1946 New Year Honours, the Glossary

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1. 416 relations: Abdullahi Bayero, Abdur Rashid Khan (politician), Aide-de-camp general, Alagappa Chettiar, Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, Alan Deere, Alan Lees, Albert Hugh Smith, Albert James Hannan, Albertine Winner, Alec Newboult, Alec Wilfred Lee, Alexander Carr-Saunders, Alexander Clutterbuck, Alexander Duncan (police officer), Alexander Galloway, Alexander Hood (British Army officer, born 1888), Alexander Madden, Alexander Stuart Frere, Alfred Earle, Alfred Pittard, Allan Hesketh, Alport Barker, Ambrose Flux Dundas, Amy Curtis, Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, Andrew James Wray Geddes, Andrew Murray (Scottish politician), Angela Pery, Archibald Acheson, 6th Earl of Gosford, Archibald Gray (dermatologist), Archibald Hill, Archibald Nye, Arnold Stott, Arthur Coningham (RAF officer), Arthur Deane Nesbitt, Arthur fforde, Arthur Peters (Royal Navy officer), Arthur Power, Arthur Sanders (RAF officer), Arthur Street, Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder, Ashley Clarke, Attracta Rewcastle, Aubrey Toppin, Azam Jah, Aziz Ahmed (civil servant), Balfour Hutchison, Benjamin Ball (RAF officer), Benno Moiseiwitsch, ... Expand index (366 more) »

2. 1946 awards
3. 1946 in the United Kingdom

Abdullahi Bayero

Alhaji Abdullahi Bayero CBE CMG dan Muhammad Abbas (1881–1953) was Sarki (Emir) of Kano, with headquarters in Kano, Kano State, Nigeria from 1926 to 1953.

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Abdur Rashid Khan (politician)

Sardar Abdur Rashid Khan OBE (سردار عبد الرشید خان) (1906 — 1995) was a senior police officer from the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province and cabinet minister in Pakistan.

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Aide-de-camp general

Aide-de-camp general is a senior honorary appointment for generals in the British Army.

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Alagappa Chettiar

Sir Alagappa Chettiar (6 April 1909 – 5 April 1957) was an Indian businessman and philanthropist.

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Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke

Field Marshal Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, (23 July 1883 – 17 June 1963), was a senior officer of the British Army.

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Alan Deere

Air Commodore Alan Christopher Deere, (12 December 1917 – 21 September 1995) was a New Zealand fighter ace with the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War.

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Alan Lees

Air Marshal Sir Alan Lees, (23 May 1895 – 14 August 1973) was a Royal Air Force officer who became Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief RAF Reserve Command.

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Albert Hugh Smith

Albert Hugh Smith OBE (24 February 1903 – 11 May 1967) was a scholar of Old English and Scandinavian languages and played a major part in the study and publication of English place-names.

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Albert James Hannan

Albert James Hannan QC (27 July 1887 – 1 January 1965) was a lawyer who was Crown Solicitor for South Australia for 25 years.

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Albertine Winner

Dame Albertine Louisa Winner (4 March 1907 – 13 May 1988) was a British physician and medical administrator.

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Alec Newboult

Sir Alexander Theodore Newboult, (3 January 1896 – 5 January 1964) was a British colonial administrator.

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Alec Wilfred Lee

Major-General Alec Wilfred Lee CB, MC (1896–1973) was a British Army officer who served in both of the world wars.

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Alexander Carr-Saunders

Sir Alexander Morris Carr-Saunders, (14 January 1886 – 6 October 1966) was an English biologist, sociologist, academic, and academic administrator.

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Alexander Clutterbuck

Sir Peter Alexander Clutterbuck (27 March 1897 – 29 December 1975) was a British diplomat who was high commissioner to Canada and India and ambassador to Ireland.

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Alexander Duncan (police officer)

Alexander Mitchell Duncan (25 September 1888–1 September 1965) was a Scottish-Australian police officer.

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Alexander Galloway

Lieutenant-General Sir Alexander Galloway, (3 November 1895 – 28 January 1977) was a senior British Army officer.

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Alexander Hood (British Army officer, born 1888)

Lieutenant-General Sir Alexander Hood (25 September 1888 – 11 September 1980) was a physician and British Army medical officer who served as the Director General of Army Medical Services from 1941 to 1948.

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Alexander Madden

Admiral Sir Alexander Cumming Gordon Madden KCB CBE (21 January 1895 – 21 September 1964) was a senior Royal Navy officer who went on to be Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel.

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Alexander Stuart Frere

Alexander Stuart Frere (born Frere-Reeves; 23 November 1892 – 3 October 1984) was an English publisher who was highly influential in the interwar and post-Second World War period.

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Alfred Earle

Air Chief Marshal Sir Alfred Earle, (11 December 1907 – 27 March 1990) was a senior officer in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War who later served as Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff (1964–66), and Director General of British Defence Intelligence (1966–1968).

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Alfred Pittard

Alfred James Pittard (known as Jim Pittard) (3 August 1868 – 16 May 1950) was an Australian politician.

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Allan Hesketh

Air Vice Marshal Allan Hesketh, (5 July 1899 – 9 March 1973) was a senior Royal Air Force officer.

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Alport Barker

Sir Thomas William Alport Barker (died 14 June 1956) was a Fijian newspaper owner and politician.

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Ambrose Flux Dundas

Sir Ambrose Dundas Flux Dundas (14 April 1899 – 29 April 1973) was a British civil servant and colonial administrator in British India in what later became Pakistan.

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Amy Curtis

Amy Curtis, (4 February 1894 - 29 July 1970) was an Irish administrator, superintendent of the Women's Royal Naval Service in the Portsmouth command and the final chief administrative officer of the Women's Land Army.

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Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope

Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Browne Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, (7 January 1883 – 12 June 1963) was a British officer of the Royal Navy during the Second World War.

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Andrew James Wray Geddes

Air Commodore Andrew James Wray Geddes, (31 July 1906 – 15 December 1988) was the senior Royal Air Force officer during the Second World War who led the planning for Operation Manna, the air drop of food supplies to the starving population of the Netherlands.

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Andrew Murray (Scottish politician)

Sir Andrew Hunter Arbuthnot Murray (19 December 1903 – 21 March 1977) was Lord Provost of Edinburgh, Scotland between 1947 and 1951, Lord Lieutenant of the City of Edinburgh, and a Justice of the Peace.

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Angela Pery

Angela Olivia Pery, Countess of Limerick, CH GBE DStJ (Trotter; 1897–1981) was a leader of the International British Red Cross movements.

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Archibald Acheson, 6th Earl of Gosford

Archibald Alexander John Stanley Acheson, 6th Earl of Gosford, (14 January 1911 – 17 February 1966), styled Viscount Acheson until 1954, was a British peer, politician, and a Royal Air Force officer.

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Archibald Gray (dermatologist)

Sir Archibald Montague Henry Gray (1 February 1880 – 13 October 1967) was a British dermatologist and gynaecologist, who was consulting physician for diseases of the skin at University College Hospital and to Great Ormond Street Hospital.

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Archibald Hill

Archibald Vivian Hill (26 September 1886 – 3 June 1977), better known to friends and colleagues as A. V. Hill, was a British physiologist, one of the founders of the diverse disciplines of biophysics and operations research.

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Archibald Nye

Lieutenant-General Sir Archibald Edward Nye, (23 April 1895 – 13 November 1967) was a senior British Army officer who served in both world wars.

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Arnold Stott

Major-General Sir Arnold Walmsley Stott, (7 July 1885 – 15 June 1958) was a British physician, specialising in cardiovascular disease.

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Arthur Coningham (RAF officer)

Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham, (19 January 1895 – presumably 30 January 1948), nicknamed "Mary", was a senior officer in the Royal Air Force.

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Arthur Deane Nesbitt

Arthur Deane Nesbitt OBE, DFC, CdeG (16 November 1910 – 22 February 1978) was a Canadian businessman and a decorated fighter pilot and wing commander in World War II.

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Arthur fforde

Sir Arthur Frederic Brownlow fforde GBE (23 August 1900 – 26 June 1985) was an English solicitor, civil servant, headmaster, writer and businessman.

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Arthur Peters (Royal Navy officer)

Admiral Sir Arthur Malcolm Peters KCB DSC (1 June 1888 – 23 September 1979) was a Royal Navy officer who became Naval Secretary.

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Arthur Power

Admiral of the Fleet Sir Arthur John Power, (12 April 1889 – 28 January 1960) was a Royal Navy officer.

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Arthur Sanders (RAF officer)

Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Penrose Martyn Sanders, (17 March 1898 – 8 February 1974) was a Royal Flying Corps pilot during the First World War and a senior Royal Air Force commander during the Second World War and the immediate post-war years.

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Arthur Street

Sir Arthur William Street, GCB, KBE, CMG, CIE, MC (16 May 1892 – 24 February 1951) was a British civil servant.

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Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder

Marshal of the Royal Air Force Arthur William Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder, (11 July 1890 – 3 June 1967) was a Scottish Royal Air Force officer and peer.

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Ashley Clarke

Sir Henry Ashley Clarke (26 June 1903 – 20 January 1994) was a British diplomat who was ambassador to Italy.

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Attracta Rewcastle

Attracta Genevieve Rewcastle (née Candon, 1897 – 18 February 1951) was a doctor, politician, and the first female Commissioned Officer in the Royal Navy.

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Aubrey Toppin

Aubrey John Toppin (1881 – 1969) was a long-serving English officer of arms at the College of Arms in London.

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Azam Jah

Sahebzada Mir Himayat Ali Khan Siddiqi Azam Jah (اعظمجاہ داماد والاشان صاحب زادہ نواب سر میر حمایت علی خان بہادر بے آفندی; 21/22 February 1907 – 9 October 1970) was the eldest son of the seventh and last nizam of Hyderabad, Mir Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII and Sahebzadi Azam unnisa Begum, daughter of Sahebzada Mir Jahangir Ali Khan Siddiqi.

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Aziz Ahmed (civil servant)

Aziz Ahmed OBE HPk (عزیز احمد; 24 June 1906 – 23 October 1982) was a career Pakistani statesman and a diplomat during the Cold War, serving in the capacity as 12th Foreign Minister of Pakistan from 1973 until 1977.

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Balfour Hutchison

Lieutenant-General Sir Balfour Oliphant Hutchison, (12 February 1889 – 26 April 1967) was a Scottish soldier who served in both the First and Second World Wars.

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Benjamin Ball (RAF officer)

Air Vice Marshal Sir Benjamin Ball, (6 September 1912 – 24 January 1977) was a Royal Air Force officer who served as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Signals Command from 1966 until its disbandment in 1969.

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Benno Moiseiwitsch

Benno Moiseiwitsch (22 February 18909 April 1963) was a Russian and British pianist.

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Berar Division

The Berar Division, formerly Berar Province, was one of the former administrative divisions of the Central Provinces and Berar of British India.

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Bernard Fitzalan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk

Bernard Marmaduke Fitzalan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk (30 May 1908 – 31 January 1975), styled Earl of Arundel and Surrey until 1917, was a British peer and politician.

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Bernard Montgomery

Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein (17 November 1887 – 24 March 1976), nicknamed "Monty", was a senior British Army officer who served in the First World War, the Irish War of Independence and the Second World War.

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Bernard Paget

General Sir Bernard Charles Tolver Paget, (15 September 1887 – 16 February 1961) was a British Army officer who served with distinction in the First World War, and then later during the Second World War, when he commanded the 21st Army Group from June to December 1943 and was Commander-in-Chief (C-in-C) Middle East Command from January 1944 to October 1946.

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Bertrand Glancy

Sir Bertrand James Glancy (31 December 1882 – 17 March 1953) was an Irish-born British colonial administrator and Governor of the Punjab between 1941 and 1946.

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Bhawanrao Shriniwasrao Pant Pratinidhi

Bhawanrao Shriniwasrao Pant Pratinidhi, (October 24, 1868 – April 13, 1951), popularly known as Balasaheb Pant Pratinidhi, or Bhawanrao Balasaheb Pant Pratinidhi, was the ruler of the princely state of Aundh during the British Raj, from 1909 until 1947.

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Bikaner State

Bikaner State was a princely state in the Rajputana from 1465 to 1947.

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Bill Jordan (politician)

Sir William Joseph Jordan (19 May 1879 – 8 April 1959) was a New Zealand Labour Party member of Parliament, and New Zealand's longest-serving high commissioner to the United Kingdom from 1936 to 1951.

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Bruce Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape

Admiral of the Fleet Bruce Austin Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape, (5 February 1888 – 12 February 1981) was a senior Royal Navy officer.

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Calvert Pratt

Calvert Coates Pratt OBE (October 6, 1888 – November 13, 1963) was a Newfoundland businessman and a Canadian Senator.

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Carleton Langley

Sir Carleton George Langley (21 May 1885 – 11 November 1963) was a British lawyer and colonial judge.

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Cecil Wigglesworth

Air Commodore Cecil George Wigglesworth, (17 October 1893 – 8 August 1961) was a Royal Air Force (RAF) officer and cricketer.

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Charles Brutton

Charles Phipps Brutton (20 January 1899 – 11 May 1964) was an amateur English cricketer.

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Charles Dillwyn-Venables-Llewelyn

Sir Charles Leyshon Dillwyn-Venables-Llewelyn, 2nd Baronet (29 June 1870 – 24 June 1951) was a Welsh Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) who briefly represented Radnorshire in the House of Commons and served as Lord-Lieutenant of Radnorshire.

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Charles Drummond Ellis

Sir Charles Drummond Ellis (b. Hampstead, 11 August 1895; died Cookham 10 January 1980) was an English physicist and scientific administrator.

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Charles Elworthy, Baron Elworthy

Marshal of the Royal Air Force Samuel Charles Elworthy, Baron Elworthy, (23 March 1911 – 4 April 1993) was a New Zealand-born senior officer in the Royal Air Force.

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Charles F. Goodeve

Sir Charles Frederick Goodeve (21 February 1904 – 7 April 1980) was a Canadian chemist and pioneer in operations research.

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Charles Francis Waterfall

Sir Charles Francis Waterfall, CSI, CIE (24 February 1888 – 23 October 1954) was a British administrator in India.

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Charles Frazer (cricketer)

Charles Ewan Frazer OBE (23 September 1905 – 30 April 1971) was an Australian-born English first-class cricketer.

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Charles Harvey (Indian Army officer)

Major-General Sir Charles Offley Harvey, CB, CVO, CBE, MC (16 July 1888 – 11 October 1969) was an officer in the British Indian Army during World War I and World War II.

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Charles Illingworth

Charles Frederick William Illingworth (8 May 1899 – 23 February 1991) was a British surgeon who specialised in gastroenterology.

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Charles Kennedy-Purvis

Admiral Sir Charles Edward Kennedy-Purvis (2 May 1884 – 26 May 1946) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Deputy First Sea Lord.

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Charles Mills (Royal Navy officer)

Vice Admiral Sir Charles Piercy Mills, (4 October 1914 – 27 July 2006) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Governor of Guernsey.

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Charles Orr Stanley

Charles Orr Stanley CBE (15 April 1899 – 18 January 1989) was a businessman who played an important role in the early development of commercial radio and television in Great Britain, especially in his role as head of Pye Ltd. Pye produced receivers for use in Chain Home, the British coastal defence radar system, and helped with the supply of EF50 valves for later British radar operating at VHF.

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Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford

Marshal of the Royal Air Force Charles Frederick Algernon Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford, (21 May 1893 – 22 April 1971) was a senior Royal Air Force officer.

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Charles Symonds

Air Vice Marshal Sir Charles Putnam Symonds (11 April 1890 – 7 December 1978) was an English neurologist and a senior medical officer in the Royal Air Force.

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Charles Wainwright (British Army officer)

Major-General Charles Brian Wainwright, (17 August 1893 − 23 October 1968) was a British Army officer.

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Charles Webster (historian)

Sir Charles Kingsley Webster (25 July 1886 – August 1961) was a British diplomat and historian.

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Charles Wiggin

Sir Charles Douglas Wiggin (26 September 1922 – 8 March 1977) was a British diplomat who was ambassador to Spain.

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Chief Justice of Belize

The chief justice of Belize is the head of the Supreme Court of Belize.

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Chithira Thirunal Balarama Varma

Sree Padmanabhadasa Sree Chithira Thirunal Balarama Varma, popularly known as Sree Chithira Thirunal (7 November 1912 – 20 July 1991), was the last ruling Maharaja of the Indian princely state of Travancore, in southern India until 1949 and later the Titular Maharajah of Travancore until 1991.

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Clarmont Skrine

Sir Clarmont Percival Skrine (1888–1974) was a British civil servant and administrator who served as the British consul-general in Kashgar from 1922 to 1924, Under-Secretary of State for India and agent for the Madras States from 1936 to 1939.

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Clayton Boyce

Air Vice Marshal Clayton Descou Clement Boyce (19 September 1907 – 20 December 1987) was a senior Royal Air Force (RAF) officer.

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Clement Moody

Admiral Sir Clement Moody, (31 May 1891 – 6 July 1960) was a Royal Navy officer who served as Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Fleet, from 1945 to 1946 and Commander-in-Chief, South Atlantic, from 1946 to 1948.

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Clive Forster-Cooper

Sir Clive Forster-Cooper, FRS (3 April 1880 – 23 August 1947) was an English palaeontologist and director of the Cambridge University Museum of Zoology and Natural History Museum in London.

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Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Colgrain

Colin Frederick Campbell, 1st Baron Colgrain (13 June 1866 – 3 November 1954), was a Scottish banker.

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Colin Gubbins

Major-General Sir Colin McVean Gubbins, (2 July 1896 – 11 February 1976) was the prime mover of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) in the Second World War.

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Colin McKay Grierson

Air Commodore Colin McKay Grierson CBE (16 June 19061991) was a senior officer in the Royal Air Force during and after World War II.

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Colin McMullen

Air Commodore Colin Campbell McMullen, (27 August 1908 – 17 February 1954) was an Australian-born Royal Air Force (RAF) officer.

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Colin Pearson, Baron Pearson

Colin Hargreaves Pearson, Baron Pearson, (28 July 1899 – 31 January 1980) was a Canadian-born English barrister and judge.

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Colin Thornton-Kemsley

Sir Colin Norman Thornton-Kemsley, (2 September 1903 – 17 July 1977) was a Conservative and National Liberal politician in the United Kingdom.

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Commonwealth realm

A Commonwealth realm is a sovereign state within the Commonwealth that has Charles III as its monarch and ceremonial head of state.

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Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander

Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander (19 April 1909 – 15 February 1974), known as Hugh Alexander and C. H. O'D.

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Cyril Hurcomb, 1st Baron Hurcomb

Cyril William Hurcomb, 1st Baron Hurcomb, (18 February 1883 – 7 August 1975) was a British civil servant.

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Dallas Brooks

General Sir Reginald Alexander Dallas Brooks, (22 August 1896 – 22 March 1966) was a British military commander who went on to become the 19th and longest-serving governor of Victoria, Australia.

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Daniel Auster

Daniel Auster OBE (דניאל אוסטר, 7 May 1893 – 15 January 1963) was Mayor of Jerusalem in the final years of Mandatory Palestine, the first Jewish mayor of the city, and the first mayor of Jerusalem after Israeli independence.

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Daniel Lascelles (diplomat)

Sir Daniel William Lascelles KCMG (19 March 1902 – 17 October 1967) was a British diplomat.

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David Atcherley

Air Vice Marshal David Francis William Atcherley, (12 January 1904 – 8 June 1952) was a senior Royal Air Force officer.

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David Bone

Sir David William Bone (22 June 1874Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950 – 17 May 1959) was a Scottish Commodore and author of nautical fiction.

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David Mercer MacDougall

David Mercer MacDougall (8 December 1904 – 13 May 1991) was a Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong between 1945 and 1949.

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Denis Spotswood

Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Denis Frank Spotswood, (26 September 1916 – 11 November 2001) was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force.

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Derman Christopherson

Sir Derman Guy Christopherson (6 September 1915 – 7 November 2000) was a British engineering science academic.

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Dermot Boyle

Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Dermot Alexander Boyle, (2 October 1904 – 5 May 1993) was a senior officer in the Royal Air Force.

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Dharma Vira

Dharma Vira OBE, ICS (20 January 1906 – 16 September 2000) was an Indian civil servant and politician who served as the governor of Punjab, Haryana, West Bengal and Karnataka.

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Dogra dynasty

The Dogra dynasty of Dogra Rajputs from the Shivalik hills created Jammu and Kashmir when all dynastic kingdoms in India were being absorbed by the East India Company.

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Donald Bailey (civil engineer)

Sir Donald Coleman Bailey, OBE (15 September 1901 – 5 May 1985) was an English civil engineer who invented the Bailey bridge.

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Donald McMullen

Major-General Sir Donald Jay McMullen (27 July 1891 – 12 November 1967) was a British Army officer of the Royal Engineers who served in both of the World Wars.

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Donald Shearer

Edgar Donald Reid Shearer CBE (6 June 1909 – 9 July 1999) was an amateur sportsman who played both association football and cricket at international levels.

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Donald Vandepeer

Sir Donald Edward Vandepeer, KCB, KBE (21 September 1890 – 6 October 1968) was an English civil servant.

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Douglas Beanland

Major-General Douglas Beanland (4 March 1893 – 9 April 1963) was a senior British Indian Army officer of the Second World War.

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Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton

Air Commodore Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton and 11th Duke of Brandon, (3 February 1903 – 30 March 1973) was a Scottish nobleman and aviator who was the first man to fly over Mount Everest.

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Douglas Evill

Air Chief Marshal Sir Douglas Claude Strathern Evill, (8 October 1892 – 22 March 1971) was an Australian-born British Royal Naval Air Service pilot and squadron commander during the First World War.

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Douglas Fisher (Royal Navy officer)

Admiral Sir Douglas Blake Fisher (23 October 1890 – 4 October 1963) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Fourth Sea Lord.

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Douglas Jackman

Air Marshal Sir Harold Douglas Jackman, (26 October 1902 – 15 June 1991) was a senior Royal Air Force officer who served as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Maintenance Command from 1958 until his retirement in 1961.

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Edgar Ludlow-Hewitt

Air Chief Marshal Sir Edgar Rainey Ludlow-Hewitt, (9 June 1886 – 15 August 1973) was a senior Royal Air Force commander.

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Edith Evans

Dame Edith Mary Evans, (8 February 1888 – 14 October 1976) was an English actress.

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Edward Beetham

Sir Edward Betham Beetham (19 February 1905 – 19 February 1979) was a British colonial official who was Resident Commissioner in Swaziland from 1946 to 1950 and in the Bechuanaland Protectorate from 1950 to 1953.

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Edward Collingwood

Sir Edward Foyle Collingwood LLD (17 January 1900 – 25 October 1970) was an English mathematician and scientist.

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Edward Davies (RAF officer)

Air Commodore Edward Dayrell Handley (Peter) Davies CBE (29 September 1899 – 21 March 1974) was a senior Royal Air Force officer who became Acting Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief RAF Reserve Command.

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Edward Evans-Lombe

Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Malcolm Evans-Lombe KCB (15 October 1901 – 14 May 1974) was a Royal Navy officer who became Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff.

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Edward Fielden (RAF officer)

Air Vice-Marshal Sir Edward Hedley "Mouse" Fielden, (4 December 1903 – 8 November 1976) was a senior Royal Air Force commander and a pilot of the Second World War.

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Edward Gent

Sir Edward James Gent (28 October 1895 – 4 July 1948) was the first appointed Governor of the Malayan Union in 1946.

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Edward Holden

Sir Edward Wheewall Holden (14 August 1885 – 17 June 1947) was an Australian industrialist who took his family carriage and saddlery business, Holden & Frost, into a partnership with General Motors to create Australia's first automobile manufacturer, General Motors-Holden's Ltd.

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Edward James Salisbury

Sir Edward James Salisbury CBE FRS (16 April 1886 – 10 November 1978) was an English botanist and ecologist.

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Edward Quinan

General Sir Edward Pellew Quinan (9 January 1885 – 13 November 1960) was a British Army commander during the Second World War.

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Edward Victor Appleton

Sir Edward Victor Appleton (6 September 1892 – 21 April 1965) was an English physicist, Nobel Prize winner (1947) and pioneer in radiophysics.

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Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma

Edwina Cynthia Annette Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma (Ashley; 28 November 1901 – 21 February 1960), was an English heiress, socialite, relief worker and the last vicereine of India as the wife of (the then) Rear Admiral The 1st Viscount Mountbatten of Burma.

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Elizabeth Bather

Elizabeth Constance Bather (11 October 1904 – 8 January 1988) was a British Women's Auxiliary Air Force and police officer who served as the second commander of the London Metropolitan Police's A4 Branch (Women Police), from 1946 to 1960 and was the first female police officer in the United Kingdom to be promoted to chief superintendent when the rank was introduced into the Metropolitan Police in 1949.

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Emrys Lloyd

John Emrys Lloyd OBE (8 September 1905 – 28 June 1987) was a British fencer.

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Eric Bamford

Sir Eric St John Bamford, KCB, KBE, CMG (14 October 1891 – 13 April 1957) was an English civil servant.

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Eric Cecil Ansorge

Sir Eric Cecil Ansorge, CSI, CIE, FRES (6 March 1887 - 3 January 1977) was a British Indian Civil Service officer who worked in Orissa and Bihar in India.

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Eric Leadbitter

Sir Eric Cyril Egerton Leadbitter Kt. (8 June 1891 – 25 February 1971) was a British civil servant and novelist.

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Eric Malcolm Jones

Sir Eric Malcolm Jones (27 April 1907 – 24 December 1986) was a British intelligence officer who was director of the British signals intelligence agency, GCHQ from 1952 to 1960.

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Ernest de Silva

Sir Albert Ernest de Silva (Sinhala ශ්‍රිමත් අර්නස්ට් ද සිල්වා; 26 November 1887 – 9 May 1957) was a Ceylonese business magnate, banker, barrister and public figure, considered to be the most prominent Ceylonese philanthropist of the 20th century.

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Eugene Vielle

Eugene Emile "Tubby" Vielle OBE (29 April 1913 – 2 April 2015) was a Royal Air Force (RAF) officer who was involved in the development of new navigation and bombing systems during World War II.

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Evelyn Fanshawe

Major General Sir Evelyn Dalrymple Fanshawe, (25 May 1895 – 14 March 1979) was a British Army officer and the Director of the International Refugee Organisation in the British Zone of Germany from 1948 to 1952.

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Evelyn Hone

Sir Evelyn Dennison Hone (13 December 1911 – 18 September 1979) was the last Governor of Northern Rhodesia, from 1959 until it gained its independence as Zambia in 1964.

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F. L. Lucas

Frank Laurence Lucas (28 December 1894 – 1 June 1967) was an English classical scholar, literary critic, poet, novelist, playwright, political polemicist, Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and intelligence officer at Bletchley Park during World War II.

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Francis Braithwaite

Air Vice-Marshal Francis Joseph St George Braithwaite (16 October 1907 - 21 December 1956), was a senior British Royal Air Force officer.

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Francis Evans (diplomat)

Sir Francis Edward Evans (4 April 1897 – 21 August 1983) was a British diplomat.

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Francis Fogarty

Air Chief Marshal Sir Francis Joseph Fogarty, (16 January 1899 – 12 January 1973) was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War and also in the post-war years.

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Francis Long (RAF officer)

Air Vice Marshal Francis William Long, (10 October 1899 – 25 March 1983) was a senior Royal Air Force officer.

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Francis Meynell

Sir Francis Meredith Wilfrid Meynell (12 May 1891 – 10 July 1975) was a British poet and printer at The Nonesuch Press.

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Francis Ronald Swain

Air Commodore Francis Ronald Downs Swain, (31 August 1903 – 28 September 1989), known as Ronald, was a British Royal Air Force pilot who held the World Altitude Record for airplanes from 1936 to 1938.

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Francis Simon

Sir Francis Simon (2 July 1893 – 31 October 1956), was a German and later British physical chemist and physicist who devised the gaseous diffusion method, and confirmed its feasibility, of separating the isotope Uranium-235 and thus made a major contribution to the creation of the atomic bomb.

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Francis Tuker

Lieutenant General Sir Francis Ivan Simms Tuker KCIE CB DSO OBE (4 July 1894 – 7 October 1967) was a senior British Indian Army officer who commanded the 4th Indian Infantry Division during the Second World War from 1941.

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Frank Ewart Smith

Sir Frank Ewart Smith FRS (31 May 1897 – 14 June 1995), known as Sir Ewart Smith was a scholar, military scientist, and technical director, then Deputy Chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries.

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Frank Godbould Lee

Sir Frank Godbould Lee (26 August 1903 – 23 April 1971) was a British public servant and Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

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Frank Inglis

Air Vice Marshal Francis Frederic Inglis, (22 June 1899 – 25 September 1969) was an officer in the Royal Air Force who became the head of RAF Intelligence Staff during the Second World War, reporting to Winston Churchill.

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Frank Kearton, Baron Kearton

Christopher Frank Kearton, Baron Kearton, (17 February 1911 – 2 July 1992), usually known as Frank Kearton, was a British life peer in the House of Lords.

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Frank Mears

Sir Frank Charles Mears LLD (11 July 1880 – 25 January 1953) was an architect and Scotland's leading planning consultant from the 1930s to the early 1950s.

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Frank Robert Miller

Air Chief Marshal Frank Robert Miller (April 30, 1908 – October 20, 1997) was a Canadian airman, the last Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee in 1964, the first chief of the Defence Staff from 1964 until 1966, and deputy minister of National Defence.

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Frederick Arnold (cricketer)

Frederick George Arnold (18 November 1899 – 16 December 1980) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer.

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Frederick Browning

Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Arthur Montague "Boy" Browning, (20 December 1896 – 14 March 1965) was a senior officer of the British Army who has been called the "father of the British airborne forces".

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Frederick Brundrett

Sir Frederick Brundrett, (25 November 1894 – 1 August 1974) was a British civil servant and mathematician who served as the Chief Scientific Adviser to the Ministry of Defence from 1954 to 1959.

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Frederick Charles Victor Laws

Group Captain Frederick Charles Victor Laws (29 November 1887 – 27 October 1975), was an officer in the Royal Air Force, an aerial surveyor, and the founder and most prominent pioneer of British aerial reconnaissance.

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Frederick Crawford (colonial administrator)

Sir Frederick Crawford (9 March 1906 – 27 May 1978) was a British colonial administrator.

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Geoffrey Ambler

Air Vice Marshal Geoffrey Hill Ambler, (23 June 1904 – 26 August 1978) was a senior officer in the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War.

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Geoffrey Bozman

Geoffrey Stephen Bozman (26 November 1896 — 23 February 1973) was an English first-class cricketer and an officer in the Indian Civil Service.

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Geoffrey Cator

Sir Geoffrey Edmund Cator (14 August 1884 – 21 April 1973) was a British administrator in the Malayan Civil Service.

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Geoffrey Pidcock

Air Vice Marshal Geoffrey Arthur Henzell Pidcock, (6 November 1897 – 12 February 1976) was a senior officer in the Royal Air Force.

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Geoffrey Vickers

Sir (Charles) Geoffrey Vickers, VC (13 October 1894 – 16 March 1982) was an English lawyer, administrator, writer and pioneering systems scientist.

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George Abell (civil servant)

Sir George Edmond Brackenbury Abell (22 June 1904 – 11 January 1989) was an English civil servant and cricketer.

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George Cunningham (civil servant)

Sir George Cunningham (23 March 1888 – 8 December 1963) was a civil servant in British India who served as the governor of the North-West Frontier Province.

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George Jenkins (Australian politician)

Sir George Frederick Jenkins KBE (24 June 1878 – 25 July 1957) was an Australian politician.

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George Pirie (RAF officer)

Air Chief Marshal Sir George Clark Pirie, (28 July 1896 – 21 January 1980) was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War and the immediate post-war years.

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George Stacey Hodson

Air Vice Marshal George Stacey Hodson, (2 May 1899 – 1 October 1976) was an air officer of the British Royal Air Force who began his military career as a World War I flying ace credited with ten aerial victories.

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George Vance Allen

Sir George Vance Allen (16 April 1894 – 2 October 1970) was an Anglo-Irish British medical doctor, bacteriologist and academic administrator who served as the first Vice-Chancellor of the University of Malaya.

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George VI

George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George; 14 December 1895 – 6 February 1952) was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death in 1952.

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George Wood (New Zealand statistician)

Sir George Ernest Francis Wood (13 July 1900 – 18 December 1978) was a New Zealand economist and statistician.

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GHQ India

General Headquarters, India was the headquarters of the Commander-in-Chief, India, who commanded the British military forces in India, including the British Indian Army, after the Kitchener Reforms of 1903.

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Godfrey Harvey

Godfrey Thomas Benedict Harvey (26 April 1891 — 5 September 1957) was an English cricketer and British Army officer.

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Godfrey Ince

Sir Godfrey Herbert Ince (25 September 1891 – 20 December 1960) was a senior British civil servant.

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Gordon Gordon-Taylor

Sir Gordon Gordon-Taylor CB KBE FRCS FACS (né William Gordon Taylor, 18 March 1878 – 3 September 1960) was a British surgeon.

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Graham Hutton

David Graham Hutton OBE (13 April 1904 – 14 October 1988) was a British economist, writer and Liberal Party politician.

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Gurunath Venkatesh Bewoor

Sir Gurunath Venkatesh Bewoor KCIE, ICS (20 November 1888 – 2 December 1950) was an Indian civil servant.

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Guy Grantham

Sir Guy Grantham, (9 January 1900 – 8 September 1992) was a senior Royal Navy officer who served as Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth from 1957 to 1959.

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Gwalior State

The Gwalior State, initially the Ujjain State, was a state within the Maratha Confederacy located in Central India.

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H. P. M. Beames

Hewitt Pearson Montague Beames (9 May 1875 – 5 March 1948) was Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London and North Western Railway from 1920 to 1922.

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Hari Singh

Maharaja Sir Hari Singh (September 1895 – 26 April 1961) was the last ruling Maharaja of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir.

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Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis

Field Marshal Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, (10 December 1891 – 16 June 1969) was a senior and highly decorated British Army officer who served in both of the world wars.

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Harold Howitt

Sir Harold Gibson Howitt, (5 October 1886 – 30 November 1969) was an English accountant who had a distinguished military career during the First World War and who undertook a long series of important public service commissions.

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Harold Kent

Sir Harold Simcox Kent (11 November 1903 – 4 December 1998) was a British lawyer.

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Harold Tempany

Sir Harold Augustin Tempany CBE CMG (23 July 1881 – 2 July 1955) was a British agricultural chemist who served for forty-three years in the Colonial Agricultural Service.

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Harold Walker (Royal Navy officer)

Admiral Sir Harold Thomas Coulthard Walker KCB (18 March 1891 – 25 December 1975) was a Royal Navy officer who commanded the 3rd Battle Squadron.

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Harry Batterbee

Sir Harry Batterbee (19 September 1880 – 25 August 1976) was a prominent British civil servant and diplomat and the first British High Commissioner to New Zealand.

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Henry Baker (Australian politician)

Sir Henry Seymour Baker (1 September 1890 – 20 July 1968) was an Australian politician and lawyer.

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Henry French (civil servant)

Sir Henry Leon French, GBE, KCB (30 December 1883 – 3 April 1966) was an English civil servant.

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Henry MacGeagh

Colonel Sir Henry Davies Foster MacGeagh (21 October 1883 – 29 December 1962) was a British judge, who served as Judge Advocate General of the Armed Forces.

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Henry Maitland Wilson

Field Marshal Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron Wilson, (5 September 1881 – 31 December 1964), also known as Jumbo Wilson, was a senior British Army officer of the 20th century.

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Henry Ruthven Moore

Admiral Sir Henry Ruthven Moore (29 August 1886 – 12 March 1978) was the last British admiral to command the Home Fleet during World War II.

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Henry Wade (surgeon)

Sir Henry Wade PRCSE FRSE DSO CMG (18 December 1876 – 21 February 1955) was a Scottish military and urological surgeon.

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Herbert Cunliffe

Sir Joseph Herbert Cunliffe, (1 July 1867 – 9 April 1963) was a British barrister and Conservative Party politician.

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Herbert Eric Jansz

Sir Herbert Eric Jansz, (13 November 1890 - March 1976) was a Ceylonese civil servant.

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Herbert James Baxter

His Honour Herbert James Baxter OBE (6 March 1900 – 3 May 1974), was a British judge, Intelligence Officer and Liberal Party politician.

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Herbert Marchant

Sir Herbert Stanley Marchant KCMG OBE (18 May 1906 – 8 August 1990) was a schoolmaster, at Bletchley Park the codebreaking centre in World War II, and then a diplomat.

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Hilda Gordon-Lennox, Duchess of Richmond

Hilda Madeline Gordon-Lennox, Duchess of Richmond (née Brassey; 16 June 1872 – 29 December 1971) was the daughter of Henry Brassey and Anna Harriet Stevenson (died 15 July 1898), and granddaughter of the railway pioneer Thomas Brassey.

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Hilton Poynton

Sir Arthur Hilton Poynton GCMG (20 April 1905 – 24 February 1996), known as Sir Hilton Poynton, was a British civil servant who held the position of Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1959 until his retirement in 1966.

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Hiraji Cursetji

Major-General Sir Hiraji Jehangir Manekji Cursetji, KCIE, CSI, DSO (14 August 1885 – 26 July 1964) was an Indian military surgeon and general in the British Indian Army during the Second World War.

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Horace Hearne

Sir Hector Horace Hearne (23 February 1892 – 31 December 1962) was an English barrister and judge.

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Horace James Seymour

Sir Horace James Seymour (26 February 1885 – 10 September 1978) was a British diplomat who served in Washington, D.C., Tehran, the Hague, Rome, and Chongqing.

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Hugh Beadle

Sir Thomas Hugh William Beadle, (6 February 1905 – 14 December 1980) was a Rhodesian lawyer, politician and judge who served as Chief Justice of Southern Rhodesia from March 1961 to November 1965, and as Chief Justice of Rhodesia from November 1965 until April 1977.

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Hugh Constantine

Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Alex Constantine, (23 May 1908 – 16 April 1992) was a Royal Air Force officer who became Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Flying Training Command.

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Humphrey Waldock

Sir Claud Humphrey Meredith Waldock, (13 August 1904 – 15 August 1981) was a British jurist and international lawyer.

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Ian Heilbron

Sir Ian Heilbron DSO FRS (6 November 1886 – 14 September 1959) was a Scottish chemist, who pioneered organic chemistry developed for therapeutic and industrial use.

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Ian Stockwell

Air Commodore Ian Sargenson Stockwell, (30 July 1917 – 15 November 1998) was a senior British Royal Air Force officer who served as a pilot during World War II and later commanded the Kenya Air Force on loan service.

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Idris Bell

Sir Harold Idris Bell (2 October 1879 – 22 January 1967) was a British museum curator, papyrologist (specialising in Roman Egypt) and scholar of Welsh literature.

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Isaiah Berlin

Sir Isaiah Berlin (24 May/6 June 1909 – 5 November 1997) was a Russian-British social and political theorist, philosopher, and historian of ideas.

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Ivan Magill

Sir Ivan Whiteside Magill KCVO (23 July 188825 November 1986) was an Irish-born anaesthetist who is famous for his involvement in much of the innovation and development in modern anaesthesia.

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J. A. Ratcliffe

John Ashworth Ratcliffe CB CBE FRS (known to intimates as "Jar"; 12 December 1902 – 25 October 1987) was an influential British radio physicist.

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Jack Beasley

John Albert Beasley (9 November 1895 – 2 September 1949) was an Australian politician who was a member of the House of Representatives from 1928 to 1946.

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Jack Highton

Rear-Admiral Jack Kenneth Highton CB CBE (2 September 1904 – 17 February 1988) was Chief Staff Officer to Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth (1957–60), and Aide-de-Camp to Queen Elizabeth II.

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Jack Mullens

John Michael Mullens, (18 July 1896 – 5 September 1978) was an Australian politician.

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James Barnes (civil servant)

Sir James Horace Barnes, (14 December 1891 – 4 February 1969) was an English civil servant.

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James Cameron (physician)

Sir James Davidson Stuart Cameron, (1900 – 1969) was a Scottish physician of note.

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James Gray (zoologist)

Sir James Gray, (14 October 1891, London – 14 December 1975, Cambridge, England) was a British zoologist who helped establish the field of cytology.

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James Guthrie (Australian politician)

James Francis Guthrie, (13 September 1872 – 18 August 1958) was an Australian politician.

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James Lacey

James Philip Durnford Lacey OBE (26 January 1881 – 8 June 1974) was a British politician and trade unionist.

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James Lorimer Ilsley

James Lorimer Ilsley (3 January 1894 – 14 January 1967) was a Canadian politician and jurist.

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James Somerville

Admiral of the Fleet Sir James Fownes Somerville, (17 July 1882 – 19 March 1949) was a Royal Navy officer.

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Jane Sissmore

Kathleen Maria Margaret Sissmore, OBE (1898–1982), was known as Jane Sissmore and then Jane Archer after her marriage in 1939.

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Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar

Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar (18 July 1919 – 23 September 1974), sometimes simply Jayachamaraja Wadiyar, was the twenty-fifth and last ruling Maharaja of Mysore, reigning from 1940 to 1950, who later served as the governor of Mysore until 1964 and as governor of Madras from 1964 to 1966.

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Jeaffreson Greswell

Air Commodore Jeaffreson Herbert Greswell, (28 July 1916 – 19 November 2000) was a British pilot during the Second World War and a senior Royal Air Force officer in the post-war years.

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Jiwajirao Scindia

Jivajirao Scindia KStJ (26 June 1916 – 16 July 1961) was the ruler of an Indian vassal state during the British Raj and later a government official.

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Joan Bright Astley

Joan Bright Astley, OBE (27 September 1910 – 24 December 2008), born Penelope Joan McKerrow Bright, was a British intelligence officer and organizer during World War II.

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Jocelyn Godefroi

Jocelyn Godefroi (1880 in Kensington – 30 March 1969) was a British translator.

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John Cordeaux

Lieutenant-Colonel John Kyme Cordeaux (23 July 1902 – 4 January 1982), was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.

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John Cowley (British Army officer)

Lieutenant General Sir John Guise Cowley, (20 August 1905 – 7 January 1993) was a British Army officer and George Cross recipient who reached high rank in the 1950s.

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John Cunningham (Royal Navy officer)

Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Henry Dacres Cunningham (13 April 1885 – 13 December 1962) was a Royal Navy officer.

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John D'Albiac

Air Marshal Sir John Henry D'Albiac, (28 January 1894 – 20 August 1963) was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.

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John Davies, 1st Baron Darwen

John Percival Davies, 1st Baron Darwen (28 March 1885 – 26 December 1950), was a British cotton manufacturer and Labour politician.

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John Denison-Pender, 2nd Baron Pender

John Jocelyn Denison-Pender, 2nd Baron Pender (26 January 1907 – 21 March 1965) was a British civil servant and businessman.

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John Edwards (Labour politician)

Lewis John Edwards OBE (27 May 1904 – 23 November 1959) was a British university lecturer, trade union leader and Labour Party politician who sat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom and was President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

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John Fearns Nicoll

Sir John Fearns Nicoll (26 April 1899 – 12 January 1981) was a British colonial administrator who served as Governor of Singapore from 1952 to 1955.

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John George Burnett

John George Burnett, OBE (30 March 1876 – 20 January 1962) was Unionist MP for Aberdeen North from 1931 to 1935, defeating William Wedgwood Benn at the 1931 general election.

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John Hall Magowan

Sir John Hall Magowan, was a British diplomat.

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John Henry Sexton

John Henry Sexton OBE (2 July 1863 – 3 November 1954) was a Baptist minister in South Australia.

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John Herbert Hardy

Brigadier John Herbert Hardy CBE, MC (18 September 1893 – 3 August 1969) was a British Army officer who served as colonel of the King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster).

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John Kennedy (British Army officer, born 1878)

Major General Sir John Kennedy, (1878–1948) was a senior British Army officer who served in the First World War and commanded the 1st Division.

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John Leigh-Pemberton

John Loftus Leigh-Pemberton AFC (1911–1997) was an artist and illustrator from the United Kingdom, best known for his book illustrations.

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John Mortimer Warfield

Air Commodore John Mortimer Warfield (September 26, 1912 - 1970) CBE RAF was a bomber pilot during the Second World War, a senior RAF staff officer and commander during the Malayan Emergency in the 1950s and, as an air commodore in his final tour, the ninth Commandant of the Royal Observer Corps.

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John Pownall Reeves

John Pownall Reeves (1909–1978) was a British diplomat.

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John Rupert Firth

John Rupert Firth OBE (17 June 1890 in Keighley, Yorkshire – 14 December 1960 in Lindfield, West Sussex), commonly known as J. R. Firth, was an English linguist and a leading figure in British linguistics during the 1950s.

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John Tovey, 1st Baron Tovey

Admiral of the Fleet John Cronyn Tovey, 1st Baron Tovey, (7 March 1885 – 12 January 1971), sometimes known as Jack Tovey, was a Royal Navy officer.

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John Vesey-Brown

John Sidney Vesey-Brown (1899 – June 1976) was an English first-class cricketer, British Army officer and a director for the Mobil oil company.

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John Whiston

John Reginald Harvey Whiston OBE (3 January 1893 – 1956) was Associate Professor of Applied Chemistry at the Royal Military College of Science, with a particular interest in explosives.

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John Whitley (RAF officer)

Air Marshal Sir John Rene Whitley, (7 September 1905 – 26 December 1997) was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War and also in the post-war years.

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Joseph Gluckstein Links

Joseph Gluckstein Links (13 December 1904 – 1 October 1997) was a British writer, art historian, and furrier who is principally known for his expertise and works on the Venetian painter Canaletto and for Venice for Pleasure, a travel guide to Venice, Italy.

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Joseph Summers

Captain Joseph "Mutt" Summers, (10 March 1904 – 16 March 1954) was chief test pilot at Vickers-Armstrongs and Supermarine.

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Julius Elias, 1st Viscount Southwood

Julius Salter Elias, 1st Viscount Southwood (5 January 1873 – 10 April 1946), was a British newspaper proprietor and Labour politician.

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Kenneth Arthur Davies

Kenneth Arthur Davies CMG OBE was a British geologist, director of the geological survey of Uganda, and recipient of the Murchison Medal of the Geological Society of London.

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Kenneth Blackburne

Sir Kenneth William Blackburne (12 December 1907 – 4 November 1980) was a British colonial official who was the first governor-general of Jamaica.

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Kenneth Buchanan

Major-General Sir Kenneth Gray Buchanan (25 January 1880 – 7 June 1973) was a British Army officer.

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Khizar Hayat Tiwana

Sir Malik Khizar Hayat Tiwana KCSI, OBE (ملک خضرحیات ٹوانہ; 7 August 1900 – 20 January 1975) was an Indian statesman, landowner, army officer, and politician belonging to the Punjab Unionist Party.

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Kim Philby

Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby (1 January 191211 May 1988) was a British intelligence officer and a spy for the Soviet Union.

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Lala Sukuna

Ratu Sir Josefa Lalabalavu Vanayaliyali Sukuna (22 April 1888 – 30 May 1958) was a Fijian chief, scholar, soldier, and statesman.

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Lamport and Holt

Lamport and Holt was a UK merchant shipping line.

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Lancelot Mason

The Ven Lancelot Mason MBE MA was an eminent Church of England priest in the 20th century.

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Laurence Sinclair

Air Vice Marshal Sir Laurence Frank Sinclair, (13 June 1908 – 14 May 2002) was a Royal Air Force officer who was awarded the George Cross for rescuing a severely injured airman from a crashed and burning plane.

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Leonard Hussey

Leonard Duncan Albert Hussey, OBE (6 May 1891 – 25 February 1964) was an English meteorologist, archaeologist, explorer, medical doctor and member of Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic and Shackleton–Rowett Expeditions.

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Leslie Harvey (RAF officer)

Air Marshal Sir Leslie Gordon Harvey, (11 April 1896 – 14 October 1972) was a senior Royal Air Force officer who served as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Maintenance Command from 1952 until his retirement in 1956.

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Leslie Hollis

General Sir Leslie Chasemore Hollis, (9 February 1897 – 9 August 1963) was a Royal Marines officer who served as Commandant General Royal Marines from 1949 to 1952.

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Leslie Housden

Dr.

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Leslie Rowan

Sir Thomas Leslie Rowan (22 February 1908 – 29 April 1972) was a British civil servant and industrialist.

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Leslie Vining

Leslie Gordon Vining CBE, (18854 March 1955) was an English Anglican bishop and the first Archbishop of the Church of the Province of West Africa, from 1951 to 1955.

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Leslie Whateley

Dame Leslie Violet Lucy Evelyn Whateley, DBE, TD (née Wood; first married name Balfour; 28 January 1899 – 4 July 1987) was a Director of the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) during the Second World War.

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Lim Han Hoe

Sir Han Hoe Lim (27 April 1894 – 23 March 1983) was a Singaporean physician and politician.

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List of chief justices of Jamaica

The chief justice of Jamaica is the chief judge of the Supreme Court of Jamaica.

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List of First and Principal Naval Aides-de-Camp

Below is a list of First and Principal Naval Aides-de-Camp, an office established by William IV of the United Kingdom in 1830.

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List of Maharajas of Travancore

The Maharaja of Travancore was the principal title of the ruler of the Kingdom of Travancore in the southern part of Kerala, India.

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Lloyd Dumas

Sir Frederick Lloyd Dumas (15 July 1891 – 24 June 1973), generally known as "Lloyd Dumas" or "F.

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Louis St. Laurent

Louis Stephen St.

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Maharaja Bir Bikram Kishore Manikya Bahadur

Maharaja Bir Bikram Kishore Manikya Bahadur (19 August 1908 – 17 May 1947) was a king (or Maharaja) of Tripura State.He is popularly known as "The Architect Of Modern Tripura" He was succeeded by his son, Maharaja Kirit Bikram Kishore Deb Barman, who was the nominal king for two years till the state's merger into India in 1949.

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Maharaja of Mysore

The maharaja of Mysore was the king and principal ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore and briefly of Mysore State in the Indian Dominion roughly between the mid- to late-1300s and 1950.

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Maharaja of Patiala

The Maharaja of Patiala was the title of the ruler of the princely state of Patiala, in British India.

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Marian Gamwell

(Antonia) Marian Gamwell OBE (28 July 1891 – 13 May 1977) was a United Kingdom volunteer ambulance driver and commanding officer of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY).

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Mark Aitchison Young

Sir Mark Aitchison Young (t; 30 June 1886 – 12 May 1974) was a British administrator who became the Governor of Hong Kong during the years immediately before and after the Japanese occupation of the territory.

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Mary Tyrwhitt

Brigadier Dame Mary Joan Caroline Tyrwhitt, DBE, TD (22 December 1903 – 18 March 1997) was a British Army officer.

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Maurice Bridgeman

Sir Maurice Richard Bridgeman (26 January 1904 – 18 June 1980) was an English oilman.

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Maurice Brown

Squadron leader Maurice Peter Brown (1919–2011) was a World War II Royal Air Force fighter pilot during the Battle of Britain.

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Maurice Gerald Holmes

Sir Maurice Gerald Holmes GBE KCB (14 June 1885 – 4 April 1964) was a British civil servant.

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Maurice Heath

Air Marshal Sir Maurice Lionel Heath, (12 August 1909 – 9 July 1998) was a British senior Royal Air Force officer who became Commander of British Forces Arabian Peninsula.

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Max Page

Major-General Sir Charles Max Page KBE CB DSO (1882–1963) was a British surgeon.

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Mayurbhanj State

Mayurbhanj State (ମୟୁରଭଞ୍ଜ ରାଜ୍ୟ; colloquially Morbhanj) was one of the princely states of India during the British Raj.

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Michael Crossley

Wing Commander Michael Nicholson Crossley, (20 May 1912 – 7 December 1987) was a Royal Air Force flying ace who, during the Second World War, led No. 32 Squadron RAF in the Battle of Britain.

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Michael Le Fanu

Admiral of the Fleet Sir Michael Le Fanu (2 August 1913 – 28 November 1970) was a Royal Navy officer.

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Michael Perrin

Sir Michael Willcox Perrin, CBE, FRSC (13 September 1905 – 18 August 1988) was a Canadian-born British scientist who created the first practical polythene, directed the first British atomic bomb programme, and participated in the Allied intelligence of the Nazi atomic bomb.

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Middle East Supply Centre

The Middle East Supply Center (MESC) was “an Anglo-American agency that had complete control over the flow of civilian supplies to the Middle East during the Second World War.

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Mikiel Gonzi

Sir Michael Count Gonzi (born Mikiel / Michele Gonzi: 13 May 1885 – 22 January 1984), was Roman Catholic Archbishop of Malta from 1944 until 1976.

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Mir Osman Ali Khan

Mir Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII (5 or 6 April 1886 – 24 February 1967) was the last Nizam (ruler) of the Princely State of Hyderabad, the largest state in the British Indian Empire.

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Mona Fitzalan-Howard, 11th Baroness Beaumont

Mona Josephine Tempest Fitzalan-Howard, 11th Baroness Beaumont, Baroness Howard of Glossop, OBE (née Stapleton; 1 August 1894 – 31 August 1971) was a British peer.

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Muhammad Farid Khan

Nawab Sir Muhammad Farid Khan Tanoli was the last ruling Nawab of the princely state of Amb, from 1936 till 1969.

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Nabha State

Nabha State, with its capital at Nabha, was one of the Phulkian princely states of Punjab during the British Raj in India.

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National Society of Electrotypers and Stereotypers

The National Society of Electrotypers and Stereotypers (NSES) was a trade union representing workers in print foundries in the United Kingdom.

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Neill Ogilvie-Forbes

Air Vice Marshal Neill Charles Ogilvie-Forbes, (12 December 1900 – 6 February 1990) was a senior Royal Air Force officer who served as Assistant Chief of the Air Staff (Intelligence) from 1950 to 1952.

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Nicholas Mansergh

Philip Nicholas Seton Mansergh (27 June 1910 – 16 January 1991) was a historian.

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Nigel Steward

Nigel Oliver Willoughby Steward, OBE (16 October 1899 – 13 May 1991) was a British diplomat who served as British Minister to Paraguay and to Nicaragua.

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Nizam of Hyderabad

Nizam of Hyderabad was the title of the ruler of Hyderabad State (part of the Indian state of Telangana, the Marathwada region of Maharashtra and the Kalyana-Karnataka region of Karnataka).

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Noel Holmes

Major General Sir Noel Galway Holmes KBE CB MC (25 December 1891 – 24 December 1982) was a senior British Army officer during the Second World War and Davis Cup tennis player for Ireland.

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Noel Stephen Paynter

Air Commodore Noel Stephen "Peter" Paynter, (26 December 1898 – 16 March 1998) was a Royal Air Force officer who served as chief intelligence officer of Bomber Command.

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Norman Brook, 1st Baron Normanbrook

Norman Craven Brook, 1st Baron Normanbrook, (29 April 1902 – 15 June 1967), known as Sir Norman Brook between 1946 and 1964, was a British civil servant.

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Norman Kipping

Sir Norman Victor Kipping, GCMG, KBE, JP (11 May 1901 – 29 June 1979) was a British electrical engineer and industrialist.

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Norman Rowlstone Jarrett

Norman Rowlstone Jarrett CMG (1889 – 21 June 1982) was a British colonial administrator in Malaya.

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Orders, decorations, and medals of the Commonwealth realms

Orders of Commonwealth countries.

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Oscar Murton, Baron Murton of Lindisfarne

Henry Oscar Murton, Baron Murton of Lindisfarne (8 May 1914 – 5 July 2009) was a British Conservative Party politician.

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Otto Robert Frisch

Otto Robert Frisch (1 October 1904 – 22 September 1979) was an Austrian-born British physicist who worked on nuclear physics.

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Patna State

Patna State was a princely state in the Eastern States Agency of India during the British Raj.

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Patrick Man

Major General Patrick Holberton Man CB CBE DSO MC (17 March 1913 – 10 October 1979) was General Officer Commanding Aldershot District.

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Paul Cairn Vellacott

Paul Cairn Vellacott (24 May 1891 – 15 November 1954) served as Headmaster of Harrow School and Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge.

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Paul Fildes

Sir Paul Gordon Fildes (10 February 1882 – 5 February 1971) was a British pathologist and microbiologist who worked on the development of chemical-biological weaponry at Porton Down during the Second World War.

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Percival Spear

Thomas George Percival Spear (1901–1982) was a British historian of modern South Asia, in particular of its colonial period.

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Percy Thomas

Sir Percy Edward Thomas OBE (13 September 1883 – 19 August 1969) was an Anglo-Welsh architect who worked in Wales for the majority of his life.

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Peter Philpott (RAF officer)

Air Vice Marshal Peter Theodore Philpott, (20 March 1915 – 13 July 1988) was a senior Royal Air Force officer.

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Philip Baxter

Sir John Philip Baxter (7 May 1905 – 5 September 1989) was a British chemical engineer.

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Philip Inman, 1st Baron Inman

Philip Albert Inman, 1st Baron Inman, PC (12 June 1892 – 26 August 1979) was a British Labour politician.

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Philip Wigglesworth

Air Marshal Sir Horace Ernest Philip Wigglesworth, (11 July 1896 – 31 May 1975) was a senior officer in the Royal Air Force.

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Post-nominal letters

Post-nominal letters, also called post-nominal initials, post-nominal titles, designatory letters, or simply post-nominals, are letters placed after a person's name to indicate that the individual holds a position, an academic degree, accreditation, an office, a military decoration, or honour, or is a member of a religious institute or fraternity.

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Pratap Singh Nabha

Sir Pratap Singh Nabha, KCSI (21 September 1919 – 22 July 1995) was the last ruling Maharaja of Nabha.

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R. G. D. Allen

Sir Roy George Douglas Allen, CBE, FBA (3 June 1906 – 29 September 1983) was an English economist, mathematician and statistician, also member of the International Statistical Institute.

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Ralph Ainsworth

Major-General Sir Ralph Bignell Ainsworth, (20 September 1875 – 27 January 1952) was a British physician, surgeon, and British Army officer.

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Ralph Stevenson

Sir Ralph Clarmont Skrine Stevenson, GCMG, MLC, CP (16 May 1895 – 23 June 1977) was a British diplomat.

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Reginald Champion

Sir Reginald Stuart Champion, (21 March 1895 – 9 October 1982) was a British colonial administrator and Church of England clergyman.

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Reginald Emson

Air Marshal Sir Reginald Herbert Embleton Emson, (11 January 1912 – 27 March 1995) was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force in the post-Second World War years.

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Reginald Graham

Lieutenant Colonel Sir John Reginald Noble Graham, 3rd Baronet, (17 September 1892 – 6 December 1980) was a British businessman, army officer and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

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Reginald Portal

Admiral Sir Reginald Henry Portal, (6 September 1894 – 18 June 1983) was a Royal Navy officer and naval aviation pioneer who served in both world wars.

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Reginald Victor Jones

Reginald Victor Jones, FRSE, LLD (29 September 1911 – 17 December 1997) was a British physicist and scientific military intelligence expert who played an important role in the defence of Britain in by solving scientific and technical problems, and by the extensive use of deception throughout the war to confuse the Germans.

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Richard Bevan (Royal Navy officer)

Rear Admiral Sir Richard Hugh Loraine Bevan, (10 July 1885 – 10 May 1976) was a British Royal Navy officer of the First World War and inter-war period.

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Richard Hamblin

Air Commodore Richard Kaye Hamblin CBE (16 December 1906 – 30 August 1988) was a Royal Air Force pilot and as one of The Few was part of No. 17 Squadron RAF flying the Hawker Hurricane during the Battle of Britain.

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Richard Hughes (British writer)

Richard Arthur Warren Hughes (19 April 1900 – 28 April 1976) was a British writer of poems, short stories, novels and plays.

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Richard Stone

Sir John Richard Nicholas Stone (30 August 1913 – 6 December 1991) was an eminent British economist.

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Richmond Park Academy

Richmond Park Academy is a secondary school with an academy status in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.

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Ririd Myddelton

Lieutenant-Colonel Ririd Myddelton, MVO KStJ DL JP (25 February 1902 – 7 February 1988), was a country gentleman and one-time member of the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom.

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RMS Alcantara (1926)

RMS Alcantara was a Royal Mail Lines ocean liner that was built in Belfast in 1926.

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RMS Strathmore

RMS Strathmore was an ocean liner and Royal Mail Ship of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O), the third of five sister ships built for P&O in the "Strath" class.

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Robert Awdry

Robert Awdry (20 May 1881 – 3 February 1949) was an English cricketer who later became chairman of Wiltshire County Council.

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Robert Blucke

Air Vice Marshal Robert Stewart Blucke, (22 June 1897 – 2 October 1988) was a Royal Air Force officer who became Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief at RAF Transport Command in 1952.

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Robert Cockburn (physicist)

Sir Robert Cockburn (31 March 1909 – 21 March 1994) was a British government scientist who played an important role in the field of electronic countermeasures for the RAF in the defence of Britain during the Second World War and later became Director of the Royal Aircraft Establishment and Chief Scientist at the Ministry of Aviation.

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Robert Heatlie Scott

Sir Robert Heatlie Scott, (20 September 1905 – 26 February 1982) was a British civil servant who became Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Defence.

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Robert Joseph Willan

Robert Joseph Willan (10 January 1878 - 12 January 1955) was a British surgeon and academic.

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Robert McCalmont

Brigadier-General Sir Robert Chaine Alexander McCalmont (29 August 1881 – 4 November 1953) was a Northern Irish unionist politician and British Army officer.

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Robert Micklem

Commander Sir Robert Micklem, CBE (5 June 1891 – 13 May 1952) was a naval officer, submariner and chairman and managing director of the British engineerings company Vickers-Armstrongs.

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Robert Sinclair, 1st Baron Sinclair of Cleeve

Robert John Sinclair, 1st Baron Sinclair of Cleeve (29 July 1893 – 4 March 1979), was a British businessman and public servant.

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Robert Summerhayes

Robert Currie Summerhayes (13 March 1903 — 7 June 1983) was an English first-class cricketer.

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Roderick Aeneas Chisholm

Air Commodore Roderick Aeneas Chisholm, (23 November 1911 – 7 December 1994) was a British night fighter pilot, flying ace—a title awarded to a pilot credited with shooting down at least five enemy aircraft in aerial combat—and a highly decorated British airman of the Second World War.

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Roland Burrows

Sir Roland Burrows (12 February 1882 – 13 June 1952) was a British judge and legal writer.

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Roland Falk

Wing Commander Roland "Roly" John Falk OBE AFC* (1915 - 1985) was a British test pilot noted for being at the controls on the maiden flight of the British V bomber, the Avro Vulcan.

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Ronald Acott Hall

Ronald Acott Hall (24 May 1892 – 21 March 1966) was a British diplomat, writer and politician.

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Ronald Berry (RAF officer)

Air Commodore Ronald Berry, (3 May 1917 – September 2000) was a British flying ace and senior officer of the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War and the postwar period.

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Ronald Forbes Adam

General Sir Ronald Forbes Adam, 2nd Baronet, (30 October 1885 – 26 December 1982) was a senior British Army officer.

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Ronald Lees

Air Marshal Sir Ronald Beresford Lees, (27 April 1910 – 18 May 1991) was a senior Royal Air Force commander.

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Ronald T. Mark

Ronald Turnbull Mark, (28 January 1898 – 16 December 1958) was a British flying ace of the First World War who was credited with 14 aerial victories.

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Ronald Thomas Shepherd

Ronald Thomas Shepherd OBE (1896 – 1 March 1955) was a British aviator and test pilot for Rolls-Royce.

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Roy Welensky

Sir Roland "Roy" Welensky (né Raphael Welensky; 20 January 1907 – 5 December 1991) was a Northern Rhodesian politician and the second and last Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.

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Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

The Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (RAFVR) was established in 1936 to support the preparedness of the U.K. Royal Air Force in the event of another war.

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Royal Australian Air Force

The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) is the principal aerial warfare force of Australia, a part of the Australian Defence Force (ADF) along with the Royal Australian Navy and the Australian Army.

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Royal Auxiliary Air Force

The Royal Auxiliary Air Force (RAuxAF), formerly the Auxiliary Air Force (AAF), together with the Air Force Reserve, is a component of His Majesty's Reserve Air Forces (Reserve Forces Act 1996, Part 1, Para 1,(2),(c)).

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Royal Canadian Air Force

The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF; Aviation royale canadienne, ARC) is the air and space force of Canada. Its role is to "provide the Canadian Forces with relevant, responsive and effective airpower". The RCAF is one of three environmental commands within the unified Canadian Armed Forces.

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Rudolf Peierls

Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls, (5 June 1907 – 19 September 1995) was a German-born British physicist who played a major role in Tube Alloys, Britain's nuclear weapon programme, as well as the subsequent Manhattan Project, the combined Allied nuclear bomb programme.

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Sadul Singh of Bikaner

Lieutenant-General Sir Sadul Singh GCSI, GCIE, KStJ, CVO (7 September 1902 – 25 September 1950) was the last reigning Maharaja of Bikaner from 2 February 1943 to 30 March 1949, continuing as Head of the House of Bikaner and holding the title of Maharaja of Bikaner until his death.

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Sahib Singh Sokhey

Major General Sir Sahib Singh Sokhey FNA, FASc (15 December 1887 – 24 October 1971) was an Indian biochemist, a British Indian Army general and a military physician who was also a nominated member of the Rajya Sabha, the Upper House of the Indian Parliament, from 3 April 1952 to 2 April 1956.

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Sarran Teelucksingh

Ramsaran Lionel "Sarran" Teelucksingh (2 August 1889 – 08 March 1952) was a Trinidad and Tobago businessman and politician.

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Saul Adler

Saul Adler OBE FRS (שאול אדלר; May 17, 1895 – January 25, 1966) was an Israeli expert on parasitology.

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Sefton Delmer

Denis Sefton Delmer (24 May 1904 – 4 September 1979) was a British journalist of Australian heritage and propagandist for the British government during the Second World War.

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Sholto Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas of Kirtleside

Marshal of the Royal Air Force William Sholto Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas of Kirtleside, (23 December 1893 – 29 October 1969) was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force.

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Sidney Wadsworth

Sir Sidney Wadsworth (21 December 1888 — 2 March 1976) was a British judge who served in the Indian Civil Service.

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Sidney Webster

Air Vice Marshal Sidney Norman Webster, (19 March 1900 – 5 April 1984) was a senior officer in the Royal Air Force and an aviator who flew the winning aircraft in the 1927 Schneider Trophy seaplane race.

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Sir Charles Madden, 2nd Baronet

Admiral Sir Charles Edward Madden, 2nd Baronet, GCB (15 June 1906 – 23 April 2001) followed his father in a career with the Royal Navy that culminated in his serving as the Commander-in-Chief of the Home Fleet from 1963 to 1965.

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Sir Francis Vernon Thomson, 1st Baronet

Sir Francis Vernon Thomson, GBE (10 February 1881 - 8 February 1953) was the first and last Baronet of Monken Hadley, Hertfordshire.

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Sohan Lal Bhatia

Major-General Sohan Lal Bhatia CIE, MC, FASc, FRSE, FRCP (5 August 1891 – 16 July 1981) was a distinguished Indian physiologist, medical administrator and decorated Indian Army officer.

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Solly Zuckerman, Baron Zuckerman

Solomon "Solly" Zuckerman, Baron Zuckerman (30 May 1904 – 1 April 1993) was a British public servant, zoologist and operational research pioneer.

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South African Air Force

The South African Air Force (SAAF) is the air warfare branch of South African National Defence Force, with its headquarters in Pretoria.

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St John Desmond Arcedeckne-Butler

Major-General St John Desmond Arcedeckne-Butler (30 November 1896 – 4 February 1959), was a senior British Army officer and head of MI8.

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Stanford Cade

Sir Stanford Cade (formerly Kadinsky), (22 March 1895 – 19 September 1973) was a British surgeon of Russian origin, who pioneered the combined use of surgery and radiotherapy in the treatment of cancer in England.

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Stanley Unwin (publisher)

Sir Stanley Unwin, KCMG (19 December 1884 – 13 October 1968) was a British publisher, who founded the Allen & Unwin publishing firm.

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Stewart Duke-Elder

Sir William Stewart Duke-Elder (22 April 1898 – 27 March 1978) was a Scottish ophthalmologist, a dominant force in his field for more than a quarter of a century.

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Stuart Milner-Barry

Sir Philip Stuart Milner-Barry (20 September 1906 – 25 March 1995) was a British chess player, chess writer, World War II codebreaker and civil servant.

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Sydney Pope

Air Commodore Sydney Leo Gregory Pope, (27 March 1898 – 5 November 1980) was a British World War I flying ace credited with six aerial victories while serving in the Royal Flying Corps.

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Sydney Rowell

Lieutenant General Sir Sydney Fairbairn Rowell, (15 December 1894 – 12 April 1975) was an Australian soldier who served as Chief of the General Staff from 17 April 1950 to 15 December 1954.

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Thomas Barlow (British businessman)

Sir Thomas Dalmahoy Barlow (23 February 1883 – 22 November 1964) was a British businessman, banker, and art collector and historian.

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Thomas Bennett (architect)

Sir Thomas Penberthy Bennett KBE FRIBA (14 August 1887 – 29 January 1980) was an English architect, responsible for much of the development of the new towns of Crawley and Stevenage.

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Thomas Elmhirst

Air Marshal Sir Thomas Walker Elmhirst, (15 December 1895 – 6 November 1982) was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force in the first half of the 20th century and the first commander-in-chief of the Royal Indian Air Force upon Indian independence in August 1947, in which post he organised the funeral of Mahatma Gandhi following his assassination in 1948.

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Thomas Kilner

Thomas Pomfret Kilner was an early plastic surgeon.

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Thomas Percival Creed

Sir Thomas Percival Creed, KBE, MC, QC (29 January 1897 – 11 May 1969) was a lawyer and educationist.

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Thomas Pike

Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Thomas Geoffrey Pike, (29 June 1906 – 1 June 1983) was a senior officer in the Royal Air Force.

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Thomas Porter McMurray

Thomas Porter McMurray CBE (5 December 1887, Belfast – 16 November 1949, London) was a British orthopaedic surgeon remembered for describing the McMurray test.

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Thomas Riddell-Webster

General Sir Thomas Sheridan Riddell-Webster, (12 February 1886 – 25 May 1974) was a British Army officer who served as Quartermaster-General to the Forces during the Second World War.

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Thomas Shirley (RAF officer)

Air Vice Marshal Sir Thomas Ulric Curzon Shirley, (4 June 1908 – 16 January 1982) was a Royal Air Force officer who served as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Signals Command from 1964 until 1966.

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Travers Humphreys

Sir Richard Somers Travers Christmas Humphreys (4 August 1867 – 20 February 1956) was a noted British barrister and judge who, during a sixty-year legal career, was involved in the cases of Oscar Wilde and the murderers Hawley Harvey Crippen, George Joseph Smith and John George Haigh, the 'Acid Bath Murderer', among many others.

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Valentine Boucher

Major-General Valentine Boucher CB CBE (14 February 1904 – 1 April 1961) was a British Army officer who served as Director of Military Intelligence.

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Velagapudi Ramakrishna

Velagapudi Ramakrishna CIE, (1896–1968) was an Indian Civil Service (ICS) officer, industrialist, and philanthropist.

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W. G. Beauchamp

Captain Willoughby Greaves Beauchamp CBE, VRD (5 April 1890 – 24 February 1960) was a British merchant.

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Wallace Akers

Sir Wallace Alan Akers (9 September 1888 – 1 November 1954) was a British chemist and industrialist.

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Wallace Kyle

Air Chief Marshal Sir Wallace Hart Kyle, (22 January 1910 – 31 January 1988) was an Australian who served in the Royal Air Force (RAF) as a senior commander and later as the 24th Governor of Western Australia.

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Walter Cawthorn

Major General Sir Walter Joseph Cawthorn, (11 June 1896 – 4 December 1970) was an Australian soldier and diplomat, commonly known as a former head of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS).

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Walter John Christie

Walter Henry John Christie CSI, CIE, OBE (17 December 1905 – 25 August 1983) was a British colonial civil servant (Indian Civil Service) who played a key part in the independence of India and provided administrative continuity after independence.

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Walter Nash

Sir Walter Nash (12 February 1882 – 4 June 1968) was a New Zealand politician who served as the 27th prime minister of New Zealand in the Second Labour Government from 1957 to 1960.

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Wilfrid Gordon Lindsell

Lieutenant General Sir Wilfrid Gordon Lindsell (29 September 1884 – 2 May 1973) was a senior British Army logistics officer in the Second World War.

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William Bradshaw (British Army officer)

Major-General William Pat Arthur Bradshaw (8 March 1897 − 9 April 1966) was a British Army officer.

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William Dickson (RAF officer)

Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir William Forster Dickson, (24 September 1898 – 12 September 1987) was a Royal Naval Air Service aviator during the First World War, a senior officer in the Royal Air Force during the inter-war years and a Royal Air Force commander during and after the Second World War.

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William Elliot (RAF officer)

Air Chief Marshal Sir William Elliot, (3 June 1896 – 27 June 1971) was a senior Royal Air Force commander.

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William Emrys Williams

Sir William Emrys Williams, CBE (5 October 1896 – 30 March 1977) was editor-in-chief of Penguin Books from 1936 to 1965 and an educationalist and powerhouse of popular education in the 20th century.

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William Haley

Sir William John Haley, KCMG (24 May 1901 – 6 September 1987) was a British newspaper editor and broadcasting administrator.

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William Keenan

William Keenan OBE (1889 – 15 December 1955) was a British trade unionist and politician.

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William Kelly Wallace

William Kelly Wallace CBE (1883–1969) was an Irish railway engineer who joined the Northern Counties Committee and later became Chief Civil Engineer of the London Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS).

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William Lindsay Murphy

Sir William Lindsay Murphy, KCMG KStJ (1888–1965) was the British Governor of the Bahamas from 28 July 1945 to 1950.

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William Penney, Baron Penney

William George Penney, Baron Penney, (24 June 19093 March 1991) was an English mathematician and professor of mathematical physics at the Imperial College London and later the rector of Imperial College London.

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William Reginald Halliday

Sir William Reginald Halliday (26 September 1886 – 25 November 1966) was a historian and archaeologist who served as Principal of King's College London from 1928 to 1952.

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William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim

Field Marshal William Joseph Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, (6 August 1891 – 14 December 1970), usually known as Bill Slim, was a British military commander and the 13th Governor-General of Australia.

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Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who was twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War, and 1951 to 1955.

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Wylie McKissock

Sir Wylie McKissock, OBE (27 October 1906 – 3 May 1994) was a British neurosurgeon.

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Yadavindra Singh

Yadavindra Singh was the ninth and last ruling Maharaja of Patiala from 1938 to 1947.

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Yeta III

Yeta III CBE was a king of Barotseland, of the Lozi people in what is now Western Zambia.

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1946 New Year Honours (Canada)

The 1946 New Year Honours were appointments by many of the Commonwealth Realms of King George VI to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries, and to celebrate the passing of 1945 and the beginning of 1946. 1946 New Year Honours and 1946 New Year Honours (Canada) are 1946 awards and new Year Honours.

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1946 New Year Honours (Mentioned in Dispatches)

;Air Vice Marshals. 1946 New Year Honours and 1946 New Year Honours (Mentioned in Dispatches) are 1946 awards.

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1946 New Year Honours (New Zealand)

The 1946 New Year Honours in New Zealand were appointments by King George VI on the advice of the New Zealand government to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by New Zealanders, and to celebrate the passing of 1945 and the beginning of 1946. 1946 New Year Honours and 1946 New Year Honours (New Zealand) are 1946 awards and new Year Honours.

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1946 New Year Honours (South Africa)

The 1946 New Year Honours were appointments by many of the Commonwealth Realms of King George VI to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries, and to celebrate the passing of 1945 and the beginning of 1946.

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See also

1946 awards

• 1946 Birthday Honours
• 1946 Birthday Honours (New Zealand)
• 1946 New Year Honours
• 1946 New Year Honours (British Empire Medal)
• 1946 New Year Honours (Canada)
• 1946 New Year Honours (MBE)
• 1946 New Year Honours (Mentioned in Dispatches)
• 1946 New Year Honours (New Zealand)
• 1946 War Honours (New Zealand)
• List of Archibald Prize 1946 finalists
• List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1946

1946 in the United Kingdom

• 1946 New Year Honours
• 1946 New Year Honours (British Empire Medal)
• 1946 New Year Honours (MBE)
• 1946 New Year Honours (Order of the Bath)
• 1946 New Year Honours (Peerages and Knighthoods)
• 1946 in British music
• 1946 in British radio
• 1946 in British television
• 1946 in England
• 1946 in Northern Ireland
• 1946 in Scotland
• 1946 in Wales
• 1946 in the United Kingdom
• Anglo-American loan
• Bermuda Agreement
• Curtis Report
• List of British films of 1946
• List of fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1946
• Royal Air Force strikes of 1946

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1946_New_Year_Honours

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