On its publication in Britain, Burmese Days earned a review in the New Statesman from Cyril Connolly as follows:

Norman Cyril Jackson VC ( 8 April 1919 – 26 March 1994 ) was a sergeant in the Royal Air Force who earned the Victoria Cross during a bombing raid on Schweinfurt, Germany in April 1944.

Cyril was reputedly the youngest of seven brothers ; he was born Constantine, but took the name Cyril upon becoming a monk shortly before his death, according to the " Vita Cyrilli " (" The Life of Cyril ").

The couple had seven children: Bridget Amice Beaumont ( 1902 – 1948 ); Francis William Lionel Beaumont ( 1903 – 1941 ) ( father of John Michael Beaumont, 22nd Seigneur of Sark ); Cyril John Astley Beaumont ( 1905 – 1973 ); Basil Ian Beaumont ( 1908 – 1909 ); Douce Alianore Daphne Beaumont ( 1910 – 1967 ); Richard Vyvyan Dudley Beaumont ( b. 1915 ); Jehanne Rosemary Ernestine Beaumont ( b. 1919 ).

During the previous seven years the popular taste had had turned toward the " service novel ", examples of which are Frank Mildmay ( 1829 ) by Frederick Marryat, Tom Cringle's Log ( 1895 ) by Michael Scott, The Subaltern ( 1825 ) by George Robert Gleig, Cyril Thornton ( 1827 ) by Thomas Hamilton, Stories of Waterloo ( 1833 ) by William Hamilton Maxwell, Ben Brace ( 1840 ) by Frederick Chamier and The Bivouac ( 1837 ), also by Maxwell.

This year was unusual as only seven students went on the tour: Cyril, Dominique, Cynthia, Jean-Charles, Brice, Marina, and Ludovic.

* Cyril Lucaris ( Patriarch Cyril I of Constantinople ), reigned for six terms between 1612 and 1638

* Cyril Domoraud ( b. 1971 ), Ivorian football player ( senior career 1992 – 2008 ) who played for the Côte d ' Ivoire national team ( 1995 – 2006 )

Cyril is counted among the Church Fathers and the Doctors of the Church, and his reputation within the Christian world has resulted in his titles Pillar of Faith and Seal of all the Fathers, but Theodosius II, the Roman Emperor, condemned him for behaving like a " proud pharaoh ", and the Nestorian bishops at the Council of Ephesus declared him a heretic, labelling him as a " monster, born and educated for the destruction of the church.

Cyril is well-known due to his dispute with Nestorius and his supporter Patriarch John of Antioch, whom Cyril excluded from the Council of Ephesus for arriving late.

However, the Christian population of Alexandria knew that Ammonius had been killed for his assault and not for his faith, and Cyril was obliged to remain silent about the events.

However, when John of Antioch and the other pro-Nestorius bishops finally reached Ephesus, they assembled their own Council, condemned Cyril for heresy, deposed him from his see, and labelled him as a monster, born and educated for the destruction of the church.

Cyril died about 444, but the controversies were to continue for decades, from the " Robber Synod " of Ephesus ( 449 ) to the Council of Chalcedon ( 451 ) and beyond.

Cyril of Alexandria became noted in Church history because of his spirited fight for the title " Theotokos " during the First Council of Ephesus ( 431 ).

Cyril is credited with creating a basis for all other mariological developments through his teaching of the blessed Virgin Mary, as the Mother of God.

Cyril was clearly held with high regard by many members of the Church and was able to sustain his place in the History of Jerusalem, despite serious charges and punishments that included banish for years at a time from his position and his city of Jerusalem.

The beginning of his episcopacy was remarkable for a prodigy by which is related by Socrates, Philostorgius, the chronicle of Alexandria, & c. St. Cyril, an eye-witness wrote immediately to the emperor Constantius, an exact account of this miraculous phenomenon: and his letter is quoted as a voucher for it by Sozomen, Theophanes, Eutychius, John of Nice, Glycas, and others.

Cyril became well known for his charitable works in the City of Jerusalem.

For example in the mid 350 ’ s the city of Jerusalem was hit with drastic food shortages at which point church historians Sozomen and Theodoret reported “ Cyril secretly sold sacramental ornaments of the church and a valuable holy robe, fashioned with gold thread that the emperor Constantine had once donated for the bishop to wear when he performed the rite of Baptism ”.

Cyril of Jerusalem is often renowned for his beliefs in the nature of Jesus and God.

Acacius, once a great ally of Cyril, began to harbor feelings of aggression towards him because Cyril never became a religious ally in the fight for Arianism.

In 1853, Pope Cyril IV established the first modern Coptic schools, including the first Egyptian school for girls.

Pope Cyril IV established very friendly relations with other denominations, to the extent that when the Greek Patriarch in Egypt had to absent himself for a long period of time outside the country, he left his Church under the guidance of the Coptic Patriarch.

But one does not have to rely on the victims for stories of violence: Ted Patrick, one of the most notorious deprogrammers used by CAGs ( who has spent several terms in prison for his exploits ) openly boasts about some of the violence he employed ; in November 1987, Cyril Vosper, a Committee member of the British cult-awareness group, FAIR, was convicted in Munich of " causing bodily harm " in the course of one of his many deprogramming attempts ; and a number of similar convictions are on record for prominent members of CAGs elsewhere.

Philip Flower's son Cyril Flower, 1st Baron Battersea, developed most of the mansion blocks on Prince of Wales Drive, London.

Cyril Fox became keeper of archaeology at the National Museum of Wales.

Sir Cyril Fred Fox rose from his first humble employment as a 16-year-old gardener to become Director of the National Museum of Wales from 1926 to 1948.

" However, during the reading of Leo's Tome, three passages were challenged as being potentially Nestorian, and their orthodoxy was defended by using the writings of Cyril.

Luckily during the time Cyril was bishop of Jerusalem.

Other proposals include the Samaritan alphabet, which Cyril learned during his journey to the Khazars in Cherson.

Canadian military attaché Herbert Cyril Thacker served in the field with Japanese forces in the Russo – Japanese War ( 1904 – 05 ), for which the Japanese government awarded him the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Third Class and the Japanese War medal for service during that campaign.

Targets during this period included Marcus Garvey ; Rose Pastor Stokes and Cyril Briggs ; Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman ; and future Supreme Court justice Felix Frankfurter, whom Hoover maintained was " the most dangerous man in the United States ".

Measurements taken by Cyril Hazard and John Bolton during one of the occultations using the Parkes Radio Telescope allowed Maarten Schmidt to optically identify the object and obtain an optical spectrum using the 200-inch Hale Telescope on Mount Palomar.

Several members of the Imperial Family, including Grand Duke Cyril Vladimirovich of Russia, managed to establish good relations with the interim government and eventually fled the country during the October Revolution.

Cultural achievements of the Polatsk period include the work of the nun Euphrosyne of Polatsk ( 1120 – 73 ), who built monasteries, transcribed books, promoted literacy and sponsored art ( including local artisan Lazarus Bohsha's famous " Cross of Euphrosyne ", a national symbol and treasure stolen during World War II ), and the prolific, original Church Slavonic sermons and writings of Bishop Cyril of Turau ( 1130 – 82 ).

The language has a Southern Slavic basis with an admixture of Western Slavic features inherited during the mission of Saints Cyril and Methodius to Great Moravia ( 863 – 885 ).

On stage during the war years, Holloway appeared in revues, first Up and Doing, with Henson, Binnie Hale and Cyril Ritchard in 1940 and 1941, and then Fine and Dandy, with Henson, Dorothy Dickson, Douglas Byng and Graham Payn.

During the 1950s, Bogarde came to prominence playing a hoodlum who shoots and kills a police constable in The Blue Lamp ( 1950 ) co-starring Jack Warner and Bernard Lee ; a handsome artist who comes to rescue of Jean Simmons during the World's Fair in Paris in So Long at the Fair, a film noir thriller ; an accidental murderer who befriends a young boy played by Jon Whiteley in Hunted ( aka The Stranger in Between ) ( 1952 ); in Appointment in London ( 1953 ) as a young Wing-Commander in Bomber Command who, against orders, opts to fly his 90th mission with his men in a major air offensive against the Germans ; an unjustly imprisoned man who regains hope in clearing his name when he learns his sweetheart, Mai Zetterling, is still alive in Desperate Moment ( 1953 ); Doctor in the House ( 1954 ), as a medical student, in a film that made Bogarde one of the most popular British stars of the 1950s, and co-starring Kenneth More, Donald Sinden and James Robertson Justice as their crabby mentor ; The Sleeping Tiger ( 1954 ), playing a neurotic criminal with co-star Alexis Smith, and Bogarde's first film for American expatriate director Joseph Losey ; Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ), co-starring Brigitte Bardot in one of her first film roles ; as a returning Colonial who fights the Mau-Mau with Virginia McKenna and Donald Sinden in Simba ( 1955 ); Cast a Dark Shadow ( 1955 ), as a man who marries women for money and then murders them ; The Spanish Gardener ( 1956 ), co-starring Michael Hordern, Jon Whiteley, and Cyril Cusack ; Doctor at Large ( 1957 ), again with Donald Sinden, another entry in the " Doctor films series ", co-starring later Bond-girl Shirley Eaton ; the Powell and Pressburger production Ill Met by Moonlight ( 1957 ) co-starring Marius Goring as the German General Kreipe, kidnapped on Crete by Patrick " Paddy " Leigh Fermor ( Bogarde ) and a fellow band of adventurers based on W. Stanley Moss ' real-life account of the WW2 caper ; A Tale of Two Cities ( 1958 ), a faithful retelling of Charles Dickens ' classic ; as a Flt.

Bowra had learnt the value of poetry during his experiences of the First World War, and Cyril Connolly wrote that, " He saw human life as a tragedy in which great poets were the heroes who fought back and tried to give life a meaning ".

On being demobilised in England, in early 1919, he joined Tasmanian Cyril Maddocks, to form Kingsford Smith, Maddocks Aeros Ltd., flying a joy-riding service mainly in the North of England, during the summer of 1919, initially using surplus DH. 6 trainers, then surplus B. E. 2s.

Millions came to love the microphone-swinging Caray, continuing his White Sox practice of leading the home crowd in singing " Take Me Out To The Ball Game " during the seventh inning stretch, mimicking his mannerisms, his gravelly voice, his habit of mispronouncing or slurring some players ' names ( which some of the players themselves mimicked in turn ), and even his trademark barrel-shaped wide-rimmed glasses which were prescribed by Dr. Cyril Nierman O. D.

Mutimir was baptized by missionaries Cyril and Methodius during the rule of Byzantine Emperor Basil I ( 867 – 886 ), who sent the priests after Mutimir acknowledged Byzantine suzerainty.

Cyril Tourneur ( 1575 – 28 February 1626 ) was an English dramatist who enjoyed his greatest success during the reign of King James I of England.

Osborne Gordon, the influential Oxford don, Sir John Josiah Guest, engineer, entrepreneur, and Member of Parliament, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, the Hollywood character actor, Ralph Lingen, 1st Baron Lingen, an influential Victorian civil servant ; Dr William Macmichael, physician to Kings George IV and William IV and author of The Gold-Headed Cane, Bishop Thomas Percy, Bishop of Dromore and author of Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Henry John Roby, the classical scholar, writer on Roman law, and Member of Parliament, Bishop Francis Henry Thicknesse, inaugural Suffragan Bishop of Leicester, General Sir Charles Warren, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police during the period of the Jack the Ripper Murders and a General in the Second Boer War, and Cyril Washbrook, the cricketer who played for Lancashire and England.

Cultural achievements of the medieval period include the work of the nun Euphrosyne of Polotsk ( 1120 – 1173 ), who built monasteries, transcribed books, promoted literacy and sponsored art ( including local artisan Lazarus Bohsha's famous " Cross of Saint Euphrosyne ," a national symbol and treasure lost during World War II ), and the prolific, original Church Slavonic sermons and writings of Bishop Cyril of Turaw ( 1130 – 1182 ).

However they won the Welsh Cup after beating Wrexham 2 – 0 away after a replay, Cyril Pearce scored 35 league goals from 40 games league appearances during the season.

Cyril Mills served with MI5 during the Second World War and was the spymaster who controlled Juan Pujol, known as ' Garbo '.

The custom in its modern state was created with the exposure to Christianity during the reign of emperor Heraclius ( 610-641 ) or later at the time of the final Christianization of the Serbs during the rule of Basil I ( 867-886 ) by Byzantine missionairies of Constantinople Cyril and Methodius.

Also during his reign, Al-Mutawakkil met the famous Byzantine theologian Cyril the Philosopher, who was sent to tighten the diplomatic relations between the Empire and the Caliphate in a state mission by the Emperor Michael III.

Cyril Ambrose Walton, was also killed during the action.