The byelection was fought due to the incumbent MP of the Liberal Party, William Monsell, becoming Postmaster General.
The byelection was held due to the incumbent Liberal MP, Lyon Playfair, becoming Postmaster General.
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He came to public attention when a letter from him to the Irish Postmaster General, J.J Walsh was revealed by Walsh.
He had previously represented Newington West in the House of Commons and served as a Junior Lord of the Treasury from 1905 to 1910 and as Assistant Postmaster General between 1910 and 1916.
Through a Postmaster General-sponsored contest, the area was named after Noel Edgell Brooks, a Canadian Pacific Railway Divisional Engineer from Calgary.
(David M. Key of Tennessee became Postmaster General.)
As the new Postmaster General (Wallis Clark) is a good friend of her father's, Joan invites him to dinner, hoping to land a government contract.
He was also an influential politician and held office as Chief Secretary for Ireland, as Home Secretary and as Postmaster General.
Edward Carteret (1671–1739) was an English politician and served as Postmaster General from 1721 until his death.
In the exploit for which he is best remembered, Hamel flew a Blériot on Saturday 9 September 1911, covering the 21 miles between Hendon and Windsor in 18 minutes (took off at 4:55pm and arrived at 5:13pm) to deliver the first official airmail to the Postmaster General.
Jefferson was officially founded by Gideon Granger—U.S. Postmaster General during Thomas Jefferson's administration—in 1803.
His first cabinet post was Postmaster General, in which he transformed the British Post Office from a bureaucracy to a business.
He was a Conservative politician and held office in the administrations of Lord Salisbury and Arthur Balfour as Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, as Postmaster General, as President of the Board of Education, as Lord Privy Seal and as Lord President of the Council.
During World War I, the paper's consistent antimilitarist stand brought it into conflict with the administration of President Woodrow Wilson and his Postmaster General Albert Burleson.
They hired former Postmaster General Will H. Hays as censor to the industry; the Hays Code would govern how explicit a motion picture could be for decades to come.
Trippe, his wealthy Yale roommate Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, and their Aviation Corporation of the Americas chairman Richard Hoyt were close to the Second Assistant Postmaster General, W. Irving Glover, the professional head of the U.S. Post Office as the position of Postmaster General was a political sinecure.
Milestones were first known to have been placed in 1763, sometime after Benjamin Franklin, who had advocated their use, was appointed the colonies' Joint Postmaster General.
Governor Return J. Meigs, Jr. resigned to become Postmaster General.
Arthur Sauvé, his father, had been leader of the Conservative party during the Premiership of Liberal Louis-Alexandre Taschereau and left the provincial politics when elected to the Canadian Parliament in 1930 and became Postmaster General in the R. B. Bennett government.
She was the daughter of the suffragist Millicent Fawcett and of Henry Fawcett MP, Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge and Postmaster General in Gladstone's government.
Postmaster General John E. Potter announced the stamp series at the Associated Press Managing Editors Meeting in Washington.
The first example of the Trimphone was presented in May 1965 by the Postmaster General, Tony Benn, to a newly wed couple in Hampstead in a ceremony marking the ten millionth telephone to be installed in Britain.
While in Washington, Rapp met with Abraham Lincoln, who offered him the position of postmaster general.
After his return to Britain he served as Postmaster General between 1827 and 1830 (succeeding his younger brother Lord Frederick Montagu).
In 1857, Howland became a Member of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, and later served in the cabinet as Minister of Finance, Receiver General, Postmaster General and Minister of Finance.
His father Alexander Thomson was Postmaster-General, a member of the council of the Province of Georgia, and custom-collector for Savannah, Georgia.
Benjamin F. Bailar (b. 1934), United States Postmaster General from 1975 to 1978
Four of their sons were knighted, including Field Marshal Sir Charles Egerton, Sir Reginald Egerton (Private Secretary to the Postmaster-General), Admiral Sir George Egerton, and Sir Brian Egerton (tutor to Ganga Singh, the Maharaja of Bikaner).
The town was established in 1880 and was named for Postmaster General, and future Texas Governor, Thomas Mitchell Campbell.
The road is named for John Carling, founder of Carling Brewery and Conservative MP and Senator, Postmaster General and Minister of Agriculture.
After some frustration and consideration, on September 18, 1849 they choose the name Collamer, after President Zachary Taylor's Postmaster General Jacob Collamer.
Key's work as Postmaster General is harshly criticized by Mark Twain in The Autobiography of Mark Twain.
The son of Edmund Creswell, Deputy Postmaster-General at Gibraltar and Surveyor of the Mediterranean, by his marriage to Mary M. W. Fraser, Creswell was educated at Bruce Castle, Derby School, and the Royal School of Mines.
In 1868, as part of the Volunteer Movement, John Lowther du Plat Taylor, Private Secretary to the Postmaster General, raised the 49th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers Corps (Post Office Rifles) from GPO employees, who had been either members of the 21st Middlesex Rifles Volunteer Corps (Civil Service Rifles) or special constables enrolled to combat against Fenian attacks on London in 1867/68.
Sir Reginald Arthur Egerton, another son of the aforementioned Major-General Caledon Richard Egerton (d. 1930), was Private Secretary to the Postmaster-General, Surveyor to the General Post Office, London, and Secretary to the General Post Office, Dublin.
Joseph Habersham, American businessman, revolutionary, and postmaster general
He served as Postmaster-General and Minister for Public Health, Hospitals and Tourist Resorts in the Cabinet from 1912 to 1915, when he was appointed Special Commissioner to Egypt and Galilee to report on the conditions of New Zealand troops serving there.
He was not a successful candidate for reelection in 1890 to the Fifty-second Congress and was First Assistant Postmaster General from 1891 to 1893.
On Wednesday 12 December 1962, the 800 line Highgate Wood exchange was accepted by the Postmaster General, Mr. Reginald Bevins, MP, on behalf of the Post Office, from the five manufacturers who had helped to build it, the first all-electronic telephone exchange in Britain and one of the first in the world to go into public service.
As another post office named Waverly already existed in Upstate New York, the name of the hamlet was changed to Holtsville in 1860, in honor of U.S. Postmaster General Joseph Holt.
After the Postmaster-General's Department refused to open a post office called Fernhill, a 1910 referendum chose the name 'Hurlstone', after the nearby Hurlstone College.
In this capacity ibn Khordadbeh served as both postmaster general and the Caliph's personal spymaster in that vital province.
During his tenor as Assistant Attorney General, Tyner was investigated in mid-1903 for corruption in the Post Office by special prosecutor Charles J. Bonaparte and Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Joseph L. Bristow.
However, in mid July 1882 du Plat Taylor was authorised by the Postmaster General, Henry Fawcett and the Secretary of State for War, Hugh Childers to organise an Army Post Office Corps (APOC), and on Saturday 22 July 1882 Queen Victoria issued a Royal Warrant to that effect.
He later served as Postmaster General, Paro Thrimpon, Deputy and later Secretary General of the country's Development Wing.
The name Crowther, after a local merchant, was objected to by the Postmaster-General's Department, as there was a town named Crowther between Cowra and Young in New South Wales.
They eventually settled in the Bonnyrigg area, where Lalich's father worked for the Department of the Postmaster-General and ran a farm.
Early to mid-1960s Bruce Jackson and friends from Vaucluse High School were raided by the PMG for operating an AM pirate station that unbeknown to them covered all of Sydney.
After the Restoration in 1660, a further Act (12 Car II, c.35) confirmed this and the post of Postmaster-General, the previous Cromwellian Act being void.
Return J. Meigs, Jr., (1764–1825), Governor of Ohio, U.S. Postmaster General
Samuel Dickinson Hubbard, Congressman and United States Postmaster General
Between 1872 and 1880, Samuel served as Postmaster-General on three occasions under Premier, Henry Parkes, including the first (1872–1875), second (1877), and third (1878–1883) ministries.
Garfield's investigation revealed among the major players involved were some of the large contractors, the ex-US Representative Bradley Barlow of Vermont, the Second Assistant Postmaster-General, Thomas J. Brady, some of the subordinates in the department, and Arkansas Senator Stephen W. Dorsey, who became Secretary of the Republican National Committee during James A. Garfield's 1880 presidential campaign.
Among the major players involved were some of the large contractors, the ex-US Representative Bradley Barlow of Vermont, the Second Assistant Postmaster-General, some of the subordinates in the department, and Arkansas Senator Stephen W. Dorsey, who became Secretary of the Republican National Committee during James A. Garfield's 1880 presidential campaign.
She was a great-great-granddaughter of The Hon. Thomas Lodge Murray-Prior, an Australian politician who served as Postmaster-General in the ministries of Robert Herbert, Sir Robert Mackenzie, and Arthur Hunter Palmer in Queensland.
The baronial branch held the Lieutenant Postmaster General position in Trento and the Adige and the counts held the Lieutenant Postmaster General position in Bolzano.
On the accession to power of Sir Samuel Griffith in August 1890, Unmack became Postmaster-General.
Thomas J. Brady (1839–1904), American Civil War general and Second Assistant Postmaster General
However, David M. Key resigned as Postmaster General in 1880, and James was offered that position by Hayes instead.
Thomas Villiers, 1st Earl of Clarendon (1709–1786), British peer, Postmaster General and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
William Ponsonby, 2nd Earl of Bessborough (1704–1793), British & Irish MP, Chief Secretary for Ireland, Postmaster-General of Great Britain
William Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby (1744–1806), Member of Parliament for Bandonbridge and Kilkenny, Postmaster-General of Ireland