He returned to Edinburgh telling Croft he had to return to his flock, and suggested that Henry Balnaves should go to Cecil.

Croft had been very impressed with the actor and knew that he had the ability to play a man much older than his real age.

The play had its first English production in 1946 at the New Theatre in London with Ralph Richardson as Inspector Goole, Harry Andrews as Gerald Croft, Margaret Leighton as Sheila Birling, Julian Mitchell as Arthur Birling, Marian Spencer as Sybil Birling and Alec Guinness as Eric Birling.

A few days previously he had experienced chest pains but had continued working and was eagerly anticipating a stay with his sister at Rugby, when he collapsed and died during a visit from his friends Elizabeth Croft and Archibald Keightley.

Herbert Croft asserted that Young made £ 3000 by his satires, which compensated losses he had suffered in the South Sea Bubble.

Croft was born into a showbiz family: his mother, Annie Croft ( 1896 – 1995 ), was a famous stage actress and his father, Reginald Sharland ( 1886 – 1944 ), had a successful career as a radio actor in Hollywood.

Through his lifelong friend, composer / conductor Cyril Ornadel, Croft met the producer Fiona Bentley, who had obtained rights to adapt and musicalise a number of Beatrix Potter stories.

Its producers and writers ( Jimmy Perry and David Croft ) had themselves been redcoats at Butlins.

At the 2001 Census, Croft had the following demographics:

In March 2004, producer Lloyd Levin said that Cradle of Life had earned enough internationally for Paramount to bankroll a second sequel, but any hopes of it going into production were soon quelled by Jolie's announcement that she had no desire to play Lara Croft a third time.

The club had suffered from the losses of Gary Croft, who made a £ 1. 5 million move to Blackburn Rovers and ever present goalkeeper Paul Crichton.

Mary Jane Croft, who had costarred on the last three seasons of The Lucy Show, also became a regular on the new series, and Ball's longtime costar Vivian Vance also made numerous guest appearances as Vivian Jones through the series ' run.

In writing the series, the two writers drew on research and personal accounts from the period ; Jimmy Perry's grandfather had been in service as a butler and David Croft's mother, Anne Croft, had been a musical comedy star in the 1920s, giving them some ideas of life both above and below stairs.

Jolie had just arrived from the set of Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life ( 2003 ) and agreed to work on the movie for three days.

In July 2009, David Croft, the creator of Are You Being Served ?, unveiled a Heritage Foundation commemorative plaque at The Shepherds Tavern in London, which Richard's parents had run.

A hierarchy of grammatical relations had already been formulated to help explain possibilities for relative clause formation ( first presented as Keenan and Comrie ’ s ( 1972 ) NP accessibility hierarchy ; see Croft 1990: 147 ), and Comrie argued that a similar hierarchy was in play, at least in some constructions, in the marking of the original A argument when a base transitive clause is causativized.

On 23 February 2006, it was revealed that Hawes had replaced Jonell Elliott as the voice of Lara Croft.

Stratford Hall Manor had three great Open Fields: Stregmer, Hatters Field and East Croft.

During all of the Shade's escapades, he had been pursued quite actively by the Ludlows, whom he abated with little remorse, killing dozens of the family before meeting Marguerite Croft, a young lady, with whom he fell in love and established with in Paris during the thirties.

The following year, Croft succeeded Blow ( who had lately died ) as organist of Westminster Abbey.

Daldry returned to re-direct the production and casting includes Nicholas Woodeson returning to the role of Inspector Goole ( he previously took over that role from Kenneth Cranham during the same production's Broadway run in 1994 ) and David Roper as Arthur Birling, Sandra Duncan as Sybil Birling, Marianne Oldham as Sheila Birling, Robin Whiting as Eric Birling, Timothy Watson as Gerald Croft and Diana Payne Myers as Edna.

Lara Croft is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the Square Enix ( previously Eidos Interactive ) video game series Tomb Raider.

Lara Croft primarily appears in the Tomb Raider video game series published by Square Enix Europe ( previously Eidos Interactive ).

In 2012, her son successfully contested the Culcheth, Glazebury and Croft ward in that year's Warrington Borough Council elections, polling 2, 134 votes ( and claiming a 784 majority ) in what was previously a staunchly Conservative seat and, by doing so, deposing the then-Leader of the Conservative Group at the Town Hall.

Later in the book, a former general's aide, Hearn, becomes the Lieutenant of the squad, to the ire of Croft, the ruthless Sergeant previously in command, who withholds information from Lieutenant Hearn, leading to Hearn's death in combat.

Croft had previously had a recurring role as Audrey Simmons during the show's early seasons set in Danfield, New York.

* Mary Jane Croft as Lucy's socialite school chum Cynthia Harcourt, Evelyn Bigsby (" Return Home from Europe ") and later as Connecticut neighbor Betty Ramsey

When Vance left The Lucy Show after the 1964-1965 season, Croft became Lucy's new sidekick, Mary Jane Lewis.

At dinner at the Birlings ' home in 1912, Arthur Birling, a wealthy mill owner and local politician, and his family are celebrating the engagement of daughter Sheila to Gerald Croft, son of a competitor of Birling's.

Stewart Graham Menzies was born in London into an immensely wealthy family, as the second son of John Graham Menzies and Susannah West Wilson, daughter of Arthur Wilson of Tranby Croft.

New Croft Hall, also in Urmston, was the residence of a wealthy freeman and may have been moated.

Mary Jane Croft ( February 15, 1916 – August 24, 1999 ) was an American actress best known for her roles as Betty Ramsey on I Love Lucy, Mary Jane Lewis on The Lucy Show and Here's Lucy, and Clara Randolph on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet.

There Lucy Ricardo befriended a new neighbor, Betty Ramsey ( portrayed by Croft ), who was very socially conscious and tended to get Lucy involved in adventures different from those that involved Ethel Mertz ( Vivian Vance ).

Croft continued to act in television for several years after the end of Here's Lucy, even reuniting with Ball in 1977 in the special, Lucy Calls the President.

* Lucy Clarkson, Lara Croft Tomb Raider model, born in Wath-upon-Dearne and educated at Wath Comprehensive School

One of the most common manifestations of stanzaic form in poetry in English ( and in other Western European languages ) is represented in texts for church hymns, such as the first three stanzas ( of nine ) from a poem by Isaac Watts ( from 1719 ) cited immediately below ( in this case, each stanza is to be sung to the same hymn tune, composed earlier by William Croft in 1708 ):

Tomb Raider is a media franchise consisting of video games, comic books, novels, theme park rides and movies, centring around the adventures of the fictional English archaeologist Lara Croft.

Two movies — Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life — have been produced starring American actress Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft, the first of which is still the highest-grossing film adaptation of a video game ever released in US, and third worldwide.

The central character in Tomb Raider is the English archaeologist Lara Croft, a female adventurer in search of ancient relics.

For example, in the first Tomb Raider game manual, Lara Croft is said to have survived a plane crash in the Himalayas at the age of twenty one, and was later disowned by her parents, who are still living.

During the reign of Elizabeth I, the college also acquired the area formerly known as Volney's Croft, which today is the area of St Peter's Terrace, the William Stone Building and the Scholars ' Garden.

Gilmore is co-author with Bill Croft of the 1985 Bootstrap Protocol ( RFC 951 ), which evolved into DHCP, the primary way to obtain an IP address upon joining an Ethernet or wireless network.

The son of Sir George Croft of Crofts Limited, a competitor of Birling and Company, he is at the Birling residence to celebrate his recent engagement to Sheila Birling.

Margaret Rutherford was educated at Wimbledon High School, and, from the age of about 13, at Raven's Croft School, a boarding school at Sutton Avenue, Seaford, where she is listed, aged 18, on the 1911 census.

Incorporated in 1873, the city is named for pioneer James Croft, who donated the land which the city occupies.

There is also a corner named after him at the Croft racing circuit at Croft on Tees in North Yorkshire.

La Croft is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Columbiana County, Ohio, United States.

La Croft is located at.

In the Fens and Norfolk Marshland, it was quite possible for the course of a river to change as the result of a flooding episode so it is not surprising to find that the Great Ouse used to enter The Wash by way of the Old Croft River, the Wellstream and Wisbech ( the Ouse beach ).

Rastrick has its own Library which can be found on Crowtrees Lane and a Doctors surgery at Rastrick Health Centre which is on Chapel Croft.

Although Farnham is documented in Saxon texts and most of the local names are derived from their language, there is only one fully attested Saxon site in Farnham, just off the lower part of Firgrove Hill, where a road called Saxon Croft is now sited.

Rose port is a very recent variation on the market, first released in 2008 by Poças and by Croft, part of the Taylor Fladgate Partnership.

Pocklington Town Council is responsible for the cemetery, allotments, the Croft play-park and the Arts Centre within Pocklington.

It Ain't Half Hot Mum is a British sitcom about the adventures of a Royal Artillery Concert Party, broadcast on the BBC between 1974 and 1981, and written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft.