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  George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
George Kenneth Hotson Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie (September 22, 1931–January 26, 2003), known to many as "Gentleman George", was a British politician whose long career as Conservative MP for Ayr (1964–1992) included periods as Secretary of State for Scotland from 1979 to 1986, and Secretary of State for Defence from 1986 to 1989.
Younger was the eldest of three sons of Edward Younger, 3rd Viscount Younger of Leckie (1906–1997) by his wife Evelyn Margaret, née McClure.
Younger quit the cabinet in 1989, and joined the Royal Bank of Scotland, being made a director in that year, and in 1992, he left life as an MP behind altogether, and became the Bank's chairman.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Younger   (486 words)

  
 Rev. Dr. George D. Younger
George D. Younger, a Baptist minister, theologian, educator, author, editor, historian and community leader who played a vital role in the ecumenical urban church and social justice movements, died on Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2001.
Younger was descended from several prominent New England families and through his maternal grandmother he was descended from Stephen Hopkins, who came to Plymouth on the Mayflower.
Younger was also serving at the time of his death as the representative to the United Nations for the Baptist World Alliance, an accredited NGO composed of some 42 million Baptists in 116 countries.
www.ellsworthamerican.com /archive/obit2001/11-01/ea_obit9_11-29-01.html   (1023 words)

  
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George Leonard was born October 7, 1867, in Linn Township, Dent County, Missouri, the eldest son of William Edwin and Sarah Elizabeth (WORMALD) SEAMAN.
George was extensively known throughout Southcentral Kansas and beyond, a notoriety he gained, in part, from his auctioneering and "horse trading" activities, but even more so from a team of white oxen which he owned, trained and drove in regional parades.
George and Adah were buried in the SHULL plot in the Littleton Cemetery in Gore Township, Sumner County, Kansas (between Udall and Mulvane).
skyways.lib.ks.us /genweb/sumner/GeorgeSeamanBio.htm   (430 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: George the Bearded
George was married at Dresden, 21 November, 1496, to Barbara of Poland, daughter of King Casimir IV of that country.
George and his wife had a large family of children, all of whom, with the exception of a daughter, died before their father.
George was an excellent and industrious ruler, self-sacrificing, high-minded, and unwearying in the furtherance of the highest interests of his land and people.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/06457a.htm   (1407 words)

  
 The Scotsman - Scotland - George Younger dies after long illness   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Younger’s style was more that of a Scottish prime minister and we, his junior ministers, were trusted to get on with running our departments.
It was to Younger’s credit that, although having been a member of the shadow cabinet, he agreed to serve as Teddy Taylor’s deputy at a time of crisis for his party.
Younger decided that, however grand the prospect of being Foreign Secretary might be, chairmanship of the Royal Bank of Scotland was even grander.
thescotsman.scotsman.com /scotland.cfm?id=104862003   (1221 words)

  
 Free Will Astrology : Life in the Bush of Ghosts
George the Younger may sometimes wish he could cut the ties -- his planet of raw identity, Mars, is on his father's Ascendant (persona, image) -- and move on toward a "new social order," as Zeus did in the Greek myth.
George the Elder taught his son, if only by example, to use subterfuge and deception as basic strategies, to avoid being straightforward and to bury his thoughts within deep, convoluted webs.
George W.'s Venus in Leo is conjunct his father's Neptune, and thus it is unlikely that he resents his father's instinctive control over him.
www.freewillastrology.com /beauty/life_in_the_bush.html   (1183 words)

  
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George and Elizabeth are adjacent in the census records, which usually met geographical proximity in censuses of that period.
George is buried in the graveyard behind the Sharon Methodist Church in Naruna, near Brookneal, in Campbell County.
George’s younger brother, James, just born at the time of the 1860 census, is likely the James E. Torian in the Halifax 1900 census.
home1.gte.net /vzeotj42/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/torian.doc   (4262 words)

  
 George Sand by Thomas Staedeli
George lived with her mother in the house of her grandmother in Nohant in the period following but the two women had been so different that they couldn't make an agreement and a living under the same roof was unthinkable.
George Sand was sent to a nunnery by her grandmother for two years for the purpose of learning manners in keeping with her station.
George Sand had supported the equalization of man and woman, of poor and rich, for years and now she supported the socialistic republicans.
www.cyranos.ch /litsan-e.htm   (1317 words)

  
 George Gately, Creator of Heathcliff
George Gately Gallagher was born in New York City’s Queens Village on December 21, 1928.
While George’s cartoons were good, she said that they were too similar to his brother’s work to be using the same last name.
George Gately often received invitations to attend cat shows and was inundated by fans wanting his autograph, not for themselves, but for their cats.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/12933/91846   (725 words)

  
 frontline: the choice 2004: george w. bush: chronology | PBS
George Walker Bush is born to George Herbert Walker and Barbara Bush in New Haven, CT, where his father is attending Yale University.
Nicknamed "Lip," George W. is known across campus for his extracurricular activities as a cheerleader and organizer of an intramural stickball league.
George Walker Bush is sworn in as 43rd president of the United States.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/choice2004/bush/cron.html   (3329 words)

  
 GEORGE COLMAN - LoveToKnow Article on GEORGE COLMAN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
(1732-1794), English dramatist and essayist, usually called the Elder, and sometimes George the First, to distinguish him from his son, was born in 1732 at Florence, where his father was stationed as resident at the court of the grand duke of Tuscany.
His son, GEORGE C0LMAN (1762-1836), known as the Younger, English dramatist and miscellaneous writer, was born on.
On the death of the father the patent was continued to the son; but difficulties arose in.
47.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CO/COLMAN_GEORGE.htm   (983 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Scotland | Tribute paid to 'Gentleman George'
Gentleman George, as he was known by many, was described as "a politician of integrity and impeccable manner" by Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy.
"George Younger was in the front line of British politics, bravely arguing for strong defence and the nuclear deterrent and as a result he played an important part in the demise of the Soviet Union."
Mr Swinney said: "George Younger was a very distinguished and long serving figure in Scottish politics, who used the position of Secretary of State to temper the early and harshest policies of the Thatcher government.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/scotland/2696569.stm   (738 words)

  
 NJ Adopt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Annie is an extremely engaging child who has a wonderful, loving relationship with her younger brother, George.
George really blossoms when he is on the receiving end of individual attention.
George resides in a children's group home, and is enrolled in a special education school, where he is learning to address learning challenges and language and motor skills delays.
www.state.nj.us /humanservices/adoption/children/annie-george.htm   (273 words)

  
 Sir George Carey's biography
George is knighted by the Earl of Sussex in May 1570.
George serves several terms as a member of Parliament (in the Commons), for both Hertfordshire (1571) and Hampshire (1584, 1586, 1588-89, 1592).
George's six younger brothers were (in order): John, the two Thomases and William (these three all died in childhood), Edmund (knighted by the Earl of Leicester in the Netherlands, 1587) and Robert (created Earl of Monmouth by James I).
www.angelfire.com /ca2/tbaldacci/george.html   (842 words)

  
 Online NewsHour | Vote 2004 | Candidates | George W. Bush | Early Life
George Walker Bush was born into a dynastic family of Eastern elites.
His father was the 41st president of the United States and as the younger George was growing up, the elder George worked as a congressman, an ambassador, head of the Republican National Committee and CIA director.
Born in Connecticut in 1946, by the time George W. Bush was 2, he and his young parents were living in the oil boom towns of Odessa and later Midland.
www.pbs.org /newshour/vote2004/candidates/can_bush-earlylife.html   (607 words)

  
 Scottish Brewing Archive - SBA Collections - Records of George Younger & Son Ltd, brewers, Alloa, Scotland
George Younger (1722-88), a member of a family of saltpan owners in Culross, Fife, Scotland, was brewing in Alloa, Scotland from 1745.
George Younger and Son Ltd was registered in February 1897 as a limited liability company to acquire the business at a purchase price of GBP 500,000.
It acquired the Craigward Cooperage of Charles Pearson and Co, Alloa; George White and Co, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear; and the Bass Crest Brewery Co, Alloa, in 1919.
www.archives.gla.ac.uk /sba/sbacolls/gy.html   (736 words)

  
 Polya   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Anna was from a family who had lived for many generations in Buda, and she had been nineteen years old in 1872 when the towns of Buda, Obuda, and Pest had administratively merged to become the city of Budapest.
In fact although George's parents were Jewish, he was baptized into the Roman Catholic Church shortly after his birth.
Perhaps given how much effort his father had put in trying to enter the academic profession, it is slightly surprising that George's mother should press him to follow his father's profession of law but this is exactly what she did.
www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Mathematicians/Polya.html   (3100 words)

  
 Military Biography: Tom Custer
George arranged for his brother to be transferred to his regiment, and in October 1864 Tom became the official aide to George as Second Lieutenant in the 6th Michigan Cavalry.
At war’s end George was given the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and put in charge of the newly formed Seventh Cavalry.
For this George Custer was to be court martialled and suspended for a period of one year.
ks.essortment.com /tomcuster_rfkr.htm   (961 words)

  
 George Eliot
Its objects are to gather together admirers of the novelist and to encourage the collection of books, manuscripts, letters, portraits and other articles associated with her for public display as well as to observe her birthday each year.
In 1986, as a result of a public appeal, they were responsible for the erection of a bronze statue of George Eliot by the Warwickshire sculptor, John Letts, in the centre of her native Nuneaton.
Coloured postcards of a portrait of George Eliot from a modern painting, and of the George Eliot Statue.
www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp /~matsuoka/Eliot.html   (889 words)

  
 HENRY GEORGE LIDDELL - LoveToKnow Article on HENRY GEORGE LIDDELL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
(1811-1898), English scholar and divine, eldest son of the Rev. Henry George Liddell, younger brother of the first Baron Ravensworth, was born at Binchester, near Bishop Auckland, on the 6th of February 1811.
LIDDESDALE, the valley of Liddel Water, Roxburghshire, Scotland, extending in a south-westerly direction from the vicinity of Peel Fell to the Esk, a distance of 21 m.
The castle of the lairds of Liddes-dale stood near the junction of Hermitage Water and the Liddel and around it grew up the village of Castleton.
33.1911encyclopedia.org /L/LI/LIDDELL_HENRY_GEORGE.htm   (815 words)

  
 boys clothing: British royalty: Prince John   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Note however that Prince George in figure 1 is already wearing a sailor suit (perhaps a sailor dress), but he looks younger than John does in several images showing John in lacey white dresses.
George V before and after the boys were breeched appears to have been particularly partial to sailor suits, first with kilt skirts and then as the boys got older, knee pants.
King George was very strict with John's brothers, especially as they got older, and their relationship was very formal.
histclo.hispeed.com /royal/eng/royal-ukg5j.htm   (2116 words)

  
 CBS News | George: The Cool Beatle | December 11, 2001 11:23:50
When George died, the first thing the media said was the first thing they'd said in 1964: They called him the quiet Beatle.
We decided John was the rebel, Paul was the maestro, George was the mystic, and Ringo was the joker.
George wrote and sang eternal songs: "Something," "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," "Here Comes the Sun." It was just a quirk of history that he happened to be standing next to the greatest songwriting team of the 20th century when he did so.
uttm.com /stories/2001/12/03/sunday/main319833.shtml   (538 words)

  
 Texas Monthly June 1999: The Son Rises
Back then, Younger recalls, George W. was “just another pesky little kid running around the neighborhood.” Midland was still a small town, safe enough for parents to let kids roam around on their own, and George W. and his friends had their run of the place.
George W. would inherit his father’s competitiveness and love of the game, but it was his mother’s temperament—her irreverence, her quick wit, her blunt forthrightness—that would shape him.
George and Barbara Bush were devastated by the loss of their daughter and were immobilized with grief for much of that year.
www.texasmonthly.com /mag/issues/1999-06-01/feature2.php   (2177 words)

  
 George Smith Patton, Major General, United States Army
The younger General Patton was occasionally asked whether he felt overshadowed by his father, who gained fame for his exploits in North Africa, Sicily and France and who was introduced to new generations of Americans through George C. Scott's movie portrayal.
George Smith Patton was in his last year at West Point when his father, George S. Patton Jr., was killed in a traffic accident in Germany in December 1945.
George S. Patton, who was the son of the famous World War II General and who became a Major General in the Army himself, died June 27, 2004, at his home in Hamilton, Mass., at age 80.
www.arlingtoncemetery.net /gspatton.htm   (3183 words)

  
 Colman Biographical Sketch
George Colman the Younger was the most popular English dramatist at the turn of the nineteenth century.
George the Younger was born in October of 1762, years before the marriage, and although no definitive record has survived, it is probably safe to assume that the boy was indeed the natural son and of George Colman and Sarah Ford.
George Colman the Younger was not a great dramatist, though he was the funniest, the most enjoyed, indeed the best of his day.
www.uwec.edu /mwood/colman/bio.html   (9000 words)

  
 British royalty George V -- Queen Mary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Queen Mary, like King George, were both caring and loving when their children were young but appeared unable to express their feelings once the children grew up.
Her mother, often referred to as "Fat Mary", was the younger daughter of the Duke of Cambridge, an uncle of Queen Victoria.
George V and Queen Mary had 6 children, 5 boys and a girl.
histclo.hispeed.com /royal/eng/royal-ukg52m.htm   (3017 words)

  
 The Consortium
George Bush, the elder, was a stellar student-athlete at Andover and Yale.
Journalists who travel with the younger Bush marvel at his ease with crowds, his common touch, his unwavering "compassionate conservative" mantra, and even his charisma.
Indeed, the younger Bush learned the secrets of hardball politics at his father's knee in the 1988 and 1992 presidential campaigns.
www.consortiumnews.com /1999/101899a.html   (879 words)

  
 Dantzig_George   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
George was named "George Bernard" after George Bernard Shaw since his parents hoped their first child would become a writer.
Similarly George's younger brother was named Henry after Henri Poincaré, and he did indeed become a mathematician.
The particular problem solved was one which had been studied earlier by George Stigler (who later became a Nobel Laureate) who proposed a solution based on the substitution of certain foods by others which gave more nutrition per dollar.
www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk /~history/Mathematicians/Dantzig_George.html   (2121 words)

  
 Scotland: Lord Younger dies after cancer battle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
As George Younger, the MP for Ayr was Secretary of State for Scotland between 1979 and 1986.
Lord Younger was married with three sons and a daughter.
Sir George Mathewson, the present chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland, described him as "a natural leader who inspired loyalty and warmth among his colleagues".
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/831069/posts   (474 words)

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