Somerville went on to have success as lead singer of The Communards and as a solo artist.

She went to Talbot Heath School in Bournemouth and afterwards obtained a first class honours degree in modern languages at Somerville College, Oxford.

Rathbone went to Kensington High School, London, and later studied in Somerville College, Oxford, over the protests of her mother.

They split in 1988 and Somerville went solo.

She went on to study Modern Languages at Somerville College, Oxford and German at Princeton University, New Jersey, after which she worked as a language teacher in the United States and for a German publisher before going to work for the Oxford University Press ( OUP ).

Somerville went into TV acting and doing voice overs.

In the 1980s, Belland, Cobb, Somerville, and Jim Pike ( formerly of The Lettermen ) eventually formed a new ' Four Preps ' group, and went on to perform.

The abandonment of one ’ s father ’ s faith is a deep fear and sorrow and I felt an outsider .’ She went up to Somerville College, Oxford, to read English in Autumn 1914, in the first months of the First World War.

The victim Darnell Somerville, Negro, 1, was pronounced dead on arrival at Anne Arundel General Hospital in Annapolis.

* Porter Square, about a mile north on Massachusetts Avenue from Harvard Square, is formed by the junction of Massachusetts and Somerville Avenues, and includes part of the city of Somerville.

* East Cambridge ( Area 1 ) is bordered on the north by the Somerville border, on the east by the Charles River, on the south by Broadway and Main Street, and on the west by the Grand Junction Railroad tracks.

* Wellington-Harrington ( Area 3 ) is bordered on the north by the Somerville border, on the south and west by Hampshire Street, and on the east by the Grand Junction Railroad tracks.

* Mid-Cambridge ( Area 6 ) is bordered on the north by Kirkland and Hampshire Streets and the Somerville border, on the south by Massachusetts Avenue, on the west by Peabody Street, and on the east by Prospect Street.

* Agassiz ( Harvard North ) ( Area 8 ) is bordered on the north by the Somerville border, on the south and east by Kirkland Street, and on the west by Massachusetts Avenue.

* North Cambridge ( Area 11 ) is bordered on the north by the Arlington and Somerville borders, on the south by railroad tracks, on the west by the Belmont border, and on the east by the Somerville border.

During the nineteenth century, portions of the township were taken to form Warren Township ( March 5, 1806 ), Branchburg Township ( April 5, 1845 ), Somerville ( March 25, 1863 ), Raritan ( April 3, 1868 ) and Bound Brook ( March 24, 1869 ).

Somerville is governed under the Borough form of New Jersey municipal government.

In an episode of In our time broadcast on Thu, 20 Oct 2005, 21: 30 on BBC Radio 4, Angie Hobbs, Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Warwick ; Miriam Griffin, Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford ; and John Moles, Professor of Latin, University of Newcastle discussed with Melvyn Bragg the idea that Antisthenes and Diogenes in ancient Greece practiced a form of performance art and that they acquired the epithet of cynic which means " dog " due to Diogenes behaving repeatedly like a dog in his performances.

The Somerville Hotel was built in the early 1900s as well as a Mechanics ' Hall which form part of the Station Street shopping strip.

* 1961 – Jimmy Somerville, Scottish singer-songwriter and musician ( Bronski Beat and The Communards )

Fronted by Billy Bragg ( whose 1985 Jobs for Youth tour had been a prototype of sorts for Red Wedge ), Paul Weller and The Communards lead singer Jimmy Somerville, they put on concert tours and appeared in the media, adding their support to the Labour Party campaign.

The Communards formed in 1985 after singer Jimmy Somerville left his earlier band Bronski Beat to team up with classically-trained musician Richard Coles.

He is known for having been the multi-instrumentalist who partnered Jimmy Somerville in the 1980s band The Communards, which achieved three Top Ten hits, including the Number 1 record and best-selling single of 1986, a Hi-NRG version of " Don't Leave Me This Way ".

In 1984 Somerville left Bronski Beat and he and Coles formed The Communards, who were together for just over three years and had three UK Top 10 hits, including the biggest-selling single of 1986 with a version of " Don't Leave Me This Way ", which was at Number 1 for four weeks.

Four years later Polk sold his Somerville plantation and, together with his brother-in-law, bought 920 acres ( 3. 7 km² ) of land, a cotton plantation near Coffeeville, Mississippi.

Scottish singer and actor Jimmy Somerville, as early as 1982, sported a new " look " with very short cut hair, and a kuifje (" small tuft " in Dutch ) up-front, in a deliberate move to resemble Tintin character.

His father died from a cholera epidemic while visiting Augusta in 1833 ; although James's mother and the rest of the family moved to Somerville, Alabama, following his father's death James remained with uncle Augustus.

The Electronic Corpse: A Storytelling Experiment took place from September 24th-27th 2012 as part of Social Media Week, with the participation of writers and editors Ankur Thakkar, Sara Levine, Kyle Beachy, Rachel Fershleiser, Roxane Gay, Laura Hadden, and Patrick Somerville.

Along with Boyle and Somerville, three band members had died in the attack when the UVF gunmen had opened fire on the group following the premature explosion.

Past Somerville, the route interchanges with Interstate 287 in Bridgewater Township before intersecting many 500-series county roads including County Route 525 and County Route 527 in Bound Brook, County Route 529 in Dunellen, Middlesex County, County Route 531 in Plainfield, Union County, and County Route 509 in Westfield.

Westbound Route 28 ( Union Avenue ) approaching the left turn onto Gaston Avenue in Somerville, New Jersey | Somerville. Route 28 begins at an interchange with U. S. Route 22 in Bridgewater Township, Somerset County, heading to the southeast on Easton Turnpike, a two-lane undivided road with a speed limit of.

When it was originally constructed, the tracks were level with North Avenue and the railroad was the Elizabethtown and Somerville Railroad, which later became part of the Central Railroad of New Jersey.

The public secondary school serving Branchburg for grades 9 – 12 is Somerville High School, which students attend as part of a sending / receiving relationship with the Somerville Public Schools.

The Raritan itself runs along Bridgewater's southern border ( except where Somerville and Raritan were carved out as separate boroughs ) and the North Branch of the Raritan River forms the township's western border with Branchburg.

Its longest borders are with Branchburg Township, Bedminster, Bernards Towsnhip, Warren Township, Bound Brook, Somerville and Raritan.

Several of the factories in Somerville were abandoned and replaced with modern office buildings or remodeled as apartments.

Members of the Somerville Borough Council ( with committee chairmanships and term-end year listed in parentheses ) are Council President Jane Kobuta ( Administration / Personnel Chairwoman, 2013 ), Thompson Mitchell ( Public Works Chairman, 2012 ), Amanda O ' Neill ( Public Property Chairwoman, 2014 ), Nick Stires ( Fire Commissioner, 2014 ), Dennis Sullivan ( Finance Chairman, 2013 ) and Robert Wilson ( Police Commissioner, 2012 ).

The Somerville train station offers service on New Jersey Transit's Raritan Valley Line, with frequent service to Newark Penn Station, with connecting service to Penn Station New York in Midtown Manhattan.

Watchung, from the 1900s was a semi-rural small community of about 3, 200 people in comparison with the relatively much larger cities of Plainfield and Somerville.

Given Harry Evans Sr .' s destructive character, Mary Evans would often leave home with her sons to nearby Somerville, to stay with her sister Justine and the Epps family.

Marion had previously married George Somerville, with Scott serving as Best Man at the wedding.