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    Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Leake (4 July 1656 – 21 August 1720) was a Royal Navy officer and politician. As a junior officer he saw action at the Battle...
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  • John Leake (1656–1720) was an English flag officer and politician. John Leake may also refer to: John George Leake (1752–1827), lawyer who founded the...
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  • hole or crack. Old Leake and New Leake, Lincolnshire, UK West Leake and East Leake, Nottinghamshire, UK Leake, North Yorkshire, UK Leake County, Mississippi...
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  • John Steven Leake DSM (26 October 1949 – 13 February 2000) was an English recipient of the Distinguished Service Medal whilst working for the Navy, Army...
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    Hampden–Sydney College), an ancestor of Senator John McCain of Arizona. Walter Leake was descended from John Leake. Leake served in the American Revolutionary War...
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    40°48′09″N 73°57′46″W / 40.80250°N 73.96278°W / 40.80250; -73.96278 Leake and Watts Services, Inc. is a not-for-profit social services agency in New...
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    Herbert Sir John Chicheley Edward Russell Henry Priestman Earl of Orford Sir George Rooke Sir John Leake Sir George Byng Sir John Leake Sir George Byng...
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    of the ski run, where MacPherson's body had lain frozen. According to John Leake, author of ‘Cold A Long Time: An Alpine Mystery’, MacPherson’s body was...
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    City Democratic mayoral candidate Norton, the great-nephew of John Leake, founder of Leake and Watts Children's Home, is listed among early 19th-century...
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    Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (category Knights of Justice of the Order of St John)
    starting in October 1919, where he studied English literature (including John Milton and Lord Byron) in a programme designed to augment the education of...
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    John Leake Newbold Stratton (November 27, 1817, Mount Holly Township, New Jersey – May 17, 1889, Mount Holly Township, New Jersey) was an American Republican...
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    title of the office was changed to First Sea Lord on the appointment of Sir John "Jackie" Fisher in 1904. Since 1923, the First Sea Lord has been a member...
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    Admiral of the Fleet John Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, GCB, OM, GCVO, DL, SGM (5 December 1859 – 20 November 1935) was a Royal Navy officer....
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    preceding this appointment were marred by disagreements between Admirals Sir John Fisher and Lord Charles Beresford over the direction of the navy and the...
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    Admiral Sir Benjamin John Key, KCB, CBE, ADC (born 7 November 1965) is a senior Royal Navy officer. He has served as First Sea Lord since November 2021...
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    professional wrestler, NCAA wrestler and coach Jeff Leach, politician John Leake, NFL player Brad Leland, actor Ruifeng Li, chess grandmaster Will Licon...
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    Admiral of the Fleet John Arbuthnot Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, GCB, OM, GCVO (25 January 1841 – 10 July 1920), commonly known as Jacky or Jackie Fisher...
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    Lords, which again exonerated him. Hardy became first captain to Sir John Leake in the Mediterranean in 1708, assisting in the transport of Elisabeth...
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  • Rowland Leake and his brother Edward John Leake (1812–1867) emigrated with their parents John and Elizabeth Leake to Tasmania (then Van Diemen's Land)...
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    HMS Hampshire in service as part of a Baltic Sea fleet commanded by Admiral John Norris. Anson transferred to the aging fourth-rate HMS Montagu in March 1718...
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  • state's Appalachian highlands. Founded in 1898 by Maryland State Senator, John Leake, Frostburg was selected because the site offered the best suitable location...
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    Atlantic coast to Quebec and Montreal. During Queen Anne's War, Commodore John Leake of the Royal Navy led an expedition aimed at capturing French ships around...
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    Slezer, John; Sibbald, Robert; Swall, Abel (1693). Theatrum Scotiae. John Leake. p. 114. "The North Prospect of the City of Edenburgh". Slezer's Scotland...
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    John Robert Leake (born August 28, 1981) is a former American football linebacker. Leake was born in Plano, Texas and graduated from Plano East Senior...
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    in 1943 and he resigned, dying shortly thereafter. Born the son of Alfred John Pound, an Eton-educated barrister, by his marriage to Elizabeth Pickman Rogers...
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    The London Gazette, dated 14–17 May 1705 detailing the return of John Leake from Gibraltar after the Battle of Cabrita Point...
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    Michael Boyce, Baron Boyce (category Knights of Justice of the Order of St John)
    a Knight of Justice of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem on 27 November 2002, and retired as Chief of Defence Staff on...
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    Alan William John West, Baron West of Spithead, GCB, DSC, PC (born 21 April 1948) is a retired admiral of the Royal Navy and formerly, from June 2007 to...
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    Edward Russell, 1st Earl of Orford (category Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge)
    County Down and widow of Sir William Brooke, Russell briefly attended St John's College, Cambridge and joined the Royal Navy in 1666. Promoted to lieutenant...
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    Portsmouth Command in 1789. He was appointed to the Board of Admiralty under John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham, brother of the Prime Minister, in July 1788 and...
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