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2 unusual facts about royal charter


Appleby Horse Fair

It is held every year in early June and has taken place since the reign of James II, who granted a Royal charter in 1685 allowing a horse fair "near to the River Eden".

Charter to the Gentry

Charter for the Rights, Freedoms, and Privileges of the Noble Russian Gentry also called Charter to the Gentry or Charter to the Nobility was a charter issued by the Russian empress Catherine II.


Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran

It was established in 1885 with a concession from the government of Persia to Baron Julius De Reuter, under a Royal charter from Queen Victoria.

CRadP

The grant, in the UK, of a Royal charter in January 2008 to the Society for Radiological Protection (SRP) "assists the Society in its aim to strengthen, maintain and promote standards of competence and recognition of professional progression within the field of radiation protection by enabling qualifying members to use the title “Chartered Radiation Protection Professional”, and the post-nominal letters - (CRadP), subject to the laws of the Society".

Explanatory Charter

The Explanatory Charter was a supplement to the royal charter of the Province of Massachusetts Bay issued by King George I on August 26, 1725.

Fairfield Township, Cumberland County, New Jersey

Fairfield Township was formed by Royal charter on May 12, 1697, from portions of the Cohansey Township area, while still part of Salem County, and was formed as a precinct in the newly created Cumberland County on January 19, 1748.

History of cricket in India to 1918

On 31 December 1600, Queen Elizabeth I granted a Royal Charter to the East India Company, often colloquially referred to as "John Company".

History of Sandbach

Sandbach has been a market town since the 1579 when it was granted a Royal Charter by Elizabeth I due to the petitioning of Sir John Radclyffe of Ordsall who as the largest landowner in Sandbach and the owner of the Old Hall encouraged the farmers of the area to go and hold a market in the town on Thursdays.

Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining

In 1869, ironmaster William Menelaus convened and chaired a meeting at the Midland Railway's Queen's Hotel in Birmingham, West Midlands, which led to the founding of the Iron and Steel Institute, which received its Royal Charters in 1899 and 1975.

James Charles Inglis

Inglis ceremoniously laid the foundation stone for the building in 1910 after placing beneath it copies of the institution's Royal Charter and the Telford, Watt and Stephenson medals awarded by the institution.

Queen's Theological College

Originally the Faculty of Theology, it traces its origin to 1841 when the Presbyterian Church in Canada obtained a Royal Charter to establish Queen's.

Scire facias

In 1684, the royal charter of the Massachusetts Bay Colony was rescinded by a writ of scire facias for the Colony's interference with the royal prerogative in founding Harvard College and other matters.

Sports Ground, Woodbridge Road, Guildford

In 1957, as part of a visit to Guildford to mark the 700th anniversary of the granting of a royal charter to the town by Henry III, the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh visited the ground during a county fixture, and the two teams (Surrey and Hampshire) were presented to them.

University college

Examples include the University of Nottingham (which was University College Nottingham when D. H. Lawrence attended), the University of Southampton which was a part of the University of London until 1952, and the University of Exeter, which until 1955 was the University College of the South West of England; Keele University was founded in 1949 as the University College of North Staffordshire until it was granted its royal charter in 1962 and transformed into a University.


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Abbots Bromley

In 1227, a weekly market was confirmed by Royal Charter at the site of the Butter Cross (recorded in 1339, the present structure said by Pevsner to date from the 17th century), which survives to the present.

Anthony Ashley Cooper, 4th Earl of Shaftesbury

Shaftesbury was elected to the Trustees for the Establishment of the Colony of Georgia in America in 1733, less than a year after the group was created by royal charter.

Belen Jesuit Preparatory School

In 1854, Queen Isabella II of Spain issued a royal charter founding the "Colegio de Belén" in Havana, Cuba.

Fernando Pérez de Traba

The record of Fernán's rule in Deza consists of an original royal charter of July 1144.

Gonzalo Fernández de Traba

Gonzalo held the title of count, pertaining to the highest rank in the kingdom, by 4 February 1155, when he signed a royal charter at Valladolid as comes Gundisaluus.

GRSM

The Royal College of Music devised its own BMus course which (uniquely among conservetoires) it was entitled by Royal Charter to award.

Law Society of Ireland

The Law Society was formally incorporated by royal charter obtained from Queen Victoria on 5 April 1852, under the name of "the Incorporated Society of Attorneys and Solicitors of Ireland".

Marquess of Northampton

He was also instrumental in helping the new College of Preceptors (College of Teachers) of London receive its Royal Charter.

Rodrigo Gómez

At about the same time, a royal charter of Alfonso I of Aragon and Navarre enacted at Briviesca on 10 October 1129, names Fortún Garcés Cajal as holding the tenancy of Bureba.

Seal of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College received a royal charter on December 13, 1769 through New Hampshire's colonial governor John Wentworth.

The Uncommercial Traveller

The Royal Charter was driven ashore on the east coast of Anglesey just north of the village of Moelfre in the early hours of the morning of the 26th, eventually being smashed to pieces against the rocks, with the loss of over 450 lives.

Thermae Bath Spa

Bath and North East Somerset council own the buildings, and, as decreed in a Royal Charter of 1590, are the guardians of the spring waters, which are the only naturally hot, mineral-rich waters in the UK.