The 1951 Open tournament was won by Jim Ferrier, who successfully defended the title he had won at Royal Montreal a year earlier.

Practical results of animal research were used to justify Ferrier before a noisy public persecution carried out by antivivisectionist societies against him and other scientists, who were accused of inhumane use of animals for experimental medicine.

However, it won Decca the loyalty of the baritone Roy Henderson, who went on to record for them the first complete Dido and Aeneas of Purcell with Nancy Evans and the Boyd Neel ensemble ( Purcell Club, 14 sides, pre-1936 ); and Henderson's famous pupil Kathleen Ferrier was recorded and issued by Decca through the period of transition from 78 to LP ( 1946 – 1952 ).

A graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, she won the Decca Prize of the Kathleen Ferrier Award in 1979, thereby launching her career.

Ferrier won acclaim from all over Australia, and probably a job in the lighthouse branch, because of his heroic rescue of two of the seven crewmen of the La Bella at Warrnambool.

Led by goalkeeper Claude Abbes, defender Robert Herbin, as well as midfielders René Ferrier and Kees Rijvers, and striker Georges Peyroche, Saint-Étienne won the league by four points over Lens.

The same year, she won the Kathleen Ferrier Prize for the best contralto at the International Vocalist Competition at's-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands.

In April 1970, she won first prize in the Kathleen Ferrier Memorial Scholarship.

In 2007 Jim Furyk became one of a few golfers who have won two consecutive Canadian Open titles, joining Jim Ferrier, James Douglas Edgar, Sam Snead and Leo Diegel.

He won the 2010 Royal Society Ferrier Award and Lecture.

His famous Decca Das Lied von der Erde with Kathleen Ferrier, Julius Patzak, and the Vienna Philharmonic was made in May, 1952, and he recorded it again in studio with the New York Philharmonic in 1960.

He ran again in the 1977 provincial election, and defeated Ferrier by 2, 276 votes.

He first ran for the Ontario legislature in the 1975 provincial election, but lost to Bill Ferrier of the NDP by 1, 292 votes.

Alan Ferrier ( Conservative ),

* In the 1987 mini series Vietnam, he was portrayed by Noel Ferrier.

The earliest mention of experiments on the neural basis of working memory can be traced back to over 100 years ago, when Hitzig and Ferrier described ablation experiments of the prefrontal cortex ( PFC ), they concluded that the frontal cortex was important for cognitive rather than sensory processes.

* April 22 – Kathleen Ferrier, British contralto ( d. 1953 )

** Johan Ferrier, Suriname President ( d. 2010 )

The production used a French translation by Paul Ferrier and starred Julia Guiraudon as Mimì, Jeanne Tiphaine as Musetta, Adolphe Maréchal as Rodolfo, and Lucien Fugère as Marcello.

The first President of the country was Johan Ferrier, with Henck Arron ( leader of the Surinam National Party ) as Prime Minister.

Another coup followed five months later, with the army replacing Ferrier with Chin A Sen.

Ferrier Hodgson, the company's administrator, had claimed EY was negligent over the accounting of gold and dollar hedging contracts.

Increasing his mystique, not a single word was ever published from Thrawn's point of view, despite Zahn's wide variety of narrators ( Luke, Han, Leia, Lando, Karrde, Mara Jade, and even minor characters like General Covell and Niles Ferrier ); instead, he is only observed by other characters, occasionally New Republic personnel but mostly his loyal second-in-command Captain Gilad Pellaeon.

Kidbrooke is also home to the Ferrier Estate, one of the largest and most deprived council housing developments in London.

Immediately south of the Ferrier Estate is Sutcliffe park which includes a lake, acting as a flood defence, and created by partly releasing the Kyd Brook from concrete conduits underground in which it had run until 2006.

The Call formed in Santa Cruz in 1980 by vocalist / guitarist Michael Been, Scott Musick, and Tom Ferrier.

The first president of Suriname, Johan Ferrier, lived in Oegstgeest at the time of his death.

soloists Kathleen Ferrier and Julius Patzak.

His works from that decade include his Second String Quartet ( 1950 ); a scena, The Enchantress ( 1951 ), for the contralto Kathleen Ferrier ; a Piano Sonata ( 1952 ); and a Violin Concerto ( 1955 ), for Campoli.

* Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, " Resurrection ", ( 1 )- 1951 with Kathleen Ferrier & Jo Vincent ; ( 2 )-1963 with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf & Hilde Rössel-Majdan

* February 6 – Contralto Kathleen Ferrier, already terminally ill with cancer, leaves Covent Garden Opera House on a stretcher after being taken ill on the second night of her run in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice.

Arnaud Du Ferrier ( c. 1508-1585 ) was a French lawyer and diplomat.

The longstanding success of the Academie was secured by the famous and respected artists whom Rodolfo Julian employed as instructors: Adolphe William Bouguereau ( 1825 – 1905 ), Henri Royer, Jean-Paul Laurens, Edgar Chahine, Gabriel Ferrier, Tony Robert-Fleury, Jules Lefebvre and other leading artists of that time, mainly exponents of the academic style.

Subsequent British travelers doubted whether Ferrier had ever actually left Herat to venture into Afghanistan ’ s central mountains and have suggested that his accounts of the region were based on hearsay, especially since very few people dared then to enter the Hazarajat ; even Pashtun nomads would not take their flocks to graze there, and few caravans would pass through.

She therefore somehow stands in the tradition of great lady novelists like Maria Edgeworth, Jane Austen or Susan Ferrier.

Publications include the Works of John Wilson, edited by P. J. Ferrier ( 12 volumes, Edinburgh, 1855 – 59 ); the Noctes Ambrosianœ, edited by R. S. Mackenzie ( five volumes, New York, 1854 ); a Memoir by his daughter, M. W. Gordon ( two volumes, Edinburgh, 1862 ); and for a good estimate, G. Saintsbury, in Essays in English Literature ( London, 1890 ); and C. T. Winchester, " John Wilson ," in Group of English Essayists of the Early Nineteenth Century ( New York, 1910 ).

Alfred successfully defended his kingdom against the Viking attempt at conquest, and by his death had become the dominant ruler in England.

The merchants with whom they were travelling, defended themselves vigorously and for a time successfully, but eventually they were conquered and overcome by the pirates, who took from them their ships and all that they possessed, whilst they themselves barely escaped on.

The Cubs successfully defended their National League Central title in 2008, going to the postseason in consecutive years for the first time since 1906 – 08.

Earnhardt successfully defended his championship the following year, visiting victory lane eleven times and winning the championship by 489 points over Bill Elliott.

El Cid entered al-Mutamin's service and successfully defended Zaragoza against the assaults of al-Mundhir, Sancho I of Aragón, and Ramón Berenguer II, whom he held captive briefly in 1082.

Captain Fisher of the Marines with 17 of his men successfully defended the Round Tower against their assault.

In 1866, he defended some participants in the Fenian raid of that year, doing so successfully and free of charge.

For instance, the County Longford IRA under Seán Mac Eoin carried out a number of well planned ambushes and successfully defended the village of Ballinalee against Black and Tan reprisals in a three-hour gun battle.

In 1995, he successfully defended his province against the Taliban, in cooperation with Massoud.

He successfully defended against Muslim invasions, from the Fatimids at the numerous battles at Ramla and elsewhere in the southwest of the kingdom, and from Damascus and Mosul at the Battle of al-Sannabra in the northeast in 1113.

Baldwin II was an able ruler, and he too successfully defended against Fatimid and Seljuk invasions.

For his third straight year, He qualified for the year-end Tennis Masters Cup held in Shanghai and successfully defended his title by defeating Juan Carlos Ferrero in the final, 7 – 5, 7 – 5, 2 – 6, 2 – 6, 6 – 4.

He put an end to a period of instability, successfully defended the Empire against the invading Umayyads, and forbade the veneration of icons ( see Iconoclasm ).

As a result, the prominent families instituted a republic, drove the extensive Tarquin family from Rome, and successfully defended the republic against attempted Etruscan and Latin intervention.

Otho's advanced guard successfully defended Placentia against Aulus Caecina Alienus, and compelled that general to fall back on Cremona.

They attempted to board the ship at which time Martok took up arms and defended his General, successfully repelling the invasion.

The night before the game, Joe Frazier successfully defended his heavyweight boxing championship with a fourth-round knockout of Terry Daniels at the Rivergate Convention Center, which was approximately one mile south of the construction site for the Superdome on Poydras Street.

On September 18, 1977, he successfully defended the America's Cup, defeating Australia 4-0.

Orcas regularly attack walrus, although walruses are believed to have successfully defended themselves via counterattack against the larger cetacean.

* July 24 – Sack of Cuenca ( Third Carlist War ): After Carlist forces successfully defended Estella, Don Alfonso de Bourbon, brother of the Don Carlos VII, led 14, 000 Catalan Carlists south to attack Cuenca 136 km from Madrid, held by Republicans under Don Hilario Lozano.

* January 12 – March 16 – Caliph Al-Muqtafi successfully defended Baghdad against the coalition forces of Sultan Muhammad of Hamadan, and Atabeg Qutb-adin of Mosul

Then, in testimony before the House Rules Committee on May 7-8, Post proved " a convincing speaker with a caustic tongue " and defended himself so successfully that Congressman Edward W. Pou, a Democrat presumed to be an enthusiastic supporter of Palmer, congratulated him: " I feel that you have followed your sense of duty absolutely.

Charles John, as the Commander-in-Chief of the Northern Army, successfully defended the approaches to Berlin and was victorious in battle against Oudinot in August and against Ney in September at the Battles of Grossbeeren and Dennewitz ; but after the Battle of Leipzig he went his own way, determined at all hazards to cripple Denmark and to secure Norway, defeating the Danes at Bornhöved in December.

From the time historical records are clear, Bhutan has continuously and successfully defended its sovereignty.

For several centuries, Mossi peasants were both farmers and soldiers ; as the Mossi Kingdoms successfully defended their territory, indigenous religious beliefs, and social structure against forcible attempts to conquer or convert them to Islam by Muslim peoples from the northwest.