Sir Lewis Leigh Fermor, OBE, FRS (18 September 1880 – 24 May 1954), was a British chemist and geologist and the first president of the Indian National...
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Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene". Leigh Fermor was born in London, the son of Sir Lewis Leigh Fermor, a distinguished geologist, and Muriel Aeyleen...
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Henrietta Louisa Fermor (1698–1761), English letter writer Lewis Leigh Fermor (1880–1954), British geologist, father of Patrick Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915–2011)...
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be metasedimentary rocks formed during Archaean era. According to Lewis Leigh Fermor, the khondalite and the related charnockite of the Eastern Ghat region...
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History. Retrieved 25 May 2020. Crookshank, H.; Auden, J. B. (1956). "Lewis Leigh Fermor. 1880-1954". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society...
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theory of special relativity) Patrick Dixon (futurist, physician) Sir Lewis Leigh Fermor (geologist, first president of Indian National Science Academy) Amanda...
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Anglo-Australian palaeontologist. Andy Fanshawe, mountaineer. Sir Lewis Leigh Fermor, igneous and metamorphic geologist, former director of the Geological...
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poet, was born in Horsell. Lewis Leigh Fermor (1880–1954), chemist/biologist father of travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor, died in Horsell. Alec (1918–2010)...
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Thomas Alexander Fermor-Hesketh, 3rd Baron Hesketh, KBE, PC (born 28 October 1950) is a British peer and UK Independence Party politician. Hesketh succeeded...
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Academy Established 7 January 1935; 89 years ago (1935-01-07) Founder Lewis Leigh Fermor Location New Delhi, India Coordinates 28°37′43.8″N 77°14′26.7″E /...
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Beresford Seymour Sewell (1930–1931) Justice C. C. Ghose (1932–1934) Lewis Leigh Fermor (1934–1935) Sir John Anderson (1936–1938) Sir David Ezra (1938–1939)...
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sovereign remedy for every mental travail", learned it from Patrick Leigh Fermor and immediately wrote it down in his notebook. In this sense the phrase...
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Henry Elmesy Officiating Health Officer, Port of Calcutta, Bengal Lewis Leigh Fermor Superintendent, Geological Survey of India May Fowler, Vice-President...
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Hubert Hayden 1917 Robert George Carruthers 1919 Douglas Mawson 1921 Lewis Leigh Fermor 1923 Edward Battersby Bailey 1925 Cyril Workman Knight 1927 Bernard...
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Patrick Leigh Fermor, George Psychoundakis, Georgios Petrakis (Petrakogiorgis), Manolis Bandouvas, Antonis Grigorakis, Kostis Petrakis, John Lewis, Tom Dunbabin...
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the rank of captain, at age 22 Moss set off with Leigh Fermor, age 29, to Crete in 1944. Leigh Fermor landed by parachute. Moss, unable to jump due to...
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his lifetime.' The subject in question was the travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor, and he remained adamant. Hardy relates how James Morwood (Emeritus Fellow...
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fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1925 and, succeeding Sir Lewis Leigh Fermor, he became the Survey's director in 1936 until stepping down from...
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Benedictine monastery of Melk ....[is] among the most interesting. Fermor, Patrick Leigh (2005). A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople. New York, pp...
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in 1934. Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch William Edward Curtis Sir Lewis Leigh Fermor Sir Paul Gordon Fildes Ronald Thomson Grant Martin Alister Campbell...
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from 1858 to 1868, who died there in 1890. In 1913 it was taken by Lady Fermor-Hesketh and after that purchased in 1923 by David Margesson. By 1927 it...
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James Kirkup - Christopher Lee - Laurie Lee - Patrick Leigh Fermor - Alun Lewis - C. Day-Lewis - Reg Levy - Robert Liddell - Emanuel Litvinoff - Norman...
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Ηρακλείου "Ο Πατούχας", 2000 Fermor, Patrick Leigh; Cooper, Artemis. Words of Mercury, John Murray, London, 2004, ISBN 071956106X. Lewis, Damien. Churchill's...
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March 1808 – ? 11 February 1877 Lewis Leigh Fermor 1934-05-03 18 September 1880 – 24 May 1954 Thomas William Fermor, 4th Earl of Pomfret 1805-03-14 22...
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Bertram Maitland Crosthwaite, Esq., V.D., Agent, Burma Railways, Burma. Lewis Leigh Fermor, Esq., O.B.E., Director, Geological Survey of India. Abdul Halim Khan...
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more modern idiom, "I wish I was") from the poem is quoted by Patrick Leigh Fermor in Iain Moncrieffe's essay for the epilogue to W. Stanley Moss's Ill...
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extensively quoted, information about voodoo from his friend Patrick Leigh Fermor's 1950 book The Traveller's Tree, which had also been partly written at...
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Colin Thubron, Behind the Wall: A Journey Through China 1986/87, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Between the Woods & the Water 1985, Patrick Marnham, So Far From God:...
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Cecil Day-Lewis on the man himself, warned that the book, like strychnine, was best taken in small doses. Two poems on Patrick Leigh Fermor were omitted...
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Nicholas Ray Nick Popaditch Nicolas-Jacques Conté Olaf Scholz Patrick Leigh Fermor Pete Burns Peter Gatien Rahmah ibn Jabir al-Jalahimah Raoul Walsh Ray...
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