Jeff Kazee is an American pianist, vocalist, songwriter and Hammond B3 organist for the Rock/Soul band Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes. He has also worked extensively with Bon Jovi and with Jon Bon Jovi in his solo career.

Kazee hosts a concert series at The Cutting Room in New York City under the name of kazeedigs—featuring shows dedicated to the songs "in heavy rotation on Jeff Kazee's turntable, 8-track player, and iPod". The first two shows were titled Greats Of The 88's and Soulsville, NYC: Stax Rides The Subway. The shows featured such NYC-based artists as: John Conte, Rich Pagano, G.E. Smith, Southside Johnny, Craig Dreyer, Neal Pawley, Jack Morer, Shawn Pelton, Jeffrey Lee Campbell, Tony Tino, Chris Anderson, Art Hays, Christine Ohlman, and Billy Joel saxman Mark Rivera.

Kazee released the album No River in 1998.

Family
Kazee was raised in Lima, Ohio, and is married with two daughters, Vassileia and Sophia. He resides in New York City, NY.

Collaborations
A few of the many artists that Kazee has worked with include: Southside Johnny, Bon Jovi, Chocolate Genius, Dar Williams, The Blues Brothers, G.E. Smith, Gavin DeGraw. He occasionally filled in for bandleader Paul Shaffer on the Late Show with David Letterman. Kazee's presence as a keyboardist/vocalist/arranger has been seen and heard in "house bands" for many special events, backing such stars as James Taylor, The Band's Levon Helm, Bruce Springsteen, John Mayer and Snoop Dogg, among others.

He has performed on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Today Show, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Oprah, VH1, Larry King Live, CBS This Morning, Austin City Limits, MTV Unplugged and many other talk/music shows, award shows and specials.

In 2008-09, Kazee wrote and produced the theme song for the Garden Of Dreams Foundation (Madison Square Garden's charitable arm). Kazee shared the lead vocals with Robert Randolph on the original composition Give Some More, which is featured every night at each New York Knicks, Rangers and Lady Liberty home games at The Garden in New York City.

In 2009, Jeff joined Fab Faux drummer Rich Pagano and Asbury Juke bassist John Conte in an ongoing side project performing music selected from Elton John's Trio Years ('70-'72), entitled Early Elton.

In 2010, Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes released Pills and Ammo with most of the songs co-written by John Lyon and Jeff Kazee.

In 2010, Kazee, under the name of Kazeedigs, performed two shows celebrating the re-issue of the Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street. The first performance was held at the Stone Pony in Asbury Park, New Jersey (Exile on Ocean Avenue) and again in New York City at The Canal Room (Exile on Canal Street)  Among others joining Kazee onstage was Southside Johnny.

In February 2013, with (Southside) John Lyon, Kazee wrote and produced the debut album of Southside Johnny and The Poor Fools, Songs From The Barn.

In 2015, he again cowrote and produced another album Soultime!, with John Lyon, this time under the name of Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes.

Bon Jovi

Kazee toured with Bon Jovi in 2003 during This Left Feels Right Live session and the Have a Nice Day Tour from 2005 until 2006.

In July 2010, Kazee and other members of the Asbury Jukes joined Bon Jovi onstage at Blossom Music Center (Cleveland) for a performance of the song "Treat Her Right."

Kazee filled in for David Bryan on keyboards and vocals for night five of Bon Jovi's 2010 London O2 Arena residency as Bryan was attending The Tony Awards in NYC.

References

External links
Jeff Kazee Music on Myspace
Kazee Digs on Myspace
Jeff Kazee Interview by Klaus Boettger

American male singers
Singers from New York City
Singers from New Jersey
Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes members
Jersey Shore musicians
Living people
1967 births
People from Lima, Ohio
American rock pianists
American male pianists
American male organists
American rock keyboardists
21st-century American keyboardists
21st-century organists
American organists

Jeff Kazee


Early Life

John Vane was an Australian bushranger who became a member of Ben Hall's gang. He was one of the few members of the gang to die of old age, and not to be killed.

Vane was born at Jerry Plains near Singleton, New South Wales on 28 June 1842. His grandparents had come to Australia as convicts but his father and mother were seen as respectable and wealthy. They lived at Kelso, near Bathurst before moving to Jerry Plains in about 1841. When John was about six years old the family moved back to Kelso and then onto Teasdale Park (Carcoar), near Hobbys Yards. Teasdale Park was owned by George Chesher (Cheshire) who would become Vane's father-in-law. The Vane family moved to Kempfield, near the Abercrombie caves where they stayed for a number of years. John worked as a shepherd and the money he was paid helped his father buy land, probably their Wattle Grove home.

1850 John Vane and his brother William (Billy) went to work at James Hanrahan's Wentworth Gully Station near the Weddin Mountains. It is not known if all the family went or just the two boys. Billy taught John to ride horses while at Hanrahan's. They stayed there for about a year and returned to the Kempfield district.

John was 14 years when sent to Bathurst, apprenticed to a blacksmith and wheelwright named McDonald. He then went on to the Turon goldfields where he saved a some money before it was stolen from him. He then drove a bullock team between Orange and Lambing Flat (Young).

He was described in 1863 as being about six feet tall, with dark hair and a ruddy complexion. He worked as a stockman, looking after cattle and was said to be an excellent horse rider.

Bushranger
On Christmas Eve of 1862 John Vane, Billy Vane, George Chesher Jnr, James Burke and John McKellar were at Boyce's public house at Long Swamp near Trunkey Creek. Warrants were issued for the five youth for robbery of the publican. John Vane hid in the bush and eluded capture until his surrender later that year. The others were captured by police but were released as there was not enough evidence to take them to court [1863 New South Wales Police Gazette].

John Vane and his good mate Micky Burke had built a reputation for providing locals with stolen beef and horses. In July 1863 members of the Ben Hall gang were seeking fresh horses and new places to rob. John Gilbert and John O'Meally came to the Carcoar district and sent out word that they needed Vane's local knowledge and skills. The pair met with Vane at his camp at Millpost Creek and laid plans for an attack on the Carcoar bank.  On 30 July 1863 that plan was put into action. Vane had provided information and support for the raid, though he did not participate. Gilbert and O'Meally rode into town and performed the first daylight bank robbery in Australia. Vane joined the gang and soon after so did his mate Micky Burke.

Ben Hall joined the other members of the gang and they began stealing around the district. They bailed up store owners and gold buyers. They held the town of Canowindra and all its people prisoner for three days. They tied the pursuing police troopers to trees and took their uniforms and weapons. They raided the large town of Bathurst and which sent the colonial government into turmoil.

The excitiment and adventure came to a tragic end when on the afternoon of 24 October 1863, the gang went to the home of Gold Commissioner Henry Keightley at Dunn's Plains, near Rockley. At the house were Mrs. Keightley, house staff and Dr. Pechey. During the gun battle Vane's mate Micky Burke was shot in the stomach, and through fear of being caught by police decided to shoot himself. There is still debate today around who actually shot Burke. Vane was enraged and wanted to kill Keightley in revenge. It was decided though that the ransom Keightley would receive for killing Burke (₤500)should be sought by the gang. Keightley's wife and Dr Pechey rode to Bathurst that night to get the money from Mrs Keightley's father, Henry Rotton. Pechey and Rotton returned the next morning and the money was handed to Gilbert. Keightley was immediately released.  The story of the ride was later turned into a stage play. Many people say that John Vane is a handsome, old, lad but hated him dearly.

Surrender
In November 1863 a priest, Father Tim M'Carthy met Vane by chance in the bush. He later met the bushranger's mother. They talked Vane into giving himself up. It is said that John, cried and cried. His Father and mother knew how he felt! They gave him some food and money and told him sternly that a life as a bushranger was not good. He eventually decided that there was no point continuing to hide, so he walked off with shredded pants and shirt. He went with the priest to Nathaniel Connolly's home, who supplied them with a letter to secure Vane's passage to Bathurst courthouse. Vane was sentenced to 15 years at Darlinghurst and released after six for good behavior.

Later life
He drove the mail coach between Carcoar and Mt Donald until retiring. Vane continued to be in trouble with the police. In 1880 the newspapers reported that John Vane, ex-bushranger, was in court at Bathurst, for stealing 431 sheep. A friend, Terence M'Cann who had helped steal the sheep, was the main witness. John Vane's brother-in-law, Thomas Parker, tried to stop M'Cann from giving evidence. He was put in gaol for 12 months.

John Vane died of Ileocolitis in the hospital at Cowra, New South Wales on January 30, 1906.

John was a known bushranger in the 1800's because of all the big and small things he stole. He was also a help to the police in controlling, pubs, roads and the like. Although it wasn't his intention he inadvertently made these places better today!
He made gold diggers and people around the gold fields more aware of robbers and bushranger.

Popular culture
 A book by Charles White, (1908) — John Vane, bushranger: Being a true narrative of his career faithfully depicted This book is part of the National Library of Australia's Digital Collection and can be viewed as a PDF.

References

1842 births
1906 deaths
Australian criminals
Bushrangers
People from New South Wales

John Vane (bushranger)


Jaromír Nohavica or Jarek Nohavica (born 7 June 1953, in Ostrava) is a Czech recording artist, songwriter, lyricist and poet.

Early life
He was born in Ostrava and has played guitar since he was 13. He began studies at the Technical University of Ostrava but eventually left the school. He tried various jobs, including as a freelance lyricist. He gained fame with his first song for Marie Rottrová, Lásko, voníš deštěm (You Smell of Rain, My Love; actually a cover version of the song She's Gone by Black Sabbath). He lives in Ostrava with his wife and two children.

Career
In 1982, he started performing in public, and his songs gained popularity. His first album, Darmoděj (The Wastrel), released in 1988, sold out immediately. A mythical aura arose around Nohavica which survived even the crisis period of his treatment for alcoholism. He released the somewhat pessimistic Mikymauzoleum (Mickey Mausoleum), an album containing mainly melancholic songs.

Meanwhile, from 1986 he was a collaborator of the StB, secret police force in communist Czechoslovakia.

In 1994, he recorded a live album, Tři čuníci (Three Piglets), intended for children, with humorous songs.

In 1996, Nohavica released Divné století (Strange Century). He and his producer employed new instruments and voices for the new songs on the album, which became a huge success. Two years later the Jaromir Nohavica and Kapela (i.e. the Band) came out with Koncert (Concert), a record featuring Nohavica playing with a band, which recognizably changed his music. The album contains mainly older material, but his treatment gave it a new appeal. His studio album from 2000, Moje smutné srdce (My Sad Heart), contained mostly sad songs about love.

Nohavica also starred in Petr Zelenka's movie Rok Ďábla (Year of the Devil), which was awarded the main prize at the 37th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2002 and several other international film festivals. He translated the Polish musical Painted on Glass for Divadlo Na Fidlovačce and poeticized Mozart's opera Così fan tutte for the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre.

He has enjoyed popularity in neighbouring Poland and Slovakia, as well as Czech Republic.

In 2007, Czech singer-songwriter Jaroslav Hutka accused Nohavica of having collaborated with the StB (the Communist-era Czechoslovak secret police). Documents released the previous year indicated that in the 1980s, Nohavica had met two exponents of the Czechoslovak exile culture Karel Kryl and Pavel Kohout in Austria, and had informed the police about their activities.

Discography

Extended play records

 Cesty (Roads) (EP, Panton 1985)
 Písně pro V. V. (Songs for V. V.) (2 EPs, Panton 1988)

Albums
 Darmoděj ("Aimless", live album, 1988)
 Osmá barva duhy ("The Eighth Color of the Rainbow", live album, 1989)
 V tom roce pitomém ("In That Stupid Year", live album, 1990)
 Mikymauzoleum ("Mickeymausoleum", studio album, 1993)
 Tři čuníci ("The Three Piglets", live album, 1994)
 Darmoděj a další ("Aimless and others", studio album, 1995)
 Divné století ("A Strange Century", studio album, 1996)
 Koncert ("The Concert", live album, 1998)
 Moje smutné srdce ("My Sad Heart", studio album, 2000)
 Babylon (studio album, 2003)
 Pražská pálená ("Prague Brandy", live album, 2005, available for free download on nohavica.cz)
 Doma ("At Home", live album, 2006)
 Ikarus ("Icarus", live album, 2008)
 Z podia - On the Road 2008 ("From the Stage - On the Road 2008", live album, 2008, available for free download on nohavica.cz)
 V Lucerně ("In the Lantern ", live album, 2009)
 Virtuálky ("Virtuallies", studio album, 2009, available for free download on nohavica.cz)
 Virtuálky 2 ("Virtuallies 2", studio album, 2010, available for free download on nohavica.cz)
 Virtuálky 3 ("Virtuallies 3", studio album, 2011, available for free download on nohavica.cz)
 Tak mě tu máš ("So Here You Have Me", studio album, 2012)
 Tenkrát ("Back Then", compilation album, 2013)
 Jarek Nohavica a přátelé ("Jarek Nohavica and Friends", live album, 2014)
 Poruba ("Glade", studio album, 2017)
 V Gongu ("In the Gong ", live album, 2018)
 Máma mi na krk dala klíč ("Mom Put a Key Around My Neck", studio album, 2020)

Other appearances
2006: Strážce plamene with Petr Hapka & Michal Horáček
2007: Strážce plamene v obrazech with Hapka & Horáček
2011: Tante Cose da Veder with Hapka, Horáček & Ondřej Brzobohatý

Notes and references
 Lucerna and Gong'' ("The Lantern" and "The Gong") are names of the establishments where the corresponding albums were performed and recorded.

External links
  (Czech, English, Polish)
 Discography with texts
 Short biography and discography
 Pictures from a concert in American Czech-Slovak Cultural Club in June 2003
 Photo from the Moscow concert in Central House of Artist on 7 May 2010

1953 births
Living people
Musicians from Ostrava
Czech folk singers
20th-century Czech male singers
People from Cieszyn Silesia
Czech songwriters
Czech guitarists
Male guitarists
Czech accordionists
People of the StB
Recipients of Medal of Merit (Czech Republic)
21st-century accordionists
21st-century Czech male singers
Czechoslovak male singers

Jaromír Nohavica


Craig Boundy is Chief Executive Officer of Experian North America, a $2.4 billion company based in Costa Mesa, California. He is responsible for all Experian North America business lines, including Credit Services and Decision Analytics, Consumer Services, Vertical Markets (Automotive, Health and Public Sector) and Marketing Services. He also serves as leader of Experian's Consumer Services business globally.

He was previously Managing Director of Experian UK and Ireland.

Before this he was Chief Executive, Global Operations at Logica then Chief Executive Officer at Logica the UK, and before that Chief Operating Officer at Cable & Wireless Europe, Asia & US.

Before joining Cable & Wireless, Craig was the Chief Operating Officer at Energis. In this role, he managed the company's financial performance and core operational processes. He moved into this position from the role of Sales Director, in which he led the company's sales force in the UK and Ireland. Source:

Craig also spent six years at British Telecom working in a range of finance, marketing and product management roles, both in the UK and overseas.

Craig went to school at St Olave's Grammar School in Orpington and then studied at Lancaster University.

Craig is a qualified basketball coach.

References

British chief executives
Living people
British Telecom people
Chief operating officers
People educated at St Olave's Grammar School
Alumni of Lancaster University
Year of birth missing (living people)

Craig Boundy


The Sporkenburg is a late medieval castle ruin about one kilometre south of Eitelborn in the district of Westerwaldkreis in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

Location
The ruins of the spur castle lie within the parish of the village of Eitelborn in the Westerwald hills above the L 329 between Bad Ems and Arzbach. Located in the middle of the forest, the Sporkenburg is not easy to find. The easiest option is to follow the signs along the castle path (Burgweg) into the woods from the eastern exit of the village of Eitelborn aus (Erlenweg, near the cemetery). Pass through the barrier and take the right hand path from the crosstracks which leads gently downhill. Alternatively take the ascent from the L 329 from where the castle can be seen above the valley.
The ruins are not managed and are freely accessible at any time.

Layout
The tower castle (Turmburg) is located on a roughly rectangular hill spur above the stream of Emsbach. The spur drops steeply away to the west, south and east. To the north the castle is protected by a length of ditch (Halsgraben). The outermost defences and the ward between the two curtain walls, the Zwinger, have almost completely disappeared.

The inner ward (Kernburg) is 35 metres long by 18 metres wide. It does not have a bergfried. On the north side the castle has a five-storey, slightly angled shield wall, reinforced with bartizans, that has a height of almost 20 metres. In the western section of the shield wall is the entrance to the inner ward. On the south side of the heavily built-up inner ward is the Palas with its Great Hall, whose outside walls have survived. The eastern part of the inner ward has been completely removed.

History
The Lower Engersgau was probably enfeoffed to the lords of the Electorate of Trier under Archbishop Poppo (1016–1047). From this estate, Archbishop Engelbert (1079–1101) gifted the village of Dezerhaid to the Benedictine Abbey of St. Matthew. In the late 13th century the settlement is recorded as a fief in the possession of Emmerich of Andernach and Henry of Lahnstein. They began work on constructing a castle. The castle was destroyed, however, by  Count Otto of Nassau, the advocate (Vogt) of Kurtrier. Whereupon Henry of Lahnstein transferred his rights to Dezerhaid to Henry II of Helfenstein.

Henry II of Helfenstein had the Sporkenburg rebuilt, probably not on the old site, in the year 1310. He assigned it to the Archbishop of Trier Baldwin (1307–1354) as a fief. The castle developed into the centre of the lordship of Helfenstein-Sporkenburg.

In 1515 John of Helfenstein sold the castle to John and Quyrin of Nassau (not to be confused with the counts of Nassau). In the deed the castle was described as vast buwefellig ("almost ruined"). In 1604 the castle went from the lords of Nassau to the von Metternich family. It was destroyed in 1635 by the French during the Thirty Years' War.

State chancellor Prince of Metternich sold the ruins in 1811. Its ownership transferred in 1900 to Prussia and in 1948 to Rhineland-Palatinate. In 1967 the State Office for Cultural Heritage began a gradual restoration of the remaining remnants of the walls.

Literature
 Alexander Thon, Stefan Ulrich, Jens Friedhoff: "Mit starken eisernen Ketten und Riegeln beschlossen ...". Burgen an der Lahn. Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2008, , p. 154-159.

References

External links

 Eitelborn municipality: The Sporkenburg
 Sporkenburg auf www.burgtour.de
 More photographs of the Sporkenburg

Castles in Rhineland-Palatinate
Buildings and structures in Westerwaldkreis
Ruined castles in Germany

Sporkenburg


Seal 6: Commitment is the seventh studio album by British singer Seal. It was released worldwide on 20 September 2010 with the exception of the United States where it was released on 28 September 2010. The album is produced by David Foster, who also produced Seal's previous sixth studio album Soul. It debuted at number eleven on the UK Albums Chart, becoming Seal's highest-charting album on the chart since Seal IV in 2003. As of January 2012, the album had sold 52,932 copies in the United Kingdom. The album has produced two singles, "Secret" and "Weight of My Mistakes".

Background

In an interview with Reuters Seal attributed the title of the album to his wife Heidi Klum, saying, "I think that commitment is the recurring theme that kept popping up. Certainly the last seven years of my life since I met my wife (Heidi Klum) have been extremely committed. But not just in our personal life. My work has a level of commitment to it. The team around me consists of people who are committed." According to Seal the recurring themes on the album range from "relationships to searching to sacrifice to digging in the dirt." He said, "I had to do that on one or two songs. In order to write things that are going to resonate with people, you are going to have to dig in certain places."

Angus Batey of The Guardian stated in his interview with Seal that:

Commitment is as much about looking back to who he was as celebrating the contentment he feels today. Seal came to the sessions with 41 songs at least partly written – unprecedented for an artist who would struggle to come up with a dozen strong ideas every three or four years. "What's changed is me," he says. "Trevor and David were dealing with two different people."

Seal is still driven by his perfectionist muse, but family life has meant rethinking his priorities. Rather than booking a studio, he rented a house in the town of Montecito, with the plan being to live there while recording. But the pursuit of art had to take second place to his responsibilities as husband and father.

"It was just an hour away from Los Angeles," he says of the house-turned-studio, "so I did come home, to be with my family. [Music] is something that you love doing, but second to the thing that you really love, which is your wife and kids. I mean, it's only music – it's not that important."

Reception

Commercial reception
On 26 September 2010, Seal 6: Commitment debuted at number 11 on the official UK Albums Chart, outpeaking previous studio album Soul and his Hits album. It became Seal's fifth top 20 album in his homeland.

Critical reception

Dave Simpson of The Guardian gave Seal 6: Commitment a mixed review, rating the album two stars, expressing:

At times, the only edge comes from the 47-year-old singer's voice, now raspier than ever. However, hairs are invited to stand up on necks during Silence, which begins as the sort of exquisitely assembled song about loneliness that David McAlmont, say, would kill for, before somehow turning into a scarf-waving anthem. The other standout is Weight of My Mistakes, which mixes contemplative lyrics with an upbeat tune so catchy it requires surgical removal. However, elsewhere, there's too much polished, overwrought, formulaic slop, with You Get Me's line about a "beautiful song you've heard a million times" containing more than a hint of irony.

Singles
"Secret" is the album's first single. It was released in the UK on 12 September 2010, where it reached number 82. The second single from the album is "Weight of My Mistakes", which has been remixed by Brio Taliaferro for the single release. The music video for the song was directed by Nabil. The radio mix of "Weight of My Mistakes" was due for release 21 November 2010.

Track listing
All tracks produced by David Foster; co-production by Jochem van der Saag.

Deluxe Edition

Personnel
Seal – vocals, bass guitar, guitar
Michael Thompson – electric guitar
Mark Summerlin – guitar
Gus Isidore – guitar
Marcus Brown – bass guitar, keyboards, piano, Hammond organ
Steve Sidelnyk – drums
David Foster – orchestral arrangements
Bill Ross – orchestration
Brad Dechter – orchestration

Charts and certifications

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

Release history

References

2010 albums
Seal (musician) albums
Warner Records albums
143 Records albums
Albums produced by David Foster

Seal 6: Commitment


The Medina Museum is located in Braga, Portugal, in the same building of the Pius XII Museum

The collection comprises 83 oil paintings and 21 drawings of the naturalist painter Henrique Medina. Among the collection there are many portraits, still life and landscapes.

The museum was inaugurated on 21 June 1984.

Henrique Medina (1901-1988) was born in Porto where he graduated in art. He also studied in Paris, Rome and London. His work is represented in many different museums in Portugal and other countries.

See also
 List of Jesuit sites
 List of single-artist museums

References

Museums in Braga
Biographical museums in Portugal
Museums established in 1984
Art museums and galleries in Portugal
Medina

Medina Museum


Hindkowans is a general term used to identify speakers of the Hindko dialect of North Punjabi (claimed to be a separate language, according to some people) within Pakistan. In fact this is not an ethnic grouping or category properly speaking, and comprises diverse elements in the Punjab, and small amount in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and in Mianwali District and Dera Ghazi Khan areas of Punjab (Pakistan).

However, over time, this linguistic category or grouping has come to be linked to various indigenous regional demands and aspirations and is now thought to be an ethnic group in itself.

References

Ethnic groups in Pakistan

Hindkowan


Henry Anthony Duggan (1903–1968) was an Irish footballer. Described as a talented and speedy right winger, he played for both Leeds United and Newport County. Duggan was a dual internationalist and played for both Ireland teams  – the FAI XI and the IFA XI.

Biography
Duggan was born 8 June 1903 in County Dublin, Ireland

Leeds United
Duggan was playing intermediate football with Richmond United in Dublin when he was first spotted by Leeds United. He signed for the club on 1 May 1925 and scored his first league goal for Leeds on 6 November 1926 in a 2–2 draw with Sunderland. Despite this, he was initially confined to the reserves and only made a handful of first team appearances for United until he established himself as regular in the first team between 1930 and 1936. In 1932 he helped Leeds gain promotion to the First Division. His impressive goalscoring rate also endeared him to the fans. In eleven years at Leeds, Duggan made 187 league appearances, scoring 45 goals. He also played a further 9 games in the FA Cup, scoring a further 2 goals. During the 1933–34 season Duggan scored 11 goals in 33 league appearances. This included two in a 5–1 home win against Liverpool on 24 March 1934, two against Everton in a 2–2 draw on 30 March 1934 and 2 in an 8–0 win against Leicester City in April 1934. On 11 November 1935, he also scored a hat-trick in a 7–2 win against Sheffield Wednesday at Elland Road.

Newport County
Duggan signed for Newport County on 1 October 1936 and in 1939 he captained the team as they won the Third Division South title. Duggan was a County player when he won his last international cap. While playing for County, Duggan made 91 league appearances and scored 13 goals. During the 1939–40 wartime season, Duggan also played 13 games for County in the South-West Regional League.

Irish international
When Duggan began his international career in 1927 there were, in effect, two Ireland teams, chosen by two rival associations. Both associations, the Northern Ireland – based IFA and the Irish Free State – based FAI claimed jurisdiction over the whole of Ireland and selected players from the whole island. As a result, several notable Irish players from this era, including Duggan, played for both teams.

FAI XI
Between 1927 and 1937 Duggan made 5 appearances and scored 1 goal for the FAI XI. He made his international debut on 23 April 1927 in a 2–1 defeat against Italy B at Lansdowne Road. Together with Mick O'Brien, Tommy Muldoon and Joe Kendrick, he became one of the first four English League-based players to play for the FAI XI. He then made his second appearance for the FAI XI on 11 May 1935 in a 3–1 away win against Belgium. Duggan made a further two appearances for the FAI XI during a European tour in May 1936. On 3 May he played in a 3–3 draw with Hungary and then on 9 May he played in a 5–1 win against Luxembourg. Other members of the touring party included Jimmy Dunne and Jimmy Kelly. On 7 November 1937 he made his final appearance for the FAI XI in a World Cup qualifier against Norway. A late goal from Duggan earned the FAI XI a 3–3 draw.

IFA XI
Between 1929 and 1935 Duggan made 8 appearances for the IFA XI. He made his debut for the IFA XI on 19 October 1929 in a 3–0 defeat against England. He played against England on three further occasions. On 17 October 1932 in a 1–0 defeat against England in Blackpool, Duggan, together with Jimmy Dunne, Jimmy Kelly and Paddy Moore, was one of four players born in what is now the Ireland to feature in the IFA XI forward line. Duggan also played twice for the IFA XI against Scotland and twice against Wales. He made his last appearance for the IFA XI in 2–1 defeat against Scotland on 11 November 1935

Later years
After retiring as a footballer, Duggan settled in Beeston, Leeds, living in Cross Flatts Drive. He was an ARP warden during the Second World War and later worked for a firm of glass merchants. Some reports suggest he worked at the Moorhouses jam factory on Old Lane, as a checker. He died in Leeds in 1968.

Honours

Leeds United

Second Division
Runners Up 1931–32: 1

Newport County

Third Division South
Winners 1938–39: 1

References

External links
Northern Ireland's Footballing Greats
www.leeds-fans.org.uk

1903 births
1968 deaths
Republic of Ireland men's association footballers
Pre-1950 IFA men's international footballers
Irish Free State men's international footballers
Irish Free State men's association footballers
Dual Irish men's international footballers
English Football League players
Leeds United F.C. players
Newport County A.F.C. players
Association footballers from County Dublin
Republic of Ireland expatriate men's association footballers
Irish expatriate sportspeople in England
Expatriate men's footballers in England
Men's association football forwards

Harry Duggan


Esterio Segura Mora (born August 22, 1970 in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba) is a Cuban artist.

Education
From a very young age, Mora had an immense interest in visual arts. From 1982 to 1985 he studied at the Escuela Elemental de Artes Plásticas of Camaguey, Cuba, and next studied at the Escuela Provincial de Artes Plásticas y Ballet, also in Camaguey. In 1989 he began his instruction at the Instituto Superior de Arte (I.S.A) in Havana, which he finished in 1994.

Career
Mora worked as a professor at the Escuela Provincial de Artes Plásticas y Ballet in Camaguey. In 1993, together with Carlos Garaicoa, he undertook the curatorial design of the exhibition Las Metáforas del Templo that took place at the Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales in Havana. Since 1995 he has been a member of the Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba (UNEAC). Sculpture, drawing and installation are his main vehicles of artistic endeavor.

Individual exhibitions
His first solo exhibition took place in the Escuela Provincial de Artes Plásticas y Ballet, Camagüey, Cuba in 1986. In 1996 the show Bird and Fish: In the Freezer was seen at the Gasworks Studios, London.  In 1997 he showed Habanos libres y yo. Fotografías y dibujos at the  Fundación Ludwig de Cuba, Havana. In 1999 he presented Espacio ocupado por un sueño at Centro Wifredo Lam in Havana.

Collective exhibitions
Among the collective exhibitions was La Misión, seen at the Dominico San Juan de Letrán Convent Gallery, Havana, in 1992. In 1993 Mora was part of an important and famous exhibition, Las metáforas del templo at the Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales in Havana. Una de Cada Clase was the name of an exhibition in 1995 organized by the Ludwig Foundation of Cuba. In 1998 he was in the show La isla a flote at the Der Brücke Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 1999 he presented Trabajando p'al inglé at the Concourse Gallery, Barbican Center, London.

Awards
In 1988 Mora won the Prize of Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba (UNEAC). In 1992 he obtained a Mention in the National Triannial of small sculpture at the Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havana. Between 1995 and 1996 he was Artist in Residence at the Gaswork Studio, London. In 1997 he was Artist in Residence at the Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany.

Collections
His works can be found in the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana, the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Kendall Art Center, the Rodriguez Collection, Miami, Florida, and in The New Museum of Latin American Art, University of Essex, Essex, UK and the Tampa Museum of Art in Tampa, FL.

References
 Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection by Abelardo G. Mena Chicuri. Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, 2007.

External links
 https://web.archive.org/web/20081204232258/http://www.iniva.org/events/1996/artist_in_residence_esterio_segura_mora
 http://www.cnap.cult.cu/galeria/artistas/seguraesterio.htm
 https://web.archive.org/web/20101204095810/http://www.gasworks.org.uk/exhibitions/detail.php?id=23
 https://web.archive.org/web/20080207044445/http://www.cuba-avantgarde.com/artists/segura.php

Cuban contemporary artists
1970 births
Living people
Instituto Superior de Arte alumni

Esterio Segura Mora


Ephesite is a rare member of the mica silicate mineral group, phyllosilicate. It is restricted to quartz-free, alumina rich mineral assemblages and has been found in South African deposits in the Postmasburg district as well as Ephesus, Turkey.

Composition
Ephesite has an ideal chemical formula of NaLiAl2(Al2Si2)O10(OH)2.  Ephesite and paragonite are closely related due to their substitution of sodium in place of potassium. The general form of most micas, which can vary such as in the place of ephesite, can be written as W(X,Y)2-3Z4O10(OH,F)2 as observed by many sources. In the case of ephesite the W compound is sodium and the (X,Y) is lithium and aluminium, it also bears two hydroxides as the end members.

Structure
Ephesite, a mica structure, arises from the stacking of T-O-T layers along the c-axis direction connected by I-cations where T,O, and I stand for tetrahedral-, octahedral-, and interlayer. Creating long, flat sheets of sodium and lithium rich tetrehedra. Ephesite in particular belongs in the trioctahedral mica subgroup. Micas are determined and named for their end members and species that define a wide range of compositions. Depending on the interlayer cation, the micas are subdivided into true micas (if 50% I cations present are monovalent) or brittle micas ( if > 50% I cations present are divalent). Ephesite with monovalent cations of Na prove to be a true mica and with 2.5 octahedral cations are trioctahedral. Ephesite is classified as an uncommon true non-K mica of which only 2.1% of the micas are categorized.

Physical properties
Ephesite found in its natural state is translucent and pink in color. It has a vitreous luster and pearly on the cleavages. Categorized as a triclinic crystal system and belongs with the point group 1 symmetry elements, this crystal class includes a one-fold rotation with or without inversion. As a group the micas are characterized by their perfect basal cleavage, giving thin, flexible, and elastic cleavage plates. Crystals are usually tabular with prominent basal planes and hexagonal in outline. Ephesite has been found as 2M1 and 1M polytype series and shows perfect cleavage on the {001} axis.

History
The history of study of the mineral ephesite begins with its first appearance in Ephesus, Asia Minor at Gumach Dagh in a deposit also associated with emery discovered by J. Lawrence Smith in 1851. I. Lea in 1867 had discovered a mineral of the same composition which he had been calling under a different name, lesleyite. Later, ephesite was closely compared to a mineral margarite which shared the same composition as ephesite with a substituted Ca for Na. Many times ephesite will be referred to as a soda-margarite for this substitution of sodium. Because of these findings the names ephesite, lesleyite, soda-margarite and potash-margarite have been used synonymously.  Derivation of the name ephesite comes from its place of occurrence, Ephesus.

References

Phyllosilicates
Triclinic minerals
Monoclinic minerals
Minerals in space group 1
Minerals in space group 15

Ephesite


"Shikwa" (, "Complaint") and "Jawab-e-Shikwa" (, "Response to the Complaint") are Urdu language poems by Muhammad Iqbal. They which were later published in his book Kulliat-e-Iqbal. The poems are often noted for their musicality, poetical beauty and depth of thought.

First Allama iqbal wrote shikwa poem , on which Allama iqbal is questioning to Allah but unfortunately Allama iqbal faced too many criticism from people then Allama iqbal wrote second part of poem which was jawab-e-shikwa , then people understand what was allama iqbal trying to say .

Indian poems
20th-century poems

Shikwa and Jawab-e-Shikwa


George Psalmanazar ( 1679 – 3 May 1763) was a Frenchman who claimed to be the first native of Formosa (today Taiwan) to visit Europe. For some years, he convinced many in Britain; however, he was eventually revealed to be of European origin. He subsequently became a theological essayist, and a friend and acquaintance of Samuel Johnson and other noted figures in 18th-century literary London.

Early life
Although Psalmanazar intentionally obscured many details of his early life, it is believed that he was born in southern France, perhaps in Languedoc or Provence, some time between 1679 and 1684. His birth name is unknown. According to his posthumously published autobiography, he was educated in a Franciscan school and then a Jesuit academy. In both these institutions he claimed to have been celebrated by his teachers for what he called "my uncommon genius for languages". Indeed, by his own account Psalmanazar was something of a child prodigy. He claims that he attained fluency in Latin by the age of seven or eight, and excelled in competition with children twice his age. Later encounters with a sophistic philosophy tutor made him disenchanted with academicism, however, and he discontinued his education around the time he was fifteen or sixteen.

Career as an impostor

Continental Europe
In order to travel safely and affordably in France, Psalmanazar first pretended to be an Irish pilgrim on his way to Rome. After learning English, forging a passport, and stealing a pilgrim's cloak and staff from the reliquary of a local church he set off, but he soon found that many people he met were familiar with Ireland and were able to see through his disguise.
Deciding that a more exotic disguise was needed, Psalmanazar drew upon the missionary reports about East Asia that he had heard of from his Jesuit tutors and decided to impersonate a Japanese convert. At some point he further embellished this new persona by pretending to be a "Japanese " and exhibiting an array of appropriately bizarre customs, such as eating raw meat spiced with cardamom and sleeping while sitting upright in a chair.

Having failed to reach Rome, Psalmanazar travelled through various German principalities between 1700 and 1702. In the latter year, he appeared in the Netherlands, where he served as an occasional mercenary and soldier. By this time, he had shifted his supposed homeland from Japan to the even more obscure Formosa (Taiwan), and had developed more elaborate customs, such as following a foreign calendar, worshipping the Sun and the Moon with complex propitiatory rites of his own invention, and even speaking an invented language.

In late 1702, Psalmanazar met the Scottish priest Alexander Innes, who was the chaplain of a Scottish army unit. Afterwards Innes claimed that he had converted the heathen to Christianity and christened him George Psalmanazar (after the Assyrian king Shalmaneser V, who is referenced in the Bible). In 1703, they left via Rotterdam for London, where they planned to meet Anglican clergymen.

England

When they reached London, news of the exotic foreigner with bizarre habits spread quickly and Psalmanazar achieved a high level of fame. His appeal not only derived from his exotic ways, which tapped into a growing domestic interest in travel narratives describing faraway locales, but also played upon the prevailing anti-Catholic and anti-Jesuit religious sentiment of early 18th century Britain. Central to his narrative was his claim to have been abducted from Formosa by malevolent Jesuits and taken to France, where he had steadfastly refused to become a Catholic. Psalmanazar declared himself to be a reformed heathen who now practised Anglicanism. He became a favourite of the Bishop of London and other esteemed members of London society.

Building upon this growing interest in his life, Psalmanazar published a book in 1704, An Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa, an Island subject to the Emperor of Japan. This book purported to be a detailed description of Formosan customs, geography and political economy; however, it was in fact a complete invention. The "facts" contained in the book are an amalgam of other travel reports, especially influenced by accounts of the Aztec and Inca civilisations in the New World, and by embellished descriptions of Japan. Thomas More's Utopia may also have served as an inspiration. Some of his claims about Japanese religion seem to also be derived from a misinterpretation of the Chinese idea of three teachings, as he claims that there were three different forms of "idolatry" practiced in Japan.

According to Psalmanazar, Formosa was a prosperous country with a capital city called Xternetsa. Men walked naked except for a gold or silver plate to cover their genitals. Their main food was a serpent that they hunted with branches. Formosans were polygamous and husbands had a right to eat their wives for infidelity. They executed murderers by hanging them upside down and shooting them full of arrows. Every year they sacrificed the hearts of 18,000 young boys to gods, and their priests ate the bodies. They used horses and camels for transport, and dwelled underground in circular houses.

Pseudo-lexicographer

Psalmanazar's book also described the Formosan language, an early example of a constructed language. His efforts in this regard were so convincing that German grammarians included samples of his so-called "Formosan alphabet", in books about language, well into the 19th century, even after his larger imposture had been exposed. Here is his "translation" of the Lord's Prayer:

Amy Pornio dan chin Ornio vicy, Gnayjorhe
sai Lory, Eyfodere sai Bagalin, jorhe sai domion
apo chin Ornio, kay chin Badi eyen, Amy khatsada
nadakchion toye ant nadayi, kay Radonaye ant
amy Sochin, apo ant radonern amy Sochiakhin,
bagne ant kau chin malaboski, ali abinaye ant tuen
Broskacy, kens sai vie Bagalin, kay Fary, kay
Barhaniaan chinania sendabey. Amien.

Psalmanazar's book was an unqualified success. It went through two English editions, and French and German editions followed. After its publication, Psalmanazar was invited to lecture on Formosan culture and language before several learned societies, and it was even proposed that he be summoned to lecture at the University of Oxford.  In the most famous of these engagements he spoke before the Royal Society, where he was challenged by Edmond Halley.

Psalmanazar was frequently challenged by sceptics, but for the most part he managed to deflect criticism of his core claims. He explained, for instance, that his pale skin was due to the fact that the upper classes of Formosa lived underground. Jesuits who had actually worked as missionaries in Formosa were not believed, probably because of anti-Jesuit prejudice.

The Formosan constructed language has been assigned the codes  and  in the ConLang Code Registry.

Later life

Chaplain and theological essayist
Innes eventually went to Portugal as chaplain general to the British forces. By then, however, he had developed an opium addiction and had become involved in several misguided business ventures, including a failed effort to market decorated fans purported to be from Formosa. Psalmanazar's claims became increasingly less credible as time went on and knowledge of Formosa from other sources began to contradict his claims. His energetic defence of his imposture began to slacken and in 1706 he confessed, first to friends and then to the general public. By then London society had largely grown tired of the "Formosan craze".

In the following years Psalmanazar worked for a time as a clerk in an army regiment until some clergymen gave him money to study theology. Psalmanazar then participated in the literary milieu of Grub Street, writing pamphlets, editing books and undertaking other low-paid and unglamorous tasks. He learned Hebrew, co-authored Samuel Palmer's A General History of Printing (1732), and contributed a number of articles to the Universal History. He even contributed to A Complete System of Geography and wrote about the real conditions in Formosa, pointedly criticising the hoax he himself had perpetrated. He appears to have become increasingly religious and disowned his youthful impostures. This newfound religiosity culminated in his anonymous publication of a book of theological essays in 1753.

Friend of Samuel Johnson and others
Although this last phase of Psalmanazar's life brought him far less fame than his earlier career as a fraud, it resulted in some remarkable historical coincidences. Perhaps the most famous of these is the elderly Psalmanazar's unlikely friendship with the young Samuel Johnson, who was also a Grub Street hack. In later years Johnson recalled that Psalmanazar had been well known in his neighbourhood as an eccentric but saintly figure, "whereof he was so well known and esteemed, that scarce any person, even children, passed him without showing him signs of respect".

Psalmanazar also interacted with a number of other important English literary figures of his age. In the early months of 1741 he appears to have sent the novelist Samuel Richardson an unsolicited bundle of forty handwritten pages in which he attempted to continue the plotline of Richardson's immensely popular epistolary novel Pamela. Richardson called Psalmanazar's attempted sequel "ridiculous and improbable". In A Modest Proposal Jonathan Swift ridicules Psalmanazar in passing, sardonically citing "the famous Salamanaazor, a Native of the island of Formosa, who came from thence to London, above twenty Years ago," as an eminent proponent of cannibalism. A novel by Tobias Smollett refers mockingly to "Psalmanazar, who, after having drudged half a century in the literary mill in all the simplicity and abstinence of an Asiatic, subsists on the charity of a few booksellers, just sufficient to keep him from the parish".

Death and memoirs

George Psalmanazar died on 3 May 1763 in Ironmonger Row, London, England. In his will, completed the previous year, he styled himself a poor, sinful and worthless creature; he directed that his body should be committed to the common buryingground, in the humblest and cheapest manner; and he solemnly declared that his History of Formosa was a base and shameful imposture, a fraud on the public. He left behind him an autobiography, Memoirs of ** **, Commonly Known by the Name of George Psalmanazar; a Reputed Native of Formosa, which first appeared in 1764. The book withholds his real birth name, which is still unknown, but contains a wealth of detail about his early life and the development of his impostures.

See also
 Constructed alphabet
 Travel literature
 Princess Caraboo
 Korla Pandit

References

Further reading
 Psalmanazar, George, A Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa, in Japan in Eighteenth-Century English Satirical Writings (5 vols), ed. Takau Shimada, Tokyo: Edition Synapse.
Collins, Paul, Chapter 7 of Banvard's Folly, Picadore USA, 2001
Keevak, Michael. The Pretended Asian: George Psalmanazar's Eighteenth-Century Formosan Hoax, Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2004.   https://archive.org/details/pretendedasiange0000keev
Lynch, Jack, "Forgery as Performance Art: The Strange Case of George Psalmanazar" in 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 11, 2005, pp. 21–35

External links

 Selections from An Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa

1679 births
1763 deaths
Impostors
Hoaxes in the United Kingdom
18th-century French writers
18th-century French male writers
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Fictional Japanese people
Fictional Chinese people
Fictional Qing dynasty people
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The UXU Ranch is a historic dude ranch in Shoshone National Forest near Wapiti, Wyoming. The ranch began as a sawmill, as early as 1898.  In 1929 Bronson Case "Bob" Rumsey obtained a permit from the U.S. Forest Service to operate a dude ranch on the property, using the sawmill headquarters building, a lodge, and tent cabins. Most of the current structures were built in the 1920s and 1930s from lumber milled on the site.

Initial accommodations were tent cabins, with permanent cabins built in the 1930s from local lumber sawn on site. For much of the ranch's history the only access to the lodge and cabins from the road was across a footbridge. A camelback truss bridge was relocated to the site in 1969 to provide vehicular access. The ranch has changed hands a number of times since the Bronson's tenure, but remains one of the most authentic examples of a working dude ranch in Wyoming.

The main lodge dates to the late 1920s. The irregular one story log building stands on a concrete and stone foundation. The lodge borrows details from the Old Faithful Inn for the entrance porch and deck. The interior features peeled log finishes. Guest cabins are typically log cabins on stone foundations. Other buildings from the period of significance include an outhouse and a root cellar.

The ranch was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. It continues to operate as a guest ranch.

References

External links
 UXU Ranch website
 at the National Park Service's NRHP database
UXU Ranch at the Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office

Buildings and structures in Park County, Wyoming
Dude ranches in Wyoming
Ranches on the National Register of Historic Places in Wyoming
Rustic architecture in Wyoming
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Wyoming
National Register of Historic Places in Park County, Wyoming
Hotel buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Wyoming

UXU Ranch


The Lost City is a 2022 American action-adventure film directed by The Nee Brothers. The brothers Oren Uziel and Dana Fox  co-wrote the screenplay for the film from a story conceived by Seth Gordon. The film stars Sandra Bullock, Channing Tatum, Daniel Radcliffe, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, and Brad Pitt.

The project was announced in October 2020, with Bullock joining as producer and star and Tatum joining that December, while the rest of the cast was announced the following year. The filming took place in the Dominican Republic from May to August 2021. The movie had its world premiere at South by Southwest on March 12, 2022. It was released in the United States on March 25,2022, by Paramount Pictures.

Plot
Loretta Sage is a grumpy middle-aged author who writes romance-adventure novels centered around a fictional hero named Dash McMahon, who is portrayed by cover model Alan Caprison. Her publisher, Beth, insists that she must embark on a book tour with Alan as an effort to relieve Loretta of her reclusiveness.

After a disastrous start, mostly due to the popularity of Alan's Dash persona, Loretta is met by eccentric billionaire Abigail Fairfax. Fairfax realizes that Loretta has based her books on actual historic research she did with her deceased archaeologist husband. Fairfax has discovered a lost city on a remote Atlantic island and is convinced that this is the location of 'The Crown of Fire,' a priceless treasure. When Loretta declines to help decipher an ancient map to the treasure, Fairfax, who fears the site will be destroyed by an active volcano, kidnaps Loretta and takes her to the island.

Alan, who is secretly enamored with Loretta, witnesses her kidnapping. He recruits Jack Trainer, an ex-Navy SEAL turned CIA operative, to meet him at the island and coordinate a rescue attempt. Jack, with no assistance from Alan, breaches Fairfax's compound and frees Loretta, but is shot in the head before he, Loretta and Alan can make it to the airport, forcing the two to escape into the jungle.

Loretta and Alan spend a day fighting off Fairfax's henchmen before reaching a nearby village, where upon hearing a folk song from a local, Loretta deduces that the crown is hidden in a sinkhole in the jungle. The pair are kidnapped again and forced to share the treasure's location with Fairfax. Upon reaching the location, they discover the tomb of a queen, whose 'Crown of Fire' was made of red seashells gathered by her husband who is buried with her; the actual treasure of the legend wasn't a priceless jewel but the inseparable love between the king and queen. Infuriated, Fairfax forces them into the tomb as the volcano erupts, but one of the henchmen has a change of heart and leaves a crowbar to help them escape before abandoning Fairfax on the island. Beth arrives with the local Coast Guard and Fairfax, having pretended to be stranded to get rescued, is arrested for his crimes. Loretta's next book, based on their adventures, is a hit, and she and Alan share a kiss while on vacation.

In a mid-credits scene, Jack, having survived his assassination attempt, attends a yoga class alongside Loretta and Alan, surprising them.

Cast
 Sandra Bullock as Loretta Sage / Angela, a frustrated yet depressed best-selling romance novelist.
 Channing Tatum as Alan Caprison / Dash McMahon, a dimwitted cover model for Loretta's novel The Lost City of D.
 Daniel Radcliffe as Abigail Fairfax, an eccentric billionaire and international criminal who kidnaps Loretta in order to find the lost city, on which her novel is based.
 Da'Vine Joy Randolph as Beth Hatten, Loretta's publicist.
 Patti Harrison as Allison, Loretta's social media manager.
 Oscar Nuñez as Oscar, an eccentric cargo plane pilot.
 Brad Pitt as Jack Trainer, human tracker and action man.

Additionally, Raymond Lee appears as Officer Gomez, Bowen Yang as Ray the Moderator, and co-director Adam Nee as Officer Sawyer.

References

2022 action movies
2022 adventure movies
2022 romantic comedy movies
2020s American action movies
American adventure movies
American romantic comedy movies
Paramount Pictures movies
Movies set on islands
Movies about volcanoes

The Lost City


The Rover Company Limited was a British car manufacturing company that operated from its base in Solihull in Warwickshire.  Its lasting reputation for quality and performance was such that its first postwar model reviewed by Road & Track in 1952 was pronounced finer than any but a Rolls-Royce.  Rover also manufactured the Land Rover series from 1948 onwards, which spawned the Range Rover in 1970, and went on to become its most successful and profitable product — with Land Rover eventually becoming a separate company and brand in its own right.

Rover was sold to Leyland Motors in 1967, who had already acquired Standard-Triumph seven years earlier. Initially, Rover maintained a level of autonomy within the Leyland conglomerate, but by 1978, Leyland – by then British Leyland (BL) – had run into severe financial difficulties and had been nationalized by the British Government.  Most of the assets of the former Rover Company were moved into a new BL subsidiary named Land Rover Ltd whilst the Rover marque itself continued to be used on other BL products which relied largely on Honda engineering. Nevertheless, Rover ultimately became the most prolific brand within BL and gave its name to the entire conglomerate in the form of the Rover Group in 1986, of which MG, Mini and Land Rover remained a part until the Rover Group was broken up by BMW in 2000.

Currently, the Rover marque is the dormant property of the Rover Company's de facto successor – Jaguar Land Rover (owned by Tata Motors), which still operates out of Rover's Solihull plant.

History

Early history

After developing a template for the modern bicycle with its Rover Safety Bicycle of 1885, the company moved into the automotive industry. It started building motorcycles then cars using their Viking Longship badge from 1904.  All production moved to the Solihull plant after World War II. Land Rover vehicles were developed in 1948 and added to the Rover range.

The first Rover was a tricycle manufactured by Starley & Sutton Co. of Coventry, England, in 1883. The company was founded by John Kemp Starley and William Sutton in 1878. Starley had previously worked with his uncle, James Starley (father of the cycle trade), who began by manufacturing sewing machines and switched to bicycles in 1869.

In the early 1880s, the cycles available were the relatively dangerous penny-farthings and high-wheel tricycles. J.K. Starley made history in 1885 by producing the Rover safety bicycle—a rear-wheel-drive, chain-driven cycle with two similar-sized wheels, making it more stable than the previous high-wheel designs. Cycling Magazine said the Rover had "set the pattern to the world"; the phrase was used in their advertising for many years. Starley's Rover is usually described by historians as the first recognisably modern bicycle.

The words for "bicycle" in Polish (rower) and Belarusian (ро́вар, rovar) are derived from the name of the company. The word ровер (rover) is also used in many parts of Western Ukraine.

In 1889, the company became J.K. Starley & Co. Ltd., and in the late 1890s, the Rover Cycle Company Ltd.

Rover motorcycles

In 1899 John Starley imported some of the early Peugeot motorcycles from France in for experimental development. His first project was to fit an engine to one of his Rover bicycles.  Starley died early in October 1901 aged 46 and the business was taken over by entrepreneur H. J. Lawson.

The company developed and produced the Rover Imperial motorcycle in November 1902. This was a 3.5 hp diamond-framed motorcycle with the engine in the centre and 'springer' front forks which was ahead of its time. This first Rover motorcycle had innovative features such as a spray carburettor, bottom-bracket engine and mechanically operated valves. With a strong frame with double front down tubes and a good quality finish, over a thousand Rover motorcycles were sold in 1904. The following year, however, Rover stopped motorcycle production to concentrate on their 'safety bicycle' but in 1910 designer John Greenwood was commissioned to develop a new 3.5 hp 500 cc engine with spring-loaded tappets, a Bosch magneto and an innovative inverted tooth drive chain. It had a Brown and Barlow carburettor and Druid spring forks. This new model was launched at the 1910 Olympia show and over 500 were sold.

In 1913 a 'TT' model was launched with a shorter wheelbase and sports handlebars. The 'works team' of Dudley Noble and Chris Newsome had some success and won the works team award.

Rover supplied 499 cc single-cylinder motorcycles to the Russian Army during the First World War. The company began to focus on car production at the end of the war, but Rover still produced motorcycles with 248 cc and 348 cc Rover overhead valve engines and with JAP engines, including a 676 cc V-twin. In 1924 Rover introduced a new lightweight 250 cc motorcycle with unit construction of engine and gearbox. This had lights front and rear as well as a new design of internal expanding brakes.

Poor sales of their motorcycles caused Rover to end motorcycle production and concentrate solely on the production of motor cars.  Between 1903 and 1924 Rover had produced more than 10,000 motorcycles.

Early Rover cars

In 1888, Starley made an electric car, but it never was put into production.

Three years after Starley's death in 1901, and H. J. Lawson's subsequent takeover, the Rover company began producing automobiles with the two-seater Rover Eight to the designs of Edmund Lewis, who came from Lawson's Daimler. Lewis left the company to join Deasy in late 1905.
He was eventually replaced by Owen Clegg, who joined from Wolseley in 1910 and set about reforming the product range. Short-lived experiments with sleeve valve engines were abandoned, and the 12hp model was introduced in 1912. This car was so successful that all other cars were dropped, and for a while, Rover pursued a "one model" policy. Clegg left in 1912 to join the French subsidiary of Darracq and Company London.

During the First World War, they made motorcycles, lorries to Maudslay designs, and, not having a suitable one of their own, ambulances to a Sunbeam design.

Restructure and reorganisation
The business was not very successful during the 1920s and did not pay a dividend from 1923 until the mid-1930s. In December 1928 the chairman of Rover advised shareholders that the accumulation of the substantial losses of the 1923–1928 years together with the costs of that year's reorganisation must be recognised by a reduction of 60 per cent in the value of capital of the company.

During 1928 Frank Searle was appointed managing director to supervise recovery. Searle was by training a locomotive engineer with motor industry experience at Daimler and, most recently, had been managing director of Imperial Airways.

On his recommendation Spencer Wilks was brought in from Hillman as general manager and appointed to the board in 1929. That year, Searle split Midland Light Car Bodies from Rover in an effort to save money and instructed Robert Boyle and Maurice Wilks to design a new small car.

This was the Rover Scarab with a rear-mounted V-twin-cylinder air-cooled engine announced in 1931, a van version was shown at Olympia, but it did not go into production. During this time the Rover 10/25 was introduced, with bodies made by the Pressed Steel Company. This was the same body as used on the Hillman Minx. Prior to this time Rover had been a great supporter of the very light Weymann bodies that went suddenly out of fashion with the demand for shiny coachwork and more curved body shapes. Weymann bodies remained in the factory catalogue until 1933.

Frank Searle and Spencer Wilks set about reorganising the company and moving it upmarket to cater for people who wanted something "superior" to Fords and Austins. In 1930 Spencer Wilks was joined by his brother, Maurice, who had also been at Hillman as chief engineer. Spencer Wilks was to stay with the company until 1962, and his brother until 1963.

The company showed profits in the 1929 and 1930 years but with the economic downturn in 1931 Rover reported a loss of £77,529. 1932 produced a loss of £103,000 but a turn around following yet more reorganisation resulted in a profit of £46,000 in 1933. The new assembly operations in Australia and New Zealand were closed.

Frank Searle left the board near the end of the calendar year 1931, his work done.

Building on successes such as beating the Blue Train for the first time in 1930 in the Blue Train Races, the Wilks Brothers established Rover as a company with several European royal, aristocratic, and governmental warrants, and upper-middle-class and star clients.

Second World War and gas turbines

In the late 1930s, in anticipation of the potential hostilities that would become the Second World War, the British government started a rearmament programme, and as part of this, "shadow factories" were built. These were paid for by the government but staffed and run by private companies. Three were run by Rover: one, at Acocks Green, Birmingham, started operation in 1937, a second, larger one, at Solihull, started in 1940 and the third, at Drakelow Tunnels, Kidderminster, started in 1943. All three were employed making aero engines and airframes. The original main works at Helen Street, Coventry, was severely damaged by bombing in 1940 and 1941 and never regained full production.

In early 1940, Rover was approached by Frank Whittle to do work for Whittle's company, Power Jets. This led to a proposal from Power Jets in which Rover would put forward £50,000 of capital in exchange for shares in Power Jets. Rover contacted the Air Ministry (AM) regarding the proposal, which ultimately led to an arrangement between Rover and former Power Jets contractor British Thomson-Houston (BTH) to develop and produce Whittle's jet engine. The Air Ministry had left Whittle and Power Jets out of these negotiations. Rover chief engineer Maurice Wilks led the team to develop the engine, improving the performance over the original Whittle design. The first test engines to the W.2B design were built in Bankfield Shed, a former cotton mill in Barnoldswick, Lancashire which Rover moved into in June 1941 (along with Waterloo Mill in Clitheroe). Testing commenced towards the end of October 1941.

A need for greater expertise within the project, along with difficult relations between Rover management and Frank Whittle (not least because Rover under AM approval had secretly designed a different engine layout, known within Rover as the B.26, which they thought was superior), led to Rover handing over their part in the jet engine project and the Barnoldswick factory to Rolls-Royce in exchange for the latter's Meteor tank engine factory at Ascot Road, Nottingham, the result of a handshake deal between Rover's Spencer Wilks and Rolls-Royce's Ernest Hives made in a local inn in Clitheroe. The official hand-over date was 1 April 1943, though there was a considerable overlap, and several key Rover staff such as Adrian Lombard and John Herriot, the latter being at Rover on secondment from the Air Inspection Department (AID) of the AM, moved to Rolls-Royce. In exchange for the jet engine project and its facilities, Rover was given the contract and production equipment to make Meteor tank engines, which continued until 1964. The Meteor engine was superseded for new tanks in 1962, and as Rover wanted more manufacturing capacity for the Land Rover they transferred the manufacture of Meteor spare parts for the British and other governments  back to Rolls-Royce at Shrewsbury. Although Rolls-Royce under Stanley Hooker were soon to be able to start producing the Whittle-designed W.2B/23 engine (known within Rover as the B.23, later named by Rolls-Royce the Welland), they evaluated the 4 Lombard/Herriot re-designed Rover W.2B/B.26 engines under test at the time of the takeover, and selected the Rover design for their own jet engine development (it became the Rolls-Royce Derwent engine).

After the Second World War, the company abandoned Helen Street and bought the two shadow factories. Acocks Green carried on for a while, making Meteor engines for tanks such as the Centurion and Conqueror, and Solihull became the new centre for vehicles, with production resuming in 1947. This was the year Rover produced the Rover 12 Sports Tourer. 200 cars were built for the export market but all had RHD so many cars stayed in the UK. Solihull would become the home of the Land Rover.

Experimental cars

Despite the difficulties experienced with the jet engine project, Rover was interested in the development of the gas turbine engine to power vehicles. In 1945, Rover hired engineers Frank Bell and Spen King away from Rolls-Royce to assist Maurice Wilks in the development of automotive gas turbines. By 1949, the team developed a turbine that ran at 55,000 rpm, produced more than , and could run on petrol, paraffin, or diesel oil. Rover's early turbine engines consumed fuel at a rate much greater than piston engines, equivalent to . Although fuel consumption was later reduced by using a heat exchanger, it was never as low as that of contemporary piston engines.

In March 1950, Rover showed the JET1 prototype, the first car powered with a gas turbine engine, to the public. JET1, an open two-seat tourer, had the engine positioned behind the seats, air intake grilles on either side of the car, and exhaust outlets on the top of the tail. During tests, the car reached a top speed of . After being shown in the United Kingdom and the United States in 1950, JET1 was further developed, and was subjected to speed trials on the Jabbeke highway in Belgium in June 1952, where it exceeded . JET1 is currently on display at the London Science Museum.

Four further prototypes were built, the P4-based front-engined T2 and rear-engined T2A saloons, the rear-engined four-wheel-drive T3 coupé, and the front-engined front-wheel drive T4 saloon.

Rover and the BRM Formula One team joined forces to produce the Rover-BRM, a gas turbine-powered sports prototype that entered the 1963 24 hours of Le Mans, driven by Graham Hill and Richie Ginther. It averaged 107.8 mph (173 km/h) and had a top speed of 142 mph (229 km/h).

Rover also ran several experimental diesel engine projects in relation to the Land Rover. The 2-litre,  diesel unit designed and built by Rover for its 4x4 had entered production in 1956 and was one of Britain's first modern high-speed automotive diesel engines. Experimental projects were undertaken to improve the engine's power delivery, running qualities, and fuel tolerances. British Army requirements led to the development of a multifuel version of the 2.25-litre variant of the engine in 1962, which could run on petrol, diesel, Jet-A, or kerosene. However, the engine's power output when running on low-grade fuel was too low for the Army's uses. Rover developed a highly advanced (for the time) turbodiesel version of its engine in the mid-1960s to power its experimental '129-inch' heavy duty Land Rover designs. This 2.5-litre engine used a turbocharger built by Rover's gas turbine division as well as an intercooler. This was one of the first times these features had been incorporated on such a small-capacity diesel unit, but they were not adopted.

After the Leyland Motor Corporation takeover, the Rover Gas Turbine was used in a number of Leyland trucks, including one shown at the 1968 Commercial Motor Show. Rover gas turbines also powered the first Advanced Passenger Train.

Golden years

The 1950s and '60s were fruitful years for the company. The Land Rover became a runaway success (despite Rover's reputation for making upmarket saloons, the utilitarian Land Rover was actually the company's biggest seller throughout the 1950s, '60s, and '70s), as well as the P5 and P6 saloons equipped with a 3.5L (215ci) aluminium V8 (the design and tooling of which was purchased from Buick) and pioneering research into gas turbine-powered vehicles.

As the '60s drew to a close Rover was working on a number of innovative projects. Having purchased the Alvis company in 1965 Rover was working on a V8-powered supercar to sell under the Alvis name. The prototype, called the P6BS, was completed and the finalised styling and engineering proposal, the P9, was drawn up. Rover was also working on the P8 project which aimed to replace the existing P5 large saloon with a modern design similar in concept to a scaled-up P6.

When Leyland Motors joined with British Motor Holdings and Rover and Jaguar became corporate partners these projects were cancelled to prevent internal competition with Jaguar products. The P8 in particular was cancelled in a very late stage of preparation- Rover had already ordered the dies and stamping equipment for making the car's body panels at Pressed Steel when ordered to stop work.

Rover continued to develop its '100-inch Station Wagon', which became the ground-breaking Range Rover, launched in 1970. This also used the ex-Buick V8 engine as well as the P6's innovative safety-frame body structure design and features such as permanent four-wheel drive and all-round disc brakes.  The Range Rover was initially designed as a utility vehicle which could offer the off-road capability of the Land Rover, but in a more refined and car-like package.

Mergers to LMC and BL

In 1967, Rover became part of the Leyland Motor Corporation (LMC), which already owned Triumph. The next year, LMC merged with British Motor Holdings (BMH) to become the British Leyland Motor Corporation (BLMC). This was the beginning of the end for the independent Rover Company, as the Solihull-based company's heritage drowned beneath the infamous industrial relations and managerial problems that beset the British motor industry throughout the 1970s.

Models

Launched under the independent Rover Company pre-merger (1904–1967)
 1904–1912 Rover 8
 1906–1910 Rover 6
 1906–1907 Rover 10/12
 1906–1910 Rover 16
 1906–1910 Rover 20
 1909–1912 Rover 12 2-cylinder
 1908–1911 Rover 15
 1910–1912 Rover 12 sleeve-valve
 1912–1913 Rover 18
 1912–1923 Rover 12 Clegg
 1919–1925 Rover 8
 1922–1923 Rover 6/21
 1924–1927 Rover 9/20
 1925–1927 Rover 14/45
 1926–1929 Rover 16/50
 1929–1930 Rover Light Six
 1930–1931 Rover Light Twenty
 1927–1947 Rover 10
 1927–1932 Rover 2-Litre
 1932–1934 Rover Meteor 16HP/20HP
 1931–1940 Rover Speed 20
 1932–1933 Rover Pilot/Speed Pilot
 1932–1932 Rover Scarab
 1934–1947 Rover 12
 1934–1947 Rover 14/Speed 14
 1937–1947 Rover 16
 1947–1948 Rover 12 Sports Tourer
 1948–1978 Land Rover (I/II/III)—In 1978, BL established Land Rover Limited as a separate subsidiary; it took over Land Rover production.
 1948–1949 Rover P3 (60/75)
 1949–1964 Rover P4 (60/75/80/90/95/100/105/110)
 1958–1973 Rover P5 (3-Litre/3.5-Litre)
 1963–1976 Rover P6 (2000/2200/3500)

See also

 Rover (marque)
 British Leyland
 Austin Rover Group
 Rover Group
 MG Rover Group
 Land Rover
 Jaguar Land Rover

Footnotes

References

External links

 Keith Adams Austin Rover / Rover Group / MG Rover Resource
 Catalogue of the Rover archives, held at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick
 Catalogue of the Paul Worm Automotive Industrial Relations Collection of papers concerning Rover, held at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick

Video of early Rover motorcycle manufacture:
 https://www.facebook.com/thevintagenews/videos/656478785160217/

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Petrus Hofman Peerlkamp (Groningen, February 2, 1786 - Hilversum, March 28 1865) was a Dutch classical scholar and critic.

Life
He was descended from a family of French refugees named Perlechamp, was born at Groningen.

He was professor of ancient literature and universal history at Leiden from 1822 to 1849, when he resigned his post and retired to Hilversum, where he died on 28 March 1865.

He was the founder of the subjective method of textual criticism, which consisted in rejecting in a classical author whatever failed to come up to the standard of what that author, in the critic's opinion, ought to have written. His ingenuity in this direction, in which he went much further than Bentley, was chiefly exercised on the Odes of Horace (the greater part of which he declared spurious), and the Aeneid of Virgil.

He also edited the Ars poetica and Satires of Horace, the Agricola of Tacitus, the romance of Xenophon of Ephesus, and was the author of a history of the Latin poets of the Netherlands (De vita, doctrina, et facultate Nederlandorum qui carmina latina composuerunt, 1838).

See L Müller, Gesch. der klassischen Philologie in den Niederlandes (1869), and JE Sandys, Hist. of Class. Schol. (1908), ii. 276.

References

Dutch classical scholars
1786 births
1865 deaths
People from Groningen (city)
Classical scholars of Leiden University
Scholars of Latin literature

Petrus Hofman Peerlkamp


Lucy Group Ltd, formerly W. Lucy & Co. Ltd, is a privately owned international group headquartered in Oxford, England. The company's origins date back more than 200 years when its principal business was manufacturing metal castings. Since then the business has evolved and steadily expanded into a group comprising four distinct business units. The group operates in 8 countries, from 16 locations, employing over 1,200 people.

History
The company's origins date back to 1812 when William Carter opened an ironmongery business in Oxford. Carter began brass and iron foundry operations in Summertown, Oxford in 1821, which he expanded into the Jericho district of Oxford in 1825, building a large factory, the Eagle Ironworks, next to the strategically important Oxford to Birmingham canal. In its early days the company manufactured agricultural machinery and ornamental ironwork such as balconies and railings. William Lucy, whose name the company carries, became involved with the company around 1854 at a young age. He died in 1873.

The mainstay of Lucy's business shifted focus in the late 1800s, as it became a key supplier of bookshelves and document storage systems to government offices, universities, museums and libraries, following the introduction of its patented 'rolling stack' system of shelving. The emerging electricity industry then presented a new opportunity around the turn of the 20th century.

In 1905, John Reid Dick, a businessman and qualified electrical engineer, was headhunted to join the business as managing director and the company began winning contracts in the electrical industry for street lighting posts, feeder pillars and fuse boxes. Expansion in this market continued and between the two world wars the company cemented its reputation as a switchgear and electrical engineering firm, although the foundry played a complementary part, continuing to supply castings and other products to established markets.  Switchgear and components used in secondary power distribution such as ring main units, remain a significant revenue stream more than 100 years on. The company expanded its focus to include overseas markets in the late 1960s.

Gordon Dick was appointed chairman on his father's death in January 1951. A number of the decisions that he took in the first twenty years of his chairmanship were of 'company making' proportions. They gave the company financial strength and strong market positions.
Between 1954 and 1966, he bought the freeholds that made up the enlarged Eagle Works site. During the 1960s and 70s, further freeholds were bought and properties built that form the core of Lucy Properties' residential estate. On the technical side, with the recruitment of two switchgear design engineers in 1966 through to launch in 1970, Gordon Dick oversaw the development of the oil-insulated Lucy Ring Main Unit; for thirty years this was the company's 'flagship' and most profitable product. Moreover, following the recruitment of Ralph Holland in 1968, the company's sales and marketing effort was re-focused on overseas markets, particularly the Middle East.

From 1969 to 1980, the board was unchanged: Nicholson and Gowers non-executive, Holland managing director and Gordon Dick chairman. It couldn't last forever: Nicholson, a director since 1969, retired in 1981; Gordon's son Richard was appointed a director in his place. Gowers, on the board since 1968, retired in 1984. Holland, a director since 1970, retired as managing director in 1988, whereupon Richard Dick took over (Holland continuing as non-executive until 1999).

By 1989 the foundry was well equipped, quality had been improved and many of the environmental problems had been overcome. Site congestion was now the main obstacle to expansion. The directors had considered relocating the foundry and had got as far as identifying a site in Witney. Unfortunately the recession that was to do so much damage to British manufacturing industry in the early 1990s meant that business was turning down for the foundry's trade customers.

The company grew as the Indian market developed and completed a substantial expansion of its facilities in 2004. Close cooperation with Crompton Greaves continued, and Lucy's had high expectations for this venture in one of the world's fastest-growing markets.
In 2003 it was announced that Lucy Electric would move to Thame; by 2005, it was installed there, and Eagle Works was cleared for redevelopment.

The redevelopment of Eagle Works began in 2004 and was completed in December 2008. Lucy Real Estate business unit was established to combine Lucy Properties, Lucy Development, and Lucy Block Management.

Zodion Limited Net Assets were acquired in 2011 and integrated with Lucy Lighting to become Lucy Zodion Ltd. The acquisition fits into Lucy's strategy for street lighting, and the resulting combination of the two businesses provides greater resources for new product development.

In 2015, Lucy Group acquired all CG's equity interests in CG Lucy Switchgear Ltd, an Indian company. Following the acquisition, the company became wholly owned by Lucy Group and formed part of the Group's medium voltage, secondary power distribution business unit, Lucy Electric. The deal formed part of Lucy Electric's strategy to grow its business in developing markets and allowed the company to meet the growing demand for electrical infrastructure equipment and the development of Smart Grid projects in India.

In 2018, Lucy Group acquired Arteche's medium voltage switchgear business in Brazil, Lucy Arteche Equipamentos Eléctricos Ltda (Lucy Arteche) With over 70 years of experience in the electric power industry, Arteche introduced Lucy Electric's products into South America.

2018 saw further major growth for Lucy Group. Lawson Fuses, a UK-based specialist in the design, development, and manufacture of High Rupturing Capacity (HRC) low voltage fuses, was acquired by the company. The investment was part of its strategy of acquiring complementary businesses to deliver continued sustainable growth.

Lucy Group now comprises four distinct business units: Lucy Electric, Lucy Castings, Lucy Zodion, and Lucy Real Estate.

Headquarters
Lucy Group's corporate headquarters are on the company's historic former factory site at Eagle Works, in Jericho, Oxford.

Business

Lucy Electric, formerly known as Lucy Switchgear, is primarily based in Thame, Oxfordshire, UK. However, the company has offices in Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, South Africa, and Malaysia, with manufacturing facilities in the UK, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, India, and Thailand. Through industrial partners and contractors, Lucy Electric has an established international network and a local track record in over 50 countries.

Lucy Zodion, renamed after their core product in 2004, moved to Zodion House, Station Road, Sowerby Bridge, where they operate today. In 2019, Lucy Zodion unlocked the potential of tomorrow's cities with its next-generation IoT solution, Ki., a platform for smarter and more responsive cities.

Lucy Real Estate is split into two businesses: Lucy Developments and Lucy Properties. The company's first purchases of houses had been made in connection with the manufacturing business. However, in 1965 the company bought a block of houses in Juxon Street from St John's College. Planning permission was received to demolish eight Juxon Street houses and build a three-story block of twenty-three flats with garaging underneath – known as Castle Mill House. When the flats were completed in 1969, they all needed new tenants.

Castle Mill formed the beginning of Lucy Real Estates' influence on property and development in the Oxford area. Real Estate has worked on a range of projects over the years; Brown Field Development, Walton Meadow, and Wharf Mews to name a few.

Lucy Properties is now one of the largest landlords in Oxford city, providing homes for over 850 tenants in more than 340 properties.

In 2018, Lucy Group acquired Lawson Fuses, a company based in Newcastle Upon Tyne. Lawson Fuses India was originally established in 2003 to manufacture a range of fuses and fuse holders to complement the Lawson UK range and satisfy the needs of the Indian market. In 2020 the subsidiary moved from New Delhi to a brand new, modern manufacturing facility near Vadodara and subsequently changed its trading name to Lawson Lucy India Private Limited to become fully incorporated under the Lucy Group umbrella.

On 14 June 2022, Lucy Group announced it had acquired an 80% share of the Romanian smart city business Flashnet S.A., this marks Lucy Groups' entrance into the mainland European market.

Management and ownership
The board of the group's parent company Lucy Group Ltd, has been chaired by Richard Dick since 1990. The board is served by a further two executive and three non-executive directors.

The company's shares are not quoted on any stock market and remain largely under the ownership of descendants of the Dick and Madgen families, who took control of the company in 1905.

See also
 Eagle Ironworks, Oxford

References

Further reading

1812 establishments in England

Manufacturing companies established in 1812

Companies based in Oxford
Electrical engineering companies of the United Kingdom

W. Lucy & Co.


Brodie Henderson (born December 12, 1983) is a rugby union player who has represented Canada and Canada Sevens. Henderson played professionally for Bay of Plenty in New Zealand during the 2005-2006 season and Pertemps Bees in the English National Division 1 (now known as the RFU Championship) in the 2006-2007 season.

Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Henderson represented Canada U21 and U23 at soccer and additionally played junior professional ice hockey, before embarking on a career in rugby.

Club career
Henderson started his rugby career playing for his local team in Chilliwack before moving to senior rugby in Abbotsford in the Fraser Valley within just a few months of him starting the game. From there he was called up to the Canada Sevens squad, playing in the Rugby Sevens World Cup in Hong Kong and left Abbotsford for Bay of Plenty in New Zealand.

Henderson was signed by English side Pertemps Bees for the 2006-2007 season and made his debut as a substitute versus Sedgley Park. Henderson left Pertemps Bees before the end of the campaign for personal reasons and did not return to England to continue his playing career.

Henderson currently plays for Abbotsford RFC in his native Canada.

International career

Henderson currently has 3 full caps for Canada and has scored 2 tries, including one on his debut versus Japan. All three of Henderson's full international caps to date came during 2005. Henderson toured New Zealand in 2006 with a touring Canada "A" side. He also is an experienced rugby sevens international having toured the IRB Sevens world circuit with the Canadian national team for several seasons at the start of his career.

Henderson returned to the international sevens setup for the first time since 2007 in December 2009 playing for a Maple Leaf Development VII in the Punta DEl Estes 7s in Uruguay. This was followed by a return to the senior squad for the 2010 USA Sevens.

Sources
 http://www.bayofplentytimes.co.nz/storyprint.cfm?storyID=3631721
 http://www.rugbycanada.ca/index.php?lang=en&page_id=112
 http://www.beesrugby.com

1983 births
Living people
Rugby union players from Vancouver
Canada international rugby union players
Canadian rugby union players
Birmingham & Solihull R.F.C. players
Canada international rugby sevens players
Male rugby sevens players
Commonwealth Games rugby sevens players for Canada
Rugby sevens players at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
Rugby union fullbacks
Rugby union wings

Brodie Henderson (rugby union)