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30-517: The city of Vancouver, and subsequently one of its biggest streets, were originally named after Granville Leveson-Gower . The city eventually changed its name to Vancouver, but Granville Street stuck, and the Entertainment District derived its name from being part of the same street. Prior to the establishment of the Entertainment District, the area was home to a number of movie theatres , which gave that stretch of Granville Street

60-468: A major on 12 December 1848 and being promoted to lieutenant-colonel on 3 July 1854. He continued in the regiment until the early 1860s. As Lord Warden, he was appointed honorary colonel of the 1st Cinque Ports Artillery Volunteers on 23 April 1866. Lord Granville owned coal and ironstone mines at Stoke-on-Trent and was the principal shareholder of the Shelton Iron & Steel Co In 1873

90-549: A month, wherever the sovereign may be residing at the time, to give formal approval to Orders in Council . Only a few privy counsellors need attend such meetings, and only when invited to do so at the government's request. As the duties of the Lord President are not onerous, the post has often been given to a government minister whose responsibilities are not department-specific. In recent years it has been most typical for

120-819: The House of Lords he distinguished himself as a Free Trader, and when Lord John Russell formed a government in 1846 he made him Master of the Buckhounds . He became Vice-President of the Board of Trade in 1848, and took a prominent part in promoting the Great Exhibition of 1851 . Having already been admitted to the Cabinet, for about two months at the end of 1851 and the start of 1852 he succeeded Palmerston as Foreign Secretary until Russell's defeat in 1852. When Lord Aberdeen formed his coalition government at

150-573: The British war economy and consequently the entire British war effort. Winston Churchill , clearly believing that this wartime co-ordinating role was beneficial, introduced a similar but expanded system in the first few years of his post-war premiership . The so-called 'overlord ministers' included Frederick Leathers as Secretary of State for the Co-ordination of Transport, Fuel and Power and Lord Woolton as Lord President. Woolton's job

180-741: The British High Commission to sail to the United States and negotiate the most comprehensive treaty of the nineteenth century in Anglo-American relations with an American commission in Washington. Lord Granville's name is mainly associated with his career as foreign secretary (1870–1874 and 1880–1885). It brought better relations with the United States, and it was innovative in supporting Gladstone's wish to settle British-American fisheries and Civil War disputes over

210-780: The Confederate cruisers built in Britain, like the Alabama , through international arbitration in 1872. For example, the long-standing San Juan Island Water Boundary Dispute in Puget Sound , which had been left ambiguous in the Oregon Treaty of 1846 to salve relations and get a treaty sorting out the primary differences, was arbitrated by the German Emperor also in 1872. In putting British-American relations up to

240-588: The Conservatives came into power in 1874, his part for the next six years was to criticise Disraeli's "spirited" foreign policy, and to defend his own more pliant methods. He returned to the foreign office in 1880, only to find an anti-British spirit developing in German policy which the temporising methods of the Liberal leaders were generally powerless to deal with. Lord Granville failed to realise in time

270-904: The Council is the presiding officer of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom and the fourth of the Great Officers of State , ranking below the Lord High Treasurer but above the Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal . The Lord President usually attends and is responsible for chairing the meetings of the Privy Council, presenting business for the approval of the Sovereign . The Privy Council meets once

300-523: The Council, solely to preside over a meeting of the Privy Council held in a Commonwealth realm . Examples of this practice are the meetings in New Zealand in 1990 and 1995, when Geoffrey Palmer and James Bolger respectively were acting Lords President. Andrea Leadsom 's appointment in June 2017 was the first in some time where the post holder was not a full Cabinet member. "The Privy Council

330-527: The Council. He retained his office when, on Palmerston's death in 1865, Lord Russell (now a peer) became Prime Minister and took over the leadership in the House of Lords. Granville, now an established Liberal leader, was made Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports . He received an honorary degree from Cambridge University in 1864. He served in the part-time Staffordshire Yeomanry , being commissioned as

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360-625: The Lord President also to serve as Leader of the House of Commons or Leader of the House of Lords . The Lord President has no role in the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council . In the history of British government, the President of the Council is a relatively recent creation. The first certain appointment to the office being that of the Duke of Suffolk in 1529. Although there is a reference to Edmund Dudley serving as 'president of

390-809: The North to remain basically stable for the rest of the conflict despite tensions. From 1866 to 1868, he was in opposition, but in December 1868 he became Colonial Secretary in Gladstone's first ministry. His tact was invaluable to the government in carrying the Irish Church and Land Bills through the House of Lords. On 27 June 1870, on Lord Clarendon's death, he became foreign secretary. With war clouds gathering in Europe, Granville worked to authorise preliminary talks to settle American disputes and in appointing

420-635: The company operated 8 blast furnaces and 97 puddling furnaces. He also held shares in the Lilleshall Company . During the American Civil War, Granville was non-interventionist along with the majority of Palmerston's cabinet. His memorandum against intervention in September 1862 drew Prime Minister Palmerston's attention. The document proved to be a strong reason for Palmerston's refusal to intervene and for Britain's relations with

450-469: The council' in 1497, it was only in 1529 that the role was given the style and precedence of a Great Officer of State by act of Parliament ( 21 Hen. 8 . c. 20). Prior to 1679 there were several periods in which the office was left vacant. During coronations of the monarch, the Lord President carries the Sword of State . In the 19th century, the Lord President was generally the cabinet member responsible for

480-474: The country by Lord Granville's occupancy of the post. He went into Colonial Office service for six months, and in July 1886 retired from public life. Lord Granville married Lady Acton (Marie Louise Pelline de Dalberg), daughter of the Duke of Dalberg, Emmerich Joseph de Dalberg (a famous diplomat), widow of Sir Ferdinand Dalberg-Acton, Bt and mother of the historian Lord Acton , in 1840. She died in 1860. He

510-476: The education system, amongst his other duties. This role was gradually scaled back in the late 19th and early 20th centuries but remnants of it remain, such as the oversight of the governance of various universities. During times of National or coalition government the office of Lord President has sometimes been held by the leader of a minority party (e.g. Baldwin 1931–1935, MacDonald 1935–1937, Attlee 1943–1945, Clegg 2010–2015). It has been suggested that

540-499: The elder branch of the family. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford . Leveson-Gower went to Paris for a short time under his father, and in 1836 was elected to Parliament as Whig MP for Morpeth . For a short time (1840-1) he was Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in Lord Melbourne's ministry. From 1841 until his father's death in 1846, when he succeeded to the title, he sat for Lichfield . In

570-518: The end of 1852, Granville became first Lord President of the Council , and then Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (1854). Under Lord Palmerston (1855) he was again President of the Council. His interest in education (a subject associated with this office) led to his election (1856) as chancellor of the University of London , a post he held for thirty-five years; and he was a prominent champion of

600-548: The importance of the Angra Pequena question in 1883–1884, and he was forced, somewhat ignominiously, to yield to Bismarck over it. Finally, when Gladstone took up Home Rule for Ireland, Lord Granville, whose mind was similarly receptive to new ideas, adhered to his chief (1886), and gave way to Lord Rosebery when the latter was preferred to the foreign office; the Liberals had now realised that they had lost ground in

630-646: The movement for the admission of women, and also of the teaching of modern languages. From 1855 Lord Granville led the Liberals in the Upper House, both in office and, after Palmerston's resignation in 1858, in opposition. In 1856 he was head of the British mission to Tsar Alexander II of Russia 's coronation in Moscow. In June 1859 Queen Victoria asked him to form a ministry, but he was unable to do so, and Palmerston again became Prime Minister, with Russell as Foreign Secretary and Granville once again as President of

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660-616: The nickname "Theatre Row". In the 1990s, the city created the entertainment district by concentrating most of the city's liquor licenses to a then two-block stretch of Granville Street. Following this, many theatres closed or converted into being more profitable nightclubs. The final remaining movie theatre in the former Theatre Row closed on November 4, 2012. Downtown Granville.com Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville , KG PC FRS (11 May 1815 – 31 March 1891), styled Lord Leveson until 1846,

690-536: The office has been intermittently used for Prime Ministerial deputies in the past. A particularly vital role was played by the Lord President of the Council during the Second World War . The Lord President served as chairman of the Lord President's Committee . This committee acted as a central clearing house which dealt with the country's economic problems. This was vital to the smooth running of

720-568: The situation to denounce the Black Sea clauses of the Treaty of Paris , and Lord Granville's protest was ineffectual. In 1871 an intermediate zone between Asiatic Russia and Afghanistan was agreed on between him and Shuvalov ; but in 1873 Russia took possession of the Khanate of Khiva , within the neutral zone, and Lord Granville had to accept the aggression (See also: The Great Game ). When

750-411: The world as a model for how to resolve disputes peacefully, Granville helped create a breakthrough in international relations. The Franco-Prussian War of 1870 broke out within a few days of Lord Granville's quoting in the House of Lords (11 July 1870) the opinion of the permanent under-secretary ( Edmund Hammond ) that "he had never known so great a lull in foreign affairs." Russia took advantage of

780-730: Was a British Liberal statesman and diplomat from the Leveson-Gower family . He is best remembered for his service as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs . His foreign policy kept Britain free from European wars and improved relations with the United States after the strain during the American Civil War . Leveson-Gower was born in London, the eldest son of Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Granville and Lady Harriet Cavendish , daughter of Lady Georgiana Spencer and William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire . His father

810-554: Was a younger son of Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford and his third wife; an elder son with his second wife (a daughter of the 1st Duke of Bridgwater ) became the 2nd Marquess of Stafford , and his marriage with the daughter and heiress of the 18th Earl of Sutherland ( Countess of Sutherland in her own right) led to the merging of the Gower and Stafford titles in that of the Dukes of Sutherland (created 1833), who represent

840-620: Was engaged in 1864 to an envoy and former spy from the Confederate States of America , Rose O'Neal Greenhow ; but shortly thereafter, in returning to the Confederacy, she drowned off Wilmington, North Carolina , when her rowboat overturned as she was escaping a US blockade ship. He married, as his second wife, Castilia Rosalind Campbell (or Castalia), daughter of Walter Frederick Campbell , on 26 September 1865; their children were: Granville died in London on 31 March 1891 and

870-801: Was succeeded in his peerages by his elder son, who became the 3rd Earl. He was buried in the family vault in the churchyard of St Michael and St Wulfad, Stone, Staffordshire . Attribution: Lord President of the Council King Charles III [REDACTED] William, Prince of Wales [REDACTED] Charles III ( King-in-Council ) [REDACTED] Starmer ministry ( L ) Keir Starmer ( L ) Angela Rayner ( L ) ( King-in-Parliament ) [REDACTED] Charles III [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] The Lord Reed The Lord Hodge Andrew Bailey Monetary Policy Committee The Lord President of

900-592: Was to co-ordinate the then separate ministries of agriculture and food. The historian Lord Hennessy of Nympsfield quotes a PhD thesis by Michael Kandiah saying that Woolton was "arguably the most successful of the Overlords" partly because his ministries were quite closely related; indeed, they were merged in 1955 as the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food . On several occasions since 1954, non-British Ministers have served briefly as acting Lords President of

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