Hadow is a Scottish surname. A number of notable people have this name:
*Lieutenant-Colonel
Arthur Lovell Hadow
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(1877–1968) who was commanding the
Royal Newfoundland Regiment
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Predecessor units trace their origins to 1795, and since 1949 Royal ...
on the day of its destruction on the first day of the Battle of the Somme
*Colonel
Arthur De Salis Hadow (1858–1915) was commander of the 10th battalion of the
Yorkshire Regiment
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and was killed in the Battle of Loos.
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Charles Scott Hadow (1801–1849) co-owner of Willis, Hadow and Co, wine merchants of Scot's Yard, Bush lane, London and trader in India.
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Douglas Robert Hadow
Douglas Robert Hadow (30 May 1846 – 14 July 1865) was a British novice mountaineer who died on the descent after the first ascent of the Matterhorn.
Family
Hadow was born in 1846 at 49 York Terrace, Regent's Park, London, the son of Patrick ...
(1846–1865) who died during the descent after the first ascent of the Matterhorn
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Edward Ash Hadow, (1831–1866) chemist who conducted pioneering research on cyanide.
* Major-General
Frederick Edward Hadow (1836–1915) served during the Indian Mutiny, in the Madras Artillery, later became a Justice of the Peace in Hereford.
*Professor
George Hadow (1712–1780) professor of Hebrew and oriental languages at St Mary's College, University of St Andrews from 1748 to 1780
*Canon
Gerald Edgcumbe Hadow OBE (1911–1978) Missionary to Tanzania.
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Gilbert Bethune Hadow (1832–1876) Surgeon in the 1st Battalion 5th Foot (
Northumberland Fusiliers
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)
*Sir
Gordon Hadow (1908–1993) masterminded the transition of Gold Coast to independence from Great Britain.
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Grace Eleanor Hadow
Grace Eleanor Hadow (9 December 1875 – 19 January 1940) was an author, principal of what would become St Anne's College, Oxford and vice-chair of the National Federation of Women's Institutes (NFWI).
Life
Hadow was born in 1875 at South Cer ...
(1875–1940) author, principal of St Anne's College, Oxford University and former vice-chairman of the Women's Institute
*Principal
James Hadow (1667–1747) Principal of St Mary's College, University of St Andrews from 1707 till 1747
*Reverend
James Hadow (1757–1847) Vicar of St Margaret's Church, Streatley, Bedfordshire for fifty nine years.
*Sir (Reginald)
Michael Hadow
Sir (Reginald) Michael Hadow (17 August 1915 – 22 December 1993) was a British diplomat. He was Ambassador to Israel from 1965 to 1969, and Ambassador to Argentina
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former British Ambassador to Israel and Argentina.
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Patrick Douglas Hadow (1812–1876) former Chairman of
P&O.
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Patrick Francis Hadow (1855–1946) Wimbledon champion and big game hunter.
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Pen Hadow
Rupert Nigel Pendrill Hadow, known as Pen Hadow (born 26 February 1962), is a British Arctic region explorer, advocate, adventurer and guide. He is the only person to have trekked solo, and without resupply by third parties, from Canada to the ...
(1962 - ) British explorer and the first man to walk solo and unsupported the from the northern coast of Canada to the North Pole.
*Commander
Philip Henry Hadow, RN (1903–1942) Commander of
HMS Ivanhoe which was mined and damaged in the North Sea.
*Sir
Robert Henry Hadow(1895–1963), diplomat and appeaser.
"Portrait of an Appeaser", Lindsay W Mitchie
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* Walter Hadow (1849-1898) English cricketer, HM Commissioner for Prisons for Scotland.
*Sir William Henry Hadow
Sir William Henry Hadow (27 December 1859 – 8 April 1937) was a leading educational reformer in Great Britain, a musicologist and a composer.
Life
Born at Ebrington in Gloucestershire and baptised there on 29 January 1860 by his father, ...
(1859–1937) educational reformer, musicologist and vice-chancellor of Sheffield University.
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