Sussex: Quick Facts

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Antique map from 1902 showing southern and southeastern England, including counties such as Oxford, Buckingham, Hertford, Essex, Middlesex, Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey, Sussex, Kent, and parts of Bedford and Wiltshire. The map details county borders, towns, roads, and railways, with London prominently marked in the southeast.

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Perthshire Avon Radnorshire Foix Castle Morpeth Blyth Valley North Wiltshire Malmöhus Easington

West Sussex

county, England, United Kingdom

East Sussex

county, England, United Kingdom

Brighton and Hove

unitary authority, England, United Kingdom

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Harold Macmillan

prime minister of United Kingdom

Sackville, George Sackville-Germain, 1st Viscount, Baron Bolebrooke of Sussex

George Sackville-Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville

English politician and soldier

Portrait of Alan Alexander Milne, circa 1920, wearing a light suit and bow tie, looking slightly to the side against a dark background.

A.A. Milne

British author

Oscar Homolka

Austrian actor

Henry Handel Richardson

Australian novelist

John By

British engineer

Sir John Cornforth

Australian-born British chemist

Jack Cade

English revolutionary

Douglas McGarel Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham of Hailsham

British lawyer and politician

Sayyid Amir Ali

Indian political leader

Sir George Robey

British comedian

Thomas Ravenscroft

English composer

Mark Rutherford

British author

Sir Henry Royce, Baronet

English industrialist

Fleur Fenton Cowles

American writer

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