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I am Graham Jeffery, from London, UK. My background is a degree in Mathematics followed by several years as a software consultant and latterly as a strategy consultant. I currently work in the pharmaceutical industry assisting clients to make better decisions regarding their assets in clinical development. Other areas of interest include military history and being Treasurer of a Church of England parish.
I started contributing to Wikipedia and Wikibooks in Nov 2004.
Pages I have started
[edit]Decision Theory
[edit]- Decision analysis
- Action axiom
- Maximum expected utility (MUE)
- Influence diagram (plus Relevance diagram and Decision diagram which redirect to it)
- The following redirect to Influence diagram, but may in the future deserve pages of their own:
- Decision node, Chance node and Value node
- Conditioning arrow and Informational arrow
- Arrow reversal and Arrow removal
- Action axiom
- Decision analysis cycle and one of its components, Attention-focusing method
- Decision-maker and Decision participants
- Decision model
- Value of information/clairvoyance and Value of control/wizardry
- Unknown unknown
- Ronald A. Howard
Mathematics
[edit]- George Barker Jeffery (1891-1957)
- Jarl Waldemar Lindeberg (1876-1932)
Military History
[edit]- Major General Charles Howard Foulkes (1875-1969)
- General Sir Richard Nelson Gale (1896–1982)
- Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
- Machine Gun Corps
- Lt-General George Noble Molesworth (1890-1968)
- North-West Frontier (military history)
- Seistan Force, also called the East Persia Cordon
- General Sir Andrew Skeen (1873-1935)
- Edward Thomas (soldier), who fired the first British shots in World War I
Pharmaceutical industry
[edit]- Astellas Pharma
- Blockbuster drug
- Top 50 pharmaceutical companies
- Top 100 biotechnology companies
- Alejandro Zaffaroni, serial biotech entrepreneur
Other
[edit]- Bernard Dillon, Irish jockey, husband of Marie Lloyd and Machine Gun Corps soldier
- Hyder Consulting, the engineering company, formed from the merger of Freeman Fox & Partners and John Taylor & Sons
- Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability
- Dick Skeen, U.S. tennis player
- Fahrelnissa Zeid, artist and member of the Iraqi royal family
Pages with a major chunk of my input
[edit]Military History
[edit]- Amanullah Khan, Emir of Afghanstan, who started the Third Anglo-Afghan War
- Brigadier Reginald Edward Harry Dyer (1864-1927)
- First day on the Somme
- Major General J.F.C. Fuller (1878-1966)
- General Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton (1853-1947)
- Handley Page V/1500
- General Hastings Lionel Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay (1887-1965)
- Lt Colonel H. Jones (1940-1982), awarded the VC in the Falklands War
- Captain Eustace Jotham (-1915), awarded the VC for a deed in Waziristan, 1915
- Lieutenant William David Kenny (-1920), awarded the VC in Waziristan, 1920
- Khyber Pass (complete rewrite of previous stub)
- Sergeant Ian John McKay (1953-1982), awarded the VC in the Falklands War
- Lt General Sir Henry Royds Pownall (1887-1961)
- Royal Engineers
- Sepoy (later Captain) Ishar Singh (-1963), awarded the VC in Waziristan, 1921
Pharmaceutical Industry
[edit]- AstraZeneca
- Rosuvastatin and created several stub pages for other drugs
- Chiron Corporation
- Ciba Specialty Chemicals (added history)
- Gilead Sciences
- Emtricitabine and created stub pages for other drugs
- Interferon
- Polyethylene glycol
- Sandoz (added history)
- Teva Pharmaceutical Industries
Other
[edit]- Sir Ralph Freeman, civil engineer
- Jesus College, Cambridge
- Sir Barnes Wallis, inventor of the bouncing bomb
Temporary Storage
[edit]- London Gazette, Issue 31823, 15 March 1920 re Third Anglo-Afghan War
- London Gazette re Meritorious Service Medal (RAF)
- CORRIGENDUM: In the despatch from the Commander-in-Chief in India, dated 1st November, 1919, regarding the operations against Afghanistan, published in the London Gazette dated 15th March, 1920, for "the 1st Gurkha Rifles," in para. 34, line 18-19 (p. 3276), read " the 1st Battalion, 11th Gurkha Rifles."
- London Gazette re Distinguished Flying Cross (RAF) et al
- London Gazette, Issue 32001, 3 August 1920 re awards
- London Gazette, Issue 32002, 4 August 1920 re mentions in despatches
- London Gazette re award of KCIE
- London Gazette re Meritorious Service Medal (Army)
- London Gazette re OBE (civilian)
- CORRIGENDA: The following amendments are made to the notification in the London Gazette dated 3rd Aug. 1920, page 8062, publishing mentions in General Sir C. C. Monro's Despatch for operations against Afghanistan: — Under No. 39 (Divisional Signal) Company, for "Din Khan, Subadar, 84th Punjabis (attached)," read " Jamal Din Khan, Subadar, 84th Punjabis (attached)"; and for " Hasham Khan, No. 23549, Havildar, 57th Wilde's Rifles (Frontier Force) (attached)," read " Hasham Khan, No. 2439, Havildar, 57th Wilde's Rifles Frontier Force) (attached)."
- London Gazette re further mentions in despatches
- CORRECTION: The following amendment is made in the lists of Officers, Ladies, Warrant Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers, Men, and others brought to notice for distinguished services during the operations against Afghanistan by General Sir C. C. Monro, in his despatch dated 1st November, 1919, which appear in Supplementary London Gazette No. 32202 dated Tuesday, 3rd August, 1920: — Under "15th Lancers (Cureton's Multanis)" Delete "Sikandar Khan, No. 70 Defadar"; Under " Army Remount Department," After "Balwant Singh, Jemadar, 3rd Skinner's Horse," Insert " Sikandar Khan, No. 70 Defadar."
- London Gazette re staff appointments held
- London Gazette re staff appointments held (corrections)
- London Gazette re mentions in despatches (corrections)
- The following amendment is made to the London Gazette notification dated 3rd August, 1920, in the lists of Officers, Ladies, Warrant Officers, Non-commissioned Officers and Men brought to notice for distinguished services during, the operations against Afghanistan by General Sir C. C. Monro, in his despatch, dated 1st November, 1919: — Under "1st Battalion, 107th Pioneers," for " Kuul Kiftr, No. 3444 Lance Naik," read " Zulfikar, No. 3474 Lance Naik."
- London Gazette re staff appointments held (corrections)
- London Gazette re staff appointments held (corrections)
- The following correction is made to the London Gazette notification dated 22nd July 1921, regarding the appointments on the Staff of the Force employed on the North-West Frontier in connection with the late Afghan War: — Under the heading of Brigade Commanders, delete "Col. (temp. Brig.-Gen.) A. O. McCrea, I.A., from 13th May to 27th July 1919."
- London Gazette re mentions in despatches (corrections)
- The following corrections and additions are made to the London Gazette, dated 22nd July 1921, regarding appointments on the Staff of the Force employed on the North-West Frontier in connection with the late Afghan War: — Under the sub-heading "Staff Captains, Royal Artillery," for "Lieutenant (temporary Captain) A. R. Young," read "Lieutenant (temporary Captain) R. A. Young."; Under the sub-heading " Deputy Assistant Directors of Medical Services," insert " Captain D. Reynolds, Royal Army Medical Corps, from 5th June to 16th October 1919."
- London Gazette re staff appointments held (corrections)
- London Gazette re staff appointments held (corrections)
- London Gazette re OBE
- London Gazette, Issue 32156, 18 December 1920 re Operations in Waziristan November 1919 to May 1920
- London Gazette, Issue 32682, 26 April 1922 re Operations in Waziristan May 1920 to March 1921
- London Gazette, Issue 32773, 4 December 1922 re Operations in Waziristan April 1921 to December 1921
- London Gazette Issue 31192 published on the 18 February 1919 re Operations in Mesopotamia April to September 1918