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3 unusual facts about Janet E. Courtney


Horace Everett Hooper

The Times appointed Hooper as advertising manager, and in 1905 he set up the Times Book Club, managed by Janet Hogarth.

Janet E. Courtney

She was the author of a number of books of aspects of feminism as well as several volumes of reminiscences that contain valuable insights into her working life at the Bank of England, The Times and the Encyclopædia Britannica.

She first had a part-time teaching post at Cheltenham Ladies' College, then worked as a clerk for the Royal Commission on Labour, 1892-94; was the first superintendent of women clerks of the Bank of England, 1894-1906; Librarian of The Times Book Club, 1906-1910; and on the editorial staff of the Encyclopædia Britannica 1906-1914 and 1920-22.


David R. Courtney

In 1976 he married the well known Indian vocalist Chandra Courtney.

Dylan Carlson

Carlson was one of the many people interviewed in the Nick Broomfield documentary Kurt & Courtney (1998), which argues that Cobain might have been murdered and casts suspicion on his wife Courtney Love.

Humanae Vitae

Roman Catholic lay writers such as Janet E. Smith, leading theologian Scott and his wife Kimberly Hahn, Christopher West, Matt Fradd, and Mary Shivanandan have all written extensively in support of the teaching, and on the reasons behind it.

Thomas Courtney

Thomas J. Courtney (1892–1971), Illinois Democratic politician and attorney

Thomas J. Courtney

In the late 1930s, Courtney tried to ally himself with Governor Henry Horner in the latter's political feud with Chicago mayor Ed Kelly and Democratic boss Patrick A. Nash, going so far as to challenge Kelly in the 1939 mayoral primary.


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