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    James Britten (3 May 1846 – 8 October 1924) was an English botanist. Born in Chelsea, London, he moved to High Wycombe in 1865 to begin a medical career...
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    Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten OM CH (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He was a central figure...
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    The Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander is a British light utility aircraft and regional airliner designed and originally manufactured by Britten-Norman of the...
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  • spiritualist Frederick A. Britten (1871–1946), U.S. Representative from Illinois Harry Britten (1870–1954), English entomologist James Britten (1846–1924), English...
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    composed by Benjamin Britten, with a libretto by Myfanwy Piper, based on the 1898 novella The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. It concerns a young,...
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    Terence Ernest Britten (born 17 July 1947) is an English-Australian singer-songwriter and record producer, who has written songs for Tina Turner, Cliff...
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  • Press. pp. 146–147. Aubrey, John (1686–1687) [edited and annotated by James Britten in 1881]. The Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme. London: W. Satchell...
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    Some of the plates were eventually printed. Between 1900 and 1905, James Britten and the British Museum issued prints of 315 of the plant engravings...
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    of clover. A more scientific approach was taken by English botanists James Britten and Robert Holland, who stated in their Dictionary of English Plant...
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    1884, under the presidency of Cardinal Vaughan, with W. H. Cologan and James Britten, a layman and the principal spirit behind its refounding, serving as...
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