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<mask> CBE (born 22 May 1943) is a British business executive who is the chairman of the British Red Cross, member of the advisory board at Cogress Ltd and was the former chairman of French Connection. A Chartered Accountant by profession, <mask> has also been involved in the footballing world and was the chairman of Manchester City F.C. from 1998 to 2003, a period of revival and stability in the club's 130-year history and is generally held in high regard by Manchester City supporters for helping to pull the club out of its nadir. <mask> is also President of Level Playing Field and Chair of the Centre for Access to Football in Europe. He has been chairman of Wembley Stadium Limited since July 2008, during which he has renegotiated the £341m loan that has ensured the stadium's financial future would be more manageable. <mask> was the FA chairman from January 2011 until his 70th birthday in May 2013, having been selected as Lord Triesman's replacement by the FA Council in December 2010. He said that his main priorities as chairman were reducing dissent and increasing respect in English football, establishing closer links with FIFA to gain greater influence in international football and enforcing a fairer playing field financially.In December 2019, <mask> stepped down as Executive Chairman of Ted Baker. Manchester City
<mask> began supporting Manchester City in 1954 and watched the 1956 FA Cup Final between City and Birmingham City, despite it coinciding with the day of his Bar Mitzvah. He joined Manchester City in 1994 as a board member and replaced outgoing chairman Francis Lee as chairman in 1998. He inherited the role at a time when the once famous team of the 1960 and 70s was an ailing side plummeting into the depths of the Football League. The club reached their nadir when they were relegated to the old Football League Division Two in 1998, which was then the third tier of English football – the only time in Manchester City's 130-year history they have been in the third tier. His spell as Manchester City chairman saw five seasons of Manchester City yo-yoing between divisions. The club returned to the Division One via the play-offs in a tense penalty shootout with Gillingham.The first season after being promoted, the club finished 2nd in Division One and were promoted to the Premiership. However they went on to finish 18th and were subsequently relegated. <mask> brought Kevin Keegan in as manager with the task to get City into the top flight and provide the stability to remain there. The club gained promotion in Keegan's first season in charge finishing 1st in Division One, winning by 10 clear points and scoring 101 league goals (more than 2 a game) for the first time since 1957–58 season. <mask> departed Manchester City and was succeeded as chairman by John Wardle. The exact reason for his departure was believed to be down to "excessive spending", something <mask> warned Manchester City to be wary of after the financial gambles Peter Swales often took to give City impetus to challenge for trophies. Successes
However his tenure at Manchester City is fondly looked on by Manchester City supporters, who credit <mask> for preventing City getting stuck in the lower divisions and providing the necessary back-room clout to give the club stability, while <mask> upon leaving City thanked his fellow City fans for their support: "I would like to thank our wonderful fans for their backing.They have been fantastic in their support, which has never wavered even during the most difficult times. I have been touched by their kindness and enthusiasm. I have supported Manchester City since I was a boy and I am desperate for us to succeed." Manchester City Academy – <mask> agreed to establish an academy with Jim Cassell in charge of the program in 1998. The academy has since garnered a reputation as one of the best in English football has produced more professional footballers than any other Premier League club. The club moved into a new training facility at Carrington Training Centre, whilst the academy used the old Platt Lane training ground nearby Maine Road as a new training facility
<mask> was heavily involved in negotiations which moved the club from Maine Road to the new 47,000 seater City of Manchester Stadium in 2003. The move secured City's long-term future and the stadium's capacity was an attractive asset for prospective owners.The 47,000 seater stadium was believed to a key reason why Sheikh Mansour chose Manchester City to buy while looking for the most suitable football club with potential to advance to the top. The appointment of the recent England manager, Kevin Keegan in 2001, was a major coup considering the club was in the Division One upon Keegan's appointment. Wembley Stadium Limited
<mask> took over from Michael Jeffries in July 2008, after the stadium was plagued by years of construction delays and financial mismanagement. <mask> worked with FA secretary and fellow chartered accountant, Alex Horne and refinanced the £341m loan to secure the stadium's short-term future. Football Association chairman
<mask> became chairman of the Football Association on 25 January 2011. The nomination was met with surprise, with many expecting <mask> to be promoted as chairman. However some analysts see <mask> as a "safe pair of hands", and point to business revivals with ailing companies such as French Connection, Manchester City and Wembley Stadium Limited that have given weight to his appointment.<mask> was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to football. Demands for FIFA reform
<mask>'s appointment as chairman followed the failed 2018 World Cup bid in December 2010. <mask> aimed to foster better relations with the FIFA Executive Committee in an aim to enforce English influence at the top of FIFA. However, accusations of bribery and members suspended on suspicion of corruption at FIFA meant the FA and <mask> took a tougher stance with FIFA with a demand of reform. Ultimately, the FA abstained from the 2011 FIFA presidential election between incumbent president Sepp Blatter and Mohammed Bin Hammam. Bin Hammam was later suspended by FIFA days prior to the election and the FA demanded that the election would be postponed with only one name on the ballot paper two days prior to the election. With only a day The FA managed to get 17 football associations to support their demand.Other football associations such as Germany also vented their concern at the events unfolding at FIFA as too did FIFA sponsors. Business interests
<mask> oversaw the controversial fcuk advertisement campaign at French Connection in 1997. <mask> sits on the boards of a number of public companies, including fashion label Ted Baker and restaurant chain Carluccio's. <mask> also sits on the advisory board for property investment firm Cogress Ltd.

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<mask> (; born November 2, 1968) is a politician in Serbia. He has served several terms in the National Assembly of Serbia, originally as a member of the Democratic Party and subsequently with the Social Democratic Party. He is one of the founders of the liberal political party, Serbia 21. Early life and career
<mask> was born in Belgrade, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Serbia in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. He is an information technology engineer in private life. Political career

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<mask> was elected as a Democratic Party city councillor in Belgrade in 1996 and 2000. He took part in protests against the government of Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević in July 1999, following the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.In the 2000 Serbian parliamentary election,  <mask> received the ninety-fourth position on the electoral list of the Democratic Opposition of Serbia (DOS), a broad coalition that included the Democratic Party. This alliance won a landslide victory with 176 out of 250 mandates, and <mask> served as part of its delegation in the parliament that followed. (From 2000 to 2011, parliamentary mandates were awarded to sponsoring parties or coalitions rather than to individual candidates, and it was common practice for the mandates to be distributed out of numerical order. <mask> did not automatically receive a mandate by virtue of his position on the list, although in fact he was included in his party's delegation.) In 2001, he accompanied party deputy chair Boris Tadić on an official visit to Germany. The Democratic Party contested the 2003 Serbian election at the head of its own alliance and won thirty-seven mandates. <mask> was included on its electoral list; although not initially selected as part of its delegation, he was awarded a mandate on February 17, 2004, as a replacement for another candidate who had resigned.He was subsequently chosen as president of the Democratic Party's executive board. The Democratic Party was not part in government during this sitting of parliament, and <mask> served in opposition. In August 2005, he attended an event in Poland celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of Solidarity. <mask> received the sixty-seventh position on the Democratic Party's list in the 2007 parliamentary election. The list won sixty-four seats. He was not immediately included in the party's delegation on this occasion but was able to re-enter the assembly on May 22, 2007, as the replacement for another delegate. During this period, he served as leader of the Serbian parliament's delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.He was again selected to return to the legislature following the 2008 election. The party returned to participation in government in 2007 and was the dominant presence in a coalition government after 2008. <mask> was the chief of Democratic Party incumbent Boris Tadić's campaign staff in the 2008 Serbian presidential election and was commended by Tadić following the latter's re-election. Shortly after the end of the campaign, <mask> was described as having "bawled out" a journalist who asked a challenging question about the Democratic Party's coalition partners, and the newspaper Politika ran an editorial criticizing his actions. Tadić later accused Politika of having illegally recorded a conversation with Đurišić; Politika responded by rejecting the charge and defending its actions on the basis of a commitment to the freedom of the press. These events led to some friction between the newspaper and the government. In August 2008, following an alliance between the Democratic Party and the Socialist Party of Serbia at the republic level, <mask> announced that the two parties would also cooperate as partners in municipal governments across Vojvodina.In August 2009, he remarked that Serbian politics was probably shifting in the direction of a two-party system, with the Democratic and Progressive parties being at the head of rival blocs. He served on the assembly's defence and security committee during this time. Serbia's electoral system was reformed in 2011, such that parliamentary mandates were awarded in numerical order to candidates on successful lists. <mask> received the eighty-fifth position on the Democratic Party's Choice for a Better Life coalition in the 2012 Serbian parliamentary election. The list won sixty-seven mandates, and <mask> did not serve in the parliament that followed. In December 2012, he voted against an internal party decision for former ministers to return their parliamentary mandates (i.e., resign from the legislature). Social Democratic Party
The Democratic Party subsequently experienced a serious split, with Boris Tadić creating a breakaway group called the New Democratic Party.This group contested the 2014 election in a fusion with the Greens of Serbia and in alliance with other parties. <mask> sided with Tadić in the split and was given the eighth position on the alliance's list for the 2014 election; the list won eighteen mandates and <mask> was returned to the assembly, where he served as chair of the New Democratic Party's assembly group. Later in the year, the party changed its name to the Social Democratic Party. The Social Democratic Party contested the 2016 Serbian parliamentary election in a coalition with the Liberal Democratic Party and the League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina, as well as some smaller parties. The alliance won thirteen mandates; <mask> received the fourth position on its list and was again returned to the assembly. There were four members of the Social Democratic Party in the 2016–20 Serbian parliament; they served in a parliamentary group with Miroslav Aleksić, who was initially the leader of the People's Movement of Serbia and later a member of the People's Party. <mask> was the group's leader and was vice-chair of the parliamentary defence and internal affairs committee; a member of the committee on the rights of the child; a deputy member of the committee on administrative, budgetary, mandate, and immunity issues; the chair of the parliamentary friendship group with Jordan; and a member of the friendship groups with Argentina, Australia, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, Iran, Israel, Japan, Montenegro, Morocco, and the United States of America.Serbia 21
In 2019, <mask>, along with Nenad Konstantinović joined a liberal movement called Serbia 21. Boris Tadić, the president of the Social Democratic Party denounced this move and stated that the party was in the process of expelling <mask> and Konstantinović. In March 2020, Serbia 21 announced their participation in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election as a part of the United Democratic Serbia coalition along with the Party of Modern Serbia, League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina, and the Civic Democratic Forum, and some national minority parties. <mask> was selected to appear in first position on the list. The list did not cross the electoral threshold to win representation in the assembly. References

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<mask>  (born 1952) is an American sociologist, currently University Professor of Social Sciences at Arizona State University. An advocate of using social science to address issues of public concern, he was the Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science from September 2012 until September 2016, after which he became the first president of the Berggruen Institute. Prior to leading LSE, <mask> led the Social Science Research Council, and was University Professor of the Social Sciences at New York University and Director of NYU's Institute for Public Knowledge. With Richard Sennett he co-founded NYLON, an interdisciplinary working seminar for graduate students in New York and London who bring ethnographic and historical research to bear on politics, culture, and society. Biography
<mask> was born in Watseka, Illinois, on June 16, 1952. He studied anthropology and cinema at the University of Southern California (B.A., 1972), anthropology and sociology at Columbia University (M.A., 1974), and social anthropology at Manchester University (M.A., 1975). He received his D.Phil.in sociology and modern social and economic history from University of Oxford in 1980, where he was a student of J.C. Mitchell, Angus MacIntyre, and R.M. Hartwell. He taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1977 to 1996. There he was also Dean of the Graduate School and founding Director of the University Center for International Studies. He moved to NYU in 1996 as Chair of the Department of Sociology in a period of major rebuilding. He left for Columbia in 2006 but returned to NYU as Director of the Institute for Public Knowledge (IPK), which promotes collaborations among academics from diverse disciplinary backgrounds and between academics and working professionals. In September 2012 he became the Director and President of the London School of Economics.<mask> has also taught at the Beijing Foreign Studies University, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, University of Asmara, University of Khartoum, University of Oslo, and Oxford itself. He was Benjamin Meaker Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Bristol in 2000 and received an honorary doctorate from La Trobe University in Melbourne in 2005. <mask> is married to Pamela F. DeLargy, who is a public health and Horn of Africa specialist, and who served in the United Nations in Eritrea, Sudan, Sierra Leone and headed the humanitarian response programmes of UNFPA for a decade. She is currently Senior Advisor to Peter Sutherland, the U.N. Special Representative for Migration. Work
From 1999 to 2012 <mask> was President of the Social Science Research Council. At the SSRC <mask> emphasized the public contributions of social science. His views are explained in his essay "Towards a More Public Social Science", which first appeared in the SSRC's 2004 "President's Report" and has been translated, reprinted and widely circulated on the web.After September 11, 2001 he launched an initiative on "Real Time Social Science" which included an essay forum that attracted more than one million readers. This continued with work on the Privatization of Risk, Understanding Katrina: Perspectives from the Social Sciences Program, and now Haiti, Now and Next (examining the impact of the 2010 earthquake on Haiti's social and political future). His conversations with Paul Price have received wide circulation, podcast as Societas. <mask> has written more than 100 scholarly articles and chapters as well as books, among which his most famous is a study of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, Neither Gods Nor Emperors: Students and the Struggle for Democracy in China (California, 1994). <mask>'s work has been translated into more than a dozen languages. Thesis Eleven (2006, Vol. 84, No.1) devoted a special issue to his work, "<mask>: Critical Social Sciences and the Public Sphere." He was also editor in chief of the Oxford Dictionary of the Social Sciences. His recent work has focused on the future of capitalism and on humanitarianism. He has also written on Brexit and the rise of populism. As the Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science <mask> was in the academic year 2012-13 the beneficiary of "one of the biggest increases in overall pay and benefits" in the British higher education sector. As Director, <mask> was very successful in raising funds for the LSE, including millions from the Marshall Foundation, Atlantic Philanthropies, and many other donors. Also during his tenure, LSE begun work on a new Global Centre for Social Sciences, and rose significantly in global university rankings, rising from 71st to 35th best university in the world between 2014 and 2015 in QS World University Rankings.In December 2015 it was announced he would not seek a further term at LSE, instead choosing to step down and return to the United States in 2016 as President of the Berggruen Institute in Los Angeles. In August 2017, British media published critical reports that <mask> had been paid £1.7 million over four years and a London apartment with a market rent of £120,000 a year, despite LSE being criticised for its low teaching standards. As president of the Berggruen Institute, <mask> launched the million-dollar Berggruen Philosophy Prize, and oversaw the development of its Los Angeles and Beijing campuses. In May 2018, it was announced that <mask> would be stepping down from the Berggruen Institute in order to become University Professor of Social Sciences at Arizona State University, effective July 1, 2018. Honours

 2012: Elected an member of the American Philosophical Society. 2014: Honorary doctorate from the Erasmus University Rotterdam, for being "one of today´s foremost social scientists". 2015: Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS)
 2015: Fellow of the British Academy (FBA)
He is a Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities.Publications
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 <mask>, <mask>; Eduardo Mendieta, and Jonathan VanAntwerpen. (2013) Habermas and Religion. Polity Press. Wallerstein, Immanuel; Randall Collins, Michael Mann, Georgi Derluguian, and <mask>. (2013). Does Capitalism Have a Future? Oxford University Press.<mask>, <mask>, Mark Juergensmeyer, and Jonathan VanAntwerpen. (2011) Rethinking Secularism. Oxford University Press. Michael Warner, Jonathan VanAntwerpen, and <mask>. (2010) Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age. Harvard University Press. <mask>, <mask> and Sennett, Richard.(2007) Practicing Culture. Routledge. <mask>, <mask>; Gerteis, Joseph; Moody, James; Pfaff, Steven; and Indermohan Virk. (2007) Contemporary Sociological Theory, 2nd. ed. Blackwell. <mask>, <mask>; Gerteis, Joseph; Moody, James; Pfaff, Steven; and Indermohan Virk.(2007) Classical Sociological Theory, 2nd. ed. Blackwell. <mask>, <mask>. (2007) Sociology in America: A History. University of Chicago Press. <mask>, <mask>; Rojek, Chris; and Turner, Bryan.(2006) Sage Handbook of Sociology. Sage Publications. <mask>, <mask>. (2005) Lessons of Empire: Imperial Histories and American Power. New Press. <mask>, <mask>; Price, Paul; and Timmer; Ashley. (2002) Understanding September 11.The New Press. <mask>, <mask>. (2002) Dictionary of the Social Sciences. Oxford University Press. <mask>, <mask>, and McGowan John. (1997) Hannah Arendt and the Meaning of Politics. University of Minnesota Press.<mask>, <mask>. (1994) Social Theory and the Politics of Identity. Wiley Blackwell. <mask>, <mask>; LiPuma, E.; and Postone; M. (1993) Bourdieu: Critical Perspectives. Cambridge: Polity Press and Chicago: University of Chicago Press. <mask>, <mask>. (1992) Habermas and the Public Sphere.Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. <mask>, <mask>; Scott, W.R.; and Meyer, M. (1990) Structures of Power and Constraint: Essays in Honor of Peter M. Blau. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. <mask>, <mask> and Ianni, F. A. J. (1976) The Anthropological Study of Education. The Hague: Mouton, and Chicago: Aldine. References

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<mask>,  (born 1959), is a British businesswoman and former Anglican priest. She was chief executive officer of the Post Office Limited from 2012 to 2019. Under her leadership, the Post Office prosecuted hundreds of subpostmasters for fraud, despite knowing that the relevant financial discrepancies actually arose from computer errors for which the Post Office was responsible. According to Channel 4 and the BBC, this matter is the biggest miscarriage of justice in British history. In 2019 she became chair of the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust in London. In December 2020 it was announced that she would be leaving this role early, for personal reasons. In April 2021, following the quashing of 39 of the subpostmasters’ convictions, her duties as a minister ended.Early life and education
Vennells was born in 1959, and grew up in Denton, Lancashire. Having won a funded place, she was educated at the Manchester High School for Girls, an all-girls independent school in Manchester. She then studied Russian and French at the University of Bradford, graduating in 1981 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree. Career
Vennells began her career as a graduate trainee at Unilever in 1981. She went on to work for L'Oréal, Dixons Retail, Argos, and Whitbread. In 2007, she joined the Post Office as group network director. On 1 April 2012, she became its chief executive officer (CEO).During her time as CEO, the Post Office went from losing £120 million a year to making a profit. In February 2019, it was announced that she would step down from her Post Office role (she was eventual succeeded by Nick Read) and in April that year took over as chair of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, which runs St Mary's, Hammersmith, Queen Charlotte's, Charing Cross and the Western Eye Hospital in north-west London. She also became a non-executive board member of the Cabinet Office. From 2002 to 2005, Vennells trained for Holy Orders on the St Albans and Oxford Ministry Course. She was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 2005 and as a priest in 2006. She has served as a non-stipendiary minister at Church of St Owen, Bromham in the Diocese of St Albans. She was reported to have 'stepped back' from duties in 2021.She also resigned from the Church of England Ethical Investment Advisory Group. Post Office scandal

In December 2019, the Post Office paid out £58 million to sub-postmasters who were awarded compensation for past false prosecutions of monetary theft that had been based on faulty evidence from the Horizon IT system. The judge presiding on the case, Mr Justice Fraser, described the Post Office's approach to the case as "institutional obstinacy" that:

Vennells subsequently apologised to workers affected by the scandal, saying:

In January 2020, as the High Court case against the Post Office ended, Vennells's tenure as CEO was strongly criticised by Conservative peer Lord Arbuthnot, who said: "The hallmark of <mask>ennells’ time as CEO was that she was willing to accept appalling advice from people in her management and legal teams. The consequences of this were far-reaching for the Post Office and devastating for the subpostmasters. However, there seem to have been no consequences for her". He described the behaviour of the Post Office under her leadership as "both cruel and incompetent", and said that "she was faced with a moral choice and she took the wrong one, the one which allowed hundreds of subpostmasters to be falsely accused, humiliated and ruined by the organisation she ran". In early March 2020, she resigned from her Cabinet Office position.On 19 March 2020, Vennells was harshly criticised in the House of Commons, particularly by Kevan Jones, MP for North Durham, who said:

In a BBC Panorama programme screened on 8 June 2020, reporter Nick Wallis is seen phoning Vennells, who terminates the call rather than answer his questions. Wallis says "this is one of the biggest frustrations of covering this story...the consistent refusal of the chief executive and the people at the top to answer serious questions about what has been happening". Vennells had been due to appear before a parliamentary select committee to answer questions about the scandal on 24 March 2020, but this was cancelled due to the Coronavirus crisis and MPs' questions were dealt with in writing. In June 2020 the Criminal Cases Review Commission sent 47 cases in which subpostmasters had been prosecuted to the Court of Appeal as potential miscarriages of justice. The Post Office announced that it was not contesting 44 of them. The cases have been described as the "biggest miscarriage of justice in modern English legal history". On 22 March 2021 a further 42 former subpostmasters had their cases of wrongful prosecution heard in the Court of Appeal, and are also seeking information about the UK government's involvement through the Parliamentary Ombudsman.They are also calling for the government to pay for their £46 million legal bill for their earlier successful court case. During the case, the Post Office's behaviour under Vennells's leadership was described as an instance of "appalling and shameful behaviour". On 14 June 2020 Vennells's handling of the Post Office scandal and the relationship with her role as a priest were highlighted by the BBC's Sunday morning religious radio programme. A convicted former postmaster called for the Bishop of St Albans to strip Vennells of office, Labour MP Chi Onwurah said she must be held accountable, and journalist Nick Wallis reported "real anger" that Vennells appeared to have been protected by "the establishment" including the Church of England, which many see as immoral. The church refused to take part but a statement from the Bishop said that he would consider acting if he received conclusive evidence of her wrongdoing. As of 28 April 2021 Vennells is no longer listed as a member of the Church of England's Ethical Investment Advisory Group on which she had previously served. The Care Quality Commission discussed concerns about her continuing role in the NHS on 8 July 2020.In October, the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust announced that it would seek external legal advice in reviewing the process that led to her appointment. On 3 December 2020 it was announced that <mask> would step down as chair in April 2021, for personal reasons. On the same day, The Daily Telegraph reported that judges had refused to release a "smoking gun" document, being legal advice given to the Post Office in 2013, that could establish whether it had known for years that its prosecutions of the postmasters had been based upon false evidence. The former NHS consultant psychiatrist Minh Alexander, who made the original referral to the CQC, said that "the trust reluctantly agreed to commission an external report on her fitness only at a late stage", and speculated that Vennells had subsequently been pressured to resign. Arbuthnot said that emergence of this new evidence suggests that Vennells may be in contempt of Parliament for her responses given at the 2015 inquiry, commenting after her resignation: "Can it be a coincidence that shortly after it became clear that the Post Office lied to Parliament, <mask> announced she was stepping down from the NHS job?" In April 2021, thirty nine of the convicted former postmasters had their convictions quashed, with a further twenty two cases still being investigated by the Criminal Cases Review Commission. Earlier in December 2020, the convictions of six other former postmasters were overturned due to wrongful conviction.The executive chairman of the legal firm representing many of the postmasters, Dr Neil Hudgell, said "now Post Office officials must face criminal investigation for maliciously ruining lives by prosecuting innocent people in pursuit of profits", and called for the prime minister to convene a judge-led inquiry. A few days after the subpostmasters’ convictions were quashed, Vennells finally agreed to step back from her duties as a minister. The Bishop of St Albans said that it was "right" that Vennells did so. She also apologised, saying "I am truly sorry for the suffering caused to the 39 subpostmasters as a result of their convictions which were overturned last week". On the same day, she resigned her non-executive directorships at UK supermarket chain Morrisons and furnishings group Dunelm. Sky News quoted a boardroom colleague as saying "there was no way for her to stay on after the ruling – and it's hard to see how she will ever be able to work again". She also resigned as a governor of Bedford School.On 18 May 2021, the government announced that it would put the inquiry into the Post Office scandal onto a statutory footing, enabling it to compel witnesses such as Vennells to testify, and to demand access to all relevant documents. On 22 July 2021, the government said that it would make an interim payment of up to £100,000 in compensation to each of the postmasters affected in the scandal. Honours
In the 2019 New Year Honours, she was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) "for services to the Post Office and to charity". In the aftermath of the Post Office scandal, the Communication Workers' Union has called for Vennells to be stripped of her CBE. References

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<mask> FBA (27 March 1922 – 12 February 1974) was an English academic lawyer and author. Biography
<mask> was born in London and educated at Southend High School and St Catharine's College, Cambridge (BA 1942, MA 1946); he received his doctorate from the University of London in 1959. After distinguished war service with the Royal Artillery—during which he was mentioned in despatches and awarded the Order of Leopold II and the Croix de Guerre (1940) with palms—he taught from 1946 at the London School of Economics, University of London, successively as Assistant Lecturer, Lecturer, Reader and (from 1959 to 1970) as Professor of Public Law. He taught LLM courses on "Constitutional Laws of the Commonwealth I" (focusing on Canada, Australia and either India or Pakistan) and, from 1957, "a second course on constitutional laws of the Commonwealth, with a syllabus excluding those countries already covered by the established course and devoting special attention to the constitutions of Ghana, the Federation of Malaya, the Federation and Regions of Nigeria, the Federation of the West Indies, the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Singapore, Uganda and Kenya". In 1954 he accompanied Sir Keith Hancock, acting as secretary to the Namirembe Conference in Uganda. In 1970, <mask> returned to the University of Cambridge as Downing Professor of the Laws of England and a Fellow of Fitzwilliam College. In 1971 he was elected to a Fellowship of the British Academy.He was editor of the Cambridge Law Journal from 1973 to 1974. He died in February 1974, aged 51. During the 1960s he served on a part-time basis as Constitutional Commissioner for Mauritius. He drafted its constitution at the time the country attained independence on 12 March 1968. His work for Mauritius is commemorated by a memorial in the Pamplemousses Botanical Gardens; his ashes were scattered in that country. Publications
<mask>'s research and writing in the field of constitutional law focused in particular on the constitutional problems of developing countries: his advice in this area was frequently sought by the United Kingdom and other governments, and his work led to the publication of The New Commonwealth and its Constitutions in 1964, and after a stay as visiting fellow at the Center for International Studies and as visiting professor at the Law School of New York University, of Microstates and Micronesia in 1970. To the end of his career he continued to be active as a consultant upon the constitutional problems of emergent states and nations.A second area of interest was administrative law. From the publication in 1959 of the first edition of Judicial Review of Administrative Action, his reputation rapidly became established. He produced two further editions of this work in 1968 and 1973. A fourth edition was prepared in 1980 by Professor John M. Evans. Two subsequent editions of <mask>'s ground-breaking work have been written by an editorial team led by Lord Woolf, Professor Jeffrey Jowell QC and Professor Andrew Le Sueur. Among his other works was a popular student text, Constitutional and Administrative Law, with subsequent editions prepared by <mask> <mask> (<mask>'s widow), Professor Harry Street and Professor Rodney Brazier. <mask> was joint-editor of "Commonwealth and Dependencies" in the third edition of Halsbury's Laws of England and editor of "Administrative Law" in the fourth edition of that work.An obituary in the Cambridge Law Journal paid tribute to "a legacy of outstanding scholarship. He reshaped administrative law as an academic subject in the United Kingdom, and his wide-ranging contributions to the literature of public law were consistently incisive and constructive. His style was both elegant and distinctive: like Blackstone – as Jeremy Bentham put it – he spoke the language of the scholar and the gentleman". The Cambridge Law Journal noted that <mask> "was at his happiest in postgraduate teaching and the supervision of research students, but he cared deeply about all aspects of teaching and tripos reform ... Those that knew him will remember him as a somewhat reserved person with a quiet sense of humour, though they will not have known that the appearance of reserve was the result of deafness caused by his artillery service in the war; he was invariably encouraging to his students and younger colleagues and he was generous in his assessment of others". A notice in the Modern Law Review, a journal for which he served as secretary for many years, gave the following assessment:
His work in administrative law has been of seminal significance in the development of the principles of judicial review by courts throughout the Commonwealth. With characteristic modesty, he was astonished by the success of his major books. ... <mask> <mask> was a scholar and legal writer of exceptional quality.He was shy and gave a—perhaps deceptive—impression of diffidence, but his conversation was enlivened by a dry humour, sometimes rather reminiscent of his hero, Maitland, with whom as a constitutional lawyer he will certainly stand comparison

Select bibliography
 The Vocabulary for Commonwealth Relations (London: Published for the Institute of Commonwealth Studies by the Athlone Press, 1954). Judicial Review of Administrative Action (London: Stevens) – 1st edn 1959; 2nd edn 1968, 3rd edn 1973. . The Lawyers and the Constitution: an Inaugural Lecture (London: London School of Economics and Political Science, 1960). The New Commonwealth and its Constitutions (London: Stevens, 1964). .
 Report of the Constitutional Commissioner [for the Mauritius Legislative Assembly] (Port Louis: Govt Printer, 1965). Microstates and Micronesia: Problems of America's Pacific islands and other Minute Territories (New York: New York University Press, 1970). .

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<mask> (nee Butts) was an American pioneer woman. After enduring twenty years of beatings by her husband, <mask>, she hired her neighbor Henry Garster in 1838 to kill him. The murder led to Garster’s hanging, the first in Jackson County, Missouri, in 1839. <mask> had previously attempted and failed to murder Williamson herself with rat poison, for which she was tried and sentenced to five years in the Missouri State Penitentiary. The Jackson County community petitioned the governor for her pardon, which he granted shortly before <mask>’s sentence began. The pardon saved her from the fate of being the first woman to be imprisoned in the Missouri State Penitentiary. Early life
<mask> was born between 1797 and 1800 in Putnam County, Georgia, the middle of the state, on America’s southern frontier.<mask>’s father, Henry Butts, was born in South Carolina. Nothing is known about <mask>’s mother, who may have died soon after <mask> was born. Henry then married Susan Upchurch, who was also born in South Carolina. Henry was a cotton producer who owned seven slaves. <mask> had close connections with her half-siblings, especially Salathiel, born in 1810. Her other siblings were Henry, born in 1811, Jackson, born in 1812, and Eleanor, born in 1815. Marriage and childbearing
<mask> married <mask> somewhere between the ages of 17 and 20 years old.She had eight children, which was typical for the women in her family. There is no known record of <mask> and Williamson’s marriage. They had four children in Henry County, Tennessee: William Henry <mask>, born February 28, 1820; James J<mask>, born in 1822; Eli W<mask>, born in 1823; Pendleton Biddle <mask> born in 1824; Martha Jane <mask>, born on August 22, 1828. They had three more children, in Jackson County, Missouri: Elizabeth (Betsy) Ann <mask>, born on November 27, 1830; Jesse A<mask>, born in 1834; and Doctor Salathiel <mask>, born in 1836. <mask> was married to Williamson and living in Stewart County, West Tennessee by the time she was twenty years old, according to the January 30, 1820 census. She would move with Williamson to yet another western frontier in Jackson County, Missouri in 1830 and again with two of her sons and their families to what would be her final frontier in California in 1850. In 1830 <mask> traveled nearly 500 miles by wagon train to Jackson County, Missouri, while pregnant with her sixth child.Many of her extended family members would travel in a wagon train with family to California in 1850. Williamson’s cruelty to <mask> was well-documented in the witness accounts from <mask>’s trials. However, the law limited her legal options to stop the beatings, and her attorneys did not have a self-defense argument for <mask> either, because she pre-meditated his murder. Williamson was probably frequently intoxicated when he beat <mask>. Williamson had outstanding debts to vendors for several gallons of whiskey at the time of his murder. However, Williamson’s excessive drinking and the cruel beatings he gave <mask> were frowned upon by her family and church community, demonstrated by the help <mask> received in obtaining her pardon. <mask> owned no property under the law of coverture until she inherited her dower interests upon Williamson’s death, which was approximately one-third of his estate.<mask> assigned all her dower rights to her attorneys as security for her defense the day she was arrested. During the trials that ensued, <mask> and the children lived on the estate’s income, primarily slave rental income from Williamson’s ten slaves. Slaves
<mask> enlisted the help of two slaves, Ned and Mary, a married couple, to poison Williamson in September 1838. Williamson had inherited Ned and Mary, who probably helped raise him and ultimately served three generations of <mask> family members. Mary suffered 30 lashes for her part in <mask>’s conspiracy plans to poison Williamson. By the time Williamson was murdered, he had owned ten slaves valued at $128,754 (in 2020 equivalent dollars), who generated an average annual rental income for Williamson’s estate of $8,127. Crime and punishment
<mask> paid Henry Garster $150 to kill Williamson on October 27, 1838.She removed a chink from their log cabin, leaving a hole large enough for Garster’s squirrel gun. Garster, a neighbor and employee of Williamson’s shot him through the heart as he dozed in his chair next to the fireplace. Garster then left tracks in the fresh layer of snow back to his home. <mask> had previously attempted to kill Williamson herself in early September with rat poison. Four days later, the Sheriff arrested Garster. <mask> was arrested at Williamson’s burial on October 31, 1838. The <mask>’ slaves, Ned and Mary, a married couple, were also arrested that day.<mask> was held in custody for 35 days until she was indicted on December 4, 1838, along with Henry, for murder, and Mary, for poisoning. <mask> was released on bail. The charges against Ned were dropped, and he was released. On December 5, 1838, Mary pleaded guilty and was sentenced to receive thirty lashes, a penalty determined based on her status as a slave. On May 10, 1839, Garster was the first man hanged in Jackson County at the Temple Lot, While awaiting trial, Garster and his cellmate Alpha P. Buckley escaped jail. Only Garster was recaptured. Garster’s attorneys did not request a change of venue despite the escape attempt, and Garster was found guilty of murder in the first degree.After his hanging, Garster’s property was sold to cover his court costs but did not leave enough to pay his attorney’s fees. The jury found <mask> not guilty of murder in the first degree on August 8, 1839. <mask> had been charged as an accessory before the fact in the first count of murder and as a principal on the second charge of poisoning. She could not be charged for murder unless Garster was first proven guilty of murder, so her murder trial was set for April 12, 1839, two days after Garster’s trial. The jury found <mask> guilty of poisoning Williamson on July 20, 1841, and sentenced her to five years in the Missouri State Penitentiary. <mask> had confessed to the crime after her arrest when Mary accused <mask> of planning the murder, sending Ned to get the poison from Henry Garster, and then telling Mary to put the poison in Williamson’s coffee cup. Williamson became so ill that he wrote his will, but he did not die.<mask>’s attorneys were unable to convince the jury that Mary’s statement was inadmissible because it was a slave’s testimony against a white person or that <mask> was trapped into a confession. After the guilty verdict, <mask> appealed to the Supreme Court. <mask> was the first woman sentenced to the Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City on September 11, 1841, when the Missouri Supreme Court upheld the lower court ruling. Conditions for women in the prison were very harsh. However, petitions signed by 351 influential community members along with personal letters were submitted to Governor Thomas Reynolds on <mask>’s behalf arguing for her pardon because her confession was made under unusual circumstances, her husband had brutally treated her, she had eight young children to care for, and she had an exemplary character. Governor Reynolds granted <mask>’s pardon effective as of August 2, 1841. Final frontier
In 1850, <mask> made the four-month journey to the gold mining encampment of Sacramento, California, to set up a “boarding house” with two sons and their families.It is unknown when and where <mask> died, but she was last known to have lived with her daughter Martha Ann and son-in-law, John Stayton, in San Joaquin County in 1860. Most of her children and their families scattered throughout California, leaving hundreds and perhaps thousands of descendants. References

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 Bundschu, William B. Abuse and Murder on the Frontier: The Trials and Travels of <mask>: 1800-1860. Independence, MO, 2003
 Chused, Richard H. “Married Women’s Property Law: 1800-1850.” The Georgetown Law Journal 71, no. 5 (1983)
 Dannenbaum, Jed. “The Origins of Temperance Activism and Militancy Among American Women.” Journal of Social History 15, no.2
 Dobash, R. Emerson, and Russell Dobash. Violence against Wives: A Case against the Patriarchy. New York: Free Press, 1979
 “Execution of Garster in 1839.” Kansas City Times, March 2, 1878, 3, col. 6
 Ewing, Charles Patrick. Battered Women Who Kill: Psychological Self-Defense as Legal Justification. Lexington, Mass, 1987
 Faragher, John Mack. Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986
 Fischer, David Hackett.Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America, a Cultural History; v. 1. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989
 Goff, William A. “Garster-<mask> | KC History.” Westport Historical Quarterly 10, no. 1 (June 1974): 19–21
 Hine, Robert V., and John Mack Faragher. The American West: A New Interpretive History. Second edition. Lamar Series in Western History.New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017, Chapter 11 “As the West Goes”
 Kremer, Gary R. “Strangers to Domestic Virtue: Nineteenth-Century Women in the Missouri Prison.” Missouri Historical Review LXXXIV, no. 3 (April 1990)
 McMillen, Sally G. Motherhood in the Old South: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Infant Rearing. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990
 Mutti Burke, Diane. On Slavery’s Border: Missouri’s Small Slaveholding Households, 1815-1865. Early American Places Ser. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2010
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 Ouellette, Richard D. “Zion’s Gallows: The Cultural Geography of the Mormon Temple Lot Site.” The John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 25 (2005): 161–74
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 Segrave, Kerry. Women and Capital Punishment in America, 1840-1899: Death Sentences and Executions in the United States and Canada.Jefferson: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers, 2008
 Soltow, Lee, and Edward Stevens. The Rise of Literacy and the Common School in the United States: A Socioeconomic Analysis to 1870. Chicago Originals. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981
 The Examiner of East Jackson County. “Frank Haight: Old Documents Revealed Tale of Spousal Abuse and Murder.” Accessed September 28, 2020. https://www.examiner.net/article/20150724/NEWS/150729465
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<mask>  (born 30 July 1970) is a Welsh Conservative Party politician who served as Secretary of State for Wales from 2016 to 2019. He has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Vale of Glamorgan since 2010. He was previously a member of the National Assembly for Wales for the South Wales West region from the 1999 to 2011. Elected to the British House of Commons at the 2010 general election, he resigned as Secretary of State for Wales on 6 November 2019, after claims he had known about a former aide's role in the 'sabotage' of a rape trial. <mask> said that he did not know the details of the case and in December 2019 he was cleared of breaking the ministerial code. Early life and career
<mask> was born on 30 July 1970 in Swansea, Wales to Hewitt and <mask>. He grew up in the village of Clydach.He attended Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Pontardawe and Ysgol Gyfun Ddwyieithog Ystalyfera. His father was a welder at Port Talbot Steelworks, and his mother was a shopkeeper. He completed an MBA at University of Wales, Newport (now University of South Wales). <mask> worked as a petrol pump attendant before working for Lloyds Bank in 1989. He became a business development manager in 1992, and then field manager for the bank in 1998. Political career
<mask> stood as the Conservative Party candidate for Gower at the 1997 general election. He came second in the constituency which had been represented by the Labour Party since 1910.National Assembly for Wales
First elected to the assembly as AM for South Wales West in 1999, he was re-elected in 2003 and 2007 and served as the party's spokesman on economic development and transport for eight years. In the Third Assembly, he held the education and lifelong learning portfolio and also chaired the Assembly's Finance Committee. On 11 July 2007, he became the Shadow Minister for Education, Lifelong Learning and Skills in the National Assembly for Wales. As a member of the assembly's economic development and audit committees, he criticised the Welsh Government over a range of issues from transport infrastructure, European regional aid, public spending, and the Welsh economy. <mask> has also been a vocal opponent of the Scarweather Sands offshore wind farm development near Porthcawl. In September 2008, <mask> said that he asked for a National Assembly rule to be "clarified" to determine whether he could claim expenses for a second home in Cardiff. A rule change introduced in late 2006 by the Assembly's House Committee allowed him to claim expenses related to a flat in Cardiff even though his main home was reclassified as being situated in the Vale of Glamorgan.While taking part in BBC Radio Cymru's weekly radio show, Dau o'r Bae, on 13 June 2008, <mask> was asked to apologise on air for referring to Italians as "greasy wops", and immediately did so. He subsequently resigned from his post in the Shadow Cabinet on the following day. He was re-appointed to the Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Minister for Local Government on 22 October 2008 after completion of a party investigation. House of Commons
Whilst serving as an Assembly Member, <mask>, along with then fellow Conservative AM Rod Richards, contested the Conservative selection of Clwyd West ahead of the May 2001 general election, both were unsuccessful. <mask> was the Conservative Party's candidate for the Vale of Glamorgan at the 2005 general election, and was re-selected as Parliamentary candidate for the seat in July 2007. <mask> was suspended as the parliamentary candidate while the party carried out an investigation over his radio comments; he was reinstated as the parliamentary candidate on 22 October 2008. <mask> was elected as the MP for the Vale of Glamorgan at the May 2010 general election, gaining the seat from Labour with a majority of 4,307.<mask> is a member of the 'Curry Club' group of Conservatives, a dining society set up in 2010 composed of Conservative MPs that were seen as independently minded though not hostile to the then Prime Minister David Cameron. In 2011 <mask> became co-chairman of the newly formed All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Arch Cru Investment Scheme, intended to investigate the facts surrounding Arch Cru investment funds scandal and achieve justice for the victims. He was re-elected in 2015 with an increased majority of 6,880. In January 2016, the Labour Party unsuccessfully proposed an amendment in Parliament that would have required private landlords to make their homes "fit for human habitation". According to Parliament's register of interests, <mask> was one of 72 Conservative MPs who voted against the amendment who personally derived an income from renting out property. The Conservative Government responded to the amendment by stating that they believed homes should be fit for human habitation but did not want to pass the new law that would explicitly require it. Secretary of State for Wales
On becoming Secretary of State for Wales on 19 March 2016, <mask> replaced Stephen Crabb who became Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, and was appointed to the Privy Council on 22 March.<mask> supported a Remain vote in the 2016 EU membership referendum. He was once more re-elected to his Vale of Glamorgan seat in the 2017 general election, and increased his vote share for the third consecutive occasion. After re-election, in July 2017, <mask> announced that tolls on the Severn bridges from England into Wales would be abolished by the end of the following year, a move which he said could boost the south Wales economy by about £100m a year. In February 2018, during a meeting of the Welsh Grand Committee, <mask> became one of the first MPs ever to speak the Welsh language in a Westminster parliamentary debate. He commented: "I am proud to be using the language I grew up speaking, which is not only important to me, my family and the communities Welsh MPs represent, but is also an integral part of Welsh history and culture." <mask> was criticised by some Labour and Plaid Cymru politicians in April 2018 when he announced the Severn Bridge between Wales and England was to be renamed 'Prince of Wales Bridge' to mark the 60th anniversary of Prince Charles becoming the Prince of Wales. <mask> defended the decision by responding that a "silent majority" supported the name change, but a poll conducted by YouGov shortly after revealed 34% of respondents to be against the name change and only 17% in favour, while 47% had no strong feelings either way.<mask> has said he supports the proposed Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon renewable energy power plant, although he has expressed reservations in regard to the financial viability of the project, stating in 2017 that "none of us would want it to happen if it’s not good value for money for the taxpayer." <mask> came under criticism in 2018 when reports emerged the government was considering abandoning the project, Plaid Cymru politician Jonathan Edwards referring to <mask> as the "grim reaper of Welsh politics – the bearer of bad news" after <mask> highlighted concerns over the cost of the tidal lagoon relative to nuclear power stations. In June 2018, the UK government announced that the plans for the Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon would be scrapped. This led to Plaid Cymru tabling a motion of no confidence in <mask> at the National Assembly for Wales, a vote that if passed would not have forced <mask> to resign as Welsh Secretary but rather would serve as symbolic disapproval. The motion was defeated, with 9 in favour to 40 against, on 27 June. In Parliament, <mask> has previously served on the Public Administration Committee and Welsh Affairs Committee. In July 2019, he apologised for voting against same-sex marriage in 2013, stating: "I regret the decision to vote against it and see the positive difference it has made to the lives of many".He resigned from the government  on 6 November 2019, after evidence emerged that he had known about his former aide Ross England's role in the "sabotaging" of a rape trial, whom he later endorsed as a candidate for the Senedd. A Cabinet Office inquiry found that there was no evidence of his having breached the ministerial code; the rape victim, who had worked for Cairns alongside England, later claimed that the inquiry was "a sham". Views
Cairns believes the best route out of poverty is through employment. At a live BBC event in 2017, he said "Getting a job is absolutely the best way out of poverty", but that increasing the personal allowance for tax and raising the National Living Wage were also important. He has spoken in favour of fox hunting, stating it is a part of "countryside conservation". Cairns has claimed society is only on "step one" of gender equality, and further progress has to be made. He believes all of society stands to gain from gender equality because the UK economy depends on "harnessing the talent of women, capitalising on the wealth of skill they bring to our workplaces".BBC
As a member of the Downing Street Policy Board in 2013, <mask> asserted that it is the duty of the BBC to educate children about online dangers such as grooming and adult content, and implied it could be done through television shows such as EastEnders which he pointed out had educated the public in the past on issues like HIV, he said "the BBC's mission statement and stated public purposes fit perfectly for it to become the trusted source of advice on how to protect children online." In relation to the television licence fee, <mask> described it as "probably the UK’s most regressive tax", and stressed this meant transparency was vital. Despite this, <mask> considers himself a "critical friend" of the BBC. European Union
<mask> supported remaining in the European Union in the 2016 UK European Union membership referendum. In the campaign period leading up to the referendum, in a government pamphlet sent to all homes across Wales, he stated: "One thing I think we can all agree on is that Europe needs reform. The Prime Minister has fought hard to get a deal which gives the UK the protections it needs." He further stated that the UK had achieved "a special status" within Europe and how the deal negotiated would allow Britain to avoid "the Euro, open borders or the prospect of ever-closer union."After the UK voted to leave the European Union, <mask> came out in support of Brexit. In June 2017 he rejected the idea of the UK remaining in the EU single market in a 'soft' Brexit. In March 2018 he said he was "delighted" economic predictions about Brexit had been "proven wrong", adding: "I think people should be excited about the new opportunities as we leave the European Union." In November 2018 he endorsed Prime Minister Theresa May's negotiated agreement with the European Union on the United Kingdom's exit terms, though he said: "I don't like every element of this document because we've compromised". Welsh government
<mask> is a proponent of government decentralisation for Wales. He has noted specifically the example of English devolution and how it has created a "new dynamic" in England, one which he would like Wales "to be able to respond to" by "empowering the regions, north Wales, west Wales" as part of its own "new dynamic." Cairns envisions Wales as part of a potential "Western powerhouse", similar to the idea of the Northern Powerhouse in England, and in early 2018 set up the Severn Growth Summit to explore opportunities for boosting Welsh economic growth.Personal life
<mask> lives in London and his Vale of Glamorgan constituency with his wife Emma and son. He is an avid marathon runner, and as of 2018 has completed seven runs of the London Marathon. His London Marathon personal best time of 3:28:02 makes him the seventh fastest running MP of all time. References

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<mask> <mask> MP  Conservative Party profile
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<mask> (Brooklyn, June 12, 1920 – May 17, 2002) was an American cartoonist, most noted for his five decades of work in Mad of which The Lighter Side of... was the most famous. Early life

<mask> showed early artistic talents, attending Pratt Institute when he was 12 years old, and later studying at Cooper Union. He served a period of time in the Army Air Forces. In 1940, he joined Will Eisner's studio, where he wrote and drew for the Quality Comics line. <mask>'s work also appeared in Dell Comics and Fawcett Publications, typically on humorous back-up features. Beginning in the mid-1940s, he worked for several years with Stan Lee on comic books at Timely Comics (now known as Marvel Comics), ranging from Combat Kelly and The Ringo Kid to Tessie the Typist. He also freelanced for a half-dozen other companies, including EC Comics.<mask> retains notoriety as a contributing “good girl artist” during the 50s and 60s for such publications as editor Abe Goodman's Humorama, rendering attractive women using pinup stylings generally in the form of one-panel humorous gags. <mask>’s body of contributions during this period rank him alongside recognized contemporaries such as Bill Ward and Bill Wenzel. Beginning in 1983, he worked for a Jewish children's magazine, The Moshiach Times. <mask> began at Mad in 1957. For four years, he provided satirical looks at areas such as boating, babysitting, and baseball. In 1961, he started the magazine's "Lighter Side" feature, his most famous creation. <mask> would take an omnibus topic (such as "Noise," "Spectators" or "Dog Owners") and deliver approximately 15 short multi-panel cartoons on the subject.Beginning in #218 (October 1980), he abandoned the thematic approach, and thereafter covered multiple topics in each article. <mask> often included caricatures of his own family—headed by his cranky hypochondriac alter ego, Roger Kaputnik—as well as of the Mad editorial staff. Occasionally he drew fellow artists, including Don Martin in #110 (April 1967) and Al Jaffee in #119 (June 1968). His artistic style made <mask> one of the more realistic Mad artists, although his characters managed to sport garish early-1970s wardrobes well into the 1990s. The art chores for a 1993 article, "The First Day of School 30 Years Ago and Today", were split between <mask> and Rick Tulka, since <mask>'s old-fashioned appeal made him an ideal choice to depict the gentle nostalgia of 1963. The artist's lightweight gags and sometimes moralistic tone were roughly satirized by the National Lampoons 1971 Mad parody, which included a hard-hatted conservative and a longhaired hippie finding their only common ground by choking and beating <mask>. However, "The Lighter Side" had a long run as the magazine's most popular feature.Mad editor Nick Meglin often sketched layouts of "Lighter Side" panels. Sixteen original collections by <mask> were published as paperbacks between 1964 and 1987. <mask> held an honorary doctorate in theology. He produced regular religious-themed work for Moshiach Times and the B'nai Brith newsletter. His interaction with Mad'''s atheist publisher Bill Gaines was suitably irreverent: <mask> would tell Gaines, "God bless you," and Gaines would reply, "Go to Hell." Fellow Mad contributor Al Jaffee described <mask>'s unique personality in 2009: "<mask> had a messianic complex of some sort. He was battling ... he had good and evil inside of him, clashing all the time.It was sad, in a sense, because he wanted to be taken very seriously, and you know, the staffers at Mad just didn't take anything seriously. Most of all, ourselves ... It came out in a lot of the things he did. He had a very moralistic personality ... He wrote a book called My Friend God. And of course, if you write a book like that, you just know that the Mad staff is going to make fun of you. We would ask him questions like, "<mask>, when did you and God become such good friends?Did you go to college together, or what?" In this faith connection, <mask> was additionally hired to contribute content to The Magazine For Jewish Children, The Moshiach Times, by Rabbi Dr. Dovid Sholom Pape. According to Pape: "He was a wonderful writer and humorist, and he had a great Jewish heart. I asked him to prepare a series of cartoons that would, in a humorous way, illustrate basic ideas in Torah. To do this, he invented a fat character called Schlemiel who would always misunderstand things, and then there would be a couple of boys who would correct him." In 2002, <mask> told an interviewer, "There was a psychiatrist who filed my Lighter Sides in categories. When a patient would tell him their troubles, he would pull out one of my sequences and say, 'See, it happens to everyone.'"His characters occasionally made their way into other artists' works, such as Kaputnik finding himself a patient in a Mort Drucker spoof of St. Elsewhere, tagged "with apologies to <mask>". <mask> contributed to Mad for 46 years until his death, appearing in 368 issues. His last set of "Lighter Side" strips, which had been written but not penciled, were illustrated after <mask>'s death by 18 of Mads other artists as a final tribute; this affectionate send-off included the magazine's final new contributions from Jack Davis and George Woodbridge. In recent years, <mask>'s Lighter Side strips have been rewritten for Mad with inappropriately "un-Berg-like" humor by longtime Mad writer Dick DeBartolo and others; this irregular feature is called "The Darker Side of the Lighter Side." <mask>'s other work included the comic strips Citizen Senior (1989–93), Roger Kaputnik (1992) and Astronuts (1994). Death
After a long battle with cancer, he died in his home in Marina del Rey, California, shortly after midnight on May 17, 2002.<mask> was survived by his wife of 52 years, Vivian, and their two children, Mitch and Nancy. <mask> paperbacks

A hardcover reprint collection of <mask>'s work, Mad's Greatest Artists: <mask>: Five Decades of the Lighter Side of...'' was published in 2013. References

External links
 <mask> from Toons Mag
 Complete list of <mask>'s articles for Mad
 How Mad's <mask> and Roger Kaputnik Introduced Me to Post-Modernity by Terre Thaemlitz
 Lambiek: <mask>
The Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum Art Database

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American comics artists
Jewish American artists
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Cooper Union alumni
People from Brooklyn
Mad (magazine) cartoonists
United States Army Air Forces soldiers
People from Marina del Rey, California
EC Comics
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<mask> (September 20, 1890 – August 19, 1963) was a violinist known for her outstanding technique, which earned her the nickname "The lady of the golden bow". Although she left Canada at the age of four and did not permanently return until  1940, Parlow was sometimes billed as "The Canadian Violinist". Childhood

Parlow's mother, Minnie, took her to live in San Francisco when <mask> was four years old. <mask> bought her daughter a half-sized violin in San Francisco, and Parlow began receiving lessons from a cousin of hers who was a professional violin teacher, Conrad Coward. Her progress was very rapid with the instrument, and she soon began to receive lessons from a violin professor, Henry Holmes. To become a top professional violinist and to begin a concert career, Parlow followed the normal route for North Americans and moved to Europe. Parlow and her mother arrived in London on January 1, 1905.Upon attending a concert by Mischa Elman, the Parlows decided to seek out Elman's teacher, Leopold Auer. Minnie and <mask> had arrived in London with $300 raised by their church in San Francisco, which was not sufficient to get them to St. Petersburg, where Auer was a professor. To pay the cost of travel, the Parlows obtained a loan from Lord Strathcona, the Canadian High Commissioner. The pair travelled to Russia, and in October 1906, <mask> became the first foreigner to attend the St. Petersburg Conservatory. In her class of forty-five students, Parlow was the only female. Concert career
At 17, having spent a year at the conservatory, Parlow began to put on public performances. She gave solo performances in both St. Petersburg and Helsinki.Parlow and her mother had little money, and could not otherwise support themselves. Soon after, <mask> made her professional debut in Berlin, and then began a tour of Germany, the Netherlands and Norway. In Norway she performed for King Haakon and Queen Maud, of whom she would become a favourite. There she also met Einar Bjørnson, a wealthy Norwegian (son of Nobel laureate Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson) who would become her friend and patron. Bjørnson purchased for Parlow a Guarnerius del Gesù violin, made in 1735. The violin cost £2000 and had previously been owned by Viotti. Parlow travelled Europe with her mother performing for five years.Auer remained a strong influence on <mask>, who referred to him as "Papa Auer". Her mother and Auer arranged concerts and opportunities for <mask>, including concerts with famed conductors such as Thomas Beecham and Bruno Walter. In November 1910, Parlow returned to North America for a tour. Parlow performed in New York, Philadelphia, Montreal, Quebec, Ottawa and Kingston. Her first performance with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra was on March 16, 1911. Returning to her birthplace of western Canada, Parlow gave performances in Calgary, Regina, Moose Jaw, Saskatoon, Edmonton, Vancouver and Victoria. Her performances were lauded by provincial premiers, and both mother and daughter Parlow were pleased by her positive reception in western Canada.Parlow returned to England with her mother in 1911 for further concerts. Her mother would remain her constant travelling companion, well into adulthood. She performed in the Ostend Festival, preparing again with Auer. Parlow maintained a heavy touring schedule, crossing and recrossing the Atlantic to tour both Europe and North America. She participated in a benefit concert for survivors of the Titanic, and made her first recording at the request of Thomas Edison. She signed with Columbia Records to produce recordings. Until 1912, Parlow had performed primarily as a solo artist, but after meeting Ernesto Consolo, an Italian pianist, she began to perform chamber music.The Parlows were in England when World War I broke out. During the war, Parlow toured neutral nations of Europe such as the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway and Sweden. She returned to North America for a tour in the spring of 1916. She returned to England, but the increasing difficulty of travel kept her there until 1919. Her former teacher emigrated to New York around this time because of the political situation in Russia, but Parlow worked with him less and less. Parlow began her fifth tour of North American in December 1920, and she gave her first radio performance in Seattle in April 1922. After this, Parlow went on a 22-month tour that included Hawaii, Indonesia, China, Singapore, Korea and Japan.She made recordings for the Nipponophone Company while in Japan. Parlow continued touring, returning to Europe, but in 1926 she took a break. Motivated by the stress of traveling or perhaps a broken relationship, she stopped performing for a year. To renew her career, she traveled to Mexico for concerts. There she was praised by critics, but her financial situation remained poor. Her tour of Mexico in 1929 was her first without her mother. Later years
With her concert career not particularly profitable, Parlow looked for other career options.In 1929, she was appointed to the faculty of Mills College in Oakland, California. She received an honorary Master of Arts degree from Mills College in 1933. While at Mills College she began to play in string quartets, in which she played violin, and in 1935 she formed the South Mountain Parlow Quartet. In 1936, Parlow accepted a position at the Juilliard School of Music. She remained there until World War II, when she returned to Canada and gave a series of lecture-recitals at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. She wrote to Sir Ernest MacMillan about a permanent position with the Royal Conservatory of Music, and obtained one in 1941. While there, she was a teacher for the singer Gisèle LaFleche, violinist Ivan Romanoff, and the conductor Victor Feldbrill.She became a regular performer with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra as well, bringing additional income. In Toronto, she organised the Canadian Trio, which she performed in with Zara Nelsova playing the cello, and Sir Ernest MacMillan playing piano. The trio debuted with a performance of Schubert's Trio in B-flat Major, and Haydn's Trio in A Major and Tchaikovsky's Trio in A minor. They received excellent reviews and the trio continued performing across southern Ontario, as well as on radio, until 1944. The Canadian Trio was earning as much as $750 per performance. Inspired by this success, Parlow started her third string quartet in 1942, called the Parlow String Quartet. The quartet also included Isaac Mamott on cello, Samuel Hersenhoren as second violin and violist John Dembeck.<mask> did all the administrative work for the quartet. The quartet gave concerts in Canada, both live and on radio, but did not travel to any other countries. Their first performance was broadcast on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 1943, and they remained together for 15 years. During this time, <mask> remained the head of the quartet, but the other performers were occasionally replaced. As <mask>'s career began to decline, her financial situation became progressively worse, and Godfrey Ridout and other friends of hers established a fund to support her. In October 1959, she was appointed head of the College of Music of the University of Western Ontario, which provided much needed income. She died on August 19, 1963, and her will set up the <mask> Scholarship for stringed instrument players at the University of Toronto, with the money from her estate and $40,000 from the sale of her violin.A biography written by her cousin, Maida <mask> French, appeared in 1967. Students of Parlow
 Andrew Benac
 Charles Dobias
 Marilyn Doty
 Marjorie Edwards
 Victor Feldbrill
 Sydney Humphreys
 Gerhard Kander
 Morry Kernerman
 Emanuel Leplin
  Jack Montague
 Joseph Pach
 Rowland Pack
 Marianne Moreland Pashler
 James Pataki
 Clara Schranz
 Miriam Solovieff
 Erica Zentner

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 Archival papers at University of Toronto Music Library
 Digital collection at University of Toronto Music Library

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Juilliard School faculty
University of Western Ontario faculty
Canadian emigrants to the United States
1890 births
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<mask> (20 May 1904 – 30 June 1966) was an English novelist from the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", best remembered for her hero, the gentleman sleuth Albert Campion. Initially believed to be a parody of Dorothy L. Sayers's detective Lord Peter Wimsey, Campion matured into a strongly individual character, part-detective, part-adventurer, who formed the basis for 18 novels and many short stories. Life and career

Childhood and schooling
<mask> was born on 20 May 1904 in Ealing, London, the eldest daughter of Herbert John (1868-1936) and <mask>, née Emily Jane Hughes (1879-1960). She had a younger brother Philip William, and a younger sister <mask>. Her family was immersed in literature; her parents were both writers. Her father was editor of the Christian Globe and The New London Journal, to which Margery later contributed articles and Sexton Blake stories, and he had become a successful pulp fiction writer, and her mother, as <mask>, was a contributor of stories to women's magazines. Soon after Margery's birth the family left London for Essex, where they lived in an old house in Layer Breton, a village near Colchester.She attended a local school and then the Perse School for Girls in Cambridge, all the while writing stories and plays. She earned her first fee at the age of eight, for a story printed in her aunt's magazine. Upon returning to London in 1920 she studied drama and speech training at Regent Street Polytechnic, which helped her manage a stammer which she had  since childhood. At this time she first met her future husband, Philip Youngman Carter, whom she married in 1927. He collaborated with her and designed the jackets for many of her books. They lived on the edge of the Essex Marshes in Tolleshunt D'Arcy, near Maldon. Early writings
While she was enrolled at the Regent Street Polytechnic she wrote a verse play, Dido and Aeneas, which was performed at St. George's Hall, London, and the Cripplegate Theatre, London.<mask> played the role of Dido and the scenery was designed by Philip Youngman Carter. Her first novel, Blackkerchief Dick, was published in 1923, when she was 19. It was allegedly based on a story she had heard during a séance, though later in life this was debunked by her husband. Nevertheless, <mask> continued to include occult themes in many of her novels. Blackkerchief Dick was well received, but was not a financial success. She wrote several plays in this period and attempted to write a serious novel, but finding that her themes clashed with her natural light-heartedness, she decided instead to try the mystery genre. Campion and success
Her breakthrough occurred in 1929 with the publication of The Crime at Black Dudley.This introduced Albert Campion, initially as a minor character, thought to be a parody of Dorothy Sayers’s Lord Peter Wimsey. Campion returned in Mystery Mile, thanks in part to pressure from her American publishers, who had been taken with the character. With a strong central character and a format to work in, she began to produce a series of Campion novels. At first she also continued writing short stories and articles for magazines such as The Strand Magazine, but as her Campion saga went on her sales grew steadily. Campion proved so successful that <mask> made him the centrepiece of another 17 novels and more than 20 short stories, continuing into the 1960s. Campion is a mysterious upper-class character (early novels hint that his family is in the line of succession to the throne), working under an assumed name. He floats between the upper echelons of the nobility and government on the one hand, and the shady world of the criminal class on the other, often accompanied by his scurrilous ex-burglar servant Magersfontein Lugg.During the course of his career Campion is sometimes a detective, sometimes an adventurer. The first three Campion novels, The Crime at Black Dudley, Mystery Mile and Look to the Lady, were all written by what <mask> referred to as the "plum pudding" method, focused less on methods of murder or the formal strictures of the whodunit and more on mixing possibilities together. As the series progresses, however, Campion comes to work more closely with the police and MI6 counter-intelligence. He also falls in love, gets married and has a child, and as time goes by he grows in wisdom and matures emotionally. The style and format of the books moved on: while the early novels are light-hearted whodunnits or "fantastical" adventures, The Tiger in the Smoke (1952) is more a character study than a crime novel, focusing on the serial killer Jack Havoc. In many of the later books Campion plays a subsidiary role, no more prominent than the roles of his wife Amanda and his police associates, and in the last novel he is a minor character. In 1941 <mask> published a non-fiction work, The Oaken Heart, which describes her experiences in Essex when an invasion from Germany was expected and actively being planned for, potentially placing the civilian population of Essex in the front line.Death
<mask> suffered from breast cancer and died at Severalls Hospital, Colchester, England, on 30 June 1966, aged 62. Her final Campion novel, Cargo of Eagles, was completed by her husband at her request, and was published in 1968. Compilations of her work, both with and without Albert Campion, continued to be released through the 1970s. The Margery Allingham Omnibus, comprising Sweet Danger, The Case of the Late Pig and The Tiger in the Smoke, with a critical introduction by Jane Stevenson, was published in 2006. <mask> was buried in the newer cemetery in Tolleshunt D'Arcy, which is across the road from the graveyard of St Nicholas's Church and about half a mile to the south. Legacy
A film version of Tiger in the Smoke was made in 1956 and a highly popular series of Campion adaptations, now available on DVD, was shown by the BBC in 1989–90. It is titled simply Campion and stars Peter Davison as Campion and Brian Glover as Lugg.Several books have been written about <mask> and her work, including:
 <mask> <mask>: 100 Years of a Great Mystery Writer edited by Marianne van Hoeven (2003)
 Margery <mask>: A Biography by Julia Thorogood (1991); revised as The Adventures of <mask> <mask> as by Julia Jones (2009). Ink in Her Blood: The Life and Crime Fiction of <mask> <mask> by Richard Martin (1988)
 Campion's Career: A Study of the Novels of <mask> <mask> by B.A. Pike (1987)

Bibliography

Albert Campion Novel Series

Short stories and novellas
Formula for Murder. This Week, 5 May 1935
The Great London Jewel Robbery. This Week, 27 February 1955
A Matter of Form
A Proper Mystery
Bird Thou Never Wert
Borderline Case
Evidence in Camera
Frenchmen Wear Gloves
Bluebeard's Bathtub. This Week, 23 September 1956
It Didn't Work Out
It Needed Someone Innocent. Published as Wanted, Someone Innocent
Miss Amber
Publicity
Jubilee for Two
Safe as Houses
The Case is Altered
The Case of the White Elephant.Also published as The White Elephant
The Correspondents
The Danger Point
The Definite Article
The Dog Day
The Friend
The Hat Trick
The Lieabout
The Longer View
The Man with the Sack
The Meaning of the Act
The Mistress of the House
The Name on the Wrapper
The Old Man in the Window
The Perfect Butler
The Pioneers
The Pro and the Con
The Question Mark
The Wind Glass
They Never Get Caught
Tis Not Hereafter
You've Got to Have Brains

Non-fiction
Is Golf a Menace to Marriage? The Public Spirit of Francis Smith

Radio plays
A Corner in Crime
Room to Let (1947) (filmed in 1950)

Stage plays
Water in a Sieve

Other works by <mask> <mask>
 Blackkerchief Dick (1923)
 The White Cottage Mystery (1928)
 The Darings of the Red Rose (1930) Published anonymously in the Weekly Welcome magazine
 Black Plumes (1940)
 The Oaken Heart (1941: autobiographical)
 Dance of the Years (1943: also known as The Galantrys)
 Wanted: Someone Innocent (1946: novella and short stories)
Wanted: Someone Innocent
He Was Asking After You
The Sexton's Wife
'Tis Not Hereafter
 Deadly Duo (1949: UK title Take Two at Bedtime (1950)) – two novellas:
 Wanted: Someone Innocent
 Last Act
 Take Two at Bedtime (1950) (novellas)
Last Act
Wanted: Someone Innocent
 No Love Lost (1954) (novellas)
 The Patient at Peacocks Hall
 Safer Than Love
 The Allingham Case-Book (1969: short stories)
"Black Plumes" (some re-prints)
"The Border-Line Case" (Mr. Campion)
"Evidence in Camera"
"Face Value"
"Is There a Doctor in the House?" "Joke Over" (Mr. Campion)
"The Lieabout"
"Little Miss Know-All" (Mr. Campion)
"The Lying-in-State"
"The Mind's Eye Mystery"
"Mum Knows Best" (Mr. Campion)
"One Morning They'll Hang Him" (Mr. Campion)
"The Pioneers"
"The Pro and the Con" (Mr. Campion)
"The Psychologist"
"The Snapdragon and the C.I.D." (Mr. Campion)
"Tall Story" (Mr. Campion)
"They Never Get Caught"
"Three Is a Lucky Number"
"The Villa Marie Celeste" (Mr. Campion)
 The Darings of the Red Rose (Crippen & Landru, 1995)
 Three is a Lucky Number

As Maxwell March (a pseudonym)
 Other Man's Danger (1933: US title The Man of Dangerous Secrets)
 Rogues' Holiday (1935)
 The Shadow in the House (1936: US title The Devil and Her Son)

References

Further reading
 CLUES: A Journal of Detection 23.1 (Fall 2004). Ed. Margaret Kinsman. Theme issue on Margery Allingham.Joshi, S. T. "<mask> <mask>: Murder, Gangs and Spies." In Varieties of Crime Fiction (Wildside Press, 2019) . Pike, B. A. "The Short Stories of <mask> <mask>." CLUES: A Journal of Detection 25.4 (Summer 2007): 27–36. External links

 The Margery Allingham Society
 A brief biography and analysis from ClassicCrimeFiction.com

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1966 deaths
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People educated at the Perse School for Girls
Women mystery writers
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20th-century English women writers
20th-century English novelists
People from Ealing
People from Maldon District

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<mask> (born 11 March 1966) is an Indian playback singer, known for his work in Hindi films. He was a part of the Silk Route band. Chauhan has received two Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer and three Zee Cine Award For Best Male Playback Singer awards. He has recorded several songs for films and albums many different languages, and is one of is one of the most prominent Indipop singers. Early life
<mask> was born in the town of Nahan, Sirmaur district, Himachal Pradesh, on 11 March 1966. Because of his father's transferable job, he studied in various schools of Himachal Pradesh, including Our Lady of Snows Highschool in Kullu, and St. Luke's Senior Secondary School, Solan. Chauhan earned a Master of Science in Geology from a government college at Dharamshala affiliated to Himachal Pradesh University.He has not received any formal training in music. He got influenced by his grandfather who was a classical singer and used to sing and play guitar, harmonica and flute. He was also influenced by legendary singer Kishore Kumar.He wanted to become an actor before his debut in the music industry. Career
<mask>, Kem Trivedi and Kenny Puri were the vocalists for Silk Route. His first album, Boondein, was released in 1998 and featured the popular songs "Dooba Dooba" and "Pehchan". The second album was released in 2000. After Silk Route was discontinued in 2008, he released another album "Fitoor" in 2009.<mask>'s film singing career began in 2002 when he sung "Pehli Nazar Mein Dari Thi" from the film Road. His songs "Khoon Chala" from Rang De Basanti and "Tum Se Hi" from Jab We Met are regarded as his most notable. He won the Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer prize in 2010 for the song Masakali. In 2011, he was featured in the third episode of The Dewarists for his song "Maaya". He was also featured on MTV Unplugged in the same year. In 2017, he made his Gujarati language debut with the song "Jaag Re Banda" from the movie Last Chance. His first ever Himachali songs were "Puchhe Amma" and "Deva Mere" from the film Saanjh.Bollywood Debut:2002-07
After the massive success of "Dooba Dooba" and "Boondein", which earned him awards and recognition, Chauhan was approached by composer Sandesh Shandilya to sing in films. Chauhan made his debut with Shandilya's composition of the song "Pehli Nazar Me Dari Thi" from the 2002 film Road. The next year, he sang for the films Main Madhuri Dixit Banana Chahati Hoon and Kyun, but didn't get any recognition. This was followed by "Sabse Peeche Hum Khade" for the 2004 film Let's Enjoy, "Paintra" and "Guncha Koi" for the 2005 film Main Meri Patni aur Woh in which he also served as composer, and the song "Angna" and "Rowan Akhiya" for the film Adharma. A.R. Rahman, who had noticed Chauhan at the award win for Silk Route, called him to sing "Khoon Chala" for the film Rang De Basanti. The song proved to be a breakthrough for him, and in 2007, he followed this up with his first major hit song in the Pritam-composed romantic ballad "Tum Se Hi" for the film Jab We Met, penned by Irshad Kamil; both Pritam and writer-director Imtiaz Ali wanted Chauhan to lend his voice for this romantic track.2008-10

<mask> followed the success of "Tum Se Hi" with the song "Kuchh Khaas Hai" in 2008, composed by Salim–Sulaiman, for Fashion. He reunited with Pritam for Kismat Konnection where he performed "Kahi na Lage Man (Is This Love) " along with Shreya Ghoshal. "Ankhon Hi Ankhon Mein", a soft romantic number from EMI, had him appear on screen for the first time in the song's music video. He also sang for his first animated film Bolt where he sang the Hindi version of "I Thought I Lost You". 2009 was the most successful year in Chauhan's career, as of the 8 songs he recorded, 4 of them  "Masakali" from Delhi-6, "Yeh Dooriyan" from Love Aaj Kal, "Pehli Baar Mohabbat" from Kaminey and "Tune Jo Na Kaha" from New York  were huge chartbusters, establishing him as an audience favourite among the younger generation. 2010 proved to be a moderately successful follow-up to Chauhan's success from the previous year, as his songs became popular. Among his 2010 songs, the romantic number "Pee Loon" from Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai, picturized on Emraan Hashmi, was a rage.2011

Chauhan had his biggest rise to national prominence in 2011 as he attracted mainstream attention for his contribution to the soundtrack of Rockstar, which reunited him with Ali and Rahman after almost half-a-decade; the 9 songs he recorded for the film as the voice of the protagonist Jordan played by Ranbir Kapoor were all massive chartbusters at the time of release, and continue to be treated as cult songs till date. Among other successful songs he recorded that year, "Abhi Kuch Dino Se" from Dil Toh Baccha Hai Ji and "Khwabon Ke Parinday" from Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, "Acha Lagta Hai" from Aarakshan were highly popular. 2015-Present

In 2020, Chauhan sang "Dheere Dheere Se" for the film Guns of Banaras, composed by Sohail Sen and written by Sameer. He sang "Yeh Dooriyaa" which is composed by Pritam from the film Love Aaj Kal (2020). This song is new version of "Yeh Dooriyaan" chartbuster from the film Love Aaj Kal (2009). Both the version are written by Irshad Kamil There is a remix version too which is released by Sony Music India. He sang "Meethi Meethi Gallan", "Kisi Gair Ka Nahi", and "Salaam".Salaam is a tribute to corona warriors by Chauhan. He also features in a video of " Hum Haar Nahi Maanenge" composed by AR Rahman. In 2019 Chauhan performed at Kargil Vijay Diwas, he sung "Khoon Chala" his song from Rang De Basanti, as a tribute to the brave Indian Soldiers. Prime Minister Narendra Modi & Defence Minister Rajnath Singh were present. The event held at Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium in New Delhi. Discography

Personal life

Chauhan married Prarthna Gehlot on June 29, 2012. <mask> is an active participant in the not-for-profit public limited companies National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC), which encourages young people to follow beneficial vocational training initiatives.Chauhan regularly fed 60-70 stray dogs in Delhi at the time of Lockdown in India due to COVID-19 pandemic. "Before the Lockdown, there were people who would feed the strays. But now, they’ve stopped. The stray dogs in Delhi don’t hunt and depend on humans to feed them. So, I’ve been going around giving them food and water", says Chauhan. Filmography

Awards and honours

Chauhan has received two Filmfare Awards, one IIFA Award, three Zee Cine Awards, and one Screen Award. He was listed in the Forbes Celebrity 100 of 2012.References

External links
<mask> Chauhan at Lastfm

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Living people
Indian male playback singers
Indian guitarists
Indian male musicians
Harmonica players
Bollywood playback singers
Indian male pop singers
Hindi-language singers
Indian flautists
Participants in Indian reality television series
Ballad musicians
People from Sirmaur district
Musicians from Himachal Pradesh
Himachal Pradesh University alumni

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