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  Henry Williamson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Henry Williamson was born in Brockley, southeast London.
In 1935 Henry Williamson visited the National Socialist Congress at Nuremberg and was greatly impressed, particularly with the Hitler Youth movement.
Williamson fell in love with a young teacher, Christine Duffield and they were married in 1949.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_Williamson   (589 words)

  
 Henry Williamson
Williamson joined the British Army at the outbreak of war in 1914 and fought at the Battle of the Somme and at Passchendaele, where he was seriously wounded.
Williamson actually rewrote Tarka 17 times, "always and only for the sake of a greater truth."2 Mere polishing for grace and expression or literary style did not interest him, and he strove always to illuminate a scene or incident with what he considered was authentic sunlight.
Williamson viewed the declaration of war on Germany by Britain and France as a spiteful act of an alien system that was determined to destroy the prospect of a reborn and regenerated European youth.
www.oswaldmosley.com /people/williamson.html   (3027 words)

  
 Henry Williamson: Nature's Visionary
The fact that the name of Henry Williamson is today so little known across the White world is a sad reflection of the extent to which Western man has allowed himself to be deprived of his culture and identity over the last 50 years.
Williamson actually rewrote Tarka 17 times, "always and only for the sake of a greater truth." [2] Mere polishing for grace and expression or literary style did not interest him, and he strove always to illuminate a scene or incident with what he considered was authentic sunlight.
Henry Williamson's artistic legacy must endure because, as one admirer pondered in his final years, his visionary spirit and striving "came close to holding the key to life itself."
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 Henry Williamson -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Henry Williamson was born in (Click link for more info and facts about Brockley) Brockley, southeast (The capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center) London.
In 1935 Henry Williamson visited the (Click link for more info and facts about National Socialist) National Socialist Congress at (A city in southeastern Germany; site of Allied trials of Nazi war criminals (1945-46)) Nuremberg and was greatly impressed, particularly with the (Click link for more info and facts about Hitler Youth) Hitler Youth movement.
In 1946, Williamson went to live in (A county in southwestern England) Devon alone and in 1947 Henry and Loetitia divorced.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/he/henry_williamson.htm   (881 words)

  
 COE Observatory Report 2000-2001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Henry is continuing to study photometric variations in a sample of over 160 solar-type stars being observed with the T4 0.75 m and T8 0.80 m APTs.
Henry is collaborating with A. Schultz (STScI) providing ground-based photometry of the planetary transits in HD 209458 in support of observations with the HST to monitor transits with a Fine Guidance Sensor used as a high-speed photometer.
Henry is observing the chromospherically active binary IM Pegasi with the T2 0.25 m and T3 0.4 m APTs in support of its selection as the guide star for NASA's Gravity Probe B mission scheduled for launch in the Fall of 2002.
schwab.tsuniv.edu /papers/baas/obsrep_01.html   (3862 words)

  
 WILLIAMSON Family of Pike Co., GA
Williamson from Col. Dixon's NC Regiment was wounded and taken prisoner by the British at Camden, SC on August 16-18, 1780 and later returned.
Henry Edwin Williamson was born on August 3, 1831 in the Driver District of Pike Co., GA at his father's plantation.
Henry married second Anna B. Bradfield on March 16, 1894 in Mountville, Troup Co., GA. He died on November 30, 1898 at his home in Rover, Spalding Co., GA and is buried in Oak Hill Cemetery in Griffin.
www.geocities.com /warreningriffin/wmsonall.htm   (6537 words)

  
 Henry Ford system still ails
Henry Ford officials would not comment on the projected financial results that they presented to analysts late last year as guidance for bond ratings.
Brian Williamson, who follows the health system from S&P's Chicago office, said Henry Ford accomplished most of what it set out to do last year and now needs to "stay the course and continue to focus on its core business" this year to get back in the fl.
In fact, Henry Ford actually was ahead of its plan in September, when it reported earnings for the first half of 2002.
www.freep.com /money/business/henry22_20030222.htm   (647 words)

  
 H Williamson
Henry Williamson is probably most popularly known as the author of ‘Tarka the Otter’.
Williamson would spend a lot of time after receiving his commission in training, but also sick but in February of 1917 he was in France with 208 Machine Gun Company as a Transport Officer.
Henry Williamson left the army on the 19th September, 1919, by then he was 24 years old.
www.btinternet.com /~Navradar/yorkandlancs/h_williamson.html   (1469 words)

  
 Connelly Genealogy Database - pafg69 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Gideon Henry WILLIAMSON [Parents] was born on 11 Oct 1829 in Walls, Shetland, Scotland.
Archibald WILLIAMSON was born on 29 Aug 1870.
Elizabeth WILLIAMSON was born on 8 Jun 1872.
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 A Liberian Embassy and a Cult of Illicit Car Dealers - The Polish Scenario
Williamson's contact with the Polish businessmen in Geneva led to what was presumed here a rebirth of Polish-Liberian diplomatic relations.
Until recently, Williamson was still maintaining his ambassadorial status here in poland, a country he is said to have visited briefly.
A friend of Williamson in Geneva, Rutkowski is said to have been in a routine hunt for Williamson's delinquent Polish customers who were driving mercedes with Liberian license plates.
www.theperspective.org /williamson.html   (1388 words)

  
 LOCAL INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Northern loop of the trail follows the estuary out westwards at first, along the coast and around to the stamping grounds of Henry Williamson and to what are now the surf and sand beaches of Croyde and Woolacombe.
Henry Williamson wrote " Tarka the Otter" whilst living in Georgeham, England during the 1920's.
Henry continued to live most of his life out in North Devon, punctuated with a spell in Norfolk where he farmed the land and continued to write.
mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /tarkabooks/page3.html   (423 words)

  
 Bishop Henry M. Williamson, Sr.
In each city while serving as pastor, Bishop Williamson motivated the congregations he led to meet the spiritual and social needs of the church and the larger community.
Bishop Williamson is the founder and CEO of
Bishop Williamson is currently a trustee of The Phillips School of Theology at the ITC in
www.cme-church.org /Episcopal_District/Ninth/bishopwilliamson.html   (529 words)

  
 BBC - Drama - Born and Bred - Nigel Havers as Mr Henry Williamson
Mr Henry Williamson is the Head of Surgery at Rattenbury General.
Covering for Donald when he takes a trip Henry is determined to roll his sleeves up and get back to the grass roots of doctoring: to stay in touch with the common little people.
Henry is punctilious to the extreme and allergic to chaos.
www.bbc.co.uk /drama/bornandbred/nigel_havers.shtml   (346 words)

  
 A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HENRY WILLIAMSON   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Henry Williamson’s thoughts as he returned to the battlefields ten years after the end of the First World War, with the underlying theme of homage to all those who had died.
Set on the Norfolk farm, Williamson entwines the stories of the struggles of the stranger, Wilbo, to improve the farm in the difficult war years with that of the rare Reeve’s pheasant’s struggle for survival.
Henry Williamson’s last book tells the story of a boy and a pigeon, the pigeon-racing world, and the poisoning of peregrine falcons who kill the pigeons to eat.
www.henrywilliamson.org /Pages/Books/hwbooksby.htm   (2764 words)

  
 HWS Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
From the very first letter regarding Tarka Lawrence was an important influence on Williamson., and it was on his return from sending HW a telegram arranging for them to meet the next day at Lawrence’s cottage for lunch, that Lawrence met with the motorcycle accident that led to his death a few day’s later.
Henry Williamson’s association with the WCWA began at its inauguration in 1950, and he was President from 1960-65, when he demoted himself to Vice-President, which he held until his death in 1977.
Anne Williamson reproduces Henry Williamson’s letters home to his mother, his diary entries, and his official field notebooks and interweaves them into commentary on the fabric of the war on the western front in Flanders and at home, his family and friends and the social history of England at that time.
www.henrywilliamson.org /Pages/society/SWP/j.htm   (2381 words)

  
 CMEs Online - The Ninth Episcopal District
Bishop Henry M. Williamson is the 52nd Bishop in the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church.
Bishop Williamson was born in Arkansas, and reared in Tennessee and Gary, Indiana.
Bishop Williamson is a graduate of the historic Roosevelt High School in Gary, Indiana.
www.cmesonline.org /ninth.htm   (420 words)

  
 Henry Williamson Haynes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Henry Williamson Haynes, born in Bangor, Maine on September 20, 1831, had a diversity of interests that was manifested in the variety of positions he held.
Following his graduation from Harvard in 1851, Haynes taught for a couple of years before deciding to study law.
Upon his death in Boston on February 16, 1912, four beneficiaries received his collections: Peabody Museum of Harvard University, Classical Department of Harvard University, Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Boston Society of Natural History.
www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/information/biography/fghij/hayes_henry.html   (314 words)

  
 Henry Williamson Society Publications
Williamson’s early work is not in print and so this is a very good and informative introduction to stories which are really among his best work.
Anne Williamson contributes on the background, whilst Richard Williamson waxes lyrical on ‘That damned motorcar’ (the temperamental Aston Martin).
‘To millions, Henry Williamson’s name means the peace of the countryside; yet, as Patrick Garland established in his vivacious, perceptive and sympathetic exploration, Henry’s life and thought have not been simply dominated, but obsessed and ravaged by war.
www.henrywilliamson.co.uk /publications.htm   (1658 words)

  
 Houston Home Journal
John Henry Williamson and his wife Frances Bentley Williamson were pioneers in Perry and pillars of strength in our community.
Their son, John Thomas Williamson, was my classmate from the first through the twelfth grade at Perry High School.
Every Friday afternoon after school, there would be a caravan of little boys riding their bicycles to the Williamson’s home on the Hawkinsville highway about a mile from the schoolhouse.
news.mywebpal.com /partners/963/public/news585665.html   (528 words)

  
 The Henry Williamson Society
The writer Henry Williamson was born in London in 1895.
He is best known as the author of "Tarka the Otter", which won the Hawthornden Prize for Literature in 1928 and was filmed in 1977.
By one of those extraordinary coincidences, Henry Williamson died as the crew were actually filming the death scene of Tarka.
www.henrywilliamson.co.uk   (179 words)

  
 Alibris: Henry Williamson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Williamson's sensitive depiction of nature and its creatures has deservedly become a minor classic of English literature.
An abused homing pigeon is entrusted to a young boy who through caring for her learns to respect nature and the domain of birds.
In Volume 10 of Williamson's famous "A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight" series Phillip is now married to Barley, and they visit the battlefields of France together, though Philip is convinced this is an area of his soul she will never know.
www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Henry_Williamson   (574 words)

  
 FictionPress.Com Story : Henry Dorchester in: The Millionaire's Daughter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Henry nodded, pressing his lips together so that they were nothing more than a line.
Williamson nodded, his face showing that he was somewhat lost in thought.
Henry shot him in the thigh, and he quickly stumbled and fell to the floor.
www.fictionpress.com /read.php?storyid=56062   (7350 words)

  
 Iraq News -- American Anti-War Activists to Distribute Medicines to Baghdad Hospitals
Henry Williamson, a practicing paramedic, supervised the purchase of the most of the medicines.
Williamson served three tours of duty in the Vietnam War as a combat medic and volunteered to serve in the Gulf War.
Williamson will be staying in Iraq for several months with Iraq Peace Team.
www.antiwar.com /gulf2/iraq1.html   (431 words)

  
 Information from Dave Davis, Mary Henderson Cemetery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
She was the mother of Henry Monroe Williamson, who served the Confederate Army from Dooly County.
She and several of her children are buried in the MHH Cemetery (Plez Nipper and the Nipper twins).
Henry Monroe Williamson has one or two grandchildren still living - Stella Posey Lewis is the one I know best.
www.usgennet.org /usa/ga/county/turner/maryhendersoncemetery5.html   (215 words)

  
 Company News On Call
"Henry has made a tremendous contribution to BB&T's evolution over the years and we will unquestionably miss his very important leadership role," said Chairman and Chief Executive Officer John Allison.
Williamson is a board member of the BB&T Center for Leadership Development at East Carolina University, the Forsyth Medical Center Foundation and the North Carolina Family Policy Council.
After Williamson retires, the BB&T executive management team, which helps set policy and direction for the corporation, will consist of eight members.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=105&STORY=/www/story/11-17-2003/0002059678   (687 words)

  
 Globeinvestor.com: Former BB&T COO Joins Hooker Furniture Board
Williamson had been chief operating officer of BBandT and Branch Banking and Trust Company of North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia since 1989.
Williamson is filling a board seat vacated earlier this year by Hooker's chairman emeritus J. Clyde Hooker, who retired.
In addition to his professional experience, Williamson is a director of the Forsyth Medical Center Foundation and the North Carolina Family Policy Council and chairman of the BBandT Center for Leadership Development at East Carolina University.
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 H.Williamson:Another forgotten patriot. - Stormfront White Nationalist Community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
best known for his book "Tarka the otter", Williamson was a highly acclaimed author (until his political views were well known) and a member of Mosley's BUF.
Williamson's "awakening" took place in the trenches of the somme.
Here is a "tribute" to Henry Williamson i found on the National Alliance archive by British Nationalist, Mark Deavin.
www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=99865   (381 words)

  
 Henry J. Williamson, Comanche County, Kansas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
DEATH of H. Henry J. Williamson, a former well known citizen of this city, died in the Wichita hospital about midnight on last Monday, June 4, 1917, after a brief illness of one week, resulting from a stroke of paralysis, and complications.
Williamson was united in marriage with Birdie Hall, who, with an adopted daughter, King Hall, now, Mrs.
Williamson had succeeded in accumulating considerable property, both in this county and in Wichita.
www.rootsweb.com /~kscomanc/williamson_hj.html   (213 words)

  
 The Town Line Newspaper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
No, this candy bar was not named for William Sydney Porter, the author whose pen name was O' Henry; nor was it named for Hank Aaron of baseball fame.
There was a young man named Henry (last name never recorded), who frequented the store, no doubt liking to chat with the females working there.
When it was time to name the newly-developed confection, the salesmen commented that they constantly heard, "Oh, Henry, will you get me this or that?" So, in 1920, the owner, Williamson, listed "O'Henry" on his trademark application.
www.pivot.net /~townline/HTML/20011019tt00.htm   (127 words)

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