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3 unusual facts about Edith How-Martyn


Edith How-Martyn

Haire wrote to Sanger again on 9 September 1948, asking her to send money to support How-Martyn who was old, sick and poor.

Norman Haire, who had returned to Australia, informed Margaret Sanger that How-Martyn hoped to 'join forces with him' to do something for birth control despite the war.

She met the American family planning leader Margaret Sanger in 1915 and had been impressed by her ideas, subsequently organising the 1927 World Population Conference in Geneva with Sanger and becoming honorary director of the Birth Control International Information Centre in London in 1930.


Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School

The current headmaster is Alan Porteous (Headmaster from 2012–present) who replaced the former headmaster, Marc Morris (who joined the school in April 2005, replacing the retiring Martyn Morris (not related) and moved to Hong Kong in December 2011 where he took the position of headteacher at Sha Tin College)

Bedfordite

In his article about Bedford for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Martyn Powell contends that accusations of opportunism are unfair, and that flexibility was necessary for a relatively small party like the Bedford Whigs.

Birth Control International information Centre

This included Sanger's tour of Scandinavia and the Soviet Union in 1934, How-Martyn's tour of India in 1934, and Sanger and How-Martyn's World Tour for Birth Control in 1935-1936, during which they spoke to numerous groups and organized birth control organizations in India, Burma, Malay, China, the Philippines, Japan, Hawaii, Canada, and the West Coast of the United States.

Bob Martyn

After his professional baseball career ended in 1960, Martyn worked for Tektronix for 23 years.

Caravan and the New Symphonia

Martyn Ford (Conductor), Paul Beer, Roger Chase, Robin Davies, Rita Eddowes, Liz Edwards, Wilfred Gibson, Roy Gillard, Tony Harris, Terry Johns, Skaila Kanda, Skaila Kanga, Chris Laurence, Helen Liebmann, Donald McVay, Geoff Perkins, Morris Pert, Martin Robinson, Godfrey Salmon, Jan Schlapp, Richard Studt, Colin Walker, Cathy Weiss, Dave Woodcock, Nick Worters, Gavyn Wright

Ciarán Martyn

Signed from UCD by Kevin Mahon, Martyn has played at numerous under-age levels for the Republic of Ireland.

Cyril Woolford

His son Neil was a rugby league player with Featherstone Rovers and grandson Martyn is a footballer with Bristol City.

Eggesford

William Fellowes (d.1724) married in 1695 Mary Martyn, daughter and heiress of Joseph Martyn (d.1718) of St Mary-at-Hill parish in the City of London by his wife Mary.

A fine neo-classical mural monument to Joseph Martyn with Latin inscription exists in St Mary-at-Hill Church.

Ferenc Martyn

Ferenc Martyn (1899–1986) was an artist and sculptor, Hungarian-born descendant of the Martyn Tribe of Co. Galway, descended from the same branch of the Tribe as Edward Martyn of Tullira (1859–1923).

Glorious Fool

Clapton covered Martyn's "May You Never" on his 1977 album Slowhand.

Henry Martyn Clark

Henry Martyn-Clark (Peshawar, c.1857 - Edinburgh, April 1916) was an Afghan-born adopted British medical missionary stationed in Amritsar in the late 19th century.

Ian Cundy

Ian Patrick Martyn Cundy (23 April 1945–7 May 2009) was a Church of England cleric who served successively as Bishop of Lewes and Bishop of Peterborough.

Inspiral Carpets

Martyn Walsh (born Martyn John Walsh, on 3 July 1968, in Rusholme, Manchester) - bass (1989–1995, 2003–present)

Irish Literary Revival

The Irish Literary Theatre was founded by Yeats, Lady Gregory and Martyn in 1899, with assistance from George Moore.

Jill the Reckless

Other characters include wealthy clubman Freddie Rooke and dramatist Wally Mason, her childhood friends; her financially inept uncle Major Christopher Selby; her fiancé at the beginning of the book, the M.P Derek Underhill, and his domineering mother, Lady Underhill; Jill's unpleasant Long Island, N.Y. relatives, Elmer, Julia and Tibby Mariner; Drones Club member Algy Martyn, various chorus girls, composers and other theatrical types, and, of course, miscellaneous servants.

John Martyn

John Neil Munro Some People Are Crazy: The John Martyn Story (2008)

Johnny Martyn

Johnny Martyn, born Johnny Martyn Booker (16 July 1934, London, England - 19 March 2007, Vancouver, British Columbia), was a musician and coffee bar manager.

Jon Marks

He played with Kid Martyn's Ragtime Band at the first two New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festivals in 1968 and 1969 and at Louis Armstrong's 70th Birthday celebration, "Hello Louis", in 1970 when he was photographed alongside Louis Armstrong and his enormous birthday cake, and whiskey and bourbon fountains.

Kids the Light of our Lives

Timothy David Martyn Cox (1979-) an alleged paedophile, ran the forum from his bedroom at his parents' farm in Buxhall, Suffolk, where he also worked at the family's micro brewery.

Larry Martyn

Martyn died on 7 August 1994 at home in St Mary's Bay, Kent, and was survived by his wife Hilary and their two daughters.

Linda Adams

As a session singer, she has recorded with Maddie Southorn on "The Pilgrim Soul" (2005), and with Bram Taylor, Rick Kemp, John Wright, Sara Grey, Hughie Jones, Martyn Wyndham-Read, Nancy Kerr & James Fagan, John Connolly and many others.

Maire Lynch

The Martyn Tribe of Galway - An Outline of Our Clans and Septs, Adrian James Martyn, in Journal of the Genealogical Society of Ireland, vol.1, part 6, spring 2005, pp.

Martyn Ashton

In this episode, Martyn and other bike trial champions, Danny MacAskill and Chris Akrigg, appear into the video making their incredible stunts.

Martyn Bernard

Martyn John Bernard (born 15 December 1984 in Wakefield, United Kingdom) is a British athlete, competing in high jump.

Martyn Crook

Martyn Crook (born 16 November 1956, died 5 December 2008, in Lancaster, California) was a British-born Australian soccer coach and former representative player.

Martyn Croy

Martyn Gilbert Croy (born 23 January 1974 in Hamilton) is a former New Zealand cricketer who played for the Otago Volts in the State Championship and the State Shield.

Martyn Joseph

Martyn Joseph (born July 15, 1960, in Penarth, Wales) is a Welsh singer-songwriter whose music exhibits primarily a brand of Celtic and folk, while his songwriting is often focused on social lament or protest.

Martyn Lee

When Original 106 was bought by Celador in August 2008, Martyn was employed as Programme Director to launch The Coast 106 which went on air on October 30, 2008 with a line-up that includes Matt Hopper, Iain Meadows and John Clayton.

Martyn Lee (born July 22, 1978) is a national radio broadcaster, Sony award-winning radio producer, NLP Master Practitioner and Hypnotist.

Martyn See

Since 2004, Martyn is prominently known for making the 26-minute documentary film Singapore Rebel, about Dr. Chee Soon Juan, the leader of the opposition Singapore Democratic Party (SDP).

Neil Munro

John Neil Munro, author of The Sensational Alex Harvey and Some People Are Crazy — The John Martyn Story

Porter five forces analysis

Martyn Richard Jones, whilst consulting at Groupe Bull, developed an augmented 5 forces model in Scotland in 1993.

Robin Lawless

Members of the Lawless family of Connacht would later hold lands "in the west of County Mayo, broadly in the area between Castlebar and Westport, with claims on Inishbofin and Inishark and a relationship with the Manor of Loughrea in County Galway. It is in these general areas that bearers of the name are still to be found in the 21st century." (p. 91, Martyn, 2011).

Serious Organised Crime Agency

Prior to closure, the non-executive directors were Peter Clarke, Sue Garrard, Francis Plowden and Dr Martyn Thomas.

Six forces model

Martyn Richard Jones, whilst consulting at Groupe Bull, developed an augmented 5 forces model in Scotland in 1993, it is based on Porter's model, and includes Government (national and regional) as well as Pressure Groups as the notional 6th force.

Steve Bloomer's Watchin'

The idea for the song began in November 1996 when two Derby County supporters Mark Tewson and Martyn Miller heard an old Australian rules football song entitled "Up There Cazaly" which was composed by Mike Brady, in 1979, for an Australian TV show.

Terry Higgins

In his memory, Martyn Butler (born 1954), Tony Calvert (born 1956), and Terrence Higgins' boyfriend Rupert Whitaker (born 1963) set up The Terry Higgins Trust (later renamed the Terrence Higgins Trust), dedicated to preventing the spread and promoting awareness of the disease.

The Land of the Mountain and the Flood

The Land of the Mountain and the Flood and excerpts from MacCunn's opera Jeanie Deans were recorded in Govan Town Hall in June 1995 by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Martyn Brabbins and released by Hyperion Records the same year.

The Stands

During the tour, Payne received a phone call from Noel Gallagher who had been given a copy of the Parr St demos by Martyn Campbell at the Oasis show at Old Trafford Cricket Ground, where Campbell was playing with support act Richard Ashcroft.

Thomas J. C. Martyn

According to Isaiah Wilner, Martyn separated from his first wife and lived as a houseguest of Time co-founder Briton Hadden.

Tommy Martyn

:For other persons named Thomas Martin or Martyn, see Thomas Martin

Will Saul

The label explores the more leftfield and experimental side of house, techno, dub and downtempo, with releases from cutting edge artists such as Motorcitysoul, Lee Jones, Martyn, Appleblim, Ramadanman, Joy Orbison, Shur-I-Kan and Midland.

Women's Freedom League

In the 1918 UK general election, Despard, How-Martyn and Emily Frost Phipps stood unsuccessfully in London constituencies as independent women's rights anti-war candidates.


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