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  • Sir Richard Harington, 12th Baronet (category Baronets in the Baronetage of England)
    as a barrister on the Oxford Circuit before taking up an appointment as a puisne judge in the High Court of Judicature at Fort William in 1899, where he...
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    Steve Bruce (category English people of Northern Ireland descent)
    the following month. On 27 January, his delay in taking up this appointment was criticised by Match of the Day pundits Danny Murphy and Ruud Gullit during...
    116 KB (10,103 words) - 19:03, 4 September 2024
  • Frederick Vreeland (category Ambassadors of the United States to Morocco)
    to Morocco, taking up the appointment in 1991. While in Rome, Vreeland had the peculiar experience of being asked to be part of a team of acting & public-speaking...
    6 KB (471 words) - 04:07, 14 August 2024
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    Lindsay Croisdale-Appleby (category Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George)
    served as Ambassador to Colombia from November 2012 to 2015 before taking up an appointment as Europe Director in the Foreign Office. He was promoted to Director-General...
    6 KB (362 words) - 13:09, 1 August 2024
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    Paul Deighton, Baron Deighton (category Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire)
    Culture Secretary with the 2012 Olympics legacy. The delay in his taking up the appointment was necessary to allow him to complete his duties at LOCOG. To...
    14 KB (985 words) - 23:47, 1 June 2024
  • George Winterton (category Academic staff of the University of New South Wales)
    years at the University of New South Wales before taking up an appointment of Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Sydney in 2004. Winterton...
    13 KB (1,494 words) - 11:25, 16 June 2024
  • Paul Hull (category Rugby union players from the London Borough of Lambeth)
    Director of Rugby at Prior Park College, Bath, but will be taking up an appointment as the RFU's Head of Professional Game Match Officials at the end of this...
    2 KB (124 words) - 13:08, 16 August 2024
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    Andrew Becroft (category Year of birth missing (living people))
    announced that Becroft would be appointed a Justice of the High Court of NZ, taking up the appointment in 2 May 2023. Becroft was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia...
    31 KB (2,675 words) - 22:24, 9 April 2024
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    Lynne Owens (category Assistant Commissioners of Police of the Metropolis)
    Warwickshire Police, Keith Bristow QPM, in January 2016. Upon taking up the appointment, she became the then most senior woman in British law enforcement...
    17 KB (1,195 words) - 08:35, 13 August 2024
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    Wacław Sierpiński (category Members of the Polish Academy of Learning)
    returned to Lwów. However shortly after taking up his appointment again in Lwów he was offered a post at the University of Warsaw, which he accepted. In 1919...
    15 KB (1,460 words) - 20:26, 16 August 2024
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    Wilson Shannon (category Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio)
    the House of Representatives in 1852. He served a single term before taking up an appointment from President Franklin Pierce as Governor of the Kansas...
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  • The appointment of bishops in the Catholic Church is a complicated process. Outgoing bishops, neighbouring bishops, the faithful, the apostolic nuncio...
    23 KB (3,146 words) - 18:10, 18 August 2024
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    Jan Christian Kaack (category Vice admirals of the German Navy)
    commander of the frigate Bayern. Kaack served as commander of the Bayern until June 2004, before taking up an appointment as Deputy Head of the Armed...
    6 KB (633 words) - 12:52, 2 September 2023
  • Peter Pearson (British Army officer) (category Companions of the Order of the Bath)
    1986—becoming Chief of Staff to the 20th Armoured Brigade on leaving Staff College—and to lieutenant colonel on 30 June 1991, taking up the appointment of Military...
    8 KB (726 words) - 10:54, 13 June 2024
  • Neil Tennant (philosopher) (category Fellows of the Australian Academy of the Humanities)
    of Philosophy at the Ohio State University; and, before taking up his appointment at the Ohio State University he held positions at the University of...
    4 KB (301 words) - 14:45, 9 September 2024
  • Ringo Starr. Their break-up is attributed to numerous factors, including: the strain of the Beatlemania phenomenon, the 1967 death of manager Brian Epstein...
    67 KB (8,975 words) - 23:15, 7 July 2024
  • Heinrich von Eckardt (category History of the foreign relations of Germany)
    for the German Empire in Mexico, taking up the appointment in 1914 and holding it until 1918. After the departure of the German supported President Victoriano...
    5 KB (515 words) - 13:58, 22 June 2023
  • Allan Maruff (category Australian people of Anglo-Indian descent)
    was a shortage of medical professionals. He later moved to Queensland, initially working in Richmond and in 1952 taking up an appointment as medical superintendent...
    6 KB (588 words) - 05:48, 4 July 2024
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    briefly to Oxford as a visiting fellow at Merton College, before taking up his appointment as canon theologian at Westminster Abbey in 2000. From 1995 to...
    49 KB (5,025 words) - 15:38, 12 September 2024
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    Robert Lochner (engineer) (category Members of the Order of the British Empire)
    Parkinson Ltd in design, production and sales positions, before taking up an appointment as sales manager for Laurence, Scott & Electromotors Ltd, moving...
    7 KB (890 words) - 18:39, 1 March 2024
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