british people Flashcards
Minister of Finance in first Irish Parliament.
Michael Collins
Founded ‘The Squad’ to conduct assassinations.
Michael Collins
Led efforts against the Black and Tans and the Cairo Gang.
Michael Collins
Accepted Romanov Crown Jewels as collateral for a loan.
Michael Collins
Actions led to death of athlete Michael Hogan in Croke Park.
Michael Collins
Led Provisional Government of the Free State against anti-treaty Sinn Féin.
Michael Collins
Explained signing the treaty as the ‘freedom to achieve freedom.’
Michael Collins
Died after asking for directions in Bandon.
Michael Collins
Nicknamed ‘Big Fellow.’
Michael Collins
Signed the ‘No Rent Manifesto.’
Charles Stewart Parnell
Released in the Kilmainham Treaty.
Charles Stewart Parnell
Broke with the Invincibles after Phoenix Park Killings.
Charles Stewart Parnell
Founded the Irish Parliamentary Party.
Charles Stewart Parnell
Affair with Katherine O’Shea led to political downfall.
Charles Stewart Parnell
Broke association with radicals Michael Davitt and John Devoy.
Charles Stewart Parnell
‘New Departure’ plan separated militancy from Home Rule movement.
Charles Stewart Parnell
First president of National Land League.
Charles Stewart Parnell
Letters forged by Richard Pigott linked him to a massacre.
Charles Stewart Parnell
Imprisoned through the Coercion Act.
Charles Stewart Parnell
Went on a diplomatic mission to America with John Dillon.
Charles Stewart Parnell
Commemorated on Ivy Day.
Charles Stewart Parnell
Responsible for the Railway Act of 1844.
William Gladstone
Resigned over the Maynooth Grant issue.
William Gladstone
Created a program for ‘Fallen Women.’
William Gladstone
Wrote letters about Naples prisons to the Earl of Aberdeen.
William Gladstone
Sent on a twelve-week mission to the Ionian Islands.
William Gladstone
Established free trade with France through the Cobden-Chevalier Treaty.
William Gladstone
Cardwell Reforms made flogging during peacetime illegal.
William Gladstone
Discussed the ‘Bulgarian Horrors’ in his Midlothian Campaign.
William Gladstone
Ordered bombing of Alexandria to suppress Urabi Revolt.
William Gladstone
Delayed rescue of General Gordon in Khartoum.
William Gladstone
Hawarden Kite press release supported Irish Home Rule.
William Gladstone
Introduced the secret ballot.
William Gladstone
Wrote anti-Catholic pamphlet ‘The Vatican Decrees’.
William Gladstone
Passed the Third Reform Act.
William Gladstone
Abolished paper duties.
William Gladstone
Allowed Lord Chamberlain’s censorship of plays in Licensing Act.
Robert Walpole
Introduced ‘sinking fund’ to combat South Sea Bubble.
Robert Walpole
Regime satirically known as ‘Robinocracy.’
Robert Walpole
Member of the Kit-Cat Club.
Robert Walpole
William Pulteney led ‘Patriot Whigs’ against this man.
Robert Walpole
Popularity hurt after commuting John Porteous.
Robert Walpole
Saved Stanhope and Sunderland from prosecution.
Robert Walpole
Helped stop Christopher Layer in the Atterbury Plot.
Robert Walpole
Resigned after Cartagena de Indias.
Robert Walpole
Resigned after mishandling Chanak Crisis.
Lloyd George
Pushed for a land tax in People’s Budget.
Lloyd George
Gave Mansion House Speech deriding German aggression.
Lloyd George
Purchased cheap shares of Marconi company with Rufus Isaacs.
Lloyd George
Introduced National Insurance Act of 1911.
Lloyd George
Almost lynched for opposition to Boer War.
Lloyd George
Quoted Oliver Cromwell ‘In the name of God, go!’ to this man.
Neville Chamberlain
Attacked in book ‘Guilty Men’ under pseudonym ‘Cato.’
Neville Chamberlain
Said England was done with ‘Bleak House’ and moving onto ‘Great Expectations.’
Neville Chamberlain
Pushed for ‘Imperial Preference’ policy of his father.
Neville Chamberlain
Brother Austen won Nobel Peace Prize for Locarno Pact.
Neville Chamberlain
Ended use of Treaty Ports in agreement with Eamon de Valera.
Neville Chamberlain
Handling of Phony War criticized.
Neville Chamberlain
Lord Halifax replaced Anthony Eden in this man’s cabinet.
Neville Chamberlain
Presided over ‘Khaki Election.’
Neville Chamberlain
Waved a piece of paper at Heston Aerodrome.
Neville Chamberlain
Established Unemployment Assistance Board.
Neville Chamberlain
Presented with the Godesberg memorandum.
Neville Chamberlain
Heavily criticized in Norway Debates.
Neville Chamberlain
Declared ‘I have friends in this house.’
Neville Chamberlain
Succeeded Stanley Baldwin.
Neville Chamberlain
Signed an agreement with Edouard Daladier.
Neville Chamberlain
Chancellor of the Exchequer in the ‘Who? Who? Ministry’.
Disraeli
Took a loan from Rothschilds to purchase a controlling share of Suez Canal Company.
Disraeli
His Royal Titles Act made Queen Victoria Empress of India.
Disraeli
Authorized Robert Napier to launch a campaign against Tewodoros II in Ethiopia.
Disraeli
Inspired ‘One Nation’ political faction within his party.
Disraeli
Attacked in Midlothian Campaign.
Disraeli
Passed Reform Act of 1867.
Disraeli
Wrote about Chartist movement in novel ‘Sybil’.
Disraeli
Inspired the ‘One Nation’ movement.
Disraeli
Successor was Lord Salisbury.
Disraeli
Wrote about unification of Italy in novel ‘Lothair’.
Disraeli
Served thrice as Chancellor of the Exchequer under Lord Derby’s minority governments.
Disraeli
Primrose League founded in his honor.
Disraeli
Wanted to build the ‘Cape to Cairo’ railroad.
Cecil Rhodes
Business partner Charles Rudd convinced King Lobengula to concede Matabeland’s resources.
Cecil Rhodes
Diamond magnate who names an Oxford scholarship.
Cecil Rhodes
Cartoon depicts him holding up a telegraph line.
Cecil Rhodes
Personal secretary Edmund Drummond killed by lumberjack Daniel M’Naghten.
Robert Peel
Issued Tamworth Manifesto, outlining principles of Conservative Party.
Robert Peel
Founded Metropolitan Police Service, causing them to be named ‘bobbies’.
Robert Peel
Refused to replace Lord Melbourne during Bedchamber Crisis.
Robert Peel
Repealed Corn Laws.
Robert Peel
Carried out Emancipation Act as home secretary to Arthur Wellesley.
Robert Peel
Bedchamber Crisis began after this politician refused to form a government after Lord Melbourne’s resignation.
Robert Peel
Purchased American maize during his second term after the start of the Irish Potato Famine.
Robert Peel
Succeeded the Duke of Wellington.
Robert Peel
Demanded replacing ladies-in-waiting of previous PM.
Robert Peel
First government failed after the organization of the Lichfield House Compact.
Robert Peel
Credited with founding the Conservative Party.
Robert Peel
Westland Helicopters affair led to resignation of Michael Heseltine.
Margaret Thatcher
Patrick Magee attempted to assassinate this leader.
Margaret Thatcher
Made patriotic ‘Britain Awake’ speech.
Margaret Thatcher
Came to power due to Winter of Discontent in predecessor Callaghan’s rule.
Margaret Thatcher
Strike of coal miners during tenure known as Battle of Orgreave.
Margaret Thatcher
Passed an ordinance banning ‘flying pickets’.
Margaret Thatcher
Clashed with Arthur Scargill and mineworkers striking.
Margaret Thatcher
‘Big Bang’ was the sudden deregulation of the London Stock Exchange under this PM.
Margaret Thatcher
Called ‘milk snatcher’ because of cutting a program of free milk.
Margaret Thatcher
Appointed Lord Carrington as Foreign Secretary.
Margaret Thatcher
Lost popularity due to Community Charge, a poll tax.
Margaret Thatcher
Succeeded by John Major.
Margaret Thatcher
Patrick Magee of the Provisional IRA attempted to assassinate this leader.
Margaret Thatcher
Established ‘Community Charge’ which was basically a poll tax.
Margaret Thatcher
Resigned in wake of the Suez Crisis.
Anthony Eden
Resigned as Foreign Secretary after Munich Agreement.
Anthony Eden
‘Law Not War’ rally led against this man at Trafalgar Square.
Anthony Eden
Succeeded Churchill after his second term.
Anthony Eden
Successor faced Profumo Affair.
Anthony Eden
Modified Clause IV of this party’s constitution.
Tony Blair
Signed Good Friday Agreement.
Tony Blair
Sent Britain into War on Terror.
Tony Blair
Described as being George W. Bush’s ‘poodle’.
Tony Blair
One treaty signed established border at Watling Street.
Alfred the Great
Welsh monk Asser wrote his biography.
Alfred the Great
Compiled law code known as ‘Doom Book’.
Alfred the Great
Defeated ‘Great Heathen Army’ led by Guthrum.
Alfred the Great
‘Burhs’ constructed described by Burghal Hidage.
Alfred the Great
Brother of Aethelred the Unready.
Alfred the Great
Book compiled by this man begins with translation of Ten Commandments.
Alfred the Great
Lost a battle to Halfdan Ragnarsson.
Alfred the Great
Formalized area known as Danelaw after one victory.
Alfred the Great
Ordered release of Edward Courtenay and Stephen Gardiner from prison.
Mary I
Wyatt’s Rebellion led against this ruler.
Mary I
Had several phantom pregnancies in years before death.
Mary I
Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley part of Oxford Martyrs under this ruler.
Mary I
Appointed Reginald Pole as Archbishop of Canterbury.
Mary I
Remarked ‘When I am dead and opened, you will find Calais written on my heart’.
Mary I
Secretary David Rizzio’s murder organized by Lord Darnley.
Mary, Queen of Scots
Reluctance to marry initiated War of the Rough Wooing.
Mary, Queen of Scots
Casket Letters used to prosecute this ruler.
Mary, Queen of Scots
Abducted and taken to Dunbar Castle by Earl of Bothwell.
Mary, Queen of Scots
Supported by the Rising of the North.
Mary, Queen of Scots
Babington Plot failed to place this ruler on the throne.
Mary, Queen of Scots
Defeated at Battle of Langside.
Mary, Queen of Scots
Abdicated after Encounter of Carberry Hill.
Mary, Queen of Scots
Francis Throckmorton burned at the stake.
Mary, Queen of Scots
Francis Walsingham uncovered plot to place this leader on the throne.
Mary, Queen of Scots
Lost Battle of Worcester.
Charles II
George Monck allowed for this man’s restoration after ending Rump Parliament.
Charles II
Actor and mistress Nell Gwyn called ‘poor Nelly’.
Charles II
Agreed to Test Act as part of Clarendon Code.
Charles II
Advised by the ‘Cabal’.
Charles II
Titus Oates fabricated threat of Popish Plot, leading to the death of fifteen Catholics.
Charles II
James Scott, Duke of Monmouth attempted to assassinate this leader in the Rye House Plot.
Charles II
Chief Minister Edward Hyde.
Charles II
Drafted Document of Breda, pardoning everyone except those who executed his father.
Charles II
Francis Bigod led a failed rebellion against this monarch.
Henry VIII
Robert Aske led Pilgrimage of Grace against this ruler.
Henry VIII
Reaggravated infection from jousting accident at Siege of Boulogne.
Henry VIII
Advised by Cardinal Thomas Wolsey.
Henry VIII
Opposed by Thomas More.
Henry VIII
Meeting with Francis I at Field of Cloth of Gold.
Henry VIII
Dissolution of monasteries spearheaded by Thomas Cromwell.
Henry VIII
Final words ‘Monks! Monks! Monks!’.
Henry VIII
Successor to John Balliol.
Robert I
Treaty of Northampton signed with Edward II.
Robert I
Pope Clement V excommunicated this man.
Robert I
Rival of John ‘the Red’ Comyn.
Robert I
Secured decisive victory at Battle of Bannockburn.
Robert I
James Gillray satirized this monarch in several cartoons.
George III
Son introduced Pains and Penalties Bill to control Caroline of Brunswick.
George III
PM William Grenville created ‘Ministry of All the Talents’ under his rule.
George III
Walls of Newgate Prison painted with the words ‘His Majesty, King Mob’.
George III
Spencer Perceval first PM to be assassinated under this monarch.
George III
Disapproved of minister Charles James Fox.
George III
Obtained the right to veto unsuitable marriages through Royal Marriages Act.
George III
Faced anti-Catholic Gordon Riots.
George III
Ruled during ministry of William Pitt the Younger.
George III
John Wilkes arrested for satirizing this man in the North Briton newspaper.
George III
Signed Treaty of Nonsuch with the Netherlands.
Elizabeth I
Pope Pius V issued Regnans in Excelsis to excommunicate this ruler.
Elizabeth I
Faced Dacre, Neville, and Percy families in Rising of the North.
Elizabeth I
Gave Golden Speech.
Elizabeth I
Served by spymaster Francis Walsingham.
Elizabeth I
Protected by Bond of Association, authorizing execution of anyone attempting to usurp throne.
Elizabeth I
Dubbed a ‘servant of crime’.
Elizabeth I
Robert Dudley served as council and was a suitor of this leader.
Elizabeth I
Said ‘I have the heart and stomach of a king’ in Tilbury Speech.
Elizabeth I
Shielded from world through John Conroy’s Kensington System.
Victoria
Threatened to abdicate to pressure Disraeli to act in Russo-Turkish War.
Victoria
Lord Melbourne first PM during this leader’s reign.
Victoria
One prime minister’s resignation led to Bedchamber Crisis.
Victoria
Edward Oxford tried to assassinate this leader.
Victoria
Robert Pate hit this leader on the head.
Victoria
Called ‘Famine Queen’.
Victoria
Succeeded Edward the Confessor.
Harold Godwinson
Beat his own brother Tostig at Battle of Stamford Bridge.
Harold Godwinson
Won Battle of Fulford.
Harold Godwinson
Edwin of Mercia and Morcar of Northumbria.
Harold Godwinson
Captured by Guy of Ponthieu after a shipwreck.
Harold Godwinson
Fought in Battle of Dinant against Conan II.
Harold Godwinson
Wife was Anne Neville.
Richard III
Remains found under a parking lot.
Richard III
Brother George, Duke of Clarence, married to Elizabeth Woodville.
Richard III
Successor of Edward IV.
Richard III
Governor of the Council of the North.
Richard III
One part of War of Quadruple Alliance aimed to overthrow this monarch.
George I
South Sea Bubble occurred during this monarch’s reign.
George I
Whigs cemented power through passage of Septennial Act.
George I
Suppressed Old Pretender’s usurpation in Battle of Preston.
George I
Faced first of the Jacobite Uprisings.
George I
Revived Order of the Bath.
George I
Convened Hampton Court Conference.
James I
Ministers signed Millenary Petition against this ruler.
James I
Wrote a book on witchcraft, Daemonologie.
James I
Faced threat of Gunpowder Plot.
James I
Robert Catesby sought to replace this man.
James I
Kidnapped during Ruthven Raid as an adolescent.
James I
Suspected lover of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham.
James I
Dealt with the Addled Parliament.
James I
Attempted to marry his son to the Infanta Maria in ‘Spanish Match’.
James I
Anthony Weldon dubbed him the ‘wisest fool in Christendom’.
James I
Isaac Komnenos took sister Joan and fiancée Berengaria prisoner.
Richard the Lionheart
Coronation saw the death of Jacob of Orleans.
Richard the Lionheart
Conquered Cyprus in 1191.
Richard the Lionheart
Won Battle of Arsuf.
Richard the Lionheart
Unsuccessfully rebelled against father Henry II.
Richard the Lionheart
Led with Philip II on one campaign.
Richard the Lionheart
Captured and ransomed by Leopold of Austria.
Richard the Lionheart
Tory Robert Harley held great influence on this monarch.
Anne I
Feuded with wife Sarah Churchill of general John, Duke of Marlborough.
Anne I
Endured thirteen miscarriages out of eighteen.
Anne I
Death sparked passage of the Act of Settlement.
Anne I
Pope Innocent III invalidated one document signed by this man.
John I
Rebelled while his brother was returning from the Third Crusade.
John I
Innocent III excommunicated this leader due to not recognizing Stephen Langton as Archbishop of Canterbury.
John I
Defeated rival claimant Arthur of Brittany at Battle of Mirebeau.
John I
Sparked First Barons’ War after violating one treaty.
John I
Lost the Battle of Bouvines.
John I
Robert FitzWalter accused this monarch of seducing daughter Matilda.
John I
Stole Isabelle d’Angoulême, fiancée of Hugh de Lusignan.
John I
Won Battle of Falkirk.
Edward I
Captured William Wallace.
Edward I
Won the Second Barons’ War.
Edward I
Won Battle of Evesham with Gilbert de Clare.
Edward I
Remonstrances issued in complaint against this man.
Edward I
Edict of Expulsion expelled Jews from England.
Edward I
‘Hammer of the Scots’.
Edward I
‘English Justinian’ forced the abdication of John Balliol.
Edward I
Lost at Battle of Stirling Bridge.
Edward I
