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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 108. Chapters: Agustin Jeronimo de Iturbide y Huarte, Alexander Fermor-Hesketh, 3rd Baron Hesketh, Ambrose Griffiths, Ampleforth College, Andrew Bertie, Andrew Knight, Andrew Parker Bowles, Angus Loughran, Antony Gormley, Auberon Herbert (landowner), Aubrey Buxton, Baron Buxton of Alsa, Augustine Kelly, Basil Hume, Benet Perceval, Bill Inman, Charles Grieve, Charles Stourton, 26th Baron Mowbray, Christopher Tugendhat, Baron Tugendhat, Columba Cary-Elwes, David Hennessy, 3rd Baron Windlesham, David Poole (judge), David Stirling, Desmond Mangham, Desmond Seward, Dominic Asquith, Duncan Davidson, Edmund King (cricketer, born 1906), Edward Fitzalan-Howard, 18th Duke of Norfolk, Edward Stourton (journalist), Edward Tomkins, Fabian Cowper, Felix Stephens, Fergus Nicoll, Freddie de Guingand, Fred Halliday, Gabriel Turville-Petre, George Andre Robertson, George Shea, Giles Swayne, Guy Easterby, Hugh Fraser (politician), Hugh James Arbuthnott, Hugh Millais, Hugo Young, James McEvoy, James O'Brien (radio presenter), Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Jeremy Phipps, John Bunting (sculptor), John Crichton-Stuart, 6th Marquess of Bute, John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute, John Cuthbert Hedley, John de Trafford, John Henry Whyte, John Home Robertson, John Johnston (courtier), John Keay, John Micklethwait, John Ryan (cartoonist), John Whittaker (businessman), John William Polidori, Julian Asquith, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Asquith, Julian Fellowes, Julian Wadham, Kenneth Bradshaw, Lawrence Dallaglio, Leo Chamberlain, Letsie III of Lesotho, Lord Michael Fitzalan-Howard, Lord Rhidian Crichton-Stuart, Lu Edmonds, Mark Bence-Jones, Mark Burns (actor), Matthew Festing, Michael Abney-Hastings, 14th Earl of Loudoun, Michael Allmand, Michael Ancram, Michael Nolan, Baron Nolan, Michael Pakenham, Michael Tugendhat, Miles Fitzalan-Howard, 17th Duke of Norfolk, Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho, Murder of Philip Lawrence, Neil Balfour, Nicholas Mostyn, Nicholas Rodger, Nick Wright (Royal Navy officer), Oliver Miles, Paul Arkwright, Paul Morrissey, Peter Bridgeman, Peter Grant Peterkin, Peter Kerr, 12th Marquess of Lothian, Piers Paul Read, Raymond Asquith, 3rd Earl of Oxford and Asquith, Redmond Morris, 4th Baron Killanin, Reginald C. Fuller, Richard Norton, 8th Baron Grantley, Robert Maximilian de Gaynesford, Robert Nairac, Robert Noel, Roderic O'Conor, Ronald Cuthbert Hay, Rupert Everett, Saul David, Sebastian Roberts, Simon Easterby, Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat, Simon James (musician), Simon Marsden, Thomas Cecil Gray, Tom Waller, Vincent Cronin, William Dalrymple (historian), William Peel, 3rd Earl Peel. Excerpt: Captain Robert Laurence Nairac GC (31 August 1948 15 May 1977) was a British Army officer who was abducted from a pub in Drumintee, south County Armagh, during an undercover operation and killed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on his fourth tour of duty in Northern Ireland as a Military Intelligence Liaison Officer. He was posthumously awarded the George Cross in 1979. A number of claims have been made about both Nairac's involvement in the killing of an IRA member and his collusion with loyalist paramilitaries, however these remain unproven. Whilst several men have been imprisoned for his death, the whereabouts of his body remains unknown. Nairac was born in Mauritius to English parents. His family long settled in Gloucestershire had ancestors from the south of Ireland. His family name originates from the Gironde area of France. His father was an eye surgeon who worked first in the north of England and then in Gloucester. He was the youngest of four children, with two sisters and a brother. Nairac, aged 10, attended prep school at Gilling Castle, a feeder school for the Roman Catholic public school Ampleforth College which he attended a year later. He gained nine O levels...
