Lastly, he was married to Frances Rudge from 1982 until his death in 2003, aged 94.

Rudge was a maker of a number of instruments but had begun to specialise in the creation of magic lanterns.

Friese-Greene was fascinated by the machine and in 1886 he began work with Rudge on enhancing it in order to project photographic plates.

The poem was inspired in part by a talking raven in the novel Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of ' Eighty by Charles Dickens.

He was also inspired by Grip, the raven in Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of ' Eighty by Charles Dickens.

Since then, John Rudge was manager from 1983 to 1999 and steered the club through more than a decade of success ; under his leadership the club reached eighth in the second tier in the 1996 – 97 season and enjoyed cup glory and numerous promotion campaigns.

Following McGrath's dismissal, his assistant John Rudge was appointed manager at Vale Park in December 1983.

The next season was another struggle, and John Rudge was controversially sacked in January 1999.

Returning to the US, McCartney recommended the band to Peter Rudge, who was then tour manager for The Rolling Stones and Lynyrd Skynyrd, and, after ten months negotiations, Rudge agreed to manage The Dingoes in the US.

Daniel Rudge ( 1840 – June 26, 1880 ) was a British engineer who built high-end bicycles and velocipedes.

After Rudge's death, his company was merged with The Tangent & Coventry Tricycle Company to form D. Rudge & Co. which in 1894 became Rudge Whitworth Cycles.

By 1911, the Rudge Whitworth Cycle Company was also manufacturing motorcycles.

Dolly Varden was a character from Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens.

Careful studies of Kettlewell's surviving papers by Rudge ( 2005 ) and Young ( 2004 ) found that Hooper's accusation of fraud was unjustified, and that " Hooper does not provide one shred of evidence to support this serious allegation ".

Traditionally a rural farming community, but now largely suburban, Chigwell was mentioned in the Domesday Book and later lauded by Charles Dickens in the novel Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of ' Eighty ; the Maypole Inn is based on the King's Head inn, though the name was taken from the Maypole public house in Chigwell Row ; and it is likely Dickens visited both hostelries.

The English section for local children studying arithmetic, reading and writing was housed in a building behind the King's Inn public house, which was mentioned in Charles Dickens ' novel Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of ' Eighty.

Terry and John Rudge pointed out that the quotation ascribed to Woolley is actually a misquotation of what he actually said ( as they had heard themselves on Radio Newsreel ), which was " All this talk about space travel is utter bilge, really .".

" Terry and Rudge assert that Woolley's latter prediction turned out to be quite accurate, and state that the deletion of the first four words of the quotation by newspaper editors was in reaction to the fact that it was those self-same newspaper's hyperbolic articles, talking about space travel, that Woolley was criticising.

The Grand Duchy of Avram is a micronation founded in the early 1980s by Tasmanian John Charlton Rudge, who styles himself the " Grand Duke of Avram ".

The Dingoes signed a two-album deal with US-based, A & M records, on recommendations from McCartney and Rudge, and undertook three months of rehearsals in Canada, then headed for the US, where they set up base in Mill Valley, Northern California, at the start of 1977.

During the 1930s, the sport grew in popularity, especially in Britain where teams from the Birmingham Small Arms Company ( BSA ), Norton, Matchless, Rudge, and AJS competed in the events.

The mysterious stranger haunting Mrs. Rudge is captured by Haredale at the smoldering ruins of the Warren where he had gone to join the mob.

They are accessible from the village, either along Knowle Road, to where the twin bridges over the Wrey run, or from Rudge down either the Heaven's Gate or Hisley paths.

The book also tells the story of many American and English expatriates who went to live in Venice, from Daniel Curtis, who owned Palazzo Barbaro where Henry James and John Singer Sargent were guests, to the poet Ezra Pound who lived the last part of his life in Venice with his long-time mistress Olga Rudge.

Poe had written a review of Barnaby Rudge for Graham's Magazine saying, among other things, that the raven should have served a more symbolic, prophetic purpose.

" Poe had written a review of Barnaby Rudge for Graham's Magazine saying, among other things, that the raven should have served a more symbolic prophetic purpose.

The similarity did not go unnoticed: James Russell Lowell in his A Fable for Critics wrote the verse, " Here comes Poe with his raven, like Barnaby Rudge / Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths sheer fudge.

This seems to have prompted Dickens to choose the title " Master Humphrey's Clock " for his new weekly, in whichThe Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge appeared.

Both were produced by George Martin for Parlophone, with music by Ted Dicks and lyrics by Myles Rudge.

Pound introduced Antheil to Jean Cocteau who in turn helped launch Antheil into the musical salons of Paris, and commissioned him to write three violin sonatas for his companion, Olga Rudge.

Rudge commissioned an octagon tower for the site of the battlefield in 1842, to honour Simon de Montfort, earl of Leicester.

The French racing cyclist Charles Terront, renowned for winning the first Paris – Brest – Paris event in 1891, used Rudge's axles with much success thereby bringing world attention to Rudge.

The early monthly numbers were not as successful as Dickens ' previous work and only sold about twenty thousand copies each ( compared to forty to fifty thousand for the monthly numbers of the Pickwick Papers and Nicholas Nickleby and sixty to seventy thousand for the weekly issues of Barnaby Rudge and The Old Curiosity Shop ) causing a break between Dickens and his publishers Chapman and Hall when they invoked a penalty clause in his contract requiring him to pay back money they had lent him to cover their costs.

My grandmother, then a young girl of 15 or 16, had been reading Charles Dickens ' Barnaby Rudge in which there appears a character named Dolly Varden ; also the vogue in fashion for women at that time ( middle 1870s ) was called ' Dolly Varden ', a dress of sheer figured muslin worn over a bright-colored petticoat.

It was perhaps because of the Siege's reputation as a famous British victory that Charles Dickens chose the Siege of Savannah as the place for Joe Willet to be wounded ( losing his arm ) in the novel Barnaby Rudge.

Toward the end of World War II, Dorothy and Pound were evacuated from their home in Rapallo, and for a period she, Pound and Rudge lived together in Rudge's home.

The two years that Dickens lived in the house were extremely productive, for here he completed The Pickwick Papers ( 1836 ), wrote the whole of Oliver Twist ( 1838 ) and Nicholas Nickleby ( 1838 – 39 ) and worked on Barnaby Rudge ( 1840 – 41 ).

Its innovative and visionary design has earned it many awards notably the Civic Trust Awards, the Eternit Award, the Ambrose Congreve Award for Housing ( in 1980 ) and the Veronica Rudge Green Prize for Urban Design from Harvard University.

My grandmother, then a young girl of 15 or 16, had been reading Charles Dickens ' Barnaby Rudge in which there appears a character named Dolly Varden ; also the vogue in fashion for women at that time ( middle 1870s ) was called " Dolly Varden ", a dress of sheer figured muslin worn over a bright-colored petticoat.

He was a friend of Charles Dickens, and collaborated on illustrations for The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge.

Michael Anthony Robbins ( 14 November 1930 – 11 December 1992, Caterham in Surrey ) was a British actor known for his television work, including his role as Arthur Rudge in sitcom On the Buses ( 1969-72 ).

Primarily a comedy actor, he is best remembered for the role of Arthur Rudge, the persistently sarcastic husband of Olive ( Anna Karen ), in the popular sitcom On the Buses ( 1969 – 73 ).