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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: 44. Chapters: Nigel Tranter, Hubert Chesshyre, William Henry Page, Ralph Henry Carless Davis, William Stubbs, Martyn Jope, Angus Macnab, Roy Martin Haines, A. E. Levett, Peter Ditchfield, Stephen Turnbull, Thomas Madox, Edward Arthur Thompson, Thomas Frederick Tout, Leslie J. Workman, Christopher N. L. Brooke, Frederic Seebohm, E. F. Jacob, Graeme Davis, Christopher Wickham, Ronald Alan Waldron, Derek Brewer, Mary Lobel, Doris Mary Stenton, Donald Nicholl, Michael Prestwich, Nicholas Orme, Malcolm Andrew, James Conway Davies, Ewart Oakeshott, Geoffrey Barraclough, George Holmes, Leslie Casson, Catherine Hanley, Helen Cam, David Nicolle, G. W. S. Barrow, R. W. Southern, Richard Barber, Rees Davies, Roger Collins, Robert Bartlett, Juliet Barker, Christopher Gravett, Frank Barlow, Mildred Pope, Gwyn Jones, K. B. McFarlane, Richard Oram, Marjorie Chibnall, W. L. Warren, John Sadler, Jim Bradbury, Maurice Keen, Peter Coss, A. J. Pollard, Miri Rubin, David Rollason, Henrietta Leyser, Alex Woolf, Elizabeth Redgate, J. R. S. Phillips, Susan Reynolds, Christopher Allmand, Antonia Gransden, David C. Douglas, Dauvit Broun, Judith Green, Jeremy Goldberg, Noel Denholm-Young, Thomas Asbridge, John Hudson, Michael Clanchy, Ann Williams, AJ Taylor. Excerpt: David Hubert Boothby Chesshyre, CVO (born 22 June 1940) served for more than forty years as an officer of arms to Queen Elizabeth II. Chesshyre's father was Colonel Hubert Layard Chesshyre, MA (Cantab), late RE, born Hubert Layard Isacke, son of Major General Hubert Isacke, CB, CSI, CMG, late Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment. Chesshyre's great-grandfather Sir Charles Peter Layard was Attorney General of Ceylon 1892-1902 and Chief Justice of Ceylon 1902-1906. Chesshyre is also the 3rd-great-grandson of the 7th Earl of Dundee and the 5th-great-grandson of the 6th Earl of Lauderdale. Appropr...