#Sir Kenneth Mackenzie

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A History of the Road between Dingwall and Poolewe

From the written evidence of secondary sources and maps on the maps.nls and Scotlandspeople websites by Meryl Marshall Background In the years before the 18th Century the Highlands were regarded as a hostile backward country, travelling was difficult, there were few visitors and many journeys were made by boat. In 1793 George Brown reported that, The most necessary and useful line of road…

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In 1933, Welsh journalist Gareth Jones travels to Ukraine, where he experiences the horrors of a famine. Everywhere he goes he meets henchmen of the Soviet secret service who are determined to prevent news about the catastrophe from getting out. Stalin’s forced collectivisation of agriculture has resulted in misery and ruin—the policy is tantamount to mass murder. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Gareth Jones: James Norton Ada Brooks: Vanessa Kirby Walter Duranty: Peter Sarsgaard George Orwell: Joseph Mawle Lloyd George: Kenneth Cranham Matthew: Celyn Jones Maxim Litvinov: Krzysztof Pieczyński Rhea Clyman: Beata Pozniak Miss Stevenson: Fenella Woolgar Yulia: Michalina Olszańska Bonnie: Patrycja Volny Eugene Lyons: Edward Wolstenholme Leonid: Oleg Drach Sir Ernest Bennet: Martin Bishop Paul Kleb: Marcin Czarnik Major Jones: Julian Lewis Jones William Randolph Hearst: Matthew Marsh J.E. B Seely: John Edmondson Hotel receptionist: Olena Leonenko John Cushny: Barry Mulkerns Petro: Oleksandr Pozharskyi Ralph Barnes: Marcin Latałło Leonard Moore: Jacob Krichefski Katya: Ksenia Matsuk Malcolm Muggeridge: Michael O’Donnell Konstantin Umansky: Wojciech Urbański …: Martin Hugh Henley …: Cara Chase …: Sabrina John …: Piotr Szostak …: Alexander Bozhko …: Oleh Kyryliv …: Roman Skorovskyi …: Serhii Bachyk …: Anton Andriushchenko …: Alexandr Markin …: Marcin Masecki …: Jan Młynarski …: Jerzy Rogiewicz …: Hanna Turnau …: Mikhail Klymchenko …: Richard Elfyn …: Olexa Gorodenko Film Crew: Director: Agnieszka Holland Original Music Composer: Antoni Łazarkiewicz Line Producer: Pam Roberts Production Sound Mixer: Marcin Matlak Casting: Colin Jones Makeup Designer: Janusz Kaleja Set Decoration: Robert Wischhusen-Hayes Costume Design: Halyna Otenko Casting Director: Magdalena Szwarcbart Casting Associate: Toby Spigel Costume Design: Ola Staszko Art Direction: Fiona Gavin Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Filip Krzemień Co-Producer: Angus Lamont Editor: Michał Czarnecki Co-Producer: Yehor Olesov Still Photographer: Robert Pałka Set Decoration: Kinga Babczyńska Production Design: Grzegorz Piątkowski Executive Producer: Jeff Field Producer: Klaudia Śmieja-Rostworowska Associate Producer: Tomasz Karczewski Associate Producer: Marcin Piasecki Director of Photography: Tomasz Naumiuk Second Unit Director: Olga Chajdas Associate Producer: Jacek Kulczycki Co-Producer: Magdalena Zimecka Producer: Stanislaw Dziedzic Casting Director: Alla Samoilenko Location Manager: Viktor Shevchenko Special Effects Supervisor: Oleksandr Suvorov Assistant Editor: Krzysztof Korybut-Daszkiewicz Musician: Wojciech Kowalewski Production Coordinator: Shona Mackenzie Gaffer: Łukasz Głaszczka Best Boy Grip: Igor Słupecki Key Grip: Sebastian Frac Drone Cinematographer: Filip Jurzyk Producer: Andrea Chalupa Focus Puller: Zbigniew Gustowski Executive Producer: Leah Temerty Lord Associate Producer: Izabela Helbin Associate Producer: Patryk Tomiczek Line Producer: Bogna Szewczyk-Skupień Boom Operator: Rafał Lenart Sound Supervisor: Wojciech Mielimąka Set Decoration: Paulina Korwin-Kochanowska Music Consultant: Paweł Juzwuk Script Supervisor: Karolina Foltyn VFX Supervisor: Michal Konwicki VFX Supervisor: Franciszek Jankowski Special Effects Technician: Roy Murfin Drone Cinematographer: Marcin Kukla Electrician: Mateusz Dybiec Electrician: Maciej Konopczynski Electrician: Michał Marciniak Electrician: Bartlomiej Modrak Electrician: Rafal Seraj Electrician: Mariusz Sojak Electrician: Marcin Szychowski Electrician: Bartosz Szymaniak First Assistant Camera: Maksim Najdienow First Assistant Camera: Pavel Alekseyenko Steadicam Operator: Bogdan Ruslan Techno Crane Operator: January Jarnot Techno Crane Operator: Maciej Jarnot Makeup & Hair: Stanislaw Dolinski Makeup & Hair: Błażej Pintara Construction Foreman: Marcin Nosal Construction Manager: Andrey Gontar Construction Manager: Ryszard Idzik Graphic Designer: Marta Artyfikiewicz Graphic Designer: Dorota Pabel Graphic Designer: Maria Wilk Casting Assistant: Nataliya Gordey Extra...

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Beauly Priory.

Pics from Saturdays visit between heavy rain showers.

  Beauly Priory is an ancient ruined abbey located in the village of Beauly, thought to have been founded around 1230. French monks settled here, who gave the area and the nearby river the name “beau lieu” (“beautiful place,”) which has stuck ever since. Another, alternative origin for the name comes from 1564, when Mary, Queen of Scots was travelling through the Highlands towards Easter Ross. According to legend, she saw the priory from her carriage and said “Oui, c’est un beau lieu” (Yes, it is a beautiful place.)

The north transept is the most complete part of the abbey still standing, but was not original to the building; it was built by Alexander Ross in 1901 to be a mausoleum, the final resting place for the Mackenzie family, including Sir Kenneth Mackenzie of Kintail who died in 1492. Unfortunately the mausoleum is closed to the public and you can only get a wee glimpse inside through a grate covering the "window"

  The Abbey is protected as a scheduled monument by Historic Environment Scotland.

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Master poetry playlist

Each of these links will redirect you to the relevant playlist on my non-monetized Youtube channel (new video every other day)

By actors

Tom Hiddleston (Words and Music, Ximalaya FM, Coriolanus watchalong with Josie Rourke, Tom and the cast, interviews, Betrayal reunion)

Bruce Alexander, Sam Alexander, Nonso Anozie, Richard Armitage, Dame Eileen Atkins, Annette Badland, Kathy Bates, Xander Berkeley, Sir Kenneth Branagh, Richard Burton, Simon Callow, Robert Carlyle, Helena Bonham Carter, Kim Cattrall, Glenn Close, Sir William "Billy" Connolly, Ben Crystal, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ossie Davis, Dame Judi Dench, Vincent D'Onofrio, Brian Dennehy, James Earl Jones, Beatie Edney, Mark Ebulue, Ralph Fiennes, Kate Fleetwood, Jodie Foster, Polly Frame, Morgan Freeman, Stephen Fry, Michael Gaston, Sir John Gielgud, Aidan Gillen, Rupert Graves, Eva Green, Sir Alec Guinness, David Harewood, Tom Hollander, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Jeremy Irons, Alex Jennings, Toby Jones, Jude Law, Robert Sean Leonard, Damian Lewis, John Lithgow, Sir Ian McKellen, Dame Helen Mirren, Richard Mitchley, Alfred Molina, Sir Roger Moore, Sam Neill, Al Pacino, Ron Perlman, Prasanna Puwanarajah, Sir Jonathan Pryce, Alan Rickman, Sir Simon Russell Beale, Susan Sarandon, Andrew Scott, Fiona Shaw, Michael Sheen, Gary Sinise, Dan Stevens, Sir Patrick Stewart, Mitchell Brian Stokes, Mark Strong, Natasha Richardson, David Tennant, Kathleen Turner, Eli Wallach, Dominic West and Samuel West.

In this playlist there is 1-1 poem read by Tony Amendola, Sebastian Arcelus, Mackenzie Astin, Gerry Bamman, Alan Bates, Gina Bellman, Cathy Belton, Edward Bennett, Tilly Blackwood, Claire Bloom, Lindy Booth, Peter Bowles, Eleanor Bron, Sir Michael Caine, Peter Capaldi, Sir Sean Connery, Lindsay Crouse, Ruby Dee, Adrian Dunbar, Lindsay Duncan, Noma Dumezweni, Adetomiwa Edun, Rupert Evans, Colin Farrell, Deborah Findlay, Edward Fox, Jonathan Frakes, Hugh Fraser, Jennifer Garner, Jill Gascoine, Annabeth Gish, Iain Glen, Ioan Gruffudd, Julie Harris, Josh Hartnett, John Heffernan, Douglas Henshall, Hozier, Sir John Hurt, Amy Irving, Sir Derek Jacobi, Peter Jacobson, Lennie James, Paterson Joseph, Rory Kinnear, Hugh Laurie, Sir Christopher Lee, Robert Lindsay, Ophelia Lovibond, Helen McCrory, Niamh McGrady, Sepideh Moafi, Cillian Murphy, Liam Neeson, Tessa Peake-Jones, Dame Sian Phillips, Wendell Pierce, Rosamund Pike, Diana Quick, Jemma Redgrave, Iwan Rheon, Sebastian Roché, Hugh Ross, William Sadler, Kerry Shale, Imelda Staunton, Rufus Sewell, Jenna Stern, Juliet Stevenson, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Jo Stone-Fewings, Tilda Swinton, Peter O’ Toole, Harry Treadaway, Indira Varma, Dame Harriet Walter, Sam Waterson, Fritz Weaver and Carolyn Wickwire.

By poets

W. H. Auden, William Blake, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Robert Burns, Byron, Lewis Carroll, John Clare, E. E. Cummings, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Seamus Heaney, Robert Herrick, Gerard Manley Hopkins, John Keats, Rudyard Kipling, Edward Lear, Robert Lowell, Christopher Marlowe, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Pablo Neruda, E. A. Poe, Christina Rossetti, William Shakespeare, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Alfred Tennyson, Dylan Thomas, William Wordsworth, W. B. Yeats and other poets.

Short scenes from movies/theatre plays

Coriolanus (Tom Hiddleston), King Lear (Sir Athony Hopkins), Much Ado About Nothing (Emma Thompson & Kenneth Branagh), Hamlet (Andrew Scott), Much Ado About Nothing (Catherine Tate & David Tennant), Macbeth (Sir Patrick Stewart)

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Lost Chapter 39 High Noon

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“Recall this bloke may be a killer. We use extreme caution.” All the police officers nod. They are hoping to capture Black Jack Randall and rescue Laughaire Mackenzie. Officer Grant knows the odds aren’t good. If they can capture the suspect, alive, they may be able to get Laughaire’s location out of him. “We would prefer to take him alive, to see what he knows. But deadly force is allowed to protect yourself or others.” Again his officers nod. A few smile. No, that won’t do. “This suspect’s wife describes his eyes as looking into the depths of hell, recall that.” He looks directly at the grinners. Their smiles quickly fade. “Alright, let’s go.”

 

They quietly surround the house as noon approaches. He has positioned his officers around the house, at every entrance and exit. If he is in there, they will get him. At one minute till, he gives the go order and the front and back door are breached.

 

“Police officers! Come out with your hands up!” echoes around the house. The downstairs rooms are searched and cleared. Some keep guard at the stairway, guns pointed up and out. Others climb up the stairs to clear it. They find several things in Laughaire’s bedroom.

 

“Officer Grant?” as ‘clear’ bounces around in his earpiece, he is called there. He enters and nods to the junior officer who had called him.

 

“Officer Kenneth?”

 

“We have some genetic material.” He gestures to the bed. In the center is a pool of semen.

 

“Crocky, the bloody bloke has been here.” He steps closer. The genetic material is still warm. “and not long ago!” He shakes his head and pulls in a breath. “He is playing with us. Get a sample Officer Kenneth.”

 

“Yes sir.”

 

“Officer Grant, there’s a note.” He moves over to where he has been called. On her dresser mirror, in red lipstick, is written.

 

“A bit to late coppers. I left you a few presents. One is obvious. The other, well, you best find her fast.”

 

“F*cling crips, the lass is here somewhere! “ Everyone turns to him. “He is gone. The priority now is to find Miss Mackenzie and fast. We have no clue what type of condition he left her in. Move!”

 

They move. As those from CSI take pictures of the mirror and it’s message, the others spread out, looking for openings to the attic. Others look deeper into closets, under beds, really any and everywhere. It is mere minutes but seems like hours when one of the officers yells up from the first floor. “I’ve found the basement.”

 

Basement, of course. That is where he did his experiments.  They, all bare the CSi officers, head down.

 

As soon as the door is open, they hear her moans. Goosebumps raise on their skin as Officer Grant leads them down. It is more a slightly larger crawl space then a true basement. She lays, wedged into a corner. She is just semi-coconscious. The shoulder wound has bleed down to her waist. Her bare feet and her hands are both misshapen.

 

“Call for an ambulance!” he calls out. “It is alright Laughaire. We’ve you now.” As he couches down beside her, her sees the other note. It is written in blood on the small wall beside her.

 

“Next time she will be in pieces. Give me my wife and child! Final warning!”

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My Maternal 14th. Great Grandfather, Sir Kenneth MacKenzie, 7th. Laird of Kintail

My Maternal 14th. Great Grandfather, Sir Kenneth MacKenzie, 7th. Laird of Kintail

Sir Kenneth MacKenzie, Beauly Priory, Inverness-shire, Scotland, 7th. Laird of Kintail, 1492 Sir Kenneth MacKenzie, traditionally reckoned 7th. of Kintail and nicknamed Coinneach a’bhlair (or “Kenneth of the Battle”), was a Highland chief, being head of the Clan MacKenzie.Kenneth was the eldest son of Alexander MacKenzie of Kintail (d.1488). The weight of traditional clan histories identifies…

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Sir Alexander Mackenzie (or MacKenzie, Scottish Gaelic: Alasdair MacCoinnich; 1764 – 12 March 1820) was a Scottish explorer known for accomplishing the first east to west crossing of America north of Mexico in 1793, which preceded the more famous Lewis and Clark Expedition by 12 years. 

The Mackenzie River is named after him, the longest river system in Canada and the second longest in North America.  Mackenzie was born in Luskentyre House in Stornoway on Lewis. He was the third of the four children born to Kenneth 'Corc' Mackenzie (1731–1780) and his wife Isabella MacIver, from another prominent mercantile family in Stornoway. When only 14 years old, Mackenzie's father served as an ensign to protect Stornoway during the Jacobite rising of 1745. He later became a merchant and held the tack of Melbost; his grandfather being a younger brother of Murdoch Mackenzie, 6th Laird of Fairburn. 

Educated at the same school as Colin Mackenzie, he sailed to New York City with his father to join an uncle, John Mackenzie, in 1774, after his mother died in Scotland.[6] In 1776, during the American War of Independence, his father and uncle resumed their military duties and joined the King's Royal Regiment of New York as lieutenants. By 1778, for his safety as a son of loyalists, young Mackenzie was either sent, or accompanied by two aunts, to Montreal. By 1779 (a year before his father's death at Carleton Island]), Mackenzie had a secured apprenticeship with Finlay, Gregory & Co., one of the most influential fur trading companies in Montreal, which was later administered by Archibald Norman McLeod. In 1787, the company merged with the North West Company. 1789 Mackenzie River expedition to the Arctic Ocean.

On behalf of the North West Company, Mackenzie traveled to Lake Athabasca where, in 1788, he was one of the founders of Fort Chipewyan. He had been sent to replace Peter Pond, a partner in the North West Company. From Pond, he learned that the First Nations people understood that the local rivers flowed to the northwest. Acting on this information, he set out by canoe on the river known to the local Dene First Nations people as the Dehcho, (Mackenzie River) on 3 July 1789, following it to its mouth in the hope of finding the Northwest Passage to the Pacific Ocean. As he ended up reaching the Arctic Ocean on 14 July, it is conjectured that he named the river "Disappointment River" as it did not lead to Cook Inlet in Alaska as he had expected. The river was later renamed the Mackenzie River in his honor. 

1792–93 Peace River expedition to the Pacific Ocean

In 1791, Mackenzie returned to Great Britain to study the new advance in the measurement of longitude. Upon his return to Canada in 1792, he set out once again to find a route to the Pacific. Accompanied by two native guides (one named Cancre), his cousin, Alexander MacKay, six Canadian voyageurs (Joseph Landry, Charles Ducette, Francois Beaulieux, Baptiste Bisson, Francois Courtois, Jacques Beauchamp) and a dog simply referred to as "our dog", Mackenzie left Fort Chipewyan on 10 October 1792, and traveled via the Pine River to the Peace River. From there he traveled to a fork on the Peace River arriving 1 November where he and his cohorts built a fortification that they resided in over the winter. This later became known as Fort Fork. 

Mackenzie left Fort Fork on 9 May 1793, following the route of the Peace River.He crossed the Great Divide and found the upper reaches of the Fraser River, but was warned by the local natives that the Fraser Canyon to the south was unnavigable and populated by belligerent tribes. He was instead directed to follow a grease trail by ascending the West Road River, crossing over the Coast Mountains and descending the Bella Coola River to the sea. He followed this advice and reached the Pacific coast on 20 July 1793, at Bella Coola, British Columbia, on North Bentinck Arm, an inlet of the Pacific Ocean. Having done this, he had completed the first recorded transcontinental crossing of North America north of Mexico, 12 years before Lewis and Clark. He had unknowingly missed meeting George Vancouver at Bella Coola by 48 days. 

He had wanted to continue westward out of a desire to reach the open ocean, but was stopped by the hostility of the Heiltsuk people. Hemmed in by Heiltsuk war canoes, he wrote a message on a rock near the water's edge of Dean Channel, using a reddish paint made of vermilion and bear grease, and turned back east. 

The inscription read: "Alex MacKenzie / from Canada / by land / 22d July 1793" (at the time the name Canada was an informal term for the former French territory in what is now southern Quebec and Ontario). The words were later inscribed permanently by surveyors. The site is now Sir Alexander Mackenzie Provincial Park and is designated a First Crossing of North America National Historic Site. In 2016, Mackenzie was named a National Historic Person.

  In his journal Mackenzie recorded the Carrier language for the first time. In 1801 the journals of his exploratory journeys were published. He was knighted for his efforts in the following year and served in the Legislature of Lower Canada for Huntingdon County, from 1804 to 1808. 

In 1812 Mackenzie, then aged 48, returned to Scotland, where he married 14-year-old Geddes Mackenzie, heiress of Avoch. 

They had two sons and a daughter. Her grandfather, Captain John Mackenzie of Castle Leod (great-grandson of George Mackenzie, 2nd Earl of Seaforth), purchased the estate of Avoch with money left to him by his first cousin and brother-in-law, Admiral George Geddes Mackenzie. Lady Mackenzie's father was a first cousin of the father of George Simpson, Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company. The Mackenzies lived between Avoch and London. He died in 1820 of Bright's disease, at an age of 56 (his exact date of birth unknown). He is buried near Avoch on the Black Isle.

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Covent Garden Lovers

courtesy of Hallie Rubenhold’s “The Covent Garden Ladies”

A list of the notable and famous frequenters of London’s brothels in the latter half of the 1700s. “Patrons du peche” (patrons of sin)

Look out for the royalty, and the great and the “good.”

Lord Chief Justice Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth

Admiral George Anson, 1st Baron Anson

Sir William Apreece

Sir Richard Atkins

Sir John Aubrey, MP

Richard Barry, 7th Earl of Barrymore

Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl of Bathurst

Sir Charles Bingham, 1st Earl of Lucan

Captain George Maurice Bisset (yes, THAT George Bisset, of Lady Seymour Worsley’s scandal)

Admiral Edward Boscawen 

Hugh Boscawen, 2nd Viscount Falmouth

James Boswell (diarist, great friend of Samuel Johnson)

Sir Orlando Bridgeman

Thomas Bromley, 2nd Baron Montfort

Captain John Byron (Lord Byron’s grandfather)

John Calcraft, MP

Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll

John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll

John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun

George Capell, 4th Earl of Essex

David Carnegie, Lord Rosehill

John Cleland (writer of the pornographic novel “Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure”)

Henry Fiennes Clinton, 9th Earl of Lincoln.

Robert “Cock-a-doodle-doo” Coates

Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess of Cornwallis

Colonel John Coxe

William Craven, 6th Baron Craven

His Royal Highness, Prince Ernest, Duke of Cumberland

His Royal Highness, Prince Henry Frederick, Duke of Cumberland

His Royal Highness, Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland

The Honourable John Damer

Sir Francis Dashwood, Lord Despenser (founder of “The Hellfire Club” and Chancellor of the Exchequer)

Francis Drake Delevel

Reverend William Dodd

George Bubb Doddington, Lord Melcombe

William Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensbury

Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville

George Montagu Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax

Sir Henry Elchin

Richard Edgecumbe, Lord Mount Edgecumbe

Sir Charles Fielding, son of the Earl of Denbigh

The Honourable John Finch

John Fitzpatrick, 1st Earl of Upper Ossory

Samuel Foote (theatre manager and dramatist)

Charles James Fox (prominent Whig statesman, arch-enemy of William Pitt the Younger)

Stephen Fox, 2nd Baron Holland

George Fox-Lane, 3rd Baron Bingley

John Frederick, 3rd Duke of Dorset

His Majesty, King George IV (oh, what a surprise)

Sir John Graeme, 3rd Duke of Montrose

Charles Hamilton, Lord Binning

Charles Hanbury-Williams (British envoy to the court of Russia, introduced Catherine the Great to her lover, Stanislaw Poniatowski)

Colonel George Hanger

Count Franz Xavier Haszlang, Bavarian Envoy to London

Judge Henry Gould

Robery Henley, 1st Earl of Northington

Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton (great-great-great-great grandson of King Charles II)

Henry Herbert, 10th Earl of Pembroke

Joseph Hickey

William Hickey

William Holles, 2nd Viscount Vane

Rear-Admiral Charles Holmes

Admiral Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood

Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk

Thomas Howard, 3rd Earl of Effingham

Admiral Lord Richard Howe, 4th Viscount Howe

Thomas Jefferson (not that TJeffs; manager of the Drury Lane Theatre)

John Phillip Kemble

Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel

William John Kerr, 5th Marquess of Lothian

Sir John Lade

Penistone Lamb, 1st Viscount Melbourne

William Longhorne (the poet laureate)

Lord Edward Ligonier

Field Marshall John Ligonier, 1st Earl of Ligonier

Simon Luttrell, 1st Baron Carhampton

Thomas Lyttleton, 2nd Baron Lyttleton

Kenneth Francis Mackenzie, 4th Earl of Seaforth

Charles Macklin

The Honourable Captain John Manners

John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland

Charles Maynard, 1st Viscount Maynard

Captain Anthony George Martin

James Macduff, 2nd Earl of Fife

Captain Thomas Medlycott

Isaac Mendez

Major Thomas Metcalfe

Sir George Montgomerie Metham

John Montague, 4th Earl of Sandwich

Alexander Montgomerie, 10th Earl of Eglinton

Arthur Murphy

Richard “Beau” Nash (famous dandy, popularised ballroom etiquette at the assemblies in Bath)

Francis John Needham, MP

Henry Nevill, 2nd Earl of Abergavenny

John Palmer (actor)

Thomas Panton

William Petty, 1st Marquess of Landsdowne

Evelyn Meadows Pierrepoont, 2nd Duke of Kingston

Thomas Potter

John Poulett, 4th Earl of Poulett

William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath

William Powell (manager of Drury Lane)

Charles “Chace” Price

Richard “Bloomsbury Dick” Rigby

Admiral George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney

David Ross (actor)

Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford

Frederick John Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset

Sir George Saville

George Selwyn (politician and wit)

Edward “Ned” Shuter (actor)

John George Spencer, 1st Earl of Spencer

Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl of Harrington

Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Sir William Stanhope, MP

Edward Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby

Sir Thomas Stapleton

John Stewart, 3rd Earl of Bute

Frederick St John, 2nd Viscount Bolingbroke

Colonel Sir Banastre Tarleton

Commodore Edward Thompson

Lord Chief Justice Sir Edward Thurlow

Robert “Beau” Tracy

John Tucker, MP

Arthur Vansittart, MP

Sir Henry Vansittart, MP

Robert Vansittart

Sir Edward Walpole

Sir Robert Walpole (Britain’s first Prime Minister)

John Wilkes

His Majesty, King William IV

Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont

Henry Woodward (actor)

His Royal Highness, Edward, Duke of York

His Royal Highness, Frederick, Duke of York

Lieutenant Colonel John Yorke

Joseph Yorke, 1st Baron Dove

Extra information is my own

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2016 Golden Elliott Awards

Damn, y’all. It’s taken long enough.

My apologies for taking so much longer than usual to post these (I mean, last year these were up the Monday after the Oscars, and this year...does anyone even remember who won? Other than that miraculous Best Picture fiasco?). It was my first awards season out of school, and that proved to be a new, exciting challenge. That said, 2016 was a pretty fun year for my personal awards. Not only could I barely decide on a solid ranking of all of the films throughout the year, but I also found myself with the strange issue of liking many, many films, but truly loving few. All that aside, however, I believe these awards to represent my viewing experiences of 2016 very well. 

Of course, there are always films I don’t get around to, even if this year the list stings a bit more than usual. I expect many of these to make quite a dent in my ballot once I get around to them, but I waited long enough to post this. A mostly complete list of those I didn’t get to are:

Aquarius

The Fits

I Am Not Your Negro

Lemonade

My Life as a Zucchini

Nocturnal Animals

O.J.: Made in America

The Salesman

13th

Toni Erdmann

20th Century Women

But let’s not detract too much from the 34 films from 2016 that I did see! I didn’t have the time/energy to go through and make pretty graphics for all of the categories like last year--just the top ten films. Again, my bad. 

So! Without any further procrastination!

2016 GOLDEN ELLIOTT AWARDS

TOP TEN FILMS:

01. Moonlight / dir. Barry Jenkins / USA The one film of the year that won my heart. Jenkins’ visual symphony on a young man’s life is an ingenious deconstruction of masculinity and a much overdue spotlight on a narrative that all too often falls outside of the visibility of the mainstream. With as many excellent films 2016 gave us, there was no contest for the best. 

02. The Handmaiden / dir. Park Chan-wook / South Korea Park Chan-wook’s labyrinthine Handmaiden may be the closest anyone has come to Hitchcock’s level of intrigue in decades. With sumptuous production values (seriously, there’s no more beautiful movie from this year), a tightly-wound suspenseful plot, a remarkable cast, and a genuinely moving romance, The Handmaiden is one of the most impressive cinematic achievements in years.

03. Silence / dir. Martin Scorsese / USA A longtime passion project for Scorsese, Silence is as harrowing a look at faith as possible. Wisely sidestepping anything resembling a white savior trope, the audience ventures deep into 17th century Japan and into the crumbling psyche of a man desperately clinging onto his relationship with God. It’s difficult, stunning, deeply rewarding work. 

04. Arrival / dir. Denis Villeneuve / USA That Arrival, a film about aliens and a linguistics professor, manages to feel like it reaffirms the bond that connects all of us is a testament to the vision of director Villeneuve and writer behind the source material Ted Chiang. As the film comes to a close, the mind spins, and the heart soars.

05. I, Daniel Blake / dir. Ken Loach / UK Between Brexit and the already infamous presidential election, 2016 was mired with a heavy political cloud for much of the western world. Loach’s I, Daniel Blake, which won last year’s Palme d’Or at Cannes, was the angriest cinematic voice in the rabble of 2016 politics, making an impassioned case for the downtrodden man and making an unforgiving condemnation of the government. Brutally powerful stuff. 

06. Love & Friendship / dir. Whit Stillman / Ireland/France/Netherlands Love & Friendship isn’t just the funniest Jane Austen has ever been onscreen, it is also the funniest film of 2016 by a wide margin. With a gleefully snide central performance from Kate Beckinsale and a cast of wonderful character actors, this film sets a new bar for how enjoyable a sitting room period piece can be. 

07. Julieta / dir. Pedro Almodóvar / Spain With the great director’s brand of theatricality and a staggering leading performance from Emma Suárez, Julieta is an ocean-soaked, color-bursting melodrama and is also one of the year’s more underseen gems. That’s a shame, because Julieta is primed to join the director’s greatest works in the pantheon of Spanish cinema. 

08. Manchester by the Sea / dir. Kenneth Lonergan / USA Lonergan’s latest is the slightest bit of a mixed bag. While certain parts feel overcooked and a bit false, most of the film lives in an extraordinarily painful emotional state, but one that feels devastatingly honest. The beautiful New England scenery acts as the backdrop for this painfully sad, but rewardingly affective film.

09. Hell or High Water / dir. David Mackenzie / USA About twenty minutes into Hell or High Water, the thought occurs to me that most of these characters probably voted for Trump. That’s not a slight against them, however much I may hypothetically disagree with these fictional characters--if anything, it makes the film an extraordinarily powerful portrait of Americans in the middle of the country who feel like the government has abandoned them. Now, several months in, it feels like this new administration is poised to do the same. This is a thrilling neo-western with a clear political mindset that feels like a future American classic. 

10. The Red Turtle / dir. Michaël Dudok de Wit / France/Belgium/Japan With not a single line of dialogue over its 80 minute runtime, The Red Turtle is a powerful fable of human resilience and our relationship with nature. Gorgeous animation and a powerful score, and an Adam and Eve story to match the best of them makes The Red Turtle the finest animated films in a very, very good year. 

BEST DIRECTOR

01. Barry Jenkins, Moonlight 02. Park Chan-wook, The Handmaiden  03. Martin Scorsese, Silence 04. Denis Villeneuve, Arrival  05. Ken Loach, I, Daniel Blake

BEST ACTOR 

01. Ashton Sanders, as “Teenage Chiron,” in Moonlight 02. Trevante Rhodes, as “Adult Chiron/Black,” in Moonlight 03. Casey Affleck, as “Lee Chandler,” in Manchester by the Sea 04. John Goodman, as “Howard,” in 10 Cloverfield Lane  05. Adam Driver, as “Paterson,” in Paterson 

BEST ACTRESS

01. Viola Davis, as “Rose Maxson,” in Fences 02. Isabelle Huppert, as “Michèle LeBlanc” in Elle 03. Amy Adams, as “Dr. Louise Banks,” in Arrival 04. Emma Suárez, as “Julieta Arcos,” in Julieta 05. Kate Beckinsale, as “Lady Susan Vernon,” in Love & Friendship 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

01. Andr�� Holland, as “Kevin,” in Moonlight 02. Mahershala Ali, as “Juan,” in Moonlight 03. Tom Bennett, as “Sir James Martin,” in Love & Friendship 04. Lucas Hedges, as “Patrick Chandler,” in Manchester by the Sea 05. Issey Ogata, as “Inoue Masashige,” in Silence

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

01. Hayley Squires, as “Katie Morgan,” in I, Daniel Blake 02. Lily Gladstone, as “The Rancher,” in Certain Women 03. Naomie Harris, as “Paula,” in Moonlight 04. Kate McKinnon, as “Jillian Holtzmann,” in Ghostbusters 05. Rachel Weisz, as “The Short-Sighted Woman,” in The Lobster

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

01. Paul Laverty, for I, Daniel Blake 02. Kenneth Lonergan, for Manchester by the Sea 03. Taylor Sheridan, for Hell or High Water 04. Jim Jarmusch, for Paterson 05. Mia Hansen-Løve, for Things to Come

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

01. Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney, for Moonlight; based on the play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue by Tarell Alvin McCraney 02. Whit Stillman, for Love & Friendship; based on the epistolary novella Lady Susan 03. Eric Heisserer, for Arrival; based on the short story “The Story of Your Life” by Ted Chiang 04. Park Chan-wook and Chung Seo-kyung, for The Handmaiden; based on the novel Fingersmith by Sarah Waters 05. Jay Cocks and Martin Scorsese, for Silence; based on the novel Silence by Shosaku Endo

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

01. The Red Turtle / dir. Michaël Dudok de Wit / Wild Bunch and Studio Ghibli 02. Zootopia / dir. Byron Howard and Rich Moore / Walt Disney Animation Studios 03. Kubo and the Two Strings / dir. Travis Knight / Laika Entertainment 04. Moana / dir. Ron Clements and John Musker / Walt Disney Animation Studios

BEST ANIMATED SHORT

01. The Head Vanishes / dir. Franck Dion 02. Piper / dir. Alan Barillo 03. Borrowed Time / dir. Andrew Coats and Lou Hamou-Lhadj 04. Blind Vaysha / dir. Theodore Ushev 05. Inner Workings / dir. Leo Matsuda

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FEATURE

01. The Handmaiden / dir. Park Chan-wook / South Korea 02. Julieta / dir. Pedro Almodóvar / Spain 03. Things to Come / dir. Mia Hansen-Løve / France 04. Elle / dir. Paul Verhoeven / France

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

01. The Handmaiden - Seong-hie Ryu (Production Designer) 02. La La Land - David Wasco (Production Designer); Austin Gorg (Art Director); Sandy Reynolds-Wasco (Set Decorator) 03. The Witch - Craig Lathrop (Production Designer); Andrea Kristof (Art Director); Mary Kirkland (Set Decorator) 04. Love & Friendship - Anna Rackard (Production Designer); Louise Mathews and Bryan Tormey (Art Director) 05. Silence - Dante Ferretti (Production Designer); Wen-Ying Huang, Ding-Yang Weng, Michael Tsung-Ying Yang, Wang Zhi-Cheng (Art Directors); Francesca Lo Schiavo (Set Decorator)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

01. Moonlight - James Laxton 02. The Handmaiden - Chung Chung-hoon 03. La La Land - Linus Sandgren 04. Silence - Rodrigo Prieto 05. Arrival - Bradford Young

BEST COSTUME DESIGNER

01. The Handmaiden - Sang-gyeong Joo 02. Jackie - Madeline Fontaine 03. Love & Friendship - Eimer Ní Mhaoldomhnaigh 04. Sing Street - Tiziana Corvisieri 05. Florence Foster Jenkins - Consolata Boyle

BEST FILM EDITING

01. Moonlight - Nat Sanders and Joi McMillon 02. La La Land - Tom Cross 03. Arrival - Joe Walker 04. The Handmaiden - Kim Jae-bum and Kim Sang-bum 05. Silence - Thelma Schoonmaker

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE OR USE OF MUSIC

01. The Handmaiden - Cho Young-wuk 02. Moonlight - Nicholas Britell 03. The Red Turtle - Laurent Perez del Mar 04. La La Land - Justin Hurwitz, Benj Pasek, and Justin Paul 05. Swiss Army Man - Andy Hull and Robert McDowell

BEST USE OF SONG

01. “Hello Stranger,” used in Moonlight, performed by Barbara Lewis 02. “We Know the Way,” used in Moana, performed by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Opetaia Foa’i 03. “Drive It Like You Stole It,” used in Sing Street, performed by Sing Street 04. “How Far I’ll Go,” used in Moana, performed by Auli’i Cravalho 05. “Another Day of Sun,” used in La La Land, performed by the Company

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

01. Kubo and the Two Strings 02. The Jungle Book 03. Arrival 04. 10 Cloverfield Lane 05. The Witch 

BEST ENSEMBLE

01. Moonlight (with Mahershala Ali, Patrick Decile, Naomie Harris, Alex Hibbert, Jharrel Jerome, Janelle Monáe, Jaden Piner, Trevante Rhodes, and Ashton Sanders)

02. Love & Friendship (with Kate Beckinsale, Tom Bennett, Kelly Campbell, Morfydd Clark, Justin Edwards, James Fleet, Stephen Fry, Emma Greenwell, Conor MacNeill, Jenn Murray, Lochlann O’Mearáin, Sophie Radermacher, Jemma Redgrave, Xavier Samuel, and Chloë Sevigny) 

03. Manchester by the Sea (with Casey Affleck, Anna Baryshnikov, Matthew Broderick, Heather Burns, Kyle Chandler, Tate Donovan, Kara Hayward, Lucas Hedges, Stephen Henderson, Erica McDermott, Gretchen Mol, Ben O’Brien, Oscar Wahlberg, and Michelle Williams)

04. Julieta (with Mariam Bachir, Pilar Castro, Inma Cuesta, Rossy de Palma, Priscilla Delgado, Darío Grandinetti, Daniel Grao, Michelle Jenner, Sara Jiménez, Joaquín Notario, Blanca Parés, Nathalie Poza, Susi Sánchez, Emma Suárez, and Agata Ugarte)

05. Hell or High Water (with Gil Birmingham, Margaret Bowman, Jeff Bridges, Dale Dickey, Ben Foster, Christopher W. Garcia, John Paul Howard, Marin Ireland, Katy Mixon, Melanie Papalia, Chris Pine, and Kevin Rankin)

NOMINATION AND WIN TALLY

Total nominations: 13: Moonlight 9: The Handmaiden 8: Arrival 7: Love & Friendship; Silence  5: Julieta; La La Land; Manchester by the Sea 4: I, Daniel Blake; Paterson  3: Hell or High Water; Moana; The Red Turtle 2: Elle; Kubo and the Two Strings; 10 Cloverfield Lane; Things to Come; The Witch 1: Blind Vaysha; Borrowed Time; Fences; Florence Foster Jenkins; The Head Vanishes; Inner Workings; Jackie; The Jungle Book; Piper; Sing Street; Swiss Army Man; Zootopia 

Total wins: 9: Moonlight 4: The Handmaiden 2: I, Daniel Blake 1: Fences; The Head Vanishes; The Red Turtle

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And that more or less concludes another year of the Golden Elliott Awards! It honestly hurts my heart that I couldn’t make these more detailed, with graphics or blurbs about my choices or whatnot, but if you’ve got questions, feel free to fire away! 

[lesliewofford83-blog]

MORE CELEBRITIES THAT DIED BECAUSE OF WHAT HAPPENED TO LESLIE WOFFORD AND HER KIDS AND HER FAMILY AND WITH PAGAN’S DYING IT WILL TAKE OUT ANY DEMON THAT HATED OR CONSPRIRED AGAINST LUCIFER. APPLY’S TO DEVIL’S TOO, UNLESS LUCIFER WAS LESLIE’S RUINER, AND THOSE ONES WERE TRYING TO KILL HIM TO STOP HIM FROM HURTING LESLIE’S CHILDREN OR KILLING OFF HER FAMILY.

July 2002[edit source]

Unknown date - Catmando, 7, British Cat and Politician and joint Leader of the Monster Raving Looney Party

2 – Earle Brown, 75, American composer.

2 – Ray Brown, 75, American bassist.

3 – Michel Henry, 80, French philosopher.

4 – Kenneth Ross MacKenzie, 90, American physicist.

4 – Sir Jake Saunders, 84, British banker.

4 – Winnifred Van Tongerloo, 98, oldest living survivor of the Titanic.

4 – Benjamin O. Davis Jr., 89, African-American General.

5 – Ted Williams, 83, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame.

5 – Katy Jurado, 68, Mexican actress.

6 – Dhirubhai Ambani, 69, Indian businessman.

6 – John Frankenheimer, 74, American film director.

6 – Kenneth Koch, 77, American poet and playwright.

6 – Stuart Shorter, 33, British homeless activist.

7 – Decherd Turner, 79, American librarian and book collector.

8 – Sir Robert Bellinger, 92, former Lord Mayor of London.

8 – Ward Kimball, 88, Disney animator.

8 – Patrick Rodger, 81, British Anglican prelate, former Bishop of Oxford.

9 – Laurence Janifer, 69, science fiction writer.

9 – William Robinson, 85, Canadian Anglican prelate, Bishop of Ottawa.

9 – Ron Scarlett, 91, New Zealand paleozoologist.

9 – Dave Sorenson, 54, former NBA and Ohio State University basketball player.

9 – Rod Steiger, 77, American actor, kidney failure.

10 – John Wallach, 59, journalist and philanthropist.

11 – Roy Orrock, 81, British World War II pilot.

12 – Edward Lee Howard, 51, American CIA agent who defected to the Soviet Union.

12 – Mani Krishnaswami, 72, Indian vocalist.

13 – Yousuf Karsh, 93, celebrity portrait photographer as "Karsh of Ottawa".

13 – Eric Price, 83, English cricketer.

14 – Joaquín Balaguer, 95, former President of the Dominican Republic.

15 – Gavin Muir, 50. British actor and musician.

15 – Camillus Perera, 64, Sri Lankan cricket umpire.

16 – Alan Charles Clark, 82, British Roman Catholic prelate.

16 – John Cocke, 77, American computer scientist, key figure in the development of RISC architecture.

16 – Cletus Madsen, 96, American Roman Catholic priest.

16 – Jack Olsen, 77, American "True crime" writer.

17 – Charles I. Krause, 90, American labor leader.

18 – Metin Toker, 78, Turkish journalist and one time politician

19 – Dave Carter, 49, American singer-songwriter.

19 – Alexander Ginzburg, 65, leading Soviet dissident.

19 – Alan Lomax, 87, American documenter of blues and folk songs.

21 – John Cunningham, 84, British World War II fighter pilot.

21 – Antti Koivumäki, 25, Finnish poet and keyboardist (Aavikko)

22 – Joyce Cooper, 93, British Olympic swimmer.

22 – Marion Montgomery, 67, American jazz singer.

22 – Giuseppe Corradi, 70, Italian footballer.

22 – Prince Ahmed bin Salman, member of the Saudi Arabian royal family.

22 – Chuck Traynor, 64, American pornographer.

23 – Bill Bell, 70, New Zealand cricketer.

23 – Alberto Castillo, 87, Argentine tango singer and actor.

23 – Leo McKern, 82, Australian actor.

23 – William Pierce, American neo-Nazi, author of The Turner Diaries.

23 – Chaim Potok, 73, American author.

24 – Maurice Denham, 92, British actor.

24 – Mike Clark, 61, former NFL kicker.

25 – Abdur Rahman Badawi, Egyptian existentialist philosopher.

27 – Krishan Kant, 75, Indian politician, Vice-President (1997–2002).

29 – Peter Bayliss, 80, British actor.

30 – Fred Jordan, 80, British folk singer.

31 – Pauline Chan Bo-Lin, 29, Hong Kong actress, suicide.

31 – Sir Maldwyn Thomas, 84, Welsh businessman and politician.

August 2002[edit source]

1 – Theo Bruce, 79, Australian long jumper.

1 – Jack Tighe, 88, American baseball coach.

3 – Kathleen Hughes-Hallett, 84, Canadian Olympic fencer.

3 – Peter Miles, 64, American actor.

3 – Carmen Silvera, 80, UK television and theatre actress (Dad's Army, 'Allo 'Allo!).

5 – Josh Ryan Evans, 20, American actor ("Timmy" on Passions).

5 – Chick Hearn, 85, television and radio announcer for the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team since 1960.

5 – Franco Lucentini, 82, Italian writer (The Sunday Woman).

5 – Darrell Porter, 50, American baseball player.

6 – Jim Crawford, 54, Scottish motor racing driver.

6 – Edsger Dijkstra, 72, computer scientist.

7 – Dominick Browne, 4th Baron Oranmore and Browne, 100, British aristocrat.

9 – George Alfred Barnard, 86, British statistician.

10 – Doris Wishman, 90, American film director, producer and screenwriter.

12 – Sir John Rennie, 85, British diplomat.

12 – Enos Slaughter, 86, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame.

12 – Dame Marjorie Williamson, 89, British university administrator.

14 – Peter R. Hunt, 77, British film editor.

14 – Larry Rivers, 78, American painter.

14 – Dave Williams, 30, singer of Drowning Pool.

15 – Jesse Brown, 58, United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

15 – George Agbazika Innih, 63, Nigerian army general and politician.

15 – Haim Yosef Zadok, 88, Israeli jurist and politician.

16 – Abu Nidal, 65, terrorist.

16 – Ola Belle Reed, 85, American singer.

16 – Johnny Roseboro, 69, American baseball player.

18 – Dame Elizabeth Chesterton, 86, British architect and town planner.

18 – Edward Crew, 84, British air marshal.

18 – David Keynes Hill, 87, British biophysicist.

19 – Sunday Silence, 16, thoroughbred race horse, winner of the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes.

20 – Augustine Geve, Solomon Islands Cabinet Minister, assassinated.

22 – Allan George Bromley, 55, computer scientist, historian of computing.

22 – Bruce Duncan Guimaraens, 66, Portuguese wine maker.

23 – Emily Genauer, 91, American art critic.

23 – Hoyt Wilhelm, 80, American baseball player who played for nine different teams and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame.

24 – Wayne Simmons, 32, American Football player.

25 – Per Anger, 88, Swedish diplomat.

25 – Dorothy Hewett, 79, Australian poet, playwright and novelist.

27 – Edwin Sill Fussell, 80, American scholar of English literature.

27 – George Mitchell, 85, Scottish musician (The Black and White Minstrel Show).

27 – John S. Wilson, 89, American music critic.

29 – Elizabeth Forbes, 85, New Zealand athlete.

29 – Paul Tripp, 91, American musician and TV host.

30 – Thomas J. Anderson, 91, American publisher and politician.

30 – Maia Berzina, 91, Russian geographer, cartographer and ethnologer.

30 – Roy Wright, 73, Austrian rules football player.

31 – Lionel Hampton, 94, American jazz musician.

31 – Martin Kamen, 89, American scientist.

31 – George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham, 81, British Nobel Prize winner in chemistry.

September 2002[edit source]

1 – Peter Ramsden, 68, British rugby league player.

2 – Sir Robert Wilson, 75, British astronomer.

3 – Kenneth Hare, 83, Canadian scientist.

3 – Ted Ross, 68, American actor.

3 – Len Wilkinson, 85, British cricketer.

4 – Frankie Albert, 82, American National Football League star.

4 – Jerome Biffle, 74, American Olympic long jumper.

5 – Robert W. Brooks, 49, American mathematician.

5 – William Cooper, 92, English novelist.

5 – Cliff Gorman, 65, American actor.

5 – David Todd Wilkinson, 67, American cosmologist.

7 - Eugenio Coșeriu, 81, linguist specialized in Romance languages

7 – Uziel Gal, 78, designer of the Uzi submachine gun.

7 – Don Smith, 73, Canadian ice hockey player.

8 – Marco Siffredi, 23, French snowboarder (last seen on this date).

9 – Geoffrey Dummer, 92, British engineer.

11 – Johnny Unitas, 69, American football player (Baltimore Colts) and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

12 – Kim Hunter, 79, American stage, television and Oscar-winning film actress (played "Stella Kowalski" in the original Broadway and film versions of A Streetcar Named Desire).

13 – Charles Herbert Lowe, 82, American biologist.

13 – George Stanley, 95, Canadian historian and public servant.

14 – Paul Williams, 87, American saxophonist.

15 – Robert William Pope, 86, British Anglican prelate, Dean of Gibraltar.

16 – Archibald Hall, 78, British criminal.

16 – Nguyễn Văn Thuận, 74, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate.

17 – Denys Fisher, 84, British inventor of the Spirograph.

18 – Bob Hayes, 59, American football player Dallas Cowboys and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

19 – Sergei Bodrov Jr., 30, Russian movie star, Kolka-Karmadon rock ice slide.

19 – James Macdonald, 83, Scottish-born Australian ornithologist.

20 – Necdet Kent, 91, Turkish diplomat and humanitarian.

20 – Bob Wallace, 53, American computer scientist.

21 – Henry Pybus Bell-Irving, 89, Canadian Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia.

21 – Angelo Buono, Jr., 67, the "Hillside Strangler".

21 – Robert L. Forward, 70, physicist and science fiction author.

22 – Joseph Nathan Kane, 103, American historian and author.

22 – Jan de Hartog, 88, novelist and playwright.

22 – Anthony Milner, 77, British musician.

23 – Vernon Corea, 75, Sri Lankan-born British radio broadcaster.

24 – Mike Webster, 50, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers) and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame).

24 – George Wilson, 86, British cricketer.

25 – Arnold Ross, 96, American mathematician.

26 – Thomas S. Smith, 84, American politician, member of the New Jersey General Assembly.

27 – David Granger, 99, American bobsledder.

27 – Bill Pearson, 80, New Zealand writer.

30 – Robert Battersby, 77, British soldier and politician.

30 – Arthur Hazlerigg, 2nd Baron Hazlerigg, 92, British cricketer and soldier.

30 – Meinhard Michael Moser, 78, Swiss mycologist.

30 – Ewart Oakeshott, 86, British illustrator.

30 – Sir Jock Taylor, 78, British diplomat.

October 2002[edit source]

1 – Walter Annenberg, 94, American publisher and philanthropist.

1 – Ted Serong, 86, Australian soldier.

2 – Norman O. Brown, 89, American classicist.

2 – Heinz von Foerster, 90, Austrian-born American physicist and philosopher, one of the founders of constructivism.

2 – Alexander Sinclair, 91, Canadian ice hockey player.

3 – John Erritt, 71, British civil servant.

3 – Bruce Paltrow, 58, American television and film producer.

4 – Alphonse Chapanis, a founder of ergonomics.

4 – Barbara Fawkes, 87, British nurse.

4 – Ahmad Mahmoud, 70, Iranian novelist.

5 – Sir Reginald Hibbert, 80, British diplomat.

5 – Morag Hood, 59, Scottish actress.

6 – Chuck Rayner, 82, Canadian ice hockey player.

6 – Claus von Amsberg, 76, Dutch diplomat; husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.

8 – Phyllis Calvert, 87, British actress.

9 – Jim Martin, 78, American football player.

9 – Aileen Wuornos, 46, convicted of killing six men, lethal injection.

10 – Joe Wood, 86, American baseball player.

11 – William J. Field, 93, British politician.

12 – Sir Desmond Fitzpatrick, 89. British general.

12 – Audrey Mestre, 28, French world record-setting free diver.

12 – Nozomi Momoi, 24, Japanese AV idol, murdered.

12 – Sidney W. Pink, 86, American movie director and producer.

13 – Stephen Ambrose, 66, historian and author of "Band of Brothers".

13 – Keene Curtis, 79, American actor.

13 – Jim Higgins, 71, British politician.

14 – S. William Green, 72, American politician.

15 – Jack Lee, 89, British film director.

15 – Ze'ev, 79, Israeli caricaturist and illustrator.

16 – William Macmillan, 75, Scottish minister, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

17 – Derek Bell, 66, member of The Chieftains, harpist.

17 – Henri Renaud, 67, French jazz pianist and record company executive.

18 – Sir Cecil Blacker, 86, British army general.

18 – Roman Tam, 52, Hong Kong canto-pop singer.

19 – Manuel Alvarez Bravo, 100, Mexican photographer.

20 – Barbara Berjer, 82, American actress.

20 – Elisabeth Furse, 92, German-born British war-time agent.

20 – Mel Harder, 93, American baseball player.

21 – Beatrice Serota, Baroness Serota, 83, British politician.

22 – Richard Helms, 89, American former CIA director.

23 – David Henry Lewis, 85, New Zealand sailor and adventurer.

24 – Winton M. Blount, 81, last United States Postmaster General to have served in a Presidential Cabinet.

24 – Adolph Green, 87, American lyricist and playwright.

24 – Harry Hay, 90, American gay rights activist and Mattachine Society founder.

25 – Richard Harris, 72, Irish actor.

25 – René Thom, 79, French mathematician.

25 – Paul Wellstone, 58, United States Senator (D-MN).

28 – Margaret Booth, 104, Academy Award-winning film editor.

28 – Erling Persson, 85, Swedish businessman, founder of H&M.

28 – Sir Patrick Russell, 76, British jurist.

29 – Chang-Lin Tien, educator, 7th Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley.

29 – Richard Jenkin, 77, Cornish nationalist politician.

29 – Glenn McQueen, 41, Canadian film animator.

30 – Jam Master Jay, 37, DJ of Run DMC, murdered.

30 – Sir William Mitchell, 77, British physicist.

31 – Yuri Ahronovitch, 70, Russian conductor.

31 – Sir Napier Crookenden, 87, British Army general.

31 – Baroness Hylton-Foster, 94, British peer.

November 2002[edit source]

1 – Edward Brooke, 85, Canadian Olympic fencer.

1 – Sir Charles Wilson, 93, British political scientist.

2 – Brian Behan, 75, Irish writer, younger brother of Brendan Behan.

2 – Robert Haslam, Baron Haslam, 79, British industrialist and life peer.

2 – Lo Lieh, 63, Hong King actor.

2 – Dame Felicity Peake, 89, British Director of the Women's Royal Air Force.

2 – Tonio Selwart, 106, Bavarian actor and Broadway performer.

2 – Charles Sheffield, 67, science fiction author and physicist.

3 – Lonnie Donegan, 71, British skiffle musician.

3 – Sir John Habakkuk, 87, British economic historian.

3 – Jonathan Harris, 87, American actor, TV's "Dr. Smith" on Lost in Space.

3 – William Packard, 69, American poet and author.

3 – Sir Rex Roe, 77, British air force officer.

4 – Antonio Margheriti, 72, Italian filmmaker, heart attack.

5 – Billy Guy, 66, American singer.

5 – Mushtaq Qadri, 35, Pakistani religious poet.

6 – Brian James, 61, English cricketer.

6 – Sid Sackson, 82, board game designer.

7 – Rudolf Augstein, 79, founder and chief editorialist of the German newsweekly Der Spiegel.

8 – Dorothy Mackie Low, 86, British novelist.

9 – Dick Johnson, 85, American test pilot.

9 – Merlin Santana, 26, actor.

9 – William Schutz, 76, American psychologist.

10 – Steve Durbano, 50, ice hockey player, lung cancer.

11 – Sir Michael Clapham, 90, British industrialist.

11 – David Steel, 92, Scottish minister.

13 – Kaloji Narayana Rao, 88, Indian poet and political activist.

13 – Irv Rubin, 57, Canadian chairman of the Jewish Defence League.

14 – Eddie Bracken, 87, actor.

14 – Mir Qazi, 38, Pakistani convicted criminal, executed by lethal injection in Virginia.

15 – Myra Hindley, 60, the Moors murderess.

15 – John Joseph Stewart,79, New Zealand rugby coach.

16 – Rupert E. Billingham, 81, British biologist.

16 – Sir George Gardiner, 67, British politician.

17 – Abba Eban, 88, Israeli foreign affair minister.

18 – James Coburn, 74, Oscar-winning actor, heart attack.

18 – Pasquale Vivolo, 74, Italian footballer.

19 – Prince Alexandre de Merode, 68, International Olympic Committee member, lung cancer.

19 – George Fullerton, 79, South African cricketer.

20 – George Guest, 78, British organist and choirmaster.

20 – Ben Webb, 45, Canadian journalist.

20 – Zhang Shuguang, 82, Chinese politician

21 – Prince Takamado, 47, Japanese prince

21 – Hadda Brooks, 86, American jazz singer, pianist and composer.

21 – Arturo Guzman Decena founder of Los Zetas

21 – J. Roger Pichette, 81, Canadian politician.

22 – Joan Barclay, 88, American actress.

22 – Christine Marion Fraser, 64, Scottish novelist.

23 – Roberto Matta, 91 Chilean artist.

24 – Philip B. Meggs, 60, American graphic designer.

24 – John Rawls, 81, political theorist.

25 – Gordon Davidson, 87, Australian politician.

25 – David Drummond, 8th Earl of Perth, 95, British politician and aristocrat.

26 – Verne Winchell, 87, founder of Winchell's Donuts (nicknamed "The Donut King").

27 – Stanley Black, 89, British musician.

27 – Ronald Gerard Connors, 87, American Roman Catholic bishop in the Dominican Republic.

28 – Billy Pearson, 82, American jockey.

29 – David Weiss, 93, American novelist.

30 – Tim Woods, 68, professional wrestler who wrestled as Mr. Wrestling, heart attack.

December 2002[edit source]

1 – Dave McNally, 60, American baseball player.

1 – José Chávez Morado, 93, Mexican artist.

1 – Michael Oliver, 65, British classical music broadcaster and writer.

2 – Jim Mitchell, 56, Irish politician.

2 – Vjenceslav Richter, 85, Croatian architect.

2 – Derek Robinson, 61, British nuclear physicist.

2 – Fay Gillis Wells, 94, American pioneer aviator.

3 – Glenn Quinn, 32, Irish actor (Roseanne, Angel).

5 – Roone Arledge, 71, American television producer and executive (Monday Night Football and Nightline).

5 – Ne Win, 91, Burmese dictator.

6 – Father Philip Berrigan, 79, American priest and political activist.

6 – Charles Rosen, 85, pioneer in artificial intelligence.

7 – Barbara Howard, 76, Canadian artist.

7 – Paddy Tunney, 81, Irish traditional artist.

8 – Bobby Joe Hill, 59, American basketball player.

8 – Charles Rosen, 85, American computer scientist.

9 – Stan Rice, 60, painter, educator, poet, husband of author Anne Rice, cancer.

9 – To Huu, 82, Vietnamese poet and politician.

10 – Desmond Keith Carter, 35, convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in North Carolina.

10 – Earl Henry, 85, American baseball player.

10 – Andres Küng, 57, Swedish journalist, writer, entrepreneur and politician of Estonian origin.

10 – Steve Llewellyn, 78, Welsh rugby league player.

10 – Ian MacNaughton, 76, director of most episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus.

11 – Kay Rose, 80, American Oscar-winning sound editor.

12 – Dee Brown, 94, author (Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee).

12 – Edward Harrison, 92, English cricketer and squash player.

12 – Jay Wesley Neill, 37. convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in Oklahoma.

13 – Ronald Butt, 82, British journalist.

13 – Zal Yanofsky, 57, Canadian member of The Lovin' Spoonful music group.

14 – Jack Bradley, 86, English footballer.

15 – Arthur Jeph Parker, 79, American set decorator.

15 – Dick Stuart, 70, American baseball player.

17 – John Aubrey Davis, Sr., 90, American civil rights activist.

17 – Hank Luisetti, 86, basketball star and innovator.

18 – Lucy Grealy, 39, Irish-born American poet and memoirist.

18 – Ramon John Hnatyshyn, 68, former Governor-General of Canada, pancreatitis.

18 – Sir Bert Millichip, 88, British football administrator.

18 – Wayne Owens, 65, U.S. Congressman (D-UT), heart attack.

19 – Guy Bordelon, 80, American Korean War flying ace.

19 – Stephen Fleck, 90, American psychiatrist.

19 – Jim Flower, 79, British admiral.

19 – Arthur Rowley, 76, English footballer, holder of the record for most career league goals scored.

19 – Lewis B. Smedes, 81, American theologian.

20 – Joanne Campbell, 38, British actress who starred in the comedy series, Me and My Girl (1980s).

20 – James Richard Ham, 91, American Roman Catholic prelate.

22 – Desmond Hoyte, 73, President of Guyana from 1985 to 1992.

22 – Joe Morgan, 57, New Zealand rugby union player.

22 – Joe Strummer, 50, former singer for The Clash.

22 – Kenneth Tobey, 85, prolific character actor (appeared in about 100 films including: Twelve O'Clock High, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, The Thing from Another World and Airplane!).

23 – Jimmy Osborne, 94, Australian soccer player.

24 – James Ferman, 72, American film censor.

24 – Tita Merello, 98, Argentinian actress and singer.

24 – V.K. Ramasamy, 76, Indian actor.

24 – Jake Thackray, 64, English singer-songwriter, heart failure.

25 – Gabriel Almond, 91, American political scientist.

25 – William T. Orr, 85, television executive (brought Maverick, F-Troop and 77 Sunset Strip to TV).

25 – Davina Whitehouse, 90, British-born New Zealand actress.

26 – Herb Ritts, 50, celebrity photographer.

26 – Armand Zildjian, 81, cymbals manufacturer.

27 – George Roy Hill, 81, film director (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting).

28 – Meri Wilson, 53, American singer.

29 – Don Clarke, 69, New Zealand rugby player.

29 – Sir Paul Hawkins, 90, British politician.

30 – Mary Wesley, 90, novelist, author of The Camomile Lawn.

31 – Billy Morris, 84, Welsh footballer.

31 – Kevin MacMichael, 51, Canadian guitarist and singer-songwriter (Cutting Crew).

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Eleanor Lloyd Productions and Rebecca Stafford Productions today announce casting for their major new production of Witness for the Prosecution by Agatha Christie, opening on London’s South Bank this October. Catherine Steadman, best known for her role as Mabel Fox in Downton Abbey and nominated for an Olivier Award for her performance in Oppenheimer will play the role of Romaine, while rising star Jack McMullen, whose recent work includes hard-hitting TV drama Little Boy Blue, Waterloo Road and Noel Clarke’s Brotherhood, will play Leonard Vole. David Yelland (The Crown, Foyle’s War) will play Sir Wilfrid Robarts, Philip Franks (Art, Noises Off) will play Mr Myers, Patrick Godfrey (Half Life, Mr Turner) will play Sir Justice Wainwright and Roger Ringrose (Broadchurch, Mr Selfridge) will be playing Mr Mayhew. The cast will also include Richard Attlee, Elliot Balchin, Alexandra Guelff, Miranda Horn, Jon House, Jules Melvin, Hywel Simons and Alex Stedman.

Directed by Lucy Bailey (Comus, The Graduate, Titus Andronicus), this gripping tale of justice, passion and betrayal will open in The Chamber, a magnificent court room setting inside London County Hall. The audience will find themselves thrillingly placed in the thick of the action in this spectacular location.

Leonard Vole is accused of murdering a widow to inherit her wealth. The stakes are high. Will Leonard survive the shocking witness testimony? Will he be able to convince the jury of his innocence and escape the hangman’s noose?

Witness for the Prosecution will run from 6 October – 11 March with Press Night on 23 October. The production will be designed by William Dudley, with lighting by Chris Davey and sound design by Mic Pool.

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RICHARD ATTLEE – CARTER/ DR WYATT Richard is best known for playing Kenton in The Archers on Radio 4. His theatre credits include: Sleuth (Watermill Newbury), The Way of the World (Sheffield Crucible), Arthur and George (Birmingham Rep), Calendar Girls (Noel Coward Theatre), Macbeth, Twelfth Night (Shakespeare’s Globe), Present Laughter (Theatre Royal Bath) and War and Peace (Shared Experience). He has toured internationally with the English Shakespeare Company and the Kosh and worked in Rep at York, Chester and Exeter. T.V and Film credits include: My Mad Fat Diary, Silent Witness, Midsomer Murders, The I.T. Crowd, My Week with Marilyn, Topsy-Turvy and Mrs. Brown’s Boys D’Movie.

ELLIOT BALCHIN – CLERK OF THE COURT Elliot’s recent stage credits include Kenneth Branagh’s production of Macbeth (Manchester International Festival/ Park Avenue Armory, New York) and The Judas Kiss (Chichester Festival Theatre / Theatre Royal Bath/ Hampstead Theatre/ Ed Mirvish Theatre, Toronto and BAM, New York). Recent film credits include Journey’s End. Elliot was a member of the BAFTA credited ITV Junior Television Workshop at the age of 9, working alongside the likes of Samantha Morton, Toby Kebble, Vicky Mclure and Jack O’Connor. Early credits include The Spidermen (National Theatre), feature film The Tulse Luper Suitcase directed by Peter Greenway and on TV The Bill and Casualty.

PHILIP FRANKS – MR MYERS QC Philip’s recent theatre credits include Art, Noises Off and Journey’s End (all West End), Murder in the Cathedral (Temple Church, London), Flare Path, Breaking the Code, The Winslow Boy, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Secret of Sherlock Holmes and The Rocky Horror Show (all UK tours). Philip spent ten years with the RSC, in London, Stratford, on tour and in New York. His TV credits include The Darling Buds of May, Heartbeat, Bleak House, Martin Chuzzlewit, Absolutely Fabulous, Foyle’s War and Midsomer Murders. Film work includes Finding Neverland and The Phantom Thread. Concert performances include The Soldier’s Tale, Silverlake, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, King Arthur.

Philip is also an award winning theatre director, his productions include Private Lives, The Heiress (both National Theatre), Nicholas Nickleby Parts One and Two, Taking Sides, Collaboration, The Duchess of Malfi, Dear Lupin (all West End), The Comedy of Errors (Regents Park Open Air Theatre) and four of the Sixty-Six Books (Bush Theatre). He was an associate director at Chichester Festival where credits include Twelfth Night, The Deep Blue Sea, The Master Builder and Separate Tables.

PATRICK GODFREY – SIR JUSTICE WAINWRIGHT Patrick most recently appeared in Half Life (Theatre Royal Bath). He has performed extensively with the National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company and Shakespeare’s Globe. Stage credits include Cause Celebre and The Iceman Cometh (Old Vic), Master Builder, Enemies, Galileo and The Iceman Cometh (all Almeida Theatre), The Crucible (Regent’s Park Open Air), Lying Kind, Life Price and Inside Out (Royal Court) and The Importance Of Being Earnest (Birmingham Rep/ Old Vic). Productions for the Royal Shakespeare Company include Barbarians, Romeo And Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, Merry Wives of Windsor and Cymbeline. West End credits include School for Scandal, Wild Oats and The Important of Being Earnest. On Broadway he has performed in the RSC’s Nicholas Nickleby, The Iceman Cometh, Brooklyn Academy, Summerfolk and Love’s Labour’s Lost.

Patrick’s many TV appearances include Da Vinci’s Demons, Fallen Angel, The Falklands Play, Bramwell, A Dance To The Music Of Time, Dandelion Dead, Agatha Christie’s Poirot, Shadow Of The Noose, Pericles; Prince of Tyre, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby and Hobson’s Choice. Film credits include Breathe (to be released), Mr Turner, Final Prayer, Les Miserables, Dimensions, The Duchess, Oliver Twist, The Importance Of Being Earnest, The Count Of Monte Cristo, Ever After, Remains Of The Day, A Room With A View, Heat and Dust and Morris.

ALEXANDRA GUELFF – GRETA / MS CLEGG Alexandra’s theatre includes Gaslight (Royal & Derngate), Ghosts (Trafalgar Studios) and The Busy Body (Southwark Playhouse). On television she has appeared in Call The Midwife, Law & Order, Eastenders, Obsession and Dark Matters. Her film credits include Brimstone.

MIRANDA HORN – GIRL Miranda has recently finished playing the role of Dollie in British Feature film The 12. Prior to this she played the joint lead in the short film Pillow Talk, which was nominated for several awards. This is Miranda’s professional stage debut.

JON HOUSE – WARDER Jon’s previous work for the stage includes Hamlet (Cockpit Theatre) and The Last Lycoon (Above the Arts Theatre). His appearances for TV and film include BBC detective drama River, Bronson and the Oscar-nominated Bollywood epic Lagaan. Jon has also written the screenplay and soundtrack, directed and performed in the television pilot, Elvis Jones.

JACK MCMULLEN – LEONARD VOLE Jack’s multiple TV credits include Little Boy Blue, Maigret, Together, Common, Fast Freddie, Waterloo Road, Moving On, The Street, The Bill, The Forgotten Fallen, Grange Hill and Brookside. On stage, he most recently appeared in Henry V (Regent’s Park Open Air). Further theatre work includes Kill Me Now (Park Theatre), Fathers and Sons (Donmar Warehouse), Carthage (Finborough Theatre) and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (York Theatre Royal). For film, his work includes Brotherhood, The Marker, Urban Hymn, The Hatching, The Knife That Killed Me, The Lie is Dead and Seamonsters.

JULES MELVIN – JANET MACKENZIE Jules’ numerous theatre credits include In Lambeth, The Broken Heart and The Rape of Tamar (Lyric Hammersmith), A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, Augustine’s Oak, The Taming of the Shrew, an all-female Richard III, Much Ado About Nothing, Pericles and Othello (Shakespeare’s Globe), Ursula, The House of Correction and I Saw Myself (The Wrestling School), The Devil is an Ass and Faust Parts One and Two (Royal Shakespeare Company), The Rose Tattoo (National Theatre), Private Lives (Hampstead Theatre), An Inspector Calls (English Theatre, Frankfurt) and Gabriel (UK Tour). TV credits include The Bill and Casualty.

ROGER RINGROSE – MR MAYHEW Roger’s recent theatre credits include Untold Stories (Newbury Watermill), Each His Own Wilderness (The Orange Tree Theatre), The Importance of Being Earnest and Travesties (Birmingham Rep). Other credits includes The Picture (Salisbury Playhouse), The Tempest (York Theatre Royal), Burnt by the Sun, Never So Good (The National Theatre), The Duel (Lyric Hammersmith), Henry VI Part 3 (Shakespeare’s Globe) and King Lear (Barbican Theatre). TV credits include Outlander, Berlin Station, Tina and Bobby, Call the Midwife, Mr Selfridge, The Musketeers, The Hour, Silent Witness and Spooks. Film work includes Stan and Ollie, Love/Loss and The Rookery.

CATHERINE STEADMAN – ROMAINE Catherine is most well-known from her role as Mabel Lane Fox in ITV’s Downton Abbey. She was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress at the Olivier Awards for her role in Oppenheimer (Royal Shakespeare Company/ West End). Further theatre work includes She Stoops to Conquer (Theatre Royal Bath), That Face (West End), Numbers (Royal Court), Babooshka (Pleasance) and The Glory of Living (BAC). More widely her TV credits include Bucket, Fearless, Midsomer Murders, Tutankhamun, Trying Again, Fresh Meat, Breathless, Quirke, Lewis, Plastic Gangsters, An Old Fashioned Christmas, Law & Order, Missing, The Tudors, The Inbetweeners, Doctors, Holby City, Mansfield Park and The Bill. Film work includes Astral, About Time, Lena, Cold Water, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, Dust and Princess Kaiulani.

ALEX STEDMAN – POLICEMAN/ PLAIN CLOTHES DETECTIVE Alex was most recently on stage in Pink Mist (Bristol Old Vic/ Bush Theatre/ UK Tour). Other theatre credits include Layla’s Room (Theatre Centre), The Passenger Project (Box Clever), Silent Dance, Boom! (Bush Theatre), Henry Walker and the Wheel of Death (Roughhouse Theatre), Tangled Minds (Roughhouse Theatre), The Snow Goose (Theatre West) and If You Really Love Me (Company of Angels). He has also worked on a number of rehearsed readings at The Tobacco Factory. On TV Alex has appeared in Skins and Casualty. He is also a writer and has had his work performed at Theatre 503 and The Theatre Royal Plymouth as part of the Plymouth Fringe Festival.

HYWEL SIMONS – INSPECTOR HEARNE Hywel’s numerous recent theatre credits include Hay Fever (Royal Lyceum/ Citizens Theatre), Betrayal (Citizens Theatre), Noises Off (Mercury Theatre), Enquirer and A Doll’s House (National Theatre of Scotland), The Passion of Port Talbot (National Theatre Wales), Red Bud (Royal Court), Money (Shunt), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Royal & Derngate) and Dangerous Liasons (New Vic). He is well known for his role as Sgt. Craig Gilmore on The Bill. Further TV appearances include Poldark, Casualty, and Doctors. Film credits include Enigma, Shakespeare in Love and Wilde.

DAVID YELLAND – SIR WILFRID ROBARTS David has previously been directed by Lucy Bailey in Uncle Vanya (The Print Room). He most recently appeared on stage in All Our Children (Jermyn Street Theatre). His other extensive theatre credits include Phaedra, Britannica, Hamlet, John Gabriel Borkman, The Shoe Maker’s Holiday, Summer and Major Barbara (all National Theatre), The Winter’s Tale (Globe Theatre), Taken At Midnight (Chichester Festival Theatre/ West End), A Marvellous Year for Plums, Time and the Conways and The Circle (all Chichester Festival Theatre), Nicholas Nickleby (Chichester Festival Theatre, West End), An Ideal Husband (Gate Theatre), Henry IV Parts 1&2 (Theatre Royal Bath/ Tour), Mrs Warren’s Profession (Theatre Royal Bath, West End), The Rules of the Game, The Jew of Malta (Almeida Theatre), The Importance of Being Earnest (Old Vic) and Henry IV (Donmar Warehouse). For the Peter Hall Company credits include An Ideal Husband (West End/ Broadway), Waste, The Seagull and King Lear (Old Vic), The Misanthrope and Major Barbara (West End), Cuckoos (Gate Theatre/ Barbican) and As You Like It (Theatre Royal Bath/ US Tour). Other West End credits include Deathtrap, The Deep Blue Sea, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Richard III and God Only Knows.

Among his many TV appearances are the title role in David Copperfield and Rumpole of the Bailey. More recently he has appeared in The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, The Line of Beauty, Agatha Christie’s Poirot, The Crown, Reg and Endeavour. Film credits include Happy End, Hunter Killer, Coriolanus, Private Peaceful and The Prince of Wales in Chariots of Fire.

AGATHA CHRISTIE LIMITED Agatha Christie Limited (ACL) has been managing the literary and media rights to Agatha Christie’s works around the world since 1955, working with the best talents in film, television, publishing, stage and on digital platforms to ensure that Christie’s work continues to reach new audiences in innovative ways and to the highest standard. The company is managed by Christie’s great grandson James Prichard.

November 2017 will see the release of 20th Century Fox’s feature film adaptation of Agatha Christie’s acclaimed mystery, Murder on the Orient Express. The film will be directed by five-time Academy Award nominee Kenneth Branagh, who will also star as Poirot. Branagh helms an all-star cast that includes Judi Dench, Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Penelope Cruz, Olivia Colman, Willem Dafoe, Daisy Ridley, Tom Bateman, Derek Jacobi, Josh Gad, Leslie Odom Jr, Sergei Polunin and Lucy Boynton.

ACL’s recent television projects include the critically-acclaimed BBC One adaptations of And Then There Were None (Aidan Turner, Charles Dance, Sam Neill) and The Witness for the Prosecution (Toby Jones, Andrea Riseborough, Kim Cattrall), both produced by Agatha Christie Ltd alongside Mammoth Screen, with screenplays from Sarah Phelps (Great Expectations, The Casual Vacancy). The latest adaptation, Ordeal By Innocence, is currently in production.

Globally, ACL works closely with leading screen production companies to deliver territory-specific adaptations. Notable productions include the popular French series Les Petits Meurtres d’Agatha Christie produced by Escazal, and Japanese adaptations of Murder on the Orient Express from Fuji TV (winner of the Tokyo Grand Prix drama award) and the forthcoming And Then There Were None from TV Asahi. Further projects are in development in Europe, the US, Asia and Latin America.

In 2016 literary projects included the global publication of the new Hercule Poirot novel Closed Casket, the second continuation novel from bestselling crime writer Sophie Hannah, published in more than 30 languages and distributed in over 100 territories. Sophie will shortly begin work on two more Poirot novels for publication in 2018 and 2020.

LISTINGS Eleanor Lloyd Productions and Rebecca Stafford Productions present Witness for the Prosecution By Agatha Christie Directed by Lucy Bailey Designed by William Dudley Lighting Design by Chris Davey Sound Design by Mic Pool

London County Hall The Chamber, County Hall, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 7PB 6 October 2017 – 11 March 2018 Press Night 23 October, 7pm

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Press release: £29 million boost for bioscience has been published on Energy Solutions News

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Press release: £29 million boost for bioscience

Roslin Institute to benefit from £29 million of UK Government money

New funding is part of £319 million investment in UK bioscience

Announcement comes as Greg Clark meets businesses from across Scotland to discuss the Industrial Strategy

Business Secretary Greg Clark has today announced £29 million of funding for the Roslin Institute, part of the University of Edinburgh.

This investment is part of a total £319 million the UK government has today committed for UK bioscience funding over the next five years, delivering opportunities for highly-skilled jobs and cementing the UK as a world-leader in science and innovation as we build our Industrial Strategy.

The £29 million funding for the Roslin Institute will play a vital role in the government’s and Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council’s (BBSRC) mission to further scientific knowledge, particularly around controlling infectious diseases, such as bird flu, and helping researchers develop solutions to modern healthcare challenges.

Business and Energy Secretary Greg Clark said:

Through our modern Industrial Strategy, we will build on Scotland’s exceptional strengths and use all the tools at our disposal to ensure every part of the country can reach its potential, ensuring that prosperity is spread across the UK.

Science, research and innovation are at the heart of the Industrial Strategy which is why we’re providing more than £4.7 billion of additional funding over the next five years, including the £319 million for bioscience research. The Roslin Institute is a great example of Scotland’s world class bioscience sector and exactly the sort of project our Industrial Strategy will support.

Welcoming the announcement of £29 million for the Roslin Institute, Professor Melanie Welham, Chief Executive from Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council said:

Keeping the UK a global hub of vibrant research and innovation requires strategic investment in excellent research. I’m delighted that the Secretary of State, Greg Clark, is able to announce this significant investment in bioscience research. Alongside other disciplines, bioscience is vital for ensuring UK research and innovation remains competitive, addresses real world challenges and makes a difference to people’s lives.

Professor Sir Timothy O’Shea, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh, said:

This investment will help to ensure Roslin’s continuing success over the next five years. The Institute plays a pivotal role in the University’s mission to tackle the many pressing issues in animal health and welfare, including those which have implications for human health and sustainability of animals in the food chain.

With only one week to go until the end of the Industrial Strategy green paper consultation, the Business Secretary and the Scottish Secretary, David Mundell, will hold a meeting this morning in Edinburgh with a number of Scottish businesses from a range of sectors. The reception will be an opportunity for the business, science and academic community to discuss how the government’s Plan for Britain and Industrial Strategy can benefit workers, entrepreneurs and businesses in the Scottish economy and across the U.K.

Secretary of State for Scotland David Mundell said:

The investment of £29 million of UK government funding for the Roslin Institute underpins our ambitious Industrial Strategy, as we ensure that innovative Scottish industries such as biosciences lead the way in research and development on a global scale.

As we prepare to negotiate our exit from the EU, the UK government are supporting Scottish businesses, from Harris Tweed to whisky, to compete in markets across the globe and create skilled, sustainable and secure jobs.

The Business Secretary started his two day tour by visiting Stornoway, where he met representatives of the Scottish Island Renewable Delivery forum to discuss renewable energy in the Outer Hebrides and also went to the Kenneth MacKenzie Harris Tweed mill, which plays a vital role in Scotland’s textile industry, exporting to 60 countries.

Whisky is one of Scotland’s great industries and world beating excellence, generating £3.95 billion for the UK economy in 2015 with nearly 100 million cases of whisky exported worldwide. To discuss the enduring success of the sector, the Business Secretary travelled to the Isle of Harris Whisky Distillery, which began distilling shortly after it was built in September 2015.

During his visit, the Business Secretary is due to meet Scottish Government Ministers Keith Brown and Paul Wheelhouse. They are expected to discuss how the UK and Scottish Governments can work together and how the Industrial Strategy will stimulate growth and boost prosperity across Scotland.

The engagement taking place follows the launch of the UK Government’s green paper, ‘Building our Industrial Strategy’, in January which outlined 10 pillars of focus to be discussed as part of a 12 week consultation period. The pillars cover a broad range of themes including skills, infrastructure, affordable energy and clean growth.

The strategy proposes plans for driving growth across the UK, with a framework to build on local strengths and reduce regional disparities in opportunities and prosperity.

The UK government has issued an open invitation to industries, businesses and local groups to visit the Industrial Strategy consultation and help set the priorities for a modern Industrial Strategy.

The consultation period has just over 1 week remaining, closing on April 17, after which the UK Government will consider responses before publishing a white paper later in the year.

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On 16th January 1707 the Scottish Parliament agreed the Treaty of Union by 110 votes to 67.

The debate preceding it was carried out against a backdrop of growing anti-union unrest across Scotland. The outcome was driven by economic necessity, by overt compensation for Scotland's national debts and the losses of Darien investors, and, also by covert bribes for key participants.

Robert Burns' claim that the Union of England and Scotland (and hence the dissolution of the Scottish Parliament) was brought about by the Scots members being "bought and sold for English gold" was largely accurate – bribery and parliamentary division combined with wider economic imperatives, partly arising from the disaster of the Darien Scheme, enabling the Crown to incorporate a Union with England in the Acts of Union 1707 which brought into existence the Parliament of Great Britain. Forty-five Scots were added to the 513 members of the House of Commons and 16 Scots to the 190 members of the House of Lords.

The following men are listed as being paid for their vote by the English, note, not all voted for the Union and some votes are unknown.  The money in todays worth may be a wee bit out of date as this is from a post I made here from 2012.

1 ~ Lord Anstruther, Sir William Anstruther was paid 300 pounds to vote “yes” on The Act of Union 1707. He voted yes. The 300 pounds received is today worth around 42,000 pounds. 2 ~ The Duke of Athol, James Murry was allegedly paid 1,000 pounds to vote yes for The Act of Union in 1707, but today’s listings show he voted “NO”. 3 ~ Earl of Balcarres – Cohn Lindsay is said to have been paid 500 pounds for his vote “yes” in 1707, vote on The Act of Union. This would be worth about 70,000 pounds in today’s money. He did vote yes. 4 ~ Lord Banff – George Ogilvy was paid to vote yes on The Act of the Union. He did vote yes. 5 ~ Mr. John Campbell was paid 200 pounds to vote yes. This amount today is worth about 30,000 pounds. He voted yes. 6 ~ Patrick Coultrain Provost of Wigton was paid 25 pounds. Roughly 4,000 pounds today to vote yes. Not sure of his vote. 7 ~ Lord Cesnock now Polwarth received 50 pounds, today this would be about 7,000 pounds. Not sure of his vote. 8 ~ The Earl of Cromarty – Sir George MacKenzie is said to have been paid 300 pounds for his “yes” vote on The Act of Union. He voted “yes”. The 300 pounds would be worth roughly 42,000 pounds today. 9 ~ Major Cunningham of Eckatt allegedly received 100 pounds, today worth around 14,000 pounds for his “yes” vote. Not sure of his vote, yes or no. 10 ~ The Earl of Dunmoor, William Murray is said to have been paid 200 pounds for his “yes” vote on The Act of Union. He did vote “yes”. 200 pounds today is worth about 28,000 pounds. 11 ~ The Earl of Eglington, Alexander Seton Montgomerie is reputed to have been paid 200 pounds for his “yes” vote. He did vote yes. 12 ~ The Lord Elibank, Alexander Murray is said to have been paid 50 pounds for his “yes” vote on The Act of Union. He did vote yes. To that 50 pounds would be worth about 7500 pounds. 13 ~ The Earl of Findlator, James Ogilvy was supposed to have been paid 100 pounds or about 14,000 pounds in today’s money to vote yes on The Act of Union. He voted yes. 14 ~ Lord Forbes, William Forbes is reputed to have been paid 50 pounds for his “yes” vote. He did vote yes. 15 ~ The Earl of Forfar, Archibald Douglas said to have been paid 100 pounds for his “yes” vote. He did vote yes. 16 ~ Lord Fraser, Charles Fraser said to have been paid 100 pounds for his “yes” vote on The Act of Union. He did vote yes. That 100 pounds would be worth about 14,000 pounds today. 17 ~ The Earl of Glencaird, William Cunningham is said to have been paid 100 pounds for his “yes” vote on The Act of Union, but it is shown he voted NO. 18 ~ Lord Preston Hall, reputedly paid 200 pounds for his “yes” vote to The Act of Union. Not sure of his vote, but the 200 pounds would be worth about 28,000 pounds today. 19 ~ The Earl of Kintore, Sir John Keith was allegedly paid 200 pounds for his “yes” vote on The Act of Union. He did vote yes. 20 ~ The Earl of Marchmont, Patrick Hume is said to have been paid 1,104 pounds for his “yes” vote. Today this would be around 154,000 pounds. He did vote yes to the union. 21 ~ Sir Kenneth Mackenzie, said to have been paid 100 pounds for his “yes” vote. He did vote yes for The Act of Union. 22 ~ The Duke of Montrose, James Graham, reputedly paid 200 pounds to vote yes on The Act of Union. He did vote yes. 23 ~ John Muir, Provost of Ayr, was to receive 100 pounds for his “yes” vote on The Act of Union. He did vote yes. 24 ~` Lord Ormiston, John Cockburn, reputedly paid 200 pounds for his “yes” vote. He did vote yes. 25 ~ The Duke of Roxburgh, John Ker was said to have been paid 500 pounds for his “yes” vote on The Act of Union. This would be worth around 70,000 pounds today. He did vote yes. 26 ~ The Earl of Seafield, James Ogilvy, said to have been paid 490 pounds for his “yes” vote. He voted yes. 27 ~ Sir William Sharp, reportedly paid 300 pounds for a “yes” vote on The Act of Union. This would be worth about 42,000 pounds today. Not sure how he voted, but a John Sharp of Hoddam voted NO. 28 ~ Mr. Stewart of Castle Stewart, this was William Stewart, was to be paid 300 pounds for his “yes” vote. He did vote yes to the union. The 300 pounds is worth about 42,000 pounds in today’s money. 29 ~ Marquis of Tweedale, John Hay, reputedly paid 1,000 pounds for his “yes” vote to the Union. He did vote yes to The Act of Union. The 1,000 pounds would be worth about 140,000 pounds today. 30 ~ Mr. Alexander Wedderburn was to receive 75 pounds for his “yes” votes. Not sure if he voted yes or no. 75 pounds today would be worth around 11,000 pounds. 31 ~ The Duke of Queensberry, James Douglas, reportedly was to receive 12, 325 pounds. This would be worth about 2,000,000 pounds today. 

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My Maternal 20th. Great Scottish Grandfather, Sir Kenneth MacKenzie, 1st. Baron of Kintail

My Maternal 20th. Great Scottish Grandfather, Sir Kenneth MacKenzie, 1st. Baron of Kintail

Name: Kenneth MacKenzie, 1st. Baron of KintailBirth: December 1572Kintail, Ross-shire, ScotlandDeath: 27 February 1611Kintail, Ross-shire, ScotlandBurial: 1611Fortrose Cathedral, Fortrose, Ross-shire, Scotland Note: In 1595, was made hereditary constable of the Bishop of Ross’s castle [Seaforth]. Was a privy councillor in 1595/6 and 1602. Was justice of the peace in Inverness, Cromarty, Elgin,…

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My Maternal 12th. Great Scottish Grandfather, Sir Kenneth MacKenzie, 10th. Laird of Kintail

My Maternal 12th. Great Scottish Grandfather, Sir Kenneth MacKenzie, 10th. Laird of Kintail

Clan_Mackenzie_Castles-Eilean-Donan Castle, Kintail, Ross-shire, Scotland Name: Sir Kenneth MacKenzie, 10th. Laird of Kintail Birth: 1514 in Kintail, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland Kintail, Ross-shire, Scotland Married: 1538 in Kintail, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland to Elizabeth Isabel Stewart Children: (13) Sir Colin Cam, Janet Mary, Elizabeth, Murdoch, Margaret, Dugald, Marjorie, Agnes,…

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My Maternal 13th. Great Scottish Grandfather, Sir John (Iain) MacKenzie, 9th. Laird of Kintail

My Maternal 13th. Great Scottish Grandfather, Sir John (Iain) MacKenzie, 9th. Laird of Kintail

Kintail, Ross-shire, Scotland Name: John MacKenzie, 9th. Laird of Kintail, son of Kenneth MacKenzie, 7th. Laird of Kintail and Agnes Fraser, of Lovat Born: 1483 in Kintail, Ross-shire, Scotland Married: before 1504 in Kintail, Ross-shire, Scotland to Elizabeth Grant of Freuchie Children: (7) Janet, Elizabeth, John, Agnes, Mary, Dugall, and Sir Kenneth MacKenzie Died: 5 June 1561 in Kintail,…