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McDermid comes from Kirkcaldy, Fife, and was educated at St Hilda's College, Oxford, where she was the first student from a state school in Scotland ( Kirkcaldy High School ), and became President of the Junior Common Room.
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McDermid was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Sunderland in 2011.
He has been at the University of York since 1990, and held the post of Head of Department from 1999 until 30 June 2006, when he was succeeded by John McDermid.
The riding was represented from 1979 to 1988 by the Honourable John McDermid of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.
Leahy was the President of the O-Pee-Chee Co. Ltd. before he purchased the company from the McDermid estate in 1961.
Subsequent to this, in 1961, Frank Leahy purchased the Company from the McDermid estate.
McDermid and Kirkcaldy
The McDermid Stand, which she sponsors, is in Stark's Park, Raith Rovers ground in Kirkcaldy.
McDermid and was
In 2012, it was announced that HarperCollins had hired Scottish crime writer Val McDermid to adapt Northanger Abbey for a modern audience, as a suspenseful teen thriller.
The OMB ruled for the Imagine London petitioners in late December 2005 and while the city sought leave to appeal the OMB decision to Superior Court via a full-day hearing in January 2006, leave to appeal was denied when Justice McDermid released his decision on February 28, 2006.
2006's Writers ' Week focused on Dutch and Indian writing and was held between the 5 March and 10 March 2006. Notable visiting authors included Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Cunningham, crime novelists Val McDermid, Andrew Taylor & Minette Walters and Indian author Vikram Seth.
After the Somerville firm was sold to American Chicle Company in 1908 and the plant moved to Toronto, the McDermid brothers took over the box division and eventually purchased it in 1910 ( Somerville Paper Box Limited ).
The company was now run by John Gordon McDermid, the son and nephew of the McDermid brothers.
Initially, it was incorporated as a public Company with five shareholders and four directors-all members of the McDermid family.
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* Bio at Anne McDermid agency site
D. H. McDermid died in December 1942 and J. K. McDermid died of a heart attack in 1945 at age 79.
McDermid and first
One example is Val McDermid, whose first book appeared as far back as 1987 ; another is Florida-based author Carl Hiaasen, who has been publishing books since 1981, all of which are readily available.
McDermid and Scotland
As well as her novels, McDermid contributes to several British newspapers and often broadcasts on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio Scotland.
McDermid and ),
* Val McDermid ( born 1955 ), Scottish crime novelist
McDermid and became
About this time, Frank P. Leahy joined the firm as Sales Manager and John Gordon McDermid, the son of J. K. McDermid, also became active in the business.
John Gordon McDermid became President in 1946 and ran the Company until his death in 1953.
McDermid and .
* McDermid, Jane.
McDermid said of the project, " At its heart it's a teen novel, and a satire-that's something which fits really well with contemporary fiction.
John McDermid, with his brother Andrew, established a sawmill here in June 1835 followed by a grist mill.
Val McDermid ( born 4 June 1955 ) is a Scottish crime writer, best known for a series of suspense novels starring her most famous creation, Dr. Tony Hill.
McDermid states that Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird is her favourite novel.
McDermid considers her work to be part of the " Tartan Noir " Scottish crime fiction genre.
Starks Park, the McDermid stand visible to the left.
McDermid is lesbian.
Scottish crime fiction has been a major area of growth with the success of novelists including Val McDermid, Frederic Lindsay, Christopher Brookmyre, Quintin Jardine, Denise Mina and particularly the success of Edinburgh's Ian Rankin and his Inspector Rebus novels.
* Q. McDermid, A. Patil, and T. Raguimov's paper
In Britain, Scottish-born Val McDermid created lesbian journalist-cum-sleuth Lindsay Gordon, and Joan Smith ( born 1953 ) has gained popularity as the author of a series of Loretta Lawson novels.
In addition to Gordon Brown, celebrity fans include authors Ian Rankin and Val McDermid and Coldplay bassist Guy Berryman.
In June 2011 Val McDermid joined the board of directors.
John Horton McDermid, PC, FRI ( born March 17, 1940 ) is a former Canadian politician.
McDermid worked in marketing, public relations and broadcasting before entered politics.
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As a Humanist, Dr. Huxley interests himself in the possibilities of human development, and one thing we can say about this suggestion, which comes from a leading zoologist, is that, so far as he is concerned, the scientific outlook places no rigid limitation upon the idea of future human evolution.
While my memory holds with relentless tenacity, as I cannot too often stress, to my wrongs, when it comes to my shames, it gestures and jokes and toys with chronology like a prestidigitator in the hope of distracting me from them.
Aubrey's mention of it ( 2:67, and Bodleian MS Aubr. 8, F. 63 ) comes from this prolusion, through Christopher Milton or Edward Phillips.
A call for action `` before it is too late '' has alarming implications when it comes from a man who, in his previous reports on the schools, cautioned so strongly against extreme measures.
Many home-bound subway riders utilizing the Flushing-Main Street express are daily confronted with the sight of the local departing from the Woodside station as their express comes to a stop, leaving them stranded and strained.
There was an air of blindness in her gray eyes, the startled-horse look that ultimately comes to some women who are born at the end of an ancestral line long since divorced from money-making and which, besides, has kept its estate intact.
-- The deterrent power of our Armed Forces comes from both their nuclear retaliatory capability and their capability to conduct other essential operations in any form of war.
This comes not alone from high-set, high-rep training, but from certain definition-specialization exercises which the champion selects for himself with the knowledge of exactly what works best for him.
During a round of target practice the sun comes from behind a cloud and dazzles the marksman, lowering his chance of a bull's-eye.
Much of the available information comes not from the Federal government but from an exchange of experiences among states.
that on the immediate horizon, if further large-scale ( relatively speaking ) desegregation comes, it will result from court orders on suits filed in several Middle-South states.
The final example of the failure to use available evidence, though evidence of a different kind from that which has so far been considered, comes from Fromm's treatment of some other writers who have dealt with the same themes.
This theme comes to represent the outer world, the realm of battles and banquets -- seen from a distance, quite distinct from the quieter spiritual life in the monastery.
Much of the material comes directly from secondary sources such as Strukturbericht.
Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, former President of the Ford Motor Company, comes from a generation different from that of Eisenhower's own first Secretary of Defense, Charles Wilson, who had been head of General Motors.
Udall, who comes from one of the Mormon first-families of Arizona, is a bluff, plain-spoken man with a lust for politics and a habit of landing right in the middle of the fight.
A picture of her in high school comes from a younger schoolmate, Albert S. Flint, friend of her brother Winslow, and later, like Winslow, a noted astronomer.
One of the finest of artists' oils comes from poppy seeds.
Sesame seed, which comes from the tall pods of a plant grown in Egypt, Brazil, and Central America, has a toasted-nut flavor and can be used in almost any dish calling for almonds.
We had tea at Mr. Washizu's home where I learned that he, too, comes from a very wealthy family.
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