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William Craven, 3rd Baron Craven (1700 - August 10, 1739) was the eldest son of William Craven, 2nd Baron Craven and Elizabeth Skipwith.
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Edward Chilton served as attorney general of Virginia and was the coauthor of The Present State of Virginia, and the College (printed in 1727). He arrived in Virginia by 1682, when he served as a cle...
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"MIDGLEY, ROBERT, M.D. (1655?–1723), alleged author of the ‘Turkish Spy,’ son of Ralph Midgley of Brerehagh in the West Riding of Yorkshire, by Frances, daughter of George Burniston of Potter Newton in...
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William McDougall, psychologist, was born in Lancashire, England, the son of Rebekah Smalley and Isaac Shimwell McDougall. He was a precocious child, and his Scots father enrolled him at fifteen in t...
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Sir Charles Algernon Parsons OM KCB FRS (13 June 1854 – 11 February 1931) was an Anglo-Irish engineer, best known for his invention of the steam turbine. He worked as an engineer on dynamo and turbin...
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Richard West (1670?–1716) was an English churchman and academic, and was archdeacon of Berkshire from 1710.
Biography
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Ashley William Edgell Winlaw OBE (8 February 1914 – 13 February 1988) was an English cricketer, later a schoolteacher.
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Winlaw was born at Sydenham, London, and educated at Winchester C...
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William Charles Keppel, 4th Earl of Albemarle, GCH, PC (14 May 1772 – 30 October 1849), briefly styled Viscount Bury between May and October 1772, was a British Whig politician.
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Sir Thomas D’Oyly Snow KCB KCMG (5 May 1858 – 30 August 1940) was a British Army officer who fought on the Western Front in World War I. He played an important role in the war, leading 4th Division...
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Fra' Robert Matthew Festing (born 30 November 1949) is the 79th Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.
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Sir Richard Cecil (7 December 1570 – 4 September 1633) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1593 and 1622.
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Robert Spaulding was an English scholar, Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge and one of the translators, in the "First Cambridge Company", of the King James Version of the Bible. He succeeded Edward...
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Richard Thomas Dawson, 2nd Baron Cremorne (31 August 1788 – 21 March 1827) was an Irish peer.
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The only son of Richard Dawson of Dawson Grove, in 1807 he succeeded his father as heir-pre...
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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 ...
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Lord Josceline William Percy (17 July 1811 – 25 July 1881), was a British Conservative politician.
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Percy was the second son of George Percy, 5th Duke of Northumberland, b...
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George Percy, 5th Duke of Northumberland PC (22 June 1778 – 22 August 1867), styled Lord Lovaine between 1790 and 1830 and known as The Earl of Beverley between 1830 and 1865, was a Brit...
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Hugh Percy (29 January 1784 – 5 February 1856) was an Anglican bishop who served as Bishop of Rochester (1827) and Bishop of Carlisle (1827-56).
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Max Newman , FRS was a British mathematician and codebreaker. His work in World War II led to the construction of Colossus, the world's first operational, programmable electronic computer, and he estab...
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John Stuart, Lord Mount Stuart (25 September 1767 – 22 January 1794), was an England-born Scottish Tory politician.
Mount Stuart was the son of the John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute and the grandso...
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Lincolnshire pedigrees (1902) Author: Maddison, Arthur Roland, 1843-1912, ed; Larken, Arthur Staunton, d. 1889
Gilby of Stainton le Hole
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COWIE, BENJAMIN MORGAN (1816–1900), dean of Exeter, born in Bermondsey, Surrey, on 8 June 1816, was the youngest son of Robert Cowie, a merchant and insurance agent, descended from a Cornish family lon...
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The Reverend John Stevens Henslow (1796-1861) was an English botanist and geologist who had several claims to fame. He advised Audubon about booksellers when the latter was selling 'Birds of America'. ...
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Family and Education b. 1 Sept. 1668, 1st s. of Anthony Hammond of Somersham Place by Amy, da. of Henry Browne of Hasfield House, Glos. educ. at home (Mr Kay) 1675–6; Willingham, Cambs. (Samuel Saywell...
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Cambridge University Alumni, 1261-1900 College:St Johns; Entered:Michs.1892; Died:30 Sep 1937.
1871 - Living at the Vicarage, Little Salkeld, Cumberland, with one general servant. Curate of A...
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William BENDLOWES -Sergeant-At-Law [2817] Marriage: Elizabeth [2818] Died: 19 Nov 1584 Buried: Gt Barnfield Church ESS
William married Elizabeth [2818]. (Elizabeth [2818] was buried in Gt Barnfield C...
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Herbert Somerton Foxwell (17 June 1849 – 3 August 1936) was an English economist.
Biography
Foxwell was born in Somerset, the son of an ironmonger and slate and timber merchant. He received his e...
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John Couch Adams FRS (5 June 1819 – 21 January 1892) was a British mathematician and astronomer. Adams was born in Laneast, near Launceston, Cornwall, and died in Cambridge. The Cornish name Couch is p...
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Burke, Bernard, Sir. A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland 6th ed . London : Harrison 1879. Vol I. page 772
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Professor Lionel Penrose read mathematics at University but then Qualified in medicine at St Thomas Hospital. He is especially remembered for his work on mental deficiency and human genetics which he c...
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Sir Roger Penrose OM FRS (born 8 August 1931) is an English mathematical physicist, mathematician and philosopher of science. He is Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxf...
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another possible birth date is 26 January 1800
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Richard Bentley was an English classical scholar, critic, and theologian. He was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.
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William Gilbert (/ˈɡɪlbərt/; 24 May 1544 – 30 November 1603), also known as Gilberd, was an English physician, physicist and natural philosopher. He passionately rejected both the prevailing Aristo...
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Sir Anthony Thomas Abdy, 5th Baronet, KC (c. 1720 – 7 April 1775) was a British barrister and Whig politician.
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Sir Thomas Neville Abdy, 1st Baronet DL, JP (21 December 1810 – 20 July 1877) was a British baronet and politician.
Biography
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William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, KG (28 March 1591 – 3 December 1668), known as Viscount Cranborne from 1605 to 1612, was an English peer and politician.
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Adm. pens. at ST JOHN'S, July 3, 1822. S. of Bartholomew, of Surrey [and Wilhelmina]. B. Feb. 28, 1805. Brother of Edmund (1842), etc.
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Adm. pens. at ST JOHN'S, July 2, 1833. Of Middlesex. S. of B[artholomew]. [Nephew of Richard Pigott, 7th Viscount Molesworth.] Matric. Michs. 1833; B.A. 1837; M.A. 1840. Ord. deacon, 1837; priest (Chic...
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Adm. pens. at ST JOHN'S, June 21, 1842. S. of Bartholomew, Esq., of Peckham, Surrey [and Wilhelmina]. B. Nov. 17, 1822. School, King's College, London (Mr Hall). Matric. Michs. 1842; B.A. 1846. Brother...
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b. 1554/5, 2nd s. of John Winch (d. 1582) of Northill, Beds. and ?Elizabeth. educ. St. John’s, Camb. 1570; L. Inn 1573, called 1581; King’s Inn, Dublin (hon.) 1607. m. by 1589, C...
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1st s. of Henry Browne of Betchworth Castle by his 1st w. Katherine, da. of Sir William Shelley†; half-bro. of Richard Browne I. educ. St. John’s, Camb. 1547. m. (1) Mabel, da. a...
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Adm. pens. (age 17) at ST JOHN'S, Mar. 31, 1690. S. of Sir Willoughby, Bart. B. at Stowlangtoft, Suffolk. Bapt. there, Sept. 19, 1672. School, Bury. Matric. 1690; B.A. 1693-4. Died of small-pox, Oct. 1...
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Adm. Fell.-Com. at ST JOHN'S, May 20, 1618. S. of Paul (1584), of Milden, and Stowlangtoft, Suffolk. B. Dec. 18, 1602, at Coxden, Dorset (his mother's home). School, Bury. Matric. 1618. Resided till Se...
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Appears to have had no children, since his nephew, Sir Griffith Williams, inherited.
WILLIAMS, JOHN (1582–1650), archbishop of York, came of an ancient Welsh family, the elder branch of which is now ...
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Utrick Fetherstonhaugh, son of Matthew Fetherstonhaugh, of St Magnus, London, gentleman, matriculated atOxford from Trinity College 11 November 1735, aged 17. He took the B.A. degree at Oxford in 1739 ...
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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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COSWORTH or COSOWARTH, MICHAEL (fl. 1600), translator of the psalms, born in 1568, was the son of John Cosworth, a London mercer, of a Cornish family, by Dorothy, daughter of Sir William Locke, alderma...
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William Hodge's parents were Janet Vallence, whose father owned a confectionary business in Edinburgh, Scotland, and Archibald James Hodge who worked in the property market. William was the second of...
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WORSLEY, Robert (d.1604/5), of Booths, Lancs.
He bought the Manor of Hovingham, but forced by debt to sell many of his ancestral estates in Lancashire Yorks 1563. Circa 1579 Keeper Fleet Prison, Salf...
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Alfred Domett, CMG (20 May 1811 – 2 November 1887) was an English colonial statesman and poet. He was New Zealand's fourth Premier.
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Bache Wright Harvey was was a distinguished graduate in mathematics from St John's College, Cambridge, who became an Anglican clergyman and in 1861 married Anne Sophia Turrell. With their three childre...
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Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac , OM, FRS (8 August 1902 – 20 October 1984) was an English theoretical physicist who made fundamental contributions to the early development of both quantum mechanics and quan...
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John Crewe (1603 – 12 May 1670) was an English barrister and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1654.
Crewe was the second son of Ranulph Crewe and his wife Julia Clipsby. He m...
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b. 4 Sept. 1599, 1st s. of (Sir) Ranulphe Crewe* of Crewe Hall and Westminster by his 1st w. Julian, da. of John Clippesby of Clippesby, Norf. educ. St. John’s, Camb. 1619; L. In...
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b. c.1538, 3rd s. of William Billingsley (d.1570) of London, Haberdasher and Elizabeth, da. of Thomas Harlowe, wid. of Sir Martin Bowes†. educ. St. John’s, Camb. 1550; G. Inn 159...
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" FANE, John II (1775-1850), of Wormsley, nr. Watlington, Oxon. and 9 Great George Street, Mdx. ", The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1820-1832, ed. D.R. Fisher, 2009
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William Selwyn DD (19 February 1806 – 24 April 1875) was a Church of England clergyman, canon of Ely Cathedral, Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity, and amateur astronomer.
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William Selwyn
From WIkipedia
William Selwyn (1775–1855) was an English lawyer, known as a legal author.
Life
He was the second son of William Selwyn, K.C., treasurer of Lincoln's Inn in 1793, ...
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George Augustus Selwyn (5 April 1809 – 11 April 1878) was the first Anglican Bishop of New Zealand. He was Bishop of New Zealand (which included Melanesia) from 1841 to 1858. His diocese was then subdi...
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Wikipedia contributors. " Sir Thomas Miller, 6th Baronet ." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.
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Memoir of Thomas, First Lord Denman Formerly Lord Chief Justice of England - Volume 1, by Sir Joseph Arnould (1873)
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A FAMILY of DENMANS had for many genera...
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Adam Winthrop (1548-1623) was the father of John Winthrop (1588-1649), the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He...
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William Bateson (8 August 1861 – 8 February 1926) was an English geneticist and a Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. He was the first person to use the term genetics to describe the study of he...
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Gregory Bateson (9 May 1904 – 4 July 1980) was an English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician and cyberneticist whose work intersected that of many other fi...
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b. 1526/27, 1st s. of Sir Wymond Carew, and ?bro. of Roger†. educ. St. John’s, Camb. matric. Sept. 1548; I. Temple, adm. 10 Feb. 1550. m. settlement 5 Sept. 1554, Elizabeth, da. ...
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Known as the vicar who refused a public burial for Lord Byron's illegitimate daughter Allegra, aged 5. [She was buried in Harrow Church]
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Torkington, James. Adm. pens. (age 17) at ST JOHN'S, June 13, 1781. [Only] s. of the Rev. James (above), R. of Little Stukeley, Huntingdonshire , and Preb. of Worcester. B. [Feb. 24, 1764] at Hertford....
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Torkington, William Adm. pens (age 18) at ST JOHN'S, 28 Mar., 1684. S. of Laurence, gent. B. at Huntingdon [ Huntingdonshire ]. School, Huntingdon [ Huntingdonshire ] (Mr Mathews). Matric. 1684 ; B.A. ...
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Origin of The Sandys Family at Wickhamford. This overview includes photos of Archbishop Edwin Sandys and his two wives plus details about some of his children. There is an important page from his famil...
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Sir Humphry Davy Rolleston, 1st Baronet, GCVO, KCB (21 June 1862 – 23 September 1944), was a prominent English physician. He was the son of George Rolleston and Grace Davy, daughter of John Davy and ni...
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Bishop of Bath and Wells, England, from 1593-1608. Formerly reputed to be the author of Gammer Gurton's Needle.
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Sir John Ambrose Fleming FRS (29 November 1849 – 18 April 1945) was an English electrical engineer and physicist. He is known for inventing the first thermionic valve or vacuum tube, the diode, then ...
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Family and Education educ. St. John’s, Camb. 1571, BA 1575, MA 1578. m. Elizabeth, da. of John Palgrave of Barningham Norwood, Norf. by Urith, da. of Sir William Saunder of Ewell, Surr., ?1s. 2da. Kntd...
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George Brodrick, 4th Viscount Midleton (1 November 1754 – 12 August 1836) was a British nobleman.
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Family and Education b. c.1660, 3rd but 2nd surv. s. of Sir Matthew Appleyard. educ. Beverley sch.; St. John’s, Camb. adm. 27 Apr. 1677, aged 16. m. 30 May 1682, Jane, da. of William Ramsden, merchant,...
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"William Alleyne Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Exeter PC (30 April 1825 – 14 July 1895), styled Lord Burghley between 1825 and 1867, was a British peer and Conservative politician. He served as Treasurer of t...
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George Child-Villiers, 5th Earl of the Island of Jersey (1)
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Family and Education b. 6 Aug. 1659, 1st s. of Col. Thomas Forster of Adderstone by Mary, da. of Sir Nicholas Cole, 1st Bt., of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumb. and Brancepeth Castle, co. Dur. educ. Durh...
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Family and Education b. 14 Feb. 1670, 3rd s. of Sir William Forster of Bamburgh, and bro. of William*. educ. Durham sch.; G. Inn 1686; St. John’s, Camb. 1686. unm. suc. bro. 1700.1
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Sir Robert Heath (20 May 1575 – 30 August 1649) was an English judge and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1621 to 1625.
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Heath was e...
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Henry Constable (1562 – 9 October 1613) was an English poet, known particularly for Diana, one of the first English sonnet sequences. In 1591 he converted to Catholicism, and lived in exile on the cont...
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James Mann, 5th Earl Cornwallis, known as James Cornwallis until 1814 and as James Mann between 1814 and 1823 and styled Viscount Brome between 1823 and 1824, was a British peer and Tory politician.
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Michael Heneage (1540–1600) was an English politician and antiquary. He was the Member of Parliament for Arundel, East Grinstead, Tavistock and Wigan.[1]
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Robert Stewart, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry , KG, GCH, PC, PC (Ire) (18 June 1769 – 12 August 1822), known to history as Lord Castlereagh ( /ˈkɑːsəlreɪ/), was an Irish and British statesman. As British...
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Title: 2nd Duke of Chandos
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Geoffrey Edward Harvey Grigson (2 March 1905 – 25 November 1985) was a British poet, writer, critic and naturalist.
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Brook Taylor FRS (18 August 1685 – 29 December 1731) was an English mathematician who is best known for Taylor's theorem and the Taylor series.
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Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton (6 October 1573 – 10 November 1624), was the second son of Henry Wriothesley, 2nd Earl of Southampton, and his wife Mary Browne, Countess of Southampton, da...
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Sir Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, KG (10 March 1607 – 16 May 1667), styled Lord Wriothesley before 1624, was a 17th century English statesman, a staunch supporter of Charles II who wou...
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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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William Wordsworth (1770-1850) was an English poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, launched the Romantic Age in English literature with the joint publication of Lyrical Ballads in 1798. In 1802 he m...
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- Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (13 April 1593 (O.S.) – 12 May 1641) was an English statesman and a major figure in the period leading up to the English Civil War. He served in parliament and...
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