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    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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    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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    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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