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  The Legal Philosophers: The Jurists.
Bentham figured that laws should be socially useful and not merely reflect the status quo; he thought it to be a "sacred truth" that "the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation."
Before being knighted and raised to the bench in 1941, Birkett had been one of the most well paid and well recognized trial lawyers at the bar in England.
A renown scholar, educated at Cambridge, called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1935, Williams taught as a professor of law at University of London (1945-55) then went on to Cambridge.
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  William Norman Birkett, 1st Baron Birkett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Right Honourable (William) Norman Birkett, 1st Baron Birkett, PC (September 6, 1883 - February 10, 1962) was a noted British Barrister and judge who served as the alternate British Judge during the Nuremberg trials after World War II.
Birkett was a Liberal in politics and served briefly in Parliament for Nottingham East (which ensured a rapid rise to King's Counsel) from 1923 to 1924.
Birkett resented the fact that Lawrence received a peerage after the end of the trials where he did not, although he was appointed to the Privy Council in 1947.
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 Encyclopedia: Norman Birkett   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
(William) Norman Birkett, 1st Baron Birkett (September 6, 1883 - February 10, 1962) was a noted British Barrister and judge who served as the alternate British Judge during the Nuremberg trials after World War II.
Birkett was a Liberal in politics and twice served briefly in Parliament for Nottingham East (which ensured a rapid rise to King's Counsel).
On February 8, 1962 in the House of Lords he successfully moved to reject a Bill to allow the lake of Ullswater, near his birthplace, to be abstracted for drinking water in Lancashire.
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 William N. Page biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
William Nelson Page was born at "Locust Grove" in Campbell County, Virginia on January 6, 1854.
William Page settled in the tiny mountain hamlet of Ansted, a town with a population of 2,000 located in Fayette County, West Virginia.
William N. Page was a steamship built at Camden, New Jersey, by the New York Ship Building and Dry Dock Corp. It was taken over by the US Navy for operation by the Naval Overseas Transportation Service (NOTS) and commissioned on December 18, 1918.
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 William Pit Disaster   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
At first they thought they were members of the rescue party who had worked their way around by the return airway, but once they realised that they were survivors, they gave a great cheer and assisted them out to the shaft.
John Birkett (50) centre, Daniel Hinde (40) right, and James Weighman (23) left, had decided to make their way further in-bye shortly after the explosion instead of trying to make a dash to the shaft and safety.
William itself, had been openly called the "Most Dangerous Pit in the Kingdom" in 1816, when it was selected to test the newly invented Sir Humphrey Davy's Safety Lamp.
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 Guillermo Birkett Normando, 1r Barón Birkett   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Birkett normando era un natural de Ulverston cerca Carretilla-en-Furness, Lancashire.
Birkett era un liberal en política y servido dos veces brevemente en el parlamento para Nottingham al este (que aseguró una subida rápida a Counsel de rey).
Birkett se resentía el hecho de que Lorenzo recibió un peerage después del final de los ensayos donde él no lo hizo, aunque lo designaron al consejo privy en 1947.
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 Birkett Family Genealogy Forum
BIRKETT 1851 Whitehaven, Cumberland - valerie hastie 10/06/01
Re: BIRKETT 1851 Whitehaven, Cumberland - valerie hastie 10/11/01
Re: Keswick Cumberland Birkett's - Beryl and Russell Birkett 7/08/01
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 Images Of Cumbria - Famous Sons and Daughters   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
He married Elizabeth, daughter of William de Leigh, of Isel, who claimed her descent from Emma, sister to William the Conqueror, and Harlowen de Conteville, or de Burgo, who could trace his pedigree in the direct male line to Charles, Duke of Ingleheim, fifth son of Charlemagne.
Gilpin, Rev. William, son of the last mentioned, was born at Scaleby, and was vicar of Boldre, in Hampshire, and prebendary of Salisbury.
Lord William died of the plague at Greystoke Castle, in the year 1640, and is the common ancestor of Lord Carlisle and the Corby family.
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Baikie, William Balfour (1825-64) Explorer, naturalist, and linguist, born in Kirkwall, Orkney Is...
Beaverbrook (of Beaverbrook and of Cherkley), (William) Max(well) Aitken, Baron (1879-1964) Politician and newspaper magnate, born in Maple, Ontario, SE Canada.
Birkett (of Ulverston), (William) Norman Birkett, Baron (1883-1962) Lawyer and politician, born in Ulverston, Cumbria, NW England, UK.
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 thePeerage.com - Person Page 14284
She married Michael Birkett, 2nd Baron Birkett, son of Sir William Norman Birkett, 1st Baron Birkett and Ruth Nilsson, in 1978.
Linnea Nilsson Birkett is the daughter of Sir William Norman Birkett, 1st Baron Birkett and Ruth Nilsson.
Marcus Birkett Adam Cliff Hodges is the son of Gavin Cliff Hodges and Hon.
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 Библиотека Luksian key | The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations.
So look under Maya Angelou, not Maya Johnson; Princess Anne, not HRH The Princess Royal; Lord Beaverbrook, not William Maxwell Aitken; Irving Berlin, not Israel Balin; Greta Garbo, not Greta Lovisa Gustafsson, Anonymous quotations are all together, starting in "Anonymous" in topic 1.43 They are arranged in alphabetical order of their first significant word.
Under each author, quotations are arranged by the alphabetical order of the titles of the works from which they come, even if those works were not written by the person who is being quoted.
Letter from Iceland (1937, by Auden and MacNeice) "Letter to William Coldstream, Esq." And make us as Newton was, who in his garden watching The apple falling towards England, became aware Between himself and her of an eternal tie.
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 Morton, William
First trained as a violinist - he played in a dance orchestra at 13 - Morton studied voice in Regina with Alicia Birkett and in 1933 made his radio debut on CKCK.
Moving in 1935 to Toronto, where he studied with Albert Whitehead and James Rosselino, he was heard often on CBC radio.
His pupils included Wendy Martin, Don McManus, Harry Mossfield, Karl Norman, and Maurice Pearson.
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 REGULATION 18B - IMPRISONMENT WITHOUT CHARGE OR TRIAL 
William Pitt campaigned against the war with the American colonies; Charles James Fox (founder of the Liberal party) campaigned against the war with Napoleon; and David Lloyd George (later Liberal prime minister in World War I) campaigned against the Boer War.
Norman Birkett indulged in this conversation with Sir Oswald Mosley, which I think ought to be quoted and put on record, whatever one's feelings.
The internees were initially sent to prisons, then to various concentration camps in England and the Isle of Man, where they languished for months and years at the whim of the Home Secretary, separated from family and friends, their lives and careers in tatters.
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 Birkett Family Genealogy Forum (25 Latest Messages)
Re: Norman William Birkett aka Lord Birkett of Ulverston - Catrin Ashton 2/13/05
Re: Norman William Birkett aka Lord Birkett of Ulverston - angela birkett 2/14/04
Norman William Birkett aka Lord Birkett of Ulverston - Julian Ellis 1/16/04
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 Duplicate Book List - Osler Library of the History of Medicine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Birkett, Herbert S. A short account of the history of medicine in lower Canada.
Broadbent, M.E. Life of Sir William Broadbent Bart., K.C.V.O.: Physician extraordinary to H.M. Queen Victoria Physician in Ordinary to the King and to the Prince of Wales.
Norman Bethunre: his time and his legacy, son époque et son message.
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 Ancestry Message Boards [ Birkett ]
William Norman Birkett (Lord Birkett) : Linda Schien -- 31 Dec 2004
Birketts from Keswick area of England to Canada : Marlene Graham -- 19 Feb 2004
BIRKETT, 1926, ROUTT COUNTY, COLORADO : Ludean Kidd -- 26 Jul 2003
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 Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Dea Birkett: fertile politicians
Norman Tebbit, a father of three, praised one potential candidate, the shadow defence secretary Iain Duncan Smith, for being a "normal family man with children".
Blair delivered a powerful blow against the barren (personified in the opposition by William Hague), arriving in Downing Street with three children and even having a fourth while in office, the first serving PM to do so for 150 years.
Fellow author John Irving has derided his recent writing as "pompous and puerile", with John Updike and Norman Mailer joining in the mud-slinging.
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 AIM25: Royal Institution of Great Britain: Bragg, Sir William Lawrence (1890-1971)
Administrative/Biographical history: William Lawrence Bragg was born the son of William Henry Bragg, physicist and Gwendoline Todd, in Adelaide, Australia, in 1890.
During the First World War and until 1919, William Lawrence (he was known as Lawrence in order to distinguish him from his father) primarily served in the Royal Horse Artillery until he became Technical Adviser to the Map Section in order to research into sound ranging to locate enemy guns.
Immediate source of acquisition: The papers of Sir William Lawrence Bragg were transferred from his office at the RI and also donated by the Bragg family after his death.
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 NPG x86371; William Norman Birkett, 1st Baron Birkett
NPG x86371; William Norman Birkett, 1st Baron Birkett
9 of 9 portraits of William Norman Birkett, 1st Baron Birkett
William Norman Birkett, 1st Baron Birkett (1883-1962), Judge.
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 (William) Norman Birkett, Baron Birkett (of Ulverston) Biography - Biography.com
(William) Norman Birkett, Baron Birkett (of Ulverston) Biography - Biography.com
(William) Norman Birkett, Baron Birkett (of Ulverston) Biography
Lawyer and politician, born in Ulverston, Cumbria, NW England, UK.
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 Shape Note Bibliography
In Religion on the American Frontier: The Baptists, 1738-1830, edited by William Warren Sweet, 185-230.
Review of A Musical Biography, Or, Sketches of the Lives and Writings of Eminent Musical Characters, Interspersed with an Epitome of Interesting Musical Matter, by John R. Parker (Detroit Information Coordinators, 1975 [1825]).
Review of William Billings of Boston: Eighteenth-century Composer, by David P. McKay, and Richard Crawford (Princeton Princeton University Press, 1975).
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I don’t object to people looking at their watches when I am speaking.
But I strongly object when they start shaking them to make sure they are still going – William Norman Birkett, speaker.
President William Howard Taft was an enormous man, weighing more than 300 pounds.
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Fisher of Lambeth: A portrait from life, by William Ernest Purcell Price: £9.24 GBP ($19.22 USD)
Give Me Yesterday by James Williams Price: £5.20 GBP ($10.81 USD)
Norman Birkett: The life of Lord Birkett of Ulverston by H.
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