• Cyril John Radcliffe, 1st Viscount Radcliffe, GBE, PC, FBA (30 March 1899 – 1 April 1977) was a British lawyer and Law Lord best known for his role in...
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    Punjab and Bengal during the Partition of India. It is named after Cyril Radcliffe, who, as the joint chairman of the two boundary commissions, had the...
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  • the Bank of England. It is named after its chairman, Cyril Radcliffe, 1st Viscount Radcliffe. The report started collecting evidence in 1957 and was the...
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  • friend turned rival and nephew of the Radcliffe Workshop headmaster Marcus Radcliffe. He attends the Radcliffe Workshop as a sugar artisan, but lacks...
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    University Press. Retrieved 12 July 2007. Armstrong, Robert. "Radcliffe, Cyril John, Viscount Radcliffe (1899–1977)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography...
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  • (honorary) 1948: 4th Baronet Christison, Guy Garrod, Edward Mellanby, Sir Cyril Radcliffe, Reginald Leeper, John Waddington 1949: Robert Howe, Wilson Jameson...
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  • Oaksey Sir Richard May His Honour Judge Sir James Miskin QC Cyril Radcliffe, 1st Baron Radcliffe Sir Barry Sheen Sir Arthur Watts Forster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot...
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  • the existing territory, with the help of an English King's Counsel, Cyril Radcliffe, who had no experience of India. Jeet continues to pursue Alia, despite...
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    on the north side of High Street, whilst it has a long frontage onto Radcliffe Square. To its east is The Queen's College, whilst Hertford College is...
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  • Hon. Sir Cyril Asquith (1890–1954) Sir Lionel Cohen (1888–1973) John Strachey (1901–1963) The Hon. Sir Alexander Cadogan (1884–1968) The Viscount Mersey...
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    Furthermore, Bangladesh inherited the borders drawn by Cyril Radcliffe, 1st Viscount Radcliffe during Partition. Pronunciation: English: /ˌbæŋɡləˈdɛʃ...
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    University Parks. Bronze Age burials at locations including The Hamel, Radcliffe Infirmary, Banbury Road and several university buildings. Wide-ranging...
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    Auden in his poem "Partition" showed the dilemmas of Cyril John Radcliffe, 1st Viscount Radcliffe, responsible for deciding which parts of India went where...
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    together with Alan Orr and Melford Stevenson, supported by a notable clerk, Cyril Batchelor. He became a Queen's Counsel in 1957. Scarman was appointed a...
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  • Created Earl Amherst in 1826. Created Earl of Auckland in 1839. Created Viscount Hardinge in 1846. Created Marquess of Dalhousie 1849. Created Earl Canning...
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  • the United Kingdom created under the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876. On 1 October 2009, the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 was repealed by Schedule...
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    Army Brigadier Claude Cyril Fairweather Brigadier Anthony John Faith Brigadier Eric Fenton Falkner General Hugh Boscawen, 2nd Viscount Falmouth Brigadier-General...
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    Shortly afterwards it was announced that he had been created a viscount (taking the style Viscount Wavell of Cyrenaica and of Winchester, in the county of Southampton)...
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  • Chancellor-designate (died in December 1964 before taking office) Cyril Radcliffe, 1st Viscount Radcliffe (1965–1977) Leslie Scarman, Baron Scarman (1977–1989) Sir...
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    movement of Hindus from the West. A boundary committee chaired by Sir Cyril Radcliffe was charged with drawing boundaries for the new nations. With a mandate...
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  • Vesalius, Belgian anatomist, physician, and author (d. 1564) 1539 – John Radcliffe, English politician (d. 1568) 1550 – Henry I, Duke of Guise (d. 1588)...
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  • see List of earls in the peerages of Britain and Ireland 110 Viscounts: see List of viscounts in the peerages of Britain and Ireland 443 Hereditary Barons:...
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    office. Although the Boundary Commission, led by British lawyer Sir Cyril Radcliffe, had not yet reported, there were already massive movements of populations...
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  • example, Charles James Fox became an MP aged 19 in 1768, and Robert Jocelyn, Viscount Jocelyn, became an MP aged 18 in 1806. Before the general election of 2015...
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  • (died 1992) 8 March – Eric Linklater, writer (died 1974) 30 March – Cyril Radcliffe, lawyer and public servant involved in the Partition of India (died...
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    After his death in 1923 his widow Margaret married Harold Dillon, 17th Viscount Dillon. Tracy was born in Hillington, Norfolk, the traditional home of...
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  • Marjorie Abbatt, toy-maker and businesswoman (died 1991) 30 March – Cyril Radcliffe, lawyer and public servant (died 1977) 2 April – Robin Hill, biochemist...
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    Chancellor Frederic Maugham, 1st Viscount Maugham. Romer was commissioned into the Royal Dublin Fusiliers as a second lieutenant on 1 March 1890, promoted lieutenant...
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    – 22 May 1925), known as Sir John French from 1901 to 1916, and as The Viscount French between 1916 and 1922, was a senior British Army officer. Born in...
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  • Woodbridge Walter Fletcher (1892–1956), MP for Bury (1945–1950) and Bury and Radcliffe (1950–1955) Stephen Furness (1902–1974), MP for Sunderland (1935–1945)...
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