Involved for a time with Cecil Williamson, Gardner also became director of the Museum of Magic and Witchcraft on the Isle of Man, which he ran until his death.

Instead Gardner became friendly with many of the locals, including the Dyak and Dusun people.

However, in 1927 his father became very ill with dementia, and Gardner decided to visit him.

During his time in Malaya, Gardner became increasingly interested in local customs, particularly those involved in folk magic and weapons.

Gardner meanwhile visited Palestine, where he became involved in the archaeological excavations run by J. L.

Through nudism, Gardner made a number of notable friends, including James Laver ( 1899 – 1975 ), who became the Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and Cottie Arthur Burland ( 1905 – 1983 ), who was the Curator of the Department of Ethnography at the British Museum.

However, as time went by, Gardner became critical of many of the Rosicrucian Order's practices ; Sullivan's followers claimed that he was immortal, having formerly been the famous historical figures Pythagoras, Cornelius Agrippa and Francis Bacon.

Gardner would also join the Historical Association, being elected Co-President of its Bournemouth and Christchurch branch in June 1944, following which he became a vocal supporter for the construction of a local museum for the Christchurch borough.

Gardner states that he had reconstructed elements of the religion from fragments, incorporating elements from Freemasonry, the Occult, and Theosophy, which came together in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, where Gardner met Aleister Crowley, whose influence became the basis for Wiccan magical practices.

Gardner became a friend of businessman and aviator Howard Hughes in the early to mid-1940s and the relationship lasted into the 1950s.

It ’ s as though he thinks I ’ ll break, as though I ’ m a piece of Dresden china and he ’ s gonna hurt me .” During their marriage Gardner became pregnant twice, but she had two abortions.

Hapgood along with author Erle Stanley Gardner investigated the collection of clay artifacts known as the Acambaro figurines and became convinced they were made thousands of years ago by an unknown culture, a conclusion he acknowledged was rejected by reputable archeologists and paleontologists.

Gardner became a fellow of Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge in 1885.

" Yakety Yak " ( recorded in New York ), featuring King Curtis on tenor saxophone, included the famous lineup of Gardner, Guy, Jones, and Gunter, became the act's only national # 1 single, and also topped the R & B chart.

The zone melting process developed by William Gardner Pfann was used to produce pure germanium, and subsequently float-zone silicon became available when Henry Theuerer of Bell Labs adapted Pfann's method to silicon.

This was significant not only because of Coe's proven ability as a player, but also because Nicklaus became the then-youngest champion in the modern era, second only to Robert A. Gardner, who won in 1909.

Ten days later, she became the sixth wife of the big-band leader and clarinetist Artie Shaw, despite the fact that two years previously Shaw had castigated his then-wife, Ava Gardner for reading such a " trashy novel " as Forever Amber.

In the 1930s the Daimler CO chassis became the main model, followed by a similar, but heavier, CW ' austerity ' model produced during World War II ( 100 with the Gardner 5LW engine ( CWG5 ), the rest with the AEC 7. 7-litre engine-CWA6 ) and in postwar years production worked through the Daimler CV to the long-running Daimler CR Fleetline, built from 1960 to 1980 ( CVG5 and CVG6 had been a common type of bus in Hong Kong between 1950 to 1988 and Fleetline had also become a major type of bus in Hong Kong until 1995 ).

It was not long before other famous people such as Winston Churchill, Duncan Sandys, Feliks Topolski, Ava Gardner, Mary Martin and Mel Ferrer became his patients.

During the voyage a brother officer, Lieutenant James Gardner, awakened in Havelock religious convictions which had slumbered since his mother's death, but henceforth became the guiding principle of his life.

Davis worked as a lawyer in private practice from 1982 to 1988, when he became a partner in the Tampa-based business law firm of Bush, Ross, Gardner, Warren & Rudy.

* And Zinda Blake ( Lady Blackhawk ) was time-displaced due to the 1994 DC event, Zero Hour: Crisis in Time, and became a regular character in comics starring the character Guy Gardner.

For a brief time following the war, Gardner worked for the Washington police force taking photographs of convicted criminals and eventually, according to some, became Abraham Lincoln's favorite photographer.

Gardner in turn was critical of the paper, describing it as " a really terrible article ", and along with other co-authors has written a reply, submitted to Nature.

Meanwhile, Doyle ( Searcy ), a Fitch subordinate, tracks down Nick's history in the rural town of Gardner, Indiana, where he discovers that Nick is really Jeff Kerr, a talented former law student drop-out, and that Marlee's real name is Gabby Brandt.

According to Gardner's first biographer, Jack Bracelin, Com was very flirtatious and " clearly looked on these trips as mainly manhunts ", viewing Gardner as a nuisance.

The very same evening ( 28 July 1927 ) after Gardner had met this medium, he met the woman he was to marry ; Dorothea Frances Rosedale, known as Donna, a relation of his sister-in-law Edith.

The very next day, Britain declared war on Germany, greatly unimpressing the increasingly cynical Gardner.

In particular, Gerald Gardner, who first popularized Wicca in England, was a noted folklorist with an interest in Far Eastern culture who spent much of his adult life in Ceylon and Burma, so it seems very plausible that he could have been familiar with this Hindu term.

An alternative story, which appeared in some obscure magazine many years ago, said that Gardner liked and used pens made by a company owned by one Mr Perry and one Mr Mason ; but this would be very difficult to verify.

Gardner argues that there is a wide range of cognitive abilities, and that there are only very weak correlations among them.

A self-proclaimed " very difficult man ," Shaw was married eight times: Jane Cairns ( 1932 – 33 ; annulled ); Margaret Allen ( 1934 – 37 ; divorced ); actress Lana Turner ( 1940 ; divorced ); Betty Kern ( 1942 – 43 ; divorced ), the daughter of songwriter Jerome Kern ; actress Ava Gardner ( 1945 – 46 ; divorced ); Forever Amber author Kathleen Winsor ( 1946 – 48 ; annulled ); actress Doris Dowling ( 1952 – 56 ; divorced ); and actress Evelyn Keyes ( 1957 – 85 ; divorced ).

Erle Stanley Gardner, the creator of Perry Mason in a series of novels, was a very prolific author, who employed three secretaries simultaneously, all sisters, to keep up with his output.

* Robert W Gardner, Scotland's very first team captain.

However, Johnson Gardner, one of the trappers, recognized a rifle that one of the Indians had as the very rifle Glass got back from Fitzgerald after Fitzgerald and Bridger left him for dead in 1823.

Interviewing Hutton for The Independent, the journalist Gary Valentine Lachman commented that he had " a very pragmatic, creative attitude, recognising that factual error can still produce beneficial results ", for instance noting that even though their theories about the Early Modern Witch-Cult were erroneous, Margaret Murray and Gerald Gardner would help lay the foundations for the creation of the new religious movement of Wicca.

Gardner had an ambivalent view on being the Bond author, once saying that " I'm very grateful to have been selected to keep Bond alive.

* Charlton Heston stated that the working relationship between himself and Ava Gardner was very bad.

Heston reported that Gardner was very difficult to work with and behaved unprofessionally throughout filming.

* Ian Farnham ( Gabriel Hogan ), a very handsome young investment banker, hired by Gardner Ross as a favour to his well-connected mother in order to grease the wheels of a pending deal, although Ian is unaware of this fact.

The Gardner gun had been tested and found very reliable in Britain, but had not been tested in a desert with loose sand getting into its mechanism.

A very special VFR750F called the ' 6X ', a full HRC prototype containing titanium valves and magnesium flat-slide carburetors and weighing even less than the factory RVF was first seen raced by Wayne Gardner at Suzuka against TT F1 machinery.

Kristin Buxton compared Wilson to Martin Gardner, noting that Gardner has written on many of the topics that Wilson writes about in the book, taking very different points of view.