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(Encyclopedia) Goring, George Goring, Baron, 1608–57, English royalist commander in the civil war. He was a court gallant who had previously served in the Dutch army. In 1641 a group of army officers formed the �...

(Encyclopedia) Carondelet, Francisco Luis Hector, baron de fränthēsˈkō lo͞oēsˈ ĕktôrˈ bärōnˈ dā kärōndālĕtˈ [key], c.1748–1807, governor of Louisiana (1791–97) and West Florida (1791–95), b....

(Encyclopedia) Burleigh, William Cecil, 1st Baron: see Burghley. ...

(Encyclopedia) Hankey, Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey, 1st Baron, 1877–1963, British soldier and civil servant. Educated at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, he served in the Royal Marines artillery (1895–1901) a...

(Encyclopedia) Ashburton, Alexander Baring, 1st Baron: see Baring, family. ...

(Encyclopedia) Dorchester, Guy Carleton, 1st Baron: see Carleton, Guy. ...

(Encyclopedia) Tweedsmuir, John Buchan, 1st Baron: see Buchan, John. ...

(Encyclopedia) Baltimore, George Calvert, 1st Baron: see Calvert, George. ...

(Encyclopedia) Bond Street, in Westminster, London, England, famous for its fashionable shops. Among the noted residents of Bond St. have been the authors Laurence Sterne, James Boswell, and Jonathan Swift; Admiral ...

(Encyclopedia) Avebury, John Lubbock, 1st Baron: see Lubbock, Sir John. ...