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    Admiral of the Fleet John Cronyn Tovey, 1st Baron Tovey, GCB, KBE, DSO (7 March 1885 – 12 January 1971), sometimes known as Jack Tovey, was a Royal Navy...
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  • John Tovey was a Royal Navy Officer. John Tovey may also refer to: John Tovey (restaurateur) John Tovey (royal tutor) to Princess Elizabeth Stuart John...
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    Russell George Tovey (born 14 November 1981) is an English actor. He is best known for playing the role of werewolf George Sands in the BBC's supernatural...
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    the Abbey for the next five years. Her tutor and chaplain were Master John Tovey, the headmaster of the Free School at Coventry. Elizabeth's favourite...
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  • John Tovey MBE (19 May 1933 – 8 September 2018) was an English restaurateur and one of the first celebrity chefs in Britain in the 1970s. He was known...
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  • Fad Gadget (redirect from Frank Tovey)
    Francis John Tovey (8 September 1956 – 3 April 2002), known also by his stage name Fad Gadget, was a British avant-garde electronic musician and vocalist...
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  • Look up Tovey in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tovey is the surname of: Arthur Gordon Tovey (1901–1974), New Zealand artist Bramwell Tovey (born 1953)...
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    commissions as admirals of the fleet, as well as the First Sea Lord—e.g. Sir John Tovey. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh was created an Admiral of the Fleet...
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    crew of over 2,200 men, only 114 survived. After the sinking, Admiral John Tovey said, "The Bismarck had put up a most gallant fight against impossible...
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    superior (Admiral Sir John Tovey) considered ordering him to have Prince of Wales sail ahead of Hood. With the ships in this position, Tovey concluded the better-protected...
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    of Bismarck and her escorts. Upon receipt of the information, Admiral John Tovey ordered the battlecruiser HMS Hood, the newly commissioned battleship...
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    the mutiny, the Admiralty ordered that he was to be relieved by Captain John Tovey on 12 April 1932. After Nelson ran aground while leaving Portsmouth in...
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    Sir Donald Francis Tovey (17 July 1875 – 10 July 1940) was a British musical analyst, musicologist, writer on music, composer, conductor and pianist....
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    of "back seat driving" and he had some clashes with Charles Forbes and John Tovey, commanders of the Home Fleet. Winston Churchill, with whom he worked...
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    John Leach of Prince of Wales. The view was taken that they were wrong not to have continued the battle with Bismarck after Hood had sunk. John Tovey...
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  • Plainclothes is an upcoming film directed by Carmen Emmi and starring Russell Tovey and Tom Blyth. An undercover police officer in New York State in the 1990s...
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  • Sink the Bismarck! (category Films produced by John Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne)
    the crew abandon their sinking ship. On board King George V, Admiral John Tovey orders the newly joined cruiser HMS Dorsetshire to finish Bismarck off...
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    Italian fire came dangerously close to the Allied cruisers and Vice Admiral John Tovey decided to disengage. At this point splinters from a 6-inch (152 mm) shell...
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    1912 to 1914. On 4 August 1914, as the First World War was breaking out, John Jellicoe was ordered to take command of the Fleet, which by his appointment...
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    handling saved her from disaster. (In the report of the attack, Admiral Sir John Tovey, commanding Home Fleet, was told only no hits were scored on Bismarck...
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    convoy PQ 12 and was later joined by King George V on 6 March, as Admiral John Tovey believed that the German battleship Tirpitz would attempt to intercept...
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    vessel, but poor weather in Britain prevented action by the RAF. Admiral John Tovey, the commander in chief of the British Home Fleet, was not made aware...
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    cruiser patrols off Iceland. King George V was the flagship of Admiral Sir John Tovey, who commanded the force. King George V was still 260 to 350 nmi (480...
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    distance. A second heavy covering force, under the command of Admiral John Tovey, was made up of the aircraft carrier HMS Victorious, the battleship Duke...
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    the command of Admiral Sir Tom Phillips. Admiral of the Home Fleet Sir John Tovey was opposed to sending any of the new King George V battleships as he...
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    Field Marshal John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, VC, GCB, CBE, DSO & Two Bars, MVO, MC (10 July 1886 – 31 March 1946) was a...
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  • men and the emergence of a new virus. The ensemble cast includes Russell Tovey, Joe Mantello, Charlie Carver, Billie Lourd, Leslie Grossman, Sandra Bernhard...
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    Scapa Flow two days later, where it came under the command of Admiral John Tovey, the commander of the Home Fleet. For the rest of the month, Washington...
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    Field Marshal Sir John Greer Dill, GCB, CMG, DSO (25 December 1881 – 4 November 1944) was a senior British Army officer with service in both the First...
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    assembly of forces. In December 1941 Brooke succeeded Field Marshal Sir John Dill as Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS), the professional head...
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