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    Baron Churchill, of Wychwood in the County of Oxford, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom and held by a branch of the Spencer family. It was...
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    George, the 5th Duke (1766–1840). In 1815, Francis Spencer (the younger son of the 4th Duke) was created Baron Churchill in the Peerage of the United Kingdom...
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    John (1708–1746). In 1815, Francis Spencer, the younger son of George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough, was created Baron Churchill, of Wychwood in the...
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    twice in the Peerage of England. The first creation came in 1627 in favour of Emanuel Scrope, 11th Baron Scrope of Bolton. The earldom became extinct...
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    Francis Almeric Spencer, 1st Baron Churchill DCL FRS (26 December 1779 – 10 March 1845) was a British peer and Whig politician from the Spencer family...
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    who wrote to the Queen of Churchill's "energy and natural flow". Churchill was a friend of Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild, and received "extensive...
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    General John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, 1st Prince of Mindelheim, 1st Count of Nellenburg, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, KG, PC (26 May 1650 –...
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  • created Viscount Spencer, of Althorp in the County of Northampton, and Baron Spencer of Althorp, of Althorp in the County of Northampton, on 3 April...
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    Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton, PC (27 October 1774 – 12 May 1848), was a British politician, diplomat, nobleman, and financier, and a member of...
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    Earl of Onslow (redirect from Baron Onslow)
    Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1801 for George Onslow, 4th Baron Onslow. The Onslow family descends from Arthur Onslow, who represented Bramber...
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  • Bernard Fitzalan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk (category Earls of Norfolk (1644 creation))
    Elizabeth, the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, the funeral of Winston Churchill, and the investiture of King Charles III as Prince of Wales. He was a...
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    of the United States, George W. Bush, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, the screenwriter of Gone with the Wind, Sidney Howard, and the namesake...
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    (1946–2013) Richard Atkinson (1920–1994) Edward Russell Ayrton (1882–1914) Churchill Babington (1821–1889) Philip Arthur Barker (1920–2001) Thomas Bateman...
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    when the Seventh Coalition defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. Wellesley was born into a Protestant Ascendancy family in Ireland. He was...
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  • Earl, Viscount, and Baron. The last non-royal dukedom was created in 1874, and the last marquessate was created in 1936. Creation of the remaining ranks...
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    (1752–1822), of the third creation of that earldom, the son of Horatio Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, son of Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole of Wolterton...
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    between 1784 and 1812 and known as the Earl of Uxbridge between 1812 and 1815, was a British Army officer and politician. After serving as a member of...
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  • issued by Simon in the King's name, are no longer regarded as valid for the creation of peerages - see Cokayne (1949) The corresponding article in the first...
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    post was again not filled until 1690, when it was bestowed upon John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, during the King's absence in Ireland. It was likewise...
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    Catherine Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington (category Daughters of barons)
    "The Honourable Catherine Pakenham" when her father succeeded as the 2nd Baron Longford in 1776. Among her siblings were Thomas Pakenham, 2nd Earl of Longford;...
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    Sir Winston Churchill resigns". On This Day 1950–2005. BBC. Archived from the original on 2 April 2003. Retrieved 2 September 2018. Churchill ... tendered...
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    London, the eighth son of Charles Cadogan, 3rd Baron Cadogan and the second son of Mary Churchill, the Baron's second wife. George would follow his brother...
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    Admiral of the Fleet George Anson, 1st Baron Anson, PC, FRS (23 April 1697 – 6 June 1762) was a British Royal Navy officer, politician and peer from the...
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    eldest son and the second of the eleven children of Alfred Curzon, 4th Baron Scarsdale (1831–1916), who was the Rector of Kedleston in Derbyshire. George's...
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  • (1855). On the Mode of Communication of Cholera (2nd ed.). London: John Churchill. Stewart, Heather; Boffey, Daniel (16 January 2019). "Theresa May suffers...
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    career was saved by the new First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill. Churchill had met Beatty when Beatty was commander of a gunboat on the Nile...
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    Winston Churchill to stop buying Argentine beef and grain. Churchill refused, saying the food was urgently needed. 1944 September – Churchill and Roosevelt...
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  • Gazette. 15 July 1815. p. 1425. "No. 17041". The London Gazette. 18 July 1815. p. 1459. "No. 17066". The London Gazette. 30 September 1815. p. 1997. "No...
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    company and developed the business, becoming sole owner of the works in 1815. By the time of his death in 1852, the Dowlais Iron Company had become the...
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    formally recognized in organizations such as the Congress of Vienna of 1814–1815 or the United Nations Security Council, of which permanent members are: China...
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