* December 14 – Du Pré Alexander, 2nd Earl of Caledon, Irish peer, landlord and colonial administrator ( d. 1839 )

The Jacqueline Du Pré Music Building

In addition, the Jacqueline Du Pré Music Building is a concert venue named after the famous cellist who was an honorary fellow of the college.

The Jacqueline Du Pré Music Building ( JdP ) is a part of St Hilda's College.

Named after British cellist Jacqueline Du Pré, an honorary fellow of the College, the JdP was the first purpose-built concert hall to be built in Oxford since the Holywell Music Room in 1742.

* Jacqueline Du Pré

Du Pré was born in Oxford, England, the second child of Derek and Iris du Pré.

Du Pré became a favourite at the Proms, performing every year until 1969.

Du Pré also performed the Elgar with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Antal Doráti for her United States début, at Carnegie Hall on 14 May 1965.

Du Pré performed with several prestigious orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony, London Philharmonic, New Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra.

Du Pré recalled that she had problems judging the weight of the bow, and just opening the cello case had become difficult.

Du Pré died in London on 19 October 1987 at 42, and is buried in Golders Green Jewish Cemetery.

Du Pré ’ s sister Hilary married conductor Christopher " Kiffer " Finzi, and the couple had four children.

Du Pré received several fellowships from music academies and honorary doctorate degrees universities for her outstanding contributions to music in general and her instrument in particular.

Alternative attributions include, among many others ( such as Walter Bagehot and Arthur James Balfour ) the radical journalist and politician Henry Du Pré Labouchère ( 1831 – 1912 ), and Leonard H. Courtney, who used the phrase in 1895 and two years later became president of the Royal Statistical Society.

Robert Alexander, son of Alderman Nathaniel Alexander and elder brother of the 1st Earl of Caledon, had several sons, including Nathaniel Alexander, Bishop of Meath ; Henry Alexander, MP for the Londonderry City and for Old Sarum ; Lieutenant-General William Alexander, Mayor of Derry ; James Alexander, MP for Old Sarum ; and Joseph Josias Du Pré Alexander, MP for Old Sarum.

Henry Du Pré Labouchère ( 9 November 1831 – 15 January 1912 ) was an English politician, writer, publisher and theatre owner in the Victorian and Edwardian eras.

His mother, Mary Louisa née Du Pré ( 1799 – 1863 ) was from an English family.

She left the estate to her stepsister Elizabeth, widow of William Weddell MP, who sold it to Josias Du Pré Porcher in 1805.

He was born on 4 September 1880 to Sophia and Pascoe Du Pré Grenfell.

* Jacqueline Du Pré Music Building

* Du Pré, R. H. ( 1996 ) Historical positioning.

She started teaching in 1846 at a boarding school in Charleston run by a Mrs. Du Pré.

Du Bois Library is the main library on campus, with resources primarily in humanities and social and behavioral sciences.

While designed for native Vietnamese speakers, it required the user to have some understanding of chữ Hán, and thus chữ Nôm was used primarily for literary writings by cultural elites ( such as the poetry of Nguyễn Du and Hồ Xuân Hương ), while almost all other official writings and documents continued to be written in Hán Văn ( classical Chinese ) until the 20th century.

Du Pont analysis enables the third party ( relying primarily on the financial statements ) to compare leverage with other financial elements that determine ROE among similar companies.

Collins writes " Du Bois saw race, class, and nation not primarily as personal identity categories but as social hierarchies that shaped African American access to status, poverty, and power " ( 2000, pg.

* 1981, Timothy Dalton played Antony and Carmen Du Sautoy played Cleopatra at the Mermaid Theatre.

In 1930 Johnson played in Cynara with Sir Gerald Du Maurier and Gladys Cooper.

'" The last of Gold's Discovering Lost Musicals roles in the series for almost a decade was as May Daly / Mme Du Barry in DuBarry Was a Lady at Her Majesty's Theatre in November 2001 ( which she had also played as part of the series in 1993 ).

* Oboi was played by Du Yu Lu in the TV series The Secret History of Kangxi.

After two back-to-back warm-up shows in Philadelphia, including one billed under the pseudonym Les Enfants Du Prague, they played the Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin, Texas.

Du Preez mostly played in the flank or lock positions.

In 1942 alone his salary at the Café Society went up from US $ 40 a week to US $ 450 ; he appeared on radio shows, opened in two Broadway shows ( Keep Them Laughing, Top-Notchers ), played at the Paramount Theatre, appeared in an MGM movie ( Du Barry Was a Lady ), and booked into La Martinique at US $ 4, 000 a week.

Harrison's mentor Gerald Du Maurier played the nephew in the original production.

The Pop Group played live in Paris ( for the first time ) on 6 September 2010, at La Machine Du Moulin Rouge venue as part of " L ' Etrange Festival " Film Festival which served as a kick off to their five date tour through Europe which included a London gig on New Year's Eve with Sonic Youth and Shellac.

Since then she has played Antigone in a national UK tour, the Blanche Du Bois in Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire at the Bristol Old Vic and with Gillian Anderson in A Doll ’ s House at Donmar Warehouse.

* Du Fei ( 杜飛 / 杜飞 ), played by Alec Su

Peter later played Du Pont in The War Games and Costa in Nightmare of Eden.

Also they played in September 2011 at a casino in Quebec called the Casino Du Lac Leamy in from of a sold out crowd of 310 people.

Then I spoke at the ninetieth birthday party of W. E. Burghardt Du Bois, who embarked on a fictional trilogy at eighty-nine and who, with The Crisis, had created a Negro intelligentsia that had never existed in America before him.

The inference is overwhelming that Du Pont's commanding position was promoted by its stock interest and was not gained solely on competitive merit ''.

Indeed, as already noted, the Court proceeded on the assumption that the executives involved in the dealings between Du Pont and General Motors acted `` honorably and fairly '' and exercised their business judgment only to serve what they deemed the best interests of their own companies.

The first pretrial conference -- held to appoint amici curiae to represent the interest of the stockholders of Du Pont and General Motors and to consider the procedure to be followed in the subsequent hearings -- took place on September 25, 1957.

Du Pont, he said, had proposed disenfranchisement of its General Motors stock along with other restrictions on the Du Pont - General Motors relationship.

Counsel for the Government invited Du Pont's views on this proposal before recommending a specific program, but stated that if the court desired, or if counsel for Du Pont thought further discussion would not be profitable, the Government was prepared to submit a plan within thirty days.

Du Pont's counterproposal was filed on May 14, 1958.

Under its plan Du Pont would retain its General Motors shares but be required to pass on to its stockholders the right to vote those shares.

These plans, like Du Pont's, contained provisions for passing the vote on Du Pont's General Motors shares on to the ultimate stockholders of Du Pont, Christiana, and Delaware, except that officers and directors of the three companies, their spouses, and other people living in their households, as well as other specified persons, were to be totally disenfranchised.

Both plans also prohibited common directors, officers, or employees between Du Pont, Christiana, and Delaware, on the one hand, and General Motors on the other.

A massive investigation of the characteristics of in-migrants and prospective out-migrants in Ruanda-Urundi is being carried on by J. J. Maquet, former Director of the Social Science branch of IRSAC, now a professor at l'Universite Officielle Du Congo Belge et Du Ruanda-Urundi.

For many years the Northwest Company had its southern headquarters at Prairie Du Chien on the Mississippi River, some 300 miles southeast of present-day St. Paul, Minnesota.

Activity by British traders and the presence of a colony on the Red prompted the United State War Department in 1819 to send Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Leavenworth from Detroit to put a post 300 miles northwest of Prairie Du Chien, until then the most advanced United States post.

Couperin also turns up along with some lesser-known contemporaries on a disk called Musique Francaise Du 18e Siecle ( BAM LD 060 ).

Beginning in 1906, Pennsylvania conservationist Major Israel McCreight of Du Bois, Pennsylvania argued that President Theodore Roosevelt ’ s conservation speeches were limited to businessmen in the lumber industry and recommended a campaign of youth education and a national policy on conservation education.

BAO recently achieved a new record in Sweden on the Svensktoppen chart by staying there for 243 weeks with the song Du är min man (" You Are My Man "), sung by Helen Sjöholm.