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Gertrude, 13 years of age. (John Everett Millais, 1888)Gertrude Vanderbilt was born on January 9, 1875, in New York City, the second daughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt II (1843–1899) and Alice Claypoole Gwynne (1852–1934), and a great-granddaughter of "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt.
The House of Commons, 1833 is a large history painting by the British artist George Hayter. [1] It depicts the first meeting of the House of Commons following the Reform Act 1832 and the subsequent general election that produced a landslide majority for the ruling Whig Government .
The Kingdom of Great Britain was created by the Acts of Union 1707. At the beginning of 1801, Great Britain was combined with the Kingdom of Ireland to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, with a single House of Commons serving the whole kingdom.
The palace contains chambers for the House of Commons, House of Lords, and the monarch, and has a floor area of 112,476 m 2 (1,210,680 sq ft). [2] Extensive repairs had to be made after the Second World War, including rebuilding the destroyed Commons chamber. Despite further conservation work having been carried out since, the palace is in ...
The Irish House of Commons, the first purpose-built House of Commons chamber in the world. Painted c. 1780. The House of Commons is the name for the elected lower house of the bicameral parliaments of the United Kingdom and Canada. In both of these countries, the Commons holds much more legislative power than the nominally upper house of
The historian David Cannadine, in the History of Parliament Trust's 2006 annual lecture on 21 November 2006, noted that while Wedgwood and Namier are predominantly responsible for the foundation of the History, they were quite contrasting characters (Wedgwood a gregarious and high-spirited English aristocrat of advanced Liberal views, Namier a Polish Jew who was joyless and a strong Tory).
At the time of its establishment, the House Beauty Shop Committee was the smallest and least known of the House of Representatives' 57 committees. It was also the first committee to be co-chaired by two women. [2] In the late 1970s, the committee was absorbed into the United States House Committee on House Administration. [1] [3]
A private flat was created for the Speaker's living accommodation on the first and second floors of Speaker's house in 1943. [13] During their 1956 visit to the UK, the Soviet First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev and the Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin attended a dinner at Speaker's House with Speaker William Morrison and 39 others, including ...