Lawyer and co-founder of Rotary International. Born in Racine, Wisconsin. He started practising law in 1896 in Chicago. He began to consider the benefits of the formation of a social organisation for local professionals, and In 1905, started the first rotary club with three other local businessmen.
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Paul Percy Harris
An armillary (or astrolabe) is a model comprising rings showing the positions...
Probably inherited the title in 1690. Mother was Susanna Noel.
Born Eliza Lawes, daughter of Edward Hobson Vitruvius Lawes and Jane Edwards Lawes. He was a barrister and lived in Serjeants Inn, and their daughter was baptised on the 1st April 1824 at St. Andre...
This phrase sounds rather formal but is probably just a short way of saying "friends living in the Hampton area".
Formed to assist victims of the Brixton nail bomb.
