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unusual facts about John Biggs-Davison


Epping Forest by-election, 1988

A by-election was held in the House of Commons constituency of Epping Forest on 18 December 1988 following the death of Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Sir John Biggs-Davison.


1961 Australian Grand Prix

Davison’s Australian Grand Prix victory would be the last for a domestically-based Australian until Frank Matich won the 1970 AGP at Warwick Farm in Sydney driving a McLaren M10B Formula 5000 car, although British-based Australian Jack Brabham had won the AGP in both 1963 and 1964.

Abram Newman

Davison, Newman and his wife were buried together in All Hallows Staining.

On 12 June 1759, he married Mary (1720–1783), the sister of Monkhouse Davison, a partner in the firm of Rawlinson and Davison "dealers in coffee, tea, chocolate, snuff, etc" of Creechurch Lane in the City.

Aidan Davison

On 18 July 2011 it was announced that Davison had been appointed Head Coach of FC JAX Destroyers.

Aidan John Davison (born 11 May 1968 in Sedgefield, County Durham) is an English-born Northern Irish former professional footballer and coach who is without a club after previously holding the position of Head Coach at USL Premier Development League side FC JAX Destroyers until the club disbanded in 2012.

Archie Dagg

In another tape, he talked in detail about pipemaking, and in a third he recalled Tom Clough, Richard Mowat, G.G. Armstrong and 'Kielder Jock' Davison.

Breathing Space

Mark Rowen left the band in early 2009 and was replaced by Mostly Autumn guitarist Liam Davison, but he was then in turn replaced by Bryan Josh after playing only three live shows with the band.

Daniel P. Davison

In 1982, the board commissioned an Edwina Sandys sculpture that depicts Davison walking a client's dog, as a way of demonstrating the firm's commitment to the best possible service for the super-rich.

Davison Home

The Davison family includes hundreds of members living mostly in Texas but extending as far away as Puerto Rico, whose immediate past Secretary of State and Lieutenant Governor, Kenneth Davison McClintock is Frank B. Davison's great-grandson.

Davison, Michigan

Kathleen Flinn, journalist and best-selling author of the culinary memoir The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry, was raised in Davison; she frequently refers to her experiences growing up on the family farm here as formative to her life as a chef and food writer.

Davison's

The Perimeter Mall and Lenox Square locations were closed, renovated, and reopened several months later as Bloomingdale's in late 2003.

Edna Buckman Kearns

Over the years Edna Kearns worked with many suffrage activists on Long Island, including Rosalie Jones, Ida Sammis, Ida Craft, Elisabeth Freeman, Alva Belmont, Irene Davison, and many others.

Faith Baptist School

Faith Baptist School, Michigan, a fundamentalist evangelical Baptist school located in Davison, Michigan, for Kindergarten through 12th grade

Frank Dalby Davison

Davison was active in the Fellowship of Australian Writers and, through the 1930s, formed a close working relationship with Marjorie Barnard and Flora Eldershaw.

George Wettling

Wettling was a member of some of Condon's classic line-ups, which included, among others, Wild Bill Davison, Billy Butterfield, Edmond Hall, Peanuts Hucko, Pee Wee Russell, Cutty Cutshall, Gene Schroeder, Ralph Sutton, and Walter Page, and in 1957 toured Britain with a Condon band including Davison, Cutshall, and Schroeder.

Harvey Proctor

In the summer of 1967, whilst Chairman-elect of the Association, he was invited to produce a number of half-hour political programmes for broadcast on offshore Radio 270, which included interviews with MPs John Biggs-Davison and Patrick Wall.

Henry Pomeroy Davison

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the name of the league since 1991, grants the Henry Davison Award in his memory.

Inventionland

In 2006, Davison were ordered to pay $26 million in consumer redress for misrepresenting its services to inventors, in what was described by the Federal Trade Commission as a typical Invention Promotion scam.

John Biggs

John H. Biggs, American businessman, former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of TIAA-CREF

John Biggs, Jr.

He was in private practice in Wilmington from 1922 to 1937, serving as a civilian aide to Secretary of War for Delaware from 1923 to 1937, and as a Referee in Bankruptcy for the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware from 1924 to 1932.

John Hagel III

In 2007, Hagel, along with John Seely Brown and Lang Davison, founded the Deloitte Center for the Edge Innovation.

John Seely Brown

John Seely Brown, John Hagel III, Lang Davison, The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things In Motion, Basic Books 2010.

Jon Davison

In February 2012, Davison was announced as the new lead singer of Yes, replacing Benoît David, who left the group because of illness.

Joseph Davison

When Prime Minister of Northern Ireland James Craig attempted to ban all marches from 18 June, Davison led the objections, and the ban was lifted within days.

Junior Olympic Gold

There were 538 bowlers in the inaugural championships, with Rory Kalanquin of Davison, Michigan, and Melissa Bellinder of Fullerton, California as the first national champions.

Kameleon

Kamelion, a fictitious Android during the Peter Davison era of Doctor Who

Labiaplasty

In the course of treating identical twin sisters, S.P. Davison et al reported that the labia were the same size in each woman, which indicated genetic determination.

Lex Davison

Davison had finished second in the 1960 Australian Grand Prix and fourth in the Australian Gold Star Championship in an Aston Martin DBR4/300.

Maria Rebecca Davison

On 31 October 1812, she married James Davison, and on 5 November played as Mrs. Davison, late Miss Duncan, Belinda in 'All in the Wrong.'

Monkhouse Davison

The growth of the company is well documented in Owen Rutter's history of Davison Newman called At the three sugar loaves and crown.

Movements in European History

The first edition was published under the pseudonym, Lawrence H. Davison, because his fictional works, such as The Rainbow, had been prosecuted for alleged eroticism.

Nationwide Festival of Light

John Biggs-Davison (MP for Chigwell): “It is not so much a permissive society as a licentious, callous and cruel society… The Christian strives to imitate Christ who calls him to heroic purity.”

PC Zone

By 1995, under the editorship of John Davison, the magazine had adopted a tone which heavily referenced lad culture, which had been made fashionable by magazines such as FHM and Dennis Publishing stablemate Maxim.

Robert Longfield

For fifteen years, Longfield was the band and orchestra director at Davison High School in Davison, Michigan.

School-based assessment

The Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority (HKEAA) has recently moved from norm-referenced to standards-referenced assessment, including the incorporation of a substantial school-based summative oral assessment component (SBA) into the compulsory English language subject in the Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examination (HKCEE), a high-stakes examination for all Form 4–5 students (Davison, 2007).

Steve Davison

Davison began his career with Disney in 1981 as a Model maker for the Disneyland Entertainment Art Department under the supervision of former art department head, Clare Graham.

In 1999, Davison was approached to create a new fireworks show for the 45th Anniversary of Disneyland.

In 2003, Anne Hamburger, former Executive Vice President of Walt Disney Creative Entertainment, asked Davison to join Imagineering as Creative Director for parades and shows worldwide, eventually being promoted to his current title of Vice President Parades and Spectaculars in 2006.

Sushi-X

The staff, with a new editor-in-chief and publisher, John Davison and Ziff Davis respectively, were in the process of redesigning the magazine to make it appeal to a more mature audience.

Teddy Davison

Davison’s youth policy also saw fruition when the youth team reached the final of the FA Youth Cup in 1956 with future World Cup winner Gordon Banks one of the stars.

The Airzone Solution

Investigative filmmaker Al Dunbar (Davison) has been working with Anthony Stanwick (McCoy), the head of one radical environmental group on a Michael Moore-style exposé documentary on AirZone.

Thomas Raffles Davison

Born in Stockton-on-Tees in 1853, the second son of a Congregational minister, Davison was educated privately at Shrewsbury, and after showing a talent for drawing was articled to the architect William Henry Spaull in Oswestry, later working in the Manchester office of H J Paull.

William Davison, 1st Baron Broughshane

Davison was born in Broughshane, County Antrim, the son of Richard Davison and his wife Annie née Patrick.

William Gerard

He was born at Ince in Lancashire, son of Gilbert Gerard and Elizabeth Davison, daughter of an alderman of Chester, a city with which he had a long association.


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