USA President 1845 –1849. Signed the documents formally integrating Texas into the United States on 29 December 1845.
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James Clarke Lawrence
MP for Lambeth from 1865, and Lord Mayor 1868-9. In 1887 he and his brother Edwin funded a new building in Kensington for the Unitarians, see Essex Street Chapel. His nephew was Frederick Pethick-L...
Epping Urban District Council
Successor to the Epping Rural District Council, which in turn became Epping Town Council.
James Richard Stanhope
He served with the Grenadier Guards in the Second Boer War. Entering the House of Lords on the death of his father, he became 13th Earl of Chesterfield and 7th Earl Stanhope.
Person, Armed Forces, Politics & Administration, South Africa
Sir James Macnaghten Hogg
Politician and civil administrator. Born in Calcutta. The elder brother of Quintin Hogg. He changed his surname to Mcgarel-Hogg when he inherited his brother-in-law's estates. Served in the Life Gu...
Frank Belzer
Politician. District mayor of the Berlin district Reinickendorf since October 2009.