THE Gazette today launches a five-part tribute to those whose words and deeds have brought them renown in our region and beyond. Each day we will list 10 - before a printing the results of YOUR vote on Friday. . MARTIN NAREY Public servant Linthorpe, b. 1955 WHEN Martin Narey was appointed the Government's first national adoption tsar two years ago, the executive had a wealth of experience. The former St Mary's student's current role is centred around cutting the number of children stuck in the care system waiting to find a family.
... about 1790, where he published three design books in quick succession. After spending some time in S... about chemistry, botany and mineralogy. But he retired in February, 1858, without patenti...
CAN investing ever be a genuine pleasure? Absolutely: all you need do is take your favourite hobby or pursuit and apply a little financial nous. Here Financial Mail's regular columnist TOBY WALNE, author of 101 Extraordinary Investments, explains how. ALL investing is about risk and reward, but imagine if you could find an investment that delivered both a financial reward and something far rarer - the pleasure of pursuing your own special interest.
... sources: The Natural History Museum mineralogy department, nhm.ac.uk/mineralogy/grady/catalogue.h...The internet is useful, but specialist books by experienced collectors remain vital sources of ...
... grounds for suspecting that there are books or records on the premises which the Commission of..., soil analysis or other forms of mineralogy or geology;. (d) agronomy, forestry, livestock rea...
A CORNISH schoolboy with a passion for fossils has come second in a national mineralogy competition. Sholto Bateson, 13, a Year 11 pupil at Highfields Independent School, Redruth, was runner-up in the 13 to 16 age category in the annual Rockwatch competition.
...Sholto won Pounds 75 in vouchers, books and mineral specimens, and a magnifying glass. Aft...
QUESTION I am told that a brother of Napoleon was buried in the local church at the village of Grimley, near Worcester, and that he owned a residence nearby. How come? LUCIEN BONAPARTE fell out with his brother, the Emperor, in August 1810 and set sail for America, taking a shipload of 40 families and their servants. But his ship was captured by the British and taken to Malta from where, eventually, the entire entourage was shipped to Plymouth.
... at Urbino before devoting himself to mineralogy and chemistry. He then switched disciplines and fo...There, he amassed a great collection of books in, and about, the world's languages. Louis Lucien...
QUESTION I am told that a brother of Napoleon was buried in the local church at the village of Grimley, near Worcester, and that he owned a residence nearby. How come? LUCIEN BONAPARTE fell out with his brother, the Emperor, in August 1810 and set sail for America, taking a shipload of 40 families and their servants. But his ship was captured by the British and taken to Malta from where, eventually, the entire entourage was shipped to Plymouth.
... at Urbino before devoting himself to mineralogy and chemistry. He then switched disciplines and fo...There, he amassed a great collection of books in, and about, the world's languages. Louis Lucien...
THE EARTH: An Intimate History by Richard Fortey (Harper Collins, Pounds 25) THE world is not a solid globe of green cheese, although some people behave as if it were. The continents and ocean floors are thin and somewhat flexible crusts of rock, floating on a gooey under- layer somewhat like stiff Camembert. They wander about, driven by an unseen nuclear reactor deep within the planet; they shove and slide and jostle and crumple, rise and sink, to form mountains and ocean depths.
...Many clues come from mineralogy: from changes in the chemistry and structure of ro...
A SALE of books and maps on Tuesday in Oxford by Bonhams contains the Enys collection of Cornish books, which were the property of an 18th century Falmouth family who loved books. The most important members in the family, or certainly those who made a difference to this collection, were John Samuel Enys (1796-1872) and John Davies Enys (1837-1912), both of whom were active members of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society and the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. All aspects pertaining to the county appealed to both, from agriculture, engineering and mining to social conditions, politics, literature and poetry, and each had a space reserved on the shelf in this library. A high number of presentation copies indicated their standing throughout the 19th century, but it is the depth of...
It includes works like A Manual of Mineralogy by Thomas Hogg, a first edition of 1825, with a gu...
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