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    Sir James Rivett-Carnac, 1st Baronet (11 November 1784 – 28 January 1846) was an Indian-born British statesman and politician who served as Governor of...
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  • The Rivett-Carnac Baronetcy, of Derby, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 12 March 1836 for James Rivett-Carnac, Chairman...
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    Rivett-Carnac and Bertha Ella Inez Rivett-Carnac (née Litt). Her great-grandfather, Charles Rivett-Carnac, and his second wife, Frances Rivett-Carnac...
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  • Edward Rivett-Carnac (August 31, 1901 – July 18, 1980) was a Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. A descendant of Sir James Rivett-Carnac, Rivett-Carnac...
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  • Thomas Charles Rivett-Carnac OBE (born 1977) is a former political strategist for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. He is also...
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    Vice-Admiral James William Rivett-Carnac CB CBE DSC DL (12 February 1891 – 9 October 1970) was a Royal Navy officer who became Commodore commanding the...
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  • Admiral John Rivett-Carnac or John Rivett Carnac (27 June 1796 – 1 January 1869) was an officer in the Royal Navy who became an early explorer in Western...
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  • Charles James Rivett-Carnac (18 February 1853 in Brahmapur, Orissa, British India – 9 September 1935 in Jersey, Channel Islands) was a British sailor...
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  • The Carnac and Rivett-Carnac families, including: John Carnac (1716 – 29 November 1800), British Commander-in-Chief of India James Rivett-Carnac (1784–1846)...
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  • Rivett-Carnac, 2nd Baronet (10 August 1818 – 4 August 1883) was a member of the baronetage of the United Kingdom. He succeeded his father, Sir James Rivett-Carnac...
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    Edith Caroline Rivett (6 May 1894 – 2 July 1958) was a British crime writer, who wrote under the pseudonyms E. C. R. Lorac, Carol Carnac and Mary Le Bourne...
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    Two of James's sons became famous: Sir James Rivett-Carnac, 1st Bt, became a Governor of Bombay Presidency, while Admiral John Rivett-Carnac became an...
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    Berthelot.: 145 : 541  In 1827, James Stirling changed its name to Pulo Carnac Island in honour of John Rivett Carnac, Second Lieutenant on his ship HMS Success...
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  • Agnew and Lt Anderson sparked the Second Anglo-Sikh War (1848–1849) Parker, James Gordon (1977). The Directors of the East India Company, 1754-1790 (PDF)...
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    fortnight. During the refit, Dalrymple-Hamilton was relieved by Captain James Rivett-Carnac and Rodney departed Boston for Bermuda on 20 August to work up. The...
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    List, vol. I, Harrison, retrieved 9 October 2008 Hunter, William Wilson; James Sutherland Cotton, Richard Burn, William Stevenson Meyer, Great Britain...
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    lieutenant in June 1805. He served during the Napoleonic Wars, including Sir James Craig's expedition to Italy in 1806. In 1807 he went to Egypt, and was severely...
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  • produced by Thomas De La Rue & Company Limited. In 1900, Charles James Rivett Carnac, a Royal Treasury Ministry advisor proposed that the Siamese Baht...
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  • Abinger married Isla Carolyn Rivett-Carnac (1925–2011), sister of the last two Rivett-Carnac baronets. They had two sons: James Harry (born 1959), who succeeded...
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    The escort consisted of the light cruiser HMS Leander (Commander James Rivett-Carnac), the destroyer Kimberley (Commander J. S. M. Richardson), the Egret-class...
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    Temple (1800–1874) and his first wife Louisa Anne Rivett-Carnac (d. 1837), a daughter of James Rivett-Carnac. His paternal ancestor, William Dicken of Sheinton...
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  • Sir James Rivett-Carnac, governor of Bombay, by whom he had two children, a daughter and a son. By the son he was a grandfather of George Carnac Fisher...
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    a position that had also been held by Richard Carnac Temple's great-grandfather, Sir James Rivett Carnac between 1838 and 1841. After education at Harrow...
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  • Baronet (1826–1902) m. Louisa, dau. of James Rivett-Carnac governor of Bombay (1838-1841) Sir Richard Carnac Temple, 2nd Baronet (1850–1931) m. 1880...
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    Francis Blake 1832–1835 James Bradshaw 1835–1837 Succeeded by Richard Hodgson William Holmes Preceded by Sir James Rivett-Carnac, Bt Sir Edward Troubridge...
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    Independence, French Revolutionary War, and Napoleonic Wars Sir James Rivett-Carnac, 1st Baronet (1784–1846), statesman and politician, Governor of the...
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  • Dummer Grange, Dummer, near Basingstoke. 1995: Commander Sir Miles James Rivett-Carnac, 9th Baronet 1996: Mark Hugh Joseph Radcliffe of The Malthouse, Upton...
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    public domain: The Northern Highlands in the nineteenth century (1907) by James Barron "Note B: The Anglo-Indian Grants: Charles Grant", Appendix, The Northern...
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    subsequently into London, until transferred in May 1802 to Leander, Captain James Oughton, for a short time. In July 1803, he joined the Victory, flagship...
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    Q. A. Reeves (1909–1955) – engineer (Welrod secret weapon) Charles Rivett-Carnac (1901–1980) – Commissioner, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Robert...
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