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Helen McGowan, MBE
(c.1906 - 1976)
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Nigel Ivan Forbes, 22nd Lord Forbes
(1918 - 2013)
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Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, OM, KBE MP
[ Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, OM, KBE, FRS, FREng, FRSA (born 8 June 1955),[1] also known as "TimBL," is a British computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. He mad...
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Noel Salvesen, MBE
(1892 - d.)
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Denis Compton, CBE
(1918 - 1997)
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David Gordon-Watson, Brigadier, OBE, MC
(1913 - 2002)
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John NEVILLE, OBE JP
(1874 - 1945)
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H. A. de Freitas, MBE
(1872 - 1964)
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Bridget Crossley, Baroness Somerleyton, MBE
(1899 - 1983)
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William Hoare, CBE
(c.1863 - d.)
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Douglas Rivett-Carnac, OBE
(1907 - d.)
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Sir Frank Stockdale, GCMG, CBE
(deceased)
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Cecil Stafford Northcote, OBE
(1912 - d.)
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Harold Aykroyd, Col., OBE
(1896 - 1974)
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General Sir Richard Edward Worsley, GCB, OBE
(1923 - 2013)
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Sir Denis Mahon, CH, CBE
(1910 - 2011)
Mahon was a British collector and historian of Italian art. Considered to be one of the few art collectors who was also a respected scholar, he is generally credited, alongside Sacheverell Sitwell and ...
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Brian Rix, Baron Rix, CBE MP
Brian Norman Roger Rix, Baron Rix, CBE (born 27 January 1924) is an English actor and charity worker. He is the younger brother of British actress Sheila Mercier (Emmerdale). Early years Born i...
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Sir John Moores, CBE MP
(1896 - 1993)
John Moores From Wikipedia ) John Moores was born into a working-class family in Eccles, near Salford, Lancashire on 25 January 1896. He was one of eight children and the eldest of four sons. He ...
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Herbert Lloyd-Johnes, Maj., OBE, TD
(1900 - 1983)
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Sir James Mann Wordie, CBE
(1889 - 1962)
Sir James Wordie, CBE, was a Scottish polar explorer and geologist.
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Sir Alexander Walker
(1869 - 1950)
of Piersland, Troon, Ayrshire; Chairman of John Walker and Sons Whisky Distillers; cr KBE.
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Francis Drake, Colonel, OBE
(deceased)
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John Finlay, CB, CBE
(1908 - 1982)
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Siân Phillips
(1933 - d.)
Welsh-born actress of stage and screen.
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Henry Eden, CBE, MC
(1889 - 1963)
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Dame Elisabeth Murdoch
(1909 - 2012)
Source: ) Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, AC, DBE (8 February 1909 – 5 December 2012) was an Australian philanthropist. She was the widow of Australian newspaper publisher Sir Keith Murdoch and the mother of...
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James Hope, CBE
(1896 - d.)
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Ambrose Congreve, CBE
(1907 - 2011)
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Dame Tessa Jowell, DBE
(1947 - d.)
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Damon Hill OBE MP
From Wikipedia Damon Graham Devereux Hill OBE (born 17 September 1960) is a retired British racing driver from England. He is the son of the late Graham Hill, and is the only son of a world champion ...
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Graham Hill OBE MP
(1929 - 1975)
Find a Grave Birth: Feb. 15, 1929 Death: Nov. 29, 1975 Auto Race Car Driver. He was a Formula 1 racing champion, having won championships in 1962 and 1968. He died when the plane he was pilotin...
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Toby Balding, OBE
(1936 - d.)
British racehorse trainer.
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Lt-Gen. Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart
(1880 - 1959)
Lieutenant-General Sir Adrian Paul Ghislain Carton de Wiart[1] VC, KBE, CB, CMG, DSO (5 May 1880 – 5 June 1963), was an English officer of Belgian and Irish descent. He fought in the Boer War, World ...
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Natalie Douglas-Hamilton
(1909 - 2013)
Natalie was the founder of Bundles For Britain for which she received the Order of the British Empire ( OBE)
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Julianna Cameron, MBE
(1857 - 1938)
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Charles Yeomans, OBE
(1869 - 1939)
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Mrs Henry de la Pasture, CBE
(1866 - 1945)
Mrs Henry de la Pasture (1866 – 30 October 1945), born Elizabeth Lydia Rosabelle Bonham and after her second marriage styled Lady Clifford, was a British novelist and dramatist. Biography Eli...
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John Fitzherbert-Brockholes, CBE
(1889 - 1963)
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Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon, 5th Baron Kenyon, CBE
(1917 - 1993)
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Ada
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Thomas Foley MP
(1929 - d.)
Thomas Stephen "Tom" Foley (born March 26, 1929) was the 57th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1989 to 1995. He represented Washington's 5th congressional district ...
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Hugh Laurie MP
James Hugh Calum Laurie, OBE (born 11 June 1959), known as Hugh Laurie ( /ˌhjuː ˈlɒri/), is an English actor, voice artist, comedian, writer, musician, recording artist and director. He first became ...
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Mary Quant MP
Mary Quant OBE, FCSD is a fashion designer and British fashion icon. Born in England to Welsh parents on 11 February 1934, she became an instrumental figure in the 1960s London-based Mod and youth fa...
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George Thomas Mažuran/Mazuran
(1909 - 1982)
received OBE in 1972
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Charles Spencer Denman, 5th Baron Denman
(1916 - 2012)
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Sir Pelham Francis Warner
(1873 - 1963)
Sir Pelham Francis Warner MBE (2 October 1873 – 30 January 1963), affectionately and better known as Plum Warner, or even "the Grand Old Man" of English cricket was a Test cricketer. Warner was b...
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Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross
(1902 - 2003)
Hartley Shawcross was spoken of as a future Prime Minister when, as "the best-looking man in English public life", he entered the Commons in 1945 and became Attorney-General in the Labour government; b...
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Olga
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Denis Ormerod, Brigadier, CBE
(1922 - 2005)
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Lucinda
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Charles Cuthbert Powell Williams, Baron Williams of Elvel, CBE
(1933 - d.)
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Bryan Ferry MP
Bryan Ferry, CBE, is an English singer, musician, and songwriter. Ferry came to prominence in the early 1970s as lead vocalist and principal songwriter with the band Roxy Music, who enjoyed a highly su...
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Julian
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Brig. John Leslie Weston, CBE, DSO
(deceased)
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Lieut.-Col. Charles Walter Villiers, CBE, DSO
(1873 - 1938)
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Col William Manning Edwards, MBE
(1896 - 1963)
according to: "Edwards, William Manning CMG MBE MID, Colonel, NGX455: the story of an Australian Private soldier who stormed Gallipoli on 25 April 1915 and became the CO of NGVR [New Guinea Volunteer R...
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Admiral Sir Guy Herbrand Edward Russell, GBE, KCB, DSO
(1898 - 1975)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Vice Admiral Sir Guy Russell, Commander in Chief Far East Station, leaves his old flagship HMS Glory in Kure, Japan, September 1951 Born 14 April 1898 Died 25 Se...
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Brigadier George Alexander Bain, OBE
(deceased)
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Anthony Arthur Keith Rugge-Price, CBE
(1914 - d.)
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John Dennis Profumo, CBE
(1915 - 2006)
John Profumo, CBE, was a British politician. His title, 5th Baron, which he did not use, was Italian. Although Profumo held an increasingly responsible series of political posts in the 1950s, he is bes...
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Barry
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Sir Clifford Edward Heathcote-Smith, KBE, CMG
(deceased)
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David Elmer Woodbine Parish, CBE
(1911 - d.)
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Christopher Soames, Baron Soames
(1920 - 1987)
Lord Soames was a British politician belonging to the Conservative Party and the son-in-law of Winston Churchill. A European Commissioner and the last Governor of Southern Rhodesia, he had previously b...
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Sir John Rothenstein, CBE
(1901 - 1992)
From 1938 to 1964 Sir John Rothenstein was director of the Tate Gallery in London. Rothenstein's directorship — the longest to date — was a period of relative stagnation for the gallery, as there were ...
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Brig. Nigel Dugdale, CBE
(c.1908 - 1955)
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Lt-Col. Harry Lancelot Ruck Keene, OBE
(1868 - 1944)
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Geoffrey Morton Eden, 7th Baron Auckland
(1891 - 1955)
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Major-General Henry Robinson Swinburn
(1897 - d.)
Entered British Army, 1918; Royal Ludhiana Sikhs; served in European War, 191418; Operations, NWF, India 1919, Iraq 1920, Kurdistan 1922-23 (wounded, MC), BEF France, 1940 (mentioned in despatches, OBE...
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Walter Baldwyn Yates, CBE
(1857 - 1947)
Yates was an English barrister, member of the London County Council and Crown Umpire under the Unemployment Insurance Scheme of 1911.
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General Sir Peter John Hall Leng
(1925 - 2009)
Leng was a British Army General & Master-General of the Ordnance (1981–1983) & Counter Terrorism Expert in Northern Ireland.
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Max Bygraves, OBE
(1922 - 2012)
Max Bygraves, OBE, was an English comedian, singer, actor and variety performer. He appeared on his own television shows, sometimes performing comedy sketches between songs. Shows he presented included...
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John
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Michael Bentine, CBE
(1922 - 1996)
Michael Bentine, CBE, was a British comedian, comic actor and founding member of the Goons. He was Peruvian Briton as a result of his father's nationality. In 1971, Bentine received the Order of Merit ...
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Anna Massey
(1937 - 2011)
Anna Massey, CBE, was an English actress.[3] She won a BAFTA Award for the role of Edith Hope in the 1986 TV adaptation of Anita Brookner’s novel Hotel du Lac in a role which one of her co-stars, Julia...
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Sir Herbert Trustram Eve, KBE
(1865 - 1937)
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Antonio Carluccio MP
Antonio Carluccio, OBE OMRI From Wikipedia: (born 1937) is an Italian chef, restaurateur and food expert, based in London. Biography Antonio Carluccio was born in Vietri sul Mare, Salerno, ...
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Sir Cecil Beaton MP
(1904 - 1980)
Sir Cecil Beaton, CBE, was an English fashion and portrait photographer, diarist, painter, interior designer and an Academy Award-winning stage and costume designer for films and the theatre. He was na...
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Anthony Dymoke Powell, CH, CBE
(1905 - 2000)
Powell was an English novelist best known for his twelve-volume work A Dance to the Music of Time, published between 1951 and 1975. Powell's major work has remained in print continuously and has been t...
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Jilly Cooper MP
Jilly Cooper OBE (born 21 February 1937) is an English author. She started her career as a journalist and wrote numerous works of non-fiction before writing several romance novels, the first of which...
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Group Capt George Edward Gordon-Duff, CBE
(deceased)
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Frederick Dimbleby MP
(1913 - 1965)
Richard Dimbleby, CBE, was an English journalist and broadcaster, widely acknowledged as one of the greatest figures in British broadcasting history.
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Jessie Matthews, OBE
(1907 - 1981)
Jessie Matthews: 'evergreen' star of the 20s & 30s, dies JESSIE MATTHEWS, who has died aged 74, was a star of the first magnitude both in films and on the musical comedy stage before the Second Wor...
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Sir Orme Bigland Clarke, 4th Baronet, CBE
(1880 - 1949)
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Aloysisu Peter Albuquerque OBE, KSG
(1889 - 1965)
After getting BA, BL, settled in Madras -- was the Official Assignee to the Govt. Leading figure in Mangalorean Catholic community in Madras, Pres of the KCA, the St Vincent de Paul Soc, and Sodality o...
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Vrasidas LANITIS (MBE)
(1866 - 1940)
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Hon Dame Eva Isabella Anstruther, DBE
(1869 - 1935)
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Davina Marcia Ingrams (Herbert)
(1938 - 2008)
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Lt-Col Hon Ralfe Evans-Freke, MBE
(deceased)
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Jack Warner
(1895 - 1981)
Jack Warner, OBE, was an English film and television actor. He is closely associated with the role of PC George Dixon, which he played until the age of eighty. His sisters Elsie and Doris Waters were w...
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Violet Carson
(1898 - 1983)
Violet Carson, OBE, was an English actress, best known for playing Ena Sharples, one of the original characters in the British soap opera Coronation Street.
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Betty Driver
(1920 - 2011)
Betty Driver, MBE, was an English singer, actress and author, best known for her role as Betty Williams on the British soap opera, Coronation Street, appearing in more than 2,800 episodes.[5] She also ...
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Dame Millicent Fawcett MP
(1847 - 1929)
As announced on page six the death occurred early this morning of Dame Millicent Fawcett. Millicent Garrett was born on June 11, 1847, the seventh child of Newson Garrett, J.P., of Aldburgh, in...
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Sir Lawrence Kadoorie, Baron Kadoorie MP
(1899 - 1993)
Sir Lawrence Kadoorie, Baron Kadoorie, CBE (2 June 1899 in Hong Kong - 25 August 1993 in Hong Kong) was a famous industrialist, hotelier, and philanthropist. His father was Sir Elly Kadoorie, and his...
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Miriam Margoyles MP
Margoyles is an English actress and voice artist. Her earliest roles were in theatre and after several supporting roles in film and television she won a BAFTA Award for her role in The Age of Innocence...
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John Thaw
(1942 - 2002)
Thaw was an English actor, who appeared in a range of television, stage and cinema roles, his most popular being police and legal dramas such as Redcap, The Sweeney, Inspector Morse and Kavanagh QC. He...
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Sheila Hancock MP
English actress and author. Appointed OBE in 1974.
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Sir Elly Kadoorie MP
(1867 - 1944)
Eleazer Silas Kadoorie, also known as Sir Elly Kadoorie (1867 - 1944), was a philanthropist and member of the wealthy Baghdadian Family that had large business interests in the Far East. He was made a ...
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Sir Hubert Hull, CBE
(1887 - d.)
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Angharad Mary Rees, CBE
(1949 - 2012)
Angharad Rees, the actress, was best-known as the headstrong Demelza in Poldark, the BBC’s hugely popular saga of impoverished gentry, smugglers and derelict tin mines in 18th-century Cornwall. Noted...
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