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<mask> ( ; born June 6, 1954) is an American actor, playwright and screenwriter. He is best known for his theater work in Torch Song Trilogy and Hairspray and movie roles in Mrs. Doubtfire, Independence Day, and as the voice of Yao in Mulan and Mulan II. <mask> won two Tony Awards, Best Actor in a Play and Best Play, for Torch Song Trilogy. He received his third Tony Award, Best Book of a Musical, for the musical La Cage aux Folles and his fourth, the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical, for playing Edna Turnblad in Hairspray. <mask> also wrote the book for the Tony Award-winning musicals Kinky Boots, Newsies, and A Catered Affair. He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2007. For his role on the television show Cheers, he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.Early life and education
<mask> was born in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York City, the son of Jacqueline Harriet ( Gilbert), a school librarian, and <mask>, a handkerchief manufacturer. He was raised Jewish, but later rejected the faith and became an atheist. <mask> attended High School of Art and Design and received a BFA from the Pratt Institute in 1973. He began working in the theater as a founding member of The Gallery Players of Park Slope before being cast in Andy Warhol's only play, Pork. <mask>'s signature gravelly voice is a result of an overdeveloped vestibular fold in his vocal cords, essentially giving him a "double voice" when he speaks. Prior to puberty, <mask> was a soprano in a professional boys' choir. Career

<mask> is best known for the play and film Torch

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texts: Song Trilogy, which he wrote and starred in both off-Broadway (with a young Matthew Broderick) and on Broadway (with Estelle Getty and Fisher Stevens).The 1982 Broadway production won him two Tony Awards, for Best Play and Best Actor in a Play; two Drama Desk Awards, for Outstanding New Play and Outstanding Actor in a Play; and the Theatre World Award. The film adaptation earned him an Independent Spirit Award nomination as Best Male Lead. <mask> also wrote the book for La Cage aux Folles (1983), winning another Tony Award, this time for Best Book of a Musical, and a Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Book. Legs Diamond, his 1988 collaboration with Peter Allen, was a critical and commercial failure, closing after 72 previews and 64 performances, but the songs live on in Peter Allen's biographical musical, The Boy from Oz. In 2007, <mask> wrote the book to the musical A Catered Affair in which he also starred. After tryouts at San Diego's Old Globe Theatre in September 2007, the show opened on Broadway April 17, 2008. It received 12 Drama Desk Award nominations and won the Drama League Award for Distinguished Production of a Musical.<mask> wrote the book for the stage musical Newsies, along with Alan Menken (music) and Jack Feldman (lyrics). The musical opened on Broadway in March 2012. <mask> was nominated for the Tony Award for Book of a Musical. <mask> wrote the book for a stage musical version of the film Kinky Boots with music and lyrics by Cyndi Lauper. After a fall 2012 run at the Bank of America Theatre in Chicago, it opened at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre on Broadway in April 2013. The musical was

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 nominated for thirteen 2013 Tony Awards and won six, including best musical. <mask>'s play Casa Valentina was produced on Broadway by the Manhattan Theatre Club at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.The play opened in April 2014. It was directed by Joe Mantello, with a cast that featured Patrick Page, John Cullum, and Mare Winningham. In April 2016, <mask>, along with his Kinky Boots collaborator Cyndi Lauper, was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2019 <mask> wrote and starred in Bella Bella, a one-person play about New York Congresswoman Bella Abzug. It premiered at Manhattan Theatre Club's Stage One at City Center. His other playwriting credits include Safe Sex, Spookhouse, and Forget Him. <mask> wrote the teleplay for the December 3, 2015 NBC TV broadcast of The Wiz Live!, featuring Stephanie Mills as Aunt Em, Queen Latifah as The Wiz, and David Alan Grier as the Lion.The teleplay is an adaptation of The Wiz Broadway production which ran from October 1974 until January 1979. <mask> then wrote the teleplay for, and starred in, the 2016 NBC TV broadcast of Hairspray Live! with Ariana Grande, Jennifer Hudson, Kristin Chenoweth, and Martin Short. As one of the first openly gay celebrities in the United States, <mask> helped make gay and lesbian life into viable subjects for contemporary drama "with no apologies and no climactic suicides". In addition to his theatrical work, <mask> has authored op-eds for The New York Times, HuffPost, and PBS. Acting
<mask> made his acting debut at La MaMa, E.T.C. in Andy Warhol's only play, Pork.<mask> continued to appear at La MaMa and other venues but, also

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texts: having some aspirations to become a painter, enrolled at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from Pratt in 1973. <mask> appeared three times in The Haunted Host by Robert Patrick: in Boston in 1975, at La MaMa, and then off-Broadway in 1991. In addition to Torch Song Trilogy, La Cage aux Folles, and A Catered Affair, Fierstein's Broadway acting credits include playing the mother, Edna Turnblad, in Hairspray (2002), for which he won a Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical. He later replaced Alfred Molina as Tevye in the 2004 revival of Fiddler on the Roof. Besides his leading role in the film version of Torch Song Trilogy co-starring Matthew Broderick and Anne Bancroft, Fierstein's film roles include Woody Allen's Bullets over Broadway and Merv Green in Death to Smoochy, in addition to parts in Garbo Talks, Duplex, Kull the Conqueror, and Independence Day. He narrated the documentary The Times of Harvey Milk, for which he won a News & Documentary Emmy Award.He also voiced the role of Yao in Disney's animated feature Mulan, a role he later reprised for the video game Kingdom Hearts II and the direct-to-DVD sequel Mulan II. In 1993 <mask> co-starred with Mara Wilson, Lisa Jakub, Matthew Lawrence, Sally Field, and Robin Williams in Mrs. Doubtfire. On television, <mask> was featured as the voice of Karl, Homer Simpson's assistant, in the "Simpson and Delilah" episode of "The Simpsons" and the voice of Elmer in the 1999 HBO special based on his children's book The Sissy Duckling, which won the Humanitas Prize for Children's Animation. In 1994, <mask> became the

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texts: first openly gay actor to play a principal gay character in a television series when he appeared as fashion designer Dennis Sinclair in the short-lived CBS series Daddy's Girls. Additional credits include Miami Vice; Murder, She Wrote; the Showtime television movie Common Ground (which he also wrote); and Cheers, which earned him an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. He sang a tribute to Katie Couric on "Today" on May 31, 2006, her last day as anchor. He appeared as Heat Miser in the live-action remake of The Year Without a Santa Claus in December 2006.More recent television performances include an episode of Family Guy and a second-season episode of the series Nurse Jackie. He also provided the voice-over for Lily in the episode "Last Cigarette Ever" of How I Met Your Mother, when she gets a sore throat due to smoking. <mask> returned to the theatre when he reprised the role of Tevye, replacing an injured Chaim Topol, in the national tour of Fiddler on the Roof starting in December 2009. On February 15, 2011, he replaced Douglas Hodge as Albin/Zaza in the Broadway revival of La Cage aux Folles playing opposite Jeffrey Tambor as Georges, although days later Tambor pulled out, which the producers have stated was due to "complications from a recent hip surgery"; Christopher Sieber quickly replaced Tambor. The show closed on May 1, 2011, after playing 433 performances and 15 previews. <mask> wrote and starred in the solo monologue play Bella Bella, about Bella Abzug. The play opened off-Broadway at the Manhattan Theatre Club's City Center Stage 1 on October 1, 2019,

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 directed by Kimberly Senior.Personal life

Gender identity
Speaking with People magazine in 2022 to promote his memoir I Was Better Last Night, <mask> stated "I'm still confused as to whether I'm a man or a woman" and that as a child he often wondered if he'd been born in the wrong body: "When I was a kid, I was attracted to men. I didn't feel like a boy was supposed to feel. Then I found out about gay. So that was enough for me for then." The interview also noted his ease at playing both Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof and Edna Turnblad in Hairspray. He avoided identifying as non-binary in the interview, saying he had thought about it a lot and "it's the term that bothers me", but concluded that "I don't think I've missed anything by not making up my mind". Theater credits

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External links

Review of Torch Song Trilogy, with information about Fierstein
TonyAwards.com Interview with <mask>
 Donald L. Brooks' memoir of early casting of <mask> and commissioning and directing <mask>'s first play.<mask> papers (MS 1864). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library. 1954 births
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<mask> (4 June 1913 – 8 November 2004) was an Italian composer and teacher. Biography
<mask> was born in  Milan where he later completed his studies at the Conservatorio "G. Verdi" in Milan, under the tutelage of Giulio Cesare Paribeni and Renzo Bossi. He held the title of professor of composition at that same institute, and he trained many notable contemporary Italian musicians, including Claudio Abbado, Emiliano Bucci, Elisabetta Brusa, Gilberto Serembe, Danilo Lorenzini, Roberto Cacciapaglia, <mask>, Aldo Ceccato, Riccardo Chailly, Azio Corghi, Armando Gentilucci, Riccardo Muti, Angelo Paccagnini,  <mask>, Silvia Bianchera, Umberto Benedetti Michelangeli, Caterina Calderoni, Barbara Rettagliati, Massimo Berzolla, Maurizio Pollini, Uto Ughi and many others. He also taught the Italian singer-songwriter Gianna Nannini. He received many international awards for composition, including a prize from Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome in the 1940s. He has also worked in musicology and music criticism. His compositions are currently performed all over the world.<mask>'s music is published primarily by Ricordi, Suvini Zerboni, and Sonzogno. <mask> died in Milan in 2004 at the age of 91. As a memoriam to <mask>, Milan's Edizioni Musicali European (EME), in collaborations with the magazines "Cartellina" and "Chorus," established a national competition for choral composition in his name. Music
One of the greatest italian composers of all time, <mask> is an author of symphonic, choral, opera, and chamber music. His younger works incorporated a contrapuntal neoclassicism, influenced by Igor Stravinsky, Paul Hindemith, and Béla Bartók, not to mention the Italian

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 composers Alfredo Casella, Goffredo Petrassi and Gian Francesco Malipiero. His later music evolved constantly, incorporating new elements, such as atonality and 12-tone music, to blend it into a free chromatic language, always expressing formal structures and becoming one of the most personal achievements in Twentieth century italian music along with Casella, Malipiero, Ghedini, Dallapiccola and Petrassi. Of particular note are his orchestral output which makes him the most important italian composers of symphonies of the second half of Twentieth century and his choral works, as he collected and set many traditional Italian folk songs that had heretofore only survived through oral tradition.Symphony No. 1)
Due invenzioni for string orchestra (1939)
Concerto per orchestra in tre tempi (1940)
Introduzione for string orchestra (1941)
Fantasia e fuga su temi gregoriani (Fantasy and Fugue on Gregorian themes) for string orchestra (1944)
Divertimento for small orchestra (1944)
Concerto da camera for small orchestra (1952)
Concerto for piano and orchestra (1952–1953)
Sinfonia breve for orchestra (1954) (a.k.a. Symphony No. <mask>, La composizione musicale, Rugginenti Editore, Milano (1996). Giulio Mercati, <mask>. Il cammino di un musicista, Rugginenti Editore, Milano (1998). Pier Damiano Peretti, Frammenti d'infinito.La musica per organo di <mask>. Arte Organaria e Organistica 13, 2006, Nr. 61, 42-47. External links
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<mask> (born 16 September 1943, Bristol) is a British former politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Spelthorne in Surrey from 1987 to 2010 and was considered to be to the right of his party. Wilshire introduced Section 28 legislation in 1988 and in 2009 was implicated in the United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal. On 14 October 2009 <mask> admitted using parliamentary expenses to pay £105,000 over three years to Moorlands Research Services, a company he set up and owned with his partner Ann Palmer to run his office. While the relevant authorities had approved this, the following day, after a meeting with the Conservative Chief Whip, he announced that he would not be standing as a candidate at the next general election. Outside of Parliament
He was educated at Kingswood School, Bath and Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge where he received an MA in Geography in 1965. He was a councillor on Wansdyke District Council from 1976 to 1987 and served as leader from 1981 to 1987.He was elected as councillor on Avon County Council from 1977 to 1981. He also worked for Conservative MEPs from 1979 to 1985. As well as building up his own group of small businesses and working as a personnel officer and a schoolteacher, he was a partner with Western Political Research Services (1979–2000); the co-director of Political Management Programme, Brunel University (1985–90) and became a partner of Moorlands Research Service in 2000. <mask> is separated with one son. In 1982 his daughter died, aged 12, after choking at school. His main home is in Somerset, where he lives with his partner Ann Palmer. Parliamentary career

Section 28 and sexual orientation issues
Shortly after being elected as an MP in 1987, Wilshire saw a copy of the book Jenny Lives with Eric and Martin, about two gay men and their daughter, a copy of which was stocked in an Inner London Education Authority

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 education and public functions on the grounds of sexual orientation. In each case Wilshire's vote was in the minority. Political views
Wilshire voted against bans on hunting and smoking, and voted both for and against the Iraq War. He opposed the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland and was one of the first Conservative MPs to declare that he would never support UK entry into a single European currency. In 1995 <mask> protested to the then prime minister, John Major, about the government's proposals to allow people from Hong Kong to live in the UK. He received criticism by stating: "It's not acceptable to the British people to let in one more … this country is full up."<mask> voted against the introduction of the National Minimum Wage in 1999 by opposing the National Minimum Wage Act 1998. In 2009 he became one of 11 MPs
to back the Employment Opportunities Bill, which aimed to abolish the minimum wage, but was defeated in Parliament. He opposed the idea that MPs should not have second jobs and stated that "state employed parliamentarians" would be something that "Stalin would applaud". He combined being an MP with being the partner of Moorlands Research Service for eight years and from 1987 to 1990 combined being an MP with two other jobs. He was one of 21 Conservative MPs to vote in favour of keeping the additional costs allowance for MPs' second homes, despite <mask>'s calls for it to be reformed. He went against the official Conservative Party line and supported the construction of a third runway at Heathrow Airport, which, although it lies just outside the Spelthorne constituency, nevertheless provides employment for a considerable number of people locally. Wilshire described those that opposed the expansion as the "anti-brigade", which included the Conservative Party leader <mask>, whom he accused of peddling a "lie" that transit passengers at Heathrow spent almost nothing.It later emerged that

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texts: <mask> had spent over £1,000 of taxpayers' money on furniture in 2004, which contradicted his previous claims. When challenged on this, he refused to give an interview but sent an email to the local press in which he stated that: "I obtained the cheapest self-assembly replacement available from MFI". However, even this email caused him more problems, as in it he stated that he had bought the flat in 1983 — four years before he had become an MP and four years before when he previously revealed he had bought it. He later wrote a letter to the paper stating that he did buy the flat in 1987 and that the paper's journalists had been forgetful about facts he had told them, and had confused "furnishing a property with repairing it". The newspaper replied that it stood by what it had reported. When local demands grew for Wilshire to meet his constituents over the claims, Mr <mask> expressed that he would only meet them one-to-one, and would not hold a public meeting. As a result, the 'Conservative Anti-Corruption Group' was formed, which aimed to oust <mask> at the 2010 General Election.One of its members included a former Conservative councillor and canvassing partner of Mr <mask>. Shortly afterwards, at a Spelthorne Conservative Association Meeting, six members of the Conservative Party announced they were prepared to stand against him at the 2010 General Election. Following further investigation by The Daily Telegraph, on 14 October 2009, Wilshire asked the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner to investigate his office expenses. <mask> admitted using parliamentary expenses to pay £105,000 over three years to Moorlands Research Services, a company he set up and owned with his partner Ann Palmer to run his office, but insisted it was approved by the authorities. Parliamentary expenses rules forbid MPs from entering into arrangements which "may give rise to an accusation" of profiting from public funds. <mask>

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 told the BBC that he had referred himself to the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner as the only way to answer the questions about his expenses, and that the company had never made a profit and had been wound up. Moorlands Research Services was never registered with Companies House, and never filed public accounts.The following day, <mask> announced that he would stand down as an MP, saying that he was reluctant to do this, but accepted it was the 'sensible' thing to do. On 2 November 2009, when the Parliamentary Standards Commission ended its probe into him without producing any results, <mask> apologised for equating his treatment over expenses to the Holocaust. First Council of Europe Official Visit to Separatist Georgian State's Moscow Outpost
On 20 April 2010, as Co-rapporteur of the Monitoring Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) he held a meeting with member of the government of separatist South Ossetia (Georgia) in the self-proclaimed Embassy of the Republic of South Ossetia in Moscow. The Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that:

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In 2000 Wilshire threatened to sue a Labour Party member for defamation who had written in the Heathrow Villager that the MP was scaremongering and misleading the public about the only hospital remaining in his seat. Wilshire received criticism as the author of the piece was a cancer-suffering pensioner who was being treated at the hospital. The Guardian, which had previously been compared to the Third Reich by Wilshire, described him as "Britain's stupidest MP" as a result. <mask> was among opponents to the proposal that Princess Diana speak to UK parliamentarians about landmines in 1997, following an invitation from the newly elected Labour government.She ultimately decided not to speak, following the opposition. In 2008 he was the subject of a parliamentary enquiry after it was claimed that he raised


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 thousands of pounds for his local party by hosting constituents on visits to the House of Commons. The enquiry cleared him of any wrongdoing. He joined Margaret Thatcher in calling for the former Chilean dictator, General Pinochet, to be released, when he was under house arrest in London in 1998. In 2003 he pushed successfully to have Council of Europe officials look into the UK to assess whether it is necessary to officially monitor the UK's voting procedures. He said the then government had failed to put its "house in order" to prevent fraudulent voting and accused the government of "systematically ignoring" pleas from the Electoral Commission. "If the British government won't put its own house in order, you mustn't be surprised if there are some of us who will try to find someone else who will make them put their house in order," he told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme.He also opposed the introduction of identity cards and called for the removal of innocent children from the United Kingdom National DNA Database. He was parliamentary private secretary to Alan Clark in 1991, the PPS to Peter Lloyd from 1992 to 1994, and was a Conservative whip in the House of Commons from 2001 to 2005. He was a member of the Northern Ireland Select Committee (1994–97), a member of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee (1997–2000) and became a member of the Transport Select Committee and of the chairman's Panel in 2005. He was also elected on to the executive of the Conservatives' 1922 Committee in 2005. References

External links
 Guardian Unlimited Politics — Ask Aristotle: <mask> MP
 TheyWorkForYou.com — <mask> MP
 BBC Politics page

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<mask>  (20 August 188811 April 1959) was a Swiss-born British-naturalised music lexicographer, music critic and writer. He is best known as the editor of the 5th edition of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1954). Biography
Blom was born in Bern, Switzerland. His father was of Danish and British descent, and his mother was Swiss. He was educated in German-speaking Switzerland, and later in England. He was largely self-taught in music. He started in music journalism by assisting Rosa Newmarch in writing program notes for Sir Henry J.Wood's Prom Concerts, which were notable for their abundance of accurate information. From 1923 to 1931 he was the London music correspondent for the Manchester Guardian. He then went to the Birmingham Post (1931–46, succeeding A J Sheldon), and returned to London in 1949, as music critic for The Observer. He retired as chief music critic for The Observer in 1953, but still wrote weekly contributions right up till his death. He was the editor of Music & Letters from 1937 to 1950, and again from 1954 until his death. He withdrew in 1950 because of his preoccupation with the preparation of Grove's Dictionary. He returned in 1954 only because the proprietor and then-editor, Richard Capell, died.In his capacity as musical adviser to the Dent publishing firm, he also edited the Master Musicians series, of which he wrote "Mozart". He discovered a number of young authors and gave them their first opportunities to write music biography. <mask>'s first lexicographical work was Everyman's Dictionary of Music (first published by J. M. Dent in 1946), which went through several editions (it was revised in 1988 by D. Cummings as The New Everyman Dictionary of Music). He succeeded H. C. Colles as editor of Grove's Dictionary for the 5th edition (usually

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 Taneyev or Medtner. Technically he was highly gifted, but also severely limited. His music is ... monotonous in texture ... The enormous popular success some few of Rakhmaninov's works had in his lifetime is not likely to last, and musicians never regarded it with much favour".To this, Harold C. Schonberg, New York critic not immune to snobbery of his own, in his Lives of the Great Composers, responded with equally outspoken unfairness, "It is one of the most outrageously snobbish and even stupid statements ever to be found in a work that is supposed to be an objective reference". <mask> translated many documents for <mask> Deutsch's Mozart: A Documentary Biography (published 1965). He assisted Gervase Hughes in the writing of his book The Music of Arthur Sullivan. In 1956, for the Mozart bicentenary, he published some of Mozart's letters translated by Emily Anderson. Once back in London at the end of the 1940s, <mask>'s address was 10 Alma Terrace, Allen Street in Kensington. He died on 11 April 1959, and is interred at Golders Green Crematorium. He had requested that at his funeral, the organist play J.S.Bach's final chorale prelude Vor Deinen Thron tret' ich zu Dir (I step before Thy throne, O Lord). Unfortunately, 'Bach chorale' was misunderstood, and the laughably incongruous "Barcarolle" from Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann was played instead. Other writings
His other books include:
 Stepchildren of Music (1923)
 The Romance of the Piano (1927)
 A General Index to Modern Musical Literature in the English Language (1927; this indexes periodicals for the years 1915–26)
 The Limitations of Music (1928)
 Mozart (1935; part of the Master Musicians series)
 Beethoven's Pianoforte Sonatas Discussed (1938)
 A Musical Postbag (1941; collected essays)
 Music in England (1942;

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Sir <mask>  (; 15 November 1927 – 31 October 1995), commonly known as <mask>, was a New Zealand politician who was the 30th prime minister of New Zealand from 1974 to 1975. He held office as the parliamentary leader of the Labour Party. <mask> was a lecturer in economics when he entered politics; he became a Member of Parliament in the 1962 Buller by-election. Not long after entering parliament <mask> began to rise through Labour's internal hierarchy, and he was Party President from 1970 to 1973. He was serving as Minister of Finance (1972–1974) when he was appointed Prime Minister following the death of the highly popular Norman Kirk. His Labour Government's effort to retrieve the economy ended with an upset victory by the National Party in November 1975. <mask> continued to lead the Labour Party but lost two more general elections.Upon retiring from the party's leadership in 1983, he was knighted. He served as Ambassador to the United States from 1985 to 1988. Early life
<mask> was born in a country suburb of Mariri neighbouring the town of Motueka, near Nelson. He was a member of a long-established farming family. He was educated at Nelson College and the University of Canterbury, gaining a degree in economics. He also attended the Christchurch College of Education (currently, University of Canterbury), qualifying as a teacher. After completing his education, <mask> taught at several schools around the country, including at Motueka, Christchurch, Waverley and in Northland.In 1958, <mask> left teaching and joined the New Zealand Army, becoming Assistant Director of Army Education. He spent a short amount of time serving abroad in Malaysia and Singapore, a deployment connected with the Malayan Emergency. Member of Parliament

In the 1960 election, <mask> was selected as the Labour Party's candidate for the Fendalton electorate in Christchurch. Fendalton was regarded as a safe National seat, and <mask> was defeated by the National Party's Harry Lake

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 (who was appointed Minister of Finance in the new National government). Two years later, however, <mask> successfully contested the by-election for Buller, which had been caused by the death of prominent Labour MP Jerry Skinner. <mask>, with a farming background, became Labour's spokesperson on Agriculture and Lands, portfolios previously held by Skinner. <mask> was to hold the Buller seat until the election of 1972, when the seat was dissolved – <mask> then contested successfully the new seat of Tasman, which he did travelling up and down the electorate by Commer campervan, which he lived in for the time.Not long after entering parliament <mask> began to rise through Labour's internal hierarchy. At the 1966, 1967 and 1968 party conferences <mask> stood for the vice-presidency of the Labour Party, but was narrowly defeated by Henry May on each occasion, however he managed to defeat May in 1969. The following year he was elevated to party presidency. He was the first person to be elected to their first term as president unopposed in Labour history. While Labour was in opposition under Labour leader Norman Kirk <mask> was spokesperson for several portfolios including Overseas Trade, Marketing, Broadcasting, Mines, Planning Development and natural resources. In the lead up to the 1972 election Kirk tried to persuade <mask> to transfer from the more marginal Tasman seat to the safe Christchurch seat of Avon. Kirk feared <mask> (by then party president) might lose his seat and did not want to lose his economics expertise.<mask> refused on the grounds that such a self interested move would not be befitting of a party president. Minister of Finance
When the Labour Party won power under Norman Kirk in the 1972 election, <mask> was appointed Minister of Finance. This could be seen as a considerable promotion for someone without prior ministerial experience, though the government was inexperienced as a whole with Labour's deputy leader Hugh Watt the only

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 minister with prior cabinet experience. His allocation of the finance portfolio was contrary to expectation, given Bob Tizard had been the spokesperson when in opposition. Both Warren Freer and Hugh Watt had favoured Tizard for Finance, but Kirk thought he was not steady enough for the role and was suspicious of him as an "intellectual". As finance minister <mask> imbued nationalistic sentiments, declaring his goal to make sure the country was developed by New Zealanders for New Zealanders and warned that New Zealanders were in danger of losing control of their own country and its industries. The Labour government enjoyed a record budget surplus in its first year and revalued the currency accordingly.However, the slowing global economy, an unprecedented rise in oil prices and a rapid rise in government expenditure led to soaring inflation by 1974. The remainder of <mask>'s term as Minister of Finance was somewhat turbulent; from late in 1973, a series of externally generated crises, of which the 'oil shocks' were the most serious, destabilised the New Zealand economy. These added to other problems, such as growing overseas debt and falling export prices. A major financial policy during <mask>'s tenure was a comprehensive superannuation scheme. Prime Minister

When Norman Kirk died unexpectedly in 1974, Hugh Watt, his deputy, served as acting prime minister for several days while the Labour Party caucus chose a new leader. <mask> was one of several ministers speculated as potentially succeeding Kirk, though Watt was initially seen as the frontrunner. After several other possible candidates ruled themselves out, the field was narrowed to a two-way race between <mask> and Watt, with <mask> now being seen as the front-runner to win.However, the party's National Executive and the Federation of Labour still preferred Watt. A caucus vote was held on 6 September 1974 where <mask> received a surprisingly large majority, beating Watt 44 votes to 9. At age 46,

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 an expansion of spending on education by providing a standard bursary for all students in tertiary studies from 1975. 1975 general election

During the 1975 election campaign, <mask> was attacked by the Opposition led by Robert Muldoon, and was generally characterised as being weak and ineffective.Rowling supporters responded with a "Citizens for Rowling" campaign which enlisted high-profile New Zealanders such as Sir Edmund Hillary to praise <mask>'s low-key consultative approach. The campaign was labelled as being elitist, and was generally regarded as having backfired on <mask>. The November election resulted in a surprise defeat for the Labour Party, and <mask> was unable to retain the premiership. Leader of the Opposition

<mask>, however, managed to retain the party leadership though murmurs about the effectiveness of his leadership abounded. His first test as Leader of the Opposition came soon when Labour had to defend one of its seats in early 1976 at a by-election in Nelson. The by-election was seen as crucial to <mask>'s future as commentators were suggesting he could not withstand two losses in a row. Labour fought a strong campaign and not only retained the seat but increased their majority as well.The success in Nelson periodically quietened the speculation about <mask>'s leadership. <mask> then had to deal with two scandals involving two of his MPs, his approach to which, were regarded as heavy-handed and unnecessary in many circles. In 1976 Island Bay MP and party vice-president Gerald O'Brien was charged by police for allegedly indecently inviting two boys back to his motel room for a drink. Despite the charges being thrown out, O'Brien was subsequently deselected by Labour as its Island Bay candidate. O'Brien maintained that it was nothing but an attempt by political enemies to "get rid of me". He also stated that he got more sympathy from members of the National Party than from his own party. This was followed by the 'Moyle Affair',


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After leaving politics, <mask> was appointed by Lange as Ambassador to the United States, serving from 1985 to 1988. He held that position when the issue of nuclear weapons and ANZUS flared up between the United States and New Zealand, and he travelled extensively across the country explaining the policy.Exasperated at Labour's Rogernomics economic platform initiated by his successor, David Lange, <mask> eventually let his party membership lapse, expressing dismay at policies undertaken

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 by both the Fourth Labour and Fourth National governments. <mask> later became highly involved in a number of community organisations and trusts. He also played a prominent role at the Museum of New Zealand, and is considered to have been the "driving force" behind the eventual establishment of Te Papa despite drastic public spending cutbacks. <mask> died of cancer in Nelson on 31 October 1995. Personal life
<mask> married Glen Reeves in 1951. The couple’s second child died when she was five months old in 1957; another daughter, Kim, committed suicide at the age of 18. <mask> was a practising Anglican.Honours and awards
In the 1983 Queen's Birthday Honours, <mask> was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George. He was conferred an honorary law doctorate by the University of Canterbury in 1987, and he was honoured by the Netherlands as a Commander in the Orde van Oranje-Nassau. In the 1988 Queen's Birthday Honours, Glen, Lady <mask>, was appointed a Companion of the Queen's Service Order for community service. Notes

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<mask> (July 4, 1900 – October 18, 1982) was an African-American artist from Fayette County, Georgia. Although she is best known today for her colorful works on paper, <mask> worked across mediums, creating drawings, collages, altered photographs, hand-sewn dolls, home installations and sculptural environments. She was said to have an "instinctive understanding of the relation between color and form." Her work focuses on race, gender, domesticity, African-American folklore, and spiritual traditions. <mask> is now recognized as one of the most important American folk artists. Her work is held in numerous collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Morgan Library and Museum, the American Folk Art Museum in New York City, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Dallas Museum of Art, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia, the Milwaukee Art Museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico, the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York City, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. Life
Born on July 4, 1900, <mask> grew up in the farming community of Fayetteville, Georgia.She was one of ten children. It was noted that she began drawing at an early age. Her family was burdened by financial pressures and she left school after the fourth grade to work in the fields with her father, a former slave, Sam Williams. In addition to managing the rented family farm, her father worked as a blacksmith and basket weaver. Her mother, Luelle Swanson, was an expert seamstress and a quilter. <mask>'s mother taught her to create dolls, quilts and small wooden sculptures. When <mask> was 16, she ran away from the farm because she found the work to be "painful, poorly compensated and undignified."<mask> married Ben

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 Wheat right after leaving the family farm. The couple remained in Fayetteville until 1930, when they moved in Vinings, a small rural community northwest of Atlanta. In Vinings, <mask> began to work as a domestic. In 1936 her husband died from cardiovascular renal disease. <mask> met her second husband, Henry 'Buddy' <mask>, an older widower and fellow Vinings resident in 1937. In 1939, the couple built a home together that <mask> called her "playhouse." It was located at 2041 Paces Ferry Road.When Henry died nine years later, <mask>, now at the age of forty-eight devoted her full attention to her art making. Over the span of the next three decades, <mask> developed a large body of multifaceted work. In the final decade of her life, her art was shown at local and national galleries and museum. In November 1981, she was diagnosed with multiple myeloma. On October 18, 1982, after spending her final weeks in the hospital, <mask> died. She is buried in the Flat Rock A.M.E. Cemetery in Fayetteville, Georgia.Work

The Playhouse
<mask>'s living space – her home and yard – served as her first canvas and installation project. Adorned with dozens of objects from dolls and stuffed animals to household bric-a-brac, her home emerged as a site of transformation. There, recycled and discarded materials became works of art. Scraps of wood and chewing gum became dolls and sculptures. Her adornment of her home brought her into conflict with members of her community over the years. Some members of the community would deface or cause damage to her house and work. Years later, while describing her artistic process, <mask> stated, "I started doing it way ago, right after my husband died.He died in '48 and then people just started to bring in this, bring in the dolls, and bringing me things. I take nothing, you know, take nothing and make something out of it." Notably, <mask> described her elaborately

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 decorated two-room cottage and yard as her "playhouse." It was a place for creation – for play. Years later, she said "I enjoy playing. I ain't trying to keep house now, I'm just a-playing house. I just got my playhouse like I'm come back a baby again."For <mask>, it was here, in the playhouse, where her creative obsessiveness could flourish. One visitor, who first saw <mask>'s house in 1979, later recalled, "It was a densely packed hodgepodge environment that would make your mouth fall open. Everyone from architects to the local deliveryman who stop and stare, because it was an astounding creation." <mask>'s house was dismantled and eventually torn down after her death in 1982. A hotel now stands on the site. A plaque commemorates where the alternate world of play and production that once stood. Judith Alexander, herself an amazing personality, took me to meet <mask> <mask> in May, 1980.<mask> <mask> was welcoming and kind person. I saw this scrap of wood that she had painted
to look like a fish. I ask her if I can buy it. She said that she wanted to get her nephew a shirt and tie for his birthday. I offered her $30.00 and she accepted. (Sandy Seawright, former contributor Atlanta Art Papers, personal memory, January 24, 2017)

Drawings and paintings
Through inventive use of color, space, and form, <mask> realized fantasy-like landscapes in her drawings and paintings. While her early works focused on a single subject, later works exhibit more complicated compositions.Describing <mask>'s "masterly" multifigured works from 1980 and 1981, Kogan notes that "figures generally interact and merge organically; negative space often invites other forms, and every available space is occupied either by images or decorative patterning or both. The viewer's eye literally dances around the composition at a lively, rhythmical pace." Throughout her body of work is an unflagging focus on

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 narrative. <mask> sought to recreate scenes from her daily life, past memories, and dreams. Paying "equal attention to scenes of everyday life and to fantasy," she composed "naturalistic scenes" and scenes, which sought to merge "the everyday with the fantastic." This merging of real and fantasy often represented itself in <mask>'s shapes. While human and animal shapes are repeated throughout <mask>'s works, she often created "hybrid figures such as dog/human, a cow/woman, a dog with wings, and a butterfly/bird/woman."<mask>'s original use of space and perspective further reinforce the imaginative and whimsical qualities of her work. Eschewing realistic constraints of scale, her figures often seem to float in space. Throughout her two-dimensional works, she incorporated common religious imagery, like the cross, or faith-based texts. A member of the African Methodist Church, <mask> was a deeply spiritual and religious Christian. Across some of her canvas she wrote, "Beleave in God and He Will Make A Way Far You" or "God Bless My House." She said, "Drawing is the only thing I think is good for the Lord" and attributed her artistic talent to God. Additionally, some scholars have located her depiction of "haints" or spirits in broader African-American spiritual traditions, which accepted the presence of voodoo spirits.Sculptures and photographs
<mask>'s sculptures often took the form of dolls or bust-like figures, made out of old stockings or hardened chewing gum. <mask> adorned her dolls, made out of old stockings, with elaborate outfits and yarn wigs and glasses. For her chewing gum sculptures, she would knead used chewing gum into small figures, harden them in her freezer and then paint them with colorfully bright details. <mask>'s altered photographs reflect her facility in using multiple mediums to create sympathetic portraits of close friends and families. By coloring in

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While many of <mask>'s neighbors first regarded <mask>'s outlandish creative displays with a suspicion, by the 1970s 2041 Paces Ferry Road became a prominent local attraction. Between May 27, 1973 and March 15, 1975, over eight hundred people had signed her "guest book."Following a shift in American folk art history, art students and collectors in the 1980s not only began to notice living artists and craftsmen around the country, but also began to seek them out. Notably, on November 9, 1974, Herbert Haide Hemphill Jr., the prominent folk art curator and collector, after visiting <mask>'s playhouse and noted, "What a wonderful time!" During final years of her life, <mask>'s artistic career culminated in nationwide attention and considerable financial success. The Atlanta Historical Society 1976 exhibit, "Missing Pieces: Georgia Folk Art 1770-1976," marked <mask>'s debut. It was here that Judith Alexander, a young art enthusiast and collector, first met <mask> <mask>. The encounter had a lasting impact. Alexander represented <mask> and promoted her artwork nationwide for the remainder of her life.In 1978, after the Nexus Gallery included <mask>'s pieces in "Viscera," a group exhibition of contemporary and folk art, the Alexander Gallery in Atlanta launched <mask>'s first one-woman show. The next year, the Parsons/Dreyfus Gallery mounted <mask>'s first-ever New York show. Notably, in 1982, after being featured in numerous prominent galleries in New Orleans to Chicago, <mask>'s work was included in the landmark 1982 exhibit "Black Folk Art in America, 1930-1980" at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

Posthumously, <mask>'s work continues to enjoy remarkable success. Four years after her death, The Studio Museum in

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 Harlem exhibited "<mask> <mask>: An American Folk Artist." In 1989, the Guerilla Girls, an anonymous group of feminist, female artists, recognized <mask> <mask> Lewis, and Georgia O'Keeffe. And finally, in 1999, the American Folk Art Museum mounted "The Art of <mask> <mask>: Ninety-Nine and Half Won't Do." In 2014, The High Museum of Art in Atlanta, showed “<mask> <mask>: At Night Things Come to Me.”

Quotes
"I don't know what he put me here for, but he got me here for something 'cause I don't draw like nobody.You speak one way, but I come on and say it different. You can draw a mule, dog, cat, or a human person, I'm going to draw it different. 'Cause you always see things different." References

Sources
 <mask> <mask>, The American Folk Art Museum
 Lee Kogan and <mask> <mask>, The Art of <mask> <mask>: Ninety Nine and a Half Won’t Do (New York: Museum of American Folk Art, 1998)
 Karen Towers Klacsmann, <mask> <mask> (1900-1982), New Georgia Encyclopedia
 <mask> <mask> in Judith Alexander Foundation
 William Arnett, "<mask> <mask> (1900-1982): Inside the Perimeter" in Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art  edited by Paul Arnett and William Arnett (Atlanta, Georgia: Tinwood Books, 2000)
 Joyce Cohen, <mask> <mask> lecture, March 11, 2010 at the High Museum
 Erika Doss, "<mask> <mask> (1900-1982)" in Coming Home! : Self-taught Artists, the Bible, and the American South edited by Carol Crown (Memphis, Tennessee: Art Museum of the University of Memphis: 2004)

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<mask> (December 6, 1830August 9, 1904) was a U.S. politician. Born in Frankfort, Kentucky, he was known for his skills in oration and debate. <mask>, a lawyer as well as a politician, served as a Missouri Congressman, a Confederate Congressman during the Civil War, and finally a U.S. Senator. <mask> was best known during his lifetime for his "a man's best friend" closing arguments from the trial in which damages were sought for the killing of a dog named Old Drum on October 18, 1869. But his greatest legacy is as the apparent originator of the phrase "history is written by the victors.” While its origin is not definitively known, <mask> used it to promote the Lost Cause. Early life and career
<mask> graduated from Centre College, Danville, Kentucky, in 1848 and from the law department of Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky, in 1853.He was admitted to the bar in 1853 and planned to move to California. However, while en route, he stopped in Pettis County, Missouri, where he defended a young African-American man accused of murder. <mask>'s client was acquitted but soon burned at the stake by an angry mob. <mask>'s own life was also threatened, but he nonetheless decided to stay in Missouri permanently, settling in Georgetown. In 1854 he married Sallie Sneed of Danville, Kentucky. They had three children, two sons and a daughter. Initial public service
In 1860, after moving to Boonville, Missouri, he was elected to the Missouri House of Representatives and served as a Democratic presidential elector.As a Missouri representative he was chairman of the Committee on Federal Relations. <mask> served in the House until late 1861 during which he wrote the Vest

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 Resolutions in which he denounced coercion of the South. When the Civil War broke out <mask> was a strong advocate of maintaining slavery during the Missouri secession crisis, and eventually sided with the Confederacy. He proposed the Secession Ordinance that was passed by the Missouri legislature in October 1861. The following year, he briefly served as judge advocate with the Army of Missouri, commanded by former Governor Sterling Price. He served in the House of Representatives of the Confederate Congress from February 1862 to January 12, 1865, when he resigned, having been appointed to fill a vacancy in the Confederate Senate. Old Drum

After the war he returned to Pettis County moving to Sedalia, Missouri, and resumed his law practice.It was at this time in 1869 that <mask> was asked to represent Charles Burden and Old Drum in the case that would make him famous, Burden v. Hornsby. <mask> took the case tried on September 23, 1870, in which he represented a client whose hunting dog, a foxhound named Drum (or Old Drum), had been killed by a sheep farmer, Leonidas Hornsby. The farmer (Burden's brother-in-law) had previously announced his intentions to kill any dog found on his property; the dog's owner was suing for damages in the amount of
$150 (), the maximum allowed by law. During the trial, <mask> stated that he would "win the case or apologize to every dog in Missouri." <mask>'s closing argument to the jury made no reference to any of the testimony offered during the trial, and instead offered a eulogy of sorts. <mask>'s "Eulogy of the Dog" is one of the most enduring passages of purple prose in American courtroom history (only a partial transcript has

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<mask> won the case (the jury awarded $50 to the dog's owner) and also won its appeal to the Missouri Supreme Court. A bust of the dog resides in the Missouri Supreme Court building in Jefferson City, Missouri.In 1958, a statue of the dog was erected on the Johnson County Courthouse lawn containing a summation of <mask>’s closing speech, “A man’s best friend is his dog.”

Movie depictions
The speech has been used in movies which are set in Missouri and involve sheep owners who allegedly shoot the dog but are then shot themselves by the dog's owners, who are then tried for murder. The Voice of Bugle Ann – 1936
 Tribute to the Dog, episode 9, season 13 of Death Valley Days (TV series), featuring Ronald Reagan in the role of <mask> – 1964
 The Trial of Old Drum – 2000

U.S. Senate

In 1877 <mask> moved to Kansas City, Missouri, where he was elected two years later in 1879 to the United States Senate. He was chairman on the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Fifty-third Congress) and served on the Committee on Epidemic Diseases (Fifty-fourth Congress), Committee on Public Health and National Quarantine (Fifty-fourth through Fifty-seventh Congresses). He was re-elected for three more terms in 1885, 1891 and 1897 and remained a US Senator until March 4, 1903, when he retired from public life due to ill health. Defender of Yellowstone
In 1882, <mask> became aware of concession abuses and outright attempts at uncontrolled monopolies being proposed for Yellowstone National Park concessions by the railroads and other businessmen. He introduced and eventually helped pass legislation that required the Secretary of Interior to submit concession and

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On August 9, 1904, <mask> died at his summer home in Sweet Springs, Missouri, the last living Confederate States Senator. He was buried at Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri. Notes

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, loosely based on the Old Drum case

A Tribute to the Best Friend of Man: Eulogy of the Dog (Violet Press 2008) A verbatim transcript of the speech read into the Congressional Record in 1916, newly illustrated by Jackie Ehle

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<mask> is an American wildlife artist, environmental educator, and writer. He has lived in Seattle, Washington, since 1959. Life

<mask> was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1940. His father was a private eye, and his mother a painter and teacher. Angell grew up in the San Fernando Valley. As a child, explored the Los Angeles River to hunt and fish, as well as the local beaches to surf and skin dive. This early exposure to nature instilled in him a life-long respect for the outdoors and native animals.He went to Seattle in 1959 on an athletics scholarship and obtained a BA in Speech Communications and a MA degree from the University of Washington. Angell taught high school and junior college communication courses before assuming the position of State Supervisor in the Office of Environmental Education for the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction of Washington state. He remained in this position for over thirty years. He was active in the Nature Conservancy, with time as chairman and as a member of the board of its Washington chapter. He received the national organization's highest award of the Golden Oak Leaf for his work in establishing the Skagit River Bald Eagle Natural Area. Likewise he was recognized as a Champion of Puget Sound by the Puget Sound Keeper's Alliance in 2014. His outreach with both his writing and artwork resulted in his election into the Hall of Fame of the Department of Communications at the University of Washington.Artwork

Angell makes sculptures in bronze and stone and has shown them regularly for some forty years. He has worked in chlorite, granite, marble, sandstone, serpentine, slate and soapstone. Among his many public commissions Angell includes Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo, the Seattle Aquarium, the City of Redmond, WA, the Mount Baker Ski Area, Sleeping Lady in Leavenworth, WA and the public libraries of Bainbridge and Lopez Island. His work is part of the Harborview Medical Center and the public collection of the Seattle Business Center. His sculptural work is included in the collections of the

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 Museum of Northwest Art, the Seattle Art Museum, the Frye Art Museum and the Tacoma Art Museum, as well as the Gilcrease Museum of Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Cornell University has his paintings in their collections as does the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England. Awards for his artwork include the Master Artist Medal from the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Gallery of Wausau Wisconsin, and a first prize award in illustration from the Victoria and Albert Museum in 2006.His sculpture "Stretching Kestrel" received the Chilmark Award from the National Sculpture Society, an organization of which he is an elected Fellow. In 2016, the Museum of Northwest Art awarded a Northwest Luminaries award in Angell's name. These awards are named in honor of those who have left a lasting impact on the Pacific Northwest region (including Patti Warashina and art historian Bill Holm). These awards are then given to artists of promise as chosen by a distinguished nominating panel and jury. <mask> acknowledges a number of influences on his work: the bird illustrators Don Eckelberry and Morris Graves, the carvings of the Haida, Tlingit and Tsimshian peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, and a Japanese Edo-period screen carved with crows in the Seattle Asian Art Museum. Publications
Writing and illustrating more than a dozen books related to nature, <mask> has received the Washington State Writers Award for four of his works including Birds of Prey of the Pacific Northwest Slope, Ravens, Crows, Magpies and Jays (University of Washington Press) and In the Company of Crows and Ravens (Yale University Press). His most recent book, T he House of Owls  (Yale University Press) received the 2015 National Outdoor Book Award for nature and the environment writing.His book Puget Sound Through an Artist's Eye (University of Washington Press) is a collection of his artistic works in stone, bronze and line along with a narrative that describes his artistic response to the region he lives in. As author and

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 illustrator:

 Birds of Prey on the Pacific Northwest Slope. Seattle: Pacific Search Press, 1972
 Owls. Seattle; London: University of Washington Press, 1974
 Ravens, Crows, Magpies and Jays. Seattle; London: University of Washington Press, 1978
 (with Kenneth Balcomb) Marine Birds and Mammals of Puget Sound. Seattle: Washington Sea Grant Publication; distributed by the University of Washington Press, 1982
 The Artist as Advocate for Nature: A Dialogue of Necessity. Bainbridge Island, WA: Arbor Fund, [1994]
 (with John Marzluff) In the Company of Crows and Ravens.New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2005
 Puget Sound Through an Artist's Eye. Seattle; London: University of Washington Press, 2009
 (with John Marzluff) Gifts of the Crow: How Perception, Emotion, and Thought Allow Smart Birds to Behave Like Humans. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012
 The House of Owls. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015

As illustrator

 Gordon H. Orians (1985). Blackbirds of the Americas. Seattle; London: University of Washington Press
 Bert Bender (1988). Sea Brothers: American Sea Fiction since Moby Dick.Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press
 John Marzluff, Russell Balda (1992). T he Pinyon Jay: Behavioral ecology of a colonial and cooperative corvid. London: Poyser
 Hal Opperman (2003). A Birder's Guide to Washington. Colorado Springs: American Birding Association

Over the past half century the artist and his work has been featured in a number of newspaper and magazines articles. Among the most recent in news have been:

 "<mask>: Through Wild Rock," Western Art and Architecture Magazine, May 2015
 "<mask>: Liberating the Spirit," Art of the West, May/June 2016
 "<mask>: Artist's new exhibit opens Thursday," Seattle Times blog, December 2011

Links

 Artist website: www.tonyangell.net
 "<mask>l Artist," film produced by Fidget.tv and underwritten by the Seattle Arts Commission, 2010

References

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Artists from Seattle
1940 births
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<mask> () (born June 9, 1938) is a retired Georgian politician and military commander with high-profile involvement in the Georgian Civil War early in the 1990s when he commanded the National Guard of Georgia and served as a Defense Minister until being gradually sidelined by Eduard Shevardnadze who had earlier been invited to lead the nation after a successful coup d'etat launched by Kitovani and his allies against President Zviad Gamsakhurdia. Early life and career

Born in Tbilisi, Kitovani graduated from the Tbilisi Fine Arts Academy and taught at a boarding school in the town of Tetritsqaro, and then worked as a main painter for the Tbilisi State Advertising Bureau between 1967 and 1969. Kitovani entered the national politics early in 1990 when the independence movement reached its climax in then-Soviet Georgia. Elected to the Supreme Council of Georgia the same year, he was closely associated with Zviad Gamsakhurdia, a Soviet-era dissident who went on to become the chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Council and eventually the President of Georgia in 1991. In December 1990, Gamsakhurdia decreed the creation of the National Guard of Georgia and appointed Kitovani as its head. However, the two men collided in August 1991, when Gamsakhurdia sacked him as National Guard commander. Kitovani subsequently claimed that Gamsakhurdia was intending to disband the National Guard, and had been ordered to do so by the leaders of the Moscow Putsch who had briefly taken power in the Soviet Union, but did not produce the documents he claimed to possess confirming this.Kitovani refused to accept his dismissal and left Tbilisi with most of his troops to entrench himself in the Rkoni Gorge. This was the beginning of the end for Gamsakhurdia, whose inflexible politics forced many of his former supporters into opposition. Military coup and civil war

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 control over the region’s railways sabotaged by Gamsakhurdia's loyal militias. Although this operation and show of force resulted in the eventual release of the hostages, Kitovani, acting most probably on his own initiative, proceeded towards Abkhazia’s capital of Sukhumi and forced the Abkhaz leaders into flight. Shevardnadze failed to have <mask>’s force withdrawn from Abkhazia and the country became involved in a thirteen-month-long war which would end in Georgia’s loss of control over most of Abkhazia. Another version of these events, often quoted in Georgia, says that Russia, while supporting the Abkhaz, also instigated Kitovani to trigger the conflict and perhaps even promised support for his leadership ambitions in Georgia after a successful operation.Later, Shevardnadze would accuse Kitovani of provoking an armed conflict in Abkhazia, claiming that Kitovani disavowed his order and advance with his military to Sukhumi. Kitovani however blamed Shevardnadze for preventing him from following up an offensive on Sukhumi with an attack on the Abkhaz stronghold in Gudauta, home to a Russian military base which supplied the secessionist forces with instructors and munitions. Shevardnadze’s successor as President of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, has also accused Kitovani of being a "Russian agent" and blamed him for the loss of Abkhazia. Conflict with Shevardnadze

During the war in Abkhazia, Kitovani developed a power centre rivalling Shevardnadze’s and on several occasions challenged Shevardnadze, now Head of State, on defence matters, suggesting that he should be responsible only for foreign policy. <mask> stood as a candidate in Georgia's parliamentary elections of October 11, 1992 and was elected in the single-mandate constituency of Bolnisi. In the aftermath of the elections, Shevardnadze attempted to replace him as Minister of Defence with a

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 professional soldier, General Anatoli Kamkamidze, but was unable to do so. Amid persistent rumors that he was planning a new military coup, <mask> was finally forced into resignation in May 1993 – though a protégé, Gia Karkarashvili, was named as his replacement, and he was able to retain some of his power – partly, according to widespread rumours in Tbilisi, through his control over Georgia’s "energy mafia" and his "special relationship" with Russian defence minister Pavel Grachev.However, Shevardnadze was able to exploit the military setback in Abkhazia to embark on a crackdown on the paramilitary groups and ultimately their leaders. After the pro-Gamsakhurdia rebellion had been quashed with Russian aid by December 1993, Shevardnadze was able to increasingly consolidate his power and deprive both <mask> and Ioseliani of influence over national security policy. After spending some time in Russia, Kitovani returned to Tbilisi and, together with <mask> Sigua and Boris Kakubava, leader of a faction of ethnic Georgian IDPs from Abkhazia, founded the National Front for the Liberation of Abkhazia in the autumn of 1994. On January 13, 1995, <mask>, with the support of <mask> Sigua, led a force of some 700 lightly armed supporters in a march against Abkhazia. They were stopped by Georgian police and arrested. Kitovani was tried for having organized an unlawful armed force and sentenced to eight years' imprisonment in October 1996. He served four years of his eight-year term and was pardoned by Shevardnadze on medical grounds on May 22, 1999.Emigration and return

Since early 2000s, <mask> has lived in Moscow from where he harshly criticized the Shevardnadze government on several occasions. In February 2002, he responded scandalously to the mysterious suicide of Nugzar Sajaia, Shevardnadze’s close ally and an influential Chairman of Georgia’s National

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 Security Council, making allegations that Sajaia was a homosexual and had ordered the 2001 murder of journalist Giorgi Sanaia. Later that year, <mask> accused Shevardnadze of being behind the 2002 assassination of Kakhi Asatiani, a businessman and former soccer star. He also upheld Russia’s claims that some 700 Chechen fighters had spent that winter in Georgia’s Pankisi Gorge. He further claimed that Russian General Gennady Shpigun, abducted and killed in Chechnya in 1999/2000, was in fact held captive and put to death in Pankisi, with the body then taken to southern Chechnya. Georgia dismissed all these claims, however. Georgian Prosecutor-General Nugzar Gabrichidze claimed that Kitovani had been in close contact with National Guard veterans who staged a failed mutiny on March 23, 2003.Kitovani, however, denied any links with the mutiny. Kitovani returned to Tbilisi, in December 2012, after the change of government in the aftermath of the October 2012 parliamentary election. In early 2014, President Giorgi Margvelashvili stripped him of his Georgian citizenship. Notes

References
Jonathan Wheatley (2005), Georgia from National Awakening to Rose Revolution: Delayed Transition in the Former Soviet Union. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., . Bruce Parrott (1995), State Building and Military Power in Russia and the New States of Eurasia. M.E.Sharpe, . Karen Dawisha, Bruce Parrott (1997), Conflict, Cleavage, and Change in Central Asia and the Caucasus. Cambridge University Press, . David Darchiashvili, "Georgian Defense Policy and Military Reform", in: Bruno Coppieters (2005), Statehood and Security: Georgia After the Rose Revolution. MIT Press, . 1938 births
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<mask> (born 7 July 1970) is a Nigerian-Canadian professional basketball executive and former player and is the president of basketball operations of the Toronto Raptors in the National Basketball Association (NBA). After a modest playing career, <mask> became a scout in 2002, first for the Orlando Magic and then the Denver Nuggets. In 2008, he joined the backroom staff of the Toronto Raptors. <mask> returned to the Nuggets in 2010 as general manager and executive vice president of basketball operations, and helped turn the team's fortunes around, returning them to the playoffs. As a result, he was named the NBA Executive of the Year in 2013. The following season, <mask> returned to the Raptors as general manager. In the summer of 2016, <mask> relinquished his title as general manager to Jeff Weltman and accepted the position of president of basketball operations.Weltman was later succeeded by Bobby Webster as general manager a year later. As president, Ujiri worked to usher in a period of sustained success, helping the team win its first NBA championship in 2019. Early life
<mask> was born in Bournemouth, England, to a Nigerian family. His parents were foreign students in England. With the family moving back to Nigeria when he was two years old, he grew up in Zaria, Nigeria. <mask>'s father, a hospital administrator and nursing educator, is an Isoko from Aviara in Delta state, while his mother, a doctor, is a Kenyan from Machakos County. He originally played association football as a youth before stating his interest in basketball as a 13-year-old playing with friends on outdoor basketball courts in northern Nigeria.This interest was fed by American sports magazines and VHS tapes of NBA games or basketball movies. He admired Hakeem Olajuwon, an NBA star who was also Nigerian. Entering high school, his parents allowed him to pursue his dream of playing college basketball and

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 join a team in one of Europe's top leagues. He left Nigeria to play for Nathan Hale High School in Seattle, WA while staying with a Nigerian family. After a stint overseas, <mask> enrolled and played two years of basketball at Bismarck State College, a junior college in North Dakota. After community college, he transferred to Montana State University Billings but left after one semester. He left Montana and returned to England to begin a pro career.Playing career
Ujiri spent his entire professional playing career in Europe. Before attending college, Ujiri played one season with the Solent Stars in the National Basketball League Division 3, then the fourth tier of English basketball. <mask> and his team won the title that season with a 20–2 record. Following his collegiate career, <mask> played a season for the Derby Rams in England. He then returned to Solent Stars, playing two seasons either side of a short stint with Belgian side Tournai-Estaimpuis, followed by just one appearance with Hemel Royals. <mask> later spent three months in Finland with BC Nokia, where he played two preseason games before being waived. He last played in Denmark.Executive career
After ending a professional playing career in 2002, Ujiri worked as a youth coach in Nigeria. During an NBA summer league game in Boston, he met David Thorpe, who eventually introduced him to college coaches. In 2002, Ujiri was accompanying a young Nigerian player to a draft tryout in Orlando when he impressed Magic scouting director Gary Brokaw, who then introduced Ujiri to coach Doc Rivers and GM John Gabriel. Ujiri then became an unpaid scout for the NBA's Orlando Magic, paying his own way when he had to and sharing rooms with scouts or players when he could. Jeff Weltman, then a young executive with the Denver Nuggets, introduced Ujiri to Nuggets general manager Kiki Vandeweghe, who then hired Ujiri on salary as an

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 international scout. After four seasons there, he was hired away by Bryan Colangelo of the Toronto Raptors as their Director of Global Scouting. <mask> became the Raptors' assistant general manager in 2008.Denver Nuggets
<mask> returned to the Nuggets in 2010, as general manager and executive vice president in charge of basketball operations. With this post, <mask> became the first African general manager in major American sports. After putting together a Nuggets’ roster that won 57 games, the most in Denver's NBA history, <mask> was named the 2013 NBA Executive of the Year. He is the only non-American ever to win the award. Toronto Raptors
On May 31, 2013, <mask> signed a 5-year, $15 million deal to become executive vice president and general manager of the Toronto Raptors, replacing Colangelo in that capacity. One of his first moves as Raptors GM was to trade away Andrea Bargnani to the New York Knicks. During <mask>'s tenure as general manager, the Raptors, led by the backcourt duo of Kyle Lowry and DeMar DeRozan, returned to the playoffs in 2014.On April 19, 2014, at a fan rally prior to Game 1 of the first-round Eastern Conference playoff series against the Brooklyn Nets, Ujiri shouted, "Fuck Brooklyn!" to the gathered crowd from the stage. Ujiri apologized during halftime of Game 1, stating: "wrong choice of words. I apologize to kids out there and to the Brooklyn guys." NBA Commissioner Adam Silver fined Ujiri $25,000. On April 18, 2015, at a fan rally before the playoff series between the Washington Wizards and the Raptors, in response to comments from Wizards guard Paul Pierce that the Raptors don't have the "it" factor, Ujiri shouted to the gathered crowd, "We don't give a s--t about 'it!'" NBA Commissioner Adam Silver fined Ujiri $35,000 and the Raptors organization another $25,000.<mask> apologized for his comments saying, "I will choose my words more carefully in

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 the future." Under Ujiri, the Raptors became a consistent playoff team every year, winning five Division titles and finishing the 2017-18 regular season with the best regular season record in the Eastern Conference. He also helped the team reach the Eastern Conference Finals for the first time in franchise history in 2016, where his contract was extended to act as the team's president. His title as general manager was then transferred to Jeff Weltman. After Weltman left the organization to join the Orlando Magic in 2017, Bobby Webster was named as the team's new general manager, and began reshaping the Raptors roster after suffering consecutive second-round eliminations in 2017 and 2018 (both four-game sweeps), all three playoff defeats at the hands of the Cleveland Cavaliers, led by LeBron James. <mask> fired head coach Dwane Casey shortly after their 2018 second round exit to LeBron James and the Cavs (despite Casey being named Coach of the Year), promoting assistant Nick Nurse to head coach, conducted the high-profile trade of DeRozan for Kawhi Leonard and Danny Green later that summer, and acquired Marc Gasol before the trade deadline. The DeRozan-for-Leonard trade was initially controversial since DeRozan was the longest-tenured Raptor and fan favourite while Leonard had spent most of the 2017–18 season injured, along with his demand to be traded to a Los Angeles-based team only.However, the move paid off as the Raptors went on to win the 2019 NBA championship, their first title in the history of their franchise, and Leonard was named NBA Finals MVP. 2019 NBA Finals incident
On June 13, 2019, just after the Toronto Raptors had clinched a 4–2 series win over the Golden State Warriors in the 2019 NBA Finals, <mask> was captured on video in an altercation with an Alameda County Sheriff deputy. Sgt. Ray Kelly, a spokesman for the Sheriff's Department, alleged that Ujiri

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 alleged injuries. The investigation ended on September 21. Following a private meeting on October 21, 2019 with <mask>, his attorneys and Assistant District Attorney Terry Wiley, which was held at the Sheriff's Department, Assistant District Attorney Teresa Drenick announced that the District Attorney's office would not take further action in connection with the incident. Deputy Alan Strickland's body camera footage was released in August 2020. The footage showed Ujiri reaching for his game credentials, but neither the purple trophy credential or the yellow armband credential needed to access the court postgame is seen before the deputy shoved Ujiri twice in the chest.The footage revealed that the deputy, not <mask>, initiated the physical contact. On October 6, 2020, Strickland's lawyers filed a motion to dismiss a counterclaim to a lawsuit from <mask>. A Zoom hearing was scheduled for November 17. <mask> subsequently dropped his countersuit against Alameda County sheriff's deputy Alan Strickland. The sheriff deputy dropped his lawsuit against <mask> <mask> on February 10, 2021. Activism
<mask>, then a scout for the Nuggets, founded Giants of Africa in 2003 with the goal of discovering basketball talent. The first Giants of Africa camp was held in Nigeria.<mask> has served as director of the NBA's Basketball Without Borders Africa program, which promotes basketball throughout the continent. He also conducts two camps, one for the top 50 players of Nigeria, which is sponsored by Nestle Milo, and another for African big men, which Ujiri sponsors himself with help from Nike. <mask> and Basketball Without Borders are profiled in Hubert Davis's 2016 documentary film Giants of Africa. <mask> has taken personal offense to President Donald Trump's comments about immigrants from places like Haiti and his homeland Nigeria, which Trump allegedly referred to as "shitholes". <mask>

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 opined that President Trump's words did not demonstrate inspiring leadership and were unfair to the nations and people groups to which Trump referred. On November 28, 2018, <mask> received the first-ever President's Peace Medal presented by the YMCA of Greater Toronto during Peace Week. He received the honor alongside two YMCA Peace Medal honourees, Toronto police constable Dale Swift and mental health activist Loizza Aquino.In February 2020, Ujiri accompanied Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on an official visit to various African nations, including Ethiopia and Senegal. Ujiri appeared on behalf of sport charity Right To Play at an event in the Senegalese capital, Dakar. During that same trip, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and <mask> made a surprise visit to thank the Canadian troops in Kuwait. In December 2019, <mask> Ujiri launched a new philanthropic platform called "That's Humanity" that debut with a personal manifesto and video titled “What does humanity mean to you?”

Personal life

Ujiri is married to fashion model Ramatu <mask>. The Ujiris have two children, both of whom are Canadian citizens. <mask> has stated he views himself as a Canadian citizen as well as a son of Africa. He later confirmed that he holds Canadian citizenship and has a valid Canadian passport.References

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Bismarck State Mystics men's basketball players
Denver Nuggets executives
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Montana State Billings Yellowjackets men's basketball players
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Nigerian emigrants to Canada
Nigerian emigrants to the United States
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Nigerian expatriates in Belgium
Nigerian expatriates in the United Kingdom
Nigerian men's basketball players
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Toronto Raptors executives
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<mask>, 1st Baron Rugby, , (1 July 1877 – 20 April 1969) was a British civil servant and diplomat who was a key figure in Anglo-Irish relations during the Second World War. Biography

Early life
Maffey was the younger son of Thomas Maffey, a commercial traveller of Rugby, Warwickshire, and his wife, Mary Penelope, daughter of <mask>. He was educated at Rugby School and Christ Church, Oxford. Career
He entered the Indian Civil Service in 1899, and notably served as Assistant Secretary to the Chief Commissioner of North-West-Frontier-Province from 1912 to 1916 and then as Private Secretary to the Viceroy of India Lord Chelmsford from 1916 to 1920 and then Chief Commissioner of the North-West Frontier Province from 1921 to 1924. After a disagreement with the British government in 1924, Maffey resigned from the Indian Civil Service. In 1926 he became Governor-General of the Sudan, followed in 1933 by his appointment as Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies. Representative to Ireland

On 14 September 1939, two weeks after the outbreak of World War II, Maffey arrived in Dublin to discuss the possibility of the United Kingdom appointing a British representative to Ireland.Later, following a discussion at the British War Cabinet, Maffey was sent back to Dublin again with a letter from Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain appealing once again for the appointment of a 'representative'. The United Kingdom would not agree to appoint an ambassador or a minister, because it would imply that Ireland was a foreign country outside the Commonwealth. On the other hand, Ireland would not agree to the appointment of a High Commissioner to Ireland because that would imply that Ireland was in the Commonwealth which the

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texts: Irish government did not accept. As a compromise, Chamberlain proposed the title "United Kingdom Representative in Éire" but de Valera rejected this, insisting that the word 'in' be replaced with 'to'. And so "United Kingdom Representative to Éire" was agreed upon and Maffey was appointed on 3 October 1939. For de Valera, the change signified Ireland's independence, sovereignty and equality with the United Kingdom. Chamberlain remarked that the title would "seem to be well suited to an appointment such as this which is essentially an emergency arrangement intended to meet a temporary but urgent situation".After Maffey took up his appointment as "Representative", there were reports that the Irish Republican Army might abduct or kill him. Maffey held the post throughout the war years and until his retirement in 1949. During the war, he was undoubtedly the most important foreign diplomat resident in Dublin, given the complications of Ireland's neutrality policy. As "United Kingdom Representative to Eire", Maffey quickly established a good working relationship with Éamon de Valera. De Valera was personally in favour of the survival of democracy but did not necessarily trust the British to look after Ireland's best interests. Maffey was vital in mediating between the 'Warlord' Churchill and 'the Chief' de Valera. When de Valera was replaced by a coalition, headed by <mask>. Costello, in 1948, Maffey again established a good working relationship with its members, but he was scathing about the clumsy manner in which the declaration of a Republic was handled: "Mr. Costello has handled the business in a slipshod and amateur fashion".He encouraged <mask>, the press attaché, to establish friendly relations with leading

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Lord <mask> married Dorothy Gladys Huggins, daughter of Charles Lang Huggins, on 28 August 1907. They became the parents of three children: Alan, Henry, and Penelope. Their only daughter, Penelope, married the war hero and Tory MP Sir William Aitken and became a well-known socialite. She was the mother of the former Conservative politician Jonathan Aitken and the actress Maria Aitken. Her grandchildren are the actor Jack Davenport, the artiste and environmentalist Alexandra Aitken (also known as Uttrang Kaur Khalsa), Victoria Aitken, and William Aitken. <mask> died in April 1969, aged 91.He was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son Alan Loader Maffey, 2nd Baron Rugby. Popular culture
Maffey was played by Peter Copley in the 1983 RTÉ drama series Caught in a Free State. He is a minor character in the 2010 novel Long Time Coming by Robert Goddard. Arms

See also
List of Ambassadors from the United Kingdom to Ireland

References

Oxbury, Harold. Great Britons: Twentieth-Century Lives. London: Promotional Reprint Company Ltd, 1993. Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors).Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990. 1877 births
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Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
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Companions of the Order of the Indian Empire
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