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William Burnside was an English mathematician. He is known mostly as an early researcher in the theory of finite groups.

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Bernard Parker Haigh, MBE was a Scottish mechanical engineer. Haigh was educated at Allan Glen's School and the University of Glasgow He served as professor of applied mechanics at the Royal Naval College in Greenwich.

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Thomas Archer Hirst FRS was a 19th-century mathematician, specialising in geometry. He was awarded the Royal Society's Royal Medal in 1883.

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Professor Peter Nailor was a British civil servant and academic, who served as Professor of Politics at the University of Lancaster, Professor of History at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, and Provost of Gresham College.

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Sir William Davidson Niven was a Scottish mathematician and electrical engineer.

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Shabtai Rosenne was a Professor of International Law and an Israeli diplomat. Rosenne was awarded the 1960 Israel Prize for Jurisprudence, the 1999 Manley O. Hudson Medal for International Law and Jurisprudence, the 2004 Hague Prize for International Law and the 2007 Distinguished Onassis Scholar Award. He was the leading scholar of the World Court - the PCIJ and ICJ and had a widely recognized expertise in treaty law, state responsibility, self-defence, UNCLOS and other issues of international law.

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Geoffrey Till, FKC is a British naval historian and emeritus Professor of Maritime Studies in the Defence Studies Department of King's College London. He is the Director of the Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies.