The first draft was written between June and October 1964 and entitled Funeral Games, a title Orton would drop at Halliwell's suggestion but would later reuse.

Investigators determined that Orton died first, because Halliwell's body was still warm.

Carlos Be wrote a play about Orton and Halliwell's last days, Noel Road 25: A Genius Like Us, first performed in 2001.

Orton starts out as the uneducated youth to Halliwell's older faux-sophisticate.

As the relationship progresses, however, Orton grows increasingly confident in his talent while Halliwell's writing stagnates.

He met friend Peter Nolan, who later gave evidence at the inquest that Orton told him that he had another boyfriend and wanted to end his relationship with Halliwell, but did not know how to go about it.

She was acquainted with many of the leading figures in the British theatre, including Joe Orton, and he recounts in his dairies how he asked her advice on how best to end his relationship with his lover Kenneth Halliwell.

** The case of the Tichborne Claimant is decided against the claimant Arthur Orton ( who, as a result, is convicted of perjury in 1874 ).

The Orton phonography, originally developed to teach brain-damaged adults to read, is a form of phonics instruction that blends synthetic and analytic components.

However, Utah's 3rd Congressional District, of which Provo is a part, elected Democrat Bill Orton to three consecutive terms during the 1990s.

Orton Township is a township in Wadena County, Minnesota, United States.

Research suggests that dyslexia is a symptom of a predominant visual / spatial learning from the earliest studies, circa 1896-1925 by Morgan ( 1896 ), Hinselwood ( 1900 ) and Orton ( 1925 ).

* The Last Days of Sodom, a novel jointly written by Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell, is rejected.

In 1757 Wesley described Taylor's views as ‘ old deism in a new dress .’ Job Orton remarked ( 1778 ) that ‘ he had to the last a great deal of the puritan in him .’ Orton's earlier guess ( 1771 ), adopted by Walter Wilson, that Taylor had become a Socinian, is dismissed as groundless by Alexander Gordon in the Dictionary of National Biography.

Erin is an amalgamated town, composed of the former Villages of Erin and Hillsburgh, and the hamlets of Ballinafad, Brisbane, Cedar Valley, Crewson's Corners, and Orton, as well as the former Township of Erin.

Orton is a residential area of the city of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire in the United Kingdom.

It is composed of the ancient villages of Orton Waterville and Orton Longueville, together with the newer developments of Orton Brimbles, Orton Goldhay, Orton Malbourne, Orton Southgate, Orton Wistow and most recently Orton Northgate.

There is no church as such in Orton Wistow or Orton Northgate, however these both fall within the parish of St. Andrew's, Alwalton.

The area is largely residential but contains the district shopping centre formerly known as Orton Centre, and one of the Ortons ' two secondary schools, Ormiston Bushfield Academy.

Orton Longueville is home to Orton Longueville School.

Orton Northgate's local Anglican church is St. Andrew's, Alwalton

This development lies adjacent to the Country Park known as Ferry Meadows and the Nene Valley Railway There is a primary school called Orton Wistow Primary School.

Orton attended Marriot Road Primary School, but failed the eleven-plus exam after extended bouts of asthma, and so took a secretarial course at Clark's College in Leicester from 1945 to 1947.

However, prison would be a crucial formative experience for Orton ; the isolation from Halliwell would allow him to break free of him creatively ; and he would clearly see what he considered the corruptness, priggishness, and double standards of a purportedly liberal country.

Orton wrote and rewrote Funeral Games four times from July to November 1966.

On 9 August 1967, Kenneth Halliwell bludgeoned 34-year-old Orton to death at his home in Islington, London, with nine hammer blows to the head, and then committed suicide with an overdose of 22 Nembutal tablets washed down with the juice from canned grapefruit.

A copy of Clouds of Witness was one of the volumes modified by Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell in their adulterations of library books from the Islington and Hampstead libraries in the early 1960s.

He was imprisoned in Gwelo ( now Gweru ) in Southern Rhodesia, and leadership of the Malawi Congress Party ( the Nyasaland African Congress under a new name ) was temporarily assumed by Orton Chirwa, who was released from prison in August 1959.

The party Banda led since taking over from Orton Chirwa in 1960, the Malawi Congress Party, remains a major force in Malawian politics.

He also began recording his album Strange Cargo III, from which the track ' Water From A Vine Leaf ', written with his ex-girlfriend Beth Orton, became an underground classic.

Van Dam lost the Intercontinental title to Orton at Armageddon after interference from Ric Flair.

They continued a close partnership even after losing the title, but it was disbanded when Edge won the Intercontinental championship at Vengeance from Randy Orton.

On the October 2, 2006 episode of Raw, interference from the newly reformed D-Generation X ( DX ) ( Triple H and Shawn Michaels ) cost Edge his " final chance " at John Cena's WWE Championship in a Steel cage match, though their interference was a response to the interference of Lance Cade and Trevor Murdoch, led to Edge approaching Randy Orton and asking him to join forces to defeat DX, which Orton accepted and joined an alliance with Edge.

On his last appearance in WWE, on the June 1 episode of Raw, Flair challenged Randy Orton in a parking lot brawl match, after an interference from the rest of The Legacy, the fight ended with Flair was trapped inside a steel cage and was punted by Orton.

The year after, Nash returned from injury as a fan favorite and sided with Michaels against Evolution ( Triple H, Ric Flair, Batista and Randy Orton ).

The most successful folk artists from the region in recent years are probably the Essex born Billy Bragg and the Norfolk born Beth Orton.

Orton Goldhay was laid out from the mid 1970s by Peterborough Development Corporation as part of the second township for the city.

Until the 1960s Orton Longueville was a village separated from Peterborough by open farmland.

Similar in character to Orton Goldhay, this area was also created from the mid 1970s and lies along the dedicated bus route leading into central Peterborough.

The Fat Truckers were a British electroclash band from Sheffield, comprising Ben Rymer, Mark Hudson and Ross Orton and briefly augmented by Jason Buckle and Ginger Dave as a part-time members.

Surrender was the first Chemical Brothers album not to feature a guest appearance from Beth Orton, though she would appear on the following album Come with Us on the song " The State We're In ".

Famous people from the town include novelist Brian Aldiss, author George Borrow, footballer Harry Cripps, the antiquarian Sir John Fenn, Lady Ellenor Fenn, architect George Skipper, singer Beth Orton and scientist William Hyde Wollaston.

The featured match from the Raw brand was Randy Orton facing Batista for the WWE Championship, which Orton got disqualified in, however he retained the championship.