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Sir Wilfred Patrick Thesiger, CBE, DSO, FRAS, FRGS ( 3 June 1910 – 24 August 2003 ) was a British explorer and travel writer born in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia.
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Treeshrews were moved from Insectivora to the Primates order, because of certain internal similarities to the latter ( for example, similarities in the brain anatomy, highlighted by Sir Wilfred Le Gros Clark ), and classified as a primitive prosimian.
The way of life of the Marsh Arabs was later described by the explorer Sir Wilfred Thesiger in his classic The Marsh Arabs ( 1964 ).
Sir Wilfred Thesiger, the traveller and explorer, was the first European to see the area in the late 1940s after his travels from Salalah in Oman.
* November-Neil McLeod becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Sir William Wilfred Sullivan.
* April 25-Sir William Wilfred Sullivan becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Sir Louis Davies
Until its repeal in 1986, the school was funded partly through a tax on cinema ticket sales known as the Eady Levy, named after then UK Treasury official Sir Wilfred Eady.
Sir Peter Wilfred Tapsell, KNZM, MBE, FRCS, FRCSEd ( 21 January 1930 – 5 April 2012 ) was Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives from 1993 to 1996.
Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, KCMG ( 28 February 1865 – 9 October 1940 ) was a medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador.
The Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell Historical Society with the support of Provincial Government and the International Grenfell Association began construction of an interpretation centre in St. Antony and it was opened in 1997.
A large interpretive display is housed there and provides historical background surrounding the work of Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell.
In 1979, the Corner Brook campus of Memorial University of Newfoundland was renamed Sir Wilfred Grenfell College in his honour.
In 2010, following a debate to rename this campus, the name Grenfell Campus, Memorial University of Newfoundland was chosen, to reflect the campus ' ties to the spirit of Sir Wilfred Grenfell's legacy.
Sir William Wilfred Sullivan ( December 6, 1839 – September 30, 1920 ) was a Prince Edward Island journalist, politician and jurist, the fourth premier of Prince Edward Island.
On the evening of 13 September, by which time sailors had already started agitating, Rear-Admiral Wilfred Tomkinson ( in temporary command of the fleet while Admiral Sir Michael Hodges was in hospital ) received a letter from the Admiralty dated 10 September.
A list of the most accomplished would include such notables as Rabindranath Tagore, Sir Aurel Stein, Sir Wilfred Thesiger, and George V. Tsereteli.
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* Sir Patrick Moore, presenter of the BBC's long-running The Sky at Night and author of many books on astronomy.
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The ballad Sir Patrick Spens has sometimes been supposed to be connected to Margaret's ill-fated voyage.
The heirs are: the dissipated spendthrift Sir Patrick O ' Shaughlin, the litigious Sir Murtagh Rackrent, the cruel husband and gambling absentee Sir Kit Stopgap, and the generous but improvident Sir Condy Rackrent.
The Aubrey – Maturin sea novels of Patrick O ' Brian have frequent appearances by Sir Joseph Blaine, a Royal Navy intelligence official who is also an avid entomologist.
The action was brief and probably not very bloody, since the only casualty of any note was a minor Lothian knight, Sir Patrick Graham, though about 100 Scottish lords, knights and men-at-arms were taken prisoner.
Eventually, Davis brought her case to court in Britain, hoping to get out of her contract with Warner Bros. She later recalled the opening statement of the barrister, Sir Patrick Hastings, who represented Warner Bros. Hastings urged the court to " come to the conclusion that this is rather a naughty young lady and that what she wants is more money ".
They were considered to be evidence for the actions of saints such as Hilda of Whitby, a myth referenced in Sir Walter Scott's Marmion, and Saint Patrick, and were held to have healing or oracular powers.
At a meadow a mile from Edinburgh, there was a pavilion where Sir Patrick Hamilton and Patrick Sinclair played and fought in the guise of knights defending their ladies.
Already in 1935 he was working with Patrick Blackett and Sir Henry Tizard on the committee that gave birth to Radar.
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