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Sir Henry Christopher Mance
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Born 1840 • London • England
Died April 21, 1926 (aged 86) • Oxford • England • (Died on this day)
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George Cayley, detail of an oil painting by Henry Perronet Briggs, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
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Charles Wheatstone.
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John Hadley
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