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Barrow and fervent
Errol Walton Barrow, a fervent reformer, became the new people's advocate.
Errol Walton Barrow, a fervent reformer, became the new people's advocate.

Barrow and once
It was Dian Cecht who once saved Ireland, and was indirectly the cause of the name of the River Barrow.
Kendal is served by a long distance coach service from London ( once per day ) and local buses run from the bus station to destinations such as Ambleside and Barrow in Furness.
Baseball legend, Ed Barrow, who managed Crawford in his first two years with Detroit, and went on to convert Babe Ruth to an outfielder as general manager of the Yankees, once said that “ there never was a better hitter ” than Crawford .” One of his contemporaries, Fielder Jones, said of Crawford: “ None of them can hit quite as hard as Crawford.
After finishing his apprenticeship he worked for two years at the Vickers shipyard in Barrow before returning once again to the London area, where he experienced unemployment during the slump of 1879.
In 1909, Barrow moved once more to Holker Street, the stadium that they still occupy today.
In the 2009 Co-Op Championship Grand Final, a closely matched game was fought between Barrow and Halifax, but a try in the 77th minute settled the game once and for all in Barrow's favour.
The Swinging Laurels, ( Gaz Birtles, John Barrow and Dean Sargent ) once again provided brass, along with Jay Lyndsay, and they were also joined by renowned pedal steel player Melvin Duffy and vocalist Dorie Jackson, amongst others.
Tarvin was once served indirectly by Barrow for Tarvin train station more than two miles ( 3 km ) distant on the Cheshire Lines Committee route from Chester to Manchester ; the line remains open but the station closed in June 1953, though it still stands and is now a private house.

Barrow and member
Portishead consists of Geoff Barrow, Beth Gibbons, and Adrian Utley, while sometimes citing a fourth member, Dave McDonald, an engineer on Dummy and Portishead.
After tracking the Barrow gang across nine states, Hamer, in conjunction with officials in Louisiana, learned Bonnie and Clyde had visited a home in Bienville Parish on May 21, 1934, and that Clyde had designated a rendezvous point in the vicinity with gang member Henry Methvin, in case they were later separated.
As a child in Des Moines, Clarke sold newspapers for the Iowa State Register where his boss was future Baseball Hall of Fame member, Ed Barrow.
Furthermore, four prominent remaining Blue Dogs, Dennis Cardoza of California, Dan Boren of Oklahoma, Mike Ross of Arkansas, and Heath Shuler of North Carolina have announced their retirement ; one member, Joe Donnelly of Indiana, is running for Senate ( partially due to Republican redistricting efforts ); and more members, such as North Carolina's Mike McIntyre as well as Georgia's John Barrow, have been or will be targeted by Republicans in redistricting efforts.
In 1946, Roy Ahmaogak, an Inupiaq Presbyterian minister from Barrow, worked with Eugene Nida, a member of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, to develop the current Iñupiaq alphabet based on the Latin script.
Barrow is a Blue Dog Democrat as well as a member of the New Democrat Coalition.
Labour Cabinet member Albert Booth represented Barrow from 1966 but suffered a shock defeat in 1983.
Portishead consists of Geoff Barrow, Beth Gibbons, and Adrian Utley, while sometimes citing a fourth member, Dave McDonald, an engineer on Dummy and Portishead.
* A nickname for a member of Barrow A. F. C.
Raymond Hamilton ( May 21, 1913 – May 10, 1935 ) was a member of the notorious Barrow Gang during the early 1930s.
* Billy Fuller – electric and stand-up bass ; formerly of Fuzz Against Junk and is currently a member of BEAK > ( which includes Geoff Barrow of Portishead ), The Moles and Malakai.
A prominent early member was Sir John Barrow.

Barrow and Barbados
After years of peaceful and democratic progress, Barbados finally became an independent state on 30 November 1966, with Errol Barrow its first Prime Minister, although Queen Elizabeth II remained the monarch.
Due to several years of growing autonomy, Barbados, with Barrow at the helm, was able to successfully negotiate its independence at a constitutional conference with the United Kingdom in June 1966.
After years of peaceful and democratic progress, Barbados finally became an independent state and formally joined the Commonwealth of Nations on 30 November 1966, Errol Barrow serving as its first Prime Minister.
* Errol Barrow ( 1920 – 1987 ), Barbados politician
* Nita Barrow ( 1916 – 1995 ), Governor-General of Barbados
In 1965, together with premiers Errol Barrow of Barbados and Forbes Burnham of Guyana, he brought the Caribbean Free Trade Association ( CARIFTA ) into being.
Barbados was used as a staging point for some of the U. S. forces, and a nominal contingent of the Barbados Defence Force accompanied in the invasion force's wake, not least to allow ( as Barrow claimed ) Reagan to gild the statistics.
Dame Ruth Nita Barrow, GCMG, DA, FRCN ( 15 November 1916 – 19 December 1995 ) was the first and only female Governor-General of Barbados.
Barrow trained as a nurse, midwife and health care administrator, holding a variety of nursing, public health and public administration jobs in Barbados and Jamaica in the 1940s / 1950s.
In 1980 Barrow was conferred the highest honour in Barbados ; she was made a Dame of St. Andrew ( DA ) of the Order of Barbados.
Errol Walton Barrow, PC, QC ( 21 January 1920 – 1 June 1987 ) was a Caribbean statesman and the first Prime Minister of Barbados.
Barrow served as Premier of Barbados from 1961 until 1966 when, after leading the country to independence from Great Britain, he became Prime Minister.
In it, Barrow rhetorically asked Barbadians what kind of a future they saw for themselves when they looked in the mirror ; contrasting a life of menial labour as an émigré in the developed world, or staying and building a strong and independent Barbados to rival other small states like Singapore.
By an act of Parliament in 1998, Barrow was named as one of the ten National Heroes of Barbados.
His sister, Dame Nita Barrow, also became a social activist, humanitarian leader and later Governor General of Barbados.
* The Freedom House Photographs collection contains images of Errol Barrow in Barbados and in Boston, Massachusetts ( Archives and Special Collections of the Northeastern University Libraries in Boston, Massachusetts ).
Nuancing globalisation or Mainstreaming the downstream or Reforming Reform – Nita Barrow Memorial Lecture, University of West Indies, Barbados, November 1999

Barrow and Labour
Barrow had left the BLP and formed the Democratic Labour Party as a liberal alternative to Adams ' conservative government.
Barrow had left the BLP and formed the Democratic Labour Party ( DLP ) as a liberal alternative to Adams ' conservative government.
As Labour moved back towards the retention of Britain's nuclear capability and following massive job losses in the town's ship building industry, Labour's fortunes revived in Barrow.
He was defeated in the 1986 elections by Errol Barrow and the Democratic Labour Party.

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