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  Peerage of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Lord Rossmore in the Peerage of Ireland
The Lord Sheffield in the Peerage of Ireland
The Lord Talbot of Malahide in the Peerage of Ireland
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 Norman Fowler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Right Honourable Peter Norman Fowler, Baron Fowler, PC (born 1937) usually known as Norman Fowler before he was given his peerage, and probably now best known as Lord Fowler, is a British Conservative politician who was from 1981 to 1990 a member of Margaret Thatcher's Cabinet.
Fowler later resigned this post and became the first politician to cite "to spend more time with his (my) family" as his reasoning.
Although it was the truth in Fowler's case, the expression later became a smokescreen for politicans who had quit high-profile roles for slightly more dark or controversial reasons.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Norman_Fowler   (261 words)

  
 Politics | Europe should appoint Aids envoy, peer says
Lord Fowler, who as Norman Fowler, health and social services secretary under Margaret Thatcher, organised the first official drive to educate Britons to the dangers in 1986-87, accused ministers of presiding over "complacency and ignorance" which made it harder to tell other governments to do more.
Arguing that in both the developed and the developing world "the role of government is crucial", Lord Fowler cited the achievements of the Ugandan government, without contrasting it with the widely perceived reluctance of the government of South Africa to engage.
Lord Fowler claimed that, at least in Britain, his own much-criticised policy of introducing clean needles for drug addicts had kept the infection rates lower.
politics.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4610357-107901,00.html   (539 words)

  
 SIR JOHN FOWLER - LoveToKnow Article on SIR JOHN FOWLER
swept both Fowler and his employers into its service, and one of his first employments was to oppose the route of the Midland railway, chosen by the Stephensons, which left Sheffield on a branch line, and was therefore strongly resented by the inhabitants.
The engineering profession espoused Fowlers side in the controversy which followed, and as a result the verdict of the Board of Trade was modified.
For his service Fowler was made K.C.M.G. He was created a baronet in 1890 on the completion of the Forth bridge, of which with his partner Sir Benjamin Baker he was joint engineer.
18.1911encyclopedia.org /F/FO/FOWLER_SIR_JOHN.htm   (723 words)

  
 Fowler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
Fowler's range of interests kept him going throughout the next two decades as he produced papers on spectroscopy, physical chemistry, what is now known as condensed matter physics (or solid state physics), and magnetism in materials.
It was Fowler who ultimately introduced Paul Dirac to the burgeoning field of quantum theory in 1923 leading Dirac to the forefront of its ultimate discovery in 1925.
Fowler's genius was in his ability to apply intense mathematical rigour to a variety of physical problems.
www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk /history/Mathematicians/Fowler.html   (2386 words)

  
 Guardian | Kelly naming process banned
The admission came after Lord Falconer, speaking on behalf of Tony Blair in a Lords debate on the Hutton report this week, came under pressure from two former Tory cabinet ministers, Lord Fowler and Lord Waddington, to explain why it had happened.
Lord Falconer told peers: "The government fully accepts and must learn from the fact that much more care could have been taken in relation to Dr Kelly, and we apologise unreservedly for that.
Lord Fowler, a former social services secretary and Times journalist, described the process as "extraordinary".
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4853713-111624,00.html   (392 words)

  
 Members of the House of Lords - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Lord Campbell of Croy (April 26, 2005)
The Lord Clark of Kempston (October 4, 2004)
The Lord Donaldson of Lymington (August 31, 2005)
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 Spurgeon Collection: Sermons and Writings » The Snare of the Fowler
First, a few words concerning the snare of the fowler; secondly, the deliverance; and, thirdly, the certainty of it; dwelling upon that word surely, for it seems to be the diamond wherewith this precious golden promise is embellished.
The fowler is wiser than that: he adapts his snare to the condition of the bird which he desires to take.
They were in the fowler’s net, too, when Flatterer cast a net over them, and left them in the lane; but there came one who, after he had beaten them full sore, took the net off, and then they went on their way, better men than they were before they were in the net.
www.theoblogy.com /spurgeon/2005/09/18/the-snare-of-the-fowler   (4972 words)

  
 Lords Hansard text for 5 Mar 2003 (230305-07)
On 20th February, the noble Lord, Lord Oakeshott, told us that the pension fund deficit of the FTSE 100 companies was £77 billion—the equivalent of 93 per cent of last year's profits.
I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Fowler, who is one of the most experienced experts in the field, on securing the debate.
I agree with my noble friend Lord Fowler, and others, that one of the major causes of the situation is the removal by the Government of tax relief on pension funds at a cumulative £5 billion per year.
www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/ld200203/ldhansrd/vo030305/text/30305-07.htm   (16220 words)

  
 MediaGuardian.co.uk | Media | Government plans for BBC misguided, say peers
The Lords select committee report, due to be published today, also said the BBC's campaign for an increase in the licence fee of inflation plus 2.3% was impossible to justify and called on the government to pay for the switch to digital transmission instead.
Lord Fowler, who chaired the committee, said the BBC's independence was threatened because it was left to government to decide on its remit and funding every 10 years.
But Lord Fowler said the committee had found the plans unveiled in this year's green paper "ill-conceived", allowing the corporation to remain "judge and jury".
media.guardian.co.uk /site/story/0,14173,1605851,00.html   (505 words)

  
 Lord, Baron, Baroness, Viscount, Archbishop, Peers, House of Lords, UK Parliament   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
Lord Astor of Hever DL Lord Attenborough of Richmond-upon-Thames Kt CBE
Lord Macaulay of Bragar QC Rt Hon Lord Macdonald of Tradeston CBE
Lord MacLaurin of Knebworth Kt DL Rt Hon Lord Maclennan of Rogart
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 BBC News | UK POLITICS | Ministers listen to police reform fears
Cross-bencher Lord Condon, the former Metropolitan Police Commissioner said he supported the amendments and they would be seen as "an act of good faith".
Lord Dholakia, for the Liberal Democrats, urged consultation before the national police plan was produced.
Lord Rooker said he was going to "take away what peers have said with the force and experience they bring to bear" to ask officials if a form of words could be found "to meet their requirements".
news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/uk_news/politics/1847820.stm   (563 words)

  
 HER MAJESTY'S ADVOCATE v. THOMAS FOWLER BURNS, 04 August 2000, Lord Penrose
In the first of these minutes she contended that in initiating the proceedings the Lord Advocate infringed Articles 6 and 8 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, and Article 1 of the First Protocol to the Convention.
The notion that there is a real risk that the Lord Advocate's act in making the application might at the end of the day infringe the Minuter's convention rights fails to recognise the role of the several courts in the hierarchy which may in due course come to adjudicate on the application.
In this case, in addition to the uncertainties inherent in the litigation process in respect of the Lord Advocate's application, there is a minute seeking the exclusion of the assets of the Minuter if the Crown establishes that there were implicative gifts in her favour.
www.scotcourts.gov.uk /opinions/PEN2607.html   (4891 words)

  
 Lords Hansard text for 19 May 2004 (240519-14)
The noble Lord, Lord Fowler, was in the driving seat at that time and must take the credit for the enlightened and far-sighted approach that was taken.
This is a crisis for many prisons and, as the noble Lord, Lord Fowler, said, we know exactly what to do about it.
Noble Lords may be interested to hear that the noble Baroness, Lady Massey of Darwen, who cannot be here today, has played a key role in educating medical workers in Kazakhstan about HIV prevention and treatment.
www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/ld200304/ldhansrd/vo040519/text/40519-14.htm   (2190 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | UK Latest | Lords criticise BBC Royal Charter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
Lord Fowler, Conservative chairman of the House of Lords select committee on the BBC Charter Review, said: "The Green Paper - A Strong BBC, Independent of Government - fails to live up to its title.
The peers' have proposed that the process for agreeing the BBC's constitution should be open, transparent and not in the hands of any one political party.
Lord Fowler added: "It is difficult to see how the increase now being proposed can be justified.
www.guardian.co.uk /uklatest/story/0,1271,-5383800,00.html   (529 words)

  
 Sir Henry Fowler
Fowler was also interested in training, and maintained close contact with premium apprentices and pupils for whom he was nominally responsible.
Unfortunately, the Fowler Pacific was intended for the WCML, and it might have been almost as good as Stanier's earlier attempts: it would certainly have had a less troublesome boiler and left on his own Fowler would have gleaned much from Gresley.
Fowler went on to state that Dr Wilhelm Schmidt began in 1895 to apply to locomotives the knowledge he had gained in the use of superheated steam for other purposes, and in 1897 he produced his first practical design.
www.steamindex.com /people/fowler.htm   (3755 words)

  
 Lords Hansard text for 19 Oct 2004 (241019-17)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
My Lords, would the Minister be prepared to consider an amendment that permitted a period between the end of the dry run and the implementation of the Bill so that in that period the Government could produce an assessment which then could be debated in Parliament?
The issue of changing regulations was dealt with very thoroughly in the intervention of the noble Lord, Lord Hunt.
I know that the noble Lord, Lord Fowler, has also had discussions with representatives from the council, having been closely associated with it at one point in his career.
www.publications.parliament.uk /pa/ld199900/ldhansrd/pdvn/lds04/text/41019-17.htm   (1633 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | UK | Politics | Tebbit calls for Tory sackings
Lord Tebbit's outburst follows a spate of apparent in-fighting surrounding the controversial sacking of David Davis as party chairman.
Lord Tebbit blamed what he called the "loony right" libertarian wing of the party for the in-fighting.
Former Tory minister and party chairman Lord Fowler called for an end to the internal feuding, which was causing the party "tremendous damage".
news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/uk_news/politics/2200529.stm   (836 words)

  
 Lords Hansard text for 21 Jul 2004 (240721-01)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
My Lords, the extra resources are welcome indeed, although I hope that the Leader of the House recognises that much more needs to be done, not just by this country but by the West generally, to reduce the appalling toll of death from AIDS, especially in African and other developing countries.
My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Northover, is quite right: the number is set to increase substantially, although the figure that I have is 20 million, rather than 25 million, by 2010.
My Lords, does the Minister agree that although many of the carers of the millions of orphans are young, many of the others are grandparents who are trying to bring up children with none of the help, support or resources that we take for granted in the industrialised world?
www.publications.parliament.uk /pa/ld199900/ldhansrd/pdvn/lds04/text/40721-01.htm   (1425 words)

  
 Plans for BBC’s future ‘confusing and misguided’ says Lords Committee
The Chairman of the Committee, Lord Fowler, said: “The Green Paper, ‘A strong BBC, independent of Government’, fails to live up to its title.
Lord Fowler said: “It is difficult to see how the increase now being proposed can be justified.
Lord Fowler said: “Plans for a BBC Trust to take over from the current Governors are ill-conceived.
www.4rfv.co.uk /industrynews.asp?ID=45598   (785 words)

  
 Elisabeth Fairchild
Fanny Fowler, an accredited beauty, one of Bath's bon ton, slated to be the most feted bride of the Christmas season, was not in her best looks when she burst through the door of Madame Nicolette's millinery shop, on a very wet December afternoon right before closing.
Madame insisted, and so the two women ran together to the coach, under cover of madame's large fl umbrella, and madame greeted Lord Fowler, his wife, and younger daughter standing beneath her dripping shield just outside the fulsome gutter.
Lord Fowler sat forward abruptly, chest thrust forth, shaking his walking stick at her with ferocity, the sway of his jowls echoing the movement.
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 [DL-W] Lord Fowler's Delight
Lord Fowler watched his son for a moment and said, "A woman finds a man attractive if he is attractive to other women...." He smiled knowingly.
Lord Fowler was suddenly aware of the beautiful, blonde bardswoman, singing her heart out to...
After her set, Lord Fowler aproached Analise, who with all her coy charms, pretended not to notice him.
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 Global Challenges | Britain's Lord Fowler Suggests Europe Appoint an HIV/AIDS Special Envoy - Kaisernetwork.org
Fowler said that government ministers were "presiding over complacency and ignorance," which made it more difficult for Britain to influence other countries on the issue.
Fowler called on the government to "do more" to promote HIV/AIDS awareness in Britain and abroad, help developing countries by providing more funding to fight the disease and urge pharmaceutical companies to provide low-cost antiretroviral drugs.
While he was health and social services secretary, Fowler promoted a "much-criticized" needle-exchange program for injection drug users.
www.kaisernetwork.org /daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=16198   (304 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | TV and Radio | Peers slate government BBC plans
In a statement, the BBC said it would "examine carefully" the Lords' report.
In its recent Green Paper on the future of the BBC, published in March, the government recommended the BBC board of governors be scrapped and replaced by a BBC Trust and an executive board, a stance later accepted by the BBC.
Lord Fowler said it was "difficult" to see how the proposed increase could be justified, adding that lower-income households would be hardest hit.
news.bbc.co.uk /go/rss/-/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4393596.stm   (542 words)

  
 [A-List] British pensions crisis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
They campaigned for "portable = pensions" - a dream world in which working people could go through life = reinforced with their own personal pension bought individually with = their own money to the profit of a bank or an insurance company.
The intellectual and democratic thrust behind this thinking was summed = up by the minister of state for social security Tony Newton (now Lord = Newton).
Almost all the = schemes they were sold turned out to be worse than the schemes they = left.
lists.econ.utah.edu /pipermail/a-list/2002-March/018132.html   (764 words)

  
 Don W. Fowler - Lord Bissell & Brook Attorney Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
Don Fowler is a partner in our firm's insurance coverage litigation and professional liability practice.
During his more than 30 years of experience he has concentrated his practice in complex litigation, insurance coverage, professional liability and reinsurance law.
Don was lead counsel for the London insurers that prevailed in the insurance coverage litigation that arose out of the 1992 Chicago flood where $100 million of insurance coverage was in dispute.
www.lordbissell.com /attorney_bio.cfm?AtyID=3231   (202 words)

  
 Fowler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
He could often be found golfing with his father, sister, and brother Christopher.
It must be said that Sir Ralph Fowler was a brilliant physicist.
But it may be for his influence upon others that he is best known.
www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk /history/Mathematicians/Fowler.html   (2386 words)

  
 The strengths of the regional press in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks on America have been ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
The strengths of the regional press in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks on America have been highlighted by Regional Independent Media chairman Lord Fowler: Regional Journalism.
The strengths of the regional press in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks on America have been highlighted by Regional Independent Media chairman Lord Fowler.
Presenting the company's preliminary results, he said the attacks had not just affected the industry from a business point of view, but demonstrated its unique place for presentation of news and analysis.
www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk /behind/analysis/020228press.shtml   (377 words)

  
 THT campaigns   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
Lord Fowler was Secretary of State for Health under Margaret Thatcher and responsible for the tombstone campaigns of the late 1980s campaigns that transformed the UK's response to the epidemic.
THT sat down with him in the House of Lords and found out where the big campaigns came from, what he thinks this government's record on sexual health and HIV, and what more we can do to fight the global HIV epidemic.
Lord Fowler is a member of the All Party Parliamentary Group on AIDS and has taken an active role in supporting the work of, amongst others, Terrence Higgins Trust.
www.advocacyonline.net /tht/sep04/content_expe_jun03.jsp   (1310 words)

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