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The Agricultural Wages Board was a British body with offices at Pall Mall, London, set up in 1917 to settle the wages of agricultural labourers in England and Wales under the Corn Production Act, which fixed a minimum wage of 25 shillings a week. As appointed by the Board of Agriculture and the Ministry of Labour, the Agricultural Wages Board consisted of equal numbers of employers and employees, with a certain leaven of disinterested persons. Of the 39 members, seven were nominated by the Board of Agriculture. Its duties were to fix wages and hours; to make, if necessary, rates of wages for piecework; and to grant permits for injured and infirm persons to be employed at lower wages. This being done it had to see that the proper wages were being paid.
The Agricultural Wages Board worked through district committees, formed from the same three classes. The country was divided into 39 areas, and each recommended the minimum rate of wages applicable to its area. The first chairman of the Agricultural Wages Board was Sir Ailwyn Fellowes.
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A cachecope bell was a bell formerly rung at funerals, the pall being thrown over the coffin.
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The Carlton Club was a famous political club in Pall Mall, London. It was the recognised headquarters of the Conservative Party, and was founded in 1831 or 1832 by the Duke of Wellington. and held its first meeting in Charles Street, St James's before being removed to Carlton Gardens in 1832 and built a club-house in Pall Mall in 1836.
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The National Gallery is an art gallery in London. It was started in 1824 when the British government purchased the Angerstein collection of 38 pictures for 57,000 pounds. The first exhibition of them took place on the 10th of May 1824 in Pall-mall.
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St James' Gazette was an anti-radical evening newspaper first published in May 1880 at a price of 2d. It was founded by Frederick Greenwood as a Conservative supporting rival to the Pall Mall Gazette. In January 1882 the price was dropped to 1d and in 1905 it amalgamated with the Evening Standard.
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Sir Charles Barry was a British architect. He was born in 1795 at Westminster and died in 1860. Apprenticed to a surveyor and architect in Lambeth when he was 17 he exhibited his first architectural drawing at the Royal Academy. From 1816 until 1820 he travelled in Italy, Greece, Palestine and Egypt, returning to England he established a practice of architects. He was responsible for the design of the Institute of Fine Arts in Manchester, the reform Club in Pall Mall and after the old Houses of Parliament burned down in 1836, the design of the new Houses of Parliament.
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Sir Douglas Straight was an English judge and journalist. He was born in 1844 at London and died in 1914. Educated at East Sheen and Harrow, he was employed for a while in newspaper and magazine work before being called to the bar in 1865 and subsequently acquiring a large practice. He was member of parliament for Shrewsbury from 1870 until 1874, a judge of the high court at Allahabad from 1879 until 1892 and editor of The Pall Mall Gazette from 1896 until 1909.
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George Murray Smith was an English publisher. He was born in 1824 at London and died in 1901. He joined the publishing and book selling business, George Smith Elder and Company his father had started with a partner some years earlier, and became head of the business in 1846. In 1859 he founded 'The Cornhill Magazine' and in 1865 'The Pall Mall Gazette'.
George Smith was an English Assyriologist. He was born in 1840 at London and died in 1876. An engraver, while studying some cuneiform plates entrusted to him he became curious and led him to study the British Museum inscriptions. Observed by Rawlinson he became museum assistant in 1867 and collaborated in his Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia'. George Smith deciphered the Cypriotescript and wrote 'A History of Assurbanipal' published in 1871. His discovery and translation in 1872 of the Chaldean account of the deluge occasioned his Nineveh expeditions for The Daily Telegraph in 1873 and the British Museum in 1874. the results of the Nineveh expeditions were published in 'Assyrian Discoveries' in 1875, and 'The Chaldeon Account of Genesis' in 1876. George Smith died while on another expedition at Aleppo.
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George Warrington Steevens was an English journalist. He was born in 1869 at Sydenham, Surrey and died in 1900. Educated at the City of London School and Balliol College, Oxford he became a fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford. Editor of The Cambridge Observer and a contributor to the Pall Mall Gazette and Blackwood's Magazine he joined the staff of The Daily Mail in 1896. He was a foreign correspondent for the Pall Mall Gazette and Daily Mail and died of typhoid fever while reporting on the Boer War.
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Henry Duff Traill was an English writer and journalist. He was born in 1842 at Blackheath and died in 1900. Educated at the Merchant Taylors' School and St John's College, Oxford, he became a barrister and in 1871 a civil servant and a part time journalist. He was the first editor of 'Literature' and wrote biographies of Coleridge, Sterne, William III, Shaftsbury, Strafford, Lord Salisbury, Lord Cromer and Sir John Franklin as well as writing numerous letters to the Pall Mall Gazette, St James' Gazette, Saturday Review and the Daily Telegraph.
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