The Duchy of Lancaster was created for John of Gaunt, a younger son of King Edward III of England. It is the private property of the crown, and has been since 1413, when the Dukedom of Lancaster, held by Henry of Monmouth, merged with the crown on his accession to the throne. The Duchy consists of lands in Northern England, especially in Lancashire. The chief officer of the Duchy is the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, a high position which is sometimes a cabinet post. Since, for at least the last two centuries, the Chancellor rarely has had any significant duties pertaining to management of the Duchy itself, he is usually available as a minister without portfolio[?].
Since the late eighteenth century, the monarch has given up their revenues for the Duchy to the state, in exchange for receiving a yearly civil list payment.
Albert Victor Alexander, 1st Viscount Alexander of Hillsborough 1950-1951
Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Viscount Swinton 1951-1952
Frederick James Marquis, 1st Lord Woolton, 1st Viscount Woolton (1953) 1952-1955
George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earo f Selkirk 1955-1957
Charles Hill 1957-1961
Iain Macleod 1961-1963
John Hugh Hare, 1st Viscount Blakenham 1963-1964
Arthur Leslie Noel Douglas Houghton 1964-1966
George Morgan Thomson 1966-1967
Frederick Lee 1967-19969
George Morgan Thomson 1969-1970
Anthony Perrinott Lysberg Barber 1970
A,G.F. Rippon 1970-1972
J.E.H. Davis 1972-1974
Norman Harold Lever 1974-1979
Norman Arthur Francis St John Stevas 1979-1981
Francis Pym 1981
Janet Mary Young, Baroness Young 1981-1982
Cecil Edward Parkinson 1982-1983
Francis Arthur Cockfield, Lord Cockfield 1983-1984
Alexander Patrick Greysteil Ruthven, 2nd Earl of Gowrie 1984-1985
Norman Beresford Tebbit 1985-?
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presumably be answered yes or no.
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setting and clearing bits. To {toggle} or `invert' a bit is
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scientist John Tukey. Tukey records that it evolved over a lunch
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presumably when UARTs were too expensive, and on archaic Z80 micros
{cycle of reincarnation}, this technique returned to use in the
an infinitesimal part of the processor that it actually makes sense
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{nybble}, and other smaller-than-character-sized pieces of data;
checksum and error-correcting codes, hash functions, some flavors
code generation. May connote either tedium or a real technical
the new tape driver looks pretty solid but the bit-bashing for the
{mode bit}.
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of a register during a shift instruction). Discarded, lost, or
{{Unix}}, often used for {/dev/null}. Sometimes amplified as
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to end up in the bit bucket than junk mail, which has an almost
is automatically performed by mail-transfer agents, news systems,
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