Word: viceroy
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY Frederick John Napier Thesiger, Viscount Chelmsford, Conservative, lawyer. His appointment was a great surprise. He was once Viceroy of India...
...people of India, with the consent of the Viceroy elected him to present India's case at the Near Eastern Peace Settlement. In 1921, he went to the Washington Disarmament Conference, as press representative for India. His broad knowledge, cosmopolitan experience and sympathies, and his compelling eloquence and personality have brought him the reputation of being the foremost authority on the cultural, economic and political relations between the East and the West...
...Following me came the remainder of the first twelve, in order: Louis Marshall, famed New York lawyer and authority on constitutional law; Louis D. Brandeis, Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court; Rufus Daniel Isaacs, Viscount Erleigh, first Earl of Reading, Viceroy and Governor General of India, ' holding the highest position, next to King George, in the British Empire'; Nathan Straus, New York philanthropist; Georg Brandes, Danish literary critic, said to be the world's greatest, member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Thomas Paine Association, the Royal Society of Literature, the Garrick Club; Chaim...
...Pashas?a Turkish title conferred by the Sultan; but on February 13, 1841, the Sublime Porte (Constantinople, the seat of the Sultan) made the government of the pashalik (territory governed by a Pasha) of Egypt hereditary in the family of Muhammed Ali, with the Turkish title of Vali (Viceroy). On June 12, 1867, the Sultan of Turkey authorized the change from Vali to the Persian-Arabic of Khedive, meaning prince or sovereign. This title was kept until 1914, when on December 19 the British deposed Abbās Hilmi because he supported the Kaiser, and installed Hussein Kāmil, the eldest...
...view of the necessity of balancing the budget, it is thought that Lord Reading, the Viceroy, will certify the tax in an Extraordinary Gazette (special order) as essential for the safety, tranquillity and interests of British India...