While at Cambridge, Mirrlees developed a close relationship with famous classicist Jane Ellen Harrison, Mirrlees ' tutor and later her friend and collaborator.

Mirrlees and Harrison visited Spain in 1920, and there took Spanish lessons.

* Jane Harrison Gallery Contains a photo of Mirrlees with Jane Ellen Harrison

Stardust has a different tone and style from most of Gaiman's prose fiction, being consciously written in the tradition of pre-Tolkien English fantasy, following in the footsteps of authors such as Lord Dunsany and Hope Mirrlees.

Both of them studied Russian, Mirrlees earning a Diploma in Russian from the École des Langues Orientales of Paris, and went on to collaborate on translations from the Russian.

In 1948, Mirrlees moved to South Africa and remained there until 1963, when the first volume of her " extravagant biography " of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton was published ( the second volume is unpublished ).

After Harrison's death, Mirrlees converted to Catholicism.

Mirrlees optimal income tax is a detailed theoretical model of the optimum progressive income tax along these lines.

The CUHK has a great achievement in physical science and mathematics and is the only tertiary education institution in Hong Kong with Nobel Prize Laureates serving as professors, including Chen Ning Yang, James Mirrlees, Robert Alexander Mundell and Charles K. Kao ( Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics, 2009 ).

Other railway engineering assets were acquired, including Westinghouse Brake & Signal and the engine builder Mirrlees Blackstone, which came with the Brush businesses.

Hope Mirrlees ( 1887 – 1978 ) was a British translator, poet and novelist.

Born in Chislehurst, Kent and raised in Scotland and South Africa, Mirrlees attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art before going up to Newnham College, Cambridge to study Greek.

Mirrlees was a friend of Virginia Woolf, who described her in a letter as " her own heroine – capricious, exacting, exquisite, very learned, and beautifully dressed.

" Her circle of celebrity friends also included T. S. Eliot ; Gertrude Stein, who mentions Mirrlees in " Everybody's Autobiography "; Bertrand Russell ; and Lady Ottoline Morrell.

Mirrlees died in Thames Bank, Goring, England, in 1978.

Mirrlees ' 600-line modernist poem, Paris: A Poem, published in 1918 by Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press, was the subject of considerable study by scholar Julia Briggs, and is considered by some literary critics to have had an influence on the work of her friend, T. S. Eliot, and on that of Virginia Woolf.

Mirrlees set her first novel, Madeleine: One of Love's Jansenists ( 1919 ), in and around the literary circles of the 17th Century Précieuses, and particularly those salons frequented by Mlle de Scudéry.

Since 2000, Mirrlees ' work has undergone another resurgence in popularity, marked by new editions of her poetry, an entry in the Dictionary of National Biography and several scholarly essays by critic Julia Briggs, new introductions to Lud-in-the-Mist by writer Neil Gaiman and scholar Douglas A. Anderson, essays and a brief biography by writer Michael Swanwick, and translations of Lud-in-the-Mist into German and Spanish.

Hope-in-the-Mist, a book-length study of Mirrlees and her work by Michael Swanwick, was published by Temporary Culture in 2009.

Sandeep Parmar is currently writing a biography of Mirrlees as well.

* Musician George Harrison ( 1943 – 2001 ) lived at Friar Park, Henley-on-Thames from the 1970s until his death.

Harrison lived all his life at Berkeley Plantation, the Harrison family home in Virginia, and his children were born there.

He lived in the band's London flat with George Harrison and Ringo Starr after John Lennon and Paul McCartney moved out to live with their respective partners, and designed the cover of their album Revolver, for which he won a Grammy.

Voormann lived with Harrison and Ringo Starr for a time before finding work as a commercial artist and renting an apartment of his own.

Harrison grew up with his parents in Henley-on-Thames, in Friar Park, the estate on which his father had lived since 1970.

Harrison had lived in the home since 1978.

They lived at the Harrison family home for some time while they saved money.

During the Harrison administration, their daughter Mary Harrison McKee, her two children ; Caroline's father, and other relatives lived at the White House.

Only a handful of first ladies have lived longer -- Anna Harrison, Edith Bolling Wilson, Betty Ford, Lady Bird Johnson, Nancy Reagan, and Bess Truman.

From 1953 to 1961 she lived with George Harrison Marks and took his name.

Julius Harrison ( 1885 – 1963 ), who was a contemporary of Elgar and Professor of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music, lived in Pickersleigh Road for most of the 1940s.

One of the great village characters was Benjamin Harrison, who lived from 1837 to 1921.

During the six years Harrison lived in the property, the rent rose.

When his family arrived in the U. S., they settled in New Jersey where Ramos lived in Harrison and Kearny.

In 1810, Tecumseh reminded William Henry Harrison, " You recall the time when the Jesus Indians of the Delawares lived near the Americans, and had confidence in their promises of friendship, and thought they were secure, yet the Americans murdered all the men, women, and children, even as they prayed to Jesus?

On Horner's death in 1837, Sarah Horner lived with another daughter, Charlotte Augusta ( 1819 ?-- 1863 ; m. 1849 )), and son-in-law, John Lamble Harrison ( 1820 ?-- 1877 )), and their daughters, Charlotte Sarah ( b. 1852 ) and Elizabeth Caroline ( b. 1856 ), at 33, Grovesnor Place, Bath.

* George Harrison, composer / musician / activist and co-founder of The Beatles, lived here from 1962 to 1965.

Former Beatle George Harrison purchased Friar Park, where Frank Crisp had lived, as his new home in 1970.

It is named after Benjamin Harrison V, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and a Governor of Virginia, who lived nearby at Berkeley Plantation.

President Davis ’ personal secretary, Colonel Burton Harrison, also lived in the house.

Landmarks include the house where Herman Hesse lived for half of his life, a house where George Harrison went for health reasons and The American School In Switzerland ( TASIS ), a boarding school.

Dan Aykroyd, Mama Cass, John Kay, John Cassavetes, Gower Champion, Marge Champion Joe Cocker, Kevin Costner, Wes Craven, Ellen DeGeneres, Janice Dickinson, Richard Dreyfuss, Bud Ekins, Ava Gardner, Betty Garrett, George Harrison, Robert Hays, Rob Lowe, Melissa Mathison, Matthew McConnaughey, Steve McQueen, Alex Murray, Ricky Nelson, Larry Parks, Anthony Perkins, Chris Pontius, Julia Roberts, Henry Rollins, Melody Rogers, Telly Savalas, Ryan Seacrest, Doc Severinsen, Pauley Shore, Frank Sinatra, Ringo Starr, Kiefer Sutherland, Rudy Vallee, Larry Storch, Cindy Williams, Guy Williams, Bruce Willis, Adam Sandler, Frank Zappa, Renée Zellweger, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, and Ian Ziering are just a few celebrities in the music and movie industry that lived, worked, and played in Nichols Canyon over the years.