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Belgian politician.

Belgian politician.

Ruled 1826-8 and 1834-53.

A daughter of Maria Theresa and the Emperor Francis I, she married the future Louis XVI of France in 1770, becoming queen four years later. She became a focus for opposition to reform and won widespread unpopularity through her extravagant lifestyle. Like her husband she was imprisoned during the French Revolution and eventually executed.

Daughter of Louis-Philippe King of the French. She married Leopold I, King of Belgium in 1832.

Born in Rawdon, near Leeds, the son of Thomas Marsden
School - Kingston-on-Hull
Apprenticed as a blacksmith before being admitted as a sizar (age 25) at Magdalene on 24 June 1790
Matriculated Michaelmas 1790

17 March 1793 - Ordained deacon (Bristol); priest (Litt. dim. from Canterbury), 1793

Second chaplain (C.M.S.) in New South Wales
Lived at Parramatta where (and at Sydney and Hawkesbury) he had charge of the religious instruction of convicts

Returned to England to report, and to solicit further financial assistance. Obtained an audience of King George III, who presented him with five of his own Spanish sheep, which became the progenitors of extensive fine-woolled flocks in Australia.

Made seven voyages from New South Wales to New Zealand between 1814 and 1837 to superintend the work of the Church Missionary Society.
Was a great admirer of the Maoris and in April 1830 conducted the first inter-racial marriage between a European and a Maori bride.

Married, 1793, Ellen Tristan, and had issue.
Author of pamphlets.

Died on 12 May 1838, at Windsor, N.S.W. Buried at Parramatta.

Article 'The Pioneer Missionaries' by R. Hyam, College Magazine, No. 32, 1987-88

The eleventh child of George III and Queen Charlotte.

Director General of Railways, Posts and Telegraphs in Belgium.

Matriculated in 1834. Made a Fellow in 1841. Called to the Irish Bar in 1844; QC 1865; Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, 1877-1887, and Lord Justice of Appeal (1878); he narrowly avoided having to try his fellow Old Member, C. S. Parnell, in the case of conspiracy against the payment of rent in 1880-1881 but having dismissed a motion for the postponement of the trial, he was accused of partiality, and did not sit. ‘A learned, painstaking and impartial judge’ (DNB).

Arms in Hall glass, E1.

Scottish political economist.

Belgian major general.

A noted Austrian black-and-white portrait photographer. Meitner-Graf moved to England with her family in 1937, opening her own studio at 23 Old Bond Street in London in 1953. Frisch, in his Times obituary, noted that there "can be few educated people who have not seen one of Lotte Meitner-Graf’s photographic portraits, either on a book jacket (for instance, Bertrand Russell’s autobiography, or Antony Hopkins’s Music All Around Me) or on a record sleeve or concert programme." She photographed Albert Schweitzer, musicians Marion Anderson, Otto Klemperer and Yehudi Menuhin; actors John Gielgud and Danny Kaye; and scientists Lord Blackett, William Lawrence Bragg, Dorothy Hodgkin, and Max Perutz.

A British artist, based in Cambridge. He grew up in York, and was educated at Worksop College and Reading University. His commissions include a large group portrait for the 40th anniversary of Wolfson College, Cambridge (his father Michael Mennim having been the architect of its first buildings) and Group Portrait of the Company of Merchant Adventurers of the City of York held at the Merchant Adventurers' Hall, Yorkand a portrait of Duncan Robinson, commissioned when master of Magdalene College, Cambridge. During the 1980s and early 1990s he worked as an illustrator and produced many film posters and book covers including the book jacket The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. the record cover art for the Rum Sodomy & the Lash by The Pogues, the movie posters The Crow (1994 film) and Highlander II: The Quickening.

Liberal Belgian politician.