Mine-owner in Dulais Valley, Wales, near Neath. Named his mine after his seven sisters. High Sheriff of Breconshire 1913. Father of David, who hyphenated his surname thus making it different from h...

Person, Industry, Wales

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Joseph O. Abbott

Worked at the Stock Exchange and died in WW1.

Person

War dead, WW1

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H. Lincoln

Driver killed in the Second Anglo-Boer War.

Person, South Africa

War dead, Other war

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Colonel William Stephens-Smith

First Secretary of the Legation and an officer in the Revolution Army on Washington's staff. Married Abigail Adams, daughter to John Adams, second President of USA.

Person, Armed Forces, Politics & Administration, USA

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Tsunami in the Indian Ocean

More than 230,000 people died, 153 being British.

Event, Tragedy, Africa, Burma, India, Indian Sub-continent, Indonesia, Malaysia, Southeast Asia

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Elizabeth David

Cookery writer. Born as Elizabeth Gwynne into a wealthy family. Travelled in Europe and around the Mediterranean, spending some years in Cairo, where she married in 1944. Returned to England in 194...

Person, Food & Drink, Literature, Seriously Famous

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HM Office of Works

Summarising Wikipedia: The Office of Works (the King's Works) was responsible only for royal properties (1378–1832). This became the Office of Woods, Forest, Land Revenues and Works (1832–1852). Th...

Group, Architecture, Property

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