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    David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir, GCVO, PC (29 May 1900 – 27 January 1967), known as Sir David Maxwell Fyfe from 1942 to 1954 and as Viscount...
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    Countess of Kilmuir, in 1968. She was the daughter of Edith and cotton broker William Reginald Harrison, widow of David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir, and...
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    Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis KG, GCB, OM, GCMG, CSI, DSO, MC, CD, PC (Can), PC, (10 December 1891 – 16 June 1969)...
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    as Chancellor of the Exchequer while Sir Anthony Eden returned as Foreign Secretary. The noted Scottish lawyer Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, who had gained...
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    Earl of Avon, KG, MC, PC (12 June 1897 – 14 January 1977) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the...
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  • bringing deadly weapons. The outcome of the trial, and Home Secretary David Maxwell Fyfe's failure to grant clemency to Bentley, were highly controversial....
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    Sylvia Sackville, Countess De La Warr (category Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire)
    Chairman of the UK Committee of UNICEF. David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir (1925–1967; his death), by whom she had three daughters, Lalage Fyfe (b. 1926...
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    1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC, FRS (10 February 1894 – 29 December 1986) was a British statesman and Conservative politician who was Prime Minister of the...
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    Marquis, 1st Earl of Woolton, CH, PC (23 August 1883 – 14 December 1964), was an English businessman and politician who served as chairman of the Conservative...
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  • 1900 in Scotland (category Years of the 19th century in Scotland)
    29 March – Margaret Sinclair, nun (died 1925) 29 May – David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir, lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor (died 1967) 17...
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    H. J. Heinz, Wigan (category Buildings and structures in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan)
    of manufactured processed food. The Kitt Green factory was opened on 21 May 1959 by the Lord Chancellor, the Rt. Hon. David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of...
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    Rex Harrison (category David di Donatello winners)
    Harrison's sister Sylvia was married to the 1st Earl of Kilmuir (better known to history as Sir David Maxwell Fyfe), a lawyer, Conservative politician and judge...
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    further two added. The ashes of David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir are buried at the church. Richard Sackville, 3rd Earl of Dorset is buried there as...
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  • 1900 in the United Kingdom (category Years of the 19th century in the United Kingdom)
    née Lancaster, supercentenarian (died 2015) 29 May – David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir, Scottish-born politician, lawyer and judge, Lord Chancellor...
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    1888–1965 Giles Cooper, 1918–1966 Arthur Ransome, 1884–1967 David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir, 1900–1967 Sir Donald Wolfit, 1902–1968 Sir Noël Coward...
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  • youngest son of Morton Stuart, 17th Earl of Moray, and Edith Douglas Palmer, daughter of Rear-Admiral George Palmer. Shortly after the outbreak of World War...
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  • Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell (category Members of the Order of the Companions of Honour)
    entranced with the 27-year-old Lady Elizabeth Lindsay, daughter of David Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford. One day in February 1937, he learnt from Lady Elizabeth's...
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  • (2004). "Fyfe, David Patrick Maxwell, Earl of Kilmuir (1900–1967) Archived 6 February 2016 at the Wayback Machine", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography...
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    1957. p. 979. Devlin, Patrick, Easing the Passing, 1985. P 93 Woodhouse, David (2021). Who Only Cricket Know: Hutton's men in the West Indies, 1953/54...
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  • (grandson of Charles Carnegie, 10th Earl of Southesk); m. secondly George Petty-FitzMaurice, 8th Marquess of Lansdowne; became The Marchioness of Lansdowne...
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    Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory (category Chancellors of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom)
    include the Rt Hon David Heathcoat-Amory and Sir Ian Heathcoat-Amory, 6th and present baronet. A great-aunt was the sculptor Princess Victor of Hohenlohe-Langenburg...
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    would later resign from the PWPC in July 1943 (he was replaced by David Maxwell-Fyfe) to concentrate on his education bill, taking up the post again in...
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  • of Bolton (1381–1382) Robert Braybrooke, Bishop of London (1382–1383) Lord de la Pole (later Earl of Suffolk) (1383–1386) Thomas Arundel, Bishop of Ely...
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    he had requested. He worked beneath the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin, and took Edward Marsh as his secretary; Marsh...
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  • transformation of that title in France. The majority of viscountcies are held by peers with higher titles, such as duke, marquess or earl; this can come...
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  • of peerages created for speakers of the House of Commons "No. 6377". The London Gazette. 1 June 1725. p. 1. "No. 9359". The London Gazette. 30 March 1754...
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    Guinness (1918–2001), daughter of the 2nd Earl of Iveagh, on 29 December 1938. His mother-in-law, the Countess of Iveagh, had been an MP in 1927–35, and...
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    Factories Act 1961 (category United Kingdom Acts of Parliament 1961)
    effect from 1 January 1993 for new workplaces and 1 January 1996 for established workplaces. There is still a potential residual scope of application...
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    Duncan Sandys (category Members of the Order of the Companions of Honour)
    University Press. ISBN 0-85621-002-1. OCLC 495575. Mayne, Richard (1990). Federal Union : the pioneers : a history of Federal Union. John Pinder, John C...
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    Harry Crookshank (category Leaders of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom)
    1 January 1955. p. 28. leighrayment.com Companions of Honour[usurped] "No. 40684". The London Gazette. 13 January 1956. p. 278. Oxford Dictionary of National...
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