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Born 20 Nov. 1920; s of late Rear-Adm. Charles Otway Alexander and Antonia Geermans; m 1963, Sarah Wignall (marr. diss.); one adopted d; died 19 Dec. 2004

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Stowe; RMC, Sandhurst; Oflag IVC, Colditz...

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KT 1996; CBE 1986; DSC 1945; FRSE 1984

Born 26 Oct. 1924; e s of 15th Viscount of Arbuthnott, CB, CBE, DSO, MC, and Ursula Collingwood (...

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KBE, 1918; CB 1916; CMG 1899; FRS 1919; Hon. ScD (Cantab.), 1928; RE

Born 10 Aug. 1865; s of late Maj.-Gen. Frederick Close of Shanklin; changed surname to Arden-Close, ...

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Born Wapakoneta, Ohio, USA, 5 Aug. 1930; s of Stephen and Viola Armstrong, Wapakoneta; m 1st, 1956, Janet Shearon (marr. diss. 1994); two s (one d decd); 2nd, Carol Knight; ...

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Born 19 Jan. 1929; s of Maj. George Murray (d 1940), and Joan (d 2000), d of William Eastwood; m 1956...

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CSI 1897; RE; FRS 1884, FRGS

Born Aberdeen, 26 April 1842; e s of late Thomas Baird of Woodlands, Cults; m 1872, Margaret Elizabeth, d...

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14th Bt cr 1668

Born 7 May 1913; s of late Rt Hon. Sir Colville Adrian de Rune Barclay, 3rd s of 11th Bt, and Sarita Enriqueta, d of late Herbert Ward; ...

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VC 1915

Born 28 Oct. 1882; er s of late Major Patrick Bellew, Bengal Army, HEICS, and Assay-Master of the Bombay Mint, and of Exeter, England; ...

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CBE 1974 (MBE 1945); ED

Born 28 Feb. 1914; s of Victor Henry le Blond Blessley and Ellen Mary Blessley; m 1946, Gwendeline MacRae (d 2005); two ...

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Born Epagne, Aube, 1853; died 10 Dec. 1933

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Born 3 Jan. 1874; s of late Henry Charles Bury, Mancetter Manor House, near Atherstone; m 1913, Florence Ann Marshall; no c; died 23 Sept. 1920...

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Kt 1969; MC 1943

Born 28 Jan. 1913; s of Frank and Nora Chesterton; m 1944, Violet Ethel Jameson (d 2004); two s one d; died 14 Oct. 2007...

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Kt 1998; CBE 1989

Born 16 Dec. 1917; s of Charles Wright Clarke and Nora Mary Willis; m 1953, Marilyn Mayfield (marr. diss. 1964); died 19 March 2008

Huish’s Grammar Sch., Taunton; King’s Coll., London (BSc; FKC ...

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CBE 1992; FRICS

Born 13 June 1929; s of late Robin John Clutton and Rosalie Muriel (née Birch); m 1954, Jill Olwyn Evans; four s one d; died 8 Oct. 2010...

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Kt, 1937; DSO 1918; MC

Born 29 July 1882; y s of late Rev. H. Couchman, Haileybury College; m 1925, Evelyn Beatrice, y d of late Col W. L. C. Baddeley; no ...

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Born 11 June 1910; s of Daniel and Elizabeth Cousteau; m 1st, 1937, Simone Melchior (d 1990); one s (and one s decd); 2nd, ...

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GCVO 1996 (KCVO 1986; CVO 1976; LVO 1968); FSA; FBA 1992

Born 12 March 1931; s of late Vicomte Pierre de Bellaigue and Marie-Antoinette Ladd; m 1971, Sheila, (LVO ...

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CBE 1979

Born 29 April 1915; e s of late Harold W. Denniss; m 1939, Violet Fiedler, Montreal; one s two d; died 10 July 2005...

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Born Chicago, 12 May 1880; s of James William Ellsworth and Eva Butler; m 1933, Mary Louise Ullmer; died 26 May 1951

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CBE 1986 (MBE (mil.) 1941); FRICS

Born 6 Aug. 1915; s of late Ernest Pearson Jones and Katharine Cole Jones (née Nicholas); m 1954, Louise Anne Montague, d...