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| | Shrewsbury, John Talbot, 1st earl of -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
 | | The son of Richard, 4th Baron Talbot, he served in campaigns in Wales between 1404 and 1413 and as lieutenant of Ireland (141419), when he joined the English army in France. |
 | | Thomas Sackville, the 1st earl of Dorset, and an English statesman, poet, and dramatist, is remembered largely for his share in two achievements of significance in the development of Elizabethan poetry and drama: the collection Mirror for Magistrates (1563), probably the most important work between the periods of Geoffrey Chaucer and Edmund Spenser, and the... |
 | | As chief justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1953 to 1969, Earl Warren presided during a period of sweeping changes in United States constitutional law, especially in the areas of race relations, criminal procedure, and legislative apportionment. |
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