* Brigit Forsyth ( Thelma Chambers )

Set in Northeast England, humour was based on the tension between Terry's firmly working-class outlook and Bob's aspirations to join the middle class, through his new white-collar job, suburban home, and impending marriage to prissy librarian Thelma Chambers ( Brigit Forsyth ).

* Brigit Forsyth ( Thelma Ingrid Chambers, later Ferris, Bob's fiancée in series 1, and his wife in series 2 )

There were several supporting actors who were well-known names on British television: Miss Maitland was played by Brigit Forsyth who had starred in the popular sitcom Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?

He was married to the stage and TV actress Brigit Forsyth, although they separated seven years before his death on 3 June 2006 aged 72.

* Interview with Brigit Forsyth in the Northern Echo

* Interview with Brigit Forsyth in Scotland on Sunday

In September 2008 she began touring the UK in a stage version of the hit British film Calendar Girls, along with Lynda Bellingham, Patricia Hodge, Siân Phillips, Gaynor Faye and Brigit Forsyth.

The first child born in Dongas Tribe ways named May Brigit " Donga " Lambert and was born on 1 May 1994.

Brigit may have been born in Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland.

It says that Brigit ’ s mother was a slave, and Brigit herself was born into slavery to a druid.

Brigit-related names in Scotland and England include several Bridewells or Brideswells, ( commemorating in their names the presence of a sacred well dedicated to Brigit or her pre-Christian antecedent ), East Kilbride, West Kilbride, Kilbride, Brideswell, Templebride and Tubberbride, derived for the word for well, " Tobar " in Irish or Gaelic ).

Other texts say that his mother is Danu ; while others yet place him as the father of Danu, perhaps due to her association with Brigit, daughter of the Dagda.

In Vodou, Maman Brigitte ( Grann Brigitte, Manman, Manman Brigit, Manman Brijit ) is a death loa, the wife of Baron Samedi.

She is syncretically represented by St. Brigit.

The original parish church was located on the site of a pre-Christian sacred well, which is possibly the origin of the association with St. Brigit, since the well was dedicated to the Celtic goddess whose traditions the reverence of St. Brigit has continued.

Saint Brigit of Kildare, or Brigit of Ireland ( variants include Brigid, Bridget, Bridgit, Bríd and Bride ), nicknamed Mary of the Gael () ( c. 451 – 525 ) is one of Ireland's patron saints along with Saints Patrick and Columba.

In the controversy about the historical existence of Brigid that erupted in the last third of the 20th century, it was noted that eleven people with whom Brigit is associated in her Lives are independently attested in annalistic sources, sources which place her death at 523 AD ( in the Annals of Tigernach and Chronicon Scotorum ) and her birth at 451 AD ( calculated from the alleged age of 72 at death ).

From the start, it is clear that Brigit is holy.

Saint Brigit is celebrated for her generosity to the poor.

Various Continental breviaries of the pre-Reformation period commemorate Brigit, and her name is included in a litany in the Stowe Missal.

In the 2004 edition of the Roman Martyrology, Brigit is listed under 1 February with the Latin name Brígidae.

Brigit is highly venerated by many Eastern Orthodox Christians as one of the great Western saints before the schism between the Eastern and Western Churches.

Saint Brigit of Kildare, the Christian saint, is often confused as being the same person as the Celtic pagan goddess Brigid who was a goddess of fertility blessing many births and harvests to Celtic Pagans, and long preceded the saint from Kildare.

The amount of influence Irish monasticism might have played in the foundation of these Frankish double houses is unclear ; in the 5th century, the monastery of St. Brigit of Kildare was a community of men and women living together without strict separation, but there is little evidence of whether this was tradition or anomaly.

East Kilbride takes its name from an Irish saint, St Bride ( or Brigit ) who founded a monastery for nuns and monks in Kildare, Ireland in the 6th century.

In a similar fashion, Brigit later cures two sisters who had been dumb since birth by instructing them to pour a mixture of her blood and water onto their necks.

The nun who had given the gift to Brigit was irritated by this saying that she had not given the gift to the lepers.

Even as the lore of the pious saint was being spread to America, Australia and other English speaking countries by Irish missionaries including the Brigidine Sisters founded in her honour in 1807, Brigit was adopted as an icon by 20th century feminists who admire her achievement in a patriarchal society.

With a strength of faith most powerful and ineffable, she ( Brigit ) blessed a woman who, after a vow of virginity, had lapsed through weakness into youthful concupisence, as a result of which her womb began to swell with pregnancy.

There he met with the local ruler, Birger Brosa, who was married to Sigurd Munn ’ s sister, Brigit Haraldsdotter.

The first identifiable founder of a monastery ( if she was a real historical figure ) was Saint Brigit, a saint who ranked with Saint Patrick as a major figure of the Irish church.

He lived in Paris for years, living with Brigit Patmore, and being fascinated by Nancy Cunard whom he met in 1928.

In her English translation of Irish myth, Lady Augusta Gregory ( Gods and Fighting Men, 1904 ), describes Brigit as " a woman of poetry, and poets worshipped her, for her sway was very great and very noble.

Brigit Helms in her book ' Access for All: Building Inclusive Financial Systems ', distinguishes between four general categories of microfinance providers, and argues for a pro-active strategy of engagement with all of them to help them achieve the goals of the microfinance movement.

On one occasion, a leper comes to Brigit and begs for a cow.

On this day, a leper had come to Brigit to ask for a cow.

On another occasion, Brigit was traveling to see a physician for her headache.

It was also said that once an elderly woman appeared at her door begging for food and Brigit turned her down as the only piece of food she had in the house was a dish of butter.

Brigit was angered at the nun for withholding from the lepers and therefore cursed her trees so they would no longer bear fruit, rendering them barren.

* St Brigit: no better woman for the times we live in, irishtimes. com

* 2011 Pushcart XXXV Mary Beth Hughes for " Double Happiness " in A Public Space ; Elliott Holt for " Fem Care " in The Kenyon Review ; Cheryl Strayed for " Munro Country " in The Missouri Review ; Alan Shapiro's " Indoor Municipal Pool " in the New Ohio Review ; Sarah Einstein for " Mot " in Ninth Letter ; Martin Moran for " Analphabet ", Brigit Pegeen Kelly for " Rome ", L. S. Asekoff for " Hither & Yon ," all from Ploughshares

Throughout the 1950s he produced a series of large-scale works including Sinuhe, a ballet ( 1953 ) originally for piano though later orchestrated, and Odysseus ( 1959 ), written for the Swedish dancer and choreographer Brigit Cullberg, a Cello Concerto ( 1954 ) and the First Piano Concerto ( 1955 ), as well as film scores and incidental music.