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    Augustus Edwin John OM RA (4 January 1878 – 31 October 1961) was a Welsh painter, draughtsman, and etcher. For a time he was considered the most important...
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  • John Augustus (c. 1785 – June 21, 1859) was an American boot maker and penal reformer. He is credited with coining the English term "probation" and is...
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    Augustus John Cuthbert Hare (13 March 1834 – 22 January 1903) was an English writer, painter, and raconteur. He was the youngest son of Francis George...
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  • Joseph Augustus Zarelli (January 13, 1953 – February 1957), previously known as the "Boy in the Box", "Boy in a Box" or "America's Unknown Child", was...
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    Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus (born Gaius Octavius; 23 September 63 BC – 19 August AD 14), also known as Octavian (Latin: Octavianus), was the founder of...
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  • Opinions, Heinemann, 1973 Augustus John: A Biography, volume 1: The Years of Innocence, Heinemann, 1974 The Art of Augustus John (with Malcolm Easton), Secker...
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    John Augustus Stone (December 15, 1801 – June 1, 1834) was an American actor, dramatist, and playwright, best known as the author of Metamora; or, The...
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    Robert Graves, Noël Coward, E. M. Forster, Siegfried Sassoon, John Buchan, Augustus John, and Henry Williamson. He met Joseph Conrad and commented perceptively...
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    Vice Admiral Augustus John Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, PC (19 May 1724 – 23 December 1779) was a Royal Navy officer and politician. He commanded the...
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    Augustus is a masculine given name derived from Augustus, meaning "majestic," "the increaser," or "venerable". Many of its descended forms are August,...
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    Frederick Augustus III (German: Friedrich August III.; 25 May 1865 – 18 February 1932) was the last King of Saxony (1904–1918). Born in Dresden, Frederick...
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  • Augustus John Rush (born December 15, 1942) is an internationally renowned psychiatrist. He is a professor emeritus in Duke-NUS Medical School at the...
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    Sir Augustus John Foster, 1st Baronet, GCH PC (1 or 4 December 1780 – 1 August 1848) was a British diplomat and politician. Born into a notable British...
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    lifetime, John's work was overshadowed by that of her brother Augustus and her mentor and lover Auguste Rodin, awareness and esteem for John's artistic...
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    Augustus II the Strong (12 May 1670 – 1 February 1733), was Elector of Saxony from 1694 as well as King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1697...
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    in Manly Palmer Hall's The Secret Teachings of All Ages. John Augustus was the son of John Knapp and Margaret Wente, and brother to a sister, Annie,...
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    Lieutenant Colonel John Augustus Conolly VC (30 May 1829 – 23 December 1888), born in Celbridge, County Kildare, Ireland, was an Irish recipient of the...
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    Colonel John Augustus Wood VC (10 June 1818 – 23 January 1878) was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award...
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    Augustus (plural Augusti; /ɔːˈɡʌstəs/ aw-GUST-əs, Classical Latin: [au̯ˈɡʊstʊs]; "majestic", "great" or "venerable") was the main title of the Roman emperors...
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    John Augustus Roebling (born Johann August Röbling; June 12, 1806 – July 22, 1869) was a German-born American civil engineer. He designed and built wire...
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  • William John Augustus Hervey, 7th Marquess of Bristol (/ˈhɑːrvi/ "Harvey"; 15 September 1954 – 10 January 1999), also known as John Jermyn and John Bristol...
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    John Augustus Sutter (February 23, 1803 – June 18, 1880), born Johann August Sutter and known in Spanish as Don Juan Sutter, was a Swiss immigrant who...
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  • Augustus Prew (born 17 September 1987) is an English film and television actor. He is known for his roles in About a Boy (2002), The Secret of Moonacre...
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    Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (27 January 1773 – 21 April 1843), was the sixth son and ninth child of King George III and his queen consort...
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    John Augustus Atkinson (c.1775–1830) was an English artist, engraver and watercolourist. Atkinson was born in London. In 1784, he went to St. Petersburg...
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    educated at St Andrew's School, Tenby Gwen John (1876–1939), a Welsh artist who worked in France Augustus John OM RA (1878–1961), a Welsh painter, draughtsman...
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    (1908–1948). Her father subsequently married Poppet John (1912–1997), daughter of the painter Augustus John (1878–1961), a pivotal figure in the world of Bohemian...
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    affair with Virginia Woolf. Her lovers may have included the painters Augustus John and Henry Lamb, the artist Dora Carrington, and the art historian Roger...
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    Augustus John Smith (15 September 1804 – 31 July 1872) was a British politician and philanthropist who served as Lord Proprietor of the Isles of Scilly...
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    a son, Tristan de Vere Cole, who was the natural son of the artist Augustus John. Cole died of a heart attack in Honfleur, France the following year...
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