Andy Medhurst wrote in his 1991 essay " Batman, Deviance, and Camp " that Batman is interesting to gay audiences because " he was one of the first fictional characters to be attacked on the grounds of his presumed homosexuality ," " the 1960s TV series remains a touchstone of camp ," and " merits analysis as a notably successful construction of masculinity.

Tinky Winky started a still hinted-at controversy in 1999 because of his carrying a bag that looks much like a woman's handbag ( although he was first " outed " by the academic and cultural critic Andy Medhurst in a letter of July 1997 to The Face ).

The term originated in the 1950s, when it was used to describe the nervous behaviour of Howard Medhurst, a British birdwatcher.

Walter Henry Medhurst (, 29 April 1796 – 24 January 1857 ), was an English Congregationalist missionary to China, born in London and educated at St Paul's School, was one of the early translators of the Bible into Chinese language editions.

Medhurst was a prolific writer, translator, and editor.

His son, Sir Walter Henry Medhurst ( 1822 – 1885 ), was British consul at Hankow and afterwards at Shanghai.

On 13 October 2006, the final day of trade week and after being linked with several clubs – primarily the two Western Australian clubs West Coast and Fremantle, Tarrant was traded to the Fremantle Football Club in a deal that saw Paul Medhurst and Draft Selection # 8 head to Collingwood.

During his teens, he attended classes at the Children ’ s Art Centre of the Art Gallery of Ontario, where he was encouraged by such artists as Arthur Lismer, Erma Sutcliffe, Dorothy Medhurst, and A. Y. Jackson.

Taylor was able to borrow a copy of China: Its State and Prospects by Walter Henry Medhurst, which he quickly read.

He was warmly greeted by Walter Henry Medhurst and his daughters Mary and Ellen.

He was offered a job by Walter Henry Medhurst at the London Missionary Society Press in Shanghai assisting in his translation of the New Testament into Chinese.

Medhurst, who was stationed in Malacca, was influenced by Robert Morrison's romanization of Mandarin Chinese, but had to innovate in several areas to reflect major differences between Mandarin and Southern Min.

Medhurst was convinced that accurate representation and reproduction of the tonal structure of Southern Min was vital to comprehension:

His speed skating teammates Michael Richmond and Danny Kah managed two top 15 finishes each, and Medhurst was the only other Australian to place in the top 20.

As a young man Medhurst learned the business of a printer and typesetter at Hackney College.

Inscription to Dr Medhurst at Abney Park Cemetery | Abney Park

Soaring skywards, the stone obelisk monument in memory of Dr Medhurst at the Congregationalists ' non-denominational Abney Park Cemetery

Andy Medhurst at Sussex University wrote of Media 2. 0, ' Isn't it odd that whenever someone purportedly identifies a new paradigm, they see themselves as already a leading practitioner of it?

Morrison cooperated with such contemporary missionaries as Walter Henry Medhurst and William Milne ( the printers ), Samuel Dyer ( Hudson Taylor's father-in-law ), Karl Gutzlaff ( the Prussian linguist ), and Peter Parker ( China's first medical missionary ).

In 1812, George Medhurst first proposed, but never implemented, blowing passenger carriages through a tunnel.

The earliest origins of the system are found in a small vocabulary first printed in 1820 by Walter Henry Medhurst, who went on to publish the Dictionary of the Hok-këèn Dialect of the Chinese Language, According to the Reading and Colloquial Idioms in 1832.

The system expounded by Medhurst influenced later dictionary compilers with regard to tonal notation and initials, but both his complicated vowel system and his emphasis on the literary register of Southern Min were dropped by later writers.

From 1998, Kaylan started recording tracks with Rockmelons ' Ray Medhurst, Bryon Jones and Jon Jones producing.

Medhurst, A. Wylie and J. Edkins to translate western religion books and western sciences into China ; on the other hand, he also played an important role in assisting James Legge in the translation of a large number of important ancient Chinese classics into English.

Medhurst left Shanghai in 1856, in failing health.

As a result of the report of the riot, the British consul in Shanghai, Sir Walter Henry Medhurst took seventy Royal marines in a Man of war and steamed up the Yangtze to Nanjing in a controversial show of force that eventually resulted in an official apology from Viceroy Zeng Guofan and financial restitution made to the injured missionaries.

Abney Park is one of the main burial places of 19th century missionaries ; here, for example is the burial place of William Ellis, John Williams ' wife and son, Dr Walter Henry Medhurst, and Edward Stallybrass.

In 1840, a group of four people ( Walter Henry Medhurst, Charles Gutzlaff, Elijah Coleman Bridgman, and John Robert Morrison ) cooperated to translate the Bible into Chinese.

In 1840, a group of four people ( Walter Henry Medhurst, Charles Gutzlaff, Elijah Coleman Bridgman, and John Robert Morrison ) cooperated to translate the Bible into Chinese.

* Air Vice-Marshal Charles E. H. Medhurst: March 1941 – October 1942

In the early Meiji era, James Curtis Hepburn, following Medhurst, spelled all " e " s as " ye " in his A Japanese and English dictionary ( 1st ed.

WEC boasts three female residences, forming the Highfield cluster, namely Girton, Medhurst and Reith Hall.

Similar to other European travellers of the period, such as Walter Medhurst, Fortune disguised himself as a Chinese merchant during several, but not all, of his journeys beyond the newly established treaty port areas.

With John Stronach, and the assistance of Wang Tao, Medhurst later translated the New Testament into the Mandarin dialect of Nanking.

* Medhurst, Walter.

He was ordained deacon 16 June and priest 22 December 1633.

In 1900, with the completion of his licentiate in theology, he was ordained as curate, and that year he witnessed the Oberammergau Passion Play.

To distinguish abbots from bishops, it was ordained that their mitre should be made of less costly materials, and should not be ornamented with gold, a rule which was soon entirely disregarded, and that the crook of their pastoral staff ( the crosier ) should turn inwards instead of outwards, indicating that their jurisdiction was limited to their own house.

Within a week, Ambrose was baptized, ordained and duly consecrated bishop of Milan.

In 1807 he was ordained in the priesthood in the Church of England.

Since John Wesley ordained and sent forth every Methodist preacher in his day, who preached and baptized and ordained, and since every Methodist preacher who has ever been ordained as a Methodist was ordained in this direct " succession " from Wesley, then the Methodist Church teaches that it has all the direct merits coming from apostolic succession, if any such there be.

While Judah I was still living, Rav, having been duly ordained as teacher — though not without certain restrictions ( Sanhedrin 5a )— returned to Babylonia, where he at once began a career that was destined to mark an epoch in the development of Babylonian Judaism.

He ordained further that some should be called " Abbreviators of the Upper Bar " ( Abbreviatores de Parco Majori ; the name derived from a space in the chancery, surrounded by a grating, in which the officials sat, which is called higher or lower ( major or minor ) according to the proximity of the seats to that of the vice-chancellor ), the others of the Lower Bar ( Abbreviatores de Parco Minori ); that the former should sit upon a slightly raised portion of the chamber, separated from the rest of the hall or chamber by lattice work, assist the Cardinal Vice-Chancellor, subscribe the letters and have the principal part in examining, revising, and expediting the apostolic letters to be issued with the leaden seal ; that the latter, however, should sit among the apostolic writers upon benches in the lower part of the chamber, and their duty was to carry the signed schedules or supplications to the prelates of the upper bar.

At first a gnostic Valentinian and Marcionist, Ambrose, through Origen's teaching, eventually rejected this theology and became Origen's constant companion, and was ordained deacon.

He was ordained a deacon by the contemporary patriarch, Alexander of Alexandria, in 319.

In about 692, in Bede's nineteenth year, Bede was ordained a deacon by his diocesan bishop, John, who was bishop of Hexham.

The earliest organization of the Church in Jerusalem was according to most scholars similar to that of Jewish synagogues, but it had a council or college of ordained presbyters ( elders, priests ).

The first woman bishop within Anglicanism was Barbara Clementine Harris, who was ordained in the United States in 1989.

Bishops ( as well as other members of the priesthood ) can trace their line of authority back to Joseph Smith, Jr., who, according to church doctrine, was ordained to lead the Church in modern times by the ancient apostles Peter, James, and John, who were ordained to lead the Church by Jesus Christ.

There he was ordained, and obtained a reputation both as a professor and a preacher.

" Confucius's moral system was based upon empathy and understanding others, rather than divinely ordained rules.