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<mask> (born 7 August 1949) is a British political writer  and broadcaster, formerly a Conservative Member of Parliament. He was born in South Africa to British parents. Early life and family
Parris is the eldest of six children (three brothers and two sisters) and grew up in several British territories and former territories: South Africa, Cyprus, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), Swaziland (now Eswatini) and Jamaica, where his father was working as an electrical engineer. His parents ended up working and living in Catalonia, Spain, where Parris later bought a house. Education
<mask> was educated at Waterford Kamhlaba United World College of Southern Africa, an independent school just outside Mbabane in Swaziland, and Clare College, Cambridge, where he gained a first class degree in law and was a member of the Liberal Club. He won a Paul Mellon scholarship and studied international relations at Yale University. He has said that an early reading of Animal Farm made him a Conservative, as "An admiration for [the pigs'] intelligence and sense of order dawned in me."Early career
At the age of 19, Parris drove across Africa to Europe in a Morris Oxford; the trip was traumatically punctuated when he and his female companion were attacked, and he was forced to witness her rape. Parris was offered a job as an MI6 officer, but instead worked for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office for two years. In 1976 he left this career because he did not like its formality, and because he wanted to become a Member of Parliament. He eventually joined the Conservative Research Department and moved on to become correspondence secretary to Margaret Thatcher. He was awarded an RSPCA medal (presented by Thatcher, then Leader of the Opposition), for jumping into the River Thames and rescuing a dog. Parliamentary career
Parris was the Conservative MP for the parliamentary constituency of West Derbyshire from 1979 to 1986. Competing prospective candidates for the seat included Peter Lilley and Michael Howard.He voiced support for gay rights. <mask> left politics to pursue a career in journalism. Radio and television
<mask> is now a radio and television presenter, The Times columnist, and pundit. As an MP he took part in a World in Action documentary during 1984 requiring him to live in Newcastle for a week on £26.80, the then state social security payment set for a single adult by the government he supported as a Conservative. The experiment came to an embarrassing end when he ran out of money for the electricity meter. Twenty years later, in 2004, he attempted the experiment again for the documentary For the Benefit of Mr Parris, Revisited. <mask> resigned as an MP by applying for the Crown position of Steward of the Manor of Northstead and left Parliament specifically to take over from Brian Walden as host of ITV's influential Sunday lunchtime current-affairs series Weekend World in 1986.The series, broadcast since 1977 with Walden at its helm, ran for two more years under Parris before being cancelled in 1988. He presents BBC Radio 4's Great Lives biography series, and has appeared on the satirical news programme Have I Got News for You and presented After Dark. In 2007, Parris presented two light-hearted but caustic documentaries for Radio 4 on politicians' use of cliché and jargon, entitled Not My Words, Mr Speaker. On 8 July 2011, on Radio 4's Any Questions?, at the height of the furore surrounding the alleged illegal and corrupt activities of News of the World journalists, Parris eulogised the newspaper and gave an enthusiastic appreciation of what he considered the virtues and positive achievements of Rupert Murdoch. In December 2017 <mask> appeared, in a cameo role, in the Anniversary edition of BBC's The League of Gentlemen. Writing and journalism

Parris is a prolific writer and has written many books on politics and travel. In 1991, a compilation of his pieces in The Times appeared, entitled So Far, So Good.Since then there have been further compilations. Scorn, a book he has edited of quotations about curses, jibes and general invective, was published in October 1994. He has achieved continuing success as a parliamentary reporter and columnist through his knowledge and understanding of politicians and ability to write well about them. He worked as parliamentary sketch writer for The Times newspaper from 1988 to 2001 and has had weekly columns in The Times and The Spectator magazine. In 2004, Parris became Writer of the Year in Granada Television's What the Papers Say Awards. In part, this was for reporting on elections in Iraq and Afghanistan. His previous accolades include Columnist of the Year in the 1991 and 1993 British Press Awards, and in the What the Papers Say Awards 1992.In 1990 he received the London Press Club's Edgar Wallace Outstanding Reporter of the Year Award. In 2002, his autobiography, Chance Witness: An Outsider's Life in Politics, was published by Viking. In 2005, he published A Castle in Spain about his family's project to refurbish a derelict sixteenth-century mansion, L'Avenc, in Catalonia, close to the foothills of the Pyrenees, and make his home there. In 2011, Total Politics said that Parris's column "is considered essential reading by many in Westminster. He has a penchant for holding opinions that go against the grain. Parris has written scathingly about the localism agenda, and was a long-time defender of PMQs, although he recently changed his mind." Parris's writing has often attracted wider comment.For example, in a 2007 article in The Times he wrote a satirical article which stated, "A festive custom we could do worse than foster would be stringing piano wire across country lanes to decapitate cyclists. ", which attracted two hundred letters to the Press Complaints Commission  Parris issued an apology: "I offended many with my Christmas attack on cyclists. It was meant humorously but so many cyclists have taken it seriously that I plainly misjudged. I am sorry." In the same year Alastair Campbell called Parris "a little shit" in his diaries, to which Parris responded "I'd rather be a little shit than a big cunt". <mask> criticised the initial 2015 leadership election for the Labour Party, referring to recent rule changes that allowed any individual who donated £3 to the Labour Party to vote in the leadership elections. Following a second leadership election, which incumbent leader Jeremy Corbyn won with an increased majority, Channel 4 presenter Krishnan Guru-Murthy said that Parris and Michael Dobbs commented that Corbyn's reelection "will break the Labour Party".In October 2017, the commentator Iain Dale placed Parris at Number 84 in his list of 'The Top 100 Most Influential People on the Right', describing him as "the pre-eminent columnist of his generation". In June 2020 Parris wrote an excoriating article on Boris Johnson saying, "He never had any judgment or strategic vision. Mr Johnson was only ever a shallow opportunist with a minor talent to amuse". A co-founder of the gay rights charity Stonewall, Parris has criticised the organisation for latterly adopting trans rights as part of its agenda, writing that trans issues are unrelated to gay rights and should be for a separate organisation. In May 2021, Parris called for the removal of ethnic minority status from Gypsy, Roma and Travellers, describing them "not a race, but a doomed mindset" and called for "a gradual but relentless squeeze on anyone who tries without permission to park their home on public property or the property of others". The anti-racism group Hope not Hate responded to Parris saying "The Times have published an article advocating for eradicating the way of life of an entire ethnic minority. Absolutely shameful.Solidarity with Gypsy, Roma and Traveller people who have to endure this racism, and this mindset." In June, Parris argued there was "an absolute problem with human rights" and wrote a column whose "aim is to question the whole concept of fundamental human rights. It is so deeply flawed as to be fatal to all reasoning built upon it." Travel writing
Parris has made several expeditions abroad. They include Mount Kilimanjaro in 1967 and in 1989; Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) in 1973; the Sahara in 1978; Peru; Bolivia. In 1990 he published Inca-Kola about his travels in Peru. He spent the Antarctic winter of 2000 on the French possession of Grande Terre, part of the Kerguelen Archipelago in the Indian Ocean, with a few dozen over-winterers, mostly researchers.One of them was fatally shot in an accident during his stay, about which he wrote for The Times. Personal life
<mask> claims he attempted to out himself in a late-night debate in the House of Commons in 1984, but nobody noticed. He announced that he was gay in one of his weekly newspaper columns and admitted that he cruised Clapham Common for sex. In an interview on Newsnight, during the Ron Davies scandal of 1998, he told  Jeremy Paxman that there were two gay members of the then-current Labour Cabinet, one being Peter Mandelson. He has stated that there are between 30 and 60 unannounced gay members of the British Parliament. In August 2010, in a list compiled by the Independent on Sunday, <mask> was voted the 49th most influential LGBT person in Britain. In August 2006 <mask> entered into a civil partnership with his long-term partner, Julian Glover, a speechwriter for David Cameron and a former political journalist at The Guardian.At the time of their partnership, they had been together for 11 years. Parris owns homes in Spain, Derbyshire (where he keeps pet alpacas) and the Docklands in East London. He is the honorary patron of Clare Politics, a student-run politics society at  Clare College, Cambridge. He was a keen marathon runner, taking part in the London Marathon sever al times. His personal best was 2:32:57, achieved in 1985 at the age of 35, a record which Total Politics in 2018 said "looks unlikely to be smashed any time soon"; John Lamont, the fastest of 15 MPs in the marathon that year, finished at 3:38:03. Parris decided that he wanted to go out on top, and arguing that serious running is not good for one's health, he stopped running marathons after that. No British MP, sitting or retired, has bettered Parris' marathon-running time.Bibliography

Scorn: The Wittiest and Wickedest Insults in Human History <mask> (Profile Books Ltd, 2016)
Parting Shots:  Undiplomatic Diplomats – the ambassadors' letters you were never meant to see <mask>, Andrew Bryson (Penguin Books Ltd, 2010)
Mission Accomplished! :  A Treasury of the Things Politicians Wish They Hadn't Said <mask>, Phil Mason (JR Books Ltd, 2007)
A Castle in Spain (Viking, 2005)
Chance Witness: An Outsider's Life in Politics (Viking, 2002)
  The King's English (Oxford Language Classics Series) Henry Fowler, Frank Fowler, <mask> (introduction) (Oxford University Press, 2002)
Off Message: New Labour, New Sketches (Robson Books, 2001)
I Wish I Hadn't Said That: The Experts Speak – and Get It Wrong! <mask> (foreword), Christopher Cerf, Victor Navasky (HarperCollins, 2000)
Against the Law: The Classic Account of a Homosexual in 1950s Britain Peter Wildeblood, <mask> (introduction) (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999)
The Great Unfrocked: Two Thousand Years of Church Scandal (Robson, 1998)
Scorn with Extra Bile <mask>s (editor) (Penguin Books, 1998)
I Couldn't Possibly Comment: More Sketches from the Commons (Robson Books, 1997)
Read My Lips: A Treasury of Things Politicians Wish They Hadn't Said (Parkwest Publications, 1997)
Great Parliamentary Scandals: Four Centuries of Calumny, Smear and Innuendo (Robson Books, 1995)
Scorn with Added Vitriol (Hamish Hamilton, 1995)
Scorn: A Bucketful of Discourtesy, Disparagement, Invective, Ridicule, Impudence, Contumely, Derision, Hate, Affront, Disdain, Bile, Taunts, Curses and Jibes (Hamish Hamilton, 1994)
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title: Art Christmas

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<mask> (December 22, 1905September 24, 1961) was a Canadian dance band and jazz musician. For many years during the exciting dance band and jazz era of the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s, <mask> was often said to be Britain's leading saxophone player and multi-instrumentalist. In the 1930s and 1940s, young musicians in their teens and early twenties would follow <mask> all over Britain listening to him play and trying to copy his style, especially on alto saxophone. Beginning
<mask>'s professional music career really started when he was 19 years old. He left Canada to play trumpet with the  Orchestra, touring all over the United States and then on to Britain. While in Britain, he was given the opportunity to play trumpet with Paul Specht's Canadian Club Orchestra in 1926 and really never looked back. The Melody Maker Magazine detailed this orchestra's strengths by saying: "A ten-piece combination, its members, who are all Canadians, between them account for thirty-five different instruments.There are three vocalists in the outfit. <mask>, the first trumpet, is also a red-hot 'dirt' sax player." Still in Britain, <mask> went on to play with the New Prince's Toronto Band also in 1926. This band was the resident band at the New Prince's restaurant in Piccadilly. The band was made up of fellow Canadians and was directed by Hal Swain. It was when Hal Swain left the band, that at Alfie Noakes' behest, <mask> joined and took Hal Swain's place. The band was about to embark on a continental tour but first took some time fulfilling a recording contract again for Columbia.The publication British Dance Bands on Record shows <mask> playing tenor sax but he doubled on alto sax and trumpet. This band had recorded about 50 titles since November 1924, but just one more session took place on February 25, 1926, while <mask> was with them. The band actually left for the continent in August 1926 and by now consisted of Dave Caplan (banjo), Les Allen (clarinet, tenor sax), Ken Kenney (drums), <mask> (trumpet), Jack Collins (trombone), John Whittaker (bass), Laurie Day (piano) and of course <mask> who played mostly alto sax but doubled on tenor sax, clarinet, trombone and trumpet. (This likely started <mask> thinking of trying to make a name for himself as a multi instrumentalist even as early as the 1920s). Eventually this band became known as "The Toronto Band from Canada, featuring <mask>" and from about the first week in September they played at the Faun des Westens in Berlin. During November they also appeared at The Scala Theatre, assisting the dance pair Annette Mills and Bobby, who were demonstrating the Charleston dance. While in Berlin, Germany, the band recorded about 56 titles for Deutsche Grammophon/Polydor.This band had a very strong jazz component thanks mainly to <mask>' style. The German discographer Horst Lange compared it to the California Ramblers in his "Jazz in Deutschland: die deutsche Jazz-Chronik", noting that <mask> and other members of the band were familiar with all styles and could play with this special 'American feeling' which pure European musicians and bands were lacking. One of this band's few surviving recordings "I'm Sitting On Top Of The World", is a vigorous effort in the "hot dance" genre and according to the book 'The Lost History Of Jazz In Canada by Mark Miller', ".......is distinguished by <mask>' alto saxophone solo." Horst Lange's book Discography Of German Dance Music shows the personnel of the band changing considerably, with only <mask>, Les Allen, Dave Caplan and Ken Kenney remaining from the band which left Britain. <mask> worked extensively in Britain and Europe during the late 1920s and led his own band in Budapest, Berlin and London. He was with the Savoy Orpheans for a brief time and then joined Billy Mason in 1930. <mask> played and recorded with Percival Mackey and Dave Frost during the latter half of 1931 and was now playing baritone sax as well as the other instruments with these groups.<mask>'s big break
<mask>'s big break came when he joined the Roy Fox Band in February 1933, staying with this band until 1938. It was while he was with The Roy Fox Band, that <mask> became a household name around the music scene in both Britain and Europe. The British music magazine Melody Maker referred to <mask> as "...the most sought after musician in England" and <mask> soon became billed as Britain's 'Leading sax and multi-instrumentalist' as he not only played lead alto sax for Roy Fox but was often featured on trumpet, trombone, xylophone, drums, piano and even a routine with the bagpipes and sousaphone.....He didn't just play these other instruments but mastered them nearly to the same degree as he had the alto sax and clarinet. "<mask>' alto sax playing is distinguished by a daringly virtuoso style and inventive technique that displays a harmonic and rhythmic sophistication well in advance of his time...................."

After Roy Fox was forced to disband due to health problems in 1938, <mask> worked with <mask> from 1938 to 1939, Sid Millward's "Nitwits" and Joe Ferrie in 1939, before joining Jack Jackson (playing with the Jackson band on one recording session in November of that year). From 1940 until late 1946, <mask> played with his dear friend Jack Payne. The Jack Payne band was just too busy (with BBC shows every week and public performances all over Britain) to do much recording between 1940 and 1944 but there was a session in 1945 that <mask> played. For The Fun of It
After Jack Payne turned impresario and launched a new variety show called "For The Fun of It", he asked <mask> to join up with Donald Peers, Frankie Howerd and Max Bygraves along with many other entertainers.Thus <mask>'s multi instrumentalist stage act began and <mask> teamed up with his wife Maisie (a dancer and show girl), and "For The Fun of It" opened at the Sheffield Empire in Sheffield for sixteen weeks, followed by a different major city every week. Command Performance
After the extensive run of "For The Fun of It", <mask> did some ice shows and some Pantomimes and also led his own "Foulharmonic Orchestra" for the show "Ignorance Is Bliss". One of <mask>'s fondest memories was the performance of "Cinderella" for King George VI and Queen Elizabeth at the Palladium in London. Warburton Arms
In 1952, <mask> was searching for his next adventure and much to the disappointment of his many fans decided to retire from show business and become a publican. He bought "The Warburton Arms" (now known as London Fields) an east end pub in Hackney, London. <mask> had been away from his mother and father for nearly 30 years and soon after he bought the pub in Hackney, his father died. In 1954, determined not to let his mother die without seeing her again, <mask> sold the pub and moved back to Canada with his wife Maisie and son <mask>.

Canada 1954
After returning to Canada, <mask> performed a great deal around Kingston and Toronto with his own band from 1955 to 1958 when he decided to try his hand at teaching music at the high school level.He moved to Blind River, Ontario, again with his wife Maisie and his son <mask>, and taught until his death in 1961 in both Blind River, Ontario and Elliot Lake, Ontario. Although <mask> was enjoying his new teaching career a great deal, he still had the desire and drive to play. This time he played in and around Elliot Lake, Ontario and for the first time <mask>. was at his side. The experience of playing with his 15-year-old son was the biggest thrill <mask> had ever experienced in his entire musical career. This experience was short lived however. <mask> died a year later. External links
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Art Christmas Dance Band Musician
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title: Tony Knowles (snooker player)

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<mask> (born 13 June 1955) is an English former professional snooker player. He won the 1982 International Open and the 1983 Professional Players Tournament, and was a three times semi-finalist in the World Professional Snooker Championship in the 1980s. His highest world ranking was second, in the 1984/85 season. <mask> was the British under-19 snooker champion in 1972 and 1974. He turned professional in 1980, and surprisingly defeated the defending champion Steve Davis 10–1 in the first round of the 1982 World Snooker Championship. In 1984, tabloid stories about his personal life were published, and he was fined £5,000 by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association for bringing the game into disrepute. His other tournament victories included the 1984 Australian Masters and, as part of the England team with Davis and <mask>, the 1983 World Team Classic.Career
<mask> was born in Bolton on 13 June 1955. He began playing snooker at the age of 9 on the tables at the Tonge Moor Conservative Club, which was run by his father, Kevin. He went on to win the UK Junior Championship twice, in 1972 (against Matt Gibson) and in 1974. His application to the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) to become a professional player was accepted in 1980, after a rejection in November 1979. He did not win a match in his first year, before progressing through two qualifying rounds to reach the first round of the 1981 World Snooker Championship where he lost 8–10 to Graham Miles. He reached the quarter-finals of the 1981 UK Championship by eliminating Geoff Foulds, Fred Davis and Doug Mountjoy from the competition before being defeated 5–9 by Terry Griffiths. Later that season, <mask> gained attention when he won  10–1 against defending champion Steve Davis in the first round of the 1982 World Snooker Championship, after staying out late at a nightclub following the first day's play when he had built an 8–1 lead.He defeated Miles 13–7 in the second round, before losing 11–13 to Eddie Charlton in the quarter-finals. In the 1982–83 snooker season, he followed up his performance in the World Championship by winning the 1982 International Open with a 9–6 victory against David Taylor. He had eliminated Eddie Sinclair 5–2 in the first round, Ray Reardon by the same score in round two, Cliff Wilson 5–4 in the quarter-finals, and Kirk Stevens 9–3 in the semi-finals. In the final, he led Taylor 5–3 after the first , after the pair had been level at 2–2. He compiled a  of 114, the highest of the tournament, to win the ninth frame, before Taylor claimed the next two frames to leave <mask> one ahead at 6–5. Breaks of 63 and 43 in the next two frames saw <mask> restore a three-frame advantage. Taylor made a break of 74 to win the 14th frame, but <mask> secured his first major title by claiming the 15th frame with a break of 76.It was the first tournament apart from the World Snooker Championship to count in the snooker world rankings. He won only one match in four tournaments between the 1982 International Open and the 1983 World Snooker Championship. At the World Championship, he progressed to the semi-finals by defeating Miles, Reardon (the second seed), and <mask>. In the semi-final he led Cliff Thorburn 15–13 before losing 15–16 in the  after Thorburn  the final  and went on to take the frame. He moved to fourth place in the 1983/1984 world rankings. The next season, he defeated Meo and Thorburn to reach the final of the 1983 Scottish Masters, which he lost 6–9 to Davis. Having failed to successfully defend the International Open title, losing 4–5 to John Spencer in the second round, <mask> started the 1983 Professional Players Tournament with a 5–1 win against Paul Medati and a 5–4 defeat of Rex Williams, then a 5–0 whitewash of Silvino Francisco.The same day as his match against Francisco, <mask> won 5–3 against John Campbell in the quarter-finals, after losing the opening two frames. In the semi-final, <mask> and Willie Thorne were level at 4–4 after the first session, with <mask> going on to prevail 9–7. In the final, he faced Joe Johnson and established a 6–1 lead, which Johnson reduced slightly to 6–2 by winning the last frame of the first session with the tournament's highest break, 135. Johnson was two frames behind at 4–6 and 5–7, but <mask> went three frames up with four to play at 8–5. Johnson won three successive frames to equalise at 8–8. In the deciding frame, <mask> won on the final  to take the title. Just before the 1984 World Snooker Championship, <mask> appeared in a series of three articles in tabloid newspaper The Sun, in which he boasted of his sexual adventures, describing himself as "the hottest pot in snooker" and was dismissive of most other competitors in the tournament.He received £25,000 from the newspaper for the articles, and was subsequently fined £5,000 by the WPBSA for bringing the game into disrepute. He lost 7–10 to John Parrott in the first round. At the start of the 1984–85 snooker season, he won the 1984 Australian Masters by defeating John Virgo 7–3 in the final, and was the runner-up, 7–9 to Jimmy White, at the 1984 Carlsberg Challenge. He was the losing finalist to Davis, by a margin of 2–9, at both the 1984 International Open and the 1985 English Professional Championship. He reached the 1985 World Snooker Championship semi-final where he was eliminated 5–16 by Dennis Taylor. He reached two ranking tournament semi-finals, in the 1985–86 snooker season, at the Grand Prix and the World Championship, and the semi-finals of the Masters, but an inconsistent season included losses to lower-ranked players such as Williams, Jim Wych, and Patsy Fagan. The following year, he dropped from fourth to tenth in the rankings, with a semi-final place at the 1987 British Open the furthest he reached in a ranking tournament in a season that included a 6–10 first round defeat by Mike Hallett at the 1987 World Snooker Championship.He was ranked 21st for the 1990/1991 season, the first time he had not been in the top sixteen since 1982/1983 after a season where he only reached one quarter-final, at the 1989 Grand Prix. At the 1991 Dubai Classic, he defeated Gary Natale 5–1 in the qualifying competition, then Eugene Hughes 5–2, and Neal Foulds 5–0. A 5–2 win against Dennis Taylor in the quarter-final saw <mask> reach his first ranking semi-final since the 1988 Classic. He then gained his first ranking final place since the 1984 International Open by eliminating Steve James 6–2. in the semi-final. Facing reigning world champion Parrott in the final, <mask> fell 0–3 behind, but won three of the next four frames to trail 3–4 at the end of the first session. Parrott then won five consecutive frames in the next session to claim victory at 9–3.For the 1997–98 snooker season, only the top 64 players in the rankings at the end of the previous season retained full professional status. Those who finished from 65th to 192nd, including <mask> who was 72nd, played in a new WPBSA Qualifying School series which allowed qualifiers to regain full professional status. <mask>, however, lost his first match at each of the four Qualifying School events, and so was eligible to enter only the World Championship, the Benson and Hedges Championship, and the new "UK Tour" events during the season. He finished tenth in the UK Tour standings, which meant he regained his full professional status for 1998–99 snooker season, losing it again at the end of 2000–01. He continued to play on the Challenge Tour and in World Championship qualifying. In 2009, <mask> won the inaugural Snooker Super 6s tournament, which played as one-frame matches, with six red balls, rather than the usual fifteen reds, at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield. He defeated Neal Foulds in the semi-final, and 13-year-old Ross Muir in the final.He has entered competitions including World Championship qualifying, Players Tour Championship and Q School in the 21st century. In 2021, he announced that he would enter Q School in an attempt to regain his professional snooker status. He failed to regain his professional status, but reached the last 32 of Event 3, where he lost 2–4 to Mark Lloyd. During his professional career, <mask> reached the World Championship semi-finals on three occasions (in 1983, 1985 and 1986), but never the final. His highest ranking was second, in 1984/1985, and his highest tournament break was 139. As one of three members of the England Team alongside Davis and Meo, he was a winner of the 1983 World Team Classic, and was runner-up at the 1982 World Team Classic and 1985 World Cup. He partnered White at the 1983 World Doubles Championship, where they were the losing finalists to Davis and Meo.He was a director of the WPBSA in the early-to-mid-2000s. He manages a wine bar in the Lake District. The club in the comedy programme Phoenix Nights had a room named the "<mask> Suite" after him. Performance and rankings timeline

Career finals

Ranking finals: 4 (2 titles)

Non-ranking finals: 7 (2 titles)

Team finals: 4 (1 title)

Pro-am finals: 2 (1 title)

Amateur finals: 2 (2 titles)

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References

Bibliography

External links
 Global Snooker Profile

1955 births
Living people
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title: Robert W. Service

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<mask>rew" and "The Cremation of Sam McGee", which showed remarkable authenticity from an author with no experience of gold-mining, and enjoyed immediate popularity. Encouraged by this, he quickly wrote more poems on the same theme, which were published as Songs of a Sourdough (re-titled The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses in the U.S.), and achieved a massive sale. When his next collection Ballads of a Cheechako proved equally successful, <mask> could afford to travel widely and live a leisurely life, basing himself in Paris and the French Riviera. Partly because of their popularity, and the speed with which he wrote them, his works were dismissed as doggerel by the critics, who tended to say the same of Rudyard Kipling, with whom <mask> was often compared. This did not worry <mask>, who was happy to classify his work as “verse, not poetry”.Life

Early life

<mask> was born in Preston, Lancashire, England, the third of ten children. His father, also <mask>, was a banker from Kilwinning, Scotland, who had been transferred to England. When he was five, <mask> was sent to live in Kilwinning with his three maiden aunts and his paternal grandfather, the town's postmaster. There he is said to have composed his first verse, a grace, on his sixth birthday:

At nine, <mask> re-joined his parents who had moved to Glasgow. He attended Glasgow's Hillhead High School. After leaving school, <mask> joined the Commercial Bank of Scotland which would later become the Royal Bank of Scotland. He was writing at this time and reportedly already "selling his verses".He was also reading poetry: Browning, Keats, Tennyson, and Thackeray. When he was 21, <mask> travelled to Vancouver Island, British Columbia, with his Buffalo Bill outfit and dreams of becoming a cowboy. He drifted around western North America, "wandering from California to British Columbia," taking and quitting a series of jobs: "Starving in Mexico, residing in a California bordello, farming on Vancouver Island and pursuing unrequited love in Vancouver." This sometimes required him to leech off his parents' Scottish neighbours and friends who had previously emigrated to Canada. In 1899, <mask> was a store clerk in Cowichan Bay, British Columbia. He mentioned to a customer (Charles H. Gibbons, editor of the Victoria Daily Colonist) that he wrote verses, with the result that six poems by "R.S." on the Boer Wars had appeared in the Colonist by July 1900 – including "The March of the Dead", which would later appear in his first book.(Service's brother, Alick, was a prisoner of the Boers at the time. He had been captured on November 15, 1899, alongside <mask>.) The Colonist also published Service's "Music in the Bush" on September 18, 1901, and "The Little Old Log Cabin" on March 16, 1902. In her 2006 biography, Under the Spell of the Yukon, Enid Mallory revealed that Service had fallen in love during this period. He was working as a "farm labourer and store clerk when he first met Constance MacLean at a dance in Duncan B.C., where she was visiting her uncle." MacLean lived in Vancouver, on the mainland, so he courted her by mail. Though he was smitten, "MacLean was looking for a man of education and means to support her" so was not that interested.To please her, he took courses at McGill University's Victoria College, but failed. In 1903, down on his luck, <mask> was hired by a Canadian Bank of Commerce branch in Victoria, British Columbia, using his Commercial Bank letter of reference. The bank "watched him, gave him a raise, and sent him to Kamloops in the middle of British Columbia. In Victoria he lived over the bank with a hired piano, and dressed for dinner. In Kamloops, horse country, he played polo. In the fall of 1904, the bank sent him to their Whitehorse branch in Yukon. With the expense money he bought himself a raccoon coat."Throughout this period, <mask> continued writing and saving his verses: "more than a third of the poems in his first volume had been written before he moved north in 1904." Yukon period

Whitehorse was a frontier town, less than ten years old. Located on the Yukon River at the White Horse Rapids, it had begun in 1897 as a campground for prospectors on their way to Dawson City to join the Klondike Gold Rush. The railroad that <mask> rode in on, the White Pass and Yukon Route, had reached Whitehorse only in 1900. Settling in, "<mask> dreamed and listened to the stories of the great gold rush." He also "took part in the extremely active Whitehorse social life. As was popular at the time he recited at concerts – things such as 'Casey at the Bat' and 'Gunga Din', but they were getting stale."One day (Service later wrote), while pondering what to recite at an upcoming church concert he met E. J. "Stroller" <mask>, editor of the Whitehorse Star. <mask> suggested: "Why don’t you write a poem for it? Give us something about our own bit of earth. We sure would appreciate it. There’s a rich paystreak waiting for someone to work. Why don’t you go in and stake it?"Returning from a walk one Saturday night, <mask>rew" was complete. "A month or so later he heard a gold rush yarn from a Dawson mining man about a fellow who cremated his pal." He spent the night walking in the woods composing "The Cremation of Sam McGee", and wrote it down from memory the next day. Other verses quickly followed. "In the early spring he stood above the heights of Miles Canyon... the line 'I have gazed on naked grandeur where there’s nothing else to gaze on' came into his mind and again he hammered out a complete poem, "The Call of the Wild". Conversations with locals led <mask> to write about things he had not seen (some of which had not even happened) as well.He did not set foot in Dawson City until 1908, arriving in the Klondike ten years after the Gold Rush when his renown as a writer was already established. After having collected enough poems for a book, <mask> "sent the poems to his father, who had emigrated to Toronto, and asked him to find a printing house so they could make it into a booklet. He enclosed a cheque to cover the costs and intended to give these booklets away to his friends in Whitehorse" for Christmas. His father took the manuscript to <mask> in Toronto, whose employees loved the book. "The foreman and printers recited the ballads while they worked. A salesman read the proofs out loud as they came off the typesetting machines." An "enterprising salesman sold 1700 copies in advance orders from galley proofs."The publisher "sent <mask>'s cheque back to him and offered a ten percent royalty contract for the book." Service's book, Songs of a Sourdough, given the more Jack London-ish title, The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses in the United States, was "an immediate success." It went through seven printings even before its official release date. Ultimately, Briggs "sold fifteen impressions in 1907. That same year there was an edition in New York, Philadelphia, and London. The London publisher, T. Fisher Unwin, struck a twenty-third printing in 1910, and thirteen more by 1917." "Service eventually earned in excess of $100,000 for Songs of a Sourdough alone" (equal to about $ today after inflation)."When copies of the book reached Whitehorse, <mask>'s own minister took him aside to let him know how wicked were his stories. <mask> hung his head in shame.... But, that summer, tourists from the south arrived in Whitehorse looking for the famous poet; and he autographed many of his books." "In 1908, after working for the bank for three years in Whitehorse, he was sent outside on mandatory paid leave for three months, a standard practice for bank employees serving in the Yukon." According to Enid Mallory, he went to Vancouver and looked up Constance MacLean. Now that he was a successful author, she agreed to become engaged to him. Following his leave, in 1908 the bank transferred <mask> to Dawson, where he met veterans of the Gold Rush, now ten years in the past: "they loved to reminisce, and <mask> listened carefully and remembered."He used their tales to write a second book of verse, Ballads of a Cheechako, in 1908. "It too was an overwhelming success." In 1909, when the bank wanted <mask> to return to Whitehorse as manager, he decided to resign. "After quitting his job, he rented a small two-room cabin on Eighth Avenue in Dawson City from Mrs. Edna Clarke and began his career as a full-time author." He immediately "went to work on his novel.... He went for walks that lasted all night, slept till mid-afternoon, and sometimes didn't come out of the cabin for days. In five months the novel, entitled The Trail of '98, was complete and he took it to a publisher in New York."<mask>'s first novel also "immediately became a best-seller." Newly wealthy, <mask> was able to travel to Paris, the French Riviera, Hollywood, and beyond. He returned to Dawson City in 1912 to write his third book of poetry, Rhymes of a Rolling Stone (1912). During that time he became a freemason, being initiated into Yukon Lodge No. 45 in Dawson. It is unclear what happened between <mask> and Constance MacLean as no known letters between them exist after Service's departure for Dawson City. In 1912 she "married Leroy Grant, a surveyor and railroad engineer based in Prince Rupert."Later life
Service left Dawson City for good in 1912. From 1912 to 1913 he was a correspondent for the Toronto Star during the Balkan Wars. In 1913, <mask> moved to Paris, remaining there for the next 15 years. He settled in the Latin Quarter, posing as a painter. In June 1913, he married Parisienne Germaine Bourgoin, daughter of a distillery owner, and they purchased a summer home at Lancieux, Côtes-d'Armor, in the Brittany region of France. Thirteen years younger than her husband, Germaine <mask> survived him by 31 years, dying aged 102 on December 26, 1989 in Monte Carlo, Monaco. <mask> was 40 when World War I broke out; he attempted to enlist, but was turned down "due to varicose veins."He briefly covered the war for the Toronto Star (from December 11, 1915, through January 29, 1916), but "was arrested and nearly executed in an outbreak of spy hysteria in Dunkirk." He then "worked as a stretcher bearer and ambulance driver with the Ambulance Corps of the American Red Cross, until his health broke." Convalescing in Paris, he wrote a new book of mainly war poetry, Rhymes of a Red Cross Man, in 1916. The book was dedicated to the memory of <mask>'s "brother, Lieutenant <mask>, Canadian Infantry, Killed in Action, France, August 1916." <mask> received three medals for his war service: 1914–15 Star, British War Medal and the Victory Medal. With the end of the war, <mask> "settled down to being a rich man in Paris.... During the day he would promenade in the best suits, with a monocle. At night he went out in old clothes with the company of his doorman, a retired policeman, to visit the lowest dives of the city".During his time in Paris he was reputedly the wealthiest author living in the city, yet was known to dress as a working man and walk the streets, blending in and observing everything around him. Those experiences would be used in his next book of poetry, Ballads of a Bohemian (1921): "The poems are given in the persona of an American poet in Paris who serves as an ambulance driver and an infantryman in the war. The verses are separated by diary entries over a period of four years." In the 1920s, <mask> began writing thriller novels. The Poisoned Paradise, A Romance of Monte Carlo (New York, 1922) and The Roughneck. A Tale of Tahiti (New York, 1923) were both later made into silent movies. During the winter season, <mask> used to live in Nice with his family, where he met British writers, including H. G<mask>, A. K. Bruce, Somerset Maugham, Rex Ingram, Frank Scully, James Joyce, Frank Harris, and Frieda Laurence, who all spent their winters in the French Riviera, and he wrote that he had been lucky to have had lunch with Colette.In 1930, <mask> returned to Kilwinning, to erect a memorial to his family in the town cemetery. He also visited the USSR in the 1930s and later wrote a satirical "Ballad of Lenin's Tomb". For this reason his poetry was never translated into Russian in the USSR, and he was never mentioned in Soviet encyclopedias. <mask>'s second trip to the Soviet Union "was interrupted by news of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. <mask> fled across Poland, Latvia, Estonia and the Baltic to Stockholm. He wintered in Nice with his family, then fled France for Canada." Not long after, the Nazis invaded France, and "arrived at his home in Lancieux ... looking specifically for the poet who had mocked Hitler in newspaper verse."During World War II, <mask> lived in California, "and Hollywood had him join with other celebrities in helping the morale of troops – visiting U.S. Army camps to recite his poems. He was also asked to play himself in the movie The Spoilers (1942), working alongside Marlene Dietrich, <mask> and Randolph Scott. "He was thrilled to play a scene with Marlene Dietrich." After the war, <mask> and his wife returned to his home in Brittany, to find it destroyed. They rebuilt, and he lived there until his death in 1958, although he wintered in Monte Carlo on the French Riviera. <mask>'s wife and daughter, Iris, travelled to the Yukon in 1946 "and visited Whitehorse and Dawson City, which by then was becoming a ghost town. <mask> could not bring himself to go back.He preferred to remember the town as it had been." While named <mask> <mask>, the <mask> was attributed in honour of a rich uncle. Never later remembered in his will, <mask> dropped the middle name. <mask> wrote prolifically during his last years, publishing six books of verse from 1949 to 1955. A book he had written in 1956 was published posthumously. In the spring of 1958, not long before <mask> died, Canadian broadcaster Pierre Berton recorded many hours of autobiographical television interviews for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, in Service's Monte Carlo flat. During these interviews,

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<mask> lived in Monaco from 1947 to 1958.He wrote two volumes of autobiography – Ploughman of the Moon (1945) and Harper of Heaven (1948). He died in Lancieux and is buried in the local cemetery. Writing

<mask> wrote the most commercially successful poetry of the century. Yet his most popular works "were considered doggerel by the literary set." During his lifetime, he was nicknamed "the Canadian Kipling." – yet that may have been a double-edged compliment. As T. S. Eliot has said, "we have to defend Kipling against the charge of excessive lucidity," "the charge of being a 'journalist' appealing only to the commonest collective emotion," and "the charge of writing jingles."All those charges, and more, could be levelled against <mask>'s best known and best loved works. Certainly <mask>'s verse was derivative of Kipling's. In "The Cremation of Sam McGee", for instance, he uses the form of Kipling's "The Ballad of East and West". In his E. J. Pratt lecture "Silence In the Sea," critic Northrop Frye argued that <mask>'s verse was not "serious poetry," but something else he called "popular poetry": "the idioms of popular and serious poetry remain inexorably distinct." Popular poems, he thought, "preserve a surface of explicit statement" – either being "proverbial, like Kipling's 'If' or Longfellow's 'Song of Life' or Burns's 'For A' That'," or dealing in "conventionally poetic themes, like the pastoral themes of <mask> Riley, or the adventurous themes of <mask>." <mask> did not call his work poetry. "Verse, not poetry, is what I was after ... something the man in the street would take notice of and the sweet old lady would paste in her album; something the schoolboy would spout and the fellow in the pub would quote.Yet I never wrote to please anyone but myself; it just happened. I belonged to the simple folks whom I liked to please." In his autobiography, <mask> described his method of writing at his Dawson City cabin. "I used to write on the coarse rolls of paper used by paper-hangers, pinning them on the wall and printing my verses in big charcoal letters. Then I would pace back and forth before them, repeating them, trying to make them perfect. I wanted to make them appeal to the eye as well as to the ear. I tried to avoid any literal quality."One remarkable thing about both of Service's best-known ballads is how easily he wrote them. When writing about composing "The Shooting of Dan McGrew", 'easy' was exactly the word he used: "For it came so easy to me in my excited state that I was amazed at my facility. It was as if someone was whispering in my ear." And this was just after someone had tried to shoot him. He continued: "As I wrote stanza after stanza, the story seemed to evolve itself. It was a marvelous experience. Before I crawled into my bed at five in the morning, my ballad was in the bag."Similarly, when he wrote "The Cremation of Sam McGee", the verses just flowed: "I took the woodland trail, my mind seething with excitement and a strange ecstasy.... As I started in: There are strange things done in the midnight sun, verse after verse developed with scarce a check ... and when I rolled happily into bed, my ballad was cinched. Next day, with scarcely any effort of memory I put it on paper." In 1926, Archibald MacMechan, Professor of English at Canada's Dalhousie University, pronounced on Service's Yukon books in his Headwaters of Canadian Literature:

The sordid, the gross, the bestial, may sometimes be redeemed by the touch of genius; but that Promethean touch is not in Mr. Service. In manner he is frankly imitative of Kipling's barrack-room balladry; and imitation is an admission of inferiority. 'Sourdough' is Yukon slang for the provident old-timer ... It is a convenient term for this wilfully violent kind of verse without the power to redeem the squalid themes it treats. The Ballads of a Cheechako is a second installment of sourdoughs, while his novel The Trail of '98 is simply sourdough prose.<ref name=macmechan>Archibald MacMechan, Headwaters of Canadian Literature (Toronto: New Canadian Library, 1974), 219–221.</ref>

MacMechan did give grudging respect to Service's World War I poetry, conceding that his style went well with that subject, and that "his Rhymes of a Red Cross Man are an advance on his previous volumes.He has come into touch with the grimmest of realities; and while his radical faults have not been cured, his rude lines drive home the truth that he has seen." Reviewing Service's Rhymes of a Rebel in 1952, Frye remarked that the book "interests me chiefly because ... I have noticed so much verse in exactly the same idiom, and I wonder how far Mr. <mask>'s books may have influenced it. There was a time, fifty years ago," he added, "when <mask>.<mask> represented, with some accuracy, the general level of poetic experience in Canada, as far as the popular reader was concerned.... there has been a prodigious, and, I should think, a permanent, change in public taste." Recognition

<mask> W<mask> has been honoured with schools named for him including Robert Service High School in Anchorage, Alaska, Robert Service Senior Public School (Middle/ Jr. High) in Toronto, Ontario, and Robert Service School in Dawson City. He was honoured on a Canadian postage stamp in 1976. The <mask> Way, a main road in Whitehorse, is named after him.Additionally, the Bard & Banker public house in Victoria is dedicated to him, the building having at one time been a Canadian Bank of Commerce branch where Service was employed while residing in the city. Service's first novel, The Trail of '98, was made into a movie by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, directed by Clarence Brown. "Trail of '98 starring Dolores del Río, Ralph Forbes and Karl Dane in 1929 ... was the first talking picture dealing with the Klondike gold rush and was acclaimed at the time by critics for depicting the Klondike as it really was." In 1968 Canadian-born country singer Hank Snow recorded recitations of eight of Service's longer poems for an album entitled, Tales of the Yukon. The album was released by RCA Victor. Snow and other musicians including Chet Atkins and Chubby <mask> provided background music. Folksinger Country Joe McDonald set some of Service's World War I poetry (plus "The March of the Dead" from his first book), to music for his 1971 studio album, War War War.Folksinger Jim Ratts read some of <mask>'s poetry for his 1993 studio album, "Buckwheat at Your Service: The Readings of <mask>." Raven Records RVNCD9303. The Canadian whiskey Yukon Jack incorporated various excerpts of his writings in their ads in the 1970s, one of which was the first four lines of his poem, "The Men Who Don't Fit In". The town of Lancieux, where he used to come every summer, organized several recognitions to the memory of <mask><mask>. One of the streets of Lancieux has been named Robert <mask> Street. On July 13, 1990, a commemorative tablet was unveiled at the Lancieux Office du Tourisme by the daughter of the poet: <mask>. An evening of celebration was organized afterward with a dinner attended by many guests from Scotland and the Yukon.A few years later, on May 18, 2002 the school of Lancieux in Brittany took the name of "École <mask>. <mask>". <mask>-Longépé, the great granddaughter and the granddaughter of the poet, attended the dedication ceremony and made a speech.Evening with the Bard; accessed 2017-04-06 Since 2000, the towns of Lancieux and Whitehorse are sister cities, due to <mask><mask>'s life and work in both places. Radio humorist and raconteur Jean Shepherd recorded a collection of <mask>'s poems, Jean Shepherd Reads the Poems of <mask>. Margaret Rutherford recited most of "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" in the 1964 film Murder Most Foul. The Spell of the Yukon features significantly in the film Eureka (1983 film) directed by Nicholas Roeg. Dawson City cabin
From 1909 to 1912, <mask> lived in a small two-room cabin on Eighth Avenue, which he rented from Edna Clarke in Dawson City. His prosperity allowed him the luxury of a telephone.<mask> eventually decided he could not return to Dawson, as it would not be as he remembered it. He wrote in his autobiography:

"Only yesterday an air-line offered to fly me up there in two days, and I refused. It would have saddened me to see dust and rust where once hummed a rousing town; hundreds where were thousands; tumbledown cabins, mouldering warehouses." After <mask> left for Europe, the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire (I.O.D.E.) took care of the cabin until 1971, preserving it. In 1971 it was taken over by Parks Canada, which maintains it, including its sod roof, as a tourist attraction. Irish-born actor Tom Byrne created The Robert Service Show, which was presented in the front yard of the cabin, starting in 1978.This was very popular for summer visitors and set the standard for Robert Service recitations. Byrne discontinued the show at the cabin in 1995, moving it to a Front Street storefront. Since 2004 the show has been held at the Westmark Hotel in Dawson City during the summer months. Byrne later retired, and died in 2019. At the Service Cabin, local Dawson entertainers dressed in period costumes and employed by Parks Canada offer biographical information and recite Service's poetry for visitors. Publications
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Poetry
"Carry On!" (date missing)Songs of a Sourdough (Toronto: <mask>, 1907)
[U.S. as The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses (New York: Barse & Hopkins, 1907; Also Dodd, Mead & Company, 1907 & 1916)].Ballads of a Cheechako (Toronto: <mask> Briggs, 1909)Rhymes of a Rolling Stone (Toronto: <mask>, 1912)Songs of the Yukon (Toronto: <mask>, 1913) – miniature book, reprinting two poems from Songs of a SourdoughRhymes of a Red-Cross Man (Toronto: <mask>, 1916)Ballads of a Bohemian (Toronto: G. J. McLeod, 1921)Twenty Bath-Tub Ballads (London: Francis, Day and Hunter, 1939)Bar-Room Ballads (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1940)Songs of a Sun-Lover.A Book of Light Verse (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1949).Rhymes of a Roughneck. A Book of Verse (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1950).Lyrics of a Lowbrow. A Book of Verse (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1951).Rhymes of a Rebel. A Book of Verse (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1952).Songs for my Supper (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1953).Carols of an Old Codger (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1955).Rhymes for My Rags (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1956). CollectionsThe Collected Verse of <mask><mask> (London: E. Benn, 1930, 43, 48, 51, 53, 60, 73)The Complete Poems of <mask>. <mask> (New York: Dodd Mead, 1933)Rhyme and Romance: a <mask> anthology (London: E. Benn, 1949)Later Collected Verse (New York: Dodd Mead, 1954, 55, 65)
 Collected Poems of <mask> (New York: Dodd Mead, 1954)More Collected Verse (New York: Dodd Mead, 1955)Songs of the High North (London: E. Benn, 1958)The Song of the Campfire, illustrated by Richard Galaburr (New York: Dodd Mead, 1912, 39, 78)The Shooting of Dan McGrew and Other Favorite Poems, jacket drawing by <mask> (Dodd Mead, 1980)Servicewise and Otherwise: a selection of extracts in prose and verse from the works of <mask><mask>, which may serve as an introduction to the virile writings of that celebrated author; collected and arranged by Arthur H. StewartRobert W. <mask>. Selected poems: Translated into Russian by Andrew Krotkov. – In: Literary Translation and Comparative Literary Science.Vol.7. – Moscow: Flinta, 2017. P. 209-409. <mask><mask>. The Spell of the Yukon: Selected poems. – Moscow: Vodoley Publishers, 2018. [translated into Russian by Age Of Translation site; 20 translators; collected and arranged by <mask>ky]
 The Best of <mask> The Best of <mask>.Surrey, B.C. : Hancock House, 2003. FictionThe Trail of Ninety-Eight, A Northland Romance (Toronto: <mask> Briggs, 1909)The Pretender. A story of the Latin quarter (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1914).The Poisoned Paradise: A Romance of Monte Carlo (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1922)The Roughneck, A Tale of Tahiti (New York: Barse and Hopkins, 1923)The Master of the Microbe: A Fantastic Romance (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1926)The House of Fear, A Novel (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1927)

Non-fictionWhy Not Grow Young? or Living for Longevity (London: Ernest Benn, 1928)Ploughman of the Moon, An Adventure Into Memory (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1945) – autobiographyHarper of Heaven. A Record of Radiant Living (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1948) – autobiography

MusicTwenty Bath-Tub Ballads (London: Francis, Day and Hunter,1939)Tripe and Trotters (words and music, 1939)The Amorous (Square words and music, 1939)If you can't be Good be Careful (words and music, 1939)My old School Tie (words and music, 1939)Facility words (words by <mask> W. <mask> & Music by Leslie T. Cochran, G. Ricordi & C° Ltd London)Unforgotten (words by <mask> W. <mask> & Music by Fredrick Sixten, 2012) published by Gehrmans Musikförlag, Stockholm, Sweden

See also

Canadian literature
Canadian poetry
List of Canadian poets
List of Canadian writers
List of ambulance drivers during World War I

References

Further reading
 <mask>-Longépé Robert W. Service, A Sourdough’s Quest (Part One), Infine Arts Éditions, 2021,
 Charlotte Service-Longépé Robert W. Service Best Quotes & Inspiring Rhymes, Infine Arts Editions, 2020,
 Charlotte Service-Longépé The Poisoned Paradise. A Romance of Monte-Carlo Annales Monégasques, n°43, Archives du Palais Princier de Monaco, Monaco, 2019, p. 167-217.<mask>-Longépé  Rhymes of a Red Cross-Man Le Pays de Dinan n°38, Bibliothèque Municipale de Dinan, 2018, p. 85-136. <mask>-Longépé <mask><mask>: La Piste de l'imaginaire Biographie, Les Éditions JCL, July 2015. Barbara S. Giehmann Writing the Northland. Jack London's and <mask><mask>'s Imaginary Geography. Königshausen & Neumann. 2010. Elle Andra-<mask> <mask> a great Canadian Poets romance with the North, Amazing Stories.Peter J. Mitham <mask><mask>, A Bibliography, Oak Knoll Press, 2000,
 G.W. Lockart On the Trail of Robert Service, Luath Press Ltd,

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<mask> (born 8 February 1960) is an Austrian politician who until 2008 spent his entire professional life as an employee of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) or as a parliamentary representative. He headed the SPÖ from 2000 to 2008, and served as Chancellor of Austria from January 2007 to December 2008. Since then he has pursued a career as a consultant and lecturer, and as a member of supervisory boards of Austrian companies. Early life and education
<mask> was born in Sankt Pölten in the state of Lower Austria on 8 February 1960. He was educated at a high school in Wieselburg and studied political science, philosophy and jurisprudence at the University of Vienna, where he obtained a doctorate in political science in 1987. <mask> was federal leader of the SPÖ youth wing, the Socialist Youth (SJ) from 1984 to 1990; vice-president of the International Union of Socialist Youth from 1985 to 1989 and vice-president of the Socialist International in 1989. He was then made a senior research fellow in the economic policy department of the Lower Austria section of the Chamber of Labour from 1990 to 1999.Chairman of the Social Democratic Party
In 1991, <mask> was elected SPÖ chairman in Ybbs an der Donau and a member of the Lower Austria party executive following the resignation of SPÖ chairman Viktor Klima. In the same year he was elected to the Bundesrat (the upper house of the Austrian Parliament) as a deputy for Lower Austria. He was a member of the Austrian delegation to the parliamentary meeting of the Council of Europe in 1991 and was chairman of the social committee of the Council of Europe from 1995 to 1998. In the Bundesrat, <mask> was chairman of the Committee for Development Co-operation  from 1996 to 1999. In 2000, he was elected leader of the SPÖ Group in the Bundesrat and also as secretary-general of the SPÖ. Under his leadership in the 2002 elections the SPÖ improved its vote and gained four seats, but failed to defeat the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) government of Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel. <mask> had campaigned on a platform of more social spending and certain tax cuts.During 2006, the SPÖ was handicapped by its involvement in the "BAWAG scandal" in which directors of the BAWAG, an Austrian bank owned by the Austrian Trade Union Federation (Österreichischer Gewerkschaftsbund, ÖGB), were accused of corruption, embezzlement and illicit speculation. The scandal led in March to the resignation of ÖGB head Fritz Verzetnitsch. The SPÖ as a party was not involved in the fraud but <mask> found it politically expedient to exclude ÖGB leaders from the lists of SPÖ candidates, drawing criticism from the ÖGB. Chancellor of Austria
After the 2006 elections, the SPÖ was the largest single party but had no absolute majority of the parliamentary seats. A grand coalition between the ÖVP and the SPÖ was considered the most likely outcome. After prolonged negotiations, <mask> became chancellor on 11 January 2007 at the head of an SPÖ-ÖVP coalition. In July 2007, <mask> led the Austrian delegation to the 119th session of the International Olympic Committee in Guatemala City to present the proposal for Salzburg as host of the 2014 Winter Olympics; the proposal eventually lost against Sochi, whose bid was presented by President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.<mask> immediately drew criticism because he abandoned central promises of the SPÖ election campaign, such as those to abolish university tuition fees (it was decided by the SPÖ instead that students should do community service for 60 hours, which resulted in student protests) and to reverse the country's Eurofighter deal. This provoked public criticism even from SPÖ members. Infighting over <mask>'s ability to lead his party never subsided from this point onwards. On 16 June 2008, <mask> was replaced as SPÖ chief by his minister of transport Werner Faymann. However, he formally remained chancellor until after the 2008 snap elections that were called in early July 2008 when the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP), led by Wilhelm Molterer, left the governing coalition. His time in office was the shortest since World War II. Post-politics career
<mask> briefly returned to his old post in the Chamber of Labour but immediately took on paid and unpaid positions in the private and non-profit sectors.In 2009, Faymann prevented <mask>'s candidacy for the office of High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy by agreeing to the nomination of Johannes Hahn from his centre-right junior coalition partner ÖVP as Austria's Member of the European Commission. Corporate boards
<mask> was made a member of the supervisory board of Alpine Holding, an Austrian construction conglomerate, in July 2009 and resigned from this position effective 1 May 2010, when it was announced that <mask> was to head the supervisory board of Strabag (Austria's leading construction company) on 18 June 2010. At the same time he was to become chairman of the board of trustees of the private foundation established by Strabag's chairman, Hans Peter Haselsteiner. In an article about Western leaders working for authoritarian regimes, Associated Press reported that <mask> works as a consultant to Kazakh president Nursultan Nazarbayev. In September 2013, he became an advisor to Serbian deputy prime minister and leader of the Serbian Progressive Party Aleksandar Vucic. In 2018, reports surfaced claiming that <mask> had met with members of Congress in Washington as part of a 2013 lobbying campaign orchestrated by Paul Manafort on behalf of Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych. Other positions include:
 Citigroup, member of the European Advisory Board
 CUDOS Capital AG, chairman of the supervisory board
 Equitas Capital, member of the board and chairman of European Funds (since 2009)
 Gabriel Resources, member of the board of directors (Member of the Corporate Governance and Compensation Committee)
 Haselsteiner Familien-Privatstiftung, chairman
 RHI AG, member of the supervisory board (since 2013)
 Wartenfels Privatstiftung, chairman of the board

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From 2008 to 2011, Gusenbauer was the first Leitner Global Fellow at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs in New York.Other positions include:
 Austrian Society for China Studies (ÖGCF), president of the board of trustees
 Austrian-Spanish Chamber of Commerce, president
 Bonner Akademie für Forschung und Lehre praktischer Politik (BAPP), member of the board of trustees
 Club de Madrid, Member
 Dr. Karl Renner Institute, president
 Verein für Geschichte der ArbeiterInnenbewegung, member of the board of trustees

Controversy
In 1984, <mask>, then leader of Austria's Young Socialists, caused controversy in Austria when he knelt and kissed the still-Communist tarmac at Moscow's Domodedovo airport – in mockery of Pope John Paul II. Paradise Papers
In November 2017 an investigation conducted by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalism cited his name in the list of politicians named in the "Paradise Papers" allegations. Manafort indictment
The 2018 February 16 indictment of Paul Manafort unsealed on 23 February as part of the Special Counsel investigation (2017–2019) alleges that foreign politicians hypothesized to be Romano Prodi and Gusenbauer took payments exceeding $2m from Manafort to promote the case of his client, then-president of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovich. See also
 Gusenbauer cabinet

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<mask> (born 4 November 1982 in Sheffield, South Yorkshire) is an English retired professional footballer who began his career at Liverpool in the Premier League and most recently played as a striker for Preston North End. He made his name in 2004 by scoring a stunning last-minute goal from long range to give Liverpool a 2–1 victory over Arsenal at Anfield. <mask> also scored a vital goal and set up another during Liverpool's match with Olympiacos at Anfield during the group stage of the 2004–05 UEFA Champions League, which Liverpool went on to win. In December 2011, a knee injury sustained following a tackle by Milton Keynes striker Jabo Ibehre resulted in <mask> being forced into announcing his retirement on 9 May 2012. Since his retirement, <mask> is the son of former Manchester City, Norwich City, Sheffield Wednesday and Brighton and Hove Albion player <mask>. A strong, physical, centre forward, <mask> was top scorer in Liverpool's run to the FA Youth Cup semi-final during the 2000–01 season scoring eight goals in four games.He was also the top scorer for the under-19 team and Joe Corrigan's reserves during the 2001–02 season and in total scored 46 goals (56 including friendlies). <mask> progressed through the ranks at Liverpool and in the 2002–03 season he scored 20 goals for the reserve team. He made his first team debut in the same season and played a total of six games and scored in a League Cup semi-final match against Sheffield United. Although the Reds lost the match 2–1, <mask> showed promise and was rewarded in March 2003 with a new three-year contract running to 2006. Despite his goal he was left out of the squad for the victorious 2003 Football League Cup Final. Manager Gérard Houllier sent <mask> on a year-long loan to West Ham United in August 2003. He scored two goals in the 3–0 win over Crystal Palace at the end of September, but an injury hit spell at Upton Park, in addition to playing under three different managers and being forced to play out of position, proved unsettling.<mask> was soon back at Anfield and hit 10 goals in just four games for the reserves. Before the start of the 2004–05 season, <mask> suffered a knee injury but regained fitness and a return to the first team in the 3–0 League Cup victory at Millwall. In the next round he scored two goals to knock out holders Middlesbrough, and in late November he started a UEFA Champions League game at Monaco. After becoming a fixture in first team squad, <mask> burst into the starting team with some style. With Liverpool and Arsenal level at 1–1 with 90 minutes gone at Anfield in November 2004, he cracked in a sensational 30-yard volley to win the game for Liverpool. Things got better still for <mask> ten days later when Liverpool were being held 1–1 by Olympiacos in a game they had to win by two clear goals to progress to the Champions League knock out stages. He was brought into the game to replace Milan Baroš and within two minutes, he scored with a typical goal poacher's finish.Then, a cushioned header from <mask> set up Steven Gerrard to rifle in the third Liverpool goal and seal Liverpool's place in the last 16. He scored his second and what proved to be his final league goal for Liverpool in December 2004 in the 3–1 win over Newcastle at Anfield. In March 2005, <mask> was ruled out for the remainder of the 2004–05 season after undergoing surgery on both knees. This robbed the young striker of his chance of European glory as his teammates succeeded in bringing a fifth European cup back to Anfield. Although <mask> played no part in the knock out stages, his contribution to that year's success was massive. <mask> returned to action for the Liverpool reserve side in the 2005–06 season coming on as a substitute in their 2–0 victory at Manchester United in December 2005. He was back on the scoresheet in his first start in a year as Liverpool cruised into the quarter-finals of the Liverpool Senior Cup after a 3–0 win over Runcorn.In January 2006, <mask> joined Wigan Athletic on loan for the remainder of the season. In his first match against Middlesbrough, he scored the winner during injury time in a 3–2 victory. However, further knee injuries that required more surgery ended his spell at Wigan after three games. In 2006, despite a relative lack of first-team football at Liverpool, <mask> was voted into 90th position in a poll to find 100 Players Who Shook the Kop, ahead of such players as Mohamed Sissoko and Nigel Clough. After his retirement from professional football, <mask> returned to Liverpool to do media and commentary work with their in-house television company LFC TV. Preston North End
In August 2006, <mask> signed a three-year contract with Football League Championship club Preston North End for an undisclosed fee, thought to be in the region of £1.5m. Manager Paul Simpson said, "<mask> is a goalscorer and hopefully that will continue to be the case.He is a tremendous signing. He has had his injury problems but we are happy he is over those and it's just a case now of building up his fitness levels." Another knee injury suffered in a pre-season friendly against Bolton Wanderers required more surgery and delayed <mask>'s debut for Preston. <mask> finally got his first goal for Preston in the 3–1 victory over Southampton in March 2007. Out of favour under the Paul Simpson managerial era, <mask> had to prove himself over again to new P.N.E boss Alan Irvine. Under Irvine, <mask> finally got going and scored nine goals under him after Christmas 2007. <mask> again showed his panache for the 30-yard volley on 30 July 2008 by scoring in similar fashion for Preston North End in their friendly against Motherwell at Fir Park, which earned a 1–1 draw for Preston.During pre-season 2008–09 <mask> scored eight goals. Despite the promising pre-season and <mask> being a favourite amongst sections of the Deepdale crowd, indifferent form led to him losing his place to new signing Jon Parkin. <mask> regained his place in the team in time to score in Preston's 3–1 victory away at local rivals Blackpool, but another injury saw him miss a number of games. He regained fitness for a match against former club Liverpool in the FA Cup 3rd round, which Preston lost 2–0. <mask> scored his first goal for Preston North End since March 2010 on the opening day of the 2011–12 season, scoring their first goal in a 4–2 defeat to Colchester United at Deepdale. In the December of that season, <mask> picked up a knee injury in the 1–0 win over Milton Keynes and was ruled out for three months. After an injury-plagued season at Preston, <mask> announced his retirement on 9 May 2012.Sheffield Wednesday

On 2 July 2010, <mask> rejoined former manager Alan Irvine at Football League One side Sheffield Wednesday on a season long loan. <mask> played his first league game for The Owls on 7 August 2010 against Dagenham & Redbridge, coming on as a substitute in place of Clinton Morrison. He scored his first professional career hat-trick for Sheffield Wednesday on 10 November 2010 in a 4–1 win at Hillsborough over Hartlepool United in the Football League Trophy. He then repeated this feat just 10 days later in another 4–1 win, this time away against MK Dons in the league. After he sustained a minor injury against Carlisle United, <mask> struggled to regain form, and rarely started games. <mask> was eventually recalled to first team action against Colchester United in a game where he scored two goals in a 2–1 victory for the Owls. A few days later, he started another home match, this time against Tranmere Rovers setting up two first half goals, before winning a penalty, of which Owls captain Tommy Miller duly converted.<mask> scored the final goal of the match from a tight angle at the 90-minute mark. Career statistics

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 LFChistory.net player profile

<mask> Audio Interview:
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<mask> (June 1922 – 6 August 1989) was a Ghanaian engineer. He was the first director of the Ghana Arts Council, a co-founder of the Ghana National Dance Ensemble, and a director of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC). Family
<mask> was the eldest son of Essie and Archibald Casely-Hayford, a lawyer, Gold Coast nationalist and former Minister of Agriculture and Natural Resources in Ghana's First Republic. His brother was Louis Casely-Hayford, an engineer and former CEO of Volta River Authority in Ghana. Casely-Hayford's was a member of the prominent Casely-Hayford family, his grandparents were Beatrice Madelene (née Pinnock) and Joseph Ephraim Casely Hayford, a Gold Coast lawyer, author, journalist, educator, politician and Pan-Africanist. Early years
Casely-Hayford was born in Sekondi, Ghana, which was then the Gold Coast, and educated at Forrest Hill House School and Dulwich College, England. His education in England was interrupted when he returned to the Gold Coast at the onset of World War II.Casely-Hayford was self employed at this time. He extracted coconut oil to make soap and ran two garages which repaired and spray-painted cars. Career
Casely-Hayford trained for a year in England as a Totalisator Technician for the Kumasi Race Course; and worked at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, then Kumasi Institute of Technology, as the Maintenance Officer. Later, he served as the Director and Operations Manager for Ghana Poultry Farm, Nungua; Director of the Arts Council of Ghana; Director of Ghana Broadcasting Corporation's Television division (GBC TV); Technical Director of Modern Signs; and then finally settled into private business. He owned and operated Caselyco Sound Studio, Signals and Controllers, Intek Engineering, and finally Televid Video and Audio. Ghana Arts Council
Casely-Hayford's interests included art and science. Ghana's former Prime Minister Dr. Kwame Nkrumah asked Nana Kobina Nketsiah to have Casely-Hayford start up the Arts Council of Ghana after the British relinquished the then Roger Club, a social club for Accra's elite that was located on Accra's Atlantic coast.Casely-Hayford became the first director of the Ghana Arts Council. He was responsible for bringing to the fore the early concert party groups and plays. He also had the British Council sponsor drama performances and movies of Shakespeare plays. He also collaborated with the artist and musician Saka Acquaye, who succeeded him as the director of the Ghana Arts Council. Saka Acquaye's plays were also featured at the Accra Arts Centre, including his most important and popular musical, The Lost Fishermen. The original Wulomei – a traditional folk music group that Saka Acquaye managed – was introduced to a national audience at the Accra Arts Centre. The master drummer, percussionist and musician Guy Warren (Kofi Ghanaba) was prominently featured on several weekends.The classical musician Victor Gbeho also had the National Orchestra rehearsing and performing at the Accra Arts Centre. Many foreign cultural exchange shows were also put on at the Accra Arts Centre. For instance, troupes from Russia and from China performed, the Chinese troupe singing a song in Twi, the local Ghanaian language. Louis Armstrong and other American performers
Casely-Hayford was instrumental in the arrangements during the 1956 visit of Louis Armstrong, his wife Lucille, and band to Ghana. Casely-Hayford helped to arrange a durbar at Achimota School, where Louis and Lucille Armstrong and the band members were entertained by Ghanaian cultural dancers and musicians. The US Information Service ("USIS") often sent performers to Ghana as part of a cultural relations program. The jazz guitarist Charlie Byrd performed in one of such shows and ended the show with one of Jimi Hendrix's songs, "Hey Joe".Cozy Cole was another such performer. Another American resident in Ghana, dentist Robert Lee, who had relocated with his family to Ghana from the US in 1956, taught voice and was also often on stage. Cultural shows and pop competitions

Casely-Hayford collaborated with Prof. Mawure Bertie Opoku of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon, and together they established the Ghana National Dance Ensemble. In the early 1960s, Casely-Hayford introduced the Do Show, a talent show that was open to all through auditions. One of the products of the Do Show is the Paris-based singer Bibie Brew. The Ghanaian teens of the 1960s also had their chance and several pop music competitions were held at the Arts Centre. Casely-Hayford's five sons all played guitar in their teens.His oldest son, Ralph, a bassist, and a nephew, Roy, played in one of Ghana's professional pop bands, "The Saints", and they performed at the Accra Arts Centre. Broadcasting and puppeteering
Casely-Hayford developed and promoted puppets and the craft of puppeteering. In addition to puppet shows at the Arts Centre, he also had the puppeteering team visit schools to give performances. He was transferred to Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) as the Cultural Liaison Officer under Shirley Du Bois. Eventually, he was appointed Director of GBC. One of the things that he developed for GBC TV News (now GTV News) was the rotating globe that was used for years until computer graphics took over. He also introduced puppet shows on GBC TV.Some of the puppet shows were based on the popular traditional concert party theatre format. Music and literary work
Casely-Hayford was an active member of the Ghana Writers Guild and did a lot of work with the renowned poet and writer Atukwei Okai. He was also a jazz pianist. His father, Archie, was a pianist and a composer and his mother, Essie, also played piano and loved to sing and perform. The traditional guitarist Koo Nimo had a lasting relationship with Casely-Hayford and shared many recording hours in later years. Casely-Hayford gave several lectures on Ghana's highlife music; collaborated with the University of Ghana Music Professor John Collins; and served as a founding patron of Bokoor African Popular Music Archives Foundation, an NGO that Prof. John Collins established in 1990 soon after Casely-Hayford's death in 1989. Engineering work
Casely-Hayford's true passion lay in manufacturing and engineering.Everywhere he lived with his family, he kept his cars outside the garage because he used the garage as an engineering workshop. He involved his five sons in his engineering work and projects. Alternative energy
Casely-Hayford believed that the solution to Ghana's persistent energy problems lay in alternative energy. The last project he undertook before he died in 1989 was the installation of alternative energy windmills at Weija, in the western part of the Greater Accra Region. <mask> Casely-Hayford's son, Pinnock Casely-Hayford, an engineer who worked closely with him, has continued his work in the alternative energy sector, through his company "Breeze and Windy". Social work
From 1986 to 1989, <mask> Casely-Hayford worked with his son Pinnock Casely-Hayford to film the first HIV/AIDS patient at Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital's Fevers Ward that was operated by Dr. Neequaye. Later Casely-Hayford collaborated with Professor Kwashi Quartey and Dr. Cecilia Bentsi as they visited and treated many AIDS victims.They travelled as far as Somanya and documented their visits on video. Final years

Casely-Hayford was a member of the Baháʼí Faith from 1973. In 1986, he led a Baháʼí delegation to deliver a Peace message to the Ghana Government led by the then Flt. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings. <mask> Casely-Hayford died in his sleep early on Sunday morning, 6 August 1989, at 67 years of age. References

 John Collins, "The Ghanaian Concert Party: African Popular Entertainment at the Crossroads", 1994
 John Collins, West African Pop Roots, Temple University Press, 2010

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<mask> "Issie" <mask>, Hidden torment of a fashion queen," The Sunday Times, 13 May 2007 (nee Delves Broughton; 19 November 1958 – 7 May 2007) was an English magazine editor. As the muse of hat designer Philip Treacy, she is credited with discovering the models Stella Tennant and Sophie Dahl as well as propelling and continually advocating the career of fashion designer Alexander McQueen, beginning when she bought the entirety of his explosive premier show inspired by Jack the Ripper. She died by suicide in 2007. Early life
Born <mask> in Marylebone, London, she was the eldest child of Major Sir Evelyn Delves Broughton, a military officer, and his second wife, Helen Mary Shore, a barrister. Sir Evelyn was the only son of Jock Delves Broughton; his sister, Rosamond, married Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat in 1938. <mask> had two sisters, Julia and Lavinia; her brother, John, drowned in the family's swimming pool at the age of two. This had a profound effect on her.In 1972, when she was 14, her parents separated and her mother left the household, bidding each daughter farewell with a handshake. Her parents divorced two years later. <mask> did not get along with her father, who bequeathed her only £5,000 from his estate, which was worth more than one million pounds. <mask> studied for her A-levels at Heathfield School, after which she enrolled at a secretarial college and then took odd jobs. She told Tamsin Blanchard of The Observer in 2002: I've done the most peculiar jobs. I was working in a scone shop for years, selling apricot-studded scones. I was a cleaner in London for two years.I wore a handkerchief with knots on the side, and my cousin saw me in the post office and said, What are you doing? I said, What do you think I look like I'm doing? I'm a cleaner! Career
<mask> moved to New York City in 1979 to study Ancient Chinese Art at Columbia University and shared a flat with the actress Catherine Oxenberg. A year later, she left the Art History programme at Columbia, moved to Texas, and worked for Guy Laroche. In 1981 she married her first husband, Nicholas Taylor (whom she divorced in 1983), and was introduced to the fashion director of the US edition of Vogue, Anna Wintour. <mask> was hired initially as Wintour's assistant, but it was not long before she was assisting André Leon Talley, as of 2008 US Vogues editor-at-large.While working in New York, she befriended Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat. She returned to London in 1986 and worked for Michael Roberts, then the fashion director of Tatler and The Sunday Times Style magazine. During this period she was romantically linked to editor Tim Willis. In 1989, <mask> married her second husband, barrister and art dealer Detmar <mask>, a grandson (and namesake) of the early 20th-century society architect Detmar <mask>, in Gloucester Cathedral. Philip Treacy designed the bride's wedding headdress and a now-famous fashion relationship was forged. Realizing Treacy's talent, <mask> established Treacy in her London flat, where he worked on his collections. She soon began wearing Treacy's hats, making them a signature part of her flamboyant style.In a 2002 interview with Tamsin Blanchard, <mask> declared that she wore extravagant hats for a practical reason: [...] to keep everyone away from me. They say, Oh, can I kiss you? I say, No, thank you very much. That's why I've worn the hat. Goodbye. I don't want to be kissed by all and sundry. I want to be kissed by the people I love.In 1993 she worked with the photographer Steven Meisel producing the Babes in London shoot, which featured Plum Sykes, Bella Freud and Honor Fraser. <mask> had a natural sense of style and a good feeling for future fashion directions. She discovered Alexander McQueen and purchased his entire graduate collection for £5,000, paying it off in weekly £100 installments. Spotting Sophie Dahl, <mask> described her as "a blow up doll with brains", and launched the model's career. <mask> supported both the fashion world and the art world. Artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster created a shadow portrait of her which was displayed in the National Portrait Gallery. <mask> was the fashion director of Tatler and consulted for DuPont Lycra, Lacoste, and Swarovski.She became the subject of an exhibition in 2002 entitled When Philip met <mask>, which featured sketches and photographs of her wearing Treacy's hat designs. In 2004 <mask> had an acting cameo playing a character called Antonia Cook in the film The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. She starred in 2005 in a project by artist Matthieu Laurette, commissioned and produced by Frieze Projects 2005 and entitled "What Do They Wear at Frieze Art Fair?" It consisted of daily guided tours of Frieze Art Fair led by <mask> and fellow international fashion experts Peter Saville, Kira Joliffe, and Bay Garnett. Shortly before her death, <mask> was the creative director and stylist of a series of books for an Arabic beauty magazine, Alef; the books were being produced by Kuwaiti fashion entrepreneur Sheikh Majed al-Sabah. Illness
Toward the end of her life, <mask> became seriously depressed and was reportedly anguished over her inability to "find a home in a world she influenced". Daphne Guinness, a friend of <mask>'s, stated: "She was upset that Alexander McQueen didn't take her along when he sold his brand to Gucci.Once the deals started happening, she fell by the wayside. Everybody else got contracts, and she got a free dress". According to a 2002 interview with Tamsin Blanchard, it was <mask> who brokered the deal in which Gucci purchased McQueen's label. Other pressures on her included financial problems (<mask> was disinherited by her father in 1994) and infertility. <mask> and Detmar <mask> separated in 2004. Detmar <mask> went on to have an affair with Stephanie Theobald, the society editor of British Harper's Bazaar, while his estranged wife entered into a liaison with a gondolier she met in Venice. During the couple's separation, <mask> was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and began undergoing electroshock therapy.For a time, the treatments appeared to be helpful. During this period she also had an affair with Matthew Mellon; however, after an eighteen-month separation, <mask> and Detmar <mask> were reconciled. Soon afterward, she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Depressed over her waning celebrity status and her cancer diagnosis, <mask> began telling friends that she was suicidal. In 2006, <mask> attempted suicide with an overdose of sleeping pills. Later that year, <mask> again attempted suicide by jumping from the Hammersmith Flyover, which resulted in her breaking both ankles. <mask> made several more suicide attempts in 2007, by driving her car into the rear of a lorry, attempting to obtain horse tranquilizers, trying to drown herself in a lake and by overdosing while on a beach in India.Death
On 6 May 2007, during a weekend house party at Hilles, where the guests included Treacy and his partner, Stefan Bartlett, <mask> announced that she was going shopping. Instead, she was later discovered collapsed on a bathroom floor by her sister Lavinia and was taken to Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, where <mask> told the doctor she had drunk the weedkiller paraquat. She died at the hospital the following day. <mask>'s death was initially reported as being caused by ovarian cancer; however, a coroner later ruled the death a suicide. At the inquest, <mask>'s sister, Lavinia Verney, stated that after she discovered her sister had ingested the poison, <mask> had told her, "I'm worried that I haven't taken enough." Her funeral was held at Gloucester Cathedral on 15 May 2007. Her casket, made of willow, was surmounted by one of her Philip Treacy hats as well as a floral tribute, and her pallbearers included her godson Otis Ferry, a son of the rock star Bryan Ferry.(In 2010, Bryan Ferry dedicated his Olympia album in memoriam <mask> and David Williams.) Actor Rupert Everett and actress Joan Collins delivered eulogies. Opera singer Charles Eliasch sang. A memorial service was held in the Guards Chapel in London on 18 September 2007, where Anna Wintour and Geordie Greig spoke. Prince Michael and Princess Michael of Kent were in attendance. Wintour's eulogy and part of the memorial service can be seen in DVD disc two of The September Issue. References

Further reading
<mask>, Detmar with Tom Sykes, Blow by Blow: The Story of <mask>, New York: HarperCollins, 2010, .Crowe, Lauren Goldstein, <mask>: A Life in Fashion'', New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2010, . External links

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