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Survey of London
… 1922 until 1940. Between 1929 and 1931 he served in Ramsay MacDonald's cabinet as First Commissioner of Works. He succeeded MacDonald as leader of the Labour Party in 1931, but resigned …
Survey of London Monograph
… March, the Chairman entertained the Prime Minister, Ramsay MacDonald, to luncheon in the Conference Hall, and the …
Old and New London
… lived, and here died at an advanced age, Lady Margaret Macdonald, the mother of Chief Baron Macdonald, a lady who was visited by Dr. Johnson in his tour … by William III. It was her attendant and connection, Flora Macdonald, who so heroically aided the escape of "Bonny …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… op. cit. 2356. James Drummond, William Black, Donald Macdonald, John Howard, Berry Kennedy and John Rowbottom. …
A History of the County of Hampshire
… hands. In the nineteenth century it was held by Sir A. K. Macdonald, bart., who sold it to the late Lord Selborne, …
Survey of London
… of all-metal construction. The inventor, (Sir) Rowland Macdonald Stephenson ( c. 180895), a civil engineer who was …
Old and New London
… curiously enough, had afforded a temporary home to Flora Macdonald, after her release from the mild imprisonment to …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… who, during a visit which they paid to the chieftain Macdonald, had become his sons-in-law; the one fixed his … tower here, which at one period belonged to the great Macdonald, who made it his half-way hunting-seat in his … to his northern isles; and hence it was called Dog Castle. Macdonald invariably resided in the tower until he had …
Old and New London
… to be hailed by the mob as 'a mincing Frenchman.' One John MacDonald, a footman, who has favoured the public with his …
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