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    Sir Rowland Harry Biffen FRS (28 May 1874, in Cheltenham – 12 July 1949) was a British botanist, mycologist, geneticist and a professor of agricultural...
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  • Wodehouse John Biffen, PC, DL (1930–2007), Conservative member of the UK House of Lords, after 36 years in the House of Commons Rowland Biffen (1874–1949)...
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  • league footballer Rowland Berkeley (disambiguation), multiple people Rowland Berthoff (1921–2001), American historian Rowland Biffen (1874–1949), British...
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  • agriculture and the use of land resources. It was established in 1905 by Rowland Biffen, Alfred Daniel Hall, Thomas Barlow Wood, and Thomas Hudson Middleton...
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  • The Biffen Lecture is a lectureship organised by the John Innes Centre, named after Rowland Biffen. Source: John Innes Centre 2001 John Doebley 2002 Francesco...
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    Ormston Backhouse Nora Barlow Michael W. Bevan FRS Mervyn Bibb FRS Rowland Biffen David Baulcombe FRS Kirsten Bomblies H. G. Callan Rosemary Carpenter...
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    resistance. Scientific breeding for disease resistance originated with Sir Rowland Biffen, who identified a single recessive gene for resistance to wheat yellow...
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    acquired the company. The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, John Biffen, ruled that Lonrho must give an undertaking not to buy any more shares in...
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    went for his doctoral studies at the University of Cambridge under Rowland Biffen and later Frank Engledow, studying hybrid vigour in wheat. He then worked...
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  • revolutionised hygiene and household sanitation in Victorian England. Sir Rowland Biffen, developed disease resistant wheat strains H. J. Round, scientist, played...
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  • Institute, Cambridge,: 140  as a translator and scientific officer. Sir Rowland Biffen was the first director of the Cambridge bureau, and her supervisor,...
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  • as part of the School of Agriculture at the University of Cambridge. Rowland Biffen was the first director, and was close with William Bateson who was leading...
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    school. He was deputed for doctoral studies in Cambridge under Sir Rowland Biffen. His PhD thesis in 1928 was on "Inheritance studies in Arachis hypogaea...
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  • Edgar Johnson Allen Richard Assheton Geoffrey Thomas Bennett Sir Rowland Harry Biffen Arthur Edwin Boycott Clive Cuthbertson Sir Henry Hallett Dale Sir...
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  • owner, the sitter's son. In series 4, episode 22, a miniature by Sarah Biffen was restored, by Scalisi and paper conservator Louise Drover. In October...
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  • British Colonial Empire. J. Proc. Agric. Econ. Soc.. 7, 145; 1947. ‘Rowland Harry Biffen, 1874–1949', Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society, 7...
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    Election Member Party 1983 John Biffen Conservative 1997 Owen Paterson Conservative 2021 by-election Helen Morgan Liberal Democrats...
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    Shetland Jo Grimond Liberal Ormskirk Robert Kilroy-Silk Labour Oswestry John Biffen Conservative Oxford Hon. Montague Woodhouse Conservative Oxfordshire, Mid...
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    Shrewsbury and Atcham Derek Conway Conservative Shropshire, North John Biffen Conservative Skipton and Ripon David Curry Conservative Slough John Watts...
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    (1841–1914) 1904–05 Worthington G. Smith (1866–1928) 1905–06 Sir Rowland Henry Biffen (1874–1949) 1906–07 Arthur Lister (1830–1908) 1907–08 Annie Lorrain...
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    Conservative Shrewsbury and Atcham Derek Conway Conservative Shropshire North John Biffen Conservative Skipton and Ripon David Curry Conservative Slough John Watts...
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  • Baron Hardie of Blackford in the City of Edinburgh 3 June 1997 John Biffen ‡ Baron Biffen of Tanat in the County of Shropshire 14 August 2007 4 June 1997...
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    Society. Archived from the original on 11 May 2018. Retrieved 11 May 2018. Rowland, Peter (1975). "From Back Parlour to Back Bench, 1885-1890". Lloyd George...
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    born near Market Drayton Sir Rowland Hill, coordinator of the Geneva Bible and possible inspiration for As You Like It Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill, Napoleonic...
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    valuable researches on vertebrate morphology and palaeontology." 1920 Rowland H. Biffen "On the ground of his work on scientific principles applied to the...
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    Candidate Votes % ±% Conservative John Biffen 18,154 47.4 −8.5 Labour George J. Costley 11,407 29.8 +1.8 Liberal Thomas Rowland Crowther 8,745 22.8 +6.7 Majority...
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    535 (36.0%) John Stevens 10,489 (20.4%) Denis Allen 1,764 (3.4%)   John Biffen† Shrewsbury and Atcham Derek Conway 18,814 (34.0%)   Paul Marsden 20,484...
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    635 Speaker George Thomas  Leader Norman St John-Stevas Francis Pym John Biffen  Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher  Leader of the Opposition James Callaghan...
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    ministry  House of Commons Members 650 Speaker Bernard Weatherill  Leader John Biffen  Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher  Leader of the Opposition Michael Foot...
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    Douglas Glover Conservative Orpington Eric Lubbock Liberal Oswestry John Biffen Conservative Oxford Montague Woodhouse Conservative Paddington North Ben...
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