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Arthur William Patrick Albert, duke of Connaught and Strathearn
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Duke of Connaught, engraving, 1876
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Born May 1, 1850 • Buckingham Palace • England
Died January 16, 1942 (aged 91) • Surrey • England
Title / Office governor-general (1911-1916), Canada

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Duke of Connaught, engraving, 1876
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Sir James Craig
governor general of Canada
Sir Frederick Haldimand
British general
Frederick Arthur, Lord Stanley of Preston
Canadian governor-general
Durham, detail of an oil painting by T. Phillips (1819 replica); in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John George Lambton, 1st earl of Durham
British statesman
Charles T. Metcalfe
Charles T. Metcalfe
British colonial official
Elgin, James Bruce, 8th earl of,
James Bruce, 8th earl of Elgin
British statesman
Sydenham, Charles Poulett Thomson, Baron
Charles Poulett Thomson, Baron Sydenham
British colonial governor
Archibald Acheson, 2nd earl of Gosford
governor of British North America
1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, detail of a portrait by George Frederic Watts; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st marquess of Dufferin and Ava
British diplomat
Henry George Grey, 3rd Earl Grey
British statesman
Sir Samuel Cunard, lithograph.
Sir Samuel Cunard, 1st Baronet
British merchant
Bentinck, Lord William
Lord William Bentinck
British government official
Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess and 2nd Earl Cornwallis
Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess and 2nd Earl Cornwallis
British general and statesman
Napier, Sir Charles James
Sir Charles James Napier
British general and colonial governor
Frederick Edgeworth Morgan, the British officer who drew up the original plan for Operation Overlord, the invasion of Normandy.
Frederick Edgeworth Morgan
British officer
J.F.C. Fuller
J.F.C. Fuller
British army officer
Sir Basil Liddell Hart
British military historian
Lord Allenby, portrait by Eric Henri Kennington; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby
British field marshal
Sir Henry Clinton
Sir Henry Clinton
British military officer
John Hunt, 1953.
John Hunt, Baron Hunt
British army officer