 | Edmund Burke - Books - 1895 - 692 pages
...during and after the RussoTurkish War had excited hostile comments in many quarters. In 1848 Layard received the honorary degree of DCL from the University of Oxford, and in 1855 he was elected Lord Rector of the University of Aberdeen. Ho was appointed a trustee of the National... | |
 | Great Britain - 1825 - 494 pages
...till promoted to the rank of General, 1st Jan. 1812. On the 3d Oct. 1818, he was created & Baronet. He received the honorary degree of DCL from the University of Oxford. He had served faithfully in three reigns, for the long period of 68 years, being at the time of his... | |
 | Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) - Geography - 1868 - 716 pages
...appointed to the united offices of PaymasterGeneral and Vice-Président of the Board of Trade. In ]8.~>3 he received the honorary degree of DCL from the University...with great industry ; but, unhappily, at this time liia general health underwent a deterioration, of which the principal symptom was a swelling of the... | |
 | Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1868 - 1066 pages
...in 1852, Lord Colchester was appointed to the united offices of PaymasterGeneral and Vice-President of the Board of Trade. In 1853 he received the honorary...and in 1858, Lord Derby being again Prime Minister, ho was appointed to the office of Postmaster-General. Ho discharged the duties of that office with... | |
 | Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1878 - 600 pages
...with Janet, only daughter of the late Mr. Robert Shuttleworth, of Gawthorpe Hall, Lancashire. In 1870 he received the honorary degree of DCL from the University of Oxford. Sir James was the reputed author of the well-known novel of ' Scarsdale,' and of a volume of ' Modern... | |
 | Law - 1867 - 384 pages
...of course to the shortsightedness which compelled him to use glasses of extraordinary power. In 1834 he received the honorary degree of DCL from the University of Oxford ; he was FRS and FSA, and was a member of both the Athenaeum and the Traveller's Clubs. He married... | |
 | Bibliography - 1865 - 1208 pages
...society were published soon afterwards, under the title of "The Attache; or, Sam Slick in England." He received the honorary degree of DCL from the University of Oxford in 1868. In 1859 he was elected MP for Launceston, on Conservative principles. Judge Haliburton is... | |
 | Men - 1862 - 870 pages
...society were published soon afterwards, under the title of " The Attache; or, Sam Slick in England." He received the honorary degree of DCL from the University of Oxford in 1858. In 1859 he was elected MP for Launceston, on conservative principles. Judge Haliburton is... | |
 | Education - 1862 - 396 pages
...of the United Kingdom by patent, dated 21st of September, 1854. Beside these distinctions, Sir John received the honorary degree of DCL from the University of Oxford, and was the first Chancellor of the University of Trinity College Toronto. In 1862, he resigned the office... | |
 | Biography - 1865 - 1188 pages
...his return from this expedition ho was made LL.D. of Trinity College, Dublin, and of Cambridge, and received the honorary degree of DCL from the University of Oxford, and was presented tho freedom ofihe City of London in a box of gold and British oak. Sir Leopold M'Clintock... | |
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In 1853 he received the honorary degree of DCL from the University of Oxford, and in 1858, Lord Derby being again Prime Minister, he was appointed to the office of Postmaster-General. 
