This was reinforced when their foremost interpreter and performer, Gervase Elwes ( who had initiated the music festivals at Brigg in Lincolnshire at which Percy Grainger and others had developed their collections of country music ) died in a horrific accident in 1921.

His paternal grandfather was painter Simon Elwes, whose father was the diplomat and tenor Gervase Elwes ( 1866 – 1921 ).

His parents divorced when he was 4 years old, and his father later committed suicide in 1975 when Elwes was 13.

Elwes was set to portray George Harrison in Zemeckis's 3D performance capture re-telling of Yellow Submarine ; however in May 2011, Disney withdrew from the project, leaving its fate uncertain.

In March 2011, Elwes was selected to appear as Henry Detmer in the pilot episode of NBC's Wonder Woman.

Actor Cary Elwes was brought into the seasons for a six episode recurring role as Brad Follmer.

One, advanced by Katherine Elwes Thomas in 1930 and adopted by Robert Ripley, posits that Humpty Dumpty is King Richard III of England, depicted in Tudor histories, and particularly in Shakespeare's play, as humpbacked and who was defeated, despite his armies at Bosworth Field in 1485.

In the 1998 HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon, he was played by Cary Elwes.

* The man whom Dickens eventually mentions in his letters and who strongly resembles the character portrayed by Dickens's illustrator, John Leech, was a noted British eccentric and miser named John Elwes ( 1714 – 1789 ).

The town was substantially improved and rebuilt in the late 1700s and early 1800s, partly through the demands of the Elwes family, the largest landowner in the town.

Even after the troubled development history of the Bradley additional problems occurred after production started as described in a book by Air Force Col. James Burton, which was adapted for the 1998 film The Pentagon Wars starring Kelsey Grammer and Cary Elwes.

Houseman was portrayed by Cary Elwes in the 1999 Tim Robbins-directed film, Cradle Will Rock.

One of the earliest in London ( possibly the first ) was in January 1913 at the Queen's Hall, under Henry Wood, where it was sung by Gervase Elwes and Doris Woodall: Wood thought it ' excessively modern but very beautiful '.

He was defended by Donald Finnemore, and the Crown was represented by Birkett and Richard Elwes.

Despite being canceled, the director, Orson Welles ( Angus Macfadyen ), and producer, John Houseman ( Cary Elwes ), lead the cast to another theater that was secured at the last minute.

Sir Henry Elwes was announced as the new Pro-Chancellor in addition to the Bishop of Gloucester Michael Perham, who is the University ’ s current Pro-Chancellor.

* John Elwes ( aka " Elwes the Miser "), was a noted British eccentric and miser, believed to be the inspiration for the character of " Ebenezer Scrooge " in Charles Dickens ' A Christmas Carol.

Ivan Simon Cary Elwes (; born 26 October 1962 ), known professionally as Cary Elwes, is an English actor and voice actor.

He married Mabel Eleanor Elwes, an English artist, in 1911 and their daughter Eleanore Marie ( known as: May ) was born the following year.

Ralph Vaughan Williams produced his most famous settings of six songs, the cycle On Wenlock Edge, for string quartet, tenor and piano ( dedicated to Gervase Elwes ) in 1909, and it became very popular after Elwes recorded it with the London String Quartet and Frederick B. Kiddle in 1917.

Elwes attended Harrow School in London and London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

Elwes had been closely identified with English wartime morale, having given six benefit performances of The Dream of Gerontius on consecutive nights in 1916, and many concerts in France in 1917 for British soldiers.

The son of painter Dominick Elwes and designer Tessa Georgina Kennedy, Elwes acted in off-Broadway plays during college and moved to the United States in the early 1980s.

He is the third and youngest son of portrait-painter Dominick Elwes and interior designer Tessa Georgina Kennedy, who is of Croatian, Anglo-Irish, and Scottish descent.

His brothers are Damian Elwes, an artist, and Cassian Elwes, a producer and agent.

Elwes moved to the United States in 1981 to study acting at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York.

While living in New York, Elwes studied acting at both the Actors Studio and the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute.

Elwes made his acting debut in 1984 with Marek Kanievska's film Another Country.

Elwes in 2010.

Elwes also appeared in such films as Francis Coppola's adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, The Crush, Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, Twister, Liar Liar, Cradle Will Rock, The Cat's Meow and Kiss the Girls.

Elwes portrayed Dr. Clement in the psychological thriller Psych 9 ( 2010 ).

Elwes returned to the Saw franchise in Saw 3D ( 2010 ), the seventh and final film in the series, as Dr. Lawrence Gordon.

Heidenstam was born in 1859, of a prosperous family.

Sherlock Holmes, the ancestor of all private eyes, was born during the 1890s.

Henrietta was discovering in the process of writing, as the born writer does, not merely a channel for the discharge of accumulated information but a stimulus to the development of the creative powers of observation, insight and intuition.

She was born Lilian Steichen, her parents immigrants from Luxemburg.

`` My mother read a book right after I was born and there was a Lilian in the book she loved and I became Lilian -- and eventually I became Paula ''.

By now she was sure she was going to have a baby, deciding it would be born in India or Burma that November.

He was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1909.

About the only time the Hetman seemed excited was when one of his own pet ideas was born.

On April 10, 1904, his first child was born, a son named George after the late Senator.

Modern warfare was born in this campaign -- periscopes, camouflage, booby traps, land mines, extended order, trench raids, foxholes, armored cars, night attacks, flares, sharpshooters in trees, interlaced vines and treetops, which were the forerunners of barbed wire, trip wires to thwart a cavalry charge, which presaged the mine trap, and the general use of anesthetics.

Deppy is Despina Messinesi, a long-time member of the Vogue staff who, although born in Boston, was born there of Greek parents.

Samuel Gorton was born at Gorton, England, near the present city of Manchester, about 1592.

Whether the Fathers, who died before Christ was born of the Virgin Mary, were justified and saved only by the blood which he shed, and the death which he suffered after his incarnation??

Whether the only price of our redemption were not the death of Christ on the cross, with the rest of his sufferings and obediences, in the time of his life here, after he was born of the Virgin Mary??

In the judgment of Chief of Staff Scott it was ironic that the draft policy of a Democratic President, aimed at Germany, had to be pushed through the House of Representatives by the ranking minority member of the Military Affairs Committee -- a Republican Jew born in Germany!!

Thus, the Church was born and because of its intrinsic character was soon identified as a conservative institution, determined to resist the forces of change, to identify itself with the political rulers, and to maintain a kind of splendid isolation from the masses.

And she replied, `` I was born in America, but I was conceived in Vienna ''.

I was born angry.

He kept his attacks on Republicanism for partisan campaigns, but that is part of the game he was born to play.