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    Sir George Amyand, 1st Baronet (26 September 1720 – 16 August 1766) was a British Whig politician, physician and merchant. He was the second son of Claudius...
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  • politician and government official George Amyand (1720–1766), British politician, physician and merchant John Amyand (1751–1780), English Whig politician...
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  • August 1764 for George Amyand, who was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Barnstaple in the House of Commons of Great Britain. Sir George Amyand, 1st Baronet...
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  • Claudius Amyand (c. 1680 – 6 July 1740) was a French surgeon who performed the first recorded successful appendectomy. Amyand was born around 1680, the...
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  • Amyand's hernia is a rare form of an inguinal hernia (less than 1% of inguinal hernias) which occurs when the appendix is included in the hernial sac and...
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    Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto (category Peers of Great Britain created by George III)
    County of Roxburgh. Minto married Anna Maria Amyand (26 March 1752 – 8 March 1829), daughter of Sir George Amyand, 1st Baronet and sister-in-law of Lord Malmesbury...
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    known as One Great George Street. The only surviving façade from Mellors' original structures is number 11 (built 1756 for George Amyand) which is now part...
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    scope for irregularities. He collaborated with Nicholas Magens and George Amyand. By some estimates he was calculated to have amassed £400,000 in his...
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    Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto, and Anna Maria, daughter of Sir George Amyand, 1st Baronet. He was educated at Eton, St John's College, Cambridge...
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  • Electorate of Hanover and neighbouring territories. Nicholas Magens and George Amyand supplied the money. It was also agreed that the British would provide...
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  • John Amyand (6 November 1751 – 5 June 1780) was an English Whig politician. He was the second son of Sir George Amyand, a prominent London merchant of...
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    in this line until sold to 'Sir George Cornewall', born Sir George Amyand a leading Whig of London. In 1800 Sir George sold this manor to Mr. Hayward who...
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    largest in Devon, was made by John Crang in 1764 and was donated by Sir George Amyand, 1st Baronet (1720–1766), MP for Barnstaple 1754–1766. It is decorated...
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    James Harris, 1st Earl of Malmesbury (category Peers of Great Britain created by George III)
    Maria Amyand (1761 – 20 August 1830), the youngest daughter of Sir George Amyand MP (1720–1766) and Anna Maria Korteen, and sister of Anna Maria Amyand, who...
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    passed during the session that started in the 39th year of the reign of George III and which finished in the 40th year of that reign. Note that the modern...
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    Sidmouth, etc. Rolle sold his Somerset estate of Shapwick in 1786/7 to George Templer (1755–1819), of the East India Company, 4th son of James I Templer...
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    Parliament of Great Britain Preceded by Denys Rolle George Amyand Member of Parliament for Barnstaple 1766–1800 With: Denys Rolle to 1774 William Devaynes...
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    in the antiquarian and artistic pursuits which they had enjoyed abroad. George Knapton (1698–1778), the official portraitist of the society, painted his...
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    passed during the session that started in the 39th year of the reign of George III and which finished in the 40th year of that reign. Note that the modern...
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    House of Commons between 1774 and 1807. Born George Amyand, he was the eldest son and heir of Sir George Amyand, 1st Baronet (1720–1766) by his wife Anna...
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  • John Clarke, of Sandford). His mother was the second daughter of Sir George Amyand, 1st Baronet and Anna Maria Korteen (a daughter of John Abraham Korteen...
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    had no title. Anna Maria (later Lady Elliot) was the daughter of Sir George Amyand, 1st Baronet. Elliot died at his home in Somerset Street, London on...
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    1807 and 1813. Anna Maria (later Lady Elliot) was the daughter of Sir George Amyand, 1st Baronet. An alternative story suggests that it was named after...
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  • in Oak Lane, Twickenham. The Vicar of Twickenham, George Glossop and his family, who lived at Amyand House, commissioned the architect, Robert W. Edis...
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    of England as director. After the Anglo-Prussian Convention, he and George Amyand were involved in two bills of exchange, to support the Duke of Brunswick...
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  • Thomas Walker, and in 1762, he sold the manor of Frilsham, Berkshire to George Amyand. He married Charlotte Warren, daughter of Admiral Sir Peter Warren,...
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    1st Earl of Minto (1751–1814), who married Anna Maria Amyand, daughter of Sir George Amyand, 1st Baronet, in 1777. Hugh Elliot (1752–1830), who married...
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  • FitzRoy-Scudamore. Thomas's nine recorded children included Frances Compton (later Amyand) Countess of Northampton and Catherine Seymour, wife of Lord Francis Seymour...
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  • Westminster Abbey, in a private manner, at the discretion of my executor, Mr. Amyand; and I desire that my said executor may have leave to erect a monument for...
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    renovations performed by George Gilbert Scott a century later. His daughter married Sir George Amyand on 18 July 1771 at St George's, Hanover Square. Following...
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