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2 unusual facts about Richard Fletcher-Vane, 2nd Baron Inglewood


Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art

It is currently chaired by Lord Inglewood.

Richard Fletcher

Richard Fletcher-Vane, 2nd Baron Inglewood (born 1951), British Conservative Party politician


Allen Lee

Jonathan Dimbleby described him as a "weather vane" in his book The Last Governor.

Baseball at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Australia did not strike back until the bottom of the 2nd inning, when Chalky White of South Australia hit a solo home run off Vane Sutton.

Ben Vane

The dam wall lies two km to the north of the quarry and a conveyor belt was constructed to carry the crushed stone over the lower slopes of Ben Vane to the batching plant beside the dam.

Cambrian Railways

A head-on collision occurred at Abermule on 26 January 1921, killing 15 passengers, including Lord Herbert Vane-Tempest, a director of the company and son of the fifth Marquess of Londonderry.

Cubby-hole

An Australian fictional treatment of the quest for the perfect cubby can be found in Ursula Dubosarsky's "The Cubby House", illustrated by Mitch Vane.

Fire Over England

Michael, disguised as Vane, goes to the court of King Philip II of Spain (Raymond Massey) to get the letters that will set into motion a plan to assassinate Elizabeth.

Flow sensor

Hall effect sensors may also be used, on a flapper valve, or vane, to sense the position of the vane, as displaced by fluid flow.

George Vane-Tempest, 5th Marquess of Londonderry

The sixth Marquess left Machynlleth on succeeding to the marquessate, but Lord Herbert Vane-Tempest remained resident at the Plas, and also served as Chairman of the Cambrian Railways, until he was killed in the Abermule train collision.

Graphium ucalegonides

Treated as a full species by some authors.Treated as a subspecies of Graphium fulleri (Grose-Smith, 1883) by Smith & Vane-Wright (2001).

Harish Gaonkar

The Arhopala butterflies described by Fabricius: A. centaurus is from Java, A. democritus from Phuket (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae), Entomological science, Volume 9 Issue 3, Pages 295 - 311, Published Online: 27 Sep 2006, Richard I. Vane-Wright and Harish Gaonkar, Department of Entomology, the Natural History Museum, London, UK (September 2006).

Harriet Vane

Harriet Vane (Lady Peter Wimsey) was portrayed by Emily Richard in the 1988 stage adaptation of Busman's Honeymoon at The Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith.

Harry Powlett, 4th Duke of Cleveland

Vane entered the foreign service and held posts in Paris and Stockholm before entering the House of Commons in 1841 as a member for South Durham.

Henry Vane the Elder

In September 1631 Vane was sent to Germany to negotiate with Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden.

Jock Mooney

Since 2004 he has exhibited extensively in a number of countries and is represented by the Newcastle based gallery Vane.

John Andrew Gallagher

When a team of students of Trinity College, Cambridge, won University Challenge in 1974 (Christopher Vane, Frederick 'Wynn' Jolley, Simon Schaffer, and Paul Hopkins), Gallagher was part of a Trinity fellows team ( Sir James Lighthill, Dr Bradfield, Mr JA Weir) which defeated them in a contest on live television.

Kelloe

The Lordship of the Manor of Kelloe was bought by the Tempests of Broughton Hall, North Yorkshire, and bequeathed by Sir Henry Vane-Tempest to his daughter, Lady Frances Vane, who married the third Marquess of Londonderry.

Max Rayne

Rayne and his wife divorced in 1960 and on 2 June 1965, he married Lady Jane Vane-Tempest-Stewart (a daughter of the 8th Marquess of Londonderry and sister of Lady Annabel Goldsmith) and they had four children: Natasha Deborah (b. 1966), Nicholas Alexander (b. 1969), Tamara Annabel (b. 1970) and Alexander Philip (b. 1973).

Morton Selten

In 1889, Selten played Clarence Vane in Mrs. Hargrove’s Our Flat at the Lyceum Theatre and Captain Heartsease in Bronson Howard’s American Civil War epic, Shenandoah.

Norman Thaddeus Vane

Vane went on to direct the 1983 film, Frightmare, and continue contributing to writing films including The Black Room in 1984.

Vane wrote, directed and produced the film Club Life, which starred Tony Curtis, Dee Wallace, and Michael Parks.

Ohio University

The College Green features Galbreath Chapel, the spire of which, topped with a brass weather vane, is modeled after that of the portico of Nash's All Souls Church in London.

Plas Machynlleth

It was brought into the family by the marriage of George Henry Robert Charles William Vane-Tempest, Viscount Seaham (and subsequently Earl Vane and 5th Marquess of Londonderry), to Mary Cornelia Edwards, whose father Sir John Edwards had extended and renamed the house.

Sibyl Vane

Sibyl Vane is a main character of Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Sibyl Vane is a main character in Vladimir Nabokov's short story, The Vane Sisters She is a student at an all-female college who commits suicide after her lover, a professor at the school, ends their relationship.

Spirometry

Turbine/Stator Rotor (normally incorrectly referred to as a turbine. Actually a rotating vane which spins because of the air flow generated by the subject. The revolutions of the vane are counted as they break a light beam)

St Cross Church, Oxford

The marriage of Dorothy L. Sayers' fictional detective Lord Peter Wimsey to Harriet Vane was in the church on 8 October 1935 in Busman's Honeymoon.

Sutton Vane

Vane was haunted by guilt over this event, and once he sufficiently recovered, he returned to the combat area as a civilian, appearing for the entertainment of troops near the front lines during the later phase of the war — he made a particular impression in performances of Bayard Veiller's 1916 hit The Thirteenth Chair, which he did on many stages with artillery bursting well within earshot.

The Strange Awakening of Lazy Smurf

A Smurf asks Papa Smurf who gave him the magic weather vane, and he answers it was a certain Aeolus.

Treprostinil

By 1976, Vane and fellow researcher Salvador Moncada published the first paper on prostacyclin, in the scientific journal Nature.

Vacuum filler

Pre-evacuated cells of a vane cell feed system move underneath the hopper.

Valerie Bergere

In 1892 she made her English language debut with a stock company in San Francisco, California as Dora Vane, in Harbor Lights, a melodrama by George Robert Sims and Henry Alfred Pettitt.

Vane display

The New Jersey Turnpike uses vane displays for all roadway speed limit signs; it is not uncommon to see them blank; VMS sign replacements now use a new electronic speed limit sign.

The Oklahoma Turnpike Authority has used vane displays on several of their automatic toll collection baskets to display the toll due.

Vane, Avatime

Vane is located on the main Ho-Fume road and is the first settlement located on highlands North East of Dzolokpuita (about 5km South) Vane is where the Osie or overlord of Avatime resides.

Variable-geometry turbocharger

Several companies supply the rotating vane type of variable-geometry turbocharger, including Garrett (Honeywell), Borg Warner, and MHI (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries).

Ver sacrum

Dumézil remarks that the boar is the animal symbolizing Vane, the Freyr of Scandinavian mythology.

Wentworth Beaumont, 1st Viscount Allendale

Lord Allendale married Lady Alexandrina Vane-Tempest, daughter of George Vane-Tempest, 5th Marquess of Londonderry, on 12 November 1889.


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