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    Roger Mellor Makins, 1st Baron Sherfield, GCB GCMG FRS DL (3 February 1904 – 9 November 1996), was a British diplomat who served as British Ambassador...
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    Baron Sherfield. Roger Mellor Makins, 1st Baron Sherfield (1904–1996) Christopher James Makins, 2nd Baron Sherfield (1942–2006) Dwight William Makins, 3rd...
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  • Christopher James Makins was born at Southampton, New York on 23 July 1942, the son of a British father Roger Mellor Makins, later 1st Baron Sherfield and an American...
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  • Makins, 1st Baron Sherfield (1904-1996), British Ambassador to the United States William Makins (1840–1906), English barrister and politician Makins Baronets...
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    collector Richard Ellison, and in 1897 entered the collection of Roger Makins, 1st Baron Sherfield, who acquired several Millais paintings. Later, the composer...
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  • the Makins family was Roger Makins, 1st Baron Sherfield. He was the grandson of Henry Francis Makins, younger brother of Sir William Makins, 1st Baronet...
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    lieu of £4.2m of inheritance tax payable on the estate of Roger Makins, 1st Baron Sherfield, who died in 1996. It was allocated to the Tate Gallery in...
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  • Michel Mitrani, 66, French film director and screenwriter. Roger Makins, 1st Baron Sherfield, 92, British diplomat. Alvin Straight, 76, American lawn mower...
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    England (1990–2000) Professor Jack Lewis, Baron Lewis of Newnham (1989–1999) Roger Makins, 1st Baron Sherfield GCB GCMG FRS – (first chairman) Professor...
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    (born 1923) Sydney Selwyn, physician (born 1934) 9 November – Roger Makins, 1st Baron Sherfield, diplomat (born 1904) 10 November – Marjorie Proops, journalist...
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  • Hume-Rothery Sir Terence Morrison-Scott Dudley Maurice Newitt Roger Makins, 1st Baron Sherfield Constance Fligg Tipper Arthur Alfred Eldridge George Ingle...
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    Patrick Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross, writer on Islamic history John Snagge, Second World War BBC announcer Roger Makins, 1st Baron Sherfield, ambassador Colin...
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  • Keller Edwin Herbert Land (1909–1991) Shosaku Numa (1929–1992) Roger Makins, 1st Baron Sherfield (1904–1996) "Fellows of the Royal Society". London: Royal...
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  • materials. In 1959, the house was bought by Roger Makins, 1st Baron Sherfield who lived in nearby Sherfield. Makins commissioned Tom Bird (an architect who...
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  • Thomas Alexander Fermor-Hesketh, 3rd Baron Hesketh, KBE, PC (born 28 October 1950) is a British peer and UK Independence Party politician. Hesketh succeeded...
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    Perrey, French actress; in Bordeaux, Gironde, France (d. 1991) Roger Makins, 1st Baron Sherfield, British diplomat, Ambassador to the United States of America...
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    producer and director. His great-grandfather Thomas Shaughnessy, the 1st Baron Shaughnessy, was an American-Canadian railway administrator of Irish descent...
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  • Edward Ettingdere Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges, KG, GCB, GCVO, MC, PC, FRS (4 August 1892 – 27 August 1969) was a British civil servant. Bridges was born...
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    John Jacob "Johnny" Astor VIII, 3rd Baron Astor of Hever, PC, DL (born 16 June 1946), is an English businessman and politician from the Astor family....
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  • Charles Ronald George Nall-Cain, 3rd Baron Brocket (born 12 February 1952), also known as Charlie Brocket, is a peer, business owner and television presenter...
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    Sir Roger Mellor Makins, 1st Baron Sherfield, KCMG (1904–1996) Guy Herbert Makins (5 July 1906 – 17 September 1923) Major Geoffrey Henry Makins (19 October...
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    Henry Fromanteel Lytton Cobbold, 3rd Baron Cobbold (born 12 May 1962), is a British screenwriter. He is the current occupant of Knebworth House in Hertfordshire...
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    House of Lords. The son of George Trefgarne, 1st Baron Trefgarne, Trefgarne succeeded his father as 2nd Baron Trefgarne in 1960 at the age of 19, having...
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  • Victor Clifton, Jr. Isidor Isaac Rabi Roger Hilsman Clark Clifford Jack Ruina Roger Makins, 1st Baron Sherfield Cyrus Vance James A. Abrahamson Roswell...
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  • Simon barony of Wythenshawe upon the death of his father, Ernest Simon, 1st Baron Simon of Wythenshawe, who was elevated to the peerage in 1947 by George...
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  • great-grandson of Sir Eustace Tennyson d'Eyncourt and Arthur Nicolson, 1st Baron Carnock. He was educated at Eaton House, Summer Fields School, Eton College...
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    in the Mosley baronetcy and as Baron Ravensdale, a peerage created for his great-great-grandfather George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston. Daniel...
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    Jasset David Cody Ormsby-Gore, 7th Baron Harlech (born 1 July 1986), is a British hereditary peer and Conservative member of the House of Lords. He has...
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  • sometime Acting Rajpramukh) of Saurashtra, anthropologist Roger Mellor Makins, 1st Baron Sherfield (1904–1996), diplomat Sir Crispin Tickell (1930–2022),...
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    the age of 25, following the death of his grandfather Thomas Galbraith, 1st Baron Strathclyde. He contested the Merseyside East constituency in the 1984...
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