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(Encyclopedia) Sackville, George Sackville Germain, 1st Viscount: see Germain, George Sackville. ...

(Encyclopedia) Lombardi, Vince (Vincent Thomas Lombardi), 1913–70, American football coach, b. New York City. As a student at Fordham, he was a member of the famed “Seven Blocks of Granite” line. After great s...

(Encyclopedia) Hurt, John (Sir John Vincent Hurt), 1940–2017, English actor, b. Chesterfield, Derbyshire, grad. Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (1962). Known for his sympathetic portrayal of unusual, often unappeali...

(Encyclopedia) Stubbs, George, 1724–1806, English painter known for his studies of horses. Self-taught, Stubbs was interested in comparative anatomy and published his Anatomy of the Horse (1766), which is still ad...

(Encyclopedia) Camden, John Jeffreys Pratt, 2d Earl and 1st Marquess: see under Pratt, Charles, 1st Earl Camden. ...

(Encyclopedia) Albemarle, George Monck or Monk, 1st duke of: see Monck, George. ...

(Encyclopedia) Farnborough, Thomas Erskine May, 1st Baron: see May, Thomas Erskine. ...

(Encyclopedia) Leeds, Thomas Osborne, 1st duke of: see Danby, Thomas Osborne, earl of. ...

(Encyclopedia) Goschen, George Joachim Goschen, 1st Viscount gōˈshən [key], 1831–1907, British statesman. A leading financier, he was elected (1863) to Parliament as a Liberal and was first lord of the admiralt...

(Encyclopedia) Rowton, Montagu William Lowry Corry, 1st Baron rôtˈən, rouˈ– [key], 1838–1903, English philanthropist. He was called to the bar in 1863. From 1866 until 1881 he served as private secretary to ...