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The modern Cabinet system was set up by Prime Minister David Lloyd George during his premiership, 1916–1922, with a Cabinet Office and secretariat, committee structures, unpublished minutes, and a clearer relationship with departmental Cabinet ministers. The formal procedures, practice and proceedings of the Cabinet remain largely unpublished.
A William and Mary style cabinet with oyster veneering and parquetry inlays. What later came to be known as the William and Mary style is a furniture design common from 1700 to 1725 in the Netherlands, Kingdom of England, Kingdom of Scotland and Kingdom of Ireland, and later in England's American colonies.
In the 19th century, the right to sit in the House was held by 400 secular peers of England, [18] lords spiritual (28 bishops and Anglican archbishops), 16 Scottish peers (since 1707), and 28 Irish peers (since 1801), [18] including five representatives of the royal family, the Dukes of Wales, Edinburgh, Gloucester, York, and Kent. Members of ...
A cabinet is a case or cupboard with shelves or drawers for storing or displaying items. Some cabinets are stand alone while others are built in to a wall or are attached to it like a medicine cabinet. Cabinets are typically made of wood (solid or with veneers or artificial surfaces), coated steel (common for medicine cabinets), or synthetic ...
At 18th-century Holkham Hall, service and secondary wings (foreground) clearly flank the mansion and were intended to be viewed as part of the overall facade.. Servants' quarters, also known as staff's quarters, are those parts of a building, traditionally in a private house, which contain the domestic offices and staff accommodation.
House Leaders; Leader of the House of Commons Lord President of the Council: Lucy Powell: Leader of the House of Lords Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal: The Baroness Smith of Basildon: Deputy Leader of the House of Lords: The Lord Collins of Highbury (also with Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office a whip and Equalities) (unpaid)
Manor houses in Portugal (1 C, 4 P) O. Official residences in Portugal (1 C, 4 P) P. Palaces in Portugal (3 C, 30 P) V. Villas in Portugal (1 C) Pages in category ...
The cabinet card was a style of photograph that was widely used for photographic portraiture after 1870. It consisted of a thin photograph mounted on a card typically measuring 108 by 165 mm ( 4 + 1 ⁄ 4 by 6 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches).