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First published 1992. This subseries contains one review.

This subseries collects, alphabetically by surname of the deceased, death notices, funeral service booklets and obituaries of various people. Items will ultimately be catalogued individually; for now, a list follows.

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ADAMS, Douglas Noël
ADRIAN, Richard Hume

BARRÈRE, Jean-Bertrand Marie
BARTHES, Roland
BENNETT, Jack Arthur Walter
BLACKFORD, Staige D
BROGAN, Denis William
BUTTERFIELD, Herbert

CHAMPERNOWNE, David Gawen
CLIFFORD, Gay
COWLING, Maurice John
CRAWLEY, Charles William
CROOK, John Anthony

DAVIES, Hugh Sykes
DUNCAN-JONES, Elsie Elizabeth

ELVIN, Lionel

FERDINAND, Richard
FORSTER, Leonard

GALLAGHER, John Andrew
GOODWIN, Richard Murphey

HOUGH, Graham

JACK, Ian
JEWELL, Peter Arundel
JOHN, Otto
JONES, Trevor David

KALDOR, Nicholas
KERMODE, Frank
KEYNES, John Maynard
KITSON CLARK, George Sidney Roberts
KNIGHTS, Lionel Charles
KNOWLES, Michael David

LASKY, Melvin Jonah
LASLETT, Thomas Peter Ruffell
LEE, Arthur Guy
LEWY, Casimir

MacKINNON, Donald MacKenzie
MANSERGH, Philip Nicholas Seton
MEADE, James Edward
MORGAN, Margaret Ruth

NICHOLAS, Tressilian Charles

OWEN, Gwilym Ellis Lane

PIGOU, Arthur Cecil
PINTER, Harold
POLACK, Kenneth
POSTAN, Michael Moïssey

ROBINSON, Edward Austin Gossage
ROBINSON, Joan Violet
ROBSON, Robert

SALTER, Elizabeth
SHILS, Edward A
STERN, Joseph Peter Maria
STONE, John Richard Nicholas
STOREY, Graham
STRAUMANN, Heinrich

WELSFORD, Enid Elder Hancock
WILLIAMS, Bernard Arthur Owen

This subseries contains various documents pertaining to the Unservile State Group and associated groups and projects, including minutes, publication information and cuttings. A small group of other political documents has been appended. Items will ultimately be catalogued individually; for now, a list follows.

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COLLECTION INFORMATION

Description by 'J.B.' of the contents of an earlier version of the papers
'Manuscript Collection': George Watson's description of the papers (25 May 1978)
Leaflet describing the Archives of Stanford University's Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace (presumably considered as a potential depository)

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'UNSERVILE STATE, 1953-1991'

Retrospective article by George Watson, in typescript and published form (22 February 1991)

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MEMBERSHIP AND CONTACTS

Membership lists
List of Liberal peers (January 1966)
Contact details of European liberal figures
List of academic libraries in Eastern Europe

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POLICY STATEMENTS

Unservile State Group
National Campaign on Behalf of the Low-income Groups
The Acton Society Trust

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AGENDAS AND MINUTES

10 February 1956 minutes
22-23 June 1956 minutes
27 July 1956 minutes

17 May 1957 agenda
17 May 1957 minutes
28 August 1957 minutes

10 May 1968 minutes

18 May 1970 minutes

4 March 1971 minutes
19 May 1971 minutes

7 December 1972 agenda

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Memorandum: 'The Liberal Party and Co-ownership' (April 1954)

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PUBLICATIONS

'The projected Liberal "Yellow Book"' (circa July 1953)
'Memorandum on a Projected Book on British Liberalism in the Mid-century' (July 1954)
Arthur Holt, pamphlet suggestions (undated)
Memorandum of pamphlet suggestions (undated)
'Liberty in the Welfare State' comments (1956)

'The Unservile State' copyright agreements (1956)
'The Unservile State' contributor information (book published 25 July 1957)

'Radical Alternative' progress report (30 August 1961)
'Radical Alternative' preface (May 1962)
'Radical Alternative' revised prelims
'Radical Alternative' notes on contributors

Notes pertaining to Edwin George West, perhaps the second edition (1970) of his 'Education and the State' (1965)

University of Leeds press release about The Elliott Dodds Lecture (24 January 1972)

Richard Moore and Christine Morgan, 'The Liberals in Europe' pamphlet (1974)

Samuel Brittan and Barry Riley, 'A People's Stake in North Sea Oil' pamphlet (1980)

Photocopy of Christopher Mayhew's 'Liberals, Social Democrats and Defence' pamphlet (1984)

Michael Meadowcroft, 'Dear David, Thanks, Yours Neil' (20 May 1990)

Report by 'Nick' on an unknown pamphlet or article

List of the Unservile State Papers pamphlets

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Three sheets of Unservile State Group stationery

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CUTTINGS

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Folder labelled 'USG Agendas Addresses etc'

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OTHER POLITICAL DOCUMENTS

'Co-ownership in Industry' (April 1952)
'Co-ownership at Work' (October 1952)

'Books for Poland: A report to the Secretary of the Writers and Publishers Committee for European Cooperation', to which is attached a list of pertinent Polish addresses (1957)

Copied pages from Frank O'Gorman's 'Voters, Patrons and Parties' (1989)

Derek Beales, 'The Electorate before and after 1832' (14 October 1991)

Vote count for the 2005 Parliamentary Council Election in Cambridge

George Watson kept this material together: a proposal for a book on the relationship between genocide and socialism is accompanied by material on the articles 'Rehearsal for the Holocaust?' (1981), 'The Disinvitation of Nolte' (1989), 'How the Holocaust was hidden' (1990), 'Alfred Rosenberg: The Triumph of Tedium' (1995) and 'The Indictment of a People' (1998).

Note that 'The Lost Literature of Socialism' (1998) and the article 'Never Blame the Left' (1995), both containing arguments overlapping with the material here, were filed separately by Watson and so have been treated by the cataloguer as distinct subseries. That a promotional flyer for 'The Lost Literature of Socialism' is included in this subseries strongly suggests that it arose from the book proposed here.

Items will ultimately be catalogued individually; for now, a list follows.

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RESEARCH MATERIAL

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ARTICLES

'Rehearsal for the Holocaust?' ('Commentary', 1981)
'Not Always to the Swift', review of Nancy Stepan's 'The Idea of Race in Science' (N.B. the published version of this review, from the 'Financial Times' of 8 January 1983, appears in the 'Politics and Literature in Modern Britain' subseries)
'The DIsinvitation of Nolte' ('Encounter', January 1989)
'How the Holocaust was hidden' ('Sunday Telegraph', 7 January 1990)
'Alfred Rosenberg: The Triumph of Tedium' ('Chronicles', February 1995)
'The Indictment of a People' ('Quadrant', July-August 1998)

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'"Genocide" by George Watson': book proposal

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Flyer for 'The Lost Literature of Socialism'

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CORRESPONDENCE

ABRAHAMS, Peter
ADLER-KARLSSON, Gunnar
ALMOND, Mark
ANDREW, Christopher
APPLEBAUM, Anne

BALFOUR, Michael
BATTY, Peter
BERLIN, Isaiah
BETHELL, Nicholas
BRACHER, Karl Dietrich
BRADSHAW, Peter
BROWN, Archie
BROWN, Brenda, enclosing letter from Robert Moses SHAPIRO
BRUEGEL, J W
BRUS, Wlodzimierz
BRZEZINSKI, Zbigniew
BUKOVSKY, Vladimir

CANNY, Nicholas
CARMICHAEL, Joel
CHALONER, W H
CIECHANOWSKI, Jan
CONQUEST, Robert
CZARNOCKA, H

DAVIES, Norman
DEWHIRST, Martin
DE ZAYAS, Alfred-Maurice
DUGGER, Ronnie

EBERHART, Richard
EVANS, Clark
EVANS, Richard J

FABIAN, Peter
FLEMING, Gerald
FLEW, Antony
FRIEDGUT, Ted

GARLIŃSKI, Józef
GARTON ASH, Timothy
GAY, Ruth and Peter
GILBERT, Martin
GLASS, Derek
GRIGORENKO, Petro
GROSS, Jan T

HENDERSON, W O
HERBERT, Ulrich
HERWARTH, Hans von
HEWITT, Nicholas
HILL, Roland
HUME, Catherine

JELINSKY, Kot
JENKINS, Simon David
JONES, Trevor
JORDAN, J C C

KAC, Arthur W
KALNINS, Mara
KEREN, Michael
KETTENACKER, Lothar
KOCH, Lene

LABEDZ, Leopold
LANNING, Gregory J
LAQUEUR, Walter
LASKY, Melvin Jonah
LEGGETT, George
LEIBHOLZ, Marianne
LEONHARD, Jörn
LEVIN, M
LIPSON, Leon

MOLLOY, Molly
MOUNT, William Robert Ferdinand

NOLTE, Ernst
NORA, Pierre
NOVE, Alec

OPPEN, Beate von

PANITZA, John-Dimitry
PASCAL, Roy
PEARCE, Brian
PODHORETZ, Norman
POHL, Dieter
POLONSKI/POLONSKY, Antony Barry
PRITTIE, Terence

RAACK, Richard C
ROBSON, William Wallace
ROSE, Paul Lawrence
ROSEMAN, Mark
RÜCKERL, A

SAUNDERS, George
SCHAPIRO, Leonard B
SETON-WATSON, George Hugh Nicholas
SHIFRIN, Avraham
SHILS, Edward
SIEBERT, Horst
SIENKIEWICZ, Anna
SMITH, Geoffrey H
SNOW, Charles Percy
SOMBART, Nicolaus
SPEARES, J A
SPECTOR, David
STEINBERG, Jonathan
STENZEL, Jürgen
STEUSSY, R E
SUMMERS, A
SWIANIEWICZ, S

TOLSTOY, Nikolai
TOMBS, Robert P
TREVOR-ROPER, Hugh Redwald
TYRRELL, Robert Emmett

ULAM, Adam B

VLADIMIROV, Leonid
VOLKMANN, Hans-Erich
VRBA, Rudolf

WALTHER, Gebhardt von
WATT, Donald Cameron
WEBSTER, Richard
WHELAN, Joseph
WILES, Peter
WISNIEWSKI, Jacek
WOJAKOWSKA, M
WOLF, Joseph Georg

ZAMOYSKI, Adam
ZARUSKY, Jürgen
ZAWODNY, J K

This subseries collects, in approximate chronological order, invitations, flyers, programmes et cetera for various lectures, events and publications. Items will ultimately be catalogued individually; for now, a list follows.

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Oxford University Liberal Club term card, Michaelmas 1946

Oxford University Liberal Club term card, Hilary Term 1947

Travellers cheque, 13 April 1951

Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies (Victoria University, Toronto) leaflet, circa 1964

Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis, ‘Thomas Gray, 1716-1771’, 7 May 1971

‘Current Research in French Studies’, circa 1972
‘The Harrowing of Hell’, 2 March 1972
Paul Turner, ed., ‘Browning: Men and Women 1855’, 27 July 1972
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, ‘The Rivals’, dir. Sue Limb and Roy Porter, 31 October-4 November 1972

‘Frankenstein’ adapted by Alexeij Sagerer, circa 14 February 1973
Robert Halsband, ‘Lord Hervey: Eighteenth-Century Courtier’, 24 October 1973
Roger Lonsdale, ‘The Poetry of Thomas Gray: Versions of the Self’, 21 February 1973
Arthur Johnston, ‘The Poetry of William Collins’, 21 November 1973

‘Lord Byron: 22 January 1978-19 April 1824’ catalogue, circa 1974
Robert Ellrodt, ‘Self-Consciousness in Montaigne and Shakespeare’, 5 September 1974
Stephen Heath, ‘The Sociality of Writing’, 5 November 1974
Seamus Heaney, ‘The Fire in the Flint: Reflections on the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins’, 11 December 1974

R.L. Brett, ed., ‘Writers and Their Background’, circa 1975
J.A.W. Bennett, ‘From Casaubon to Mr Casaubon: The Rise and Fall of the Renaissance Scholar’, 5 March 1975

John Heath-Stubbs, ‘Artorius’, 28 May 1976
Tom Stoppard, ‘Jumpers’, circa 21 September 1976
Donald Davie, ‘The Literature of Dissent, 1700-1930’, 27 October-1 December 1976
Kathleen Raine, ‘Waste Land, Holy Land’, 8 December 1976
Christopher Wood, ‘Victorian Panorama: Paintings of Victorian Life’, 1976

‘The Harrowing of Hell’, 27 February 1977
Robert Halsband and Isobel Grundy, eds, ‘Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Essays and Poems’, 10 March 1977
John Casey, ‘T.S. Eliot’, 19 May 1977

Claire Tomalin, ‘Katherine Mansfield and “The New Age”’, 25 February 1978

C.S. Lewis Estate, ‘Song of the Lion’, 15 January 1980
Helen Gardner, ‘Happy Endings’, 11 November 1980
Robert Halsband, ‘”The Rape of the Lock” and Its Illustrations’, 24 July 1980

J.A.W. Bennett Memorial Lectures, 17 February-7 April 1981
Geoffrey Keynes, ‘The Gates of Memory’, 22 October 1981

J.B. Yeats, ‘Letters to His Son W.B. Yeats and Others 1869-1922’, ed. Joseph Hone, 31 May 1983
30th anniversary of ‘Encounter’, 18 October 1983
J.K Galbraith, Roy Jenkins and Richard Wainwright, John Maynard Keynes Centenary Meeting, 1 December 1983

Readings in memory of William Empson, 25 May 1984
‘Critical Quarterly’ anniversary celebration, 30 May 1984
Endellion String Quartet recital for Robin Orr’s 75th birthday. 1 November 1984
William Holding, ‘Nobel Lecture’ publication, 1984

‘Cecil Beaton and Friends’ 28 May 1985
‘Renaissance Studies in Honor of Craig Hugh Smyth’, 23 July 1985

Frank Kermode, ‘The Uses of Error’, 11 May 1986
'An Evening with Samuel Pepys' at Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1 October 1986

Opening of the Fisher Building, St John's, 16 June 1988
‘English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700’, September 1988
John Stevens, ‘Music & Poetry from the Trouvères to Purcell’, 6 November 1988

‘Cambridge English’ lectures, 23 January-6 March 1989
‘Forms and Attention: The Work of Frank Kermode’, 18-19 March 1989
T.S. Eliot Memorial Lecture drinks reception and supper, 6 November 1989

Introductory readings of ‘The Duino Elegies’, 17 January-7 March 1991
Party in honour of Douglas Adams on the presentation of his third Golden Pan Award and the publication of ‘Last Chance to See’, 25 November 1991

John Stuart Mill Institute introductory text, circa 1992

John Beer, ‘Against Finality’, 4 February 1993
Bernard Williams, ‘Three Models of Truthfulness’, 5-7 May 1993
Colin Tite, ‘The Manuscript Library of Sir Robert Cotton’ (24 November 1993)

Germaine Greer, J.H. Gray Lectures, 9-13 May 1994

Lord Acton Centenary Celebration Activities, 16 March 1995

Tiepolo exhibition, 5 July 1996-12 January 1997
Joseph Epstein, ‘Anglophilia, American Style’, 24 March 1997

Mervyn King, ‘The New Monetary Policy Committee’, 16 November 1998
C.S. Lewis centenary readings, 24 November 1998

NiL Éditions catalogue général 1999
R.D. Gray and N. Boyle, ‘An Evening with Goethe & Eckermann’, 10 March 1999

L'Assemblée générale annuelle de l'ALEPS, 14 March 2000
Jonathan Smith, ‘The Learning Game’, 6 April 2000

John Barton, Faculty of Classics Corbett Lecture, 17-18 November 2002

‘The(e)ories: Advanced Seminars for Queer Research 2003’ call for papers, 2003
Election of the Chancellor of the University of Oxford, 14-15 March 2003

Itinerary for George Watson’s visit to Loretto Senior School, Musselburgh, 17-19 May 2004

Noah Charney, ‘Mr and Mrs Andrews’, 10-14 May 2005
Hugh Trevor-Roper centenary celebration, 11 January 2014

First published 1970. This subseries contains correspondence and reviews. Items will ultimately be catalogued individually; for now, a list follows.

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CORRESPONDENCE

ALLEN, George R
AUERBACH, Erich

BARFIELD, Owen
BARISH, Jonas A
BATESON, F W
BOOTH, Wayne C
BRADLEY, Andrew Cecil
BRETT-SMITH, John R B

CHOMSKY, Noam
CRISTOL, Patricia
CROLL, Morris W

DAVIE, Donald
DAVIES, Hugh Sykes
DONOGHUE, Denis

FOWLER, Roger

HOLLOWAY, John

INGHAM, Patricia

JESPERSEN, Otto
JONES, R F

LINNET, Catherine C

MILIC, Louis T

STRANG, Barbara
STRAUMANN, Heinrich

THOMSON, Patricia
TILLYARD, Eustace Mandeville Wetenhall
TUCKER, Susie I

WARD, W A
WATT, Ian
WIMSATT, William K

YULE, George Udny

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REVIEWS

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Envelope labelled '"Literary English since Shakespeare" (OUP New York 1970)'

First published 1994. This subseries contains research material, a memorandum of agreement, correspondence and reviews; it opens with a copied transcript of Lord Acton's 'Notes for the History of Liberty', and correspondence arranging for Cambridge University Library to make a further copy. Items will ultimately be catalogued individually; for now, a list follows.

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Copied transcript of Lord Acton's 'Notes for the History of Liberty', accompanied by correspondence between George Watson and the Cambridge University Library

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George Watson's invitation to his talk for the Acton Society on 'Acton and the Language of Politics' (23 November 1979)

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Four posters for George Watson's 1992 Sandars Lectures on 'The Library of Lord Acton'

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Photocopies and offprints of research material

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Two copies of the memorandum of agreement between George Watson and Scolar Press

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CORRESPONDENCE

ACTON, Edward
ACTON, S J
ALTHOLZ, Josef L

BAILYN, Bernard
BATTESTIN, Ruthe
BEALES, Derek Edward Dawson
BUTTERFIELD, Herbert

CEADEL, E B
CONZELMUS, Victor

DANGÉ, François

FARROW, Nigel
FASNACHT, Ruth
FOX, Peter K

GASKELL, Philip

HILL, Roland
HYAM, Ronald

KELLIHER, William Hilton

LEE, Brian North
LINEHAN, Peter A
LOOSE, John
LOWE, David K
LYON-DALBERG-ACTON, Richard Gerald

MATTHEW, Henry Colin Gray
McCONICA, James

NAUTH, Dorothee
NURSER, John S

OWEN, Arthur

PARKER, G
PARSONS, Phyllis

RATCLIFFE, Frederick William
ROBSON, Robert
ROGERS, Malcolm

SCHOFIELD, Malcolm
SIMMONS, J S G
SPEIDEL, Annie
SWIRE, Rhoderick

THOMPSON, C R

WALEY. Daniel
WALLACE, Janet
WELLS, John
WILLIAMS, R T
WOODHOUSE, Christine
WOODRUFF, Mia

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REVIEWS

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Folder labelled 'Lord Acton'

This subseries collects, in approximately chronological order, invitations, menus and seating plans for meals presumably attended by George Watson. Items will ultimately be catalogued individually; for now, a list follows.

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Prime Minister’s Dinner (Singapore), 13 December 1969

Centenary Dinner (Rutherford College), 30 October 1971

St Catherine’s Day dinner (Balliol College, Oxford), 25 November 1972

Cosin Feast (Peterhouse, Cambridge), 2 November 1973

Dinner on the Retirement of Hugh Sykes Davies and Robin Orr (St John’s), 27 September 1976
Dinner for Richard Beadle & Celia Wright and David & Mangala Frost (St John’s), 26 November 1976

Dinner for Professor Gertrude Himmelfarb (The Master's Lodge, Christ's College, Cambridge), 25 February [1981?]

Reception on the retirement of Frank Kermode (Queens’ College, Cambridge), 29 September 1982
Princess Cruises dinner (‘Sun Princess’), 22 December 1982

Luncheon on the Conferment of Honorary Degrees, 9 June 1983
The English Association Luncheon (St Ermin’s Hotel, London), 18 June 1983

Twenty-Eighth Annual Dinner of the British Academy (The Middle Temple, London), 12 July 1984

Buffet lunch commemorating the 450th anniversary of the death of Bishop John Fisher (St John’s), 8 June 1985

Dinner for Peter and Sheila Stern (St John’s), 17 May 1986
Adam Smith Institute reception (London), 18 September 1986

Birthday lunch for Richard Duncan-Jones (Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge?), c 14 September [1987?]

Lunch (Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge), 2 July 1988
St Catherine’s Day dinner (Balliol College, Oxford), 25 November 1988

C.S. Lewis Dinner (Magdalene College, Cambridge), 27 November 1998

Luncheon to celebrate the 90th birthday of Dr Frank Smithies (St John’s), 10 March 2002

Luncheon to celebrate the 90th birthdays of Dr George Clifford Evans and Sir Maurice Wilkes (St John’s), 4 July 2003
Audit Dinner (Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge), 6 December 2003

Reception to mark the opening of the exhibition ‘Living at This Hour: John Milton 1608-2008’ (Cambridge University Library), 14 January 2008

Lunch (St John’s), 12 March 2011

First published 1978. This subseries contains one review.

First published in the 'National Review', 31 December 1995. This subseries contains two copies of the published article, and correspondence. Items will ultimately be catalogued individually; for now, a list follows.

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ASHDOWN, Paddy

BOST, Warren Vincent
BRIEFER, Paul

HALL, Irving
HARRISS, Clement Lowell
HUTCHISON, John

KING, Richard

LIPKES, Jeff
LLEWELLYN, John

O’SULLIVAN, John

PENOT, Dominique
PERRY, Mike W

TAQUEY, Antony

WALTERS, Robert E