USA President 1829 - 1837. Officially recognised Texas as an independent republic on 3 March 1837 by appointing an ambassador.
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Lord Monteagle
William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle. See Guy Fawkes for Monteagle's role in the Gunpowder Plot.
Reform League
A group who campaigned for adult male suffrage, at the time limited to adult males who rented propertied land of a certain value. The Reform Act of 1867 (the Second Reform Act) largely gave them w...
Lord Loughborough
Lawyer and Lord Chancellor. Born Alexander Wedderburn, probably in Edinburgh. Called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1757, he served as Lord Chancellor from 1793 to 1801. Died in Stoke Poges, Buc...
Social Democratic Federation
Founded by Henry Hyndman in 1884, this was the forerunner of the British Labour Party, the Independent Labour Party and the Communist Party of Great Britain.
William Marsden, Secretary of the Admiralty
As secretary of the Admiralty in November 1805 it was Marsden who was the first to receive the news of the Battle of Trafalgar. Born County Wicklow. Sent by the civil service to work in Sumatra a...