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- Birkenhead, Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st earl of
Birkenhead, Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st earl of, 1872–1930, British statesman and jurist. He was called to the bar in 1899 and entered the House of Commons as a Conservative in 1906. A brillian...
- Manchester Ship Canal
Manchester Ship Canal, 35.5 mi (57 km) long with a minimum depth of 28 ft (8.5 m), connecting Manchester, W England, with the Mersey estuary at Eastham, above Birkenhead. Begun in 1887, it was...
- Severn, Joseph
Severn, Joseph, 1793–1879, English portrait and landscape painter. He was consul at Rome from 1861 to 1872. He is best known for his devotion to Keats during the poet's last days. He became a ...
- Cheshire, former county, England
Cheshire, county, W central England, on the N border with Wales. The county seat was Chester.Cheshire was made a palatinate by William I and maintained some of its privileges as such until 183...
- Lindemann, Frederick Alexander
Lindemann, Frederick Alexander (Viscount Cherwell), 1886–1957, British physicist and government official. He studied with W. H. Nernst and developed with him the Nernst-Lindemann theory of spe...
- Halifax, Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st earl of
Halifax, Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st earl of, 1881–1959, British statesman. He entered the House of Commons (1910) as a Conservative and was president of the Board of Education (1922–24...
- Mersey
Mersey, river, c.70 mi (110 km) long, formed at Stockport, W England, by the confluence of the Etherow and Goyt rivers. It flows east to the Irish Sea near Liverpool. The estuary of the Mersey...
- Liverpool
Liverpool, city (1991 pop. 448,300), NW England, on the Mersey River near its mouth. It is one of Britain's largest cities. A large center for food processing (especially flour and sugar), Liv...
