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    Walter Turner Monckton, 1st Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, GCVO, KCMG, MC, PC, QC (17 January 1891 – 9 January 1965) was a British lawyer and politician...
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    Christopher Walter Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley (born 14 February 1952) is a British public speaker and hereditary peer. He is known for...
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    viscount. Walter Turner Monckton, 1st Viscount Monckton of Brenchley (1891–1965) Gilbert Walter Riversdale Monckton, 2nd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley...
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  • Major-General Gilbert Walter Riversdale Monckton, 2nd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, CB, OBE, MC, DL, FSA (3 November 1915 – 22 June 2006) served in...
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  • Walter Monckton Keesey OBE (1887–1970), was an English architect, artist and etcher. Accomplished in architectural drawing, he exhibited etchings, drawings...
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    effects on the Duchess. On that same day, Schellenberg reported that Sir Walter Monckton, an old friend of the Duke, had arrived, evidently charged by the British...
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  • 2003 he played Doc Holliday in a BBC production, in 2016 appeared as Walter Monckton in The Crown, and in 2021 played Jonathan Rees QC in Four Lives. Asprey's...
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    neutral Switzerland. However, Winston Churchill dispatched an attorney, Walter Monckton, an old friend of the Duke's, to convince them to leave Portugal. In...
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    member. Macmillan was a protégé of the president of the Union Society Walter Monckton, later a Cabinet colleague; as such, he became secretary then junior...
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  • governor of New York (1726–1782) Rosa Monckton (born 1953), sister of the 3rd Viscount Walter Monckton, 1st Viscount Monckton of Brenchley (1891–1965), lawyer...
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    Conservative cabinet ministers Michael Hicks-Beach, Oliver Stanley, Walter Monckton and William Waldegrave. As part of a national Labour Party landslide...
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    Macmillan as Foreign Secretary. Sir Walter Monckton succeeded Lloyd as Minister of Defence. Iain Macleod succeeded Monckton as Minister of Labour and National...
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    Bridget Helen Monckton, 11th Lady Ruthven of Freeland, Dowager Viscountess Monckton of Brenchley, CBE (27 July 1896 – 17 April 1982) was a British peeress...
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    Winston Churchill Preceded by Sir William Jowitt Succeeded by Sir Walter Monckton Personal details Born 29 May 1900 (1900-05-29) Edinburgh, Scotland...
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    Lampson presented Farouk with an abdication decree drafted by Sir Walter Monckton. Farouk capitulated, and Nahhas formed a government shortly thereafter...
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    enter into negotiations on the future of Hyderabad. In August 1947 Sir Walter Monckton, a Constitutional advisor to the Nizam and the Nawab of Chhatari, tendered...
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    also hoped to take a tougher line with strikes than his predecessor Walter Monckton, whose explicit remit had been to appease the unions. The unions were...
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  • as Rab Butler, Chairman of the Conservative Party George Asprey as Walter Monckton, Minister of Defence James Hillier as Equerry Jo Stone-Fewings as Collins...
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  • Gloucester Andy Sanderson Michael Thomas Rab Butler Michael Culkin Walter Monckton George Asprey The Queen's Equerry James Hillier Collins Jo Stone-Fewings...
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    were always attended by either Eisenhower or his chief of staff General Walter Bedell Smith. Churchill was especially taken by the Mulberry project but...
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  • elections. During this time, he was: Parliamentary Private Secretary to Walter Monckton, the Minister of Labour, from 1951 to 1955; Parliamentary Under-Secretary...
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    government, however. In July, he had advised the King's legal counsel, Walter Monckton, against the divorce, but his advice was ignored. As soon as the affair...
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    the main negotiators, the Prime Minister, the Nawab of Chattari, Sir Walter Monckton, advisor to the Nizam, and Minister Nawab Ali Nawaz Jung, forced them...
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  • announced that a public inquiry would be held into the case. Sir Walter Monckton KC was appointed to conduct the inquiry. The inquiry opened at Newport...
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  • Mountbatten and Prince Philip's maternal aunt by marriage George Asprey as Walter Monckton, Minister of Defence Richard Elfyn as Selwyn Lloyd, Foreign Secretary;...
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    Cabinet meetings. In July, Macmillan recorded a conversation with Walter Monckton, who was willing to serve under Eden but not Butler, whom he considered...
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  • Square. Lady Alexandra had affairs with Jock Whitney, Michael Lubbock, Walter Monckton, and Charles Duncombe, 3rd Earl of Feversham.[citation needed] Before...
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  • France and saved another officer... That officer was Walter Monckton, a leading barrister... Monckton and Allen subsequently struck up a friendship and it...
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    1951 Prime Minister Clement Attlee Preceded by Nye Bevan Succeeded by Walter Monckton Member of Parliament for Blyth In office 23 February 1950 – 30 October...
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    World War II. One of the three daughters, Mary (called Polly) married Walter Monckton. On Sir Thomas's death in 1951, the property and the baronetcy passed...
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