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George Douglas-Pennant, 2nd Baron Penrhyn

Index George Douglas-Pennant, 2nd Baron Penrhyn

George Sholto Gordon Douglas-Pennant, 2nd Baron Penrhyn (30 September 1836 – 10 March 1907), was a landowner who played a prominent part in the Welsh slate industry as the owner of the Penrhyn Quarry in North Wales. [1]

36 relations: Baron Penrhyn, Caernarfon, Caernarvonshire (UK Parliament constituency), Chester Cup, Christ Church, Oxford, Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn, Edward Douglas-Pennant, 3rd Baron Penrhyn, Eton College, Forbes House, Belgravia, George Douglas, 16th Earl of Morton, George Hay Dawkins-Pennant, Goodwood Cup, Great Metropolitan Handicap, Halkin Street, House of Commons of the United Kingdom, Jockey Club, Nonunion, North Wales, Penrhyn Castle, Penrhyn Quarry, Quarry, Queen's Counsel, Queen's Vase, Robert Jones (Labour politician), Royal Welch Fusiliers, Sir Love Jones-Parry, 1st Baronet, Slate, Slate industry in Wales, Stony Stratford, Strike action, The Clarion, The Honourable, Trade union, Violet Douglas-Pennant, Watkin Williams (MP), Yorkshire.

Baron Penrhyn

Baron Penrhyn is a title that has been created twice.

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Caernarfon

Caernarfon is a royal town, community, and port in Gwynedd, Wales, with a population of 9,615.

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Caernarvonshire (UK Parliament constituency)

Caernarvonshire was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of England then of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1885 and from 1918 until 1950.

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Chester Cup

| The Chester Cup is a flat handicap horse race in Great Britain open to horses aged four years or older.

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Christ Church, Oxford

Christ Church (Ædes Christi, the temple or house, ædēs, of Christ, and thus sometimes known as "The House") is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England.

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Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn

Edward Gordon Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn (20 June 1800 – 31 March 1886) was a Scottish landowner in Wales, and politician.

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Edward Douglas-Pennant, 3rd Baron Penrhyn

Edward Sholto Douglas-Pennant, 3rd Baron Penrhyn (10 June 1864 – 22 August 1927), was a British Conservative politician.

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Eton College

Eton College is an English independent boarding school for boys in Eton, Berkshire, near Windsor.

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Forbes House, Belgravia

Forbes House is a Grade II listed house at 10 Halkin Street, Belgravia, London SW1.

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George Douglas, 16th Earl of Morton

George Douglas, 16th Earl of Morton, KT, FRS, FRSE, FSA (3 April 1761 – 17 July 1827) was the son of Sholto Douglas, 15th Earl of Morton.

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George Hay Dawkins-Pennant

George Hay Dawkins-Pennant (1764–1840), of Penrhyn Castle, Caernarvonshire and 56 Portland Place, Middlesex, was an English politician.

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Goodwood Cup

| The Goodwood Cup is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain open to horses aged three years or older.

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Great Metropolitan Handicap

| The Great Metropolitan Handicap is a flat handicap horse race in Great Britain open to horses aged four years or older.

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Halkin Street

Halkin Street is a street in Belgravia, London, running south-west to north-east from the north-east corner of Belgrave Square to Grosvenor Place.

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House of Commons of the United Kingdom

The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Jockey Club

The Jockey Club is the largest commercial horse racing organisation in the United Kingdom.

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Nonunion

Nonunion is permanent failure of healing following a broken bone unless intervention (such as surgery) is performed.

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North Wales

North Wales (Gogledd Cymru) is an unofficial region of Wales.

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Penrhyn Castle

Penrhyn Castle is a country house in Llandygai, Bangor, Gwynedd, North Wales, in the form of a Norman castle.

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Penrhyn Quarry

The Penrhyn Slate Quarry is a slate quarry located near Bethesda in north Wales.

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Quarry

A quarry is a place from which dimension stone, rock, construction aggregate, riprap, sand, gravel, or slate has been excavated from the ground.

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Queen's Counsel

A Queen's Counsel (postnominal QC), or King's Counsel (postnominal KC) during the reign of a king, is an eminent lawyer (usually a barrister or advocate) who is appointed by the Monarch to be one of "Her Majesty's Counsel learned in the law." The term is also recognised as an honorific.

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Queen's Vase

| The Queen's Vase is a Group 2 flat horse race in Great Britain open to three-year-old horses.

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Robert Jones (Labour politician)

Robert Thomas Jones (14 October 1874-15 Dec 1940) was a Welsh quarryman, trade unionist and Labour Party politician.

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Royal Welch Fusiliers

The Royal Welch Fusiliers was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Prince of Wales' Division.

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Sir Love Jones-Parry, 1st Baronet

Sir Thomas Duncombe Love Jones-Parry, 1st Baronet (5 January 1832 – 18 December 1891), was a Welsh landowner who was Liberal Member of Parliament for Caernarvonshire and one of the founders of the Welsh settlement in Patagonia.

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Slate

Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade regional metamorphism.

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Slate industry in Wales

The existence of a slate industry in Wales is attested since the Roman period, when slate was used to roof the fort at Segontium, now Caernarfon.

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Stony Stratford

Stony Stratford (often shortened to Stony) is a constituent town of Milton Keynes (in north Buckinghamshire, England) and is a civil parish with a town council within the Borough of Milton Keynes.

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Strike action

Strike action, also called labor strike, labour strike, or simply strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to work.

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The Clarion

The Clarion was a weekly newspaper published by Robert Blatchford, based in the United Kingdom.

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The Honourable

The prefix The Honourable or The Honorable (abbreviated to The Hon., Hon. or formerly The Hon'ble—the latter term is still used in South Asia) is a style that is used before the names of certain classes of people.

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Trade union

A trade union or trades union, also called a labour union (Canada) or labor union (US), is an organization of workers who have come together to achieve many common goals; such as protecting the integrity of its trade, improving safety standards, and attaining better wages, benefits (such as vacation, health care, and retirement), and working conditions through the increased bargaining power wielded by the creation of a monopoly of the workers.

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Violet Douglas-Pennant

Commandant the Honourable Violet Blanche Douglas-Pennant (31 January 1869 – 12 October 1945) was a British philanthropist and supporter of local government who served as the second commandant of the Women's Royal Air Force (WRAF) until her dismissal in August 1918.

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Watkin Williams (MP)

Charles James Watkin Williams (23 September 1828 – 17 July 1884) was a Welsh judge, doctor and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1880.

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Yorkshire

Yorkshire (abbreviated Yorks), formally known as the County of York, is a historic county of Northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Douglas-Pennant,_2nd_Baron_Penrhyn

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