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    responded. John Clunies-Ross died in 1854. His life was dramatised in the play John Ross, King of Cocos Islands. His son John George Clunies-Ross (born 1823)...
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    Ian Clunies Ross was born in Bathurst, New South Wales on 22 February 1899. His grandfather, Robert Clunies Ross, was a brother of John Clunies-Ross, who...
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    Factbook (2024 ed.). CIA. (Archived 2003 edition.) Clunies-Ross, John Cecil; Souter, Gavin. The Clunies-Ross Cocos Chronicle, Self, Perth 2009, ISBN 9780980586718...
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    Alfred Clunies-Ross (c.1851 – 28 February 1903) was a rugby union international who represented Scotland in the first international rugby match in 1871...
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  • of NSW John Anderson, AC, the former Deputy Prime Minister Founded in 1959 to perpetuate the memory of Sir Ian Clunies Ross, the Ian Clunies Ross Memorial...
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  • from his estate, Hare hired John Clunies Ross first as a ship captain in 1813 and in 1816 as overseer of the settlement. Ross was instructed to clear land...
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    was antagonism between the two settlement leaders, John Clunies Ross and Alexander Hare. Clunies Ross and his party first visited the Cocos (Keeling) Islands...
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  • was antagonism between the two settlement leaders, John Clunies Ross and Alexander Hare. Clunies Ross and his party first visited the Cocos (Keeling) Islands...
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    English merchant, brought his Malay harem and slaves there." In 1827 John Clunies-Ross changed the lives of the Malay slaves when he settled the Islands...
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  • was antagonism between the two settlement leaders, John Clunies-Ross and Alexander Hare. Clunies-Ross and his party first visited the Cocos (Keeling) Islands...
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  • was antagonism between the two settlement leaders, John Clunies-Ross and Alexander Hare. Clunies-Ross and his party first visited the Cocos (Keeling) Islands...
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    descent from the original planation workers brought to the island by John Clunies-Ross. During much of their habitation, the islands were isolated, leading...
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    their Essential Oils. The specific epithet (rossii) honours William John Clunies-Ross (1850-1914), for his attention to the flora of the Bathurst region...
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  • (‘s-Gravenhage 1998) Gibson-Hill, C.A. (1952). "Documents Relating to John Clunies Ross, Alexander Hare and the establishment of the Colony on the Cocos-Keeling...
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  • "Finland and Kvenland". The principal study of this figure is by Margaret Clunies Ross. The etymology of the Old Norse name Fornjótr remains unclear. It is...
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    islands (except Oceania House) from John Cecil Clunies-Ross and transferred them to the Cocos community. Clunies-Ross retained Lot 14 until 1990. Oceania...
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    member of parliament for Dulwich and lived in Oakfield Road in Penge. John Clunies-Ross (1786–1854), first King of the Cocos Islands Tom Hood (1835–1874)...
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    announced that it was purchasing the Cocos Islands from their owner, John Clunies-Ross, whose family had been granted private ownership of the 27 Indian...
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    2011). "Teeth and jaw are from 'earliest Europeans'". BBC News. Wilford, John Noble (29 May 2012). "Flute's Revised Age Dates the Sound of Music Earlier"...
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  • National Library of Australia: Cocos. A History of the Clunies-Ross Family. Commissioned by John Clunies-Ross) "Panscript". Archived from the original on 11 March...
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    p. xv Clunies Ross, p. 22. Stefán Einarsson (1957). A History of Icelandic Literature. New York: The American-Scandinavian Foundation, The Johns Hopkins...
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    Lieutenant Colonel A. Clunies-Ross (1971) Major I.S.A. Power (1971) Lieutenant Colonel J.M. Murphy (1971–1973) Lieutenant Colonel A. Clunies-Ross (1973) "8th Battalion...
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    Orchard (1995:193–195). Clunies Ross 1994, p. 114. Entry Öl 1 in Rundata 2.0 for Windows. Faulkes 1998, p. 297. Clunies Ross, Margaret (1994). Prolonged...
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    the original Cluny Castle and nearby Castle Fraser. MacGibbon and Ross attributed Cluny to a date earlier than 1604 and suggested it was similar in design...
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  • Clunies Ross, ' Reginnaglar ', in News from Other Worlds/Tíðendi ór ǫðrum heimum: Studies in Nordic Folklore, Mythology and Culture in Honor of John F...
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    Hare at the Cape of Good Hope". (C. Ross was John Clunies-Ross). Borneo enters Lloyd's Register in 1820 with C. Ross, master, Hare, owner, and trade Cowes...
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    (Keeling) Islands on 16 December, and stayed for six days. Captain John Clunies-Ross — the "King of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands" — had asked for a visit...
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  • Clunies-Ross - the first non-white rugby union international player. He was capped by Scotland in the very first international match in 1871. Clunies-Ross...
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  • Catherine Barbara Taylor who was a niece on her mother's side of John Clunies-Ross, King of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. They had 10 children of whom...
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    Clunies-Ross - the first non-white rugby union international player. He was capped by Scotland in the very first international match in 1871. Clunies-Ross...
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