Sir Algernon Phillips Withiel Thomas KCMG (3 June 1857 – 28 December 1937) was a New Zealand university professor, geologist, biologist and educationalist...
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Algernon Charles Swinburne (5 April 1837 – 10 April 1909) was an English poet, playwright, novelist and critic. He wrote many plays - all tragedies - and...
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Algernon is a masculine given name which derives from the Norman-French sobriquet Aux Gernons, meaning "with moustaches". Algernon Ashton (1859–1937),...
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private residences) and Professor Sir Algernon Thomas' "Trewithiel" (the garden is partially preserved in Withiel Thomas Reserve and the reduced house at 114...
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Algernon Borthwick, 1st Baron Glenesk JP (27 December 1830 – 24 November 1908), known as Sir Algernon Borthwick, Bt, between 1887 and 1895, was a British...
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Algernon Sidney or Sydney (15 January 1623 – 7 December 1683) was an English politician, republican political theorist and colonel. A member of the middle...
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breeding of tuatara in captivity is believed to have achieved by Sir Algernon Thomas at either his University offices or residence in Symonds Street in...
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McConnell described the human liver fluke, Clonorchis sinensis, in 1875. Algernon Thomas and Rudolf Leuckart independently made the first discovery of the life...
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daughter of the 4th Earl Thomas Percy (1560–1605), great-grandson of the 4th Earl, participated in the Gunpowder Plot Henry Algernon Percy, 5th Earl of Northumberland...
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Thomas Algernon Chapman (2 July 1842, Glasgow – 17 December 1921) was a Scottish physician and entomologist. He collected and studied wood-feeding beetles...
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The Importance of Being Earnest (redirect from Algernon Moncrieff)
"The Present" (1895 at the time of the premiere). Algernon Moncrieff's flat in Half Moon Street Algernon Moncrieff, a young man about town, is visited by...
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context, to explain the shift in understanding from 1886 to 1888. Algernon Thomas interpreted this information to postulate that Taupō was a volcano...
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Thomas (born 1978), English rock drummer Alfonso Thomas (born 1977), South African cricketer Alfred Thomas (disambiguation), multiple people Algernon...
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Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale, GCVO, KCB, JP, DL, FRPS (24 February 1837 – 17 August 1916), was a British diplomat, collector and...
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Packer (b. 1874) Maurice Ravel, French composer (Boléro) (b. 1875) Sir Algernon Thomas, New Zealand scientist (b. 1857) December 29 Frederik Beichmann, Norwegian...
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Graeme Revell – musician and composer Tony Hung – Hong Kong actor Campbell Thomas – theatre director and artist John Hawkesby – news presenter Uluomato'otua...
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the Waitākere Falls and the Gap at Piha. In 1894 a group led by Sir Algernon Thomas (the first professor of natural sciences at Auckland University College...
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great-grandson of the Hon. Algernon Henry Champagné Capell (younger brother of the sixth Earl), son of the aforementioned the Hon. John Thomas Capell (half-brother...
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Algernon Fred Gissing (25 November 1860 – 5 February 1937) was an English novelist and the younger brother of George Gissing. He wrote 25 novels, two collections...
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Curley Stecker (redirect from Algernon M. Stecker)
Algernon Maltby "Curley" Stecker (July 10, 1892 – June 16, 1924) was an early Hollywood animal trainer, Universal City Zoo superintendent, animal-film...
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Henry Percy, 5th Earl of Northumberland (redirect from Henry Algernon Percy, 5th Earl of Northumberland)
Henry Algernon Percy, 5th Earl of Northumberland, KG (13 January 1477 – 19 May 1527) was an English nobleman and a member of the courts of both Kings Henry...
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Algernon Oswald Whiting (23 April 1861 – 23 January 1931) was an English first-class cricketer and tea planter. The son of George Whiting, he was born...
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Princess Beatrice Hospital in London. In 1962 Terry-Thomas was offered the role of Lt-Colonel J. Algernon Hawthorne in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, and...
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Honours in botany from Auckland University College, supervised by Algernon Thomas. Her thesis was on the reproductive organs of Lycopodium mosses, and...
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Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood (redirect from Edgar Algernon Robert, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood Cecil)
Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, CH, PC, QC (14 September 1864 – 24 November 1958), known as Lord Robert Cecil from...
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professor of chemical pathology and pioneer in biological psychiatry Sir Algernon Thomas FRSNZ KCMG (1857-1937) professor of natural history, Auckland University...
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Marshal of the Royal Air Force Charles Frederick Algernon Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford, KG, GCB, OM, DSO & Bar, MC, DL (21 May 1893 – 22 April...
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modern concept dates back many decades, with the Victorian era figure Algernon Charles Swinburne writing in his work Anactoria about the ancient Greek...
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Hymn to Proserpine (redirect from Algernon Swinburne/Hymn to Proserpine)
“Hymn to Proserpine” is a poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne, published in Poems and Ballads in 1866. The poem is addressed to the goddess Proserpina,...
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Harlequin", was dedicated to Lovecraft. Also among his avowed influences are Algernon Blackwood, M.R. James, and Arthur Machen, all fin de siècle horror authors...
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