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Plunkett, Horace Curzon, Sir, 1854-1932 (Personal Name)

Preferred form: Plunkett, Horace Curzon, Sir, 1854-1932

Plunkett and co-operatives, c1983: t.p. (Plunkett) p. 9, etc. (Horace Plunkett)

LC data base, 7/18/84 (hdg.: Plunkett, Horace Curzon, Sir, 1854-1932)

Wikipedia, 17 November 2017 (Horace Plunkett; Sir Horace Curzon Plunkett KCVO PC(Ire) JP DL FRS (24 October 1854 - 26 March 1932); was an Anglo-Irish agricultural reformer, pioneer of agricultural cooperatives, Unionist MP, supporter of Home Rule, Irish Senator and author; educated at Eton College and University College, Oxford; threatened by lung trouble in 1879, sought health in ranching (1879-89) in the Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming where he acquired experience that proved invaluable in the work of agricultural education, improvement and development, to which he devoted himself on his return to Ireland after the death of his father in 1889; he died in Weybridge, Surry, England)

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