| Edmund Burke - History - 1859 - 914 pages
...accompanied Her Majesty in the royal yacht to the grand naval review at Spitheal. On May 29, he was presented with the freedom of the City of London in a gold box of the value of 100 guineas. On June 4, 1856, he received the honorary degree of Doctor in Civil Law from the University... | |
| 1862 - 98 pages
...purpose at Guildhall, and at which the Lord Mayor presided, the honorary freedom of the Corporation of the City of London, in a gold box of the value of 100 guineas, in conformity with an unanimous resolution passed on the 22nd of May, was presented to... | |
| Royal Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1863 - 838 pages
...year 1838. He received for this service the thanks of the municipal authorities, and was presented with the freedom of the City of London in a gold box. Emboldened by the success of these operations, he proceeded to execute the more formidable task of... | |
| International portrait gallery - 1878 - 462 pages
...rocks, or her ancient conquerors burnt into the memories of her people." On the 16th of July, 1874, the freedom of the City of London, in a gold box of the value of 100 guineas, was presented to the Right Hon. Sir Bartle Frere, in recognition of his long and honourable... | |
| Thompson Cooper - Biography - 1879 - 528 pages
...created an honorary LL.l). of the University of Cambridge ; and on July 16, 1874, he was presented with the freedom of the City of London, in a gold box of the value of 100 guineas, for his successful exertions in East Africa. Subsequently he visited India in the suite... | |
| Leslie Stephen - Great Britain - 1891 - 478 pages
...was raised to the peerage of Ireland as Baron Hood of Catherington, Hampshire: he was also presented with the freedom of the city of London in a gold box. At the general election in 1784 he was returned to parliament at the head of the poll for Westminster... | |
| Rebecca Irwin Graff - 1893 - 270 pages
...Judge that he, Jeffreys, was obliged to fly from the country. For this John Brynghurst was presented with the freedom of the city of London, in a gold box, but on Jeffreys's return to power he (Brynghurst) was obliged to leave England, and went to Holland,... | |
| Frederick Marryat - 1896 - 448 pages
...whole corporation of city aldermen last week, by their taking three bottles each, and they presented me with the freedom of the city of London, in a gold box, which I am sorry that I have forgotten to bring with me. Now the chiragra may be divided into several... | |
| Ezra Stiles, Franklin Bowditch Dexter - 1901 - 598 pages
...Church. Read a pamphlet by Dr Price of London on Liberty & the American War ; for which he received the freedom of the City of London in a Gold Box of 50 Guineas. 3. News that the Halifax Fleet arrived at the Hook, N. York, Thursday & Friday last 27... | |
| Arthur Johnston - American loyalists - 1908 - 318 pages
...attempting to maintain control over the colonies, and for these patriotic utterances he was presented with the freedom of the city of London in a gold box. The American Congress, too, rewarded the efforts of the worthy doctor by conferring upon him the citizenship... | |
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