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Name change. Name change certificate issued by Christian X of Denmark in 1917. Name change is the legal act by a person of adopting a new name different from their current name. The procedures and ease of a name change vary between jurisdictions. In general, common law jurisdictions have looser procedures for a name change while civil law ...
This is a list of individuals who were former or serving Members of Parliament for the House of Commons of the United Kingdom by decade of death. List List of United Kingdom MPs who died in the 1990s List of United Kingdom MPs who died in the 2000s List of United Kingdom MPs who died in the 2010s List of United Kingdom MPs who died in the 2020s See also
One of Kes's costumes with wig and ear prosthetics. Kes is a fictional character in the science fiction television show Star Trek: Voyager, played by Jennifer Lien. Kes joins the crew of the starship USS Voyager in the pilot episode, opening an aeroponics garden and working as a medical assistant. She is a member of a telepathic alien species ...
The Acts of Union 1707 declared that the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland were "United into One Kingdom by the Name of Great Britain". [p] [38] The term "United Kingdom" has occasionally been used as a description for the former Kingdom of Great Britain, although its official name from 1707 to 1800 was simply "Great Britain". [39]
9 April – Andrew Phillips, Baron Phillips of Sudbury, 84, British solicitor and politician. [99] 10 April – Anne Perry, 84, British crime writer ( The Cater Street Hangman ). [100] 12 April – Bryn Parry, 66, British cartoonist and charity worker, co-founder of Help for Heroes. [101] 13 April.
The General Register Office for England and Wales (GRO) is the section of the United Kingdom HM Passport Office responsible for the civil registration of births (including stillbirths), adoptions, marriages, civil partnerships and deaths in England and Wales and for those same events outside the UK if they involve a UK citizen and qualify to be registered in various miscellaneous registers.
Retains capital punishment. Capital punishment in the United Kingdom predates the formation of the UK, having been used within the British Isles from ancient times until the second half of the 20th century. The last executions in the United Kingdom were by hanging, and took place in 1964; capital punishment for murder was suspended in 1965 and ...
The Order of St Patrick was founded in 1783 by George III for the Kingdom of Ireland, and after the Acts of Union 1800 continued for Irish peers in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. After the Irish Free State 's secession in 1922, only members of the royal family were appointed to the order, the last in 1936.