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    Sir Percy Lyham Loraine, 12th Baronet, GCMG (5 November 1880 – 23 May 1961) was a British diplomat. He was British High Commissioner to Egypt from 1929...
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    of Sir Nicholas O'Conor, he worked together with Laurence Oliphant, Percy Loraine and Alexander Cadogan. There also, he first met Mark Sykes and Aubrey...
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    (1838–1917) Sir Percy Lyham Loraine, 12th Baronet (1880–1961) Foster, Joseph (1881). The Baronetage and Knightage. Nichols and Sons. p. 393. "Loraine, Rt Hon...
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    on 13 May 1917. He was the father of British diplomat Sir Percy Loraine (1880-1961). Loraine baronets HMS Trincomalee Evening Star, Saturday 19 June 1909...
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  • British naval officer, Percy Loraine, whose full name is Sir Percy Loraine, 12th Baronet (1880–1961), British diplomat Philip Loraine, a pen name of Robin...
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    Commissioner to Egypt and the Sudan In office 1934–1936 Preceded by Sir Percy Loraine Succeeded by Himself (as UK Ambassador) Personal details Born Miles...
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    to assent to bases on the Straits, a demand which British Ambassador Percy Loraine credited with helping strengthen Turkey-United Kingdom relations in...
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    week of 2–8 February, a view shared by the British ambassador in Rome, Percy Loraine. On 1 March, the British announced that they would block all coal exports...
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    had received from Sir Percy Loraine, the ambassador in Rome. In a meeting with Count Ciano, Italy's Foreign Minister, Loraine was told that Italian entry...
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    Viscount Allenby 1925–1929: George Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd 1929–1933: Sir Percy Loraine 1934–1936: Sir Miles Lampson 1936–1946: Sir Miles Lampson 1946–1950:...
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    London and demoted to First Secretary for criticising the minister Sir Percy Loraine in a dispatch. However, he was posted to Berlin as chargé d'affaires...
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    Commissioner   • 1922–1925 Edmund Allenby • 1925–1929 George Lloyd • 1929–1933 Percy Loraine • 1933–1936 Miles Lampson Prime Minister   • 1922 (first) Abdel Khaliq...
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    Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Italy 1933–1939 Succeeded by Sir Percy Loraine Positions in intergovernmental organisations New institution Secretary-General...
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    1925–1926: Sir Ronald Lindsay 1926–1933: Sir George Clerk 1933–1939: Sir Percy Loraine, 12th Baronet 1939–1944: Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen 1944–1946: Sir...
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    what it really was in his meetings with the British ambassador, Sir Percy Loraine and argued to him that any Allied landing at Thessaloniki would be a...
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    of Reza Khan's ambitions in the same way as he had spoken openly to Percy Loraine. Then came the Shah's telegram of April 1924 about his loss of confidence...
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    to China 1936–1937 Succeeded by Archibald Clark Kerr Preceded by Sir Percy Loraine, 12th Bt Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Turkish...
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  • Commissioner (1919–1925) George Lloyd, High Commissioner (1925–1929) Percy Loraine, High Commissioner (1929–1933) Miles Lampson, High Commissioner (1934–1936)...
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  • younger brother Percy was born in 1880. He was the great grandson of Rear Admiral Sir Philip Broke a distinguished naval officer. Loraine was gazetted as...
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    (born 1944) and a son Roger (born 1946). After Jeanne Percy's death in 1947, Percy married Loraine Diane Guyer in 1950. They had two children: Gail (born...
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    week of 2–8 February, a view shared by the British ambassador in Rome, Percy Loraine. On 1 March, the British announced that they would block all coal exports...
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    Elsey William Humble 1:38.26 1954 Darius Manny Mercer Harry Wragg Sir Percy Loraine 1:39.45 1955 Our Babu Doug Smith Geoffrey Brooke David Robinson 1:38...
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  • Pierre Corbière 1:46.00 1948 Queenpot Gordon Richards Noel Murless Sir Percy Loraine 1:41.80 1949 Musidora Edgar Britt Charles Elsey Norman Donaldson 1:40...
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  • (1875–1945) Wilfrid Normand (1884–1962) Sir Boyd Merriman (1880–1962) Sir Percy Loraine, Bt (1880–1961) The Aga Khan (1877–1957) Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru (1875–1949)...
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  • 1921–1933: Sir Ronald Graham 1933–1939: The Earl of Perth 1939–1940: Sir Percy Loraine No representation 1940–1944 due to World War II 1944–1947: Sir Noel...
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    Britt Charles Elsey William Humble 1954 Darius Manny Mercer Harry Wragg Percy Loraine 1955 Tamerlane Scobie Breasley Neville Bertie Lord Porchester 1956 Pirate...
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    Clement (1834 - 1905), cricketer; No. 23 and No. 20 Wilton Crescent Sir Percy Loraine, 12th Baronet (1880–1961); 19 Wilton Crescent Earls of Kinnoull, 41...
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    shown a strong partiality towards autocratic leaders: Henderson, Sir Percy Loraine and Sir Miles Lampson. In his 1956 memoirs, The Mist Procession, Vansittart...
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    Diplomatic posts Preceded by Sir Percy Loraine, Bt Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Persia 1926–1931 Succeeded by Sir Reginald Hoare...
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    Percy Sinclair Pilcher (16 January 1867 – 2 October 1899) was a British inventor and pioneer aviator who was his country's foremost experimenter in unpowered...
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