Its sponsors included John Arlott, Peggy Ashcroft, the Bishop of Birmingham Dr J. L. Wilson, Benjamin Britten, Viscount Chaplin, Michael de la Bédoyère, Bob Edwards, MP, Dame Edith Evans, A. S. Frere, Gerald Gardiner, QC, Victor Gollancz, Dr I. Grunfeld, E. M. Forster, Barbara Hepworth, Patrick Heron, Rev.

* 1949 – Gerald Lankester Harding and Roland de Vaux begin excavations at Cave 1 of the Qumran Caves, where they will eventually discover the first seven Dead Sea Scrolls.

Lord Peter Wimsey's ( fictional ) ancestry begins with the 12th-century knight Gerald de Wimsey, who went with King Richard The Lion Heart on the Third Crusade and took part in the Siege of Acre.

1146 at Manorbier Castle in Pembrokeshire, Wales, he was of mixed Norman and Welsh descent ; he is also known as Gerald de Barri.

Gerald was son of William FitzOdo de Barry ( or Barri ), the common ancestor of the Barry family in Ireland and one of the most powerful Anglo-Norman barons in Wales at that time.

He was a maternal nephew of David fitzGerald, the Bishop of St David's and a grandson of Gerald de Windsor ( alias FitzWalter ), Constable of Pembroke Castle, and Nest the daughter of Rhys ap Tewdwr.

Henry II of England, fresh from his struggle with Thomas Becket, promptly rejected Gerald, possibly because his Welsh blood and ties to the ruling family of Deheubarth made him seem like a troublesome prospect, in favour of one of his Norman retainers Peter de Leia.

On the death of Peter de Leia in 1198, the chapter of St. David's again nominated Gerald for the bishopric ; but Hubert Walter, Archbishop of Canterbury, refused confirmation.

A drawing of Gerald de Barri's uncle, Maurice FitzGerald, Lord of Lanstephan, from a manuscript of the Expugnatio Hibernica.

* Modern Science Fiction: Its Meaning and Its Future ( 1953, second edition 1979, with John W. Campbell, Jr., Anthony Boucher, Fletcher Pratt, L. Sprague de Camp, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Philip Wylie, Gerald Heard )

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It was first excavated by Gerald Lankester Harding and Roland de Vaux from 15 February to 5 March 1949.

Gerald Gardner's use of ' athame ' probably came from modern French versions of the Key of Solomon, probably via Grillot de Givry's Witchcraft, Magic and Alchemy ( 1931 ), who misinterpreted the term as applying to the main ritual knife, as shown by his index entries " arthane " or " arthame ".

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The discovery of the burial is described by chroniclers, notably Gerald of Wales, as being just after King Henry II's reign when the new abbot of Glastonbury, Henry de Sully, commissioned a search of the abbey grounds.

The earliest is by Gerald in " Liber de Principis instructione " c. 1193, and he says he saw the cross, and it read: " Here lies buried the famous King Arthur with Guinevere his second wife in the isle of Avalon ".

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In May, de Valera, assisted by Gerald Boland and Lemass, began to plan a new party.

RADA has a number of notable associate members including Jane Asher, Sir Michael Gambon, Robert Bourne, Kenneth Branagh, Jon Cryer, Richard Digby Day, Trevor Eve, Ralph Fiennes, Edward Fox, Iain Glen, Gerald Harper, Sir Ian Holm, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Sir Derek Jacobi, Patricia Kneale, Paul McGann, Dame Helen Mirren, Sir Trevor Nunn, Peter O ' Toole, Dame Diana Rigg, Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, Lord Snowdon, Shelley Thompson, Alan Rickman, Timothy Dalton and Sir Roger Moore.

Gerald of Wales exonerates him and emphasises the religious piety of de Braose and his wife and de Braose generosity to the priories of Abergavenny and Brecon.

Gerald of Wales describes Maud as a ' prudent and chaste woman ' who bore her husband three sons William, Giles and Reginald de Braose.

* Gerald Seaman, " Signs of a New Literary Paradigm: The ' Christian ' Figures in Chrétien de Troyes ," in: Nominalism and Literary Discourse, ed.

It was at this juncture that Kember and Pierce chose to enter into a contractual relationship with Gerald Palmer, a Northamptonshire businessman and concert promoter who had already been functioning recently as Spacemen 3's de facto manager.

Gerald de Windsor was Constable of Pembroke Pembroke town and castle and its surroundings are linked with the early Christian church.

Maurice was the second son of Gerald de Windsor, Constable of Pembroke, Wales and his wife given to him by Plantagenet Norman English King Henry II, the South Welsh Princess Nesta or Nest ferch Rhys thus descended from Howell the Good, king of the Britons who codified Welsh Law.

Arnulf built a castle at Pembroke in West Wales, described by Giraldus Cambrensis as a " slender fortress of turf and stakes " under the command of one of his young officers, Gerald FitzWalter ( aka Gerald de Windsor ), who held it for Arnulf in the face of the great Welsh uprising of 1093.

Arnulf turned his attention to Ireland, where, prior to the Montgomery rebellion, he had sent Gerald de Windsor to secure for him the hand in marriage of Lafracoth, daughter of the Irish king Muircheartach Ua Briain ; by 1102, Arnulf was mentioned by Muirchertach as his son-in-law in a letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury Anselm of Bec.

The Norman castle has its origins in a stone keep built by Gerald de Windsor around the year 1100.

Some time after the rebellion of the powerful Montgomery clan of Normandy and England, King Henry married Nest to Gerald de Windsor, Arnulf de Montgomery's former constable for Pembroke Castle and one of the recent Montgomery rebels.

He married Gwladys ferch Rhiwallon daughter of Rhiwallon ap Cynfyn of the Mathrafal dynasty of Powys, by whom he had four sons, Gruffudd, Hywel ap Rhys, Goronwy and Cadwgan, and a daughter Nest ( who married Gerald de Windsor Constable of Pembroke, progenitors of the FitzGerald and de Barry dynasties of Ireland.

Another son, Gerald Valerian Wellesley, became Dean of Windsor.

In an effort to gain military support against Henry I, Arnulf de Montgomery sent his steward, Gerald of Windsor, to Ireland to negotiate terms with Muirchertach.

This castle may have been the scene of the abduction of Nest the wife of Gerald of Windsor by Owain ap Cadwgan and fifteen companions at Christmas 1109.

Following the death of her first husband, Gerald de Windsor, her sons had married her to Stephen, her husband's constable for Cardigan.

The film features Adolphe Menjou, Arthur Franz, Gerald Mohr, Marie Windsor, among others.

Gerald Fitz-John, ancestor of the family of Clenlish and Castle Ishen, County Cork, Baronets.

RAMIS, the first 4GL, was the direct ancestor of FOCUS, having been principally developed by Gerald D. Cohen and Peter Mittelman while working at Mathematica Products Group in 1970.

Thomas Butler, 3rd Earl of Ormonde — who was the Queen's cousin — was pardoned, while both Gerald FitzGerald, 14th Earl of Desmond ( in 1567 ) and his brother, John of Desmond, widely regarded as the real military leader of the FitzGeralds, ( in 1568 ) were arrested and detained in the Tower of London on Ormonde ’ s urging.

With the help of Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare and his brother Thomas FitzGerald of Laccagh, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, Lincoln recruited 4, 500 Irish mercenaries, mostly Kerns, lightly armoured but highly mobile infantry.

Gerald was proud to be related to some of the Norman invaders of Ireland, such as his maternal uncle Robert Fitz-Stephen and Raymond FitzGerald, and his influential account, which portrays the Irish as barbaric savages, gives important insight into Anglo-Norman views of Ireland and the history of the invasion.

Gerald spent the remainder of his life in academic study, most likely in Lincoln, producing works of devotional instruction and politics, and revising the works on Ireland and Wales he had written earlier in his life.

Certainly there are valuable details: while the European Kingfisher is now common in Ireland, Gerald states clearly that it was not found in Ireland in his time: on the other hand the European Dipper, which he had evidently not seen before, was very common.

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In 1188, Cambro-Norman chronicler Gerald of Wales wrote, " Ireland uses and delights in two instruments only, the harp namely, and the tympanum.

In 1188, Gerald of Wales, after having traveled in Ireland, argued that the " unnatural " generation of barnacle geese was evidence for the Immaculate Conception.

Arthur was served by sons of prominent members of English, Welsh and Irish society, such as Gearoid Óg FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare the son of Gerald Fitzgerald, 8th Earl of Kildare who was brought to the English court over his father's role in assisting and crowning of Lambert Simnel in Ireland in Henry VII's early reign.

On the outbreak of the Second Desmond Rebellion in 1579, Stanley was promoted to captain under Sir William Drury, lord justice of Ireland, who knighted him at Waterford for his service in penetrating Limerick in pursuit of the followers of Gerald Fitzgerald, 15th Earl of Desmond.

While the Bull had little impact in England, it caused a rift in Elizabeth's Kingdom of Ireland where most of the population remained Roman Catholic ; Gerald FitzGerald, 15th Earl of Desmond had used the Bull as justification for the second Desmond Rebellion.

Gerald Balfour, then a junior Fellow of the College, later politician and Chief Secretary for Ireland, proposed a revision of the College Statutes.

He soon clashed with Gerald FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare, the most powerful of the Anglo-Irish nobility, whose father had been largely allowed by the English Crown to govern Ireland as he pleased.

Maurice FitzGerald, Lord of Lanstephan, progenitor of the Irish FitzGerald dynasty | Geraldines, from a manuscript of the Expugnatio Hibernica, an account of the 1169 invasion of Ireland written by Maurice's nephew, Gerald of Wales in 1189.

In 1554, Thomas's half-brother and only male heir, Gerald FitzGerald, was created Earl of Kildare in the Peerage of Ireland.

French became estranged from his wife ( officially, she did not accompany him to Ireland as it was too dangerous ) and sons, although from 1922 he re-established relations with his second son Gerald, who defended his father ’ s reputation until his own death in 1970.

Gerald of Wales's most distinguished works are those dealing with Wales and Ireland, with his late 12th century two books in Latin on his beloved Wales the most important: Itinerarium Cambriae and Descriptio Cambriae which tell us much about Welsh history and geography.

Conn O ' Neill was a relative of Gerald Fitzgerald, and this event accordingly led to the formation of the short-lived Geraldine League, a federation including the O ' Neills, the O ' Donnells, the O ' Briens of Thomond, and other powerful clans ; the primary object of which was to restore Gerald to the earldom of Kildare, but which afterwards aimed at the complete overthrow of English rule in Ireland.

* Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare ( Ireland )

The robes of Luke Gerald Dillon, 4th Baron Clonbrock, the 122nd Knight of the Order are on display in the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin ; the robe belonging to Francis Charles Needham, 3rd Earl of Kilmorey is held by the Newry Museum ; the National Gallery and Genealogical Museum in Dublin both have Stars of the Order ; and the National Museum and Galleries of Northern Ireland Ulster Museum has a large collection on display and two mantles in storage.