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  Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Maurice
Maurice 1521-53, duke (1541-47) and elector (1547-53) of Saxony.
Maurice of Nassau, 1567-1625, prince of Orange (1618-25); son of William the Silent by Anne of Saxony.
John Maurice of Nassau 1604-79, Dutch general and colonial administrator, a prince of the house of Nassau-Siegen; grandnephew of William the Silent.
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 Hankey, Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey, 1st Baron - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Hankey, Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey, 1st Baron 1877-1963, British soldier and civil servant.
Educated at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, he served in the Royal Marines artillery (1895-1901) and in naval intelligence (1902-6).
In 1939 he was made a baron and a privy councillor, and he held minor cabinet posts until 1942.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Maurice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Scève was the leader of the so-called Lyons school of poets, which was the first to bring the influence of the Italian literary renaissance into France.
As an advocate of the supremacy of the individual self, he wrote the trilogy of novels Le Culte du moi (1888-91).
One of the first intellectuals in France to be interested in questions of language and meaning, he was an important influence on French postmodernist thought.
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 Hankey Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey 1st Baron: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
Major Maurice Hankey, the secretary of the British cabinet...secretaries.
HANKEY, MAURICE PASCAL ALERS HANKEY, 1ST BARON 1877 1963, British soldier and civil servant.
In 1939 he was made a baron and a privy councillor, and he held minor cabinet posts until...
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 Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 Maurice Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In this function he took notice of the ideas of Major Ernest Swinton to build a tracked armoured vehicle and brought them to the attention of Winston Churchill on 25 december 1914, leading to the eventual creation of the Landship Committee.
In December 1916 David Lloyd George became Prime Minister and shook up the way the government AMNESIA at was retained and Hankey served as Secretary to the Cabinet for the next nineteen years.
Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
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 Maurice Greene : Sirchin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Maurice Greene was sentenced last week in federal court in Florence by United States District...
Maurice Greene, the fastest man in the world, is going to be a tin carrier for the Carry a Tin 4 Aids Awareness Campaign (www.chicblvd.com/aids)!
Maurice Greene, officially the fastest man in the world, capable of running 100m in 9.79s.
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Ursula Helen Alers Hankey was born circa 1909.
She was the daughter of Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey and Adeline de Smidt.
     Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey married Adeline de Smidt.
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 The Churchill Era: An Educational Resource
He then became commander of the 1st Army Corps, 1901-1907 and Chief of Imperial General Staff (responsible for co-ordinating the armed forces of Britain and the Empire) 1911-1914, and Inspector-General of the Forces, 1907-1911 and 1914.
Although erratic and unpredictable, Northcliffe was an influential supporter of Field Marshal Haig against his critics in Lloyd George's War Cabinet (the group responsible for overall strategy and policy in time of war).
Enormous hopes were built up before the assault, which was to involve large numbers of those who had responded to Lord Kitchener's famous appeal for volunteers.
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 STRAITS Biographies
Calice, Heinrich Baron Von, Austro-Hungarian Ambassador at Constantinople, 1880-1906.
Hankey, Maurice Pascal Alers (later 1st Baron Hankey) [1877-1963].
1st Secretary at the Austro-Hungarian Embassy at London, 1904; Ambassador at London, 1904-14.
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 Janus: Churchill Archives Centre
The Papers of Harold Harington Balfour, 1st Baron Balfour of Inchrye.
The Papers of the 1st Viscount Hood of Catherington and of Rear Admiral Horace Hood.
The Papers of William Strang, 1st Baron Strang of Stonesfield, K.C.B. Churchill Archives Centre.
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 Encyclopedia: British and Irish History: Biographies — FactMonster.com
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 AllRefer.com - Hankey, Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey, 1st Baron (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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Hankey, Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey, 1st Baron, British And Irish History, Biographies
Hankey, Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey, 1st Baron 1877–1963, British soldier and civil servant.
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Also in 1802, one of the sons of First Baron Francis Baring (chairman of the British East India Company and founder of Barings Bank) married a daughter of William Bingham, a Senator from Philadelphia.
At his death in 1804 in Bath, England, he owned vast land holdings in the United States, including Maine and Pennsylvania, which were left in trust to his daughters--who married the second and third sons of Francis Baring, head of Barings Bank.
Drexel's nephew is the seventh Baron Camoys (Ralph Stonor), the first Catholic to serve as the Queen's chief of staff, or Lord Chamberlain, since the reign of Henry VIII.
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 Major-General Sir Stewart Graham Menzies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
He married successively an earl's daughter, a baron's grand-daughter and a baronet's daughter previously married to a viscount.
The most likely was the Director of Naval Intelligence, Rear-Admiral John Godfrey, who had discussed the question of Sinclair's possible death and his likely successor with Maurice Hankey, the former Secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence, the previous August.
The author chosen to undertake this was Maurice Hankey, who had joined the War Cabinet on 1 September as Minister without Portfolio.
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Hankey, Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey, 1st Baron
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 STRAITS Biographical Index   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Naval Secretary to the First Lord, 1912; in command of the 1st Battle Cruiser Squadron from 1914; C-in-C, Grand Fleet, 1916-19; First Sea Lord, 1919-27.
Bertie, Sir Francis Leveson (since 1915, 1st Baron; 1918, 1st Viscount) [1844-1919].
Haldane, Richard Burdon (since 1911, 1st Viscount) [1856-1928].
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In 1909 he had walked most of the nine hundred miles between Palestine and Syria to study castles.
He obtained 1st Class Honours in Modern History in 1910 and was awarded four years of funding for travel.
Between 1911-1914 he went on excavating expeditions to various spots in the Middle East, where he lived among Arab people and gained an understanding of their culture, geography, and language, developing a liking for Arabic food and attire.
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 SUPERIOR FORCE Biographies
Curzon of Kedleston, George Nathaniel, 1st Baron [1859-1925].
Nicholson, Field Marshal Sir William Gustavus (since 1912, 1st Baron) [1845-1918].
Nicolson, Sir Arthur (since 1916, 1st Baron Carnock) [1849-1928].
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 Churchill College: Churchill Archives Centre: Guide to Holdings
Conservative MP; Assistant to Chief of War Staff, 1912-13; Naval Assistant to 1st Sea Lord, 1914; commanded HMS Invincible, 1914-15, and HMS Cordelia, 1915-17; Admiralty, 1917-19.
Correspondence (photocopies) and reports to Maurice Hankey on Canadian affairs, 1932-40.
CUNNINGHAM OF HYNDHOPE, Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Brown Cunningham, 1st Viscount (1883-1963)
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 British ministries, political parties, etc.
1721) 1721 - 1724 John Carteret, Baron Carteret (s.a.) 1724 - 1748 Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle (s.a.) 1748 - 1751 John Russell, Duke of Bedford (b.
1771) 1771 - 1782 Thomas Villiers, Baron Hyde of Hindon (from 1776, Thomas Villiers, Earl of Clarendon) (b.
1940) 1940 - 1941 Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey, Baron Hankey (b.
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 Cabinet Secretary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Colonel Maurice Hankey, later 1st Baron Hankey 1916-1938
Sir Norman Brook, later 1st Baron Normanbrook 1947-1962
Sir John Hunt, now Baron Hunt of Tanworth (1973-1979)
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 More on Room 40 & the Naval Intelligence Division
Maurice Hankey, the cabinet secretary, discovered in February 1916 that Hall had failed to pass on 'priceless' intelligence from the secret telegrams between President Wilson and Colonel House even to his own First Lord, Arthur Balfour.
We propose to begin on the 1st February unrestricted submarine warfare.
But the war cabinet, urged on by Hankey, the cabinet secretary, saw sense before the admirals.
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Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey (1877-1963), Civil servant.
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In 1909 one of her dearest friends, Archie Gordon, had a tragic and ultimately fatal motoring accident, and while he was in Winchester hospital Violet agreed to his request that they become engaged to be married.
In 1915 Violet married Maurice, later Sir Maurice, and they had four children, two girls and two boys.
Even with her family commitments she continued to accompany and support her father on the election platform, most notably in the Paisley by-election of 1920, when he was returned to Parliament after losing his East Fife seat in 1918.
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 The collection of PASSFIELD: Webb, (Martha) Beatrice, 1858-1943, and Webb, Sidney James, 1859-1947, 1st Baron ...
The collection of PASSFIELD: Webb, (Martha) Beatrice, 1858-1943, and Webb, Sidney James, 1859-1947, 1st Baron Passfield, social reformers and historians held at the British Library of Political and Economic Science
PASSFIELD: Webb, (Martha) Beatrice, 1858-1943, and Webb, Sidney James, 1859-1947, 1st Baron Passfield, social reformers and historians
Below is the table of contents for the collection of PASSFIELD: Webb, (Martha) Beatrice, 1858-1943, and Webb, Sidney James, 1859-1947, 1st Baron Passfield, social reformers and historians held at the British Library of Political and Economic Science.
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