• Sir Charles Preston, 5th Baronet (c. 1735 - 23 March 1800) was a British Major who was stationed in Canada during the American Revolutionary War. He was...
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    soul, funk, and gospel. Preston was a top session keyboardist in the 1960s, backing Little Richard, Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, the Everly Brothers, Reverend...
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    Charles Swainson (1780–1866) was an English businessman, a calico printer in Preston, Lancashire. Charles Swainson was a second-generation Tory cotton...
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  • Charles More Preston (November 6, 1848 – November 16, 1909) was an American lawyer and banker from New York City. Preston was born on November 6, 1848...
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  • Charles Preston Nelson (5 February 1877 – 16 November 1935) was an officer of the United States Navy. He would attain the rank of Rear Admiral by the...
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    George Preston did not surrender and was blockaded until Charles later called off the siege owing to a lack of artillery. On 17 September, Charles entered...
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    Charles Preston Wickham (September 15, 1836 – March 18, 1925) was a 19th-century congressman and judge from Norwalk, Huron County, Ohio. Wickham was born...
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  • sideman for jazz and rhythm and blues artists like Count Basie and Ray Charles. Preston Love grew up in North Omaha and graduated from North High. He became...
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    Preston (/ˈprɛstən/ ) is a city on the north bank of the River Ribble in Lancashire, England. The city is the administrative centre of the county of Lancashire...
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    a descendant of the 19th-century British Prime Minister Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey. Preston became the lead singer of Worthing-based pop group, the Ordinary...
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  • Bergen County, New Jersey Charles Preston House, Seaside, Oregon, listed on the NRHP in Clatsop County, Oregon Hampton-Preston House, Columbia, South Carolina...
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  • Kenneth Charles Preston (22 August 1925 – 6 January 2019) was an English cricketer. He played for Essex between 1948 and 1964. Preston was born in Goodmayes...
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  • Chanel Preston (born 1985), American pornographic actress Sir Charles Preston, 5th Baronet (c. 1735–1800), British Army officer Charles M. Preston (1848–1909)...
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  • Andrew Malcolm Preston (born 1973) is a Canadian historian, who won the 2013 Charles Taylor Prize for his book Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion...
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    Alice "Kiki" Preston (née Gwynne, formerly Allen; 1898 – December 23, 1946) was an American socialite, a member of the Happy Valley set, and the alleged...
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  • Preston Sturges (/ˈstɜːrdʒɪs/; born Edmund Preston Biden; August 29, 1898 – August 6, 1959) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and film director...
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    Preston Smith Brooks (August 5, 1819 – January 27, 1857) was an American planter, politician, and member of the U.S. House of Representatives from South...
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    James Allen Preston (born November 13, 1932) is a retired American actor. Preston is best known for portraying Colonel Randolph in the movie A Few Good...
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  • Lord Preston may refer to: Thomas Preston, 1st Viscount Tara (1585–1655), an Irish soldier of the 17th century. Richard Graham, 1st Viscount Preston (1648–1695)...
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    William Preston, 2nd Baronet (c. 1703) Sir George Preston, 3rd Baronet (c. 1670–1741) Sir George Preston, 4th Baronet (died 1779) Sir Charles Preston, 5th...
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    Robert Preston Meservey (June 8, 1918 – March 21, 1987) was an American stage and screen actor, best-known for his role as Professor Harold Hill in the...
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  • Preston Martin Charles Rabl (born January 1949) is a British investment banker, stockbroker and co-founder, with Martin Sorrell, of WPP, the world's largest...
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    caning of Charles Sumner, or the Brooks–Sumner Affair, occurred on May 22, 1856, in the United States Senate chamber, when Representative Preston Brooks...
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  • Charles Wickham may refer to: Charles Preston Wickham (1836–1925), American congressman Sir Charles Wickham (police officer) (1879–1971), first Inspector-General...
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  • Charles Preston Cary (January 28, 1856 – 1943) was an American educator. Cary had German and English ancestry. Born in Marshall, Ohio, he went to Ohio...
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  • Royalist Court-in-exile and was made Viscount Tara by Charles II. Preston was a descendant of Robert Preston, 1st Baron Gormanston, who in 1363 purchased the...
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    Preston bus station is the central bus station in the city of Preston in Lancashire, England. It was built by Ove Arup and Partners in the Brutalist architectural...
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  • Preston Ercelle Cloud, Jr. (September 26, 1912 – January 16, 1991) was an American earth scientist, biogeologist, cosmologist, and paleontologist. He...
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    said of Preston that he was "as big as two men, and eats like three". In 1800, Preston unexpectedly inherited the baronetcy when his brother Charles, 5th...
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    The Battle of Preston (9–14 November 1715) was the final action of the Jacobite rising of 1715, an attempt to put James Francis Edward Stuart on the British...
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