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The losses by the soldiers from Bedford were chronicled in the best-selling book The Bedford Boys by Alex Kershaw, and helped inspire the movie Saving Private Ryan. [6] The movie's director, Steven Spielberg, helped fund the memorial, including funding for the creation of the Arnold M. Spielberg Theater, in honor of his father, a World War II ...
Bedford is an English toponymic surname which indicates someone from Bedfordshire County, and the name derived from the name of a Saxon monk 'Bede' combined with the old English ford 'a river crossing'. Notable people with the surname include:
At Bedford School Morris established a Visiting Fellows scheme, made up of advisers to the Music Department and to the Bedford boys, who included Sir Stephen Cleobury, CBE (then Director of Music at King's College, Cambridge), Andrew Manze (then Chief Conductor of the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra and Associate Guest Conductor of the BBC ...
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Gunning Bedford Jr. (1747 – March 30, 1812) was an American Founding Father, delegate to the Congress of the Confederation (Continental Congress), Attorney General of Delaware, a delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1787 which drafted the United States Constitution, a signer of the United States Constitution, and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for ...
Thomas Bedford may refer to: Thomas Bedford (theologian) ( fl. 1650), English controversialist Thomas Bedford (historian) (died 1773), nonjuror and church historian
Created for Payne de Beauchamp, by William Rufus; William de Beauchamp - forfeit for rebelling in the First Barons' War; Faukes de Brent - sent by King John of England to enforce William's forfeit, forfeit himself for rebellion under Henry III of England
William Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford KG PC (August 1616 – 7 September 1700) was an English nobleman and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 until 1641 when he inherited his Peerage as 5th Earl of Bedford and removed to the House of Lords.