Admiral of the Fleet John Cronyn Tovey, 1st Baron Tovey, GCB, KBE, DSO (7 March 1885 – 12 January 1971), sometimes known as Jack Tovey, was a Royal Navy...
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Australian actress John Tovey, 1st Baron Tovey (1885–1971), British admiral in World War II, also known as Jack Tovey John Tovey (restaurateur), British...
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1967 – Burhan Asaf Belge, Turkish diplomat (b. 1887) 1971 – John Tovey, 1st Baron Tovey, English admiral (b. 1885) 1973 – Roy Franklin Nichols, American...
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Coombe Abbey (redirect from John Tovey (royal tutor))
the Abbey for the next five years. Her tutor and chaplain were Master John Tovey, the headmaster of the Free School at Coventry. Elizabeth's favourite...
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He was a descendant of Admiral Sir Charles John Napier. Admiral of the Fleet John Tovey, 1st Baron Tovey (1885–1971) "Dora Cockle, a maidservant at the...
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1927) 1885 – Milton Avery, American painter (d. 1965) 1885 – John Tovey, 1st Baron Tovey, English admiral (d. 1971) 1886 – Virginia Pearson, American...
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Admiral of the Fleet Bruce Austin Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape, GCB, KBE (5 February 1888 – 12 February 1981) was a senior Royal Navy officer...
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12 – John Tovey, 1st Baron Tovey, British admiral (b. 1885) January 14 – Guillermo de Torre, Spanish Dadaist author (b. 1900) January 15 – John Dall,...
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Sir John Blundell Maple, 1st Baronet (1 March 1845 – 24 November 1903) was an English business magnate who owned the furniture maker Maple & Co. His father...
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succeeded his father as Baron in August 1613. The actor Kit Harington is descended from Sir John's uncle, Sir James Harington, 1st Baronet Harington of Ridlington...
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Henry Maitland Wilson (redirect from Henry Maitland, 1st Baron Wilson of Libya and of Stowlangtoft Wilson)
Field Marshal Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron Wilson, GCB, GBE, DSO (5 September 1881 – 31 December 1964), also known as Jumbo Wilson, was a senior British...
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United Kingdom Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Alec Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel, former Prime...
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Marshal of the Royal Air Force Cyril Louis Norton Newall, 1st Baron Newall, GCB, OM, GCMG, CBE, KStJ, AM (15 February 1886 – 30 November 1963) was a senior...
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commended in Sir John French's first despatch of September 1914. In December 1914, Portal was given command of all riders in the 1st Corps Headquarters...
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when he goes to dine with contractors or merchants." Order of St. Anna, 1st class Order of St. Anna, 2nd class (The example shown is "with swords", for...
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Field Marshal William Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside, GCB, CMG, DSO (6 May 1880 – 22 September 1959) was a senior officer of the British Army who...
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(11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 255. Frederick Pethick-Lawrence, 1st Baron Pethick-Lawrence, Fate Has Been Kind (1943), p. 20 "Trevelyan, Robert...
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Malcolm Trustram Eve, 1st Baron Silsoe GBE, MC, TD, KC (8 April 1894 – 3 December 1976), known as Sir Malcolm Trustram Eve, 1st Baronet, from 1943 to...
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Bramwell Tovey. The club's poet was Alan Gibson, The Times cricket correspondent and former Test Match Special commentator. Such was John's modesty that...
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including Thomas Rundle, the countess of Hertford and Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot. He wrote "Spring" in 1728 and finally "Autumn" in 1730, when the...
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Bramwell (1818–1903), British civil and mechanical engineer George Bramwell, 1st Baron Bramwell (1808–1892), English judge Grant Bramwell (born 1961), New Zealand...
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Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Browne Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, KT, GCB, OM, DSO & Two Bars (7 January 1883 – 12 June 1963) was a...
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Field Marshal Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis KG, GCB, OM, GCMG, CSI, DSO, KStJ, MC, CD, PC (Can), PC (10 December...
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in April 1937, he served as flag lieutenant-commander to Vice-Admiral John Tovey, the commander of the destroyer flotillas of the Mediterranean Fleet and...
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to Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke. Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Viscount Alanbrooke Alan Brooke, Baron Alanbrooke of Brookeborough :...
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p. 5696. "No. 33161". The London Gazette. 11 May 1926. p. 3149. "TOVEY, 1st Baron". Who Was Who. Oxford University Press. April 2014. Retrieved 3 March...
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made since 2014. The origins of the rank can be traced back to John de Beauchamp, 1st Baron Beauchamp de Warwick, who was appointed 'Admiral of the King's...
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William Boyle, 12th Earl of Cork (category Barons Boyle of Marston)
16 July 1935. Boyle succeeded his cousin as Earl of Cork and Orrery and Baron Boyle of Marston in 1934 and attended the funeral of King George V in January...
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Strange, WW1 pilot Georgia Tennant, actress Sir David Thorne Sir Brian Tovey, former director of GCHQ Sir Stephen Tumim, judge Sam Waley-Cohen, Grand...
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Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001). Scholes, Percy A. (1938). The Oxford Companion to Music. Oxford University Press. Tovey, Donald:...
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