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In the first-ever edition of The Sunday Times Rich List, published in 1989, he was ranked as the second richest person in the United Kingdom, [2] with a fortune of £3.2 billion (approximately £10.1 billion in today's value [3]), with only the late Queen Elizabeth II above him.
The early-twentieth-century British composer Gerald Finzi (1901–1956) is recognized largely for several song cycles, setting texts from a wide selection English poets, including Thomas Traherne, William Shakespeare, John Milton, Christina Rossetti, Thomas Hardy, Robert Bridges and Edmund Blunden.
Géraud-Marie de Sède, baron de Liéoux (5 June 1921 – 30 May 2004) [1] was a French author, writing under the nom-de-plume of Gérard de Sède, and a member of various surrealist organizations. He was born into an aristocratic family from Comminges , the son of Marcel Alfred Gustave de Sède, baron de Liéoux [ 2 ] and Aimée de Sède de ...
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Edward FitzGerald "Gerald" Brenan, CBE, MC (7 April 1894 – 19 January 1987) [2] was a British writer and hispanist who spent much of his life in Spain.. Brenan is probably best known for The Spanish Labyrinth, a historical work on the background to the Spanish Civil War, and for a mainly autobiographical work South from Granada: Seven Years in an Andalusian Village.
From about 1870 onwards, Massey became increasingly interested in Egyptology and the similarities that exist between ancient Egyptian mythology and the Gospel stories. He studied the extensive Egyptian records housed in the Assyrian and Egyptology section of the British Museum in London where he worked closely with the curator, Dr. Samuel Birch, and other leading Egyptologists of his day, even ...
Gerard Nolst Trenité [a] [needs Dutch IPA] (20 July 1870 – 9 October 1946), publishing under the pseudonym Charivarius, [b] [1] was a Dutch writer, teacher, and observer of the English language.
Balthasar Gérard (alternative spellings Gerards or Gerardts; c. 1557 – 14 July 1584) was the assassin of the Dutch revolt's leader, William the Silent of the House of Orange (William the Silent, and later known as the "Father of the Fatherland").