text: Nigerian

text: photographer

text: England

text: Nigerian Civil War

text: sexuality

text: race

text: culture

text: portrait

text: Lagos

text: Yoruba

text: Brighton

text: Brighton College

text: Millfield

text: Georgetown University

text: Pratt Institute

text: Robert Mapplethorpe

text: UK

text: London

text: AIDS

text: Brixton

text: life partner

text: diaspora

text: African diaspora

text: erotic fantasy

text: ancestral

text: sexuality

text: racism

text: colonialism

text: homosexuality

text: Ifa

text: orisha

text: Christianity

text: pantheon

text: smallpox

text: tribal marks

text: colonialism

text: Esu

text: the Trickster

text: Ife

text: contemporary

text: masculinity

text: HIV/AIDS

text: United Kingdom

text: France

text: Austria

text: Italy

text: Nigeria

text: Sweden

text: Germany

text: South Africa

text: US

text: Pratibha Parmar

text: Ingrid Pollard

text: Roshini Kempadoo

text: Armet Francis

text: Association of Black Photographers

text: Black Audio Film Collective

text: Gay Men's Press

text: Third World

text: Artist Spotlight

categories: 1955 births,Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom,People educated at Brighton College,Nigerian emigrants to the United Kingdom,Yoruba photographers,Artists from Lagos,LGBT artists from Nigeria,LGBT artists from the United Kingdom,Gay artists,Pratt Institute alumni,Nigerian photographers,People educated at Millfield,Georgetown University alumni,Black British artists,1989 deaths

paragraph: Rotimi Fani-Kayode

paragraph: Oluwarotimi (Rotimi) Adebiyi Wahab Fani-Kayode (20 April 1955 – 21 December 1989) was a Nigerian-born photographer, who moved to England at the age of 12 to escape the Nigerian Civil War. The main body of his work was created between 1982 and 1989. He explored the tensions created by sexuality, race and culture through stylised portraits and compositions.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Rotimi Fani-Kayode was born in Lagos, Nigeria, in April 1955, as the second child of a prominent Yoruba family (Chief Babaremilekun Adetokunboh Fani-Kayode and Chief Mrs Adia Adunni Fani-Kayode) that moved to Brighton, England, in 1966, after the military coup and the ensuing civil war. Rotimi went to a number of British private schools for his secondary education, including Brighton College, Seabright College and Millfield, then moved to the USA in 1976. He read Fine Arts and Economics at Georgetown University, Washington, DC, for his BA, continued on for his MFA in Fine Arts & Photography at the Pratt Institute, New York City. While in New York, he became friendly with Robert Mapplethorpe, who he has claimed as an influence on his work.

paragraph: Fani-Kayode returned to the UK in 1983. He died in a London hospital of a heart attack while recovering from an AIDS-related illness on 21 December 1989. At the time of his death, he was living in Brixton, London, with his life partner and collaborator Alex Hirst.

paragraph: Section::::Career and legacy.

paragraph: Fani-Kayode and many others considered him to be an outsider and a depiction of diaspora. Fani-Kayode, however, believed that due to this depiction of himself, it helped shape his work as a photographer. In interviews, he spoke on his experience of being an outsider in terms of the African diaspora, but it's also important to note that it was forced migration. His exile from Nigeria at an early age affected his sense of wholeness. He experienced feeling like he had "very little to lose." But his identity was then shaped from his sense of otherness and it was celebrated. In his work, Fani-Kayode's subjects are specifically black men, but he almost always asserts himself as the black man in most of his work, which can be interpreted as a performative and visual representation of his personal history. Using the body as the centralised point in his photography, he was able to explore the relationship between erotic fantasy and his ancestral spiritual values. His complex experience of dislocation, fragmentation, rejection, and separation all shaped his work.

paragraph: Fani-Kayode admitted to being influenced by Mapplethorpe's earlier work but also pushed the bounds of his own art, exploring sexuality, racism, colonialism and the tensions and conflicts between his homosexuality and his Yoruba upbringing through a series of images in both colour and black and white. While Rotimi Fani-Kayode claimed Robert Mapplethorpe as an influence on his work, Fani-Kayode works with Baroque themes while Mapplethorpe worked with Classical.

paragraph: His relationship with the Yoruba religion began with his parents. Fani-Kayode stated that his parents were devotees of Ifa, the oracle orisha, and keepers of Yoruba shrines, an early experience that definitely informed his work. With this legacy he set out on the quest to fuse desire, ritual and the black male body. His religious experiences encouraged him to emulate the Yoruba technique of possession, through which Yoruba priests communicate with the gods and experience ecstasy. An example of such relations between Fani-Kayode's photographs and the Yoruba 'technique of ecstasy" is displayed in his work, "Bronze Head (1987)."His goal was to communicate with the audience's unconscious mind and to combine Yoruba and Western ideals (specifically Christianity). This practice of fusing aesthetic and religious eroticism compelled the viewer visually and provocatively.

paragraph: This can be seen in his early work, specifically "Sonponnoi" (1987). Sonponnoi is one of the most powerful orishas in the Yoruba pantheon; he is the god of smallpox. As a result of his great power, he induces fear to the point where people are afraid to speak his name, and he becomes an outsider, abiding in the countryside instead of the mainland. In the image there is a headless black figure, decorated in white and black spots, holding three burning candles on his groin. Fani-Kayode adorned the figure with spots to represent a Sonponnoi's smallpox and Yoruba tribal marks. The triple-burning candle on his groin evokes the sense that sexuality continues even in sickness/otherness. It also represents how the Christian faith replaced the Yoruba tradition while also bringing disease with it during colonialism. In a way, Fani-Kayode identified with this orisha being an outsider, but he extended the symbolic message of the image, speaking to him having a condemned sexuality while living in a Western world that clashes with his ancestral religion.

paragraph: He especially referenced Esu, the messenger and crossroads deity who is often characterised with an erect penis, frequently in his images. He would engrave an erect penis in many of his images to describe his own fluid experience with sexuality. Fani-Kayode's mid-1980s portfolio "Black Male, White Male" intersects his racial and sexual themes with subtle displays of a devotee-deity relationship. Much of that work expresses an ambiguity that can be associated with Esu, who embodies opposing forces. Speaking on Esu, he insists, "Eshu presides here [...] He is the Trickster, the Lord of the Crossroads (mediator between the genders), sometimes changing the signposts to lead us astray [...] It is perhaps through that rebirth will occur." Esu also appears in Fani-Kayode's photography, "Nothing to Lose IX". The presence of Esu is understood in the coloring of the mask; using white, red, and black stripes the mask stands as a representation of the deity Esu. Although, these colors symbolize Esu, the mask itself has no precedence in traditional African mask-making; this subtle theme is almost flattening the mask to represent an overarching "African-ness" (a critique of the notion of "primitiveness" that was widely digested by a European audience).

paragraph: Fani-Kayode's fragmented sense of being can be examined in his 1987 "Bronze Head". In the photo, he crops a figure's black body to reveal his legs and butt as he is about to sit on top of a bronze Ife sculpture. It represents both his exile and homosexuality, two core parts of his world. The cropped body symbolises his fragmented identity, the position references his sexuality and the sculpture symbolises the ancient and lifelong social norms that he's attempting to deconstruct.

paragraph: His last project, posthumously entitled "Communion" (1995), reflects his complex relationship with Yoruba religion. It seems to emit the Yoruba concepts of coolness and power. He reflects that it is a "tranquilitiy of communion with the spiritual world." One of the images in the series, "The Golden Phallus," is of a man with a bird-like mask looking at the viewer, with his penis suspended on a piece of string. The image has been described as an ironic representation of how black masculinity has been burdened by the Western world. In this image ("The Golden Phallus"), as in Fani-Kayode's "Bronze Head", there is a focus on liminality, spirituality, political power, and cultural history-- taking ideals seen as 'ancient' (in the display of 'classical' African art) and re-introducing them as a contemporary archetype.

paragraph: Fani-Kayode challenged the invisibility of "African queerness", or the denial of alternative African sexualities, in both the Western and African worlds. In general, he sought to reshape the ideas of sexuality and gender in his photography, showing that sexuality and gender appear rigid and "fixed" because of cultural and social norms but are actually fluid and subjective. However, he specifically sought to develop queerness in contemporary African art, which required him to address the colonial and Christian legacies that suppressed queerness and constructed harmful notions of black masculinity. In a time when African artists were not being represented, he provocatively approached the issue by addressing and questioning the objectification of black bodies. (charlotte) His homoerotic influences in using the black male body can be interpreted as an expression of idealisation, of desire and being desired, and self-consciousness in response to the black body being reduced to a spectacle.

paragraph: Not only is Fani-Kayode praised for his conceptual imagery of Africanness and queerness (and African queerness), he is also praised for his ability to fuse racial and sexual politics with religious eroticism and beauty. One critic has also described his work as "neo-romantic," with the idea his images evoke a sense of fleeting beauty.

paragraph: His work is imbued with the subtlety, irony and political and social comment. He also contributed to the artistic debate surrounding HIV/AIDS.

paragraph: He started in 1984 to exhibit and was part of eight other exhibitions by the time of his death in 1989. His work has been featured posthumously in many exhibitions and retrospectives. His work has been exhibited in the United Kingdom, France, Austria, Italy, Nigeria, Sweden, Germany, South Africa and US.

paragraph: In 1988, Fani-Kayode with a number of other photographers – including Sunil Gupta, Monika Baker, Merle Van den Bosch, Pratibha Parmar, Ingrid Pollard, Roshini Kempadoo and Armet Francis – co-founded the Association of Black Photographers (now known as Autograph ABP) and became their first chair. He was also an active member of the Black Audio Film Collective. He was a major influence on young black photographers in the late 1980s and 1990s. Following Alex Hirst's death in 1992, some controversy has persisted about works attributed to Fani-Kayode.

paragraph: Section::::Publications.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Communion." London: Autograph, 1986.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Black Male/White Male." London: Gay Men's Press, 1988. Photographs by Fani-Kayode, text by Alex Hirst.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Photographs." London: Autograph ABP, 1996. By Fani-Kayode and Alex Hirst.

paragraph: Section::::Quotes.

paragraph: "My identity has been constructed from my own sense of otherness, whether cultural, racial or sexual. The three aspects are not separate within me. Photography is the tool by which I feel most confident in expressing myself. It is photography therefore – Black, African, homosexual photography – which I must use not just as an instrument, but as a weapon if I am to resist attacks on my integrity and, indeed, my existence on my own terms."

paragraph: "On three counts I am an outsider: in matters of sexuality; in terms of geographical and cultural dislocation; and in the sense of not having become the sort of respectably married professional my parents might have hoped for."

paragraph: "I make my pictures homosexual on purpose. Black men from the Third World have not previously revealed either to their own peoples or to the West a certain shocking fact: they can desire each other."

paragraph: "I try to be bring out the spiritual dimension in my pictures so that concepts of reality become ambiguous and are open to reinterpretation. This requires what Yoruba priests call a technique of ecstasy."

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Artist Spotlight, Advocate.com.

description: Nigerian photographer

wikidata_label: Rotimi Fani-Kayode

wikipedia_title: Rotimi Fani-Kayode


text:
ice hockey
goaltender
Toronto Maple Leafs
National Hockey League
Anaheim Ducks
Denmark's national team
2010 IIHF World Championship
Carolina Hurricanes
2010 NHL Entry Draft
2012 NHL Entry Draft
Frederikshavn White Hawks
empty net goal
Rødovre Mighty Bulls
Elitserien
Frölunda HC
2011–12
Henrik Lundqvist
2003–04 season
goals against average
save percentage
Elitserien Rookie of the Year
2013–14 season
Anaheim Ducks
Jonas Hiller
Dallas Stars
Viktor Fasth
Edmonton Oilers
American Hockey League
Norfolk Admirals
Stanley Cup playoff
Western Conference Quarterfinals
John Gibson
Los Angeles Kings
Stanley Cup
2014–15
Calgary Flames
Montreal Canadiens
Bill Durnan
2015 Stanley Cup Playoffs
Toronto Maple Leafs
2016 NHL Entry Draft
Sam Steel
2017 NHL Entry Draft
San Jose
Ottawa
2012–13 NHL season
Washington Capitals
2017–18 season
Florida Panthers
New York Islanders
Montreal Canadiens
2018 Stanley Cup playoffs
Boston Bruins

categories: Carolina Hurricanes draft picks,Frölunda HC players,Danish ice hockey players,Frederikshavn White Hawks players,Anaheim Ducks draft picks,People from Herning Municipality,Herning Blue Fox players,Norfolk Admirals players,Toronto Maple Leafs players,Ice hockey goaltenders,1989 births,Anaheim Ducks players,Living people

paragraph: Frederik Andersen

paragraph: Frederik Andersen (born 2 October 1989) is a Danish professional ice hockey goaltender currently playing for the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League (NHL). He has also played for the Anaheim Ducks.

paragraph: Andersen was a member of Denmark's national team that competed at the 2010 IIHF World Championship. He was selected by the Carolina Hurricanes in the seventh round, 187th overall, of the 2010 NHL Entry Draft. Unable to come to terms with the Hurricanes, however, Andersen was selected in the third round of the 2012 NHL Entry Draft, 87th overall, by the Ducks, with whom he spent the first few years of his NHL career.

paragraph: Section::::Playing career.

paragraph: Section::::Playing career.:Europe.

paragraph: On 13 March 2010, while playing for Frederikshavn White Hawks in the Danish Ice Hockey League, Andersen scored an empty net goal in the fourth quarter-final match against Rødovre Mighty Bulls. He nearly scored two nights before in the third match, but missed.

paragraph: Andersen set a new Elitserien regular season club record for Frölunda HC with eight shutouts in 2011–12, surpassing Henrik Lundqvist's seven shutouts from the 2003–04 season. In addition to his shutouts, Andersen also led the Elitserien in goals against average (GAA) and save percentage, as well as receiving a nomination for the Elitserien Rookie of the Year award.

paragraph: Section::::Playing career.:NHL.

paragraph: Section::::Playing career.:NHL.:Anaheim Ducks.

paragraph: On 20 October 2013, shortly into the 2013–14 season, Andersen made his NHL debut for the Anaheim Ducks, replacing starting goaltender Jonas Hiller to start the second period. Taking over a 3–1 Ducks deficit, he logged three shutout periods, earning him his first NHL win, a 6–0 victory over the Dallas Stars. With the trade of then-backup goaltender Viktor Fasth to the Edmonton Oilers on 4 March 2014, Andersen became the team's new full-time backup goaltender to Hiller after spending the majority of the season playing for Anaheim's American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Norfolk Admirals.

paragraph: On 16 April 2014, Andersen won his Stanley Cup playoff debut as Anaheim defeated the Dallas Stars 4–3 in Game 1 of the Western Conference Quarterfinals. Andersen made 32 saves, giving up three goals. He split time with both Jonas Hiller and John Gibson during the Ducks' run in the 2014 playoffs, which ultimately ended in Round 2, the Western Conference Semifinals, against the Los Angeles Kings, the eventual Stanley Cup champions.

paragraph: The following year, in 2014–15, with Hiller departed via free agency to the Calgary Flames, Andersen and Gibson became the Ducks' goaltending duo. As the season progressed, however, Andersen assumed the starter's role by virtue of both his impressive goaltending play and injuries to Gibson that kept the latter out of the lineup. After recording his 30th win of the season on 3 March 2015, Andersen tied an NHL record as the fastest goaltender in history to reach 50 career wins. He reached the milestone in just 68 career games, tying the record set by the Montreal Canadiens' Bill Durnan on 16 December 1944. In the 2015 Stanley Cup Playoffs, Andersen led the Ducks to the Western Conference Finals with his strong play - the Ducks only lost one game in the first two rounds. After taking a three games to two series lead on the early strong play of Andersen, the Ducks lost the final two games of the series, including Game 7 on home ice. This marked the third straight season the Ducks had lost a series in Game 7 at home after leading the series three games to two. Andersen allowed four or more goals in each of the final four games of the series - the Ducks lost three of those four games and allowed 19 goals over that span.

paragraph: Section::::Playing career.:NHL.:Toronto Maple Leafs.

paragraph: On 20 June 2016, Andersen was traded by the Ducks to the Toronto Maple Leafs in exchange for the 30th overall pick in the 2016 NHL Entry Draft (used to select Sam Steel) and a second round pick in the 2017 NHL Entry Draft (middle of Toronto, San Jose or Ottawa picks - used to select Maxime Comtois). On the same day, the Leafs and Frederik Andersen agreed to terms on a 5-year extension. He was set to become a restricted free agent on 1 July.

paragraph: After an exceptionally slow start with the Leafs, Andersen settled in & found his game going 33–16–14 on the season with a 2.67 GAA, a .918 save% and 4 shutouts leading the way for the Leafs to earn a playoff berth for the first time since the 2012–13 NHL season. In the playoffs, the Leafs put up a valiant effort against the League best Washington Capitals. Andersen went 2–4 in the series with a 2.68 GAA and .915 save%.

paragraph: During the 2017–18 season, Andersen bested his career-high in wins on 28 March 2018, with his 36th win of the season in a game against the Florida Panthers. On the same day, he helped the Leafs set a new franchise record of 27 wins on home ice after beating the Panthers 4–3. In the following game on 30 March 2018, against the New York Islanders Andersen recorded his 37th win of the season, tying the record for most wins by a Leafs goalie. On 7 April 2018, the last game of the Leafs regular season, Andersen passed the Leafs all-time wins record with a 4–2 victory over the Montreal Canadiens. Andersen helped the Leafs qualify for the 2018 Stanley Cup playoffs, where they pushed the Boston Bruins to Game 7. The Bruins ended up winning the series.

description: Danish ice hockey goaltender

wikidata_label: Frederik Andersen

wikipedia_title: Frederik Andersen


text:
cricket
first-class cricket
William Mills
Honourable East India Company
Sir Charles Mills, 1st Baronet
Harrow
Christ Church, Oxford
ensign
Coldstream Guards
Hampshire
Gentlemen v Players
Peninsular War
verderer
New Forest
Tory
Conservative
Member of Parliament
Rochester
1831 general election
1830
1832
1835 general election
High Sheriff of Hampshire
deputy lieutenant
Arthur Haygarth
CricketArchive profile

categories: UK MPs 1832–1835,Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers,UK MPs 1831–1832,1789 births,Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies,E. H. Budd's XI cricketers,English cricketers,English cricketers of 1787 to 1825,Hampshire cricketers,People educated at Harrow School,Coldstream Guards officers,Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford,High Sheriffs of Hampshire,1871 deaths,Gentlemen cricketers,Tory MPs (pre-1834),Deputy Lieutenants of Hampshire

paragraph: John Mills (Hampshire cricketer)

paragraph: John Mills (11 August 1789 – 18 February 1871) was a British soldier, politician and amateur cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1816 to 1820.

paragraph: He was the eldest son of William Mills, a director of the Honourable East India Company, and the elder brother of Sir Charles Mills, 1st Baronet.

paragraph: Mills was educated at Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford, matriculating on 22 October 1807. He was commissioned an ensign in the Coldstream Guards on 27 December 1809. Mainly associated with Hampshire, he made 9 known appearances in first-class matches. He played for the Gentlemen in the Gentlemen v Players series. Mills served with the regiment during the Peninsular War and in Holland. He was promoted lieutenant and captain on 10 January 1814.

paragraph: Mills was later appointed a verderer of the New Forest. He was elected as a Tory (and later Conservative) Member of Parliament (MP) for Rochester at the 1831 general election having contested the seat unsuccessfully in 1830. He was re-elected in 1832, and held the sat until he stood down at the 1835 general election. He was High Sheriff of Hampshire in 1839, and was appointed a deputy lieutenant in 1846. He died in 1871 at his estate of Bisterne.

paragraph: Section::::Further reading.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Arthur Haygarth, "Scores & Biographies", Volumes 1-11 (1744–1870), Lillywhite, 1862–72

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- CricketArchive profile

wikidata_label: John Mills

wikipedia_title: John Mills (Hampshire cricketer)


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text:
Tours
Ableton
June Marieezy

categories: 21st-century French musicians,People from Tours, France,1991 births,French electronic musicians,Living people

paragraph: French Kiwi Juice

paragraph: Vincent Fenton (born March 26, 1991), known professionally as French Kiwi Juice or the abbreviation FKJ, is a French multi-instrumentalist, singer, and musician from Tours. He is known for his solo live performances, where he does live loopings through Ableton and showcases his multi-instrumentalist skills. His self-titled debut album, "French Kiwi Juice", was released on March 3, 2017.

paragraph: FKJ has performed at music festivals including Coachella, Euphoria, CRSSD, and Lightning in a Bottle.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: FKJ has been described as a "pioneer" and "one of the flag bearers" of the new New French House genre. He went to film school where he studied audio for film, because it was the best option to study sound engineering for free (Public University).

paragraph: In April 2017, FKJ announced that he was performing at the 2017 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at the Do Lab Stage.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: In March 2019 FKJ married fellow musician June Marieezy whom he had previously collaborated with.

alias:
FKJ
Vincent Fenton

wikidata_label: French Kiwi Juice

wikipedia_title: French Kiwi Juice


text:
Cologne
German
Grand Prix motorcycle racer
Profile on motogp.com

categories: Living people,1996 births,Moto3 World Championship riders,German motorcycle racers

paragraph: Luca Amato

paragraph: Luca Amato (born 24 August 1996 in Cologne) is a German Grand Prix motorcycle racer.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Profile on motogp.com

description: German motorcycle racer

wikidata_label: Luca Amato

wikipedia_title: Luca Amato


text:
William Dayas
Franz Liszt
Grossherzogliche Musikschule
Weimar
Conservatory of Cologne
Ferruccio Busoni
Piano Concerto
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Fritz Reiner
Cincinnati Conservatory of Music
Ward Swingle
Biography of Karin Dayas.

categories: Musicians from Helsinki,20th-century classical pianists,Piano pedagogues,20th-century women musicians,1892 births,20th-century American pianists,1971 deaths,American classical pianists,American women classical pianists

paragraph: Karin Dayas

paragraph: Karin Elin Nadja Dayas (13 May 1892, Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland — 4 March 1971, Hamilton, Ohio) was an American pianist and music educator. She was a daughter of William Dayas and Margarethe Dayas, born Margaret Vocke, both pupils of Franz Liszt.

paragraph: Karin Dayas studied at the Grossherzogliche Musikschule in Weimar and was sponsored by the Grand Duke. She won the Liszt prize at the age of 14 and continued her studies at the Conservatory of Cologne. In 1932, she gave the American première of Ferruccio Busoni’s Piano Concerto with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra conducted by Fritz Reiner.

paragraph: Dayas made a long career at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music where she taught from 1926 for 45 years. Her pupils include Ward Swingle and Babette Effron.

paragraph: Karin Dayas was married to the German-born violinist August Söndlin (1883–1966).

paragraph: Section::::Sources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Biography of Karin Dayas.

wikidata_label: Karin Dayas

wikipedia_title: Karin Dayas


text: Norwegian

text: Sogndal

text: Sogn og Fjordane

text: Copenhagen

text: Kaupanger

text: Borgund

text: Eiler Hagerup

text: Hans Strøm

text: Hans Holtermann

text: Bergen

text: Seminarium Fredericianum

text: Sunnmøre

text: Trondheim

text: Sunnmøre Practical Agricultural Society

text: riksdaler

categories: Norwegian jurists,Norwegian judges,People from Sogndal,University of Copenhagen alumni,1791 deaths,1720 births

paragraph: Melchior Falch

paragraph: Melchior Michaelsen Falch (1720 – September 14, 1791) was a Norwegian jurist and magistrate in the municipality of Sogndal in Sogn og Fjordane, Norway. He was interested in promoting fisheries, and in 1775 he received an award for a work on Norwegian fisheries.

paragraph: Section::::Family and education.

paragraph: Falch was the son of Michael Melchiorsøn Falch (died 1768) and Mette Marie Heiberg (1699–1766). He received a law degree in Copenhagen in 1747, and on March 19, 1753 he married Anna Sophie Bitsch (1726-1755). He inherited the Heiberg estate of Øvre Amla in the parish of Kaupanger ("Amble gaard") from his parents. The property was rented out from 1754 to 1779, while Falch lived in the village of Borgund. In 1759, Falch acquired the farm Djupvika in Borgund which he operated as a model farm.

paragraph: On August 25, 1756 he married again, to Christi(a)ne Margrethe Hagerup (1732–1795), and they had the following children: Anna Sophie Falch (1759–1830), Michael Melchiorsen Falch (1762–?), Hans Christian Falch (1764–?), Melchior Falch (1768–1849), and Cathrine Marie Helene Harboe Falch (1770–1854, who married Hans Knagenhjelm Daae). Falch's wife Christine was the daughter of Bishop Eiler Hagerup and she was also the cousin of Hans Strøm. Falch was the brother-in-law of Hans Holtermann, who was married to an older daughter of Bishop Hagerup.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Falch paid for the construction of a school in Bergen known as the Seminarium Fredericianum. In gratitude he was made the district magistrate for Sunnmøre in 1754, a position he would hold for the next twenty five years.

paragraph: Falch also earned much money for his work in developing the fishing industry. He was also active as a writer and in 1769 he became a member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters in Trondheim. On November 2, 1773 he co-founded one of Norway's first nonprofit organizations: the Sunnmøre Practical Agricultural Society (). Hans Strøm and other clergy also participated in the work. It was modeled on the Royal Danish Agricultural Society (established in 1769) and similar societies in other European countries. The society's mission was to promote economic development, especially in agriculture. Its main activity was educational, such as handing out pamphlets and useful premiums (2 to 4 riksdaler) to farmers that carried out recommended measures to improve production. The society went into decline when Falch and Strøm left Sunnmøre in 1779.

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Beregning over hvad Træ-Materialier Søndmør aarlig behøver" (Calculation of Sunnmøre's Annual Thread Requirement; 1784)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Om Fyrre- og Gran-Skovene i Norge" (Pine and Spruce Forests in Norway; 1784)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Om Torske Vaar-Fiskeriet paa Sundmøer" (The Spring Cod Fishery in Sunnmøre; 1788)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Afhandling om Fiskerierne i Norge, i Særdeleshed om de søndmørske, og Fiske-Grundene uden for Landet" (Thesis on the Fisheries in Norway, Especially That of Sunnmøre and Fishing-Grounds outside the Country; 1790)

description: Norwegian jurist and civil servant

wikidata_label: Melchior Falch

wikipedia_title: Melchior Falch


text: Khalka

text: Khotogoid

text: Outer Mongolia

text: Mongolia

text: Manchu

text: Qing dynasty

text: China

text: Sangiin Dalai nuur

text: Khotgoid

text: khoshuu

text: Zasagt Khan aimag

text: Bürentogtokh sum

text: Khövsgöl aimag

text: Zasag Noyon

text: Manchu

text: Manchu

text: Dzungar Khanate

text: Amursana

text: Uriankhai

text: Beijing

text: Jebtsundamba Khutugtu

text: Chingis Khan

text: Khalkha

text: Qianlong Emperor

text: 2nd Jebtsundamba Khutughtu

text: Manchu

text: Khankh

text: Beijing

text: Dzungars

text: Jebtsundamba Khutugtu

text: Qianlong Emperor

text: Khalkha

text: Bürentogtokh

text: Mörön

categories: 1710 births,Rebellions in the Qing dynasty,Mongolia under Qing rule,1757 deaths,People from Khövsgöl Province

paragraph: Chingünjav

paragraph: Chingunjavi (, also known as "Admiral Chingün", , 1710–1757) was the Khalka prince ruler of the Khotogoids and one of the two major leaders of the 1756-57 rebellion in Outer Mongolia. Although his rebellion failed, he is nowadays often hailed as a fighter for Mongolia's independence from the Manchu Qing dynasty who ruled China at that time.

paragraph: Section::::Early life and career.

paragraph: Chingünjav was born in 1710 at the shore of lake Sangiin Dalai nuur, in the Khotgoid's Erdenedüüregch vangiin khoshuu of Zasagt Khan aimag, or today's Bürentogtokh sum of Khövsgöl aimag. His father Bandi was the khoshuu's Zasag Noyon. In 1738, Chingünjav succeeded his father. Chingünjav made a career in the Manchu military and eventually reached the rank of an assistant general of Zasagt Khan aimag.

paragraph: Section::::Conspiracy with Amursana.

paragraph: During the 1755 Manchu campaign against the Dzungar Khanate, Chingünjav and Amursana conspired to start a rebellion in autumn of the same year. However, their seniors came to know of their plans and separated them. Chingünjav was sent to fight in Uriankhai, and Amursana was summoned to Beijing for demanding too big a share of the Dzungar Khanate. On the way, his escort let him escape. This led to the trial and execution of the commander of the escort, a brother of the Jebtsundamba Khutugtu and direct descendant of Chingis Khan, in early 1756, an event that gravely disturbed the Khalkha nobility.

paragraph: Section::::Rebellion.

paragraph: In the summer of 1756, Chingunjav began his rebellion by leaving his post, gathering troops in his home area, and sending a letter to the Qianlong Emperor. However, although there was widespread unrest throughout Khalkha, support from other nobles and even from the 2nd Jebtsundamba Khutughtu was not forthcoming, and Chingünjav never managed to command more than 1,000-2,000 troops. By the time the Manchu were able to reinforce their loyal Outer Mongolian troops with detachments from Inner Mongolia, Chingünjav had achieved little more than spending time by waiting for an answer for his appeals to the nobility and the Jebtsundamba, and consequently was not able to face the Manchu in an open battle. He retreated northward towards the Darkhad area, with his force continuously shrinking through desertions. When he was captured at a place now known as Wang Tolgoi, about from Khankh, in January 1757, all but 50 of his men had left him.

paragraph: Section::::Aftermath.

paragraph: Chingünjav, together with almost his whole family, was brought to Beijing and executed. The Manchu, although not as brutal as they had been towards the Dzungars, sent punitive units to Mongolia to deal on the spot with all those rebels they could find. Nobles that were suspected of having sympathized with Chingünjav were also executed. The Jebtsundamba Khutugtu "died" in 1758, the Tüsheet Khan shortly afterwards. The Qianlong Emperor declared that all future incarnations of the Jebtsundamba Khutugtu were to be found in Tibet to undermine local autonomy. On the other hand, the Mongolian debts to Chinese trading firms were partially annulled, and the rest being paid for by the emperor, in order to tackle the economic sources of the unrest in Khalkha.

paragraph: Section::::Legacy.

paragraph: Although never having had a realistic chance to succeed, Chingünjav passed into the realm of folklore. A small monument has been raised at remains of a fort attributed to him, some kilometres south of Bürentogtokh, in 1978. A statue of him was erected in Mörön in 1992 and another one in 2010.

paragraph: Section::::Literature.

paragraph: Charles R. Bawden, "The Modern History of the Mongols", London 1968, p. 114 - 134

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- C. Kaplonski: Collective Memory and the Chingunjav Rebellion

description: Mongolian follower of Qing dynasty, and then rebel in 1756

wikidata_label: Chingünjav

wikipedia_title: Chingünjav


text:
U.S. Representative
Kansas
Montgomery Township, Ohio
Coffey County, Kansas
Civil War
Burlington, Kansas
Republican
Fifty-first
Thomas Ryan
Burlington, Kansas
Burlington, Kansas

wikipedia_title:
United States House of Representatives
Kansas
Montgomery Township, Wood County, Ohio
Coffey County, Kansas
American Civil War
Burlington, Kansas
Republican Party (United States)
51st United States Congress
Thomas Ryan (congressman)
Burlington, Kansas
Burlington, Kansas

categories: 1836 births,1897 deaths,Kansas Republicans,Members of the Kansas House of Representatives,Members of the United States House of Representatives from Kansas,Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives,19th-century American politicians,Kansas state senators,American militia generals,People from Burlington, Kansas,People from Wood County, Ohio

paragraph: Harrison Kelley

paragraph: Harrison Kelley (May 12, 1836 – July 24, 1897) was a U.S. Representative from Kansas.

paragraph: Born William Henry Harrison Kelley in Montgomery Township, Ohio, Kelley attended the common schools. He moved to Coffey County, Kansas, in March 1858. During the Civil War Kelley enlisted in the Fifth Regiment, Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, and served through all grades to captain. He served as captain of Company B, Fifth Cavalry, for over two years. He returned to Burlington, Kansas, in 1865. Brigadier general of Kansas State Militia in 1865. He served as a member of the State house of representatives 1868-1870. He served as director of the State penitentiary 1868-1873. Receiver of the United States land office at Topeka in 1877 and 1878. He served in the State senate 1880-1884. Deputy collector of internal revenue. He served as chairman of the livestock sanitary commission of the State. Treasurer of the State board of charities in 1889.

paragraph: Kelley was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Thomas Ryan and served from December 2, 1889, to March 3, 1891. He died in Burlington, Kansas on July 24, 1897. He was interred in Bowman Cemetery, Ottumwa, near Burlington, Kansas.

description: American politician

wikidata_label: Harrison Kelley

wikipedia_title: Harrison Kelley


text:
U.S. Representative
Kansas
Iola, Kansas
Republican
Fifty-seventh
Sixtieth
Sixty-first
Sixty-second
United States Senate

wikipedia_title:
United States House of Representatives
Kansas
Iola, Kansas
Republican Party (United States)
57th United States Congress
60th United States Congress
61st United States Congress
62nd United States Congress
United States Senate

categories: Disease-related deaths in Kansas,Kansas Republicans,Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives,Members of the United States House of Representatives from Kansas,Kansas state senators,1860 births,1938 deaths

paragraph: Charles Frederick Scott

paragraph: Charles Frederick Scott (September 7, 1860 – September 18, 1938) was a U.S. Representative from Kansas.

paragraph: Born near Iola, Kansas, Scott attended the common schools. He was graduated from the University of Kansas at Lawrence in 1881. He went to Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona, and was engaged chiefly in clerical work. He returned to Iola in 1882 and edited the "Iola Register". He was appointed regent of the University in 1891-1900. He served as member of the State senate 1892-96.

paragraph: Scott was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-seventh and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1901 – March 3, 1911). He served as chairman of the Committee on Agriculture (Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses).

paragraph: Scott was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1910 to the Sixty-second Congress. He was appointed one of five delegates to the International Institute of Agriculture at Rome in 1911. He lectured on Chautauqua platform in 1913, 1915, and 1916. He served as delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1916 and 1932. He was an unsuccessful candidate for nomination to the United States Senate in 1918 and again in 1928. He resumed newspaper work until his death in Iola, Kansas, on September 18, 1938. He was interred in Iola Cemetery.

description: American congressman

wikidata_label: Charles Frederick Scott

wikipedia_title: Charles Frederick Scott


text:
Benedictine
Heidenheim am Hahnenkamm
Saint Willibald
Saint Walpurga
Richard the Pilgrim
Wuna of Wessex
Willibald
Hygeburg
Monte Cassino
Erfurt
Schwanfeld
Concilium Germanicum
Chrodegang

wikipedia_title:
Benedictines
Heidenheim, Bavaria
Willibald
Saint Walpurga
Richard the Pilgrim
Wuna of Wessex
Willibald
Hygeburg
Monte Cassino
Erfurt
Schwanfeld
Concilium Germanicum
Chrodegang

categories: West Saxon saints,761 deaths,8th-century Christian saints,Incorrupt saints

paragraph: Winibald

paragraph: Winibald (Winebald, Winnibald, Wunebald, Wynbald) (c. 702 - 18 December 761) was abbot of the Benedictine double monastery of Heidenheim am Hahnenkamm. Traditionally, he is called the brother of Saint Willibald and Saint Walpurga.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Winibald's father was a West Saxon nobleman, Richard the Pilgrim and his mother was Wuna of Wessex. Willibald was his brother. With his father and brother he made a pilgrimage to Rome around the year 721. His father died in Italy. In Rome, they fell ill, possibly with malaria, although Hygeburg says it was the Black Plague. Once recovered, Willibord continued to the Holy Land, while Winebald, who from his childhood did not have a strong constitution, remained at Rome, to recover and study. In 730, Winibald returned to England and engaged a third brother and several amongst his kindred and acquaintance to accompany him in his journey back to Rome to begin a monastic life there.

paragraph: Around 737, Boniface visited Rome. By this time Willibald had returned from his travels, and had become a monk at Monte Cassino. Boniface recruited both nephews for the German mission. Willibald was ordained and based in Eichstätt. Boniface received a promise that Winnebald would go to Germany. Winibald arrived in Thuringia on 30 November, 740, and was ordained priest. He was placed in charge of seven churches, including one at Erfurt.

paragraph: Winibald established a monastery in Schwanfeld, but in 742 transferred it to Heidenheim, where the brothers founded a double monastery for the training of priests and as a center of learning. Winibald became the first abbot.

paragraph: Winibald took part in the Concilium Germanicum, in 742, and subscribed Pepin's donation to Fulda in 753. In 762, he joined the League of Attigny, a confraternity of prayer established by Chrodegang, Archbishop of Metz. All this the saint accomplished in spite of continual illness, which prevented him from ending his life at Monte Cassino as he had hoped. Winibald died at Heidenheim on December 18, 761.

paragraph: Section::::Veneration.

paragraph: Winebald's feast day is December 18. In art, he is portrayed as an abbot with a bricklayer's trowel. He is a patron saint of construction workers.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Saints of December 18

description: Incorrupt saint

wikidata_label: Winibald

wikipedia_title: Winibald


text:
Paris
French
journalist
Louis-François Bertin
Chamber of Deputies
Councillor of State
peer of France

categories: 1771 births,Politicians from Paris,Members of the Chamber of Peers of the July Monarchy,1842 deaths,Members of the 2nd Chamber of Deputies of the July Monarchy,Writers from Paris,French male non-fiction writers,French journalists,Members of the 1st Chamber of Deputies of the July Monarchy,Orléanists,Members of the Chamber of Deputies of the Bourbon Restoration

paragraph: Louis-François Bertin de Vaux

paragraph: Louis-François Bertin de Vaux (18 August 1771, in Paris23 April 1842) was a French journalist.

paragraph: Louis was the younger brother of Louis-François Bertin. He took a leading part in the conduct of his brother's paper "Journal des Débats", to the success of which his powers of writing greatly contributed. He entered the Chamber of Deputies in 1815, was made Councillor of State in 1827, and a peer of France in 1830.

description: French journalist and politician

wikidata_label: Louis-François Bertin de Veaux

wikipedia_title: Louis-François Bertin de Vaux


text:
South Tyrolean Liberation Committee
South Tyrol
Italy
Feuernacht
Aldein
frazione
Eppan
Dolomite
Front
World War I
Bolzano
Brixen
Benito Mussolini
Fascist Italy
Italianization of South Tyrol
South Tyrol Option Agreement
Nazi Germany
World War II
South Tyrolean People's Party
Night of Fire
Verona

categories: People from Eppan an der Weinstraße,Italian people of Austrian descent,1964 deaths,1913 births

paragraph: Sepp Kerschbaumer

paragraph: Sepp Kerschbaumer (9 November 1913 – 7 December 1964) was a leading member of the South Tyrolean Liberation Committee "(Befreiungsausschuss Südtirol (BAS))", which campaigned for the break-away of South Tyrol from Italy. In 1961, the BAS staged the so-called "Feuernacht" (Night of Fire), the destruction of several dozen electricity pylons, which escalated the South Tyrol conflict. The Italian state viewed the BAS as a terrorist and separatist organization, while large parts of the South Tyroleans regarded them as freedom fighters.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Sepp Kerschbaumer was the son of the merchant Josef Kerschbaumer and his wife Luise of Aldein, and born in the village of Frangart, which today is a "frazione" of Eppan. Kerschbaumer's father was killed on the Dolomite Front in World War I when he was four, followed by the death of his mother when he was nine.

paragraph: After his education in Bolzano and Neustift Monastery, he completed the commercial preparatory school in Brixen in 1927. In 1933 he was conscripted into military service. In late 1934 Kerschbaumer was banished for two years because of participation in a forbidden political meeting. After Benito Mussolini pardoned him in late 1935, he returned to South Tyrol. At this point, he was put in charge of his parents' grocery business by his guardian.

paragraph: Section::::Politics.

paragraph: Fascist Italy had begun a process of Italianization of South Tyrol, a predominantly German-speaking area gained by Italy after World War I. Under the South Tyrol Option Agreement (1939), Kerschbaumer chose to migrate to Nazi Germany. But he later realized that no assistance could be expected from Germany. After World War II he joined the South Tyrolean People's Party and dedicated himself to local politics. He became local chairman of the party and local council head of Frangart.

paragraph: At the start of the 1950s, he became frustrated at what he felt was the too conciliatory attitude of the SVP. At a large demonstration on 17 November 1957, Kerschbaumer distributed an anonymous leaflet demanding "a free South Tyrol". From then on he began to found and build the South Tyrolean Liberation Committee (BAS), which was at first limited to distributing leaflets and symbolic actions, such as the display of the then forbidden flag of South Tyrol. On 12 June 1961, the BAS organized the destruction by explosives of 37 electricity pylons supplying power to the industrial zone of Bolzano, later known as the Night of Fire ("Feuernacht").

paragraph: Section::::Incarceration and death.

paragraph: In the aftermath of the Feuernacht, Sepp Kerschbaumer was arrested and allegedly tortured by police. The rumored mistreatment of Kerschbaumer may have contributed to further escalation of events. Being the leading member of BAS, Sepp Kerschbaumer was sentenced to fifteen years and eleven months on July 16, 1964 for organizing the bombing. On 7 December 1964 he died in prison in Verona of a heart attack. More than 15,000 inhabitants attended the funeral on 9 December 1964, about 5% of the whole population then.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: Kerschbaumer was a deeply devout Catholic and visited the Holy daily fair in Bolzano; in prison, he often prayed the Rosary.

paragraph: On April 29, 1936, he married Maria Sancheti from Bolzano. The couple had six children:

paragraph: BULLET::::- James (April 27, 1937 - 1969)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Marialuisa (March 5, 1939)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Mali (March 26, 1940)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Helga (June 25, 1942)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Franz (1 December 1949)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Christl (January 6, 1957)

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Josef Fontana, Hans Mayr: "Sepp Kerschbaumer: a biography.". Bolzano 2001,

paragraph: BULLET::::- Rolf Steininger: Südtirol 1918-1999 Studies-Verlag, Innsbruck/Vienna 1999, , p. 82

description: Italian rebel

wikidata_label: Sepp Kerschbaumer

wikipedia_title: Sepp Kerschbaumer


text:
tennis
Australasian Championships
1919
1924 Summer Olympics
Bangalore
Château-d'Œx
R. Norris Williams
Kent Championships
William Laurentz
Max Decugis
Pat O'Hara Wood
Gerald Patterson
1919 Australasian Championships
Anthony Wilding
Eric Pockley
New South Wales
1920 Wimbledon Championships
James Cecil Parke
Garland
Williams
Monte-Carlo Championships
Gordon Lowe
Davis Cup
1922 Wimbledon Championships
Leslie Godfree
Queen's Club Championships
Dean Mathey
Bill Tilden
Lucas Cleeve
Royal Garrison Artillery
Plympton
Devon
First Battle of the Aisne
Lieutenant-Colonel
Military Cross
Great Britain Davis Cup team
Woking, Surrey
Bill Tilden
The Art of Lawn Tennis

categories: Grand Slam (tennis) champions in men's singles,Australasian Championships (tennis) champions,1964 deaths,British Army personnel of World War I,Royal Artillery officers,Racket sportspeople from Bangalore,Tennis players at the 1924 Summer Olympics,British male tennis players,1888 births,British Army personnel of World War II

paragraph: Algernon Kingscote

paragraph: Algernon Robert Fitzhardinge "Algy" Kingscote (3 December 1888 – 21 December 1964) was a British tennis player, who won the Men's Singles event at the Australasian Championships in 1919.

paragraph: Kingscote also competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris. He was born in Bangalore, India, in 1888.

paragraph: Section::::Tennis career.

paragraph: Algernon Kingscote learned playing tennis on the courts of the Château-d'Œx Club in Switzerland, where he won numerous championships. In his early years he trained with American teenager player R. Norris Williams. He was crowned Swiss champion in 1908 and champion of Bengal in 1913. He held the Kent Championships title for four consecutive years between 1919–1922 and in total won the title six times. At Wimbledon 1919, Kingscote beat William Laurentz, Max Decugis and Pat O'Hara Wood before losing in the all comers final to Gerald Patterson. He won the singles title at the 1919 Australasian Championships, along with the first Anthony Wilding Memorial Medal, beating Eric Pockley of New South Wales in the final in straight sets. In the 1920 Wimbledon Championships he reached the doubles final alongside James Cecil Parke but eventually lost to the team of Garland–Williams. In 1921 Kingscote was a runner-up at the Monte-Carlo Championships losing to fellow countryman Gordon Lowe in four sets. He represented Great Britain in the Davis Cup seven times between 1919 and 1924 compiling a 9–8 win-loss record. In the 1922 Wimbledon Championships first round against Leslie Godfree they established the routine of saluting the Royal Box by bowing in front of it, a tradition that was in effect to 2003. He won the Queen's Club Championships in 1924 beating Gordon Lowe in four sets in the final.

paragraph: Section::::Tennis career.:Playing style.

paragraph: U.S. Championships quarterfinalist American Dean Mathey described his style as "well rounded" in 1920 at the time when he was considered the best British outdoors player. He favored volleying and had good ground strokes. His service was fair but his game lacked speed and strength. The next year professional world number one player Bill Tilden agreed with Mathey that his game is well rounded but lacks speed. He described his hitting as well-paced, his service as a fast sliced, well placed, paced, twisted and cleverly disguised and his style as a defensive one relying mostly on his half-volley baseline returns. He dedicated Kingscote's court positioning and good volleying skills as a compensation for Kingscote's rather short appearance. Kingscote adapted to the combination of net attack and baseline game, which Tilden praised as a key factor of successful tennis style. His favorite shot was the cross court forehand shot. His backhand was steady, accurate and deceptive.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: Algernon Kingscote was born on 3 December 1888 to Lieutenant-Colonel Howard Kingscote (b. 29 Apr 1845, d. 17 Mar 1917) and famous novelist Adeline Wolff known as Lucas Cleeve. He had two siblings, Henry Robert Fitzhardinge Kingscote (b. 1 Oct 1887) and Iris Adeline Harriett Augusta Kingscote (b. 5 Aug 1886, d. 8 Jun 1970). Like his father he joined the army in 1910 serving for the Royal Garrison Artillery. He was a Second Lieutenant when stationing at Plympton, Devon in 1911. He was engaged during in World War I where he fought at the First Battle of the Aisne earning the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and the award of Military Cross. After the war he went back competing in tennis tournaments and was appointed the captain of the Great Britain Davis Cup team, while still serving in the army as a colonel. He married Marjorie Paton Hindley, daughter of Douglas C. P. Hindley, on 9 September 1919, and had two daughters Rachel and Marjorie and later a son David, who died on 5 September 1945 at age 20 at Burma, killed in action. At the age of 52 at the outbreak of World War II he was sent back to action again. He died on 21 December 1964 Woking, Surrey, Great Britain.

paragraph: Section::::Sources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bill Tilden (1921). The Art of Lawn Tennis (second ed.). London, United Kingdom: |Methuen & Co. . Retrieved 11 June 2012.

description: British tennis player

wikidata_label: Algernon Kingscote

wikipedia_title: Algernon Kingscote


text: Kurdish

text: medieval

text: Kurdish

text: emir

text: Emirate of Bitlis

text: Persian

text: Qom

text: Kurdish history

text: Sharafnama

text: Kurdish dynasties

text: Iran

text: Kurdish-speaking countries

text: Kurdish literature

text: military strategy

text: Bitlis

text: Khan

text: emir

text: mir

text: Safavid dynasty

text: Tahmasb

text: Quran

text: archery

text: polo

text: racing

text: swordsmanship

text: chivalry

text: Tahmasb

text: Safavids

text: Mir

text: Iranian Kurdish

text: Ottomans

text: Iranians

text: Persians

text: Sultan Murad III

text: Kurdish history

text: Sharafnama

text: Marwanids

text: Amed

text: Hasanwayhids

text: Dinavar

text: Sharizur

text: Saladin the Great

text: Ayyubids

text: Prophet

text: Persian

text: Kurdish

text: Kurmanji

text: Kurdish

text: polymath

text: Mahmud Bayazidi

text: Russian National Library

text: Sorani

text: Abdurrahman Sharafkandi

text: Saint Petersburg

text: Arabic

text: Turkic languages

text: Greek

text: Armenian

text: Emirate of Bitlis

text: culture

text: Kurdish history

text: Oxford

text: Kurdish history

text: List of Kurdish dynasties and countries

text: Emirate of Bitlis

text: Ayyubid dynasty

text: Marwanids

text: Mem and Zin

text: KURDISTANICA

text: History of Kurdology at the IOM

text: IOM

categories: Kurdish historians,Kurdish rulers,Iranian Kurdish people,Iranian Kurdish politicians,1543 births,Kurdish scholars,Kurdish people of the Ottoman Empire,People from Bitlis,Kurdish writers,Persian-language writers,16th-century people of the Safavid Empire,1603 deaths

paragraph: Sharafkhan Bidlisi

paragraph: Sharaf al-Din Khan b. Shams al-Din b. Sharaf Beg Bedlisi (Kurdish: شەرەفخانی بەدلیسی, "Şerefxanê Bedlîsî"; ) (949-1012/1543-1603-04) was a medieval Kurdish emir and a politician from the Emirate of Bitlis.

paragraph: But he is more known as a historian, writer and poet. He wrote exclusively in Persian. Born in the Garmrood village, in central Iran, between Arak and Qom, at a young age he was sent to the Safavid's court and obtained his education there.

paragraph: He is the author of one of the most important works on medieval Kurdish history, written in 1597, Sharafnama. He created a good picture of Kurdish life and Kurdish dynasties in the 16th century in his works. Outside Iran and Kurdish-speaking countries, Sharaf Khan Bidlisi has influenced Kurdish literature and societies through the translation of his works by other scholars.

paragraph: He was also a gifted artist, and a well-educated man excelling as much in mathematics and military strategy, as he did in history.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Sharaf Khan Bidlisi was born on February 25, 1543, in the Markazi province, Iran in the Garmrood village, during the exile of his father. The Rojaki dynasty, which had ruled intermittently as an independent emirate from their capital of Bitlis since at least the 9th century, and therefore, he never took up the common tribal title of "Khan", preferring instead the royal title of emir or mir, "prince." He was most commonly known as, Mir Sharaf (Prince Sharaf). Later his family was taken under protection of the Safavid dynasty. He was schooled at Tahmasb's court, and wrote in 1596:

paragraph: Bedlîsî speaks of his education entailing instruction in the Quran, readings in on the principles of the "shari'a", a piety and purity. Due to Shah Tahmasb's religious disposition, Bidlisi was introduced to religious scholars, who warned him against evil people, and instead encouraged friendship with the virtuous. And once Bidlisi attained maturity, he was thought the martial arts (sipahigira), archery, polo, racing, swordsmanship, and the precepts of chivalry – humanism and generosity.

paragraph: In 1576 Tahmasb of the Safavids gives him the title the "Mir" of "Mirs"; appoints him leader of all Iranian Kurdish tribes. He accepts his title, but only two years later, "Sharafkhan" abandons his previous stand, and supports the Ottomans in their war against the Iranians, offering them 400 soldiers. Between 1578 and 1588, Sharafkhan virtually led all the Ottoman wars against the Persians. Sultan Murad III, the Ottoman Sultan, grants Sharafkhan the title of Khan. He becomes the "Mir" of the "Batlisi province". As he turned 53, Sharafkhan gave the authority of his dynasty to his son "Shamsaddin Bag Abu Alma'ali".

paragraph: Section::::Sharafnama.

paragraph: He was thinking for a long time to write a book about Kurdish history, and finally in 1597 Sharaf Khan Bidlisi started his composition of his epic, "Sharafnama".

paragraph: The "Sharafnama" divides its history into four parts. The first one deals with the five Kurdish dynasties that have enjoyed status as royalty ("Saltant"): the Marwanids of Amed, the Hasanwayhids of Dinavar and Sharizur, the "Fadluyids" of the Great Lur, the princes of little Lur, and finally, Saladin the Great and the Ayyubids. The second part lists dynasties that have had coin struck and the "khutba" recited in their names. (The "Khutba" is a religious invacation pronounced at the Friday day prayers meeting that mentions the Prophet, the first four caliphs and the current rulers). The third part numbers the families of the hereditary governors, while the fourth details the history of the mirs of "Bitilis".

paragraph: He wrote his works in Persian, and it was not until 1879 that it was translated into Kurdish (Kurmanji) by the Kurdish polymath Mahmud Bayazidi (1797–1859). Its hand-written version is preserved in the Russian National Library, and was published for the first time in 1986. In 1972, the Sorani version of "Sharafnama" was written for the first time by the late Kurdish scholar Abdurrahman Sharafkandi (1920–1991), also known as "Mamosta Hajar". In 1873–1875, the French scholar François Charmoy translated Sharafnama from Persian into French and published it in Saint Petersburg, in Russia. Among many other languages, Sharafname has been translated into Arabic, English, Turkic languages, Russian, Greek and Armenian.

paragraph: Section::::Death.

paragraph: He died in his own principality (Emirate of Bitlis) in 1603 at the age of 60, and left thousands of writings.

paragraph: Section::::Legacy.

paragraph: Being one of the oldest books ever written by a Kurd, the creation of "Sharafnama" is a turning point in the history of Kurds and their rich culture. The fact that a Kurd, for the first time, put Kurdish culture under a spotlight is of special importance in contrast to other studies that were done before "Sharafnama".

paragraph: Bidlisi has a unique place in Kurdish history. After his "Sharafnama", a number of copies and other works similar in nature surfaced over the centuries within the cultural sphere on rich Kurdish history. In the text of the Sharafnama, the empires of the Kurds parallel those of the Arabs, Persians and Turks, some, according to Bitlisi, reaching back over 4,000 years. Sharaf khan's "Sharafnama" is today safely kept in Oxford.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kurdish history

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of Kurdish dynasties and countries

paragraph: BULLET::::- Emirate of Bitlis

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ayyubid dynasty

paragraph: BULLET::::- Marwanids

paragraph: BULLET::::- Mem and Zin

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- KURDISTANICA

paragraph: BULLET::::- History of Kurdology at the IOM IOM

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kurdistan in the 16th and 17th centuries, as reflected in Evliya Çelebi's Seyahatname

paragraph: BULLET::::- First written in the 16th century, Sharafnama remains a masterpiece in the Kurdish library, four centuries later

description: Emir of Bitlis

wikidata_label: Sharaf Khan Bidlisi

wikipedia_title: Sharafkhan Bidlisi


text: British

text: Conservative

text: Malvern College

text: India

text: Burma

text: Sri Lanka

text: Calcutta

text: Far East

text: World War II

text: Royal Navy

text: Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve

text: HMS "Hermione"

text: Malta

text: trustee

text: British Museum

text: Member of Parliament

text: Croydon West

text: Labour

text: David Rees-Williams

text: Croydon South

text: Whips' Office

text: Lord Commissioner of the Treasury

text: Vice-Chamberlain of the Household

text: Reculver

text: David Winnick

text: February 1974 general election

text: John Horace Broke Heathcote

categories: Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve personnel of World War II,1912 births,Trustees of the British Museum,1999 deaths,UK MPs 1951–1955,UK MPs 1959–1964,Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies,Politics of the London Borough of Croydon,Royal Navy officers,UK MPs 1950–1951,Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom,UK MPs 1955–1959,UK MPs 1970–1974,People educated at Malvern College,UK MPs 1964–1966

paragraph: Sir Richard Thompson, 1st Baronet

paragraph: Sir Richard Hilton Marler Thompson, 1st Baronet (5 October 1912 – 15 July 1999) was a British Conservative politician.

paragraph: Thompson was born in Chesterfield Derbyshire, the son of Richard South Thompson (1868 – 1952) and Kathleen Hilda nee Marler (d. 1916). He was educated at Malvern College and in India, Burma and Sri Lanka and worked in Calcutta and the Far East in business. In World War II, he served in the Royal Navy as an ordinary seaman and became a lieutenant-commander in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve. He was serving on HMS "Hermione" in 1942 when the ship was sunk whilst part of the Malta convoy. He became a director of two publishing companies and was a trustee of the British Museum.

paragraph: Thompson was elected as Member of Parliament for Croydon West in 1950, defeating Labour MP David Rees-Williams, then for the new Croydon South seat in 1955. He joined the Whips' Office as a junior whip in 1952, then as Lord Commissioner of the Treasury in 1954 and Vice-Chamberlain of the Household in 1956. He was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health 1957-59, Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations 1959-60 and Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Works 1960-62.

paragraph: In 1963 he was created a Baronet, of Reculver in the County of Kent.

paragraph: Thompson lost his seat to Labour's David Winnick in 1966, but regained it in 1970. He retired at the February 1974 general election.

paragraph: Thompson married Anne Christabel de Vere Annesley on 9 August 1939 in Blean Kent, the daughter of Philip de Vere Annesley (1879 – 1949) and Christabel Charlotte nee Tomson (1887 – 1955).

paragraph: Sir Richard died on 15 July 1999 in Ashford Kent, Anne Christabel died in February 2003 in Kingston upon Thames.

paragraph: Sir Richard was succeeded by his only son Nicholas Annesley Marler Thompson born 19 March 1947 at Bridge Kent, who inherited the baronetcy in 1999. Sir Nicholas is chairman of the executive committee of The Standing Council of the Baronetage. He married Venetia Catherine Heathcote (b. 22 April 1951) the daughter of John Horace Broke Heathcote (28 December 1910 – 30 May 2003) and Dorelle Geraldine née Rice (13 March 1913 – 11 May 2007) on 10 December 1982 at St Margaret's church Westminster. They have four children:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Simon William Thompson (b. 10 June 1985)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Charles Frederick Thompson (b. 25 November 1986)

paragraph: BULLET::::- David Jonathan Thompson (b. 20 April 1990)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Emma Louise Thompson (b. 24 July 1991)

description: British politician, died 1999

wikidata_label: Sir Richard Thompson, 1st Baronet

wikipedia_title: Sir Richard Thompson, 1st Baronet


text: United States Army

text: Medal of Honor

text: Vietnam War

text: Boston, Massachusetts

text: first lieutenant

text: 14th Infantry Regiment

text: 25th Infantry Division

text: Republic of Vietnam

text: mortar

text: captain

text: Arlington National Cemetery

text: Arlington County, Virginia

text: search and destroy

text: human wave

text: hand grenade

categories: 1940 births,United States Army officers,United States Army Medal of Honor recipients,1966 deaths,American military personnel killed in the Vietnam War,People from Cambridge, Massachusetts,Burials at Arlington National Cemetery

paragraph: Joseph Xavier Grant

paragraph: Joseph Xavier Grant (March 28, 1940 – November 13, 1966) was a United States Army officer and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Vietnam War.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Grant joined the Army from Boston, Massachusetts in 1958, and was killed in action on November 13, 1966 was serving as a first lieutenant in Company A, 1st Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division. During a firefight on that day in the Republic of Vietnam, Grant organized his group's defense and repeatedly exposed himself to enemy fire to rescue wounded soldiers, despite being wounded himself, before he was killed in a mortar attack. He was posthumously promoted to captain and, on January 29, 1968, President Johnson issued the Medal of Honor for his actions during the battle.

paragraph: He is survived by his wife Bok Soon Grant. Grant, aged 26 at his death, was buried in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington County, Virginia.

paragraph: Section::::Medal of Honor citation.

paragraph: Captain Grant's official Medal of Honor citation reads:

paragraph: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. Company A was participating in a search and destroy operation when the leading platoon made contact with the enemy and a fierce fire-fight ensued. Capt. Grant was ordered to disengage the 2 remaining platoons and to maneuver them to envelop and destroy the enemy. After beginning their movement, the platoons encountered intense enemy automatic weapons and mortar fire from the front and flank. Capt. Grant was ordered to deploy the platoons in a defensive position. As this action was underway, the enemy attacked, using "human wave" assaults, in an attempt to literally overwhelm Capt. Grant's force. In a magnificent display of courage and leadership, Capt. Grant moved under intense fire along the hastily formed defensive line repositioning soldiers to fill gaps created by the mounting casualties and inspiring and directing the efforts of his men to successfully repel the determined enemy onslaught. Seeing a platoon leader wounded, Capt. Grant hastened to his aid, in the face of the mass of fire of the entire enemy force, and moved him to a more secure position. During this action, Capt. Grant was wounded in the shoulder. Refusing medical treatment, he returned to the forward part of the perimeter, where he continued to lead and to inspire his men by his own indomitable example. While attempting to evacuate a wounded soldier, he was pinned down by fire from an enemy machine gun. With a supply of hand grenades, he crawled forward under a withering hail of fire and knocked out the machine gun, killing the crew, after which he moved the wounded man to safety. Learning that several other wounded men were pinned down by enemy fire forward of his position, Capt. Grant disregarded his painful wound and led 5 men across the fire-swept open ground to effect a rescue. Following return of the wounded men to the perimeter, a concentration of mortar fire landed in their midst and Capt. Grant was killed instantly. His heroic actions saved the lives of a number of his comrades and enabled the task force to repulse the vicious assaults and defeat the enemy. Capt. Grant's actions reflect great credit upon himself and were in keeping with the finest traditions of the U.S. Army.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of Medal of Honor recipients for the Vietnam War

wikidata_label: Joseph Xavier Grant

wikipedia_title: Joseph Xavier Grant


text: RA

text: English

text: painter

text: James Cook

text: second voyage

text: Pacific Ocean

text: Table Bay

text: Tahiti

text: Easter Island

text: New Zealand

text: Dusky Sound

text: Antarctic

text: London

text: William Shipley

text: Richard Wilson

text: Thomas Jones

text: theatrical scenery

text: James Cook

text: engraving

text: landscape

text: oil paintings

text: London

text: Admiralty

text: light

text: shadow

text: Warren Hastings

text: India

text: Lucknow

text: Claude Martin

text: Sir John Soane's Museum

text: St. Petersburg

text: Russia

text: War of the First Coalition

text: Revolutionary France

text: King George III

text: Devon

text: suicide

text: laudanum

text: Hodges Knoll

text: Antarctica

text: St George’s, Hanover Square

text: Pimlico

text: Joseph Wright of Derby

text: St Helena

text: aquatint

text: Royal Academy

text: Exeter Flying Post

text: laudanum

text: HMS "Resolution"

text: The Gentleman's Magazine

text: Sir John Carr

text: Admiralty

text: Beaglehole, J. C.

text: Indian landscapes by Hodges

categories: English male painters,British marine artists,1797 deaths,18th-century English painters,James Cook,1744 births,Landscape artists

paragraph: William Hodges

paragraph: William Hodges RA (28 October 1744 – 6 March 1797) was an English painter. He was a member of James Cook's second voyage to the Pacific Ocean, and is best known for the sketches and paintings of locations he visited on that voyage, including Table Bay, Tahiti, Easter Island, New Zealand, Dusky Sound and the Antarctic.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Hodges was born on 28 October 1744 in London. He studied under William Shipley, and afterwards in the studio of Richard Wilson, where he met Thomas Jones.

paragraph: During his early career, he made a living by painting theatrical scenery.

paragraph: Between 1772 and 1775 Hodges accompanied James Cook to the Pacific as the expedition's artist. Many of his sketches and wash paintings were adapted as engravings in the original published edition of Cook's journals from the voyage.

paragraph: Most of the large-scale landscape oil paintings from his Pacific travels for which Hodges is best known were finished after his return to London; he received a salary from the Admiralty for the purposes of completing them. These paintings depicted a stronger light and shadow than had been usual in European landscape tradition. Contemporary art critics complained that his use of light and colour contrasts gave his paintings a rough and unfinished appearance.

paragraph: Hodges also produced many valuable portrait sketches of Pacific islanders and scenes from the voyage involving members of the expedition.

paragraph: In 1778, under the patronage of Warren Hastings, Hodges travelled to India, one of the first British professional landscape painters to visit that country. He remained there for six years, staying in Lucknow with Claude Martin in 1783.

paragraph: His painting of "Futtypoor Sicri" is in Sir John Soane's Museum.

paragraph: Later Hodges travelled across Europe, including a visit to St. Petersburg in Russia in 1790.

paragraph: In 1793 Hodges published an illustrated book about his travels in India.

paragraph: In December 1794 Hodges opened an exhibition of twenty-five of his own works at Orme's Gallery, 14 Old Bond Street, London that included two large paintings called "The Effects of Peace" and "The Effects of War". In late January, 1795, with Britain engaged in the War of the First Coalition against Revolutionary France and feelings running high, the exhibition was visited by Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, the second son of King George III. The Duke took offence at the political nature of Hodges' paintings and ordered the exhibition closed; this royal censure effectively ended Hodges' career as a painter. Many of his works were then sold by auction but produced only an inconsiderable sum.

paragraph: Hodges retired to Devon and became involved with a bank, which failed during the banking crisis of March, 1797. On 6 March of that year, he died from what was officially recorded as "gout in the stomach", but which was also rumoured to be suicide from an overdose of laudanum.

paragraph: Hodges Knoll in Antarctica is named after William Hodges.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: On 11 May 1776, Hodges married Martha Bowden Nesbit, the daughter of William and Jane Nesbit, at St George’s, Hanover Square, London. The couple settled in Pimlico. They undertook a tour of Wales and the Midlands, during which they visited Derby, where Joseph Wright of Derby painted a portrait of Martha Hodges. Sadly, Martha died within a year, possibly during childbirth. Having finished his work for the Admiralty, and with the death of his wife, Hodges was free to travel.

paragraph: Hodges left India in November 1783, in Worcester. This ship was nearly wrecked at St Helena, but reached Britain in June 1784. Hodges is reputed to have returned a rich man, and settled in Queen Street, Mayfair, where he built himself a studio. He brought home with him a son, James. Hodges’ mother looked after her new grandson in a house in Tunbridge Wells, which Hodges purchased.

paragraph: William Hodges began preparing a collection, "Select Views in India in the Years 1780–1783", that included a series of forty-eight aquatints adapted from sketches drawn in India. On 16 October 1784, again at St George’s, Hanover Square, Hodges married his second wife, Lydia Wright. Lydia was the niece of John Whitehurst from Derby. Unfortunately, she too died after only a few months of marriage, possibly from alcoholism.

paragraph: In December 1785, Hodges married for a third time. It was to Ann Mary Carr, a talented pianist, and the oldest of the five children of Benjamin and Elizabeth Carr. Her parents were already deceased when she married Hodges. At about the same time, Hodges was listed as the guardian of Ann Mary’s brother, John, later a famous travel writer. They would have two daughters and three sons together. Hodges was elected a member of the Royal Academy in 1789, and continued to exhibit there until 1794. After experiencing financial difficulties, he made an unsuccessful trip to seek patronage in Russia in 1792. On his return, in February, 1793, Hodges published his account of his time in India, entitled "Travels in India in the Years 1780, 1781, 1782 and 1783", illustrated with plates derived from his drawings.

paragraph: In December 1794, Hodges held a private exhibition of 25 of his pictures in old Bond Street, London. Remarkably, it received no subscription, and made no sales, forcing Hodges to close it by 26 January 1795.

paragraph: Totally disillusioned, Hodges retired from his profession, sold his London property, and moved himself and his family, in July, 1795, to Brixham and Dartmouth in South Devon. There, he attempted to restore his fortunes by becoming a partner in a small bank at Dartmouth. His partner was Thomas Gretton, a lawyer. Also present in South Devon was Gretton’s brother, the Reverend George Gretton. The Grettons were the nephews of John and Elizabeth Whitehurst of Derby, further evidence of the family connections with the town. The bank opened in Dartmouth on 24 August 1795, and the following is an extract from the "Exeter Flying Post" dated 1 October 1795:

paragraph: Banknotes, dated 24 August 1795, exist, issued by Hodges and Thomas Gretton & Co., payable on demand in Dartmouth or at their London agents, Walwyn, Petrie, Ward and McGregor. The bank would soon be known as the Dartmouth Bank and incorporated the Arms of Dartmouth on a shield on its notes. In October, 1795, new partners were added, probably to inject new capital into the bank. They were John Seale, a local landowner, and William Tult.

paragraph: John Seale was a very influential person in Dartmouth at the time, holding extensive property and land both in and around Dartmouth. Thomas Gretton was a practising attorney in the town. Not unlike many other banks of the period, there appear to have been problems from quite soon after the bank's inception. The ongoing war with France had severe effects on Dartmouth, and this, together with a stoppage of payments at the Bank of England, caused a run on the bank in March 1797. The "Exeter Flying Post" of 13 September 1798, has an official notice relating to Thomas Gretton's personal bankruptcy. John Seale, however, appears to have come out of this affair with his reputation unscathed as both he and his descendants remained very influential in the area throughout the 19th century.

paragraph: Hodges died at 10.00am on Monday, 6 March 1797. The cause of death, as rumour would have it locally, was through an overdose of laudanum, which Hodges used as medication to treat his stomach gout. Whether the overdose was accidental or deliberate we shall probably never know for certain. However, we do know that he was under severe stress at the time caused by his own parlous financial situation and the impending collapse of the bank, both of which appeared intertwined. The Burial Register of St. Mary's Church, Brixham records William Hodges, burial 13 March 1797. No headstone has been found.

paragraph: In spite of his financial problems, he nevertheless appeared to be liked and well respected, both locally and farther afield. As a young man, both Cook and Wales enjoyed his company during the three years that he spent on the HMS "Resolution" on Cook's second epic voyage, and Cook greatly admired the young painter's sea and landscapes of the voyage. "The Gentleman's Magazine" reported of his death in 1797 as follows:

paragraph: Hodges left his wife and children in great want. However, many of his friends soon rallied around to try and ease their burden, and for this, and other information relating to events soon after his death, we have the "Farrington Diaries", written daily as events unfolded. Joseph Farrington R.A. (1747 -1821) studied as a pupil under Richard Wilson R.A. at the same time as Hodges and later both became fellow Royal Academicians. They appear to have remained life long friends.

paragraph: An entry relating to the disposal of some of Hodges' personal possessions was written some years later on 3 October 1809, when Farrington was journeying through the West Country and visited Brixham:

paragraph: Sir John Carr (1772–1832) was a native of Totnes (approximately eight miles from Brixham ) who for health reasons frequently travelled abroad and wrote books on his travels.

paragraph: As Hodges was employed by the Admiralty on Cook's second voyage, all paintings and drawings of the voyage belonged to them. However, he repeated some of them.

paragraph: Section::::Further reading.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Beaglehole, J. C., "The Life of Captain James Cook". .

paragraph: BULLET::::- Crompton, Gordon. "Cook's Log", page 894, volume 16, number 1 (1993)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Smith, B., "European Vision and the South Pacific". .

paragraph: BULLET::::- Smith, B., "William Hodges and English Plein-Air Painting", in "Art History"; 6:2 (1983)

paragraph: BULLET::::- I. C. Stuebe, "The Life and Works of William Hodges" (1979)

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Indian landscapes by Hodges

paragraph: BULLET::::- Adorning the world: art of the Marquesas Islands, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on William Hodges (nos. 17 & 18)

alias: Esq. R. A. (made a Royal Academician in 1786) J. Hodges

alias: Esq. R. A. (made a Royal Academician in 1786) S. Hodges

alias: R. A. (made a Royal Academician in 1786) William Hodges

description: British artist

wikidata_label: William Hodges

wikipedia_title: William Hodges


text: Aubrey Beauclerk, 5th Duke of St Albans

text: Catherine

text: Maria Janetta Nelthorpe

text: Arthur Capell, 6th Earl of Essex

text: Sir Montague Cholmeley, 2nd Bt.

text: Samantha Cameron

text: Conservative

text: British prime minister

text: David Cameron

text: Charles Beauclerk

categories: 1766 births,1825 deaths,Beauclerk family,Dukes of St Albans

paragraph: William Beauclerk, 8th Duke of St Albans (18 December 1766 – 17 July 1825) was the son of Aubrey Beauclerk, 5th Duke of St Albans by his wife Catherine.

paragraph: He married, firstly, Charlotte Thelwell (c. 1769 – 19 October 1797), on 20 July 1791.

paragraph: He married, secondly, Maria Janetta Nelthorpe (c. 1779 – 17 January 1822), on 4 March 1799. They had thirteen children:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lady Maria Amelia Beauclerk (1800 – 9 July 1873), died unmarried.

paragraph: BULLET::::- William Beauclerk, 9th Duke of St Albans (24 March 1801 – 27 May 1849)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lady Charlotte Beauclerk (4 April 1802 – 12 August 1842), died unmarried.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lady Caroline Janetta Beauclerk (28 June 1804 – 22 August 1862), married Arthur Capell, 6th Earl of Essex and had issue.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lord John Nelthorpe Beauclerk (9 December 1805 – August 1810); buried 4 August 1810

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lady Louisa Georgiana Beauclerk (28 December 1806 – 18 February 1843), married Thomas Hughan

paragraph: BULLET::::- Captain Lord Frederick Charles Peter Beauclerk (28 June 1808 – 17 November 1865), married Jemima Johnstone and had issue.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lady Georgiana Beauclerk (1809 – 8 January 1880), married Sir Montague Cholmeley, 2nd Bt.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lady Mary Noel Beauclerk (28 December 1810 – 29 November 1850), married Thomas G. Corbett and had issue. Descendants include Samantha Cameron, wife of former Conservative Leader and British prime minister David Cameron.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lord Henry Beauclerk (23 June 1812 – 22 January 1856), died unmarried.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lord Charles Beauclerk (10 October 1813 – 2 November 1861), married Laura Stopford and had issue. His son Aubrey Topham Beauclerk was the father of Charles Beauclerk, who in 1964 became 13th Duke of St Albans.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Captain Lord Amelius Wentworth Beauclerk (16 August 1815 – 24 March 1879), married Frances Harrison and had issue, including William Abdy Beauclerk

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lord George Augustus Beauclerk (14 December 1818 – 3 January 1880), died unmarried.

description: British Duke


text: Maria Janetta Nelthorpe

text: first-class cricket

text: Hampshire

text: Harriet Mellon

text: St Leonards-on-Sea

text: Harby, Leicestershire

text: John Walter Huddleston

text: W. P. Frith

categories: Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers,1849 deaths,English cricketers,Hampshire cricketers,1801 births,Dukes of St Albans,English cricketers of 1787 to 1825,Beauclerk family

paragraph: William Beauclerk, 9th Duke of St Albans

paragraph: William Aubrey de Vere Beauclerk, 9th Duke of St. Albans (24 March 1801 – 27 May 1849) was an English aristocrat and cricket player.

paragraph: William Aubrey de Vere Beauclerk was born on 24 March 1801. He was the son of William Beauclerk, 8th Duke of St Albans, and his second wife, the former Maria Janetta Nelthorpe.

paragraph: He played a first-class cricket match for Hampshire in 1817.

paragraph: He married, firstly, Harriet Mellon (11 November 1777 – 6 August 1837), on 16 June 1827 in London. He married, secondly, Elizabeth Catherine Gubbins (c. 1818 – 2 December 1893 St Leonards-on-Sea), on 29 May 1839 in Harby, Leicestershire. They had three children:

paragraph: BULLET::::- William Ameleus Aubrey de Vere Beauclerk, 10th Duke of St Albans (1840–1898)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Diana de Vere Beauclerk (10 December 1842 – 1 April 1905), married John Walter Huddleston. Appeared in W. P. Frith's famous painting of the marriage of the Prince of Wales in 1863 and also in his later work "A Private View at the Royal Academy, 1881".

paragraph: BULLET::::- Charlotte Beauclerk (1849–?)

paragraph: He died on 27 May 1849.

alias:
William Beauclerk
William Aubrey de Vere Beauclerk

description: English cricketer


text:
American pioneer
Arizona
brutality
Apache
native Americans
Alabama
California
Yuma, Arizona
Fort Yuma
U.S. Army
Agua Caliente ranch
Gila River
Maricopa County, Arizona
irrigation
flour mill
threshing machine
Gila Bend Mountains
Woolsey Peak Wilderness Area
Walker Party
Hassayampa River
Dewey, Arizona
Indians
American Civil War
settlers
Miami, Arizona
Tonto Apache
Battle of Bloody Tanks
Lieutenant-Colonel
militia
John N. Goodwin
mining claim
Bradshaw Mountains
Yavapais
pinole
strychnine
inter alia
Legislature
Territory of Arizona
Democratic Party
Republican
Territorial Delegate
U.S. Congress
heart attack
Agua Fria
Pioneer and Military Memorial Park
Phoenix
History of Phoenix, Arizona
Pioneer and Military Memorial Park
Bradshaw Mountains
History of Arizona
Woolsey Peak Wilderness Area
BLM

categories: Apache Wars,Arizona Democrats,1879 deaths,1832 births,Arizona pioneers,American gold prospectors,Ranchers from Arizona,19th-century American politicians,Members of the Arizona Territorial Legislature

paragraph: King Woolsey

paragraph: King S. Woolsey (ca. 1832 - June 30, 1879) was an American pioneer rancher, Native American Exterminator, prospector and politician in 19th century Arizona. "Woolsey Peak" and other features of Arizona geography have been named after him, but he has also been criticized by historians for brutality in his battles with Apache native Americans.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Woolsey, born in Alabama, moved to Arizona from California in 1860, first at Yuma, Arizona and Fort Yuma, where he sold supplies to the U.S. Army. In 1862, Woolsey and a partner bought the Agua Caliente ranch, near the Gila River in what is now western Maricopa County, Arizona. They dug irrigation ditches from the river and planted crops. Woolsey operated Arizona's first flour mill at Agua Caliente, and brought the first threshing machine into the territory. Woolsey Peak in the Gila Bend Mountains - a prominent landmark near his ranch - and the Woolsey Peak Wilderness Area, were both later named to honor him.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:American Civil War service.

paragraph: In 1863, Woolsey joined the Walker Party to explore the Hassayampa River for gold. Soon after, he homesteaded and established the Agua Fria ranch, near present-day Dewey, Arizona. Woolsey is most famous (or notorious) for his forays against the native Indians in central Arizona. During the American Civil War, after 1863, practically all troops were withdrawn from Arizona, and Indian attacks on white settlers and their property increased.

paragraph: In 1864, after a series of livestock thefts, Woolsey led a group of settlers to the vicinity of present-day Miami, Arizona, where they encountered a large party of Tonto Apaches. In the ensuing Battle of Bloody Tanks, the settlers killed (and later scalped) at least 24 Indians, with the loss of one settler. It appears that the settlers opened fire first, during a parley. After this fight, Woolsey was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the Arizona territorial militia by Governor John N. Goodwin.

paragraph: Later in 1864, Woolsey and several other men were working their mining claims in the Bradshaw Mountains. They were apparently confronted by a large party of Indians, probably Yavapais. Woolsey called for a parley, after first hiding a sack of pinole poisoned with strychnine nearby. As he had hoped, the Indians found the poisoned meal and ate it while he talked to their chiefs. As the poison took effect, and the others fled, his men opened fire on them. This encounter was later called the Pinole Massacre.

paragraph: The first Territorial Legislature voted a commendation to King Woolsey and his volunteers for, inter alia, "taking the lives of numbers of Apaches, and destroying the property and crops in their country." In 1864 Woolsey was elected to the first Legislature of the Territory of Arizona, and was re-elected to several subsequent legislatures.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:After the war.

paragraph: The creation of the Democratic Party in Arizona Territory was largely due to Woolsey's efforts. Since its creation by a Republican-dominated Congress in 1863, the Republicans had controlled Arizona politics. Woolsey called a meeting of like-minded Democrats in February 1873 in Tucson. Presiding at the meeting, he introduced a series of resolutions which led to organization of the Democratic Party in the Arizona Territory. He was the Democratic candidate for Territorial Delegate to the U.S. Congress in the 1878 election, but was defeated.

paragraph: Woolsey died of a heart attack at his Agua Fria ranch in 1879. He was 47 years old. He is buried in Pioneer and Military Memorial Park in Phoenix.

paragraph: Section::::Family.

paragraph: Woolsey took a Yaqui woman named Lucy Martinez as a mistress, and they had a daughter named Conception. Woolsey also had a biological daughter, Clara Woolsey, who Woolsey did not recognize as legitimately his. Clara had two children, Julio and Clara.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- History of Phoenix, Arizona

paragraph: BULLET::::- Pioneer and Military Memorial Park

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bradshaw Mountains

paragraph: BULLET::::- History of Arizona

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: Kate Ruland-Thorne, 2007, "Gold, Greed and Glory: the Territorial history of Prescott and the Verde Valley, 1864-1912." Baltimore, Publish America, .

paragraph: Thomas Edwin Farish, 1915-1918, "History of Arizona", available online at http://southwest.library.arizona.edu/projects.html

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Woolsey Peak Wilderness Area at BLM

description: American  politician

wikidata_label: King Woolsey

wikipedia_title: King Woolsey