• John Quiller Rowett (1876 – 1 October 1924) was a British businessman, philanthropist, and co-founder of the Rowett Research Institute. In 1920, while...
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  • the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. The venture, financed by John Quiller Rowett, is sometimes referred to as the Quest Expedition after its ship...
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  • Green Party Gary Rowett (born 1974), English footballer and manager Henry Rowett, English cricketer in the 1760s John Quiller Rowett (1874–1924), British...
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    the annual grant increased to £4,000. In 1920 he was introduced to John Quiller Rowett, a businessman who seemed to have qualms of conscience over the large...
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    money was donated by Dr John Quiller Rowett, a businessman and director of a wine and spirits merchants in London. Rowett's donation allowed the purchase...
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    Timothy Quiller Rowett (born 12 July 1942) is a British YouTube personality and renowned toy collector, known for presenting videos about toys, optical...
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    M. were also writers and folklorists. Arthur Quiller-Couch had two children. His son, Bevil Brian Quiller-Couch, was a war hero and poet, whose romantic...
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  • Look up quiller in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Quiller is a fictional spy created by English novelist Elleston Trevor. Quiller may also refer to:...
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    Canadian government. With funds supplied by former schoolfriend John Quiller Rowett, Shackleton acquired a 125-ton Norwegian sealer, named Foca I, which...
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    of a British expedition (1921-1922) under Ernest Shackleton for John Quiller Rowett, chief patron of the expedition. Composite Antarctic Gazetteer List...
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    commander Ernest Shackleton. At the expense of expedition financier John Quiller Rowett, the small ship was refitted for the expedition with modifications...
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    expedition's ship Quest was moored at South Georgia. Later that year John Quiller Rowett, who had financed this last expedition and was a former school friend...
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    of the World Colored Heavyweight Championship from 1876 to 1878 John Quiller Rowett, 48, British philanthropist, committed suicide after several business...
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  • was 46 years old. On 1 October 1924, one of Stewart's creditors, John Quiller Rowett, to whom he owed nearly £100,000, hanged himself in his London home...
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    genus name was chosen to honour John Quiller Rowett, an English businessman and the sponsor of the Shackleton–Rowett Expedition. The Gough finch was traditionally...
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    Marooned: Polperro Heritage Press Rowett Johns, Jeremy (1997) The Smugglers' Banker: Polperro Heritage Press Rowett Johns, Jeremy (2010) Doctor By Nature:...
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  • physician Richard Quiller Couch (1816–1863), naturalist Luke Cowan-Dickie (born 1993), rugby player Exeter Chiefs and England hooker John Kevin Curtice (born...
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    landscapes, to the beauty of the western lochs, finally ending his journey in John o' Groats. The fourth part of the series sees Portillo follow in the footsteps...
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  • MD, Director, Rowett Research Institute, Bucksburn, Aberdeenshire. George Alexander Cassady Devine. For services to the Theatre. John Wilfred Edmondson...
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