General William Hervey (13 May 1732 – 15 January 1815) was a British Army officer and, briefly, a politician. Hervey was the son of Lord John Hervey and Mary...
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Edmunds William Hervey (British Army officer) (1732–1815), MP for Bury St Edmunds 1763–68 William Hervy (died c. 1400), MP for Gloucestershire William Harvey...
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general officer rank or the rank of brigadier (together now recognized as starred officers) in the British Army, Royal Marines, British Indian Army or other...
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Major-General George Anson CB (13 October 1797 – 27 May 1857) was a British military officer and Whig politician from the Anson family. Anson was the second...
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Henry Charles Hervey (2 August 1837 – 28 May 1875) was a British Conservative Party politician. Hervey was the second son of Frederick Hervey, 2nd Marquess...
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Hervey Rhodes, Baron Rhodes, KG, DFC*, PC, DL (12 August 1895 – 11 September 1987) was a British Labour Party politician. Born in Saddleworth in the West...
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generals in the British Army since the Acts of Union 1707. The rank of general (or full general to distinguish it from the lower general officer ranks) is the...
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Frederick William Hervey, 2nd Marquess of Bristol PC, FSA (15 July 1800 – 30 October 1864), styled Lord Hervey from 1803 to 1826 and Earl Jermyn from 1826...
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Hervey-Bathurst, 1st Baronet, KH (1782 – 24 September 1819), was an officer in the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars. Born Felton Elwell Hervey...
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British Expeditionary Force (BEF) was the six divisions the British Army sent to the Western Front during the First World War. Planning for a British...
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(1891–1914), English cricketer and British Army officer William Parke (director) (1873–1941), American film director William Thomas Parke (1761–1847), English...
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fought for the Royalist cause in the English Civil War. Hervey was the eldest son of Sir William Hervey of Ickworth and his first wife Susan Jermyn, daughter...
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Hervey Redmond Morres, 2nd Viscount of Mountmorres (c. 1743 – 1797) was an Anglo-Irish politician and writer. Hervey Redmond was born about 1743, the only...
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(1804–1867), British East India Company Army officer Augustus Huggins Abernathy (1838–1884), American physician Augustus Agar (1890–1968), British Royal Navy...
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Mary Hervey, Lady Hervey (née Lepell; c. 1700 – 2 September 1768) was an English courtier. Born around 1700, Mary Lepell was the daughter of Brigadier-general...
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1946 New Year Honours (MBE) (section Army)
British Army of the Rhine. T/Major Donald Stanley Duke, Civil Assistant, War Office. Geoffrey William Arnold Dummer, Principal Scientific Officer, Telecommunications...
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Earl Marischal (redirect from William Keith, 1st Earl Marischal)
and Chief of Clan Keith, since Hervey (Herveus) de Keith, who held the office of Marischal under Malcolm IV and William I. The descendant of Herveus, Sir...
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Frederick William John Hervey, 3rd Marquess of Bristol (28 June 1834 – 7 August 1907) was a British peer and Member of Parliament (MP). Hervey was born...
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William George Hervey Jolliffe, 4th Baron Hylton (2 December 1898 – 14 November 1967), was a British peer and soldier. Hylton was the son of Hylton Jolliffe...
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(footballer, born 1881), played for West Bromwich Albion and Walsall Henry Hervey Aston (1759–1798), English cricketer Jack Aston (1877–1934), English footballer...
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compiler John Hervey Crozier (1812–1889), American politician Jeffery Crozier, better known ad [ [Crosaire] ] (1984), American U.S. Army Veteran from Iraq...
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Henry Phipps, 1st Earl of Mulgrave (category British Army generals)
Mulgrave from 1792 to 1812, was a British Army officer, politician and peer. He notably served as Foreign Secretary under William Pitt the Younger from 1805...
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Thomas Hervey (20 January 1699 – 1775), of Bond Street, London, was an English pamphleteer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1733 to...
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thought to have originated upon the birth of the sons of William Richard Keith, son of Hervey de Keith, Earl Marischal of Scotland, and Margaret, daughter...
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General Lord Charles FitzRoy (17 July 1764 – 20 December 1829) was a British Army officer and politician. FitzRoy was born on 17 July 1764. He was the third...
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Ben Key (category Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
John Key, KCB, CBE, ADC (born 7 November 1965) is a senior Royal Navy officer. He has served as First Sea Lord since November 2021. He has commanded...
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Royal Guelphic Order (section Officers)
frequently bestowed upon British subjects. Until 1837 the order was frequently awarded to officers in the British Navy and Army, although it was still classed...
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General Sir Richard Ernest William Turner, VC, KCB, KCMG, DSO, CD (25 July 1871 – 19 June 1961) was a senior Canadian Army officer who served during the Second...
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The Death of General Wolfe (category Cultural depictions of military officers)
battle was fought between the British Army and the French Army; the pitched fighting lasted only fifteen minutes. The British Army was commanded by General...
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William Adams Mather (1830 – 25 May 1864) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer. The son of William Mather senior, he was born...
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