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Vansittart, Robert Gilbert Vansittart, 1st Baron

(Encyclopedia)Vansittart, Robert Gilbert Vansittart, 1st Baron, 1881–1957, British diplomat. After serving in a number of diplomatic positions, he was (1920–24) private secretary to Lord Curzon, who was then fo...

Beaverbrook, William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron

(Encyclopedia)Beaverbrook, William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron, 1879–1964, British financier, statesman, and newspaper owner, b. Canada. The son of a Scottish Presbyterian clergyman, he grew up near Beaverbrook, N....

Rawlinson, Henry Seymour Rawlinson, 1st Baron

(Encyclopedia)Rawlinson, Henry Seymour Rawlinson, 1st Baron, 1864–1925, British general; son of Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson. He served in the Myanmar expedition of 1886–87, in the Sudan campaign (1898), and i...

Rodney, George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron

(Encyclopedia)Rodney, George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron, 1719–92, British admiral. He served with distinction in the Seven Years War (1757–63), his most notable achievement being the capture (1762) of Martinique...

Brougham, Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

(Encyclopedia)Brougham, Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux bro͞om, vôz, vôks [key], 1778–1868, British statesman, b. Edinburgh. As a young lawyer in Scotland he helped to found (1802) the Edinburgh Revie...

Exmouth, Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount

(Encyclopedia)Exmouth, Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount pəlyo͞oˈ, ĕkˈsməth [key], 1757–1833, English admiral. He entered the navy in 1770 and served in both the American Revolutionary War and the subsequent Brit...

Norman, Montagu Collet, 1st Baron Norman of St. Clere

(Encyclopedia)Norman, Montagu Collet, 1st Baron Norman of St. Clere, 1871–1950, English financier. He was governor of the Bank of England from 1920 to 1944, a tenure of office that broke all tradition. He long fa...

Crewe, Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, 1st marquess of

(Encyclopedia)Crewe, Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, 1st marquess of kro͞oˌmĭlzˈ [key], 1858–1945, British statesman. He succeeded (1885) his father as Baron Houghton and was created earl (1895) and lat...

Rayleigh, John William Strutt, 3d Baron

(Encyclopedia)Rayleigh, John William Strutt, 3d Baron rāˈlē [key], 1842–1919, English physicist. He was professor at Cambridge (1879–84) and at the Royal Institution (1887–1905), and chancellor of Cambridg...

Pym, John

(Encyclopedia)Pym, John pĭm [key], 1583?–1643, English statesman. A Puritan opposed equally to Roman Catholicism and to Arminianism in the Anglican church, Pym early became prominent in the parliamentary opposit...