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Burchetts Green is a small village to the west of Maidenhead in the English county of Berkshire. It is half in the civil parish of Hurley and half in the civil parish of Bisham. The Berkshire College of Agriculture is located there and includes Hall Place,which was built in 1728 by William East,a wealthy London lawyer. Burchetts Green School was originally built as a chapel in 1868 on land donated by the Clayton-East family. It is an infant school with around 50 pupils. There are three churches in the parish,as well as a Michelin starred pub,The Crown,which in 2017 was voted 10th in Estrella Damm's top 50 gastro pubs in the United Kingdom.
Josiah Burchett,of Hampstead,Middlesex,was a British naval administrator and Whig politician,who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1705 and 1741. He was Secretary of the Admiralty in England,a position he held for almost fifty years from 26 September 1694 to 14 October 1742. In addition to his administrative duties,he was the author of the first general history of the Royal Navy,published in 1720 and based on official Admiralty records.
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George "Professor" Burchett was an English tattoo artist known as the "King of Tattooists".
James Charles Sholto Burchett Queen's Counsel,born in Goodooga,New South Wales,on 11 October 1930,died 30 September 2012,was Justice of the Federal Court of Australia between June 1985 and October 2000 and was president of the Australian Copyright Tribunal.
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The 2nd congressional district of Tennessee is a congressional district in East Tennessee. It has been represented by Republican Tim Burchett since January 2019. Although the district has taken many forms over the years,it has been centered on Knoxville since 1853. During the American Civil War era,the area was represented in Congress by Horace Maynard. Maynard switched parties many times but was pro-U.S. and did not resign from Congress when Tennessee seceded. Maynard entered Congress in 1857 but did not leave entirely until 1875.
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