Colonel Maurice James Buckmaster OBE ( 11 January 1902 – 17 April 1992, Forest Row, Sussex ) was the leader of the French section of Special Operations Executive and was awarded the Croix de Guerre.

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However, senior SOE people and even Maurice Buckmaster himself refused to believe the reports and Déricourt continued his work in France until February 1944.

Known by his wartime nickname " Guy ," following his specialized training, Colonel Maurice Buckmaster, the SOE commander, wrote in his file that Biéler was the best student SOE had.

She was officially the section's intelligence officer while serving as assistant to section head Maurice Buckmaster.

On 16 June 1943 Agazarian was returned to England where he reiterated his concerns about Dericourt's loyalty to Nicholas Bodington and Maurice Buckmaster, who were nevertheless unconvinced.

Bégué was appointed Signals Officer in the F section under Maurice Buckmaster.

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Lady Lavery knew many famous figures of her era and corresponded with such notable figures as Maurice Baring, Hilaire Belloc, Owen Buckmaster, Tim Healy, Shane Leslie, Reginald McKenna, Jessie Louisa Rickard, George Bernard Shaw, Lytton Strachey, Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson and W. B. Yeats.

In its ruling, the state Board of Education upheld Dr. Michael F. Walsh, state commissioner of education, who had ruled previously that the Warwick board erred when it named Maurice F. Tougas as coordinator of audio-visual education without first finding that the school superintendent's candidate was not suitable.

The term " Afroasiatic " ( often now spelled as " Afro-Asiatic ") was later coined by Maurice Delafosse ( 1914 ).

These soon became so serious that a league was formed to crush him, and Maurice of Saxony led an army against his former comrade.

* The town hall was constructed in the 1930s after the destruction of the Saint Maurice chapel in July 1934.

A young mountain bongo grazes. One of the reasons often cited for the popularity of the bongo as a prized hunting target was a highly-publicized hunting trip taken by Maurice Stans, an official in Richard Nixon's cabinet, to Uganda.

The term compact was introduced into mathematics by Maurice Fréchet in 1906 as a distillation of this concept.

It was Maurice Fréchet who, in 1906, had distilled the essence of the Bolzano – Weierstrass property and coined the term compactness to refer to this general phenomenon.

Reopened at Trent on 1 May 1551 by convocation of Pope Julius III ( 1550 – 5 ), it was broken up by the sudden victory of Maurice, Elector of Saxony over the Emperor Charles V and his march into surrounding state of Tirol on 28 April 1552.

The idea of microprogramming was introduced by Maurice Wilkes in 1951 as an intermediate level to execute computer program instructions.

First was the suggestion of Harry Kalven, Jr. and Maurice Rosenfeld in 1941 that class action litigation by individual shareholders on behalf of all shareholders of a company could effectively supplement direct government regulation of securities markets and other similar markets.

He was hired by the Peerless Studio at Fort Lee, New Jersey, and became an assistant to the French-born director Maurice Tourneur.

Barrymore was born into acting: her great-grandparents Maurice Barrymore and Georgie Drew Barrymore, Maurice Costello and Mae Costello ( Altschuk ) and her grandparents John Barrymore and Dolores Costello, were all actors ; John Barrymore was arguably the most acclaimed actor of his generation.

Her first name, Drew, was the maiden name of her paternal great-grandmother, Georgie Drew Barrymore ; her middle name, Blyth, was the original surname of the dynasty founded by her great-grandfather, Maurice Barrymore.

It appears that Maurice Mpolo, Minister of Youth and Sports, was given the defence portfolio.

It is unclear whether this first expedition was the expedition by Jacques l ' Hermite to the coast of Chile, Peru and Bolivia, set up by Stadthouder Maurice with the support of the States General and the VOC.

After Luther's death, Alberus was for a time a deacon in Wittenberg ; he became involved, however, in the political conflicts of the time, and was in Magdeburg in 1550-1551, while that town was besieged by Maurice of Saxony.

There was probably rivalry between the Benedictine Monastery of St Maurice founded at Magdeburg by Otto and Eadgyth in 937, a year after coming to the throne and Matilda's foundation at Quedlinburg Abbey, intended by her as a memorial to her husband, the late King Henry I.

Meanwhile, Debussy was having one of his first major successes with in 1902, leading a few years later to ‘ who-was-precursor-to-whom ’ debates between the two composers, in which Maurice Ravel would also get involved.

The machine, having been inspired by John von Neumann's seminal First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC, was constructed by Maurice Wilkes and his team at the University of Cambridge Mathematical Laboratory in England.

Dean Ormsby Torrence ( born Los Angeles, California March 10, 1940 ), is the son of Natalie Ormsby Torrence ( born April 10, 1911 in California ; died August 10, 2008 in Los Angeles, California ) and Maurice Dean Torrence ( born December 5, 1907 in South Dakota ; died November 16, 1997 in Los Angeles, California ), a graduate of Stanford University, who was a sales manager at the Wilshire Oil Company.

Marangella was born in Washington D. C. and first studied in France with Fernand Eché at the Conservatoire National de Musique d ’ Orléans, and later with Pierre Pierlot, Maurice Bourgue, and Etienne Baudo at the Conservatoire de Paris.

Petty was born in Level Cross, North Carolina, the son of Elizabeth ( née Toomes ) and Lee Arnold Petty, also a NASCAR driver and the older brother of Maurice Petty.

One admirer of Salisbury, Maurice Cowling largely agrees with the critics and says Salisbury found the democracy born of the 1867 and 1884 Reform Acts as " perhaps less objectionable than he had expected — succeeding, through his public persona, in mitigating some part of its nastiness.

; 1891: Victoria and Albert's last grandchild, Prince Maurice of Battenberg, is born.

Maurice Duverger ( born June 5, 1917 ) is a French jurist, sociologist and politician.

Jean Michel Jarre was born in Lyon on 24 August 1948, to composer Maurice Jarre and French Resistance member and concentration camp survivor France Pejot.

Deneuve was born Catherine Fabienne Dorléac in occupied Paris to French stage and screen actor Maurice Dorléac and actress Renée Deneuve ( born 1911 ).

The family moved to Paris three months after the birth of Maurice, and there his younger brother Édouard was born.

Actor Michael Caine was born Maurice Micklewhite and chose the name Michael because he preferred the sound of it to the less glamorous-sounding " Maurice ".

Sir Michael Caine, CBE ( born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite on 14 March 1933 ) is a British actor and author.

Caine was born in St Olave's Hospital, Rotherhithe, Southwark, the son of Ellen Frances Marie ( née Burchell ; 1900-1989 ), a cook and charwoman, and Maurice Joseph Micklewhite, a fish market porter.

Maurice was born in Arabissus in Cappadocia in 539, the son of a certain Paul.

Maurice Utrillo (), born Maurice Valadon ( 26 December 1883 – 5 November 1955 ), was a French painter who specialized in cityscapes.

" After Maurice was born to Suzanne Valadon, she went to Renoir, for whom she had modeled nine months previously.

Lipman was born in Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, the daughter of Maurice Julius Lipman and Zelma Pearlman .< ref >

Harold Macmillan was born at 52 Cadogan Place in Chelsea, London, to Maurice Crawford Macmillan ( 1853 – 1936 ), publisher, and Helen ( Nellie ) Artie Tarleton Belles ( 1856 – 1937 ), artist and socialite, from Spencer, Indiana in the United States.

* Maurice Duverger ( born 1917 ), jurist