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Sir Charles Holroyd
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Sir Charles John Holmes
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Sir Edward Hopkinson Holden
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Sir Edward Hughes
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Sir Henry Holland
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Sir Isaac Holden
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Sir John Holt
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Sir Jonathan Hutchinson
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Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
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Sir Phipps Hornby
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Sir Robert Howard
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Sir Robert Hunter
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Sir Samuel Hood
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Sir Thomas Erskine Holland
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Sir Thomas Hoby
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William Howard Howard Of
Howard Of Effingham, William Howard, 1st Baron (c. 1510-1573 ) , English Lord High Admiral, Was The Son Of The 2nd Duke Of Norfolk (d. 1524). At Anne Boleyn's Corona Tion He Was Deputy Earl Marshal. In 1541 He Was Charged With Abetting His Relative Queen Catherine Howard, And Was ...
William Howe Howe
Howe, William Howe, 5th Viscount (1729-1814), British General, Was The Younger Brother Of George Augustus, 3rd Viscount, Killed In The Ticonderoga Expedition Of 1758, And Of Richard, 4th Viscount And Afterwards Earl Howe, The Admiral. He Entered The Army In 1746. In Wolfe's Expedition To Quebec He Distinguished Himself Greatly ...
William Howitt
Howitt, William (1792-1879), English Author, Born At Heanor, Derbyshire. He Married, In 1821, Mary Botham (1799-1888), Like Himself A Quaker And A Poet. The Howitts Col Laborated Throughout A Long Literary Career, The First Of Their Joint Productions Being The Forest Minstrels And Other Poems (1821). In 183 I William ...
William Hulme
Hulme, William English Philanthropist, Was Born Near Manchester, And Died On Oct. 29, 1691. He Founded The Hulme Trust In Memory Of His Son, To Maintain "four Exhibitioners Of The Poorest Sort Of Bachelors For The Space Of Four Years," At Brasenose College, Oxford. The Value Of The Property Greatly ...
William Hunnis
Hunnis, William (d. 1597), English Musician And Poet, Was As Early As 1549 In The Service Of William Herbert, Afterwards Earl Of Pembroke. In 155o He Published Certayne Psalms . . . In Englishe Metre, And Shortly Afterwards Was Made A Gentleman Of The Chapel Royal. During The Reign Of ...
William Huskisson
Huskisson, William (177o--183o), English Statesman And Financier, Was Descended From An Old Staffordshire Family Of Moderate Fortune, And Was Born At Birch Moreton, Worcester Shire, On March 177o. He Went To Paris At 14 To The Care Of His Uncle, Dr. Gem, Physician To The British Embassy In Paris, And ...
William I Hunter
Hunter, William (i ), British Physiologist And Physician, The First Great Teacher Of Anatomy In England, Was Born On May 23, 1718, At East Kilbride, Lanark. He Was The Seventh Child Of His Parents, And An Elder Brother Of The Still More Famous John Hunter (q.v.). He Was Educated At ...
William Morris Hughes
Hughes, William Morris ), Australian Statesman, Was Born On Sept. 25, 1864, At Llansantffraid, Mont Gameryshire, Wales. At The Age Of 20 He Went To Australia. Here He Drove Sheep And Cattle Across New South Wales And Queensland, Worked On Farms And Cooked For Harvesting Gangs, Became A Sailor On ...