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unusual facts about Maggie Aderin-Pocock


Maggie Aderin-Pocock

She was the lead scientist for the optical instrumentation group for Astrium.


David Francis Pocock

David Francis Pocock (3 September 1928 - 25 November 2007) was a British anthropologist whose main field of study was the people and diaspora of the Indian state of Gujarat, and in particular the Patidar community of that state.

George Pocock

Again Pocock was unable to prevent his opponent from reaching Pondicherry, and a well-contested battle between them on 10 September 1759 proved again indecisive.

In 1763 Pocock married Sophia (died 1767), the widow of his friend Commodore Digby Dent, daughter of George Francis Drake of Madras and step-daughter of George Morton Pitt who had inherited Pitt's house at Twickenham now known as Orleans House.

George Yeomans Pocock

Pocock was named "Sports Star of the Year" for 1948 by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

A native of Kingston upon Thames, England, Pocock learned the craft of boatbuilding as an apprentice to his father, Aaron Frederick Pocock, a boatbuilder for Eton College.

H. R. S. Pocock

H. R. S. Pocock was a descendant of William Wilmer Pocock, Master of the Worshipful Company of Carpenters, who was responsible for the design of Carpenters' Hall.

Isaac Pocock

Pocock died at Ray Lodge, Maidenhead, on 23 August 1835, and was buried in the family vault at Cookham.

Philip Francis Pocock

Philip Francis Pocock, (2 July 1906 – 6 September 1984), was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Toronto from 1971 to 1978.

Tetrapulmonata

Previous synonyms of this lineage are rejected; "Caulogastra Pocock, 1893" refers to pedicel, which is symplesiomorphic for the lineage and convergent with Solifugae, and "Arachnidea Van der Hammen, 1977" is easily confused with Arachnida.

Tom Pocock

Tom Pocock's family included such luminaries as: Vice-Admiral Sir George Pocock, K.B. (who was the captor of Havana in the Seven Years War), the marine painter Nicholas Pocock as well as his aunt Doris Pocock who was an author of girls' school stories.

Vincent Massey Collegiate Institute

Later, the building was used as a temporary campus of Dufferin-Peel Separate School Board's Philip Pocock Catholic Secondary School in Mississauga, Ontario while the Pocock primary campus was under renovation.


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