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    Thomas Combe (1796 – 30 June 1872) was a British printer, publisher and patron of the arts. He was 'Printer to the University' at Oxford University Press...
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  • Sir Thomas Combe Miller, 6th Baronet (1781 – 29 June 1864), was an English clergyman and landowner. He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge. The...
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  • musician Reginaldus de Combe (fl. 1300–1301), English Member of Parliament Rose Combe (1883–1932), French writer Thomas Combe (1796–1872), British printer...
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    Oxford. The painting was donated to the college by Martha Combe, the widow of Thomas Combe, Printer to the University of Oxford, Tractarian, and a patron...
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    Peter Charles Combe OAM (/ˈkuːm/; born 20 October 1948) is an Australian children's entertainer and musician. At the ARIA Music Awards he has won three...
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  • scholars and clerics At this time, Thomas Combe joined the press and became the university's Printer until he died in 1872. Combe was a better businessman than...
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    Combe Gibbet is a gibbet at the top of Gallows Down, near the village and just within the civil parish of Combe in Berkshire (formerly Hampshire), England...
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  • Combe (1586 – 30 January 1667) was an English landowner who briefly sat in the House of Commons for part of 1640. Combe was the son of Thomas Combe of...
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    1850 Statue of Bishop James Fraser, Albert Square, Manchester. Bust of Thomas Combe. Replica of a statue of Sir Stamford Raffles by Woolner, erected at the...
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    Monkton Combe School is a public school (fee-charging boarding and day school), located in the village of Monkton Combe near Bath in Somerset, England...
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    John Everett Millais visits Oxford and meets the university printer Thomas Combe, who becomes a patron of the Pre-Raphaelites. William Sewell, Dean of...
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    painting by Sir John Everett Millais, completed in 1851. It is in the Thomas Combe collection at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. The painting portrays a scene...
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    Syntax, a comic poem, illustrated by artist Thomas Rowlandson's colour plates, that satirised William Gilpin. Combe also wrote a series of imaginary letters...
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  • Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Combe was born in Oxford, one of the five daughters of a local ironmonger. In 1840 she married Thomas Combe, then a superintendent...
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  • CB, Assistant Secretary of the Board of Education (son of Rev. Sir Thomas Combe Miller, 6th Baronet) on 12 December 1899. His younger brother was the...
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    on her final vows. The flowers were painted in the Oxford garden of Thomas Combe, an early collector of Pre-Raphaelite paintings, and the model is often...
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    Andrew Combe (27 October 1797 – 9 August 1847) was a Scottish physician and phrenologist. Combe was born in Edinburgh on 27 October 1797, the son of Marion...
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    Bullen in Oxford Today, Michaelmas Term 2011, vol 24, no 1 Letter to Thomas Combe, 12 February 1860, quoted in Des Cars, Laurence (2000). The Pre-Raphaelites:...
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    Description of Bradgate Park, and the Adjacent Country. Leicester, UK: Thomas Combe and Son. OCLC 558625597 – via Google Books. Creighton, Oliver H. (2013)...
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    turn formed from parts of the parishes of St Thomas and St Giles. The church was founded by Thomas Combe (1796–1872), Superintendent of the Oxford University...
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  • Eve of St. Agnes Mrs James Wyatt and her Daughter Sarah Wilkie Collins Thomas Combe Ophelia A Huguenot, on St Bartholomew's Day, refusing to shield himself...
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  • painter (born 1789) October 29 – Thomas Combe, English printer and patron of the arts (born 1796) November 5 – Thomas Sully, English-born American portrait...
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    Combe Down is a village on the outskirts of Bath, England, in the Bath and North East Somerset unitary authority area, within the ceremonial county of...
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    Combe Sydenham is an historic manor in Somerset, England. The 15th-century manor house, called Combe Sydenham House is in the parish of Stogumber, Somerset...
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    Black Combe is a fell in the south-west corner of the Lake District National Park, England, just 4 miles (6.4 km) from the Irish Sea. It lies near the...
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  • Combe Hill is a causewayed enclosure, near Eastbourne in East Sussex, on the northern edge of the South Downs. It consists of an inner circuit of ditches...
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  • Scottish Clan MacThomas. Notable people with this surname (or similar) include: Alan McCombes (born 1955), Scottish politician Jamie McCombe (born 1983),...
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    Combe is a historic estate in Somerset, England, situated between the town of Dulverton and the village of Brushford. Until the Dissolution of the Monasteries...
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    George Sydenham Clarke, 1st Baron Sydenham of Combe, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, GBE (4 July 1848 – 7 February 1933) was a British Army officer and colonial administrator...
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  • Paul's was a noted Tractarian church. Whilst Jenkins was at St Paul's, Thomas Combe commissioned Holman Hunt to paint Jenkins's portrait. In accordance with...
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