scholarly journals Charles Todd, 1869-1957

1958 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 281-290
Keyword(s):  
Multiplication Table ◽  
Poor Health ◽  
Small Farmers ◽  
The Family ◽  
Principal Parts ◽  
Three Sisters

Charles Todd died at Croydon on 22 September 1957, seventeen years after he had retired from active work. He was born on 17 September 1869 at Carleton, a small village near Carlisle. His father, Jonas Todd, was clerk and steward of the Cumberland and Westmorland asylum; his mother was born Grace Barker. His forbears on both sides of the family had been small farmers in that district as far back as records can be traced. Charles was the eldest of the family: he had three sisters, two of whom died young. He had poor health as a boy and did not attend school regularly till he was 12. For a time before that he attended a dame school in Carlisle ‘where the education consisted in the daily repetition of the multiplication table, the dates of the kings of England and the principal parts of the Latin verbs’.

Ezra Taft Benson and the Family Farm

2019 ◽  
pp. 23-52
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Eisenhower Administration ◽  
Educational Opportunities ◽  
Family Farm ◽  
Small Farmers ◽  
Spiritual Values ◽  
Family Farming ◽  
Farm Work ◽  
Development Policies ◽  
The Family

Many small farmers charged that Ezra Taft Benson’s farm policies were driving them out of business. The fact that the countryside was hemorrhaging population during the 1950s seemed to support their contention. Indeed, the largest wave of farm abandonment and out-migration in the nation’s history occurred in those years. This chapter explores Benson’s agrarian polices while he was the secretary of agriculture in the Eisenhower administration. In specific, this chapter explores the following questions: What did he say over the course of his career about the moral and spiritual values and the economic costs of family farming? How did he respond to criticism of his policies by small farmers? How did he justify his policies and what advice did he offer? Did he regard the exodus of Americans from small farms as lamentable but inevitable? To what degree did he recommend educational opportunities or rural development policies to ease the transition from farm employment to non-farm work and urban lifestyles?

Leslie Crombie. 10 June 1923 — 3 August 1999

2001 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 125-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald Pattenden
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Grammar School ◽  
Legal Practice ◽  
World War ◽  
Isle Of Wight ◽  
School Certificate ◽  
The Family ◽  
Part Time ◽  
The City ◽  
Three Sisters

Leslie Crombie was born in York on 10 June 1923, the second eldest, and only boy, of Walter Crombie and Gladys (née Clarkson). On his father's side his great-grandfather had kept a tobacconist shop in York and his grandfather, George, had founded a prosperous legal practice in the City of York. On his mother's side, Leslie's great–grandfather originated from London and settled in York after helping to build the York Railway Station. Leslie's father qualified as a solicitor and practised law in his grandfather George's office. However, he disliked the profession and, after his marriage and the death of his father, Walter passed over the practice to his brother Norman and took the lease of a hotel in the Isle of Wight. Unfortunately, the hotel did not prosper and was given up after a few years, and the family, which included Leslie's three sisters, Ivy, June and Molly, moved to Portsmouth. Although Leslie's father had a small allowance from his brother Norman and the legal practice in York, and he had various small intermittent incomes from teaching, the family was desperately poor during the 1930s. Leslie received little encouragement from his parents, but he passed the 11+ examination and entered Portsmouth Northern Grammar School in 1934, where he was awarded a very respectable School Certificate when he was 16 years old. However, it was now 1939 and World War II was about to start, and his school was evacuated to Winchester. With poor living conditions and little facilities for study, the young Leslie was determined to take a job and study part-time. He was appointed in 1940 as an assistant in the analytical laboratory of Timothy Whites and Taylor at their head office in Portsmouth under the supervision of Ron Gillham, who greatly influenced his further career; he was paid 13 shillings and 6 pence (in decimal terms, 67½pence) per week. In the evenings, Leslie studied at Portsmouth Municipal College for a London University Intermediate BSc. Alas, after a heavy bombing raid in January 1941, Timothy Whites and Taylor's laboratories were removed from the map, along with a great deal of the centre of Portsmouth—but fortunately not the MunicipalCollege.

David Randall Pye, 1886-1960

1961 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 199-205
Keyword(s):  
Early Life ◽  
Research Organization ◽  
Engineering Science ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Administrative Work ◽  
The Family ◽  
University College London ◽  
High Standards ◽  
Three Sisters ◽  
Personal Research

David Randall Pye, who died on 20 February 1960, was a scientist and an engineer, although he spent most of his life in government and university administration to which he was called at critical times. From the age of thirty-nine to fifty-seven he devoted himself to building up the scientific research organization of the Air Ministry, at a time when aeronautical developments were so vital to our country’s survival; from fifty-seven until his retirement at sixty-five, he undertook the task, as Provost, of re-establishing University College, London, which had suffered severe blows from the enemy’s air attack. Had there been no war he would almost certainly have spent his life in engineering science, probably in a university, and would have made many more original contributions of the same high quality as those of his earlier years. But although he thus sacrificed his personal research for his country’s needs, he undoubtedly did so partly because of his intense interest in human affairs and in people. He was not by any means a born administrator, or an ambitious organizer, but his wide talents, simple integrity and high standards, enabled him to achieve real success in the administrative work he undertook. Pye was born on 29 April 1886 at Hampstead, London. His early life was spent in the atmosphere of a country home not far from London where he lived with his parents, three brothers and three sisters, David being the sixth in the family. He was a descendant of John Pye of the Mynde, County Hereford, and Anne, daughter of Roger Andrews of Hereford, through their son, Walter Pye of Kilpeck Castle. Another branch of the family, the Edmund Pyes, lived at Blyth, Nottinghamshire, one of whom had a grant of arms from Sir Richard St George, Clarenceux King at Arms, 2 March 1633-1634.

Anthony George Maldon Michell, 1870-1959

1962 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 90-103 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Thrust Bearing ◽  
Da Vinci ◽  
Leonardo Da Vinci ◽  
Exact Science ◽  
Modern Development ◽  
Tilting Pad ◽  
The Family ◽  
Special Quality ◽  
Water Turbines ◽  
Three Sisters

Anthony George Maldon Michell, mechanical and hydraulic engineer and innovator, died at his home in Melbourne, Australia, on 17 February 1959 at the age of 88. He had achieved a legendary fame through his invention of the tilting-pad thrust-bearing, a device which made possible much of the modern development of steam and water turbines and of propeller drives for large, fast ships. This invention issued from a fertile union of mechanical art with exact science, and it was this union which gave all Michell’s work its special quality; his motto, quoted from Leonardo da Vinci on the title page of his book on lubrication, was ‘theory is the captain, practice the soldiers’. Michell wrote for the archives of the Society a biographical note which illuminates his personality as well as his career, and it is fitting that this should be reproduced verbatim: ‘His father John Michell, 1826-1891 and mother Grace Michell, née Rowse, 1828-1921 were both reared at or near Tavistock, Devon, and there married. After their marriage they emigrated to Port Phillip, Australia, 1854-5. He (A.G.M.M.) was born 21 June 1870, at Islington, while they were on a visit to parents and relatives in England, 1870-3. He had one brother (John Henry Michell, F.R.S., 1863-1940) and three sisters, all senior to him by several years. ‘The paternal surname is pronounced with stress on the first syllable and with that syllable rhyming with “rich” and “which”. ‘His first name is that of his maternal grandfather, Anthony Rowse, 1798- 1866, the name being traditional in the family as that of a legendary French ancestor, Anthony (or Antoine) Rousse, of uncertain date and dubious authenticity, supposed to have brought the family stock from France. It seems probable, having regard to the persistent nonconformity of the family in England, that if there was such an ancestor he was an Huguenot. The paternal family, like others of the same name now diffused through the south of England, was also probably in part of French provenance, but of much earlier than Huguenot migration to England. But little is known to him of his ancestry beyond what is included above.

Tapetoretinal Degeneration in Three Mentally Retarded Sisters with Other Disorders in the Family Tree

1974 ◽  
Vol 23 (S1) ◽  
pp. 175-180
Author(s):  
J. Jancar ◽  
Ruth M. Walters
Keyword(s):  
Rheumatoid Arthritis ◽  
Diabetes Mellitus ◽  
Mental Retardation ◽  
Congenital Heart ◽  
Family Tree ◽  
Normal Limits ◽  
The Family ◽  
Three Sisters ◽  
Diabetes Mellitus 2 ◽  
Mode Of Inheritance

Three sisters suffering from tapetoretinal degeneration and other eye anomalies, mental retardation, skeletal abnormalities, and unusual dermatoglyphs, are reported.The family tree of four generations is presented which reveals the following other disorders: diabetes mellitus (2 M), rheumatoid arthritis (2 F), mental retardation (2 M), congenital heart disease (1 F). A great niece of the propositi is known to suffer from tapetoretinal degeneration, mental retardation, epilepsy, cerebellar ataxia, and deafness. One miscarriage and one infant death are also noted.The mode of inheritance and relationship to other syndromes with tapetoretinal degeneration are briefly discussed. The chromosomal studies, relevant biochemical and other investigations, are within normal limits.

scholarly journals Hugh Stott Taylor, 6 February 1890 - 17 April 1974

1975 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 517-547 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Plate Glass ◽  
Urban District ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Poor ◽  
District Council ◽  
The Family ◽  
Three Sisters

Hugh Stott Taylor, the third child of James and Ellen ( née Stott) Taylor, was born at St Helens, Lancashire, on 6 February 1890. He had four brothers and three sisters. His father was a glass technologist who, during a period of fifty years, made notable improvements in the quality of plate glass and in the manufacture of coloured glass. Hugh inherited from his father an early interest in the application of science to the solution of industrial problems and an ability to resolve difficulties by experiment. His mother, before her marriage, had been headmistress of a school and devoted to the education of the poor. Relatives on both sides of the family were concerned with local government. James Stott, J.P., uncle, was Chairman of the Hindley Urban District Council and a great uncle, Edward Johnson, had been Mayor of St Helens.

scholarly journals Compound heterozygosity in a complete erythrocyte bisphosphoglycerate mutase deficiency

Blood ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 80 (10) ◽  
pp. 2643-2649 ◽  
Author(s):  
V Lemarchandel ◽  
V Joulin ◽  
C Valentin ◽  
R Rosa ◽  
F Galacteros ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intermediate Phenotype ◽  
Messenger Rnas ◽  
Oligonucleotide Hybridization ◽  
The Family ◽  
Enzyme Mutation ◽  
Allele Specific ◽  
Minor Form ◽  
A Minor ◽  
Three Sisters ◽  
Bisphosphoglycerate Mutase

Abstract Erythrocyte bisphosphoglycerate mutase (BPGM) deficiency is a rare disease associated with a decrease in 2,3-diphosphoglycerate concentration. A complete BPGM deficiency was described in 1978 by Rosa et al (J Clin Invest 62:907, 1978) and was shown to be associated with 30% to 50% of an inactive enzyme detectable by specific antibodies and resulting from an 89 Arg-->Cys substitution. The propositus' three sisters exhibited the same phenotype, while his two children had an intermediate phenotype. Samples from the family were examined using polymerase chain reaction and allele-specific oligonucleotide hybridization and sequencing techniques. Amplification of erythrocyte total RNA from the propositus' sister around the 89 mutation indicated the presence of two forms of messenger RNAs, a major form with the 89 Arg-->Cys mutation and a minor form with a normal sequence. Sequence studies of the propositus' DNA samples indicated heterozygosity at locus 89 and another heterozygosity with the deletion of nucleotide C 205 or C 206. Therefore, the total BPGM deficiency results from a genetic compound with one allele coding for an inactive enzyme (mutation BPGM Creteil I) and the other bearing a frameshift mutation (mutation BPGM Creteil II). Examination of the propositus' two children indicated that they both inherited the BPGM Creteil I mutation.

CLINICAL CONFERENCE

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1958 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-161
Author(s):  
Irving Schulman
Keyword(s):  
Hemorrhagic Diathesis ◽  
Hemorrhagic Disease ◽  
Central Incisor ◽  
Upper Eyelid ◽  
Good Opportunity ◽  
Joint Aspiration ◽  
Paternal Uncle ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Right ◽  
Three Sisters

Dr. Schulman: The case we would like to discuss is one chosen for its own intrinsic interest and also because it provides a good opportunity to illustrate some of our newer knowledge of coagulation in general, and hemophilia in particular. The patient is a 4-year-old boy who was referred to this hospital for investigation of a hemorrhagic diathesis. His birth was normal and at the age of 7 days he was circumcised without difficulty. At 1 year of age he developed bleeding from a traumatic laceration of the left upper eyelid, which persisted for 5 days. At the age of 3 years he apparently fell and bit his tongue. This led to persistent bleeding for a period of 14 days, despite the administration of three transfusions. At 3 6/12 years of age, an upper central incisor became loose, resulting in bleeding for 3 days. At 4 years he suddenly developed a painful swelling of the right knee, which increased in severity for 5 days. Joint aspiration yielded 20 ml of blood. At no time did this boy have any other manifestations of bleeding. There had been no nose bleeds. The members of the family are indicated in Figure 1. This patient has two brothers who are unaffected and three sisters who are also unaffected. The mother and father are unaffected. However, the mother's paternal uncle had a severe hemorrhagic disease and, in addition the mother's sister has two sons who also have bleeding manifestations. The disease, then, apparently occurs only in males. It skips a generation and is apparently transmitted by females. This is the classic sex-linked, recessive inheritance which we have come to associate with hemophilia.

Bipolar Affective Puerperal Psychosis Associated with Consanguinity

1994 ◽  
Vol 164 (3) ◽  
pp. 359-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Craddock ◽  
Ian Brockington ◽  
Rebecca Mant ◽  
Elizabeth Parfitt ◽  
Peter McGuffin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bipolar Disorder ◽  
Bipolar Affective Disorder ◽  
Homozygosity Mapping ◽  
Linkage Study ◽  
Puerperal Psychosis ◽  
The Family ◽  
Interesting Possibility ◽  
Recessive Locus ◽  
Three Sisters ◽  
Female Member

Most clinical and genetic evidence suggests that puerperal psychosis is closely related to bipolar affective disorder. During a linkage study of bipolar disorder we ascertained a British family in which puerperal psychosis was associated with consanguinity in three sisters. All three subjects had lifetime RDC diagnoses of bipolar I or manic disorder. An inbred brother also had bipolar I disorder. The only female member of the sibship to escape puerperal psychosis was outbred. These findings are consistent with several genetic models for bipolar disorder in this family. The most interesting possibility is a single major susceptibility locus of recessive effect. Under this assumption, the family could be used for homozygosity mapping to help localise the putative recessive locus. If other inbred families can be found in which the same putative recessive locus is operating, the power to localise the gene by homozygosity mapping would be greatly increased.

“We had a wonderful time”

2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Evans Davies
Keyword(s):  
Family System ◽  
Interactional Sociolinguistics ◽  
Self Disclosure ◽  
Positioning Strategy ◽  
The Family ◽  
Interactional Context ◽  
Narrative Process ◽  
Shaping Power ◽  
The Common ◽  
Three Sisters

Using perspectives from interactional sociolinguistics (Goffman, 1956; Gumperz, 1982, 1992; Schiffrin, 1996; Tannen, 2005) and discursive psychology (Bamberg, 1997, Davies & Harré, 1999, Wortham, 2001) this analysis demonstrates how three sisters reveal their very different personalities, styles, and stances in the collaborative narrative process, and yet come together in the end to affirm the common family ethos. The sisters’ roles in the family system are played out both in the story world and also in the interactional context of the storytelling. A distinction is made between apparently intentional self-disclosure as part of a positioning strategy of explicit evaluation, and inadvertent self-disclosure in the enactment whereby the relationships within the family system are revealed. The data will be of interest to students of narrative because (1) the context in which the data was recorded highlights the idea of a family as a community of practice; (2) the “family” consists of three unmarried sisters who had lived together for 60 years; (3) the discourse data is triangulated with ethnographic background knowledge and letters written by the siblings; (4) the shaping power of context is revealed through an immediate revision of the story by the narrator; and (5) the data provides an example of a story “abstract” being treated in two ways by the same narrator: as a “result” for which an explanation must be provided, and as a “complicating action” for which a result must be supplied.

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