Lieutenant-General Richard Onslow (c. 1697 – 16 March 1760) was a British Army officer and politician. After the death of their parents, his older brother...
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Lt.-Gen. Richard Onslow (British Army officer) (died 1760), Governor of Fort William and Plymouth Richard Onslow, 3rd Baron Onslow (1713–1776), Member...
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colonel George Onslow (28 April 1731 – 12 November 1792) was a British politician and army officer, the eldest son of Richard Onslow and his second wife...
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British peer, politician and army officer. Onslow was the eldest son of Richard William Alan Onslow, 5th Earl of Onslow and Violet Marcia Catherine Warwick...
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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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ISBN 0-141-00554-8. Mortimer, Roger; Onslow, Richard; Willett, Peter (1999). Biographical Encyclopedia of British Flat Racing. Macdonald and Jane’s. ISBN 0-354-08536-0...
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Edward Onslow Ford RA (27 July 1852 – 23 December 1901) was an English sculptor. Much of Ford's early success came with portrait heads or busts. These...
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generals in the British Army since the Acts of Union 1707. The rank of general (or full general to distinguish it from the lower general officer ranks) is the...
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list of Australians who have attained general officer rank within the Australian Army; that is, officers who have held the rank of field marshal (five-star...
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Richard Munden (c. 25 June 1680 – 19 December 1725) was a British Army officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1708 to 1710. He served...
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Cranley Gordon Douglas Onslow, Baron Onslow of Woking, KCMG, PC (8 June 1926 – 13 March 2001) was a British politician and served as the Conservative MP...
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Battle of Fontenoy order of battle (section Order of Battle for the Army of the Pragmatic Allies of Britain, Hanover, the Dutch Republic and Austria at Fontenoy 1745)
Succession, fought between the forces of the Pragmatic Army – comprising mainly Dutch, British, and Hanoverian troops, as well a relatively small contingent...
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Liberation, edited by Sue Onslow, Routledge, 2009, page 93 Monarchy and the End of Empire: The House of Windsor, the British Government, and the Postwar...
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the members of foreign royal families were not commissioned into the British Army. Despite claims to the contrary, Idi Amin and Muammar Gaddafi did not...
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Richard Eric Onslow Long, 3rd Viscount Long, TD, DL (22 August 1892 – 12 January 1967) was a British Conservative Party politician and Territorial Army...
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opinion editor of The Telegraph, Calcutta Al Murray, comedian Richard Onslow, 1st Baron Onslow, Whig politician; Speaker of the House of Commons, 1708–1710;...
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Athill (124793), Royal Army Ordnance Corps. Major Walter Bull (134778), Royal Regiment of Artillery. 2567260 Warrant Officer Class II George Alfred Calvert...
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Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham PC (24 October 1675 – 14 September 1749) was a British soldier and Whig politician. After serving as a junior officer...
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the archives of the University of Cape Town. Onslow family (England): the family of the Earls of Onslow uses the motto "Semper fidelis" (see also Lodge...
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Distinguished Service Order (redirect from British Distinguished Service Order)
rugby player Sir Richard George Onslow, Second World War destroyer captain and later admiral Alastair Pearson, a British Army officer who received his...
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January – Richard Onslow, archdeacon (died 1849) 17 January (baptism date) – Jane Porter, novelist (died 1850) 23 January – Howard Douglas, army general...
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cabaret musician John Forster (British Army officer) (1856–1938), British Army officer John Cooper Forster (1823–1886), British surgeon John (Don Juan) Forster...
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naval officers in addition to those of other distinguished persons known to her father, George Onslow, Member of Parliament and an ex-army officer and her...
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Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough (redirect from Charles Richard Spencer-Churchill)
Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Richard John Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough, KG, TD, PC (13 November 1871 – 30 June 1934), styled Earl of Sunderland...
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List of Old Rugbeians (category Use British English from February 2023)
Brigadier-General George MacLeay Macarthur-Onslow, commanded 5th Light Horse Brigade of the Australian Army during World War I Brigadier-General Sir Alexander...
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Charles Wood, 2nd Earl of Halifax (category British Army personnel of World War II)
by his marriage to Lady Dorothy Evelyn Augusta Onslow, a daughter of William Onslow, 4th Earl of Onslow, a former Governor-General of New Zealand. He was...
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The Governor of Fort William was a British Army officer who commanded the garrison at Fort William in Inverness-shire. The office became a sinecure and...
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William Hamilton, surgeon in the British East India Company (year of birth unknown) 5 December – Richard Onslow, 1st Baron Onslow, politician (born 1654) Jane...
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Edward Wolfe (category British Army lieutenant generals)
Lieutenant General Edward Wolfe (1685 – 26 March 1759) was a British army officer who saw action in the War of the Spanish Succession, 1715 Jacobite rebellion...
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1st Royal Surrey Militia (category Use British English from December 2023)
raise under the command of the Lord-Lieutenant of Surrey, Richard Onslow, 3rd Baron Onslow. Arms for the Surrey Militia were authorised on 23 February...
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