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Byrd obtained the prestigious post of Gentleman of the Chapel Royal in 1572 following the death of Robert Parsons, a gifted composer who drowned in the Trent near Newark on 25 January of that year.
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Byrd and post
Thurmond became President pro tempore of the US Senate in 1981, and held the largely ceremonial post for three terms, alternating with his longtime rival Robert Byrd depending on the party composition of the Senate.
Almost from the outset Byrd is named as ‘ organist ’, which however was not a designated post but an occupation for any Chapel Royal member capable of filling it.
A comparison of the delta profiles at Byrd Station, West Antarctica ( 2164 m ice core recovered, 1968 ) and Camp Century, Northwest Greenland, shows the post glacial climatic optimum.
Byrd was appointed to the post of assistant university president in 1918.
In 1945, Byrd hired 32-year old Paul " Bear " Bryant to his first head coaching post.
Byrd resigned from the post in 1953 and his tenure ended effectively on December 31.
Byrd and Gentleman
In The Compleat Gentleman ( 1622 ) Henry Peacham ( 1576 – 1643 ) praised Byrd in lavish terms as a composer of sacred music:
* Harley, John, William Byrd: Gentleman of the Chapel Royal, ( Aldershot, 1997 )
* William Byrd becomes a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal.
Byrd and Chapel
His two brothers were choristers at St. Paul's Cathedral, and Byrd may have been a chorister there as well under Simon Westcote, although it is possible that he was a chorister with the Chapel Royal.
Tallis ', and a reference in the prefatory material to the Cantiones sacrae published by Tallis and Byrd in 1575 tends to confirm that Byrd was a pupil of Thomas Tallis of the Chapel Royal.
On 11 September 1591 John Baldwin, a tenor lay-clerk at St George's Chapel, Windsor and later a colleague of Byrd in the Chapel Royal, completed the copying of My Ladye Nevells Booke, a collection of 42 of Byrd's keyboard pieces which was probably produced under Byrd's supervision and includes corrections which are thought to be in the composer's hand.
Byrd remained in Stondon Massey until his death on 4 July 1623, which was noted in the Chapel Royal Check Book in a unique entry describing him as ‘ a Father of Musick ’.
Wynette was married five times: to Euple Byrd ( married 1959 – divorced 1966 ); Don Chapel, born Lloyd Franklin Amburgey, ( married 1967 – annulled 1968 ); George Jones ( married 1969 – divorced 1975 ); Michael Tomlin ( married 1976 – annulled 1976 ); and singer / songwriter George Richey ( married 1978 – her death 1998 ).
" Tallis was also a teacher, not only of William Byrd, but also of Elway Bevin, an organist of Bristol Cathedral and gentleman of the Chapel Royal.
The chapel's choir, known as the Children of the Chapel Royal, achieved its greatest eminence during the reign of Elizabeth I, when William Byrd and Thomas Tallis were joint organists.
Although documentary proof is lacking, it is also possible that Byrd was instrumental in finding young Thomas a place as chorister in the Chapel Royal.
Byrd and Royal
* Royal Flush ( album ), an album by jazz trumpeter Donald Byrd
* 1961: Royal Flush-Donald Byrd
William Byrd II was a fellow of the Royal Society of Great Britain.
Byrd and 1572
Although it is uncertain whether Byrd was born in Lincoln as has been claimed, he was organist at the Cathedral from 1563 until 1572 and continued to compose works specifically for the cathedral choir after his departure.
Byrd and following
In 1583 De Monte sent Byrd his setting of verses 1 – 4 of Psalm 136 ( Super flumina Babylonis ), including the pointed question ’ How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land ?’ Byrd replied the following year with a setting of the defiant continuation, set, like de Monte's piece, in eight parts and incorporating a three-part canon by inversion.
Byrd died at his home in Jefferson County following a lengthy illness.
Then-Senate President Earl Ray Tomblin is the first person under the current state Constitution to assume the duties of Acting Governor following the November 15, 2010 resignation of Joe Manchin following his election to the United States Senate seat vacated by the death of Robert Byrd.
Among the many tributes received by his fellow Senators was the following from U. S. Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia:
From the period following Reconstruction in the late 19th century, continuing into the second half of the 20th century, Virginia's conservative Democrats and the Byrd Organization actively worked to maintain legal and cultural racial segregation in Virginia through the Jim Crow laws.
Hemelgarn racing lost their sponsor following the 2003 season and Buddy only completed in the Indy 500 in 2004 for Hemelgarn and was signed to drive the 2005 Indy 500 for the Byrd Brothers and Panther Racing, placing fifth in the race, ahead of Panther's two regular drivers Tomáš Enge and Tomas Scheckter in a race that many believe may have resurrected his career.
In December 2004, the Anaheim Angels signed Byrd to a $ 5 million ( USD ), one-year contract following the trade of right-handed pitcher Ramon Ortiz to the Cincinnati Reds.
In early March 2009, Tyrone Byrd was named the new principal following the search process for the replacement of Bob Snee, the position having been held in the interim by assistant-principal Mary McDowell.
Several miles of hiking trails meander through the park, mostly following Byrd Creek and adjacent hills.
After the hit release of " Try Me ", following nine relative failures, Brown rehired some of the original Flames including Johnny Terry, Nafloyd Scott and Bobby Byrd and adding new members Bobby Bennett and Lloyd Stallworth.
That year, the band began touring the chitlin ' circuit and began attracting a following, with Brown on lead vocals after he won his position after an onstage " fight " with Byrd over vocal power.
To perform his new songs, Byrd recruited Moskowitz from New York ( where she had moved following their separation ) to sing and write for his new band, as he had brought on bassist Rand Forbes, electric violinist Gordon Marron and drummer Craig Woodson ( another member of the New Music Workshop ) to form The United States of America.
Byrd and death
Byrd set three of the songs from Sidney's sonnet sequence Astrophel and Stella, as well as poems by other members of the Sidney circle, and also included two elegies on Sidney's death in the Battle of Zutphen in 1586.
* John William King was convicted of dragging James Byrd, an African-American, to his death in Jasper, Texas in 1998.
Byrd wrote the musical elegy Ye Sacred Muses on Tallis's death.
In June 1964, Byrd jammed with jazz legend Eric Dolphy in Paris just two weeks before Dolphy's death from insulin shock.
For example, Strom Thurmond, a U. S. senator from South Carolina, left office at age 100 after almost half a century in the body, while Robert Byrd of West Virginia was born in 1917 and served in the Senate from 1959 to his death in 2010.
At the time of his death, Saxbe was the second-oldest living Senator over all, after Harry F. Byrd, Jr. of Virginia, and the oldest living Republican Senator.
On October 20, 2009, with the death of retired U. S. Senator Clifford P. Hansen, a Wyoming Republican, Byrd became the oldest living former senator.
Byrd returned to Richmond upon the death of his father in 1705.
Byrd became very ambitious after his father ’ s death and sought the governorship of Virginia.
Byrd was, for a time, receiver general of Virginia and owned the large plantation ( and large debts ) his father left him upon his death.
Notable freshmen were future Democratic presidential contenders Eugene McCarthy ( D-MN ) and Ed Muskie ( D-ME ), as well as future Majority Leader Robert C. Byrd ( D-WV ), who served until his death in 2010, and is the longest-serving Senator in the history of the Senate.
Due to the declining health of U. S. Senator Robert C. Byrd, speculation focused on what Manchin's response would be if the Senator died, but the Governor consistently refused to comment on the subject prior to Byrd's death, except for stating that he would not appoint himself to the position.
At the time of his death, he was the third longest-serving Senator ( after Strom Thurmond and Robert Byrd ) among current members of the Senate.
He continued to serve under Governors Harry F. Byrd, John Garland Pollard, George C. Peery and James H. Price, until his death.
In 1958, he lost to Congressman Robert Byrd in his re-election bid in another racially charged election ( Byrd held the seat until his death in 2010, becoming the first U. S. senator to serve uninterrupted for more than 50 years ).
An infamous example of a dragging murder is that of the black American James Byrd, Jr., who was dragged to death by three white men in Jasper, Texas in 1998.
Its founding superintendent was Clifton Ellis Byrd, a Virginia native, who assumed the chief administrative position in 1907 and continued until his death in 1926.
A short time before his death, the Byrd Organization showed its first cracks when two of Harry, Sr .' s longtime allies were ousted in the Democratic primary by more liberal challengers.
Following the death of a member of the Avons, Brown's friend Bobby Byrd asked him to join his group, which Brown agreed to in 1954.
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