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Hace 1 día · Grenville asserted in 1762 that the whole revenue of the custom houses in America amounted to one or two thousand pounds sterling a year, and that the English exchequer was paying between seven and eight thousand pounds a year to collect.
Hace 20 horas · The chancellor of the exchequer, often abbreviated to Chancellor, is a senior minister of the Crown within Government of the United Kingdom, and head of Treasury.As one of the four Great Offices of State, the chancellor is a high-ranking member of the British Cabinet.. Responsible for all economic and financial matters, the role is equivalent to that of a finance minister in other countries.
Hace 1 día · Grenville conducted an extensive search and interrogated three natives, one of which finally related an account of the evacuation. The fleet returned to England, leaving behind a small detachment of fifteen men both to maintain an English presence and to protect Raleigh's claim to Roanoke Island.
Hace 3 días · Bute was replaced by George Grenville, who was in turn dismissed in July 1765. For the next year Charles Watson-Wentworth, marquess of Rockingham, served as first lord of the treasury. But in July 1766 Rockingham was sacked and replaced by Pitt, now elevated to the House of Lords as earl of Chatham.
Hace 3 días · The office of prime minister developed in Britain in the 18th century, when King George I ceased attending meetings of his ministers and it was left to powerful premiers to act as government chief executive. Sir Robert Walpole is generally considered to have been Britain’s first prime minister.
Hace 5 días · Reporting from Mexico City. As Hurricane Beryl headed toward Jamaica and the Cayman Islands early Wednesday as a powerful Category 4 storm, a clearer picture emerged of the devastation it had ...
Hace 4 días · By 1843 George Neville Grenville, who had sold an estate in Surrey to buy houses and lands in Butleigh, owned over 2,100 a. and Elizabeth Hood and her son held over 760 a. The rest was mainly in very small holdings.
