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It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump.
David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech
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David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech
Age: 66 †
Born: 1918
Born: May 20
Died: 1985
Died: January 26
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William David Ormsby-Gore
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