Georges Grenfell was a Congolese politician. He was appointed as one of the first Ministers of Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, under the...
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George Grenfell (21 August 1849, in Sancreed, Cornwall – 1 July 1906, in Basoko, Congo Free State (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) was a Cornish...
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Joyce Irene Grenfell OBE (née Phipps; 10 February 1910 – 30 November 1979) was an English diseuse, singer, actress and writer. She was known for the songs...
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Sir George Grenfell-Baines OBE DL FRIBA (born George Baines; 30 April 1908 – 9 May 2003) was an English architect and town planner. Born in Preston, his...
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Charles Grenfell, 1st Baron St Just (29 May 1870 – 26 November 1941), was a British banker and politician. His father, Henry Riversdale Grenfell, was Governor...
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Morgan, Grenfell & Co. was a leading London-based investment bank regarded as one of the oldest and once most influential British merchant banks. It had...
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Look up Grenfell in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Grenfell may refer to: Grenfell Campus, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada Grenfell Centre...
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George Grenfell Glyn, 2nd Baron Wolverton PC (10 February 1824 – 6 November 1887), was a British Liberal politician. He held office in three of the Liberal...
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Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell KCMG (28 February 1865 – 9 October 1940) was a British medical missionary to Newfoundland, who wrote books on his work and...
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Baron St Just (category Grenfell family)
the banker Edward Grenfell. He was the son of Henry Grenfell, the grandson of Charles Grenfell, the great-grandson of Pascoe Grenfell and the first cousin...
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Field Marshal Francis Wallace Grenfell, 1st Baron Grenfell, GCB, GCMG, PC (Ire) (29 April 1841 – 27 January 1925) was a British Army officer. After serving...
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Peter George Grenfell, 2nd Baron St. Just (22 July 1922 – 1984) was an English peer, a member of the House of Lords from 1943 until his death. Grenfell was...
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Grenfell is a town in Weddin Shire in the Central West of New South Wales, Australia. It is 370 km (230 mi) west of Sydney. It is close to Forbes, Cowra...
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Francis Octavius Grenfell, VC (4 September 1880 – 24 May 1915) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross. He was born on 4 September 1880 to Sophia...
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Presidents (later governors) of Haut-Congo were: 1963 – 26 June 1963: Georges Grenfell (b. 1908) 26 June 1963 – 1964: Paul Isombuma 1964 – August 1964: François...
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The Souls (section The Grenfells)
Julian Grenfell, was killed in action in 1915. Their second son, Gerald William Grenfell, was killed about two months later. Their third son, Ivo George Grenfell...
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the United Kingdom and internationally. BDP was founded in 1961 by George Grenfell-Baines with architects Bill White and John Wilkinson, quantity surveyor...
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1934) (1851–1934), English architect George Grenfell Baines (1908–2003), English architect and town planner George Bain (disambiguation) This disambiguation...
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George St. Leger Grenfell (May 30, 1808 – March 1868?) was a British mercenary, of the Cornish family, who claimed to have fought in Algeria, in Morocco...
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Gothic or Elizabethan architecture. The technology was devised by George Grenfell Baines and the engineer Felix Samuely in order to cope with material...
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Isabel Grenfell was born on 4 April 1893 in Léopoldville in the Congo Free State to Patience Rosanna Edgerley and George Grenfell. Grenfell's father was...
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William Henry Grenfell, 1st Baron Desborough, KG, GCVO, DL (30 October 1855 – 9 January 1945) was a British athlete, sportsman, public servant and politician...
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General Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope GCB GCMG CIE DSO (1 March 1874 – 14 September 1947) was a British soldier and colonial administrator. Educated at...
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search of specimens of the fish Polypterus. Missionary and explorer George Grenfell died after a bad attack of blackwater fever at Basoko on 1 July 1906...
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including the oldest Oxyrhynchus Papyri. Grenfell was the son of John Granville Grenfell FGS and Alice Grenfell. He was born in Birmingham and brought up...
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(1825-1908) Jamaican missionary to Cameroon Jeremiah Phillips (1836) George Grenfell (1849-1906), explorer and BMS missionary in the Democratic Republic...
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Criticism of the response to the Grenfell Tower fire primarily consisted of condemnation of issues with the emergency response and fire safety regulation...
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In 1955, he married Leslie, Lady St Just, the former wife of Peter George Grenfell, 2nd Baron St Just (1922–1984), and the younger daughter of American...
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Julian Pascoe Francis St Leger Grenfell, 3rd Baron Grenfell, Baron Grenfell of Kilvey (born 23 May 1935), is a Labour hereditary peer, life peer, and former...
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eat them if it was acceptable to eat the latter. When the missionary George Grenfell protested against the purchase of slaves for consumption, inhabitants...
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