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(Encyclopedia) Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO), founded 1916. Originally a branch of the city's municipal government, it was reorganized as a private institution in 1942. Its main home is the 2,443-seat Joseph Me...

(Encyclopedia) Milnes, Richard Monckton: see Houghton, Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron. ...

(Encyclopedia) Monckton Milnes, Richard: see Houghton, Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron. ...

(Encyclopedia) Prothero, Rowland Edmund: see Ernle, Rowland Edmund Prothero, 1st Baron. ...

(Encyclopedia) Dupuytren, Guillaume, Baron gēyōmˈ bärôNˈ düpüēträNˈ [key], 1777–1835, French surgeon. As professor at the Hôtel Dieu, Paris, from 1812, he was noted as diagnostician, lecturer, and surg...

(Encyclopedia) Conway, Sir Martin: see Conway of Allington, William Martin Conway, 1st Baron. ...

(Encyclopedia) Smith, Donald Alexander: see Strathcona and Mount Royal, Donald Alexander Smith, 1st Baron. ...

(Encyclopedia) Somerset, Fitzroy James Henry: see Raglan, Fitzroy James Henry Somerset, 1st Baron. ...

(Encyclopedia) Lee of Fareham, Arthur Hamilton Lee, 1st Viscount fârˈəm [key], 1868–1947, British politician. He was (1900–1918) a Conservative member of the House of Commons. During World War I, Lee was mili...

(Encyclopedia) Kerr, Archibald John Kerr Clark: see Inverchapel of Loch Eck, Archibald John Kerr Clark Kerr, 1st Baron. ...