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3 unusual facts about Michael Gambier-Parry


Michael Gambier-Parry

The Gambier-Parry’s of Highnam Court, Gloucestershire were an artistic and military family (see Thomas Gambier Parry and the latter's son, eminent composer Sir Hubert Parry).

His uncle Ernest Gambier-Parry was a major in the army sent to Egypt to avenge the death of General Gordon, and wrote a book (Suakin, 1885) about his experiences.

Riccardo Fedel

These included: Lieutenant General Sir Philip Neame, General Sir Richard Nugent O'Connor, Lieutenant-Colonel John Frederick Boyce Combe, Brigadier Edward Joseph Todhunter, Air Marshal Owen Tudor Boyd, Major-General Michael Gambier-Parry, Second Lieutenant, Lord (Dan) Ranfurly Daniel Knox, 6th Earl of Ranfurly, Brigadier Douglas Arnold Stirling, Brigadier Edward William Drummond Vaughan.


101.3 Sea FM

Sea FM broadcasts from the Central Coast Radio Centre on Henry Parry Drive, in Gosford, along with sister station 2GOFM.

A. F. Brown

Brown began his career as an employee of Parry before being appointed as a director of the Devalah Central-Gold Mines.

Britannia-class steamship

In his initial negotiations with Admiral Parry, Samuel Cunard contemplated a fortnightly service from Liverpool to Halifax and onto Boston using three 800 GRT steamers.

Buena Vista, Virginia

Major League Baseball World Series champion manager Charlie Manuel of the Philadelphia Phillies was a Buena Vista resident and is a graduate of Parry McCluer High School where he was a multi-sport star.

Public schools include Kling Elementary, Enderly Heights Elementary, Parry McCluer Middle School, and Parry McCluer High School.

Carys Parry

This is a Welsh record and places Parry fourth amongst British hammer throwers, behind Commonwealth champions Lorraine Shaw and Shirley Webb, as well as Zoe Derham.

Dan Waters

For the 2003 provincial election, he won the Parry Sound–Muskoka Liberal nomination over Evelyn Brown and challenged Progressive Conservative incumbent Norm Miller, who had succeeded Eves in a by-election.

Edward Hagarty Parry

Parry became a schoolmaster at Felstead School in 1879 before settling at Stoke House private school, Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire in 1881, becoming its head master in 1892 and retiring in 1918.

English Musical Renaissance

Mackenzie became principal of the Royal Academy of Music; and at the Royal College of Music, Parry succeeded George Grove as director, and Stanford was professor of composition, with pupils including Arthur Bliss, Frank Bridge, Herbert Howells, Gustav Holst, John Ireland and Ralph Vaughan Williams.

For Love of Evil

Soon after joining the Franciscan monks, Parry discovers that a new order, the Dominicans, are being formed with the express purpose of rooting out evil and heresy.

Instead he strikes a bargain with the Archangel Gabriel: if Parry cannot corrupt one influential individual or her children or grandchildren to shift the balance of the world to evil, he must give up his quest.

In fact, Parry, as a personal favour to YHWH (the incarnation of the God of the Jews, called JHVH in this book), manages to prevent the Holocaust from happening.

Freddie Jameson

In 1951 whilst still in the RAF Freddie was coached by Alfie Noakes of the Geraldo Orchestra, and began professional engagements on trumpet with the Joe Loss 'Ambassadors', and went on to play with Billy Ternent, Harry Parry, Joe Loss, Sidney Lipton, the Cyril Grantham Orchestra at the Park Lane Hotel, Claude Cavalotti, Nat Temple, and Geraldo - for whom he also appeared on the cruise liner Queen Mary, making seventeen return trips to New York.

Gambier Parry process

The Gambier Parry process is a development of the classical technique of fresco for painting murals, named for Thomas Gambier Parry.

Geneforge 2

The skill "Anatomy", which allowed the player to cause extra damage in melee combat, is replaced with "Parry", which has a chance of blocking incoming attacks.

House October Surprise Task Force

Two other Task Force members, Edward Feighan and Sam Gejdenson, also told Parry in 2010 that they had no recollection of the Russian report.

Hugh Wrigley

A portrait painted by W. H. Parry of Wrigley was submitted for the 1944 Archibald prize.

James Huckle

Parry and Huckle finished with a score of 1174 points, 19 points behind India's Abhinav Bindra and Gagan Narang who set a new Commonwealth Games record.

John Edmund Parry

In 1987, Parry was one of three New Democratic Party Members of Parliament (MPs) to heckle American President Ronald Reagan during an address by the president to the Canadian House of Commons (Toronto Star, 6 June 2004).

John Parry Ddall

John Parry (c.1710 – October 1782), known as Parri Ddall, Rhiwabon (or, in English, Blind Parry of Ruabon) was born in the Llŷn Peninsula, Caernarfonshire, now Gwynedd, in Wales, and was blind from birth.

Jones Parry

Sir Love Jones-Parry, 1st Baronet (1832-1891), Welsh politician and a founder of Patagonia

Joseph Rykwert

Sir James Stirling commented on The First Moderns, for example, that it was: ‘An erudite lead into my favourite period (early nineteenth century) with amazing revelations on the architectural heroes of the time.’ Many of Rykwert’s former pupils have gone on to have significant careers in their own right, such as Daniel Libeskind, Shams Naga, Eric Parry, Alberto Pérez-Gómez, Mohsen Mostafavi, Robert Tavernor, Vaughan Hart and David Leatherbarrow.

Les Parry

Parry released a single named "I'm Les The White Legs Parry" which changed words from "The Red-Nose Reindeer" in 2006.

Llanrumney

Notables who objected included Rumney High School Governing Body, Fields in Trust, Alun Michael MP, David Melding AM, Lorraine Barrett AM, Andrew R.T. Davies AM, Cllrs Cook, Parry, Ireland, Hudson, Morgan, Joyce and RREEL.

Malcolm Parry

Parry has presented several programmes about architecture on BBC television, including The House of the Future and On the House, as well as Building on the Past and Work Matter for BBC Radio Wales.

Murder of Yvonne Gilford

While Parry had been saved from the death penalty, there were still many questions about the overall fairness of the trial, and in March 1998, Tony Blair personally appealed to King Fahd during a state visit to resolve the situation.

Orenda Iroquois

By 1958, the Iroquois had completed more than 5,000 hours of ground running, and many thousands of hours had also been spent testing the engines' principal components, at the Orenda testing facilities at Nobel, near Parry Sound, Ontario.

Paul Parry

Parry is rather amusingly called "Porn Darry" in Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 due to the game having to use made up names for the Welsh National team.

Pointe au Baril

Pointe au Baril, Ontario, a community in the Parry Sound District, Ontario, Canada

Puerto Madryn

The town was founded on July 28, 1865, when 150 Welsh immigrants arriving aboard the clipper Mimosa named the natural port Porth Madryn in honour of Sir Love Jones-Parry, whose estate in Wales was named "Madryn".

Putis

To parry this threat, the Peruvian Army established a military base in Putis in November 1984 and called on all refugees to return to the town.

R. Ifor Parry

Ifor Parry (1908-1975) was a Congregationalist minister and schoolteacher at Aberdare.

Richard Parry-Jones

While at Ford, Parry-Jones had been courted by Ferdinand Piëch to head the product development group atVolkswagen AG.

Robin Parry

After Parry's book Worshipping Trinity was published, Grace Communion International had an extensive interview with him on "the importance of having a trinitarian perspective in our worship".

Rockex

To minimise the number of people who knew about the process, MI6's head of communications, Brigadier Sir Richard Gambier-Parry, took out a personal lease on the factory buildings and employed people through the local labour exchange as an entirely private venture ostensibly unconnected with government.

The Go! Team

Team contributed the song "Templates from Home" to Bruce Parry's Survival International charity album, Songs for Survival.

The Last Horror Movie

The film follows Max Parry (Kevin Howarth), a disturbed wedding video cameraman, and his unnamed assistant (Mark Stevenson) as they perform several murders that they have videotaped.

Thomas Parry

Tom Parry (Thomas Gregory Parry), Australian economist and public servant

Tom Parry

Parry serves as chairman of First State Super, Chairman of the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO), and is a director of Australian Stock Exchange Compliance Ltd, Powerco, New Zealand, Brisbane Airport Corporation, and a member of the Sydney Opera House Trust.

Trelew

Trelew's foundation is linked with Welsh settlement in Argentina, the leaders of which were Captain Sir Love Jones-Parry of Madryn and Lewis (Luis) Jones, who acted as spokesmen to deal with the Argentine government in the beginning of the 1860s.

Tycroes

A Canadian maple tree grows at the bottom of the garden of 'Fernhill' (on Ammanford Road) where in previous years the Parry family once lived and some members of the family emigrated to Canada at the beginning of the 20th century and became a prominent family in Hamilton City, Ontario.

Western Australian Charity Orchestra

The orchestra has performed in the Perth Concert Hall and Quarry Amphitheatre, and has performed with Australian artists Deborah Rogers, Sonja D'Anne and Fiona Coad, under the direction of conductors Burhan Güner, Donna Taylor and Samuel Parry.

William P. Murphy

William Parry Murphy (Stoughton, Wisconsin, February 6, 1892 – October 9, 1987) was an American physician who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934 with George Richards Minot and George Hoyt Whipple for their combined work in devising and treating macrocytic anemia (specifically, pernicious anemia).

William Parry

William P. Murphy (1892–1987), William Parry Murphy, American physician

Zlatan Čolaković

From 1984-1988, as a Fulbright scholar, he worked with Albert Lord at Harvard University in Milman Parry Collection, the Slavic division of the Widener Library.


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