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James Hutchings "Si" Taylor, OC (born March 25, 1930) is a Canadian former diplomat who served as the Chancellor of McMaster University from 1992 to 1998. Taylor was born and raised in Hamilton [1] and was a Rhodes Scholar, graduating from McMaster in 1951. He worked for the Canadian Department of External Affairs for 40 years and served posts ...
The local pronunciation of the name is "la-FAY-et." The county's name honors Marquis de Lafayette, a French military hero and American general who fought during the American Revolutionary War. [3] The Oxford, MS Micropolitan Statistical Area includes all of Lafayette County. The county is policed by the Lafayette County Sheriff's Department.
Oxford is in central Lafayette County in northern Mississippi, about 75 miles (121 km) south-southeast of Memphis, Tennessee. According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 26.7 square miles (69.2 km 2 ), of which 26.6 square miles (68.9 km 2 ) are land and 0.1 square miles (0.2 km 2 ), or 0.35%, is water. [ 12 ]
Ernest Taylor (Royal Navy officer) (1876–1971), British Royal Navy vice admiral Henry Clay Taylor (1845–1904), U.S. Navy rear admiral James E. Taylor (born 1935), U.S. Navy rear admiral
James Edward Taylor (born August 30, 1935) [1] [2] was a rear admiral in the United States Navy. He was Chief of the United States Naval Reserve from August 1989 until September 1992. [3] He was succeeded by Thomas F. Hall. [4] Born and raised in Alabama, [2] Taylor entered the United States Navy through the Naval Aviation Cadet Program. He ...
James Henry Doyle, Jr (27 March 1925 – 23 February 2018 [1]) was a vice admiral of the United States Navy, and the son of Vice Admiral James H. Doyle, USN. Early years [ edit ]
Admiral James Oren Ellis Jr. [2] (born July 20, 1947) is a retired 4-star admiral and former Commander, United States Strategic Command, Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska.He was President and Chief Executive Officer, Institute of Nuclear Power Operations until May 2012.
Force H was a British naval formation during the Second World War. It was formed in late-June 1940, to replace French naval power in the western Mediterranean removed by the French armistice with Nazi Germany .