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Solihull School

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Solihull School is a coeducational independent school situated near the centre of Solihull, West Midlands, England. [1]

138 relations: Acre, Adrian Ellison, Alps, Andrew MacKay, Andy Dickens, Aoife Mannion, Aristocracy (class), Australia, Badminton, Basketball, Bert Millichip, Big band, Boarding school, Canada, Caroline Clive, Catherine of Alexandria, Cecil Aldin, Chantry, Chapel, Chile, Christopher Ingham, Church of England, Clay pigeon shooting, Combined Cadet Force, Cricket, Cross country running, Daniel Caines, David Briggs (English musician), David Tustin, Derek Higgs, Donald Logan, East India Company, Elizabeth II, England, Essay, Feoffee, Field hockey, Fischer-Z, France, Frank Foster (cricketer), Frank H. T. Rhodes, Genesis P-Orridge, Golf, Head teacher, Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, House of Windsor, Independent school (United Kingdom), Independent Schools Football Association, Italy, J. A. Chatwin, ..., James Barralet, James Hudson (rugby union), Jamie Spires, Jim Proudfoot, Jimmy Wallis, John Butt (musician), John Butterfield, Baron Butterfield, John Curry, John Taylor (classical scholar), Johnnie Walker (DJ), Keith Jones (cricketer, born 1951), Lacrosse, Laurence Cummings, Lieutenant colonel, List of lexicographers, Listed building, Lizo Mzimba, Malcolm Burley, Mary, mother of Jesus, Matthew Macklin, Michael Buerk, Mike Bullen, Mike Rawson, Miles Ratledge, Mixed-sex education, Napalm Death, Nepal, Netball, New Zealand, North Wales, Oliver Wright, Paul Hale, Pavilion, PDF, Peerage of the United Kingdom, Pembroke College, Oxford, Peru, Peter John Harding, Philip Achille, Philip Oakey, Quadrangle (architecture), Richard Alan Cross, Richard Hammond, Richard Jago, Richard Johnson (cricketer, born 1988), Richard Weber (mathematician), Richard Wolfson (musician), Ritchie Neville, Robert Short (East India Company officer), Robert Vilain, Roger Tayler, Rounders, Rugby football, Rugby School, Rugby sevens, Rugby union, Sailing, Samuel Johnson, Simon Mayo, Snowdonia, Solihull, South Africa, Squash (sport), Stevie Parle, Stewart Lee, Swimming (sport), Tennis, Tennis court, The Duke of Edinburgh's Award, The Human League, The Midlands, Tibet, Towering Inferno (band), Track and field, Twenty20, University College, Oxford, University of Bristol, University of Notre Dame, Walter Jackson Bate, Warin Foster Bushell, Warwick School, Warwickshire, Warwickshire County Cricket Club, Water polo, West Midlands (county), Will Grigg, William Shenstone, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack. Expand index (88 more) »

Acre

The acre is a unit of land area used in the imperial and US customary systems.

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Adrian Ellison

Adrian Ellison (born 11 September 1958) and is a retired English rowing cox.

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Alps

The Alps (Alpes; Alpen; Alpi; Alps; Alpe) are the highest and most extensive mountain range system that lies entirely in Europe,The Caucasus Mountains are higher, and the Urals longer, but both lie partly in Asia.

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Andrew MacKay

Andrew James MacKay (born 27 August 1949) is a British Conservative Party politician, and was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bracknell in Berkshire from 1997 to 2010.

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Andy Dickens

Andy Dickens (born 11 March 1953) is an English jazz trumpeter, singer and bandleader.

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Aoife Mannion

Aoife Mannion (born 24 September 1995) is an English football defender who plays for Birmingham City L.F.C.

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Aristocracy (class)

The aristocracy is a social class that a particular society considers its highest order.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Badminton

Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net.

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Basketball

Basketball is a team sport played on a rectangular court.

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Bert Millichip

Sir Frederick Albert Millichip (5 August 1914 – 18 December 2002) was an English association footballer best known for his sometimes controversial contributions to the administration of the game.

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Big band

A big band is a type of musical ensemble that usually consists of ten or more musicians with four sections: saxophones, trumpets, trombones, and a rhythm section.

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Boarding school

A boarding school provides education for pupils who live on the premises, as opposed to a day school.

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Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

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Caroline Clive

Caroline Clive, sometimes known as Caroline Wigley Clive (24 June 1801 – 13 July 1872) was an English writer born Caroline Meysey-Wigley in Brompton Grove, London to Edmund Meysey-Wigley of Shakenhurst, Worcestershire and Anna Marie Meysey.

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Catherine of Alexandria

Saint Catherine of Alexandria, or Saint Catharine of Alexandria, also known as Saint Catherine of the Wheel and The Great Martyr Saint Catherine (Ϯⲁⲅⲓⲁ Ⲕⲁⲧⲧⲣⲓⲛ, ἡ Ἁγία Αἰκατερίνη ἡ Μεγαλομάρτυς – translation: Holy Catherine the Great Martyr) is, according to tradition, a Christian saint and virgin, who was martyred in the early 4th century at the hands of the pagan emperor Maxentius.

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Cecil Aldin

Cecil Charles Windsor Aldin, (28 April 1870 – 6 January 1935), was a British artist and illustrator best known for his paintings and sketches of animals, sports, and rural life.

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Chantry

A chantry or obiit (Latin: "(s)he has departed"; may also refer to the mass or masses themselves) was a form of trust fund established during the pre-Reformation medieval era in England for the purpose of employing one or more priests to sing a stipulated number of masses for the benefit of the soul of a specified deceased person, usually the donor who had established the chantry in his will, during a stipulated period of time immediately following his death.

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Chapel

The term chapel usually refers to a Christian place of prayer and worship that is attached to a larger, often nonreligious institution or that is considered an extension of a primary religious institution.

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Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a South American country occupying a long, narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west.

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Christopher Ingham

Christopher John Ingham (born 4 June 1944) is a retired British Diplomat.

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Church of England

The Church of England (C of E) is the state church of England.

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Clay pigeon shooting

Clay pigeon shooting, also known as clay target shooting, and formally known as Inanimate Bird Shooting, is the art of shooting a firearm at special flying targets, known as clay pigeons or clay targets.

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Combined Cadet Force

The Combined Cadet Force (CCF) is a Ministry of Defence sponsored youth organisation in the United Kingdom.

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Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players each on a cricket field, at the centre of which is a rectangular pitch with a target at each end called the wicket (a set of three wooden stumps upon which two bails sit).

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Cross country running

Cross country running is a sport in which teams and individuals run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain such as dirt or grass.

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Daniel Caines

Daniel Stephen Caines (born 15 May 1979) is an English athlete who mainly competes in the 400 metres.

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David Briggs (English musician)

David John Briggs (born November 1, 1962) is an English organist and composer.

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David Tustin

David Tustin was the Suffragan Bishop of Grimsby from 1979 until 2000.

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Derek Higgs

Sir Derek Alan Higgs (3 April 1944 – 28 April 2008) was an English businessman and merchant banker.

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Donald Logan

Sir Donald Logan (25 August 1917 – 23 October 2009) was a British diplomat who was closely involved with the Suez crisis, afterwards ambassador to Guinea, Bulgaria and the UN Conference on the Law of the Sea.

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East India Company

The East India Company (EIC), also known as the Honourable East India Company (HEIC) or the British East India Company and informally as John Company, was an English and later British joint-stock company, formed to trade with the East Indies (in present-day terms, Maritime Southeast Asia), but ended up trading mainly with Qing China and seizing control of large parts of the Indian subcontinent.

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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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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Essay

An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument — but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a paper, an article, a pamphlet, and a short story.

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Feoffee

Under the feudal system in England, a feoffee is a trustee who holds a fief (or "fee"), that is to say an estate in land, for the use of a beneficial owner.

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Field hockey

Field hockey is a team game of the hockey family.

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Fischer-Z

Fischer-Z is a British rock band formed in 1976 by John Watts and Steve Skolnik at Brunel University, Uxbridge.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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Frank Foster (cricketer)

Frank Rowbotham Foster (31 January 1889 – 3 May 1958) was a Warwickshire and England all-rounder whose career was cut short by an accident during World War I. Nonetheless, his achievements during the early 1910s are sufficient to rank him as one of cricket's finest all-round players.

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Frank H. T. Rhodes

Frank Harold Trevor Rhodes (born October 29, 1926) was the ninth president of Cornell University from 1977 to 1995.

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Genesis P-Orridge

Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (born Neil Andrew Megson; 22 February 1950) is an English singer-songwriter, musician, poet, performance artist, and occultist.

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Golf

Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.

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Head teacher

The head teacher,See American and British English spelling differences headmaster, headmistress, head, chancellor, principal or school director (sometimes another title is used) is the teacher with the greatest responsibility for the management of a school, college, or, in the case of the United States and India, an independent school.

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Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference

The Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC) is an association of the headmasters or headmistresses of 283 independent schools (both boarding schools and day schools) in the United Kingdom, Crown dependencies and the Republic of Ireland.

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House of Windsor

The House of Windsor is the reigning royal house of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms.

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Independent school (United Kingdom)

In the United Kingdom, independent schools (also private schools) are fee-paying private schools, governed by an elected board of governors and independent of many of the regulations and conditions that apply to state-funded schools.

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Independent Schools Football Association

Independent Schools Football Association (ISFA) oversees football in independent schools in the United Kingdom.

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Italy

Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana), is a sovereign state in Europe.

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J. A. Chatwin

Julius Alfred Chatwin FRIBA, ARBS, FSAScot (24 April 1830 – 6 June 1907), was a designer of buildings and the most prolific architect involved with the building and modification of churches in Birmingham, England, building or altering many of the parish churches in the city.

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James Barralet

James Barralet is a British cellist.

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James Hudson (rugby union)

James Hudson (born 28 October 1981 in Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, England) is a former rugby union player He was educated at Solihull School, where he gained 1st XV stripes as a lock.

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Jamie Spires

James 'Jamie' Ashley Stuart Spires (born 12 November 1976) is an English cricketer.

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Jim Proudfoot

Jim Proudfoot (born 16 December 1972) is an English football commentator, who has worked on national radio and television since the late 1990s.

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Jimmy Wallis

James Wallis (born 13 June 1974 in London, Greater London) is an English field hockey midfielder, who was a member of the British squad that finished ninth at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.

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John Butt (musician)

John Butt, OBE, FRSE, FBA (born 17 November 1960, Solihull, England) is an orchestral and choral conductor, organist, harpsichordist and scholar.

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John Butterfield, Baron Butterfield

William John Hughes Butterfield, Baron Butterfield, (28 March 1920 – 22 July 2000) was a leading British medical researcher, clinician and administrator.

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John Curry

John Anthony Curry, (9 September 1949 – 15 April 1994) was a British figure skater.

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John Taylor (classical scholar)

John Taylor (22 June 1704 – 4 April 1766), English classical scholar, was born at Shrewsbury in Shropshire.

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Johnnie Walker (DJ)

Johnnie Walker, MBE (born Peter Waters Dingley 30 March 1945 in Birmingham) is a popular English veteran radio disc jockey and broadcaster.

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Keith Jones (cricketer, born 1951)

Alan Keith Colin Jones (born 20 April 1951) is an English former cricketer.

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Lacrosse

Lacrosse is a team sport played with a lacrosse stick and a lacrosse ball.

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Laurence Cummings

Laurence Cummings (born 1968, Birmingham), MA (Oxon), ARCM, FRCO, HonRAM is a British harpsichordist, organist, and conductor.

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Lieutenant colonel

Lieutenant colonel is a rank of commissioned officer in the armies, most marine forces and some air forces of the world, above a major and below a colonel.

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List of lexicographers

This list contains people who contributed to the field of lexicography, the theory and practice of compiling dictionaries.

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Listed building

A listed building, or listed structure, is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, Cadw in Wales, and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency in Northern Ireland.

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Lizo Mzimba

Lizo Mzimba is an English journalist and television presenter, currently the Entertainment Correspondent for BBC News.

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Malcolm Burley

Commander Malcolm Keith Burley, (1927 - 2010) MBE was a British Antarctic explorer, mountaineer and Royal Navy officer.

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Mary, mother of Jesus

Mary was a 1st-century BC Galilean Jewish woman of Nazareth, and the mother of Jesus, according to the New Testament and the Quran.

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Matthew Macklin

Matthew Macklin (born 14 May 1982) is a British-Irish former professional boxer who competed from 2001 to 2016, and currently works as a boxing manager.

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Michael Buerk

Michael Duncan Buerk (born 18 February 1946) is an English journalist and newsreader, whose reporting of the Ethiopian famine on 23 October 1984 inspired the Band Aid charity record and, subsequently, the Live Aid concert.

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Mike Bullen

Michael J. Bullen (born 13 January 1960) is an English screenwriter.

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Mike Rawson

Mike Rawson (Michael Arthur Rawson; 26 May 1934 - 26 October 2000) was a track and field athlete, who represented Great Britain in the men's 800 metres at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia.

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Miles Ratledge

Miles "Rat" Ratledge (born 1967 in Coventry, England) is a founding member of the band Napalm Death, the band credited with creating the grindcore genre which blended elements of extreme metal and punk rock.

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Mixed-sex education

Mixed-sex education, also known as mixed-gender education, co-education or coeducation (abbreviated to co-ed or coed), is a system of education where males and females are educated together.

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Napalm Death

Napalm Death are a British extreme metal band formed in Meriden, West Midlands, England, in 1981.

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Nepal

Nepal (नेपाल), officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal (सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल), is a landlocked country in South Asia located mainly in the Himalayas but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain.

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Netball

Netball is a ball sport played by two teams of seven players.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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North Wales

North Wales (Gogledd Cymru) is an unofficial region of Wales.

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Oliver Wright

Sir John Oliver Wright, (6 March 1922 – 1 September 2009) was a British diplomat.

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Paul Hale

Paul Hale is an English organist and Organist Emeritus of Southwell Minster, Nottinghamshire.

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Pavilion

In architecture, a pavilion (from French pavillon, from Latin papilio) has several meanings.

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PDF

The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format developed in the 1990s to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.

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Peerage of the United Kingdom

The Peerage of the United Kingdom comprises most peerages created in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the Acts of Union in 1801, when it replaced the Peerage of Great Britain.

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Pembroke College, Oxford

Pembroke College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England, located in Pembroke Square.

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Peru

Peru (Perú; Piruw Republika; Piruw Suyu), officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America.

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Peter John Harding

Air Vice-Marshal Peter John Harding, CB, CVO, CBE, AFC (1 June 1940 – 27 December 2013) was a senior Royal Air Force officer who served as Defence Services Secretary from 1994 to 1998.

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Philip Achille

Philip Achille is a British harmonica player who attended Solihull School, a British independent school in the West Midlands.

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Philip Oakey

Philip Oakey (born 2 October 1955) is an English singer, songwriter and record producer.

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Quadrangle (architecture)

In architecture, a quadrangle (or colloquially, a quad) is a space or courtyard, usually rectangular (square or oblong) in plan, the sides of which are entirely or mainly occupied by parts of a large building (or several smaller buildings).

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Richard Alan Cross

Richard Alan Cross is Rev.

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Richard Hammond

Richard Mark Hammond (born 19 December 1969) is an English presenter, writer, and journalist, best known for co-hosting the BBC Two car programme Top Gear from 2002 until 2015 with Jeremy Clarkson and James May.

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Richard Jago

Richard Jago (1 October 1715 – 8 May 1781) was an English clergyman poet and minor landscape gardener from Warwickshire.

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Richard Johnson (cricketer, born 1988)

Richard Matthew Johnson (born in Solihull) is a former English cricketer who last played for Derbyshire.

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Richard Weber (mathematician)

Richard Robert Weber (born 25 February 1953) is a mathematician working in operational research.

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Richard Wolfson (musician)

Richard Wolfson (25 April 1955 – 1 February 2005) was a British musician, performance artist, cameraman and journalist.

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Ritchie Neville

Richard Neville Dobson (born 23 August 1979) is an English sommelier, restaurateur and singer.

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Robert Short (East India Company officer)

Robert Short (30 December 1783 – 1859) was a lieutenant-colonel in the 21st Madras Native Infantry, Honourable East India Company.

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Robert Vilain

Robert Vilain is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Bristol, and Warden of Wills Hall.

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Roger Tayler

Professor Roger John Tayler OBE FRS (25 October 1929 – 23 January 1997) was a British astronomer.

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Rounders

Rounders (cluiche corr) is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams.

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Rugby football

Rugby football refers to the team sports rugby league and rugby union.

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Rugby School

Rugby School is a day and boarding co-educational independent school in Rugby, Warwickshire, England.

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Rugby sevens

Rugby sevens (commonly known simply as sevens), and originally known as Seven-a-side rugby is a variant of rugby union in which teams are made up of seven players playing seven minute halves, instead of the usual 15 players playing 40 minute halves.

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Rugby union

Rugby union, commonly known in most of the world as rugby, is a contact team sport which originated in England in the first half of the 19th century.

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Sailing

Sailing employs the wind—acting on sails, wingsails or kites—to propel a craft on the surface of the water (sailing ship, sailboat, windsurfer, or kitesurfer), on ice (iceboat) or on land (land yacht) over a chosen course, which is often part of a larger plan of navigation.

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Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson LL.D. (18 September 1709 – 13 December 1784), often referred to as Dr.

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Simon Mayo

Simon Andrew Hicks Mayo (born 21 September 1958) is an English radio presenter who has worked for BBC Radio since 1981. Mayo was the presenter of Simon Mayo Drivetime on BBC Radio 2 between 2010 and 2018 and with Mark Kermode, presenter of Kermode and Mayo's Film Review on BBC Radio 5 Live. Mayo currently presents a revamped drive time show on Radio 2 with Jo Whiley which began on 14 May 2018. In 2008, Mayo was recognised as the "Radio Broadcaster of the Year" at the 34th annual Broadcasting Press Guild Awards and the "Speech Broadcaster of the Year" at the Sony Radio Academy Awards, receiving the latter for his "ability to paint colourful pictures of location and event and his ability to bring the very best out of his guests, encouraging conversation and interaction between them while skilfully nudging and controlling them" and for being "a master of light and shade, handling serious and lighter issues with aplomb." Mayo is the author of several books, including the acclaimed Itch trilogy of thrillers for younger readers. He is one of the highest paid BBC radio presenters.

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Snowdonia

Snowdonia (Eryri) is a mountainous region in northwestern Wales and a national park of in area.

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Solihull

Solihull is a large town in the West Midlands of England with a population of 206,700 in the 2011 Census.

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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Squash (sport)

Squash is a ball sport played by two (singles) or four players (doubles squash) in a four-walled court with a small, hollow rubber ball.

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Stevie Parle

Stephen "Stevie" Parle (born Birmingham, England, 1985) is a British chef.

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Stewart Lee

Stewart Graham Lee (born 5 April 1968) is an English stand-up comedian, writer and director.

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Swimming (sport)

Swimming is an individual or team sport that requires the use of ones arms and legs to move the body through water.

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Tennis

Tennis is a racket sport that can be played individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles).

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Tennis court

A tennis court is the venue where the sport of tennis is played.

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The Duke of Edinburgh's Award

The Duke of Edinburgh's Award (commonly abbreviated DofE), is a youth awards programme founded in the United Kingdom in 1956 by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, that has since expanded to 144 nations.

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The Human League

The Human League are an English synth-pop band formed in Sheffield in 1977.

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The Midlands

The Midlands is a cultural and geographic area roughly spanning central England that broadly corresponds to the early medieval Kingdom of Mercia.

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Tibet

Tibet is a historical region covering much of the Tibetan Plateau in Central Asia.

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Towering Inferno (band)

Towering Inferno was an English experimental music duo of Richard Wolfson and Andy Saunders, notable for their sole album Kaddish, which reflected on The Holocaust.

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Track and field

Track and field is a sport which includes athletic contests established on the skills of running, jumping, and throwing.

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Twenty20

Twenty20 cricket, sometimes written Twenty-20, and often abbreviated to T20, is a short form of cricket.

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University College, Oxford

University College (in full The Master and Fellows of the College of the Great Hall of the University of Oxford,Darwall-Smith, Robin, A History of University College, Oxford. Oxford University Press, 2008.. colloquially referred to as "Univ"), is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England.

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University of Bristol

The University of Bristol (simply referred to as Bristol University and abbreviated as Bris. in post-nominal letters, or UoB) is a red brick research university located in Bristol, United Kingdom.

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University of Notre Dame

The University of Notre Dame du Lac (or simply Notre Dame or ND) is a private, non-profit Catholic research university in the community of Notre Dame, Indiana, near the city of South Bend, in the United States.

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Walter Jackson Bate

Walter Jackson Bate (May 23, 1918 – July 26, 1999) was an American literary critic and biographer.

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Warin Foster Bushell

Warin Foster Bushell MA (Cantab.) FRAS (18 April 1885 – 21 November 1974) was a schoolmaster and educationalist who was headmaster of leading schools in England and South Africa and a President of the Mathematical Association.

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Warwick School

Warwick School is an independent school with boarding facilities (also known as a public school) for boys in Warwick, England.

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Warwickshire

Warwickshire (abbreviated Warks) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands of England.

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Warwickshire County Cricket Club

Warwickshire County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales.

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Water polo

Water polo is a competitive team sport played in the water between two teams.

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West Midlands (county)

The West Midlands is a metropolitan county and city region in western-central England with a 2014 estimated population of 2,808,356, making it the second most populous county in England.

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Will Grigg

William Donald Grigg (born 3 July 1991) is a professional footballer who plays as a striker for League One club Wigan Athletic.

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William Shenstone

William Shenstone (18 November 1714 – 11 February 1763) was an English poet and one of the earliest practitioners of landscape gardening through the development of his estate, The Leasowes.

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Wisden Cricketers' Almanack

Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (or simply Wisden or colloquially "the Bible of Cricket") is a cricket reference book published annually in the United Kingdom.

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References

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