• Major-General Henry William Newcome CB, CMG, DSO (14 July 1875 – 25 February 1963) was a British Army officer. Newcome was commissioned into the Royal...
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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 William Henry Noble, FRS (1834–1892) of the Royal Artillery was an Anglo-Irish army officer in the British Army. William Henry Noble, eldest son...
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  • General Thomas Wood FRS (1804 – 23 October 1872) was a British Army officer and a Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1837 to...
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  • List of Old Marlburians (category Use British English from February 2023)
    Nelson, first-class cricketer and British Army officer Richard Page, first-class cricketer and British Army officer Inglewood Parkin, cricketer Charles...
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    List of Old Abingdonians (category Use British English from February 2023)
    ace Edward Dorrien Newbolt (1843–1889), British Army officer Tracy Philipps (1888–1959), intelligence officer (Arab Bureau), later colonial official and...
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    Augustus Henry FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton (28 September 1735 – 14 March 1811), styled Earl of Euston between 1747 and 1757, was a British Whig statesman...
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    communication between the different races. The British frigate Orpheus commanded by Captain Henry Newcome arrived at Mahé on 16 May 1794. Terms of capitulation...
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    (1851-1915), Scottish-born British army officer, founder of Indian cavalry unit Lumsden's Horse in the Second Boer War Sir Henry Meredyth Chichele Plowden...
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  • Gordon Neilson - Scottish rugby football player and Army officer Nigel Neilson - actor James Newcome - Anglican bishop Michael O'Neill - poet, academic...
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    Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine CH KBE (14 May 1853 – 31 August 1931), usually known as Hall Caine, was a British novelist, dramatist, short story writer,...
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  • Whitaker, in 1913. They divorced in 1922 and she married Maj.-Gen. Henry William Newcome, in 1925. Lady Barbara Ann Bootle-Wilbraham (1893–1949), who married...
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  • Richard Pope-Hennessy (category British Army personnel of the Second Boer War)
    Richard Pope-Hennessy CB DSO (18 August 1875 – 1 March 1942) was a British Army officer of Irish Catholic descent who served in both the Second Boer War...
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  • 1919 Birthday Honours (OBE) (category Use British English from February 2016)
    Murray, Royal Army Medical Corps Temp Capt. William Alfred Murray Royal Army Medical Corps Temp Capt. William Newcome Musgrave, Royal Army Service Corps...
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    (12 December 1785 – 14 April 1812) was an English officer and military engineer in the British Army. From 1806 to 1812, he was engaged in eleven sieges...
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    Richard Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn (category People educated at Newcome's School)
    wife Bonella Hodges, a wealthy heiress from the British colony of Jamaica. He was educated at Newcome's School in Hackney, and was admitted to Trinity...
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    Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet (category People educated at Newcome's School)
    Congreve, 2nd Baronet KCH FRS (20 May 1772 – 16 May 1828) was a British Army officer, Tory politician, publisher and inventor. A pioneer in the field...
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    Royal School of Artillery (category Training establishments of the British Army)
    The first commandant of the school was Brigadier-General Henry Newcome, after whom Newcome Hall at Larkhill is named. In 1920 it expanded to become the...
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    Richard Mulcahy (category National Army (Ireland) generals)
    Defence, was the Irish officer who raised the Irish tricolour at the first hand-over of a British barracks to the National Army in January 1922. He was...
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    Dugdale Hamilton with the British Army in India. Hamilton wrote under his own name as well as the pseudonyms John Newcome and An Old Hand. His published...
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  • George Norton Cory (category British Army lieutenant generals)
    November 1968) was an American-born Canadian soldier who served with the British Army in India, South Africa and Canada and during the Boer War, World War...
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    Church of England (category Use British English from August 2017)
    Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 16 July 2024. Hardman, Christine; James, Newcome (29 November 2019). "Response to open letter on abortion". Church of England...
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  • Army Medical Corps. Colonel Frederick Welsley Hunt, CMG, CBE, Deputy Director of Veterinary Services, Southern Command. Colonel Henry William Newcome...
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    Gearóid O'Sullivan (category National Army (Ireland) generals)
    1891 – 25 March 1948) was an Irish teacher, Irish language scholar, army officer, barrister and Sinn Féin and Fine Gael politician. Jeremiah O'Sullivan...
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    The Northumbrian Division was an infantry division of the British Army, formed in 1908 as part of the Territorial Force with units drawn from the north-east...
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  • 1948 New Year Honours (category Use British English from April 2016)
    Henry Saunders, Major, Salvation Army, British Red Shield Services. Henry William Savidge, Senior Executive Officer, Home Office. George Arthur Sawbridge...
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    Khanh to President of Viet Nam". Chicago Tribune. 17 August 1964. p. 1. Newcome, Laurence (2004). Unmanned Aviation: A Brief History of Unmanned Aerial...
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  • was born in Havant Jan Needle, novelist, was born in Portsmouth James Newcome, bishop, was born in Aldershot Jack Newman, cricketer, was born in Southsea...
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    Timeline of Manchester history (category Use British English from March 2017)
    Meeting House, the predecessor of Cross Street Chapel, is opened by Henry Newcome. 1712 – 17 June: St Ann's Church, sponsored by Ann, Lady Bland, is consecrated...
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  • 2023 Special Honours (category British honours system)
    Household Division – 28 June 2023 The Right Reverend James William Scobie Newcome – on relinquishing his appointment as Clerk of the Closet – 15 November...
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