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A. Arulpiragasam
Arumugam Arulpiragasam (also spelt Arulpragasam) (c1890 –1975) was a leading Ceylon Tamil civil servant and Commissioner of Elections.
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A. B. Rajendra
Mudaliyar Arulappu Bastiampillay Rajendra (1884–1963) was a Ceylon Tamil civil servant and member of the Senate of Ceylon.
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Abbey National
Abbey National plc was a bank based in the United Kingdom and former building society, which latterly traded under the Abbey brand name.
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Aden Protectorate
The Aden Protectorate (محمية عدن) was a British protectorate in southern Arabia which evolved in the hinterland of the port of Aden and in the Hadramaut following the conquest of Aden by Great Britain in 1839, and it continued until the 1960s.
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Admiralty
The Admiralty, originally known as the Office of the Admiralty and Marine Affairs, was the government department responsible for the command of the Royal Navy firstly in the Kingdom of England, secondly in the Kingdom of Great Britain, and from 1801 to 1964, the United Kingdom and former British Empire.
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Aldenham School
Aldenham School is a co-educational independent school for pupils aged eleven to eighteen, located between Elstree and the village of Aldenham in Hertfordshire, England.
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Alfred Dudley Ward
General Sir (Alfred) Dudley Ward, (27 January 1905 – 28 December 1991) was a senior British Army officer who saw distinguished active service during the Second World War and later became Governor of Gibraltar.
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All-England Theatre Festival
The All-England Theatre Festival ("AETF") organises the only country-wide eliminating contest for one-act plays in performance throughout England.
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Alvary Gascoigne
Sir Alvary Douglas Frederick Trench-Gascoigne GBE, KCMG (6 August 1893 – 18 April 1970) was a British diplomat.
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Ambition (charity)
Ambition (formerly known as Clubs for Young People) is a registered charity whose members are a network of umbrella youth organisations in cities, counties and countries throughout the UK.
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Antrim (UK Parliament constituency)
Antrim is a former UK Parliament constituency in Ireland.
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Arthur Hutchinson (civil servant)
Sir Arthur Sydney Hutchinson (21 March 1896 – 18 January 1981) was a British soldier and civil servant.
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Arthur Landsborough Thomson
Sir Arthur Landsborough Thomson (8 October 1890 – 9 June 1977) was a Scottish ornithologist.
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Arthur MacDonald
General Sir Arthur Leslie MacDonald, (30 January 1919 – 20 January 1995) was a senior officer in the Australian Army, who served in the positions of Chief of the General Staff from 1975 to 1977, then Chief of the Defence Force Staff from 1977 to 1979; the professional head of the Australian Army and Australian Defence Force respectively.
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Arthur Ransome
Arthur Michell Ransome (18 January 1884 – 3 June 1967) was an English author and journalist.
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Arthur William Mickle Ellis
Sir Arthur William Mickle Ellis, OBE, DM, FRCP, LLD was a prominent British Canadian physician, pathologist, and Regius Professor of Medicine at the University of Oxford (1943-1948).
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Arts Council of Great Britain
The Arts Council of Great Britain was a non-departmental public body dedicated to the promotion of the fine arts in Great Britain.
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ASSOCHAM
The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) is one of the apex trade associations of India.
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Atomic Energy Research Establishment
The Atomic Energy Research Establishment, known as AERE or colloquially Harwell Laboratory, near Harwell, Oxfordshire, was the main centre for atomic energy research and development in the United Kingdom from the 1940s to the 1990s.
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Aubrey Mansergh
Vice Admiral Sir (Cecil) Aubrey (Lawson) Mansergh KBE, CB, DSC (7 October 1898 - 31 July 1990) was a Royal Navy officer who became President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich.
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Audhali
Audhali (or العواذل), or the Audhali Sultanate (سلطنة العوذلي), was a state in the British Aden Protectorate.
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Audrey Withers
Elizabeth Audrey Withers OBE (28 March 1905 – 26 October 2001), known as Audrey Withers, was an English journalist, also active as a member of the Council of Industrial Design.
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Australian Instructional Corps
The Australian Instructional Corps (AIC) was a corps of the Australian Army that existed between 1921 and 1955.
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Australian Red Cross
The Australian Red Cross is a leading humanitarian aid and community services charity in Australia and an auxiliary to government.
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Auxiliary Fire Service
The Auxiliary Fire Service (AFS) was first formed in 1938 in Great Britain as part of the Civil Defence Service.
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Aveling-Barford
Aveling-Barford was a large engineering company making road rollers, motorgraders, front loaders, sitedumpers, dump trucks and articulated dumptrucks or ADTs in Grantham, Lincolnshire.
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Babcock & Wilcox
Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, originally Babcock, Wilcox & Company and then The Babcock & Wilcox Company, is an American power generation company headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Basil Coad
Major General Basil Aubrey Coad, (27 September 1906 – 26 March 1980) was a senior British Army officer.
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Basil Embry
Air Chief Marshal Sir Basil Edward Embry, (28 February 1902 – 7 December 1977) was a senior Royal Air Force commander.
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Basutoland
Basutoland was a British Crown colony established in 1884 due to the Cape Colony's inability to control the territory.
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Battersea Power Station
Battersea Power Station is a decommissioned coal-fired power station located on the south bank of the River Thames, in Nine Elms, Battersea, an inner-city district of South West London.
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.
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Beckton Gas Works
Beckton Gasworks was a major London gasworks built to manufacture coal gas and other products including coke from coal.
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Belfast Royal Academy
The Belfast Royal Academy (commonly shortened to B.R.A) is the oldest school in the city of Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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Bernard Miles
Bernard James Miles, Baron Miles, CBE (27 September 190714 June 1991) was an English character actor, writer and director.
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Berwick and Haddington (UK Parliament constituency)
Berwick and Haddington was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918, when it replaced the separate Berwickshire and Haddingtonshire constiuencies, until it was renamed Berwick and East Lothian for the 1950 general election.
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Bourjois
Bourjois is a French cosmetics company currently owned by the American group Coty Inc. Bourjois creates make-up, fragrance and skincare products, which are sold in approximately 23 000 points of sales in more than 50 countries worldwide, as of 2015.
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Boyd Neel
Louis Boyd Neel O.C. (19 July 190530 September 1981) was an English, and later Canadian conductor and academic.
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Bradford Girls' Grammar School
Bradford Girls' Grammar School is a free school for girls aged 5 – 18 and boys aged 5 – 11.
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British Army of the Rhine
There have been two formations named British Army of the Rhine (BAOR).
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British Chambers of Commerce
The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) is the national representative body of 52 Accredited Chambers of Commerce across the UK, representing 75,000 businesses, which employ over 5m people.
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British Electricity Authority
The British Electricity Authority (BEA) was established as the central British electricity authority in 1948 under the nationalisation of the Great Britain's electricity supply industry.
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British Gliding Association
The British Gliding Association (BGA) is the governing body for gliding in the United Kingdom.
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British Museum
The British Museum, located in the Bloomsbury area of London, United Kingdom, is a public institution dedicated to human history, art and culture.
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British Overseas Airways Corporation
British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) was the British state-owned airline created in 1940 by the merger of Imperial Airways and British Airways Ltd.
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British Red Cross
The British Red Cross Society is the United Kingdom body of the worldwide neutral and impartial humanitarian network the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
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British Somaliland
British Somaliland, officially the British Somaliland Protectorate (Dhulka Maxmiyada Soomaalida ee Biritishka, translit) was a British protectorate in present-day northwestern Somalia.
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British South Africa Police
The British South Africa Police (BSAP) was, for most of its existence, the police force of Rhodesia (renamed Zimbabwe in 1980).
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British Tanker Company
British Tanker Company Limited was the maritime transport arm of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, the forerunner of BP.
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British Transport Commission
The British Transport Commission (BTC) was created by Clement Attlee's post-war Labour government as a part of its nationalisation programme, to oversee railways, canals and road freight transport in Great Britain (Northern Ireland had the separate Ulster Transport Authority).
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Broadmoor Hospital
Broadmoor Hospital is a high-security psychiatric hospital at Crowthorne in Berkshire, England.
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Buckingham Palace
Buckingham Palace is the London residence and administrative headquarters of the monarch of the United Kingdom.
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Bury (UK Parliament constituency)
Bury was a borough constituency centred on the town of Bury in Lancashire.
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Bury and Radcliffe (UK Parliament constituency)
Bury and Radcliffe was a parliamentary constituency centred on the towns of Bury and Radcliffe in North West England.
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Cable & Wireless plc
Cable & Wireless plc was a British telecommunications company.
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Cameron Nicholson
General Sir Cameron Gordon Graham Nicholson, (30 June 1898 – 7 July 1979) was a British Army officer who served as Adjutant-General to the Forces.
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Cammell Laird
Cammell Laird is a British shipbuilding company.
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Camper and Nicholsons
Camper and Nicholsons are the oldest leisure marine company in the world.
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Cecil Bouchier
Air Vice Marshal Sir Cecil Arthur Bouchier (14 October 1895 – 15 June 1979) served with the British Army, Royal Flying Corps, Indian Air Force and Royal Air Force from 1915 to 1953.
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Cecil Harcourt
Admiral Sir Cecil Halliday Jepson Harcourt (Chinese Translated Name: 夏慤; 11 April 1892 – 19 December 1959), was a British naval officer.
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Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Central Manchester University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, established in 2009, ran eight hospitals in Manchester and Trafford: Manchester Royal Infirmary, Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, St Mary's Hospital, Manchester, Manchester Royal Eye Hospital and University Dental Hospital of Manchester in Manchester, and Trafford General Hospital, Altrincham Hospital and Stretford Memorial Hospital in Trafford.
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Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster is a ministerial office in the Government of the United Kingdom that includes as part of its duties, the administration of the estates and rents of the Duchy of Lancaster.
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Charles Lambe
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Charles Edward Lambe (20 December 1900 – 29 August 1960) was a senior Royal Navy officer.
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Charles Tryon, 2nd Baron Tryon
Brigadier Charles George Vivian Tryon, 2nd Baron Tryon, (24 May 1906 – 9 November 1976) was a British peer, British Army officer, and a member of the Royal Household.
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Chatham Dockyard
Chatham Dockyard was a Royal Navy Dockyard located on the River Medway in Kent.
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Civil Aviation Authority (United Kingdom)
The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) is the statutory corporation which oversees and regulates all aspects of civil aviation in the United Kingdom.
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Clifford Sanderson
Air Marshal Sir (Alfred) Clifford Sanderson KBE, CB, DFC (19 February 1898 – 28 January 1976) was a British Royal Air Force officer who became Air Officer Commanding Far East Air Force.
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Clive Baillieu, 1st Baron Baillieu
Clive Latham Baillieu, 1st Baron Baillieu, KBE, CMG (24 September 1889 – 18 June 1967) was an Australian-British businessman, public servant, and rower.
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Colin Sinclair (politician)
Sir Colin Archibald Sinclair (24 December 187617 March 1956) was an Australian politician.
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Common Serjeant of London
The Common Serjeant of London (full title The Serjeant-at-Law in the Common Hall) is an ancient British legal office, first recorded in 1291, and is the second most senior permanent judge of the Central Criminal Court after the Recorder of London, acting as deputy to that office, and sitting as a judge in the trial of criminal offences.
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Con O'Neill (diplomat)
Sir Con Douglas Walter O'Neill, GCMG (3 June 1912 – 11 January 1988), was a British civil servant and diplomat.
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Construction Products Association
The Construction Products Association (CPA) is UK-based construction industry trade association, representing UK manufacturers and suppliers of construction products as well as over 40 sector trade associations representing around 30,000 companies across product manufacturing.
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Cotton Spinners' and Manufacturers' Association
Cotton Spinners' and Manufacturers' Association was, as its name suggests an employers organisation.
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Council of Legal Education
The Council of Legal Education (CLE) was an English supervisory body established by the four Inns of Court to regulate and improve the legal education of barristers within England and Wales.
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Craven Brothers
Craven Brothers was a British engineering firm started in 1853 by brothers William and John Craven that built large machine tools for railway and engineering workshops and later workshop and railway cranes.
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Cromer Lighthouse
Cromer Lighthouse situated in the town of Cromer on the coast in the English county of Norfolk.
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Curwen Press
The Curwen Press was founded by the Reverend John Curwen in 1863 to publish sheet music for the "tonic sol-fa" system.
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David Brown Ltd.
David Brown Engineering Limited is an English engineering company, principally engaged in the manufacture of gears and gearboxes.
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De Havilland Comet
The de Havilland DH 106 Comet was the world's first commercial jet airliner.
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Dennis Robertson (economist)
Sir Dennis Holme Robertson (23 May 1890 – 21 April 1963) was an English economist who taught at Cambridge and London Universities.
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Dermot Boyle
Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Dermot Alexander Boyle, (2 October 1904 – 5 May 1993) was a senior officer in the Royal Air Force.
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Devon County Council
Devon County Council is the county council administering the English county of Devon.
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Diana Wynyard
Diana Wynyard, CBE (born Dorothy Isobel Cox, 16 January 1906 – 13 May 1964) was an English stage and film actress.
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Donald MacGillivray
Sir Donald Charles MacGillivray (22 September 1906 – 24 December 1966) was a Scottish colonial administrator who served as the last British High Commissioner in Malaya.
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Duncan Cumming
Major General Sir Duncan Cumming K.B.E., C.B. (10 August 1903 – 10 December 1979), was a twentieth-century British colonial administrator.
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Dunlop Rubber
Dunlop Rubber was a multinational company involved in the manufacture of various rubber goods.
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Durham University
Durham University (legally the University of Durham) is a collegiate public research university in Durham, North East England, with a second campus in Stockton-on-Tees.
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E. M. Forster
Edward Morgan Forster (1 January 18797 June 1970) was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist.
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East African Community
The East African Community (EAC) is an intergovernmental organization composed of six countries in the African Great Lakes region in eastern Africa: Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.
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East Renfrewshire (UK Parliament constituency)
East Renfrewshire (known as Eastwood from 1983 until 2005) is a constituency of the House of Commons, to the south of Glasgow, Scotland.
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Eastern Bengal Railway
The Eastern Bengal Railway (full name Eastern Bengal Railway Company, shortened EBR) was one of the pioneering railway companies that operated from 1857 to 1942, in Bengal and Assam provinces of British India.
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Edmund Britten Jones
Sir Edmund Britten Jones (1888-1953), who was born in Adelaide, was educated at Christian Brothers' College and the University of Adelaide before being awarded a Rhodes Scholarship at the University of Oxford in 1912.
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Edmund Pery, 5th Earl of Limerick
Colonel Edmund Colquhoun Pery, 5th Earl of Limerick (16 October 1888 – 4 August 1967) was a British peer and soldier.
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Edward Fellowes (parliamentary official)
Sir Edward Abdy Fellowes, (23 June 189528 December 1970) was an official of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and a former British Army officer who saw active service during World War I. He served as Clerk of the House of Commons from 1954 to 1961.
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Edward Hoblyn Warren Bolitho
Sir Edward Hoblyn Warren Bolitho (1882 – 18 December 1969) was a Cornish landowner and politician.
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Edward Morgan Humphreys
Edward Morgan Humphreys (1882-1955) was a Welsh novelist, translator, and journalist, often known as E. Morgan Humphreys.
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Edward Twining
Edward Francis Twining, Baron Twining (29 June 1899 – 21 June 1967), known as Sir Edward Twining from 1949 to 1958, was a British diplomat, formerly Governor of North Borneo and Governor of Tanganyika.
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Edwin Wijeyeratne
Sir Edwin Aloysius Perera Wijeyeratne, KBE (Sinhala: ශ්රිමත් එඩ්වින් ඇලෝසියස් පෙරේරා විජයරත්න) (8 January 1889 – 19 October 1968) (known as Edwin Wijeyeratne) was a Sri Lankan politician, diplomat, and one of the founding members of United National Party.
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EKCO
EKCO (from Eric Kirkham Cole Limited) was a British electronics company producing radio and television sets from 1924 until 1960.
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Elizabeth II
Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; born 21 April 1926) is Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms.
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English Electric
The English Electric Company Limited was a British industrial manufacturer formed after the armistice of World War I at the end of 1918.
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Ernest Down
Lieutenant-General Sir Ernest Edward Down KBE CB (1902–1980) was a senior officer of the British Army, who saw active service during World War II.
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Ernest Gowers
Sir Ernest Arthur Gowers (2 June 1880 – 16 April 1966) is best remembered for his book Plain Words, first published in 1948, and for his revision of Fowler's Modern English Usage.
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Ernest Pooley
Sir Ernest Henry Pooley, 1st Baronet GCVO (20 November 1876 – 13 February 1966), was a British barrister and arts administrator.
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Eustace Percy, 1st Baron Percy of Newcastle
Eustace Sutherland Campbell Percy, 1st Baron Percy of Newcastle, PC (21 March 1887 – 3 April 1958), styled Lord Eustace Percy between 1899 and 1953, was a British diplomat, Conservative politician and public servant.
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Faraday Building
The Faraday Building was the GPO's first telephone exchange in London.
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Federation of Malaya
The Federation of Malaya (Persekutuan Tanah Melayu; Jawi: ڤرسكوتوان تانه ملايو) was a federation of 11 states (nine Malay states and two of the British Straits Settlements, Penang and Malacca)See: Cabinet Memorandum by the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
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Ferguson, Pailin & Co
Ferguson, Pailin & Co. was an English electrical engineering company based in Higher Openshaw, Manchester.
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Ferrocarril de Antofagasta a Bolivia
The Ferrocarril de Antofagasta a Bolivia (British company name: Antofagasta (Chili) & Bolivia Railway or FCAB for short) is a private railway operating in the northern provinces of Chile.
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First Civil Service Commissioner
The First Civil Service Commissioner heads the Office of Civil Service Commissioners, which ensures that the Civil Service in the United Kingdom is effective and impartial and that appointments are made on merit, and hears appeals under the Civil Service Code.
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Firth Brown Steels
Firth Brown Steels was initially formed in 1902, when Sheffield steelmakers John Brown & Company exchanged shares and came to a working agreement with neighbouring company Thomas Firth & Sons.
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Food and Drink Federation
The Food and Drink Federation (FDF) is a membership organisation that represents and advises UK food and drink manufacturers.
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Ford Motor Company
Ford Motor Company (commonly referred to simply as "Ford") is an American multinational automaker headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit.
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Forestry Commission
The Forestry Commission is a non-ministerial government department responsible for forestry in England and Scotland (on 1 April 2013 Forestry Commission Wales merged with other agencies to become Natural Resources Wales).
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Fort Halstead
Fort Halstead is a research site of Dstl, an executive agency of the UK Ministry of Defence.
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Fount of honour
The fount of honour (fons honorum) refers to a person, who, by virtue of his or her official position, has the exclusive right of conferring legitimate titles of nobility and orders of chivalry on other persons.
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Francis Weatherby
Sir Francis Weatherby MC (15 September 1885 – 17 November 1969) was an English cricketer, later a soldier and horse racing official.
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Frederick S. Boas
Frederick Samuel Boas, (1862–1957) was an English scholar of early modern drama.
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General Electric Company
The General Electric Company, or GEC, was a major UK-based industrial conglomerate involved in consumer and defence electronics, communications, and engineering.
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General Post Office
The General Post Office (GPO) was officially established in England in 1660 by Charles II and it eventually grew to combine the functions of state postal system and telecommunications carrier.
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Geoff Duke
Geoffrey Ernest Duke (29 March 1923 – 1 May 2015) was a British multiple motorcycle Grand Prix road racing world champion.
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Geoffrey Robson
Vice Admiral Sir William Geoffrey Arthur Robson, (10 March 1902 – 25 December 1989) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic Station.
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George Jones (RAAF officer)
Air Marshal Sir George Jones, (18 October 1896 – 24 August 1992) was a senior commander in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF).
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Glasgow Pollok (UK Parliament constituency)
Glasgow Pollok was a burgh constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 until 2005, when it was replaced by Glasgow South West.
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Godolphin and Latymer School
The Godolphin and Latymer School is an independent day school for girls in Hammersmith, West London.
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Gold Coast (British colony)
The Gold Coast was a British colony on the Gulf of Guinea in west Africa from 1867 to its independence as the nation of Ghana in 1957.
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Governor of Northern Nigeria
The Governor of Northern Nigeria is head of State of Northern Nigeria, The office was first established on 1 January 1897 with instruments from Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.
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Guy Lloyd
Sir Ernest Guy Richard Lloyd, 1st Baronet, DSO (7 August 1890 – 22 September 1987) was an English-descent Scottish Unionist Party politician.
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H. D. G. Leveson Gower
Sir Henry Dudley Gresham Leveson Gower (8 May 1873 – 1 February 1954) was an English cricketer from the Leveson-Gower family.
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Harland and Wolff
Harland & Wolff Heavy Industries is a heavy industrial company, specialising in ship repair, conversion, and offshore construction, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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Harold Jeffreys
Sir Harold Jeffreys, FRS (22 April 1891 – 18 March 1989) was a British mathematician, statistician, geophysicist, and astronomer.
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Harold Nicolson
Sir Harold George Nicolson (21 November 1886 – 1 May 1968) was a British diplomat, author, diarist and politician.
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Harold Sutcliffe
Sir Harold Sutcliffe (11 December 1897 – 20 January 1958) was a British Conservative Party politician and businessman.
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Harry Llewellyn
Sir Harry Morton Llewellyn, 3rd Baronet, CBE (18 July 1911 – 15 November 1999) was a British equestrian champion.
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Herbert Butcher
Sir Herbert Walter Butcher, 1st Baronet (12 June 1901 – 11 May 1966) was an English Conservative and National Liberal politician.
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Herbert Gybbon-Monypenny
Herbert Reginald Dauphin Gybbon-Monypenny CBE (1895–1988) was a British diplomat.
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Herbert Read
Sir Herbert Edward Read, DSO, MC (4 December 1893 – 12 June 1968) was an English art historian, poet, literary critic and philosopher, best known for numerous books on art, which included influential volumes on the role of art in education.
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Heywood and Royton (UK Parliament constituency)
Heywood and Royton was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Heywood and Royton districts in the north-west of Greater Manchester.
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HM Prison Dartmoor
HM Prison Dartmoor is a Category C men's prison, located in Princetown, high on Dartmoor in the English county of Devon.
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HM Prison Feltham
HM Prison Feltham (more commonly known as Feltham Young Offenders Institution) is a prison for male juveniles and Young Offenders Institution, located near the town of Feltham within the London Borough of Hounslow, in west London, England.
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HM Prison Wakefield
Her Majesty's Prison Wakefield is a Category A men's prison, located in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England.
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HMNB Portsmouth
Her Majesty's Naval Base, Portsmouth (HMNB Portsmouth) is one of three operating bases in the United Kingdom for the British Royal Navy (the others being HMNB Clyde and HMNB Devonport).
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Holland with Boston (UK Parliament constituency)
Holland with Boston was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 to 1997.
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Home Office
The Home Office (HO) is a ministerial department of Her Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom, responsible for immigration, security and law and order.
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Honours Committee
The Honours Committee is a committee within the Cabinet Office of the Government of the United Kingdom formed to review nominations for national honours for merit, exceptional achievement or service.
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Hugh Loveday Beazley
His Honour Sir Hugh Loveday Beazley (16 October 1880–17 July 1964) was a County Court Judge (1934-1937), a Judge of the Mayor's and City of London Court (1937-1942) and the Common Serjeant of London (1942-1953).
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Hugh McCrae
Hugh Raymond McCrae (4 October 1876 – 17 February 1958) was an Australian writer.
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Hugh O'Neill, 1st Baron Rathcavan
Robert William Hugh O'Neill, 1st Baron Rathcavan, (8 June 1883 – 28 November 1982), known as Sir Hugh O'Neill, Bt, from 1929 to 1953, was an Ulster Unionist member of both the Parliament of the United Kingdom and the Parliament of Northern Ireland.
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Humber Limited
Humber Limited was a British manufacturer of bicycles, motorcycles and motor vehicles incorporated and listed on the stock exchange in 1887.
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Ian Orr-Ewing (Weston-super-Mare MP)
Sir Ian Leslie Orr-Ewing (4 June 1893 – 27 April 1958) was a British Conservative Party politician.
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Idris Shah II of Perak
Sultan Idris Iskandar Al-Mutawakkil Alallahi Shah II Ibni Almarhum Sultan Iskandar Shah Kaddasullah, CMG (17 August 1924 – 31 January 1984) was the 33rd Sultan of Perak from 5 January 1963 until his death on 31 January 1984.
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Imperial Chemical Industries
Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) was a British chemical company and was, for much of its history, the largest manufacturer in Britain.
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Inverness Burgh Police
The Inverness Burgh Police was the police force responsible for the Royal Burgh of Inverness, Scotland from 1847 until 1968.
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Investiture
Investiture, from the Latin (preposition in and verb vestire, "dress" from vestis "robe"), is the formal installation of an incumbent.
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Irish Linen Guild
Founded in 1928, the Irish Linen Guild is a promotional organization of the Irish Linen industry.
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Iron and Steel Trades Confederation
The Iron and Steel Trades Confederation (ISTC) was a British trade union for metal-workers and allied groups, being the largest union in these fields.
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Ivone Kirkpatrick
Sir Ivone Augustine Kirkpatrick (1897 – 25 May 1964) was a British diplomat who served as the British High Commissioner in Germany after World War II, and as the Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (the highest-ranking civil servant in the Foreign Office).
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J. Lyons and Co.
J.
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J. Samuel White
J.
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James Miller (Lord Provost)
Sir James Miller FRSE GBE (1905-1971) was a Scottish businessman and politician, who served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh and Lord Mayor of London.
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James Wilfred Jefford
Vice Admiral James Wilfred Jefford CB, CBE, RN, RIN, RPN (22 March 1901 - 1 January 1980) was the first Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Pakistan Navy, serving from its inception in 1947 until 1953.
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Jockey Club
The Jockey Club is the largest commercial horse racing organisation in the United Kingdom.
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John Alexander Sinclair
Sir John Alexander Sinclair, (29 May 1897 – 22 March 1977) was a British Army general who was head of the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) from 1953 to 1956.
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John Brown & Company
John Brown and Company of Clydebank was a British marine engineering and shipbuilding firm.
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John Craik-Henderson
Professor John James Craik-Henderson (21 December 1890 – 3 December 1971) was a British Conservative Party politician.
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John Cuthbert (Royal Navy officer)
Vice Admiral Sir John Wilson Cuthbert KBE CB DL (9 April 1902 – 7 December 1987) was a Royal Navy officer who became Flag Officer, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
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John Edelsten
Admiral Sir John Hereward Edelsten (1891–1966) was a senior Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth.
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John Fearns Nicoll
Sir John Fearns Nicoll, (18991981) was a British colonial governor.
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John Lysaght and Co.
John Lysaght and Co. was an iron and steel company established in Bristol, England and with later operations in Wolverhampton, Newport, and Scunthorpe.
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John Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara
Lieutenant-Colonel John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara, (8 February 1884 – 17 May 1964) was an English aviation pioneer and Conservative politician.
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Joseph Totterdell
Sir Joseph Totterdell (4 August 1885 – 26 December 1959) was an Australian politician who was the Lord Mayor of Perth from 1945 to 1953.
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Karachi Port Trust
Karachi Port Trust (کراچی پورٹ ٹرسٹ) (KPT) is a Pakistani federal government agency that oversees the operations of the Port of Karachi in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.
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Kathiri
Kathiri (الكثيري al-Kathīrī, officially the Kathiri State of Seiyun in Hadhramaut (السلطنة الكثيرية - سيؤن - حضرموت al-Salṭanah al-Kathīrīyah - Sayʾūn - Ḥaḍramawt) was a sultanate in the Hadhramaut region of the southern Arabian Peninsula, in what is now part of Yemen and the Dhofar region of Oman.
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Kathleen Ferrier
Kathleen Mary Ferrier, CBE (22 April 19128 October 1953) was an English contralto singer who achieved an international reputation as a stage, concert and recording artist, with a repertoire extending from folksong and popular ballads to the classical works of Bach, Brahms, Mahler and Elgar.
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Keeper of the Privy Purse
The Keeper of the Privy Purse and Treasurer to the King/Queen (or Financial Secretary to the King) is responsible for the financial management of the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom.
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Keith Hancock (historian)
Sir William Keith Hancock KBE, FBA (26 June 189813 August 1988) was Australia's "most distinguished historian".
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Kenneth Hubbard
Group Captain Kenneth Gilbert Hubbard (26 February 1920 – 21 January 2004) was the pilot of an RAF Vickers Valiant bomber which dropped Britain's first live thermonuclear weapon (H-Bomb) in Operation Grapple in the Central Pacific Ocean in May 1957.
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King's Regiment (Liverpool)
The King's Regiment (Liverpool) was one of the oldest line infantry regiments of the British Army, having been formed in 1685 and numbered as the 8th (The King's) Regiment of Foot in 1751.
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Kitui County
Kitui County is a county in the former Eastern Province of Kenya.
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Kuwait Oil Company
The Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) is an oil company headquartered in Ahmadi, Kuwait.
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Latin Catholic Diocese of Gibraltar
The Latin Bishop of Gibraltar is the ordinary of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gibraltar, covering the British overseas territory of Gibraltar, which is exempt, i.e. immediately subject to the Holy See, not part of any ecclesiastical province, nor is it part of any (Spanish or British) episcopal conference.
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Leader of Alderney
The Leader of Alderney is the civil leader of Alderney.
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Leyland Motors
Leyland Motors Limited was a British vehicle manufacturer of lorries, buses and trolleybuses.
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Lindisfarne
The Holy Island of Lindisfarne, also known simply as Holy Island, is a tidal island off the northeast coast of England, which constitutes the civil parish of Holy Island in Northumberland.
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Lindsay Hassett
Arthur Lindsay Hassett MBE (28 August 1913 – 16 June 1993) was a cricketer who played for Victoria and Australia.
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List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Laos
The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Laos is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative to the Lao People's Democratic Republic.
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List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Lebanon
The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Lebanon is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in the Lebanese Republic, and head of the UK's diplomatic mission in Beirut.
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List of Consuls-General of the United Kingdom to Jerusalem
The British Consul General to Jerusalem is based at 15 Nashashibi Street in Sheikh Jarrah quarter, Jerusalem.
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List of governors of British Guiana
The Governor of British Guiana was the Crown representative in British Guiana.
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List of governors of Tanganyika
The colony of German East Africa was founded in the 1880s, after the German explorer Carl Peters signed treaties with native chieftains on neighboring Zanzibar.
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List of Mayors and Lord Mayors of Perth
This is a list of the mayors and lord mayors of the City of Perth, a local government area of Western Australia.
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List of provosts of Edinburgh
The Right Honourable Lord Provost of Edinburgh is the convener of the City of Edinburgh local authority.
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List of Royal Air Force Maintenance units
The following is a list of Royal Air Force Maintenance Units (MU).
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Liverpool Garston (UK Parliament constituency)
Liverpool Garston was a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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Liverpool Wavertree (UK Parliament constituency)
Liverpool, Wavertree is a borough constituency of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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Llanishen
Llanishen (Welsh Llanisien llan church + Isien Saint Isan) is a district and community in the north of Cardiff, the capital city of Wales.
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Lloyd's of London
Lloyd's of London, generally known simply as Lloyd's, is an insurance market located in London, United Kingdom.
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Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall
This is a list of people who have served as Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall.
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Lords Commissioners of the Treasury
In the United Kingdom there are at least six Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, serving as a commission for the ancient office of Lord High Treasurer.
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M. Srikantha
Mylvakanam Srikantha (17 September 1913 – 4 February 1982) was a leading Ceylon Tamil civil servant.
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Macaulay Institute
The Macaulay Institute, formally the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute and sometimes referred to simply as The Macaulay is a research institute based at Aberdeen in Scotland, which is now part of the James Hutton Institute.
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Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood
Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood (Victoria Alexandra Alice Mary; 25 April 1897 – 28 March 1965) was a member of the British royal family; she was the third child and only daughter of King George V and Queen Mary.
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Meals on Wheels
Meals on Wheels is a program that delivers meals to individuals at home who are unable to purchase or prepare their own meals.
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Medical Research Council (United Kingdom)
The Medical Research Council (MRC) is responsible for co-coordinating and funding medical research in the United Kingdom.
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Met Office
The Met Office (officially the Meteorological Office) is the United Kingdom's national weather service.
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Metropolitan Police Service
The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), commonly known as the Metropolitan Police and informally as the Met, is the territorial police force responsible for law enforcement in Greater London, excluding the "square mile" of the City of London, which is the responsibility of the City of London Police.
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Michelin
Michelin (full name: SCA Compagnie Générale des Établissements Michelin) is a French tyre manufacturer based in Clermont-Ferrand in the Auvergne région of France.
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Mid Antrim (UK Parliament constituency)
Mid Antrim was a UK Parliament constituency in Ireland which returned one Member of Parliament from 1885 to 1922, using the first past the post electoral system.
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Middle East Command
Middle East Command, later Middle East Land Forces, was a British Army Command established prior to the Second World War in Egypt.
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Middlesex County Council
Middlesex County Council was the principal local government body in the administrative county of Middlesex from 1889 to 1965.
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Midland Red
Midland Red Midland Red Omnibus Company Limited formerly Birmingham & Midland Motor Omnibus Company Limited was a bus company that operated in The Midlands from 1905 until 1981.
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Milk Marketing Board
The Milk Marketing Board was a producer-run product marketing board, established by the Agricultural Marketing Act in 1933 to control milk production and distribution in the United Kingdom.
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Ministry of Labour (United Kingdom)
The Ministry of Labour was a British government department established by the New Ministries and Secretaries Act 1916.
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Monarch
A monarch is a sovereign head of state in a monarchy.
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Mukhtar
Mukhtar (also spelled Muktar) meaning "chosen" in المختار, is the head of a village or mahalle (neighbourhood) in many Arab countries as well as in Turkey, Cyprus and Kazakhstan.
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Mullard
Mullard Limited was a British manufacturer of electronic components.
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Myles Kenyon
Myles Noel Kenyon (25 December 1886 – 21 November 1960) was an English cricketer.
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National Assistance Board
The National Assistance Board was established by the National Assistance Act 1948 and abolished by the Supplementary Benefit Act 1966.
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National Dock Labour Board
The National Dock Labour Board (NDLB), which administered the National Dock Labour Scheme, was an administrative board for the operation of British docks.
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National Eisteddfod of Wales
The National Eisteddfod of Wales (Welsh: Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru) is the most important of several eisteddfodau that are held annually, mostly in Wales.
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National Farmers' Union of England and Wales
The National Farmers' Union (NFU) is a member organisation/industry association for farmers in England and Wales.
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National Hospital of Sri Lanka
The National Hospital of Sri Lanka (sometimes General Hospital) is a government hospital in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
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National Library of Scotland
The National Library of Scotland (Leabharlann Nàiseanta na h-Alba, Naitional Leebrar o Scotland) is the legal deposit library of Scotland and is one of the country's National Collections.
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National Maritime Museum
The National Maritime Museum (NMM) in Greenwich, London, is the leading maritime museum of the United Kingdom and may be the largest museum of its kind in the world.
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National Savings Movement
The National Savings Movement was a British mass savings movement that operated between 1916 and 1978 and was used to finance the deficit of government spending over tax revenues.
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Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes
The Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes (NAAFI) is an organisation created by the British government in 1921 to run recreational establishments needed by the British Armed Forces, and to sell goods to servicemen and their families.
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Neville Duke
Squadron Leader Neville Frederick Duke, (11 January 1922 – 7 April 2007) was a British test pilot and fighter ace of the Second World War.
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New Zealand Shipping Company
The New Zealand Shipping Company (NZSC) was a shipping company whose ships ran passenger and cargo services between Great Britain and New Zealand between 1873 and 1973.
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NHS Blood and Transplant
NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) is an executive non-departmental public body of England's Department of Health and Social Care.
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Nicolas Cheetham
Sir Nicolas Cheetham (8 October 1910 – 14 January 2002) was a British diplomat and writer.
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Norman Gregg
Sir Norman McAlister Gregg, (7 March 1892 – 27 July 1966) was an Australian ophthalmologist, who discovered that rubella suffered by a pregnant woman could cause birth defects in her child (congenital rubella syndrome).
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North Antrim (UK Parliament constituency)
North Antrim is a parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom House of Commons.
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North Borneo
North Borneo (usually known as British North Borneo, also known as the State of North Borneo) was a British protectorate located in the northern part of the island of Borneo.
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Northern Ireland Tourist Board
The Northern Ireland Tourist Board (NITB) (Bord Turasóireachta Thuaisceart Éireann; Ulster-Scots: Norlin Airlann Reengin Boord) is a non-departmental public body of the Department for the Economy.
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Nursing and Midwifery Council
The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) is the regulator for nursing and midwifery professions in the UK.
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OECD
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD; Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques, OCDE) is an intergovernmental economic organisation with 35 member countries, founded in 1961 to stimulate economic progress and world trade.
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Order of the Garter
The Order of the Garter (formally the Most Noble Order of the Garter) is an order of chivalry founded by Edward III in 1348 and regarded as the most prestigious British order of chivalry (though in precedence inferior to the military Victoria Cross and George Cross) in England and the United Kingdom.
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Orders, decorations, and medals of the United Kingdom
The British honours system is a means of rewarding individuals' personal bravery, achievement, or service to the United Kingdom and the British Overseas Territories.
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Orient Steam Navigation Company
The Orient Steam Navigation Company, also known as the Orient Line, was a British shipping company with roots going back to the late 18th century.
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Osborne House
Osborne House is a former royal residence in East Cowes, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom.
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Ove Arup
Sir Ove Nyquist Arup, CBE, MICE, MIStructE, FCIOB (16 April 1895 – 5 February 1988) was an English engineer who founded Arup Group Limited, a multinational corporation that offers engineering, design, planning, project management, and consulting services for building systems.
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Pakistan Navy
The Pakistan Navy (rtl; Pɑkistan Bahri'a) (reporting name: PN) is the naval warfare branch of the Pakistan Armed Forces, responsible for Pakistan's of coastline along the Arabian Sea, and the defence of important civilian harbours and military bases.
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PD Ports
PD Ports is a Middlesbrough, UK headquartered port, shipping and logistics company; owner of Teesport, and ports at Hartlepool, Howden and Keadby; with additional operations at the Port of Felixstowe, Port of Immingham, and Port of Hull.
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Perkins Engines
Perkins Engines (officially Perkins Engines Company Limited), a subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc., is primarily a diesel engine manufacturer for several markets including Agricultural, Construction, Material Handling, Power Generation and Industrial.
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Peter MacCallum
Sir Peter MacCallum MC FRSE FRCPE (14 July 1885 – 4 March 1974) was a Scottish-born Australian oncologist and the co-founder and eponym of the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne.
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Philip McBride
Sir Philip Albert Martin McBride KCMG (18 June 1892 – 14 July 1982) was an Australian politician.
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Pilkington
Pilkington Group Limited is a multinational glass-manufacturing company headquartered in St Helens, United Kingdom and a wholly owned subsidiary of the Japan-based NSG Group.
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Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy
The Plumian chair of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy is one of the two major Professorships in Astronomy at Cambridge University, alongside the Lowndean Professorship.
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Port of London Authority
The Port of London Authority (PLA) is a self-funding public trust established by the Port of London Act 1908 to govern the Port of London.
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Premier of Western Australia
The Premier of Western Australia is the head of the executive branch of government in the Australian state of Western Australia.
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Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service
Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service (PMRAFNS) is the nursing branch of the British Royal Air Force.
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Public Record Office
The Public Record Office (abbreviated as PRO, pronounced as three letters and referred to as the PRO), Chancery Lane in the City of London, was the guardian of the national archives of the United Kingdom from 1838 until 2003, when it was merged with the Historical Manuscripts Commission to form The National Archives, based at Kew.
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Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps
Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps (QARANC; pronounced kwa-rank) is the nursing branch of the British Army and part of the Army Medical Services.
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Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service
Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service (QARNNS) is the nursing branch of the British Royal Navy.
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Queen Elizabeth High School, Carmarthen
Queen Elizabeth High School is a comprehensive school for Carmarthen town and its surrounding areas.
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Queen's University Belfast
Queen's University Belfast (informally Queen's or QUB) is a public research university in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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R. C. M. Jenkins
Robert Cyril Morton Jenkins, OBE, KPM, OStJ (1898–1973) was a senior British police officer.
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RAF Kinloss
RAF Kinloss is a former Royal Air Force station located near the village of Kinloss, on the Moray Firth in the north of Scotland.
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RAF West Ruislip
RAF West Ruislip was a Ministry of Defence site, located in Ickenham within the London Borough of Hillingdon.
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Raleigh Bicycle Company
The Raleigh Bicycle Company is a bicycle manufacturer based in Nottingham, England.
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Reynolds Stone
Alan Reynolds Stone, CBE, RDI (13 March 1909 – 23 June 1979), more commonly known as Reynolds Stone, was a noted English wood engraver, engraver, designer, typographer and painter.
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Richard Gale (British Army officer)
General Sir Richard Nelson "Windy" Gale (25 July 1896 – 29 July 1982) was a senior officer in the British Army who served in both world wars.
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Robert McCance
Robert Alexander McCance CBE, FRS, BA Cantab, MA, MRCS, LRCP, MD, MRCP, FRCP, DSc(Hon) Belfast (9 December 1898 in Ulster– 3 March 1993 in Cambridge) was a paediatrician and the first Professor of Experimental Medicine at the University of Cambridge.
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Rodrigo Moynihan
(Herbert George) Rodrigo Moynihan (17 October 1910 – 6 November 1990) was an English painter, credited with being a pioneer of abstract painting in England.
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ROF Swynnerton
ROF Swynnerton was a Royal Ordnance Filling factory built in 1939–40.
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Roger Makins, 1st Baron Sherfield
Roger Mellor Makins, 1st Baron Sherfield, (3 February 1904 – 9 November 1996), was a British diplomat who served as British Ambassador to the United States from 1953 to 1956.
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Rose Leveson-Gower, Countess Granville
Rose Leveson-Gower, Countess Granville, GCVO (née Lady Rose Constance Bowes-Lyon, 6 May 1890 – 17 November 1967)Charles Mosley, editor.
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Ross McLarty
Sir Duncan Ross McLarty (17 March 1891 – 22 December 1962) was an Australian politician and the 17th Premier of Western Australia.
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Roxbee Cox, Baron Kings Norton
Harold Roxbee Cox, Baron Kings Norton (6 June 1902 – 21 December 1997) was a British aeronautical engineer.
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Roy Dowling
Vice Admiral Sir Roy Russell Dowling, (28 May 1901 – 15 April 1969) was a senior commander in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).
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Royal Air Force
The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's aerial warfare force.
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Royal Army Medical Corps
The Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) is a specialist corps in the British Army which provides medical services to all Army personnel and their families, in war and in peace.
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Royal Arsenal
The Royal Arsenal, Woolwich carried out armaments manufacture, ammunition proofing, and explosives research for the British armed forces at a site on the south bank of the River Thames in Woolwich in south-east London, England, United Kingdom.
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Royal Australian Air Force Nursing Service
The Royal Australian Air Force Nursing Service (RAAFNS) was a branch of the Royal Australian Air Force, which existed from 1940 to 1946, and from 1948 to 1977.
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Royal College of Art
The Royal College of Art (RCA) is a public research university in London, in the United Kingdom.
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Royal College of Nursing
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) is a membership organisation and trade union with over 432,000 members in the United Kingdom.
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Royal College of Science and Technology
The Royal College of Science and Technology was the principal predecessor institution of the University of Strathclyde, and now serves as one of the main educational buildings of the University of Strathclyde.
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Royal Mail Steam Packet Company
The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company was a British shipping company founded in London in 1839 by a Scot, James MacQueen.
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Royal Military College of Science
The Royal Military College of Science (RMCS) was a British postgraduate school, research institution and training provider with origins dating back to 1772.
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Royal Mint
The Royal Mint is a government-owned mint that produces coins for the United Kingdom.
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Royal National Institute of Blind People
The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) is a UK charity offering information, support and advice to almost two million people in the UK with sight loss.
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Royal Naval College, Greenwich
The Royal Naval College, Greenwich, was a Royal Navy training establishment between 1873 and 1998, providing courses for naval officers.
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Royal Observer Corps
The Royal Observer Corps (ROC) was a civil defence organisation intended for the visual detection, identification, tracking and reporting of aircraft over Great Britain.
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Royal Ordnance Factory
Royal Ordnance Factories (ROFs) was the collective name of the UK government's munitions factories in and after World War II.
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Royal Scottish Academy
The Royal Scottish Academy (RSA) is the country’s national academy of art.
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Royal Ulster Constabulary
The Royal Ulster Constabulary was the police force in Northern Ireland from 1922 to 2001.
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Royal Victorian Order
The Royal Victorian Order (Ordre royal de Victoria) is a dynastic order of knighthood established in 1896 by Queen Victoria.
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Royal West African Frontier Force
The West African Frontier Force (WAFF) was a multi-battalion field force, formed by the British Colonial Office in 1900 to garrison the West African colonies of Nigeria, Gold Coast, Sierra Leone and Gambia.
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Royton (UK Parliament constituency)
Royton was, from 1918 to 1950, a parliamentary constituency of the United Kingdom, centred on Royton in North West England.
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Samuel Hood, 6th Viscount Hood
Samuel Hood, 6th Viscount Hood GCMG (15 October 1910 – 13 October 1981) was a Foreign Office official and diplomat.
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Sellafield
Sellafield is a nuclear fuel reprocessing and nuclear decommissioning site, close to the village of Seascale on the coast of the Irish Sea in Cumbria, England.
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Sheriffs of the City of London
Two Sheriffs are elected annually for the City of London by the Liverymen of the City Livery Companies.
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Sir Anthony Buzzard, 2nd Baronet
Rear-Admiral Sir Anthony Wass Buzzard, 2nd Baronet, (28 April 1902 – 10 March 1972) was an officer in the Royal Navy who served as Director of Naval Intelligence from 1951 to 1954.
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Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Travers Harris, 1st Baronet, (13 April 1892 – 5 April 1984), commonly known as "Bomber" Harris by the press and often within the RAF as "Butcher" Harris, was Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief (AOC-in-C) RAF Bomber Command during the height of the Anglo-American strategic bombing campaign against Nazi Germany in the Second World War.
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Sir John McEwen, 1st Baronet
Sir John Helias Finnie McEwen, 1st Baronet or Jock McEwen (21 June 1894 – 19 April 1962), was a Scottish Unionist politician who served in the House of Commons as Conservative Member of Parliament for Berwick and Haddington from 1931 until 1945.
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Soldier Magazine
SOLDIER Magazine, the official monthly publication of the British Army, is produced by an in-house team and published by the Ministry of Defence.
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South East Essex (UK Parliament constituency)
South East Essex (in its first incarnation formally the South Eastern division of Essex) was a parliamentary constituency in Essex in the East of England.
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Speaker of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland
The Speaker of the Northern Ireland House of Commons was the presiding officer of the lower house of Parliament in Northern Ireland from 1921 to 1972.
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SSAFA
SSAFA - the Armed Forces charity, formerly known as Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association, is a UK charity that provides lifelong support to serving men and women and veterans from the British Armed Forces and their families or dependents.
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Strathclyde Police
Strathclyde Police was the territorial police force responsible for the Scottish council areas of Argyll and Bute, City of Glasgow, East Ayrshire, East Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire, Inverclyde, North Ayrshire, North Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, South Ayrshire, South Lanarkshire and West Dunbartonshire (The former Strathclyde local government region) between 1975 and 2013.
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Supreme Court of Sierra Leone
The Supreme Court of Sierra Leone is the highest court in Sierra Leone.
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Supreme Court of Sri Lanka
The Supreme Court of Sri Lanka (Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා ශ්රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණය Sri Lanka Sreshthadikaranaya)(Tamil: இலங்கை உயர் நீதிமன்றம் Ilankai ucca nitimanram) is the highest court of Sri Lanka.
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Surrey County Cricket Club
Surrey County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales.
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Swan Hunter
Swan Hunter, formerly known as "Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson", is a shipbuilding design, engineering, and management company, based in Wallsend, Tyne and Wear.
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T. B. Poholiyadde
Wasala Bandaranayake Herat Mudiyanse Ralahamillage Tikiri Banda Poholiyadde, MBE, JP (10 July 1890 - 1956), commonly known as T. B. Poholiyadde Dissawa, was a Ceylonese colonial-era headman and politician.
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Tanganyika
Tanganyika was a sovereign state, comprising the mainland part of present-day Tanzania, that existed from 1961 until 1964.
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Territorial, Auxiliary and Volunteer Reserve Association
The Territorial Auxiliary and Volunteer Reserve Associations were formed in 1908 under the provisions of the Territorial and Reserve Forces Act 1907 to provide local support to the Territorial Force in the United Kingdom.
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The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association
The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association (working name Guide Dogs) is a British charitable organisation founded in 1934.
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The Mission to Seafarers
The Mission to Seafarers (formerly The Missions to Seamen) is a Christian welfare charity serving merchant crews around the world.
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Thomas Galbraith, 1st Baron Strathclyde
Thomas Dunlop Galbraith, 1st Baron Strathclyde, PC (20 March 1891 – 12 July 1985) was a Scottish Unionist Party politician.
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Thomas Padmore
Sir Thomas Padmore GCB was a British Civil Servant born in Sheffield on the 23 April 1909.
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Timken Company
The Timken Company is a global manufacturer of bearings, and related components and assemblies.
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Ulick Alexander
Sir James Ulick Francis Canning Alexander (10 February 1889 – 4 April 1973) was a British Army officer, businessman and courtier in several of the Royal Households of the United Kingdom.
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Under-Secretary of State for India
This is a list of Parliamentary Under-Secretaries of State and Permanent Under-Secretaries of State at the India Office during the period of British rule between 1866 and 1948, and for Burma from 1858 to 1948.
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Under-Secretary of State for Scotland
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland, often referred to as Under-Secretary of State for Scotland is a junior ministerial post (of Parliamentary Under Secretary of State rank) in the United Kingdom government, supporting the Secretary of State for Scotland.
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United Automobile Services
United Automobile Services was a bus operator operating in North Yorkshire and North East England.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.
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University of Birmingham
The University of Birmingham (informally Birmingham University) is a public research university located in Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
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University of Liverpool
The University of Liverpool is a public university based in the city of Liverpool, England.
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University of Melbourne
The University of Melbourne is a public research university located in Melbourne, Australia.
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Valston Hancock
Air Marshal Sir Valston Eldridge (Val) Hancock, (31 May 1907 – 29 September 1998) was a senior commander in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF).
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Vickers-Armstrongs
Vickers-Armstrongs Limited was a British engineering conglomerate formed by the merger of the assets of Vickers Limited and Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Company in 1927.
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Victor Raikes
Sir Henry Victor Alpin MacKinnon Raikes KBE (19 January 1901 – 18 April 1986) was a British Conservative politician.
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Victoria and Albert Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.3 million objects.
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Walter Fletcher (politician)
Sir Walter Fletcher (8 April 1892 – 6 April 1956) was a British businessman and Conservative Party politician.
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War Damage Commission
The War Damage Commission was a body set up by the British Government under the War Damage Act 1941 to pay compensation for war damage to land and buildings throughout the United Kingdom.
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Westinghouse Brake and Signal Company Ltd
The Westinghouse Brake & Signal Company Ltd was created in 1935 when the Westinghouse Brake & Saxby Signal Company Ltd, dropped the 'Saxby' from their title.
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Weston-super-Mare (UK Parliament constituency)
Weston-super-Mare is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2005 by John Penrose, a Conservative.
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Wilder Penfield
Wilder Graves Penfield (January 26, 1891April 5, 1976) was an American-Canadian neurosurgeon.
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William Dickson (RAF officer)
Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir William Forster Dickson, (24 September 1898 – 12 September 1987) was a Royal Naval Air Service aviator during the First World War, a senior officer in the Royal Air Force during the inter-war years and a Royal Air Force commander during and after the Second World War.
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William Holford, Baron Holford
William Graham Holford, Baron Holford (22 March 1907 – 17 October 1975) was a British architect and town planner.
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William Oliphant Hutchison
Sir William Oliphant Hutchison LLD PRSA (2 July 1889 in Kirkcaldy – 5 February 1970 in Kensington, London) was a Scottish portrait and landscape painter.
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William Thompson (bishop)
The Rt Rev William Jameson Thompson, CBE, DD (27 October 1885 – 17 November 1975) was a long-serving Anglican bishop who spent much of his career in Iran (then Persia).
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York and North East Yorkshire Police
The York and North East Yorkshire Police was a police force in England from 1968 to 1974, covering the North Riding of Yorkshire, the East Riding of Yorkshire and the county borough of York.
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Zachary Cope
Sir Vincent Zachary Cope MD MS FRCS (14 February 1881 – 28 December 1974) was an English physician, surgeon, author, historian and poet perhaps best known for authoring the book Cope's Early Diagnosis of the Acute Abdomen from 1921 until 1971.
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Zaria
Zaria is a major city in Kaduna State in northern Nigeria, as well as being a Local Government Area.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_New_Year_Honours
