Mat Roy Thompson (February 8, 1874 – June 8, 1962), known also as Matt Roy Thompson, Matthew R. Thompson, Mathew R. Thompson, M. Roy Thompson, Roy Thompson, and Leroy Thompson, was a civil engineer and architect who worked on a great variety of construction and development projects across the United States, most notably on Scotty's Castle, the Death Valley mansion of eccentric millionaire Albert Mussey Johnson.

Biography

Early years
Thompson was born Leroy Thompson in Dunlap, Iowa, in 1874, the son of George Washington Thompson, a real estate broker of comfortable, if moderate, means, and his wife Susan Forrer. Thompson's father moved his real estate business to Tacoma, Washington while Thompson was still very young, and so it was in the state of Washington that Thompson grew up. In 1890, upon reaching the age of sixteen, Thompson graduated from high school and promptly enrolled in the Rose Polytechnic Institute of Technology, an engineering and technical school in Terre Haute, Indiana.

When Stanford University opened its doors to students for the first time one year later in 1891, Thompson happily enrolled as a sophomore, one of only eleven upper classmen of a total 559 students. While continuing his study of civil engineering, Thompson met a pretty, young freshman student named Bessie Penniman. The pair attended many collegiate social events together, including the first football game between Stanford and rival University of California, Berkeley, during which Stanford's team was led to victory by fellow student and future American President, Herbert Hoover. It was not long before Thompson and Bessie were going steady, and then engaged to be married.

Bessie Penniman's family was extremely wealthy. Her father, Hiram Penniman, was a prominent early citizen of Walnut Creek, California and the creator of Shadelands Ranch. Bessie was Hiram's youngest daughter, and was much doted upon. As such, Hiram did not look kindly on Bessie's engagement to a less wealthy man. When Thompson's father lost what moderate wealth he had in the Panic of 1893, Bessie was forced to break off her engagement to Thompson and transfer from Stanford University to Cornell University on the opposite side of the United States. Thompson himself was forced to drop out of school and join his brothers in the workforce to help support his family.

Thompson obtained a job working in a sawmill back home in Tacoma. He and Bessie continued to correspond, but with decreasing frequency. At Cornell, Bessie met a new man, Albert Mussey Johnson, another engineering student, and became enamored. Albert Johnson graduated from Cornell in 1895, and married Bessie one year later. Thompson also wed in 1896, to a woman he had met in Tacoma, named Patience O'Hara.

It was not until 1904 that Thompson and Bessie saw each other again. Thompson and Patience's first child, Philip, was born in 1896, and by 1904 Patience had borne two more children, including a son named Matthew Roy Thompson, called Mat, in 1900. Albert Johnson and Bessie were en route to Alaska when they decided to stop over in Puget Sound for a visit with Thompson's young family. Johnson had been in a disastrous train accident in 1899 which had rendered him incapable of having children, so for Bessie, meeting Thompson's children was a glimpse of a life she might have had, and the beginning of a complex and ambiguous relationship with Thompson's third son, Mat.

Patience and Thompson eventually had six children together, and to support his growing family he took work in a variety of civil engineering capacities. Unfortunately for Patience, Thompson's work increasingly took him away from home for extended periods of time. In the years preceding World War I, Thompson signed on with a nationwide government program attempting to appraise the value of all the property owned by railroads as a prelude to the Interstate Commerce Commission increasing their management of American railroads. This job took him all across the country, and between 1919 and 1924 Thompson spent most of his time in Chicago. The lengthy separation between Thompson and his wife caused a great deal of strain on their marriage and may have engendered an estrangement between them.

Bessie and Albert Johnson kept their main residence in Chicago, where Albert's main business interests lay, and Thompson visited them frequently.

Scotty's Castle

By 1924, Thompson's work had taken him away from Chicago again, and he lost touch with the Johnsons. Bessie and Albert had begun the initial stages of construction of their vacation home at Death Valley Ranch in Death Valley, California, in 1922, and by late 1924 they had geared up for major construction and were looking for architects and engineers to help them materialize their dream.

In 1924, Mat Thompson, Mat Roy's eldest son, had taken a job as a Work Secretary for a YMCA Boys in Portland, Oregon. In a fit of nostalgia, he decided to write and send a short Christmas greeting to the Johnsons. Upon receiving Mat's card, Albert Johnson responded with a telegram asking to know the whereabouts of Mat's father. Mat complied, and soon Johnson offered the job of overseeing construction at Death Valley Ranch to Thompson. At the time, Thompson was living in Washington, D.C., and working as senior railroad appraiser with the Interstate Commerce Commission. Thompson took a one-year leave of absence from his government job and joined Bessie and Albert in Death Valley on November 6, 1925. After a quick assessment of the work to be done at Death Valley Ranch, Thompson realized a year would be insufficient, and uncertain of when the ranch would be completed, he quit his job in Washington, D.C. entirely.

Aside from some very specific technical advice and guidelines early on, Albert Johnson participated little in the construction process, and it was Bessie who worked closely with Thompson on the final design of what would become Scotty's Castle. Johnson had already had a building installed on the property as the main house that was generally described as a plain, stucco box. Although Johnson liked the plain, box-like design, and felt it "Symbolized that everything he did was on the square", Bessie thought it was ugly and was greatly pleased when Thompson presented her with a series of sketches that redesigned the stucco box as a Spanish revival-style hacienda, somewhat reminiscent of the style of the buildings the two of them had seen at Stanford.

Over the next six years, Thompson oversaw the construction crews and the logistical requirements of the great construction undertaking at Death Valley Ranch and Johnson's nearby property at Lower Vine Ranch. Johnson paid him a monthly salary of $400, half of which was sent home to Tacoma to support Patience and his brood of children. This money was no substitute for a husband, however, and in 1931 the long-estranged Patience O'Hara and Thompson divorced. Mere weeks later, construction at Death Valley Ranch ended due to Johnson's financial difficulties and a land ownership dispute.

Later years
Nearly broke and with no reason to return to Tacoma, Thompson moved the short distance to Reno, Nevada. Thompson had not been in Reno long when he entered into a relationship with an acquaintance of his, a Mrs. Ivah Thaxton, whom he had met while she was vacationing at Death Valley Ranch some time before with her husband, whom she had since divorced. Thompson and Ivah Thaxton were soon married.

Thompson wrote to Albert Johnson several times requesting work at the Death Valley Ranch should construction resume in the near future, even sending in a completely redundant résumé at one point. Johnson did later provide a few small jobs for Thompson at the castle, including recruiting him to complete some unattributed drawings in the Scotty's Castle guidebook Bessie had put together for tourists, and surveying a plot of land in Santa Maria, California, to investigate its ownership status. In 1947, late in Johnson's life, he tried to call back Thompson to oversee the completion of the swimming pool, though nothing came of it.

In lieu of further steady employment at the castle, Thompson resumed his engineering contracts with the government, and in January 1933, Thompson and his new wife had moved to Los Angeles to take up employment with the Metropolitan Water District and work on the new Los Angeles Colorado River Aqueduct.

Thereafter, Thompson turned his engineering focus to military and defense contracts. He helped plan and lay out a number of military bases worldwide, including Kadena Air Force Base in Okinawa, Japan.

Thompson finally retired in 1954 at the age of eighty. He died of natural causes near his boyhood home in Tacoma, Washington, on June 8, 1962, at the age of eighty-eight.

Controversial personal life

Bessie and Thompson's romance
Many people in Thompson's life, his children and first wife included, were of the opinion that Thompson never really got over his first love, Bessie Johnson, née Penniman. The extent and frequency of the correspondence between the pair caused many of their acquaintances to be suspicious of the nature of Thompson and Bessie's friendship, particularly in light of the lifelong disabilities Albert Johnson acquired in a train accident in 1899, a few years after his marriage to Bessie. Many thought Bessie to be unfulfilled without the children she might otherwise have had, and in seeking to direct her energies elsewhere, therefore more inclined to dwell nostalgically on the relationships of her past.

The confession
To some extent, Thompson seems to have confirmed a number of the commonly held suspicions about himself and Bessie. Although generally a discreet man who kept his personal business to himself, the truth of the matter may have been too much for him to bear, and he confessed his feelings for Bessie in a letter to his then-wife Patience O'Hara. Patience describes the letter thus:

Certainly such a confession would be neither constructive nor welcome in most marriages, and though some claim that a long-standing estrangement between Patience and Thompson was what led to their eventual divorce in 1924, others attribute their separation in at least some part to meddling, either intentional or unintentional, by Bessie herself. While researching his father's involvement with Scotty's Castle for posterity in 1933, Thompson's son Mat discussed the issue with some of the castle's personnel, who would have had a better chance to observe Thompson and Bessie than Mat himself would have. Mat concluded:

Johnson's involvement
Still others felt that some of the most compelling evidence for a secret romance between Thompson and his Bessie was provided by Albert Johnson himself in his treatment of Thompson. Young Mat and his sister Patience agreed that Johnson displayed at times hostile behavior towards their father. In a joint interview they asserted:

Indeed, Thompson was commissioned in 1941 by Johnson to complete a series of drawings of portions of Scotty's Castle for inclusion in a tourist booklet written by Bessie for the castle's tourists. As is common practice for artists, Thompson unobtrusively included his initials in the design of each picture. By the time the booklet was printed, however, his initials had been removed from all the images but one, which young Mat speculated may have been well-enough disguised as part of the design that they were overlooked. Johnson is also credited with vehemently opposing Thompson's divorce from Patience O'Hara, appealing to both Thompson and Patience to reconsider, but to no avail. It is unclear whether his motives in opposing the divorce were religious or personal.

Bessie and young Mat

Thompson's philandering

Thompson's engineering projects
University Land Company (1897 – 1901)
Assistant State Engineer, Washington (1901–1907)
County Engineer, Pierce County, Washington (1913 – 1915)
State Highway Superintendent, Washington (1915 – 1917)
Major Edward Bowes & John H. Spring
Layout of Regents Park, Tacoma, Washington
Layout of Thousand Oaks, Berkeley, California.
Interstate Commerce Commission, Appraisal Board, (1918–1925)
Railroad Appraisal Engineer
Scotty's Castle construction engineer, Death Valley, California (1925–1931)
Metropolitan Water District appraisal engineer, Los Angeles, California, (1931–1940)
Los Angeles Colorado River Aqueduct
Kisner, Curtis, & Wright
Mojave Air Base layout (1942)
Roosevelt Base, Terminal Island, California
Holmes and Narver, Inc., Senior Civil Engineer (1943–1952)
China Lake Naval Ordnance Test Station primary feasibility studies, Inyokern, California
Bikini atomic tests
Kadena Air Force Base planning, Okinawa, Japan (1948)
Eniwetok Proving Ground atomic tests, Marshall Islands (1952)

Adventures in civil engineering

A road trip
Over the course of his successful career, Thompson was one of the most innovative pioneers of modern civil engineering. While working as county engineer of Pierce County, Washington, Thompson began experimenting with designing the county road system around automobiles, a contraption he envisioned as the most important means of transportation of the future. Between 1913 and 1914 Thompson toured the United States in a Model T to examine local road systems nationwide to get ideas about what kind of roads would be both most well-suited for automobiles and most well-suited for Pierce County itself. The roads he ended up settling on were nine feet wide and made of concrete. He felt these roads were an excellent compromise between  traffic efficiency and budget, so as to enable the building of a maximum mileage of roads across Pierce County. When Thompson left his job with Pierce County in 1915 after the completion of his road building project, it was said that only one other county in the entire United States contained more miles of paved road than Pierce.

His just deserts
Although the education Thompson received during his time at both Rose Polytechnic and Stanford totaled to the equivalent of a full college degree, his family's financial situation after the Panic of 1893 and the subsequent necessity of his dropping out of school meant that Thompson never acquired some of the formal documents his fellow students did to attest to his skill. Later in his career as such things were becoming more formalized, Thompson applied for a California Landscape Architect's license. He was told he would need to pass an exam to be awarded the license, and he readily agreed. On the appointed day Thompson was handed the test, but after looking it over he protested that he would be unable to take it after all. It turned out that the exam was one that he himself had written some years earlier. Needless to say, he got his license.

Age before beauty
In 1947, when Thompson's then-employer, Holmes & Narver, Inc., made clear that their contract to lay out the air force base at Kadena would require the input of an engineer with Thompson's skill at landscape and drainage design, 73-year-old Thompson requested to be sent to Okinawa to work on the project. Holmes & Narver initially rejected Thompson's request because of his age, but when their two younger landscape engineers failed the required physical examination, Thompson was selected by default.

Thompson's name
There is a great deal of confusion surrounding Thompson's name. Thompson's birth name in 1874 was Leroy Thompson. The boy then known as Leroy, or often simply "Roy", lacked the middle name that was the fashion of the time. A relative of Thompson's, whom some sources say was his cousin and others say was his uncle, felt it would be more appropriate for young Roy to have the more fashionable three names. This relative, who was himself named Mat, proposed to Roy that he take on the name "Mat" in exchange for the gift of a pony, which he would receive upon reaching the age of 21. Thompson happily complied and allowed his name to be changed to Mat Roy. However, as the name Mat was a late addition, it remained fairly superfluous throughout most of Thompson's early life, with his family and close friends continuing to refer to him simply as Roy.

Thompson began to embrace his full name once he became an adult, and began billing himself as M. Roy Thompson in professional settings. In the late 1930s, the fashion for names shifted, and it became standard practice for men to refer to themselves in the formula of "First name, middle initial, last name" rather than the previous formula which placed the emphasis on the middle name. Thompson began to refer to himself as Mat R. Thompson, but to his dismay, he quickly discovered that this version of his name led to great confusion. Secretaries, bookkeepers, and acquaintances of his all assumed that his name "Mat" was a nickname, and began referring to him both verbally and on written record as Matt R. Thompson, Matthew R. Thompson, and Mathew R. Thompson, all incorrect. To further complicate matters, when Thompson later attempted to turn his engineering skills to national defense work, the birth certificate he obtained for his background check by the government listed him under his legal birth name, Leroy Thompson, a name which had no bearing whatsoever on the names he was now known by.

To clear things up once and for all, Thompson pursued the legal change of his name to Matthew Roy Thompson. This name was, however, also the name Thompson had given his third son upon his birth in 1900. Thompson and his son, Mat, liked to joke that in spite of Thompson being the elder of the two men, Mat was in fact "Matthew R. Thompson, Sr.", and Thompson was "Matthew R. Thompson, Jr." because of the order in which they had been named.

See also
 Scotty's Castle
 Bessilyn Johnson
 Albert Mussey Johnson
 Death Valley National Park

Sources
Bessie Johnson vertical file, Scotty's Castle Resource Library, NPS: DEVA.
Henderson, Randall. "He Built Scotty's Castle...", Desert Magazine, September, 1952; Pg 4-10.
 Historic Structure Report, Special Interpreter's Edition. Scotty's Castle Resource Library, NPS: DEVA.
Appendix A, Biographies of Significant Individuals Associated with Death Valley Ranch.
Livingston, Dewey. Historic Resource Study: Death Valley Scotty Historic District, Draft Version, Scotty's Castle Resource Library, NPS: DEVA.
Mat Roy Thompson vertical file, Scotty's Castle Resource Library, NPS: DEVA.
Harding, Shirley. "Thompson Family Joint Interview." Mat Roy Thompson vertical file, Scotty's Castle Resource Library, NPS: DEVA.
Thompson, Mat. "Letter to Ralph E. Thompson." Mat Roy Thompson vertical file, Scotty's Castle Resource Library, NPS: DEVA.
Thompson, Mat. "Scotty's Castle was Bessie's Baby." Mat Roy Thompson vertical file, Scotty's Castle Resource Library, NPS: DEVA.
Section: Divorce
Section: Facts
Section: Finale
Section: Off Dead Center
Section: The String Bass and the Etchings
"Matt R. Thompson, Son of Veteran Who Fought in Battle of Gettysburg, and Builder of the Famous Death Valley Palace, is Visiting Here". The Gettysburg Times, July 27, 1956.
Osness, Richard D. Of Lions and Dreams, of Men and Realities: An Illustrated History of Fircrest, Washington. Bicentennial Issue, 1976.

Notes

1874 births
1962 deaths
Death Valley
Rose–Hulman Institute of Technology alumni
Stanford University alumni
American civil engineers
Architects from Iowa
People from Harrison County, Iowa


The Irish Parachute Club (IPC) is located in Clonbullogue, County Offaly, in Ireland. It was founded in 1956 by wartime paratrooper Freddie Bond and began operations at Weston airfield in Leixlip. In December 1959, the IPC organised emergency supply drops to the islands of Inishturk, Inishturbot and Inishark. In February 1963, the club organised emergency supply drops over the Wicklow Mountains during the severe winter of that year.

The IPC trained several teams that competed internationally in 1962, 1964 and 1966, and at many international events during the last 20 years. IPC-trained skydivers participated in several world records.

The club later operated from a number of locations before establishing a drop zone in 1974 at Tokn Grass, west of Edenderry. The first club aircraft, a Cessna 172, was purchased in the same year.
In 1981, IPC-based team Gael Force competed internationally.
In 1983, a Cessna 206 was purchased and, in 1988, the club moved to its current location at Clonbullogue Airfield.
Most Irish skydiving records have been set at this location, including a 51 person formation in July 2008.

There have been important developments more recently including the construction of hangars and other buildings and the purchase of a PAC P-750 XSTOL turbine aircraft. Averaging over twelve thousand jumps annually, the IPC operates on weekends, bank holidays, and on some weekdays in summer; and offers tandem skydiving, Accelerated Free Fall (AFF), and static line parachuting training programmes.

The list of tax defaulters for the fourth quarter of 2021 published by the Revenue Commissioners on 8 March 2022 revealed that Irish Parachute Club Limited at The Airfield, Clonbullogue, County Offaly had paid a settlement of €113,446.47 comprising €65,134.15 tax, €28,772.07 interest, and €19,540.25 penalties for the underdeclaration of Pay As You Earn (PAYE) tax, Pay Related Social Insurance (PRSI), and
Universal Social Charge (USC).

Airfield
Clonbullogue Airfield has one grass strip runway running east-west which is 770 m long and 18 m wide.

References

External links
 Irish Parachute Club
 Parachute Association of Ireland Ltd.

Sports clubs and teams in the Republic of Ireland
Parachuting organizations
Sports clubs and teams in County Kildare
Sports clubs and teams in County Offaly
1956 establishments in Ireland
Sports clubs and teams established in 1956


James McCann (26 October 1944 – 5 March 2015) was an Irish entertainer and folk musician. Although a solo artist for most of his career, McCann was a member of the folk group The Dubliners from 1974 until 1979, then later appearing with them in their 2002 reunion and their 50th anniversary tour in 2012.

Beginnings
As a young man, McCann attended University College Dublin as a student of medicine, but became interested in folk music during a summer holiday in Birmingham in 1964. He began to perform in folk clubs in the area, and, upon his return to Dublin, he joined a group called the Ludlow Trio in 1965. In the following year, the Ludlow Trio had a hit with their recording of Dominic Behan's "The Sea Around Us", which reached number one in the Irish charts.

The Ludlow Trio broke up in the following year, and McCann began a solo career, releasing an album, McCann, and making several appearances on several folk programmes for Telefis Éireann.

Amongst other pursuits, he spent the next few years involving himself in theatrical productions (starting with Maureen Potter's "Gaels of Laughter" in 1968), and he toured throughout Ireland and Britain. He released a second album, McCanned, made a television special called Reflections of Jim McCann, and then hosted a series called The McCann Man.

The Dubliners
It was on The McCann Man that he met fellow folk artist, Luke Kelly of The Dubliners. During this appearance, Kelly did his only televised performance of the Phil Coulter song "Scorn Not His Simplicity", a song that he chose to perform sparingly out of respect to the subject matter (Coulter's intellectually disabled son).

McCann subsequently performed alongside Kelly in the original cast of  Jesus Christ Superstar in 1973, in the role of Peter. In April 1974 Kelly asked McCann to join The Dubliners temporarily, to replace Ciarán Bourke during a period of illness. However, he became a permanent member soon afterwards, when Ronnie Drew left the group to pursue a solo career. McCann remained with The Dubliners until the end of 1979, during which he toured incessantly, also recording several albums with the group.

He did rejoin The Dubliners in 2002 for their 40th anniversary tour and later at Vicar Street in 2012 for their 50th.

Later years
He continued to perform, tour, and record music as a solo artist, appearing on many television shows (particularly on RTÉ) and achieving success with albums such as From Clare to Here and singles such as "Grace".

He rejoined the Dubliners in 2002 for their 40th anniversary album, but during the subsequent tour was diagnosed with throat cancer. Although treatment for the illness was successful, the damage to his voice left him unable to sing. However, he still collaborated with the Dubliners by taking the photographs for them, appearing as a compère in their concerts, and sometimes playing the guitar. During the Dubliners' last concert in December 2012, he performed with them as a guitarist.

McCann's death was announced by his family on 5 March 2015. He had been battling throat cancer for some time.

Discography

Solo
 McCann (1967)
 McCanned (1972)
 Live at the National Stadium (1982)
 Jim McCann (1980)
 Grace & Other Irish Love Songs (1996)
 From Tara to Here (1999) (Gold) Recorded and released on Irish record label Celtic Collections
 Greatest Hits (1999)
 The Collection (2001)
 Live at the Skagen Festival (2002)
 By Request (2003) Recorded and released on Irish record label Celtic Collections
 Ireland's Greatest Love Songs (2003)
 Seems Like a Long Time: A Jim McCann Retrospective (2004)
 Live 2008 (2008)
 The Best of Jim McCann (2015)

Compilations (with various artists)
 Ireland's Greatest Hits (1987)
 Legends of Irish Folk (2014)

Filmography
 Reflections of Jim McCann – TV special
 The McCann Man – TV series
 Festival Folk – TV special featuring Jim,Matt Manning and English Steve.
 My Ireland – TV special
 McCann & McTell – TV special

Theatre
 Gaels of Laughter (1968)
 Jesus Christ Superstar (1973) – Peter
 Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat – Narrator

References

Bibliography
 Luke Kelly: a Memoir, Des Geraghty,
 Jim McCann

1944 births
2015 deaths
Alumni of University College Dublin
Deaths from esophageal cancer
Irish male guitarists
Irish male folk singers
Musicians from Dublin (city)
The Dubliners members
Deaths from cancer in Ireland
20th-century Irish male actors
21st-century Irish male actors
Actors from Dublin (city)
20th-century Irish male singers
21st-century Irish male singers
20th-century Irish guitarists
21st-century Irish guitarists
20th-century Irish folk singers
21st-century Irish singer-songwriters


Jean V Charles, Count Snoy et d'Oppuers (2 July 1907 in Braine-l'Alleud – 17 May 1991) was a Belgian civil servant, diplomat and Christian Democratic politician of the PSC-CVP.

Family

Jean-Charles was born son of Thierry Idesbald, Baron Snoy et d'Oppuers member of the Belgian Senate, mayor and Jacqueline de Pret Roose de Calesberg. He married Countess Nathalie d'Alcantara and they lived at the Snoy family estate, the Castle of Bois-Seigneur-Isaac.

Career
He studied Law and Thomistic philosophy at the Catholic University of Leuven. He was Secretary-General of the Belgian Ministry of Economic Affairs and Head of the Belgian Delegation to the Intergovernmental Conference on the Common Market and Euratom at the Château of Val-Duchesse in 1956. He notably signed the Treaties of Rome for Belgium, together with Paul-Henri Spaak and Robert Rothschild in 1957. He was Minister of Finance from 1968 to 1971. From 1982 until 1984, he was President of the European League for Economic Cooperation. He was a member of the Steering Committee of the Bilderberg Group.

References

Bibliography
 Snoy et d'Oppuers, Jean-Charles, Rebâtir l'Europe, Mémoires, Paris, Duculot, 1989.

External links
 Jean Charles Snoy et d'Oppuers (Dutch)
 Jean-Charles Snoy et d'Oppuers in ODIS - Online Database for Intermediary Structures
 Archives of Jean-Charles Snoy et d'Oppuers in ODIS - Online Database for Intermediary Structures
 Castle of Bois-Seigneur-Isaac

1907 births
1991 deaths
People from Braine-l'Alleud
Counts of Belgium
Christian Social Party (Belgium, defunct) politicians
20th-century Belgian politicians
Finance ministers of Belgium
Government ministers of Belgium
Members of the Chamber of Representatives (Belgium)
Belgian diplomats
Belgian civil servants
Members of the Steering Committee of the Bilderberg Group
Belgian Roman Catholics
Grand Crosses with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
20th-century Belgian civil servants


Brzozowski (feminine: Brzozowska; plural: Brzozowscy) is a Polish toponymic surname derived from the place name Brzozów, which is itself derived from 'brzoza' ("birch").

In the Russian Empire, the surname was written in Russian variously as Бжозовский, Бржозовский, Бжезовский, Бржезовский, and may accordingly be transliterated as Bzhozovsky, Brzhozovsky, Bzhezovsky, Brzhezovsky. Occasionally it was even translated as Berezovski.

People with the surname include:

 Artur Brzozowski (born 1985), Polish athlete
 Dariusz Brzozowski (born 1980), Polish drummer
 Dorota Brzozowska (born 1964), Polish swimmer
 Edward Brzozowski (1920–1983), Polish football player and manager
 Janusz Brzozowski (disambiguation), multiple people
 Julia Niewiarowska-Brzozowska (1827–1891), Polish composer
 Krystian Brzozowski (born 1982), Polish wrestler
 Krzysztof Brzozowski (born 1993), Polish athlete
 Rafał Brzozowski, Polish singer and TV presenter
 Stanisław Brzozowski (disambiguation), multiple people
 Tadeusz Brzozowski (1749–1820), Polish Jesuit

See also

 Brzozów County (), a territory in south-eastern Poland
 Brzozowski derivative

References

Polish-language surnames


Preston School is a secondary school with specialist Business and Enterprise College status in Yeovil, Somerset, England. In 2017, enrolment was 975 students aged 11 to 18 years. In July 2011, the school became an Academy. As of 2023 the current principal is Clare Marsh.

History

Preston School opened in 1961. The school was awarded Specialist school status as a Business and Enterprise college in September 2002.

Curriculum

Preston School has a range of technology facilities; wireless internet across site, integrated ICT desks in several classrooms, Apple Macs in the music department, and a £20,000 recording studio. It has a dance and fitness studio. The school offers specialist GCSE courses, including sport BTEC, business BTEC and dance.

Performance
As of 2023, the school's most recent Ofsted inspection was in 2023, with a judgement of Good.

Notable alumni
Sarah Parish, actress

References

External links

Academies in Somerset
Yeovil
Secondary schools in Somerset
Specialist business and enterprise colleges


Dębicki (Polish: ; feminine: Dębicka, plural Dębiccy) or Debicki is a Polish-language surname derived from place names such as Dębica and Dębica County. Notable people with the surname include:

 Edward Dębicki (born 1935), Polish-Ukrainian Romani poet and musician
 Elizabeth Debicki (born 1990), Australian actress
 Stanisław Dębicki (1866–1924), Polish painter
 Tadeusz Dębicki (born 1945), Polish politician

See also

Polish-language surnames


was a Japanese businessman and inventor who founded Pioneer Corporation. He was born in Kobe, Japan in 1905, the son of a Christian missionary. In 1936, he founded the Fukuin Shokai Denki Seisakusho company in Osaka, whose name roughly translates to "Blessed Sound Electric Company" or "Gospel Electric Company", owing to Matsumoto's Christian faith and belief that his electronic products could help in missionary works. In 1937 he created the A-8 speaker, which he christened 'Pioneer'. Matsumoto relocated to Tokyo in 1938 and started a small factory that repaired radios and speakers. After World War II, the company expanded rapidly.

His son, Seiya Matsumoto, graduated from Chuo University and joined his father's company as head of sales and marketing until he became president of the company in 1982. The brother of Seiya, Kanya Matsumoto was very technical, just as his father. When he joined the company, he was responsible for technical and productive aspects in the company. In 1961 the name 'Pioneer' was changed to 'Pioneer Electronic Corporation', and it was listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Nozomu Matsumoto died in 1988 at the age of 83.

External links
 http://www.silverpioneer.netfirms.com/components.htm
 http://www.answers.com/topic/pioneer-electronic-corporation?cat=biz-fin

1905 births
1988 deaths
20th-century Japanese businesspeople
Japanese Christians
Pioneer Corporation


Tyler Butterworth (born 6 February 1959) is an English actor.

Early life
Tyler Butterworth was born 6 February 1959 in Redhill, Surrey. His father was Peter Butterworth, who starred in many of the Carry On films. His mother was the actress and Margaret Thatcher impersonator Janet Brown. His first roles were as a child in the 1960s in such films as Darling (1965) and the Morecambe & Wise feature film The Magnificent Two (1967).

Film and television
He starred in the black comedy Consuming Passions (1988) opposite Vanessa Redgrave and Jonathan Pryce. On television he has appeared in Rumpole of the Bailey, Bergerac, Last of the Summer Wine, Casualty (Series 1, Episode 6 "High Noon"),The Bill, The Darling Buds of May, Home to Roost Hetty Wainthropp Investigates and Osborne in the ITV sitcom Fiddlers Three.

He also played Proteus in the BBC Shakespeare adaptation of The Two Gentlemen of Verona in 1983, Angelo in the CITV children's sci-fi comedy series Mike and Angelo for its first two series and Mr Archer in Whizziwig.

In 2008, he moved into producing, and was development producer on a NASA series.

Since then, he has concentrated on voice work.

Personal life
Butterworth is married to actress Janet Dibley;  the couple have two sons.

References

External links

Tyler Butterworth at the BFI Film & TV Database

1959 births
English male television actors
English people of Scottish descent
People from Redhill, Surrey
Living people
Male actors from Surrey


Rewe (stylized as REWE; ) is a supermarket chain in Germany and the main brand of Rewe Group headquartered in Cologne. The name originated from an abbreviation of the original name "Revisionsverband der Westkauf-Genossenschaften" (Audit union for Westkauf-Cooperatives). With about 3,300 stores, Rewe is the second largest food retailer in Germany behind EDEKA.

In 2011, the company started a delivery service with a test run in Frankfurt am Main, which was gradually expanded to locations throughout Germany. With this approach, Rewe was a pioneer in online grocery delivery within Germany. As of 2015, they have publicised plans for investing more heavily in their online presence.

Their own store brand products are branded "" (German for "yes", discounter price), "" (German for "best choice, "normal" price),  "" (German for "fine world", high price, special items), "REWE Bio" (Organic), "REWE Bio + vegan" (Organic and vegan), "REWE frei von" (German for "free of", allergen-free), "REWE Regional" and "REWE to go".

The Bundesliga club 1. FC Köln is sponsored by Rewe on their jerseys until the end of the 2020–21 season.

References

External links

Supermarkets of Germany
English brands


Twrcelyn was a rural district in the administrative county of Anglesey, Wales, from 1894 to 1974. The district took its name from Twrcelyn, one of the ancient cwmwds or medieval subdivisions of the island.

The district was formed by the Local Government Act 1894 as successor to the Anglesey Rural Sanitary District. The district consisted of the following civil parishes:

The rural district was abolished in 1974, when the Local Government Act 1972 amalgamated Twrcelyn with the other local authorities on the island to become the district of Ynys Môn - Isle of Anglesey.

External links

Twrcelyn Rural District Council records'' (Archives Network Wales), accessed January 23, 2008

Rural districts of Wales
History of Anglesey
1894 establishments in Wales


Torchwood – The Official Magazine was a British magazine devoted to the BBC science fiction television series Torchwood. The first issue was released on 24 January 2008 and concluded on 16 December 2010 The United States version was due to be launched in February 2008. Titan Magazines announced in Issue 24 that the next issue would be the last for a while.

Content
The magazine includes the latest news from the Torchwood set, cast and crew interviews, behind-the-scenes features on the show's special effects, and ten pages of original Torchwood comic strip fiction. The first few issues featured regular columns from Torchwood lead writer Chris Chibnall and producer Richard Stokes. Issue 8 saw the introduction of an original piece of short prose every month. Issue 14 saw the magazine become a bi-monthly production with a larger page count. Issue 25 will be the final issue.

Comic strips

Other than Issue 2, every issue of the Magazine has included a comic strip.

Issue 1 – "The Legacy of Torchwood One"
Issue 3 – "Jetsam" (Reprinted as part of the Graphic Novel "Rift War")
Issues 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 & 13 – "Rift War" (Reprinted in Graphic Novel "Rift War")
Issue 14 – "The Selkie" (Co-written By John Barrowman and his sister Carole)
Issues 15, 16, 17, 18 & 19 – "Broken"
Issue 20 – "Fated to Pretend"
Issues 21 & 22 – "Shrouded"
Issue 23 – "Somebody Else's Problem"
Issue 24 – "Hell House"
Issue 25 – "Overture"

Short stories
A short piece of fiction has been included in every issue since Issue 8. The Torchwood Magazine Yearbooks, published in 2008 and 2009, contained a further six exclusive short stories.

Issues 8, 9 & 10 – "Harm's Way" Written by Trevor Baxendale, illustrated by Mike Dowling
Issues 11, 12 & 13 – "The Book of Jahi" Written by David Llewellyn, illustrated by Mike Dowling
Issues 14 & 15 – "Gordian" Written by Steven Savile, illustrated by Mike Dowling
Issues 16 & 17 – "Closing Time" Written by Andy Lane, illustrated by Mike Dowling
Issue 20 – "Happy New Year" Written by Sarah Pinborough
Issue 22 – "Ashes to Ashes" Written by Sandra Shennan
Issue 23 – "Mend Me" Written by Sarah Pinborough
Yearbook 2008 – "Black Water" by Steven Savile, "Mrs Acres" by David Llewellyn, "The Beauty of Our Weapons" by Andy Lane, "Plant Life" by Trevor Baxendale and "Monster" by Joseph Lidster.
Yearbook 2009 – "The Book Jahi" by David Llewellyn

See also
Doctor Who Magazine

References

2008 establishments in the United Kingdom
2010 disestablishments in the United Kingdom
Bi-monthly magazines published in the United Kingdom
Defunct science fiction magazines published in the United Kingdom
Defunct magazines published in the United Kingdom
Doctor Who magazines
Magazines established in 2008
Magazines disestablished in 2010
Titan Magazines titles
Magazine


Sir Edmund George Felix Paston-Bedingfeld, 9th Baronet (2 June 1915 – 24 May 2011) was a landowner and British Army officer.

Background
Paston-Bedingfield was born to Major Sir Henry Edward Paston-Bedingfeld, 8th Bt. and Sybil Lyne-Stephens.

He was educated at The Oratory School and at New College, Oxford. As a Major in the Welsh Guards Regiment, he served in north-west Europe in 1940, and from 1944 to 1945, and was mentioned in despatches. He was a member of the London Guards' Club. He succeeded to the baronetcy in 1941.

Marriages
He first married Joan Lynette Rees, daughter of Edgar Rees, of Lwyneithin, Llanelly, Wales, on 6 June 1942; they had a son, Henry, and a daughter, Alexandra Winifred Mary (born 3 September 1947), but divorced in 1952 on the grounds of his adultery. Five years later, he married, secondly, Agnes Kathleen Susan Anne Gluck, daughter of Miklos Gluck (of Budapest), on 31 May 1957. He married, thirdly, on 20 November 1975, and, lastly, to Sheila, daughter of John Douglas, on 15 February 1992.

Death
A major Norfolk landowner and Lord of the Manor of Oxborough, he died on 24 May 2011 at age 95 at Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, and was succeeded by his son Henry, who has retired as Norroy and Ulster King of Arms.

References

External links

 Profile, Cracroftspeerage.com; accessed 28 July 2015.

1915 births
2011 deaths
Baronets in the Baronetage of England
British Army personnel of World War II
People from Breckland District
Welsh Guards officers


The Security Police is the close protection division of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. Under the Security Bureau of the TMPD, the division is responsible for protecting domestic and foreign dignitaries on Japanese soil and abroad.

The division's agents are commonly known as . The word "SP" is a loanword used in the Japanese law enforcement system, based on the badge worn by the agents.

The division does not protect the Imperial Family as they have their own dedicated division, the Imperial Protection Division.

History
After an assassination attempt against then-US Ambassador to Japan Edwin O. Reischauer in 1964, the chairman of the National Public Safety Commission was pressured to resign.

It was not until June 18, 1975, when then-Prime Minister Takeo Miki was attacked publicly by the Greater Japan Patriotic Party Secretary General Hiroyoshi Fudeyasu that the National Police Agency ordered the formation of the division. The new unit was based on the US Secret Service.

The unit celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2015.

After the assassination of Shinzo Abe, SP officers were deployed to protect Akie Abe after she arrived in Kyoto as a precautionary measure.

On April 15, 2023, SP officers in the Saikazaki bombing incident were able to quickly move Fumio Kishida after a pipebomb was thrown near him.

Scandals
On November 11, 2021, a SP officer was arrested for allegedly breaking into a women's-only condominium building.

Duties
The division provides close protection duties for the following people:

 Prime Minister of Japan
 Ministers of State
 Chief Justice of Japan
 President of the House of Councillors
 Speaker of the House of Representatives
 Governor of Tokyo
 Foreign VIPs such as heads of states, ambassadors, etc.
 Major political party leaders
 Other VIPs designated by the Commissioner General of the National Police Agency

Although it is not mandated, the division also protects the Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Vice President of the House of Councillors.

Former prime ministers also receive SP protection. This is provided at the discretion of the National Police Agency.

Organization
The division is structured in the following way:

Director
Department Chief
General Clerk
Section 1
Mobile Security Squad
Section 2
Mobile Security Squad
Section 3
Mobile Security Squad
Section 4
Mobile Security Squad

Section 1 is mandated to protect the Prime Minister of Japan. Section 2 protects Ministers of States, the President of the House of Councillors, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Section 3 is known to conduct duties on guarding foreign VIPs such as ambassadors and heads of state while Section 4 are to protect the Chief Justice of Japan, the Governor of Tokyo, and others qualified for protection such as the Vice President of the House of Councillors, the Vice Speaker of the House of Representatives, and party leaders.

In operations where SPs are deployed to other cities/towns in Japan and overseas, SP officers usually liaise with the local police in order to set up security for an incoming VIP or to scout potential locations where the VIP may visit.

Requirements

SP officers start out as an ordinary police officer, and must serve in the police for five years and have the rank of Sergeant in order to be a candidate. Moreover, candidates are required to be more than 5 feet 8 inches tall (173 cm) (for male candidates), achieve at least a third dan in at least one martial art, and have a high level of marksmanship. SP candidates also need to speak English.

Both male and female police officers can qualify for joining the division.

Equipment
Officers are mostly armed with handguns and expandable batons during their duties. A mini flashlight and a transceiver is also in their list of equipment.
Sometimes they used unmarked cars for transport and escort. They have used Mercedes-Benz S600, Toyota Crown, Nissan Teana, Nissan Elgrand, and Toyota HiAce.

The officers carry mostly the NPA-issued Smith & Wesson Model 37 revolver, or the SIG P230 semi-automatic pistol. Officers can also be seen armed with pistols such as the Beretta 92, Glock 17 or Heckler & Koch P2000.

Notes

 Each of these sections are led by a Section Chief.

References

Bibliography

Protective security units
Police units of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department


BNRR may refer to:

 Birmingham North Relief Road, see M6 Toll
 Burlington Northern Railroad


Rewe is a village and civil parish in the county of Devon in England. It lies on the river Culm,  north of the city of Exeter and  south of the town of Tiverton. Rewe is a linear village, with most of its buildings lying along the A396 road about  north of the larger village of Stoke Canon. The Reading to Plymouth railway line also passes through the village, but there has never been a station here; the nearest operating station () is Exeter St Davids. Before its closure, Stoke Canon station was the nearest.

The parish church is the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, built around 1450 in the Perpendicular Gothic style. The Church also contains the crest of Jane Seymour's family.

The hamlet of Up Exe (or Upexe) lies close to the River Exe about  north of the village of Rewe and is included in Rewe civil parish, although it is closer to Silverton. Up Exe Halt railway station was on the Exe Valley Railway Line, which closed in 1963.

External links
 Kelly's Directory of Devonshire, 1902. Quoted by genuki.
Rewe CP (Parish), Neighbourhood Statistics, Office for National Statistics.
Rewe Parish Church on the Netherexe Parishes site.

Villages in Devon
Civil parishes in Devon


The Icelandic Literary Prize (Icelandic: Íslensku bókmenntaverðlaunin), or Icelandic Literary Award, is an award which is given to three books each year by the Icelandic Publishers Association. The prize was founded on the association's centennial in 1989. One award is for fiction or poetry, one for children's books and one for academic and non-fiction works. Five books are nominated in each category, and the year's nominations are publicized in the beginning of December, but the prize itself is not awarded until January. Because the year's nominations come in the middle of the Christmas book flood, these books receive a great deal of marketing. Once the books have been nominated, the Icelandic Publishers Association appoints a selection committee which chooses the winners.

List of winners of the Icelandic Literary Prize for fiction

List of winners of the Icelandic Literary Prize for children's books

List of winners of the Icelandic Literary Prize for academic works

See also
 Icelandic literature
 Nordic Council's Literature Prize

References

External links
 List of nominees and winners, Icelandic Booksellers Association

Icelandic literary awards
Awards established in 1989
Fiction awards
Non-fiction literary awards


Mordecai Cary (1687–1751) was Bishop of Killala and Achonry.

Early years

Mordecai Cary was born in London on 7 August 1687 and baptized eight days later at St Faith-under-St.Pauls' He was the eldest son, the second of eight children born to John Carrey, citizen and cook, of Ivy Lane, who married Jane Cheese on 15 June 1684 at Temple Church.
 According to the will of his uncle, William Cary, carman of Whitechapel, five of the children survived until at least 1711.  Mordecai's grandfather was William Cary, gunsmith, of Tower Hill.

Mordecai was educated at the bluecoat charity school, Christ's Hospital, entering on 13 July 1695, not as an orphan, but on the gift of John Phillips, cook, who left a gift specifically for two "poor children of such poor members of the company of cooks as by the master and wardens of the said company should from time to time be presented".  In 1705, Mordecai and a fellow student were examined by Rev John Harris as to their suitability for university and found to be "so very expert and well qualified in their learning that to detain them any longer from university will be a manifest injury to them". On 7 May 1705 he received a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge and was admitted 19 May 1705 at age 17, from which he received his B.A. 1708/9, Fellow, 1711, M.A. 1712.

In 1709, Dr Richard Bentley, classical scholar and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, applied to the Governors of Christ's Hospital for Mordecai to travel abroad under the tutelage of older graduate, Mr James Jurin (1684–1750), as being "the best way for their improvement and rising in the world". Mordecai was subsequently granted £29.16.8. at his setting out in 1709.  They travelled to Leyden, one of the most important centres for the study of medicine and natural Philosophy during the eighteenth century to attend the lectures of Hermann Boerhaave.  Mordecai and Jurin became lifelong friends. Some of their correspondence is preserved at the Wellcome Library.

On 23 May 1714 Mordecai was ordained as a deacon.

Family

Two years later, Mordecai obtained a licence to marry at St James' Church, Duke Street but there does not appear to be an entry for such a marriage at that church. According to his son's documentation, on 9 February 1715/16, London he married Catherine COURTHORPE of Weybridge, Surrey (dau. and co-heir of Thomas of the parish of St Dunstan in the West, Fleet St.).

Mordecai and Catherine's children were:
 Anne bpt.27/6/1716 Cold Norton, Essex	(Ref: 571176)
 Henry Cary bpt.2/6/1717 St Andrew Undershaft, London (Ref: 374408/9)
 Catherine bpt.23/7/1719 Morpeth, Northumberland  (Ref: 415391) d.bef 1752
 William bpt.23/8/1725 St Katherine Coleman, London (Ref: 560022/3) d.bef 1752

Career

From 1717, until he left for Ireland in 1732, Mordecai was rector of St Katherine Coleman in the city of London.  Also commonly spelt St Catherine Coleman, the Church was in poor structural condition while Mordecai was there.  Rebuilding began in 1739; it was eventually demolished in 1925/6.

Mordecai was, from 1718-1724, headmaster of Morpeth's King Edward VI School, Northumberland, where he is credited with restoring the school's dwindling prestige after a staff feud prior to his appointment, and increasing the attendance from 26 to 100: he was also perpetual curate of Jarrow, co. Durham 1722-24.

He received his Doctor of Divinity at Lambeth Palace in London, by William Wake, Archbishop of Canterbury; his patent bears the date 22 March 1731.  Thereafter, he was appointed chaplain to Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset.  According to the Dublin Gazette, the Duke of Dorset arrived in Dublin on 11 September 1731 and was sworn in as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, under King George II.  On 1 April 1732 in St Anne's Church, Dublin, Dr Mordecai Cary was consecrated Bishop of Clonfert, County Galway, which position he held to 1838. He was, in fact, consecrated on 26 March "by the Archbishop of Tuam, assisted by the Bishops of Killala and Elphin; and was enthroned at Clonfert on June 5th, and at Kilmacduagh on June 16th".

Clonfert was the abbey and cathedral founded by St Brendan "the Navigator" in about 557, and its school became one of the most famous and largest in western Ireland.   In 1579, Queen Elizabeth I wrote to the Bishop of Clonfert regarding a consideration that a university be founded there; Dublin was chosen instead.

On 27 September 1735 the Dublin Gazette read:
"On Wednesday last arrived here the Duke and Duchess of Dorset with the Rt Hon. Walter Cary, His Grace's chief secretary."  On this visit by the Duke, "1735-6 Mordecai Cary DD Bishop of Clonfert, was translated to the Sees by patent dated December 20th and was enthroned by proxy at Achonry on March 19th and at Killala next day".  See Bishop of Killala and Achonry, County Mayo.

St Patrick's Cathedral, Killala is also significant in Irish church history in that St Patrick himself, in the 5th century, declared Killala, previously known as "the wood (forest) of Foclut" to be the origin of his call to evangelise the Irish.  Killala derives from the Irish "Cill Aille" meaning Church of Ailill.

Mordecai remained at Killala until his death in 1751.  The inscription on his tomb in the floor of St Patrick's Cathedral, Killala reads:
To the memory of the
Rt. Revd. Father in God
Mordecai Cary D.D.
Late Ld Bishop of Killala and Achon
who departed this life
Octr ye 2d A. Dom 1751
in the 65 year
of his age.
Catherine Cary his beloved wife
caused this stone to be laid.
Near him lye four of his grandchildren.

Mordecai's appointment at Killala became a family affair. His son, Henry Cary (1717–1769), became Archdeacon of Killala from 1742, aged 24 or 25. The Dean of Killala at this time was Theophilus Brocas (c.1710-1770) whose son, John, succeeded him as Dean, and whose daughter, Henrietta, married the Archdeacon's son, William.

Henry Francis Cary, translator of Dante's "Divine Comedy", was the son of William Cary and Henrietta Brocas, and the great-grandson of Mordecai Cary, D.D., Bishop of Killala and Achonry.

In his will, Mordecai mentions only one surviving son, Henry Cary, to whom went all his estate, with the exception of that reserved for his widow's use, namely the house and furniture in Henry St, Dublin.  Mordecai also left the sum of 20 English pounds, to be paid out of his English Concerns, to his brother, William.

Portrait of Bishop Modecai Cary

References

1687 births
1751 deaths
People educated at Christ's Hospital
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
Bishops of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh
Bishops of Killala and Achonry


The 5th New Brunswick Legislative Assembly represented New Brunswick between January 27, 1810, and 1816.

The assembly sat at the pleasure of the Governor of New Brunswick Thomas Carleton. Carleton having left the province in 1805, the colony was actually governed by a series of colonial administrators during this period.

The speaker of the house was selected as Amos Botsford. After Botsford's passing in 1813, John Robinson was appointed speaker.

History

Members

Notes

References
Journal of the votes and proceedings of the House of Assembly of ... New-Brunswick from ... January to ... March, 1810 (1810)

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1810 in Canada
1811 in Canada
1812 in Canada
1813 in Canada
1814 in Canada
1815 in Canada
1816 in Canada
1809 establishments in New Brunswick
1816 disestablishments in New Brunswick


Leski may refer to:

People
 Andreja Leški (born 1997), Slovenian judoka
 Janusz Łęski (born 1930), Polish film director and screenwriter
 Kazimierz Leski (1912–2000), Polish engineer and spy

Places
 Leski, Vinica, North Macedonia
 Lesko County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, Poland


Glasgow Rowing Club is a rowing club, based in the Gorbals area of Glasgow, Scotland. It is a private club, with no direct public funding. Application for membership is open to all. The club is affiliated to Scottish Rowing.

History
The club was formed on 4 December 1983 by the amalgamation of Glasgow Argonauts Boat Club (GABC), founded in 1924 and City of Glasgow Amateur Rowing Club (CGARC), founded in 1965. GABC was originally a club for the Alumni of Glasgow University Boat Club, and CGARC was formerly The Printers Rowing Club founded early 1900s.

Both clubs had for some years resided as tenants of other clubs and part of the reason for the merger was the shared desire to build new premises. The boathouse, which was officially opened by the Lord Provost of Glasgow in May 1997, is located in Silverfir Place on the south bank of the River Clyde, just along from Shawfield Stadium.

The club colours are yellow and red. These were chosen to reflect the club's origins and were the minor colours of the predecessor clubs: GABC colours were pale blue, black and gold (not yellow) and CGARC were dark blue and red. The oar design has changed from the original yellow with red collar and red tip, through the design displayed, to the current design.

Major successes

In the 2004 UK National Rowing Championships in Nottingham member Lindsay Dick won the women's single sculls event, while her fellow member and partner Alastair Warnock won the equivalent men's event. Warnock also made good progress in the Diamond Challenge Sculls at Henley Royal Regatta that year, with one particularly noteworthy scalp in the first round, only to be beaten in the semi-final by the eventual winner of the event.

Lindsay Dick won a Bronze medal at the 2006 World Rowing Championships at Dorney Lake in the Women's Lightweight Quadruple Sculls.

At Henley Royal Regatta in 2009 the club set a precedent for Scottish rowing clubs  by having crews race in quarter-finals of two different events (the Britannia Challenge Cup and the Wyfold Challenge Cup), although neither crew progressed to the semi-final stage. Previous Henley participation has included Fran Jacob racing in the Princess Royal Challenge Cup in 2008 and Alastair Warnock who reached the semi-final stage of the Diamond Challenge Sculls in successive years; in 2004 and 2005.

Later in 2009, at the National Rowing Championships, Glasgow crews won Men's Lightweight Fours (C. Logan, K. Docherty, J. Logan and S. Scrimgeour) and Men's Lightweight Pairs (C. Logan and J. Logan). Glasgow also had a share in the composite crew that won the Silver medal in Women's eights.

In March 2010, Glasgow members provided the core of a composite crew, along with rowers from Glasgow and Strathclyde Universities, that won the Novice Academic category at the Women's Eights Head of the River Race (WEHoRR).

Honours

British champions

References

External links
 Glasgow Rowing Club website

1983 establishments in Scotland
Sports clubs and teams established in 1983
Rowing clubs in Scotland
Sports clubs and teams in Glasgow
Gorbals
Rowing clubs of the River Clyde


Belloy-sur-Somme (, literally Belloy on Somme; Picard: Belloy-su-Sonme) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

Geography
The commune is situated on the banks of the Somme by the N235 road, some  northwest of Amiens.

Population

See also
Communes of the Somme department

References

Communes of Somme (department)


Fabien Cordeau (March 24, 1923 – September 27, 2007) was a politician in Quebec, Canada.

Background

He was born on March 24, 1923, in Saint-Pie, Quebec.

City Councillor

Cordeau served as a city councillor in Saint-Hyacinthe from 1973 to 1988.

Member of the legislature

He ran as a Union Nationale candidate to the provincial legislature in the district of Saint-Hyacinthe in the 1976 election and won against both Liberal incumbent Fernand Cornellier and Parti Québécois (PQ) candidate Charles-Henri Tremblay.  He lost the 1981 election against PQ candidate Maurice Dupré.

Death

Cordeau died on September 27, 2007.

References

1923 births
2007 deaths
Union Nationale (Quebec) MNAs


Tough love is a term used in behaviour modification.

Tough Love may also refer to:

Books
Tough Love, a 2019 non-fiction book by Susan Rice
Tough Love (novel), by Kerry Katona
Tough Love: High School Confidential, a graphic novel by Abby Denson

Film, TV and radio
Toughlove, a 1985 television film featuring Sean Frye
Tough Love (2015 film), a German film
Tough Love (2017 film), a Nigerian film
Tough Love (TV series), a 2009–2013 reality television series on VH1
Tough Love (web series), a 2015 web series
Tough Love, the title of the 2000 first series of the British television show Lenny Blue
"Tough Love" (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), a 2001 episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Tough Love with Mick Molloy, an Australian radio program
Tough Love with Hilary Farr, a 2021-present HGTV home design show

Music
Tough Love (duo), a British dance music duo

Albums
Tough Love (Magic Dirt album), 2003
Tough Love (Gala album), a 2009 album by Gala
Tough Love: Best of the Ballads, a 2011 compilation album by Aerosmith
Tough Love (Pulled Apart by Horses album), 2012
Tough Love (Jessie Ware album), 2014

Songs
"Tough Love", a song by Chris Brown from Heartbreak on a Full Moon, 2017
"Tough Love", a song by the British new wave group Squeeze from album Babylon and On, 1987
"Tough Love", a song by The Law from The Law
"Tough Love", a song by Suzie McNeil from album Dear Love, 2012
"Tough Love" (Jessie Ware song), a song by Jessie Ware, 2014
"Tough Love" (Avicii song), a song by Avicii from the album Tim, 2019


Wrottesley Hall is a 1923-built Grade II listed house in the civil parish of Perton, and historically part of Tettenhall in Staffordshire, England.

The manor of Wrottesley had been held by the Wrottesley family (originally 'de Verdun') from the twelfth century, having been granted to Simon de Verdun of Cocton (Coughton, Warwickshire), son of William (de Verdun) of Cocton by Adam the Abbot of Evesham. The deed granting Wrottesley and Loynton in Staffordshire to Simon was witnessed by some of his kinsmen: Bertram de Verdun (III) of Alton Castle, Guy de Verdun and Roeland de Verdun. The deed is dated sometime between 1160 when Adam became Abbot and 1167 when Simon appears in the Pipe Roll for Staffordshire as lord of Wrottesley

A moated Tudor house which stood on the site was demolished in 1686 and replaced by Sir Walter Wrottesley, 3rd Baronet to designs by Christopher Wren, as a four-storeyed 'H' plan mansion, comprising a pedimented central entrance block of three bays and flanking wings of four bays each, standing in a  park.

The house was destroyed by fire in 1897 and was replaced with the present structure of more modest proportions in 1923, comprising a two-storey pedimented three bay central block and single storey four bay wings. The pediment carries the Wrottesley family arms. Exterior steps and ancillary buildings of the original pre-1897 hall are Grade II listed.

During the Second World War the park was the base of the Free Dutch forces. The estate was broken up when the 5th Baron sold up in 1963 and moved to South Africa. The house was then purchased by the Hartill family in the 1960s, who developed the adjacent Grade II listed coach house into residential units. The Wrottesley Golf Course was founded in the 1970s, and still operates today.

See also
Listed buildings in Perton

References

External links
 Images of England: Wrottesley Hall
 Images of England: Coach House at Wrottesley Park

Grade II listed buildings in Staffordshire
Country houses in Staffordshire


Lod is a city in Israel.

Lod, LOD and LoD may also refer to:

 Legal Operations Detachment; see United States Army Reserve Legal Command
 Legion of Doom (disambiguation), multiple uses
 Length of day
 Letter of demand (of payment), an instrument in debt collection
 Line of dance in Ballroom
 Line of defense in security
 Last order date, a milestone in Product Life Cycle

Science and technology

 Length on deck, a measurement of a ship over the deck from forward deck to the transom
 LOD, the length of a mean solar day in a uniform time scale such as International Atomic Time; see ΔT
 Limit of detection
 LOD score, logarithm of odds
 Loss on drying
 Level of Development or Level of Detail, in Building information modeling

Computing

 Law of Demeter, a design guideline for developing software
 Level of detail, a computer graphics technique to adapt the detail of the displayed 3D object to the user needs
 Linked open data, using web technologies to link open data
 Leading-one detector, a logic circuit used in computer arithmetic

Places

 River Lod, a river in West Sussex, England
 Lod airport, a former name of Ben Gurion Airport, Israel
 Lodi, Lombardy
 Province of Lodi, in Italy
 Lod (crater), a crater in the Oxia Palus quadrangle of Mars

Entertainment

 Legacy of Darkness (disambiguation), multiple uses
 The Legend of Dragoon, a PlayStation role-playing game
 Line of Duty, British police procedural television series
 Diablo II: Lord of Destruction, an official expansion to the computer game Diablo II
 L.O.D. (EP), an EP by the American rapper Desiigner

See also
 Ice (Dukaj novel) (original title: Lód), a 2007 novel by Jacek Dukaj


The Cotswold School is an 11 to 18 academy school located in Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, Great Britain. The school achieved academy status in September 2010. The principal from 2012 is Mr Will Morgan. In 2023, the schools roll in sits at 1430 (with approximately 290 of those students in The Academy’s sixth form).

In November 2022, The Cotswold School was named The Sunday Times  Southwest Comprehensive School of the Year 2023, ranked by their examination results from 2021/2022. The tables are based on the percentage of A-Level results at A*-B and GCSE’s at 9-7. Three quarters of the A-Level grades collectively achieved by our 410 students were at A*, A or B. Just over half of all grades were either A* or A, and 94% were at A*to C. In GCSEs, 41% of grades achieved were at 9-7 with 83% of students achieved the benchmark of five or more 9-4 grades, including Mathematics and English.

In 2015/16, The Cotswold School was named The Sunday Times Comprehensive School of the Year.

History
The Cotswold School opened in 1988 following the amalgamation of Bourton Vale Secondary Modern (in Bourton on the Water) and  Westwood's Grammar School (Northleach).  The first head teacher was Mr Sanders and first chair of governors was Mavis, Viscountess Dunrossil.  The roll was just over 400 students and 35 staff.  The school emblem, comprising tree, dry stone wall and river was devised in 1988 by Gareth Harris (then 10 years old) and fellow pupils at Chedworth Primary School who entered the competition to design a new school crest for the new "The Cotswold School".

Former head teachers were Mr Sanders (September 1988 – August 1995) and Mrs Holland (September 1995 – December 2011).

Today
The school roll in September 2022 stands at 1430 students and 140 staff. The last 30 years have seen an extensive programme of building. In the last 5 years, a new Sixth Form study suite and common room have been built; refurbished and newly equipped science laboratories; a gymnasium extension to the sports hall; and a 2 storey, 10 classroom English block with communal learning space, study rooms and department office, which was opened in 2020.

The school gained specialisms for languages (2002) and science (2006) as part of the now defunct specialist schools programme.

The extension to the sixth form and science blocks was officially opened by Nigel Twiston-Davies in April 2009. The new £1.5 million sports hall, with changing rooms and a community room alongside, first opened in November 2009; it was officially opened by the former England cricket captain Mike Gatting in July 2010.

The mathematics block was officially opened by Geoffrey Clifton-Brown MP and Mavis, Viscountess Dunrossil as part of the school's 25th anniversary celebrations during the academic year 2013/2014.

The Sixth Form study suite was officially opened by Adam Henson in March 2018. The English block was officially opened by Emma and Simon Keswick in November 2022.

During the building of the extensions, it was discovered that the school is situated on a Roman cemetery which was found to also contain Iron Age graves.

Ofsted reports and accolades
In March 2015, Ofsted judged The Cotswold School 'Outstanding' across all categories. This was the fourth consecutive 'Outstanding' inspection carried out at the school.

 An ‘Outstanding’ 11–18 School, Ofsted 2002, 2006, 2009 & 2015.
 The Sunday Times Southwest Comprehensive of the Year 2023
 International School Award 2022-25
 Outstanding Academy September 2010.
 Good Schools Guide 2015.
 The Sunday Times' Comprehensive School of the Year 2015/16.
 National Teaching School, designated by the National College of Teaching and Leadership 2016.
 The Sunday Times Parent Power Schools Guide 2023 Southwest Comprehensive of the Year.

Alumni

Westwood's Grammar School
 Harriet Green OBE, chief executive from 2012 to 2014 of Thomas Cook Group
 Wilf Paish MBE, athletics coach

The Cotswold School
Alice Powell, racing driver
Sam Twiston-Davies

References

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Secondary schools in Gloucestershire
Educational institutions established in 1988
1988 establishments in England
Cotswold District
Academies in Gloucestershire


The Diocese of Hong Kong Island is one of the three dioceses under the Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui, a province of the Anglican Communion. Its territory covers Hong Kong Island and the outlying islands. The cathedral of the diocese, St. John's Cathedral, is the oldest surviving Western ecclesiastical building in Hong Kong. It was constructed in the 1840s.

The incumbent Bishop of Hong Kong Island, Matthias Der, was consecrated as bishop on 3 October 2020 and enthroned on 2 January 2021. Der succeeded Paul Kwong as bishop of the diocese, who served concurrently as Archbishop and Primate of Hong Kong.

Churches
The diocese oversees over 16 churches and chapels across Hong Kong Island and the outlying islands of Hong Kong.

Parishes
 St. John's Cathedral, Central
 St. Stephen's Church, Sai Wan
 Holy Nativity Church, Shau Kei Wan
 St. Peter's Church, North Point
 St. Mary's Church, Causeway Bay
 St. James' Church, Wan Chai
 St. Paul's Church, Mid-Levels
 St. Matthew's Church, Sheung Wan
 St. Luke's Church, Kennedy Town
 St. Timothy's Church, Pok Fu Lam

Missions
 Grace Church, Stanley
 Church of the Incarnation, Discovery Bay
 Church of the Ascension, Tung Chung
 Discovery Bay Church
 St. Stephen's Chapel (located in St. Stephen's College), Stanley
 Emmanuel Church (located in George C. Tso Memorial Chapel of the defunct Béthanie Sanatorium), Pok Fu Lam

Bishops
 Peter Kwong Kong-kit (1998–2007)
 Paul Kwong (2007–2021)
 Matthias Clement Tze-wo Der (2021–present)

Gallery

References

External links
 Diocese of Hong Kong Island
 Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui

Anglican Diocese of Hong Kong Island
Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui
Hong Kong Island