Merchant tailor and co-founder of Rotary International. Born Hiram Elroy Shorey in Litchfield, Kennebec, Maine.
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Hiram Shorey
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Rotary Armillary
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Sir Nicholas Edwin Waterhouse KBE
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George Hay and Company
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Albergo del Pellegrino
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Brandram Brothers and Co.
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Artillery Gardens in Spitalfields
From Bowyers Company: "The word 'artillery' comes from the French 'arc tirer', to draw a bow, and the Artillery Company (later to become the Honourable Artillery Company) was originally a company o...
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Dadabhai Naoroji
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Jenny Lind
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