The Surveyor-General of the Ordnance was a subordinate of the Master-General of the Ordnance and a member of the Board of Ordnance, a British government...
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Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote (redirect from Baron Northcote of Exeter)
elected to the House of Commons in 1880, and served as Financial Secretary to the War Office (1885–86) and Surveyor-General of the Ordnance (1886–88) during...
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Charles Richard Fox (category British Army generals)
Member of Parliament for the east London constituency of Tower Hamlets in 1841 and served until 1847. Fox was Surveyor-General of the Ordnance in 1841...
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included the Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance and the Surveyor-General of the Ordnance. Before the establishment of a standing army or navy, the Ordnance Office...
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Royal Army Service Corps (category Ordnance (stores) units and formations)
Department of the Surveyor-General of the Ordnance, who took over as Controller-in-Chief. The Department of the Surveyor General of the Ordnance retained the Control...
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Henry Knight Storks (category Governors and Governors-General of Malta)
the re-organization of Army logistics that took place after the Crimean War. He was appointed Surveyor-General of the Ordnance on 5 August 1870, the first...
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Rufane Shaw Donkin (category British Army lieutenant generals)
1837 he sat in the House of Commons as Member of Parliament (MP) for Berwick-upon-Tweed, and in 1835 became Surveyor-General of the Ordnance. He was elected...
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Jonas Moore (category English surveyors)
mathematician, surveyor, ordnance officer, and patron of astronomy. He took part in two of the most ambitious English civil engineering projects of the 17th century:...
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Shepherdess Alexander Ross (British Army officer) (1742–1827), Surveyor-General of the Ordnance Alexander Ross (fur trader) (1783–1856), Canadian fur trader...
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The Board of Ordnance in the Kingdom of Ireland (1542–1800) performed the equivalent duties of the British Board of Ordnance: supplying arms and munitions...
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Lieutenant-General) of the Ordnance (deputy to the Master and second-in-command of the corps) And four heads of department: Surveyor (later Surveyor-General) of...
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Jonathan Peel (category British Army lieutenant generals)
brother as Surveyor-General of the Ordnance from 1841 to 1846 and was Secretary of State for War (with a seat in the cabinet) under the Earl of Derby between...
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Adye (1819—1900), Surveyor-General of the Ordnance Brigadier Monowar Khan Afridi (1900—1968), Indian Medical Service Lieutenant-General Sir Andrew Agnew...
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the general election and to be elected. Chichester was appointed Surveyor-General of the Ordnance under the Duke of Richmond as Master-General of the...
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The Ministry of All the Talents was a national unity government in the United Kingdom formed by William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville, on his appointment...
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James Luttrell (category Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Dover)
political career, voting mainly in the government interest. He was appointed to the post of Surveyor-General of the Ordnance, holding it along with his parliamentary...
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Herbert Taylor (British Army officer) (redirect from Herbert Taylor (Major General))
Major-General in 1813, and a Lieutenant-General in 1825. He was Master of St Katherine's Hospital, Regent's Park, and Master Surveyor and Surveyor-General of...
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Thomas Lascelles (engineer) (category British Army personnel of the War of the Austrian Succession)
Royal Engineer and Surveyor-General of the Ordnance from 1742 to 1750. He died in November 1751. The Lascelles were part of a network of mercantile interests...
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Who? Who? ministry (category History of the Conservative Party (UK))
Chancellor of the Exchequer. It marked the first time the protectionist wing of the Conservative Party had taken office since the Corn Laws schism of 1846....
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John Flamsteed (category Fellows of the Royal Society)
patron Jonas Moore, Surveyor-General of the Ordnance. Moore had recently made an offer to the Royal Society to pay for the establishment of an observatory...
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Edward Cardwell, 1st Viscount Cardwell (redirect from Viscount Cardwell of Ellerbeck)
Royal Highness The Duke of Cambridge, the Queen's first cousin, and an opponent of the reforms. The surveyor-general of the ordnance, and the financial secretary...
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John Armstrong (British Army officer) (redirect from John Armstrong (surveyor))
Surveyor-General of the Ordnance; on his recommendation, the Ordnance Service was divided in 1716 into artillery and sappers or engineers, later the Royal...
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Lord Eustace Cecil (category British Army personnel of the Crimean War)
from the army in 1863. In 1874, Conservative Prime Minister Benjamin D'Israeli appointed Cecil to be the second Surveyor General of the Ordnance, the Secretary...
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Charles Ligar (category Surveyors General of Victoria)
(1811–1881) was an Ordnance Survey surveyor, Surveyor General of New Zealand and Surveyor General of Victoria (then a colony, now a state of Australia). Charles...
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First Salisbury ministry (category History of the Conservative Party (UK))
The Marquess of Salisbury formed a caretaker government in June 1885, upon his appointment as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom by Queen Victoria,...
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Second Disraeli ministry (redirect from Cabinet of the Earl of Beaconsfield)
Minister of the United Kingdom for a second time by Queen Victoria after William Ewart Gladstone's government was defeated in the 1874 general election...
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Second Derby–Disraeli ministry (category History of the Conservative Party (UK))
Earl of Derby in the House of Lords and Benjamin Disraeli in the House of Commons. After the collapse of Lord Palmerston's first government, the Conservative...
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Alexander Ross (British Army officer) (category Scottish generals)
nominated Surveyor-General of the Ordnance in succession to George Cranfield Berkeley. Ross was promoted lieutenant-general on 29 April 1802 and general on 1...
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Kenwood House (category Museums in the London Borough of Camden)
the Surveyor-General of the Ordnance, William Bridges, who demolished the house and rebuilt it; the original brick structure remains intact under the...
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Edward Owen (Royal Navy officer) (category Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath)
promotion to rear admiral in 1825, he was appointed Surveyor-General of the Ordnance in 1827, made a member of the Lord High Admiral's Council in 1828 and was...
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