List of British people with German ancestry explained

This is a list of notable British people with German ancestry.

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Notes and References

  1. News: Timothy Reuter. Jinty. Nelson. The Guardian. London. 17 October 2002. 7 February 2011.
  2. 'Windsor-Cassel' – The last court Jew: Prolegomena to a biography of Sir Ernest Cassel. Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook. Kurt. Grunwald. 1969. 14. 1. 119–161. 10.1093/leobaeck/14.1.119.
  3. Web site: Julian Clary. Who Do You Think You Are?. BBC. 7 February 2011.
  4. News: A life in pictures Richard E Grant not only made a film of his diaries, he kept a diary during filming . Sunday Herald . Barry . Didcock . 30 April 2006 . 6 July 2017 . 7 November 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121107052406/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/smgpubs/access/1030474581.html?dids=1030474581:1030474581&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Apr+30,+2006&author=Barry+Didcock&pub=Sunday+Herald&desc=A+life+in+pictures+Richard+E+Grant+not+only+made+a+film+of+his+diaries,+he+kept+a+diary+during+filming&pqatl=google . dead .
  5. Web site: 1901 England Census. Ancestry.co.uk. 13 April 2013.
  6. News: Jasper Rees . Crown him with many crowns . https://web.archive.org/web/20071102174711/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2002/07/16/btjaco14.xml&sSheet=/arts/2002/07/20/ixstagetop.html . dead . 2 November 2007 . The Daily Telegraph. London . 15 July 2002 . 4 April 2008 .
  7. Web site: 8 August 2022 . Olivia Newton-John, 'Grease' star and granddaughter of Jewish Nobel laureate, dies at 73 . 20 August 2022 . Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
  8. Book: Newton-John, Olivia . Don't Stop Believin' . 10 . 9781982122263 . 2019 . Simon and Schuster .
  9. Web site: Rick Stein. Who Do You Think You Are?. BBC. 13 April 2013.
  10. News: Great-grandfather of Ukip leader Nigel Farage 'was born to German immigrants' . Dion . Dassanayake . 3 May 2013 . Daily Express. London . https://archive.today/20131031221958/http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/396897/Great-grandfather-of-Ukip-leader-Nigel-Farage-was-born-to-German-immigrants . 31 October 2013 . live . dmy-all .
  11. News: Revealed: how David Cameron and Boris Johnson are related (and Nick Clegg's Mata Hari connection) . Gerald . Warner . The Daily Telegraph . https://web.archive.org/web/20100426021717/http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/geraldwarner/100036235/revealed-how-david-cameron-and-boris-johnson-are-related-and-nick-cleggs-mata-hari-connection/ . dead . 26 April 2010 . London . 23 April 2010.
  12. Book: Mock, Wolfgang. The Emergence of the Welfare State in Britain and Germany, 1850-1950. 1981. London. German Historical Institute. 0-7099-1710-4. 115.
  13. Web site: Professor Andre Geim, FRS (Condensed Matter Physics Group – The University of Manchester) . 23 April 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120423112543/http://www.condmat.physics.manchester.ac.uk/people/academic/geim/ . dead .
  14. Hurst, Geoff & Hart, Michael (2002), 1966 and All That, Headline, p. 24