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Philip van Pallandt

Philip Dirk baron van Pallandt, heer van Eerde was a Scoutmaster in the early years of Dutch scouting. He was the owner of Gilwell Ada's Hoeve on his Eerde Estate, which he gave to Scouting in 1923.

Philippa Roles

Philippa Kate Roles OLY was a Welsh discus thrower who competed at two Olympic and four Commonwealth Games. Roles was British junior athlete of the year – an honour presented at Buckingham Palace. read more...She was the first British discus thrower to medal at junior European level; and narrowly missed out on a medal at under 23 level, finishing 4th. She competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.read less...

Philip Danforth Armour

Philip Danforth Armour Sr. was an American meatpacking industrialist who founded the Chicago-based firm of Armour & Company. Born on an upstate New York farm, he made $8,000 in the California gold rusread more...h, 1852–56. He opened a wholesale soap business in Cincinnati, then moved it to Milwaukee. He made millions selling meat to the United States Army during the Civil War. In 1875, he moved his base to Chicago. Armour's innovations including bringing live hogs to the metropolis for slaughter, inventing an assembly line system for the dis-assembly of hogs, canning the product, economy of scale and efficiency in detail. He systematically utilized waste products, boasting that he made use of "everything but the squeal". The introduction of refrigerated rail cars opened a national market for him and competitors such as Gustavus Swift. Armour expanded into banking and speculation on the futures market for pork and wheat by 1900, his plants employed 15,000 workers; his own wealth was in the range of $50 million. The urgent Army need for meat during the Spanish–American War of 1898 led to highly publicized complaints about "embalmed beef." Armour retired from business in 1899, and devoted himself to philanthropy in the Chicago area, including low-cost housing for industrial workers, and the major institution of higher education, the Armour Institute of Technology.read less...

Philip D. Armour III House

The Philip D. Armour III House is a historic mansion in Lake Bluff, Illinois, USA. It was built for Philip D. Armour III, grandson of Armour and Company founder Philip D. Armour. It was designed in thread more...e Tudor Revival style by architect Harrie T. Lindeberg. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.read less...

Phillip Roddey

Philip Dale Roddey was a brigadier general in the army of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War.

Pippa Rogerson

Philippa Jane Rogerson is a British solicitor and academic. She is senior lecturer in law at the University of Cambridge, where her research covers the conflict of laws and company law. She is also a read more...member of the university's council, and a fellow and director of studies at Gonville and Caius College, where she now serves as Master, succeeding Sir Alan Fersht.read less...