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    John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, CH DSO MC FRS FRSE (23 September 1880 – 25 June 1971), styled Sir John Boyd Orr from 1935 to 1949, was a Scottish teacher...
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  • Viscount Boyd of Merton (1904-1983), British Conservative politician. Lord Boyd-Carpenter (1908-1998), British Conservative politician. Lord Boyd-Orr (1880-1971)...
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    tribute to the recently assassinated Mohandas Gandhi in India.) 1949 Lord Boyd-Orr (1880–1971) United Kingdom "for his lifelong effort to conquer hunger...
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  • 1967 The Lord Reid 1890–1975 Judge and politician 14 June 1967 Harold Holt 1908–1967 Prime Minister of Australia 1 January 1968 The Lord Boyd-Orr 1880–1971...
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    James Franck, Ralph E. Lapp, Richard S. Leghorn, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Lord Boyd Orr, Michael Polanyi, Louis Ridenour, Bertrand Russell, Nikolay Semyonov...
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    control. There were exceptions to this, even as early as the 1940s, Lord Boyd-Orr, the first head of the UN's FAO, had perceived hunger as largely a problem...
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    Boorse, Lloyd Motz Basic Books, inc., 1966 Encyclopædia Britannica: Lord Boyd Orr Ian Donald's Practical Obstetric Problem, 6/e By Renu Misra Journal...
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    first director was John Boyd Orr, later to become Lord Boyd Orr, who moved from Glasgow to "the wilds of Aberdeenshire" in 1914. Orr drew up some plans for...
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    count". www.sundaypost.com. Sunday Post. Retrieved 13 January 2024. "Lord Boyd Orr – Facts". www.nobelprize.org. Nobel Prize. Retrieved 13 January 2024...
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    2942–2944. doi:10.1002/cber.188702002165. "Encyclopædia Britannica: Lord Boyd Orr". Archived from the original on 14 September 2011. Journal of the Chemical...
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  • written by and about Nobel Prize laureate and first FAO Director General, Lord Boyd Orr. Part of the library's mandate includes the preservation of FAO's institutional...
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  • 1842–1852 and 1857–1862 Sir John Boyd of Maxpoffle (1826–1895), Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1888 to 1891 John Boyd (Wisconsin assemblyman) (1824–1882)...
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    Bertrand Russell, Lord Boyd Orr, H. N. Brailsford, Canon Charles E. Raven, Canon John Collins, Benn Levy, Reginald Reynolds, Lord Stansgate, Augustus...
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    with more nutritious food. Perhaps the second most famous example was Lord Boyd-Orr's work in Scotland, which showed the benefits of giving school children...
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  • Arden Pat Arrowsmith Ernest Bader John Berger Eric Boothby Jack Bowles Lord Boyd Orr FRS John Braine Doug Brewood Jnr Oliver Brown Wendy Butlin Jane Buxton...
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    critic who argued against the U.S. on these grounds in the 1940s was Lord Boyd-Orr, the first head of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization. It can...
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    (disambiguation) John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, Scottish nutritionist and Nobel Peace Prize winner John Boyd-Carpenter, Baron Boyd-Carpenter, British...
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    major global organizations: Joseph Needham, a cofounder of UNESCO, Lord Boyd Orr, first Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)...
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  • Academic offices Preceded by Lord Boyd-Orr Chancellor of the University of Glasgow 1972 to 1996 Succeeded by Sir William Kerr Fraser...
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  • Lord John Boyd Orr, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize was born in Holland Green on the Fenwick Road in Kilmaurs. He may have been related to the Orr's of...
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  • Figures as eminent as Lord Kelvin, James Clark Maxwell, and Lord Rayleigh retained strong religious beliefs [...] Both Lord Rayleigh and J. J. Thomson...
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    Glencairn Church in Fenwick Road, built in 1864. The birthplace of Lord Boyd Orr - Holland Green, Fenwick Road. The Knock on the Cunninghamhead road...
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  • contact with many notables, including Pope Pius XII, Dag Hammarskjöld, Lord Boyd Orr, Dwight D. Eisenhower and future Dutch prime minister Barend Biesheuvel...
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  • Thomas Erskine, Lord Erskine (Jacobite Earl of Mar) 1750–1751: Alexander Montgomerie, 10th Earl of Eglinton 1751–1752: James Hay, Lord Boyd (afterwards 15th...
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    nutrition and dietetics / Sir Stanley Davidson, R. Passmore ; foreword by Lord Boyd Orr. Davidson, Stanley Sir, 1894-. rove.nla.gov.au. 1969. ISBN 9780443006388...
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    Army's Glasgow University Officers' Training Corps, he befriended John Boyd Orr. He graduated MB ChB in 1913. In 1913–14 he was houseman (a newly qualified...
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    Dunrod (1565–1573) Sir John Stewart of Minto (1573–1576) Robert Boyd, 5th Lord Boyd (1577) Thomas Crawford of Jordanhill (1578–1579) Robert Stewart,...
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  • Daniel Macaulay Stevenson (category Lord Provosts of Glasgow)
    the introduction of a municipal telephone service in 1900. He was elected Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1911 until 1914, at which point he was awarded an...
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  • required to swear to the commission of the offence. Orr was tried at the summer assizes in 1797 before Lord Avonmore, the Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer...
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    April 2020. Retrieved 15 March 2023. "Nomination archive – 1949 Lord (John) Boyd Orr of Brechin". nobelprize.org. April 2020. Retrieved 15 March 2023...
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