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Cumberland, Duke of

Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland (15 April 1721 – 31 October 1765), was the third and youngest son of George II of Great Britain and Ireland and his wife, Caroline of Ansbach. He was Duke of Cumberland from 1726.

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Dufferin, Marquess

Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, Marquess of Dufferin and Ava was born on 21 June 1826 an Anglo-Irish aristocratic family from Ulster of Scottish extraction who lightly settled in Ireland, as a part of the Protestant ascendancy.

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Forbes of Culloden

Duncan Forbes, 5th of Culloden (10 November 1685 – 10 December 1747) was a Scottish lawyer and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1721 to 1737. As Lord President and senior Scottish legal officer, he played a major role in helping the government suppress the 1745 Jacobite Rising.

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Halifax, Earls of

The Earldom of Halifax is one that has been created four times in British history—once in the Peerage of England, twice in the Peerage of Great Britain, and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The name of the peerage refers to the town of Halifax in West Yorkshire. The first and fourth creations were elevations for the holders of the first and second creations of the title Viscount Halifax.

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Pio, Saint Padre

Saint Pio of Pietrelcina, widely known as Padre Pio, was an Italian Capuchin friar, priest, stigmatist, and mystic.

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Stockton, Earls of

The Earldom of Stockton is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 24 February 1984 for Harold Macmillan, the former Conservative prime minister (from 1957 to 1963), less than three years before his death in 1986.

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