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	BBC - History - James Keir Hardie (1856 - 1915)
		James Keir Hardie was born in Lanarkshire, Scotland on 15 August 1856, the illegitimate son of a servant, Mary Keir.
		Keir Hardie was sent to work as a baker's delivery boy aged eight without any schooling, and was the sole wage-earner of the family.
		Keir Hardie was elected leader of the party in the House of Commons, but was not very good at dealing with internal rivalries and he resigned from the post in 1908.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/keir_hardie_james.shtml (424 words)

	James Keir Hardie.
		James Keir Hardie was born born in a one-roomed cottage on August 15th, 1856, his Mother Mary was a servant in Lanarkshire, she became pregnant, but was unmarried, so "Keir" came into this world under a cloud.
		Keir Hardie was escorted to Parliament by his constituents in a charabanc on which a small brass band was playing.
		Keir Hardie was a pacifist and tried to organize a national strike against Britain's participation in the war in 1914.
	www.pitwork.net /jkhardie.htm (1037 words)

	Hardie James Keir: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
		James took their advice and galloped...2 Cambuskenneth Abbey, James told Pope Leo X in 1513, was...seemed to hope for was that James would consent to listen to a...
		Keir Hardies life story is one of astonishing achievement...raise funds for a commemorative bronze bust of Keir Hardie to be placed at Speakers corner in Aberdare...
		James Keir Hardie was one of the countrys first...lifetime.
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/hardie-james-keir.jsp?l=H&p=1 (1527 words)

	Hardie, (James) Keir - Search View - MSN Encarta
		Hardie, (James) Keir (1856-1915), Scottish socialist and labour leader, the first leader of the Labour Party.
		Born at Legbrannock, Lanarkshire, his mother was a 16-year-old farmworker, Mary Keir (or Kerr), and his father was probably a miner, William Aitken.
		The Hardie of this myth became a touchstone of worth in the British Labour movement for some decades, being joined later by that of Aneurin Bevan as parts of a golden socialist past.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /text_781531046__1/Hardie_(James)_Keir.html (932 words)

	James Keir Baxter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James Keir Baxter (June 29, 1926—October 22, 1972) was a New Zealand poet, and a controversial figure in New Zealand society.
		Baxter was born in Dunedin to Archibald Baxter and Millicent Brown He was named after James Keir Hardie, a founder of the British Labour Party.
		His father was a farmer and had been a conscientious objector during the First World War.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_K._Baxter (942 words)

	Prophets, Priests and Kings - James Keir Hardie
		Keir Hardie, who shares Carlyle's rage with the world as well as Carlyle's dialect and gloomy brow, is " gey ill to live wi'," too.
		Keir Hardie emerged from the pit he was filled with wonder too.
		Keir Hardie is solitary and menacing an embodied theory.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles28/prophets-priests-kings-9.shtml (1723 words)

	A Portrait of James Keir
		James Keir was born in Stirlingshire, Scotland in 1735.
		Keir gave up his glass business in 1778 and became sole manager of the Soho Engineering Works during the absence of Boulton and Watt, but he declined their offer of a partnership.
		Keir also supported the French Revolution and he was attacked for them at the time of the Priestley Riots in 1791, but he defended himself vigorously in a series of pamphlets.
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	James Keir Baxter Summary
		James Keir Baxter(June 29, 1926 — October 22, 1972) was a New Zealand poet, and a controversial figure in New Zealand society.
		When James K. Baxter, who died far too young in New Zealand last year, began his last book [Runes] with a section entitled 'after Catullus', it was anything but an academic exercise.
		[James K. Baxter] is, indeed, the central figure in the contemporary scene, mediator among writers of different ages and outlooks, focus of highest hopes for the future.
	www.bookrags.com /James_Keir_Baxter (324 words)

	DNZB / BIOGRAPHY
		James Keir Baxter was born on 29 June 1926 at Nurse Ross’s maternity home, Dunedin, the second son of Archibald McColl Learmond Baxter, an Otago farmer, and his wife, Millicent Amiel Macmillan Brown.
		In 1939 James again attended St John’s Hill, this time as a boarder, but he felt ‘out of touch with my childhood companions and uncertain whether I was an Englishman or a New Zealander’.
		This was not a good period for pacifists: the family was suspected of spying, James was bullied, and Terence was sent into detention as a military defaulter.
	www.dnzb.govt.nz /dnzb/Essay_Body.asp?PersonEssay=5B14&related=false (2434 words)

	James Keir Hardie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		By the death of Comrade James Keir Hardie labour has lost one of its most fearless and incorruptible champions, and the world one of its highest minded and purest souls.
		James Keir Hardie was to the labour movement a prophetic anticipation of its own possibilities.
		When the vultures of capital descended upon Dublin, resolved to make Dublin the grave of the new unionism, James Keir Hardie was one of the first to take his stand in the gap of danger by our sides.
	www.rcgfrfi.easynet.co.uk /ww/connolly/1915-jkh.htm (260 words)

	More about other Lunar Society members
		James Keir was born in Edinburgh in 1735.
		Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1785, James Keir died in 1820.
		In common with James Watt and other members with manufacturing interests, he was keenly interested in developing accurate methods of measurement, which were the key to improving the quality of many manufactured goods.
	jquarter.members.beeb.net /moreother.htm (2534 words)

	James Kier Hardy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		James Keir Hardie, the illegitimate son of Mary Keir, a servant from Legbrannock, Lanarkshire, Scotland, was born on 15th August, 1856.
		James Keir Hardie, who never attended school, was completely illiterate until his mother began to teach him to read after they moved to Lanarkshire.
		James Keir Hardie died on 25th September, 1915.
	scotlandvacations.com /hardie.htm (1217 words)

	James Maxton
		James Maxton was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1885.
		James Maxton is the product of his times, but he would have become notable in any circumstances.
		James Maxton and I talked of the necessity for carrying on the work that Wheatley had left to our hand but in our hearts we knew that it could not be done.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /TUmaxton.htm (1274 words)

	James Keir Hardie - LoveToKnow 1911
		"JAMES KEIR HARDIE (1856-1915), British Labour politician, was born at Newarthill in Lanarkshire Aug. 15 1856.
		His father, a ship's carpenter, was frequently out of work owing to illness and the decline of his trade, and his mother had to go out to work soon after her son was horn.
		This page was last modified 16:09, 3 Sep 2006.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /James_Keir_Hardie (432 words)

	Revolutionary Players - People
		James Keir and the Geology and Industry of the Black Country: Mineralogy of the South-west part of Staffordshire, 1798, Image: The Wren's Nest from The Black Country - Sixteen Etchings of Scenes in the Coal and Iron District of South Staffordshire by Richard S...
		Letter from James Keir to James Watt, 1802/04/24, Keir writes to Watt concerning the death of their friend and fellow Lunar Society member, Dr. Erasmus Darwin.
		Letter from James Keir to the Printer of the Birmingham and Stafford Chronicle, West Bromwich, 20 July 1791, Image from: Joseph Priestley Collection by Samuel Timmins, Birmingham City Archives.
	www.search.revolutionaryplayers.org.uk /engine/custom/people.asp?theme=43&text=0 (251 words)

	James Kier Hardy
		James Keir Hardie was born on 15th August 1856 the illegitimate son of Mary Keir.
		Being a pacifist he tried to organize a national strike against Britain's participation in the first world war, and was denounced as a traitor.
		James Keir Hardie died of a stroke on 25th September, 1915 some say the slaughter and waste of life caused by the war had broken him.
	www.scotlandvacations.com /hardie.htm (272 words)

	thePeerage.com - Person Page 12702
		She married Keir Charles Campbell, 5th of Auchendarroch, son of Major Alan Keir Campbell, 4th of Auchendarroch and Elisabeth Mary Adderley, on 10 September 1966.
		James Keir Campbell of Auchendarroch,Younger was educated in Gordonstoun School, Elgin, Morayshire, Scotland.
		She is the daughter of Keir Charles Campbell, 5th of Auchendarroch and Vera Anne Cowdy.
	www.thepeerage.com /p12702.htm (921 words)

	26694. Hardie, James Keir. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
		In due course, following the precedent which has already been set, he will be sent on a tour of the world and probably rumours of a morganatic marriage alliance will follow, and the end of it will be the country will be called upon to pay the bill.
		James Keir Hardie (1856–1915), British first British Labour Party Member of Parliament.
		Speech, June 28, 1894, to the House of Commons.
	www.bartleby.com /66/94/26694.html (139 words)

	Keir - Scottish music from Nick Keir
		Keir and Associates, is a company that specialises primarily in Consulting in logistics and Materials Handling Projects.
		Keir Hardie (1856-1915) was first elected to Parliament as a labour and socialist MP in 1892.
		Keir Pearson and Terry George 'Hotel Rwanda' By JACK EGAN This is the first script credit for Keir Pearson, a longtime docu docu editor.
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	AllRefer.com - James Keir Hardie (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		James Keir Hardie, British And Irish History, Biographies
		James Keir Hardie[kEr´ hAr´dE] Pronunciation Key, 1856–1915, British labor leader and socialist, b.
		A coal miner, he became a union organizer and in 1888 founded the Scottish Labour party.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/H/HardieJ.html (221 words)

	What year did Keir Hardie make a speech in Aberavon? in The AnswerBank: People & Places
		James Keir Hardie (1856-1915) became one of the greatest heroes of British socialism, founded the Independent Labour Party and was the first socialist MP in Wales.
		James Keir Hardie, was the illegitimate son of Mary Keir, a servant from Legbrannock, Lanarkshire, Scotland.
		He began to read newspapers and discovered how some workers were attempting to improve wages and working conditions by forming trade unions.
	www.theanswerbank.co.uk /Article663.html (552 words)

	James Keir Hardie
		James Keir Hardie died on 25th September, 1915.
		Keir Hardie, who impressed me very unfavourably, deliberately chooses this policy as the only one which he can boss.
		He carried to his end an old silver watch he had worn in the mine, which bore the marks of the teeth of a favourite pit pony, made by the futile attempt on its part to eat it.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /PRhardie.htm (3013 words)

	James Keir Hardie Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		The British politician James Keir Hardie (1856-1915) helped to initiate the 20th-century labor movement in Britain.
		Keir Hardie was born on Aug. 15, 1856, at Legbrannock, Lanarkshire, the illegitimate son of Mary Keir, domestic, and William Aitken, miner.
		James Keir Hardie from Encyclopedia of World Biography.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/james-keir-hardie (471 words)

	East Ayrshire Council: Tourism: Famous People - Politics
		Born in Legbrannoch in Lanarkshire, James Keir Hardie began work at the age of eight as a baker's delivery boy.
		A magnificent bronze bust of James Keir Hardie stands on a pink granite plinth outside Cumnock Town Hall.
		The eminent Prime Minister of Australia in the early years of this century was born in Crosshouse, in 1862, where he is commemorated by a memorial.
	www.east-ayrshire.gov.uk /comser/tourism/famous_politics.asp (418 words)

	Overview of James Keir Hardie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Born in Legbranock near Holytown, North Lanarkshire, Keir Hardie received no formal education and was working in a pit at Newarthill by the age of 10.
		He attempted to improve wages and conditions for miners and was sacked and fl-listed by local mine owners.
		Keir Hardie was central to the formation of the British Independent Labour Party in 1893.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk /scotgaz/people/famousfirst160.html (211 words)

	Overview of James Keir Hardie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Born in Legbranock near Holytown, North Lanarkshire, Keir Hardie received no formal education and was working in a pit at Newarthill by the age of 10.
		He attempted to improve wages and conditions for miners and was sacked and fl-listed by local mine owners.
		Keir Hardie was central to the formation of the British Independent Labour Party in 1893.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk:81 /scotgaz/people/famousfirst160.html (235 words)

	James Keir Baughman
		Many Civil War battles were fought in and near Varina, and the author’s grandfather, James Wilson Baughman, built the main house inside a Civil War fort which remained on the farm.
		On June 1st, 1951 his parents Elba A. and Iris Keir Armour Baughman invested in a small conglomerate of retail businesses in Shalimar, a suburb of Fort Walton Beach, and moved the family there.
		His children: James and wife Diane, Jill, Dana and husband Brent, are all Fort Walton Beach and Destin professionals or business owners who pursue his enchantment with the delightful Emerald Coast lifestyle.
	www.emerald-sea.com /author/index.php (667 words)

	James Keir Hardie Famous Quote, Quotes, Quotations, Proverbs - QuoteMountain.com
		The quotes below are those from or by James Keir Hardie.
		You can also move quickly to the next quote source, James Kern Feibleman, or the previous quotable source, James K. Feibleman.
		In due course, following the precedent which has already been set, he will be sent on a tour of the world and probably rumors of a morganatic marriage alliance will follow, and the end of it will be the country will be called upon to pay the bill.
	www.quotemountain.com /famous_quote_author/james_keir_hardie_famous_quotations (259 words)

	1 William Johnstone
		James was born in Scotland 28 Sep 1782.
		She married Dr. William Keir and resided in Malpeque, Prince Edward Island.
		Children of James and Carlisle: 17451 Blanche Johnstone, 17452 Jennie Johnstone and 17453 Angus Johnstone.
	www.chidlow.com /wm_johnstone.htm (805 words)

	Hardie (James) Keir - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
		Hardie (James) Keir - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
		Baxter, James K(eir) (1926-1972), New Zealand poet and critic.
		His influence on other New Zealand poets started with his first book,...
	au.encarta.msn.com /Hardie_(James)_Keir.html (93 words)

	(James) Keir Hardie - Encyclopedia.com
		Profile - Keir Hardie: The Old Labour prophet
		Was `Keir Hardie' only a plaster prototype?; MERTHYR TYDFIL: Town hall statue mystery.(News)
		Bust of Labour icon Keir Hardie is unveiled.(News)
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1O142-HardieJamesKeir.html (298 words)

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