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Sir Nigel: A Novel of the Hundred Years' War

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Yeadon, W.B. (2001). Yeadon's Register of LNER Locomotives: Volume Two: Gresley A4 and W1 classes. Booklaw/Railbus is association with Challenger. ISBN 1-871608-15-5. Histories of the A4 and W1 classes of locomotive with details of repairs and liveries etc.

AA warns drivers to avoid puddles in case they're perilous potholes after a record month of related breakdowns This incident is a thinly veiled account of the famed Combat of the Thirty of March 1351, which is of importance in Breton history and in the annals of chivalry, as being an exemplary passage of arms. Sir Robert Knolles, who is held to have participated in the fictional jousts in Sir Nigel, was also one of the original thirty combatants. marked the 75th anniversary of the record breaking run by 4468 Mallard on 3 July 1938 where the engine set the world speed record of 126mph. To mark the occasion a series of events were planned at both the National Railway Museum in York& Locomotion in Shildon which saw all six surviving A4's reunited for the first time in preservation. Sir Nigel Gresley was placed on display alongside fellow British based A4's 4464 Bittern, 4468 Mallard and 60009 Union of South Africa. 4489 Dominion of Canada& 60008 Dwight D Eisenhower were also temporarily returned to Britain from their respective museums in America and Canada for the anniversary. Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born the third of ten siblings on 22 May 1859 in Edinburgh, Scotland. His father, Charles Altamont Doyle, a talented illustrator, was born in England of Irish descent, and his mother, born Mary Foley, was Irish. They were married in 1855.

An intensely private person, he was annoyed at having been outed as gay in 1995 in the publicity surrounding the Academy Awards, but he did attend the ceremony with his long-time partner Trevor Bentham, and afterward, he spoke openly about being gay in interviews and in his autobiography, Straight Face, [6] which was published posthumously. [7] Sir Nigel was knighted for services to the Financial Services Industry and Regional Development in the 2022 New Year’s Honours List. Wilson earned a degree in economics from the University of Essex [1] and a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [1] Career [ edit ]

Nigel D. Wilson: Executive Profile". BusinessWeek. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013 . Retrieved 20 November 2012. In August 1936 another of the original A4s, 2512 Silver Fox, reached 113mph on a regular southbound express, a record that stood until the 1970s as the fastest revenue earning train, but the British speed record was taken by the LMS in July 1937 when their new Coronation streamliner recorded 114mph just outside Crewe. Sir Nigel Wilson was appointed Group Chief Executive of Legal & General in 2012 having joined as Group Chief Financial Officer in 2009. The institute has benefited greatly from Jim O’Neill’s leadership as chair over the past three years. He led a fundamental overhaul of the Council’s governance, consolidating the board from 21 to 12 members, in line with Charity Commission guidance, and engaging all board members in relevant oversight committees. He drove the institute’s increased outreach to younger and more diverse audiences, establishing a Next Generation Committee of Council to support initiatives that include a new Panel of Young Advisers, and the Queen Elizabeth II Academy Ambassadors Programme linking the institute to universities across the UK. Tax charges in Britain are at an all-time high, but tax breaks are not necessarily the answer. The key question is how you structure industrial policy.The following year Sir Nigel Gresley received his knighthood from King Edward VIII in recognition of his services as chairman of the committee looking into the loss at sea of two steamers, Usworth and Blairgowrie. In 1936 Sir Nigel also received an honorary Doctor of Science from the University of Manchester and was elected President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.

Gresley died on 5 April 1941, after a short illness, and was buried in the Churchyard Extension of St Peter's Church, Netherseal, Derbyshire. At this time, Gresley was serving as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Royal Engineers Railway Staff Corps. [7] At the age of nine Conan Doyle was sent to the Roman Catholic Jesuit preparatory school, Hodder Place, Stonyhurst. He then went on to Stonyhurst College, leaving in 1875. In that respect, he is of his time. War is honourable, and Sir Nigel is his ideal of how we should behave – courageous and noble, and always living according to his particular set of ethics.Sir Herbert Nigel Gresley CBE (19 June 1876 – 5 April 1941) [1] was a British railway engineer. He was one of Britain's most famous steam locomotive engineers, who rose to become Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER). He was the designer of some of the most famous steam locomotives in Britain, including the LNER Class A1 and LNER Class A4 4-6-2 Pacific engines. An A1 Pacific, Flying Scotsman, was the first steam locomotive officially recorded over 100mph in passenger service, and an A4, number 4468 Mallard, still holds the record for being the fastest steam locomotive in the world (126mph). While I don’t suppose Sir Nigel was written after a focus group discussion, it is certainly mystifying why Conan Doyle chose this character for a prequel, rather than someone more interesting. However Conan Doyle did wish to be remembered for his historical characters, and Sir Nigel may have been closer to his ideal of manhood. Of all Arthur Conan Doyle's works, this one has perhaps aged least well. It's set in the Middle Ages, or, rather, it's set in a world imitating that of Scott's Ivanhoe. It seems today very in-authentic, particularly in the speech and descriptions.

Apparently Doyle was incredibly proud of this historical novel. A century (plus) later, it's pretty dated. It's a late victorian take on 14th-century Britain, full of chivalry, forsooths, mete judgments, hearty yeomen, squires pining for noble needs, and so forth. It cannot fail to be what it is, and that is a heavily romanticized view of the 'gentle class'. If that's your thing, great. But historical scholarship has come a long way, and this sort of depiction is as dead as the dodo. So it reads much like fantasy in 2021, not historical fiction (despite some impressive work in locating Nigel's adventures in Surrey, Brittany, and Poitiers). If I am chary of criticizing a 1906 novel for what it is, I will say that I was surprised at how little action there was in the novel. Doyle spends so much time describing scenery and heraldic blazons, and recreating 'fair' conversation, that the moments of action, such as one might suspect would dominate this sort of novel, are actually relatively few and far between.Dunkley, Emma (13 October 2019). "Nigel Wilson, L&G's marmite man, proves an acquired taste. The insurer's chief executive divides the city with his direct style". The Sunday Times.

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