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    Sir William James Herschel, 2nd Baronet (9 January 1833 – 24 October 1917) was a British ICS officer in India who used fingerprints for identification...
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    Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet KH FRS (/ˈhɜːrʃəl, ˈhɛər-/; 7 March 1792 – 11 May 1871) was an English polymath active as a mathematician...
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  • may also refer to: Sir William Herschel, 2nd Baronet (1833–1917), British officer William Herschel Telescope William Herschel Museum This disambiguation...
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  • astronomical work. His older brother was Sir William Herschel, 2nd Baronet, and his younger brother John Herschel the Younger was born in 1837. The family...
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    Social Science History. 28: 191–210 – via Elsevier Science Direct. Ganong, William F. (Lange Medical, 2001) Review of Medical Physiology (pp. 392–397) Gill...
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    third baronet on 15 June 1950. Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet (1792–1871) Sir William James Herschel, 2nd Baronet (1833–1917) Rev. Sir John...
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    1858, Sir William Herschel, 2nd Baronet, while in India, became the first European to realize the value of fingerprints for identification. Sir Francis...
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    January 2023. Crowe, Michael J. (23 September 2004). "Herschel, Sir John Frederick William, first baronet (1792–1871), mathematician and astronomer". Oxford...
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  • (1859–1865) William Astell Sir Edward Astley, 4th Baronet Sir Jacob Astley, 5th Baronet Sir John Astley, 1st Baronet Sir John Dugdale Astley, 3rd Baronet; MP...
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    Sir George Erskine Brigadier-General James Francis Erskine Lieutenant-General Sir William Erskine, 1st Baronet Major-General Sir William Erskine, 2nd...
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  • nineteen Sir William Herschel, 2nd Baronet, (1833–1917), forensic scientist; son of the above John Herschel and grandson of William Herschel Frederick...
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    Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet, FRS (14 November 1797 – 22 February 1875) was a Scottish geologist who demonstrated the power of known natural causes in...
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    Sir George Yonge, 5th Baronet, KCB, PC, FRS (/jʌŋ/; 17 July 1731 – 25 September 1812), of Escot House in the parish of Talaton in Devon, England, was...
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  • Labouchere 1841–1845 William Ewart Gladstone 1845–1846 Sir George Clerk, 6th Baronet 1846–1850 Richard Lalor Sheil 1850–1855 Sir John Herschel 1855–1869 Thomas...
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    Baring family. Baring was the second son of Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet, and of Harriet, daughter of William Herring. Alexander was born on 27 October...
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    politician William Robson, Baron Robson (1852–1918) Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham (1730–1782) Sir Thomas Royden, 1st Baronet (1831–1917)...
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    Henry Thomas Colebrooke (category Younger sons of baronets)
    Thomas Colebrooke was born on 15 June 1765. His parents were Sir George Colebrooke, 2nd Baronet, MP for Arundel and Chairman of the East India Company from...
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    Soame baronets). The ninth Baronet was a member of the Shropshire County Council. Sir John Buckworth, 1st Baronet (1662–1709) Sir John Buckworth, 2nd Baronet...
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    (1793–1873), the eldest daughter of Arthur Gore, 2nd Earl of Arran, and Elizabeth Underwood, and the widow of Sir George Buggin. On the same day, Lady Cecilia...
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    Mercer-Henderson and the former Susan-Arabella Rowley (a daughter of Sir William Rowley, 2nd Baronet), in 1851. George Edward Clerk (1815–1875), who married Marie...
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  • Navy admiral Sir George Beaumont, 7th Baronet (1753–1827), art patron Somerset Davies (1754–1817), politician General John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore...
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  • Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon George Graham Stephen Hawking Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet John Hunter (surgeon) Benjamin "Ben" Jonson (buried upright)...
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    baronet. His mother was Frances Lyster, who played an important part in reshaping the grounds of Dudmaston. She died in 1792, and the elder William Whitmore...
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    entitle them to the prefix Sir, which often came with appointments to that foreign order (though Herschel was later created a baronet). Babbage now emerged...
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    Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham (briefly admitted), Prime Minister of Great Britain, 1765–66 & 1782 Sir Thomas Bendish, 2nd Baronet, British Ambassador...
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    Auckland was the second son of William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland, and Eleanor, daughter of Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd Baronet. His sister was the traveller...
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    third son of the antiquary Sir William Pole (1561–1635) of Shute House, Devon, a brother of Sir John Pole, 1st Baronet. He had married Ann Colley, the...
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    rejected in 1835 by Caroline Eliza Farquhar (daughter of Sir Thomas Harvie Farquhar, 2nd Baronet) and again in 1837 by Lady Frances Harriet Douglas (daughter...
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    III at Bosworth Field. He had an elder brother, Sir William Villiers (d. 12 June 1629), created a baronet in 1619, who married Rebecca Roper, daughter and...
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    Hill, a large mansion. It had been built by Sir Gregory Page, 2nd Baronet. Sir Walter James, 1st Baronet resided there, and Crombie bought it from him...
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