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(Encyclopedia) White Mountain or White Hill, Czech Bílá Hora, hill near Prague, Czech Republic. There, in Nov., 1620, the Czech Protestants under Christian of Anhalt were routed by the combined armies of the empir...

(Encyclopedia) Stair, James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount dălrĭmˈpəl, dălˈrĭmpəl [key], 1619–95, Scottish jurist. A student and then a regent of the Univ. of Glasgow, he was admitted to the bar in 1648. He suppo...

(Encyclopedia) Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir bŭkˈən, twēdzˈmyo͞or [key], 1875–1940, Scottish author and statesman. Included among his works are a history (4 vol., 1921–22) of World War I; biographies ...

(Encyclopedia) Alverstone, Richard Everard Webster, 1st Viscount ôlˈvərstən [key], 1842–1915, lord chief justice of England (1900–1913). He served on various international arbitration commissions, including ...

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

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