were awarded to the second horse, Orlando, the property of 126 THE FRAUD OF A DERBY Colonel Peel, brother of the Prime Minister of the day- Jonathan Peel was a notable figure on the Turf. He was the fifth son of the first Sir Robert Peel, whose baronetcy had been conferred upon him by Mr. Pitt in recognition of a large subscription to the Loyalty Loan and his equipment of a regiment of volunteers at a crisis in the French War.