Ukrainian alphabet after Saint Cyril, who with his brother Methodius had created the earlier Glagolitic Slavonic script. Cyrillic was based on Greek uncial script, and adopted Glagolitic letters for some sounds which were absent in Greek — it also had some letters which were only used almost exclusively for Greek words or for their numeric value: Ѳ, Ѡ, Ѱ, Ѯ, Ѵ. The early Cyrillic alphabet was brought to Kievan Rus’ at the end of the first millennium, along with Christianity and the Old Church Slavonic language. The alphabet was adapted to the local spoken Old East Slavic language, leading to the development
Cyril Black been converted from a membership club into a limited company by Black's brother Sydney (its longtime chairman),but after his brother's death Sir Cyril agreed to sell the family holdings. In 1930, he and Dorothy Joyce, daughter of Thomas Birkett, Wigston Hall, Leicester were married. They had one son and two daughters. Sir Cyril Black was also grandfather to Andrew Black. He died 29 October 1991. Sir Cyril Black Way in Wimbledon is named after him as a former Councillor, Alderman and Member of Parliament, as was a community centre in central Wimbledon until its closure in 2012. Cyril Black Sir