The success of his children's books was to become a source of considerable annoyance to Milne, whose self-avowed aim was to write whatever he pleased and who had, until then, found a ready audience for each change of direction: he had freed pre-war Punch from its ponderous facetiousness ; he had made a considerable reputation as a playwright ( like his idol J. M. Barrie ) on both sides of the Atlantic ; he had produced a witty piece of detective writing in The Red House Mystery ( although this was severely criticised by Raymond Chandler for the implausibility of its plot ).

The event was initially reported in 1915 by Private George Barrie of the 1st Canadian Division.

A black jaguar named " Diablo " was inadvertently crossed with a lioness named " Lola " at the Bear Creek Wildlife Sanctuary in Barrie, Canada.

In 1988, Callaghan's wife Audrey, a former chairman ( 1969 – 1982 ) of Great Ormond Street Hospital, spotted a letter to a newspaper which pointed out that the copyright of Peter Pan, which had been assigned by J. M. Barrie to the hospital, was about to expire.

In America, the first major radio production was in 1937 on NBC Radio, when John Barrymore adapted the play into a forty-five minute piece, starring Barrymore himself and Elaine Barrie.

In his private life, during his last years, he was married to his fourth and last wife, Elaine Barrie, a union that turned out to be disastrous.

In modern times, the strait was first swum by Barrie Devenport, in 1962.

Gerald du Maurier, who was already playing George Darling ( and the brother of Sylvia Llewelyn Davies ), persuaded Barrie to let him take the additional role instead, a casting decision that has since been replicated in many stage and film productions of the Peter Pan story.

Barrie states in the novel that " Hook was not his true name.

Moat Brae was the favourite place for author JM Barrie to play as a child and the house and gardens are said to have inspired Barrie to create Peter Pan.

The film won the Academy Award for Best Actress ( Glenda Jackson ) and was nominated for Best Music, Original Dramatic Score, Best Music, Song ( for George Barrie and Sammy Cahn for " All That Love Went to Waste "), Best Picture and Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced.

Camp Barriefield was named in honour of Rear-Admiral Sir Robert Barrie ( May 5, 1774 – June 7, 1841 ), a British naval officer noted for his service in the War of 1812.

Barrie Phillip Nichol ( b in Vancouver, British Columbia 30 Sep 1944 – d in Toronto, Ontario 25 Sep 1988 ), who often went by his lower-case initials and last name, with no spaces ( bpNichol ), was a Canadian poet.

* Joseph Rabinowitz, founder of the Woodbine Children's Clothing Company, the community's largest employer, who was elected at age 37 in 1910 as third mayor of Woodbine ; his descendants include grandson, Jay Rabinowitz, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alaska ; Robert Rabinowitz ( artist ), creator of Beatlemania ( musical ), clinical psychologist Barrie R. Cassileth and Olympic athlete Judy Rabinowitz.

Barrie ; the Davies's middle son, Peter Llewelyn Davies, was the inspiration for the character of Peter Pan.

Additional sites of interest include the destroyer V 83, which was raised and used by Cox as a working boat during his salvage operations, particularly on the, then later abandoned ; the Churchill blockships, such as the Tabarka, the Gobernador Bories, and the Doyle in Burrah Sound ; the U-boat ; and the trawler James Barrie.

Barrie was born Christopher Jonathan Brown in Hanover, Lower Saxony, West Germany to a father who was serving in the British Army, and attended Methodist College Belfast boarding school in Northern Ireland.

After dropping out of Brighton Polytechnic, he began his TV career as a sports personality impersonator on The David Essex Showcase ; it was at this point that he adopted the surname " Barrie " for Equity reasons – as there was already an actor named Chris Brown on the Equity UK lists.

A central character, Barrie appeared as Rimmer in almost every episode of the series, absent only for a brief period during series 7.

The Battalion would win the last 14 games of the regular season to establish a franchise record for straight wins ( a record that eventually fell during the 2008 – 09 season ) to finish the season with a record of 44-21-1-2 and beating the Barrie Colts to win the Central Division Championship by only 1 single point.

In the first round the Battalion once again were set to face the Barrie Colts, who this season had lost many of their key players and had only finished 7th in the east.

Brampton proved no match for Barrie who had only lost 9 games all season and Brampton was swept four straight.

Among the forty seven Canadian census subdivisions with populations over 100, 000, only Brampton, Vaughan, Whitby, Markham and Barrie had faster growth rates.

Beginning in 1814, the British-Canadians built the Penetanguishene Road to provide the area a land route to Barrie and Toronto, as it was previously accessible only by water transport along the rivers or across Georgian Bay.

He was also the only British cast member originally to participate in the American version of Red Dwarf, though other actors such as Craig Charles and Chris Barrie were also approached to reprise their roles.

Her departure came only a few months after lead Weather Anchor, Andrea Slobodian and Reporter, Meera Bahadoosingh, left for Shaw TV Calgary and Winnipeg, and Nightwatch Reporter / Anchor, Trina Maus left for CKVR-TV in Barrie, Ontario.

Llewellyn was the only British cast member originally invited to participate in the American version of Red Dwarf, though Chris Barrie was, later, also approached to reprise his role of Rimmer as " no American actor could hate themselves " quite so well as the character needed.

In the 1993 election, Simcoe Centre ( predecessor of Barrie ) was the only Ontario riding that did not elect a Liberal MP.

In his second year behind the Colts bench Bert Templeton was able to lead the Barrie franchise to a 33-23-10 record for a total of 76 points ; only two points back of the Kitchener Rangers for first place in the central division.

They originally split up in 1981, but have reformed several times since, with singer Barrie Masters the only constant member.

Edwards, along with Barrie Youngfellow, Paul Kreppel and the late Marian Mercer, were the only four members of the It's a Living cast who lasted during the network and syndicated runs.

Of all the cast, only Gail Edwards ( Dot Higgins ); Marian Mercer ( Nancy Beebe ); Barrie Youngfellow ( Jan Hoffmeyer Gray ) and Paul Kreppel ( Sonny Mann ) lasted all the way through the show's network and syndicated runs.

The Barrie Campus is the only campus that offers a full on-campus residence.

He accepted that Barrie considered that he was the inspiration for Peter Pan and it was only reasonable that my father should inherit everything from Barrie.

Henley used to address Barrie as " friend ", which Henley's only daughter, Margaret ( 1888 – 1894 ), who is also buried there along with her parents, mispronounced as " fwend " and changed in a childish way to " fwendy-wendy ".

Barrie admired Tempest's ability to both laugh and cry, writing, " such a masterpiece at letting these two melt one into the other, not only upon her own face, but on the faces of all those in front ".

He married 19-year-old Geraldine " Gerrie " Gibb in 1917, without first asking permission of Barrie, who only grudgingly approved of the relationship.

Barrie also said of him in " Captain Hook at Eton " as, " In a word, the handsomest man I have ever seen, though, at the same time, perhaps slightly disgusting ".

While Hook is an evil and bloodthirsty man, Barrie makes it clear that these qualities make him a magnificent pirate and " not wholly unheroic ".

Taking Reggie's driver John " Scotch Jack " Dickson and Ian Barrie, his right-hand man, he then killed Cornell.

In 2009 he made four films: The Kid directed by Nick Moran, Huge directed by Ben Miller, Mission: London a Bulgarian comedy directed by Dimitar Mitoviski which premiered in Sofia on 13 April 2010, and Sus, written by Barrie Keeffe, writer of The Long Good Friday, which premiered 24 April 2010 and ran in the West End for several weeks.