He wanted the chancellorship which the king has given to Hyde.
The Chancellorship of the Exchequer was given to Lord Althorp, a most amiable and excellent man, a steady partisan of reform and retrenchment, but of an easy and not very vigorous character.
Before he returned to France he persuaded Beaufort to surrender the chancellorship to Kemp, the Bishop of London, and to leave England for a time.
He was a great architect and administrator, and having been deprived of the Chancellorship used his wealth to found at Winchester the first great public school in England.
He twice refused the Chancellorship of the Exchequer, and twice declined the offer of a peerage.
In 1845 he was appointed by Bishop Stanley to the Chancellorship of the diocese.
I compared the race for the Chancellorship just now to a foot-race of twenty men; and I showed you that if all the runners were as fleet as greyhounds only one could win, and nineteen must lose.
This was the correct thing to do, as it avoided a faux pas such as, during the chancellorship of Prince Buelow, had sometimes been made.
Harbou in his stead took part in it, and that the question of selecting a suitable candidate for the Chancellorship proved impossible of a satisfactory solution.
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Chamberlain the Chancellorship of the Exchequer, and me the Secretaryship of State for Foreign Affairs.
In King Ethelred's time the Chancellorship was divided between the Abbots of Ely, Canterbury and Glastonbury, who exercised it in turn, each for four months.
Charles Townshend, too, whom Burke called the delight and ornament of the House, and who was offered the Chancellorship of the Exchequer by Pitt, seems to have been far more eloquent in his cups than at any other time.
Sheridan even went so far as to say that a competent knowledge of the Rule of Three was a sufficient qualification for the Chancellorship of the Exchequer.
Since that time no cleric, with the single exception of Bishop Williams, in 1621, has been entrusted with the Chancellorship or the custody of the Great Seal.
In mediaeval days the Chancellorship and the Lord Keepership were often held in conjunction with other offices.
The famous "Kruger telegram" episode occurred during the Chancellorship of Prince Hohenlohe.
The Emperor met him at the station (Wildpark) and conveyed him to the New Palace, where the Prince agreed to accept the Chancellorship "at the Emperor's earnest request.
In 1895, however, his second chancellorship came to an end with the defeat of the Rosebery ministry.
Herschell's chancellorship lasted barely six months, for in August 1886 Gladstone's Home Rule Bill was rejected in the Commons and his administration fell.
It was, indeed, at Liebenberg that the emperor decided upon the dismissal from the chancellorship of General Count Caprivi, who had been unfortunate enough to incur the enmity of the Eulenburgs.
But although a reconciliation was effected, the bishop evidently regarded this as a defeat; and having resigned the chancellorshiphis energies were diverted into another channel.
He honoured himself further by restoring the rule, so rudely broken by Clinton, of offering the chancellorship to Chief Justice Savage, and, upon his declining it, to Reuben H.
In 1801 the chief-justiceship dropped into his lap when Livingston went to France and Lansing became chancellor, just as the chancellorship would probably have come to him had Lansing continued a candidate for governor.
Coincident with the overturn came the dismissal of Bismarck and the elevation to the chancellorship of General von Caprivi.
Warham relinquished the burdens of the Chancellorshipwhich he had long unwillingly borne; Fox sought to atone for twenty-eight years' neglect of his diocese by spending in it the rest of his days.
Parliament, which had sat for the unusual space of four months, was prorogued on the 14th of May; two days later, More resigned the chancellorship and Gardiner retired in disfavour to Winchester.
Even in the busy days of hisChancellorship he had prepared and carried through the press the Novum Organum, which he published on the very eve of his fall.
Bacon's Chancellorship coincided with the full bloom of Buckingham's favour; and Buckingham set the fashion, beyond all before him, of extravagance in receiving and spending.
Who would not have been at seeing the hopes and the work of the whole period of my Chancellorship going for nought?
The Chancellor says that in his conversation with the British Ambassador in August last he 'may have been a bit excited at seeing the hopes and work of the whole period of his Chancellorship going for nought.
