Howard McKern chemistry of essential oils. He was appointed Deputy Director of the Museum in 1960 and retired in 1977. Howard McKern Howard Hamlet Gordon McKern (23 March 1917 - 8 June 2009) was an Australian analytical and organic chemist, museum administrator who was Deputy Director of the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences and President of the Royal Society of New South Wales. McKern was the son of James Gordon McKern (1888–1975) a mining engineer, geologist and petrologist who became a technical executive with the petroleum company Mobil and Edith Mary Hamlet (1890–1967), daughter of William Mogford Hamlet. McKern was born
Leo Turley Championship. Leo Turley Leo Turley (born 7 December 1966) is a former Gaelic footballer from County Laois. Leo played for the Laois senior football team from the late 1980s until the 1990s primarily as a forward. During that period he was widely regarded as one of the top players in the country in his position. In 1991, he played on the Laois team beaten by Meath GAA in the final of the Leinster Senior Football Championship. He began his club football career with his native O'Dempseys with whom he won underage honours and also played for the Éire Óg club