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    William Dougal Christie (5 January 1816 – 27 July 1874) was a British diplomat, politician and man of letters. The son of Dougal Christie, M.D., an officer...
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  • William Christie (dean of Moray, Ross and Caithness) (1816–1885), Scots Episcopal priest and first dean of the United Diocese William Dougal Christie...
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    took place from 1862 to 1865. This quasi-conflict was named after William Dougal Christie, then the United Kingdom Ambassador to Brazil. The Aberdeen Act...
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    "Johnson on Annus Mirabilis" Annus Mirabilis. John Dryden and William Dougal Christie. Clarendon Press (1915) p.xi-xii. Oxford English Dictionary "Annus...
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    foreign Governments", his behaviour being contrasted with that of William Dougal Christie, British consul in Brazil. After the war scare with Brazil was...
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    British consul in Rio de Janeiro, William Dougal Christie, nearly sparked a war between his nation and Brazil. Christie sent an ultimatum containing bullying...
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  • Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986), pp. 124-5. ISBN 0-374-11820-5 Lubenow, William C. (29 October 1998). The Cambridge Apostles, 1820-1914: Liberalism, Imagination...
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    action was Sir William Dougal Christie, who had been replaced by Edward Thornton, who adopted a far less aggressive tone compared to Christie. With his father's...
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  • Melcombe Regis at a by-election in 1847—caused by the resignation of William Dougal Christie—and held the seat until 1852 when he did not seek re-election....
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    they were released. However, the British ambassador to Brazil, William Dougal Christie, demanded that the Empire compensate England for the shameful arrest...
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  • overturned on 4 April 1842 and the opponents, Bernal and Christie, were seated in their place. Christie resigned by accepting the office of Steward of the Chiltern...
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    September 1861 and had issue Caroline Anne Child-Villiers; she married William Henry Philips Jenkins on 4 April 1872 Victor Albert George Child-Villiers...
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    Irish Repeal Weymouth and Melcombe Regis (two members) William Freestun Whig William Dougal Christie Whig Whitby Robert Stephenson Conservative Whitehaven...
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    British consul in Rio de Janeiro, William Dougal Christie, nearly sparked a war between his nation and Brazil. Christie, who believed in Gunboat diplomacy...
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    British consul in Rio de Janeiro, William Dougal Christie, nearly sparked a war between Britain and Brazil. Christie believed in Gunboat diplomacy and...
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    Henry Francis Howard 1855–1858: Peter Campbell Scarlett 1859–1863: William Dougal Christie 1865–1867: Sir Edward Thornton 1867–1879: George Buckley-Mathew...
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    the scheme of University constituencies. Its MPs included Isaac Newton, William Pitt the Younger, Lord Palmerston, George Stokes, Richard Jebb, and Archibald...
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  • Sir William Lockyer Freestun, KCT, KBE, (1804 – 16 April 1862) was a British Liberal and Whig politician. Freestun was the son of Edward Freestun and...
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  • Earl Canning & William Hay & Henry Ramsey & Brian Houghton Hodgson & H G Keene & Rajendra Mullick & Richard Green & William Dougal Christie 1860 George Grey...
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    Trade and Imperialism 1750–1850 (2004), p. 171; Google Books. William Dougal Christie, The Ballot, and Corruption and Expenditure at Elections, essays...
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  • George William Hope (4 July 1808 – 18 October 1863), was a British Tory politician. He served as Under-Secretary of State for War and the Colonies under...
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  • Thomas Garnett v. Rt. Hon. William Edward Forster. 1868: Cambridge. Daniel Lloyd and John Brown v. Robert Richard Torrens and William Fowler. 1868: Carlow....
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  • youth he became an actor and he performed to acclaim in several works by William Shakespeare, during which time he gained a reputation for oratory. He was...
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  • helped end the career of William Dougal Christie. Saumarez and the gunboat HMS Sheldrake were heavily involved in this "Christie crisis". On 12 April 1870...
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    Mary Grant (1819 St Omer, France – 1908 Kew, Surrey) who married William Dougal Christie in 1841 Anna Charlotte Grant (1820 Hayes, Middlesex – 5 Oct 1901...
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  • Votes % ±% Liberal James Grieve 2,962 58.6 N/A Independent Liberal William Dougal Christie 2,092 41.4 New Majority 870 17.2 N/A Turnout 5,054 81.2 N/A Registered...
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  • Stepfather of William Ransom, 9th Earl of Ellesmere. Jocasta MacKenzie Cameron Innes - Sister of Ellen MacKenzie Fraser, Colum and Dougal MacKenzie. Jamie's...
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  • columnist (endorsed Kamala Harris) Mary Pat Christie, First Lady of New Jersey (2010–2018) (endorsed Chris Christie, her husband) George Conway, lawyer and...
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  • Before 1770 (William de Grey), between 1775 and 1780 (Edward Meux Worsley to Sir William Lynch), and between 1782 and 1787 (John Buller to Sir George...
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  • and Gaelic teacher. Twentieth century descendant of Geillis Duncan and Dougal MacKenzie, Great-nephew and adopted son of Rev. Reginald Wakefield (Outlander)...
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