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Wikipedia contributors. " Sir William Gordon-Cumming, 4th Baronet ." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William Alexander Gordon Gordon-Cumming, 4th Baronet (20 July 1848 – 20 ...
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Sir Cennydd George Traherne KG TD (14 December 1910 – 26 January 1995) was a notable Welsh landowner.
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Captain Anthony Paul Methuen, 5th Baron Methuen (26 June 1891 – 21 June 1975), was a British soldier, architect and peer.He was wounded in the First World War while serving as a Captain in the Scots Gu...
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Gawaine Leslie Rowan-Hamilton was born on 2 April 1923. He was the son of Brigadier Gawain Basil Rowan-Hamilton and Phyllis Frances Blackburn. He married Mary Bridget Blakiston-Houston, daughter of Lt....
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Lt.-Col. Angus David Rowan-Hamilton was born on 15 November 1919 at Farnham, Surrey, England. He was the son of Brigadier Gawain Basil Rowan-Hamilton and Phyllis Frances Blackburn. He married Jeanetta ...
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Lt.-Col. Denys Archibald Rowan-Hamilton was born on 26 April 1921. He is the son of Brigadier Gawain Basil Rowan-Hamilton and Phyllis Frances Blackburn. He married Wanda Annette Warburton, daughter of ...
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St John Packe (21 August 1916 – 20 December 1978) was an English historian, biographer, and cricketer. He was the author of The Life of John Stuart Mill (1954), and four other historical works. A right...
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Peter Snow CBE=From Wikipedia: Snow, CBE (born 20 April 1938) is a British television and radio presenter and historian. He is the grandson of First World War general Sir Thomas D'Oyly Snow; cousin of ...
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"Edward George Villiers Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby KG, GCB, GCVO, TD, PC, KGStJ, JP (4 April 1865 – 4 February 1948), known as Lord Stanley from 1893 to 1908, was a British soldier, Conservative polit...
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Sir Harold George Nicolson, KCVO CMG (21 November 1886 – 1 May 1968), was a British politician, historian, biographer, diarist, novelist, lecturer, journalist, broadcaster and gardener. He was the husb...
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Alexander William George Herder Grantham, GCMG (葛量洪 1899–1978) was a British colonial administrator who governed Hong Kong and Fiji.Grantham was born on 15 March 1899 and was educated at Wellington, th...
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Chrestien Gordon Walker, Baron Gordon-Walker, CH, PC (7 April 1907 – 2 December 1980) was a British Labour Party politician. He was a member of parliament (MP) for nearly thirty years, and served twice...
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Edward Henry Garnier, QC (born 26 October 1952) is a British barrister and former Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. A former Guardian lawyer, he is on the socially liberal wing of hi...
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Galloway Dunlop du Roy de Blicquy Galbraith, 2nd Baron Strathclyde CH PC (born 22 February 1960), known informally as Tom Strathclyde, is a British Conservative politician. Lord Strathclyde served in t...
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Member of Parliament (Unionist) for Hillhead 1948-82, Assistant Chief Whip 1950, Scottish Unionist Whip 1950-57, a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury 1951-54, Civil Lord of the Admiralty 1957-59, Joint ...
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Edward William Plantagenet Cary, 15th Viscount Falkland (born 8 May 1935) is a British nobleman and politician.Background and educationFalkland is the eldest of four children, and the only son of Luciu...
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Ewart-Biggs, CMG, OBE (5 August 1921 – 21 July 1976) was the British Ambassador to the Republic of Ireland, an author and senior Foreign Office liaison officer with MI6. He was killed in 1976 by the Pr...
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Malcolm Monteith Erskine (18 July 1863 – 5 November 1944), sometimes referred to as J. M. M. Erskine, was a British politician. First elected at a Westminster St George's by-election in 1921 as an Anti...
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Edward Gregory Atkins, Baron Colnbrook, KCMG, PC (12 August 1922 – 4 October 1996) was a British politician and a member of the Conservative Party. He served in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Margaret T...
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Thomas Calthrop Campbell, Baron Campbell of Croy, MC, PC, DL (8 June 1921 – 26 April 2005) was a Scottish Conservative & Unionist politician.He was born in Quetta, British India (now in Pakistan), the ...
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Michael Blundell KBE (7 April 1907 – 1 February 1993) was a Kenyan farmer and politician who served as a member of the Legislative Council from 1948 until 1963, and as Minister of Agriculture in two sp...
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David Guy Blomfield MBE (11 July 1934 – 12 July 2016) was leader of the Liberal Party group on Richmond upon Thames Council, a writer, a book editor and a local historian.Early life and educationDavid ...
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Simon Wallis Hunt (29 August 1947 – 15 June 1993) was a British racing driver who won the Formula One World Championship in 1976. After retiring from racing in 1979, Hunt became a media commentator and...
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Arnold Lawrence (17 March 1848 – 18 April 1902) was a rugby union forward who played club rugby for Richmond F.C. and international rugby for England. He was the third captain of the England rugby team...
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Louis Fitzroy Scott Douglas (born in Malmesbury, Wiltshire 24 October 1930, died 16 July 1969) was a British racing driver, as well as a Baronet.6th BaronetWhen George Brisbane Scott Douglas, the 5th B...
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Robert Ashbee C.R. Ashbee by William Strang 1903.jpg C. R. Ashbee by William Strang, 1903 Born 17 May 1863 Isleworth, United Kingdom Died 23 May 1942 (aged 79) Sevenoaks, United Kingdom Resting place S...
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Photo: on leftHugh Eyre Campbell Beaver, KBE (4 May 1890 – 16 January 1967) was a British engineer, industrialist, and founder of the Guinness Book of Records.CareerEducated at Wellington College, Berk...
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Joshua Tobias Bowman (born 4 March 1988)[1] is an English actor best known for his role as Daniel Grayson in ABC's Revenge.
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"Bob" Carlos Clarke (24 June 1950 – 25 March 2006) was a prolific photographer, "often referred to as the British Helmut Newton" In his short life he had a strong impact upon and influenced the develop...
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Sebastian Charles Faulks CBE (born 20 April 1953)British novelist, journalist, and broadcaster. Best known for his historical novels set in France – * The Girl at the Lion d'Or, * Birdsong, and * Charl...
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Edward Peter Lawless Faulks , Baron Faulks QC (born 19 August 1950), is an English barrister and Queen's Counsel. He was appointed Minister of State for Justice in December 2013.* educated at Wellingto...
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Linton Gardner, CBE (2 March 1917 – 12 December 2011) was an English composer of classical music.BiographyGardner was born in Manchester, England and brought up in Ilfracombe, North Devon. His father A...
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Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee CBE CStJ (27 May 1922 – 7 June 2015) was an English actor, singer, and author. With a career spanning nearly 70 years, Lee initially portrayed villains and became be...
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was an English actor who, often in supporting roles, was usually cast as a pompous English gentleman representing the Establishment. In Movie Encyclopedia, film critic Leonard Maltin describes Morley a...
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McNeill Noad (August 8, 1929 – September 13, 2001) was a classical guitar performer, educator, and an original founder of the Guitar Foundation of America.Noad was famed for his popular instructional t...
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Daniel James Negley Farson was a British writer and broadcaster, strongly identified with the early days of commercial television in the UK, when his sharp, investigative style contrasted with the BBC'...
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Marshal Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck, GCB, GCIE, CSI, DSO, OBE (21 June 1884 – 23 March 1981), nicknamed "The Auk", was a British army commander during World War II. He was a career soldier who spen...
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Marshal Sir John Maitland Salmond was born on 17 July 1881. He was the son of Maj.-Gen. Sir William Salmond and Emma Mary Hoyle.1 He married, firstly, Helen Amy Joy Lumsden in 1913. He married, secondl...
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Chief Marshal Sir William Geoffrey Hanson Salmond KCB, KCMG, DSO (19 August 1878 - 27 April 1933), commonly known as Sir Geoffrey Salmond, was a senior commander in the Royal Flying Corps during World ...
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Marshal Sir Geoffrey Harding Baker, GCB, CMG, CBE, MC (20 June 1912 – 8 May 1980) was Chief of the General Staff, the professional head of the British Army, from 1968 to 1971. He served in the Second W...
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Marshal Sir Gerald Walter Robert Templer KG, GCB, GCMG, KBE, DSO (11 September 1898–25 October 1979) was a British military commander who fought in both World Wars. He is best known for his defeat of t...
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Sir Harry Crawford Tuzo, GCB, OBE, MC (26 August 1917 – 7 August 1998) was a British Army officer who was Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe and General Officer Commanding of the British Army in No...
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Sir Richard Nugent O'Connor KT, GCB, DSO & Bar, MC, ADC (21 August 1889 – 17 June 1981) was a British Army general who commanded the Western Desert Force in the early years of World War II. He was the ...
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Sir Peter Mervyn Hunt, GCB, DSO, OBE, DL (11 March 1916 – 2 October 1988) was Chief of the General Staff, the professional head of the British Army, from 1973 to 1976. He served in the Second World War...
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. Sir Noel Monson de la Poer Beresford-Peirse * Born on 22 December 1887.* Son of Lt.-Col. William John de la Poer Beresford-Peirse and Mary Chambers.* Married, firstly , Hazel Marjorie Cochrane, daugh...
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He was a senior British Army officer during the Second World War and Commander-in-Chief of the South East Asia Command from 1946 to 1947. Sir Montagu George North Stopford GCB, KBE, DSO, MC (16 Novembe...
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General Sir Kenneth Morley Loch, KCIE, KBE, CB, MC, (18 September 1890 – 9 January 1961) was a Scottish soldier in the British Army and defence planner.Early life and military careerBorn on 18 Septembe...
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Sir Otho Leslie Prior-Palmer, DSO (28 October 1897 – 29 January 1986) was an Anglo-Irish British Army officer and Conservative Party politician. He served for nearly twenty years as a Member of Parliam...
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George Erroll Prior-Palmer, CB, DSO (20 February 1903 – 18 August 1977) was a senior British Army officer and business man of Anglo-Irish origins.He saw active service in the Second World War and later...
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General Douglas Neil Wimberley, CB, DSO, MC (15 August 1896 – 26 August 1983) was a British Army officer who, during the Second World War, commanded the 51st (Highland) Division for two years, from 194...
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Leader Roger Joyce Bushell RAF (30 August 1910 – 29 March 1944) was an Auxiliary Air Force pilot who organised and led an escape from Stalag Luft III, a German prisoner of war camp. He was a victim of ...
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Sir Thomas Wolseley Haig KCIE CSI CMG CBE (7 August 1865 – 28 April 1938) was a civil servant in British India, then Professor at Trinity College, Dublin, and later a Scottish herald.Early lifeHaig was...
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Claud Raymond VC (2 October 1923 – 22 March 1945) was a British recipient of the Victoria Cr...
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Artillery Museum: War Museum interview: (Daily Telegraph): (Guardian):
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Admiral Sir Anthony Cecil Capel Miers, VC, KBE, CB, DSO & Bar (11 November 1906 – 30 June 1985) (known as "Crap Miers" and "Gamp") was a Royal Navy officer, who served in the submarine service during t...
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Orde Lawder Wilkinson VC (29 June 1894 – 5 July 1916), was an English-born Canadian and British Army officer who was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for ...
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Victor Buller Turner VC CVO (17 January 1900 - 7 August 1972) was an English recipient during the Second World War of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the fac...
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TURNER, ALEXANDER BULLER* Rank: Second Lieutenant* Date of Death: 01/10/1915* Age: 22* Regiment/Service: Royal Berkshire Regiment 1st Bn. * Awards: V C * Grave Reference: I. B. 2. * Cemetery: CHOCQUES ...
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Rank: Captain* Date of Death: 05/09/1916* Age: 27* Regiment/Service: King's Royal Rifle Corps 2nd Bn. attd. Gold Coast Regiment, W.A.F.F.* Awards: V C, D S O * Grave Reference: III. C. 3. * Cemetery: M...
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Rank: Captain* Date of Death: 29/10/1914* Age: 30* Regiment/Service: Gordon Highlanders 2nd Bn. * Awards: V C * Grave Reference: VI. E. 2. * Cemetery: ZANTVOORDE BRITISH CEMETERY* Additional Informatio...
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Sir Alexander Stanhope Cobbe VC GCB KCSI DSO (6 June 1870 – 29 June 1931) was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can b...
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General Sir Charles John Melliss, VC, KCB, KCMG (12 September 1862 – 6 June 1936) was a British Army officer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest...
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Ernest Beachcroft Beckwith Towse VC KCVO CBE (23 April 1864 – 21 June 1948) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy...
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Brig.-Gen. Charles Fitz-Clarence, V.C. * Born on 8 May 1865 at Bishopscourt, Ireland.* Son of Captain Hon. George Fitz-Clarence and Lady Maria Henrietta Scott.* Married Violet Spencer-Churchill, daught...
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Died unmarried and without issuesPrince Francis of Teck, GCVO, DSO (Francis Joseph Leopold Frederick; 9 January 1870 – 22 October 1910) was the brother of the British queen Mary of Teck, wife of King G...
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Frederick William Cavendish-Bentinck, 9th Duke of Portland KCMG (18 June 1897 – 30 July 1990), known as Victor Cavendish-Bentinck until 1980, was a British diplomat, businessman, and peer. He served as...
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Wikipedia: Wikipedia English Prince Christian Victor Albrecht Ernst Anton von Schleswig-Holstein-Sondburg-Augustenburg.Died unmarried and without issues.Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, daught...
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Prince Alexander of Battenberg, later Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke, GCB, GCVO. Alexander Albert== Royal house ==* House of Battenberg (Cadet branch of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt...
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William Syer Bristowe (1 September 1901 – 11 September 1979), who wrote under the name W. S. Bristowe, was an English naturalist, a prolific and popular scientific writer and authority on spiders. He w...
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Sir Joseph Arthur Arkwright MA MD MRCS FRCP FRS (22 March 1864 – 22 November 1944) was a medical doctor. He was forced to give up his work due to severe dermatitis. He became a bacteriologist and from ...
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Claud was the youngest son of James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Abercorn and was educated at Wellington College. In 1907, he joined the 3rd Battalion (Lothian Regiment) of the Scots Guards as a Second Lieute...
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MAJOR DUDLEY WILLIAM BARING===> Major Dudley William Baring was born on 9 May 1892 at Marylebone, London, England. He was the son of Major Francis Charles Baring and Isabella Augusta Schuster. He marri...
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Educated at Wellington College, Wellington, Berkshire, England* Gained the rank of Lieutenant in the service of the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve* Fought in the Second World War, in the Atlantic & South...
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Educated at Wellington College, Wellington, Berkshire, England* Invested as a Officer, Order of the British Empire (O.B.E.) in 1942* Gained the rank of Lieutenant (A) in the service of the Royal Navy V...
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Grant Duff * Educated at Wellington and Sandhurst* Served in Gibralter, Mauritius, South Africa, India* Served at Staff College 1903-1904 and 1905-09* Department of Military Operations at the EWar Offi...
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Sir Frederick Archibald Nicolson , 2nd Baron Carnock was Born on 9 January 1883 at Cairo, Egypt. * Son of Sir Arthur Nicolson, 1st Baron Carnock and Mary Catharine Rowan-Hamilton.* Died on 3 May 1952 a...
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Wikipedia contributors. " Cecil Lowry-Corry, 6th Earl Belmore ." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaVice 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 Septe...
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Richard Napier Luce , Baron Luce was born on 14 October 1936.1 He is the son of Sir William Henry Tucker Luce and Margaret Napier.1 He married Rose Helen Nicholson, daughter of Sir Godfrey Nicholson, 1...
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On each landing, opposite the lift shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall. It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move. BIG BR...
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"James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Abercorn KG, CB, PC (Ire) (24 August 1838 – 3 January 1913), styled Viscount Hamilton until 1868 and Marquess of Hamilton from 1868 to 1885, was a British nobleman and dipl...
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