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Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield

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Queen Elizabeth Grammar School (QEGS) is an independent, public school for boys in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. [1]

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Adam Pearson

Adam Pearson (born 19 November 1964) is the owner of Hull F.C. rugby league club, and Executive Director of Leeds United.

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Alan M. Taylor

Alan M. Taylor (born November 15, 1964) is a professor of economics and finance at the University of California, Davis.

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Alister MacKenzie

Alister MacKenzie (30 August 1870 – 6 January 1934) was a British golf course architect whose course designs span four continents.

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Andy Cato

Andy Cato (born Andrew Derek Cocup; 7 June 1973) is an English musician, record producer and DJ who is currently one half of the electronic music band Groove Armada, the other half being Tom Findlay.

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Andy Harter

Andrew Charles Harter (born 1961 in Yorkshire, England) is a British computer scientist, best known as the founder and CEO of RealVNC.

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Anglican church music

Anglican church music is music that is written for Christian worship in Anglican religious services, forming part of the liturgy.

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Anglican Diocese of Grafton

The Anglican Diocese of Grafton is one of the 23 dioceses of the Anglican Church of Australia.

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Archbishop of Canterbury

The Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury.

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Archbishop of York

The Archbishop of York is a senior bishop in the Church of England, second only to the Archbishop of Canterbury.

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Archdeacon of Birmingham

The Archdeacon of Birmingham is a senior ecclesiastical officer within the Diocese of Birmingham.

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Arnold Wylde

Arnold Lomas Wylde, (31 March 1880-6 June 1958) was an English-born Anglican bishop in Australia where he served as the Anglican Bishop of Bathurst.

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Barnabas Oley

Barnabas Oley (1602–1686) was an English churchman and academic.

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Basketball

Basketball is a team sport played on a rectangular court.

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Ben Woods

Benjamin Woods (born 9 June 1982) is a retired rugby union player who played for Newcastle Falcons and Leicester Tigers as an openside flanker.

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Bertram Lamb Pearson

Bertram Lamb Pearson CB DSO MC (1893–1984) was a senior British civil servant at the Ministry of Education in the 1940s and 1950s.

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Black Rod

The Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, or Lady Usher of the Black Rod, generally shortened to Black Rod, is an official in the parliaments of several Commonwealth countries.

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Bob Hardy (bishop)

Robert Maynard "Bob" Hardy (born 5 October 1936) is a retired Anglican bishop in the Church of England.

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Booker Prize

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction (formerly known as the Booker–McConnell Prize and commonly known simply as the Booker Prize) is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original novel written in the English language and published in the UK.

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Charles Hoole

Charles Hoole (1610–1667) was an English cleric and educational writer.

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Charles II of England

Charles II (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685) was king of England, Scotland and Ireland.

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Charles Ross (historian)

Charles Derek Ross (1924 – 1986) was an English historian of the Late Middle Ages.

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Chief technology officer

A Chief Technology Officer (CTO), sometimes known as a Chief Technical Officer, is an executive-level position in a company or other entity whose occupation is focused on scientific and technological issues within an organization.

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Christopher Saxton

Christopher Saxton (c. 1540 – c. 1610) was an English cartographer who produced the first county maps of England and Wales.

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Clare College, Cambridge

Clare College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England.

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Classical music

Classical music is art music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western culture, including both liturgical (religious) and secular music.

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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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Daniel Cresswell

Daniel Cresswell D.D. (1776 – 21 Mar 1844),was a British clergyman and mathematician.

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David Firth

David John Firth (born 23 January 1983) is an English animator, writer, musician, actor, voice actor, filmmaker, video artist and broadcaster.

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David Hepworth

David Hepworth (born 27 July 1950) is a music journalist, writer and publishing industry analyst who has launched several successful British magazines.

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David Hope, Baron Hope of Thornes

David Michael Hope, Baron Hope of Thornes, (born 14 April 1940) is a retired Anglican bishop.

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David May (computer scientist)

Michael David May FRS FREng (born 24 February 1951) is a British computer scientist.

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David Peace

David Peace (born 1967) is an English writer.

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David Storey

David Malcolm Storey (13 July 1933 – 27 March 2017) was an English playwright, screenwriter, award-winning novelist and a professional rugby league player.

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Dean and Canons of Windsor

The Dean and Canons of Windsor are the ecclesiastical body of St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle.

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Derby County F.C.

Derby County Football Club is a professional association football club based in Derby, Derbyshire, England.

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Dusty Hughes (playwright)

Dusty Hughes (born 16 Sept 1947) is an English playwright and director, writing for both the theatre and television.

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Edmund Cartwright

Edmund Cartwright (24 April 1743 – 30 October 1823) was an English inventor.

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Edward Thompson (1697–1742)

Edward Thompson (26 February 1697 – 5 July 1742) was a prominent Yorkshire politician of the early 18th century.

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Elizabeth I of England

Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death on 24 March 1603.

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England cricket team

The England cricket team represents England and Wales (and, until 1992, also Scotland) in international cricket.

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England national rugby union team

The England national rugby union team competes in the annual Six Nations Championship with France, Ireland, Scotland, Italy, and Wales.

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England Saxons

England Saxons is the current name of England's men's second national rugby union team.

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English Heritage

English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a registered charity that manages the National Heritage Collection.

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Francis Smith (judge)

Francis Smith, (1847–1912), was a Sierra Leonean Puisne Judge in the Gold Coast.

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Frank Marshall, Baron Marshall of Leeds

Frank Shaw Marshall, Baron Marshall of Leeds (1915–1990) was a British lawyer and politician, and a member of the House of Lords.

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George Allan (antiquary)

George Allan (1736–1800) was an English antiquary and attorney at Darlington.

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Gloucestershire County Cricket Club

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

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Greg Wood (cricketer)

Gregory Luke Wood (born 2 December 1988 in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England) is an English cricketer, who played for England in the 2006 U-19 Cricket World Cup in Sri Lanka.

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Groove Armada

Groove Armada are an English electronic music duo, composed of Andy Cato and Tom Findlay.

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Hans Kornberg

Sir Hans Leo Kornberg, FRS (born 14 January 1928) is a German-born British biochemist.

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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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Hector Munro Chadwick

Hector Munro Chadwick (22 October 1870 – 2 January 1947) was an English philologist and historian, fellow of Clare College and professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Cambridge (1912–41), described by Peter Searby as 'one of the notable polymaths of Cambridge history'.

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Henry Zouch

Henry Zouch (c. 1725–1795), was an English antiquary and social reformer.

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Herbert Haslegrave

Herbert Leslie Haslegrave (1902–1999) was a British engineering academic who developed Loughborough Technical College into Loughborough University of Technology, and was its first Vice-Chancellor.

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Hockey

Hockey is a sport in which two teams play against each other by trying to maneuver a ball or a puck into the opponent's goal using a hockey stick.

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House of Lords

The House of Lords of the United Kingdom, also known as the House of Peers, is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Hydrography

Hydrography is the branch of applied sciences which deals with the measurement and description of the physical features of oceans, seas, coastal areas, lakes and rivers, as well as with the prediction of their change over time, for the primary purpose of safety of navigation and in support of all other marine activities, including economic development, security and defence, scientific research, and environmental protection.

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Jack Cunningham (bishop)

Jack Cunningham (1 September 1926 – 18 October 1978) was the first Anglican Bishop of Central Zambia.

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Jeremiah Whitaker

Jeremiah Whitaker (1599–1654) was an English Puritan clergyman, and important member of the Westminster Assembly.

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John Ashton (bishop)

John William Ashton (1866 – 20 March 1964) was the second Bishop of Grafton.

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John Disney (Unitarian)

John Disney (1746–1816) was an English Unitarian minister and biographical writer, initially an Anglican clergyman active against subscription to the Thirty Nine Articles.

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John Duncan (priest)

The Ven. John Finch Duncan (born 9 September 1933) was the Archdeacon of Birmingham from 1985 to 2001.

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John George Haigh

John George Haigh (24 July 1909 – 10 August 1949), commonly known as the Acid Bath Murderer, was an English serial killer.

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John Hopkins (lawyer)

John Hopkins (born 16 December 1936) is a legal academic known for developing Downing College, Cambridge's reputation for law.

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John Potter (bishop)

John Potter (c. 167410 October 1747) was Archbishop of Canterbury (1737-1747).

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John Radcliffe (physician)

John Radcliffe (1650 – 1 November 1714) was an English physician, academic and politician.

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John Scott (organist)

John Gavin Scott, LVO (18 June 1956 – 12 August 2015) was an English organist and choirmaster who reached the highest levels of his profession on both sides of the Atlantic.

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John Wolfenden, Baron Wolfenden

John Frederick Wolfenden, Baron Wolfenden, CBE (26 June 1906, Swindon, Wiltshire – 18 January 1985, Guildford, Surrey) was a British educationalist probably best remembered for chairing the Wolfenden Committee whose report, recommending the decriminalisation of homosexuality, was published in 1957.

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Jonathan Baume

Jonathan Edward Baume (born 13 July 1953 in Wakefield) was General Secretary of the FDA from 1997 until 2012 and a member of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) from 2001 to 2012.

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Joseph Bingham

Joseph Bingham (September 1668 – 17 August 1723), was an English scholar and divine.

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Joseph Hirst Lupton

Joseph Hirst Lupton (1836–1905) was an English schoolmaster, cleric and writer.

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Joseph Moxon

Joseph Moxon (8 August 1627 – February 1691), hydrographer to Charles II, was an English printer specialising in mathematical books and maps, a maker of globes and mathematical instruments, and mathematical lexicographer.

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Kenneth Leighton

Kenneth Leighton (2 October 1929 – 24 August 1988) was a British composer and pianist.

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Latin

Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Leeds United F.C.

Leeds United Football Club is a professional association football club in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

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List of Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty

This is a list of Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty (incomplete before the Restoration, 1660).

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Lukas Wooller

Lukas Wooller is the keyboard player and occasional backing vocalist of British indie rock band, Maxïmo Park, based in North-East England.

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Maxïmo Park

Maxïmo Park are an English alternative rock band, formed in 2000 in Newcastle upon Tyne.

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Member of parliament

A member of parliament (MP) is the representative of the voters to a parliament.

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Mike Harrison (rugby union)

Mike Harrison (born Michael Edward Harrison, 9 April 1956 in Barnsley, South Yorkshire) is a former first-class rugby union footballer, playing on the wing for Wakefield and England.

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Mike Smith (cricketer, born 1967)

Andrew Michael "Mike" Smith (born 1 October 1967 in Dewsbury, Yorkshire) is a former English cricketer.

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Mike Tindall

Michael James Tindall, (born 18 October 1978) is an English former rugby player who played outside centre for Bath Rugby and Gloucester Rugby, has captained the England team, and was a member of the 2003 World Cup-winning squad.

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NatWest Schools Cup

The Natwest Schools Cup (known until 2013 as The Daily Mail Cup) is the annual English schools' rugby union cup competition.

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Newcastle Falcons

The Newcastle Falcons (formerly Gosforth FC/Newcastle Gosforth until 1996) is an English rugby union team that plays in the English Premiership.

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Noel Gay

Noel Gay (15 July 1898 – 4 March 1954) was born Reginald Moxon Armitage.

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Order of Saint Benedict

The Order of Saint Benedict (OSB; Latin: Ordo Sancti Benedicti), also known as the Black Monksin reference to the colour of its members' habitsis a Catholic religious order of independent monastic communities that observe the Rule of Saint Benedict.

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Popular music

Popular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry.

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President of the Continental Congress

The president of the Continental Congress was the presiding officer of the Continental Congress, the convention of delegates that emerged as the first (transitional) national government of the United States during the American Revolution.

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Public school (United Kingdom)

A public school in England and Wales is a long-established, student-selective, fee-charging independent secondary school that caters primarily for children aged between 11 or 13 and 18, and whose head teacher is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC).

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Reg Bolton (rugby union)

Reginald Bolton (20 November 1909 – 21 September 2006) was an English physician and England International rugby player.

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Richard Bentley

Richard Bentley (27 January 1662 – 14 July 1742) was an English classical scholar, critic, and theologian.

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Richard Henry Lee

Richard Henry Lee (January 20, 1732June 19, 1794) was an American statesman from Virginia best known for the Lee Resolution, the motion in the Second Continental Congress calling for the colonies' independence from Great Britain.

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Richard Lane (architect)

Richard Lane (3 April 1795 – 25 May 1880) was a distinguished English architect of the early and mid-19th century.

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Robert Munford III

Robert Munford III (1737-1783) was an American playwright, civic leader and soldier, having served under Colonel George Washington in the French and Indian War and later serving in the Revolutionary War.

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Robert Smith (surgeon)

Robert Smith FRCSE (1840–1885), also known as Bob Smith, was a Sierra Leonean medical doctor who served as Assistant Colonial Surgeon of Sierra Leone during the late nineteenth century.

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Roger Clifford Carrington

Roger Clifford Carrington (1906 – 1971) was an English classical scholar, archaeologist and teacher.

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Roger Pearman

Roger Pearman (born) is an English rugby union, and rugby league footballer of the 1960s, and coach of the 1960s.

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Ron Rylance

Ronald "Ron" Rylance (11 March 1924 – 11 January 1998) was an English professional World Cup winning rugby league footballer of the 1940s and 1950s.

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Rugby league

Rugby league football is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field.

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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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Salad Fingers

Salad Fingers is a British flash animation internet series created by David Firth in July 2004.

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Serenus de Cressy

Dom Serenus Cressy, O.S.B., (ca. 1605 –10 August 1674) was an English convert and Benedictine monk, who became a noted scholar in Church history.

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Serial killer

A serial killer is typically a person who murders three or more people,A serial killer is most commonly defined as a person who kills three or more people for psychological gratification; reliable sources over the years agree.

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Sidney Hayward

Sidney Pascoe Hayward MC QC (1896 or 1897 – 11 February 1961) was a British barrister and legal writer.

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Sir Francis Molyneux, 7th Baronet

Sir Francis Molyneux, 7th Baronet (1738–1812) was a courtier who became Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod.

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Sir Richard Hoare, 2nd Baronet

Sir Richard Colt Hoare, 2nd Baronet FRS (9 December 1758 – 19 May 1838) was an English antiquarian, archaeologist, artist, and traveller of the 18th and 19th centuries, the first major figure in the detailed study of the history of his home county of Wiltshire.

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Sport

Sport (British English) or sports (American English) includes all forms of competitive physical activity or games which, through casual or organised participation, aim to use, maintain or improve physical ability and skills while providing enjoyment to participants, and in some cases, entertainment for spectators.

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Standish baronets

The Standish Baronetcy, of Duxbury in the County of Lancaster, was a title in the Baronetage of England.

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Stuart Jones (historian)

Hugh Stuart Jones is a British historian, currently Professor of Intellectual History at the University of Manchester.

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Ted Wragg

Professor Edward Conrad Wragg (26 June 1938 – 10 November 2005) known as Ted Wragg, was a British educationalist and academic known for his advocacy of the cause of education and opposition to political interference in the field.

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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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Thomas Armstrong (author)

Thomas Armstrong (3 September 1899 – 1978) was a Leeds-born novelist.

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Thomas Doughty (priest)

Thomas Doughty DD (1636 - 2 December 1701) was a Canon of Windsor from 1673 to 1701.

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Thomas Hartley Cromek

Thomas Hartley Cromek (1809-1873) was an English artist.

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Thomas Zouch

Thomas Zouch (12 September 1737, Sandal Magna near Wakefield – 17 December 1815, Sandal Magna), was an English clergyman and antiquary, best known as a student of the works and life of Izaak Walton.

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Timothy Barnes

Timothy David Barnes, (born 1942) is a British classicist.

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Tony Greaves, Baron Greaves

Anthony Robert Greaves, Baron Greaves (born 27 July 1942) is a British politician and life peer.

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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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Transputer

The transputer is a series of pioneering microprocessors from the 1980s, featuring integrated memory and serial communication links, intended for parallel computing.

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United States Declaration of Independence

The United States Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House (now known as Independence Hall) in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776.

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United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, which along with the United States House of Representatives—the lower chamber—comprise the legislature of the United States.

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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 California, Davis

The University of California, Davis (also referred to as UCD, UC Davis, or Davis), is a public research university and land-grant university as well as one of the 10 campuses of the University of California (UC) system.

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University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge (informally Cambridge University)The corporate title of the university is The Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge.

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Wakefield

Wakefield is a city in West Yorkshire, England, on the River Calder and the eastern edge of the Pennines, which had a population of 99,251 at the 2011 census.

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Wakefield Girls' High School

Wakefield Girls' High School (WGHS) is an independent school in Wakefield, England established in 1878 in Wentworth House, its current location.

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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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West Yorkshire

West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county in England.

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William Guest (rugby union)

William Guest MBE was a rugby player for Wakefield RFC, a major in the Territorial Army and was awarded the MBE for services to Army sport.

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William J. Howard

William Jordan Howard (December 31, 1799 – October 2, 1862), served as Mayor of Pittsburgh from 1845 to 1846.

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Wolfenden report

The Report of the Departmental Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution (better known as the Wolfenden report, after Sir John Wolfenden, the chairman of the committee) was published in the United Kingdom on 4 September 1957 after a succession of well-known men, including Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, Michael Pitt-Rivers, and Peter Wildeblood, were convicted of homosexual offences.

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XMOS

XMOS is a fabless semiconductor company that develops voice solutions, audio products, and multicore microcontrollers capable of concurrently executing real-time tasks, DSP, and control flow.

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York

York is a historic walled city at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth_Grammar_School,_Wakefield

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