• Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Cecil Campbell Balfour CIE CVO CBE MC (8 December 1884 – 16 April 1965) was a British military officer and colonial administrator.[citation...
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    The Balfour Declaration was a public statement issued by the British Government in 1917 during the First World War announcing its support for the establishment...
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     84. ISBN 978-1-86064-172-5. Huneidi, Sahar (1998). "Was Balfour Policy Reversible? The Colonial Office and Palestine, 1921–23" (PDF). Journal of Palestine...
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    GCMG, PC (23 March 1854 – 13 May 1925) was a British statesman and colonial administrator who played a very important role in the formulation of British foreign...
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    officer George Francis Abercrombie – physician and co-founder of the College of General Practitioners John Carr Badeley – physician Andrew Balfour – medical...
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    Baronet, GCB, GCSI, PC (29 March 1815 – 29 May 1884) was a British colonial administrator. He had a successful career in India, rising to become Governor...
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    Sykes-Picot agreement (1916) and the Balfour Declaration (1917). Winston Churchill, the newly appointed Colonial Secretary, called all the British Military...
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    Staff General Sir Howard Douglas (1776—1861), British general and colonial administrator Major-General Henry Edward Manning Douglas Major-General Henry McDonell...
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    George Taubman Goldie (category People from colonial Nigeria)
    Dashwood Taubman Goldie KCMG FRS (20 May 1846 – 20 August 1925) was a Manx administrator who played a major role in the founding of Nigeria. In many ways, his...
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    University. Retrieved 15 March 2020. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help) Wikimedia Commons has media related to Colonial heads of the Bahamas. rulers.org...
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    twelfth graders. Francis Cecil Campbell Balfour (8 December 1884 – 16 April 1965) was a British military officer and colonial administrator of Shamiyya. He...
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  • opera director, stage designer, writer Norman Knight, cricketer and colonial administrator Edward Thurlow Leeds, archaeologist, keeper of the Ashmolean Museum...
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    and became a serious force, with the November 1917 publication of the Balfour Declaration – which arguably emerged from an antisemitic milieu – in the...
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    appointed emancipists to key government positions including Francis Greenway as colonial architect and William Redfern as a magistrate. His policy on...
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    member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council Ashley Eden, colonial administrator, member of the Council of India Cecil Fiennes, cricketer, descendant...
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  • Richard Swinburne (born 1934), philosopher and Christian apologist Henry Balfour (1863–1939), British archaeologist, the first curator of the Pitt Rivers...
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    the development of Glasgow Georgian and Victorian Architecture Andrew Balfour (1863–1943), architect, work including Holmlea Primary School, Glasgow...
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  • carriers, the British colonial authorities brought the community under the purview of the Criminal Tribes Act of 1871. Edward Balfour noted in his On the...
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  • Auden, poet Francis Bacon, artist (in 1977; previously declined appointment as CBE in 1960). Leonard Cheshire, war hero and charity administrator, declined...
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    position mainly as it was no longer attractive to more senior colonial administrators. He assumed the office on 2 May 1889. Shortly after his arrival...
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    (botanist), Lord Broughton (politician), Mountstuart Elphinstone (colonial administrator), Bartholomew Frere (diplomat) and William Henry Smyth (Admiral)...
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    Squads. The Special Night Squads engaged in activities described by colonial administrator Sir Hugh Foot, as 'extreme and cruel' involving torture, whipping...
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    its dominions who had each suffered large casualties during the War. The Balfour Declaration at the 1926 Imperial Conference, stated that Britain and its...
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    a founder of Harvard University, and Joseph Dudley (1647–1720) Colonial Administrator of the Dominion of New England Angier Biddle Duke (1915–1995), youngest...
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    British protectorate over Palestine in 1915, and his ideas influenced the Balfour Declaration. As Home Secretary, Samuel faced a shortage of manpower needed...
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  • Liberal politician and Lord Chancellor Thomas Lowndes Bullock, colonial administrator, orientalist, and Professor of Chinese at the University of Oxford...
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    Australia from Lord Bathurst. In December 1817, Macquarie recommended to the Colonial Office that it be formally adopted. In 1824, the Admiralty agreed that...
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    and William Pitt the Elder). He soon developed a reputation as a good administrator and parliamentarian and was generally liked by his colleagues. Although...
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