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Happy Townsend
1879 births | 1963 deaths | cleveland indians players | major league pitchers | major league players from delaware | philadelphia phillies players | washington senators playersJohn "Happy" Townsend (April 9, 1879 in Townsend, Delaware - December 21, 1963 in Wilmington, Delaware), was a professional baseball player who played pitcher in the Major Leagues from 1901-1906. He would play for the Philadelphia Phillies, Washington Senators, and Cleveland Indians.
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James Matthews (footballer)
1876 births | 1963 deaths | australian cricketers | north adelaide football club players | south australia cricketersJames George Facey Matthews (September 27, 1876 - October 8, 1963) was an Australian rules footballer who played for North Adelaide in the South Australian National Football League. He also played 7 Sheffield Shield matches for South Australia.
Matthews was a member of North Adelaide's first three premiership sides, in 1900, 1902 and 1905. He started his career as a forward and topped the club's goalkicking in his debut season before moving into the centre later in his career. Matthews finished his career as a fullback and twice represented South Australia at interstate football. In 1906 he captained North Adelaide, finishing second.
Bertel Flaten
1900 births | 1963 deaths | liberal party of norway politicians | norwegian politiciansBertel Flaten (31 January 1900 - 15 January 1963) was a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party.
He served as a deputy representative to the Norwegian Parliament from Sogn og Fjordane during the terms 1954–1957 and 1958–1961.
Charles Duncombe, 3rd Earl of Feversham
1906 births | 1963 deaths | earls in the peerage of the united kingdomCharles William Slingsby "Sim" Duncombe, 3rd Earl of Feversham DSO (2 November 1906-4 September 1963), known as Viscount Helmsley until 1916, was a British Conservative politician.
Feversham was the eldest son of Charles Duncombe, 2nd Earl of Feversham, and his wife Lady Marjorie Blanche Eva, daughter of Francis Greville, 5th Earl of Warwick, and was educated at Eton. He succeeded in the earldom in 1916, aged only nine, when his father was killed in the First World War. He later took his seat on the Conservative benches in the House of Lords and served under Ramsay Macdonald and Stanley Baldwin as a Lord-in-Waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) from 1934 to 1936 and under Baldwin and later Neville Chamberlain as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and Deputy Minister of Fisheries from 1936 to 1939. He was also a Lieutenant-Colonel in the 13th/18th Royal Hussars and an Honorary Colonel in the Queen's Own Yorkshire Yeomanry and fought in the Second World War, where he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order in 1945.
