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	Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Field Marshal Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis KG GCB, MC, DSO (December 10, 1891 - June 16, 1969) was a British military commander and Field Marshal, notably during World War II as the commander of the 15th Army Group.
		The third son of the fourth Earl of Caledon and Lady Elizabeth Graham Toler, he was educated at Harrow School and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.
		He was created 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis and Baron Rideau of Ottawa, and of Castle Derg, county Tyrone on March 14, 1952.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harold_Alexander (1124 words)

	Encyclopedia: British and Irish History: Biographies
		Argyll, Archibald Campbell, 8th earl of and 1st marquess of
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	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Lytton Victor Alexander George Robert Bulwer-Lytton 2nd Earl of (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Lytton, Victor Alexander George Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Earl of (1871-1947), British diplomat, born in Simla, India, and educated at the...
		Walpole was born on August 26, 1676, in Norfolk, England, and educated at the University of Cambridge.
		Alexander, Harold Rupert Leofric George, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis (1891-1969), British field marshal, born in county Tyrone (now in Northern...
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	Alexander, Harold Rupert Leofric George, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Alexander, Harold Rupert Leofric George, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis
		Alexander, Harold Rupert Leofric George, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, army officer, governor general (b at London, Eng 10 Dec 1891; d at Slough, Eng 16 June 1969).
		Handsome, athletic, elegant, and assisted by a popular wife, Lady Margaret, Alexander made a strong public impression as governor general.
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	Harold Alexander
		Alexander’s success was rewarded by his promotion to field marshal in December 1944.
		After this, in 1942, Alexander was given the task of stemming the onslaught of the Japanese in Burma.
		In 1952 he was appointed Earl Alexander of Tunis and he served in Winston Churchill’s Conservative cabinet as Minister of Defence from 1952 to 1954.
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	AllRefer.com - Alexander, Harold Rupert Leofric George, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis (British And Irish History, ...
		Alexander, Harold Rupert Leofric George, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, British And Irish History, Biographies
		Alexander, Harold Rupert Leofric George, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis[lef´rik] Pronunciation Key, 1891–1969, British field marshal.
		He became minister of defense under Sir Winston Churchill and was raised (1952) to the rank of earl.
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	Viscount Alexander (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Sir Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, Viscount Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis and Baron Rideau of Ottawa, and of Castle Derg, county Tyrone
		Lord Alexander returned to England quietly, due to the sudden death of King George VI on February 6, 1952.
		On March 1, 1946, he was elevated in the peerage as Viscount Alexander of Tunis and in December 1946 he was made a Knight of the Garter.
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	Field Marshal Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander Earl of Tunis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Alexander's biographer describes her rekationshio with her boys and staff, "She was tolerant of genuine mistakes, but could not endure slopiness." [Nicolson, p.
		Alexander at 10 years of age was sent to St. Michael's, Westgate-on-Sea in Kent, a preparatory school.
		Alexander was Governor General of Canada (1946-52), granted the rank of Earl (1952) and becoming the Minister of Defence under Winston Churchill (until 1954).
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	Tunis -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Arabic Tunis, or Tunus, capital and largest city of Tunisia, on the northern African coast, between the western and eastern basins of the Mediterranean Sea.
		Tunis was built at the end of the shallow Lake of Tunis, an inlet of the Gulf of Tunis, and is linked with its port, Halq al-Wadi, 6 miles (10 km) to the northeast.
		In late 16th-century Tunis, a dey commanded the army and eventually was in sole control of the state, but by 1705 the title had disappeared from official lists.
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	Alexander, Harold Rupert Leofric George, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
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	Alexander of Tunis, 1st Earl Biography / Biography of Alexander of Tunis, 1st Earl Biography Biography
		Alexander of Tunis, 1st Earl Biography / Biography of Alexander of Tunis, 1st Earl Biography Biography
		The British field marshal Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis (1891-1969), was the supreme Allied commander of the Mediterranean theater in World War II.
		Harold Alexander was born in Northern Ireland on December 10, 1891, the third son of the 4th Earl of Caledon and of Lady Elizabeth Graham Toler, daughter of the 3d Earl of Norbury.
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	Field Marshall Earl Alexander (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		It was a memorial to the BHF's first president Field Marshal Earl Alexander of Tunis and sparked the beginnings of a new department within the University.
		The first chair holder, Professor Peter Sleight, was privileged to attend the unveiling of the statue of Field Marshal Earl Alexander in front of the new barracks in Bird Cage Walk, London.
		The Field Marshal (Alexander, Harold Rupert Leofric George) was born in London in 1891.
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	Category:Earls in the Peerage of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
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	Alexander, Harold Rupert Leofric George, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Then, appointed (Aug., 1942) head of the Middle Eastern Command (see North Africa, campaigns in), he directed the conquest of Sicily (1943) and the bitter fighting in Italy.
		In 1944, Alexander was made field marshal and Allied commander in chief in the Mediterranean.
		In 1946 he was appointed governor-general of Canada (holding the post until 1952) and was created viscount.
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	Earl
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	Politics \| Lucky lord to make historical comeback
		Members of the upper house will recall one of the dukes, marquesses, earls, viscounts and barons banished to obscurity three years ago, when the government expelled the majority of hereditary peers.
		Earl Alexander of Tunis declared: "By the living god who made me, but I love this country.
		The Earl of Clanwilliam used up some of his precious words expressing a special interest in the Herb Society and traditional Chinese medicine.
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	Earl Alexander of Tunis
		The title of Earl Alexander of Tunis was created in 1952 for Field Marshal Harold Alexander.
		The Earl bears the subsidiary titles of Viscount Alexander of Tunis (1946) and Baron Rideau (1952).
		Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis (1891-1969)
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	Mini Biographies of Scots and Scots Descendants - Alexander, H. R. L. G. (Earl Alexander of Tunis) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Mini Biographies of Scots and Scots Descendants - Alexander, H. (Earl Alexander of Tunis)
		Field Marshall Alexander has been called by authorities "unquestionably the greatest British field commander of the second world war." He commanded the rear guard at Dunkirk, then coordinated the Allied advances in North Africa, which led to the German surrender at Tunis in 1943.
		He also commanded the forces of many nations that drove the Germans from Sicily, forcing the Italian army to surrender, and eventually liberated all of Italy.
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	thePeerage.com - Name Index 31
		Albert Victor, 1st and last Earl Alexander of Hillsborough b.
		Harold Rupert Leofic George, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis b.
		Shane William Desmond, 2nd Earl Alexander of Tunis b.
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	thePeerage.com - Index to the Royal Household
		Alexander, Harold Rupert Leofic George, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis (1944-1946)
		Alexander, Harold Rupert Leofic George, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis (1936)
		Lindsay, Alexander, 1st Earl of Balcarres (29 Dec 1645), where he urged the adoption of measures to avoid his surrender to the English
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	Anecdote - Harold Rupert Leofric George, First Earl Alexander of Tunis Alexander - General Modesty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Anecdote - Harold Rupert Leofric George, First Earl Alexander of Tunis Alexander - General Modesty
		"General Alexander, fresh from his triumphs in Italy, came into [White's] club in a flannel suit, and was greeted by a contemporary who lived in Ireland, and did not follow the war very closely.
		[From 1944, Alexander was Allied commander in chief in the Mediterranean.]
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	James Chichester-Clark (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Educated at Eton College, he fought with the Irish Guards during World War Two, during which he was wounded in action.
		After the War he continued in the Army, serving from 1947 to 1950 in Canada as ADC to the Governor General, Earl Alexander of Tunis.
		He continued in the Army until the late 1950s during which time he married a young widow, Moyra Haughton (nee Morris).
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	The Hutchinson Encyclopedia: Alexander, Harold Rupert Leofric George (1891-1969)@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The Hutchinson Encyclopedia: Alexander, Harold Rupert Leofric George (1891-1969)@ HighBeam Research
		He was appointed KCB in 1942, Viscount in 1946, and Earl Alexander of Tunis in 1952, and was awarded the OM in 1959.
		Third son of the 4th Earl of Caledon, he was commissioned in the Irish Guards,...
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	NPG P457; Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis
		NPG P457; Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis
		1 of 24 portraits of Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis
		Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis (1891-1969), Field Marshal.
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	The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Earl Alexander of Tunis, 1940-1945. Presentation copy, with telegram announcing death of ...
		The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Earl Alexander of Tunis, 1940-1945.
		His judgements on such men as Montgomery, Horrocks, Patton, Mark Clark, Eisenhower, Alanbrooke and Churchill himself, are memorable, made by a man who above all was a brilliant judge of men.
		Illustrated by photographs from Alexander's own albums, with maps which provice a graphic commentary to his narrative, here are the long-waited memoirs of the greatest British fighting soldier of them all."
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	Alexander, Samuel - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK
		Strongly influenced by the theory of evolution, Alexander conceived of the world as a single cosmic process in which higher forms of being emerge periodically.
		EARL ALEXANDER OF TUNIS&enc=1252'>ALEXANDER, HAROLD RUPERT LEOFRIC GEORGE,
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	ALEXANDER, Harold Rupert, 1st Earl autographs, letters, documents, manuscripts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		ALEXANDER, Harold Rupert, 1st Earl autographs, letters, documents, manuscripts
		Signature ('Alexander of Tunis') on a card, laid down with a further card dating the signature 10 June 1949, in all 225 x 175 mm (9 x 7 inches).
		This is the archived description of an item which has already been sold.
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	James Butler RA
		His first major commission in 1973, the twice life size statue of President Kenyatta of Kenya, enabled him to give up teaching and he has since worked on numerous public commissions and works for private collections throughout the world.
		His many works include a Portrait Statue of Field Marshal Earl Alexander of Tunis, Wellington Barracks, Bird Cage Walk, London and a memorial statue of King Richard III, Castle Gardens, Leicester.
		He lives with his wife and five daughters in an old Warwickshire farm house in the heart of England.
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