Gardner had the prints " clarified " by Snelling, and new negatives produced, " more conducive to printing ", for use in the illustrated lectures he gave around the UK.

Gardner believed that the Kodak technicians may not have examined the photographs entirely objectively, observing that one had commented " after all, as fairies couldn't be true, the photographs must have been faked somehow ".

Frances was by then living with her parents in Scarborough, but Elsie's father told Gardner that he had been so certain the photographs were fakes that while the girls were away he searched their bedroom and the area around the beck ( stream ), looking for scraps of pictures or cutouts, but found nothing " incriminating ".

After his retirement Gardner moved to Highcliffe near the New Forest on the south coast of England, where he says he met a group of people who had preserved their historic occult practices.

As Gardner had no objection to this change suggested by the Brickett Wood coven, this collective decision resulted in what is now the standard eight festivities in the Wiccan Wheel of the year.

" Specialising in the import of hardwood, the company had been founded in the mid-18th century by Edmund Gardner ( b. 1721 ), an entrepreneur who would subsequently become a Freeman of Liverpool.

Gerald's father, William Robert Gardner ( 1844 – 1935 ) had been the youngest son of Joseph Gardner ( b. 1791 ), after whom the firm had been renamed, and who with his wife Maria had had five sons and three daughters.

In 1901 Gardner and the Elkingtons lived briefly in a bungalow in Kandy, where a neighbouring bungalow had just been vacated by the occultists Aleister Crowley and Charles Henry Allan Bennett.

It was from the Sergenesons that Gardner claimed to have discovered a family rumour that his grandfather, Joseph, had been a practicing witch, after being converted to the practice by his mistress.

Another unconfirmed family belief repeated by Gardner was that a Scottish ancestor, Grissell Gairdner, had been burned as a witch in Newburgh in 1610.

Gardner placed great importance on this new activity ; In order to attend their meetings, he had to arrange a weekend's leave, walk 15 miles to the nearest railway station in Haputale and then catch a train to the city.

Here, Gardner made friends with an American man known as Cornwall, who had converted to Islam and married a local Malay woman.

Returning to Malaya, Gardner found that the Borneo Company had sacked him, and he was forced to find work with the Public Works Department.

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.

His finds were displayed as an exhibit on the " Early History of Johore ", at the National Museum of Singapore, and several beads that he had discovered suggested that trade went on between the Roman Empire and the Malays, presumably, Gardner thought, via India.

In 1935 Gardner heard that his father had died, leaving him a bequest of £ 3, 000.

A believer in reincarnation, Gardner came to believe that he had lived on the island once before, in a previous life, subsequently buying a plot of land in Famagusta, planning to build a house on it, although this never came about.

Alongside Rosicrucianism, Gardner had also been pursuing other interests.

Gardner also returned to his old interests in the anthropology of Malaya, witnessing the magical practices performed by the locals, and he readily accepted a belief in magic.

" Having an interest in Rosicrucianism, a prominent magico-religious tradition within Western esotericism, Gardner decided to attend one of the plays performed by the group ; in August 1939, Gardner took his wife to a theatrical performance based on the life of Pythagoras.

A year prior, Gardner had performed backing vocals on the Black Flag song " Slip It In ".

The music is all performed by local native tribes ( except for Gardner accompanied by player piano ), unusual for Hollywood, and the film records a traditional Africa and safari style.

Horne wanted to be considered for the role of Julie LaVerne in MGM's 1951 version of Show Boat ( having already played the role when a segment of Show Boat was performed in Till the Clouds Roll By ) but lost the part to Ava Gardner, a personal friend in real life, due to the Production Code's ban on interracial relationships in films.

Mission specialists Allen and Gardner performed an EVA, capturing the satellite with a device known as a " Stinger ," which was inserted into the satellite's apogee motor nozzle by Allen.

*" Shine "-Written Rob Garnder, Kadru Gardner and Mike Thibeau, performed by Electrostatic ( Courtesy of Electrostatic Music by arrangement with PEN Music Group, Inc )

Having been born in south London, she first became involved in the Craft after being initiated into the Gardnerian tradition in 1953 in a ceremony performed by Gerald Gardner, in which Edith Woodford-Grimes was also present.

Faced with challenges from sceptics, Valiente attempted, with some success, to provide evidence for Gardner's claims concerning his initiation, notably by identifying the woman Gardner called ' Old Dorothy ' as Dorothy Clutterbuck in 1980, the woman who was supposed to have performed Gardner's initiation, in an essay published in The Witches ' Way by Janet and Stewart Farrar.

He later performed full sets at four other Hot Stove Cool Music events with a full band that featured saxophonist Elan Trotman and two members of Gnarls Barkley ( drummer Eric Gardner and guitarist Clint Walsh ).

Busoni ), performed by the pianist Cecile Licad, from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in MP3 format

Research conducted by Haley historian Chris Gardner for a February 2006 article on Pompilli for Now Dig This magazine resulted in no evidence being found that Pompilli performed on the Marterie's version of " Crazy Man, Crazy ".

The recording used by the BBC ( performed by the Alan Perry / William Gardner Orchestra ) was originally only available as library music, but has since 1997 been available commercially as track 11 on the second CD of the EMI CD set titled The Great British Experience ( EMI Classics CDGB50 )..

Gardner would reveal little about the coven and its members, although claimed that in August 1940, during the midst of the Second World War, they performed a ritual known as Operation Cone of Power which they hoped would influence the High Command of Nazi Germany and prevent them from invading Britain.

Gardner also noted that several of the older and frailer practicing Witches died after practicing the ritual, something that was confirmed by Louis Wilkinson, who claimed that it was because they had performed the ritual naked, without goose grease on the skin to keep them warm, and that as such they had contracted pneumonia.

Perry Mason is a fictional character, a defense attorney who was the main character in works of detective fiction authored by Erle Stanley Gardner.

Gardner provided more information about Mason's character in the earlier novels ; knowledge of his character is largely taken for granted in the later works, the television series and movies.

Samwise Gamgee, later known as Samwise Gardner and commonly as Sam, is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium.

Allen Jenkins played a variation on the Paul Drake character, referred to as Spudsy Drake, in two 1935 films based on Gardner novels, The Case of the Curious Bride and The Case of the Lucky Legs.

When Gardner submitted Reasonable Doubt to William Morrow, an editor suggested that " Della Street is a better character than the secretary.

Mrs. Gardner said she thought he put several women together to create the character.

The character portrayed in the radio series was reworked into Sara Lane on the daytime show Edge of Night which was to be the daytime Perry Mason, until Gardner pulled his support of the project.

Although he made only two appearances in the Golden Age of Comic Books, the character was revived during the Silver Age of Comic Books by writer Gardner Fox and artist Sheldon Moldoff in the pages of Batman # 189 ( Feb 1967 ) and has since become a staple Batman villain.

* 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.

* Nena Bismaquer, a character in the John Gardner novel For Special Services

Like the eventual portrait, an oil sketch entitled Madame Gautreau Drinking a Toast ( Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum ), shows the subject's profile and bare arms against a dark background, but is of a more freely brushed and informal character.

He first became popular by playing the role of rich kid Greg Nelson on All My Children ( 1981 – 1986 ), in which his character got involved with a girl from the other side of the tracks, Jenny Gardner ( Kim Delaney ).

The character Thaddeus Gardner is written into All My Children as being born on September 1, 1963, as the son of Ray and Opal Gardner.

In 1964, Gardner began his novelist career with The Liquidator, in which he created the character Boysie Oakes who inadvertently is mistaken to be a tough, pitiless man of action and is thereupon recruited into a British spy agency.

In the mid-1970s Gardner also wrote the first of three novels using the character of Professor Moriarty from the Sherlock Holmes series, the last of which was published posthumously.

Gardner also began a series of books with a new character, Suzie Mountford, a 1930s police detective.

When Gardner returned to writing, his second book, Bottled Spider, introduced a new character, Detective Sergeant Suzie Mountford.

The London production starred John Barrowman as Domingo Hernandez and Stefanie Powers as American actress Laura Jane Wilding, a character based on actress Ava Gardner.

* Guy Gardner ( comics ), DC Comics character who primarily operates as a Green Lantern

, known in the English anime and English video games as Téa Gardner, is a fictional character in the manga and anime series Yu-Gi-Oh !.