Sergeant Ray Holmes
Raymond Towers Holmes, born Cheshire, was a Royal Air Force fighter pilot during WW2 who is best known for an event that occurred during the Battle of Britain, on 15 September 1940. He reportedly s...
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Daphne Milne
Dorothy "Daphne" de Sélincourt married A. A. Milne in 1913 and their son Christopher Robin Milne was born in 1920. Christopher's marriage to his first cousin, Lesley de Sélincourt, distanced him ...
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Christopher Robin Milne
Author and bookseller and the only child of author A. A. Milne and Daphne Milne. As a child, he was the basis of the character Christopher Robin in his father's Winnie-the-Pooh stories and in two b...
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Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk[a] was a Czechoslovak statesman, political activist and philosopher who served as the first president of Czechoslovakia 1918-35. He is regarded as the founding father of Czec...
Person, Nationalism, Politics & Administration, Czechoslovakia
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Lieut. Colonel R. Shoolbred, CMG, TD, DL, JP
A member of the family that owned the Shoolbred department store. Wrote a war diary, of which part of April 1917 is given at Lynsted Society. 1885-90 Walter Shoolbred bought land in Scotland near...
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John Henry Silley OBE
John Henry Silley OBE was a marine engineer and businessman. Born Monmouthshire. First came to London in 1892 to go to sea in a steamer. Chairman and Managing Director of R. and H. Green and Sill...
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Sardar Patel
Sardar Vallabhbhai Javerbhai Patel, commonly known as Sardar Patel, Indian statesman. First Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister of India 1947-50. Born and raised in India. At the age of 36, he...
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John Howell Burden
Former publican of the George and Devonshire in Chiswick. Father of Arthur Howell Burden, who was assistant purser on the RMS Lusitania, and who died when the ship was torpedoed. The Lusitania Res...
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Edward Carter Preston
Artist, renowned as a sculptor and medallist. Born, and died, in Liverpool. His major work is a series of sculptures at the Liverpool Anglican Cathedral which took him 30 years. He designed the W...
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