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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Oswald Constantine John Phipps, 4th Marquess of Normanby, KG, CBE (29 July 1912 30 January 1994) was a British peer and philanthropist for blind people. Styled Earl of Mulgrave from birth, he was the eldest son of Constantine Phipps, 3rd Marquess of Normanby and was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford. He inherited his father's titles in 1932 and joined the Green Howards as a Lieutenant in 1939. In 1940, Lord Normanby was captured at the Battle of…mehr

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Oswald Constantine John Phipps, 4th Marquess of Normanby, KG, CBE (29 July 1912 30 January 1994) was a British peer and philanthropist for blind people. Styled Earl of Mulgrave from birth, he was the eldest son of Constantine Phipps, 3rd Marquess of Normanby and was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford. He inherited his father's titles in 1932 and joined the Green Howards as a Lieutenant in 1939. In 1940, Lord Normanby was captured at the Battle of Dunkirk and was a prisoner of war at Obermassfeldt in Thuringia until 1943. During his captivity, he persuaded his captors to allow him to teach braille to the blind prisoners, despite not knowing it himself.