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Archibald Rowlands, the Glossary

Sir Archibald Rowlands GCB MBE (26 December 1892 – 18 August 1953) was a British civil servant.^[1]

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Army Cyclist Corps officers
British expatriates in Pakistan
Civil servants in the Air Ministry
Civil servants in the War Office
Military personnel from the Vale of Glamorgan
People educated at Stanwell School
People from Penarth
Permanent Secretaries of the Ministry of Aircraft Production

Air Ministry

The Air Ministry was a department of the Government of the United Kingdom with the responsibility of managing the affairs of the Royal Air Force, that existed from 1918 to 1964.

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Army Cyclist Corps

The Army Cyclist Corps was a corps of the British Army active during the First World War, and controlling the Army's bicycle infantry.

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Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

Captain (Capt) is a junior officer rank of the British Army and Royal Marines and in both services it ranks above lieutenant and below major with a NATO ranking code of OF-2.

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Civil Service (United Kingdom)

In the United Kingdom, the Civil Service is the permanent bureaucracy or secretariat of Crown employees that supports His Majesty's Government, which is led by a cabinet of ministers chosen by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

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Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham

Douglas McGarel Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham, (28 February 1872 – 16 August 1950) was a British lawyer and Conservative politician who twice served as Lord Chancellor, in addition to a number of other Cabinet positions.

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Duff Cooper

Alfred Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich, (22 February 1890 – 1 January 1954), known as Duff Cooper, was a British Conservative Party politician and diplomat who was also a military and political historian.

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Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, (16 April 1881 – 23 December 1959), known as the Lord Irwin from 1925 until 1934 and the Viscount Halifax from 1934 until 1944, was a senior British Conservative politician of the 1930s.

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Governor-General of India

The governor-general of India (1833 to 1950, from 1858 to 1947 the viceroy and governor-general of India, commonly shortened to viceroy of India) was the representative of the monarch of the United Kingdom in their capacity as the Emperor/Empress of India and after Indian independence in 1947, the representative of the Monarch of India.

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Governor-General of Pakistan

The governor-general of Pakistan (گورنر جنرل پاکستان) was the representative of the Pakistani monarch in the Dominion of Pakistan, established by the Indian Independence Act 1947.

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Harold Scott (police commissioner)

Sir Harold Richard Scott (24 December 1887 – 19 October 1969) was Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police from 1945 to 1953. Archibald Rowlands and Harold Scott (police commissioner) are permanent Secretaries of the Ministry of Aircraft Production.

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Henley-on-Thames

Henley-on-Thames is a town and civil parish on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, England, northeast of Reading, west of Maidenhead, southeast of Oxford and west of London (by road), near the tripoint of Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire.

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Herbert Creedy

Sir Herbert James Creedy, GCB, KCVO (3 May 1878 – 3 April 1973) was a British civil servant who spent his career at the War Office, where he served as Permanent Under-Secretary of State for War from 1924 to 1939. Archibald Rowlands and Herbert Creedy are civil servants in the War Office and Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath.

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Jesus College, Oxford

Jesus College (in full: Jesus College in the University of Oxford of Queen Elizabeth's Foundation) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England.

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Karachi

Karachi (کراچی) is the capital city of the Pakistani province of Sindh.

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Mentioned in dispatches

To be mentioned in dispatches (or despatches, MiD) describes a member of the armed forces whose name appears in an official report written by a superior officer and sent to the high command, in which their gallant or meritorious action in the face of the enemy is described.

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Minister of Aircraft Production

The Minister of Aircraft Production was, from 1940 to 1945, the British government minister at the Ministry of Aircraft Production, one of the specialised supply ministries set up by the British Government during World War II.

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Ministry of Supply

The Ministry of Supply (MoS) was a department of the UK government formed on 1 August 1939 by the Ministry of Supply Act 1939 (2 & 3 Geo. 6. c. 38) to co-ordinate the supply of equipment to all three British armed forces, headed by the Minister of Supply.

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Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Muhammad Ali Jinnah (born Mahomedali Jinnahbhai; 25 December 187611 September 1948) was a barrister, politician, and the founder of Pakistan.

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Northern & Shell

Northern & Shell (holding company name Northern and Shell Network Ltd) is a British publishing group, founded in December 1974 and owned since then by Richard Desmond.

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Oliver Franks, Baron Franks

Oliver Shewell Franks, Baron Franks, (16 February 1905 – 15 October 1992), was an English civil servant and philosopher who has been described as 'one of the founders of the postwar world'.

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Order of the Bath

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by King George I on 18 May 1725.

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Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organizations, and public service outside the civil service.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Penarth

Penarth is a town and community in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, approximately south of Cardiff city centre on the west shore of the Severn Estuary at the southern end of Cardiff Bay.

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Permanent secretary

A permanent secretary is the most senior civil servant of a department or ministry charged with running the department or ministry's day-to-day activities.

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Secretary of State for War

The secretary of state for war, commonly called the war secretary, was a secretary of state in the Government of the United Kingdom, which existed from 1794 to 1801 and from 1854 to 1964.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London.

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University of Wales

The University of Wales (Welsh: Prifysgol Cymru) is a confederal university based in Cardiff, Wales.

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War Office

The War Office has referred to several British government organisations in history, all relating to the army.

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Who's Who (UK)

Who's Who is a reference work.

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Wilfrid Freeman

Air Chief Marshal Sir Wilfrid Rhodes Freeman, 1st Baronet, (18 July 1888 – 15 May 1953) was one of the most important influences on the rearmament of the Royal Air Force (RAF) in the years up to and including the Second World War. Archibald Rowlands and Wilfrid Freeman are Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_Rowlands

Archibald Rowlands, the Glossary

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Army Cyclist Corps officers

British expatriates in Pakistan

Civil servants in the Air Ministry

Civil servants in the War Office

Military personnel from the Vale of Glamorgan

People educated at Stanwell School

People from Penarth

Permanent Secretaries of the Ministry of Aircraft Production

References