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    William Horace de Vere Cole (5 May 1881 – 25 February 1936) was an eccentric prankster born in Ballincollig, County Cork, Ireland. His most famous prank...
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  • 1931 she married Horace de Vere Cole, a well-known Edwardian practical joker, then in 1932 became the mistress of Augustus John. Cole was brought up in...
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    The Dreadnought hoax was a practical joke pulled by Horace de Vere Cole in 1910. Cole tricked the Royal Navy into showing their flagship, the battleship...
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  • Ireland Horace de Vere Cole (1881–1936), prankster and eccentric Henry de Vere Stacpoole (1863–1951), Irish author "Lady Clara Vere de Vere", an English...
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    Craughwell, County Galway, in 1888. Her brother was the noted prankster Horace de Vere Cole (1881–1936), who inherited the family seat some time after 1889;...
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  • (née Mabel Winifred Mary Wright, 1908–1970), the former wife of Horace de Vere Cole and of Sir Mortimer Wheeler, and a former mistress of Augustus John...
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    The house passed into the hands of the Cole family and was inherited by the notorious prankster Horace de Vere Cole on the death of his grandmother in 1906...
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  • appears to be a mistaken reference to the Bunya-Bunya pine. In 1910 Horace de Vere Cole, Virginia Woolf, her brother Adrian Stephen and a small group of...
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    suspects have included Dawson, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Arthur Keith, Martin A. C. Hinton, Horace de Vere Cole and Arthur Conan Doyle. The focus on Charles...
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  • criminal Horace de Vere Cole (1881–1936), British prankster Horace de Viel-Castel (1802–1864), French art-lover, collector, and museum director Horace Dimick...
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