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At the root of it all is a war in France in which England lays claim to a country it had no right to rule, and the defeat of the French is seen as the height of glory and bravery. Conan Doyle lived in a colonial age, where Britain controlled large areas of the world, and he does not have the imagination to question the ethics of invading and colonising someone else’s land. Locomotive 4498 was actually due to receive the name Bittern, originally suggested for 4492 (later Dominion of New Zealand). So the story goes, an LNER enthusiast who worked in the Railway Correspondence & Travel Society, realised in time that 4498 was the 100th Gresley Pacific locomotive and the suggestion was made that the locomotive be named after its designer. The name Bittern was later carried on 4464. Jim O’Neill says: ‘Chatham House is fortunate to be able to draw on Nigel’s experience on the frontlines of diplomacy as the world has entered a more complex environment for global governance. Under Nigel’s leadership, Council will be in a strong position to guide Chatham House through this dynamic context. And I know he will challenge the institute to continue improving its ideas for positive change.’ On 1 st January 1923 Nigel Gresley became CME of the new London & North Eastern Railway, one of the Big Four railway companies, formed by Act of Parliament, grouping together the hundred-plus companies operating at the time into four large regional operators. The aim of the Act was to make the railways more efficient and cost-effective, as had been the case under state control during the war, but fell short of nationalisation. The following month Doncaster works turned out one of the most famous engines of all time, class A1 (later changed to A3) Pacific No 1472 Flying Scotsman, named after the train service begun in 1862, by the GNR, and now inherited by the LNER. As head of the new company, Nigel Gresley moved his office to Kings Cross station in London and, as he loved the country, bought a house at Hadley Wood with two tennis courts. The property was quite near to the Golf Club where he soon became Captain. He was also very fond of dogs from his boyhood days, keeping them as companions throughout his life, with a special affection for spaniels.In his view, a long-term industrial strategy is more important than specific tax changes in the Budget. Hunt's debut, he says, was 'competent' on 'pressing issues like childcare and empowering our cities'. 'But we need real investment that raises living standards and solves climate change. Sir Nigel was knighted for services to the Financial Services Industry and Regional Development in the 2022 New Year’s Honours List. The Board would like to take this opportunity to pay tribute to the outstanding contribution Nigel has made to Legal & General Group for almost fourteen years. He is a world-class leader who has worked with great passion and energy, and we have been very fortunate to have had his vision, drive and commitment. When the king visits the young squire to praise his courage, he mentions that the spy is to be hanged. This outrages Nigel, who had promised the Red Ferret quarter, and he angers the king by opposing the decision. Although the king is enraged by the squire's impertinence, at the intercession of Sir John Chandos, he yields. Nigel Loring then proceeds to set the Red Ferret free after having received his promise not to violate the truce, and then makes a visit to the Lady Mary, to fulfil his promise to her. This was the final paragraph of the first chapter of Sir Nigel. Written in 1905 as a prequel to 1891's The White Company, this book follows Nigel Loring as he meets his destiny. He really should have been born in olden days because by 1350 or so when our story begins, the era of knights-errant was coming slowly to a close. Nigel's grandmother told him all the grand tales of heroes from her times, so by the age of 22, he was burning to prove himself worthy of the old traditions as well as the still romantic ones of his day.

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] He attended St George's Grammar School, Cape Town, and, although the family was not Catholic, at a now-defunct Christian Brothers College, [3] where he played on the rugby team. [4] He described his time at the latter as not being a particularly happy experience. [2]Sir Nigel has won numerous awards including the ‘Most Admired Leader’ award at Britain's Most Admired Companies Awards 2017 for Management Today. Once L&G finds a successor to step in his shoes he is hoping to return to academia with a teaching role at a university. 'I have unfinished business,' he says. 'Economics has been wrong and it needs some refreshing thought.' They met in 1968 when Bentham was stage-managing the Royal Court Theatre. From 1979 until Hawthorne's death in 2001, they lived together in Radwell and then at Thundridge, both in Hertfordshire. The two of them became fund raisers for the North Hertfordshire hospice and other local charities. [8] Death [ edit ] During 1994, Sir Nigel Gresley spent some time at the Great Central Railway then at the East Lancashire Railway. The locomotive then moved to the North Yorkshire Moors Railway in 1996, and is now based there. It is owned by Sir Nigel Gresley Locomotive Preservation Trust and operated by the A4 Locomotive Society on behalf of the trust.

To honour Mary, Nigel agrees to perform three acts of unusual bravery, and send her messages with the details of each. This sits oddly with his usual modesty in relation to his acts of prowess, but we accept it as a romantic gesture. Knowles, who, in 2009, received a knighthood in recognition of his services to the legal industry, retired in 2014, but reappeared on the legal scene at DWF in 2017. I am aware that there are incidents which may strike the modern reader as brutal and repellent. It is useless, however, to draw the Twentieth Century and label it the Fourteenth. It was a sterner age, and men’s code of morality, especially in matters of cruelty, was very different. There is no incident in the text for which very good warrant may not be given. The fantastic graces of Chivalry lay upon the surface of life, but beneath it was a half-savage population, fierce and animal, with little ruth or mercy. It was a raw, rude England, full of elemental passions, and redeemed onlyHe enrolled at the University of Cape Town, where he met and sometimes acted in plays with Theo Aronson (later a well-known biographer), but withdrew and returned to the United Kingdom in the 1950s to pursue a career in acting. He was knighted in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to the finance industry and regional development. [3] Of this famous but impoverished family, doubly impoverished by law and by pestilence, two members were living in the year of grace 1349—Lady Ermyntrude Loring and her grandson Nigel. Lady Ermyntrude’s husband had fallen before the Scottish spearsmen at Stirling, and her son Eustace, Nigel’s father, had found a glorious death nine years before this chronicle opens upon the poop of a Norman galley at the sea-fight of Sluys. The lonely old woman, fierce and brooding like the falcon mewed in her chamber, was soft only toward the lad whom she had brought up. All the tenderness and love of her nature, so hidden from others that they could not imagine their existence, were lavished upon him. She could not bear him away from her, and he, with that respect for authority which the age demanded, would not go without her blessing and consent. Samuel, Juliet (6 August 2014). "L&G Chief Says UK Should Quit EU Without Better Deal". The Wall Street Journal.

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As an engineer he was interested in railway developments abroad and keen to exchange ideas. André Chapelon, CME of the Paris-Orleans Railway was a good friend who was also involved in experimental designs, including the Kylchap exhaust system which became an important aspect of Gresley’s later designs. Gresley was also introduced to French-based racing car designer Ettore Bugatti. They often discussed ideas for streamlining, still quite a futuristic concept at that time. Other film roles during this time included Demolition Man, which he detested for being "brainless" and a "cheap picture". However, it led to his most famous role: that of King George III in Alan Bennett's stage play The Madness of George III (for which he won a Best Actor Olivier Award) and then the film adaptation entitled The Madness of King George, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor and won the BAFTA Film Award for Best Actor. When The White Company and Sir Nigel first appeared, they were favorably reviewed, to their author’s irritation, as boys’ adventure stories. They have never quite shaken that association. But Conan Doyle takes pains to present the full range of medieval types: Kings, princes, nobles, peasants, monks, brigands, con artists, innkeepers, huntsmen, nuns, wenches, sailors, poets, and pilgrims. I think that covers them all. Some are good, many are rascals or worse, much worse. In both novels aristocratic landowners and the Catholic clergy are shown to be corrupt. The poor are driven to robbery and murder through hunger and abuse by their overlords.