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15 hours ago · Lionel de Rothschild was the first Jewish general election victor at the 1847 general election. He was not permitted to take his seat until the passage of the Jews Relief Act 1858. The first Catholic Apostolic general election victor was Henry Drummond also at the 1847 election.
15 hours ago · Brigadier Sir Edward Henry Lionel Beddington (1884—1966), Home Guard, War Office, (1940—1945) Brigadier Davis Evan Bedford (1898–1978), Royal Army Medical Corps; Lieutenant-General Sir Herbert Belfield (1857—1934), GOC 4th Infantry Division; Major-General Christopher James Bell (1972—), GOC Army Recruiting and Initial Training
15 hours ago · Sir Eldon Griffiths; MP for Bury St Edmunds (1964–1992) Kate Griffiths; MP for Burton (2019–present) Peter Griffiths; MP for Smethwick (1964–1966) and Portsmouth North (1979–1997) Edward Grigg, 1st Baron Altrincham. Sir James Grigg; MP for Cardiff East (1942–1945) James Grimston, 2nd Earl of Verulam.
15 hours ago · Mel Tomlinson, 65, American dancer and choreographer. Václav Vorlíček, 88, Czech film director (Who Wants to Kill Jessie?, The End of Agent W4C, The Girl on the Broomstick). Guy Webster, 79, American celebrity photographer (The Doors, The Beach Boys, The Rolling Stones), complications from diabetes and liver cancer.
15 hours ago · The first page of Beowulf. Old English literature, or Anglo-Saxon literature, encompasses the surviving literature written in Old English in Anglo-Saxon England, in the period after the settlement of the Saxons and other Germanic tribes in England (Jutes and the Angles) c. 450, after the withdrawal of the Romans, and "ending soon after the Norman Conquest" in 1066.
15 hours ago · British literature is from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islands. This article covers British literature in the English language. Anglo-Saxon ( Old English) literature is included, and there is some discussion of Latin and Anglo-Norman literature, where literature in these languages ...
