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    Hugh Hornby Birley (10 March 1778 – 31 July 1845) was a leading Manchester millowner and Tory who is reputed to have led the fatal charge of the Manchester...
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    Cambridge. He was the great-grandson of Hugh Hornby Birley (1778–1845), who led the troops at the Peterloo massacre. Birley served in France in World War I,...
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  • Marcus Oswald Hornby Lecky Birley (29 May 1930 – 24 August 2007), known as Mark Birley, was a British entrepreneur known for his investments in the hospitality...
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  • Lucy Margaret Mary Birley (née Helmore; 18 September 1959 – 23 July 2018) was a British model, photographer, and socialite. Birley was born in Shropshire...
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  • Chorlton-on-Medlock area of Manchester, the fourth and last child of Thomas Hornby Birley J.P. (1815–1885) and Anne Leatham (1820–1866). Her brother, Francis...
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  • Robin Marcus Birley (born 19 February 1958) is an English businessman, entrepreneur and political donor. He is the son of Lady Annabel Goldsmith and the...
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  • India Jane Birley (born 1961) is a British artist and businesswoman. Her father, Mark Birley, opened the private member's club Annabel's, named after...
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  • Hugh Birley (21 October 1817 – 7 September 1883) was a British businessman and Conservative politician. Birley was born in Blackburn, Lancashire, the third...
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  • Joseph Hornby Birley JP (12 March 1827 – 5 October 1881) was an English first-class cricketer. The son of Hugh Hornby Birley and Cicely Hornby, he was...
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  • Birley was born in Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester, the son of Thomas Hornby Birley J.P. (1815–1885) and Anne Leatham (1820–1866). His uncle was Hugh...
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  • Lady Annabel Goldsmith (category Birley family)
    Lady Annabel Goldsmith (née Vane-Tempest-Stewart, formerly Birley; born 11 June 1934) is an English socialite and the eponym for a London nightclub of...
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  • Parliament for Manchester from 1868 to 1883, nephew of Hugh Hornby Birley Hugh Hornby Birley (1778–1845), leading Manchester Tory who is reputed to have...
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  • Robert Birley, appeared in 1990, edited by his son-in-law, Brian Rees. His grandfather, Arthur Birley (1834–1912), was the brother of Hugh Birley, who served...
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  • historian and archaeologist Eric Birley. Anthony Birley was the son of the archaeologists Eric Birley and Margaret "Peggy" Birley. Eric bought the house next...
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  • Loulou de la Falaise (category Birley family)
    writer, translator and publisher, and his second wife, the former Maxime Birley (1922–2009), an Anglo-Irish fashion model, whom photographer Cecil Beaton...
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  • Josias Jackson Nomeys, Esq. to be Captain. Dated 30 September 1817. Hugh Hornby Birley, Esq. to be ditto. Dated as above. Robert Hindley, Esq. to be ditto...
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  • She was born 22 June 1922 in West Dean, West Sussex, England as Maxine Birley into a family of successful artists, businesspeople and academics. She grew...
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  • Eric Birley and … [his] … influence lives on in successive generations of staff and students." Eric was the great-great-nephew of Hugh Hornby Birley, who...
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    cavalrymen of the Manchester and Salford Yeomanry, led by Captain Hugh Hornby Birley, a local factory owner, arrived at the house from where the magistrates...
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  • Selina Birley (née Burnham) MBE FSA DL (born 27 June 1948) is an archaeologist and was the director of the Vindolanda Trust from 2002 to 2015. Birley founded...
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  • Eric Birley and Margaret "Peggy" Birley (archaeologists of Hadrian's Wall) and brother of Anthony Birley. His wife Patricia Birley, son Andrew Birley, and...
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    had been no redress. Cole, Alan Summerly (1911). "Weaving" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University...
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    Patricia Birley and grandson of Eric Birley, who founded the department of Archaeology at Durham University, and of Margaret "Peggy" Birley, and is married...
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  • Hugh Leycester Hornby (20 November 1888 - 24 March 1965) was an Anglican clergyman. Hornby was born at St. Michael's-on-Wyre, near Preston, Lancashire...
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  • Rhoda Vava Mary Lecky, Lady Birley (née Pike; 3 February 1899 – 15 June 1981) was an Anglo-Irish gardener, model, and artist. She developed the gardens...
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    Arrighi de Casanova, French soldier, diplomat (d. 1853) March 10 Hugh Hornby Birley, leading Manchester Tory, reputed to have led the fatal charge of...
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    Adams – BirleyHornby: Col. Geoffrey Hardinge Phipps Hornby C.B.E. Adams – BirleyHornby: Capt. Geoffrey Stanley Phipps Hornby J.P. Adams – Birley – Hornby:...
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    Wildman & Sons Mill owners Elkanah Armitage Henry Ashworth Hugh Birley Hugh Hornby Birley Joseph Brotherton James Burton Peter Drinkwater Nathaniel Eckersley...
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    Wildman & Sons Mill owners Elkanah Armitage Henry Ashworth Hugh Birley Hugh Hornby Birley Joseph Brotherton James Burton Peter Drinkwater Nathaniel Eckersley...
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    Arrighi de Casanova, French soldier, diplomat (d. 1853) March 10 Hugh Hornby Birley, leading Manchester Tory, reputed to have led the fatal charge of...
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