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21 unusual facts about Home Secretary


British North America

From 1783 to 1801 it was administered by the Home Office and by the Home Secretary, then from 1801 to 1854 under the War Office and Secretary of State for War and Colonies.

Callow Hill, Worcestershire

The constituency was previously represented by former Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith ( Labour) who resigned her position in June 2009 following allegations of misappropriation of her MP expense allowance.

Darkie Hutton

By special permission of the Home Secretary Herbert Gladstone Hutton would wear his prison clothes, chains and leg irons to lead Salvation Army meetings.

Earl of Chichester

He was also an influential politician and held office as Chief Secretary for Ireland, as Home Secretary and as Postmaster General.

Earl of Harrowby

Richard Ryder, second son of the first Baron Harrowby, was Home Secretary between 1809 and 1812.

Graham baronets

The second Baronet was a prominent statesman and notably served under Lord John Russell as Home Secretary from 1841 to 1846.

Joaquín V. González

As Home Secretary, he decentralized the nation's voting precinct system, by which he arguably made possible the election of a number of candidates opposed by the ruling party, notably Socialist candidate Alfredo Palacios, who in 1904 was elected the nation's (and Latin America's) first Socialist Cogressman.

Leonard Leslie Brooke

They had two children, their elder son was killed in World War 1, the younger was Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor, who became British Home Secretary and later a peer.

Lewis baronets

His son, the second Baronet, was a distinguished statesman who served as both Chancellor of the Exchequer and Home Secretary.

Maxwell Knight

A notable failing was his entrapment of Ben Greene, the pacifist Quaker refugee worker who was interned by the then Home Secretary, Sir John Anderson, as result of false evidence from Knight's agent provocateur Harald Kurtz.

R v Secretary of State for the Home Department Ex p Doody

The Home Secretary refused to release the convict after serving his minimum term, but gave no reason for the decision.

Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829

Sir Robert Peel, the Home Secretary, who had until then always opposed emancipation (and had, in 1815, challenged O'Connell to a duel) concluded: "though emancipation was a great danger, civil strife was a greater danger."

Sibyl Hathaway

Hathaway was much respected by the islanders as well as the Germans, whose language she spoke perfectly, for the leadership she gave during this period, and the British Home Secretary Herbert Morrison observed that she remained "almost wholly mistress of the situation" throughout the occupation.

Stop Islamization of America

On June 26, 2013, the United Kingdom Home Secretary acted to prevent Geller and Spencer from entering the UK to attend a rally organised by the far-right English Defense League.

The Man from St. Petersburg

In the final chapter, Winston Churchil - at the time First Lord of the Admiralty and having recent experience as Home Secretary - arrives on the scene and formulates a comprehensive plan for damage control: Disposing of Feliks' body, hiding that such a person ever existed and regretfully informing the Czar that his nephew died in the fire but had already signed the treaty.

Viscount Brentford

It was created in 1929 for the Conservative politician Sir William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Baronet, chiefly remembered for his tenure as Home Secretary from 1924 to 1929.

Viscount Bridgeman

It was created in 1929 for the Conservative politician William Bridgeman, who had previously served as Home Secretary and First Lord of the Admiralty.

Viscount Chilston

It was created in 1911 for the Conservative politician and former Home Secretary, Aretas Akers-Douglas.

Viscount Ridley

It was created in 1900 for the Conservative politician Sir Matthew White Ridley, 5th Baronet, Home Secretary from 1895 to 1900.

Viscount Templewood

It was created in 1944 for the Conservative politician and former Foreign Secretary and Home Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare, 2nd Baronet.

Viscount Waverley

It was created in 1952 for the civil servant and politician Sir John Anderson, who served variously as Governor of Bengal, Member of Parliament, Lord Privy Seal, Home Secretary, Lord President of the Council and Chancellor of the Exchequer.


1883 in Ireland

Next day the British Home Secretary, William Vernon Harcourt, introduces the Explosives Bill.

Alex Bailin

A and others v Home Secretary 2005 2 AC 68 (House of Lords appeal in “Belmarsh case” - detention without trial of suspected terrorists)

Brockham

Christ Church, the parish church is relatively recent in origin, having been commissioned in 1847 by Sir Henry Goulburn, who served as both Chancellor of the Exchequer and Home Secretary.

Cannabis classification in the United Kingdom

As Home Secretary in Tony Blair's Labour government, David Blunkett announced in 2001 that cannabis would be transferred from class B of the Act to class C, removing the threat of arrest for possession.

Charles Thomas Wooldridge

In Reading Gaol Wooldridge told the prison chaplain that he was filled with grief and remorse at having killed his beloved wife, and resisted attempts at a reprieve (including a recommendation for clemency from the jury that convicted him) by petitioning the Home Secretary Sir Matthew White Ridley for the sentence to be allowed to be carried out.

Edgar Granville, Baron Granville of Eye

Becoming a Liberal National for the 1931, he served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to then Home Secretary, Sir Herbert Samuel, then to Sir John Simon, Foreign Secretary, in the National Governments of the 1930s.

Florence Maybrick

After a public outcry, Henry Matthews, the Home Secretary, and Lord Chancellor Halsbury concluded 'that the evidence clearly establishes that Mrs Maybrick administered poison to her husband with intent to murder; but that there is ground for reasonable doubt whether the arsenic so administered was in fact the cause of his death'.

Ford Madox Brown

Their daughter, Catherine, married Francis Hueffer; through Catherine, Brown was the grandfather of novelist Ford Madox Ford and great-grandfather of Labour Home Secretary Frank Soskice.

Gordon Oakes

Oakes served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Home Secretary from 1966, and in the government of Harold Wilson as a junior minister and as a Minister of State under James Callaghan.

Group cohesiveness

In investigating these, academic Ted Cantle drew heavily on the concept of social cohesion, and the New Labour government (particularly then Home Secretary David Blunkett) in turn widely promoted the notion.

Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor

As Home Secretary, Brooke was not particularly successful, and his actions caused controversy on several occasions, including a failure to provide adequate security for a state visit by King Paul and Queen Frederica of Greece.

Hitler's British Girl

According to the film, Unity's father persuaded Home Secretary Sir John Anderson not to do so.

Kimberly Quinn

In 2001, she married Quinn; during this marriage, she had an affair with David Blunkett, Home Secretary in Tony Blair's ministry.

Kiyan Prince

The Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, in response to the killing, has said that he will discuss with the Home Secretary and the Lord Chancellor about assigning maximum imprisonment sentences for those who carry knives.

Llanelli Riots of 1911

The involvement of the army was approved by the then Home Secretary Winston Churchill.

More4

On its first night, the channel led with the satirical docudrama A Very Social Secretary about the affair between David Blunkett, the former British Home Secretary, and Kimberly Quinn.

Murder of Julia Martha Thomas

A few days before Webster was due to be executed an appeal was submitted on her behalf to the Home Secretary, R. A. Cross.

Murder of Raymond Codling

In 1991, a memorial to Codling was unveiled at the place of his death by Michael Winner, founder of the Police Memorial Trust, and the Home Secretary, Kenneth Baker.

Norman Skelhorn

Home Secretary Merlyn Rees appointed Sir Thomas Hetherington Director of Public Prosecutions on the retirement of Sir Norman, with a brief to reduce delays in the criminal legal system.

Police Act 1996

The Police Act 1996 (c 16) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which defined the current police areas in England and Wales, constituted the current police authorities for those areas, and set out the relationship between the Home Secretary and the English and Welsh territorial police forces.

Priti Patel

Kelvin MacKenzie has suggested she would make a good Home Secretary, as "The country would know bad guys would be going away for a hell of a long time".

Progesterex

On 18 April 2006 UK Member of Parliament Lynne Featherstone submitted a Written Question to the Home Secretary on whether the Home Office had calculated the number of date rape incidences that had been connected with Progesterex.

R v Secretary of State for the Home Department, ex parte Fire Brigades Union

The Criminal Justice Act 1988 was to introduce a statutory scheme for criminal injuries compensation with several sections coming into law (by statutory instrument) on a date of the Home Secretary's choosing.

Richard Rougier

Although he sentenced Jones to the mandatory term of life imprisonment, he set no minimum term, and wrote privately to the Home Secretary, Michael Howard, and defence counsel, John Rees QC, to express his doubts over the verdict.

Ronald Hines

In 1988 he played Home Secretary Henry Matthews in the TV film Jack the Ripper which starred Michael Caine.

The Blunkett Tapes

As Home Secretary during the Lincoln Prison riots in 2002, Blunkett accused in his diaries the then Head of Prison Service, Martin Narey "of dithering over the riots"

William Lloyd George, 3rd Viscount Tenby

His father was a National Liberal politician who served as Home Secretary under Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden.

Yana Mintoff

Her research into the bribery and corruption of local officials led the trail to the British Home Secretary Reginald Maudling.