Horace Donisthorpe — Horace St. John Kelly Donisthorpe (March 17, 1870 – April 22, 1951) was an eccentric British myrmecologist and coleopterist, memorable in part for his enthusiastic championing of the renaming of the genus Lasius after him as Donisthorpea , and… … Wikipedia
Horace de Vere Cole — William Horace de Vere Cole (5 May 1881–25 February 1936) was a British eccentric prankster. His most famous trick was the Dreadnought hoax in 1910 when he fooled the captain of the famous Royal Navy warship HMS Dreadnought (1906) into taking… … Wikipedia
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P. G. Wodehouse minor characters — Lists of P. G. Wodehouse characters Characters in all Wodehouse stories Characters in the Blandings stories Characters in the Drones Club stories Characters in the Jeeves stories Characters in the Mulliner stories Characters in the Ukridge… … Wikipedia
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