The Lord-Lieutenants and their deputies
Jebb, Miles2007
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The office of Lord-Lieutenant for a county or area within the United Kingdom has existed for over four centuries. Today it provides a ceremonial presence for the Monarcy on a local basis, spreading a spirit of goodwill and the encouragement of benevolent activity. But in the past it constituted a powerful device by which the Monarch governed the country by means of indirect rule. In particular it was the Lieutenants who controilled the militias, the local defence forces which existed variously as military reserves, as police, and as forces of national unity
Main title:
The Lord-Lieutenants and their deputies / Miles Jebb ; with a comprehensive list of the Lieutenants by Sir John Sainty.
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Imprint:
Chichester : Phillimore, c2007.
Collation:
vii, 216 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
97818607745151860774512
Dewey class:
347.41016
Language:
English
Index terms:
Marquess of TweeddaleEarl of HaddingtonCharles HamiltonGeorge HayGeorge Baillie-Hamilton-ArdenHugo Richard CharterisEarl of WemyssWilliam George Montagu HayFrancis David CharterisHew Fleetwood Hamilton-DalrympleWilliam Garth MorrisonJohn Dutton ClerkMaxwell Ian Hector Inglis
BRN:
161734