Global Information Lookup Global Information

Woolsack information


The Lords Chamber on 12 April 2021 - Lord Fowler sits on the speaker's woolsack, with two other peers on the judges' woolsack in front.

The Woolsack is the seat of the Lord Speaker in the House of Lords, the Upper House of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Before 2006, it was the seat of the Lord Chancellor.

and 23 Related for: Woolsack information

Request time (Page generated in 0.5623 seconds.)

Woolsack

Last Update:

The Woolsack is the seat of the Lord Speaker in the House of Lords, the Upper House of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Before 2006, it was the seat...

Word Count : 1039

Tetbury Woolsack Races

Last Update:

The Tetbury Woolsack Races are an annual sporting event in the English town of Tetbury, in Gloucestershire, where competitors must race up and down the...

Word Count : 224

Spheroidal weathering

Last Update:

spheroidal weathering often creates rounded boulders, known as corestones or woolsack, of relatively unweathered rock. Spheroidal weathering is also called onion...

Word Count : 828

Lord Speaker

Last Update:

The Lord Speaker thus elected then replaced the Lord Chancellor on the Woolsack. By Royal Warrant on 4 July 2006, the Queen declared that the Lord Speaker...

Word Count : 1490

Palace of Westminster

Last Update:

royal authority, is placed on the back of the Woolsack. In front of the Woolsack is the Judges' Woolsack, a larger red cushion that used to be occupied...

Word Count : 13218

Avoirdupois

Last Update:

had the following units: a pound of 6992 grains, a stone of 14 pounds, a woolsack of 26 stone, an ounce of 1⁄16 pound, and finally, the ounce was divided...

Word Count : 1959

Constitutional conventions of the United Kingdom

Last Update:

The House of Lords debates the conflict in Ukraine. The Lord Speaker can be seen to the rear, seated on the woolsack....

Word Count : 2717

House of Lords

Last Update:

Chamber are coloured red. The Woolsack is at the front of the Chamber; the Government sit on benches on the right of the Woolsack, while members of the Opposition...

Word Count : 15705

Lord Chancellor

Last Update:

Watson, Steven. "Figures on a Woolsack" History Today (Feb 1955) 5#2 pp 75–83. Watson, Steven. "Figures on a Woolsack part 2" History Today (Apr 1955)...

Word Count : 6711

Tetbury

Last Update:

House and Westonbirt Arboretum lie just outside the town. The Tetbury Woolsack Races, founded 1972, is an annual competition where participants must carry...

Word Count : 1385

Wool

Last Update:

14th century, the presiding officer of the House of Lords has sat on the "Woolsack", a chair stuffed with wool. Economies of scale were instituted in the...

Word Count : 4933

Rudyard Kipling

Last Update:

(except the following year) would last until 1908. They would stay in "The Woolsack", a house on Cecil Rhodes's estate at Groote Schuur (now a student residence...

Word Count : 14840

Fluid ounce

Last Update:

necessarily equal to the sum of its parts. For example, the 364-pound woolsack (165 kg) had a 14-pound allowance (6.4 kg) for the weight of the sack and...

Word Count : 663

Peerages in the United Kingdom

Last Update:

The Lord Speaker presiding from the woolsack...

Word Count : 11067

Medieval English wool trade

Last Update:

fourteenth century, the presiding officer of the House of Lords has sat on the Woolsack, a chair stuffed with wool. During the early Anglo-Saxon period (c. 450–650)...

Word Count : 1317

Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom

Last Update:

William III are used by the House of Lords, one of which is placed on the Woolsack before the house meets and is absent when a monarch is there in person...

Word Count : 13064

Model Parliament

Last Update:

"Edward I," Encyclopædia Britannica (1911). Michael L. Nash, "Crown, Woolsack and Mace: the model Parliament of 1295". Contemporary Review, November...

Word Count : 558

Reigate and Banstead

Last Update:

on which is a gold woolpack between two sprigs of oak. The woolpack or woolsack refers to the former importance of sheep rearing and wool production in...

Word Count : 2103

Saint Blaise

Last Update:

by the belief that Blaise had brought prosperity (as symbolised by the Woolsack) to England by teaching the English to comb wool. According to the tradition...

Word Count : 2520

Royal assent

Last Update:

scarlet parliamentary robes and sit on a bench between the throne and the Woolsack. The Lords Reading Clerk reads the commission aloud; the senior commissioner...

Word Count : 8869

University of Cape Town

Last Update:

Groote Schuur Residence Liesbeeck Gardens Medical Residence Obz Square The Woolsack Third-tier residences: 1 Woodbine Road 8 Avenue Road Amalinda Dullah Omar...

Word Count : 7941

Parliament of Ireland

Last Update:

House of Lords was presided over by the Lord Chancellor, who sat on the woolsack, a large seat stuffed with wool from each of the three lands of England...

Word Count : 3945

Irish House of Lords

Last Update:

House of Lords was presided over by the Lord Chancellor, who sat on the woolsack, a large seat stuffed with wool from each of the three lands of England...

Word Count : 992

PDF Search Engine © AllGlobal.net