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Patrick Kavanagh (police officer)

1923 births | british army personnel of world war ii | british parachute regiment officers | british police chief officers | commanders of the order of the british empire | living people | metropolitan police assistant commissioners | metropolitan police deputy commissioners | people from glasgow | recipients of the queen's police medal


Patrick Bernard Kavanagh CBE QPM (born 18 March 1923) is a retired British police officer.

Kavanagh was educated at St. Aloysius' College, Glasgow. He served in the Rifle Brigade from 1941 to 1943 and the Parachute Regiment from 1943 to 1946, ending his service as a Lieutenant.

Adam Yarmolinsky

1923 births | 2000 deaths | american academics | american educators | american jews | people from baltimore, maryland | people from new york city | place of birth missing | university of maryland, baltimore faculty


Professor Adam Yarmolinsky (1923 - 2000), son of Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky, was an American academic, educator as well as a political apointee who served in numerous capacities in the Kennedy, Johnson and Carter administrations.

Besides serving in the White House, he also held posts in the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. He was an aide to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara at the Pentagon, where Yarmolinsky was an early critic of American policies in the Vietnam war.

Mel Hoderlein

1923 births | 2001 deaths | american military personnel of world war ii | boston red sox players | major league infielders | major league players from ohio | major league second basemen | washington senators players


Melvin Anthony Hoderlein (June 24, 1923 - May 21, 2001) was an utility infielder in Major League Baseball who played from 1951 through 1954 for the Boston Red Sox (1951) and Washington Senators (1952-54). Listed at 5' 10", 185 lb., Hoderlein was a switch-hitter and threw right-handed. He was born in Mount Carmel, Ohio.

A steady infielder with good instincts, Hoderlein is better known as a player who was part of seven major league franchises but only played for two of them. At age 28, it was a long way for Hoderlein, who spent four years of active military service and six seasons in the minors playing for the Reds, Cubs, Yankees and Red Sox systems (1941, 1946-50).

Euan Howard, 4th Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal

1923 births | barons in the peerage of the united kingdom


Donald Euan Palmer Howard, 4th Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal (b. 26 November 1923), is a British Conservative politician.

Howard is the eldest son of Donald Howard, 3rd Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal, and his wife the Hon. Diana Evelyn, daughter of Gerald Loder, 1st Baron Wakehurst. He was educated at King's Mead, Seaford, Eton, Trinity College, Cambridge, and McGill University, Montreal, and served in the Royal Navy from 1942 to 1947, achieving the rank of Lieutenant. Howard succeeded his father in the barony in 1959 and took his seat on the Conservative benches in the House of Lords. He served under Edward Heath as a Lord-in-Waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) from 1973 to 1974 and as Joint Under-Secretary of State for the Air Force in 1974. After the Conservatives lost power in 1974 he was Joint Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords between 1976 and 1979. When the Conservatives returned to office in 1979 under Margaret Thatcher, Howard was appointed Minister of State at the Ministry of Defence, a post he held until 1981. He lost his seat in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999.

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