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Robert Bamford attended Sherborne School as a day boy from May 1897 to April 1900. [7] During the First World War he served for one year as private in The London Regiment, 25th (County of London) Cyclist Battalion, and then as a lieutenant with the Army Service Corps (RASC), Mechanical Transport. [8] [9] Bamford, historically, is a Lancashire ...
Growing up, Winifred Bamford Hesketh lived at her family's residences in London, Torquay and Gwrych Castle. Winifred was ~6 feet tall (182 cm). In 1878, at the age of 19, she married Lieutenant General Douglas Mackinnon Baillie Hamilton Cochrane, 12th Earl of Dundonald. The arranged marriage [8] is thought to have been an unhappy one. The Earl ...
Joseph Bamford was born into a recusant Catholic family in Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, which owned Bamfords Ltd, an agricultural engineering business. [2]His great-grandfather Henry Bamford [3] was born in Yoxall and had built up his own ironmongers business, which by 1881 employed 50 men, 10 boys and 3 women.
Joyce Bamford-Addo (born 1937), Ghanaian lawyer and politician; Maria Bamford (born 1970), American comedian and actress; Mark Bamford (film director), American writer and director; Patrick Bamford (born 1993), English footballer; Robert Bamford (1883–1942), founder of Aston Martin; Samuel Bamford (1788–1872), English radical reformer and ...
Alan L. Hart (also known as Robert Allen Bamford Jr., October 4, 1890 – July 1, 1962) was an American physician, radiologist, tuberculosis researcher, writer, and novelist. Hart pioneered the use of X-ray photography in tuberculosis detection; he worked in sanitariums and X-ray clinics in New Mexico, Illinois, Washington, and Idaho.
Hon. Douglas Robert Hesketh Roger Cochrane (1893–1942), who married Enid Marion Davis, a daughter of Miles Leonard Davies, in 1918. [34] Douglas owned several treasures from the Napoleonic wars, heirlooms from his grandfather, Thomas Cochrane, the 10th Earl, one of these items was a lock of Napoleon's hair. [35] His wife died in January 1924.
At university his tandem partner in 1901 was Henry Curtis-Bennett, where they tried to set records in September 1901. [3] He rode with the BRC in 1902. On Wednesday 27 August he left Land's End at 7.06am and rode to London, getting to Hyde Park Corner at 5.22am, completing the immense journey in 22 hours and 16 minutes, much faster than the previous record of 25 hours and 25 minutes.
Anthony Paul Bamford, Baron Bamford (born 23 October 1945), is a British billionaire businessman who is the chairman of J.C. Bamford Excavators Limited (JCB). He succeeded his father, Joseph Cyril Bamford , as chairman and managing director of the company in 1975, at the age of 30.