text: Tan Sri Dato'

text: Dr.

text: Lee Foundation

text: Tan Kah Kee

text: Nan'an

text: Fujian Province

text: Qing dynasty

text: Anglo-Tamil School

text: Chung Cheng High School

text: Xinhai Revolution

text: Nanjing

text: Tangshan

text: Southwest Jiaotong University

text: Tao Nan School

text: Tan Kah Kee

text: Muar

text: Johor

text: North Borneo

text: Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation

text: The Chinese High School

text: Hwa Chong Institution

text: Nan Chiau Teachers' Training College

text: Nan Chiau High School

text: Columbia University

text: World War II

text: National University of Singapore

text: Lee Foundation

text: Anglo-Chinese School

text: St. Margaret's Secondary School

text: Methodist Girls' School

text: Singapore Chinese Girls' School

text: Tao Nan School

text: Anglican High School

text: Lee Kong Chian School of Business

text: Singapore Management University

text: Lee Foundation

text: Old National Library

text: Stamford Road

text: Doctor of Laws

text: University of Malaya

text: Yang di-Pertuan Agong

text: Putra of Perlis

text: Panglima Mangku Negara

text: Tan Sri

text: Dato'

text: Johor

text: Kelantan

text: Doctor of Letters

text: Lee Kong Chian Reference Library

text: National Library, Singapore

text: National University of Singapore

text: Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum

text: Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine

text: Nanyang Technological University

text: Lee Kong Chian School of Business

text: Singapore Management University

text: Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman

text: Methodist College Kuala Lumpur

text: Hwa Chong Institution

text: Lee Kong Chian Gardens School

text: Anglican High School

text: Nan Chiau High School

text: Anglo-Chinese School (Independent)

text: Marine Parade

text: Kuo Chuan Presbyterian Secondary School

text: Kuo Chuan Presbyterian Primary School

text: Hwa Chong Institution

text: Order of the Defender of the Realm

categories: Singaporean people of Hokkien descent,Jinan University alumni,Singaporean philanthropists,Hokkien businesspeople,Singaporean businesspeople,Commanders of the Order of the Defender of the Realm,1893 births,1967 deaths

paragraph: Lee Kong Chian

paragraph: Tan Sri Dato' Dr. Lee Kong Chian (18 October 1893 – 2 June 1967), also known as Li Guangqian or by his alias Lee Geok Kun (Li Yukun), was a prominent Chinese businessman and philanthropist active in Malaya and Singapore from the 1930s to the 1960s. He was the founder of the Lee Foundation and one of the richest men in Southeast Asia in the 1950s and 1960s. He was also the son-in-law of Tan Kah Kee, another well-known Chinese businessman and philanthropist based in Southeast Asia.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Lee was born in Furong Village, Nan'an, Fujian Province towards the end of the Qing dynasty of China. His father was Lee Kuo Chuan (). He received his early education in private schools in his hometown. In 1903, at the age of 10, he came to Singapore, then a British colony, to join his father. Lee studied at the now defunct Anglo-Tamil School and Chung Cheng High School.

paragraph: Lee returned to China in 1909 to complete his education under a scholarship, but it had to end in 1911 as the Xinhai Revolution broke out. In China, Lee studied at Chi Nan College in Nanjing and later the Railway and Mining College in Tangshan, which was then one of the top colleges in China and a forerunner of the present-day Southwest Jiaotong University and North China University of Science and Technology.

paragraph: Upon returning to Singapore, Lee worked as a teacher at Tao Nan School and as a translator at a Chinese-language newspaper company. He also worked as an assistant field surveyor with the Public Works Department. In 1915, he joined the China Guohua Company owned by Tan Kah Kee, and became Tan's protégé. He was promoted to manager of the Tan Kah Kee Rubber Company in 1917. Three years later, he married Tan's daughter, Tan Ai Leh ().

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Seven years later, Lee set up his own rubber smoking house in Muar, Johor, Malaya, which became the Nam Aik Rubber Company in 1928. His enterprises of rubber planting and manufacture, pineapple planting and canning soon expanded to other parts of Southeast Asia, including Singapore, Malaya, North Borneo, Indonesia and Thailand. He was known as "Southeast Asia's Rubber and Pineapple King". He became one of the richest men in the region, with the Lee Rubber Company becoming a multimillion-dollar business which he started in 1931. His brother George Lee joined him at the company. At the height of their fortune, the company's worth was estimated to be S$600 million.

paragraph: Lee also went into banking. He became the general manager and vice-chairman of Huayi Bank. In 1933, he was appointed as the vice-chairman of Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC), a corporation formed from the merger of three Chinese banks.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Supporting education.

paragraph: In 1934, Lee became the chairman of the board of directors of The Chinese High School (now Hwa Chong Institution), a post he held until 1957. In 1939, Lee founded Guozhuan Primary School in his hometown, Furong Village. In 1941, Lee donated his properties in River Valley, Singapore for the establishment of Nan Chiau Teachers' Training College (present Nan Chiau High School). He gave lectures in Columbia University during World War II while he was stranded in the United States. Lee became the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Singapore (now the National University of Singapore) and donated S$1 million for the development of a medical college on the college's grounds. Other institutions received financial support from the Lee Foundation, including the National University of Singapore, Anglo-Chinese School, St. Margaret's Secondary School, Methodist Girls' School, Singapore Chinese Girls' School, Tao Nan School, Anglican High School and The Chinese High School. The Lee Kong Chian School of Business of the Singapore Management University was named in his honour.

paragraph: Like Tan Kah Kee, Lee poured his wealth into education and other philanthropic work. He set up the Lee Foundation in Singapore in 1952 and in Malaya in 1960. In 1965, the Lee Foundation Limited was established in Hong Kong. Lee spearheaded free public library services for the nation when he donated S$375,000 through the Lee Foundation to allow the Singapore government to build the Old National Library building at Stamford Road. Between 1952 and 1993, the Foundation donated sums amounting to S$300 million to various causes with no conditions attached.

paragraph: Section::::Later life.

paragraph: Lee's work and generous contributions to education and society were recognised. He was conferred an honorary Doctor of Laws by the University of Malaya in 1958. In 1964, Malaysia's Yang di-Pertuan Agong (head of state), Putra of Perlis, awarded Lee the title Panglima Mangku Negara (PMN), hence Lee was known by the honorific "Tan Sri". Prior to that, Lee had been made Dato' by the Sultans of Johor and Kelantan in 1957 and 1959 respectively. He became the chairman of OCBC Bank in 1938 and remained in that position until his death. In 1965, Lee was conferred another honorary degree, Doctor of Letters, by the University of Singapore in recognition of his services to the university and his contributions to arts and education.

paragraph: Section::::Legacy.

paragraph: Lee died in 1967 and is survived by three sons and three daughters.

paragraph: Section::::Legacy.:Places named after Lee Kong Chian.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lee Kong Chian Reference Library, National Library, Singapore

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lee Kong Chian Wing, University Hall, National University of Singapore

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, National University of Singapore

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lee Kong Chian Centre for Mathematical Research, National University of Singapore

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lee Kong Chian Lecture Theatre, Nanyang Technological University

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lee Kong Chian Faculty of Engineering and Science, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman

paragraph: BULLET::::- Tan Sri Lee Kong Chian Hall, Methodist College Kuala Lumpur

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kong Chian Administration Centre, Hwa Chong Institution

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kong Chian Library, Hwa Chong Institution (High School Section)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lee Kong Chian Gardens School, LGS-MINDS

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lee Kong Chian Library, Anglican High School

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kong Chian Hall, Nan Chiau High School

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lee Kong Chian Auditorium CPA 2, Anglo-Chinese School (Independent)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kong Chian Hall, SJK(C) Cheng Siu 1

paragraph: Section::::Legacy.:Places named after Lee Kong Chian's father.

paragraph: There are also some places named after Lee's father, Lee Kuo Chuan, including:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kuo Chuan Avenue, a road in Singapore's Marine Parade district

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kuo Chuan Presbyterian Secondary School

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kuo Chuan Presbyterian Primary School

paragraph: BULLET::::- Heritage Centre, Hwa Chong Institution (High School Section), previously known as Kuo Chuan Art Centre

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lee Kuo Chuan Stadium, Anglican High School

paragraph: Section::::Honour.

paragraph: Section::::Honour.:Honour of Malaysia.

paragraph: BULLET::::- : Commander of the Order of the Defender of the Realm (P.M.N.) (1964)

description: Singaporean businessman

wikidata_label: Lee Kong Chian

wikipedia_title: Lee Kong Chian


text:
Republic of the Congo
Mouvement National Congolais
Albert Kalonji
Patrice Lumumba
Joseph Kasa-Vubu
Justin Marie Bomboko
National Assembly
Parti Démocrate Social Chrétien

categories: People from Kinshasa,Presidents of the Senate (Democratic Republic of the Congo),Mouvement National Congolais politicians,1994 deaths,Prime Ministers of the Democratic Republic of the Congo,1921 births,Presidents of the National Assembly (Democratic Republic of the Congo),People of the Congo Crisis,Democratic Social Christian Party politicians

paragraph: Joseph Iléo

paragraph: Joseph Iléo (15 September 1921 – 19 September 1994), later called Sombo Amba Iléo, was a politician in the Republic of the Congo and was prime minister for two periods.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Joseph Iléo was born on 15 September 1921.

paragraph: In 1956, he was one of the authors of "Manifeste de la Conscience Africaine", which demanded the right of Africans to self-rule. In 1958, he was one of the founders of the "Mouvement National Congolais". When the movement split a year later, he joined the camp led by Albert Kalonji.

paragraph: Section::::After independence and later life.

paragraph: Iléo was voted into the Senate and then voted its president on June 1960. Upon the dismissal of then-prime minister Patrice Lumumba, Iléo was declared prime minister by Congolese president, Joseph Kasa-Vubu, on 5 September 1960. He held the post until 20 September 1960. Under his successor, Justin Marie Bomboko, he served as Minister of Information. He was again declared prime minister on 9 February 1961. He remained in this post until 2 August 1961.

paragraph: From March to December 1979 Iléo served as President of the National Assembly.

paragraph: In April 1990, he founded the "Parti Démocrate Social Chrétien", serving as chairman of the party until his death. He died on 19 September 1994, aged 73.

description: Congolese Prime Minister

wikidata_label: Joseph Iléo

wikipedia_title: Joseph Iléo


text: Gaza

text: Rhetor

text: bishop

text: ecclesiastical historian

text: Melitene

text: Mytilene

text: Gaza

text: rhetorics

text: Alexandria

text: philosophy

text: Christians

text: Pagan

text: Horapollo

text: Severus

text: patriarch

text: Antioch

text: Beirut

text: law school

text: Palestine

text: Constantinople

text: Miaphysite

text: Christology

text: Chalcedonians

text: Lesbos

text: terminus ante quem

text: Synod

text: Greek

text: ecclesiastical history

text: Eupraxius

text: Evagrius Scholasticus

text: Monophysitic

text: Peter the Iberian

text: Isaiah the Younger

text: Ammonius Hermiae

text: Manichaeans

text: Syriac

text: Amida

text: ecclesiastical

text: Byzantine

text: J. B. Bury

text: Liverpool University Press

categories: Byzantine historians,5th-century Byzantine people,460s births,6th-century Byzantine writers,6th-century Christians,6th-century bishops,5th-century Christians,Byzantine jurists,6th-century Byzantine people,6th-century historians,5th-century Byzantine writers,6th-century deaths

paragraph: Zacharias Rhetor

paragraph: Zacharias of Mytilene (c. 465, Gaza – after 536), also known as Zacharias Scholasticus or Zacharias Rhetor, was a bishop and ecclesiastical historian.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: The life of Zacharias of Mytilene can be reconstructed only from a few scattered reports in contemporary sources (the accounts are also partly conflicting – for example, some Syrian authors have "Melitene" instead of "Mytilene"). Zacharias was born and raised in a Christian family near Gaza, which hosted a significant school of rhetorics in late antiquity. That was also where he received his initial education. In 485, he travelled to Alexandria, where he studied philosophy for two years. In Alexandria, he was embroiled in a conflict between Christians and Pagans in connection with the Horapollo affair. It was also there he met Severus, who was later to become a notable patriarch of Antioch. Zacharias travelled in 487 to Beirut to study law at its law school. He stayed there, leading a very ascetic life, until 491, but he also made several journeys to different parts of Palestine in search for religious knowledge. He finally moved to Constantinople, where he worked as a lawyer for a long time. Zacharias, who was Miaphysite in Christology, yet not ardently opposing Chalcedonians, seems to have often played with the thought of becoming a monk. He apparently had good contacts with the Imperial court and that probably won him the appointment as Bishop of Mytilene (on Lesbos). His successor is known to have taken the post in 553, setting the terminus ante quem for his death. He was certainly alive in 536, as he took part in the Synod in Constantinople that year.

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: Zacharias composed several works in Greek, among which is an ecclesiastical history that was probably completed towards the end of the 5th century. The document, dedicated to Eupraxius, a dignitary, contains valuable historical material and describes the time period from 451 to 491. It was used by Evagrius Scholasticus for his own history.

paragraph: Zacharias also composed three biographies of Monophysitic clergymen who he had met personally: the above-mentioned Severus, Peter the Iberian and the Egyptian monk Isaiah the Younger. The biographies have been preserved with varying quality. Zacharias also wrote several polemic works, e.g. against the philosopher Ammonius Hermiae and against the Manichaeans.

paragraph: Section::::Works.:Pseudo-Zacharias Rhetor.

paragraph: While all original versions of Zacharias's ecclesiastical histories were later lost, a truncated and revised Syriac version was preserved, by an author believed to have been a Monophysite monk from Amida. This anonymous author, who has been commonly known as Pseudo-Zacharias Rhetor, incorporated it in "Historia Miscellanea", a 12-book compilation of ecclesiastical histories. Pseudo-Zacharias's edition of Zacharias's ecclesiastical history, constituting books 3-6, is also usually known as "Pseudo-Zacharias Rhetor".

paragraph: The first English translation of "Pseudo-Zacharias Rhetor" was not published until in 1899 under the title "The Syriac Chronicle" by F. J. Hamilton and E. W. Brooks. It was part of a five-volume series, "Byzantine Texts", edited by J. B. Bury. A new English translation was published by Liverpool University Press in 2011 under the title "The Chronicle of Pseudo-Zachariah Rhetor: Church and War in Late Antiquity". Edited by Geoffrey Greatrex and translated into English by Robert R. Phenix and Cornelia B. Horn, it consists of a translation of books 3-12 of "Historia Miscellanea"; a second volume is planned for the translation of books 1-2.

paragraph: Section::::Literature.

paragraph: Section::::Literature.:Editions and Translations.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Zacharias of Mytilene, Ammonius". Transl. by S. Gertz. London 2012.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Chronicle of Pseudo-Zachariah Rhetor: Church and War in Late Antiquity". Ed. by G. Greatrex. Liverpool 2011.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Historia ecclesiastica Zachariae Rhetori vulgo adscripta". Ed. by E.W. Brooks. Louvain 1919-1924 [with Latin translation].

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Die sogennante Kirchengeschichte des Zacharias Rhetor". Transl. by K. Ahrens & G. Krüger. Leipzig 1899.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Syriac Chronicle known as that of Zachariah of Mitylene". Transl. by F. J. Hamilton & E. W. Brooks. London 1899.

paragraph: Section::::Literature.:Secondary sources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- P. Allen: "Zachariah Scholasticus and the Historia Ecclesiastica of Evagrius". In: JTS 31 (1980), p. 471–488.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ecclesiastical History of Zacharias Rhetor

alias:
Zacharias of Mytilene
Zacharias Scholasticus

description: 5th–6th century Bishop of Mytilene

wikidata_label: Zacharias Rhetor

wikipedia_title: Zacharias Rhetor


text: Irish

text: Grand Fenwick

text: The Mouse That Roared

text: novel

text: short stories

text: poem

text: mystery series

text: Sarge

text: juvenile books

text: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

text: historical fiction

text: Thomas Jefferson

text: auto racing

text: young adults

text: science fiction

text: The Mouse That Roared

text: The Mouse on the Moon

text: The Hands of Cormac Joyce

text: Dublin

text: Irish

text: Thomas Wibberley

text: FRSA

text: University College, Cork

text: National University of Ireland

text: Queen's University Belfast

text: UK

text: confirmation

text: noms de plume

text: matronymic

text: Shinaid

text: copy boy

text: Sunday Dispatch

text: Daily Mirror

text: Trinidad

text: Associated Press

text: Evening News

text: California

text: Los Angeles Times

text: Hermosa Beach, California

text: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

text: William Morrow

text: Dodd, Mead and Company

text: Bantam Books

text: Four Walls Eight Windows

text: Rosalind Russell

text: Trinidad

text: Olga Morton-Gittens

text: Cormac Wibberley

text: Santa Monica, California

text: The Day New York Was Invaded

text: Leonard Wibberley

categories: Irish historical novelists,1915 births,Irish fantasy writers,Writers of historical novels set in Early Modern period,People from County Dublin,Nautical historical novelists,1983 deaths,20th-century novelists

paragraph: Leonard Wibberley

paragraph: Leonard Patrick O'Connor Wibberley (9 April 1915 – 22 November 1983), who also published under the name Patrick O'Connor, among others, was a prolific and versatile Irish author who spent most of his life in the United States. Wibberley, who published more than 100 books, is perhaps best known for five satirical novels about an imaginary country Grand Fenwick, particularly "The Mouse That Roared" (1955).

paragraph: Wibberley's adult and juvenile publications cut across the categories of fictional novels, history, and biography. He also wrote short stories (several published in "The Saturday Evening Post"), plays and long verse poems. Some of his books are in series. Besides the 'Mouse' series, as Leonard Holton, he created the eleven-novel 'Father Bredder' mystery series (basis of a television series, "Sarge") about "a major figure in the clerical crime drama". Among his more than 50 juvenile books are (with Farrar, Straus and Giroux), a seven-volume 'Treegate' series of historical fiction and a four-volume life of Thomas Jefferson. As Patrick O'Connor, he wrote the Black Tiger series on auto racing, for young adults. Wibberley is also classified as a science fiction writer.

paragraph: Throughout the decades, scenes and senses of the sea play important parts in both Wibberley's fiction and nonfiction. Three of his novels have been made into movies: "The Mouse That Roared" (1959), "The Mouse on the Moon" (1963), and "The Hands of Cormac Joyce" (1972).

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: In 1915, Leonard Wibberley was born in Dublin, the youngest of six children. His family moved to Cork and, until the age of eight, he was educated in Irish at Ring College, Waterford, Ireland. After moving to England, he attended Abbey House, Romsey, Hampshire and then Cardinal Vaughan's Memorial School in London. His father, Thomas Wibberley, FRSA, Professor of Agricultural Research, University College, Cork (one of the three constituents of the National University of Ireland) and Queen's University Belfast, was an experimental agronomist. He wrote several books contending his methods and inventions would allow the UK, absent empire, to feed itself (see "Farming on Factory Lines: continuous cropping for the large farmer" (London, 1919)). In 1921, the elder Wibberley was made a Fellow of the Linnean Society.

paragraph: Leonard's second name, "Patrick", was his confirmation name; his third, which he used as one of several "noms de plume", was his matronymic, from his school-teacher mother, Shinaid O'Connor". On his father's death, Wibberley began a long career in newspapers, in London, as copy boy for the "Sunday Dispatch" (1931–32), then reporter for the "Sunday Express" (1932–34) and "Daily Mirror" (London, 1934–36), and was also assistant London editor for the "Malayan Straits Times" and the "Singapore Free Press". He then emigrated for Trinidad, where he held several jobs, first, briefly, as editor of the Trinidad "Evening News" (1936), thereafter as an oilfield worker for Trinidad Leaseholds Ltd (1936–43), before immigrating to New York City in 1943. There he was initially employed by Walsh Kaiser Shipyards, but soon found important jobs in journalism again, as Cable Dispatch Editor for the "Associated Press" (New York City) during the war years of 1943–44 and New York Correspondent and Bureau Chief for the London "Evening News" (1944–46).

paragraph: In 1947 Wibberley moved permanently to California, working in newspapers, first (1947) as city editor of the "Turlock Daily Journal", then as editor of the "Independent Journal," San Rafael (1947–49), next as copy editor then reporter, for the "Los Angeles Times" (1950–54). While working for the "Times" he began his novel-writing career. At age 37 he published his first novel,"The King's Beard" (1952). Leaving the newspaper business, he settled permanently in Hermosa Beach, California, as a full-time author, publishing 100 more books, at a rate of at least one a year and averaging more than three. Many were with three publishers: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; William Morrow; Dodd, Mead and Company. The best-known of Wibberley's books, "The Mouse that Roared", was kept in print for some time by Bantam Books and then Four Walls Eight Windows. It, like the succeeding four 'Mouse' books, is available as an e-book.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: Wibberley took part in plays, did local radio readings and wrote a weekly syndicated column for the "San Francisco Chronicle", 'The Wibberley Papers'. His writing activities included unpublished and uncompleted projects, such as an unfinished 1958 collaboration with his friend Rosalind Russell on a musical script adaptation from his "McGillicuddy McGotham", titled "Little Mac" (note picture above). His two marriages, in Trinidad with Olga Morton-Gittens, and in California with Hazel Holton, produced seven children, including film writer Cormac Wibberley among six by the latter.

paragraph: Section::::Death.

paragraph: Wibberley died of a heart attack in Santa Monica, California, aged 68, on 22 November 1983.

paragraph: Section::::Legacy.

paragraph: Wibberley donated manuscripts and proofs of many of his works to "The Leonard Wibberley Archive" of the library collections of the University of Southern California, where they are available, but not online.

paragraph: In 1993, Borgo Press published a posthumous book of his last short writings.

paragraph: Section::::Published adult writing.

paragraph: Section::::Published adult writing.:Short stories, novellas.

paragraph: Section::::Published adult writing.:Short stories, novellas.:"The Saturday Evening Post".

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Day New York Was Invaded" (25 December 1954; 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 January 1955)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Hands of Cormac Joyce", novelette (issue includes picture of author): 232, n 29 (16 January 1960)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Time of the Lamb" 233 n 26, combined issues ( 24–31 December 1960)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Captive Outfielder": 234, n 12 (21 March 1961)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Ballad of the Pilgrim Cat": 234, n 44 (18 November 1961)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Man Who Lived on Water": 235, n 13 (31 March 1962)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Prevarication Jones": 235, n 24 (2 June 1962); repr. Sept.-Oct. 1994

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Two Angels on Duty": 235, n 28 (28 July 1962); repr. September 1996

paragraph: Section::::Published adult writing.:The "Mouse" series.

paragraph: BULLET::::- (e-book, 2015)

paragraph: BULLET::::- With Cathy Hill (illustrator) (e-book, 2015)

paragraph: BULLET::::- (e-book, 2015)

paragraph: BULLET::::- (e-book, 2015)

paragraph: BULLET::::- (e-book, 2015)

paragraph: Section::::Published adult writing.:Other novels.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Mrs Searwood's Secret Weapon". Boston: Little, Brown, 1954

paragraph: BULLET::::- "McGillicuddy McGotham". Boston: Little, Brown, 1956; New York: William Morrow, 1966 (e-book, 2016)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Take Me to Your President". New York: Putnam, 1957 (e-book, 2017)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Quest of Excalibur". New York: Putnam, 1959

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Stranger At Killknock". New York: Putnam, 1961

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A Feast of Freedom". New York: William Morrow, 1964 (e-book, 2016)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Island of the Angels". New York: William Morrow, 1964

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Centurion". New York: William Morrow, 1966 (e-book, 2015)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Road from Toomi." New York: William Morrow, 1967

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Hands of Cormac Joyce". New York: William Morrow, 1967

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Adventures of an Elephant Boy". New York: William Morrow, 1968 (e-book, 2017)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Meeting with a Great Beast". New York: William Morrow, 1971

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Flint's Island: A sequel to 'Treasure Island' ". New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1972 (e-book, 2015)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Testament of Theophilus: a novel of Christ and Caesar". New York: William Morrow, 1972 (published in paperback as "The Seven Hills" (Major Books, 1973) and in the U.K. as "Merchant of Rome" (Cassell, 1974), e-book as "Body of Proof" (2017))

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Last Stand of Father Felix". New York: William Morrow, 1973

paragraph: BULLET::::- "1776—and All That". New York. William Morrow, 1975

paragraph: BULLET::::- "One in Four". New York: William Morrow, 1976

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Homeward to Ithaka". New York: William Morrow, 1978

paragraph: Section::::Published adult writing.:As Leonard Holton: "Father Joseph Bredder" mystery series, Dodd, Mead (New York).

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Saint Maker", 1959 (e-book, 2015)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A Pact with Satan", 1960 (e-book, 2016)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Secret of the Doubting Saint", 1961 (e-book, 2015)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Deliver Us from Wolves", 1963 (e-book, 2015)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Flowers by Request", 1964 (e-book, 2015)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Out of the Depths", 1966 (e-book, 2016)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A Touch of Jonah", 1968 (e-book, 2016)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A Problem in Angels", 1970 (e-book, 2016)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Mirror of Hell", 1972 (e-book, 2017)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Devil to Play", 1974

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A Corner of Paradise", 1977

paragraph: Section::::Published adult writing.:Non-fiction.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Trouble with the Irish (or the English, Depending on Your Point of View)". New York: Henry Holt, 1956

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Coming of the Green". New York: Henry Holt, 1958

paragraph: BULLET::::- "No Garlic in the Soup!: A Portuguese Adventure". New York: Ives Washburn, 1959

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Land That Isn't There: An Irish Adventure". New York: Ives Washburn, 1960.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Yesterday's Land: A Baja California Adventure". New York: Ives Washburn, 1961

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Zebulon Pike: Soldier and Explorer". New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1961

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Ventures into the Deep". New York: Ives Washburn, 1962

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Ah, Julian!: A Memoir of Julian Brodetsky". New York: William Morrow, 1963

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Fiji: Islands of the Dawn." New York: Ives Washburn, 1964

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Toward a Distant Island: A Sailor's Odyssey". New York: Ives Washburn, 1966.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Hound of the Sea: The Story of a Racing Yacht". New York: Ives Washburn, 1969

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Voyage by Bus: Seeing America by Land Yacht". New York: William Morrow, 1971

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Shannon Sailors: A Voyage to the Heart of Ireland". New York: William Morrow, 1972

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Good-Natured Man: A Portrait of Oliver Goldsmith". New York: William Morrow, 1979

paragraph: Section::::Published youth (juvenile) writing.

paragraph: Section::::Published youth (juvenile) writing.:As Christopher Webb, with Funk & Wagnalls, New York.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Mark Toyman's Inheritance", 1960

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The River of Pee Dee Jack", 1962

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Quest of the Otter", 1963

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Matt Tyler's Chronicle", 1966

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The "Ann and Hope" Mutiny", 1966

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Eusebius the Phoenician", 1969

paragraph: Section::::Published youth (juvenile) writing.:As Patrick O'Connor.

paragraph: Section::::Published youth (juvenile) writing.:As Patrick O'Connor.:"Black Tiger" series, E. M. Hale (Eau Claire, Wisc.).

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Black Tiger", 1956

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Mexican Road Race", 1957

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Black Tiger at Le Mans", 1958

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Black Tiger at Bonneville", 1960

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Black Tiger at Indianapolis", 1962

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A Car Called Camellia", 1970

paragraph: Section::::Published youth (juvenile) writing.:As Patrick O'Connor.:Ives Washburn (New York).

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Society of Foxes" (illus. Clyde N. Geary), 1954

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Flight of the Peacock", 1954

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Watermelon Mystery", 1955

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Gunpowder for Washington", 1956

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Lost Harpooner", 1957

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Five-Dollar Watch Mystery", 1959

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Treasure at Twenty Fathoms", 1961

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Raising of the Dubhe", 1964

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Seawind from Hawaii", 1965

paragraph: BULLET::::- "South Swell", 1967

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Beyond Hawaii", 1969

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The King's Beard", 1952 (before FS & G bought Ariel)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Secret of the Hawk", 1953

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Deadmen's Cave", 1954

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Wound of Peter Wayne", 1955

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Kevin O'Connor and the Light Brigade", 1957

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Encounter Near Venus", 1967

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Attar of the Ice Valley", 1968

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Journey to Untor", 1970

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Perilous Gold", 1978

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Crime of Martin Coverly", 1980

paragraph: Section::::Published youth (juvenile) writing.:Farrar, Straus & Giroux Ariel youth books.:"John Treegate" series (originally four).

paragraph: BULLET::::- "John Treegate's Musket", 1959

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Peter Treegate's War", 1960 (e-book, 2013)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Sea Captain from Salem", 1961 (e-book, 2010)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Treegate's Raiders", 1962

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Leopard's Prey", 1971

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Red Pawns", 1973

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Last Battle", 1976

paragraph: Section::::Published youth (juvenile) writing.:Farrar, Straus & Giroux Ariel youth books.:Non-fictional F S & G books.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Coronation Book: The dramatic story in its history and legend". Ariel, 1953

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Epics of Everest", 1955

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Life of Winston Churchill", 1956

paragraph: BULLET::::- "John Barry—Father of the Navy", 1957

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Wes Powell—Conqueror of the Colorado", 1958

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Guarneri: Story of a Genius", 1974

paragraph: Section::::Published youth (juvenile) writing.:Farrar, Straus & Giroux Ariel youth books.:Life of Thomas Jefferson historical novels.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Young Man from the Piedmont: The Youth of Thomas Jefferson" (1963)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A Dawn in the Trees: Thomas Jefferson, the Years 1776–1789" (1964)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Gales of Spring: Thomas Jefferson, the Years 1789–1801" (1965)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Time of the Harvest: Thomas Jefferson, the Years 1801–1826" (1966)

paragraph: Section::::Published youth (juvenile) writing.:Other juvenile fiction.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Little League Family". New York: Doubleday, 1978

paragraph: Section::::Collected short works.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Something to Read: A personal selection from his writing by this thoughtful, humorous man." New York: Ives Washburn, 1959

paragraph: Section::::Collected short works.:Plays and long verse pieces.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Once, in a Garden: A dramatic full length play". Chicago: Dramatic Publishing Co., 1975

paragraph: BULLET::::- "1776—And All That". New York: Morrow, 1975.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Black Jack Rides Again". Chicago: Dramatic Publishing Co., 1971.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Gift of a Star"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Heavenly Quarterback"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Mouse on Mars"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Mouse that Roared"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Take Me to Your President"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Two Angels on Duty"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Shepherd's Reward: A Christmas Legend." New York: Ives Washburn, 1959

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Ballad of the Pilgrim Cat". New York: Ives Washburn, 1962. Available as free audiobook, read by author.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Leonard Wibberley (official author website)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Wibberley Stories" compilation of radio readings of short pieces in 1983

description: Irish-American author

enwikiquote_title: Leonard Wibberley

wikidata_label: Leonard Wibberley

wikipedia_title: Leonard Wibberley


text: PC

text: British

text: Whig

text: Lord Melbourne

text: Lord John Russell

text: Lord Aberdeen

text: Lord Palmerston

text: Home Secretary

text: Sir George Grey, 1st Baronet

text: Charles Grey, 1st Earl Grey

text: Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey

text: Oriel College, Oxford

text: Devonport

text: House of Commons

text: Whig

text: Lord Grey

text: Lord Melbourne

text: William Ewart Gladstone

text: Judge Advocate General

text: Privy Council

text: Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

text: Whigs

text: general election

text: Lord John Russell

text: Home Secretary

text: hydropathy

text: Northumberland North

text: Home Office

text: Irish Potato Famine

text: Irish rebellion

text: Chartist movement

text: London

text: Devonport

text: 1852 general election

text: Morpeth

text: Lord Aberdeen

text: Colonial Secretary

text: Lord Palmerston

text: Home Secretary

text: Conservative

text: Earl of Derby

text: Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

text: 1874 general election

text: Liberal

text: Thomas Burt

text: Bishop of Lichfield

text: Edward

text: Viscount Grey of Fallodon

text: Earl Grey

categories: Chancellors of the Duchy of Lancaster,1882 deaths,Whig (British political party) MPs,UK MPs 1832–1835,1799 births,Secretaries of State for the Colonies,UK MPs 1835–1837,UK MPs 1847–1852,Alumni of Oriel College, Oxford,UK MPs 1859–1865,UK MPs 1865–1868,UK MPs 1837–1841,Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom,Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom,Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies,UK MPs 1852–1857,UK MPs 1857–1859,UK MPs 1841–1847

paragraph: Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet

paragraph: Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet, PC (11 May 1799 – 9 September 1882) was a British Whig politician. He held office under four Prime Ministers, Lord Melbourne, Lord John Russell, Lord Aberdeen, and Lord Palmerston, and notably served three times as Home Secretary.

paragraph: Section::::Background and education.

paragraph: Grey was the only son of Sir George Grey, 1st Baronet, third son of Charles Grey, 1st Earl Grey, and younger brother of Prime Minister Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey. His mother was Mary Whitbread, daughter of Samuel Whitbread. Grey was educated privately and at Oriel College, Oxford. Originally intending to become a priest, he instead chose law as his profession, and was called to the bar in 1826. He began a successful legal practice, but soon turned to politics.

paragraph: Section::::Political career, 1832–1853.

paragraph: Grey was elected to parliament as a Whig for Devonport in 1832, and quickly made his mark in the House of Commons. He did not hold office in the Whig administration of his uncle Lord Grey, but when Lord Melbourne became Prime Minister in 1834, he was appointed Under-Secretary of State for War and the Colonies. The government fell in December of that year, but returned to power in May 1835, when Grey resumed the post of Under-Secretary of State for War and the Colonies (succeeding William Ewart Gladstone). He retained this office until 1839, when he was made Judge Advocate General. The same year Grey was also admitted to the Privy Council. He was then briefly Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in 1841, with a seat in the cabinet for the first time. However, the Whigs were defeated in the general election of that year.

paragraph: The Whigs returned to power in July 1846 under Lord John Russell, who appointed Grey Home Secretary, the first of his three spells in this position. In 1846, Grey, "himself a zealous advocate of hydropathy" succeeded in getting passed The Baths and Washhouses Act, which promoted the voluntary establishment of public baths and washhouses in England and Wales. A series of statutes followed, which became known collectively as "The Baths and Wash-houses Acts 1846 to 1896". This was an important milestone in the improvement of sanitary conditions and public health in those times. He decided to leave his seat at Devonport, partly owing to the baths scandal, returning instead for his native Northumberland North in an 1847 by-election, from the family seat at Fallodon, which he had recently inherited from his uncle, Henry Grey.

paragraph: The new baronet sat throughout the parliament in active support of Lord John Russell, until the collapse of the ministry after the scandal of the Durham Letter, and controversial Ecclesiastical Titles bull. Traditional Whigs were Protestant, among them Grey, but the liberality of authorising a catholic hierarchy changed the nature of party politics. Grey's first tenure at the Home Office notably saw him deal with relief efforts to the victims of the Irish Potato Famine and trying to subdue the Irish rebellion of 1848. The latter year also saw the peak of the Chartist movement, which staged a massive rally in London in April. In 1847, Grey had left his old constituency in Devonport. He remained Home Secretary until the 1852 general election, when, despite enjoying widespread popularity, he lost his seat.

paragraph: Section::::Political career, 1853–1874.

paragraph: Grey remained out of parliament until January 1853, when he was returned for Morpeth. He at first refused to join the coalition government of Lord Aberdeen, but in June 1854 he accepted the post of Colonial Secretary. The coalition fell in February 1855, and the Whigs returned to office under Lord Palmerston. Grey was appointed to his old office of Home Secretary, which he retained until the government resigned in February 1858. The Conservative administration under the Earl of Derby which took office only lasted until June the following year, when Palmerston again became Prime Minister. Grey was now appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, but in 1861 he became Home Secretary for the third time. The government fell in 1866, and Grey was not to hold office again. Before the 1874 general election, he was overlooked as the Liberal candidate for Morpeth in favour of miners' leader Thomas Burt. This marked the end of Grey's public life and he spent the remainder of his life in retirement at his Fallodon estate in Northumberland. In 1873 Grey took his grandson, Edward on a tour of Scotland. The train they were travellers in, pulled in at the tiny village halt of Kingussie in the Highlands, where they were met on the platform by none other than William Gladstone.

paragraph: Section::::Family.

paragraph: Grey married Anna Sophia Ryder, eldest daughter of Henry Ryder, Bishop of Lichfield, a son of the Earl of Harrowby. They had one son, George Henry Grey (1835–1874). As his only son had predeceased him, he was succeeded in the baronetcy by his grandson, Edward. He was also to become a prominent Liberal politician, and served as Foreign Secretary from 1905 to 1916, when he was raised to the peerage as Viscount Grey of Fallodon.

paragraph: George Grey was an affectionate family man, a good sense of humour and quickness of mind. He was widely welcomed by a wide variety of friends. A devoted grandfather of seven, he often accompanied out riding, even until eighty years old. Ever an enthusiastic sportsman he encouraged his family to play tennis. He was a keen reader of the classics, with a great knowledge of Latin, Greek, and Hebrew; Shakespeare's plays, Walter Scott's poetry were part of their education. To the end he was conscientious of his children's welfare. He died with them around him, aged eighty-three. His eldest grandson, Edward inherited the estate at Fallodon, near Alnwick.

paragraph: His son and heir was:

paragraph: BULLET::::- George Henry Grey

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Earl Grey

paragraph: BULLET::::- Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

paragraph: Section::::Notes.

paragraph: "a. Online searches for reference to the relevant acts have so far yielded listings from the London Gazette. See also the Parliamentary Archives website.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bibliography

paragraph: BULLET::::- Dr.Creighton, A Memoir of Sir George Grey, Longmans & Co., 1901

paragraph: Section::::External links.

description: British politician

wikidata_label: Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet

wikipedia_title: Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet


text:
PC
FRS
British Liberal Party
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Lord Aberdeen
St Helen's House
Derby
William Strutt
Derbyshire
Jedediah Strutt
Trinity College, Cambridge
Cambridge Union
Master of Arts
British House of Commons
Derby
Arundel
Nottingham
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
Lord Aberdeen
coalition government
Privy Council
Belper
High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire
Lord Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire
Deputy Lieutenant
Fellow of the Royal Society
University College
William Otter
Bishop of Chichester
Henry Strutt, 2nd Baron Belper
Kenelm Edward Digby
George Murray Smith the Younger
Sir Denis Le Marchant, 1st Baronet
Bonn
Henry Strutt, 2nd Baron Belper
Ambrose Lisle March Phillipps De Lisle
Kingston Hall, Nottinghamshire
Eaton Square
Belgravia
Henry
St. Mary's Church, Nottingham
MP
MP
MP
PC
PC
FRS

categories: UK MPs 1832–1835,1801 births,UK MPs 1837–1841,Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies,Presidents of The Cambridge Union,1880 deaths,UK MPs 1852–1857,People from Derby,UK MPs 1835–1837,Lord-Lieutenants of Nottinghamshire,UK MPs 1830–1831,Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom,UK MPs 1841–1847,UK MPs 1831–1832,Chancellors of the Duchy of Lancaster,High Sheriffs of Nottinghamshire,Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge,UK MPs 1847–1852,Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom,British people of English descent

paragraph: Edward Strutt, 1st Baron Belper

paragraph: Edward Strutt, 1st Baron Belper PC FRS (26 October 1801 – 30 June 1880), was a British Liberal Party politician. He served as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from 1852 to 1854 under Lord Aberdeen.

paragraph: Section::::Background and education.

paragraph: Born at St Helen's House Derby, Strutt was the only son of William Strutt, of St Helen's House, Derbyshire, and the grandson of Jedediah Strutt. His mother was Barbara, daughter of Thomas Evans. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was President of the Cambridge Union in 1821. Strutt graduated as a Bachelor of Arts in 1823, promoted to Master of Arts three years later.

paragraph: Section::::Political career.

paragraph: Strutt entered the British House of Commons in 1830, sitting as Member of Parliament for Derby until 1848, when he was unseated on petition. He represented Arundel from 1851 to 1852 and Nottingham from 1852 to 1856. He was Chief Commissioner of Railways between 1846 and 1848 and served as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from 1853 to 1854 in Lord Aberdeen's coalition government. He was sworn of the Privy Council in 1846 and in 1856 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Belper, of Belper, in the County of Derby.

paragraph: Strutt also held the honorary posts of High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire in 1850 and Lord Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire between 1864 and 1880, having been previously a Deputy Lieutenant. In 1860 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and between 1871 and 1879, he was President of University College, London.

paragraph: Section::::Family.

paragraph: Lord Belper married Amelia Harriet Otter, daughter of the Right Reverend William Otter, Bishop of Chichester, on 28 March 1837. They had several children. They were the parents of Henry Strutt, 2nd Baron Belper.

paragraph: Children from the marriage were:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hon. Caroline Strutt (d. 23 July 1926) married Sir Kenelm Edward Digby, son of Rev. Hon. Kenelm Henry Digby and Caroline Sheppard, on 30 August 1870.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hon. Ellen Strutt (d. 31 December 1940) married George Murray Smith the Younger on 22 October 1885.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hon. Sophia Strutt (d. 2 December 1928) married Sir Henry Denis Le Marchant, 2nd Baronet., son of Sir Denis Le Marchant, 1st Baronet, on 7 September 1869.

paragraph: BULLET::::- William Strutt (7 May 1838 – 19 January 1856) died in Bonn, Germany.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Henry Strutt, 2nd Baron Belper (20 May 1840 – 26 July 1914)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hon. Arthur Strutt (3 Mar 1842 – 6 February 1877) married Alice Mary Elizabeth March Phillipps de Lisle, daughter of Ambrose Lisle March Phillipps De Lisle and Laura Maria Clifford, on 22 April 1873.

paragraph: He built his family seat, Kingston Hall, Nottinghamshire and moved in 1846.

paragraph: Lord Belper died at Eaton Square, Belgravia, London, in June 1880, aged 78, and was succeeded in the barony by his second but eldest surviving son, Henry. A stained glass window was erected in the north side of the chancel in St. Mary's Church, Nottingham in his memory. Lady Belper died in December 1890.

paragraph: Section::::Styles of address.

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1801–1830: Mr Edward Strutt

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1830–1846: Mr Edward Strutt MP

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1846–1848: "The Right Honourable" Edward Strutt MP

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1848–1851: "The Right Honourable" Edward Strutt

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1851–1856: "The Right Honourable" Edward Strutt MP

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1856–1860: "The Right Honourable" The Lord Belper PC

paragraph: BULLET::::- 1860–1880: "The Right Honourable" The Lord Belper PC FRS

description: British politician

wikidata_label: Edward Strutt, 1st Baron Belper

wikipedia_title: Edward Strutt, 1st Baron Belper


text: Newcastle Upon Tyne

text: Bristol

text: Oakfield

text: God Seed

text: Dante's Fool

text: Iron Man Project

text: Edge

text: Living in Flames

text: Dog Eat Dog

text: The Black Lake

text: The Social Club

text: Yellow Dawn

text: role-playing game

text: Cthulhu Mythos

text: H.P. Lovecraft

text: Great Old One

text: Outer God

text: Nyarlathotep

text: God Seed

text: Yellow Dawn

text: Hastur

text: Shadows of the Quantinex

text: Modiphius Entertainment

text: Cloudy Head

text: Kenn-Ole Moen

text: Murder at Sharky Point

text: murder mystery game

text: Through The Eyes of the Young

text: David J. Rodger official website

categories: British thriller writers,British horror writers,1970 births,2015 deaths

paragraph: David J. Rodger

paragraph: David J. Rodger (August 30, 1970 in Newcastle Upon Tyne – November 22, 2015 in Bristol) was a British author and game designer best known for his novels set in a near-future world of corporate and political intrigue. He published nine novels, all set in the same universe, both before and after an apocalyptic event. "Oakfield", "God Seed", "Dante's Fool", "Iron Man Project", "Edge" and "Living in Flames" are all near-future supernatural thrillers, while "Dog Eat Dog", "The Black Lake" and "The Social Club", are based in the world of "Yellow Dawn", a role-playing game set in the same future world ten years after it has been devastated by a terrible mutagenic virus.

paragraph: Rodger's novels combined high-tech intrigue and political/corporate machinations with elements of the Cthulhu Mythos, as created by H.P. Lovecraft. Rodger's contributions to the Mythos include the creation of several new Great Old Ones in his novels "Edge", "Dog Eat Dog" and "Living in Flames" and the use of the Outer God Nyarlathotep in the novel God Seed. In Yellow Dawn, Rodger's interpretation of the Mythos, in particular the Great Old One Hastur, is a major part of the background material. Rodger also published Shadows of the Quantinex, a large-scale campaign expansion for the Yellow Dawn game, and released a 2.5 Edition update to the basic game in 2013. At the time of his death in 2015, Rodger was known to have completed a 3rd Edition of the game, bringing it in line with the latest edition of the Call of Cthulhu rules system, to be published through Modiphius Entertainment.

paragraph: Rodger also wrote "Cloudy Head", a children's story illustrated by Kenn-Ole Moen, and "Murder at Sharky Point", a murder mystery game.

paragraph: Rodger started writing at the age of 19. He spent 8 years working for the Environment Agency (non-departmental government agency), developing a virtual communications service within the IT Division, before moving into commercial project management for a major UK publisher. In 2000 Rodger's presence on the Internet got him a place in the BBC documentary "Through The Eyes of the Young", directed by Chris Terrill.

paragraph: Rodger died at his home in Bristol on Sunday, November 22, 2015, after a short illness. Rodger is survived by his sister and his longtime girlfriend.

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.:Novels.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "God Seed" (1996)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Dante's Fool" (1999)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Iron Man Project" (2005)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Edge" (2008)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Dog Eat Dog" (2010)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Living in Flames" (2012)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Black Lake" (2012)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Social Club" (2013)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Oakfield" (2015)

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.:Collections.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Songs of Spheres" (2012)

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.:Anthologies.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Achtung! Cthulhu: Dark Tales of the Secret War", edited by John Houlihan (Modiphius, 2015)

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.:Games.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Yellow Dawn" 1st Edition (2006)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Murder at Sharky Point" (2007)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Yellow Dawn" 2nd Edition (2008)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Shadows of the Quantinex" (2009)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Yellow Dawn" 2.5 Edition (2012)

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.:Children's Stories.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Cloudy Head" (Illustrated, 2007)

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.:Scripts.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Salo IV" (2007)

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- David J. Rodger official website

paragraph: BULLET::::- Interview with David J Rodger, by SFX Magazine (page now removed)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Tribute to David J Rodger by Thomas David Parker (page now removed)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Tribute to David J Rodger by Joanne Hall

paragraph: BULLET::::- Tribute to David J Rodger by design agency The Sprezz

description: British writer

wikidata_label: David J. Rodger

wikipedia_title: David J. Rodger


text: American

text: actor

text: Lone Ranger

text: television series of the same name

text: Chicago, Illinois

text: real estate broker

text: circus

text: Senn High School

text: John Robert Powers

text: Hollywood

text: Edward Small

text: B

text: Westerns

text: Republic Studio

text: Columbia Pictures

text: World War II

text: U.S. Army Air Forces

text: First Motion Picture Unit

text: Target-Invisible

text: Arthur Kennedy

text: Ghost of Zorro

text: The Lone Ranger

text: Texas Ranger

text: Rossini's

text: "William Tell" overture

text: Jay Silverheels

text: ABC

text: Emmy Award

text: John Hart

text: color

text: Bill Williams

text: syndicated

text: The Adventures of Kit Carson

text: Jock Mahoney

text: The Range Rider

text: feature-length

text: Jay Thomas

text: The Late Show with David Letterman

text: Jack Wrather

text: Domino mask

text: The Legend of the Lone Ranger

text: William Boyd

text: Hopalong Cassidy

text: Hollywood Walk of Fame

text: Western Performers Hall of Fame

text: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

text: Newhall, California

text: West Hills

text: California

text: heart attack

text: Calabasas

text: Forest Lawn Memorial Park

text: Glendale

text: Clayton Moore Memorial

categories: American army personnel of World War II,1914 births,Male film serial actors,1999 deaths,Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale),American male television actors,American male film actors,Male Western (genre) film actors,Lone Ranger,20th-century American male actors,First Motion Picture Unit personnel,People from Calabasas, California,Western (genre) television actors,Male actors from Chicago

paragraph: Clayton Moore

paragraph: Clayton Moore (born Jack Carlton Moore, September 14, 1914 – December 28, 1999) was an American actor best known for playing the fictional western character the Lone Ranger from 1949–1951 and 1954–1957 on the television series of the same name and two related movies from the same producers.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1914, Moore was the youngest of three sons of Theresa Violet ("née" Fisher) and Charles Sprague Moore. Moore's father, according to the federal census of 1930, was a native of New York and supported his family in Chicago by working as a real estate broker. That same census also documents that a full-time maid, Amelia Hirsch, lived with the Moore family, an indication of the household's relative prosperity at the time.

paragraph: Highly athletic as a boy, "Jack" became a circus acrobat by age eight, and later, in 1934, he appeared at the Century of Progress exposition in Chicago with a trapeze act. He graduated from Stephen K. Hayt Elementary School, Sullivan Junior High School, and Senn High School on the far North Side of Chicago.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Modeling and acting.

paragraph: Moore as a young man also worked successfully as a John Robert Powers model. Moving to Hollywood in the late 1930s, he worked as a stuntman and bit player between modeling jobs. Moore in his 1996 autobiography "I Was That Masked Man" noted that Hollywood producer Edward Small persuaded him around 1940 to adopt the stage name "Clayton". Subsequently, he was cast as an occasional player in B Westerns and the lead in four Republic Studio cliffhangers and in two films for Columbia Pictures.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:Military service.

paragraph: During World War II, Moore enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Forces and served with that branch's First Motion Picture Unit making training films, such as "Target-Invisible", in which Moore co-starred with fellow actor Arthur Kennedy.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:"The Lone Ranger".

paragraph: In 1949, Moore's work in the "Ghost of Zorro" serial drew the attention of George Trendle, co-creator and producer of a popular radio series titled "The Lone Ranger". The series' running plot involved the exploits of a mysterious former Texas Ranger, the sole survivor of a six-Ranger posse ambushed by a gang of outlaws, who roamed the West with his Indian companion Tonto to battle evil and help the downtrodden. When Trendle brought the radio program to television, Moore landed the title role. With the "March of the Swiss Soldiers" finale from Rossini's "William Tell" overture as their theme music, Moore and co-star Jay Silverheels made history as the stars of the first Western written specifically for television. "The Lone Ranger" soon became the highest-rated program to that point on the fledgling ABC network and its first true hit. It earned an Emmy Award nomination in 1950.

paragraph: Moore was replaced in the third season by John Hart, reportedly due to a contract dispute, but he returned for the final two seasons. Moore later said he received no explanation from the producers as to why he was replaced or why he was rehired. The fourth season of "The Lone Ranger" was again filmed in black and white; however, the fifth and final season of the series was the only one to be shot in color. In all, Moore starred in 169 of the 221 episodes produced.

paragraph: Moore appeared in other television series during his "Lone Ranger" run, including a 1952 episode of Bill Williams' syndicated Western "The Adventures of Kit Carson". He guest-starred in two episodes of Jock Mahoney's series "The Range Rider" in 1952 and 1953. Silverheels and he also starred in two feature-length "Lone Ranger" motion pictures. After completion of the second feature, "The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold", in 1958, Moore began 40 years of personal appearances (including for the short-lived Lone Ranger Restaurants in Southern California), TV guest spots, and classic commercials as the legendary masked man. Silverheels joined him for occasional reunions during the early 1960s. Throughout his career, Moore expressed respect and love for Silverheels.

paragraph: Jay Thomas was an annual guest on "The Late Show with David Letterman" during the Christmas season, where he told a true story about how he met Moore which he called his "Lone Ranger story".

paragraph: Section::::Career.:"The Lone Ranger".:Lawsuit.

paragraph: In 1979, Jack Wrather, who owned the Lone Ranger character, obtained a court order prohibiting Moore from making future appearances as The Lone Ranger. Wrather was in the process of making a new film version of the story and believed that Moore's public appearances in character would undercut the value of the character and the film, and also advance any rumors that the 65-year-old Moore would be playing the title role in the new picture (which he did not).

paragraph: Wrather's move was disastrous. Moore responded by filing a countersuit and then slightly changed his costume, replacing the Domino mask with similar-looking wraparound sunglasses. The public was strongly in favor of Moore, as evidenced when moviegoers stayed away from Wrather's film. "The Legend of the Lone Ranger" was released in 1981, was panned by critics, and earned only $12 million at the box office, two-thirds of the film's budget. The legal proceedings between Moore and Wrather dragged on until 1984, when Wrather suddenly dropped the lawsuit permitting Moore to again make public appearances as the Lone Ranger; Wrather died of cancer two months after dropping the suit.

paragraph: Section::::Career.:"The Lone Ranger".:Moore & the Lone Ranger.

paragraph: Moore often was quoted as saying he had "fallen in love with the Lone Ranger character" and strove in his personal life to take The Lone Ranger Creed to heart. This, coupled with his public fight to retain the right to wear the mask, made Moore and his character inseparable. In this regard, he was much like another cowboy star, William Boyd, who portrayed the Hopalong Cassidy character. Moore was so identified with the masked man that he is the only person on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, , to have his character's name along with his on the star, which reads, "Clayton Moore — The Lone Ranger". He was inducted into the Stuntman's Hall of Fame in 1982 and in 1990 was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Moore also was awarded a place on the Western Walk of Fame in Old Town Newhall, California.

paragraph: Section::::Death.

paragraph: Clayton Moore died on December 28, 1999, in a West Hills, California, hospital after suffering a heart attack at his home in nearby Calabasas. He was survived by his fourth wife, Clarita Moore ("née" Petrone), and an adopted daughter, Dawn Angela Moore. Moore was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale.

paragraph: Section::::Autobiography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "I Was That Masked Man", by Clayton Moore with Frank Thompson, Taylor Publishing Company, 1996 -

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Clayton Moore Memorial

paragraph: BULLET::::- Clayton Moore at The Old Corral (b-westerns.com)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Clayton Moore, Television's Lone Ranger And a Persistent Masked Man, Dies at 85", by Richard Goldstein, "The New York Times", December 29, 1999

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sept 2014 interview with daughter, Dawn Moore

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paragraph: John Beland

paragraph: John Edward Beland (born July 24, 1949) is an American songwriter, session guitarist, recording artist, producer and author. Beland's career as guitarist started out in Los Angeles in the late 1960s, playing sessions and local live gigs with Kris Kristofferson, as well as future Eagles members, Glenn Frey and Bernie Leadon. Beland's first major break came in 1970, when he played lead guitar for a young Linda Ronstadt. He helped Ronstadt put together her first serious solo band, Swampwater. Along with bandmates Gib Guilbeau, Thad Maxwell and Stan Pratt, Swampwater toured the country with Ronstadt, appearing with her on many notable television shows including "The Johnny Cash Show". Swampwater recorded two landmark country-rock albums for Starday-King and RCA Records. The group was one of the first Los Angeles bands to record in Nashville, known for their smooth harmonies and Cajun rock style.

paragraph: After working with Ronstadt, Beland became a much in-demand guitarist, engaged by such high-profile artists as Arlo Guthrie, Johnny Tillotson, Kris Kristofferson, The Bellamy Brothers, Mac Davis, Dolly Parton and The Flying Burrito Brothers. As a solo artist, Beland recorded for Ranwood Records, scoring a chart hit in 1969 called "Baby You Come Rolling Cross My Mind". Beland also became the last artist to sign with The Beatles' record company Apple Records in 1973. As a session guitarist, Beland recorded with many music business legends in the United States and internationally. For over twenty years, he was the creative force behind the pioneering country rock band from California, The Flying Burrito Brothers. Through his leadership, the group achieved nine hit country singles for Curb Records in the early 1980s. Beland was also instrumental in the comeback of rock and roll legend Rick Nelson in the late 1970s, arranging and playing on Nelson's last hit single "Dream Lover", as well as Nelson's much-acclaimed album The Memphis Sessions. He also toured and appeared with him on "Saturday Night Live" in 1979.

paragraph: Beland has also received awards from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) during his career. As an award-winning songwriter, Beland's songs have been recorded by a wide variety of recording artists from various genres. They have included artists from pop, folk, gospel to country music.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Beland was born and raised in Hometown, Illinois, and was the eldest son of Clarence and Celine Beland. While growing up, he listened to a number of well-known American music artists. This included Buddy Holly, the Everly Brothers and Ricky Nelson. He was inspired by the music from a young age and began to play the guitar, predominantly rock and roll. At six years old, he received a toy Davy Crocket model guitar, but wouldn't own a guitar until he was seventeen.

paragraph: During high school, Beland played with local bands, performing in small venues and at private parties. He practiced on his own at home, while listening to Dick Biondi on WLS radio. In an interview, Beland recalled the influence The Beatles had on his life as a young musician. He stated that he had never heard music like it and inspired him as a guitarist.

paragraph: Beland became more involved in local music over the coming years as a teenager. He took little interest in school, instead, he focused on practicing blues and jazz tracks that were popular at the time, including Mose Allison, Ramsey Lewis and Bo Diddley. He was also strongly influenced by the Rolling Stones. He formed a small jazz trio in his hometown and regularly played small gigs. They would take pop songs and, as Beland described it, "jazz them up". Performing these musical blends further influenced Beland's youth. As his tastes and performances matured, Beland began to have a passion for jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi's music. His biggest inspiration as a teenager was The Byrds. He recalled hearing The Byrds single Mr. Tambourine Man for the first time and being instantly connected and inspired by the Bob Dylan written track. As Beland performed more regularly, his music began to take on The Byrds' sound, showing how they had influenced him as a young musician.

paragraph: Beland's life changed in 1967 when his father secured a new job, meaning the family would be moving to Los Angeles. They took a 3-day train journey from Chicago to California. They ended up living an hour outside Los Angeles, in the town of La Puente. Beland didn't attend his new school in Southern California and instead spent his days sneaking into movie studios and record companies to learn more about passions of filmmaking and music. When his family and the school realized what he was doing on a daily basis, they moved him to a continuation school for troubled teens. Determined to follow his dreams of becoming a musician, Beland recorded a dozen original tracks on a stolen tape recorder. When he was dropped at continuation school the next day, he hitchhiked to Los Angeles in hope of getting a record deal.

paragraph: He lived on the streets for a couple of weeks after leaving home, speaking to publishing companies and record labels on a daily basis and showing them his homemade demo tape. After speaking to a record executive at Capitol Records, he advised Beland to try playing live at a club in Los Angeles called the Troubadour. Every Monday he attended open mic night at the venue and for $1 he would be able to perform for 15 minutes. He became well known by performers and regulars at the club, before host, Larry Murray decided to showcase Beland at the primetime slot in front of numerous record label executives.

paragraph: After performing one night at the Troubadour, he was approached by Lois Dalton, who was a former member of The Back Porch Majority folk group. She had set up their own music production group and she offered to help Beland in any way she could. After weeks of living on the street, Beland was desperate for somewhere to stay. Dalton and her family took him in. Dalton spoke with Beland's parents and it was decided he would stay with the Dalton's in Los Angeles to pursue his music career under her guidance.

paragraph: Section::::Music career.

paragraph: Section::::Music career.:Career beginnings (1960s).

paragraph: Beland spent much of his early career living with Dan and Lois Dalton and their family. Under their guidance, he signed a music publishing deal, which allowed him to buy his first ever guitar, a Guild F-50. Dan Dalton began to use Beland on many of their music production group's tracks, which ended up securing Beland a solo record deal. He started on The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour, playing to the studio audience between set changes at a rate of $250 a week. Englebert Humperdinck recorded one of Beland's tracks, titled "Nashville Lady", which secured Beland more income.

paragraph: Around the same time as his The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour performances, he befriended two struggling singer-songwriters, Glenn Frey and J.D. Souther. Both musicians would play for food and beer as a duo Longbranch Pennywhistle. Beland joined them playing on gigs as they reminded him of the Everly Brothers. He also worked with R.B. Greaves when he was a young struggling songwriter before he had his number 1 single in 1969.

paragraph: Beland's luck changed over the next couple of months as he and Lois Dalton sang the theme song for the popular sitcom and ABC's hit show, "The Brady Bunch". He continued to attend Troubadour, where he was introduced to Kris Kristofferson, a musician from Nashville, Tennessee. It was decided that Beland would back up the performer on acoustic guitar for Kristofferson. They performed three tracks, "Help Me Make It Through the Night", "For The Good Times", and "Me And Bobby McGee". According to Beland, all three received a cold reception.

paragraph: In 1969, Beland answered an ad in "The Hollywood Reporter" calling for lead guitarists who could sing harmony. As an 18-year-old guitarist, he felt he needed the experience. It was for a new group called One Man's Family, which consisted of members of the pop group, Spanky and Our Gang. With the assistance of the Dalton's, Beland decided to take the role after it was offered to him. While he was rehearsing with One Man's Family, Beland started to spend more time with Linda Ronstadt, who knew members of the One Man's Family. She and Beland hit it off and she asked Beland if he would join her new solo band, as she had decided to quit the Stone Poneys who she was playing with at the time. Beland took the decision to stay with One Man's Family, as they had given him the opportunity to perform. He and Ronstadt remained on good terms and she stated that a position in her band would always be open to him.

paragraph: One Man's Family toured across the United States in late 1969, with Beland as their lead guitarist. They opened for groups such as Steppenwolf, The Hollies and The Byrds. At a concert in Chicago, he met Clarence White, where he was fascinated by his Telecaster way of playing. Shortly after the concert, One Man's Family suddenly split after Nigel Pickering quit the band. Beland immediately phoned Linda Ronstadt, who told him she had a guitar gig for him if he wanted it.

paragraph: Section::::Music career.:Early career and Swampwater (1970–1976).

paragraph: Beland moved back to Los Angeles and joined Linda Ronstadt's first solo band. With Ronstadt's band, Beland toured the United States, performing at the Capitol Records Convention; Fillmore West with The Byrds; the Big Sur celebration with The Beach Boys and also at Troubadour. At the Troubadour gig, Kris Kristofferson was the opening act. After speaking with Kristofferson, Beland decided to join his band too at $35 for a week run. Kristofferson played the same songs he had played with Beland a year prior, but this time had a much better reception. Beland's connection with the Troubadour remained for a number of years, where he saw debut performances by The Carpenters, Poco and Elton John. He also met a band there called The Flying Burrito Brothers.

paragraph: Ronstadt's bass player was replaced in the early 1970s by Beland's friend and former One Man's Family band member, Thad Maxwell. Shortly after Maxwell joined Linda Ronstadt's band, the backing band started their own band called Swampwater. Their sound was a combination of Guilbeau's hard driving Cajun rock and Beland's Byrds-Beach Boys style harmonies. Shortly after the formation of Swampwater, they were signed by the Nashville-based Starday-King Records and secured an album deal. The group recorded their first album in Albuquerque, New Mexico with John Wagner as the producer. They created a country hit titled "Take A City Bride". The track was the first Los Angeles-based band to score a "Billboard" country hit single.

paragraph: Swampwater became closely connected to The Byrds, due in part to Gib Guilbeau's connection with Clarence White and Gene Parsons, before they joined the legendary group. The close connection to The Byrds gave the band huge exposure to record executives in Los Angeles. Beland subbed in for Clarence White on numerous recordings for The Byrds, due to his similar sound and style when White was unavailable. Swampwater left Starday-King after recording one album and signed with RCA for a new album that would be produced by Larry Murray. Many of the sessions took place in Los Angeles and Nashville. Unfortunately, the production on the second album wasn't as good as Beland had hoped. In later interviews, Beland stated that at this time he had become disillusioned with the direction of the band.

paragraph: Despite the position of Swampwater, Beland continued to play on sessions for other Los Angeles-based artists, such as James Taylor's sister Kate Taylor. He was hired by Arlo Guthrie to play in a house band along with Ry Cooder, Gib Guilbeau and The Flying Burrito Brothers bassist Chris Ethridge, for the Tribute to Woody Guthrie concert at the Hollywood Bowl. The concert received huge public acclaim and the live recording of the concert is in the Library of Congress.

paragraph: Swampwater and Linda Ronstadt parted ways in 1971 to become the new backing band touring the country with singer-songwriter Arlo Guthrie. While in Chicago, they learned a new song written by Steve Goodman during a soundcheck. All the band members were fans of the song and began to play it during their tours. It would go on to become an iconic song titled, the "City Of New Orleans". Guthrie and Swampwater also played Carnegie Hall that year, but Beland grew tired of Swampwater's lack of commercial chart progress and quit the band in 1972 to pursue a solo career and concentrate on playing for other acts.

paragraph: Beland became music director and guitarist for the country pop star Johnny Tillotson. Tillotson and Beland traveled the world together, performing throughout the United States, as well as Germany and the United Kingdom. While touring with Tillotson, he was introduced to Tony King, who was the head of Apple Records. He forwarded on a tape of Beland's recordings to Ringo Starr, who approved Beland to be signed as a solo artist to Apple Records. He returned to Los Angeles to work on his new solo album. Beland didn't complete the solo album under Apple Records, due to The Beatles' pending litigation against their manager Alan Klein. He remained focused on the project and eventually finished the solo album in 1973 with Scepter Records. The album was titled, John Edward Beland. Following the release of the album, he continued to tour and record with Johnny Tillotson and remained an in-demand studio guitarist.

paragraph: Kris Kristofferson hired him again in 1973 after working with him numerous times at the Troubadour. Kristofferson by this point was a household name in music. He toured the country with Kristofferson and his wife Rita Coolidge, meaning Beland had to end touring with Tillotson. He became a featured part of Kristofferson's show, as well as playing on their albums, in concerts and television appearances. In 1975, Beland left the band, citing Kristofferson's drinking issues as the main reason. Not long afterward, Beland was hired by emerging singer-songwriter, Kim Carnes. He played on her albums, "St. Vincent's Court" and "Sailing", as well as backing her on tour as an opening act for the pop star Neil Sedaka, who was enjoying a comeback at the time.

paragraph: Fortuitously, two brothers from Florida, Howard and David Bellamy, arrived in Los Angeles in 1976. They had just scored a massive hit with "Let Your Love Flow". New to the local scene, they hired Beland to record with them. He played on their records and helped them form their first touring band. Later that year, The Bellamy Brothers, with Beland leading the band, joined Loggins and Messina on tour. The Bellamys' follow-up single, "Crossfire", was a huge hit in Europe, featuring Beland's signature big electric guitar sound that actually inspired Bonnie Tyler's record, "It's A Heartache". Unfortunately, "Crossfire" failed to sustain The Bellamys, and after a major equipment robbery in Chicago, Beland left the act. Mac Davis then hired Beland in 1977. He toured the country with Davis, primarily working Las Vegas, but lost interest in Davis' slick cabaret-style show. While on tour in New England, Beland became close friends with Davis' opening act, the powerfully talented Dolly Parton. Beland and Parton became fast friends. Soon after returning to Los Angeles, he parted ways with Davis and became Parton's guitarist. Her new single "Here You Come Again" was released that year, and her career skyrocketed. Beland then began to tour with Parton throughout the United States.

paragraph: Section::::Music career.:Dolly Parton, Ricky Nelson and The Flying Burrito Brothers (1977–1989).

paragraph: During the Parton tour, Beland got a call from Greg McDonald, the manager of Ricky Nelson. McDonald explained that Nelson was planning to get back to his rock and roll roots by putting together a great band that matched the caliber of his early TV days. Beland's reputation as a James Burton-style player made him Nelson's choice for the new lead guitarist. The new band would make its debut with Nelson in Las Vegas. Sweet Inspirations, the same group that backed Elvis Presley in his Vegas appearances, provided the vocal back-up for Nelson. As a big fan of Nelson, Beland knew his hits up and down. Nelson worked up many of his old hits that he hadn't played for years, mostly because past members and producers had told him how dated they were. On days off with Parton, Beland played gigs with Nelson. Beland had cut his teeth on Nelson's hits and was his biggest fan. He knew all the classic guitar solos left to right, just like on the records, and his style was reminiscent of Nelson's original guitarist, James Burton. Touring with Dolly Parton and playing with Nelson at the same time became wearing for Beland. The meteoric rise in her popularity brought on a huge entourage of management, agents, band members, and politics. The intimate relationship he once shared with her had dwindled, and he felt that it was time to move on. Parton discussed it with him; she noticed how excited he seemed to be working with Ricky Nelson. With her blessing, Beland turned in his notice to Parton and became Rick Nelson's full-time guitarist. Beland played on Nelson's latest recording project produced by Al Kooper, but from the start, he felt that the material was shoddy and far removed from Nelson's true style. The sessions at Sunset Sound were disorganized and disappointing. Kooper did his best, but in the end, the entire album was scrapped.

paragraph: Beland then received a call from McDonald about going to Memphis, Tennessee alone with Nelson and recording an album that captured his country rock style mixes with his love for old rock and roll. This would be Nelson's first time recording away from Los Angeles, and it would just be he and Beland traveling there with a local house rhythm section waiting for them. Larry Rogers produced the sessions at his 16-track studio in a rough part of Memphis. Like Beland, Rogers was a Nelson fan, and the team hit it off like old friends. Beland arranged most of the material and co-wrote one of the songs with Nelson the night before the session, called "That Ain't The Way Love's Supposed To Be". Beland also came up with a new arrangement for an old Bobby Darin song, called "Dream Lover". The track started as a fast-driving teen anthem before Beland slowed it down to have a James Taylor feel, reminiscent of Nelson's old version of Bob Dylan's "She Belongs To Me". "Dream Lover" sounded like a smash hit and was planned for release as a single to coincide with Nelson's hosting of the top TV show in the country, Saturday Night Live.

paragraph: At the time of working with Ricky Nelson, Beland received an offer to work with the legendary band, The Flying Burrito Brothers. At first, Beland passed on the opportunity as he felt they had lost their way and had no record deal. However, after discussions with his publisher Bo Golsen at Atlantic Records, Beland decided to join the band, providing he could produce and write for the group. The band agreed, so Beland reluctantly said goodbye to Nelson. Bobby Neil would take over his guitar spot, continuing until both of their deaths in that fateful 1985 plane crash.

paragraph: Beland took the members of The Flying Burrito Brothers into the 16-track studio at Atlantic Records, where they demoed a number of country style songs Beland had written along with fellow Burrito member Gib Guilbeau, his old bandmate from Swampwater. The demos were highly commercial, so Bo Golsen immediately took them to Curb Records' A&R head Dick Whitehouse, who offered the group a deal, under one condition: The label wanted one of their own to produce the band. Beland wouldn't hear of it and threatened to quit. But Golsen reminded him of the opportunity ahead if he played along. Beland agreed reluctantly to the deal and soon producer Michael Lloyd was assigned to the band. Although Beland and Lloyd got along together in the studio, Beland hated the idea of having to turn over the reins to another producer, especially one he didn't want in the first place. Lloyd had produced acts like The Osmonds and The Bellamy Brothers, and although he had success with them, Beland felt his production work was too lightweight for a band like The Flying Burrito Brothers.

paragraph: Despite Beland's objections related to producing, The Burrito Brothers (who had now dropped "Flying") went on to score major country hits, a first in their ten-year prior history. Certain band members objected to the new country direction, and as a result was fired. The act became a duo. Beland also objected to using any part of The Burrito Brothers' name and suggested that he and Gib Guilbeau change it completely, but the record label refused. Although he and Guilbeau's history was just as extensive as any past members of The Flying Burrito Brothers, critics still chastised them for using the name. Despite the critics, Beland and Guilbeau went on to score hit after hit in years to come, songs like "She Belongs To Everyone But Me", "Closer To You", "I'm Drinking Canada Dry", "Does She Wish She Was Single Again" and others, many penned by Beland and Guilbeau. The Burrito Brothers were now a hit country act for Curb/CBS, touring the world and appearing on TV throughout the country. They also performed at the International Country Music Festival in London's Wembley Stadium with Waylon Jennings, The Bellamy Brothers, George Jones, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Tammy Wynette.

paragraph: In 1981, they received the "Billboard" number-one music award for making the transition from pop to country music. They also received "Record World Magazine"s award for "Best New Vocal Group of 1981". A year later, they spearheaded a campaign which helped get their idol, the late country music legend Lefty Frizzell, induced into the Country Music Hall of Fame. That same year, both Beland and Guilbeau moved from California to Nashville to become a true part of the country music industry. Beland went right to work doing sessions, while Guilbeau concentrated on songwriting. Through it all, problems with Curb Records persisted. A third album produced by Randy Scruggs was shelved, even though it yielded two hits, "Blue and Broken Hearted Me" and "Would You Love Me One More Time". Beland lobbied for a producing role but continued to be ignored by the label.

paragraph: In 1983, they were teamed with producer Brent Maher, who produced The Judds. Beland approved this development, as the two had worked together on his solo album in 1972 when Maher was an engineer at Las Vegas Sound. Now Maher was a hot producer, and he and Beland worked well together. The single they did was an old John Fogerty song called, "It's Almost Saturday Night". Both Beland and Guilbeau were excited about this recording because it was reminiscent of their days with Swampwater. It had the big sound of Guilbeau's fiddle, matched with Beland's big Telecaster. The single was a hit, but then Curb fired Mayer over a financial dispute, and the duo was back to no producer.

paragraph: Beland and Guilbeau, as The Burrito Brothers, toured the world in the early to mid-1980s, performing in France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, the Netherlands, Norway, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United Kingdom, as well as throughout the United States. Finally, in the mid-1980s, Beland and Guilbeau called it quits due to creative differences. They made their last appearance together as The Burrito Brothers on "Nashville Now" to a standing ovation from the studio audience. Through the latter part of the 1980s, Beland remained in Nashville. He wrote the number two Gospel Record of the Year for former Grand Funk Railroad lead singer Mark Farner, called "Isn't It Amazing". Beland also hit the road playing guitar for pop singer Nicolette Larson and toured the world many times playing guitar for country music legend, Bobby Bare.

paragraph: Section::::Music career.:Later career (1990s–present).

paragraph: In 1990, Beland received a call from David and Howard Bellamy, asking if he would be interested in playing guitar for them again. By now, The Bellamy Brothers were a household name, having scored more country hits than any duo in history. At first, he turned them down, not wanting to tour behind any more artists, in order to concentrate on his writing and session work. But The Bellamys were persistent. Beland joined them, hoping to write with the act, that was now selling millions of records worldwide. Beland immediately went to work playing on their albums, starting with "She Don't Know That She's Perfect" and "Can I Come On Home To You". Beland toured the world with the Bellamy Brothers, performing three or four times a year in Europe, where the act was huge. The Bellamys also performed nonstop throughout the United States. In 1992, Beland finally co-wrote with David Bellamy, yielding the huge hit single, "Cowboy Beat". He and Howard Bellamy also co-wrote their follow-up hit, "Hard Way To Make An Easy Living". Beland received an ASCAP Award for his co-writing of "Cowboy Beat" in 1993. Ultimately, the heavy touring schedule proved to be too much for Beland. He said goodbye to the Bellamy Brothers in 1993.

paragraph: Meanwhile, The Flying Burrito Brothers reunited in the mid-1990s. Beland took control and produced the band's three critically acclaimed studio albums, "Eye of a Hurricane" (1994), "California Jukebox" (1997), and "Sons of the Golden West" (1999). During the recordings, Beland produced guest performances with Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings, Ricky Skaggs, Buck Owens, The Oakridge Boys and Charlie Louvin. Beland and The Flying Burrito Brothers toured Europe at the end of the 1990s, performing throughout Germany, Spain, and Switzerland, before finally calling it quits in 2000.

paragraph: In 1999, Beland and his family moved to Napa, California, where he concentrated on producing radio jingles and musical acts in Australia and Germany. In 2002, he received a call from actor and songwriter Billy Bob Thornton, who asked Beland if he'd be interested in recording and touring with him. Beland rehearsed in Beverly Hills with Thornton but eventually passed on touring with him, opting to go instead to Australia to record, produce and perform. In 2003, Beland toured solo through Great Britain and Ireland before returning to the United States and settling near Austin, Texas. There he produced a number of Texas country acts. Beland also traveled to Norway to produce country acts and perform as a solo artist at festivals and clubs. He built up a strong following throughout Norway and continued to perform there quite often through the years.

paragraph: In recent years, Beland continues to produce artists and perform solo. When not recording or performing, he is hard at work on his upcoming, long-awaited biography, "Best Seat in the House", as well as hosting his own radio talk show of the same name, featuring guests such as Dolly Parton and other major names he has played behind over his 40-plus year career.

paragraph: Section::::Recognition.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Billboard" Magazine: Best Crossover Award (1981)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Record World" Magazine: Best New Vocal Group (as part of The Burrito Brothers) (1981)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Dove Nomination: "Isn't It Amazing" (1989)

paragraph: BULLET::::- ASCAP: "Cowboy Beat" (1993)

wikidata_label: John Beland

wikipedia_title: John Beland


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general
United States Army
William Hilary Coston
Yale University

categories: Magazine editors,American magazine publishers (people),People from Virginia,Women magazine editors,Year of birth missing,American publishers (people),Fashion editors,African-American publishers (people)

paragraph: Julia Ringwood Coston

paragraph: Julia Ringwood Coston was a 19th-century Afro-American publisher and magazine editor. In 1891, she founded "Ringwood's Afro-American Journal of Fashion", the first illustrated paper for black women.

paragraph: Section::::Early years and education.

paragraph: Coston was born on the Ringwood Farm in the town of Warrenton, VA. She received the name "Ringwood" in lieu of a promise her father made to her mother; if their first-born were a girl, she would be named after the farm. Though born in Virginia, Washington D.C. was regarded as her home since she was brought there as an infant. Until the fail of her mother's health causing her to leave school and serve as the family breadwinner, Coston attended public schools until the age of thirteen.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Accepting the position as governess in the family of a general of the United States Army, she found time and received both assistance and encouragement to continue her studies. In the spring of 1886, she married Rev. William Hilary Coston, B. D., then a student at Yale University, the Right Rev. J. M. Brown officiating. Two children were born to them, the older, a girl named Julia R., and the younger, a boy named, W. H. Coston. Mr. Coston was the author of "A Freeman and Yet a Slave".

paragraph: As a girl, Mrs. Coston felt the ostracism of all the Anglo-Saxon journals of the US as displayed toward anything of interest or credit concerning the colored people; she longed to see a colored face in the pages of a magazine, and to enjoy the privilege of reading about the person. This intense desire culminated in the conception and ultimate execution of "Ringwood's Journal". The initial editorial of the journal stated: ""Ringwood's Journal of Fashion", published by Mrs. J. R. Coston, makes its advent to satisfy the common desire among us for an illustrated journal of our own ladies. The injury of the absence of the cultivating influence which attaches to a purely published, illustrated journal devoted to the loving interests of our homes, and to the weal of our daughters, was felt by me when a girl, and is recognized by me now when a woman. Knowing that this injury of absence could only be overcome by the presence of such a journal, without measuring the intellectual ability required, we have published "Ringwood's Journal"".

wikidata_label: Julia Ringwood Coston

wikipedia_title: Julia Ringwood Coston