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    Walter de Merton (c. 1205 – 27 October 1277) was Lord Chancellor of England, Archdeacon of Bath, founder of Merton College, Oxford, and Bishop of Rochester...
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  • Air Chief Marshal Sir Walter Hugh Merton, GBE, KCB (29 August 1905 – 23 March 1986) was a senior Royal Air Force (RAF) commander during the Second World...
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    Oxford in England. Its foundation can be traced back to the 1260s when Walter de Merton, chancellor to Henry III and later to Edward I, first drew up statutes...
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    wont to wear the habit of a Merton canon – as was a successor of his, Hubert Walter. It is thought that Walter de Merton studied there in the 1230s; he...
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  • Thomas Merton OCSO (January 31, 1915 – December 10, 1968), religious name M. Louis, was an American Trappist monk, writer, theologian, mystic, poet, social...
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  • created in 1914 when Sir Walter Raleigh's chair was renamed. At the present day both professorships are associated with Merton College, but Dame Helen...
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  • physicist and art collector Walter de Merton (c. 1205 – 1277), Bishop of Rochester, England and founder of Merton College William Merton (1917–2014), British...
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  • Morland; Ricardo Rivera Schreiber (honorary) 1963: Colville Deverell; Walter Merton; Harold Pyman; 10th Earl of Selkirk; Geoffrey Wallinger; Wilfrid Woods...
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  • 1950 Air Vice-Marshal Brian Reynolds 25 August 1952 Air Vice-Marshal Walter Merton 1 December 1953 Air Vice-Marshal James Fuller-Good 15 January 1957 Air...
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    14th-century thinkers, almost all associated with Merton College, Oxford; for this reason they were dubbed "The Merton School". These men took a strikingly logical...
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    RAF Organisation. Retrieved 26 January 2010. "Air Chief Marshal Sir Walter Merton". Air of Authority – A History of RAF Organisation. Retrieved 17 October...
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  • (born 1912) 21 March – Derek Farr, actor (born 1912) 23 March – Sir Walter Merton, RAF air marshal (born 1905) 26 March – Andrew Freeth, artist (born...
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    Walter’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 11 July 2012 Levens, R.G.C., ed. (1964). Merton College...
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  • Russian-American rabbi. Étienne Mattler, 80, French footballer. Sir Walter Merton, 80, British RAF officer. Ruth L. Saw, 84, British philosopher. Lev...
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  • 1851-1920 (1923), p. 130: "Phillips, Walter Alison, b. 21 October 1864, s. of John and Jane, Epsom. Left 1882; Exhib. of Merton Coll., Oxf.; BA (1st Cl. Hist...
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  • Donald Hardman 1 January 1958 Air Chief Marshal Sir Walter Dawson 8 April 1960 Air Marshal Sir Walter Merton 1963 Air Marshal Sir John Baker-Carr (acting) 1...
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  • Maitland Air Officer Commanding No. 22 Group 1950–1952 Succeeded by Walter Merton Preceded by Sir John Boothman Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Coastal...
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  • Krauss Walter Savage Landor (Trinity) Eugene Lee-Hamilton (Oriel) Richard Lovelace (Gloucester Hall) George MacBeth (New College) Louis MacNeice (Merton) Glyn...
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  • 1963. p. 7513. Barrass, Malcolm (17 June 2007). "Air Chief Marshal Sir Walter Merton". Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation. Retrieved 15 April...
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  • Air chief marshal Sir Walter Lloyd Dawson, KCB, CBE, DSO (6 May 1902 – 10 June 1994) was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force in the 1950s. He was...
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    Merton Street is a cobbled street in central Oxford, England. It joins the High Street at its northeastern end, between the Ruskin School of Drawing and...
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  • Wing Commander Sir John Hodsoll, CB 1948-1954 Air Chief Marshal Sir Walter Merton, GBE KCB 1964-1968 Lieutenant-General Sir William Stratton 1960-1962...
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    children: Adolf, Alfred, Walter Henry, Gerda, and Richard. Merton and his children converted to Protestantism in 1899. The Mertons—who had been English citizens...
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    birthplace of Walter de Merton, founder of Merton College, Oxford. In 1235, Henry III held negotiations here with his barons for the Statute of Merton. The Abbey...
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  • Military offices Preceded by Walter Merton Air Officer Commanding No. 22 Group 1953–1957 Succeeded by Roy Faville Preceded by Brian Yarde Commandant-General...
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    Daniel Hannan, Baron Hannan of Kingsclere Walter Merton (died 1277). Rector in 1263 and founder of Merton College, Oxford. Kingsclere's Pope: Clement...
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  • (approximate) date of matriculation is used, and given in brackets when known. Walter de Merton, Lord Chancellor, Bishop of Rochester (founder) Thomas Wilton, theologian...
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    Military offices Preceded by Sir Walter Merton Air Member for Supply and Organisation (acting) 1963 Succeeded by Sir John Davis...
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    took the DSc degree and as Linacre Professor he also held a Fellowship at Merton College, Oxford. Weldon was one of the first scientists to provide evidence...
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    Robert Merton Solow, GCIH (/ˈsoʊloʊ/; August 23, 1924 – December 21, 2023) was an American economist and Nobel laureate whose work on the theory of economic...
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