34-639: Admiral of the Fleet Sir Charles Edmund Nugent GCH (c.1759 – 7 January 1844) was a Royal Navy officer. He saw action as a junior officer in the 50-gun Bristol at the Battle of Sullivan's Island during the American Revolutionary War . He was held as a prisoner-of war for a day by Spaniards shortly before the Battle of San Fernando de Omoa later on in the War. Nugent served in
68-580: A former First Sea Lord and Chief of the Defence Staff, was also appointed an honorary admiral of the fleet. Buckingham (UK Parliament constituency) Buckingham ( / ˈ b ʌ k ɪ ŋ ə m / ) was a constituency that was last represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament by Greg Smith , a Conservative . The seat was abolished for the 2024 general election and largely replaced by
102-525: A large part of central Buckinghamshire , covering much of the Aylesbury Vale including the town of Buckingham , and some areas south of it, including Chequers , the official country residence of the Prime Minister since 1921. To the north, the remaining part of ceremonial Buckinghamshire forms two Borough of Milton Keynes constituencies ( Milton Keynes South and Milton Keynes North ). Further to
136-538: Is an inconsistently followed convention, which is mostly kept by the major parties, not to oppose a Speaker at election. Nonetheless, UKIP's leader, Nigel Farage , stood against Bercow in the 2010 election but finished third behind the Buckinghamshire Campaign for Democracy founder, who previously founded the Pro-Euro Conservative Party . In both the 2015 and 2017 general elections, Bercow
170-575: The Chatham . In December Parker and Clinton were sent north to capture Rhode Island, which was taken without resistance. At the beginning of 1778 Parker sailed to Jamaica to serve as commander-in-chief, and on 26 May promoted Nugent to the rank of commander , his promotion to lieutenant as yet still unconfirmed by the Admiralty, and thus his name first appears in the Navy List as a commander. On 2 May 1779 Nugent
204-683: The 2005 general election , this constituency had the Conservatives' highest numerical majority, although a higher share of the vote was achieved in Kensington and Chelsea in London , the constituency of Malcolm Rifkind , and Richmond in North Yorkshire , the constituency of William Hague . In 2009, Bercow was elected as Speaker of the House of Commons following the resignation of Michael Martin . There
238-522: The Jamaica station until mid-1782, when he returned to England with Sir Peter Parker. The following year he was elected as Member of Parliament for Buckingham . When the war with France began in 1793 Nugent was appointed to the 64-gun ship Veteran , and sailed for the Caribbean at the end of the year. He served in the naval brigade in the invasions of Martinique , Saint Lucia , and Guadaloupe , receiving
272-672: The Representation of the People Act 1867 . The Borough was abolished altogether by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 , and it was transformed into a large county division, formally named the North or Buckingham Division of Buckinghamshire. It was one of three divisions formed from the undivided three-member Parliamentary County of Buckinghamshire , the other two being the Mid or Aylesbury Division and
306-601: The Royal Navy , formally established in 1688. The five-star NATO rank code is OF-10 , equivalent to a field marshal in the British Army or a Marshal of the Royal Air Force . Apart from honorary appointments, no new admirals of the fleet have been named since 1995, and no honorary appointments have been made since 2014. The origins of the rank can be traced back to John de Beauchamp, 1st Baron Beauchamp de Warwick , who
340-533: The Urban District of Leighton-Linslade , which was included in the Administrative County of Bedfordshire . Rural areas to the north and west of the town of Aylesbury transferred from the constituency thereof. The area comprising the new District of Milton Keynes, except for Stony Stratford and Wolverton , formed the new constituency of Milton Keynes . For the 1992 general election , outside
374-655: The coronation of his wife Elizabeth II as Queen. This promotion was to a New Zealand rank, separate from the Royal Navy rank. Following the creation of the Chief of the Defence Staff in 1959, the five naval officers appointed to that position became admirals of the fleet. Recognizing the reduced post– Cold War size of the British Armed Forces, no further appointments were made to the rank after 1995 when Sir Benjamin Bathurst
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#1732883500602408-636: The naval brigade in the invasions of Martinique , Saint Lucia , and Guadaloupe during the French Revolutionary Wars and, when William Cornwallis assumed command of the blockade of Brest, Nugent was selected to serve as his Captain of the Fleet during the Napoleonic Wars . He never commanded any fleet or naval station but did rise to the highest rank in the Navy. He was the son of Lieutenant Colonel
442-511: The Fleet . Nugent was present at the funeral of Lord Nelson in January 1806. He saw no further service at sea, but was promoted to full admiral on 28 April 1808, and to Admiral of the Fleet on 24 April 1833, becoming the most senior officer of the Royal Navy, at the same time that his brother, Field Marshal Sir George Nugent , held the same position in the British Army. On 12 March 1834 Nugent
476-580: The Honourable Edmund Nugent, the only son of Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent , but after his father's death in 1771 his marriage was found to have been illegal, and he and his elder brother George were declared illegitimate, and thus unable to inherit any of his grandfather's titles. Nugent entered the Navy as a youngster in 1771, serving aboard the sloop Scorpion , commanded by George Elphinstone (later Viscount Keith) until 1774. He then served aboard Trident , flagship of Sir Peter Denis , in
510-576: The Mediterranean. Towards the end of 1777 he was appointed to the 50-gun Bristol , flagship of Rear-Admiral Sir Peter Parker . On 26 December 1777 Parker sailed from Portsmouth with a squadron of ships, carrying troops under the command of Earl Cornwallis , to launch an attack on Charleston, South Carolina . The squadron arrived off Cape Fear in May, and was joined by General Henry Clinton and his troops. The combined force advanced upriver until reaching
544-576: The Southern or Wycombe Division. In the twentieth century, the constituency was held by the Conservative Party for most of the time. However, Aidan Crawley , a Labour Party MP, served Buckingham from 1945 until 1951, and from 1964 until 1970, its Labour MP was the controversial publisher Robert Maxwell . Before the periodic review effected in 1983, the new town of Milton Keynes, including its older parts such as Bletchley and Fenny Stratford ,
578-499: The fleet role. In a break with tradition the rank was awarded to the most senior Admiral of the Red, who retained this substantive rank while also serving as Admiral of the Fleet. Appointments were for life, remunerated via a £5 daily stipend and an annual allowance of £1,014 for the hiring and maintenance of servants. It was intended that only one officer would hold the rank at any time, with their presence aboard any naval vessel to be denoted by
612-679: The flying of the Royal Standard from the main mast . The ranks of Admiral of the Fleet and Admiral of the Red were formally separated from 1805, with an announcement in the London Gazette that "His Majesty [has] been pleased to order the Rank of Admirals of the Red to be restored" in His Majesty's Navy..." as a separate role. The same Gazette promoted 22 men to that rank. From the nineteenth century onward there were also occasional variations to
646-546: The new constituencies Buckingham and Bletchley and Mid Buckinghamshire , with some areas transferred to Aylesbury . After its creation in 1542, the Parliamentary Borough of Buckingham sent two MPs to the House of Commons of England until 1707, then to the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1707 to 1800 and finally to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1801, reduced to one MP from 1868 by
680-581: The next election, whichever occurred first. Gained Linslade and the Rural District of Wing from Aylesbury . The Urban District of Wolverton had succeeded the Rural District of Stratford and Wolverton. The parts of the Rural District of Aylesbury and the (former) Rural District of Long Crendon were transferred to Aylesbury. Lost Linslade to South Bedfordshire ; the Urban District of Linslade had been merged with that of Leighton Buzzard to form
714-781: The normal cycle of periodic reviews by the Boundaries Commission, the Milton Keynes constituency was split in two, with Stony Stratford and Wolverton being included in the new Borough Constituency of Milton Keynes South West . No further changes. The District of Aylesbury Vale wards of Aston Clinton, Bierton, Brill, Buckingham North, Buckingham South, Cheddington, Eddlesborough, Great Brickhill, Great Horwood, Grendon Underwood, Haddenham, Hogshaw, Long Crendon, Luffield Abbey, Marsh Gibbon, Newton Longville, Oakley, Pitstone, Quainton, Steeple Claydon, Stewkley, Stone, Tingewick, Waddesdon, Wing, Wingrave, and Winslow. The Aston Clinton ward
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#1732883500602748-482: The previous requirement that only one Admiral of Fleet could serve at one time. In 1821 George IV appointed Sir John Jervis as a second admiral of the fleet, to balance the Duke of Wellington ' s promotion as a second Field Marshal in the British Army. In 1830 King William IV increased the number of admirals of the fleet to three, though these additional lifetime postings subsequently lapsed. Between 1854 and 1857 there
782-589: The strongly fortified Sullivan's Island. In the subsequent battle on 28 June the British were unable to subdue the defenders or mount an attack by land. Bristol bore the brunt of the American fire and had 111 men killed and wounded. The British eventually withdrew, and sailed north to attack New York. Nugent was serving as an acting-lieutenant during the attack on Sullivan's Island, and in September 1777 he followed Parker into
816-489: The thanks of the military Commander-in-Chief, Sir Charles Grey , before returning to England with despatches. Nugent then commanded the 80-gun ship Caesar in the Channel from early 1795 until early 1797. Nugent was promoted to rear-admiral on 20 February 1797 and to vice-admiral on 1 January 1801. In mid-1805, when William Cornwallis assumed command of the blockade of Brest, Nugent was selected to serve as his Captain of
850-555: Was abandoned in 1864, though the rank of admiral of the fleet was maintained. The title of First Naval Lord was renamed First Sea Lord in 1904. During the two World Wars a number of serving officers held active commissions as admirals of the fleet, as well as the First Sea Lord—e.g. Sir John Tovey . Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh was created an Admiral of the Fleet in the Royal New Zealand Navy in 1954, following
884-531: Was appointed ' Admiral of the King's Southern, Northern and Western Fleets ' on 18 July 1360. The appointment gave the command of the English navy to one person for the first time; this evolved into the post of Admiral of the Fleet. In the days of sailing ships the admiral distinctions then used by the Royal Navy included distinctions related to the fleet being divided into three divisions – red, white, or blue. Each division
918-452: Was appointed admiral of the fleet on his retirement as First Sea Lord. The rank was not abolished and in 2012 the Prince of Wales (now King Charles III ) became an honorary admiral of the fleet (as well as field marshal and marshal of the Royal Air Force ), in recognition of his support to Queen Elizabeth II in her role of as Commander-in-Chief of the British Armed Forces. In 2014, Lord Boyce ,
952-497: Was assigned at least one admiral , who in turn commanded a number of vice-admirals and rear admirals . While the full admirals were nominally equals, tradition gave precedence to the Admiral of the White who held the fleet rank in addition to his substantive role. The Restoration era brought a general reorganisation of naval ranks and structure, including formalisation of the admiral of
986-594: Was challenged by only UKIP and the Green Party , with the addition of the independent candidate Scott Raven in the latter election. In September 2019 the Conservative Party announced their intention to stand a candidate against Bercow in the next election, breaking the convention of major parties not opposing a Speaker , seemingly in response to Bercow's opposition to Prime Minister Boris Johnson 's handling of Brexit . However, Bercow announced in September 2019 that he would stand down as Speaker on either October 31 or at
1020-462: Was in the constituency. The 1983 review followed the previous national review in 1974 and recognised the large increase in voters in the constituency. The sitting Buckingham MP, William Benyon , stood for the newly created Milton Keynes constituency , where he was elected. The residual seat was won in 1983 by Conservative George Walden . Walden retired in 1997, and John Bercow won the following general elections in 2001, 2005, 2010, 2015 and 2017. At
1054-508: Was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Hanoverian Order . He died on 7 January 1844, aged 85, at his son-in-law's home in Studland , Dorset . Nugent was married, and his only daughter Georgina Charlotte married George Bankes , MP for Corfe Castle on 8 June 1822. Admiral of the Fleet (Royal Navy) Admiral of the Fleet is a five-star naval officer rank and the highest rank of
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1088-488: Was no admiral of the fleet at all as the most senior naval officer of the time – Admiral of the Red Thomas Le Marchant Gosselin – was mentally ill and had not served at sea for forty-five years. In deference to Gosselin's seniority the position was instead left vacant until his death in 1857, whereupon it was filled by Admiral Charles Ogle . The organisation of the British fleet into coloured squadrons
1122-635: Was promoted to post-captain in command of the 28-gun frigate Pomona at Jamaica. Before the Battle of San Fernando de Omoa in October 1779 Nugent was sent in the schooner Racehorse to employ local pilots from the Gulf of Honduras , but when attempting to land at St. George's Key was captured by armed Spanish boats. He was held as a prisoner until the next day, when Pomona arrived, the Spaniards fled, and Nugent and his boat crew released themselves. Nugent remained on
1156-489: Was transferred from Aylesbury. The District of Wycombe wards, including Princes Risborough , were transferred from Aylesbury, offset by the return of Aston Clinton . In April 2020, the Districts of Aylesbury Vale and Wycombe, as well as those of South Bucks and Chiltern were merged into the new unitary authority of Buckinghamshire Council . Accordingly, the current contents of the constituency are: The constituency covered
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