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Dr Francisco Luis Gomes District Library

The District Library located at Navelim, Salcete, Goa -- just outside the South Goa headquarters city of Margao -- is named after the intellectual and former Parliamentarian from Navelim, Dr. Francisco Luis Gomes, who was born on May 31, 1829.

Dr. Francisco Luis Gomes came to be known as a great Goan Parliamentarian, a linguist, thinker, master of several European and Indian languages, medical doctor, writer, orator, economist, campaigner for rights and social worker.


Andrew Wood

Andrew Trew Wood (1826–1903), Canadian businessman and parliamentarian

Battle of Cropredy Bridge

With Essex and Waller in pursuit, he was still in danger, but on 7 June, the two Parliamentarian generals (who disliked each other) conferred at Stow on the Wold, and agreed that Essex would march westward to relieve the siege of Lyme Regis, while Waller shadowed the King.

Burghard Freiherr von Schorlemer-Alst

Burghard Freiherr von Schorlemer-Alst (26 October 1825, Lippstadt, Westphalia - 17 March 1895) was a Prussian parliamentarian for the Centre Party.

Carlos Ominami

He is married to the journalist and sociologist Manuela Gumucio, daughter of the former parliamentarian Rafael Agustín Gumucio and ex-wife of the general secretary of the Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR), Miguel Enríquez (d. 1974).

Chuck Cadman

Speeches honouring Cadman as a family man, parliamentarian, and advocate for victim's rights were made by Cadman's daughter, Jodi, Prime Minister Paul Martin, BC MLA Kevin Falcon, BC MLA Dave Hayer, Surrey Councillor Penny Priddy and several others.

Daniel Axtell

On 25 October 1650 Axtell led the Parliamentarian army to victory at the battle of Meelick Island (a Crannog on the Shannon, on which the Connaught Irish army was camped) after launching a sudden attack on the Irish army under cover of darkness.

Ecological and Environmental Movement

In 2011, it garnered 2.2 % of the popular vote, thereby allowing its parliamentarian George Perdikes to hold his seat.

Edmund Elys

He had written royalist poetry, and was taken prisoner by Major John Blackmore, a Parliamentarian soldier who had been in command of Exeter Castle and sat as MP for East Looe in Cornwall.

Eremas Wartoto

Ahead of the launch of Travel Air in July 2011, allegations were made by the media in PNG that parliamentarian Paul Tiensten had assisted with illegally financing the company by giving K10 million to Wartoto.

Francis Alexander Anglin

Born in Saint John, New Brunswick, one of 9 children of Parliamentarian Timothy Anglin, and elder brother to the renowned stage actress, Margaret Anglin, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Ottawa in 1887.

Frederick Charles Denison

He won the West Toronto Conservative nomination for the 1887 federal election over three other candidates, including incumbent parliamentarian James Beaty, Jr..

Gábor Kuncze

In 2006 he called Fidesz parliamentarian Máriusz Révész, who was attacked and injured by police during the 2006 protests in Hungary "Marytirius".

Gogineni

N. G. Ranga or Gogineni Ranganayukulu, was an Indian freedom fighter and eminent Parliamentarian.

Grimwade

Frederick Sheppard Grimwade (1840 – 1910), Australian businessman and Victorian parliamentarian

History of the Republic of Egypt

The first free presidential elections were held in March–June 2012, with a final runoff between former Prime Minister Ahmed Shafik and Muslim Brotherhood parliamentarian Mohamed Morsi.

HMS Antelope

She was launched in 1546, rebuilt three times and was burned by parliamentarian sailors at Hellevoetsluis in 1649.

Horace King

James Horace King (1873–1955), Canadian physician and parliamentarian

Hospital to Alta

Londal started early that he hoped that the list could act as a unified list for several profiled politicians, including the Progress Party's parliamentarian Jan-Henrik Fredriksen and the Liberal Party's Trine Noodt, although these never joined.

Hugh M‘Neile

Early in 1822, his preaching in London so impressed the banker and parliamentarian Henry Drummond (1786–1860) that Drummond appointed M‘Neile to the living of the parish of Albury Park, Surrey, from where M‘Neile’s first collection of sermons, Seventeen Sermons, etc.

Ilmar Reepalu

Invited to a screening of Genocide with a following debate on situation for Jews in Malmö, he said that the parliamentarian Kent Ekeroth was among the most active speakers.

Internet in Indonesia

Indonesia ordered ISPs to block YouTube in April 2008 after Google reportedly did not respond to the government’s request to remove the film “Fitna” by the Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders, which purportedly mocked the Prophet Muhammed.

John Bodvel

In 1657 his wife arranged a marriage between their second daughter Sarah and Robert Robartes son of John Robartes, 1st Earl of Radnor, a wealthy Cornish Presbyterian and former Parliamentarian field-marshal.

John Hamilton, 2nd Lord Bargany

His father, also John Hamilton (first Lord Bargany), took the Parliamentarian side before the Civil War but joined with his cousin William Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Hamilton, on the Cavalier side in 1648.

Joint Sitting of the Australian Parliament of 1974

The only parliamentarian who took part in the Joint Sitting who is still serving today is the Father of the House and of the Parliament, Philip Ruddock, who had been elected to the House of Representatives in 1973.

Juan Antonio Pezet

Juan Antonio Pezet Rodriguez Piedra was born in Lima, Peru, the son of Dr. Jose Pezet Monel, a physician, journalist, literary and parliamentarian who was among the enterprising heroes of Peru's independence.

Juan Carlos Riss Cecin

An economist by profession, Riss Cecin served as a parliamentarian in the Chamber of Deputies 1989–1993, Senator 1993–1997 and again in the Chamber of Deputies (elected from Pando through proportional representation on the list of the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement).

Katharine Goodson

When her sister Ethel, who had stayed with her during much of her time in Vienna, went to Budapest to become the governess to the son of Count István Tisza, the Prime Minister of Hungary, Goodson went to stay with academic and parliamentarian William Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington and his wife Lady Katrina Conway at their London house.

Lagamu Vuiyasawa

Vuiyasawa's relationship to Takiveikata became known to the public only after her appointment to the Senate, and Opposition parliamentarian Poseci Bune declared her appointment in such circumstances to be unethical, a position rejected by Prime Minister Qarase.

Launceston Castle

During the Civil War, the castle's walls and defences were in such a poor state of repair that the Parliamentarian army did not bother to slight them when they gained control of the castle from the Royalists.

Liberal Party of Canada candidates, 1968 Canadian federal election

His father, Ernest Winch, was a prominent member of the British Columbia Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, and his brother Harold Winch led the same party in the 1940s and 1950s and was later a New Democratic Party parliamentarian in the Canadian House of Commons.

Ludolf

George Philipp Ludolf von Beckedorff (1778-1858), prominent Prussian Roman Catholic convert and parliamentarian

Marzieh

Marzieh Vahid-Dastjerdi, Iranian university professor and former parliamentarian and the first woman to be a minister after Islamic revolution.

Narayana Rao

Dasari Narayana Rao (born 1947), Telugu film director and Parliamentarian

Narowal District

Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar Khan, Longest serving Parliamentarian from 1951 to 1999.

Norfuk dialect

Alice Buffett, a Norfolk Island parliamentarian and Australian-trained linguist, developed a codified grammar and orthography for the language in the 1980s, assisted by Dr Donald Laycock, an Australian National University academic.

Parliamentarian of the United States House of Representatives

The Parliamentarian is appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives without regard to political affiliation and solely on the basis of fitness to perform the duties of the position.

Phyllis Court

In the mid 17th century Phillis Court was the home of Sir Bulstrode Whitelocke (1605–1675), parliamentarian and Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, who before his death gave it up to his son William Whitelock, later Tory member of parliament for the University of Oxford.

Piel Island

For this reason the Parliamentarian fleet retreated to Piel Harbour when the Royalists captured Liverpool.

Robert Brooke

Robert Greville, 2nd Baron Brooke (1607–1643), English Civil War Parliamentarian general

Roberta Jamieson

She was the first Aboriginal woman ever to earn a law degree in Canada, the first non-Parliamentarian to be appointed an ex officio member of a House of Commons committee, and the first woman appointed as Ontario Ombudsman.

Sibford Gower

However, Parliamentarian sympethisers were executed on the outskirts of the village, at a place that has since been known as Traitor's Ford.

Siege of Portsmouth

The Siege of Portsmouth was the siege of a Royalist garrison in Portsmouth by a Parliamentarian force conducted in the early part of the English Civil War.

Sir John Bright, 1st Baronet

Sir John Bright, 1st Baronet (14 October 1619 – 13 October 1688), was an English parliamentarian, of Carbrook and Badsworth, Yorkshire.

St Michael and All Angels Church, Great Houghton

The church is dedicated to St Michael, and was originally a private chapel and was built by Sir Edward Rodes, the High Sheriff of Yorkshire, who was a conspicuous Parliamentarian.

Terence Murray

Terence Aubrey Murray (1810–1873), Australian pastoralist and parliamentarian

Thomas Overton

His parents were James Overton and Mary Waller; his father was a great-grandson of Robert Overton, the Parliamentarian military commander during the English Civil War (and friend of Marvell and Milton).

William Eyre

William Eyre of Neston (fl. 1642–1660), parliamentarian army officer and politician


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