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  Category:Old Etonians - Biocrawler
This is a category of alumni of Eton College, known as "Old Etonians".
List of famous Old Etonians born in the 18th century
List of famous Old Etonians born in the 19th century
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 18th Century Medicine
Beginning in the 4th millennium B.C. with citations of ancient medicine and diseases, the chronology follows the development of microbiology and related sciences through the 18th and 19th centuries and culminates with the explosion of discoveries in the late 20th century.
List of famous Old Etonians born in the 18th century - The following famous old boys of Eton College were born in the 18th century.
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  List of famous Old Etonians born in the 20th century - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
HH Anthony Brooke, Rajah Muda of Sarawak (born 1912), nephew of the Rajah of Sarawak
Henry Chadwick (born 1920), Regius Professor of Divinity, University of Oxford, 1959–1969, Regius Professor of Divinity, University of Cambridge, 1969–1979, and Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge, 1987–1993
Francis Grier (born 1955), organist, choir conductor and composer
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 Eton College - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The school is famous for its alumni (known as Old Etonians) and the traditions it maintains, including a uniform of fl tailcoat (or morning coat) and waistcoat, false-collar and pinstriped trousers.
List of famous Old Etonians born in the 18th century
List of famous Old Etonians born in the 19th century
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 List of famous Old Etonians born in the 20th century
Henry Chadwick (born 1920), Regius Professor of Divinity, University of Oxford, 1959–1969, Regius Professor of Divinity, University of Cambridge, 1969–1979, and Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge, 1987–1993
Sir Antony Acland (born 1930), ambassador to Luxembourg, 1975–1977, Spain, 1977–1979, and the United States, 1986–1991, Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, 1982–1986, and Provost of Eton, 1991–2000
Sir Humphrey Maud (born 1934), ambassador to Luxembourg, 1982–1985, and Argentina, 1990–1993, High Commissioner to Cyprus, 1988–1990, and Deputy Secretary-General of the Commonwealth (Economic and Social Affairs), 1993–1999
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 Eton College information - Search.com
The school is famous for its alumni (known as Old Etonians) and the traditions it maintains, including a uniform of fl tailcoat (or morning coat) and waistcoat, false-collar and pinstriped trousers.
Many of these benefactors are honoured with school buildings in their name, such as the Bishop William Waynflete or Roger Lupton, whose name is borne by the central tower which is perhaps the most famous image of the school.
It is often suggested that the Duke of Wellington claimed that "the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton".
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 List of famous Old Etonians born in the 20th century
List of famous Old Etonians born in the 20th century is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
List of famous Old Etonians born in the 20th century: Encyclopedia II - Eton College - Terminology and slang
List of famous Old Etonians born in the 20th century: Encyclopedia II - Eton College - Old Etonians
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 18th Century
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 Wesleyan University
Born aboard ship, off the coast of Jamaica, in 1781, Raffles was possessed of an ambitious and enquiring mind, and put himself to learning Malay while serving in Penang.
In the nineteenth century the Chinese population of Singapore was predominantly male.
century, with more clubs being formed, they were mostly a result of the larger number of expatriates settling down in Singapore and Hong Kong, rather than as a result of a greater number of players taking up the game in the individual ports.
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 Informat.io on Eton College
Eton is often mentioned alongside Harrow School and Winchester College as one of Britain's three most famous public schools.
The school's Headmaster, Tony Little, MA, is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference and the school is a member of the Eton Group of independent schools in the United Kingdom.
Originally (along with a top-hat and walking-cane) merely Etonian dress for formal occasions, it is still worn today for classes, which are referred to as "divisions" or "divs".
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 List of famous Old Etonians born in the 18th century - Biocrawler
List of famous Old Etonians born in the 18th century - Biocrawler
The following famous old boys of Eton College were born in the 18th century.
This page was last modified 11:54, 2 Jun 2005.
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 WynGrant's Home Page
Old friends Colin Weightman and Ben Hooper are compiling a book of their happy memories growing up on the Common fifty years ago.
He was born in North Woolwich, that odd bit of Kent across the river, and I think that his loyalties were originally divided between West Ham and Charlton (he was at the famous first cup final at Wembley involving West Ham).
My grandmother was born in 1875, thirteen years before the Football League started playing, but nevertheless identified with Charlton which is perhaps not surprising given that she moved to the area at around the time the club became professional.
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 Catalogue 130 - Travel
A narrative of the shipwreck of the ship Oswego, on the coast of south Barbary, and of the sufferings of the master and crew while in bondage among the Arabs; interspersed with numerous remarks upon the country and its inhabitants, and concerning the peculiar perils of that coast.
An excellent example of 18th century travel literature by an integral member of Dr. Johnson's circle, and an important source for the cultural history of the period.
From the Bristol voyages of the fifteenth century to the Pilgrim settlement at Plymouth: The exploration, exploitation, and trial-and-error colonization of North America by the English.
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 George Orwell
Orwell was born Eric Blair in Motihari, India in 1903, the son of a minor official in the government opium monopoly.
Born with defective bronchial tubes, he seized every opportunity to court the TB that eventually killed him.
No writer of the 20th century is as immediate and physical a presence as Orwell.
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 Notes And Queries, Issue 30.
Can he have been born in 1510, as the first one says "obiit immaturâ morte?" Now eighty-five is not very immature; and I believe he entered at Pembroke College, Cambridge, in 1569, at which time he would be fifty-nine, and that at a period when college education commenced at an earlier age than now.
On the 20th Feb., 1655, whilst travelling in France, Lord Carrington was barbarously murdered by one of his servants for the sake of his money and jewels, and buried at Pontoise.
We find lists of names of governors of hospitals, trustees, andc., where this distinction is made, and which, apparently, can only be accounted for on this ground, that the estates of the gentleman were smaller in extent than those of the esquire; and, consequently, that the former was so far a person of less consideration.
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 China History Forum, chinese history forum > Chronology of Indian History (Part 1)
Ayodhya (अयोध्या) (translated as "Not to be warred against") is a very old city, and features in the Ramayana, which was written about 250 years BC, although it is about Raghuvamsa, a line of Hindu warrior-kings, with some writers taking the line back 8000 years.
His reign was famous for the rock-cut temple of Kailasha of Ellora.
788 -The Mathematician Adi Sankarachaya born in Kaladi (in Kerala).
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Eton, as well as being one of the most famous of English colleges, is also one of the oldest.
Many Old Etonians have gone on to achieve greatness in public life - perhaps none of them more so than the Duke of Wellington, victor over Napoleon at Waterloo, and later Prime Minister.
There have been 20 Old Etonian prime ministers in all, from Walpole and Pitt the Elder to Macmillan and Douglas-Home in the late 20th century.
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 Rulon-Miller Books :: Catalogue 132, Summer Americana Reading, Page 5
Harry, born June 9, 1855, was "broke in as cow-boy" when he was only 14 and he continued herding for the C.C., the 63 and other outfits until, at 22, he was noticed by Gen. Crook as a valuable scout.
Complete history of argueably the world's most famous racing yacht, her races, and subsequent fate.
Born in London and educated at Oxford, Cooper (1759-1839) enjoyed careers as a lawyer, scientist, and philosopher, but his radical political views often drew condemnation from his countrymen.
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 Magazine
Born in the US State of New Jersey, she received her bachelor's degree in Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania and her master's degree in International Relations from Columbia University.
Buddhism was founded in the 6th century B.C. and was spread throughout northern India, most notably by one of the great ancient kings of the Mauryan dynasty, Asoka (c.
For one thing, he was born in 1910, which makes him younger than Mizoguchi (1898-1956) and Ozu (1903-1963), and his deep admiration for these masters, particularly Mizoguchi, has been well documented.
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 Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
He accordingly made out a list of his friends and relatives on a sheet of notepaper, and after careful consideration, decided in favour of Lady Clementina Beauchamp, a dear old lady who lived in Curzon Street, and was his own second cousin by his mother’s side.
The old woman smiled, and answered in the same low, mysterious voice, ‘It is the blood of Lady Eleanore de Canterville, who was murdered on that very spot by her own husband, Sir Simon de Canterville, in 1575.
When the ceremony was over, the servants, according to an old custom observed in the Canterville family, extinguished their torches, and, as the coffin was being lowered into the grave, Virginia stepped forward and laid on it a large cross made of white and pink almond-blossoms.
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 Eton College: Encyclopedia II - Eton College - Old Etonians
Eton College - Old Etonians: Encyclopedia II - Eton College - Old Etonians
Eton College, Eton College - Overview, Eton College - History, Eton College - Terminology and slang, Eton College - Historical terms no longer in use, Eton College - Old Etonians
These include Ronald Eustace Psmith from the books by P.G.Wodehouse, the pirate who used the pseudonym Captain Hook, and the secret agent James Bond.
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 I - Philosopedia
Ibsen’s influence upon 20th century drama is profound, and his dramas continue to be performed widely.
By the 2nd century, Clement’s view predominated, as did complementary views: no masturbation (very important), no sex if conception is unlikely (during lactation and menstruation), no sex in positions that preclude conception (anal, oral, etc.), no sex for the barren (it would only be pleasure), and no sex for homosexuals.
Ison, Ralph E. (20th Century) Ison is active in England with the Chiltern Humanists, and he was a director of the Rationalist Press Association until 1998.
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 Robert Still 20th Century English Composer
Born in London on 10th June in 1910, Robert Still was a direct descendant of John Still, Bishop of Bath and Wells and formerly Master of St. John's and Trinity College, Cambridge.
The couple's first daughter was born in 1945, however Still did not leave the army until 1946.
Until the time that Glock started to exert his iron grip, tonality ruled and 20th Century tonal composers were having their fair share of the airwaves.
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 George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair (later George Orwell) was born in 1903 in the Indian Village Motihari, which lies near the border of Nepal.
In "our" 1984, after all, the integrated circuit chip was less than a decade old, and almost embarrassingly primitive next to the wonders of computer technology circa 2003, most notably the internet, a development that promises social control on a scale those quaint old 20th-century tyrants with their goofy moustaches could only dream about.
He was born, a hundred years ago, in Bengal, where his father was a sub-agent in the Opium Department of the Indian Civil Service, and he came to England when he was one, and was brought up there by his mother.
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 George MacDonald Fraser interviews
I was about eight years old and until I encountered Sir Daniel in a D.C. Thomson 'tuppenny blood' my acquaintance with the past had been limited to the odd Bible story, Greek and Norse myths, and my first school history book, The World Family.
MacDonald Fraser was born in Scotland, and educated at the Glasgow Academy, but before that spent six years over the border, at Carlisle Grammar School, where for centuries English boys were bred to fight the Scots.
I can envision, say a century from now, there being three countries in North America: a white country, which consists of Canada and the northern half of the United States; a Latin country, which consists of the south-west and Mexico; and a fl country, which consists of the south-east.
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 David Benedictus
Sir Piers Bengough (born 1929), HM The Queen's Representative at Ascot, 1982–1997
HIH Prince Zara Yacob of Ethiopia (born 1953)
Timothy Gowers (born 1963), Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics, University of Cambridge, 1995–
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 Tomfolio.com: Poetry, Poetry: Old and Rare Books
A significant volume in the history of 20th century American poetry.
Rogers (1763-1855) was born into circumstances which left him, independently wealthy and able to entertain the cultured society of London.
20th ed., half-leather, marbled baords, top edge gilt, 10 illust.
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