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Victoria shared her husband's many successes, supporting him in adversity and taking care of him in his autumn years, when his health began to fail him. He died at the same house in which he was born, on 28 February 1940, and the whole fortress mourned his loss. The centrally located
209:. Mackintosh's father died whilst his son was still a boy. His mother, Adelaide Peacock, came from an old Gibraltarian merchant family who were also of Scottish descent. Mackintosh went on to marry Victoria Canepa on 30 June 1909, whose mother was one of the seven
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Magnificent modern hospital splendidly equipped for medical and surgical work including an intensive care unit for medical and surgical work including an intensive care unit for cardiac cases and a nurses training
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270:SS Auretta
177:Early life
159:benefactor
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334:Governor
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276:and the
207:merchant
203:Scotland
141:Adelaide
138:Children
116:merchant
114:Coaling
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258:Cornish
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504:. 1967
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