Middlesex: Quick Facts

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Frederick Edgeworth Morgan, the British officer who drew up the original plan for Operation Overlord, the invasion of Normandy.

Frederick Edgeworth Morgan

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Peacock, oil painting by H. Wallis, 1858; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Thomas Love Peacock

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John Zoffany

English painter

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George Sanger

British circus impresario