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Mr. Devey first came to Sprague in 1953 as a Product Specialist in the Field Engineering Department, coming from the Office of Naval Research in Washington, D. C., where he was an electronic scientist engaged in undersea warfare studies.
At the beginning of the 20th century a new form of design arts and crafts became popular, the architectural form of this style, which had evolved from the 19th century designs of such architects as George Devey, was championed by Edwin Lutyens.
Also around this time another architect, George Devey, was commissioned to build half-timbered cottages on the estate along with a dairy and boathouse.
In 1873 a farm house in the parish known as Ascott Hall was bought by Baron Mayer de Rothschild he gave it to his nephew Leopold de Rothschild who employed the architect George Devey to enlarge the property into a substantial country house.
Leopold de Rothschild, whose principal country residence was Gunnersbury Park, used Ascott at first as a hunting box, but realising the limitations imposed by its modest size, in 1874 he employed the architect George Devey to enlarge it.
The project became a lifetime work for Devey as the house was continually expanded during the remainder of the 19th century.
On the death of Baron Mayer in 1877 his heiress Hannah de Rothschild continued the building of the village using another architect George Devey ( his work was a forerunner of the arts and crafts movement ).
The Old Rectory to the west of the church dates from 1864 and was built by George Devey for the Earl of Ducie.
The main feature of the room is the ceiling, which is the work of the Victorian architect George Devey who was commissioned by the Rothschild family in the 1880s to undertake changes to The King's Head.
The architect involved was George Devey, who was later to transform another Rothschild property, Ascott House.
George Devey ( 1820 – 1886 ) was a British architect, born in London, the second son of Frederick and Ann Devey.
Devey was educated in London, after leaving school he initially studied art, with an ambition to become a professional artist.
Devey was replaced by John Aspell, the Mentmore Clerk of Works who had worked under Devey.
Devey was largely responsible for Ascott House the neo-Tudor extravaganza developed from a small half timbered farmhouse.
Devey was also responsible for the large cottages, on the Green, near the entrance of Ascott House, ( now the Ascott Estate Office ); these are very similar to those he designed at St. Albans's Court, Kent in the late 1880s.
A further Rothschild house by Devey was Aston Clinton, there he worked with George Stokes.
George Devey was a man capable of working on more than one project at a time.
After the plans were drawn up, his patroness decided water at night was bad for her health Since the house was in a bend of the River Thame, rather than abandon the site, she decided Devey must design a house without bedrooms, and she would decamp every evening to her brother's home, Waddesdon Manor.
George Devey was also interested in garden design and played an important role in not only the houses he designed, but also in garden buildings and folleys.
John Henry George " Jack " Devey ( 26 December 1866 – 11 October 1940 ) was a football player.

Devey and had
A nearby ancillary property, The Pavilion at Eythrope, had been constructed for Alice de Rothschild by the architect George Devey.
For her architect she spurned Gabriel-Hippolyte Destailleur, who had designed Waddesdon, and instead chose one of the family's other favourite architects George Devey.
Devey had worked at Ascott House, Aston Clinton House and Mentmore Towers.
Devey attempted to design a house that rambled as though it had grown and developed over centuries.
During his professional career Devey had a London office in Great Marlborough Street, where he specialised in domestic architecture, lodges, cottages and country mansions.

Devey and style
George Devey ( 1820 – 1886 ) and the better-known Norman Shaw ( 1831 – 1912 ) popularized the Queen Anne style of British architecture of the industrial age in the 1870s.
Similar in nature to the work of George Devey at a similar time in England, the style was a form of idealised Tudor with half-timbered black beams set into white painted walls, beneath beamed gables and tiled roofs.
The earliest examples of the style originate with the works of such eminent architects as Norman Shaw and George Devey, in what at the time was thought of as a neo-Tudor design.
This was designed by Devey for the Rothschild family who were among the earliest patrons and promoters of this style.

Devey and .
The appointment of Gilbert B. Devey as General Manager of VecTrol Engineering, Inc., of Stamford, Connecticut, a leading manufacturer of thyratron and silicon controlled rectifier electrical controls, has been announced by David B. Peck, Vice President, Special Products.
Mr. Devey will be responsible for the commercial expansion of VecTrol's line of electronic and electrical power control components as furnished to end equipment manufacturers, working closely with Walter J. Brown, President and Director of Engineering of the recently acquired Sprague subsidiary.
Mr. Devey is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and attended the United States Naval Academy Post-Graduate School specializing in electronic engineering.
Mr. Devey is a member of the Institute of Radio Engineers, and is chairman of the Electronic Industries Association Committee on Printed and Modular Components.
A third inn, known as the Rosebery Arms, designed by the Victorian architect George Devey has recently been converted into houses.
Usually Devey designed the estate cottages, schools and village halls on the Rothschild's estate villages.
This pool, originally created for skating, is the heart of a Monet-style garden, complete with a thatched summerhouse also designed by George Devey.
Two cottages at Mentmore designed to appear as one house, typical of those designed by George Devey for Hannah de Rothschild.
After her marriage to the 5th Earl of Rosebery the building continued with another architect John Aspell ; his work appears similar to that of Devey, but has less refinement and is clearly of a cheaper construction.
The design of the house while similar to Ascott, does not have the same lightness of touch as Ascott, so is unlikely to have been designed by Ascott's architect George Devey.
George Devey inserted the oak panels.

was and forerunner
Though his election was interpreted by many Southerners as the forerunner of a dangerous shift in the federal balance in favor of the Union, Lincoln himself proposed no such change in the rights the Constitution gave the states.
Lublin generally was the forerunner of what would happen elsewhere.
Anacharsis (; ) was a Scythian philosopher who travelled from his homeland on the northern shores of the Black Sea to Athens in the early 6th century BC and made a great impression as a forthright, outspoken " barbarian ", apparently a forerunner of the Cynics, though none of his works have survived.
The reports of his philosophical views suggest that he was a forerunner of the Greek skeptics.
It is the 1924 tour that is credited as being the first in which the team were referred to as " the Lions ", the irony being that it was on this tour that the single lion-rampant crest was replaced with the forerunner of the four-quartered badge with the symbols of the four represented unions, that is still worn today.
It is regarded as the forerunner of the modern bicycle and was introduced by Drais to the public in Mannheim in summer 1817 and in Paris in 1818.
Positive-Historical Judaism, the intellectual forerunner to Conservative Judaism, was developed as a school of thought in the 1840s and 1850s in Germany.
Although the Rutgers-Princeton game was undoubtedly different from what we today know as American football, it was the forerunner of what evolved into American football.
When he suspected that the American Office of Strategic Services ( forerunner of the CIA ) was showing an interest in seizing control of Chiang's regime, Chiang ordered the plotters arrested and executed.
The Concordat of London in 1107 was a forerunner of the compromise that was taken up in the Concordat of Worms.
However, his style of painting, which was a forerunner of what was later called “ Impressionism ,” did not do well.
The forerunner of today's City University of New York was governed by the Board of Education of New York City.
Until recently, Hume was seen as a forerunner of the logical positivist movement ; a form of anti-metaphysical empiricism.
It was the first platform specifically designed for building Information Centers ( a forerunner of contemporary Enterprise Data Warehousing platforms )
According to Dumezil the forerunner of all frame gods is an Indian epic hero who was the image ( avatar ) of the Vedic god Dyaus.
" Even today, though these errors have been recognized for more than a century, the general notion that Lao Tzu was Christ's forerunner has lost none of its romantic appeal.
This model was the direct forerunner of the first post-war Audi, the F103.
The Japanese torpedo boatKotaka ( Falcon ) of 1885 was " the forerunner of torpedo boat destroyers that appeared a decade later ".
In some groups, the slap bass was utilized as band percussion in lieu of a drummer ; such was the case with Bill Haley & His Saddlemen ( the forerunner group to the Comets ), which did not use drummers on recordings and live performances until late 1952 ; prior to this the slap bass was relied on for percussion, including on recordings such as Haley's versions of Rock the Joint and Rocket 88.

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