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Also Known As Anthony Frederick Blunt • Sir Anthony Blunt
Born September 26, 1907 • Bournemouth • England
Died March 26, 1983 (aged 75) • London • England
Subjects Of Study painting • Nicolas Poussin
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George Blake
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Guy Burgess
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British civil servant and spy
John André, copperplate engraving
John André
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Sidney Webb
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Beatrice Webb
British economist
Oleg Vladimirovich Penkovsky
Oleg Vladimirovich Penkovsky
Soviet officer
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Sidney Reilly
Russian spy
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Frederick Forsyth
British author
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Edward Bancroft
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William Stephenson
Canadian industrialist
British prime minister Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
prime minister of United Kingdom
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king of Great Britain
Lord Palmerston
Lord Palmerston
prime minister of United Kingdom
William E. Gladstone
William Ewart Gladstone
prime minister of United Kingdom
Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli
prime minister of United Kingdom
Charles James Fox
Charles James Fox
British politician
Thomas Babington Macaulay, detail of an oil painting by J. Partridge, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
English politician and author

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