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John R.H. Thouron
Captain Sir John Rupert Hunt Thouron (10 May 1907 – 6 February 2007) was a British-American horticulturist, landscape gardener, and philanthropist. He endowed the Thouron Award, a scholarship for British and American students at the University of Pennsylvania. Personal life Thouron was born in Cookham, Berkshire, England, to a British mother, Amelia Angerstein, and American father, John L. Thouron, from Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. His grandfather William Angerstein was an MP and the grandson of Lloyd's of London underwriter John Julius Angerstein. His father, a stockbroker, died in 1914. Career During the Second World War, Thouron enlisted in the Gordon Highlanders and then joined the Black Watch. Thouron was later seconded to the Special Operations Executive (SOE) at Bletchley Park, tasked with sending British and European personnel into Nazi-occupied countries to create resistance groups. He married as his second wife Esther D. du Pont, an heiress from the Du Pont family. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cookham
Cookham is a historic River Thames, Thames-side village and civil parishes in England, civil parish on the north-eastern edge of Berkshire, England, north-north-east of Maidenhead and opposite the village of Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, Bourne End. Cookham forms the southernmost and most rural part of the High Wycombe urban area. With adjoining Cookham Rise and Cookham Dean, it had a combined population of 5,779 at the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 Census. In 2011, ''The Daily Telegraph'' deemed Cookham United Kingdom, Britain's second richest village. Toponymy It is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as ''Cocheham''. The name may be from the Old English ''cōc'' + ''hām'', meaning 'cook village', i.e. 'village noted for its cooks', although the first element may be derived from the Old English ''cōc(e)'' meaning 'hill'. Geography The parish includes three settlements: *Cookham Village – the centre of the original village, with a high street that has changed little o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
