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6 unusual facts about Mawdsley


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Capt. John Mawdsley House, one of the oldest houses in Newport, Rhode Island

James Mawdsley, human rights activist campaigning for democracy in Burma

Richard Mawdsley (born 1945), American artist known for his work in metalsmithing

Norman Hargreaves-Mawdsley

Hargreaves-Mawdsley was born in Bristol in 1921, where he attended Clifton College prior to matriculating at Oriel College, Oxford in 1940, where he read Classics and Modern History.

His academic studies were interrupted by World War II, during which he served in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps for five years, before returning to Oxford in 1946.

After completing his doctoral research, he was appointed a tutor and librarian at Exeter College, Oxford, after which he took up a research fellowship at the University of Edinburgh, followed by a lectureship in history at the University of St Andrews in 1964.


Bayfield-class attack transport

Mawdsley, Dean L. (2002): Steel Ships and Iron Pipe: Western Pipe and Steel Company of California, the Company, the Yard, the Ships, Glencannon Press (for Associates of the National Maritime Museum Library), ISBN 1-889901-28-8.


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