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  Daniel Hudson Burnham - Historic Architect
Daniel H. Burnham was one of the earliest modern city planners and, with his partner, John Wellborn Root, the architect of the first American skyscrapers.
Burnham was a popular and athletic student who always regretted failing his admissions tests for entering both Harvard and Yale.
Burnham's sons donated most of the records and drawings of their father to the Art Institute of Chicago, establishing the Burnham Library as one of the preeminent collections of architectural information in the world.
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  Daniel Burnham Biography
Burnham served as the chief coordinating architect for the World Columbian Exposition, of 1893, laying out the gargantuan "White City's" classical architecture in a monumental and rational Beaux-Arts plan.
Burnham designed the Flatiron Building in New York (1902), and the fully Beaux-Arts Union Station (Washington, DC), the linchpin that made development of the monumental Mall possibly, by removing the Pennsylvania Railroad's right-of-way along it.
Burnham was also commissioned by the U.S. Philippine Commission in 1904 to make plans for the then Colonial cities of Baguio and Manila.
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 Baron Burnham - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
His son Edward, who assumed the additional surname of Lawson in 1875, was created a Baronet in 1892 and Baron Burnham in 1903.
After the sale, Harry's nephew the future 4th Baron and his son the future 6th Baron were executives of the newspaper until the Camrose interests were in turn displaced by Conrad Black.
The 1st Baron's sons retained the name Levy-Lawson though predominantly using Lawson, and the 4th Baron was registered with it at birth, but subsequently they have used Lawson only.
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 BARONS AND LORDS OF PARLIAMENT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Baron Hampton of Hampton Lovett and of Westwood
The Baron Keyes of Seebrugge and of Dover
The Baron Astor of Hever of Hever Castle
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 Daniel Hudson Burnham - Historic Architect
Daniel H. Burnham was one of the earliest modern city planners and, with his partner, John Wellborn Root, the architect of the first American skyscrapers.
Burnham and Root became the establishment firm for Chicago's business elite, designing their offices in the Loop and their houses in the suburbs.
Burnham's sons donated most of the records and drawings of their father to the Art Institute of Chicago, establishing the Burnham Library as one of the preeminent collections of architectural information in the world.
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 Burnham and Root - Great Buildings Online
Daniel Burnham was born in Henderson, New York in 1846.
Burnham and Root first met in 1872 in the Chicago offices of Carter, Drake, and Wright where both worked as draftsmen.
In 1873 the two established a partnership that successfully utilized the idealism of Root and the pragmatism of Burnham.
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 Daniel Hudson Burnham Biography / Biography of Daniel Hudson Burnham Biography
In 1873 the firm of Burnham and Root was established, and Burnham's career until 1891, the year of Root's death, was inseparable from that of his talented, innovative partner.
Burnham and Root were to have been the coordinators of the World's Columbian Exposition to be held in 1893 in Chicago, but on the day of the first planning conference Root contracted pneumonia, and died.
In 1891 Burnham established the firm of D. Burnham, which was replaced in 1896 by D. Burnham and Co. In 1894 he became president of the American Institute of Architects.
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 House of Commons Hansard Debates for 06 Nov 2006 (pt 0001)
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It is a good job that I did not prepare such a lengthy and in-depth speech, because I would not have had time to deliver it.
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 Baron Burnham -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Baron Burnham, of Hall Barn in the Parish of Beaconsfield in the County of Buckingham, is a (The peers of a kingdom considered as a group) peerage title in the (additional info and facts about Peerage of the United Kingdom) Peerage of the United Kingdom.
His son Edward, who assumed the additional surname of Lawson in 1875, was created a (A member of the British order of honor; ranks below a baron but above a knight) Baronet in 1892 and Baron Burnham in 1903.
After the sale, Harry's nephew the future 4th Baron and his son the future 6th Baron were executives of the newspaper until the Camrose interests were in turn displaced by (additional info and facts about Conrad Black) Conrad Black.
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 Fáilte go Coláiste Íde - Stair   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Andrew an Eight Baron Ventry atá ann fé láthair, agus Arthur Frederick Daubeny an Seventh Baron a cailleadh i 1987.
B'fhearr leis Burnham ná an chúirt ab fhearr a bhí i Londain, agus ba mhinic a thagadh sé féin abhaile agus a bhean a fhágaint ann.
Ó 1927 amach bhí Burnham House ina choláiste ullmhucháin.
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 Stay in Oak Park - Daniel Burnham   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
One of the architects who figured prominently in the rebuilding of Chicago after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 was Daniel Burnham whose Plan for Chicago in 1909 was the first comprehensive plan outline of development ever offered to an American City.
William Le Baron Jenney, an architect-engineer member of the "Chicago School", an American architectural movement in the late 19th Century, designed The Home Insurance Building in 1884.
Both were built by Daniel Burnham and John Root and both were remodeled by Frank Lloyd Wright.
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 THE BURNHAM'S   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Burnham Thorpe is a small village, some nine miles north-west of Fakenham, whose wide Green is overlooked by brick-and-flint Georgian buildings and the 13th-century church.
Nelson's father, Edmund, was appointed Rector of All Saints church Burnham Thorpe (with the churches at Burnham Ulph and Burnham Sutton also placed in his care) in 1755 and it was the village Rectory [#1] three years later that Horatio was born.
Burnham Thorpe was one of seven Burnham parishes, the largest remaining one being Burnham Market which lies about 1 mile to the north-west.
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 Chicago Architecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
He supervised the laying out and construction of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition and, in 1909, Burnham and his assistant Edward H. Bennett (Michigan Avenue Bridge) prepared The Plan for Chicago, which is considered the nation's first example of a comprehensive planning document.
Burnham also worked on other city plans, including ones for Cleveland, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Manila in the Phillipines.
Burnham Park, which is located along Lake Michigan south of the Loop, is named in honor of the famed architect-planner.
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 Lord Ventry
Thomas Townsend Aremberg (Mullins, afterwards [1841] de Moleyns), Baron Ventry [I.], nephew and h.
For the arms of this Sir John, differenced only by the addition of ermine spots, are now borne by Lord Ventry instead of the cross moline formerly borne by the family.
of 1841, the grantee was "descended from a family long seated at Burnham, Norfolk, of which his immediate ancestor, Frederick William Mullins, or Milins, came to Ireland in the reign of Charles II.
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 Harry Levy-Lawson
, eldest son of Edward Levy-Lawson, Baron Burnham, and grandson of Joseph Moses Levy, was born in London in 1862.
Between 1902 and 1913, Lawson held a commission in the Royal Buckingham Hussars and on the outbreak of the First World War he rejoined as a training officer.
Burnham, as Chairman of the Standing Joint Committee on Education, formulated new scales of pay for teachers in all state schools.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /Jburnham.htm   (334 words)

  
 Nelson Bibles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The son of George Horatio Nelson, 1st Baron Nelson of Stafford, Nelson attended Cambridge University.
George Horatio Nelson, 1st Baron Nelson of Stafford (26 October 1887 — 16 July 1962) was a British engineer, the chairman of the firm English Electric.
Horatio Nelson was born in Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, England to the Reverend Edmund Nelson and Catherine Nelson.
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 The Genealogy Website of Adams/Simpson - pafg426 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Roger North [Baron North] was born on 27 Feb 1530 in St. Thomas Thorp,London,Middlesex,England.
She married Roger North [Baron North] in 1555 in of,London,Middlesex,England.
Richard Rich [Baron Rich] [Parents] was born in 1496 in St Lawrence Jewr,London,Middlesex,England.
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 Expert About bu:Burnham
Burnham, William Le Baron Jenney, Mies van der Rohe, and Louis Henry Sullivan) who so greatly influenced the way downtown Chicago looks today.
Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey) is in a mid-life crisis, caused by his stressed wife Carolyn (Annette Bening) and rebelling teenage daughter Jane (Thora Birch).
This piece by James Burnham appeared in "The Week" in the July 18, 1956, issue of NR.
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 Mark Pilling Family History - pilg887 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Margaret married John de Ros [Baron Ros] on 5 Sep 1401.
Philip married Mary Baron in of, Nettlestead, Suffolk, England.
She married John Calthorpe [Sir Knight] about 1459 in of, Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, England.
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 database - pafg93 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Sir William Caulfeild 2nd Baron of Charlemont [Parents] was christened on 8 Oct 1587 in St Mary Magdalen, Oxford, Oxfordshire (GB).
Toby Caulfeild 3rd Baron of Charlemont was born in Oct 1621 in Donamon Castle, Roscomon, (IRL).
Sir William Calthorpe of Burnham Thorpe & Ingham was born on 30 Jan 1409 in Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk (GB).
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 Index: H. D. Burnham   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
He was the businessman of the firm, of which Root was the designer.When Burnham became chief of construction for the World's Columbian Exposition (Chicago, 1893), Root was appointed chief consulting architect.
When Root died in 1891, that position also went to Burnham, who selected as principal architects firms from the eastern United States working in academic eclecticism -- the antithesis of the New Chicago school of commercial architecture.
The Burnham Plan was used for many years as the basis for city planning in Chicago.
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 Edward Levy-Lawson, 1st Baron Burnham --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Burnham (of Hall Barn, Beaconsfield), Edward Levy-Lawson, 1st Baron
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Burnham was a partner of John Wellborn Root and is known for his comprehensive scheme for Chicago.
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 Baron Burnham   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Baron Burnham is a peerage title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
The 1st Baron bought the Daily Telegraph from its founder, andthe 2nd Baron sold the paper to the 1st Viscount Camrose.
William Arnold Webster Levy Lawson, 3rd Baron Burnham (1864 - 1943)
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 Viscount Camrose - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
It was created in 1941 for William Berry, who had in 1929 been created Baron Camrose.The first three Viscounts all headed The Daily Telegraph at one point, the first having purchased it from the 2nd Baron Burnham, but in the 1980s they lost control to Conrad Black.
The first Viscount was the younger brother of the first and last Lord Buckland, an industrialist, and the elder brother of the 1st Viscount Kemsley, a fellow press lord.
The third Viscount disclaimed the Peerage in 1995, but had been created a life peer as Baron Hartwell in 1968.
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 Articles - The Daily Telegraph   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
He controlled it only briefly before selling it to his printer, Joseph Moses Levy, father of the 1st Baron Burnham.
In 1928 the son of the 1st Baron Burnham sold it to the 1st Viscount Camrose, in partnership with his brother Viscount Kemsley and the 1st Baron Iliffe.
Both the Camrose (Berry) and Burnham (Levy-Lawson) families remained involved in management until Conrad Black took control in 1986.
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 Jenney, William Le Baron --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
They included Daniel Burnham, William Le Baron Jenney, John Root, and the firm of Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan.
In partnership with Martin Roche, William Holabird designed commercial buildings that exemplify the Chicago school of architecture and are landmarks in the development of the skyscraper.
In partnership with William Holabird, Martin Roche designed buildings that exemplify the Chicago school and are landmarks in the development of the skyscraper.
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 Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke --  Encyclopædia Britannica
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Baron Münchhausen was a German storyteller, some of whose tales were the basis for the collection The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.
Because he was instrumental in reviving the Olympic Games of ancient Greece, Baron Pierre de Coubertin is known as the founder of the modern Olympics.
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 Baron Dunboyne   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Barony of Dunboyne was created by patent in the Peerage of Ireland in 1541.
The barons are alternately numbered from the early 14th century by numbers ten greater than the number dating to the patent (e.g.
The first baron of this sequence in turn married the heiress to an earlier line of Barons Dunboyne.
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 In re the DREXEL BURNHAM LAMBERT GROUP INC., et al., Debtors.
The bar date is much more than a means to limit claims; it provides finality to a process that will ultimately lead to the rehabilitation of the debtor and the payment of claims under a plan of reorganization.
Requests to file late proofs of claim are strictly scrutinized according to the discretion of the bankruptcy judge.
Before discussing whether Claimant meets the standards for filing a late proof of claim, we must first determine whether the notice afforded to Claimant complies with the constitutional principles of due process as applicable in bankruptcy law.
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 Baron Latymer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The title Baron Latymer has been created twice in the Peerage of England, both times by writ of summons.
At the death of the tenth baron, both baronies fell into abeyance.
Centuries later, in 1913, the Sovereign finally terminated the abeyance in favour of Francis Coutts-Nevill.
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