text: MP

text: Member of Parliament

text: Great Britain

text: Berkshire

text: miser

text: Ebenezer Scrooge

text: Charles Dickens

text: A Christmas Carol

text: Our Mutual Friend

text: William Harrison Ainsworth

text: The Miser's Daughter

text: Southwark

text: brewer

text: Sir Gervase Elwes, 1st Baronet

text: MP for Suffolk

text: Elwes baronets

text: Hervey family

text: Westminster School

text: Geneva

text: horsemanship

text: Europe

text: Voltaire

text: Marcham Park

text: Marcham

text: Berkshire

text: Oxfordshire

text: Sir Hervey Elwes, 2nd Baronet

text: Stoke College

text: Sudbury

text: wig

text: game

text: moorhen

text: Edward Topham

text: William Haig Miller

text: Lord Craven

text: Berkshire

text: House of Commons

text: 1784 election

text: turncoat

text: Westminster

text: turnpike

text: Lord Abingdon

text: Newmarket

text: no fixed abode

text: London

text: Marylebone

text: Great Marlborough Street

text: pallet bed

text: apothecary

text: Stoke-by-Clare

text: Georgian

text: Portman Place

text: Portman Square

text: Oxford Circus

text: Piccadilly

text: Baker Street

text: Marylebone

text: Internet Archive

text: Internet Archive

text: Internet Archive

text: "Chest of Books"

text: "Chambers Book of Days"

text: "John Elwes"

categories: British MPs 1768–1774,People from Vale of White Horse (district),Charles Dickens,1714 births,1789 deaths,British MPs 1774–1780,Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies,British MPs 1780–1784

paragraph: John Elwes (politician)

paragraph: John Elwes [né Meggot or Meggott] (a.k.a. "Elwes the Miser"), MP (7 April 1714 – 26 November 1789) was a Member of Parliament (MP) in Great Britain for Berkshire (1772–1784) and a noted eccentric and miser, suggested to be an inspiration for the character of Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol". Dickens made reference to Elwes some years later in his last novel, "Our Mutual Friend". Elwes was also believed to inspire William Harrison Ainsworth to create the character of John Scarfe in his novel "The Miser's Daughter".

paragraph: Section::::Family background and early life.

paragraph: Elwes (birth name "Meggot") was born on 7 April 1714 into a respectable English family. His father, Robert Meggot, was a respected Southwark brewer and his grandfather was Sir George Meggot, MP for that same borough. His mother, Amy (née Elwes), was the granddaughter of Sir Gervase Elwes, 1st Baronet and MP for Suffolk (see Elwes baronets). His maternal grandmother, Lady Isabella Hervey (of the Hervey family), happened to be a celebrated miser.

paragraph: He received a good education in the classics at Westminster School. After graduating he traveled to Geneva where he embraced his skill for horsemanship and love of the hunt. He was known as one of the best riders in Europe. It was at this time that he was introduced to Voltaire, to whom he was reported to bear a remarkable resemblance. However, Elwes was far more impressed with the quality of the horses at his riding school than by the genius of the French philosopher.

paragraph: Section::::First inheritance.

paragraph: Elwes inherited his first fortune from his father who died in 1718 when Elwes was just four years old. Although his mother was left £100,000 in the will (approx. £8,000,000 as of 2010), she reputedly starved herself to death because she was too cheap to spend it. With her death, he inherited the family estate including Marcham Park at Marcham in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire), purchased by his father in 1717.

paragraph: Section::::Second inheritance.

paragraph: The greatest influence on Elwes' life was his miserly uncle, Sir Hervey Elwes, 2nd Baronet, of Stoke College and MP for Sudbury, whom Elwes obsequiously imitated to gain favour. Sir Hervey prided himself on only spending little more than £110 on himself per annum. The two of them would spend the evening railing against other people's extravagances while they shared a single glass of wine. In 1751, in order to inherit his uncle's estate, he changed his name from Meggot to Elwes. Sir Hervey died on 18 September 1763, bequeathing his entire fortune to his nephew. The net worth of the estate was more than £250,000 (approx. £18,000,000 as of 2010), a figure that continued to grow despite Elwes' inept handling of his finances.

paragraph: Section::::Miserliness.

paragraph: On assuming his uncle's fortune, however, Elwes also assumed his uncle's miserly ways. He went to bed when darkness fell so as to save on candles. He began wearing only ragged clothes, including a beggar's cast-off wig he found in a hedge and wore for two weeks. His clothes were so dilapidated that many mistook him for a common street beggar, and would put a penny into his hand as they passed. To avoid paying for a coach he would walk in the rain, and then sit in wet clothes to save the cost of a fire to dry them. His house was full of expensive furniture but also moulding food. He would eat putrefied game before allowing new food to be bought. On one occasion it was said that he ate a moorhen that a rat had pulled from a river. Rather than spend the money for repairs he allowed his spacious country mansion to become uninhabitable. A near relative once stayed at his home in the country, but the bedroom was in such a poor state that the relative was awakened in the night by rain pouring on him from the roof. After searching in vain for a bell, the relative was forced to move his bed several times, until he found a place where he could remain dry. On remarking the circumstance to Elwes in the morning, the latter said: "Ay! I don't mind it myself... that is a nice corner in the rain!" His biographer, Edward Topham, who knew him well, recounts:

paragraph: According to author, William Haig Miller, he even "complained bitterly of the birds robbing him of so much hay with which to build their nests."

paragraph: Even Elwes' health was limited by expense. In common with many misers, he distrusted physicians, preferring to treat himself in order to save paying for one. He once badly cut both legs while walking home in the dark, but would only allow the apothecary to treat one, wagering his fee that the untreated limb would heal first. Elwes won by a fortnight and the doctor had to forfeit his fee. He also bore a wound from a hunting accident. Legend has it that one day he was out shooting with a gentleman who was a particularly bad shot. This same man accidentally fired through a hedge, lodging several shot in the miser's cheek. With great embarrassment and concern, the gentleman approached Elwes to apologize. But Elwes, anticipating the apology, held out his hand, and said: “My dear sir, I congratulate you on improving; I thought you would hit something in time.”

paragraph: Section::::Political career.

paragraph: In 1772 with the help of Lord Craven he became a Member of Parliament for Berkshire (his election expenses amounted to a mere eighteen pence). He entered the House of Commons in a by-election as a compromise candidate to replace Thomas Craven, which began the first of three terms. He held his seat unopposed until he stood down at the 1784 election. Elwes sat with either party according to his whim, and he never once rose to address the House of Commons. Fellow members mockingly observed that since he possessed only one suit, they could never accuse him of being a "turncoat". Being a member of parliament did, however, cause Elwes to frequently travel to Westminster. He made the journey on a poor lean horse, the route chosen being always the one whereby he could avoid turnpike tolls. He was known to put a hard-boiled egg in his pocket, and midway on his journey would sit under some hedge and eat his egg or sleep. After twelve years he retired rather than face the prospect of laying out any money to retain his seat.

paragraph: Section::::Moneylending.

paragraph: Despite his exceptional frugality, Elwes lost huge sums of money to his colleagues in unrepaid loans, uncollected debts and dubious investments. He believed that one did not ask a gentleman for money, regardless of the circumstances. On one notable occasion Elwes, unsolicited, lent Lord Abingdon £7,000 to enable him to place a bet at Newmarket. On the day of the race, Elwes rode on horseback to the racetrack with nothing to eat for fourteen hours save a piece of pancake which he had put into his pocket two months earlier and which he swore to a startled companion was “as good as new".

paragraph: Section::::Later years.

paragraph: When his parliamentary career was over, Elwes devoted his full energies to being a miser as he moved about among his many properties. At his neglected estates he continued to forbid repairs, joined his tenants in postharvest gleaning, and sat with his servants in the kitchen to save the cost of a fire elsewhere. Even on the coldest day of winter he was known to sit fireless at his meals, saying that eating was "exercise enough" to keep him warm. If a stableboy put out hay for a visitor's horse, Elwes would sneak out and remove it. In his last years he had no fixed abode and frequently shifted his residence between his unrented London properties in the neighbourhood of Marylebone seeking out the ones which were temporarily unoccupied. A couple of beds, a couple of chairs, a table, and an "old woman" (housekeeper) were said to be all his furnishings. This same housekeeper was known to frequently catch colds because there were never any fires and often no glass in the windows.

paragraph: This practice nearly cost Elwes his life when he fell desperately ill in one of these houses and no one could find him. Only by chance was he rescued. His nephew, Colonel Timms, who wanted to see him, inquired in vain at Elwes's banker's and at other places. A pot boy recollected having seen an "old beggar" go into a stable at one of Elwes's uninhabited houses in Great Marlborough Street and lock the door behind him. Timms knocked at the door, but when no one answered, sent for a blacksmith and had the lock forced. According to author Edward Walford in Volume 4 of his "Old and New London" (1878):

paragraph: "In the lower part (of the house) all was shut and silent, but on ascending the stairs they heard the moans of a person seemingly in distress. They went to the chamber, and there on an old pallet bed they found Mr. Elwes, apparently in the agonies of death. For some time he seemed quite insensible."

paragraph: He remained in this condition until some "cordials" could be administered by a neighbouring apothecary. After he had sufficiently recovered, Elwes stated that he believed he had been ill for "two or three days", and that there was an "old woman" in the house, but for some reason or other, she had "not been near him"; that she had "been ill herself", but that he supposed she must have "recovered" and "gone away". Upon searching the premises, however, Timms and the apothecary found the woman stretched lifeless on the floor, having apparently been dead for two days.

paragraph: Towards the end of his life Elwes grew feverish and restless, hoarding small quantities of money in different places, continually visiting all the places of deposit to see that they were safe. He began suffering from delusion, fearing that he would die in poverty. In the night he was heard struggling with imaginary robbers, crying: "I will keep my money! I will! Don't rob me! Oh, don't!" When asked who was there?, Elwes would reply: "Sir, I beg your pardon, my name is Elwes, I have been unfortunate enough to be robbed in this house, which I believe is mine, of all the money I have in the world of five guineas and a half, and half a crown." The family doctor was sent for, and, looking at the dying miser, was heard to remark: "That man, with his original strength of constitution, and lifelong habits of temperance, might have lived twenty years longer, but for his continual anxiety about money." Even his barrister, who drew up his £800,000 will, was forced to undertake his writings in the firelight by the dying man's bedside in order to save the cost of a candle.

paragraph: The famed miser was also known to sleep in the same worn garments he wore during the day. He was discovered one morning between the sheets with his tattered shoes on his feet, an old torn hat on his head, and a stick in his hand. It was in this condition he died on 26 November 1789. His burial took place in Stoke-by-Clare. After having lived on only £50 a year, Elwes left £500,000 (Approx £74,207,558 as of 2018) to his two sons who were born out of wedlock, George and John, (whom he loved but would not educate, believing that "putting things into people's heads is the sure way to take money out of their pockets") and the rest to his nephew.

paragraph: The following summary of his character, by his friend and biographer, Mr. Topham:

paragraph: "...his public character lives after him pure and without stain. In private life, he was chiefly an enemy to himself. To others, he lent much; to himself, he denied everything. But in the pursuit of his property, or in the recovery of it, I have it not in my remembrance one unkind thing that ever was done by him."

paragraph: Besides being a member of Parliament, Elwes's accomplishments include financing the construction of a significant amount of Georgian London, including Portman Place, Portman Square, and parts of Oxford Circus Piccadilly, Baker Street and Marylebone.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Leigh Rayment – see the text at the bottom of the page

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The life of the late John Elwes, Esquire" by Edward Topham (1805 London ed.) at Internet Archive

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The life of the late John Elwes, Esquire" by Edward Topham (1815 Poughkeepsie ed.) at Internet Archive

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Lives and Portraits of Curious and Odd Characters" at Internet Archive

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A visitation of the seats and arms of the noblemen and gentlemen of Great Britain" by Bernard Burke at Google Books

paragraph: BULLET::::- "A Topographical and Historical Account of the Parish of St. Mary-le-Bone" by Thomas Smith at Google Books

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Chest of Books"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The New York Public Library Digital Gallery"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Chambers Book of Days"

paragraph: BULLET::::- "John Elwes" at Google Docs

alias:
John Meggot
John Meggott,
Elwes the Miser

description: British politician, eccentric and miser, died 1789

wikidata_label: John Elwes

wikipedia_title: John Elwes (politician)


text:
French
prelate
Roman Catholic Church
Versailles
ordained
priesthood
Diocese of Versailles
Saint-Cloud
episcopal consecration
bishop of Corbeil-Essonnes-Évry
turned 100
Catholic-Hierarchy
Diocese site of Evry-Corbeil Essonnes
Diocese site of Versailles

categories: 1915 births,20th-century Roman Catholic bishops,French Roman Catholic priests,2017 deaths,French centenarians,Participants in the Second Vatican Council

paragraph: Albert Malbois

paragraph: Albert-Georges-Yves Malbois (17 November 1915 – 12 February 2017) was a French prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Malbois was born in Versailles, France, and was ordained to the priesthood on 29 June 1938 in the Diocese of Versailles. He became a vicar in Saint-Cloud in 1939. He was appointed Titular Bishop of Altava and Auxiliary Bishop on 9 March 1961, and received his episcopal consecration on 22 April 1961. On 9 October 1966 he was appointed bishop of Corbeil-Essonnes-Évry, a position he held until his resignation in September 1977. He turned 100 in November 2015. Malbois died on 12 February 2017 at the age of 101.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Catholic-Hierarchy

paragraph: BULLET::::- Diocese site of Evry-Corbeil Essonnes (French)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Diocese site of Versailles (French)

description: Catholic bishop

wikidata_label: Albert Malbois

wikipedia_title: Albert Malbois


text: Flight Lieutenant

text: diplomat

text: South Africa

text: Nelson Mandela

text: University of London

text: Fettes College

text: Edinburgh

text: RAF

text: Flight Lieutenant

text: Oriel College, Oxford

text: The Viscount Swinton

text: Dacca

text: East Pakistan

text: Bangladesh

text: Commonwealth

text: Governor-General of Australia

text: Nelson Mandela

text: University of London

text: High Commissioner

text: Fiji

text: Nauru

text: Tuvalu

text: High Commissioner

text: Barbados

text: Order of St Michael and St George

text: directorships

text: cross-bench

text: peer

text: House of Lords

text: hereditary peers

text: Outer Hebrides

text: Justice of the Peace

text: Lord Lieutenant of the Western Isles

text: Lanzarote

text: Cotswold School

categories: Scottish diplomats,Viscounts in the Peerage of the United Kingdom,Governors of Bermuda,Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George,High Commissioners of the United Kingdom to Nauru,Alumni of Oriel College, Oxford,Lord-Lieutenants of the Western Isles,People educated at Fettes College,People from the Outer Hebrides,High Commissioners of the United Kingdom to Fiji,Justices of the peace,High Commissioners of the United Kingdom to Barbados,2000 deaths,1926 births

paragraph: John Morrison, 2nd Viscount Dunrossil

paragraph: Flight Lieutenant John William Morrison, 2nd Viscount Dunrossil (22 May 1926 – 22 March 2000) was a British diplomat. Lord Dunrossil was British High Commissioner to Fiji, Nauru and Tuvalu and later to Barbados. His career reached its peak when he was appointed Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Bermuda in 1983. While in South Africa he supported Nelson Mandela during his imprisonment by helping him gain a law degree from the University of London.

paragraph: Section::::Early life and education.

paragraph: Morrison was educated at Fettes College in Edinburgh before serving in the RAF between 1945 and 1948 and reaching the rank of Flight Lieutenant. Between 1948 and 1950 he read History at Oriel College, Oxford; his course being shorter than the usual three years due to the Second World War. He became President of the Conservative Association during his time at Oxford.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: The early years of Morrison's diplomatic career were wide-ranging, including as Assistant Private Secretary to The Viscount Swinton and as First Secretary in Dacca, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). His career would go on to focus mainly on the Commonwealth countries. In February 1961, he inherited the viscountcy of Dunrossil from his father, William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil, who died in office as the Governor-General of Australia.

paragraph: Dunrossil was posted to South Africa, and was present during the trial of Nelson Mandela and his sentencing to 27 years' imprisonment. He subsequently obtained study materials for Mandela in order that he might achieve a law degree from the University of London.

paragraph: His career reached its peak from 1978 onwards when he was appointed High Commissioner to Fiji, Nauru and Tuvalu. He then became High Commissioner to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean in 1982 before being appointed Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Bermuda in 1983. His time in Bermuda was very successful mainly, as John Ure argues, due to his "genial temperament" and "social standing" meaning that he was able to settle the troubles of the region that had preceded his appointment. Lord Dunrossil was appointed a Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in 1981 for his diplomatic service.

paragraph: Section::::After Bermuda.

paragraph: Upon retirement in 1988, Lord Dunrossil took on several directorships and also played an active part as a cross-bench peer in the House of Lords. He left the House in 1999 as he was not one of the elected hereditary peers allowed to remain in the Lords. Lord Dunrossil therefore devoted himself to spending time at Dunrossil House, his ancestral home in the Outer Hebrides, becoming a Justice of the Peace (JP). He was appointed Lord Lieutenant of the Western Isles in 1993, holding this post until his death in Lanzarote in 2000.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: Lord Dunrossil married twice, firstly to Mavis Dawn Spencer-Payne on 3 July 1951. The couple had three sons and one daughter, including his heir, Andrew William Reginald Morrison, who was born in 1953. Mavis, Viscountess Dunrossil, is a governor of the Cotswold School.

paragraph: He divorced his first wife in 1969 and remarried the same year to Diana Mary Cunliffe Vise who became Viscountess Dunrossil upon their marriage. The couple had two children.

paragraph: Section::::Titles, Styles, Honours & Arms.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Mr John Morrison (1926–1959)

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Hon. John Morrison (1959–1961)

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Rt. Hon. The Viscount Dunrossil (1961–1981)

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Rt. Hon. The Viscount Dunrossil CMG (1981–1993)

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Rt. Hon. The Viscount Dunrossil CMG JP (1993–2000)

description: British diplomat, British High Commissioner to Fiji, Nauru and Tuvalu and Barbados and Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Bermuda

wikidata_label: John Morrison, 2nd Viscount Dunrossil

wikipedia_title: John Morrison, 2nd Viscount Dunrossil


text: Southam

text: surgeon

text: 45th Regiment

text: MRCS

text: Warwick

text: Rugby

text: Banbury

text: Northampton

text: old pence

text: dispensary

text: Grey Skipwith

text: Atherstone

text: Chilvers Coton

text: Burton-on-Trent

text: Rugby

text: Coventry

text: Northampton

text: British Medical Association

text: allotments

categories: 1859 deaths,History of Warwickshire,People from Warwickshire (before 1974),1780s births,English surgeons

paragraph: Henry Lilley Smith

paragraph: Henry Lilley Smith was born in Southam, Warwickshire, England in 1787 or 1788. He became assistant surgeon to the 45th Regiment and obtained a diploma of MRCS in 1810 and then practised at Southam, where he was appointed parish surgeon.

paragraph: In April 1818 he opened a small hospital for the treatment of diseases of the eye and ear. It was built on land adjoining his house and contained about fourteen beds and was supported by voluntary subscriptions and donations. Smith periodically visited Warwick, Rugby, Banbury, and Northampton to select suitable cases. About 100 in-patients and 250 out-patients were treated annually. In-patients received free professional attendance, medicine and lodging, but had to pay for their food, the charge for which was 10d (old pence) a day for a man, 8d for a woman and 6d for a child. During the first forty years of the 'Eye and Ear Infirmary' 12,220 patients were treated and two-thirds were discharged cured.

paragraph: In 1823, fired by his ambition to improve medical care for the poor, he established a self-supporting dispensary in Southam under the presidency of Sir Grey Skipwith, MP for South Warwickshire, and his committee. The premises consisted of a two-storied thatched cottage, sited close to the Infirmary. Membership was for Southam residents who could not afford to pay doctor's fees. Patients had to be recommended by employers, clergymen of their parish or by two respectable inhabitants. The annual subscription was 3 shillings and 6d for adults and 2s for children. The dispensary was self-supporting but during the cholera epidemic of 1832 each family had to pay an additional 6d a week.

paragraph: The Southam Dispensary was the first of its kind and its success resulted in the establishment of others in Atherstone, Chilvers Coton, Burton-on-Trent, Rugby, Coventry and Northampton. Smith was one of the original members of The British Medical Association and was an adviser to those wishing to follow his example.

paragraph: He also initiated a 'Maypole Holiday' in 1825 which is still held as the 'May Fair' in Southam today (2012) and provided allotments for local boys aged between 8 and 14. Each boy was required to grow some flowers, herbs and at least 6 kinds of vegetable. A small rent was charged and a small library for them was provided.

paragraph: Smith died in 1859 in Southam, where, on Leamington Road, there is a memorial to his life and work close to the site of his dispensary, which was demolished in 1868. The memorial, erected in 1889, is to be found next to his hospital building which is now enlarged and used as a wedding venue called Warwick House.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Works by Henry Lilley Smith on Google Books

description: surgeon

wikidata_label: Henry Lilley Smith

wikipedia_title: Henry Lilley Smith


text: American

text: aquanaut

text: University of North Carolina Wilmington

text: Aquarius Reef Base

text: undersea research laboratory

text: Clayton, North Carolina

text: construction

text: surface-supplied diving

text: United States Coast Guard

text: Captain

text: Divemaster

text: Carolina Beach

text: Outer Banks

text: Aquarius Reef Base

text: National Undersea Research Center

text: trimix

text: emergency medical technician

text: saturation diving

text: life support

text: divemaster

text: mantis shrimp

text: coral reef

text: U.S. Navy

text: rebreather

text: Dewey Smith

text: Inspiration closed circuit rebreather

text: Jacques Cousteau

text: Conshelf I

text: Sylvia Earle

text: NEEMO

text: NASA

text: analog environment

text: NURP

text: Mark Hulsbeck

text: Discovery Bay, Jamaica

text: NOAA

text: Integrated Coral Observing Network

text: Hurricane Paloma

text: skydiver

text: BASE jump

text: spearfishing

text: mudding

text: boating

text: motorcycle

text: inline skating

text: Talacek's self-profile (2012)

text: September 2002 self-profile

categories: American builders,University of North Carolina at Wilmington,American underwater divers,Aquanauts,American skydivers,1970 births,Emergency medical technicians,People from Charlotte, North Carolina,Place of birth missing (living people),Living people

paragraph: James Talacek

paragraph: James Raymond Talacek is an American professional aquanaut with the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW). He serves as Oceanographic Field Operations Manager at Aquarius Reef Base, the world's only undersea research laboratory.

paragraph: Section::::Early life and education.

paragraph: Talacek grew up in Clayton, North Carolina. He earned his first diving certification while attending UNCW. Talacek subsequently worked in construction. In 1993 he was hired as an underwater bridge inspector by the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NC DOT) Underwater Unit, gaining experience in underwater construction and surface-supplied diving. While employed by NC DOT, Talacek earned his Commercial Diving Supervisor certification. He also earned a United States Coast Guard Captain's license and Divemaster certification. Talacek began running dive charters on weekends from Carolina Beach. During his last six months working for NC DOT, Talacek served as diving supervisor for a dive team stationed at the Outer Banks.

paragraph: Section::::Aquarius.

paragraph: Talacek serves as Oceanographic Field Operations Manager at Aquarius Reef Base for the National Undersea Research Center (NURC). In this position he serves as diving supervisor, Aquarius lead habitat technician, boat captain and Divemaster. Talacek is a certified trimix diver, emergency medical technician (EMT) and advanced diver medic (DMT-A). During his first ten-day saturation diving mission aboard Aquarius in July 2001, Talacek commented, "It's really special to see things that only a small group of people ever get to see. I now understand why everyone on our crew is so anxious to work these saturation missions, because I too am loving every minute!"

paragraph: As a habitat technician during Aquarius missions, Talacek's responsibilities include habitat operations and maintenance, including carrying out dives to maintain the exterior of the habitat. He also monitors life support systems, communicates with the crew on shore, and acts as a divemaster for the scientists aboard Aquarius.

paragraph: Missions aboard Aquarius in which Talacek has participated have included a 2001 mission researching mantis shrimp, a September 2007 coral reef research mission called "If Reefs Could Talk", and a June 2006 mission with the U.S. Navy Specialized Research Diving Detachment (SRDD) during which NURC divers investigated the possibility of using rebreathers during excursions from Aquarius. In August 2009, during the investigation of the death of Aquarius aquanaut Dewey Smith, Talacek took part in an underwater test in which he operated the hydraulic hammer in use near Smith at the time of his fatal accident in the vicinity of an Inspiration closed circuit rebreather (CCR) similar to the one Smith had been using. In July 2012 Talacek served as Lead Habitat Technician for "50 Years of Living Beneath the Sea", an expedition commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Jacques Cousteau's Conshelf I project and co-led by Dr. Sylvia Earle.

paragraph: Talacek has taken part as a habitat technician in seven of the NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) missions, a series of NASA-NOAA missions which use Aquarius as an analog environment for space exploration. Talacek served as a habitat technician during the following missions:

paragraph: In May 2007, Talacek and other NURP/UNCW divers, including fellow Aquarius divers Mark Hulsbeck and Jim Buckley, set up a coral monitoring station pylon offshore from the Discovery Bay Marine Laboratory in Discovery Bay, Jamaica for a cooperative program among Caribbean countries called Mainstreaming Adaptation to Climate Change (MACC). The station was part of NOAA's Integrated Coral Observing Network (ICON). The station was subsequently destroyed during Hurricane Paloma in November 2008.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: Talacek is an enthusiastic skydiver, having made more than 400 jumps as of 2012. He has also made two BASE jumps, although he once commented that "it's hard to find places where it is legal to jump." Talacek also enjoys spearfishing, mudding, boating, riding motorcycles and inline skating. He married his wife, Holly, in 2012.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Talacek's self-profile (2012)

paragraph: BULLET::::- September 2002 self-profile

paragraph: BULLET::::- Video of Q&A with Renaissance Charter School (September 2011)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Video interview with NEEMO 15 crew (October 2011)

description: American aquanaut

wikidata_label: James Talacek

wikipedia_title: James Talacek


text:
professional baseball
pitcher
Cincinnati Reds
Major League Baseball
Miami Marlins
Howell Township, New Jersey
Colts Neck High School
Colts Neck Township, New Jersey
Boston Red Sox
2008 Major League Baseball draft
signing bonus
University of Florida
college baseball
Florida Gators baseball
Toronto Blue Jays
2011 MLB draft
Lansing Lugnuts
Class A
Midwest League
Adeiny Hechavarria
Henderson Álvarez
Yunel Escobar
Jeff Mathis
Justin Nicolino
Jake Marisnick
Miami Marlins
Mark Buehrle
Josh Johnson
José Reyes
John Buck
Emilio Bonifacio
Jupiter Hammerheads
Class A-Advanced
Florida State League
Jacksonville Suns
Class AA
Southern League
win–loss record
earned run average
New Orleans Zephyrs
Class AAA
Pacific Coast League
Henderson Álvarez
Milwaukee Brewers
Carlos Gómez
Chad Wallach
Cincinnati Reds
Mat Latos
tendinitis
ulnar collateral ligament of the elbow
Colorado Rockies
Chicago Cubs
grand slam
Brian Duensing
Bob Purkey

categories: Miami Marlins players,Florida Gators baseball players,New Orleans Zephyrs players,Jupiter Hammerheads players,Sportspeople from Monmouth County, New Jersey,Jacksonville Suns players,1990 births,People from Howell Township, New Jersey,People from Freehold Borough, New Jersey,Major League Baseball pitchers,Baseball players from New Jersey,Cincinnati Reds players,Living people,Lansing Lugnuts players

paragraph: Anthony DeSclafani

paragraph: Anthony James DeSclafani (born April 18, 1990) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played for the Miami Marlins.

paragraph: Section::::Amateur career.

paragraph: DeSclafani grew up in Howell Township, New Jersey and attended Colts Neck High School in Colts Neck Township, New Jersey.

paragraph: The Boston Red Sox selected DeSclafani in the 22nd round of the 2008 Major League Baseball draft. Rather than accept a signing bonus of about $200,000, he enrolled at the University of Florida, where he played college baseball for the Florida Gators baseball team.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Draft and Minor Leagues.

paragraph: The Toronto Blue Jays selected DeSclafani in the sixth round of the 2011 MLB draft. He received a $250,000 signing bonus. In 2012, he pitched for the Lansing Lugnuts of the Class A Midwest League.

paragraph: After the 2012 season, the Blue Jays traded DeSclafani, Adeiny Hechavarria, Henderson Álvarez, Yunel Escobar, Jeff Mathis, Justin Nicolino, and Jake Marisnick to the Miami Marlins, receiving Mark Buehrle, Josh Johnson, José Reyes, John Buck, and Emilio Bonifacio in exchange. DeSclafani pitched for the Jupiter Hammerheads of the Class A-Advanced Florida State League and the Jacksonville Suns of the Class AA Southern League in 2013. He pitched to a 9–6 win–loss record and a 2.65 earned run average across both levels. The Marlins named him their minor league pitcher of the year after the season.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Miami Marlins.

paragraph: DeSclafani began the 2014 season with Jacksonville. The Marlins promoted him to the major leagues to make his debut on May 14 with a win against the Dodgers in Los Angeles. DeSclafani struck out seven and also had two hits in the game. DeSclafani was optioned back to the New Orleans Zephyrs of the Class AAA Pacific Coast League on August 16, 2014, with the return of Henderson Álvarez. During a game against the Milwaukee Brewers on September 11, 2014, DeSclafani was ejected for the first time in his MLB career after intentionally hitting Carlos Gómez with a pitch. The next day, DeSclafani was suspended three games and fined an undisclosed amount by the MLB.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Cincinnati Reds.

paragraph: On December 11, 2014, the Marlins traded DeSclafani and Chad Wallach to the Cincinnati Reds in exchange for Mat Latos. DeSclafani earned his first win as a Reds pitcher and, subsequently, the first win for a starting pitcher for the Reds in 2015 with a 3–2 win over the Cubs on April 14, 2015. He pitched in 31 starts for the Reds, finishing with a record of 9–13. The following season, he pitched just in 20 starts after a few stints on the disabled list, he went 9–5.

paragraph: In 2017, DeSclafani experienced pain in his right elbow at the beginning of spring training. He was diagnosed with tendinitis and was immediately shut down. He was later diagnosed with a sprained ulnar collateral ligament of the elbow (UCL), and began the season on the disabled list. The Reds sent him a minor league rehab assignment at the end of July, but a reoccurrence of the tendinitis ended the rehab stint. His UCL had recovered. He went on 60 day disabled list, effectively ending his season without appearing in a MLB game.

paragraph: After missing almost 2 years because of multiple injuries, DeSclafani was activated to start on June 5, 2018 against the Colorado Rockies. In a June 23 game against the Chicago Cubs, DeSclafani hit a grand slam off of Brian Duensing. The last Reds pitcher to hit a grand slam was Bob Purkey, also against the Cubs, in 1959. DeSclafani was the starting pitcher and earned the win as the Reds defeated the Cubs 11–2.

alias:
Anthony J. DeSclafani
Anthony James DeSclafani

description: American baseball player, pitcher

wikidata_label: Anthony DeSclafani

wikipedia_title: Anthony DeSclafani


text:
Río de la Plata
Ciudad de Rodrigo
House of Enríquez
Fuerte de Buenos Aires
Antonio de la Torre Herrera
Jacinto de Láriz
Royal Standard
St. Martin's Day
Spanish Empire
Lieutenant Governor
Lieutenant general
Viceroyalty of Peru
Treasurer
Francisco de Manzanares y Dardos
Toledo
Ignacio Fernández de Agüero
Juan Báez de Alpoim
Pedro Morales y Mercado

categories: 1610s births,People from Ciudad Rodrigo,17th-century Spanish people,Mayors of Buenos Aires,Spanish colonial governors and administrators,People from Buenos Aires

paragraph: Pedro Morales y Mercado

paragraph: Pedro Morales y Mercado (c. 1610 - c. 1670) was a 17th-century Spanish nobleman, who held different honorific positions in the Río de la Plata, serving as mayor, army officer and treasurer of Buenos Aires.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Pedro Morales y Mercado was born about 1610 in Ciudad de Rodrigo, (Spain), son of Juan de Morales y Mercado and Blanca Enríquez de Soria, belonging to a noble family, possibly related to the House of Enríquez.

paragraph: Towards the year 1630 he moved to Buenos Aires, where served as Captain in the Fuerte de Buenos Aires. On January 1, 1651 Antonio de la Torre Herrera and Pedro Morales y Mercado, swore before the Governor Jacinto de Láriz, as mayors of first and second vote of the City of Buenos Aires. That same year, Morales was named Alférez Real, being in charge of carrying the Royal Standard in the St. Martin's Day.

paragraph: Pedro Morales y Mercado served for more than thirty years to the Spanish Empire. In 1660 he was appointed to the position of Lieutenant Governor and Lieutenant general of the Río de la Plata, the highest hierarchical post after the Governor.

paragraph: He also had held various senior positions during the Viceroyalty of Peru, serving as Captain, Chief Justice and Treasurer of Buenos Aires. His wife was María Manzanares y Aguilar, daughter of Francisco de Manzanares y Dardos, a Spanish politician, born in Toledo, and Leonor de Aguilar Pérez de Burgos, born in Buenos Aires. Pedro de Morales y Mercado maintained ties with the families of Ignacio Fernández de Agüero and Juan Báez de Alpoim, who attended as witnesses at the wedding of one of their daughters.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Pedro Morales y Mercado on Genealogica Familiar

description: Argentine politician

wikidata_label: Pedro Morales y Mercado

wikipedia_title: Pedro Morales y Mercado


text:
electronic music
Chemistry
Dance/Electronic Albums
Skrillex
OWSLA
Beatport
Savant
ambient
dubstep
future garage
riddim
future bass
electro house
dubstep

categories: German record producers,Owsla artists,Electronic dance music DJs,1994 births,Monstercat artists,German electronic musicians,German DJs,Living people,Ableton Live users

paragraph: Virtual Riot

paragraph: Christian Valentin Brunn (born 20 July 1994), better known by his stage name Virtual Riot, is a German DJ and electronic music producer. He has released seventeen extended plays and one studio album, most notably his 2016 EP "Chemistry", which peaked at 20 on the Dance/Electronic Albums charts. He was signed to the independent music label Disciple Recordings in 2014. On 16 April 2019, he announced a publishing deal with Skrillex's OWSLA.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Brunn has had numerous Beatport chart hits including "One For All, All For One" with Razihel and "Cali Born" with Helicopter Showdown. Other electronic music outlets, such as Your EDM, have called his music "non-traditional" and "edgy", comparing him to artists like Savant.

paragraph: Prior to producing under the alias "Virtual Riot", Brunn produced ambient dubstep and future garage music under another alias, Your Personal Tranquilizer.

paragraph: Brunn has released several EPs under British record label Disciple Records, including his charted EP, "Chemistry". He produces in genres such as riddim, future bass, future garage, electro house, and both bass-heavy and melodic dubstep.

description: German electronic music producer

wikidata_label: Virtual Riot

wikipedia_title: Virtual Riot


text:
Italian
Brera Academy
Pietro Magni
Riccardo Ripamonti
Achille D'Orsi
Gian Pietro Lucini

categories: People from Milan,1943 deaths,20th-century Italian sculptors,19th-century Italian sculptors,Brera Academy alumni,Italian male sculptors,1860 births,Brera Academy faculty,19th-century male artists

paragraph: Achille Alberti

paragraph: Achille Alberti (1860, in Milan – July 15, 1943) was an Italian sculptor.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Born in Milan, where he completed his studies at the Brera Academy under Pietro Magni and Riccardo Ripamonti. He later taught sculpture at the Academy. Like the sculptor Achille D'Orsi, he often depicted genre subjects, but he also completed scenes from classical history. In 1885, he completed the works "Il Catone Uticense" and "Vittime del lavoro".

paragraph: His statuette, "Il barcaiuolo", was exhibited in 1883, and the next year in Turin. He also completed the bronze statuary group "Due giugno"; "Apoteosi" (1886); "Leda" (1887, Mostra di Venice); a stucco "Mater dolorosa" (1888, Bologna); a bronze figurine of "Il panattiere"; and "Maria", a marble bas-relief. At the Galleria d'Arte Moderna of Milan, a half dozen of his works are displayed: a bronze bas-relief of "Pindar in the Theater of Athens" (1891); a stucco bas-relief of "Bathers" (1891); a marble "Portrait of the poet Gian Pietro Lucini (1897); a marble bust of "Maniscalco" (1900); a bronze "Virago (1907); and a bronze "Bustino di Ragazzo" (1910).

description: Italian sculptor

wikidata_label: Achille Alberti

wikipedia_title: Achille Alberti


text:
Canadian
Roman Catholic
Roman Catholic Diocese of Whitehorse
St. Paul's Hospital
Vancouver
British Columbia
Burnaby
Pope Francis
Bishop of Victoria
Apostolic Nuncio

categories: People from Burnaby,1957 births,Living people,Canadian Roman Catholic bishops

paragraph: Gary Gordon (bishop)

paragraph: Gary M. Gordon (born June 10, 1957) is a Canadian Roman Catholic bishop.

paragraph: Ordained to the priesthood in May 22, 1982, Gordon was named bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Whitehorse, Canada in early 2006.

paragraph: Born on June 10, 1957, at St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, and raised in Burnaby, Gordon studied at the Seminary of Christ the King, Mission, B.C.; at St. Jerome College, University of Waterloo, Ontario; and at St. Peter's Seminary, London, Ontario. Ordained to the priesthood on May 22, 1982, for the Archdiocese of Vancouver, he was named Bishop of Whitehorse on January 5, 2006. Prior to his appointment as bishop in 2006, Gordon had served several parishes throughout British Columbia, including Vancouver, Chilliwack and Mission. He also served as the Pacific regional representative of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops (CCCB) with the Interfaith Committee on Chaplaincy of the Correctional Service of Canada (1994-2006), and was the CCCB principal liaison and spokesperson on the Interfaith Committee (2002-2006).

paragraph: Since 2007, Gordon has been the CCCB Bishop ponens for Catholics involved in prison chaplaincy and pastoral services. In addition, he has been Chairman of the CCCB Standing Committee for Relations with Movements and Associations since 2011, after previously serving on the former Episcopal Commission for Relations with Associations of Clergy, Consecrated Life and Laity (2007-2008). He has been a member of the Anglican/Roman Catholic Bishops' Dialogue since 2007, and became its Co-Chairman in 2009.

paragraph: On Saturday, June 14, 2014, Pope Francis named Gary Gordon as Bishop of Victoria. At the time of his appointment, he was Bishop of Whitehorse, Yukon. Bishop Gordon succeeds Archbishop Richard Gagnon, who was appointed Archbishop of Winnipeg on October 28, 2013. Gagnon served as Apostolic Administrator of Victoria until he was installed as Archbishop of Winnipeg on January 3, 2014. Since then John Laszczyk has been Diocesan Administrator of Victoria. (Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops)

paragraph: Installation Mass for Bishop Gary Gordon was held on Thursday, August 28, 2014 at St. Andrew's Cathedral in downtown Victoria. Over 50 priests and many bishops from across the country and especially Western Canada were present. Archbishop Michael Miller of Vancouver and Archbishop Luigi Bonazzi, the Apostolic Nuncio, also attended.

description: Canadian Roman Catholic bishop

wikidata_label: Gary Gordon

wikipedia_title: Gary Gordon (bishop)


text:
Charles VI
Isabeau of Bavaria
House of Valois
nun
Bois de Vincennes
mental illness
Poissy
Joanna of Bourbon
Christine de Pizan
Louis I, Duke of Orléans
Edward
Robert, Duke of Bar
Black Death
Palais Royal
Paris
King Charles VII

categories: 15th-century French women,14th-century French people,15th-century deaths from plague (disease),1393 births,1438 deaths,French nuns,14th-century French women,House of Valois,15th-century French people,People from Poissy

paragraph: Marie of Valois, Prioress of Poissy

paragraph: Marie of France (24 August 1393 – 19 August 1438) was the daughter of Charles VI and his wife, Isabeau of Bavaria. She was a member of the House of Valois and became a nun.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Marie was born at the Bois de Vincennes and was the sixth of twelve children, eight of them including Marie lived to adulthood.

paragraph: Marie's father was known to suffer from a hereditary mental illness. Isabeau had destined her daughter for the church, possibly because she saw her husband's madness as a punishment from God.

paragraph: Marie entered the convent of Poissy on 8 September 1397, taking her vows as a nun on 26 May 1408. She was the only one of the children that had a religious life; the rest of her surviving siblings were married off.

paragraph: At the time Marie entered the convent the prioress was her great-aunt, Marie of Bourbon, who was the sister of the younger Marie's paternal grandmother, Joanna of Bourbon. Entering the convent with young Marie as a companion was another Marie, the daughter of Christine de Pizan. Christine described a visit to Poissy in 1400 in her work "Le Livre du Dit de Poissy," where she was greeted "joyously and tenderly" by the seven-year-old Marie of Valois and the Prioress. Christine also described Marie's lodgings as befitting a royal princess.

paragraph: In 1405, her mother, Isabeau, and her uncle, Louis I, Duke of Orléans, visited her and tried to convince her to abandon the religious life in order to marry Edward, son of Robert, Duke of Bar, an ally of Louis. But she declined, emphasising that only the king (who was mentally unstable at this time) had the power to force her to take a husband, and she remained at the abbey. In later years, she became prioress of the convent and lived out the rest of her life there. She died of the Black Death on 19 August 1438 at the Palais Royal in Paris and is buried at the convent. The only of her siblings who survived her was King Charles VII.

description: French prioress

wikidata_label: Marie, Prioress of Poissy

wikipedia_title: Marie of Valois, Prioress of Poissy


text: Hadamar

text: Fulda

text: bishop

text: Roman Catholic Diocese of Fulda

text: Weilburg

text: University of Giessen

text: Limburg an der Lahn

text: priest

text: Limburg Cathedral

text: Limburg

text: Peter Josef Blum

text: chaplain

text: Oberursel

text: Rennerod

text: Frankfurt-Höchst

text: Frankfurt Cathedral

text: Lorch

text: parson

text: dean

text: Wiesbaden

text: prelate

text: Leo XIII

text: chapter

text: Georg von Kopp

text: Prince-bishop

text: Breslau

text: archbishop

text: Freiburg im Breisgau

text: Christian Roos

text: Fulda Cathedral

categories: 1894 deaths,People from Limburg-Weilburg,1826 births,Bishops of Fulda,19th-century Roman Catholic bishops

paragraph: Joseph Weyland (bishop)

paragraph: Joseph Weyland (13 March 1826, Hadamar - 11 January 1894, Fulda) was a bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fulda from 1887 to 1894.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: After graduation in Weilburg in 1844, Weyland studied at the Catholic Theological Department of the University of Giessen, and finished his studies at the priests' seminary in Limburg an der Lahn. He was ordained priest in 1848 in Limburg Cathedral by the bishop of Limburg, Peter Josef Blum (1808–1884).

paragraph: He was a chaplain in Oberursel, Rennerod, and Frankfurt-Höchst, and from January 1852 he was chaplain in Frankfurt Cathedral. After a few years in Lorch, he became parson (1862) and later dean (1863) of Wiesbaden. In 1882 he was appointed prelate by Pope Leo XIII.

paragraph: On 5 January 1887, the Fulda chapter elected him to succeed bishop Georg von Kopp, who had been appointed Prince-bishop of Breslau (1887–1914). He was ordained on 25 January 1888 by the archbishop of Freiburg im Breisgau, Christian Roos (1826–1894).

paragraph: He is buried in Fulda Cathedral.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Entry for Joseph Weyland at "catholic-hierarchy.org"

description: bishop of Fulda

wikidata_label: Joseph Weyland

wikipedia_title: Joseph Weyland (bishop)


text:
silent era
James Young Deer
Native American
Mona Darkfeather
Frank E. Montgomery
Winnebago Reservation
Carlisle Indian Industrial School
Chester I. Long
James Young Deer
Delaware Indian
Nanticoke tribe
Spanish–American War
D.W. Griffith
The Squaw Man
Cecil B. DeMille
Oscar Apfel
Dustin Farnum
Monroe Salisbury
Tom Mix
In the Days of the Thundering Herd
Ramona
Thurston County, Nebraska
Winnebago Reservation
Red Wing
Kerry Mills
Thurland Chattaway

categories: 1974 deaths,People from Thurston County, Nebraska,American film actresses,Native American actresses,Actresses from Nebraska,1883 births

paragraph: Red Wing (actress)

paragraph: Red Wing (born Lillian Margaret St. Cyr; February 13, 1873March 12, 1974) was an American actress of the silent era. She and her husband James Young Deer have been dubbed by some as one of the first Native American Hollywood "power couple(s)" along with Mona Darkfeather and her actor/director husband Frank E. Montgomery. St. Cyr was born on the Winnebago Reservation in Nebraska.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Lillian attended the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, which enrolled students from a variety of Native American tribes. She moved to Washington, D.C. to work as a domestic servant for Kansas Senator Chester I. Long and his wife. There she met and married J. Younger Johnson (James Young Deer) on April 9, 1906. Young Deer was of mixed European, African-American, and Delaware Indian ancestry (according to St. Cyr) and was a member of the Nanticoke tribe. A native of Washington, D.C., Young Deer served in the US Navy during the Spanish–American War.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life and early roles.

paragraph: After they married, the couple performed a Western act in various venues around New York City and Philadelphia. In 1908, St. Cyr appeared in Kalem's "The White Squaw" followed in May 1909 by Lubin's "The Falling Arrow." In the summer of 1909, they worked as technical advisers and as extras for two films directed by D.W. Griffith. St. Cyr also appeared in Vitagraph's "Red Wing's Gratitude" that Fall as the character Princess Red Wing. Concurrently, they worked for Bison films (New York Motion Picture Co.), which relocated from New York City to Edendale, in the Fall of 1909.

paragraph: Section::::Film.

paragraph: St. Cyr is best known for her feature role in "The Squaw Man" (1914) by producer/director Cecil B. DeMille and co-director Oscar Apfel, released in 1914. The movie starred Dustin Farnum and Monroe Salisbury. This was followed by a role with cowboy star Tom Mix in "In the Days of the Thundering Herd" (1914) and another in "Fighting Bob" (1915). The 1916 version of "Ramona," about Native Americans and Spanish colonists in early California, featured St. Cyr as Ramona's mother.

paragraph: From 1908-1921, St. Cyr performed in more than 35 short Western films. She retired from acting in the 1920s and returned to New York City to settle. She was buried in the Roman Catholic St. Augustine Cemetery in Thurston County, Nebraska, near the Winnebago Reservation.

paragraph: Section::::Popular culture.

paragraph: "Red Wing," a popular song of 1907, by Kerry Mills and Thurland Chattaway was said to be have been performed by her and was associated with her. Film historians question this.

alias:
Lillian St.Cyr
Princess Red Wing
Lillian Margaret St. Cyr

description: Native American actress

wikidata_label: Red Wing

wikipedia_title: Red Wing (actress)


text:
MD
physician
Lowestoft
Mutford
Hull Infirmary
James
Hull
"An Essay on Apparitions"

categories: 1758 births,1829 deaths,19th-century English medical doctors,18th-century English medical doctors

paragraph: John Alderson (physician)

paragraph: John Alderson MD (1758 – 16 September 1829) was an English physician.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: He was born at Lowestoft, the son of a dissenting minister, the Rev. J. Alderson, whose death (1760) was hastened by the adverse termination of a lawsuit. Elisha Barlow, a merchant of Lowestoft, deploring the narrow means of his minister, who had a numerous family, bequeathed a good estate at Mutford for the augmentation of the stipend, on the condition that, whenever Alderson should withdraw from the church, the estate was to devolve on him and his heirs for ever. Thereupon the whole body of dissenters in the town, out of regard for their pastor, drew up an instrument by which they expelled him from the church in order that he might acquire the estate. They afterwards re-elected him to the pastoral office.

paragraph: Their good intentions were however defeated by the heirs-at-law, who disputed the legality of the bequest in the court of Chancery on the statute of mortmain, and gained their suit. Alderson was shortly after taken ill while preaching, and died on reaching his home.

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: He published at Hull "An Essay on the Nature and Origin of the Contagion of Fever" (1788) and "An Essay on the Rhus Toxicodendron, or Sumach, and its Efficacy in Paralysis" (1782) which passed through three editions between 1794 and 1805. In 1795 he was elected physician to the Hull Infirmary. To commemorate his services there and the public spirit he exhibited in founding and presiding over various literary and scientific institutions in the town, a statue of the doctor was erected in 1833 by subscription and placed on the lawn in front of the infirmary at a cost of £300.

paragraph: Dr. Alderson was also the author of a work not altogether of a professional character, entitled ‘"An Essay on Apparitions accounted for independently of Preternatural Agency"’ (8vo, London, 1823). This work gave extremely curious cases of mental illusion which came under his own immediate observation. He published two editions of a treatise ‘"On the Improvement of Poor Soils"’ (1802 and 1807) and several editions of ""Orthographical Exercise"".

paragraph: Section::::Family.

paragraph: His son James, after receiving a regular medical training, began to practise in Hull, and soon became the chief physician of the town.

paragraph: Section::::Publications.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "An Essay on the Rhus Toxicodendron, or Sumach, and its Efficacy in Paralysis" (1782)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "An Essay on the Nature and Origin of the Contagion of Fever" (1788)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "An Essay on Apparitions" (1823)

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::-

description: physician

wikidata_label: John Alderson

wikipedia_title: John Alderson (physician)


text: aliʻi nui

text: island of Hawaiʻi

text: Kalaninuiamamao

text: Kamākaʻimoku

text: Keōua

text: Kalanikeʻeaumoku

text: Kamehameha I

text: Alapainui

text: Captain James Cook

text: Kealakekua Bay

text: ʻahuʻula

text: mahiole

text: Makahiki

text: a violent struggle

text: Cook's death

text: Kīwalaʻō

text: Kamehameha I

text: Kū-ka-ili-moku

text: battle of Mokuōhai

text: Keōua Kuahuula

text: Hilo

categories: Hawaiian military personnel,Royalty of Hawaii (island),Burials at the Royal Mausoleum of Hawaii,House of Keawe,1720s births,1782 deaths

paragraph: Kalaniʻōpuʻu

paragraph: Kalaniōpuu-a-Kaiamamao (c. 1729 – April 1782) was the aliʻi nui (supreme monarch) of island of Hawaiʻi. He was called "Terreeoboo, King of Owhyhee" by James Cook and other Europeans. His name has also been written as Kaleiopuu.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Kalaniʻōpuʻu was the son of Kalaninuiamamao (k) and his wife Kamākaʻimoku (w), a high ranking aliʻi wahine (female of hereditary nobility) who was also the mother of Keōua (k) with another husband named Kalanikeʻeaumoku (k). This made her the grandmother of Kamehameha I. During his reign, Alapainui had kept the two young princess (Kalaniʻōpuʻu and Keōua) close to him out of either kindness or politics.

paragraph: Kalaniōpuu-a-Kaiamamao was the king of the island during the times Captain James Cook came to Hawaiʻi and went aboard his ship on 26 November 1778. After Cook anchored at Kealakekua Bay in January 1779, Kalaniōpuu-a-Kaiamamao paid a ceremonial visit on 26 January 1779 and exchanged gifts including a ʻahuʻula (feathered cloak) and mahiole (ceremonial helmet), since it was during the Makahiki season. Cook's ships returned on 11 February to repair storm damage. This time relations were not as good, resulting in a violent struggle and Cook's death.

paragraph: Kalaniōpuu-a-Kaiamamao died at Kāʻilikiʻi, Waioʻahukini, Kaʻū, in April 1782. He was succeeded by his son, Kīwalaʻō, as king of Hawaii island; and his nephew, Kamehameha I, who was given guardianship of Kū-ka-ili-moku, the god of war. His nephew would eventually overthrow his son at the battle of Mokuōhai. The island of Hawaii was then effectively divided into three parts: his nephew Kamehameha ruled the western districts, his younger son Keōua Kuahuula controlled Kaū, and his brother Keawemauhili controlled Hilo.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kidnapping of Kalaniʻōpuʻu by James Cook

description: 18th-century Hawaiian monarch

wikidata_label: Kalaniʻōpuʻu

wikipedia_title: Kalaniʻōpuʻu


text: theorist

text: Renaissance

text: English Madrigal School

text: Elizabethan

text: Robert Johnson

text: Shakespeare

text: St Paul's Cathedral

text: printing patent

text: Thomas East

text: Norwich

text: the local cathedral

text: choristers

text: William Byrd

text: Peter Philips

text: University of Oxford

text: St. Paul's

text: recusant

text: Nicholas Yonge

text: Musica transalpina

text: madrigal

text: As You Like It

text: Now is the Month of Maying

text: Thomas Weelkes

text: John Wilbye

text: Fitzwilliam Virginal Book

text: broken consort

text: viol

text: lute

text: cittern

text: bandora

text: William Barley

text: St Botolph Billingsgate

text: Great Fire of London

text: The Triumphs of Oriana

text: Gustave Reese

text: The Oxford Book of English Madrigals

text: end matter

categories: English male classical composers,Composers of the Tudor period,Renaissance composers,Cathedral organists,English music theorists,Male organists,1550s births,16th-century English composers,English organists,1602 deaths,English classical composers,English madrigal composers

paragraph: Thomas Morley

paragraph: Thomas Morley (1557 or 1558 – early October 1602) was an English composer, theorist, singer and organist of the Renaissance. He was one of the foremost members of the English Madrigal School. Referring to the strong Italian influence on the English madrigal, Philip Brett and Tessa Murray state that Morley was 'chiefly responsible for grafting the Italian shoot on to the native stock and initiating the curiously brief but brilliant flowering of the madrigal that constitutes one of the most colourful episodes in the history of English music'.

paragraph: Living in London at the same time as Shakespeare, he was the most famous composer of secular music in Elizabethan England. He and Robert Johnson are the composers of the only surviving contemporary settings of verse by Shakespeare.

paragraph: Morley was active in church music as a singer, composer and organist at St Paul's Cathedral.

paragraph: He was also involved in music publishing. From 1598 up to his death he held a printing patent (a type of monopoly). He used the monopoly in partnership with professional music printers such as Thomas East.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Morley was born in Norwich, the son of a brewer. Most likely he was a singer in the local cathedral from his boyhood, and he became master of choristers there in 1583. However, it is assumed that Morley moved from Norwich Cathedral sometime before 1574 to be a chorister at St Paul's Cathedral. He was working as a singer in London in the 1570s and appears to have studied with William Byrd at that time who was his mentor, who also taught contemporary Peter Philips. While the dates he studied with Byrd are not known, they were most likely in the early 1570s. In his 1597 publication "A Plain and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke," Morley mentions Byrd as his mentor. In 1588 he received his bachelor's degree from the University of Oxford, and shortly thereafter was employed as organist at St. Paul's in London. His young son died the following year in 1589. He and his wife Susan had three children between 1596 and 1600. He may have been a Roman Catholic, like Byrd. He was able to avoid prosecution as a recusant, and there is evidence that he may have been an informer on the activities of Roman Catholics.

paragraph: In 1588 Nicholas Yonge published his "Musica transalpina", the collection of Italian madrigals fitted with English texts, which touched off the explosive and colourful vogue for madrigal composition in England. Morley found his compositional direction at this time, and shortly afterwards began publishing his own collections of madrigals (11 in all).

paragraph: Morley lived for a time in the same parish as Shakespeare, and a connection between the two has been long speculated, but never proven. His famous setting of "It was a lover and his lass" from "As You Like It" has never been established as having been used in a performance of Shakespeare's play during the playwright's lifetime. However, given that the song was published in 1600, there is evidently a possibility that it was used in stage performances.

paragraph: While Morley attempted to imitate the spirit of Byrd in some of his early sacred works, it was in the form of the madrigal that he made his principal contribution to music history. His work in the genre has remained in the repertory to the present day, and shows a wider variety of emotional color, form and technique than anything by other composers of the period. Usually his madrigals are light, quick-moving and easily singable, like his well-known "Now is the Month of Maying" (which is actually a ballett); he took the aspects of Italian style that suited his personality and anglicised them. Other composers of the English Madrigal School, for instance Thomas Weelkes and John Wilbye, were to write madrigals in a more serious or sombre vein.

paragraph: In addition to his madrigals, Morley wrote instrumental music, including keyboard music (some of which has been preserved in the "Fitzwilliam Virginal Book"), and music for the broken consort, a uniquely English ensemble of two viols, flute, lute, cittern and bandora, notably as published by William Barley in 1599 in "The First Booke of Consort Lessons, made by diuers exquisite Authors, for six Instruments to play together, the Treble Lute, the Bandora, the Cittern, the Base-Violl, the Flute & Treble-Violl".

paragraph: Morley's "Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke" (published 1597) remained popular for almost two hundred years after its author's death, and is still an important reference for information about sixteenth century composition and performance.

paragraph: Thomas Morley was buried in the graveyard of the church of St Botolph Billingsgate, which was destroyed in the Great Fire of London of 1666, and not rebuilt. Thus his grave is lost.

paragraph: Section::::Compositions.

paragraph: Thomas Morley's compositions include (in alphabetical order):

paragraph: Section::::Compositions.:Sacred music.

paragraph: BULLET::::- The First Service

paragraph: BULLET::::- How long wilt thou forget me?

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Burial Service

paragraph: BULLET::::- De profundis clamavi

paragraph: BULLET::::- Eheu sustulerunt domine

paragraph: BULLET::::- Domine, non est exultarem cor meum

paragraph: BULLET::::- Domine, dominus noster

paragraph: BULLET::::- O amica mea

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- The Triumphs of Oriana edited by Morley, published in 1601.

paragraph: Section::::References and further reading.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Gustave Reese, "Music in the Renaissance". New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1954.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Article "Thomas Morley" in "The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians", ed. Stanley Sadie. 20 vol. London, Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 1980.

paragraph: BULLET::::- The University of Reading Library featuring: Thomas Morley, "A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke". London, 1597

paragraph: BULLET::::- Philip Ledger (ed) The Oxford Book of English Madrigals OUP 1978

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Madrigal", Jerome Roche, 1972.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- More information, including full text, of Morley's Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke at the University of North Texas Music Library's Virtual Rare Book Room

paragraph: BULLET::::- HTML transcription, with numbered page divisions, of "Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke": pp. 1–68, 69–115, and 116–183 and end matter (at the Jacobs (Indiana University) School of Music Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature)

description: English composer, organist and editor

wikidata_label: Thomas Morley

wikipedia_title: Thomas Morley


text:
Wars of Scottish Independence
Margaret of Norway
Alexander III
Foston
Leicestershire
County Durham
barony of Urr
Red Castle
Angus
Auld alliance
siege of Berwick
Edward I of England
Battle of Falkirk
siege of Stirling Castle
Guardian of Scotland
William Lamberton, Bishop of St Andrews
John Comyn, Lord of Badenoch
John de Soules
Lochmaben Castle
Henry de Percy
Robert the Bruce
Edward II of England
Battle of the River Dee
Battle of Bannockburn
Bothwell Castle
Ailéan mac Ruaidhrí
Phillip de Mowbray
Rymer, Thomas

categories: Guardians of Scotland,Scottish people of the Wars of Scottish Independence,Umfraville,Signatories to the Declaration of Arbroath

paragraph: Ingram de Umfraville

paragraph: Sir Ingram de Umfraville ("fl." 1284–1320) was a Scottish noble who played a particularly chequered role in the Wars of Scottish Independence, changing sides between England and Scotland multiple times, throughout the conflict.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Ingram was the son of Robert de Umfraville of Collerton and Eva de Balliol.

paragraph: In 1284 he joined with other Scottish noblemen who acknowledged Margaret of Norway as the heir of King Alexander III. Ingram adopted the arms of Baliol and inherited the estates of Ingram Baliol on Baliol's death, being Foston in Leicestershire, Wharrington-upon-Tees in County Durham as well as the barony of Urr in Galloway and Red Castle in Angus. He was one of the ambassadors who established the 'Auld alliance' with France and Scotland in 1295. He was present at the siege of Berwick in 1296 with King Edward I of England and fought on the English side during the Battle of Falkirk in 1298.

paragraph: Fighting on the side of Scotland he participated in the siege of Stirling Castle in 1299. He was appointed joint Guardian of Scotland on 10 May 1300 together with William Lamberton, Bishop of St Andrews, and John Comyn, Lord of Badenoch. He resigned the next year and was replaced by John de Soules. He participated in the siege of Lochmaben Castle in September 1301. In 1303 he again became an ambassadors to Paris and upon returning from France in 1304, Ingram had his lands forfeited to King Edward I, who gave them to Sir Henry de Percy. He received his lands back upon Robert the Bruce declaring himself King in 1306.

paragraph: Ingram switched sides to the English and in 1307 became one of their commanders in the Carrick and Galloway area and held the Bruce and his small army in the hill country south of the Forth. King Edward II of England made Ingram Guardian of South and West Scotland. Edward Bruce defeated Ingram during the Battle of the River Dee in 1308. He fought on the side of the English at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314. After the battle Ingram fled the field to Bothwell Castle, where he was captured and later ransomed. Ingram left Scotland in 1320 and obtained safe conducts from Edward II to travel to France.

paragraph: Section::::Family and issue.

paragraph: Ingram married Isabella, widow of Ailéan mac Ruaidhrí of Garmoran and had the following known issue:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Eva de Umfraville, married Phillip de Mowbray, had issue.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Isabella de Umfraville

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Rymer, Thomas,"Foedera Conventiones, Literae et cuiuscunque generis Acta Publica inter Reges Angliae". London. 1745. (Latin)

description: Scottish noble

wikidata_label: Ingram de Umfraville

wikipedia_title: Ingram de Umfraville


text:
American
vertebrate paleontologist
American Museum of Natural History
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
coke
steel
Henry Clay Frick
Clayton
New York City
Frick Park
Shady Side Academy
Princeton University
Colonial Club
Baltimore, Maryland
Henry Clay II
Roslyn Harbor, New York
William Cullen Bryant
Clayton
Helen Clay Frick
Homewood Cemetery
Nassau County
Nassau County Museum of Art
Childs Frick Building at AMNH

categories: People associated with the American Museum of Natural History,People from Roslyn Harbor, New York,American paleontologists,Burials at Homewood Cemetery,1965 deaths,People from Roslyn, New York,Scientists from Pittsburgh,1883 births,Shady Side Academy alumni

paragraph: Childs Frick

paragraph: Childs Frick (1883–1965) was an American vertebrate paleontologist. He was a trustee of the American Museum of Natural History and a major benefactor of its Department of Paleontology, which in 1916 began a long partnership with him. He established its Frick Laboratory. He also made many expeditions to the American West, and his efforts helped to shape an understanding of the evolution of North American camels. By employing many field workers, Frick accumulated over 200,000 fossil mammals, which later were donated to the Museum.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Frick was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of the coke and steel magnate Henry Clay Frick (1849–1919) and Adelaide Howard Childs. He grew up at the family's Pittsburgh estate, Clayton, although the family later moved in 1905 to New York City. He developed his lifelong love for animals playing in the wooded grounds and steep hills behind Clayton, later dedicated as Frick Park. He attended Shady Side Academy in Pittsburgh and graduated from Princeton University in 1905, where he was a member of Colonial Club.

paragraph: In 1913, Frick married Frances Shoemaker Dixon (1892–1953) of Baltimore, Maryland. The couple had four children: Adelaide, Frances, Martha Howard (Marsie), and Henry Clay II. As a gift, Frick's father purchased a Georgian-style mansion in Roslyn Harbor, New York, on land that originally belonged to the poet William Cullen Bryant. The couple lived at the estate, named "Clayton" after his childhood home, for more than 50 years.

paragraph: Henry Clay Frick famously played favorites with his two surviving children, Childs and Helen Clay Frick (1888–1984). After the reading of their father's will, which favored Helen, the two siblings were estranged for the rest of their lives.

paragraph: Childs Frick died of a heart attack at age 81 in Roslyn. He is interred alongside his wife and parents in the Frick family plot at Pittsburgh's Homewood Cemetery.

paragraph: In 1969, Frick's Roslyn Harbor estate was purchased by Nassau County for the purpose of conversion into the Nassau County Museum of Art.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Specific

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Childs Frick Building at AMNH

description: American paleontologist

wikidata_label: Childs Frick

wikipedia_title: Childs Frick


text:
Muzaffarpur
Bihar
fan
Indian cricket team
Sachin Tendulkar
national colours of India
Bangladesh
Lahore
Wankhede Stadium
Zaheer Khan
ICC World Cup 2011
Kanpur
Muzaffarpur
Bihar
self-immolation

categories: 1983 births,Cricket supporters,People from Bihar,Living people

paragraph: Sudhir Kumar Chaudhary

paragraph: Sudhir Chaudhary (born 1981 in Muzaffarpur, Bihar), also called Sudhir Kumar Gautam, is an Indian Teacher who is fan of the Indian cricket team and Sachin Tendulkar. He is widely recognised for attending every home match the Indian team has played since 2003. For some overseas tours, he also collects funds from the cricket loving public. He is usually seen in stadium with his body painted in the national colours of India, waving the national flag in the live telecast of the matches.

paragraph: Section::::Cricket fan.

paragraph: Since 2003, Sudhir Chaudhary's passion has been to watch cricket matches played by India and to support the team. By April 2010, he had attended approximately 150 matches, often traveling by bicycle to reach the venue of match. He sometimes pedals his cycle to cricket playing venues, as he did to Bangladesh to witness a cricket match in 2007 and to Lahore, Pakistan in 2006. To save money, he sometimes braves ticketless travel in trains to reach venues. When attending cricket matches, he paints his body with the tri- colour, the colours of India flag, and he usually paints the name of Tendulkar on his chest. He carries a conch with him and blows the conch to announce the arrival of the India cricket team. Sudhir Chaudhary paints his body on the previous day of a match and skips sleep that night to preserve the paint on his body. He cycled for 21 days from Muzaffarpur, Bihar to Mumbai to watch Sachin play for India against Australia on 28 October 2003 and this was the first tri-series match where he started supporting India by waving Indian tri-colour.

paragraph: Section::::Attack by Bangladesh Cricket fans.

paragraph: In 2015, during India - Bangladesh series in Mirpur, he was attacked and harassed by Bangladesh fans booing against India, when he was trying to leave the stadium. He feared his life but was eventually rescued by Bangladesh Police.

paragraph: Section::::2011 ICC Cricket World Cup.

paragraph: During the World Cup, Sudhir sported a kooky crown - a replica World Cup trophy. Sudhir's crowning moment came on April 2, 2011, the day India defeated Sri Lanka in the Final at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai, to become the World Champions. Sachin Tendulkar himself signaled Sudhir who was sitting among the cheering Indian fans, to come to the Indian dressing room and join the team's celebrations. Tendulkar asked Zaheer Khan to bring the World Cup over. Tendulkar shook hands with Sudhir Gautam, hugged him and finally let him lift the cup from Zaheer’s hands. Tendulkar allowed Sudhir to hold the World Cup along with him and Sudhir celebrated the occasion by posing for photographs. Sudhir chanted "India" as he lifted the ICC World Cup 2011 trophy.

paragraph: Section::::2011 ICC Cricket World Cup.:Apology by the police.

paragraph: In March 2010, a Senior Police officer intercepted and thrashed Sudhir Kumar in Kanpur, when he tried to shake hands with Sachin Tendulkar during a practice session. Later, after Tendulkar's intervention and request he was let off, and the police officer tendered an apology to Sudhir Kumar, repenting the event. Sudhir Kumar stopped the practice of scaling fences to reach the team to celebrate a win, only after Tendulkar advised against such practice. After this incident, the BCCI has sponsored Sudhir Kumar for every match.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: Sudhir Choudhary was born in a very poor family in a semi-rural place of Muzaffarpur, Bihar. He became obsessed with Indian cricket and a fan of Sachin Tendulkar at the age of 6. He left his studies at the age of 14 when he was in his secondary school. He is unemployed, having previously worked for a milk company and trained as a teacher. He postponed his marriage so that he could watch all the matches played by the Indian cricket team, and wants to follow the team all over the world, wherever it plays. This style of living followed by Sudhir Kumar has made his parents unhappy, and he once threatened self-immolation if he was not assured of watching all cricket matches played by the Indian cricket team. He declared that his life is dedicated to watching Indian cricket matches and he lives his life on public support.

paragraph: Sudhir Kumar is one of three principal roles of a documentary film "Beyond All Boundaries" which tells the stories of three different personalities of Indian Cricket and he is shown as a super fan of the sport. Made by film maker Sushrut Jain, the film shows details about the personal life of Sudhir Kumar.

paragraph: After the retirement of Sachin Tendulkar, Sudhir keeps cheering for the Indian Cricket Team sporting Miss-U Tendulkar on his body. He is one of the best fans of Sachin Tendulkar.

description: he has attended 183 matches to date (12 December)

wikidata_label: Sudhir gautam

wikipedia_title: Sudhir Kumar Chaudhary


text:
lost generation
First World War
Queen Elizabeth II
Montrose, Angus
Montrose
Montrose Academy
Gray's School of Art
Robert Gordon's University
Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
Battle of Passchendaele
Edinburgh College of Art
École des Beaux Arts
Florence
Milan
Hugh MacDiarmid
Scottish Renaissance
Royal Scottish Academy
Princess Margaret
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother
Salon (Paris)
Royal Academy
Royal Scottish Academy
Violet Jacob
Robert Burns
Sunderland Museum
Fleming Collection
wood carving
Scottish Enlightenment
Arts & Crafts Movement
Auguste Rodin
Hotel Biron
Italian Renaissance
Academism
Baroque
Edmund Blampied
World War II
Angus Council
Scottish Lowlands
Edward Baird
Montrose Academy
James Pittendrigh MacGillivray
William Lamb Studio

categories: Royal Scottish Academicians,1951 deaths,British male sculptors,Alumni of Gray's School of Art,20th-century British printmakers,20th-century Scottish painters,Scottish sculptors,Deaths from kidney failure,Scottish male painters,People from Montrose, Angus,Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders soldiers,Scottish watercolourists,Scottish printmakers,1893 births,Scottish male sculptors,20th-century British sculptors,Alumni of the Edinburgh College of Art

paragraph: William Lamb (sculptor)

paragraph: William Lamb (1 June 1893 – 12 January 1951) was a Scottish sculptor and artist. He was a survivor of the "lost generation" who came of age in 1914, and was scarred, both mentally and physically, by the First World War.

paragraph: Lamb completed his training in 1915 as a right-handed artist. A war wound incapacitated his right hand, so that after the war he had to retrain as a left-hander. His urge to create was in no way diminished and his preferred medium was sculpture.

paragraph: Lamb's most productive period was from 1924 to 1933. As a result of an education on strictly traditional lines, he developed a style of modelling that was classically accurate, but which expressed the character and background of his subject. Although he modelled Queen Elizabeth II as Princess Elizabeth aged six, in 1932, he generally eschewed the rich, the famous and the heroic. Instead Lamb settled permanently in his native Montrose, Angus, Scotland, and sculpted the inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood, concentrating upon working class models, especially from the fishing community.

paragraph: Fiercely independent, Lamb despised the young modernists and pre-war baroque fashions alike. He became isolated and developed severe depression around 1935/36, turning into something of a recluse. He never escaped poverty, never married and until the publication of a biography in 2013, his work was largely forgotten outside east central Scotland.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Early life and training.

paragraph: William Lamb was born on 1 June 1893 in Montrose, Scotland. He was educated in the town and apprenticed into the family firm of monumental masons. His childhood was overshadowed by the alcoholism of his father. At an early age he became interested in art and attended evening classes at Montrose Academy. He completed his apprenticeship in his craft, and then moved to Aberdeen to work and to attend Gray's School of Art (now part of Robert Gordon's University). He volunteered in 1915 and served in the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders. Lamb was wounded three times and the third wound, in August 1917 at the Battle of Passchendaele, was a severe one, crippling his dominant right hand and arm. He convalesced in Montrose, and then in Edinburgh, where he received medical attention and attended Edinburgh College of Art. He learned to draw, paint, engrave and model with his left hand.

paragraph: In September 1922, Lamb journeyed to Paris where he briefly attended the École des Beaux Arts. In summer of 1923 he toured France on a bicycle, sketching what he saw. In the autumn, he went to Rome for several weeks and also visited Florence and Milan. He returned to London before the end of the year.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Artistic career.

paragraph: Lamb set up a studio in Montrose in 1924. He earned a livelihood initially by print making, almost all etchings, and by drawing. Simultaneously he started to model whenever he had time or a commission. He gradually fell under the influence of Hugh MacDiarmid and the Scottish Renaissance literary movement which was centred in Montrose. This confirmed his resolve to make his work distinctly Scottish by modelling the ordinary men and women working in the community around him. In 1929 he won the Guthrie Award for the best work shown by a young Scottish artist at the Royal Scottish Academy's summer exhibition. The work was a bust entitled Ferryden Fisherwife.

paragraph: In 1931 he was elected an Associate of the Royal Scottish Academy (ARSA). The following year he modelled Queen Elizabeth II, as Princess Elizabeth, aged 6½, and her sister Princess Margaret Rose. These were followed in 1933 by a head of their mother, the Duchess of York, later the Queen Consort and then Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.

paragraph: After 1930 the demand for prints declined and Lamb turn to water-colours for his bread and butter. After his royal commissions, he built himself a new studio, but the collapse of a personal relationship triggered a mental breakdown and his artistic output suffered. As he recovered from his depression, Lamb found that the approach of war made it difficult, and later impossible, to procure materials for modelling. He turned to wood carving and also went back to his craft, as a monumental mason, to earn his living.

paragraph: From 1942 the artist's life became a battle between his urge to create and debilitating kidney disease. He would die of kidney failure, having worked up until two weeks before his death.

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: Section::::Works.:Sculpture.

paragraph: Lamb's first major work was The Cynic, a head modelled from an apprentice in 1924. It was exhibited at the Salon (Paris) in 1925 as Tȇte de Garcon.

paragraph: The Young Fisherman was exhibited at the Royal Academy (RA) in London and the Young Musician (WSC) at the Royal Scottish Academy (RSA) in Edinburgh all in the same year. This trio of exhibits was unusual for an artist's first year. In the years following, Lamb's more important works were Old John (Père Jean Salon 1926), Violet Jacob (Doncaster 1926), Betty (Printemps Salon 1926), Purpose (RSA 1926), Self Portrait (Portrait d'un Artiste Salon 1927), Bob (Glasgow 1928), Old Salt (RSA 1927), Passing Shower (Dorothy Salon 1929), the Bud (Bébé Jeanette Salon 1927), Hugh MacDiarmid and Pittendrigh MacGillivray (RSA 1932), Ferryden Fisherwife (RSA 1929), My Model listens to a Tall Story (RSA 1940), Paresseux (RSA 1931), Princess Elizabeth (RA 1933), Princess Margaret Rose (RSA 1933), Duchess of York (RSA 1933), The Daily News (1935), Robert Burns 1936 (Sunderland Museum), Bill the Smith (RSA 1937) , Betsy Baxter (RSA 1937), Seafarer (Trawl Hand RSA 1938) and Edward Baird c1932 (Fleming Collection, London 2004).

paragraph: With the approach of war, Lamb turned to wood carving.

paragraph: In this genre, the more noteworthy works are The Beardless Christ (Five Figures set above the rood screen in the Episcopal Church of St. Mary, Newport-on-Tay), Wind frae the Baltic, Sou-Wester, The Shrew & Gale Force.

paragraph: Altogether 109 of Lamb's works were shown at the RSA annual exhibition 1925–1951. These included 84 works of sculpture, 5 prints and 20 drawings.

paragraph: Section::::Works.:Prints.

paragraph: Between 1924 and 1929 Lamb produced more than one hundred prints for the market. They are almost all etchings. Many are derived from the sketches he made in France in 1922/23 and most of the rest are of Scottish origin. There is an almost complete collection of his known prints in the William Lamb Memorial Studio in Montrose. Around 1929 the fashion for etchings came to an end and Lamb turned to water colours.

paragraph: Section::::Works.:Water-colours.

paragraph: Although William Lamb relied on his prints and water-colours for much of his livelihood, his marketing skills were non-existent. This meant that he was never able to turn his talent to much advantage, or to escape from poverty. In addition to poor marketing, the artist was possessive about his water-colours.

paragraph: When he heard that a buyer was to visit, he would hide away his best works, in case the potential customer chose them. Some critics have found the water-colours dull, but they are expressive of the Scottish east coast and they depict the working lives of those who live there.

paragraph: Section::::Works.:Drawings.

paragraph: There are almost one thousand of Lamb's drawings in the William Lamb studio. It has been said that it is worth making the trip to Montrose to see these alone. The artist's style was minimalist and he was fond of portraying effort, both in men and in horses. The collections of pencil sketches and more formal drawings cover much of his life. Sadly his sketches of World War I and his life in the trenches became lost when he was wounded in 1917.

paragraph: Section::::Influences and Legacy.

paragraph: Section::::Influences and Legacy.:Inspiration.

paragraph: William Lamb was fiercely independent and on occasion declared that his work was not subject to the influence of others. Nevertheless, influence can be detected throughout his work and, in moments of reflection he acknowledged this. Firstly Lamb was an inheritor of the Scottish Enlightenment and the strong classical tradition rooted at that time in the country's educational system. When he went to Rome and saw for the first time the Greek and Roman sculpture and architecture, he described them as old friends. He admired their accuracy to life, their grace and simplicity.

paragraph: The second major influence was the Arts & Crafts Movement, active throughout the period of his education. He completed an apprenticeship in stone carving, as a monumental mason, and attended art classes in his free time. Around 1912 he decided that art was to be paramount in his life, but this did not stop him from practising his craft when convenience or necessity made it advantageous to do so.

paragraph: When Lamb went to Paris he came under the influence of Auguste Rodin. He was a frequent visitor to the Hotel Biron. Rodin also had started life as a stonemason and decorative carver. His later sculpture displayed the realism and movement that Lamb judged so important. The Scot also acknowledged his debt to the Italian Renaissance and the subsequent French schools. The First World War made Lamb distrust authority and admire art that was simple and down to earth. He was irritated by Academism and disliked the Baroque form fashionable before the war.

paragraph: When he returned to Scotland in 1924, Lamb came within the orbit of the Scottish Renaissance. This movement was largely inspired by Hugh MacDiarmid who lived at the time in Montrose near to the sculptor. The aim of this movement was to make the arts central to Scottish life. The rebirth was to be rooted in the great European tradition, but should exemplify Scotland. This was to be achieved through portraying Scots working in their local community and by describing the life of ordinary people. The sculptor grew to accept this tenet and lived and worked for the rest of his life in Montrose.

paragraph: William Lamb was also a gifted draughtsman. He followed the teaching of who had taught several of the French artists whom Lamb admired. The idea was to gaze at the subject for some time and commit it to visual memory. The drawing done afterwards would capture the essentials without extraneous detail. He respected Edmund Blampied, a skilled draughtsman, who was exhibiting in Paris while the Scot was there. He also liked the etchings of Charles Méryon and this artist's style influenced Lamb's prints.

paragraph: The final influence upon Lamb's art was World War II. Unable to buy artists' materials, he turned to wood carving. His sculptures in this medium are anonymous and often beaten by the wind. His figures had become cogs in the machine, lashed by the winds of war.

paragraph: Section::::Influences and Legacy.:Lamb's Legacy.

paragraph: With the exception of his commissions and in spite of his poverty, Lamb was reluctant to sell his work and especially anything that he thought was any good. This meant that he amassed a large and representative collection of his œuvre in his Montrose studio. When he died, he left the studio and its contents to the local authority. The present owners are Angus Council.

paragraph: The collection has received little public attention outside east central Scotland and is virtually unknown to the wider world. Nonetheless it shows Lamb as a master, possibly the best sculptor that Scotland has produced. Apart from the sculpture, his drawings, water-colours and etchings are all remarkable. They achieve the aim of the Scottish Renaissance by illustrating the life and the countryside of the Scottish Lowlands realistically and in humble terms.

paragraph: Section::::Notes.

paragraph: WLC: William Lamb's correspondence

paragraph: WLD: William Lamb's diaries

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Enlistment Book of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders – in the Regimental Museum at Fort George, Scotland.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Goldscheider, Ludwig (1939) – Rodin – Phaidon Press.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hartley, Keith (1989) – Scottish Art since 1900 National Galleries of Scotland and Lund Humphries, London.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Laperriere, Charles B. de (1991) The Royal Scottish Academy Exhibitors 1826–1990 – Calne: Hilmarton Manor.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Montrose Museum Papers (MMP) – Montrose Museum have two files of uncatalogued papers on William Lamb.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Montrose Review – local weekly newspaper for Montrose, Scotland. Available in Montrose Library.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Roberts, I. (1978) – The Studio in Montrose published in The Scots Magazine July 1978.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Royal Scottish Academy (1951) – Annual Report for 1951.

paragraph: BULLET::::- William Lamb's Correspondence (WLC) – there are more than 370 letters of William Lamb in the Simm Collection at Dunninald, *Montrose, Scotland DD10 9TD and more among the MMP.

paragraph: BULLET::::- William Lamb's Diary (WLD) has been edited and printed, but not published, by Bernard Tuck. Copies can be seen in Montrose *Museum, Montrose Library and in the William Lamb Studio.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Zealand, Gillian (1993) – The "Puir Crater" Who Sculpted Princesses – published in the Book of the Braemar Gathering 1993 pp 33–38.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Edward Baird, Angus Council

paragraph: BULLET::::- Montrose Academy

paragraph: BULLET::::- James Pittendrigh MacGillivray, Glasgow City of Sculpture, by Gary Nisbet

paragraph: BULLET::::- William Lamb Studio

description: Sculptor and artist of the Scottish Renaissance

wikidata_label: William Lamb

wikipedia_title: William Lamb (sculptor)


text:
alpine skier
2006 Winter Olympics
Turin
2010 Winter Olympics
Vancouver
Alpine Skiing World Cup
Super Combined
Beaver Creek
TV 2
pundit
NRK

categories: Alpine skiers at the 2010 Winter Olympics,Olympic alpine skiers of Norway,1984 births,Alpine skiers at the 2006 Winter Olympics,Norwegian male alpine skiers,Sportspeople from Gjøvik,Living people

paragraph: Lars Elton Myhre

paragraph: Lars Elton Myhre (born 17 August 1984) is a retired Norwegian alpine skier. He primarily competed in slalom and combined events. Myhre took a bronze medal at the World Junior Championships in 2004, and made his World Cup debut the same year. He participated in slalom at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. He represented Norway at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Myhre scored a total of nine top 10 finishes in the Alpine Skiing World Cup, with a best result of fifth in a Super Combined in Beaver Creek in 2007. He announced his retirement from competition via social media in November 2013 after suffering long term back problems. He joined TV 2 the same month as a pundit, having previously worked sporadically as a commentator with NRK when injured during his ski career.

description: Norwegian alpine skier

wikidata_label: Lars Elton Myhre

wikipedia_title: Lars Elton Myhre


text:
Danish
Social Democratic
Foreign Minister of Denmark
Hans Kristian Hækkerup
Second World War
Danish Social Democrats
International Union of Socialist Youth
Norwegian
Jens Evensen
Ekofisk
oil field
North Sea
urban legend
Grethe Hækkerup
Hans Hækkerup
Klaus Hækkerup

categories: Members of the Folketing,1915 births,1979 deaths,Foreign ministers of Denmark

paragraph: Per Hækkerup

paragraph: Per Hækkerup (25 December 1915 – 13 March 1979) was a Danish Social Democratic politician, who served as Foreign Minister of Denmark from 1962 to 1966.

paragraph: Hækkerup, the son of Hans Kristian Hækkerup, a politician, was active in politics from the end of the Second World War to his death in 1979. He was the chairman of the youth organization of the Danish Social Democrats from 1946 to 1952 and the secretary general of International Union of Socialist Youth from 1946 to 1951.

paragraph: Hækkerup is most widely known for the agreement he reached with the Norwegian Minister Jens Evensen that gave Norway the oil-rich Ekofisk oil field in the North Sea. According to an urban legend, Hækkerup was drunk when he signed the agreement, but Danish historians today agree that the agreement was most fair and that Hækkerup was not drunk.

paragraph: He was married to Grethe Hækkerup and is the father of Hans Hækkerup and Klaus Hækkerup.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Nikolaj Bøgh: Hækkerup. København 2003

description: Danish politician

wikidata_label: Per Hækkerup

wikipedia_title: Per Hækkerup


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Catholic Church
Apostolic Nuncio to Haiti
County Clare
St. Patrick's College, Maynooth
NUI
Pontifical Irish College
Pontifical Gregorian University
incardinated
Diocese of Killaloe
Licentiate
Ennis
Secretariat of State
Pontifical Gregorian University
Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy
Holy See
Turkey
Philippines
Fernando Filoni
Pope Benedict XVI
Madagascar
Apostolic Delegate
Comoros
Titular Archbishop
Dunshaughlin
Tarcisio Bertone
Pope Francis

categories: 20th-century Roman Catholics,People from County Clare,Diplomats of the Holy See,1958 births,Alumni of the Pontifical Irish College,Roman Catholic titular archbishops,Irish Roman Catholic bishops,Pontifical Gregorian University alumni,Apostolic Nuncios to Madagascar,Alumni of St Patrick's College, Maynooth,21st-century Roman Catholics,Living people,Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy alumni

paragraph: Eugene Nugent

paragraph: Eugene Martin Nugent (born 21 October 1958) is an Irish prelate of the Catholic Church who has been the Apostolic Nuncio to Haiti since 2015. He has worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See since 1992 and spent ten of those years in Hong Kong.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Nugent was born in Gurtaderra Scariff County Clare, Ireland, on 21 October 1958.

paragraph: He attended Clonusker National School and Scariff Community College. He studied for the priesthood in St. Patrick's College, Maynooth, where he received a B.A. in Celtic Studies from the NUI). He attended the Pontifical Irish College in Rome, earning his Baccalaureate in Theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University.

paragraph: He was ordained a priest on 9 July 1983 and incardinated in the Diocese of Killaloe.

paragraph: He completed a Licentiate in Canon Law after ordination. He was a curate in Ennis from 1984 to 1987.

paragraph: From 1988 to 1991, he worked in Rome in the Section for General Affairs of the Secretariat of State. In 1992, he completed his doctorate in canon law at the Pontifical Gregorian University and graduated from the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy.

paragraph: He entered the diplomatic service of the Holy See on 1 July 1992. His first assignments were in Turkey, Jerusalem, and the Philippines.

paragraph: From 2001 to 2010 Nugent headed the Holy See Study Mission in Hong Kong, succeeding Archbishop Fernando Filoni. During this time he had responsibility for communications between the Chinese dioceses and the Vatican. His access to mainland China was restricted and contact with Catholic communities in China often maintained in secret.

paragraph: On 13 February 2010, Pope Benedict XVI appointed him Apostolic Nuncio to Madagascar, Apostolic Delegate to the Comoros, and Titular Archbishop of Dunshaughlin, County Meath, Ireland. On 13 March 2010, he was named Apostolic Delegate to Mauritius and Seychelles as well. Nugent was consecrated a bishop in Rome on 18 March 2010 by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Secretary of State. As his episcopal motto he chose "Quodcumque dixerit facite" (Do whatever he says), taken from the Gospel of St John 2:5.

paragraph: On 10 January 2015, Pope Francis named him

paragraph: He speaks Irish, English, French, German and Italian.

description: Roman Catholic archbishop

wikidata_label: Eugene Nugent

wikipedia_title: Eugene Nugent