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    Sir Francis Ley, 1st Baronet (3 January 1846 – 27 January 1916) was an English industrialist. He founded Ley's Malleable Castings Vulcan Ironworks in Derby...
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  • Sir Francis Ley, 1st Baronet (1846–1916) Sir Henry Gordon Ley, 2nd Baronet (1874–1944) Sir Gerald Gordon Ley, 3rd Baronet (1902–1980) Sir Francis Douglas...
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  • England, formed as Ley's Recreation Club by Francis Ley in 1890 and dissolved in the same year. A new Derby Baseball Club was formed (with Ley as chairman)...
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  • Ley baronets, baronetcies in England and the United Kingdom Francis Ley (1846–1916), 1st Baronet Bob Ley (born 1955), American sportscaster David Ley...
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    called Ley's Baseball Ground and was part of a complex of sports grounds (Ley's Recreation Centre) built and owned by businessman Sir Francis Ley for workers...
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  • press by Francis Ley, on events leading up to Derby Baseball Club ‘retiring‘ from the National League. It is stated that on the 9 July Francis Ley agreed...
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  • Francis Baxter Leys (March 14, 1839 – September 11, 1905) was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He represented London in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario...
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    The Leys School is a co-educational private school in Cambridge, England. It is a boarding and day school for about 574 pupils between the ages of eleven...
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    velodrome that has hosted the Revolution cycling series. Local industrialist Francis Ley introduced baseball to the town in the late 19th century, and built a...
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    years later. Caleb began working for Ley's Malleable Castings foundry in Derby which was founded by Francis Ley. At the age of 12 Bloomer left school...
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  • notable of the new clubs was formed 1890, in Derby, as Ley's Recreation Club, by Francis Ley, a local man who had experienced the game on a trip to the...
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  • Henry Ley (1770 – 21 August 1850), was an English civil servant who served as Clerk of the House of Commons from 1820 to 1850. He was a son of Henry Ley (1744–1824)...
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  • success. From here him and Francis Ley were instrumental in setting up the National Baseball League of Great Britain. Ley would later run Derby Baseball...
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    The Vulcan Iron Works at Osmaston Road, Derby was founded in 1874 by Francis Ley (1846-1916). On a site occupying 11 acres by the Birmingham and Derby...
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    working in a foundry in Cleveland owned by British industrialist Francis Ley. In 1892, Ley sent Bullas to the United Kingdom to catch for the Derby Baseball...
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  • action was the creation of Union Street, Aberdeen. He was the son of Francis Leys (d.1788), a Baillie in Aberdeen, and his wife, Elizabeth Ingram, daughter...
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    Thomas Lewis Kekewich Edge of Strelley Hall 1905: Francis Ley of Epperstone Manor (later Sir Francis Ley) 1906: Joseph Frederick Laycock of Wiseton Hall...
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  • football and cricket clubs meant that when the opportunity to play at Sir Francis Ley's Baseball Ground arose, the club accepted. Commonly referred to amongst...
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    Upper Canada in 1834, the son of Francis Leys, a Scottish immigrant. He was educated at the Toronto Academy. Leys studied law with Angus Morrison, was...
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    Switzerland where he represented Russia's interests until his death. Francis Ley, La Russie, Paul de Krüdener et les soulèvement nationaux, 1814–1858...
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  • ground as a striker. Both the football club and the foundry were owned by Francis Ley at the time. Only when he was earning a significant figure as an international...
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  • Madeleine Ley (5 May 1901 in Antwerp – 1981) was a Belgian writer and poet. Her father was the Belgian psychiatrist Auguste Ley [fr]. After the publication...
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  • Anthony Hardy (b. 1951), serial killer in London Paul Harvey (artist) Sir Francis Ley Alfred Newbould, Liberal MP from 1919 to 1922 for Leyton West Bob Plant...
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    (2020), Francis advocated "civil union law[s]" (Spanish: ley de convivencia civil) to ensure that gay people are "legally covered". Francis had made...
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    employed by industrialist Francis Ley to coach the Derby Baseball Club in England in a professional baseball league organized by Ley and Albert Spalding. He...
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    first three used Jim Hart to decide the line-up of their teams, while Francis Ley at Derby made his own decisions. Hart was a director of Preston North...
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  • (28 September 1935 – 11 August 2014), better known by his pen name Simon Leys, was a Belgian-Australian writer, essayist and literary critic, translator...
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    Bruce Lee (redirect from Ley Jan Fahn)
    academic performance (and possibly poor conduct), he was transferred to St. Francis Xavier's College, where he was mentored by Brother Edward Muss, F.M.S....
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    Carême, Colette, Robert Desnos, Maurice Fombeure, Marie Laurencin, Madeleine Ley, François de Malherbe, Ronsard, Jean Moréas, Jean Nohain and Paul Valéry...
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    passed legislation that introduced conscription in Great Britain. Died: Francis Ley, British industrialist and sports executive, founder of Vulcan Iron Works...
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