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Sir Ernest
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Sir Ernest Wills, 3rd Baronet — Sir Ernest Salter Wills, 3rd Baronet CStJ JP (30 November 1869 14 January 1958) was Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire from 1930 to 1942.LifeThe son of Sir Edward Payson Wills, 1st Baronet, KCB and of Lady Wills (she was Mary Ann, elder daughter of J.… … Wikipedia
Sir Ernest Hatch, 1st Baronet — Sir Ernest Frederic George Hatch (April 12, 1859 August 17, 1927) was a British politician.He was the son of John William Hatch of London and Matilda Augusta Snell of Callington, Cornwall. Following a private education, he went into business as a … Wikipedia
Sir Ernest Glover, 1st Baronet — Sir Ernest William Glover, 1st Baronet (27 August 1864 ndash;21 January 1934) was an English shipowner and public servant.The son of Septimus Jonathan and Elizabeth Ann Glover, Glover was educated in Germany and at University College School,… … Wikipedia
Sir Ernest Shepperson, 1st Baronet — Sir Ernest Whittome Shepperson, 1st Baronet (4 October 1874 ndash; 22 August 1949) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was Member of Parliament for Leominster from 1922 to 1945.He was made a Baronet on 20 June 1945, of… … Wikipedia
Sir Ernest Tritton, 1st Baronet — Sir (Charles) Ernest Tritton, 1st Baronet cr 1905; senior partner in firm of Brightwen and Co., bill brokers and banking agents, London; Director of the UK Temperance and General Provident Institution, 1897;born 4 September 1845; Died 28 Dec.… … Wikipedia
CHAIN, SIR ERNEST BORIS — (1906–1979), British biochemist and Nobel laureate for his role in the discovery of penicillin. He was born in Berlin and obtained doctorates at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin in 1930 and at Cambridge University in 1935. He worked at… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
CASSEL, SIR ERNEST JOSEPH — (1852–1921), British financier. Cassel, a banker s son, was born in Cologne. As a boy, he began to work at the Eltzbacher bank. At 16, he went to England where he became a clerk for a Liverpool grain dealer. He subsequently joined the London… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
OPPENHEIMER, SIR ERNEST — (1880–1957), South African financier. Born in Friedberg, Germany, he went to London at the age of 16 to work for a firm of diamond merchants, which in 1902 sent him to represent them in Kimberley. He was very successful in the diamond business… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
DAVIS, SIR ERNEST HYAM — (1872–1962), New Zealand businessman and philanthropist. Davis was born in Nelson, the son of Moss Davis, an immigrant merchant, and developed his father s business, Hancock and Co., which controlled many of New Zealand s largest hotels. He was… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Shackleton,Sir Ernest Henry — Shack·le·ton (shăkʹəl tən), Sir Ernest Henry. 1874 1922. British explorer who led a number of expeditions to the Antarctic and wrote Heart of the Antarctic (1909). * * * … Universalium
