Bonython, Richard (bap. 1580, d. 1647x54), soldier and planter in America, was baptized on 8 April 1580 at St Columb Major, Cornwall, a younger son and one of eight children of John Bonython and his wife, Eleanor Myleinton. Nothing else is known of his early life. He married by 1607 ...
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Bonython, Richard (bap. 1580, d. 1647x54), soldier and planter in America
Robert Charles Anderson
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Cosby, Francis (d. 1580), soldier and planter in Ireland
Colm Lennon
Cosby, Francis (d. 1580), soldier and planter in Ireland, was the second son of John Cosby of Hermaston, Lincolnshire, and Mabel Agard. Arrived in Ireland by 1548, he distinguished himself as a soldier in the midlands, writing detailed accounts of his exploits against the Gaelic clans of ...
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Fairfax, Thomas, first Lord Fairfax of Cameron (1560–1640), diplomat, soldier, and horse breeder
Jack Binns
Fairfax, Thomas, first Lord Fairfax of Cameron (1560–1640), diplomat, soldier, and horse breeder, was born at Bilbrough, near York, the eldest son of Sir Thomas Fairfax (1521–1600) of Denton and Nun Appleton, Yorkshire, and Dorothy (d. 1596), daughter of George Gale, goldsmith and lord mayor of ...
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Ironside, (William) Edmund, first Baron Ironside (1880–1959)
Maker: Walter Stoneman
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(William) Edmund Ironside, first Baron Ironside (1880–1959) by Walter Stoneman, 1920 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Ironside, (William) Edmund, first Baron Ironside (1880–1959), army officer and farmer
John C. Cairns
Ironside, (William) Edmund, first Baron Ironside (1880–1959), army officer and farmer, was born on 6 May 1880 at Joks Lodge House, South Leith, Edinburgh, the second child and only son of William Ironside (1835–1881) of Athling, surgeon-major in the Indian army, and his wife, ...
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Marion, Francis (1732–1795), planter and revolutionary army officer in America
Clyde R. Ferguson
Marion, Francis (1732–1795), planter and revolutionary army officer in America, was born at Goatfield plantation near the Cooper River, St John's parish, Berkeley county, South Carolina, the sixth of six children of Gabriel Marion (1693–1747), planter, and Esther Cordes (1695–1757). Francis was of French Huguenot ancestry and at birth '...
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McIntosh, Lachlan (1727–1806), planter and revolutionary army officer in America
Edward J. Cashin
McIntosh, Lachlan (1727–1806), planter and revolutionary army officer in America, was born on 5 March 1727 at Badenoch, Inverness-shire, the son of John Mohr McIntosh (c.1700–1761), and his wife, Marjorie Fraser. In 1735 Lachlan accompanied his parents and over a hundred Scots of clan ...
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Millar, George Reid (1910–2005)
Maker: C. Woods
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Millar, George Reid (1910–2005), special operations officer, author, and farmer
M. R. D. Foot
Millar, George Reid (1910–2005), special operations officer, author, and farmer, was born on 19 September 1910 at Boghall, Baldernock, Stirlingshire, the younger son (there was no daughter) of Thomas Andrew Millar (d. 1921/2), architect, and his wife, Mary Reid, née Morton (...
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Moodie, John Wedderburn Dunbar (1797–1869), army officer and farmer
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Pickens, Andrew (1739–1817), planter and revolutionary army officer in America
Clyde R. Ferguson
Pickens, Andrew (1739–1817), planter and revolutionary army officer in America, was born on 19 September 1739 in Paxton township, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. The third of six children of Andrew Pickens (c.1699–1757), farmer, and Anne Davis (d. c.1762), Andrew was of Scots-Irish and French Huguenot descent. In the early 1740s the family moved to ...
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Russell, Sir Andrew Hamilton [Guy] (1868–1960), sheep farmer and army officer
Ian McGibbon
Russell, Sir Andrew Hamilton [Guy] (1868–1960), sheep farmer and army officer, was born on 23 February 1868 at Napier, New Zealand, the second of the eight children and the elder son of Andrew Hamilton Russell (1837–1916), a sheep farmer and former army officer in the ...
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Venables, Edward Frederick (1815–1858), indigo planter and volunteer soldier
G. Le G. Norgate
revised by Roger T. Stearn
Venables, Edward Frederick (1815–1858), indigo planter and volunteer soldier, was born on 5 May 1815, the third son of Lazarus Jones Venables (1772–1856), barrister, of Liverpool and Woodhill, Shropshire, and his wife, Alice, daughter of Thomas Jolley of Liverpool. He early went to ...
