William Lindsay, 18th Earl of Crawford
William Lindsay, 18th Earl of Crawford and 2nd Earl of Lindsay( April 1644 – 6 March 1698) was a Scottish noble and politician.
Lindsay was the eldest son of John Lindsay, 10th Lord Lindsay of the Byres, 17th Earl of Crawford, and 1st Earl of Lindsay, by his wife, Lady Christian Hamilton, daughter of the Earl of Haddington.
William succeeded to the earldoms in 1678.
He was a zealous Presbyterian, president of the Convention parliament in 1689, a commissioner of the treasury in 1690, and one of the commissioners for settling the government of the Church of Scotland.
He married firstly Lady Mary Johnstone, daughter of 1st Earl of Annandale and Hartfell, in 1670.
They had one son:
He married secondly Lady Henrietta Fleming, daughter of Charles Seton, 2nd Earl of Dunfermline and widow of 5th Earl of Wigtown, and had further issue.
John French, 1st Earl of Ypres
Field Marshal John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Earl of Ypres,( 28 September 1852 – 22 May 1925), known as Sir John French from 1901 to 1916, and as The Viscount French between 1916 and 1922, was a senior British Army officer.
Born in Kent to an Anglo- Irish family, he saw brief service as a midshipman in the Royal Navy, before becoming a cavalry officer.
He achieved rapid promotion and distinguished himself on the Gordon Relief Expedition.
French had a considerable reputation as a womaniser throughout his life, and his career nearly ended when he was cited in the divorce of a brother officer whilst in India in the early 1890s.
French became a national hero during the Second Boer War.
He won the Battle of Elandslaagte near Ladysmith, escaping under fire on the last train as the siege began.
He then commanded the Cavalry Division, winning the Battle of Klip Drift during a march to relieve Kimberley.
He later conducted counter- insurgency operations in Cape Colony.
During the Edwardian period he commanded I Corps at Aldershot, then served as Inspector- General of the Army, before becoming Chief of the Imperial General Staff( CIGS, the professional head of the British Army) in 1912.
During this time he helped to prepare the British Army for a possible European war, and was also one of those who insisted, in the so- called" cavalry controversy", that cavalry still be trained to charge with sabre and lance rather than only fighting dismounted with firearms.
During the Curragh incident he had to resign as CIGS after promising Hubert Gough in writing that the Army would not be used to coerce Ulster Protestants into a Home Rule Ireland.
French's most important role was as Commander- in- Chief( C- in- C) of the British Expeditionary Force( BEF) for the first year and a half of the First World War.
He had an immediate personality clash with the French General Charles Lanrezac.
After the British suffered heavy casualties at the battles of Mons and Le Cateau( where Smith- Dorrien made a stand contrary to French's wishes), French wanted to withdraw the BEF from the Allied line to refit and only agreed to take part in the First Battle of the Marne after a private meeting with the Secretary of State for War, Lord Kitchener, against whom he bore a grudge thereafter.
In May 1915 he leaked information about shell shortages to the press in the hope of engineering Kitchener's removal.
By summer 1915 French's command was being increasingly criticised in London by Kitchener and other members of the government, and by Haig, Robertson and other senior generals in France.
After the Battle of Loos, at which French's slow release of XI Corps from reserve was blamed for the failure to achieve a decisive breakthrough on the first day, H.
H. Asquith, the British Prime Minister, demanded his resignation.
Haig, who was formerly French's trusted subordinate and who had saved him from bankruptcy by lending him a large sum of money in 1899, replaced him.
French was then appointed Commander- in- Chief, Home Forces for 1916 – 18.
This period saw the country running increasingly short of manpower for the Army.
Whilst the Third Battle of Ypres was in progress, French, as part of Lloyd George's manoeuvres to reduce the power of Haig and Robertson, submitted a paper which was critical of Haig's command record and which recommended that there be no further major offensives until the American Expeditionary Force( AEF) was present in strength.
He then became Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1918, a position he held throughout much of the Irish War of Independence( 1919 – 1922), in which his own sister was involved on the republican side.
During this time he published" 1914", an inaccurate and much criticised volume of memoirs.
John French, 2nd Earl of Ypres
John Richard Lowndes French, 2nd Earl of Ypres( 6 July 1881 – 5 April 1958) was the son of the British field marshal and the first commander of the British Expeditionary Force( BEF) in World War I Sir John French.
He was born near Morpeth in Northumberland where his father was stationed.
He followed his father by joining the army and he served with the Royal Field Artillery, but his military career was cut short following a riding accident.
French was also a talented artist, something which did not endear him to his father.
He succeeded his father as 2nd Earl of Ypres following his death on the 22 May 1925.
During the Second World
War he commanded a battalion of the Home Guard.
He was succeeded by his son John.
Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford
Humphrey( IV) de Bohun( 1204 – 24 September 1275) was 2nd Earl of Hereford and 1st Earl of Essex, as well as Constable of England.
He was the son of Henry de Bohun, 1st Earl of Hereford, and Maud FitzGeoffrey.
John French (field hockey)
John French( born 26 July 1946) is a British field hockey player.
He competed in the men's tournament at the 1972 Summer Olympics.
Patrick Ruthven, 1st Earl of Forth
Patrick Ruthven, 1st Earl of Forth and 1st Earl of Brentford( c. 1573 – 2 February 1651) was a Scottish nobleman, general, and diplomat.
John French (speed skater)
John French( born 22 December 1955) is a British speed skater.
He competed in two events at the 1980 Winter Olympics.
Gerald French
Edward Gerald Fleming French( 11 December 1883 – 17 September 1970) was an English cricketer.
French was a left- handed batsman, although his bowling style is unknown.
He was born in Woburn Sands, Buckinghamshire.
He was the son of John French, 1st Earl of Ypres.
Educated at Wellington College where he represented the College cricket team, French later made his first- class debut for the Marylebone Cricket Club against Scotland in 1922.
In 1924, he made his Minor Counties Championship debut for Devon against the Surrey Second XI.
From 1924 to 1927, he represented the county in 20 Championship matches, the last of which came against the Kent Second XI.
Nine years later, he made his second and final first- class appearance for the Marylebone Cricket Club against Ireland at Observatory Lane, Dublin.
In his two first- class matches, he scored 10 runs at a batting average of 5.00, with a high score of 5.
With the ball he bowled 19 wicket- less overs.
He became a Lt Col Hon. Deputy Governor of Dartmoor Prison and Governor of Newcastle Prison.
He married Leila King( d. 1959), daughter of Robert King, of Natal, South Africa.
The French sisters, Essex Leila Hilary French and Violet Valerie French were his daughters.
He died in Hove, Sussex on 17 September 1970.
Reynaldo Clavasquín
José Reynaldo Clavasquín Bejarano( born 28 January 1972 in Puerto Cortés) is a retired Honduran football defender and current manager.
Robert Stewart, 1st Earl of March
Robert Stewart, 1st Earl of Lennox then 1st Earl of March( c. 152229 March 1586) was a Scottish nobleman of the family of Stewart of Darnley.

Question: Were both Reynaldo Clavasquín and John French, 1st Earl of Ypres, born in the same place?
Answer: no