Gareth Hunt
Alan Leonard Hunt (7 February 1942 – 14 March
2007) was an English actor, known as Gareth Hunt, best remembered for playing
the footman Frederick Norton in Upstairs, Downstairs and Mike Gambit in The New
Avengers.
Alan Leonard Hunt was born in Battersea, London
Hunt started his television career in 1972,
playing a policeman in For the Love of Ada. The same year Hunt appeared in A
Family at War and The Organisation. In 1974, he had a role in the Doctor Who
story Planet of the Spiders and Bless This House. In 1975 he played Thomas
Woolner in The Love School.
Thomas More
Sir Thomas More (/ˈmɔr/; 7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535),
known to Roman Catholics as Saint Thomas More since 1935, was an English
lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist.
He was an important councillor to Henry VIII of England
and was Lord Chancellor from October 1529 to 16 May 1532.[3] He was canonized
by Pope Pius XI in 1935 as one of the early martyrs of the schism that
separated the Church of England from Rome
William Roper's biography of More was one of
the first biographies in the English language.More was portrayed as a wise and
honest statesman in the 1592 play Sir Thomas More, which was probably written
in collaboration by Henry Chettle, Anthony Munday, William Shakespeare, and
others, and which survives only in fragmentary form after being censored by
Edmund Tylney, Master of the Revels in the government of Queen Elizabeth I (any
direct reference to the Act of Supremacy was censored out)
Dora May Bryan
Dora May Bryan OBE (born 7 February 1923)[1] is
an English actress of stage, film and television.
Her autobiography According To Dora was
published in 1987 and has since been updated and republished. In 1996, she was
awarded the OBE in recognition of her services to acting and she was awarded a
Laurence Olivier Award in 1996 for her role in the West
End production of the Harold Pinter play, The Birthday Party.
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Grenada from the United Kingdom in 1974.
ReplyDeleteIn 1950, Eric Gairy founded the Grenada United Labour Party, initially as a trades union, which led the 1951 general strike for better working conditions. This sparked great unrest—so many buildings were set ablaze that the disturbances became known as the 'red sky' days—and the British authorities had to call in military reinforcements to help regain control of the situation. On October 10, 1951, Grenada held its first general elections on the basis of universal adult suffrage- Eric Gairy's Grenada United Labour Party won 6 of the 8 seats contested. From 1958 to 1962 Grenada was part of the Federation of the West Indies.
On March 3, 1967, Grenada was granted full autonomy over its internal affairs as an Associated State. Herbert Blaize was the first Premier of the Associated State of Grenada from March to August 1967. Eric Gairy served as Premier from August 1967 until February 1974.
The birthday!
ReplyDeletePhilippa Claire Wilson MBE (born 7 February 1986 in Southampton) is an English professional sailor.
She won a gold medal in the Yngling sailing class in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, together with Sarah Webb and Sarah Ayton.
Wilson was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours.
Pippa started her sailing career in the well renowned youth class dinghy, the Cadet then progressed to the 29er, 420, 470 then Yngling.
Later years of Gareth Hunt.
ReplyDeleteGareth Hunt continued to have minor roles in many television programmes in the 1990s and 2000s, with appearances in The New Adventures of Robin Hood, Harry and the Wrinklies, Absolute Power (as himself), New Tricks, Powers and Doctors. From 1992 to 1993 Hunt had a leading role in the sitcom Side by Side, and had a main role in the short-lived soap opera Night and Day in 2001. In 1997, he appeared in the film Fierce Creatures and in 2001 played Ritchie Stringer, a crime boss who was an unlikely suspect in the shooting of Phil Mitchell, in EastEnders. For a brief time he abandoned acting and started a project called Interactive Casting Universal, a computer system that presented actors' details and showreels.
Hunt suffered a heart attack in December 1999 and withdrew from a pantomime in Malvern. In July 2002 he collapsed while performing on stage in Bournemouth. He died of pancreatic cancer, from which he had suffered for two years, on 14 March 2007, at the age of 65, at his home in Redhill, Surrey. He had married three times and had a son by each marriage.
Some facts abot Utopia by Thomas More
ReplyDeleteMore sketched out his best known and most controversial work, Utopia (completed and published in 1516), a novel in Latin.
Utopia contrasts the contentious social life of European states with the perfectly orderly, reasonable social arrangements of Utopia and its environs (Tallstoria, Nolandia, and Aircastle). In Utopia, with communal ownership of land, private property does not exist, men and women are educated alike, and there is almost complete religious toleration. Some take the novel's principal message to be the social need for order and discipline rather than liberty. The country of Utopia tolerates different religious practices but does not tolerate atheists. Hythlodeaus theorises that if a man did not believe in a god or in an afterlife he could never be trusted, because he would not acknowledge any authority or principle outside himself.