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Breakspeare

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Breakspeare (alternatively Breakspear) is a surname. It may refer to:

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  • Breakspear, pen name of William Lysander Adams (1821-1906), American writer and newspaper editor in Oregon, later a doctor
  • Nicholas Breakspear, birth name of Pope Adrian IV (c.1100-1159), the only English Pope
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