Deben Misra
Deben may refer to: * Deben (unit), a weight unit used in ancient Egypt * River Deben, a river in Suffolk, England * John Gummer, Baron Deben * Deben, a variant spelling of Dibeng, Northern Cape, South Africa See also * Debden (other) Debden may refer to: Places Canada * Debden, Saskatchewan, Canada England * Debden, Epping Forest, a suburb of Loughton, in the Epping Forest district of Essex ** Debden House, a residential adult education college in Loughton, Essex ** Debden tub ...

Deben (unit)
The deben was an ancient Egyptian weight unit. Old and Middle Kingdom Stone weights from the Old Kingdom have been found, weighing about . Similar weights from the Middle Kingdom were discovered at Lisht. From the Middle Kingdom date also ''deben'' weight units used for metals, referred to as copper deben and gold deben, the former being about twice as heavy () as the latter. New Kingdom From the New Kingdom one ''deben'' was equal to about . It was divided into ten ''kidet'' (alt. ''kit'', ''kite'' or ''qedet''), or into what is referred to by Egyptologists as 'pieces', one twelfth of a ''deben'' weighing . It was frequently used to denote value of goods, by comparing their worth to a weight of metal, generally silver or copper. Protocurrency It has been speculated that pieces of metal weighing a deben were kept in boxes, taken to markets, and were used as a means of exchange. Archaeologists have been unable to find any such standardized pieces of precious metal. On the other ...
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River Deben
The River Deben is a river in Suffolk rising to the west of Debenham, though a second, higher source runs south from the parish of Bedingfield. The river passes through Woodbridge, turning into a tidal estuary before entering the North Sea at Felixstowe Ferry. The mouth of the estuary is crossed by a ferry connecting Felixstowe and Bawdsey.Ordnance Survey of Great Britain History Both the river-name and the name of the village of Debenham are of uncertain origin and relationship, but one theory (of several on offer) is that the river's name was originally ''Dēope'' meaning 'the deep one'. The river-name, however, is not recorded in the form Deben before 1735, when it appears thus in Kirby's ''Suffolk Traveller''. The river, though still little more than a stream, is forded twice in the village, with one ford claimed to be among the longest in England. Tide mills at Woodbridge have operated off the tide from the river Deben since at least 1170. The present mill, built in 1793 ...
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John Gummer
John Selwyn Gummer, Baron Deben, (born 26 November 1939) is a British Conservative Party politician, formerly the Member of Parliament (MP) for Suffolk Coastal and now a member of the House of Lords. He was Conservative Party Chairman from 1983 to 1985 and held various government posts including Secretary of State for the Environment from 1993 to 1997. Gummer stood down from the House of Commons at the 2010 general election and was appointed to the House of Lords as Lord Deben. Lord Deben is Chairman of the UK's independent Committee on Climate Change. He also chairs the sustainability consultancy Sancroft International, recycler Valpak, and PIMFA (Personal Investment & Financial Advice Association). He is a director of ''The Catholic Herald'' and the Castle Trust – a mortgage and investment firm. He is a trustee of climate change charity Cool Earth, alongside the ocean conservation charity, Blue Marine Foundation. Early life Gummer was born in Stockport, Cheshire. He is t ...
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Dibeng
Dibeng is a town in John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality in the Northern Cape province of South Africa, situated on the banks of the dry Gamagara River. The name is Tswana Tswana may refer to: * Tswana people, the Bantu speaking people in Botswana, South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and other Southern Africa regions * Tswana language, the language spoken by the (Ba)Tswana people * Bophuthatswana, the former ba ... in origin, from ''deben'', and means "first drinking place". Deben is a variant spelling. See also * :af:NG gemeente Deben References Populated places in the Gamagara Local Municipality {{NorthernCape-geo-stub ...
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