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  Henty, Sir Norman Henry Denham (1903 - 1978) Biographical Entry - Australian Dictionary of Biography Online
HENTY, Sir NORMAN HENRY DENHAM (1903-1978), politician and wholesaler, was born on 13 October 1903 at Longford, Tasmania, second of four children and eldest son of Victorian-born parents Thomas Norman Henty, storekeeper, and his wife Sarah Nina Lily Mary, née Wilson.
Educated at Launceston Church Grammar School, Denham left at the age of 14 to work for his father; he was employed in the office until he became sales representative to the general stores which the firm supplied.
Denham was a self-taught pianist, much in demand at social functions.
www.adb.online.anu.edu.au /biogs/A140503b.htm   (384 words)

  
 Denham Sir John: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
Sir John Denham, who held the latter...could be by one whom John Evelyn described as...than an architect." Denham does not appear to have...
...praised in Parliament by Denham, and elsewhere by...see the letters of John Beale (in the West...Evelyn; and those of Sir John Hobart to his...Thereupon Ogilby, Denham, Fanshawe, and Harington...with vigor.
DENHAM, SIR JOHN den m, 1615 69, English poet and dramatist.
www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/denham-sir-john.jsp?l=D&p=2   (1419 words)

  
 C.S. Forester
Hornblower books hailed the expansive age of the British Empire and continued the tradition of G.A. Henty and other adventure fiction with imperialistic boosting.
It was produced in London at Sir Alexander Korda's extensive Denham Studios.
Sequences taking place at sea were filmed in Villefrance on the Riviera, between Nice and the principality of Monaco.
www.kirjasto.sci.fi /forester.htm   (2328 words)

  
 Contested Empire: Bertram Mitford and the Imperial Adventure Story
Haggard had a nostalgic respect, shared with many members of the late nineteenth-century English military gentry caste, for the traditional warrior society of the Zulus and he had a major influence in disseminating the heroic image of the Zulus which came to be accepted in Britain.
Verna’s fiance, Denham, admits Sapazini’s qualities, ‘but to himself he was thinking that had Sapazini been a white man he would have resented the way in which the chief had looked at Verna more than once.
Sapazini captures Denham and threatens Verna with slowly torturing her fiance to death unless she consents to become his chief wife.
faculty.ed.uiuc.edu /westbury/paradigm/lieven2.html   (4319 words)

  
 Contested Empire: Bertram Mitford and the Imperial Adventure Story
Haggard had a nostalgic respect, shared with many members of the late nineteenth-century English military gentry caste, for the traditional warrior society of the Zulus and he had a major influence in disseminating the heroic image of the Zulus which came to be accepted in Britain.
Verna’s fiance, Denham, admits Sapazini’s qualities, ‘but to himself he was thinking that had Sapazini been a white man he would have resented the way in which the chief had looked at Verna more than once.
Sapazini captures Denham and threatens Verna with slowly torturing her fiance to death unless she consents to become his chief wife.
w4.ed.uiuc.edu /faculty/westbury/Paradigm/lieven2.html   (4319 words)

  
 Brampton Island at the Whitsundays
Instead it was decided in 1964 that a strip be built on the north-eastern shore of Brampton island to the east of the resort area.
This was completed in March 1965 and opened officially on 21 March by the Minister for Civil Aviation, Senator Denham Henty.
To accommodate this strip and its associated facilities, which included a substantial reclamation of the sea-front, a special lease 32323 was given to the Australian National Airlines Commission for twenty years from 1 January 1965 over 15 hectares of the foreshore.
www.thewhitsundays.com /islands/brampton.html   (1894 words)

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