John Andrew Boehner

John Andrew Boehner , 1949-, American politician, b. Cincinnati. A business executive and a Republican member (1985-90) of the Ohio house of representatives, he first won election to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1990, and became an ally of Newt Gingrich . House Republican Conference chairman from 1995 to 1999, he also chaired (2001-6) the House committee on education and the workforce. Boehner has subsequently served as House majority leader (2006-7), succeeding Tom DeLay , who resigned as a result of a campaign finance scandal, and as House minority leader (2007-).

Ogdon, John (Andrew Howard) (b Mansfield, 1937; d London, 1989). Eng. pianist and composer. As a student gave f.ps. of his own works and those by fellow-students Goehr and Maxwell Davies. Played Brahms's 1st conc. with Barbirolli, 1956, when still a student; début with Hallé Orch. 1957. Joint first prize (with Ashkenazy), Moscow Tchaikovsky comp. 1962. Brilliant exponent of Liszt, Busoni, Alkan, in addition to wide repertory of concs. NY début 1963. Taught at Indiana Univ. Sch. of Mus., Bloomington, 1976–80. Composer of pf. conc., etc.

Young, Andrew John (1885–1971), born in Scotland, ordained a minister of the Free Church in 1912; in 1939 he was ordained in the Church of England. In 1910 his father paid for the publication of his Songs of Night, the first of many slim volumes of poetry. The first Collected Poems appeared in 1936 and the verse-play Nicodemus in 1937. The Green Man (1947) is sometimes considered his best collection. In 1952 he published a long, disturbing poem, ‘Into Hades’, which was later combined with the visionary ‘A Traveller in Time’ to create Out of the World and Back (1958), his most ambitious work. His lifelong interest in botany was reflected in a prose account of his travels and searches, A Prospect of Flowers (1945), but also in many lyrics. His spare line, sharp specific imagery, and skill with conceit, brought him much critical and public admiration. The Complete Poems was revised in 1974.