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    Sir William Henry Gregory PC (Ire) KCMG (13 July 1816 – 6 March 1892) was an Anglo-Irish writer and politician, who is now less remembered than his wife...
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    Augusta, Lady Gregory (née Persse; 15 March 1852 – 22 May 1932) was an Anglo-Irish dramatist, folklorist and theatre manager. With William Butler Yeats...
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  • William Gregory may refer to: William Gregory (1625–1696), English MP for Hereford and Weobley, Speaker of the House of Commons William Gregory (died...
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  • in a series of poems by W. B. Yeats. The only child of William Henry Gregory and Lady Gregory, an associate of W. B. Yeats, Robert was born in County...
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    office. Gregory's close friends, William Cecil and Ralph Sadler, were known adherents of the reformed faith. A letter written to Gregory by Henry Dowes...
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    premiership was how to handle his Chancellor of the Exchequer. The MP Sir William Henry Gregory was told by a member of the Cabinet that "at the beginning of each...
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  • (Rhode Island governor) (1849–1901), 46th Governor of Rhode Island William Henry Gregory (1817–1892), 14th Governor of British Ceylon Christine Gregoire...
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    and the Empire, Gregory excommunicated Henry IV three times, and Henry appointed Antipope Clement III to oppose him. Though Gregory was hailed as one...
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    White. Early contributions from John Henry Newman, Edwin Chadwick and Senior himself (on the Waverley novels and William Jacob's views) were not enough to...
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    The Gregory executive council was 9th executive council of British Ceylon. The government was led by Governor William Henry Gregory. Cabinet of Sri Lanka...
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    very life-blood of that wretched race". The "Gregory clause" of the Poor Law, named after William H. Gregory, MP, prohibited anyone who held at least 1⁄4...
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  • later a Union Navy commander William G. Gregory (born 1957), USAF lieutenant colonel and NASA astronaut William Henry Gregory (1817–1892), Anglo-Irish politician...
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  • the only son of Mary Shawe and her husband Henry Gregory of Galway youngest son of Captain George Gregory of Killerida, Co. Kerry, the hero of the Siege...
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  • André William Gregory (born May 11, 1934) is a French-born American theatre director, writer and actor. He is best known for co-writing and starring in...
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    was Sir William Henry Gregory the British Governor of Ceylon. The Royal Asiatic Society was instrumental in bringing to the notice of Gregory on his appointment...
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    having taken place at Browndown Camp, Gosport, Hampshire. 1851: Mr William Henry Gregory and Captain the Hon. George Lawrence Vaughan, The duel took place...
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    McNabb, and receive Communion, so fulfilling a prediction of Sir William Henry Gregory, as recalled by his wife: "You will see Wilfrid will die with the...
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    Sir William Henry Perkin FRS (12 March 1838 – 14 July 1907) was a British chemist and entrepreneur best known for his serendipitous discovery of the first...
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    domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Lansdowne, William Petty Fitzmaurice, 1st Marquess of s.v. Henry Petty Fitzmaurice". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol...
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    Eldred Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) was an American actor and one of the most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1970s. In 1999...
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    William King Gregory (May 19, 1876 – December 29, 1970) was an American zoologist, renowned as a primatologist, paleontologist, and functional and comparative...
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    Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, KG, GCB, GCH, PC (born Charles William Stewart; 1778–1854) was an Anglo-Irish nobleman, a British soldier...
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  • William Gregory PC (I) (February 1762 – 13 April 1840) was an Irish politician and civil servant. He was the most senior permanent official in the Dublin...
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  • Bt. Frederick Doulton Lord Dunkellin Lord Elcho Edward Ellice William Henry Gregory The Earl Grey Earl Grosvenor Gilbert Heathcote Edward Horsman Samuel...
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    John; Maurice, Frederick Denison; Stebbing, Henry; Dilke, Charles Wentworth; Hervey, Thomas Kibble; Dixon, William Hepworth; MacColl, Norman; Rendall, Vernon...
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  • due to the resignation of the incumbent MP of the Liberal Party, William Henry Gregory, as he became Governor of Ceylon. It was won by the Home Rule candidate...
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    Pope Gregory I (Latin: Gregorius I; c. 540 – 12 March 604), commonly known as Saint Gregory the Great, was the 64th Bishop of Rome from 3 September 590...
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  • prominent family of landed gentry, William Stafford was a mere gentleman and only a second son, and thus served Henry VIII as a soldier. In 1532, Stafford...
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    supervision of Sir Thomas Deane, with financial support from Sir William Henry Gregory of Coole Park. The Diocese of Kilmacduagh is now incorporated into...
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    Maria Sewell Lewis. His father, Matthew Lewis, was the son of William Lewis and Jane Gregory and was born in England in 1750. He attended Westminster School...
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