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Encyclopedia > William Randal Cremer

Sir William Randal Cremer, (March 18, 1828 – July 22, 1908) usually known by his middle name "Randal", was an English Member of Parliament and pacifist. March 18 is the 77th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (78th in leap years). ... 1828 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... July 22 is the 203rd day (204th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 162 days remaining. ... 1908 (MCMVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Government Constitutional monarchy  - Queen Queen Elizabeth II  - Prime Minister Tony Blair MP Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq... A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a parliament; in the Westminster system, specifically to the lower house. ... Pacifism is the opposition to war or violence as a means of settling disputes. ...


He was MP for Haggerston from 1885 to 1895.


Cremer won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1903 mainly for his work in international arbitration, and particularly the 1897 Anglo-American arbitration treaty. He co-founded the Inter-Parliamentary Union and the International Arbitration League. Lester B. Pearson after accepting the Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize is the name of one of five Nobel Prizes bequested by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. ... 1903 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Friday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... Arbitration is a final and binding dispute resolution process. ... 1897 (MDCCCXCVII) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... The Inter-Parliamentary Union is an international organization established in 1889 by William Randal Cremer (United Kingdom) and Frédéric Passy (France). ... The International Arbitration League was founded by the Nobel Peace Prize winner Sir William Randall Cremer and was later incorporated into the Commonwealth of World Citizens. ...


He also won the French Légion d'honneur, the Norwegian Knighthood of Saint Olaf and was knighted in 1907. Chiang Kai-sheks Légion dhonneur. ... A statue of an armoured knight of the Middle Ages For the chess piece, see knight (chess). ... 1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ...


References

  • Nobel Committee information on 1903 Peace Prize
  • About Sir Randal Cremer
  • The Hugh & Helene Schonfield World Service Trust
Nobel Peace Prize: Laureates (1901–1925)

1901: Dunant, Passy | 1902: Ducommun, Gobat | 1903: Cremer | 1904: IDI | 1905: Suttner | 1906: Roosevelt | 1907: Moneta, Renault | 1908: Arnoldson, Bajer | 1909: Beernaert, Estournelles de Constant | 1910: IPB 1911: Asser, Fried | 1912: Root | 1913: La Fontaine | 1917: ICRC | 1919: Wilson | 1920: Bourgeois | 1921: Branting, Lange | 1922: Nansen | 1925: Chamberlain, Dawes Lester B. Pearson after accepting the Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize is the name of one of five Nobel Prizes bequested by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. ... Winners of the Nobel Prize are scientists, writers and peacemakers who have been awarded in their field of endeavour, and who are known collectively as either Nobel laureates or Nobel Prize winners. ... Dunant as an elderly man. ... Frédéric Passy (May 20, 1822 - June 12, 1912) was a French economist and a joint winner (together with Henry Dunant) of the first Nobel Peace Prize awarded in 1901. ... Élie Ducommun (February 19, 1833 – December 7, 1906) was a Swiss journalist and peace activist. ... Charles Albert Gobat (May 21, 1843 – March 16, 1914) was a Swiss lawyer, educational administrator, and politician who jointly received the 1902 Nobel Peace Prize with Élie Ducommun for their leadership of the Permanent International Peace Bureau. ... The Institut de droit international (Institute of International Law) is an organization devoted to the study and development of international law. ... Bertha von Suttner on the Austrian 2-euro coin Bertha Sophie Felicitas Freifrau von Suttner (Baroness Bertha von Suttner), (9 June 1843 in Prague, [then in Austrian Empire] - 21 June 1914 in Vienna, (then in Austria-Hungary), born as Gräfin (Countess) Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau, was an Austrian... Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. ... Ernesto Teodoro Moneta (September 20, 1833 - February 10, 1918) had a personality as paradoxical as the term «militant pacifist» which was so often applied to him. ... Louis Renault (May 21, 1843 - February 8, 1918) was a French jurist and educator, the cowinner in 1907 (with Ernesto Teodoro Moneta) of the Nobel Prize for Peace. ... Categories: Stub | 1844 births | 1916 deaths | Nobel Peace Prize winners | Swedish politicians ... Fredrik Bajer (April 21, 1837 - January 22, 1922) was a Danish writer, teacher, and pacifist politician who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1908. ... Auguste Marie François Beernaert (July 26, 1829 - October 6, 1912) was a Belgian-Flemish statesman and cowinner (with Paul dEstournelles de Constant) of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1909. ... Paul-Henri-Benjamin Baluet dEstournelles, baron de Constant de Rébecque (22 November 1852 – 15 May 1924), was a French diplomat and politician, advocate of international arbitration and winner of the 1909 Nobel Prize for Peace. ... International Peace Bureau is an international organization whose goal is to coordinate the peace activities of various organizations in many countries. ... Tobias Michael Carel Asser (April 28, 1838 – July 29, 1913) was a Dutch jurist, cowinner (with Alfred Fried) of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1911 for his role in the formation of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the first Hague peace conference (1899). ... Alfred Hermann Fried - Austrian stamp 6 Schillings Alfred Hermann Fried (November 11, 1864 in Vienna, Austria- May 5, 1921 in Vienna), was an Austrian Jewish pacifist, publicist, journalist, co-founder of the German peace movement, and winner (with Tobias Asser) of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1911. ... Elihu Root Elihu Root (February 15, 1845 – February 7, 1937) was an American lawyer and statesman, the son of Oren Root and Nancy Whitney Buttrick. ... Henri La Fontaine, (22 April 1854 – 14 May 1943) was a Belgian international lawyer and president of the International Peace Bureau from 1907 to 1943 who received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1913. ... The Red Cross and the Red Crescent emblems, the symbols from which the Movement derives its name The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is an international humanitarian movement whose stated mission is to protect human life and health, to ensure respect for the human being and all other... Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924) was the 28th President of the United States (1913–1921). ... French politician Léon Bourgeois Léon Victor Auguste Bourgeois (May 21, 1851 – September 29, 1925) was a French statesman. ... Hjalmar Branting (November 23, 1860 – February 24, 1925) was a Swedish statesman and the countrys chief Social Democratic leader. ... Christian Louis Lange (September 17, 1869 - December 11, 1938) was born in Stavanger, Norway, and received the Master of Arts degree from the University of Oslo in 1893. ... Fridtjof Nansen Fridtjof Nansen (born October 10, 1861 in Store Frøen, near Christiania - died May 13, 1930 in Lysaker, outside Oslo) was a Norwegian explorer, scientist and diplomat. ... The Rt. ... Charles Gates Dawes (August 27, 1865 – April 23, 1951) was the 30th Vice President of the United States. ...

Complete List | Laureates (1926–1950) | Laureates (1951–1975) | Laureates (1976–2000) | Laureates (2001—)

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William Randal Cremer (1275 words)
Randal Cremer (he preferred to drop the William) was born to poor working-class parents in a small town in Hampshire, England.
At fifteen Cremer was apprenticed to a carpenter, and it was as a journeyman carpenter that at the age of twenty-four he came to London to seek his fortune.
Cremer was now in position to push the arbitration cause in "practical politics" in Parliament, where he came to be called the "member for arbitration." In 1888 the WPA was retitled the International Arbitration League (IAL) and its base of supporters was broadened with representatives from other levels of society.
Randal Cremer - Biography (870 words)
Cremer used his power as a member of Parliament and his prestige as a labor leader to advance his passionate belief that peace was the only acceptable state for mankind and arbitration the method by which it could be achieved.
Cremer was elected vice-president of the Union and secretary of the British section.
Cremer was a lonely man: his first wife died in 1876, his second in 1884; there were no children.
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