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'A Plan of the Lammas Land called St Thomas Leas' two copies showing ownership of land and acreage, with different annotations, 1800

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Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCAR/1/2/1/D4/1
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Includes plans as listed

Dates: 1800
Conditions Governing Access: From the Sub-sub-fonds: Open
Found in: Downing College
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'A Record of Books Read by Lewis C Seaman from October 1924 till December 1927', 1924-10 - 1927-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/SEA/6/6
Scope and Contents

In small exercise book.

Dates: 1924-10 - 1927-12
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Some records series are subject to confidentiality restrictions with the following closure periods: 30 years from date of creation for general administration files, legal records and financial files; 50 years from date of creation for governmental records, including papers of the College Governing Body and College Council, and constituent committees; 100 years from date of creation for personal and personnel records, including tutorial files, staff and fellows files and appointment records, personal finance and pension records. In addition sensitive correspondence and papers concerning College affairs such as disputes and disciplinary matters are closed for 100 years. Restrictions apply on some personal and private papers.
Found in: Downing College
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'A rental and particular of the estate in Dunwich and Westleton in the county of Suffolk..', 1764

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Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCAR/1/1/3c/2
Scope and Contents

Copy of 'A rental and particular of the estate in Dunwich and Westleton in the county of Suffolk purchased by the late Hon. Sir George Downing Baronet, deceased, before he made his will and given by him to the late Hon. Sir Jacob Garrard Downing, also deceased, and which is vested in Lady Downing in trust etc'

Dates: 1764
Conditions Governing Access: From the Series: Some closure periods apply for GDPR and confidentiality reasons.
Found in: Downing College
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A Statement of the proceedings of the Lords Commissioners from 29 Mar 1799 - 10 June 1806, 1806

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Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCAR/1/1/7/2/7
Scope and Contents

Different version from DCAR/1/1/07/02/006

Dates: 1806
Conditions Governing Access: From the Sub-Fonds: Records are generally open, although some closure periods may apply for more recent records.
Found in: Downing College
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A survey and valuation of a farm at Cowlinge, Suffolk, taken Oct 1803, by J Dugmore, 1803-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCAR/1/1/3b/3/3
Scope and Contents

Martin Slater, occupier.

Dates: 1803-10
Conditions Governing Access: From the Sub-Fonds: Records are generally open, although some closure periods may apply for more recent records.
Found in: Downing College
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A survey of all the buildings with particulars and estimates of repairs required to the several farms, 1860-05 - 1860-07-28

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Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCAR/1/1/3b/1/3
Scope and Contents

...homesteads and cottages belonging to the College and situate in parishes of Boro Green, Bottisham, Cowlinge, Croydon, Gamlingay, East Hatley, Swaffham, Tadlow and Wrestlingworth, in counties of Bedford, Cambridge and Suffolk'

Dates: 1860-05 - 1860-07-28
Conditions Governing Access: From the Sub-Fonds: Records are generally open, although some closure periods may apply for more recent records.
Found in: Downing College
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A System of the Comparative Anatomy and Physiology Vol.I by B.Harwood (1796), 1796

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Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/HAR/2/1
Scope and Contents

Copy of Harwood's treatise (in non contemporary binding), with signature of George Trusted and number 344

Dates: 1796
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Some records series are subject to confidentiality restrictions with the following closure periods: 30 years from date of creation for general administration files, legal records and financial files; 50 years from date of creation for governmental records, including papers of the College Governing Body and College Council, and constituent committees; 100 years from date of creation for personal and personnel records, including tutorial files, staff and fellows files and appointment records, personal finance and pension records. In addition sensitive correspondence and papers concerning College affairs such as disputes and disciplinary matters are closed for 100 years. Restrictions apply on some personal and private papers.
Found in: Downing College
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A Terrar of the Morgan Leasehold, 1800

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Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCAR/1/1/3/4
Scope and Contents Divided into 3 sections entitles:1. Terrar of 7 acres of arable land purchased by George Constable of John Hawkes and Richard Hawkes for 1000 years commencing 10 June 41 Eliza [1598] for yearly rent of £1.2. Terrar of 12 acres of arable land purchased by Lawrence Douglas of John Hawkes and Richard Hawkes for 1000 years from 20 Mar 41 Eliza [1598] for rent of £1.3. Terrar of 30 acres and 1 rood of arable land purchased by Henry Culpie of Elizabeth Barrow and Maurice Barrow for...
Dates: 1800
Conditions Governing Access: From the Sub-Fonds: Records are generally open, although some closure periods may apply for more recent records.
Found in: Downing College
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A Trip to Scarborough (Fresher's Play), 24-26 February 2022, 2022

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Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCCS/5/2/2/29
Scope and Contents

Programme only (2 copies)

Dates: 2022
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: Some records series (such as minutes) are subject to closure periods for GDPR and confidentiality reasons.
Found in: Downing College
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'A valuation of an estate at Dunwich and Westleton in the c. Suffolk, belonging to Downing College' by J Dugmore, 1801-11-17

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Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCAR/1/1/3b/3/1
Scope and Contents

Endorsed 'Copy of Mr Dugmore'

Dates: 1801-11-17
Conditions Governing Access: From the Sub-Fonds: Records are generally open, although some closure periods may apply for more recent records.
Found in: Downing College
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Abbotts Farm in East Hatley. No.28, 1750

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Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCAR/1/1/3/10a/28
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Terriers and maps series for whole estate at East Hatley, Tadlow and Croydon (II) : Survey of the Estate of Hon. Sir Jacob Garrard Downing Bart., by Joseph Cole 1750 [farms]

Multi-coloured scale plans with tables of acreage, field names etc

Dates: 1750
Conditions Governing Access: From the Sub-Fonds: Records are generally open, although some closure periods may apply for more recent records.
Found in: Downing College
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Abstract draft appointment, grant bargain and sale of tithes of land in Barnwell, and abstract draft assignment of a term 5000 years, 1815

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Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCAR/1/2/7/1/1/5
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Records mainly relating to Pembroke Leys tithes

Dates: 1815
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: General administration files are generally closed for 30 years from date of creation, once transferred to Archives, but longer closure periods may apply. Please ask the College Archivist about more recent records relevant to a particular research area, which may not yet have been published online but may be open for research (by appointment).
Found in: Downing College
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Abstract of Deed of Exchange, 1734-05-31 - 1734

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Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCAR/1/1/1/2/2/2p
Scope and Contents

Abstract of Deed of Exchange between Sir George Downing and Bailiffs etc of Borough of Dunwich
[Various annotations]

Dates: 1734-05-31 - 1734
Conditions Governing Access: From the Sub-Fonds: Records are generally open, although some closure periods may apply for more recent records.
Found in: Downing College
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Abstract of Mr Bullen's lease under Jesus College, 1802-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCAR/1/2/1/D/13e
Scope and Contents From the Sub-sub-fonds:

Papers dealing with efforts to obtain a suitable site for Downing at Pembroke Leys and also some concerning the first (token) site for Downing (Dolls Close].

Dates: 1802-04
Conditions Governing Access: From the Sub-sub-fonds: Open
Found in: Downing College
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Abstract of Mr James Russell's title to an estate called St Thomas Leys in Cambridge sold to Downing College, 1802-02

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Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCAR/1/2/1/D1/10
Scope and Contents

With opinion of Lancelot Shadwell

Dates: 1802-02
Conditions Governing Access: From the Sub-sub-fonds: Open
Found in: Downing College
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Abstract of Mr Thackeray's title to some land in Cambridge, 1800-07 - 1804-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCAR/1/2/1/D1/5
Scope and Contents

Including: letter from Thomas Thackeray to George Frere re papers respecting Pembroke Leys and letter from Joseph Butcher to Forster Cooke and Frere re will of Chester Pern from whom Thackeray purchased land; and receipt from Thackeray to George Cornwall and wife, Mary Goate, Francis Annesley and Scourfield for purchase of his interest at Doll's Close

Dates: 1800-07 - 1804-01
Conditions Governing Access: From the Sub-sub-fonds: Open
Found in: Downing College
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Abstract of Mr Thackeray's title to some land in Cambridge, 1804

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Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCAR/1/2/1/D1/6
Scope and Contents

Abstract of Mr Thackeray's title to some land in Cambridge purchased by Downing College plus copy will of Chester Pern referred to in Thackeray's abstract of title to land on Pembroke Leys

Dates: 1804
Conditions Governing Access: From the Sub-sub-fonds: Open
Found in: Downing College
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'Abstract of Mrs Archer's tytle', 1709

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Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCAR/1/1/1/2/3b/25
Scope and Contents

'Abstract of Mrs Archer's tytle' - Assession Day an' sec. Jac. Primo [24 Mar 1604/5] - 6-7 June 1709
for messuage formerly Richard Garland's and 'Bumbles'

Dates: 1709
Conditions Governing Access: From the Sub-Fonds: Records are generally open, although some closure periods may apply for more recent records.
Found in: Downing College
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Abstract of receipts and expenditure for year ended 30 Nov 1912, 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCAR/1/6/1e/4
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Published financial statements or copies of printed accounts to be published / designed for dissemination

Dates: 1912
Conditions Governing Access: From the Sub-Fonds: Accounts and financial files are closed for 30 years from date of creation.
Found in: Downing College
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Abstract of receipts and expenditure for year ended 30 Nov 1919; endorsed by Auditors 1920, 1919 - 1920-01-31

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Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCAR/1/6/1e/11
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Published financial statements or copies of printed accounts to be published / designed for dissemination

Dates: 1919 - 1920-01-31
Conditions Governing Access: From the Sub-Fonds: Accounts and financial files are closed for 30 years from date of creation.
Found in: Downing College
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'Abstract of the Conveyance of the legal estate in all allocated lands belonging to Downing College 4-5 Aug 1819, 1819-08-05 - 1819

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Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCAR/1/1/1/1/23
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Deeds and formal conveyancing documents concerned with the entire, or very large parts of the Downing Estates, continuing through estate ownership by the College

Dates: 1819-08-05 - 1819
Conditions Governing Access: From the Sub-Fonds: Records are generally open, although some closure periods may apply for more recent records.
Found in: Downing College
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'Abstract of the Conveyances of several estates purchased by Sir George Downing Bart, the Testor of 1717', 1734

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Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCAR/1/1/1/1/10
Scope and Contents

31 Aug - 1 Sept 1694 to 31 May 1734

Dates: 1734
Conditions Governing Access: From the Sub-Fonds: Records are generally open, although some closure periods may apply for more recent records.
Found in: Downing College
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Abstract of the title and deeds, 1691

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Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCAR/1/1/1/2/1/8e
Scope and Contents

Abstract of the title and deeds of the estate late of Lionell Holle Esq., in Dunwich and Westleton in Suffolk [1 Sept 31 Eliz. - 30 Sept 1691]; mentions '3rd daughter was borne long after the making the will..'

Dates: 1691
Conditions Governing Access: From the Sub-Fonds: Records are generally open, although some closure periods may apply for more recent records.
Found in: Downing College
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'Abstract of the title to the Estates of the late Sir George Downing Baronet' 17-18 Aug 1683 - 29-30 May 1696, 1717

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Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCAR/1/1/1/1/9
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Deeds and formal conveyancing documents concerned with the entire, or very large parts of the Downing Estates, continuing through estate ownership by the College

Dates: 1717
Conditions Governing Access: From the Sub-Fonds: Records are generally open, although some closure periods may apply for more recent records.
Found in: Downing College
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Abstract of Thomas Goodale's title 18 Mar 1615/16 - 24 June 1709, 1709-06-24

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Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCAR/1/1/1/2/12/9
Scope and Contents From the Sub-sub-class:

Land including piece with barn built on it and 3 other pieces of land of c. 7 acres, in p. All Saints, Dunwich; under title to Damont, Goodale / Goodall, Corbould, Clarke, Walpole, Jay, Ingham and Downing

Dates: 1709-06-24
Conditions Governing Access: From the Sub-Fonds: Records are generally open, although some closure periods may apply for more recent records.
Found in: Downing College

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Guthrie, William Keith Chambers, 1906 -1981 (historian and classicist) 35
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Maitland, Frederick William, 1850 - 1906 (legal historian) 10
Thomas, Hugh Hamshaw, 1885 - 1962 (palaeobotanist) 9
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Kenny, Courtney Stanhope, 1847 - 1930 (jurist and politician) 8
Frere, William, 1775 - 1836 (Master of Downing College) 6
Harwood, Busick, 1750 - 1814 (Anatomist) 6
Whitby, Ethel, Lady, 1898 - 1994 (physician) 6
Worsley, Thomas, 1797 - 1885 (Master of Downing College) 6
Calder, William Moir, Sir, 1881 - 1960 (Knight, archaeologist and classical scholar) 5
Downing College Literary Society 5
Seaman, William Campbell, 1818 - 1907 (surgeon) 5
Seward, Albert Charles, Sir, 1863 - 1941 (Knight, botanist and geologist) 5
Seward, Marion, 1861-1924 (nee Brewis, wife of Albert Charles Seward and artist) 5
Annesley, Francis, 1734 - 1812 (master of Downing College) 4
Downing College Dramatic Society 4
French, Stanley, 1906 - 1988 (fellow of Downing College, Cambridge) 4
Hill, Alex, 1856 - 1929 (Master of Downing College) 4
Leavis, Frank Raymond, 1895 - 1978 (Literary Critic) 4
Leavis, Queenie Dorothy, 1906 - 1981 (nee Roth, literary scholar and university teacher) 4
Mason, Harold Andrew, 1911-1993 (Academic) 4
Ralph, John Rhodes, 1786 - 1862 (magistrate) 4
Seaman, Catherine, 1789 - 1864 (nee Campbell, wife of William Boog Seaman) 4
Seaman, Lewis Charles Bernard, 1911 - 1986 (historian) 4
Seaman, William Boog, 1784 - 1819 (surgeon) 4
Aston, Walter Douglas, 1882 - 1917 3
Cornford, Francis Macdonald, 1874 - 1943 (classical scholar and poet) 3
Cranworth Law Society 3
Cuttle, W (.L. (1896-1958)) 3
Downing College Boat Club 3
Downing College Medical Society 3
Freeland, F (.L.) 3
Adams, Edgar Tarry, 1852-1926 (brewer and amateur photographer) 2
Amos, Anne Elizabeth, 1836-1908 (née Fisher, wife of William Bennett Pike and James Amos) 2
Amos, Arthur, 1882 - 1980 (bursar of Downing College, Cambridge) 2
Beaumont, W (.E.) 2
Birkbeck, William Lloyd, 1807 - 1888 (Master of Downing College) 2
Butterfield, Sir Herbert, 1900-1979 (Knight and historian) 2
Cambridge Tipperary Club 2
Cornford, Frances Crofts, 1886 - 1960 (née Darwin, poet) 2
Dickens, Charles John Huffam, 1812-1870 (novelist and journalist) 2
Downing College Association Football Club 2
Downing College Chapel 2
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Doyle, Anthony Ian, 1925 - 2018 (librarian) 2
Enright, Dennis Joseph, 1920-2002 (poet and author) 2
Fisher, William Webster (1798-1874, Physician and Downing Professor of Medicine) 2
Graystone, Sidney Wynn, 1862 - 1924 2
Hillson, Keith Norman, 1897-1976 (journalist) 2
Holbrook, David Kenneth, 1923 - 2011 (novelist, poet and academic) 2
Hollond, Henry Arthur, 1884 - 1974 (academic lawyer and historian) 2
Kenny, Agnes Mary Ralph, 1877 - 1966 (daughter of Courtney Stanhope Kenny) 2
Maitland Historical Society 2
Marsh, Howard, 1839 - 1915 (Master of Downing College) 2
Rickword, John Edgell, 1898-1982 (poet and critic) 2
Schreiner, William Philip, 1859 - 1919 2
Stevens, Horace William Pettit, 1851 - 1940 (cleric) 2
Toynbee, Jocelyn Mary Catherine, 1897 - 1985 (Professor of Classical Archaeology) 2
Victoria, 1819-1901 (Queen of Great Britain and Ireland) 2
Wilkins, William, 1778 - 1839 (Architect) 2
Adeane, Madeline Pamela Constance Blanche (nee Wyndham), 1871-1941 (Daughter of Hon Percy Scawen Wyndham, wife of Charles Adeane) 1
Albert, 1819 - 1861 (Prince Consort of Queen Victoria) 1
Alexandra, Caroline Mary Charlotte Louise Julia, 1844 - 1925 (of Denmark) 1
Appleton, Arthur Beeny, 1888 - 1950 (Professor of Anatomy) 1
Ball, Sir Robert Stawell, 1840-1913 (Knight and astronomer) 1
Bate, Walter Jackson, 1918-1999 (literary critic) 1
Belloc, Elizabeth Rayner, 1829 - 1925 (nee Parkes, campaigner for women's rights and journalist) 1
Boughey, A (.H.T) 1
Bradbrook, Frank Wilson, 1917 - 1983 (literary scholar) 1
Buckler, William Hepburn, 1867 - 1952 (American diplomat and classical scholar) 1
Cambridge University Air Squadron 1
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Cecil, Lord Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne, 1864–1958 (1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, politician and peace campaigner) 1
Christian, Edward, 1758 - 1823 (Lawyer and Professor) 1
Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer, Sir, 1874 - 1965 (Knight, statesman and historian) 1
Claudet, Antoine, fl1850 - 1859 (photographer) 1
Couch, Arthur Thomas Quiller, Sir ((1863-1944) Knight, novelist and literary scholar) 1
Coulton, George Gordon, 1858-1947 (historian and controversialist) 1
Coveney, Peter James, 1924 - 2007 (Academic and historian) 1
Cox, Reginald Gordon, 1914 - 1981 (Academic) 1
Darwin, Emma, 1808 - 1896 (nee Wedgwood, wife of Charles Darwin) 1
Darwin, Francis, Sir, 1848 - 1925 (knight, botanist) 1
Darwin, George Howard, Sir, 1845 - 1912 (Knight, mathematician and geophysicist) 1
Davies, Clement Edward, 1884 - 1962 (politician) 1
Dawes, Richard, 1792 - 1867 1
Dawson, Clarence (Terry), 1924-1970 (pilot) 1
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Doughty, Charles Montagu, 1843 - 1926 1
Downing College Classical Society 1
Downing College Musical Society 1
Downing, George (First Baronet (1623-1684)) 1
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Edward, VII, 1841 - 1910 (King of Great Britain and Ireland) 1
Egerton, Wilbraham, 1781-1856 (MP) 1
Eliot, Thomas Stearns, 1888 - 1965 (poet) 1
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