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Child, Sir John

(Encyclopedia) Child, Sir John, d. 1690, English administrator in India. In 1680 he was appointed the British East India Company's agent at Surat, then the company's main factory (i.e., trading station) in W India. ...

Coe, Michael Douglas

(Encyclopedia) Coe, Michael Douglas, 1929–2019, American anthropologist, b. New York City, Ph.D. Harvard, 1959. Coe taught at Yale from 1960, becoming Charles J. MacCurdy Professor of Anthropology in 1963 (emeritu...

London Symphony Orchestra

(Encyclopedia) London Symphony Orchestra (LSO), founded 1904 by musicians who had left the Queen's Hall Orchestra. Established as a self-governing, profit-sharing cooperative, with members selecting the conductors, ...

Castellani, Sir Aldo

(Encyclopedia) Castellani, Sir Aldo älˈdō käsˌtəläˈnē [key], 1877–1971, British-Italian bacteriologist, b. Florence, Italy. He demonstrated the cause and mode of transmission of sleeping sickness (with Si...

Pelleas, Sir

(Encyclopedia) Pelleas, Sir: see Arthurian legend. ...

Modred, Sir

(Encyclopedia) Modred, Sir: see Arthurian legend. ...

Mordred, Sir

(Encyclopedia) Mordred, Sir: see Arthurian legend. ...

Lowe, Sir Hudson

(Encyclopedia) Lowe, Sir Hudson lō [key], 1769–1844, British general. He fought with credit throughout the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, mainly in the Mediterranean region, and served (1815–21) as g...
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