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| Ivor Allchurch |
Ivor Allchurch MBE (October 16, 1929 - July 10, 1997) was a Welsh footballer. (references) |
| Ivor Armstrong Richards |
English literary critic who collaborated with C. K. Ogden and contributed to the development of Basic English (1893-1979). Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Ivor Bertie Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne |
Ivor Bertie Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne (1835-1914), was the son of Lady Charlotte Guest, translator of the Mabinogion, and John Josiah Guest, and an uncle-by-marriage of Winston Churchill. His middle name Bertie came from his mother's family, the Earls of Abingdon, descended from a Tudor courtier who had the good fortune to marry the Dowager Duchess of Suffolk, and herself suo jure Baroness Willoughby de Eresby. (references) |
| Ivor Bueb |
Ivor Bueb was a Formula One driver from Britain. He participated in 6 grands prix, debuting on May 19, 1957. He scored 0 championship points. (references) |
| Ivor Callely |
Ivor Callely is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician. He is a Teachta Dála (TD) for Dublin North Central and is currently the Minister of State at the Department of Transport. (references) |
| Ivor Caplin |
Ivor Keith Caplin (born 8th November 1958) was the Labour Member of Parliament for Hove and Portslade until 2005. (references) |
| Ivor Catt |
Ivor Catt is a British electronics engineer known principally for his controversial ideas on electromagnetism. His most recent challenge to the status quo in electromagnetism is called "The Catt Anomaly". He has been considered a crank by a large part of the science and electrical engineering community. (references) |
| Ivor Churchill Guest, 1st Viscount Wimborne |
Ivor Churchill Guest, 1st Viscount Wimborne (16 January 1873 - 14 June 1939) was a British Liberal politician, and one of the last Lords Lieutenant of Ireland, serving in that position at the time of the Easter Rising. (references) |
| Ivor Darreg |
Ivor Darreg (May 5 1917 - 1994) was a leading proponent of and composer of microtonal or "xenharmonic" music. (references) |
| Ivor Grattan-Guinness |
Ivor Grattan-Guiness is a distinguished historian of mathematics at Middlesex University Business School, who has been a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton and is a member of the Academie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences. His work spans all historical periods, but he has been especially interested in characterising the differences with how past thinkers far removed from us view their findings, and has emphasised the importance of ignorance in this task. He is particularly interested in Euclid and the development of functional analysis. (references) |
| Ivor Gurney |
Ivor Gurney (August 28, 1890 - December 26, 1937) was an English composer and poet. (references) |
| Ivor Hele |
Ivor Hele, (1912-93), Australian artist. Longest serving war artist for the Australian War Memorial. Completed more commissioned works than any other Australian artist in the history of Australian art. (references) |
| Ivor Jones |
Ivor Egwad Jones (1901 - 1982) was a Welsh rugby union player who played as a back-row forward, mainly at flanker, for Llanelli and won 16 caps for Wales, three of them as captain. (references) |
| Ivor Mairants |
Ivor Mairants (18 July 1908- 20 February 1998) was a professional jazz and classical guitarist. He also taught and composed for the instrument, and with his wife Lily in 1958 created Ivor Mairants Musicentre, a specialist guitar store in London that was the first of its kind in the country and is still among the foremost of its kind in the UK. (references) |
| Ivor Miles Windsor-Clive, 2nd Earl of Plymouth |
Ivor Miles Windsor-Clive, 2nd Earl of Plymouth (4 February 1889 - 1 October 1943) was an English nobleman and Conservative politician. (references) |
| Ivor Noel Hume |
Ivor Noel Hume is an archaeologist and author. He has written many popular books on archaeology. (references) |
| Ivor Novello Award |
The Ivor Novello Awards, named after the entertainer Ivor Novello, are prizes awarded for songwriting and composing. The "Ivors" are presented yearly in London by the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters, and were first introduced in 1955. (references) |
| Ivor Rees |
Ivor Rees was a Welsh recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. (references) |
| Ivor Richard, Baron Richard |
Ivor Seward Richard, Baron Richard, PC (born May 30, 1932), is a British politician and former member of the Commission of the European Communities. (references) |
| Ivor Roberts (ambassador) |
Sir Ivor Roberts (born 1946) is the British ambassador to Italy. (references) |
| Joseph Ivor Linton |
Joseph Ivor Linton (also referred to as Ivor Joseph Linton) (1900-1982) was an Israeli diplomat. (references) |
| The Ivor Novello Appreciation Bureau |
An annual 'Ivor Day' event is held in the picturesque Berkshire village of Littlewick Green in June. A cast of performers gather in St. John's Church to perform recitals of prose and songs. (references) |
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