Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

John French, fully Field Marshall John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Earl of Ypres, aka The Viscount French

British and Anglo-Irish Officer Field Marshall

"Young people tell what they are doing, old people what they have done and fools what they wish to do."

"Follow the river and you will find the sea."

"To compare is not to improve."