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	Sir George Downing - LoveToKnow 1911
		Pepys, who characterizedhis conduct asodious though useful to the king, calls him a "perfidious rogue," and remarks that "all the world took notice of him for a most ungrateful villain for his pains." 3 On the ist of July 1663 he was created a baronet.
		Downing Street, London, is named after him, while Downing College, Cambridge, derived its name from his grandson, the 3rd baronet.
		Downing was undoubtedly a man of great political and diplomatic ability, but his talents were rarely employed for the advantage of his country and his character was marked by all the mean vices, treachery, avarice, servility and ingratitude.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Sir_George_Downing (724 words)

	George Downing and his Street
		Sir George Downing was an enterprising rogue - a spy, traitor and shady property developer - who saw building houses on prime London land as a means to get rich quick.
		Downing realised that the fortunes of the Commonwealth were about to take a turn for the worse, and set about ensuring his position under a new regime.
		Downing did spend two months in the Tower after an ill-fated return to Holland, but went on to accumulate honours and rewards after the Restoration.
	www.number-10.gov.uk /output/Page178.asp (720 words)

	SIR GEORGE DOWNING - LoveToKnow Article on SIR GEORGE DOWNING (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Downing had from the first been hostile to the Dutch as the commercial rivals of England.
		Downing Street, London, is named after him, while Downing College, Cambridge, derived its name from his grandson, the 3rd baronet.
		Downing was undoubtedly a man of great political and diplomatic ability, but his talents were rarely employed for the advantage of his country and his character was marked by all the mean vices, treachery, avarice, servility and ingratitude.
	65.1911encyclopedia.org /D/DO/DOWNING_SIR_GEORGE.htm (543 words)

	AllRefer.com - Sir George Downing (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		He was again ambassador to Holland, where his aggressiveness was a factor in the outbreak (1664) of the second Dutch War.
		From 1667 to 1671, Downing served as secretary to the treasury commission.
		He amassed enormous wealth and owned Downing St., London, which is named for him.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/D/DowningG.html (251 words)

	SIR GEORGE DOWNING - Online Information article about SIR GEORGE DOWNING
		BIRTH (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages from the root of the verb " to bear ")
		CLARENDON, GEORGE WILLIAM FREDERICK VILLIERS, 4TH EARL OF (in the Villiers line) (1800-r87o)
		George Downing " became a proverbial expression in New England to denote a false man who betrayed his See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /DIO_DRO/DOWNING_SIR_GEORGE.html (1064 words)

	Surfline \| George Downing
		At the time, she was married to Hot Curl charger Wally Froiseth, who took Downing under his wing.
		Downing not only rode monster surf, he became its consummate student, intent on understanding and refining tactics and equipment.
		Inspired by images of Downing and Froiseth, among others, the first wave of Californians made their assault on the Islands.
	www.surfline.com /surfaz/surfaz.cfm?id=794 (410 words)

	LEGENDARY SURFER: WALLY FROISETH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		He had a son and the son brought somebody down from the Coast; a school buddy.
		Speaking of the surfers he hung with and their being outside both the Outrigger Canoe Club and Hui Nalu groups of surfers, Wally recalled that, "We were what was known as the 'Tavern Boys' or the 'Empty Lot Boys'...
		He was puttin' his head down, coming from first break, solid redwood board; just doggin' it [paddling hard].
	www.legendarysurfers.com /surf/legends/ls10.shtml (9648 words)

	10 Downing Street website - Home
		10 Downing Street - the historic office and home of the British Prime Minister
		Latest news from Downing Street 28 July 2007
		Read about Downing Street and the leaders who've lived here
	www.pm.gov.uk (206 words)

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