Balmoral Letterhead
Letterhead from Balmoral castle from circa 1952.
Beaverbrook
William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook PC, ONB generally known as Lord Beaverbrook and (“Max” to his close circle), was born on 25 May 1879 in Maple, Ontario, Canada.
Bertie, D. M.
Dr. David Martin Bertie was brought up in eastern Perthshire, educated at Harris Academy, Dundee, and studied geology at Glasgow University, graduating in 1974. He gained his doctorate at Reading University in 1979 for studies into the Neoglaciation of the Arctic Circle area of Scandinavia.
Boudreau
Dr. Claire Boudreau, Chief Herald of Canada, since 2007 has retired. This was announced yesterday 20 May 2020. The Governor General of Canada has appointed her Margaree-Chéticamp Herald Emeritus.
Brooke
Sir Francis is of interest because on Monday, 11 October 2021 he presented
Queen Elizabeth II a special memento on the occasion of her induction into the British Champions Series Hall of Fame for British Flat Racing.
Brooke 2
The Queen became the first person to become a member of the Hall of Fame within the Special Contributor category, in recognition of her outstanding contribution to British Flat racing for something like 80 years.
Cates, Bruce A.
Bruce Alan Cates
Arms: Per Pale Or and Gules, a cat-a-mountain sejant guardant Sable holding in its dexter paw a sprig of tobacco flowers proper, a bordure embattled Argent.
Chesterfield, 4th Earl
Sir Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, KG, was born on 22 September 1694 in London, educated in Cambridge and did the “Grand Tour of the continent. With the accession of George I, he went into politics first in the Commons and in 1726, Lords.
Chevreuse
Marie de Rohan-Montbazon, duchesse de Chevreuse, 1600-1679 was an important
and tireless activist, intriguer, conspirator and troublemaker at the French court in the first half of the 17th century.
Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG ( 1874-1965) was a British politician, army officer, and author, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.