William George Morant OBE KPM (30 November 1862 - 19 March 1945) was a British police officer. Morant was born in Great Yarmouth in 1862, the son of Alfred...
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and the policies of Jamaican Governor Edward Eyre. After the start of the Morant Bay rebellion in October 1865, Eyre declared martial law in that area, directed...
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film concerns the 1902 court martial of lieutenants Harry Morant, Peter Handcock and George Witton—one of the first war crime prosecutions in British...
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The Morant Bay Rebellion (11 October 1865) began with a protest march to the courthouse by hundreds of people led by preacher Paul Bogle in Morant Bay...
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Admiral Sir George Digby Morant KCB (8 August 1837 – 13 February 1921) was an Anglo-Irish admiral in the British Royal Navy. Morant was born in Ireland...
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Harry Harbord "Breaker" Morant (born Edwin Henry Murrant, 9 December 1864 – 27 February 1902) was an English horseman, bush balladist, military officer...
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Breaker Morant was a war crimes prosecution that brought to trial six officers – Lieutenants Harry "Breaker" Morant, Peter Handcock, George Witton, Henry...
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Paul Bogle (section Morant Bay rebellion)
24 October 1865 in the Morant Bay court house. Bogle had become a friend of a wealthy landowner and fellow Baptist George William Gordon, a bi-racial man...
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Sir Robert Laurie Morant, KCB (7 April 1863 – 13 March 1920) was an English administrator and educationalist. Born in Hampstead, Morant was the older brother...
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Breaker Morant. George Witton's cousin, Cecily Adams of Castlecrag (a Sydney suburb), owned the copyright for Scapegoats of the Empire following George's death...
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Pardons for Morant, Handcock and Witton, three Australian soldiers, were sought from their court-martial convictions for the murder of Boer prisoners-of-war...
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Morant Bay, its chief town and capital, is the site of the Morant Bay Rebellion in 1865, of which Bogle was a leader. Representative George William Gordon...
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1974. 1848–1892: Colonel George Francis White 1892–1902: John Henry Eden 1902–1922: William George Morant 1922–1942: Sir George Morley (knighted in 1937...
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Bushveldt Carbineers (section Breaker Morant)
civilian and Boer prisoners of war. Morant claimed that the BVC had been ordered not to take prisoners. Lieutenant George Witton, who had been sentenced to...
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Sir George Morley CBE KPM (17 November 1873 – 13 October 1942) was a British police officer. Morley was born in Bradford, the son of William James Morley...
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Michael Redgrave as the King, Harry Andrews as Bolingbroke, and Philip Morant in the part of Lord Ross. In 1968 the Prospect Theatre toured Richard II...
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equals £63. Pearson & Morant 1934, p. 26. Fitzgibbons 2008, p. 31. Pearson & Morant 1934, pp. 54–59. Smyth 1996. Pearson & Morant 1934, pp. 14, 20. Fitzgibbons...
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South Africa. After a court martial, Handcock (along with Harry "Breaker" Morant) was convicted and executed for the murders of nine Boer POWs and three...
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Derivation of the English Language", ix. 332–61. Gent. Mag. xx. p. 237. Morant, Hist. of Essex 1768, i. p. 409; ii. p. 421. Gent. Mag. lxxi. pt. i. p....
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Berkshire Hunt Edward Morant, (1730–1791), Member of Parliament Philip Morant (1700–1770), historian John Morton (c. 1716–1780), MP William Newcome (1729–1800)...
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(590-kilogram) desk was created by William Evenden, a skilled joiner at Chatham Dockyard in Kent, probably from a design by Morant, Boyd, & Blanford. The desk...
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at Greek, mathematics and poetry, with his notes on William Shakespeare being included in George Steevens' 1781 edition of Shakespeare's plays. Many of...
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Alexander Bustamante (redirect from William Bustamante)
liberationist Marcus Garvey, and two leaders of the 1865 Morant Bay rebellion, Paul Bogle and George William Gordon. His portrait graces the Jamaican one dollar...
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Breaker Morant. George Witton's cousin, Cecily Adams of Castlecrag Sydney, owned the copyright for "Scapegoats of the Empire" following George's death....
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former Governor of Jamaica, Edward J. Eyre (who had recently suppressed the Morant Bay rebellion), whom she was seated beside. Unaware of his background, she...
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governor had George William Gordon, a mixed-race representative of the parish in the House of Assembly, arrested in Kingston and brought back to Morant Bay, where...
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Gordon Tidy. With Morant's death by firing squad during the Second Boer War in South Africa in 1902, Ogilvie penned Harry Morant: Harry Morant was a friend...
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Harbord Morant, colloquially known as 'The Breaker' for his skill with horses, and Peter Handcock in 1902, and the imprisonment of a third, George Witton...
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Harman Oates. William Gurney Rothery. England & Wales Captain Donald Bremner, Assistant Commissioner, City of London Police. William George Morant, OBE, Chief...
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Henriëtta Louisa Priscilla Somerset (1831–1863), married John Morant, son of John Morant and Lady Caroline Hay. No issue. Lady Geraldine Harriett Anne...
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