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Boisragon, Alan Maxwell (1860–1922), army officer and police commander  

K.D. Reynolds

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12 November 2020

Boisragon, Alan Maxwell (1860–1922), army officer and police commander, was born in Meerut, Bengal, India, on 22 January 1860, the only child of Major General Theodore Walter Ross Boisragon (1830–1882) and his wife Margaret Emma Gerrard (d. 1883). In ...

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Butler, James, second duke of Ormond (1665–1745), army officer, politician, and Jacobite conspirator  

Stuart Handley

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Butler, James, second duke of Ormond (1665–1745), army officer, politician, and Jacobite conspirator, was born in Dublin Castle on 29 April 1665, the second and eldest surviving son of Thomas Butler, sixth earl of Ossory (1634–1680), soldier and politician, and his wife, Aemilia van Nassau (...

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Horwood, Sir William Thomas Francis (1868–1943), army officer and police administrator  

Anne Pimlott Baker

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Horwood, Sir William Thomas Francis (1868–1943), army officer and police administrator, was born in November 1868, the youngest son of Charles Horwood of the Manor House, Broadwater, Sussex. At twenty he was commissioned into the 5th lancers, serving as recruiting officer and adjutant for the ...

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Lomax, Eric Sutherland (1919–2012), prisoner of war and author  

Roger T. Stearn

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07 January 2016

Lomax, Eric Sutherland (1919–2012), prisoner of war and author, was born on 30 May 1919 at 11 Bedford Terrace, Portobello, Edinburgh, the only child of John Lomax (1878–1950), post office clerk, later post office manager, formerly a Stockport pawnbroker's assistant, and his wife, ...

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Rowan, Sir Charles (1782?–1852), army officer and police officer  

F. E. C. Gregory

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Rowan, Sir Charles (1782?–1852), army officer and police officer, was born in co. Antrim, the fifth son of Robert Rowan (1754–1832) of Garry, co. Antrim, and North Lodge, Carrickfergus, and Mary, daughter of Hill Wilson of Purdysburn, co. Down. Field Marshal Sir William Rowan...

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Wall, Joseph (1737–1802), army officer and murderer  

Jonathan Spain

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Wall, Joseph (1737–1802), army officer and murderer, was born in Dublin, the eldest son of Gereld or Garrett Wall, a well-to-do tenant farmer on the estate of Sir John Denny Vesey, second baronet, near Abbeyleix in Queen's county. Details of his early life are sparse. His family were Roman Catholic but he and his brothers converted to protestantism. Most accounts state that at the age of fifteen he attended ...

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Warren, Sir Charles (1840–1927), army officer, police commissioner, and archaeologist  

Keith Surridge

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Warren, Sir Charles (1840–1927), army officer, police commissioner, and archaeologist, was born on 7 February 1840 at Fairview House, Bangor, Caernarvonshire, the second son of Major-General Sir Charles Warren (1798–1866) and his first wife, Mary Anne (d. 1846), daughter of William Hughes...

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Whitmore, Sir George Stoddart (1829–1903), army officer and police officer in New Zealand  

Richard S. Hill

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Whitmore, Sir George Stoddart (1829–1903), army officer and police officer in New Zealand, was born in Malta on 30 May 1829, the son of Lieutenant (later Major) George St Vincent Whitmore RE and his wife, Isabella Maxwell, the daughter of Sir John Stoddart...