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    Charles Henry Lyell (18 May 1875 – 18 October 1918) was a British politician and Liberal Member of Parliament who died in the First World War. Lyell was...
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  • Liberal politician Sir Leonard Lyell, 1st Baronet. He had already been created a baronet, of Kinnordy in the County of Forfar, in 1894. As his son Charles, a...
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  • collector, and bibliographer Charles Henry Lyell (1875–1918), Liberal MP; son of Leonard Lyell Charles Anthony Lyell, 2nd Baron Lyell (1913–1943), Victoria Cross...
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    Liberal politician Leonard Lyell. He was the nephew of the first Baronet of the 1864 creation. Lyell was later elevated to the peerage as Baron Lyell...
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    Leonard Lyell, 1st Baron Lyell, Bt DL (21 October 1850 – 18 September 1926), was a Scottish Liberal politician. The eldest son of Colonel Henry Lyell and...
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    observations and theories he developed during his voyage supported Charles Lyell's concept of gradual geological change. Publication of his journal of...
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  • of Scarbrough, peer and soldier Charles Lyell, Liberal politician John Charles Lyons, Anglo-Irish landowner, politician, antiquary, and horticulturalist...
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  • of Staff - Indian Army Peter Lawrence (1913–2005), teacher Charles Lyell, 2nd Baron Lyell (1913–1943), Second World War recipient of the Victoria Cross...
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    George Julius Poulett Scrope (category Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies)
    in the region. In 1825, Scrope became a secretary, jointly with Sir Charles Lyell, of the Geological Society of London. His later results from Auvergne...
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    in the Theory of Evolution of Darwin and the ideas of British geologist Lyell. The German astronomer Wilhelm Julius Foerster reported that she visited...
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