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  The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News
The Fleming brothers were two of the four sons of the barrister and MP Valentine Fleming who was killed in action in 1917, having served as MP for Henley from 1910.
Peter Fleming was the godfather of the British author and journalist Duff Hart-Davis, who wrote up Fleming's life as Peter Fleming: A Biography, published in 1974.
Fleming was a special correspondent for The Times and (as "Strix") an essayist for The Spectator; he also wrote a series of books on his travels around the world.
www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Peter_Fleming   (1268 words)

  
  Peter Fleming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Fleming brothers were two of the four sons of the barrister and MP Valentine Fleming who was killed in action in 1917, having served as MP for Henley from 1910.
Peter and Celia Fleming remained married until his death in 1971, while on a shooting expedition in Argyll, Scotland; he was survived by his wife and their three children:
Peter Fleming was the godfather of the British author and journalist Duff Hart-Davis, who wrote up Fleming's life as Peter Fleming: A Biography, published in 1974.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Fleming   (871 words)

  
 Civilization.ca - Bronfman Collection - Peter Fleming   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Peter Fleming is a major, highly respected Canadian furniture maker whose speculative and commissioned works reflect the blending of a personal aesthetic, imaginative use of contemporary and traditional materials and superb craftsmanship.
Fleming’s work, primarily in wood with elements of cast and fabricated metal, stone and glass, is characterized by the juxtaposition of refined technique and unconventional form.
Fleming was Chair of the Co-ordination Committee for "Furniture 2000, Old and New Communities", the fourth annual conference of the Furniture Society held in Toronto in June.
www.warmuseum.ca /arts/bronfman/flem1e.html   (348 words)

  
 Civilization.ca - Bronfman Collection - Excellence - Peter Fleming   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Peter Fleming is a major, highly respected Canadian furniture maker whose speculative and commissioned works reflect the blending of a personal aesthetic, imaginative use of contemporary and traditional materials and superb craftsmanship.
Fleming’s work, primarily in wood with elements of cast and fabricated metal, stone and glass, is characterized by the juxtaposition of refined technique and unconventional form.
Fleming was Chair of the Co-ordination Committee for "Furniture 2000, Old and New Communities", the fourth annual conference of the Furniture Society held in Toronto in June.
www.civilization.ca /arts/bronfman/flem1e.html   (357 words)

  
 Peter Fleming - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
The Fleming brothers were two of the three sons of the barrister and MP Valentine Fleming who was killed in action in 1917, having served as MP for Henley from 1919.
Peter was a special correspondent for The Times, and also wrote a series of books on his travels around the world.
After the War, Peter Fleming retired to squiredom at Nettlebed in Oxfordshire, and published the occasional book, but his fame was rapidly surpassed by his younger brother Ian Fleming (1908-1964) who began publishing the James Bond novels in the 1950s.
www.music.us /education/P/Peter-Fleming.htm   (965 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Peter Fleming
She was the illegitimate daughter of the painter Augustus John by his mistress Eve Fleming, mother of the writers Peter Fleming and Ian Fleming by her late husband.
Lucy Fleming is a British actress, perhaps best known for her role as Jenny Richards in the 1970s BBC drama Survivors.
Peter Duff Hart-Davis (born 1936), generally known as Duff Hart-Davis, is a British biographer and journalist, who writes (or wrote?) for The Independent newspaper.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Peter-Fleming   (2324 words)

  
 Peter W   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Peter W. Fleming, was born in West Lebanon, Indiana, November 20, 1838, and is a son of Cornelius V. and Malinda A. (Clifton) Fleming.
Fleming was married January 5, 1860, to Miss C. Sinkes, daughter of James M. and Jane Sinkes.
Fleming is Past Master in the Masonic order, also a member of Covington Chapter, H. In politics, he is a Republican, and was Postmaster during the Lincoln administration.
www.usgennet.org /usa/in/state/warren_co/fleming_peter_w.htm   (239 words)

  
 Peter Fleming. Brazilian Adventure... - Memoir-Biography.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
It was Fleming's first adventure and his first book - yet it became a classic work going into several editions early on and being used in schools as a study piece.
Peter Fleming, in case you didn't know, is the brother of the 'James Bond' author Ian Fleming - a talent for writing seemed to run in the family.
Peter continued his travels and writing career but I think this first book is the best of them all.
memoir-biography.com /british/005/peter-fleming-brazilian-adventure.htm   (460 words)

  
 Peter Fleming, Stanley Tookie Attorney, Crips Street Gang Co-Founder
Fleming was one of the attorneys who represented Stanley “Tookie” Williams, who was executed by the state of California on December 13.
Fleming said he does not have strong opinions on the issue, but believes that Governor Schwarzenegger’s decision was “shameful” and that Williams’ work was having a positive effect on children.
Fleming said his practice is a fairly equal balance of criminal and civil cases and, once he started law school, he knew he wanted to become a trial attorney, but perhaps for unique reasons.
www.lawcrossing.com /article/index.php?id=1304   (1174 words)

  
 Ian Fleming biography
Born in 1908 as the son of Valentine Fleming, and the grandson of the wealthy Scottish banker Robert Fleming, Ian Lancaster Fleming grew up the member of a rare class of Englishmen for whom all options are open.
Fleming not only had to live with the ghost of his father, but also with the shadow of his brother Peter, who after his father's passing filled the role of patriarch of the family.
For 6 years Fleming traveled each winter to Jamaica, lounging in paradise, romancing women, chasing the sunset, but it was not until he faced the pressure of a married woman who was pregnant with his child did Fleming start the writer's journey which would change his life and popular culture forever.
www.klast.net /bond/flem_bio.html   (2469 words)

  
 SMOKING PARENTS ARE KILLING THEIR INFANTS [07/30]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
For example, Fleming said babies whose parents smoked, but who were never put into a room where anybody smoked, were still twice as likely to die of SIDS than babies of nonsmokers.
Fleming said the team had successfully disproved arguments that it was the behavior of smokers that was to blame, not the smoke itself.
Prof Peter Fleming, author of a study which found smoking is to blame for two out of three cot deaths, said agencies should ask adoptive parents whether they or anyone else in the home smoked.
www.ash.org /kids/sids.html   (626 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: News from Tartary: A Journey from Peking to Kashmir   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Fleming tells the story in his inimitable manner--dismissing the difficulties with irony and describing events and developments with humor and brilliant color.
Fleming (Ian Fleming's brother, as it happens)would have had a well-turned phrase of damnation had he seen how this edition emasculates the original.
But Fleming's amateurishness is merely a pose, and the book is full of humorous detail on life in China at that time, backed by sound journalism and knowledge of the political situation.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0874772346   (1009 words)

  
 Special Circumstances: News from Tartary: a Journey from Peking to Kashmir by Peter Fleming   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Peter Fleming when he is successful at his writing reminds me strongly of authors like P. Wodehouse (who he mentions favorably in this book).
Despite his protests to the contrary, Fleming is anti-Russian (a common British sentiment at the time) and shows naive surprise that some of the natives treat the British along with the Russians and the Japanese as equal imperialist threats.
Peter Fleming is Ian Fleming's older brother; less famous than Ian now ever since the James Bond movie franchise took off, but considerably more famous than Ian when he wrote this book.
www.cs.sfu.ca /~anoop/weblog/archives/000043.html   (683 words)

  
 OHMSS-Fleming   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Fleming, the grandson of wealthy Scottish banker Robert Fleming.
Peter could be the writer while Ian lived life to the full.
Fleming, at almost 44 years of age to face this pressure and marry her.
members.aol.com /jbondohmss007/OHMSS-Fleming.html   (1578 words)

  
 fleming
Fleming's greatest success in his brief Reuters career was the reporting he did on a spy trial in Russia.
Peter could be the writer while Ian ate, drank, and loved his way through life.
Fleming's career as a writer deserves more examination than can be offered here, but suffice it to say, over the next 12 years, Ian Fleming transformed his elite existence, his arrogance, his style, and his acid wit into some of the greatest thrillers ever written.
www.uni-duesseldorf.de /WWW/PhilFak/fshisto/jb/fleming.htm   (2492 words)

  
 John Stone Fitness: Books: Brazilian Adventure (Marlboro Travel)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
In 1932, Peter Fleming, a literary editor (and the brother of Ian Fleming), traded his pen for a pistol to engage in the celebrated search for English adventurer Colonel P. Fawcett, who had gone missing in the jungles of central Brazil.
Peter Fleming, in case you didn't know, is the brother of the 'James Bond' author Ian Fleming - a talent for writing seemed to run in the family.
Peter continued his travels and writing career but I think this first book is the best of them all.
www.johnstonefitness.com /store/shop.php?c=books&n=16252691&k=Peter+Fleming&t=Author&s=sr&p=1   (1122 words)

  
 Response to media stories concerning Professor Peter Fleming
Professor Fleming has been involved since 1980 in providing immediate and continuing help and support to families bereaved by the sudden unexpected death of their infant in the former Avon area.
Professor Fleming is deeply concerned by the distress caused to parents and others by the organ retention issue and fully supports the steps that have been and will be taken to revise procedures.
The Avon Infant Mortality Study, a prospective, population-based study of all causes of infant mortality, set up in 1984 by Professor Peter Fleming and colleagues at the University of Bristol, included detailed assessment of the causes of death for all infants who died in Avon, of which around 40 each year were from SIDS.
www.bris.ac.uk /Depts/Info-Office/news/archive/fleming.htm   (1213 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: News from Tartary : A Journey from Peking to Kashmir (Marlboro Travel)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Of an acquaintance, Fleming says that he "had seen me act more than once at Oxford, but he was of a forgiving disposition and prepared to let bygones be bygones." And, the author to the contrary, it was an adventure.
Fleming and Maillard traversed some of the most unforgiving terrain in the world at a time in which banditry and political strife were rife.
Fleming describes vividly the Chinese, Tungans, Turkis, and Tibetans they meet, the impossibly remote oasis towns at the foot of the Himalayas, and the passage across 15,000 feet mountain passes into British India.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0810160714?v=glance   (1656 words)

  
 Ian Fleming
Fleming's first book was not a spy novel but a foreign correspondent's guide-book which was issued for the education of his staff.
Fleming, who was her third husband, had first met her in 1939, but they became seriously involved after the war.
Fleming's choise was the sophisticated David Niven, but after From Russia with Love he said that the actor was much as he had imagined Bond.
www.kirjasto.sci.fi /ifleming.htm   (2343 words)

  
 007Forever.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Lucy Williams (nee Fleming) was born May 15th, 1947.
Peter Fleming (1907-1971); their mother was actress Celia Johnson
She was an assistant to Alan Ross on his "London Magazine" (Ross was friends with Ian and Ann Fleming, and is mentioned in "The Man With The Golden Gun" as Commander Ross), and was also Martin Gilbert`s researcher on his official biography of Winston Churchill.
www.007forever.com /books/faq009.html   (655 words)

  
 Peter Fleming - James Bond Literature Forum - ajb007.co.uk
Peter Fleming was the brother of Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond, and this story effectively demonstrates that the writing of mysterious, weird, and outlandish stories was in no way confined to just one side of the family.
Peter was the elder of the two brothers and made his name as a writer before Ian.
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www.ajb007.co.uk /index.php?topic=14848   (618 words)

  
 PINGLE and HOLMAN in São Paulo
In the early 1930s British writer Peter Fleming went on an expedition in the Brazilian interior, seeking clues to the fate of Col Fawcett who had disappeared there in 1925.
The expedition was led by irascible and incompetent "Major George Lewy Pingle", who was assisted (according to Fleming) by the knowledgable and helpful Capt John G Holman, British resident of São Paulo.
Fleming suggests that Pingle was a pseudonym and that he was an American claiming a commission in the Peruvian Army.
genforum.genealogy.com /brazil/messages/2157.html   (116 words)

  
 Peter FLEMING - Vikipedio
Literaturo > Anglalingva Literaturo > Peter FLEMING < Angla Lingvo
La angla verkisto kaj ĵurnalisto Peter FLEMING naskiĝis je la 31-a de majo 1907 en Londono kaj mortis je la 18-a de aŭgusto 1971 en Black Mount.
Ankaŭ lia frato Ian FLEMING estis fama verkisto.
eo.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_FLEMING   (66 words)

  
 Peter Fleming   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
His fame has now been almost completely eclipsed by that of his younger brother, Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond books, although during his lifetime he was generally reputed to be the cleverer brother.
Peter was a correspondent for The Times and also wrote a series of books on his travels around the world.
In 1935 he married the actress Celia Johnson, best known for her role in the film Brief Encouner[?].
www.explainthis.info /pe/peter-fleming.html   (275 words)

  
 Papers of Peter Fleming
His father, Valentine Fleming, a barrister, was MP for Henley 1910-1917 and was killed in action in 1917.
Peter's brother Ian, the creator of James Bond, was born in 1908.
Peter Fleming died in August 1971, while on a shooting expedition to Scotland.
www.library.rdg.ac.uk /colls/special/fleming.html   (349 words)

  
 Bristol University | News from the University | Response to media stories concerning Professor Peter Fleming
Professor Fleming has been involved since 1980 in providing immediate and continuing help and support to families bereaved by the sudden unexpected death of their infant in the former Avon area.
After the end of the Avon studies (July 1991), Professor Fleming continued to provide support and care to bereaved families, though no research was carried out until the start of the CESDI studies of Sudden Unexpected Deaths in Infancy in February 1993.
Professor Fleming is deeply concerned by the distress caused to parents and others by the organ retention issue and fully supports the steps that have been and will be taken to revise procedures.
www.bristol.ac.uk /news/2002/fleming.htm   (1272 words)

  
 Burlington Free Press - Local Stories   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Fleming, a 43-year-old Colorado resident, finished this year's VCM in two hours, 24 minutes, two seconds, leading 1,072 individual marathoners through the 26.2-mile course by the 2 p.m.
Fleming maintained the lead through the final six miles, rounding the final bend at Waterfront Park to the finish line.
Fleming was the marathon's darkhorse, registering for the VCM after illness prevented him from running the Boston Marathon on April 19.
www.burlingtonfreepress.com /specialnews/marathon/25.htm   (435 words)

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