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Baron Hothfield

On the Earl's death in 1849 he inherited the estates, which included Skipton Castle in Yorkshire and Hothfield Place, Maidstone, Kent, and became a British citizen the same year.

El Circulo Mercantil de Ferrol

Its first president was William V. Martin (a.k.a.: Guillermo V. Martin, by the Spaniards), British Citizen and British Vice-Consul in Ferrol.

Jona von Ustinov

As a result he lost his job and chose to become a British citizen, thus avoiding internment or deportation later during the war.

Preston City Council election, 2014

All locally registered electors (British, Irish, Commonwealth and European Union citizens) who were aged 18 or over on Thursday 22 May 2014 were entitled to vote in the local elections.

Vlatko Vedral

Vlatko Vedral is a Serbian born (and naturalised British Citizen) physicist and Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford and CQT (Centre for Quantum Technologies) at the National University of Singapore and a Fellow of Wolfson College.


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Amelia King

Amelia King was a British citizen who was refused entry into the Women's Land Army because of her heritage.

Chai Wan Road

British citizen Ivan Aranto Herrera Jorge and Swede Carl Magnus Lindgren, members of celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal's culinary team, were among the dead.

Cristian Nemescu

Nemescu and Toncu were riding in a taxi that was struck on Eroilor Bridge by a Porsche Cayenne SUV driven by a British citizen (Ali Imran) who ran a red light.

De Robeck

His son Johan Henrik, after fighting in the American War of Independence, moved to England and became a naturalised British citizen in 1789.

Dobbins Air Reserve Base

Legend has it that the only reason the building wasn't burned to the ground during Union General William Tecumseh Sherman's "March to the Sea" in 1864 was because the building's owner, a British citizen, had flown the British flag during the occupation of Marietta, part of the Atlanta Campaign.

Fabián Nsue

Nsue represented Simon Mann, a British citizen who was jailed in 2008 for plotting to overthrow the president.

Hidcote Manor Garden

The Americans, Lawrence Johnston and his mother, settled in Britain about 1900, and Lawrence immediately became a British citizen and fought in the British army during the Boer war.

Leon Bosch

Born in Cape Town, though now a British citizen, Bosch graduated from the University of Cape Town before continuing his studies at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester.

Nicholas Baker

Nicholas John Baker, British citizen who was convicted of smuggling cocaine and ecstasy into Japan

Oath of citizenship

:I, name, swear by Almighty God do solemnly, sincerely and truly affirm and declare that, on becoming a British citizen, I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, her heirs, and successors, according to law.

Raymond Klibansky

He became a British citizen in 1938, and during the Second World War was attached to the Political Warfare Executive, based at Woburn Abbey.

Section 44 of the Constitution of Australia

Chief Justice Murray Gleeson ruled that the United Kingdom qualified as a "foreign power" under section 44(i), and as a British citizen Hill was therefore unable to take up her Senate seat.

Stephen McGill

At this point the Second World War was under way in Europe so, following the fall of France to the Germans in June 1940, Father McGill, as a British citizen, had to make his escape via Marseille and Spain to avoid internment as an enemy alien.