" Eleanor Audeley ", wife of Sir John Davies, is said to have been brought before the High Commission in 1634 for extravagances, stimulated by the discovery that her name could be transposed to " Reveale, O Daniel ", and to have been laughed out of court by another anagram submitted by Sir John Lambe, the dean of the Arches, " Dame Eleanor Davies ", " Never soe mad a ladie ".

Head of Programmes Wales at the BBC, Aneirin Talfan Davies, who commissioned several of Thomas ' early radio talks, believed that the poet's " whole attitude is that of the medieval bards.

It is said that during a visit to Alde House around 1860, one evening while sitting by the fireside, Elizabeth and Emily Davies selected careers for advancing the frontiers of women's rights ; Elizabeth was to open the medical profession to women, Emily the doors to a university education for women, while 13-year-old Millicent was allocated politics and votes for women.

While the term grimoire is originally European, and many Europeans throughout history, particularly ceremonial magicians and cunning folk, have made use of grimoires, the historian Owen Davies noted that similar such books can be found all across the world, ranging from Jamaica to Sumatra, and he also noted that the first such grimoires could be found not in Europe but in the Ancient Near East.

Television series executive producer Russell T Davies wrote in Doctor Who Magazine # 356 that there is no connection between the War of the books and the Time War of the television series.

Hobart's major newspaper is The Mercury, which was founded by John Davies in 1854 and has been continually published ever since.

So the title itself is Davies ' nod to Spengler.

For example, in Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood, created by Russell T Davies, a drug used to erase the memory of characters is called " retcon "; the use of the drug is often referred to by characters as " retconning ".

In a note, Kirby states, " A very abbreviated list of twentieth-century writers on the NT who do not believe that the empty tomb is historically reliable: Marcus Borg, Günther Bornkamm, Gerald Boldock Bostock, Rudolf Bultmann, Peter Carnley, John Dominic Crossan, Stevan Davies, Maurice Goguel, Michael Goulder, Hans Grass, Charles Guignebert, Uta Ranke-Heinemann, Randel Helms, Herman Hendrikx, Roy Hoover, Helmut Koester, Hans Küng, Alfred Loisy, Burton L. Mack, Willi Marxsen, Gerd Lüdemann, Norman Perrin, Robert M. Price, Marianne Sawicki, John Shelby Spong, Howard M. Teeple, and John T.

Afterwards, it follows Tom Hanks as United States Army Rangers Captain John H. Miller and seven other soldiers ( Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, Barry Pepper, Vin Diesel, Giovanni Ribisi, Adam Goldberg, and Jeremy Davies ) as they search for a paratrooper, Private First Class James Francis Ryan ( Matt Damon ), who is the last-surviving brother of four servicemen.

Dillon-Lee is killed outside his home in Dortmund, Germany and Davies is killed at a railway station in Lichfield, England.

* October 16 – England's first residential university-level women's college, the College for Women, predecessor of Girton College, Cambridge, is founded at Hitchin by Emily Davies and Barbara Bodichon.

* English scientist Lord John Davies first observes what is later recognised as respiratory collapse

The English composer Peter Maxwell Davies has written eight symphonies, and is completing a ninth in 2012.

The constituency has returned a Conservative MP at most recent elections ; the current member is David Davies, first elected in 2005.

Ambassador Joseph Davies, author of Mission to Moscow, wrote that " It is generally accepted by members of the Diplomatic Corps that the accused must have been guilty of an offense which in the Soviet Union would merit the death penalty ".

Professor Davies tells us that Gerald, whom he calls " an admirable story-teller ", is the only source for some of the most famous of the Welsh folk tales including the declaration of the old man of Pencader to Henry II which concludes Descriptio Cambriae: " This nation, O King, may now, as in former times, be harassed, and in a great measure weakened and destroyed by your and other powers, and it will also prevail by its laudable exertions, but it can never be totally subdued through the wrath of man, unless the wrath of God shall concur.

The ward is represented by two councillors, Kirsty Davies and Gareth Aubrey, both members of the Liberal Democrat Party.

The history of the analysis of The Taming of the Shrew is saturated with controversy almost from its inception, something Stevie Davies summarises when she writes that response to The Shrew " is dominated by feelings of unease and embarrassment, accompanied by the desire to prove that Shakespeare cannot have meant what he seems to be saying ; and that therefore he cannot really be saying it.

Arguably, the best-known living Canadian writer internationally ( especially since the deaths of Robertson Davies and Mordecai Richler ) is Margaret Atwood, a prolific novelist, poet, and literary critic.

Rodolphe von Hofmannsthal, great-grandson of Hugo, is married to Lady Frances von Hofmannsthal, née Armstrong-Jones, daughter of the 1st Earl of Snowdon ( former husband of Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon ) and his second wife, Lucy Mary Davies.

According to Briggs, permission from Russell T Davies, producer and creator of The Sarah Jane Adventures, had been secured that would have allowed the character and actress Elisabeth Sladen to return to Big Finish for a series of stories alongside Tom Baker's Fourth Doctor, but Sladen's illness and death in April 2011 put an end to those plans.

World in Action employed many leading journalists, among them John Pilger ; Michael Parkinson ; Gordon Burns ; Rob Rohrer ; Nick Davies, Ed Vulliamy and David Leigh of The Guardian ; Alasdair Palmer of the Sunday Telegraph ; John Ware, BBC Panoramas leading investigative reporter ; Anthony Wilson, whose second career as a music impresario was immortalised in the feature film 24 Hour Party People ; Michael Gillard, creator of the Slicker business pages in the satirical magazine Private Eye ; Donal MacIntyre ; the writer Mark Hollingsworth ; Quentin McDermott, since 1999 a leading investigative reporter for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation ; Tony Watson, editor of the Yorkshire Post for 13 years and editor-in-chief of the Press Association from December 2006 ; and Andrew Jennings, author of Lords of the Rings, who has campaigned vigorously for more than a decade against corruption in international sport.

Series creator Russell T Davies has said that he hopes to defy audience expectations of monosexual characters: " Without making it political or dull, this is going to be a very bisexual programme.

Doctor Who 2005-10 executive producer and creator of The Sarah Jane Adventures Russell T Davies later indicated in an interview with Doctor Who Magazine that Jo's return would be more than a " cameo ", and a " full-blooded " appearance.

John " Jack " Llewelyn Davies ( 11 September 1894 – 17 September 1959 ), was the second eldest of the Llewelyn Davies boys befriended by Peter Pan creator J. M. Barrie, and one of the inspirations for the boy characters in the famous story of Neverland.

The show's creator, Andrew Davies, went on to author a series of Marmalade Atkins books.

Russell T Davies, responsible for the latest Doctor Who revival in its earlier seasons, began working in the BBC children's department in the 1990s.

In 1984 Sykes played the Genie in the children's film Gabrielle and the Doodleman, which also featured Windsor Davies ( who would also appear with Sykes in the BBC's Gormenghast in 2000 ), Bob Todd, Lynsey De Paul and Gareth Hunt.

Notable programmes produced by Southern Television over the years included the flagship regional news magazine Day by Day presented by an able team of presenters including Barry Westwood, Peter Clark, and long-serving weatherman Trevor Baker ; Out of Town, a countryside programme introduced by Jack Hargreaves, who would later join Southern's board of directors ; How, a children's science programme also featuring Hargreaves along with Fred Dinenage, Bunty James ( later replaced by Marian Davies ) and Jon Miller ; Freewheelers, a children's spy series ; Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years and Worzel Gummidge, starring Jon Pertwee as the eponymous walking scarecrow.

Russell T Davies was a BBC staff Producer working for the children's department at BBC Manchester, running the summertime activity show Why Don't You?

Television Heaven's review concluded by saying, " By turns amusing, aware, suspenseful, exciting and imaginative, ' Dark Season ' stands as an almost criminally overlooked example of children's genre television of the highest quality, and also as an early indication of a future major creative talent in the form of Russell T Davies taking his first steps on the long and winding creative road to a glittering future.

* Stephen Davies ( born 1976 ), children's author

* Nicola Davies, English children's author

In March 2007 Andersen Press published Sophie and the Locust Curse, a novel by British children's author Stephen Davies about the devastating impact of the 2004 locust swarm on communities in the Sahel region of Burkina Faso.

In 1972 Davies launched his first business-Schoolcare, a mail order company specialising in the supply of children's school uniforms.

Gorom-Gorom is the setting for the Sophie books, written by British children's author Stephen Davies: Sophie and the Albino Camel ( 2006, Andersen Press ), Sophie and the Locust Curse ( 2007 ) and Sophie and the Pancake Plot ( 2008 ).

In 2007 Andersen Press published ' The Yellowcake Conspiracy ', a novel by British children's author Stephen Davies.

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Marmalade Atkins is a children's fictional character created by the writer Andrew Davies.

From 1968 to 1971, the long-running British children's comic Buster featured a comic strip Freddie " Parrot-Face " Davies, based upon the adventures of Freddie and his " boodgies ".