• John Holcroft (died 1656) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1640 and 1648. He fought in the Parliamentary army...
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  • and was directed by John Frankenheimer. The script was written by Edward Anhalt, George Axelrod, and John Hopkins. Noel Holcroft's late father - who was...
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  • John Holcroft was a 17th-century politician. John Holcroft may also refer to: John Holcroft (16th-century MP), for Lancashire John de Holcroft, 14th-century...
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  • baronet Harold Holcroft (1882–1973), English railway engineer Holcroft valve gear Henry Holcroft (1586–1650), English politician John Holcroft (disambiguation)...
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  • Sir John Holcroft (died 1560) of Holcroft Hall, Culcheth, was a soldier, politician, and landowner of the Tudor period. He was returned twice as a member...
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    Thomas Holcroft (10 December 1745 – 23 March 1809) was an English dramatist, miscellanist, poet, novelist and translator. He was sympathetic to the early...
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    Holcroft Hall is a Grade II* listed privately owned historic house in Holcroft, Culcheth, Cheshire. The manor of Holcroft was the product of a division...
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  • The Holcroft Covenant is a 1978 thriller novel by Robert Ludlum. In 1985 it was made into a film of the same name. The novel concerns Noel Holcroft, New...
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  • John de Holcroft (fl. 1373–1383) was an English politician. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Lancashire in 1373 and October 1383....
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  • assassinate the Duke of Ormonde. His mother was Mary Holcroft, daughter of the Liverpool Mayor and MP John Holcroft. In 1672, without his father's permission he...
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    1666)   +   John Perkin of Parson Drove (Cambs.) Jane Perkin Frank Perkin, miller and fiddler Mary Pepys (1597 – ?)   +   Robert Holcroft John Holcroft Edith...
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  • and George II. She married secondly at St George's Chapel, Mayfair, John Holcroft (died 1768), and died in 1785, her administration being granted to Charles...
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    Lancashire, England. At the age of 20, he married Maria Holcroft, the daughter of John Holcroft of Holcroft Hall, Culcheth, Cheshire, and Golborne, Lancashire...
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  • Parliament. Thomas Holcroft was born at Holcroft Hall, Culcheth, Lancashire, the son of John Holcroft of Holcroft and Margaret Massey. The Holcrofts were minor...
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  • Lieutenant Colonel Patrick Roy Holcroft CVO OBE (born 17 March 1948) is a former British Army officer and banker who served as Lord-Lieutenant of Worcestershire...
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  • original on 23 November 2010. Retrieved 7 March 2014. "Major Harry St John Holcroft 1951–2013". 6 November 2013. "Society hostess died following drug overdose"...
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    his sake: CSP Scotland, vol. 1 (1898), p. 175 no. 347, Instructions for Holcroft, Harington & Leke, 19 May 1549, proposed exchange of all remaining Castilian...
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  • Frankenheimer directed an adaptation of the Robert Ludlum bestseller The Holcroft Covenant, starring Michael Caine. That was followed the next year with...
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  • film — Rutger Hauer as John Tanner, Sam Peckinpah directed 1985 – The Holcroft Covenant — film — Michael Caine as Noel Holcroft 1988 – The Bourne Identity...
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    Thurston De Holcroft 1428 John De Fasakerly 1448 William Gaythirde 1454William Gaythirde 1462 Gilbert Mercer 1474 John Davinport 1476 John Crosse 1477–1539...
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  • range of roles. John David Hodgson – For service to the visual arts, particularly to photography. Lieutenant Colonel Christopher John Holcroft, RFD (Retd)...
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    (1805) Colonel Anson in The Vindictive Man by Thomas Holcroft (1806) Hugh de Tracy in The Curfew by John Tobin (1807) William Clayton h in The Gazette Extraordinary...
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    John Trafford, which is where the family line ends. The Holcroft family also have some notoriety for a scandal involving the daughter of Lt-Col John Holcroft...
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  • Alexander Rigby (category Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge)
    Member of Parliament for Wigan 1640–1650 With: Sir Orlando Bridgeman, 1st Baronet 1640–1642 John Holcroft Not represented in the Barebones Parliament...
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    office (uniquely for a constituency in the United Kingdom); the others were John Parkinson, Ronald Williams and William Foster. Wigan is considered a safe...
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    daughter of Edward Bourchier, 4th Earl of Bath. His daughter Elizabeth married John Egerton, 3rd Earl of Bridgewater. He was succeeded by his brother Lionel...
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  • James Gerard of Astley and Ince, Lancashire and Margaret, daughter of John Holcroft; and brother of Sir Gilbert Gerard of Ince. By 1552 Gerard had been...
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    between 1614 and 1649. Wynn was the second and eldest surviving son of Sir John Wynn, 1st Baronet, and his wife Sidney, daughter of William Gerard, Lord...
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    Halls. 1543 John Holcroft of Melling 1544 Sir Marmaduke Tunstall of Thurland Castle 1545 Sir William Norris of Speke Hall 1546 Sir Thomas Holcroft of Vale...
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    Francis Holcroft (1629?–1693) was an English ejected minister. He was son of Sir Henry Holcroft, born at West Ham in Essex. He matriculated at Clare Hall...
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