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    Sir George Lindsay Holford KCVO CIE CBE (2 June 1860 – 11 September 1926) was a British Army officer and courtier. The son of Robert Stayner Holford, he...
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    It belonged to the Holford family from 1665 until 1926. The first house on the site was an Elizabethan manor house. The Holfords replaced it first with...
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  • George Peter Holford (1767–1839) was an English barrister, politician and author. With a short break 1806–7, he was a Tory Member of Parliament from 1803...
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    Mary Wilson of Tranby Croft, Yorkshire. Her second husband was Sir George Holford who owned Dorchester House in London, Westonbirt House in Gloucestershire...
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  • Indian cricketer George Holford (1860–1926), British soldier and courtier Karen Holford, Welsh engineer and academic Ingrid Holford (1920–2012), English...
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  • George Holford White CBE, CB (16 October 1904 – 18 January 1965) was an English first-class cricketer and Royal Air Force (RAF) officer. White was born...
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  • Patrick Holford is a British author and entrepreneur who endorses a range of vitamin tablets. As an advocate of alternative nutrition and diet methods...
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    Mary Anne "Maysie" Lindsay Holford (1829 – 13 February 1901) was a British novelist and playwright. Mary Anne Holford was born in 1829, the daughter of...
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    version used as a private residence was that built in 1853 by Robert Stayner Holford. It was demolished in 1929 to make way for the present Dorchester Hotel...
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    farmed by the Ducie family. Rivalling at the time the collection of George Holford at nearby Westonbirt Arboretum, it still contains, despite the ravages...
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