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  Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kitchener was born in Ballylongford, County Kerry in Ireland.
Kitchener rescued a substantial charitable fund which had been diverted into the pockets of the Khedive of Egypt, and put it to use improving the lives of the ordinary Sudanese.
Kitchener was promoted to Field Marshal in 1910; however, largely due to a Curzon-inspired whispering campaign, he was turned down for the post of Viceroy of India in 1911.
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 Lord Kitchener
Horatio Herbert Kitchener, better known as Lord Kitchener, is most famously remembered for being the face in the recruiting poster of the British people, in the First World War.
Lord Kitchener was born in 1850, on a farm in southern Ireland (Eire).
Lord Kitchener remained in Egypt for almost a quarter of a century.
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 Student Presentations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Kitchener was being set up to take over control of the military in India, a post that could not be open for ever, and which may go away if victory did not occur soon.
Kitchener did this by trying to project that Morant, who had lived in Australia for 15 years and went to Africa in an Australian corp, was not Australian.
Kitchener did not see gender and race through the same Victorian rose-coloured glasses that the rest of Britain did and the camps are a result of that.
www.stratnet.ucalgary.ca /courses-misc/hist545-madsen/presunit6.html   (2176 words)

  
 First World War.com - Who's Who - Horatio Herbert Kitchener
Lord Roberts returned to England at the close of 1900, leaving Kitchener behind to mop up continued guerrilla resistance, a task that took until 1902 and for which Kitchener was much criticised.
Kitchener effectively oversaw war strategy for the first year and a half of the war; after the Mons battle in 1914 he travelled to Ypres to stiffen the weakening resolve of Sir John French, commander of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF).
Kitchener's involvement with the disastrous Dardanelles campaign led to a further tarnishing of his reputation among the cabinet.
www.firstworldwar.com /bio/kitchener.htm   (559 words)

  
 The Official Kitchener Association Web Site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Upon the untimely death of Lord Kitchener in June 1916 the Nation was in grief.
First, the Kitchener Memorial was created in the Chapel of All Souls, St. Paul's Cathedral and second, a generous grant was made to the Kitchener Memorial Medical School at the University of Khartoum.
Lord Kitchener remains the President of the Fund and the Lord Mayor of London is its Chairman.
www.kitchenerscholars.org /pages/fund.htm   (575 words)

  
 HMS Hampshire
Lord Kitchener was said to be on "an important mission to Russia" when he joined the Hampshire in the Orkney Isles.
Lord Kitchener is a British war hero and is probably most famous for his "Your country needs you" war poster campaign.
Kitcheners mission was to sail to St. Petersburg to attempt to persuade the Czar and his Generals to remain in the War.
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 Harold Begbie. Kitchener, Organizer of Victory. 1915. Chapters VII-IX
Lord Kitchener contributed his personality, his reputation, and his name at the very moment when the whole empire was hungering and thirsting for a Man. This psychological service, as we must again insist, was and in a lesser degree continues to be of value to the state.
LORD KITCHENER'S association with Egypt began in 1882, when he was appointed to a cavalry command in the Egyptian Army, and in January, 1885, in the Gordon Relief Expedition, he accompanied the Desert Column to the Gadkul Wells.
Kitchener, I think, is not brutal by nature, but, as we have said, has acquired brutality in the course of his journey from a big job to a bigger, and from a bigger to a still bigger.
www.lib.byu.edu /estu/wwi/comment/Kitchener/Kitch2.htm   (11204 words)

  
 Lord Kitchener   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Kitchener served in Palestine (1874-78), Cyprus (1878-82) and the Sudan (1883-85).
In the Boer War (1899-1902) Kitchener was chief of staff to Lord Frederick Roberts and was responsible for developing strategies to deal with the Boer guerrilla campaign.
Kitchener, he first member of the military to hold the post, was given the task of recruiting a large army to fight Germany.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /FWWkitchener.htm   (871 words)

  
 Kitch's Korner: Lord Kitchener, pre-eminent composer of Steelband Music
In life, Lord Kitchener was one of two titans of the calypso firmament, straddling the world side by side with that other gargantuan of our time, the Mighty Sparrow.
Kitchener may no longer be with us in the flesh, but he can be with us forever; if we understand that it is up to us to nurture and perpetuate the legacy he so generously left behind.
Kitchener said that his singing is inspired by the music first, particularly the sound of the bass.
www.ecaroh.com /kitchs_korner.htm   (2394 words)

  
 Kitchener
Aldwyn Roberts, the Lord Kitchener, the Grandmaster and the Road March King of the World was born in Arima on the eighteenth of April, 1922.
We all know that when Kitchener returned to Trinidad in 1964, he found the calypso world dominated by the Mighty Sparrow and for years thereafter, a critical highlight of any calypso season was evidence of the friendly rivalry, manifested in song, which existed between these two calypso icons.
Kitchener sang in the period which stretched between the disturbances of the 1930s and 1946, the year in which all local adults could vote for the very first time.
www.pantrinbago.com /Kitchenereulogy.htm   (968 words)

  
 Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
He was made Baron Kitchener, of Khartoum and of Aspall in the County of Suffolk, on November 18, 1898 for his successes, and began a program restoring good governance to the Sudan.
Following this, Kitchener was made Commander-in-Chief in India (1902–1909), where he reconstructed the greatly disorganised Indian army, against the wishes of the bellicose viceroy Lord Curzon of Kedleston, who became a passionate and lifelong enemy.
Kitchener was promoted to Field Marshal in 1910; however, largely due to a Curzon-inspired whispering campaign - he was turned down for the post of Viceroy of India in 1911.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/H/Horatio-Kitchener,-1st-Earl-Kitchener.htm   (1532 words)

  
 Marwick Head, Orkney
The tower in the distance is the Kitchener Memorial, erected in memory of Lord Kitchener, the British Secretary of State for War, who died on June 5, 1916, in the sinking of the British Navy ship 'Hampshire' just off Marwick Head, whilst on a secret mission to Russia to discuss the progress of the war.
Horatio Kitchener was born in 1850, and, in the nineteenth century was involved in many British actions in the African colonies, and it was he who won back the Sudan at the Battle of Omdurman - the 'little war' in which General Gordon had perished (see Saffy's Corner, June issue).
Lord Kitchener was an exeption - he realised from the beginning that the war would last for years, and probably cost millions of lives.
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 Guardian Century | 1910-1919 | Lord Kitchener lost at sea
Lord Kitchener was on his way to Russia, accompanied by members of his personal staff and officials of the Foreign Office and the Ministry of Munitions, for a discussion of military and financial questions.
Lord Kitchener left London on Sunday night, a sleeping-saloon being attached to the eight o'clock train from King's Cross.
The west coast of the Orkneys is famous for its line of high cliffs, and Admiral Jellicoe's message, which states that a heavy sea was running, must be intended to indicate the smallness of the chance for the survivors of the missing boats.
century.guardian.co.uk /1910-1919/Story/0,6051,126462,00.html   (331 words)

  
 Wilson: Chapter XI. Lord Kitchener.
Horatio Herbert Kitchener was born in 1850, the son of the late Lieut.Colonel H. Kitchener.
Lord Kitchener, then, took with him to Africa the prestige of a great name, the reputation of continual success, and the habit of handling large masses of troops.
The interest which attached to Kitchener's personality was enhanced by the fact that he was something of a riddle to his countrymen, who suspected that under the outer veil of iciness which marked him, as it marked Moltke, lay concealed the warmer qualities of the heart.
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 Lord Kitchener Page in Fuller Up, The Dead Musician Directory
Kitchener, whose real name was Aldwyn Roberts, succumbed to a severe infection brought on by a blood disorder and organ failure, said Dr. Leslie Ann Roberts, assistant general manager at the Eric Williams Medical Complex on the outskirts of the Trinidad capital.
In Arima, Kitchener was first hired to sing calypso for 12 cents but he went on to performances in England after World War II with calypso artists Lion, Atilla and Growling Tiger.
A few years ago fans demanded that Kitchener be honored with the highest award of his homeland, the Trinity Cross, for his contribution to culture.
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 LORD KITCHENER - ALDWYN ROBERTS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
I would like to make a contribution on the life and work of the local Lord Kitchener, how he got or chose his sobriquet and summarise some relevant data on the man, the original Lord Kitchener, his life, his works and even his exploits.
The Lord Kitchener referred to in the song and the man our Kitchener emulated and no doubt admired was officially the Lord Kitchener of (1850-1916) Khartoum.
Lord Kitchener of Khartoum was born Horatio Hubert Kitchener in Ballylongford, County Kerry, Ireland, in June 1850.
www.nalis.gov.tt /Biography/Calypso_LordKitchener_sobriquet.htm   (1042 words)

  
 Kitchener on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Settled largely by Mennonites from Pennsylvania in 1806, it was known as Berlin until 1916, when it was renamed in memory of Lord Kitchener.
Because of the close socioeconomic ties between Kitchener and the city of Waterloo, the area is commonly known as Kitchener-Waterloo.
Lord Kitchener's reputation as ruthless and repressed is well- earned, says Niall Ferguson
www.encyclopedia.com /html/K/Kitchene.asp   (402 words)

  
 First World War.com - Who's Who - Lord Northcliffe
Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, later Alfred Lord Northcliffe (1865-1922) was a British newspaper pioneer who revolutionised magazine and newspaper publishing in Britain in the early years of the twentieth century, and who wielded significant political power through the medium of his popular dailies.
The campaign against Kitchener was ostensibly directed at the perceived munitions shortage on the Western Front overseen by Kitchener (and disastrously highlighted by the then Commander in Chief, Sir John French, and which helped to lose him his job).
Kitchener's death at sea in June 1916 was openly welcomed by Harmsworth as aiding the war effort ("the British Empire has just had the greatest stroke of luck in its history").
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 Alfred Harmsworth, Lord Northcliffe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Lord Kitchener was a national hero and Harmsworth's attack on him upset a great number of readers.
Northcliffe continued his attacks on Lord Kitchener and when he heard he had been killed he remarked: "The British Empire has just had the greatest stroke of luck in its history." After the death of Kitchener he concentrated on having Herbert Asquith removed.
Lord Northcliffe wielded great power as the proprietor of the most widely-read daily paper and also as the owner of the most influential journal in the kingdom.
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 BBC - History - Lord Kitchener of Khartoum (1850 - 1916)
Commissioned in the Royal Engineers, in 1886 Kitchener was appointed governor of the British Red Sea territories and subsequently became commander in chief of the Egyptian army in 1892.
When war broke out, Kitchener was on leave in England and reluctantly accepted an appointment to the cabinet as secretary of state for war.
In his recruitment of soldiers, planning of strategy and mobilisation of industry, Kitchener was handicapped by bureaucracy and his own dislike for teamwork and delegation.
www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/kitchener_lord.shtml   (370 words)

  
 Caribbean Music 101 - Soca, Soul of Calypso, Origin, Lord Shorty - Father of Soca   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The name Lord Shorty is a paradoxical reference to his imposing height of 6-ft 4-in.
Talk that calypso was dying, and reggae was the new thing, prompted Lord Shorty to experiment with the calypso rhythm for nearly a decade.
Lord Shoty initially referred to his musical hybrid as "solka", representing the true "soul of calypso." The "Indianization" of calypso brought together the musical traditions of Trinidad and Tobago's two major ethnic groups, the descendants of African slaves and of indentured laborers from India.
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 ICE RECORDS :: LORD KITCHENER
By 1945, Kitchener was singing in the House of Lords tent, with colleagues Lady lere, Lord Ziegfield and Caresser.
Yet Kitchener departed Trinidad in late 1947, stirred by a mixture of career ambition (he longed to be a recording artist) and curiosity about calypso’s place in the international music landscape.
Kitchener is one of the most distinguished architects of the lively arts in this century, and his mythic efforts exist in the eternal present, rallying the poor of means, reviving the poor of spirit.
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 Kitchener of Khartoum.
HORATIO HERBERT KITCHENER, VISCOUNT (1850-), British Field Marshal, was the son of Lieutenant-Colonel H. Kitchener and was born at Bally Longford, Co. Kerry, on the 24th of June 1850.
Kitchener's work was crowned and the power of the Mahdists utterly destroyed by the victory of Omdurman (Sept. 2), for which he was raised to the peerage as Baron Kitchener of Khartoum, received the G.C.B., the thanks of parliament and a grant of £30,000.
Kitchener, who was on leave in England and had just received an earldom and another viscountcy and barony (June 1914), reluctantly accepted an appointment to the cabinet as secretary of state for war and was promoted to field marshal.
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 the Lord Kitchener of Trinidad & Tobago
Lord Kitchener - Old Time Calpysoian who is still Missed.
Aldwyn Roberts - "Lord Kitchener" Calypsonian and Composer.
Lord Kitchener moved to England in 1948 and continued as a calypsonian for 15 years before returning to TnT in 1963 !
www.search.co.tt /trinidad/kitchener   (53 words)

  
 Kitchener and Arab National Movement, 1912-1914
Lord Kitchener, no less than His Majesty's Government, was aware of the importance of extending British influence in western Arabia as well as on the coast of the Persian Gulf and with lbn Saud.
Lord Kitchener's conversation Emir Abdullah on February 5, 1914, and its aftermath.
Grand Vizier was stiffer than on previous occasion, seemed to be suspicious of Lord Kitchener's interest in the case, and made light of Egyptian public opinion, which, he said, had been manufactured and meant very little.
www.lib.byu.edu /~rdh/wwi/1914m/arabetuk.html   (7271 words)

  
 Caribbean Music 101 - Trinidad's Calypso Music; Origin, Calypsonians, Influences
Lord Kitchener rose to prominence in the 1940s and dominated the calypso scene until the late 1970s.
Lord Kitchener continued to make memorable hits until his death in 2001.
Together with Lord Kitchener, Mighty Sparrow dominated the calypso scene until the late 1970s.
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 BBC - 1Xtra - Lord Kitchener   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Lord Kitchener was born Aldwyn Roberts in East Trinidad in 1922.
He was named Lord Kitchener by fellow calypsonian Growling Tiger after a British army hero.
One of Kitchener's early hits was Tie Tongue Mopsy in 1946.
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 Lord Kitchener   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Lord Kitchener had begun to make his name outside the Caribbean within a couple of years of arriving at Tilbury docks in England aboard the M.V. Windrush in June 1948, without a clue of what the future held for him.
As early as 1946, when he was only 24, people were singing Kitchener’s Lai Fung Lee (Chinee never had a VJ Day), and Tie Tongue Mopsy through the Carnival streets of the capital……He’s a non-drinker, careful about what he eats, and careful about what he watches on TV.
He was at Lords Cricket ground in London on that memorable day in June 1950 when the West Indies thrashed England.
www.calypsoland.com /lkitchener.htm   (592 words)

  
 A Tribute to Lord Kitchener
Lord Kitchener ("Kitch"), the Grandmaster, was born April 18, 1922, as Aldwyn Robertsin Arima, Trinidad and Tobago ("T&T;"), into a family of six.
Thus, when fellow calypsonians were tempted to relax, feeling that Kitchener's success abroad, combined with his involvement in clubs, business, and real estate, had removed Kitch from the scene, they soon discovered the error of their thinking.
On stage, his gestures, innuendoes, his control of voice and his capability to paint a picture with his voice clear enough for the very last person in the audience to "see," and understand, what Kitch is talking about, has made him one of the great personalities in the highly competitive business of authentic calypso singing.
www.tntisland.com /kitchbio.html   (2807 words)

  
 The Calypso Tent of the Air - A Tribute to Lord Kitchener
Lord Kitchener ("Kitch"), the Grandmaster, was born April 18, 1922, as Aldwyn Roberts in Arima, Trinidad and Tobago ("T&T;"), into a family of six.
On stage, his gestures, innuendoes, his control of voice and his capability to paint a picture with his voice clear enough for the very last person in the audience to "see," and understand, what Kitch was talking about, made him one of the great personalities in the highly competitive business of authentic calypso singing.
Kitchener's Tent had to be the longest running Calypso Tent (in the world?).
www.kaiso.net /kitchbd.html   (2914 words)

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