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Jacobo Azagury OBE - Private Art Collection - Gibraltar Available at:
Jacobo Azaguri (later Azagury) was born in Gibraltar on the 24th of August 1890 to father Judah (Leon) Azaguri and mother Ester B...
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Born in Natal. Aunt of SA poet Roy Campbell and of Ethel Campbell, called the Angel of Durban by Australian Soldiers in WW1. After marriage in 1880 emigrated with Alfred to Australia.
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Lt.-Cdr. Robert Irwin Maddin Scott married Margaret Sylvia Daphne Alexander, daughter of Major Charles Adam Murray Alexander and Gladys Sylvia MacGregor Greer, on 23 July 1947. He died on 25 March 1968...
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Air Chief Marshal Sir John Barraclough KCB, CBE, DFC, AFC, OStJ, FRAeS (2 May 1918 – 10 May 2008) was a Royal Air Force pilot during the Second World War who went on to become Vice-Chief of the Defen...
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Stephen William Hawking , CH CBE FRS FRSA was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge. ...
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Sir Kenneth Arthur Dodd, OBE (8 November 1927 – 11 March 2018) was an English comedian, singer-songwriter and actor, identified by his unruly hair and protruding teeth, his red, white and blue "ticklin...
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Trevor Graham Baylis CBE (13 May 1937 – 5 March 2018) was an English inventor best known for the wind-up radio. The radio, instead of relying on batteries or ext...
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Michael Leonard Graham Balfour CBE (22 November 1908 — 16 September 1995) was an English historian and civil servant.
Born in Oxford, the son of Sir Graham Balfour, Michael Balfour was Director o...
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Stewart was born in Milton, Dunbartonshire, Scotland, a village 15 miles west of Glasgow. Stewart's family were Austin, later Jaguar, car dealers and had built up a successful business. His father had ...
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Admiral Sir Richard Henry Peirse KCB, KBE, MVO, DL (4 September 1860 – 10 July 1940) was a senior Royal Navy officer during World War I.
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"He was educated at Cheltenham College, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. He was educated at Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Berkshire, England. He fought in the Second World War, where he was m...
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Kelly Elaine Hoppen MBE (born 28 July 1959) is a South African interior designer, author and proprietor of Kelly Hoppen Interiors. From 2013 to 2015, she was a "Dragon" on BBC Two's Dragons' Den.
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Derham, Sir David Plumley (1920–1985) by Cecily Close This article was published in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 17, (MUP), 2007 Sir David Plumley Derham (1920-1985), lawyer and vice-ch...
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Clarissa Blanche is the daughter of Wiliam Blanche, a journalist of Peckham in London. She married James Guthrie Reid at Valparaiso in Chile, on 29 Janua...
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Sir Charles William "Bill" Feilden Hamilton OBE (26 July 1899 – 30 March 1978) was a New Zealander who developed the modern jetboat, and founder of what is now the world's leading water jet manufacturi...
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"South Africa, Church of the Province of South Africa, Parish Registers, 1801-2004," index and images, FamilySearch ( : accessed 19 February 2015), South Africa > Cape of Good Hope > Grahamstown, Briti...
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Charles Blackman is an Australian painter, noted for the Schoolgirl, Avonsleigh and Alice in Wonderland series of the 1950s. He was a member of the Antipodeans, a group of Melbourne painters that also ...
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Lady Alexandra Naldera Curzon was born on 20 March 1904. She was the daughter of George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st and last Marquess Curzon of Kedleston and Mary Victoria Leiter. She married Major Edwar...
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Demis Hassabis CBE FREng FRSA is a British artificial intelligence researcher, neuroscientist, computer game designer, entrepreneur, and world-class games player.
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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien , CBE FRSL was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit , The Lord of the Rings , ...
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Alan Turing , OBE FRS was an English computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and theoretical biologist.
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Siepmann [née Farmar], Mary Aline [other married name Mary Aline Eady, Lady Swinfen; pseud. Mary Wesley] (1912–2002), novelist, was born on 24 June 1912, at Re...
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Air Commandant Dame Lena Annette Jean Conan Doyle , Lady Bromet DBE AE WRAF ADC (21 December 1912 – 18 November 1997), best known as Jean Conan Doyle, was a British stateswoman and military officer in ...
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Colonel Geoffrey Alexander Rowley-Conwy, 9th Baron Langford, OBE, DL (8 March 1912 – 12 November 2017) was a British-Irish peer and British Army officer. He is the longest-lived peer on record.
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Edgar Mortimore Lafone, Esq., O.B.E. , Chief Constable Metropolitan Police, Major late 4th Hussars, b. 1867 ; m., Beryl, d. of Sir Trevor Chichele Plowden, K. C.S.I. ; and has issue — Michael William L...
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Albert Sumner Lafone , the Dreadnought Project
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BILLIE GILL, M.B.E., 1916 to 2006
Louise Mary Gill, M.B.E. – “Billie” as she was affectionately known – was an extraordinary woman produced by ext...
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" Charles Hector Fitzroy Maclean, Baron Maclean , Bt, KT, PC, GCVO, KBE, (5 May 1916 – 8 February 1990) was Lord Chamberlain to Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom from ...
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Victor George Spencer Spencer, 3rd Viscount Churchill1 M, #109116, b. 31 July 1934 Last Edited=14 Feb 2011
Victor George Spencer Spencer, 3rd Viscount Churchill was born on 31 July 1934 posthumously....
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Sir Edward Victor Appleton , GBE, KCB, FRS (6 September 1892 – 21 April 1965) was an English physicist. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1947 for his seminal work proving the existence of the ionos...
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Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett OM CH CBE FRS was an English experimental physicist known for his work on cloud chambers, cosmic rays, and paleomagnetism. He also made a major contribut...
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Sir John Douglas Cockcroft OM KCB CBE FRS (27 May 1897 – 18 September 1967 ) was a British physicist. He shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics for splitting the atomic nucleus with Ernest Walton, and ...
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Sir John Cowdery Kendrew , CBE, FRS (24 March 1917 – 23 August 1997) was an English biochemist and crystallographer. Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1962 "for his studies of the structures of globular protei...
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Frederick Sanger ,OM, CH, CBE, FRS, FAA /ˈsæŋər/ (13 August 1918 – 19 November 2013) was a British biochemist who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry twice, the only person to have done so. In 1958 he wa...
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Sir Charles Scott Sherrington, OM, GBE, PRS (27 November 1857 – 4 March 1952) was an English neurophysiologist, histologist, bacteriologist, and a pathologist, Nobel laureate and president of the Royal...
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Sir Henry Hallett Dale , OM, GBE, PRS (9 June 1875 – 23 July 1968) was an English pharmacologist and physiologist. For his study of acetylcholine as agent in the chemical transmission of nerve impulses...
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Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet , OM AK KBE FRS FAA FRSNZ (3 September 1899 – 31 August 1985), usually known as Macfarlane or Mac Burnet, was an Australian virologist best known for his contributions to im...
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Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield , CBE, FRS, (28 August 1919 – 12 August 2004) was an English electrical engineer who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Allan McLeod Cormack for ...
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Sir Robert Geoffrey Edwards , CBE, FRS (27 September 1925 – 10 April 2013) was an English physiologist and pioneer in reproductive medicine, and in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) in particular. Along with t...
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Sir Joseph (Józef) Rotblat KCMG CBE FRS (4 November 1908 – 31 August 2005) was a Polish physicist, a self-described "Pole with a British passport". Rotblat was the only physicist to leave the Manhattan...
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Kazuo Ishiguro OBE FRSA FRSL カズオ・イシグロ or 石黒 一雄 , born 8 November 1954, is the Nobel Prize of 2017 in Literature Winning British novelist, screenwriter and short story writer. He was born in Nagasaki, J...
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William Robert Ashley Birch Reynardson CBE was a South African-born British barrister who was instrumental in the development of maritime law. He was vice-president of the Comité Maritime International...
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William Jocelyn Ian Fraser , Baron Fraser of Lonsdale CH CBE , known as Ian Fraser , was a British Conservative Party politician, a Governor of the BBC, a successful businessman and the first person to...
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Dame Kiri Janette Te Kanawa, ONZ DBE AC, born Claire Mary Teresa Rawstron, is a New Zealand soprano. She has a full lyric soprano voice, which has been described as "mellow yet vibrant, warm, ample and...
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Richard Alan Bonynge AC, CBE, is an Australian conductor and pianist. He is the widower of Australian dramatic coloratura soprano Dame Joan Sutherland. Bonynge conducted virtually all of Sutherland's o...
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Dame Joan Alston Sutherland, OM, AC, DBE, was an Australian dramatic coloratura soprano noted for her contribution to the renaissance of the bel canto repertoire from the late 1950s through to the 1980...
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Educated at Winchester College, Winchester, Hampshire, England
Educated at Harrow School, Harrow on the Hill, London, England
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Sir David Tang KBE was a Hong Kong businessman. He was best known for founding the Shanghai Tang fashion chain in 1994, which he sold in 1998 to Richemont. Tang's grandfather, Tang Shiu Kin, "founded t...
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Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls , CBE was a German-born British physicist who had a major role in Britain's nuclear programme, and also had a role in many modern sciences. His obituary in Physics Today descri...
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Rank: Lieutenant Colonel Service No: 601514 Date of Death: 05/11/1945 Age: 56 Regiment/Service: New Zealand Engineers Awards:O.B.E., M.C. and Bar, Croix de Guerre avec Palme.
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Dame Olga Maria Elisabeth Friederike Schwarzkopf, DBE (9 December 1915 – 3 August 2006) was a German[1] soprano. She was among the foremost singers of lieder, and was renowned for her performances of...
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Ann "Annie" Lennox , OBE (born 25 December 1954) is a Scottish singer-songwriter, political activist and philanthropist. In addition to her career as a musician, Lennox i...
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Neil Adrian Adams, MBE (born 27 September 1958 in Rugby, Warwickshire) is an English judoka who won numerous Olympic and World Championship medals in judo representing Great Britain.
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Sir Aubrey Strahan KBE FRS was a British geologist. He was elected FRS in 1903. He was Director of the Geological Survey of Great Britain from 1914-1920. He won the Wollaston Medal of the Geological So...
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Archibald Hill Born 26 September 1886(1886-09-26) Bristol, England Died 3 June 1977(1977-06-03) (aged 90) Cambridge, England Nationality United Kingdom Fields ...
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Sir Walter Morley Fletcher , KBE FRS was a British physiologist and administrator. Fletcher graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge and was most significant in his administration of the Medical Resea...
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Air Marshal Sir John Tremayne Babington, KCB, CBE, DSO, DL (20 July 1891 – 20 March 1979) was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force. In 1944, he retired and the following year he renounced his surn...
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Francis Thomas Bacon OBE FREng FRS was an English engineer who developed the first practical hydrogen–oxygen fuel cell.
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"Commander John Schomberg Hammill, RN Captain, CBE, (1890-1959). He was schooled at the Eastmans Royal Naval Academy in Portsmouth at the age of 10. He married Anna Bertholde Frances Browning on 3 Dece...
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From Dreadnoughtproject.org
Vice-Admiral Henry Louis Fleet, C.B.E., R.N., Retired (1 May, 1850 – 17 September, 1923) was an officer in the Royal Navy.
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