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Ivor Gurney
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Elizabeth (Gurney) Fry
Elizabeth (Gurney) Fry 1780-1845, English prison reformer and philanthropist. Deeply religious, she was recognized as a minister by the Society of Friends (Quakers). From 1813 she worked untiringly to improve the conditions of women in Newgate prison, advocating separation of the sexes, employment,... Read more |
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A.R. Gurney Jr
Gurney, A[lbert] R[amsdell], Jr. (b. 1930), playwright. A native of Buffalo, New York, he studied at Williams College and at Yale and for years supplemented his writing income by teaching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His plays reveal him as the logical heir to Philip Barry... Read more |
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A J Foyt
A. J. Foyt (Anthony Joseph Foyt, Jr.), 1935-, American auto-racing driver, b. Houston. Foyt was the first person to win the Indianapolis 500 race four times (1961, 1964, 1967, 1977). He also won the Daytona 500 and, with Dan Gurney, the 24 Hours of Le Mans. He was U.S. Auto Club driving champion... Read more |
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John Wilbur
John Wilbur 1774-1856, American Quaker leader, b. Hopkinton, R.I. He became the leader of the opposition to the evangelical principles of J. J. Gurney and Elias Hicks, and his expulsion (1843) by the Quakers resulted in the formation of the new New England Yearly Meeting. His followers were called... Read more |
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Joseph Gurney Cannon
Joseph Gurney Cannon 1836-1926, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (1903-11), b. Guilford co., N.C. A lawyer in Illinois, Cannon served as a Republican in Congress from 1873 to 1923, except for the years 1891-93 and 1913-15, when first the Populists and then the Progressives were able to... Read more |
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Society for Psychical Research
Society for Psychical Research (SPR) The British organization that became the focus for the emerging field of psychical research in the nineteenth century. Its establishment was proposed on June 6, 1882, at a meeting, by Sir William F. Barrett, and on February 20, 1882, the society came into... Read more |
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The Devil and Daniel Webster
Devil and Daniel Webster, The (1939), a musical folk play by Stephen Vincent Benét (text) and Douglas Moore (music). [Martin Beck Theatre, 6 perf.] Jabez Stone ( John Gurney), a New Hampshire farmer who has sold his soul to the devil in return for a decade of prosperity, is confronted on... Read more |
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Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
Buxton, Thomas Fowell (1786–1845). Anti-slavery campaigner and quaker philanthropist, Buxton married Hannah Gurney (sister of Elizabeth Fry). In 1808 he joined the quaker brewers Truman, Hanbury & Co. (his mother was a Hanbury), which brought him into contact with the London poor of... Read more |
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Sir James Clark Ross
Sir James Clark Ross 1800-1862, British polar explorer and rear admiral. In 1818 he accompanied his uncle, Sir John Ross, in search of the Northwest Passage and commanded the Erebus. He later studied Eskimo life while on several arctic voyages (1819-27) with W. E. Parry. In another expedition... Read more |
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