text: West End

text: Bohemian

text: occultist

text: Aleister Crowley

text: Augustus John

text: Jacob Epstein

text: Canning Town

text: Limehouse

text: Lord's Prayer

text: Somerset

text: "coster"

text: Limehouse

text: Augustus John

text: Anthony Powell

text: The Raggle-Taggle Gypsies

text: Fitzroy Street

text: Sigh No More Ladies

text: Bonnie Earl O'Murray

text: Café Royal

text: World War I

text: Augustus John

text: Jacob Epstein

text: Bohemia

text: Nina Hamnett

text: Horace de Vere Cole

text: Nancy Cunard

text: William Orpen

text: Anna Wickham

text: Iris Tree

text: Ezra Pound

text: Lilian Shelley

text: Laura Grey

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text: Henry Lamb

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text: Lilian Shelley

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text: Augustus John

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text: Billie Carleton

text: Motor Machine Gun Service

text: Bisley, Surrey

text: Richmond

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text: Royal Army Medical Corps

text: Henrietta Street

text: Jacob Epstein

text: Guilford Street

text: Leicester Galleries

text: Jacob Kramer's

text: William Roberts

text: British Empire Exhibition

text: Beak Street

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text: William Roberts

text: Dolores

text: "Bunny" Garnett

text: University of Oxford

text: morphia

text: Jack the Ripper

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text: Abbey of Thelema

text: John Bull

text: Waldorf Hotel

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text: Jacob Kramer

text: Gerald Reitlinger

text: Michael Sevier

text: Jack Lindsay

text: Fitzroy Tavern

text: Edgell Rickword

text: Dieppe

text: Edward Powys Mathers

text: jazz age

text: Fitzrovia

text: The Wheatsheaf

text: Rathbone Place

text: Dylan Thomas

text: News of the World

text: Hugh Sykes Davis

text: Malcolm Lowry

text: Marquis of Granby

text: Gerald Duckworth and Company

text: ghost-written

text: Anthony Powell

text: Balston

text: Nina Hamnett

text: Old Bailey

text: Seymour Street

text: The Ziegfeld Follies

text: Canonbury

text: Chatham

text: Virginia Nicholson

categories: 20th-century deaths,Year of death uncertain,English artists' models,People from Canning Town,1893 births,Aleister Crowley

paragraph: Betty May

paragraph: Betty May (born Betty Marlow Golding 1893, died after 1955) was a British singer, dancer, and model, who worked primarily in London's West End. She was a member of the London Bohemian set of the inter-war years, claimed to have joined a criminal gang in Paris, was associated with occultist Aleister Crowley, and sat for Augustus John and Jacob Epstein. She became known as the "Tiger Woman". She adopted the name Betty May early in life, for reasons that are unclear.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Betty May was born Betty Marlow Golding in Tidal Basin, Canning Town, London, in 1893. She was born into poverty. The only known account of her early life is her autobiography "Tiger Woman", in which May writes that her father left the family when she was very young, leaving her mother to raise four children on the ten shillings a week she earned working long hours. The family had little furniture and no bed, so they slept on bundles of rags at night. May's mother was half French and was described as good-looking, with an olive complexion and dark eyes, features May claimed to have inherited. May described her grandmother, who lived nearby, as a formidable character who influenced May's life.

paragraph: According to May, when the struggle of supporting four children became overwhelming, her mother sent May and her brother to live with their father. It was the first time May had ever seen him. He was an engineer by profession, but was living a life of idleness, drink and violence in a brothel run by his girlfriend in Limehouse. May wrote that she and her brother left the house after her father was arrested by his grandfather, an inspector of police, and later jailed. She first stayed with her paternal grandmother and then with her aunt and uncle on a barge, where she was washed frequently, taught the Lord's Prayer, and had her hair brushed more than she thought necessary but was otherwise ignored. She described herself as a "little brown-faced marmoset ... and the only quick thing in this very slow world." Her aunt described her as "a regular little savage". May earned pennies singing and dancing for sailors on passing vessels. Some time later she was sent to live with another aunt who had a farm in Somerset where May attended the village school.

paragraph: Section::::Coster roots, gypsy style.

paragraph: In her autobiography, May described her "coster" (costermonger) roots as being inherited from her grandmother, saying "I am a true coster in my flamboyance and my love of colour, in my violence of feeling and its immediate response in speech and action. Even now I am often caught with a sudden longing regret for the streets of Limehouse as I knew them, for the girls with their gaudy shawls and heads of ostrich feathers, like clouds in a wind, and the men in their caps, silk neckerchiefs and bright yellow pointed boots in which they took such pride. I adored the swagger and the showiness of it all."

paragraph: May was small, green-eyed, and dressed like a gypsy. She stated in her autobiography that soon after she arrived in London she "could only afford one outfit, but every item of it was a different colour. Neither red nor green nor blue nor yellow nor purple was forgotten, for I loved them all equally, and if I was not rich enough to wear them separately ... I would wear them, like Joseph in the Bible, all at once! Colours to me are like children to a loving mother."

paragraph: After she became involved with the London Bohemian set which included Augustus John, who also affected a gypsy style, Anthony Powell said: "her hair tied up in a coloured handkerchief, she would not have looked out of place telling fortunes at a fair." Indeed, May's most popular song as an entertainer was "The Raggle-Taggle Gypsies" which she was said to have performed at Wally's, a subterranean club in Fitzroy Street, while removing her skirt and twirling it in front of her. She also sang "Sigh No More Ladies", "Bonnie Earl O'Murray" and "There Lived a Girl in Amsterdam".

paragraph: Section::::Café Royal set.

paragraph: Around 1910, May travelled to London where she quickly became familiar with the pubs and clubs of the West End. She became a regular at the Endell Street Club and the Café Royal which before World War I was a much different place from the later Café Royal. May described it as a real café with sawdust on the floor, cheap drinks and gilded decorations "as gaudy and as bright as possible" where you could get a plate of chips for sixpence. May said, "The lights, the mirrors, the red plush seats, the eccentrically dressed people, the coffee served in glasses, the pale cloudy absinthe ... [I] felt as if I had strayed by accident into some miraculous Arabian palace" continuing "No duck ever took to water, no man to drink, as I to the Café Royal".

paragraph: She met the painter Augustus John and the sculptor Jacob Epstein. It was Epstein in particular who introduced her to other members of the Bohemian set, which including the "Queen of Bohemia" Nina Hamnett, prankster Horace de Vere Cole, heiress Nancy Cunard, painter William Orpen, Anna Wickham, Iris Tree and poet Ezra Pound, many of whom May knew.

paragraph: At the Café and other central London venues, penniless models networked for work among London's artists. Those that could, like Betty May, also performed in order to make a living and in many cases women occupied a grey area between professional model and prostitute. The lives of many of May's contemporaries ended tragically. Among them were Lilian Shelley, also known as "The Bug" or "The Pocket Edition", who later killed herself; the suffragette Laura Grey, who overdosed on veronal in 1914; Sunita Devi who was reported to have been poisoned; Bobby Channing; and Lilian Browning. Others are identified only by first names or pseudonyms: "The Limpet", who was always falling in love; Eileen, who modelled for Augustus John and was shot by her lover; and Bunny, who received a six-month sentence for bigamy and was later strangled by a man in Brixton. Other models May knew included Euphemia Lamb (Nina Forrest), wife of the painter Henry Lamb.

paragraph: Apart from the Café, May sang and danced at the Cabaret Theatre Club, which later became the Cave of the Golden Calf under the ownership of Madame Strindberg and featured frescoes by Epstein. According to May, when not entertaining, she was educated in taste by a distinguished older man she christened "the Cherub", with whom her relationship was strictly platonic.

paragraph: Section::::"Tiger Woman".

paragraph: May gave her version of how she came to be known as the "Tiger Woman" in her 1929 autobiography of the same name. There is no independent confirmation of the story, but according to May, soon after meeting the Cherub, and before the outbreak of World War I in 1914, she became involved with a criminal known as the White Panther, a member of L'Apache Gang, whom she met in a bar. May wrote that she went with him to Paris and after arriving at the gang's lair was immediately set upon by the Panther's girl Hortense who saw May as a rival. May wrote of the moments after the Panther broke up the fight, "I must say that I was in a frightful passion ... when White Panther dragged me by the hair to my feet, In an instant my teeth had met in his wrist ... ""Tigre"" he muttered" and in this way May claimed to have earned the nickname "Tiger Woman".

paragraph: Other sources, however, attribute the name to a tiger skin coat or outfit she wore or a party trick that involved crawling on all fours and drinking from a saucer like a cat. May herself, in the 1934 Crowley libel case, implied that the name had been made up specifically for her 1929 autobiography, "Tiger Woman: My Story", saying: "I am rather feline in looks. I thought perhaps it was rather a good name for me."

paragraph: Section::::Return to London.

paragraph: By 1914, May was in London. According to Nina Hamnett, May and Lilian Shelley were the "principal supports" of the Crab Tree Club on Greek Street founded by Augustus John that year. The Crab Tree was particularly informal with customers making their own entertainment and helping themselves to food. May recalled that there was a pole from the floor to the ceiling which she often had to scamper up if she had played a trick on someone.

paragraph: May writes in "Tiger Woman" that she was friendly with a young man called Richard who became ill and died after a canoeing accident while they were out together. She also wrote that she was later engaged to a barrister named Dick and while staying with his family in the country, she went for a stroll with a young farmer who claimed he loved her. According to May, he stumbled, and shot himself fatally in the head when his gun fired accidentally. There is no independent verification of either death however. May wrote in "Tiger Woman" that she returned to London almost immediately, her engagement to Dick was broken and quickly replaced by a new engagement to a former suitor, Miles L. Atkinson, (1888–1917) who May knew as Bunny. Atkinson was a Cambridge University graduate and university blue who May had met prior to her visit to Paris. They were married at the Marylebone Registry Office in the third quarter of 1914.

paragraph: Section::::Cocaine.

paragraph: According to May, Atkinson was a cocaine user. A trainee doctor at a London hospital, he had access to as much cocaine as he wanted and May quickly began to use the drug herself. She would later comment that "I learnt one new thing on my honeymoon – to take drugs." May wrote that on their honeymoon they were thrown out of their hotel when the management became suspicious. On their return to London they became part of the unorthodox household of Stewart Gray (founder of the "Back to the Land" movement) in Ormonde Terrace, Primrose Hill. The house was occupied by a constantly changing group of artists and models, usually penniless. It was furnished in the most basic way possible in accordance with Gray's philosophy and was without utilities, even water.

paragraph: May wrote that she and her husband attended dope parties where "all forms of drug-taking used to be indulged in". They became part of the circle of Billie Carleton and Ada Song Ping You, a Scotswoman who had married a Chinese man (Song Ping You) from whom she learned to use opium. After the war, Carleton was found dead, apparently of an overdose, and Ada Song Ping You was sentenced to five months in jail with hard labour for preparing opium for smoking and supplying it to Carleton.

paragraph: Atkinson joined the Army in 1914 following the outbreak of the First World War, originally in the Motor Machine Gun Service. According to May, they took a house in Bisley, Surrey while he was training and later May rented a flat in Richmond where she got a job in a shop which she left in a panic after handling Chinese hair-nets which she had read in the newspaper had given a woman leprosy. She moved back to London. According to May, Atkinson demanded a divorce, but died in action in France (1917) before it came through though marriage records appear to show her remarrying at the end of 1916 to a man by the name of Waldron.

paragraph: May's drug use escalated. By her own account, soon she was taking 100 grains of cocaine per day, and morphia too. Her cocaine habit increased to 150 grains, causing her to become paranoid. She recalled that on one occasion a "waiter brought me white coffee instead of black. Immediately I concluded that the whole world was against me."

paragraph: Section::::Second marriage.

paragraph: According to "Tiger Woman", sometime midway through the First World War, May met an Australian army major called Roy (probably not his real name) who was in the Royal Army Medical Corps, and they were married at the Henrietta Street registry office. Marriage records show a Betty M. Golding marrying a man by the name of Waldron in St. Martin district, London, during the fourth quarter of 1916. According to May, Roy beat her if he found her using drugs, and on one occasion, returning home to find that she had attended a dope party that had lasted three days and three nights, he "took off his Sam Browne belt and gave me the severest beating with it I have ever had". She credited the beating as the start to breaking her addiction. Roy was sent to France and according to May they divorced after she found love letters written to Roy by a French girl. It is unclear, however, whether "Roy" was Waldron and there is no independent verification of May's relationship with Roy or of May's account of their marriage.

paragraph: Section::::Harlequin Club.

paragraph: After the end of the First World War (1918), May sat for Jacob Epstein for the first time at his home in Guilford Street in around 1919 or 1920. The resulting bronze bust with arms crossed was displayed at the Leicester Galleries in 1920. Epstein also completed a bronze head of Betty in 1921. It was also at about this time that she sat for Jacob Kramer's "The Sphinx" which had been commissioned from Kramer by a Bradford manufacturer who had met May at the Harlequin Club and been much taken with her. According to May, the sittings took place at the Harlequin as Kramer was too poor to be able to afford a studio. May wrote that Kramer fell in love with her and they became engaged but were prevented from marrying by Kramer's mother who would not let him marry a non-Jew (although his sister Sarah married the non-Jewish painter William Roberts and Roberts and her mother apparently got on well). The painting was exhibited at the 1924/25 British Empire Exhibition at Wembley.

paragraph: The Harlequin Club, at 55 Beak Street, off Regent Street, became a popular haunt of the poorer bohemians around this time. Betty May and her group became regulars. The club was based in the home of Yanni Papani who was also a waiter at the Café Royal. William Roberts remembered in his posthumously published (1990) memoirs the Harlequin's female customers "whose vocal talents turned the place at times into a sort of "Café Chantant", when the dark-skinned Helene sang the 'Raggle-Taggle Gypsies, O!' or Gypsy Lang sang Casey Jones the engine-driver's lament; with the vivacious Betty May, called the Tiger Woman, together with Dolores and the Snake Charmer (so called from her habit of carrying around a small basket of snakes) joining in the chorus."

paragraph: Section::::"Dope-Darling".

paragraph: In 1919, "Bunny" Garnett, writing as Leda Burke, published a sensational novel titled "Dope-Darling: A Story of Cocaine" whose central female character "Claire" was loosely based on Betty May whom he knew well. The plot revolves around an idealistic young man "Roy" who is taken to a club near Fleet Street frequented by journalists. There he is enraptured by the singer, a sexually experienced young woman who had arrived in London aged sixteen just two years earlier, was duped into taking drugs and then into a life of prostitution. Roy marries Claire and tries to reform her but instead is drawn into drug use himself.

paragraph: Garnett wrote of Claire: She was always asked to all the parties given in the flashy Bohemian world in which she moved. No dance, gambling party, or secret doping orgy was complete without her. Under the effect of cocaine which she took more and more recklessly, she became inspired by a wild frenzy, and danced like a Bacchante, drank off a bottle of champagne, and played a thousand wild antics. The story concludes when Roy and Claire are separated by his military service during the First World War. Claire dies and Roy finds happiness with his childhood sweetheart.

paragraph: Section::::Abbey of Thelema.

paragraph: In autumn 1922, May travelled to Sicily with her third husband Frederick Charles Loveday (later "Raoul" Loveday) whom she had married earlier that year in Oxford and who had become an acolyte of Aleister Crowley. Loveday was aged 20 or 23, had achieved a first in history from the University of Oxford, and had been published as a poet. They met Nina Hamnett in Paris en route. Hamnett later recalled in "Laughing Torso" that he was very good-looking, but looked half dead ... He was very much intrigued with Crowley's views on magic. He had been very ill the year before and had had a serious operation. I had heard that the climate at Cefalu was terrible; heat, mosquitoes, and very bad food. The magical training I already knew was very arduous. I urged them not to go ... but they were determined.

paragraph: Crowley thought Loveday his "magical heir" but condemned the marriage, saying that Loveday had committed the "fatal folly of marrying a girl whom he had met in a sordid and filthy drinking den in Soho, called the Harlequin, which was frequented by self-styled artists and their female parasites". Although Crowley thought the marriage a mistake, he praised May, describing her as a "charming child, tender and simple of soul" but suffering from the consequences of a childhood accident that had "damaged her brain permanently so that its functions were discontinuous" and saying that she had not helped matters by taking to cocaine at age 20. Despite this, Crowley admired her for subsequently curing herself of her addiction, which he said she had done by first switching to morphia and then to alcohol.

paragraph: Crowley saw his offer of a job to Loveday as a way out of their precarious existence in London which he described as "one filthy room in Fitzroy Street, a foul, frowsty, verminous den ... They were living from hand to mouth, with disaster eternally looming ahead". (They also lived for a time in Beak Street, Soho.) May confirmed in testimony at Crowley's 1934 libel trial that she was supporting them both at the time by sitting as a model for £1 per day and that they were living in one furnished back room. Loveday had little money, no profession and many debts to tradesmen from his time at Oxford. Crowley believed the job would rescue Loveday from the "vagabonds, squalid and obscene, who constituted the court of Queen Betty." In his "Confessions", Crowley described, in typically censorious terms, May at work at the Harlequin Club just before she left for Italy: "In a corner was his wife, three parts drunk, on the knees of a dirty-faced loafer, pawed by a swarm of lewd hogs, breathless with lust. She gave herself greedily to their gross and bestial fingerings and was singing in an exquisite voice ... an interminable smutty song, with a ribald chorus in which they all joined".

paragraph: Although relations between Crowley and May were always cool, Raoul participated enthusiastically in the magical rituals and studies that Crowley set. May took part only reluctantly in order not to be ejected from the Abbey and separated from Raoul. She did spend some time on her own with Crowley. They sometimes went rock-climbing, which was almost the only time they were on friendly terms.

paragraph: According to "Tiger Woman", on one occasion May was exploring the Abbey when she came across a chest containing men's ties which were stiff from what she took to be dried blood. She asked Crowley about it and he claimed that they were the ties of Jack the Ripper who had worn a new one before each murder and who he had known and was still alive. Crowley claimed that the Ripper was a surgeon and a magician who had learned to make himself invisible. Crowley also believed that he could make himself invisible through magic.

paragraph: As their stay went on, Raoul's health, never strong, worsened. He suffered a recurrence of malaria and was diagnosed with acute enteritis. According to May, he took part in a ritual in which he killed a cat and drank its blood. He died at the Abbey of Thelema on 16 February 1923, having drunk water from a stream that Crowley had warned about. May testified under oath in 1934 to the truth of the story about the cat but Crowley was equally emphatic that the incident never happened, testifying that "There was no cat, no animal, no blood, and no drinking".

paragraph: Since their arrival in Sicily, May had been sending reports to the "Sunday Express" of activities at the Abbey which they had turned into articles. On her returned to England after the death of her husband she sold the rest of her story for an additional £500 and it appeared in the "Sunday Express" and "John Bull". The details were instrumental in further stoking outrage about Crowley's activities, which had been growing since the publication in 1922 of his "The Diary of a Drug Fiend". Typical headlines about Crowley in "John Bull" were "The King of Depravity", "A Man we'd Like to Hang" and "The Wickedest Man in the World", the last being the soubriquet that stuck with Crowley for the rest of his life.

paragraph: Section::::Princess Waletka.

paragraph: According to "Tiger Woman", soon after selling her story, May was introduced to "Princess Waletka" at the Waldorf Hotel. The princess was a Vaudeville "mind-reading" entertainer who adopted the style of a Native American. May wrote that she joined Waletka's British theatrical tour and soon after sailed with her for New York before returning to London.

paragraph: Section::::Fourth marriage.

paragraph: According to May, after her return to England, she married for the fourth time, a journalist named Carol (probably not his real name). May described him as the assistant editor on a well-known sports paper. May wrote that they moved to live with Carol's mother in the countryside where Carol divided his time between field sports, writing about field sports and talking about them in the local pub.

paragraph: May writes in "Tiger Woman", that one day they visited a local rookery which Carol thought overcrowded. He spent hours shooting the birds and May had to break the necks of those that fell to the ground alive. She found the work disgusting. A rook-pie was made which she refused to eat. Soon after, Carol fell ill with a high temperature and vomiting. May left the house after her mother-in-law accused her of poisoning Carol with the meals she had prepared.

paragraph: There is no independent verification, however, of this episode in May's life. By the 1930s, she was again describing herself as divorced.

paragraph: Section::::Model and muse.

paragraph: May became the model for Augustus John, and the sculptors Jacob Kramer and Jacob Epstein. She was drawn by Gerald Reitlinger and Michael Sevier. She had a rival by the name of Dolores who was also of striking appearance and it was not unusual for there to be friction, and even blows, between the two. Dolores died of cancer in 1934.

paragraph: About July 1928, May had a brief affair with married Australian writer Jack Lindsay, who was also seeing Elza de Locre. They were together in the Fitzroy Tavern one evening and chanced to see poet Edgell Rickword. Lindsay recalled: "I remember going over to Betty, who did not know him, and saying, 'It's Edgell Rickword, the person I most wanted to meet in England'." May soon left Lindsay for Rickword, though the two men became friends. Rickword wrote the poem "The Lousy Astrologer's Present to his Sweetheart", where the speakers are Rickword and May, which was published in the literary magazine "London Aphrodite". The first verse, in the male voice, ran:

paragraph: poem style="margin-left: 4em;"

paragraph: "No Austin-Seven at my door"

paragraph: "love's chariot was, but jolting trams"

paragraph: "with butts and spittle on the floor"

paragraph: "conveyed your peerless hams"

paragraph: /poem

paragraph: In 1929 May, Rickword and two friends were arrested on a weekend trip to Dieppe in northern France after discovering that they did not have enough money to pay their hotel bill. They were all deported back to England. The hotel was next door to the local police station.

paragraph: Poet, translator and cryptic crossword compiler for "The Observer" ("Torquemada") Edward Powys Mathers also wrote verse for Betty May, titling one work "Oh, That We Two Were Betty Maying".

paragraph: In 1928 the Café Royal was renovated and its gilt and mirrors were replaced with a jazz age theme that caused it to lose some of its former atmosphere. By the 1930s, the bohemian crowd who once frequented the Café had largely decamped to North Soho, or Fitzrovia as it was beginning to be called, where they were centered on The Fitzroy, and to a lesser extent The Wheatsheaf in Rathbone Place. Dylan Thomas, a regular at both, wrote to his friend Bert Trick in 1934 that "Betty May, is as you probably know, an artist's model – who posed, though that is not perhaps the most correct word, for John, Epstein and the rest of the racketeers". He told Trick that he planned to write an article in May's name, sell it to the "News of the World" and then ask her to pay him with her body.

paragraph: In 1933, May was living with Hugh Sykes Davis at South Hill Park Gardens in Hampstead, London. The couple entertained Malcolm Lowry and Jan Gabrial there in the autumn that year. Soon after, May and her former lover Edgell Rickword took the couple to "Kleinfled's" (The Fitzroy Tavern), The Marquis of Granby and The Plough, and finally to Smokey Joe's, "a non-alcoholic speakeasy-cum-lesbian pub".

paragraph: Section::::Autobiography.

paragraph: In 1929, Gerald Duckworth and Company published May's autobiography "Tiger Woman: My Story". She promised it would be a frank account of her life but the names of many important characters were changed or missing. The quality of the writing led to suspicions that the book had been ghost-written by one of May's many journalistic and literary friends. During the 1934 Crowley stolen letters trial, May admitted that the book had been written by someone else, based partly on articles she had supplied to the newspapers, though she didn't say who the author was. Challenged about the truth of the book, she testified that "My whole early life and my latter life is very true, but there is one little thing that is untrue", adding that part of the book was written as "padding" and was not true.

paragraph: The novelist Anthony Powell, then working for Duckworth, called it a "somewhat bizarre work which I was responsible for Duckworth's publishing – not without some trepidation on Balston's part". Powell recalled, "For some time she had been anxious to have certain newspaper articles (bestowing the sobriquet 'Tiger-Woman') cobbled into a book. A young journalist with whom she was then living was prepared to take this job on". According to Powell, when May asked if Jacob Epstein would allow her to dedicate the book to him, he "refused in a cross letter".

paragraph: Powell mostly dealt with May's ghostwriter by letter regarding the book but May visited him several times at Duckworth. Powell found that contrary to her tigerish reputation, she was "diffident in conversation, articulating with the utmost refinement, [and] always behaved with complete decorum". On meeting Powell's publishing colleague A.G. Lewis, who was himself nervous of May, she was terrified.

paragraph: Soon after publication, Aleister Crowley took Powell to lunch and expressed his dissatisfaction with Duckworth for publishing the book. Under British law, however, Crowley would only have been able to sue the "Sunday Express", where most of the content was originally serialised in 1923, but too much time had passed. The book was reprinted in 2014 to promote the upcoming musical about May's life, written by Celine Hispiche.

paragraph: Section::::Aleister Crowley libel suit.

paragraph: In 1934 Betty May was the principal witness in the suit brought by Aleister Crowley against Nina Hamnett for libel in her book "Laughing Torso" which had alleged that a child had disappeared at the Abbey. By then, May was Mrs Betty May Sedgwick. May testified to the ritual sacrifice of a cat and that her then husband Raoul Loveday had to kill the cat and drink a cup of its blood. As a result of her evidence, May's character and truthfulness were attacked in a long cross-examination by J.P. Eddy, counsel for the plaintiff. May stated, in response to allegations of drug use, that she had taken cocaine for the first time at 18 but not after 25 and she had not "drugged" for years. Asked whether the cats in Italy were wild and destructive, May replied that she only knew two and they were both very charming.

paragraph: Under cross-examination, May repeatedly faced accusations from Eddy that her testimony had been bought. He produced letters to May from the defendant's solicitors about the expenses she would receive in connection with the case. May claimed that the letters had been stolen from her with the clear implication that they had been stolen by or for Aleister Crowley. The letters were retained by the court. The case was stopped by the Jury and dismissed by the Judge.

paragraph: Section::::Stolen letters.

paragraph: In June 1934, Aleister Crowley was arrested in his solicitor's office on suspicion of receiving stolen goods to the value of 7 1/2d. These were the letters belonging to Betty May dealing with the libel case and her book. At the Old Bailey trial in July that year, May testified that the letters had been stolen from her attaché case by a friend, Captain Eddie Cruze, with whom she had been living at Seymour Street in June the previous year. It emerged in evidence that Cruze had sold the letters to Crowley for £5. Cruze's whereabouts were unknown. Crowley was convicted and bound over for two years.

paragraph: During the cross-examination, counsel for Crowley tried to impugn May's character, asking her if she thought it fraudulent to publish "Tiger Woman" as her own work when she now admitted that she was not the author. May replied that she had not thought about it. She said that part of the work was written from articles she had provided to the newspapers and it was partly true, but when pressed admitted that much of it was fabrication.

paragraph: Around the same time, a popular newspaper printed a photograph with the caption "Miss Nina Hamnett, the artist and author of "Laughing Torso", takes a walk in the Park with a friend". The picture, however, showed Betty May. Both May and Hamnett were able to extract £25 from the newspaper within hours of each other on the grounds that both had been libelled. A party at the Fitzroy, funded by the windfall, lasted all day.

paragraph: Section::::Murder of Douglas Bose.

paragraph: In 1936, Douglas Bose (born 1915), a writer and practitioner of black magic was murdered by book-reviewer Douglas Burton (aged 30). Bose had been living with Sylvia Williams (known as Sylvia Gough), a diamond heiress and former dancer who had appeared in "The Ziegfeld Follies" in New York. Now in London, she had modelled for and become the lover of Augustus John. At Burton's trial, Williams explained that she and Bose had had a stormy relationship and he once gave her a black eye. All three of them, Bose, Burton and Williams, were present at a dinner party in February 1936 at a studio in Canonbury when Burton had said that it was a mistake to give a woman a black eye. Sometime later, after dinner, Burton launched an attack on Bose with a sculptor's hammer or mallet he had picked up. Bose subsequently died from his injuries.

paragraph: From other witnesses it emerged that Burton believed he would marry Betty May but that he had been very agitated when she did not keep an appointment that he believed they had. A letter was read in court from December 1935 in which Burton said "About the only thing that will evoke the female in woman is murder, bullets, knives. Betty has disappeared. Meanwhile I love her. If we were living together, I should kill her at the end of a few days". Another letter read: "My life has become an almost continuous ecstasy. The reason for all this – I am going to marry Betty. She might laugh me to scorn if she heard that proclaimed, but I should have the love of a panther." Further evidence was given of Burton's disordered mental state over a length of time and of relations which he and his twin brother both had with a Belgian woman they had met on ship as they travelled to Britain. Betty May did not give evidence at the trial. Burton was found guilty of murder but insane and ordered to be detained "during the King's pleasure".

paragraph: Section::::Later life.

paragraph: Little is known of Betty May's life after the mid 1930s but in 1955 a notice was placed in a London newspaper by her publishers, Duckworth, seeking information about her: "TIGER WOMAN – Will "BETTY MAY" or anyone who knows her whereabouts since 1934 communicate by letter with her publishers..." Just two days later, the "Daily Express" published a story saying that Betty May had been "found". The "Express" reported that she was living in a "semi-basement bed-sitter in Luton Road, Chatham" and that "After she disappeared from London she 'went north.' she said. Then for three years after the war she camped out in a beauty spot. After that to her bed-sitter in Chatham" Virginia Nicholson writes of May "resurfacing" as Betty May Bailey after the Second World War and therefore a possible fifth marriage. Celine Hispiche writes that Betty May "lived until 86 and was buried in Kent". Death records show a Betty May Sedgewick (born 5 August 1894) dying in Chatham during the second quarter of 1980.

paragraph: Section::::Musical.

paragraph: As of 2014, a musical show, "Betty May – Tiger Woman versus The Beast", is in production. Based on May's life story it contains 18 original songs written by Celine Hispiche with musical arrangements by Philippe Jakko. It is being produced by DeSapinaud Productions.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Betty May head by Jacob Epstein at Christies.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Notice relating to Betty May in "The London Gazette".

paragraph: BULLET::::- Tristan De Vere Cole talking about the Café Royal and Betty May.

description: British model

wikidata_label: Betty May

wikipedia_title: Betty May


text:
American football
linebacker
Jacksonville Jaguars
National Football League
college football
Georgia
Jefferson High School
Tampa, Florida
football
linebacker
tight end
punter
interceptions
sacks
forced fumbles
touchdowns
track & field
200-meter dash
Rivals.com
Scout.com
college football
University of Georgia
SEC
Kansas City Chiefs
2015 NFL Draft
Chicago Bears
Los Angeles Rams
Jacksonville Jaguars
Georgia Bulldogs bio
Kansas City Chiefs bio

categories: Kansas City Chiefs players,Players of American football from Florida,Georgia Bulldogs football players,1992 births,American football linebackers,Sportspeople from Tampa, Florida,Living people,Los Angeles Rams players

paragraph: Ramik Wilson

paragraph: Ramik Wilson (born August 19, 1992) is an American football linebacker for the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Georgia.

paragraph: Section::::Early years.

paragraph: Wilson attended Jefferson High School in Tampa, Florida, where he played football and ran track. In football, he played linebacker, tight end and punter. As a junior, he recorded 92 tackles, nine sacks and two interceptions. As a senior, he recorded 90 tackles, 18 sacks and six forced fumbles on defense, and also caught 19 passes for 258 yards and five touchdowns on offense. In track & field, Wilson competed as a sprinter, running the 200-meter dash, and as a shot putter and discus thrower. In addition, he also bench-pressed 350 pounds and squatted 470 pounds.

paragraph: Regarded as a four-star recruit by "Rivals.com", Wilson was ranked as the No. 229 player in the country, No. 58 player in Florida and No. 12 linebacker. According to "Scout.com", he was rated a three-star recruit, and was ranked as the No. 27 outside linebacker in the country. He committed to play college football at the University of Georgia in January 2011.

paragraph: Section::::College career.

paragraph: Wilson was a backup his first two seasons at Georgia. He appeared in 18 games, recording 10 tackles. As a junior in 2013, Wilson was a first year starter, starting 12 of 13 games. He finished the season with a SEC-leading 133 tackles and also had four sacks. He was named a first team All-SEC selection for his play.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Kansas City Chiefs.

paragraph: The Kansas City Chiefs selected Wilson in the fourth round (118th overall) of the 2015 NFL Draft. He was the 12th linebacker selected in 2015.

paragraph: On May 11, 2015, the Kansas City Chiefs signed Wilson to a four-year, $2.80 million contract.

paragraph: Ramik recovered a fumble for his first NFL touchdown against the Chicago Bears on October 11, 2015.

paragraph: On September 4, 2016, he was waived by the Chiefs. The next day, he was signed to the Chiefs practice squad. He was promoted to the active roster on October 18, 2016.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Los Angeles Rams.

paragraph: On March 22, 2018, Wilson signed a one-year contract with the Los Angeles Rams. He played in 16 games with four starts, recording 35 combined tackles, two passes defensed and a forced fumble.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Jacksonville Jaguars.

paragraph: On May 1, 2019, Wilson signed with the Jacksonville Jaguars.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Georgia Bulldogs bio

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kansas City Chiefs bio

description: American football player

wikidata_label: Ramik Wilson

wikipedia_title: Ramik Wilson


text: Conservative

text: House of Lords

text: Wolverhampton Girls' High School

text: Girton College, Cambridge

text: England

text: Canada

text: Department of Education and Science

text: Vice-Chancellor

text: South Bank Polytechnic

text: higher education

text: University of Surrey

text: Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge

text: James Prior

text: Southwark Cathedral

text: Church of England

text: City of London

text: Freedom of the City of London

text: Nuffield Council on Bioethics

text: life peer

text: Charlbury

text: Oxfordshire

text: City and Guild

text: Gresham's School

text: Roehampton Institute

text: University of Surrey

text: Worshipful Company of Bakers

text: Worshipful Company of Fishmongers

text: i-MAGAZINE

text: Institute of Directors

text: International Women's Forum

text: Women's Engineering Society

categories: Civil servants in the Department of Education (United Kingdom),Living people,1931 births,People from Wolverhampton,English schoolteachers,Conservative Party (UK) life peers,People associated with London South Bank University,Female life peers,English educational theorists,Fellows of Girton College, Cambridge,Alumni of Girton College, Cambridge,People associated with the University of Surrey,Presidents of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge

paragraph: Pauline Perry, Baroness Perry of Southwark (née Welch; born 15 October 1931) is an educator, educationist, academic, and activist. She is a Conservative politician and was a member of the British House of Lords. In 1981 she became Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools in England. In 1986 she became Vice-Chancellor of South Bank Polytechnic, and serving during its transition to a university, became the first woman in history to run a British university.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Perry was educated at Wolverhampton Girls' High School and Girton College, Cambridge. In 1952 she married Oxford University lecturer George Perry, and had three sons and a daughter (Christopher, Timothy, Simon and Hilary). She became a teacher and philosophy lecturer, working in England, Canada and the USA.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: In 1970, Perry joined HM Inspectorate at the Department of Education and Science, and was appointed Chief Inspector of Schools in 1981. In 1986 she became Vice-Chancellor of South Bank Polytechnic, and serving during its transition to a university became the first woman in history to run a British university. She subsequently held other roles in higher education, including pro-chancellor of the University of Surrey and President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge.

paragraph: In 1986, she collaborated with John Cassels and James Prior to create the Council for Industry and Higher Education (CIHE) which would become National Centre for Universities and Business in 2013.

paragraph: She has also been active in the Southwark Cathedral and Church of England community and the City of London. She was appointed chair of the review group examining the operation of the Crown Appointment Commission, the body which nominates Diocesan Bishops. The Perry Report "Working With The Spirit", was published in May 2001 and led to more transparent selection procedures for the appointment of Anglican Bishops.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Freedom of the City of London in 1991.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics (2003-05) and chaired the Working Party on the "Ethics of research involving animals"

paragraph: BULLET::::- Chair, Commission on Secondary Reorganisation for the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham,

paragraph: BULLET::::- Chair, Commission on Academies and Free Schools in the London Borough of Wandsworth.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Co-chair of The Conservatives Public Services Commission which reported in 2007.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Chair of the Governing Body of Kaplan College and Law School, in 2013.

paragraph: Section::::UK Parliament.

paragraph: On 16 July 1991 she became a life peer as The Right Honourable Baroness Perry of Southwark, of Charlbury in the County of Oxfordshire. She sits on the Conservative Party benches. She was appointed a Conservative Party Whip in the Lords in January 2011. She retired from the Lords on 26 May 2016.

paragraph: Section::::UK Parliament.:Parliamentary Committees.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hybrid Instruments Committee (L) Lords 2014-

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sub-Committee I (Higher education in STEM subjects) Lords 2011-12

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sub-Committee I Lords 2010-11

paragraph: BULLET::::- Science and Technology Committee (L) Lords 2009-14

paragraph: BULLET::::- Liaison Committee (L) Lords 2007-12

paragraph: BULLET::::- EU Sub-Committee G - Social Policies and Consumer Protection Lords 2007-09

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sub-Committee I Lords 2005-07

paragraph: BULLET::::- Select Committee on Science and Technology Sub-Committee 2 Lords 2004-09

paragraph: BULLET::::- Science and Technology Committee (L) Lords 2003-07

paragraph: BULLET::::- Committee On Religious Offences Lords 2002-03

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ecclesiastical Committee (Joint Committee) Lords 2002-

paragraph: BULLET::::- Human Rights (Joint Committee) Lords 2001-03

paragraph: BULLET::::- Relations between Central and Local Government, Committee on Lords 1995-96

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sub-Committee I Lords 1993-95

paragraph: BULLET::::- Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee (L) Lords 1993-98

paragraph: BULLET::::- Science and Technology Committee (L) Lords 1992-95

paragraph: Section::::Appointments.

paragraph: BULLET::::- President, Council for Independent Education (CIFE)

paragraph: BULLET::::- President, Foundation for Higher Education

paragraph: BULLET::::- President, Westminster & City Branch of Chartered Management Institute

paragraph: BULLET::::- Chair of City and Guilds Quality and Standards Committee

paragraph: BULLET::::- Governor of Gresham's School, Holt

paragraph: BULLET::::- Chair of Governors and Trustee of Roehampton Institute, University of Surrey

paragraph: BULLET::::- Pro-Chancellor and Member of Council, University of Surrey

paragraph: BULLET::::- Trustee, Bacon's City Technology College

paragraph: BULLET::::- Trustee, Cambridge University Foundation

paragraph: BULLET::::- Trustee, Daphne Jackson Memorial Trust

paragraph: BULLET::::- Companion of the Institute of Management

paragraph: BULLET::::- Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Bakers

paragraph: BULLET::::- Honorary Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers

paragraph: BULLET::::- Political Editorial Advisor at i-MAGAZINE

paragraph: BULLET::::- Member of Flooved advisory board

paragraph: BULLET::::- Member of the Institute of Directors

paragraph: BULLET::::- Member of the International Women's Forum

paragraph: BULLET::::- Patron, Women's Engineering Society

paragraph: Section::::Sources.

paragraph: BULLET::::- House of Lords Register of Interests: Baroness Perry of Southwark, parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk; accessed 1 April 2016.

alias:
Pauline Perry
Baroness Perry of Southwark

description: British politician


text:
German
Ulm
Nordlingen
Hans Schüchlein
Dutch
Flemish
influence
drapery
altarpiece
Heerberg
Annunciation
Visitation
Stuttgart
St. John the Baptist
Blaubeuren
St. Valentine
Augsburg Gallery
Pietà
Germanic Museum
Nuremberg
St. Veronica
Berlin Gallery
St. Margaret
St. Ursula
Munich
Pinakhotek
Hans Maler zu Schwaz
Bartholomäus Zeitblom
Artgate
Fondazione Cariplo

categories: German male painters,1450s births,15th-century German painters,People from Nördlingen,16th-century German painters,1519 deaths

paragraph: Bartholomäus Zeitblom

paragraph: Bartholomäus Zeitblom (c. 1450 – c. 1519) was a German painter, the chief master of the school of Ulm, where he is on official record from 1482 to 1518.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: He was born in Nordlingen and was the pupil and son-in-law of Hans Schüchlein, but, unlike his master, was singularly free from Dutch and Flemish influence. Zeitblom's paintings are distinguished by artistic feeling and clear, cool, delicate color. His single figures are restrained and often beautiful; his treatment of drapery is simple and graceful, but he lacked dramatic power.

paragraph: His principal works include the altarpiece from the church at Heerberg (1497), and four panels from the Eschach altarpiece (1495), depicting "The Two Saint Johns," the "Annunciation," and "Visitation," all in the Royal Gallery, Stuttgart; the great altarpiece with "Scenes from the Passion" and the "History of St. John the Baptist," in the church at Blaubeuren; four panels with the "Legend of St. Valentine," in the Augsburg Gallery; a "Pietà," in the Germanic Museum at Nuremberg; the "Handkerchief of St. Veronica," in the Berlin Gallery, and "St. Margaret," and "St. Ursula," in the Munich Pinakhotek; the altarpiece featuring an Annunciation in the Louvre.

paragraph: One of his prominent pupils was the German painter Hans Maler zu Schwaz.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Domenico Sedini, Bartholomäus Zeitblom, online catalogue Artgate by Fondazione Cariplo, 2010, CC BY-SA.

description: German painter

wikidata_label: Bartholomäus Zeitblom

wikipedia_title: Bartholomäus Zeitblom


text:
Roman Emperor
Maximinus Thrax
Caecilia Paulina
"Caesar"
Praetorian Guard
Siege of Aquileia
Year of the Six Emperors
"Historia Augusta"

categories: 3rd-century Romans,3rd-century births,Caesares,238 deaths,Julii,Crisis of the Third Century

paragraph: Gaius Julius Verus Maximus

paragraph: Gaius Iulius Verus Maximus (217/220 – May 238), also incorrectly called Gaius Iulius Verus Maximinus or Maximinus the Younger was the son of the Roman Emperor Maximinus Thrax and his wife, Caecilia Paulina.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Maximinus appointed his son Maximus "Caesar" around 236, but he held little real power. Both were murdered by the Praetorian Guard in May 238, during the Siege of Aquileia in the Year of the Six Emperors.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Historia Augusta" (scroll down to "Maximinus the Younger")

description: Roman emperor

wikidata_label: Gaius Julius Verus Maximus

wikipedia_title: Gaius Julius Verus Maximus


text:
Hittite
Hittites
Hattusili I
Mursili I
Hantili I
Zidanta I
The Storm God
Harry A. Hoffner
List of Hittite kings

paragraph: Ḫarapšili

paragraph: Ḫarapšili (or Ḫarapsili, Harapšili; "š" is pronounced as "s" in "sun") was a Hittite queen during the Old Kingdom of Hittites.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Family.

paragraph: Ḫarapšili was probably a daughter of princess Ḫaštayara and a man called Maratti. Her grandfather was king Hattusili I and her brother was king Mursili I (c. 1556 – 1526 BC).

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Marriage.

paragraph: She married a cupbearer named Hantili I. He conspired with Zidanta I and assassinated Mursili, thereafter taking the throne.

paragraph: The royal blood was preserved in the female line.

paragraph: She was a mother of one daughter who married Zidanta who became a king.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.:Death.

paragraph: Ḫarapšili died in Sugziya.

paragraph: Section::::In myth.

paragraph: In one myth is mentioned "The Storm God of Queen Harapsili". This is mentioned in "Hittite myths", a book by Harry A. Hoffner.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- List of Hittite kings

description: Hittite Queen

wikidata_label: Ḫarapšili

wikipedia_title: Ḫarapšili


text:
Odisha
Odia literature
Banapur
Khordha
non-cooperation movement of 1921
The Samaja
Gopabandhu Das
Mahatma Gandhi
Gopabandhu Das
Congress party
Vidhan Sabha
Orissa Legislative Assembly
Ravenshaw College
University of Calcutta
Chakradharpur
Singhbhum district
Odia language
Utkal Sammilani
Berhampur
Brahmin
caste
sacred thread
Shashi Bhusan Rath
Utkal University
Orissa Vidhan Sabha
Forward Block
Parlakhemundi
Cuttack
Puri
Baleshwar
Sambalpur
Khorda.nic.in
Dailypioneer.com

categories: People from Puri district,20th-century Indian poets,1886 births,1956 deaths,Indian male poets,Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Odia,Poets from Odisha,Indian socialists

paragraph: Godabarish Mishra

paragraph: Pandit Godabarish Mishra (26 October 1886 – 26 July 1956) was a poet and notable socialist from Odisha, India. He is known for his contribution to Odia literature.

paragraph: Section::::History.

paragraph: Godabarish Mishra was born to Lingaraj Mishra & Apsara Devi in Srinibaspur Sasan, near Banapur, Khordha.

paragraph: He participated in the non-cooperation movement of 1921 and worked as an editor of The Samaja (started by Gopabandhu Das) for 2 years. Inspired by Mahatma Gandhi and Pandit Gopabandhu Das, he joined the Congress party and was a member of the Vidhan Sabha (Lower House) of the Orissa Legislative Assembly.

paragraph: Section::::Education.

paragraph: Mishra completed his primary education from the village school and then received his higher education from the Puri District School in 1906 and enrolled in Ravenshaw College. He used to take tuition to cover the college fees. He received his B.A. in Philosophy in 1910. He obtained his M.A. in economics form University of Calcutta in 1912.

paragraph: Section::::Work.

paragraph: Section::::Work.:In teaching.

paragraph: He was a teacher in the Satyabadi School from 1913 to 1919. Then, he became the headmaster of Chakradharpur High School in the Singhbhum district (Now in Jharkhand) from 1919 to 1921. His aim was to preserve the Odia language in the district of Singhbhumi. After taking part in the non-cooperation movement, he returned to his home village in 1922 and was involved in establishing new schools, small-scale industries, farms and social welfare organizations.

paragraph: Section::::Work.:"The Samaja".

paragraph: In 1928 he became the Editor of "The Samaja", an Orissa local newspaper, holding that position for approximately two years, after the founder died.

paragraph: Section::::Work.:In Utkal Samilani.

paragraph: He was associated with Utkal Sammilani from 1919 to 1955. He was the President of the "Utkal Samilani Special Conference" held at Berhampur in 1955. He met Gopabandhu Das by chance while staying in a hostel. He was one of Gopabandhu's "Pancahsakha" (five friends).

paragraph: Section::::Work.:Work with Oriya literature.

paragraph: Although he belonged to a conservative Brahmin family, Mishra was a socialist. He was against caste discrimination. He didn't wear his sacred thread and also wore a moustache, which is against the Brahmin caste system. His work includes many essays, stories, novels, poems, biographies and translations. His poems played a crucial role in creating awareness towards that nation. His dramas "Purushottama Deba", "Mukunda Deba" and "Ardha Shatabdi Ra Orissa O Tahin Re Mo Sthana" are significant tributes to Oriya literature. He was also a competent editor. He published magazine "Lokamukha" from Banapur in 1924. He also used to write for the "Eastcoast" (An English paper) published by Shashi Bhusan Rath. He was awarded a doctorate in literature from Utkal University.

paragraph: Section::::Participation in the Non-cooperation Movement.

paragraph: He was the member of the district board from 1924 to 1933. He was a member of Orissa Vidhan Sabha from 1937 till his death, with the exception of a five-year break. During this time he did not hold a post in the Orissa congress, due to political differences. When the Orissa ministry of congress was created he was not included in the ministry. He became a Vidhan Sabha member in 1952 as an independent candidate. He served in the Vidhan Sabha as an eminent administrator and member of the opposition party. He left Congress in 1939 and joined the Forward Block. He served as finance and education minister in the ministry of the Maharaja of Parlakhemundi from 1941 to 1944. During his stay as minister in 1943 he played an important role in the establishment of Utkal University, Cuttack High court and various colleges in Puri, Baleshwar and Sambalpur.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Khorda.nic.in

paragraph: BULLET::::- Dailypioneer.com

description: Indian writer

wikidata_label: Godabarish Mishra

wikipedia_title: Godabarish Mishra


text: Staffordshire

text: landowner

text: English Parliament

text: Roman Catholic

text: Recusancy

text: Elizabeth I

text: James I

text: Sir Thomas Giffard

text: Caverswall Castle

text: Chillington Hall

text: Brewood

text: Sir John Giffard

text: landed gentry

text: English Reformation

text: Coughton Court

text: George Throckmorton

text: Warwickshire

text: English Reformation Parliament

text: Pilgrimage of Grace

text: Black Ladies Priory

text: Benedictine

text: Tudor

text: moated

text: Lichfield

text: Queen Mary I's

text: William Paget, 1st Baron Paget

text: Protector Somerset

text: Privy Council

text: Staffordshire

text: Papacy

text: chantries

text: Stafford

text: order of precedence

text: Humphrey Swynnerton

text: Shareshill

text: burgesses

text: bailiff

text: returning officer

text: High Sheriff of Staffordshire

text: queen regnant

text: Sir Thomas Giffard

text: Brewood

text: reversion

text: Elizabeth I

text: Protestant

text: Church of England

text: recusant

text: Justice of the Peace

text: pricked

text: High Sheriff of Staffordshire

text: Oath of Supremacy

text: Act of Supremacy 1558

text: treason

text: Act of Uniformity 1558

text: Elizabethan Religious Settlement

text: Privy Council

text: Edmund Freke

text: Bishop of Rochester

text: Prayer Book

text: sequestered

text: house arrest

text: King's Newnham

text: Rugby, Warwickshire

text: Spanish invasion

text: Gilbert's

text: Babington Plot

text: Catholic priesthood

text: Mary, Queen of Scots

text: Charles Paget

text: double agent

text: Francis Walsingham

text: Rye, East Sussex

text: absent without leave

text: Catholic League

text: Earl of Essex

text: siege of Paris

text: recusancy

text: the Church of St Mary and St Chad

text: Lilleshall

text: Wolverhampton

text: Merchants of the Staple

text: St Peter's Collegiate Church

text: prebendaries

text: Lilleshall Abbey

text: Augustinian

text: Shropshire

text: Gilbert

text: John Dormer

categories: People associated with the Dissolution of the Monasteries,1534 births,English MPs 1553,High Sheriffs of Staffordshire,16th-century Roman Catholics,1613 deaths,English landowners,English Roman Catholics,People of the Tudor period

paragraph: John Giffard (died 1613)

paragraph: John Giffard (1534–1613) was a Staffordshire landowner and Member of the English Parliament, notable as a leader of Roman Catholic Recusancy in the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I.

paragraph: Section::::Background and early life.

paragraph: John Giffard's father was Sir Thomas Giffard of Caverswall Castle. The Giffard's had their seat at Chillington Hall, near Brewood, from the late 12th century. Sir Thomas, like his father, Sir John Giffard, had considerably expanded the family estates until they were the wealthiest landed gentry family in Staffordshire. Sir John was still alive when his grandson John was born, so Thomas Giffard was living at Caverswall, which he had acquired through his first wife, the heiress Dorothy Montgomery. Both Sir John and Sir Thomas were MPs of religiously conservative disposition, although both had generally acquiesced in the legislation that carried through the English Reformation.

paragraph: John Giffard's mother was Ursula Throckmorton, daughter of Robert Throckmorton of Coughton Court, Warwickshire, and Elizabeth Baynham. She was Thomas Giffard's second wife: Dorothy had died by 1529, leaving Thomas with a daughter, but no surviving sons. He married Ursula in 1529. She was part of a wealthy landowning family, generally of a similar religious conservative outlook to the Giffards. Her brother, George Throckmorton, was MP for Warwickshire in the English Reformation Parliament, elected in 1529. His sympathies were strongly Catholic and he was arrested in 1537, in the aftermath of the Pilgrimage of Grace, with which he was thought to sympathise. He made a rambling and confused confession of his part in the Catholic opposition, narrowly escaping with his life.

paragraph: In 1539, when John was still a child, Thomas Giffard bought the site of Black Ladies Priory, a dissolved Benedictine nunnery near Brewood. Shortly after, the family moved into the house, which Thomas had rebuilt as fine Tudor brick residence, set on a moated site, with fishponds. At about the age of 16, John Giffard married Joyce Leveson, and their first child, Walter, was born about a year into the marriage. By the age of 21, he was considered ready for parliament.

paragraph: Section::::Parliamentary career.

paragraph: John Giffard was first elected to as Member of Parliament for Lichfield in the first parliament of Queen Mary I's reign, opened on 5 October 1553, four days after her coronation. Lichfield had been a parliamentary constituency in the Middle Ages, but had lost the right to elect MPs, only regaining it in 1547, after a gap of almost two hundred years. The main influence on the selection of MPs was William Paget, 1st Baron Paget, who had been a close supporter of the regime of the Protector Somerset. Humiliated at Somerset's fall, he was one of the Privy Councillors who escaped from custody to recognise Mary as Queen during the succession crisis of summer 1553. He ensured that Lichfield returned MPs he could rely on. Giffard's senior colleague was Sir Philip Draycott, a friend of Paget who had shared his political fortunes. Giffard himself was an obvious supporter of the Catholic Queen, with excellent connections in Staffordshire and neighbouring counties.

paragraph: Giffard was able to travel up to London with his father, Thomas, who was elected to the same parliament as member for Staffordshire. Mary's first parliament legislated for a return to Catholic practice in the churches, reversing the reforms of Edward VI's reign to return the situation to that at the end of Henry VIII's. It did not restore links with the Papacy, and it set landowners minds at rest by leaving the monasteries and chantries dissolved. The Giffards accepted these measures, which were fully in line with their own beliefs. The parliament lasted just two months and the members were home for Christmas.

paragraph: Giffard was also elected to the next parliament, which assembled in April 1554. This time he represented the borough of Stafford. This time he was returned first in order of precedence, with Humphrey Swynnerton, husband of his aunt Cassandra Giffard, as his colleague. Swynnerton was an intensely pious Catholic, who spent much of his limited wealth on rebuilding the church at Shareshill. Elections at Stafford took place among a small circle of burgesses, chaired by the bailiff. The returning officer at Stafford was the High Sheriff of Staffordshire, at that time Thomas Giffard himself, completing the indenture in Latin for his own son and brother-in-law.

paragraph: This parliament was even shorter, lasting just a month. Its main business was to pass the Act for the Marriage of Queen Mary to Philip of Spain and the constitutionally important Act concerning Regal Power. The latter gave parliamentary authority to a queen regnant in England for the first time. Once again, there was no prospect of a Giffard opposing the queen's wishes.

paragraph: Section::::Landowner and recusant.

paragraph: John Giffard's father, Sir Thomas Giffard, did not inherit the family estates until 1556. He died only four years later, leaving John with very large holdings across the southern half of Staffordshire and in Derbyshire, although the focus remained Brewood parish, where the Giffards had their seat at Chillington. John's brother Humphrey was provided for by Sir Thomas, having Black Ladies for the rest of his life, with the reversion to John. In fact, Humphrey outlived John, and it was to Walter, his heir, that Black Ladies returned. With the family generally well-provided for, and the advantage still of youth, John's fortunes appeared assured, apart from the religious issue, which was to dog the Giffards for generations.

paragraph: Initially, the accession of Elizabeth I in 1558 did not affect the Giffards greatly. The queen rapidly moved to reassert a Protestant monarchy and Church of England. However, there was no inquisition into Catholic's beliefs, only practice, and the authorities were long tolerant of offences of omission. Many who began as recusants gradually drifted into conformity. John did not succeed his father as Justice of the Peace until 1573, the same year he was pricked High Sheriff of Staffordshire. Both these offices required taking the Oath of Supremacy, swearing to accept the monarch as "the only supreme governor of this realm, and of all other her Highness's dominions and countries, as well in all spiritual or ecclesiastical things or causes, as temporal." Imposed by the Act of Supremacy 1558, failure to meet this requirement more than once had been turned into a treasonable offence by a further act of 1562. In trusting him with public office, the regime was clearly signalling its wish to co-opt John Giffard into the county's ruling elite. His behaviour on that occasion probably gave rise to suspicion, but it was only two years later that matters took a serious turn for the worse.

paragraph: In 1575 the Queen visited Staffordshire and, on her progress through the county, stayed at Chillington early in August. Giffard promised to attend worship at the parish church, but Elizabeth herself noticed that he was not present, as he should have been according to the Act of Uniformity 1558, the other main pillar of the Elizabethan Religious Settlement. Just three days later he was summoned by the Privy Council to explain himself. He was interviewed by four bishops and then placed in the custody of Edmund Freke, the Bishop of Rochester, a particularly zealous heresy-hunter. However, Chillington needed work after the royal stay, so Giffard was soon granted leave to return there to reorder his home. Soon after, he was formally released from custody on condition that he attend church and use the Prayer Book even in his private chapel.

paragraph: However, Giffard continued to avoid parish worship. As a result, his estates were sequestered by the Crown and he was placed under house arrest, confined to his own homes in London or at Chillington. The only exception to this regime was for licensed visits to the spa at King's Newnham, near Rugby, Warwickshire. Despite this treatment at the hands of the State, Giffard remained, in his own way, entirely loyal. In 1588, when the country was threatened by Spanish invasion, he took the oath of allegiance and sent men to serve in the army.

paragraph: However, the main factor in mitigating Giffard's later treatment by the authorities was his son Gilbert's role in betraying the Babington Plot. Gilbert had gone to France in 1577, hoping to train for the Catholic priesthood. He became involved in a plot to assassinate Elizabeth I and install her Catholic cousin Mary, Queen of Scots on the throne. He thus linked up with Charles Paget, the son of Baron Paget, who was already a double agent working for Sir Francis Walsingham, head of the queen's intelligence operation. On his return to England, late in 1585, Giffard was arrested at Rye, East Sussex, and agreed to act as a double agent for Walsingham, taking the alias No. 4. His information and activities proved vital, allowing Walsingham to penetrate Mary's correspondence with the French ambassador. He subsequently went absent without leave and was arrested by the forces of the Catholic League in a Paris brothel, together with an English prostitute and a man who claimed to be a retainer of the Earl of Essex. Imprisoned for 20 years, he died during the siege of Paris in 1590. It is not certain what Gilbert's motives were. The authorities considered him "the most notable double, treble villain that ever lived." Nevertheless, attitudes to his family softened and the restrictions on John Giffard were relaxed in his later years.

paragraph: However, the Giffard fortunes were damaged severely by the recusancy of John and his successors. He did what he could to dispose of his estates before his death, and made his will on 27 August 1613, paying off debts and leaving small bequests to servants. He died the following day and was buried in the Church of St Mary and St Chad in Brewood.

paragraph: Section::::Marriage and family.

paragraph: John Giffard married Joyce Leveson on 10 April 1550. she was the daughter of James Leveson of Lilleshall, a wealthy Wolverhampton businessman, one of the Merchants of the Staple who had the monopoly of wool exports from England. Leveson had made a fortune not only from trade but also from leasing the property of St Peter's Collegiate Church in Wolverhampton: in 1550, James's cousin John and Robert Brooke took on most of the college property at fixed low rents on perpetual leases – a ruse by the prebendaries to profit doubly from the dissolution of the institution. James Leveson had bought Lilleshall Abbey, a dissolved Augustinian house in Shropshire in 1539, and thereafter it became the seat of his branch of the Leveson family.

paragraph: John Giffard and Joyce had at least 14 surviving children.

paragraph: These included eight sons:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Walter – John's heir and successor

paragraph: BULLET::::- Richard

paragraph: BULLET::::- Thomas

paragraph: BULLET::::- Gilbert – the spy, who died in Paris, 1590

paragraph: BULLET::::- Giles

paragraph: BULLET::::- George – a priest, who died in 1585

paragraph: BULLET::::- Gerard

paragraph: BULLET::::- Edward

paragraph: There were also six daughters:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Mary – who married Robert Brooke of Lapley, Staffordshire

paragraph: BULLET::::- Cassandra – who married Thomas Cassey, of Whitfield, Gloucestershire

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ursula – who married John Wakeman, of Beckford, Gloucs.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Frances – who married Edmund Powell, of Sandford, Oxfordshire

paragraph: BULLET::::- Jane – who married Sir John Dormer, of Dorton, Oxfordshire

paragraph: BULLET::::- Dorothy – who married Sir Walter Leveson, of Wolverhampton

description: Member of the English Parliament and leading Roman Catholic recusant

wikidata_label: John Giffard

wikipedia_title: John Giffard (died 1613)


text:
Mexican
archaeologist
Ramírez
Aztec
pyramids of Cholula
National Museum of Mexico
Benito Juárez
Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada
Manuel González
Porfirio Díaz
Vera Cruz
masonic lodge
Father Sahagún
Sun Stone
American Antiquarian Society
International Congress of Americanists
Monte Albán
Eduard Seler
Franz Boas
Leopoldo Batres
Chavero Codex of Huexotzingo
National Museum of Mexico
Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxóchitl
Diego Muñoz Camargo

categories: Mexican archaeologists,Mexican male dramatists and playwrights,Mexican Mesoamericanists,Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico),Mexican male poets,Members of the American Antiquarian Society,Historians of Mesoamerica,19th-century Mexican dramatists and playwrights,Mexican historians,Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico),1841 births,19th-century Mexican poets,19th-century Mesoamericanists,1906 deaths

paragraph: Alfredo Chavero

paragraph: Alfredo Chavero (1841–1906) was a Mexican archaeologist, politician, poet, and dramatist. "Perhaps Chavero's most enduring claim to remembrance rests...on [his] completion and extension of Ramírez's plans to republish major native histories and his editorship of pictorial documents."

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: He has made many investigations relative to Mexican antiquities, and written "Historia Antigua de Mexico", also several works on Aztec archaeology, especially on ancient monuments. While making excavations in the pyramids of Cholula, he discovered some idols that are now in the National Museum of Mexico.

paragraph: He became a member of the Mexican Congress in 1869, and supported Presidents Benito Juárez, Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada, Manuel González, and Porfirio Díaz in succession, notwithstanding their different policies. On 25 June 1879, the government of Diaz ordered the execution of nine citizens of Vera Cruz who were suspected of conspiracy. This act was severely criticised, and great indignation was shown against Mier y Terán, who had executed the order, and against Diaz. Chavero, then grand master of a masonic lodge, and expelled Mier y Terán from the brotherhood, and suspended Diaz from his masonic rights. This action gave Chavero great popularity. In congress Chavero also made a strong speech against Mier and Diaz, but afterward became one of his adherents. Chavero was elected senator in 1886, and was professor in the mining and law schools of Mexico.

paragraph: He is the author of the dramas “La Reina Xochitl” and “La tempestad de un beso,” “Quetzalcoatl,” “Los amores de Alarcón,” “La hermana de los Ávilas,” “El mundo de ahora,” and others. His books relative to Father Sahagún and to the Sun Stone are often referred to.

paragraph: Chavero was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1881.

paragraph: When the Mexican government proposed the Law of Monuments (1897), which passed overwhelmingly in the Mexican Congress, Chavero opposed the provision banned the export of Mexican artifacts, which in his view "hindered the flow of artifacts to museums abroad and thus obstructed the cause of science." At the 1902 International Congress of Americanists in New York, Chavero gave some credit to the French project headed by the Duke of Loubat for major discoveries at Monte Albán. This public declaration before Americanist luminaries, such as Eduard Seler and Franz Boas was interrupted by Leopoldo Batres, inspector national monuments, Chavero's rival who had excavated at Monte Albán, who strenuously objected to Chavero's assertion, since the work was paid for by the Mexican government.

paragraph: He donated the Chavero Codex of Huexotzingo to the National Museum of Mexico in 1906.

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: A selected list of Chavero's writings of ethnohistorial interest is published in the "Handbook of Middle American Indians".

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Discurso pronunciado en los funerales del C. Benito Juarez presidente de los Estados-Unidos Mexicanos" (1872).

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Estudio sobre la Piedra del Sol" (1875) y (1877-1903).

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Calendario azteca: ensayo arqueológico por Alfredo Chavero" (1876).

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Biografía de Sahagún" (1877).

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Sahagun. Estudio por Alfredo Chavero" (1877).

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Bienaventurados los que esperan. Comedia en tres actos y en prosa" (1878).

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Quetzalcóatl. Ensayo trágico en tres actos y en verso" (1878).

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Los amores de Alarcon. Poema dramático en tres actos y en prosa" (1879).

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Xóchitl. Drama en tres actos y en verso" (1879).

paragraph: BULLET::::- "¡El huracán de un beso! Drama en dos actos y en prosa, precedido de una introducción, original de Alfredo Chavero" (1886).

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Explicaciones del Códice Aubin" (1890).

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Explicaciones sobre el Lienzo de Tlaxcala" (1892).

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Explicaciones sobre el Códice Borgia" (1900).

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Apuntes viejos de bibliografía mexicana" (1903).

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Obras del Lic. Don Alfredo Chavero, miembro de número de la Academia Mexicana de la Lengua y correspondiente de la Española. Tomo I: Escritos diversos" (1904).

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Discurso pronunciado el 24 de septiembre de 1904 en el Congreso de Artes y Ciencias de la Exposición Universal de San Luis Missouri" (1905).

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Calendario de Palemke: signos cronográficos. Primera parte" (1906).

paragraph: BULLET::::- Edición de "Historia chichimeca" de Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxóchitl (1891-1892).

paragraph: BULLET::::- Edición de "Historia de Tlaxcala" de Diego Muñoz Camargo (1892).

paragraph: Attribution:

description: Mexican politician, archaeologist and playwright

wikidata_label: Alfredo Chavero

wikipedia_title: Alfredo Chavero


text:
House of Commons
Edward Phelips
Montacute House
Sir Robert Pye
Member of Parliament
Ilchester
Cavalier Parliament
J.P.
Deputy Lieutenant
Somerset

categories: 1699 deaths,English MPs 1661–1679,English MPs 1690–1695,English MPs 1698–1700,English MPs 1685–1687,1638 births

paragraph: Edward Phelips Jr.

paragraph: Sir Edward Phelips Jr. esq of Montacute (1638 – 4 April 1699) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1661 and 1699.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Phelips was the son of Edward Phelips of Montacute House and his wife Anne Pye, daughter of Sir Robert Pye of Faringdon, Berkshire . He was baptised on 26 September 1638. He was a lieutenant of militia horse in Somerset by 1661. In 1661, he was elected Member of Parliament for Ilchester in the Cavalier Parliament. He was commissioner for assessment from 1661 to 1680, joint auditor of excise in 1662, commissioner of corporations from 1662 to 1663 and J.P. from 1662 to February 1688. He was knighted by 24 April 1666 and was lieutenant-colonel of horse in the militia in the same year. In 1675 he was a commissioner for recusants 1675. He was high steward of Ilchester from 1679 to his death and a colonel of militia horse, Somerset between 1679 and 1687. In 1680, he was foreman of the grand jury, and succeeded to Montecute on the death of his father in the same year. He was also steward of crown manors in Somerset from 1680 and Deputy Lieutenant between 1680 and 1687. He was chairman of quarter sessions from 1681 to January 1688. In 1685 he was elected MP for Ilchester again. He was restored to his positions as J.P in October 1688 and Deputy Lieutenant in 1689. He was commissioner for assessment from 1689 to 1690 and became JP again in March 1690. In 1690 he was elected MP for Somerset. He was vice admiral from 1690 to 1696. In 1698 he was elected MP for Somerset again. He died on 4 April 1699 at the age of about 60 and was buried at Montecute.

paragraph: Section::::Family.

paragraph: Phelips married firstly in about 1667, Dorothy Bury, widow of John Bury of Colleton Barton, Chulmleigh, Devon, and daughter of Henry Cheeke of West Newton, North Petherton, Somerset. They had no children and she died on 19 November 1678. He married secondly in about 1683, Edith Blake, daughter of John Blake, ironmonger, of Langport, Somerset and had three daughters: Anne, Elizabeth and Edith.

description: English landowner and politician (1638-1699)

wikidata_label: Edward Phelips

wikipedia_title: Edward Phelips Jr.


text: Connecticut

text: United States Senate

text: Connecticut Supreme Court

text: Franklin, Connecticut

text: common school

text: Brown University

text: Providence, Rhode Island

text: Norwich, Connecticut

text: Centerville, Maryland

text: Maryland

text: Whig

text: Connecticut

text: Connecticut House of Representatives

text: Whig

text: Governor of Connecticut

text: Norwich, Connecticut

text: Oppositionist

text: United States Senate

text: Republican

text: Committee on Pensions

text: President pro tempore of the Senate

text: 39th Congress

text: President

text: Abraham Lincoln

text: John Wilkes Booth

text: Vice President

text: Andrew Johnson

text: Secretary of State

text: William H. Seward

text: Lewis Powell

text: George Atzerodt

text: Acting President

text: Article II

text: United States Constitution

text: American Civil War

text: Orris S. Ferry

text: Yale College

text: Connecticut House of Representatives

text: Connecticut Supreme Court

text: Democratic

text: United States House of Representatives

text: Norwich, Connecticut

categories: Mayors of Norwich, Connecticut,People from Centreville, Maryland,1806 births,United States Senators from Connecticut,Politicians  from Norwich, Connecticut,19th-century American politicians,Connecticut Whigs,Connecticut Oppositionists,Brown University alumni,Members of the Connecticut House of Representatives,Speakers of the Connecticut House of Representatives,1880 deaths,People of Connecticut in the American Civil War,Union political leaders,Connecticut Republicans,Presidents pro tempore of the United States Senate,Connecticut Supreme Court justices,Opposition Party United States Senators

paragraph: Lafayette S. Foster

paragraph: Lafayette Sabine Foster (November 22, 1806 – September 19, 1880) was a nineteenth-century American politician and lawyer from Connecticut. He served in the United States Senate from 1855 to 1867 and was a judge on the Connecticut Supreme Court from 1870 to 1876.

paragraph: Born in Franklin, Connecticut, Foster attended common schools as a child and graduated from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1828. He taught school in Providence for some time and studied law back in Norwich, Connecticut. He took charge of an academy in Centerville, Maryland, where he was admitted to the Maryland bar in 1830, then returned to Norwich and was admitted to the federal bar in 1831.

paragraph: Foster was editor of the "Republican", a Whig newspaper out of Connecticut, and served in the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1839 to 1840, 1846 to 1848 and 1854, serving as Speaker of the House for three years. He was the Whig nominee for Governor of Connecticut in 1850 and 1851, but lost both elections. He served as mayor of Norwich, Connecticut, from 1851 to 1852 before being elected as an Oppositionist to the United States Senate in 1854, and reelected in 1860 as a Republican, serving from 1855 to 1867. There, he served as chairman of the Committee on Pensions from 1861 to 1867. His wife, Joanna Boylston Lanman, died on April 11, 1859.

paragraph: Foster was elected President pro tempore of the Senate at the beginning of the 39th Congress in 1865, and held that title until the end of his term in 1867. Six weeks after he was elected, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. Two of Booth's accomplices also intended to assassinate Vice President Andrew Johnson as well as Secretary of State William H. Seward. Seward's assassin, Lewis Powell, struck but failed to kill, whereas Johnson's assassin, George Atzerodt, never acted. With Johnson's accession to the presidency, Foster became first in the United States presidential line of succession. Had Atzerodt followed through and successfully assassinated Johnson, Foster would have become Acting President (in accordance with Article II, section 1 of the United States Constitution).

paragraph: In 1866 Foster was elected as a Companion of the Third Class (i.e. an honorary member) of the Pennsylvania Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States - a military society of officers who served in the Union armed forces during the American Civil War and their descendants.

paragraph: Foster sought reelection to a third term in 1866, but was defeated by Orris S. Ferry; his Senate career ended on March 3, 1867. He became a professor of law at Yale College in 1869 and returned to the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1870. He was once again elected Speaker of the House, but resigned to take a seat on the Connecticut Supreme Court. He was a Democratic candidate for the United States House of Representatives in 1874, but was unsuccessful and resigned from the court in 1876, retiring from public life. Foster died in Norwich, Connecticut, on September 19, 1880, and was interred there in Yantic Cemetery.

description: American politician

wikidata_label: Lafayette S. Foster

wikipedia_title: Lafayette S. Foster


text:
American football
wide receivers
Oakland Raiders
National Football League
Green Bay Packers
college football
Florida State
1992 NFL Draft
Chicago Bears
Robert E. Lee High School
varsity letters
basketball
track
Corky Rogers
1992 NFL Draft
fullback
starting
receiver
Dorsey Levens
Super Bowl XXXI
Achilles tendon
coach
Mike McCarthy
Oakland Raiders
Jon Gruden
Mike Sherman
Green Bay Packers
Mike McCarthy
Green Bay Packers
Jon Gruden
Oakland Raiders
Green Bay Packers bio

categories: Florida State Seminoles football players,Green Bay Packers players,1969 births,Sportspeople from Jacksonville, Florida,Players of American football from Florida,Super Bowl champions,Chicago Bears players,National Football League offensive coordinators,Green Bay Packers coaches,American football running backs,Living people

paragraph: Edgar Bennett

paragraph: Edgar Bennett III (born February 15, 1969) is an American football coach and former running back who is the wide receivers coach for the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League (NFL). He previously was the offensive coordinator for the Green Bay Packers. Bennett played college football at Florida State and was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the 4th round of the 1992 NFL Draft. He also played for the Chicago Bears.

paragraph: Section::::Early years.

paragraph: Bennett attended Robert E. Lee High School in Jacksonville, Florida and won varsity letters in football, basketball, and track. Influenced by football coach Corky Rogers, he was a Class 4A All-State running back, and was a SuperPrep All-Dixie selection.

paragraph: Section::::Playing career.

paragraph: Section::::Playing career.:College.

paragraph: Bennett attended Florida State University. He lined up primarily at fullback in a backfield that included future NFL running backs Amp Lee, Marquette Smith, William Floyd, Zach Crockett and Sean Jackson. When Lee was suspended for the Cotton Bowl, Bennett started at halfback.

paragraph: Bennett is considered one of the most versatile fullbacks in FSU history. His career all-purpose yardage totaled more than 2,300 on 389 touches, good for 20 touchdowns. He was an all-around player who ran a 4.5 40 and caught 93 passes for over 1,000 yards.

paragraph: Section::::Playing career.:National Football League.:Green Bay Packers.

paragraph: Bennett was drafted in the 4th round (103rd overall) by the Packers in the 1992 NFL Draft. Bennett started his Packer career as a fullback, but he became the starting running back in 1995 and gained 1,067 yards rushing. As both a fullback and a running back, Bennett excelled as a receiver leading the Packers in receptions. He continued as the starting running back throughout the 1996 season, but in the latter half, Dorsey Levens was receiving significant playing time at running back. Bennett's career as a Packer culminated in their Super Bowl XXXI victory. He ruptured his Achilles tendon in the 1997 preseason and did not play that year.

paragraph: Section::::Playing career.:National Football League.:Chicago Bears.

paragraph: Bennett played with the Chicago Bears in 1998 and 1999 before retiring after the 1999 season.

paragraph: Section::::Playing career.:Statistics.

paragraph: "Note: G = Games played; Att = Rushing attempts; Yds = Rushing yards; Avg = Average yards per carry; Long = Longest rush; Rush TD = Rushing touchdowns; Rec = Receptions; Yds = Receiving yards; Avg = Average yards per reception; Long = Longest reception; Rec TD = Receiving touchdowns"

paragraph: BULLET::::- Stats that are highlighted show career high

paragraph: Section::::Coaching career.

paragraph: Section::::Coaching career.:Green Bay Packers.

paragraph: Bennett rejoined the Packer organization in 2001 as director of player development. He later served as running backs coach for six seasons. In February 2011, Bennett was named wide receivers coach. In February 2015, Packers head coach Mike McCarthy promoted Bennett to offensive coordinator.

paragraph: Section::::Coaching career.:Oakland Raiders.

paragraph: On January 13, 2018, Bennett was hired by the Oakland Raiders as their wide receivers coach under head coach Jon Gruden.

paragraph: Section::::Coaching tree.

paragraph: NFL head coaches under whom Edgar Bennett has served:

paragraph: BULLET::::- Mike Sherman, Green Bay Packers (2005)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Mike McCarthy, Green Bay Packers (2006–2017)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Jon Gruden, Oakland Raiders (2018–present)

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Green Bay Packers bio

description: American football player and coach

wikidata_label: Edgar Bennett

wikipedia_title: Edgar Bennett