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4 giorni fa · Also, Claude Johnson, the Automobile Club’s original first secretary and John Douglas-Scott-Montagu, a pioneer of automobile journalism. And Charles Robinson Sykes, a bohemian artist and sculptor. His friendship with the maverick group led to his creating the ‘Spirit of Ecstasy’ – an emblem that has stood as an internationally-recognised symbol of perfection ever since.
4 giorni fa · The estate continued to be held by the Dukes of Buccleuch and Queensberry until 1884, when Walter Francis (Montagu-Douglas-Scott), the fifth duke, left it to his second son Henry John, who was in the following year created Lord Montagu of Beaulieu.
2 giorni fa · See list. Admiral of the Fleet Albert Victor Nicholas Louis Francis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma [1] [2] [n 1] (25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979) was a British statesman, naval officer, colonial administrator and close relative of the British royal family. He was born in the United Kingdom to the prominent Battenberg family.
4 giorni fa · 1919 Birthday Honours (OBE) This is a list of Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) awards in the 1919 Birthday Honours . The 1919 Birthday Honours were appointments by King George V to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of the British Empire. The appointments were made to celebrate the official ...
3 giorni fa · Brigadier Francis Charles Hopton Scott (1903—1975) Brigadier Alfred Henry Hopwood GCB GCMG GCVO (1882—1956), Royal Lincolnshire Regiment 2nd Battalion CO, Tientsin Area CO, North Midland Area CO; Brigadier-General Gwyn Venables Hordern; Brigadier-General Montagu Leyland Hornby DSO, British Indian Army; General Henry Horne, 1st Baron Horne
5 giorni fa · What is evident in these sources is the extent to which the wars in France were both a military training ground and financial foundation for the decades of the Wars of the Roses that followed. Most notable of these, of course, were William ap Thomas of Raglan and his son, William, lord Herbert (cr. Earl of Pembroke 1468, d. 1469).
2 giorni fa · On 14 July 1865, a seven-member rope party with Edward Whymper succeeded in the first ascent. The group climbed via the shoulder on the Hörnligrat and further up, in the area of the present fixed ropes, switched to the north wall. Edward Whymper was the first to reach the top. He was followed by the mountain guide Michel Croz (from Chamonix ...
