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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 61. Chapters: J. R. R. Tolkien, James Wolfe, William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Trafford Leigh-Mallory, George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, Horatio Gates, Gilbert Mackereth, Reginald Applin, George Cotterill, Manley Power, Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond, John Colborne, 1st Baron Seaton, Edward Cornwallis, Geoffrey Hutchinson, Baron Ilford, Philip Bainbrigge, Lionel Charlton, Charles Grey, 1st Earl Grey, Robert Ross, Gustavus Hamilton, 1st Viscount Boyne, Claude Dansey, John Elisha Grimshaw, George Keppel, 3rd Earl of Albemarle, Richard Whitaker Porritt, Lionel Gough Arbuthnot, John Forster FitzGerald, Edward Smith, Arthur Gilligan, George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough, Louis Fleeming Jenkin, Archibald Arnott, William Montagu, 9th Duke of Manchester, John Le Marchant, George Kemp, 1st Baron Rochdale, Cuthbert Bromley, Alec Harper, Stuart Greeves, Thomas Carleton, Francis Howard, 1st Earl of Effingham, Sir Lees Knowles, 1st Baronet, Charles Frederick Houghton, Duncan Frederick Campbell, Harold Bache, Horatio Sharpe, Lewis Lyne, John James Mellor, James Marshall, Richard Raymond Willis, George Williams, Sir William Houston, 1st Baronet, Bertram Best-Dunkley, Charles Cathcart, 9th Lord Cathcart, John Schofield, John Dyke Acland, Bernard Matthew Cassidy, Thomas Bligh, Charles Ainsworth, Dyneley Hussey, Neville Laski, Desmond Cochrane, Thomas Frederic Tweed, Charles Huxtable, Robert Hewitt Barker. Excerpt: John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE (3 January 1892 - 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion. Tolkien was Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford University from 1925 to 1945 and Merton Professor of English Language and Literature there from 1945...