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  Bernard Weatherill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Right Honourable Bruce Bernard Weatherill, Baron Weatherill, PC, DL, born 25 November 1920 in Guildford, Surrey to Bernard Bruce Weatherill (1883 - 1962) and Annie Gertrude Weatherill (nee Creak) (1886 - 1966) is a politician in the United Kingdom.
Children are sons Bernard R., QC (born 1951) and H. Bruce (born 1953) and daughter Virginia (born 1955).
From October 1971 to April 1973, Weatherill was Vice-Chamberlain of Her Majesty's Household.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bernard_Weatherill   (956 words)

  
 Bernard, Claude - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Bernard, Claude   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Bernard first demonstrated that digestion is not restricted to the stomach, but takes place throughout the small intestine.
Bernard was born in St-Julien, Rhône-Alpes region, and studied medicine in Paris.
Bernard performed a series of important experiments on the physiology of digestion, showing, for example, that pancreatic secretions were important in fat metabolism, and investigating the mechanisms of nervous control of gastric secretion.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Bernard,+Claude   (255 words)

  
 Bernard Weatherill: bio and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Apprenticed at age 17 as a tailor (tailor: A person whose occupation is making and altering garments) to the family firm Bernard Weatherill Ltd., Sporting Tailors of Saville Row (Saville Row: savile row is a road in the city of westminster in central london that runs parallel...
A portrait by of Speaker Weatherill hangs in Portcullis House (Portcullis House: portcullis house is a building in westminster, london, used as offices for members...
Bernard Weatherill, along with other politicians of the 1970s, appears as a character in the internet-only novel, in which all quotes and acts are pure fantasy.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/bernard_weatherill   (1202 words)

  
 E N T E R P R I S E   C h a m b e r s - Barrister Profile   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Bernard Weatherill QC Bernard is hugely experienced in most of the fields of Commercial and General Chancery practice and is recommended as a leading silk by the legal directories.
Amongst other recent matters Bernard was retained as an expert witness in various areas of English company and contract law in major litigation in San Antonio Texas between Tequila Cuervo and UDVNA (the North American subsidiary of Diageo plc) over change of control provisions in a notably valuable commercial license and distributorship contract.
Bernard Weatherill QC was recommended to researchers for his drafting work and good attitude with landed clients.
www.enterprisechambers.com /barristerdetail.html?bid=55   (180 words)

  
 Weatherill Papers - Contents   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The majority of the older business records and memorablia remain with the Weatherill family, but there is an interesting series of reminescenes by Bernard B.
Weatherill also in his speeches and interviews often makes reference to his early days as an apprentice and later Director of the family firm.
At various times they had warrants from the Queen, the Queen Mother, the Duke of Edinburgh and the Prince of Wales and much of the correspondence is about applications for their renewal or the change of name or premises of the firm.
library.kent.ac.uk /library/special/html/specoll/weabus.htm   (329 words)

  
 Ask Andy Forums - Two Articles: Working Buttonholes and NYC Tailors   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Once home, I did a Google search for Bernard Weatherill, which turned up the following two articles which may be known to some (most?) of the members here, but are well worth a read if you are interested in classic New York city tailors.
When the last Bernard Weatherill was elected to Parliament, the story goes that he overheard a fellow MP complaining about having to serve alongside a tailor.
The London firm of Bernard Weatheral was purchased by Kilgour, French & Stanbury in or around 1969 (I was working for Weatheral's at the time).
www.askandyaboutclothes.com /Forum/topic.asp?ARCHIVE=true&TOPIC_ID=3798   (908 words)

  
 Bernard Weatherill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Weatherill was commissioned as an officer (A person authorized to serve in a position of authority on a vessel)
A portrait by of Speaker Weatherill hangs in Portcullis House (Portcullis house is a building in westminster, london, used as offices for members of parliament....)
Weatherill was Vice-Chamberlain of Her Majesty's Household, Exception Handler: No article summary found.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /ref/bernard_weatherill   (2351 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Politics | Taking on Prime Minister Thatcher
As prime minister, Baroness Thatcher tried to block Lord (Bernard) Weatherill's election to the post and his private papers give a glimpse of some of the clashes he had with her ministers.
Lord Weatherill has decided not to write his memoirs, but his papers lodged at the University of Kent in Canterbury reveal the behind-the-scenes rows as he tried to defend MP's rights in the Commons.
The prime minister wished to make the statement on Tuesday but as Lord Weatherill wanted it on the same day as a farms debate, he had to "insist that either she or the minister for agriculture come to make statement before debate".
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/3321291.stm   (1097 words)

  
 eBay.co.uk - bernard, Fiction Books, Animals, Non-Fiction Books items at low prices   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Bernard Cornwell - Sharpe's Triumph - pb VGC
Bernard Cornwell - Sharpe's Trafalgar - pb VGC
Bernard Cornwell - Sharpe's Tiger - pb VGC
search.ebay.co.uk /bernard_W0QQfrtsZ0QQfsooZ1QQfsopZ1   (318 words)

  
 Bruce Bernard Weatherill (bruce bernard weatherill resources)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Bernard Weatherill had announced his impending retirement a long time before the 1992 general election, leading to a long but suppressed campaign for support.
Betty Boothroyd, a Labour MP who had been Deputy Speaker, was known to be extremely interested in becoming the first woman Speaker; the Conservative former Cabinet member Peter Brooke was put forward at a later stage as a candidate.
For example, Selwyn Lloyd and George Thomas (Speakers during the 1970s and early 1980s) had both previously served as high-ranking Cabinet members, whilst Bernard Weatherill (Speaker from 1983 to 1992) was previously a party whip.
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 Bespoke equestrian clothing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Bernard Weatherill is the most famous Sporting tailor in the world.
Today Bernard Weatherill hold Royal appointments to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother.
As a Company, Bernard Weatherill’s customers had a natural predilection to the countryside.
www.8savilerow.com /bw04.html   (315 words)

  
 House of Lords - Medcalf v Weatherill and Another
In this appeal two barristers (Mr Bernard Weatherill QC and Ms Josephine Hayes) challenge a wasted costs order made against them by the Court of Appeal.
At the hearing before the Court of Appeal (Peter Gibson and Schiemann LJJ and Wilson J) on Monday 14 February, Mr Weatherill and Ms Hayes, acting (as it is accepted that they did throughout) on instructions, opened the defendants' application to amend the notice of appeal and to adduce new evidence.
In the drafting of the jointly signed notice dated 3 February it is hard to discern selection, as opposed to blanket repetition, of (to use Mr Weatherill's own description at the hearing) the gallimaufry of allegations which on instructions had been assembled in the drafts of Ms Hayes.
www.publications.parliament.uk /pa/ld200102/ldjudgmt/jd020627/medc-1.htm   (3539 words)

  
 Illuminating Manuscripts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Bernard Weatherill, which has been thriving in New York City for more than thirty-five years, is owned by Charles Weatherill (whose brother Bernard has a shop in London), is terribly British, and, as such, posh, polite, and paneled.
Weatherill charges $260 and up for a three-piece suit, takes some three weeks to turn it out, and feels that a perfect fit is achieved only with one's third suit.
One day at Weatherill in London, for example, a cutter suddenly grabbed his shears and began slashing a suit because of his umbrage at the fact that the customer who was trying it on had not expressed his satisfaction promptly enough.
www.dandyism.net /illuminatingmanu.html   (15704 words)

  
 Politics | Speaker apologises over comments
Earlier today Bernard Weatherill, who was Speaker from 1983-1992, described these remarks as "a lapse" and called for him to apologise.
He said that he had been speaking in a personal capacity and was sorry if this had been misunderstood.
Lord Weatherill said the comments yesterday must not be seen as a precedent, adding that although he believed it to be a temporary failing it was "unwise for the speaker ever to express an opinion of any kind".
politics.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4288289-107978,00.html   (515 words)

  
 Book & Stories   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
This quote was made by Lord Bernard Weatherill in Houston in June 1992.
Lord Weatherill was speaker of the British parliament and his quote is as valuable today has it was over one hundred years ago.
On November 11, 1999 I was Lord Weatherill's guest for the day of remembrance for those who have fallen in wars and were not forgotten.
plane-truth.com /book_&_stories.htm   (1064 words)

  
 iafrica.com | news | world news Sikh play cancelled after violent protests
Bernard Weatherill, a Christian and an independent politician, said he hoped the play had been scrapped for good after the other company offered to fill the void.
"I fully understand the Sikh community's distress and anger about that play which is on in Birmingham," said Bernard Weatherill.
Liberal Democrat Lord Navnit Dholakia, a Hindu, said the play had "hurt the deepest feelings" of the Sikhs and compared it to how Salman Rushdie's book, "The Satanic Verses", had offended Muslims in the 1990s.
iafrica.com /news/worldnews/399974.htm   (409 words)

  
 Kilgour,Savile Row tailor, bespoke tailored clothing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Equestrian clothing is made by Bernard Weatherill, sister company of Kilgour, and also based at 8 Savile Row.
Bernard Weatherill hold Royal Warrants of appointment to Her Majesty the Queen and Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother and have been making riding clothes for the Royal family since 1920.
As far as we know the company is the last business in the world that still makes bespoke breeches.
www.8savilerow.com /bespoke04.html   (189 words)

  
 The International Institute for Animal Law
Rollin, Bernard E., Laws Relevant to Animal Research in the United States, Chichester, England: Wiley (1987).
Rollin, Bernard E., The Unheeded Cry: Animal Consciousness, Animal Pain, and Science, Oxford: Oxford University Press (1989).
Vyvyan, John, In Pity and in Anger: A Study of the Use of Animals in Science, Marblehead, MA: Micah (1988).
www.animallawintl.org /books.htm   (2801 words)

  
 jderickson.com | the art of wearing clothes, by george frazier
Yet for all its innate respect for the old, Weatherill has a lively enough interest in the new to enable it to satisfy even the most progressive-minded members of the well-heeled younger generation.
HUGH A. COLE—The thirty-five-year-old Cole (one of the eight men in their thirties on the list) is a prominent sportsman, an excellent golfer and a fine horseman, as is fitting the son of Ashley T. Cole, the Chairman of the New York State Racing Commission, should be.
He is a member of the Century and Lambs clubs in New York, Buck's and White's in London, the Travellers in Paris, and the Metropolitan and the Army and Navy in Washington, D. His tailor: Stovel and Mason (48 guineas or $141.12 a suit) in London.
www.jderickson.com /clothing/artofwearingclothes.html   (7211 words)

  
 Robin-Lee Hall - Portrait Painter & Artist, Pets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
One of her two portraits of past speaker of commons Lord Bernard Weatherill hangs in the new Parliamentary Building in Parliament Street.
She was commissioned to paint a portrait for The Princess Trust for which she received a letter of commendation from the Prince of Wales himself.
Sir Bernard Weatherill, Speaker of the House of Commons
www.commissionaportrait.com /artistsportfolio.asp?id=33&page=1   (234 words)

  
 Croydon Natural History and Scientific Society - Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In the company of John Gent, the Society's President, were Councillor Maurice Fowler, the Mayor of Croydon, and the Rt.
Bernard Weatherill MP, Speaker of the House of Commons and MP for Croydon North East since 1964.
After consuming a most satisfactory meal, including a Souffle Vesuvius which some of the waitresses found more like solidified lava than a sugary confection when it came to serving portions, but which was worth the wait nevertheless, the Mayor - wearing his heavy and impressive chain of office - proposed a toast to Croydon's Museum.
www.greig51.freeserve.co.uk /cnhss/bull090a.htm   (380 words)

  
 Convenors of the Crossbench Peers
Son of the late Bernard Weatherill and Gertrude Weatherill (nee Creak).
Career: Employed in the family business of Bernard Weatherill Ltd, Tailors of Saville row, London, W1 1945-70, President of the Company 1992.
House of Commons: MP (Conservative) for Croydon North East 1964-83; Chairman of Ways and Means and Deputy Speaker 1979-83; Elected Speaker of the House of Commons June 15, 1983 and chosen again June 17, 1987 until retirement in 1992.
213.52.137.147 /convenors.html   (951 words)

  
 Jainism, vegetarianism, animal protection, land use, ecology
All major world nations have vegetarian societies, which are actively engaged in the promotion of vegetarianism: the United Kingdom; Switzerland, West Germany, Israel, Mexico; Japan, Russia, and many others.
Honorable Bernard Weatherill, M.P., has stated that there would be tremendous economic savings of food and energy resources if more people began eating vegetables and grain instead of feeding it to meat animals.
When animals are raised for meat, large amounts of land are needed to support them.
www.geocities.com /Athens/3861/vege.html   (1460 words)

  
 Healthy Community - sponsored by North Hampshire Hospitals NHS Trust   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
A UNIQUE charity providing help for people with disabilities was recognised for its contribution towards improving the health of the borough.
The panel takes referrals from anywhere and client visits are organised by case officer Bernard Weatherill.
Mr Weatherill, who collected the award on behalf of the organisation, said: "The award was a surprise and I am very proud that someone put our name forward for it.
www.thisishampshire.net /hampshire/basingstoke/news/BASINGSTOKE_NEWS_OFPROUDBETOPLACE7.html   (303 words)

  
 Hansard -- Monday, October 3, 1983 -- Afternoon Sitting
Bernard Weatherill, the Speaker of the House of Commons, and Mrs.
Weatherill are unable to join us today in Victoria.
We had extended an invitation to them through your good offices, and I know that all members would have been very happy to have the Speaker of the House of Commons here.
www.legis.gov.bc.ca /HANSARD/33rd1st/33p_01s_831003p.htm   (19295 words)

  
 Graham Layton Trust
As LRBT is already on the ground, donors will be asked if LRBT may, if it sees the need and is assured by their performance, give some of their donations to support the immediate needs of other medical organisations operating alongside LRBT's clinics.
Lord Weatherill added that already more than 98% of money donated to GLT reaches the beneficiaries in Pakistan, and LRBT's credibility, swift response and presence on the ground means that donations to the appeal will quickly and efficiently benefit victims of the disaster
Dr Maleeha Lodhi, the UK High Commissioner for Pakistan, commented: "LRBT already undertakes over 25% of all cataract surgery in Pakistan and its highly trained staff and support organisation are a welcome addition to the relief operations, I hope that this appeal will be generously supported."
www.glt.org.uk /docs/press_release_Oct13th05.html   (332 words)

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