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

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when the first volume of her " extravagant biography " of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton was published ( the second volume is unpublished ).

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.

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

His supervisor was James Mirrlees, who later gained the Nobel prize for Economics.

A mathematical description was given by James Mirrlees.

Mirrlees Blackstone Limited was formed on June 1, 1969 by the merger of Mirrlees National Limited ( formerly Mirrlees, Bickerton and Day ) and Blackstone & Company Limited.

Born in Minnigaff, Kirkcudbrightshire, Mirrlees was educated at the University of Edinburgh ( MA in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in 1957 ) and Trinity College, Cambridge ( Mathematical Tripos and PhD ), where he was a very active student debater.

One contemporary, Quentin Skinner has suggested that Mirrlees was a member of the Cambridge Apostles along with fellow Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen during this period.

Between 1968 and 1976, Mirrlees was a visiting professor at MIT three times.

His PhD supervisor was Professor Sir James Mirrlees.

The engine was a higher-powered development of the Mirrlees engine previously fitted experimentally to British Rail Class 37 nos.

The engine is an 8 cylinder, 145 litre Mirrlees Blackstone 8MB275T diesel traction engine ( 275 mm cylinder diameter ); the Mirrlees engine was one of the most fuel efficient available at the time ( 189g of fuel per kWhr ), but relatively heavy ; low cylinder count for rated power was expected to result in lower maintenance costs.

This was replaced in the 1880s by the steam beam engine, itself replaced in 1924 by the powerful Mirrlees, Bickerton and Day Diesel.

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

" 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 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.

Mirrlees later used medieval Spanish culture as part of the background of her second novel, The Counterplot ( 1924 ).

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.

Mirrlees also discovered that the line of the Bonds of Peckham bears the family motto " The World is Not Enough ", which Fleming appropriated for Bond's own family.

* 1936 – James Mirrlees, Scottish economist, Nobel Prize laureate

* Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel – James Mirrlees, William Vickrey

Joanna Russ wrote a short story, The Zanzibar Cat ( 1971 ), in homage to Hope Mirrlees and as a critique of Lud-in-the-Mist – and indeed the entire genre of fantasy, describing Fairyland " half in affectionate parody, but the other half very seriously indeed ".

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

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.

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.

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 and Harrison lived together from 1913 until the elder's death in 1928.

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.

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

After Harrison's death, Mirrlees converted to Catholicism.

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

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

He was a man, those neighbors testified later, who didn't have a friend in the world.

`` Yeah, I can see that '', the friend was forced to agree.

`` If you can conveniently let me have twenty dollars '', he wrote one friend in 1791 when he was Secretary of the Treasury.

His father was a good friend of Rabbi Szold, and Joe lived with the Szolds for a while.

Ann, pleased to see her friend happy, was intrigued by the new fruits a friend of Captain Heard had sent on board for their enjoyment.

Another good friend of the Coolidges' was George B. Harvey, who was the Ambassador to Great Britain from 1921 to 1923.

Woodruff wanted this political windfall very badly, and everyone assumed that he would get it because he was a close friend of the governor and his stanchest supporter.

Fulton was a very close friend of Jackson, and had been his private secretary for a number of years in the old days.

He was universally beloved by his neighbours, and the Indians, who esteemed him, not only as a friend, but one high in communion with God in Heaven ''.

His neighbors celebrated his return, even if it was only temporary, and Morgan was especially gratified by the quaint expression of an elderly friend, Isaac Lane, who told him, `` A man that has so often left all that is dear to him, as thou hast, to serve thy country, must create a sympathetic feeling in every patriotic heart ''.

The younger men, Vere, and Pembroke, who was also Edward's cousin and whose Lusignan blood gave him the swarthy complexion that caused Edward of Carnarvon's irreverent friend, Piers Gaveston, to nickname him `` Joseph the Jew '', were relatively new to the game of diplomacy, but Pontissara had been on missions to Rome before, and Hotham, a man of great learning, `` jocund in speech, agreeable to meet, of honest religion, and pleasing in the eyes of all '', and an archbishop to boot, was as reliable and experienced as Othon himself.

The daughter, Lilly, was a very good friend of mine and I always had hopes that someday she and Meltzer would find each other.

He said he was a friend of Heywood Broun who had run a free employment bureau for several months during the depression, but the generous Broun to whom I wrote did not know his name and I somehow conceived the morbid notion that the man in question was prowling round the house.

He is said to have reported that once, when she went to a hospital to call on a friend after a serious operation, and the friend protested that it had been `` nothing '', she replied, `` Well, it was your healthy American peasant blood that pulled you through ''.

Some reports say he was rescued from timely retirement by his friend, Congressman Walter of Pennsylvania, at a moment when the Kennedy Administration was diligently searching for all the House votes it could get.

Her mother, now dead, was my good friend and when she came to tell us about her plans and to show off her ring I had a sobering wish to say something meaningful to her, something her mother would wish said.

His friend Jane was with him.

In spring and in autumn the run was made for a group of botanists which included an old friend of mine.