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Monckton Milnes, Richard

(Encyclopedia)Monckton Milnes, Richard: see Houghton, Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron. ...

Farnborough, Thomas Erskine May, 1st Baron

(Encyclopedia)Farnborough, Thomas Erskine May, 1st Baron: see May, Thomas Erskine. ...

Prothero, Rowland Edmund

(Encyclopedia)Prothero, Rowland Edmund: see Ernle, Rowland Edmund Prothero, 1st Baron. ...

Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron

(Encyclopedia)Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron: see Bulwer-Lytton. ...

Somerset, Fitzroy James Henry

(Encyclopedia)Somerset, Fitzroy James Henry: see Raglan, Fitzroy James Henry Somerset, 1st Baron. ...

Smith, Donald Alexander

(Encyclopedia)Smith, Donald Alexander: see Strathcona and Mount Royal, Donald Alexander Smith, 1st Baron. ...

May, Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Farnborough

(Encyclopedia)May, Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Farnborough, 1815–86, English constitutional jurist and historian. A period of long service to Parliament, including his tenure (1871–86) as clerk of the House of Co...

Lugard, Frederick John Dealtry Lugard, 1st Baron

(Encyclopedia)Lugard, Frederick John Dealtry Lugard, 1st Baron lo͞ogärdˈ [key], 1858–1945, British colonial administrator. After an early military career, he entered (1889) the service of the British East Afri...

Joseph I

(Encyclopedia)Joseph I, 1678–1711, Holy Roman emperor (1705–11), king of Hungary (1687–1711) and of Bohemia (1705–11), son and successor of Leopold I. Joseph became Holy Roman emperor in the midst of the Wa...

Fisher, John Arbuthnot Fisher, 1st Baron

(Encyclopedia)Fisher, John Arbuthnot Fisher, 1st Baron ärbŭthˈnət [key], 1841–1920, British admiral. Entering the navy in 1854, he specialized in gunnery and in 1872 was responsible for instituting the develo...