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This is a list of endowed schools in England and Wales existing in the early part of the 19th century. It is based on Nicholas Carlisle's survey of "Endowed Grammar Schools" published in 1818, but is referenced to the work of the Endowed Schools Commission half a century later. Most English and Welsh endowed schools were at the time described as grammar schools, although there was no formal system for such schools, and there was even no clear definition of the term "grammar school" at this period. A medieval grammar school was one which taught Latin, and this remained an important subject in all the schools, which generally followed the traditions of Oxford and Cambridge, from which almost all of their graduate schoolmasters came. Some of the schools listed by Carlisle had long been fee-paying public schools, although in most cases (as at Eton and Winchester) retaining some provision for the teaching of "scholars" who paid reduced or no fees.

An endowment for educational purposes had an original purpose, often intended by the founder or founders to be legally binding, but the objects of such endowments were not always honoured by those controlling the schools. Carlisle compiled his list by means of a questionnaire, which was not always answered. The Commission's report built on his research, while not accepting all his claims on the continuity of certain schools from monastic and chantry foundations, which affected the dating of schools. The chronological list in the report has numerous further details of endowments.

There is little consistency in the actual names of grammar schools from this period. Many were called "free schools". The antiquarian Carlisle used some unorthodox spellings, and he listed Hampshire as if it were "Southampton", under S.

Berkshire
For Eton College see Buckinghamshire.

Hampshire
For Hampshire see County of Southampton.

County of Southampton
Carlisle referred to Hampshire as Southampton.

South Wales
Monmouthshire is listed separately.

Berkshire
For Eton College see Buckinghamshire.

Hampshire
For Hampshire see County of Southampton.

County of Southampton
Carlisle referred to Hampshire as Southampton.

South Wales
Monmouthshire is listed separately.

Berkshire
For Eton College see Buckinghamshire.

Hampshire
For Hampshire see County of Southampton.

County of Southampton
Carlisle referred to Hampshire as Southampton.

South Wales
Monmouthshire is listed separately.

Ancestry
Fellows of the Royal Historical Society.

Category:Royal Historical Society Category:British historians Historical Society, Royal

STEVE MOREWOOD

Dr Steven Morewood PhD FRHistS is Professor of International History in the School of Historical Studies at the University of Birmingham. A distinguished academic researcher and historian he has been elected a FRHistS.

Morewood has become the foremost scholar on British diplomatic relations in North Africa in the 20th century. He began his career at the internationally-rewnowned schooling ground of the LSE, where he encountered many like-minded historians who coalesced around similar interests.

After a degree, his first teaching post was as lecturer of Social and Economic History at the University of Leicester. From there a PhD followed at University of Bristol in 1985 under the external examiner Esmonde Robertson. He published his first book, Pioneers and Inheritors in 1990, which was quickly followed by a co-written history of Eastern Europe. He followed by a contribution to the edited collection of essays in 1995 The Chiefs of Staff and men on the spot, establishing himself as an expert on the Abyssinian War with Italy and on the Suez Canal zone region. Quite logically, this virtuous circle was completed in 2014 by a reappraisal of The British Defence of Egypt, a major contribution to the discussion on British imperial appeasement. More recently in 2017 he intends to publish a new history on the British control of the Suez Canal Zone and its influence on Imperial policy.

Previously a lecturer at the University of Manchester, he has supervised both PhD and postgraduate MPhil courses on Modern Eastern Mediterranean History. His is currently the external examiner for students of history at the Universitu of Hull, and a contributor of History Today magazine.

Publications
Defending Greece against Nazi Germany: Diplomacy, Strategy and the Eden-Dill Mission. A chapter has been completed on Britain and the Italo-Abyssinian Crisis for G.B.Strang ed. Clash of Empires: International Responses to the Italian Invasion of Abyssinia (Ashgate, forthcoming). Beyond these I intend to write a history of the rise and fall of British dominance over the Suez Canal.

•‘Hang Tough and Stay the Course’: Ronald Reagan and Ending the Cold War’ in History Teaching Year Book, 2010 •‘The Italo-Abyssinian Crisis as a Tilting Point towards World war Two’ in History teaching Year Book, 2009 •‘The Rise and Fall of British Domination of the Suez Canal, 1869-1956’, in S.C.Smith ed. Reassessing Suez Fifty Years On (Ashgate, 2008) •‘The Origins of the Second World War in Europe’, in N.Atkins ed. Themes in Modern European History 1890-1945 (Routledge, 2008) • The British Defence of Egypt, 1935-1940: Conflict and Crisis in the Eastern Mediterranean, London: Frank Cass (2003) (first published in 2005 according to most recent 2014 publication.). •'Europe: The Divided Postwar', in M.Wakeman (ed.) Themes in Modern European History 1945-2000, London: Routledge (2003) •'Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century', in M.Oliver ed. Studies in Economic and Social History, Aldershot: Ashgate (2002) •'Eastern Europe in Transition, 1970-1990' and 'Towards a United Europe, 1990-2000', chapters 9 & 10 in D.H.Aldcroft, The European Economy 1914-2000, London: Routledge, 4th edition (2001).
 * "Black, Sir John Paul (1895–1965)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2011.
 * ‘Lyons, Sir William (1901–1985)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2006
 * "Jack Siddeley, 1st Baron Kenilworth". "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford University Press, 2004.
 * 'The Chiefs of Staff, the men on the spot and the Italo-Abyssinian Emergency 1935-36', Decisions and Diplomacy: Essays in Twentieth Century International History eds. Dick Richardson and Glyn Stone, Routledge, 1995.

When in 1910 Buchanan arrived St Petersburg he had the invaluable help of his deputy Hugh O'Beirne, a diligent diplomat with years of experience.(H.J.Bruce, Silken Dalliance, p.138; Hughes, p.21) Only Charles Hardinge had more access to the Tsar, and when war broke out in 1914 the Romanovs entertained lavishly the British emissary in the intimate imperial family circle. He became an enervating critic of the 'mad monk' Rasputin's influence on policy-making. Stolypin's appointment in 1906 promised a new broom but the Imperial family retreated into Tsarkoe Selo causing Buchanan deep concern.(Hughes, p.25). The Tsar's detachment from political affairs did not prevent pleading with them for the release of a Naval Attache from Okhrana's custody on charges of espionage.(F.O.371/1215.)

When The Tsar was forced to abandon absolute rule, Buchanan beat a hasty retreat from the old capital, crossed the border to Finland. On 11 February he returned to find Petrograd in chaos. In a memorandum of 9 March the ambassador recorded Bread Riots on the streets, the proletariat marching on the suburbs, while the population starved. With the National Guard on strike Buchanan knew the anarchic "madness" threatened the embassy. He was required to advise the Provisional leader Povrovsky, yet British fear of revolution paralysed their response to the violence. Buchanan, a precise, tidy man insisted on peace and quiet while keeping London informed of the "Ukaz progation" of Duma deputies. Lloyd George was increasingly frustrated by the "futile" Tsarist response to abdication on 15 March. The regime ignored Buchanan's admonitions, his letters returned unopened.

Liberal interpretations prevailed in London, and Buchanan earnestly desired constitutional reforms. Entreating restraint from army and populace he encouraged the moderate Prince Lvov to save the Tsar's family. To this end the Provisional Government was recognised on 22 March. However the policy had already changed; Buchanan was shocked, he was overcome by a sinking feeling, powerless to help the stricken Romanovs. He had spent a career in the St Petersburg salon intimates of the Emperor's family circle. A staid, conservative stance he stood aloof from the fray, exaggerating Kerensky's radicalism. The stress broke Buchanan's health, the war could not be won; both left and right-wing extremists wanted to destabilise Russian diplomacy.

JEAN BARONNESS TRUMPINGTON

mISS fAUNCE'S DAY SCHOOL, qUEEN'S Gardens, Batswater, W2

Miss Spalding's, Queen's Gate, Kensington, SW

brotehrs were at Pre-Prep school, Wagners, Queen's Gate, Kensington, SW

Miss Vacani's school of Dancing, Queen's Gate, Knightsbridge, SW

SIR GEORGE ARTHUR

Sir George was an historian of Britain's great and glorious military past during the early part of 20th century, He wrote a masterful, and authoritative account, the first full history of the Household Cavalry, which as an official history has yet to be surpassed for its detailed exposition of maps and manoeuvres of the British Army's elite cavalry. It charts their rise from king's bodyguard to being one the finest regiments in the world with an unparalleled reputation for discipline, organization and history.

In the published letters of Lord and Lady Wolseley Arthur tackled to intensely emotional personal relationship of the marriage of British Empire's most decorated Victorian hero. The very epitome of valour and selfless devotion to duty, Wolseley's exploits in Africa became the stuff of legend. But his private recollections during the Great War were unknown to the public. Nonetheless the appetite for derring-do was insatiable in Victorian and Edwardian England. Before the age of TV and defeat Arthur's knowledgeable and insightful accounts sold well.

In the Life of Lord Kitchener he tackled a famed soldier, politician and statesman whose tragic and early demise came as a deep shock to many. Kitchener, the very embodiment British martial virtues: courageous, efficient, organized, disciplined, and compassionate to the defeated was in his own life heavily criticized for the slaughter of prisoners after Omdurman (1898). But as Arthur showed the pressures on the general were immense: Governments rose and fell on his victory or losses. Immediately Britain was plunged into a desperate and at times fierce conflict with the Boer, who dragged other European powers into a wider world war. Arthur's meticulous preparation of the materials, and marked attention to detail drew him as an outstanding historian of the first order, for which he was knighted; then a very rare honour indeed in those days for penmanship. The exceptional quality of his historical military analysis laid the foundations for a resurgent demand for and interest in history publications during the inter-war years that received new impetus in the post-war era.

In 1926 he translated the memoirs of wartime President of France Raymond Poincare. The preface was written quite suitably by the former Colonel-in-Chief of the Household Cavalry, the Duke of Northumberland. Poincare's remarkable life in diplomacy, politics and statesmanship took him to St Petersburg to attempt to avert war in 1914; he failed. Nonetheless Arthur's superb translation derived from years of study in France and understanding of the French military machine.

In 1930 his biography of the ageing King George V was the first to tackle an enigmatic and austere family-minded monarch. Strict with himself and his children, King George rarely gave anything away to his biographer. Bu the advent of radio and open government had revolutionised modern biography too; mass publications and international access at once made the exciting writer a knowledgeable about even recent events.

DR VON BETHMANN-HOLLWEG

Extracts from notes taken. In apr 1914 fearing for the kaiser's safety he wrote Fr J that he was cancelling the summer trip to Vienna. He believed the archduke's death was "suggestive" of other attempts. Bethmann was at this juncture (July 1914) attempting to gather intelligence to pin the blame on Belgrade; but nothing conclusive emerged. And Austria's policing of the detective work had been poor. Bethmann was treating the elements as criminal rather than politically-motivated.

Germany was stunned by the Sarajevo assassination. The kaiser liked the archduke and his wife the duchess. Their loss was keenly felt. His outrage put a premature end to his holiday and recall to Berlin. Bethmann was at home in Hohenfinow schloss. And much of the German govt were similarly enjoying the summer. On 29 June Bethmann had already told ambassador Lichnowsky of Berlin's disapproval of the Anglo-Russian naval talks, which was designed to ensure that the coastline of allied states like France was protected from Germany.(McMeekin, July 1914, p.72) Lichnowsky was an anglophile who thoroughly relished life at the British court was loth to depart.

Bethmann's diplomatic rapprochement was in tatters. The generals led by Moltke however were eager for war. Bethmann had spent much time in England enjoying the company of the royal family. The Kaiser has awaited the day when the old Emperor would give way to the younger prince. Now policy with Austria's attitude to Serbia was total "stupidity"; he even expressed a preference for Serbia, being so enraged with Berchtold's dithering. Count Tchirschky's refusal to act was calculated to appeal to the Kaiser and Bethmann as "a warning against heady measures."(p.85) But now Bethmann had taken fright; and refused to allow the Kaiser's trip in support of Austria's negotiations in Vienna to go ahead. On 30 June they were cancelled.

The Kaiser summoned Bethmann to Berlin from Hohenfinow Palace on 5 July 1914 to answer the concerns of the Austrian ambassador. Count Szogyeny reported events at the Neue Palais when the following he was expecting to see Bethmann himself. But the Kaiser's time was monopolised by the General Staff. Count Tisza over specially from Vienna had immediately returned on 5 July after a verbal battle with the Kaiser. The meanwhile had postponed his July Cruise of the Baltic and retired to Potsdam. But Bethmann remained in Berlin to firm up policy resolutions on the two Austrian Notes, latterly explained by Count Hoyos Mission. But already time was running out: the hawks were circling: Bethmann's good reputation with Grey hardly recommended him to the Generals. But he was not at his best: on 11 May his wide had died from internal haemorrhaging. He could not sleep, was troubled by nightmares, and the building hysteria in Berlin about the Anglo-Russian Naval peace talks. To Bethmann this meant a fermentation of a new Balkan Crisis.

On 8 July he received Count Hoyos. Sometime that second week in July, Bethmann's policy changed: Suddenly the Austrian ambassador could tell the Ballplatz of a shift in German policy. Bethmann now sided with Moltke and Conrad in taking "immediate action" on the Austrian "part against Serbia." If they waited any longer they believed, the Triple Entente would only get stronger.

Sunday 26 July Bethmann was still deceiving Britain by ignoring any indicators that might united Britain to the belief of Germany's contining sincerity. But still Sazonov reported Pourtales categorically that no mobilisation had been ordered yet.

Bethmann though the situatio was too dangerous fro the Kaiser to travel. He insisted the Emperor and family remained with the Baltic Fleet at Kiel. But the Kaiser was adamant that he could not desert Berlin, and returned hastily with Naval Seretary Tirpitz. What he did not know was the Chancellor was behind the Army fait accompli (done deal) policy: the abject failure of the Austrian Notes left his policy in tatters. It was still unclear to the Germans what France and Britain do in response to Austrian aggression.

DR FRITZ GROBBA

Amanullah raised army pay; appointed popular Saleh Mohammed as c-in-c. General Nadir Shad was banished to the remote eastern outpost of Khost. Amanullah's outright condemnation of the old army order and the mullah 's threw them into conflict with Britain. Nadir Shah won a victory in the Kurram Valley, but after Amanullah's palace was bombed by planes on 28 May, he conceded defeat. In August, an armistice was signed at Rawalpindi. Britain agreed to recognise Afghanistan's independence but stopped all arms shipments.(Stewart, p.162)

General Mohammed Wali Khan was sent to Moscow to engage support to counter a British threat of invasion and arms from the Soviets. He then tried to gain entry at Versailles, but failed again in 1921. In March 1921, the delegation went to meet Dr Fritz Grobba and Otto von Hentig to bring German scientists and technicians to Afghanistan. But Germany while sympathetic was not prepared to risk anger from the British. They required constant adherence to the terms of the 1919 Rawalpindi Treaty.

Afghanistan was fully recognised by European powers in 1923 in diplomatic terms. Dr Fritz Grobba was appointed charge d'affaires in Kabul. Born Arthur Borg in 1886 Brandenburg (he changed his name to disguise identity when sent by Ludendorff on mission. Grobba took an islamic wife.   He conversed with Amanullah in Turkish.  In 100 Austrian escapees from Russian camps formed the Royal and Imperial East Indian Detachment.  They took no active part in the Afghan Army but provided their own technical skills and manual skills on urban projects.  They kept in contact with Kurt Wagner at Herat.   Communication lines were kept open.  Grobba was a hawk seeking to take a new fight to Britain (and later a Nazi).   By 1924 the Afghans were importing German factory plant and machinery from Deutsche - Afghanische Compagnie (DACOM) 's brac offie ien Kabul, where Wagner worked. Wagner was not a warrior are all cost type, but wanted to stimulate trade and development; and consequently fell out with Grobba whom he disliked. Nonetheless in defiance of Versailles they imported 6,000 arms and 250 machine guns in 1924 alone via Riga across Russia into Kabul.

Wagner was not a warrior are all cost type, but wanted to stimulate trade and development; and consequently fell out with Grobba whom he disliked. Nonetheless in defiance of Versailles they imported 6,000 arms and 250 machine guns in 1924 alone via Riga across Russia into Kabul. A moderniser, Amanullah was grateful to the Germans for their time and investments. He wished to build up manufacturing and modern infrastructure such as roads and railways. But the amir thus fell into Dr Grobba's scheming plans. The Germans played their hand against the French for their role in Sykes-Picot Agreement contrariwise to arab interests. The League of Nations mandate failed to impress in Kabul. When an Italian shot dead a policeman in Kabul he was executed, the furore scuppered Mussolini's chances in Kabul relations. Italy withdrew slowly from Afghanistan and its sphere.

WILLIAM BATTERSBY

Battersby was born in 1958. He lives in London now and is a trained archaeologist at the Institute of Archaelogy, University of London, part of UCL, graduating with 1st class honours. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (FRGS). and pilot as well as an historian.

He works in finance in the City of London.

He has published several books on the subject including deep analysis of the unknown Franklin Expedition, which was published in 2010.

His hobbies included music and high performance flying a Super Dimona and a Diamond Star.

SIR EDWARD BAYNTON

Born about 1495 the eldest son of John Baynton of Bromham by Jane, daughter of Thomas Diggs (Digges). He was descended from a family of 14th centruy with long pedigree of landholding in Wiltshire and Hampshire. In 1508 his father John Baynton had secured the reversal of an attainder dated back to the Wars of the Roses upon his Lancastrian father. He inherited property from a distant kinsman (cousin) Sir Richard Beauchamp, Lord of St Amand of the same dynasty as the famous Earl of Warwick. Baynton was not of the tenant-in-chief rank but a lesser gentry family with good noble connections.

When Edward came to Henry VIII's court he quickly found favour with the Tudors. On 8 Jan 1522 he was granted an annuity of 50 marks by the King as a retainer for 14 years service. He was knighted on 2 March (although the date is uncertain), on becoming Steward of Cherhill and Broad Town. On 12 Nov he was picked out as the Sheriff. His wife by 1516 was Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Sulyard MP from Wetherden, Suffolk. There followed three sons, Andrew, Edward, who both went to parliament, and four daughetrs.

In July he was granted the fee of a wardship, and there followed several more of these payments in advance of custody of minors.

But the King decided on a diplomatic mission for Baynton with the Marquess of Dorset, and the Devonian Sir Nicholas Carew of Makerfield. They joined the Earl of Surrey's army on the Scots borders. In April 1528 he accompained Lord Sandys to the fortress at Guisnes near Calais, although it is unclear whether he actually traveled. Baynton became a protege of Wolsey's whom the King asked to promote as bailiff and steward of Salisbury 'in consideration of good services', but Wolsey had already appointed the sinecure. After Wolsey's spectacular fall, Baynton made the Cardinal promise to pay his fee in October 1530 or risk losing his Oxford College altogether, that was Christ Church.

ERNEST HAMILTON WHITFIELD

Whitfield was educated at Radley. He was Second Prefect in 1913 and played in several teams and was in several of the same societies as Oswald Reid. They both oined the army and both won the VC.

"For conspicuous gallantry on May 16, 1915, at Richebourg L'Avoue when, with a small party, he entered the German trenches, and after beong wounded, attacked a detachment still working a machine gun, killing seven men, taking three prisoners and capturing the gun."

At Midnight on Saturday, 15th May, they attacked the Germans over the top. Casualties among the British were high, but some men got through to safety. Hundreds were left behind dead or wounded in no man's land. The Platoon officer of 2nd Oxs Bucks Light Infantry, the vicar of Hughenden Manor's son, was hit, but when within two yeards of the safety trench he was taken into it, where he walked the line, while wounded, encouraging the men. The c/o told him to get the wound dressed but he carried regardless of his injuries, determined to see his platoon had done their duty. Finally he went back behind the lines. The platoon was relieved by another in the regiment, and they retired into a supporting role behind the lines for 12 hours. German shelling was "absolutely murderous" and "dozens of our chaps got hit". Hundreds of dead and wounded around about.

They were relieved on 18th May at 1.30 pm. Ernest Whitfield was mentioned twice in despatches. The MC had only been created for officers in December 1914, and Whitfield was one of the first to be conferred.

Whitfield served through the Great War and then as a Lieutenant-Colonel served as battalion c/o of 43rd Oxs ad Bucks at Dunkirk in May 1940 when he was captured by the Germans and taken prisoner.

His two sons, David and Michael were also educated at Radley.

HUGH LEACH

He was a soldier, diplomat, Arabist, author, adventurer, circus impressario, and a great british eccentric. His exploits included included working for Army Intelligence in Oman, accompanied Freya Stark to Yemen, and a spell as a Ringmaster in Egypt. He entertained Wilfred Thesiger in his Peckham cottage. In 1956 Leach a tall, sandy-haired Royal Tank Regiment officer was one of the first of the BEF to land at Port Said. he had retired from the army and then stayed in the region serving the Foreign Office in Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Sudan. It was rumoouted that he was working undecover for MI6. Part of his cover was to work concurrently as a ringmaster in the State Circus. One of his tricks was knife-throwing in the circus at a blind-folded girl. But if it was secret it was loudly proclaimed in the Daily Express. The circus and army were similarly demanding discipline.

Squadron Leader Philip Lawson of no.223 fighter squadron during wartime flew 74 bombing ops into Italy and to help the Communist Partisans in the Balkans.

In July 1944 after completing a tour with the Italian Air Force he was posted to the HQ of the Balkan Air Force. Following an interview with the SAS Colonel Maclean he was atatched to the SOE and on a Mission with the RAF as a liaison officer with the 2nd Montenegro Partisans Division. Desperate fighting ensued in the mountains; wounded he hindered their progress as the situation became more difficult. His column was snet to prepare an airstrip. Lawson was despatched to select an apt field that was surrounded by protective hills at or near Brezna. He recruited the help of many local people to clear boulders and fill in roads. Working by and night for 3 days the strip was completed. Hundreds of wounded men arrived to be transported to safety.

On the morning August 22, as many as 80 wounded were taken out in 6 Dakota Douglas-DC3. Wounded partisans were taken out numbering up to 900 with an escort that included occasional fighters and a Soviet Air Force transport. Suffering from jaundice the last plane took Lawson with the evacuees. Four hours late rthe Germans had arrived to take the airstrip.

Lawson returned in late 1944 to assist the partisans and Tito's communists drive the Nazis out of the Balkans. He co-ordinated re-suppy operations. In Feb 1945 he returned to Italy, which had already been liberated.

Philip Lawson was born on May 11, 1921, in Bradford, West Riding, Yorkshire. he went up to balliol College, Oxford to read Rural Economy, but left to jon the RAF Volunteer Reserve during the war in early 1941. He was sent to Africa, to train in Northern Rhodesia and Kenya as a pilot with the colonial forces.

He joined no.223 squadron in Sicily to fly American-built Baltimore bombers in August 1943; in September the squadron moved to Italy. Operating from southern Italy airfields, Lawson's role was as a support bomber to the advancing armies bombing enemy supply dumps, marshalling yards, and artillery positions. He flew operations against the German's "Gustav Line", as the allies moved northwards. In May 1944 the attacks at Monte Cassino that was holding the advance for months. June 1944, he movd to HQ Balkan Air Force at Montenegro. He returned to England in May 1945.

Being demobilised from the RAF in 1946, he rejected a careeer in farming at the RAC college, and moved into a farm at Suffolk in early 1950s. He developed a pig breeding service that incorporated an understanding of genetics into the business. He was determined to improve agriculture through efficiency, a hallmark of successful farmers in the post-war era. His company Rattlerow Farms evolved into a multi-million pound entreprise.

In retirement he enjoyed golf, travelled widely, sailed, around Europe into the Black Sea and Odessa.

In 2000, he was invited to speak at an event in Brezna commemorating the the wartime, attended by British officers and partisan veterans. His wife Mary died in 2010, and he was survived by two sons and a daughter.

SIR JOHN LISTER LISTER-KAYE 1ST BARONET OF GRANGE (1772 - 28 February 1827)

John Lister Kaye was born at Denby Grange, in Wakefield of the West Riding. He was the sole heir to the two families of Lister and Kaye, ancient Yorkshire pedigrees strecthing back into the middles ages. It was said by family tradition that he was descended from an Arthurian knight of Round Table in the Dark Ages. The original feudal was Sir John Kaye knt who came over with the Conqueror married the daughter of Sir John of Woodsham. They were engaged by the Bastard of Normandy to ravage the North of England, taking Anglo-Saxon lands usurping ancient title for tenants-in-chief. His grandson married the heiress of Crompton, Lancashire thus establishing the two main branches of Kaye in the northern Palatinates. One son of Kaye married into the Tory squires family, Danby knights of Massham. On 4 February 1641 Sir John of Woodsome duly rode out in support of King Charles I and was created a baronet for his services to the Royalist army. His son enthused about the Restoration of Charles II. On Christmas Day 1809 the baronetcy was temporarily extinct on the death without issue of the 5th baronet. The title devolved upon his brother, Very Rev Richard Kaye, Dean of Lincoln Cathedral. Having no chidren of his own he left the entire estate to his illegitimate natural son.

Sir John's acquisition of landed estates devised on him was the cause for entitlement as a baronetcy, when George III revived the title by patent on 28 December 1812. These included the Manors of Burton (or Kirkburton), Woodsham, Shelley and other lands in Yorkshire. The country was at war with France and under very serious threat of invasion. The Yorkshire squirearchy were designated responsibility for being officers of the local militia mobilised to keep law and order and police the coasts of England, as nightwatchmen. Their powers had been created by parliament in the Militia Act 1757, which remained in force for a century. He married Lady Aemelia Grey, daughter of the Earl of Stamford and Warrington on 18 October 1800. His elevation to an important society marriage further strengthened his entitlement. They had the issue of four sons and six daughters. When Sir John sold a portion of the Burton inheritance in 1827 it devolved on the Sykes family of Sledmere. Sir John died on 28 February 1827.


 * Sir John, 2nd baronet (29 Dec 1802-17 Aug 1826)
 * Amelia Mary (18 Nov 1803- ) Captain 10th Dragoons
 * George Lister (14 Nov 1803-20 Feb 1824)
 * Arthur Lister (14 Jan 1805- ) rector of Thornton, Yorks
 * Sophia  (23 Sep-19 Dec 1807)
 * Sophia Charlotte (31 Mar 1809- ) married Rev Henry Spencer Mackham of Clifton Rectory, Notts.
 * Louisa  (28 Sept 1810- )
 * Henrietta  (28 Dec 1811- )
 * Maria  (17 Mar 1813- )
 * Henry Lister  (14 Jun 1814- )
 * Georgina (11 Sep 1815- )

Arms: Quarterly 1st and 4th KAYE argent, two bendlets, sable; 2nd and 3rd LISTER; ermine on a fees, sable; three mullets, or; the whole within a bordure, wavy, azure.

CREST: on the wreath of the colours a Java sparrow, proper charged on the breast, with a rose gules; LISTER on a wreath of the colours a buck's head proper, erased, way, or, attired sable, and in the mouth a bird bolt, bendwise of the 2nd, flighted argent.

MOTTO: Kind, Kin, Known, Keep.

SIR JOHN KAYE, 2ND BARONET OF GRANGE (18 August 1801- ) On 24 October 1824 he married Matilda, daughter of George Arbuthnot, the neice of Charles Arbuthnott. Moving by now in the highest of Tory circles, his wife was connected a close intimate friend of the Duke of Wellington. Charles Arbuthnott was a cabinet minister who later lived with the widowed Iron Duke, when he had retired from politics. Sir John's distinguished military career, he had fought at Waterloo in 1815, had made him amongst London's High Society hostesses, a dinner circuit during which he made the acquaintance of the wealthy heiress.

JOHN HANNAFORD (9 April 1917-11 November 2015).

John Hannaford was a British bomb disposal expert with the British Army during World War Two. Hannaford originally intended to join the RAF (The Times,Friday November 13, 2015, Obituary, [paper only],p.63 - the article claims this info was a family legend). However he joined the Royal Engineers because he was an architect by profession.(the surmise by The Times was originally made by this author in Wikipedia; since then the article was deleted; and the second coming of Hannaford was written in again to the obit column.). Within 7 weeks of a transfer to the RE he was dealing with unexploded materiel, an unknown quantified science at the time. He was based mainly in the South Wales valleys from where he came recommended by his c/o. In his memoirs, Hannaford described a number of near misses, instances in which he was within an inch of his life. On the banks of the River Wye he was knocked unconscious, had a 'near death' experience but recovered. The Blitz deposited an unknown quantity, upwards of 50,000 is a rough guesstimate, of unexploded devices in Britain. Approximately 750 men lost their lives in the bomb squads attempting a task of 50:50 life and death daring, that could so easily go wrong with disastrous consequences. Of the 300 officers half or 150 lost their lives, hannaford was in his own words, "the last man standing". Some unexploded flying bombs were buried 60 ft underground, and then remained there under modern developments. In his memoirs, Hannaford recalled that many devices were altered frequently in wiring by sophisticated German experts.

Jhn Hannaford was born on 9 April 1917 to a publican and cabinet-maker, at Newton Abbot, Devon. His father flew with the RFC during World War One. In childhood he was said to have been nearly killed by Zepelin bombs over London town (although this has never been substantiated.) when being wheeled along the Embankment in a pram. A talented artist he was a competition in his boyhood encouraged by his headmaster. He became an architect with the Office of Works, and was party to the designs offered for King George VI's Coronation in 1937. His office worked on the design of Britain's largest ordnance factory at Chorley, Lancashire.

After the war he worked for the Civil Service, being appointed Senior Architect at the secret nuclear installation at Aldermaston. He assisted in the modern design to Dover Coastguard Station, at a time when the secrets of Dover Castle were still unknown.

In 1948 he married Joyce Brown, they had two daughters, Jill and Jackie. They subsequently married and had families of their own.(my words purloined by The Times, and then my article was deleted). Hananford and wife rretired to the south coast, took up painting, golf, bowls, and sea fishing. He lived to aged 98, and his wife did within a few monhths of one another.(this happened some years ago, before the deletions, as the result of original research that I did into his wife's failing health.) He was supposedly instrumental in the planning of a national memorial to the bomb disposal units whose trade had been largely overlooked in the post-war period. The RE Bomb Disposal Units Officers Club was keen for Hannaford to take part in their 75th Anniversary on 25th October 2015, since he had been with them since their founding.

He reportedly died on 11 November 2015 at West Parade, Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex.(although the symmetry of the date is unproven.)

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Lt.-Col. George Henry Grey

b. 21 March 1835, d. 11 December 1874

Last Edited=29 Jul 2011

Lt.-Col. George Henry Grey was born on 21 March 1835.2 He was the son of Sir George Grey, 2nd Bt. and Anna Sophia Ryder.2 He married Harriet Jane Pearson, daughter of Lt.-Col. unknown Pearson, on 20 November 1860.2 He died on 11 December 1874 at age 39.2 He gained the rank of Captain in the service of the Rife Brigade, where he served at the Crimean War.

2 He gained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the service of the Northumberland Militia.

2 He was Equerry to Prince of Wales 1859-1874.

Children of Lt.-Col. George Henry Grey and Harriet Jane Pearson


 * Alice Emma Grey+1 d. 4 Nov 1936
 * Constance Mary Grey+3 d. 22 Jun 1958
 * Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon2 b. 25 Apr 1862, d. 7 Sep 1933
 * George Grey3 b. 14 Jul 1866, d. 3 Feb 1911
 * Jane Grey3 b. 29 Oct 1868, d. 17 Aug 1949
 * Alexander Harry Grey3 b. 10 Jun 1870, d. 24 Oct 1914
 * Charles Grey3 b. 23 Aug 1873, d. 28 Sep 1928

Citations

[S142] Bernard, Sir Burke, editor, Burke's genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Ireland, 3rd ed. (London, U.K.: Burkes Peerage Ltd, 1912), page 275. Hereinafter cited as Landed Gentry of Ireland. [S37] BP2003 volume 2, page 1671. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S37] [S37] BP2003. [S37]

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Pozner (Влади́мир Алекса́ндрович По́знер), (1908—1975) was a Russian Jewish émigré to the United States. During World War II he spied for Soviet intelligence while being employed by the United States Government.

The Pozner family fled Soviet Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution, and Vladimir Pozner became a Communist sympathizer while living in Europe. In 1943 he headed the Russian Section of the film department of the U.S. War Department. Pozner was a frequent contact of Louise Bransten.

Vladimir Pozner’s cover name as identified in the Venona project by NSA/FBI analysts is «Platon» («Plato»).

Vladimir Pozner and his family moved to East Berlin and later to Moscow in the early 1950s.

Pozner’s son, Vladimir Vladimirovich Pozner, spoke internationally on behalf of Soviet agencies, and, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, came to be treated in the U.S., under the name Vladimir Posner (having Anglicized the surname), as an independent journalist.

Venona
Pozner is referenced in the following Venona project decrypts:
 * 1131-1133 KGB New York to Moscow, 13 July 1943
 * 1930 KGB New York to Moscow, 21 November 1943

Good Character
Dr Alice Prochaska, the current Somerville College Principal, and one of her successors paid a glowing tribute

"This is a very sad time for the whole College. Catherine Hughes was an insightful, effective and much respected Principal. She was kind and considerate to all her colleagues, and much concerned with the intellectual development and well-being of the students. She and her husband, Trevor Hughes’s wonderful generosity to Somerville on behalf of students and Fellows has made a significant difference.  At this time, we remember above all a much-loved and very distinguished Principal, who held Somerville close to her heart."