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# John Elias Davies

John Elias Davies (20 March 1847 – 25 January 1883) was a Welsh harpist. He learnt the harp from a young age, tutored for a time by James Hughes (Iago Bencerdd) of Trefriw. He was later tutored by T. D. Morris of Bangor, and William Streatham of Liverpool. In 1858, at the age of 12 he won a prize for his performance at Llangollen Eisteddfod. He later won principal prizes at the Denbigh Eisteddfod (1860) Conwy Eisteddfod (1861), Caernarfon Eisteddfod (1862), Rhyl Eisteddfod (1863), Llandudno Eisteddfod (1864), and Flint Eisteddfod (1867). He is thought to have been one of the most accomplished accompanists of his day.
# Dorchester Poundbury (ward)

Dorchester Poundbury is an electoral ward in Dorset. Since 2019, the ward has elected 1 councillor to Dorset Council.

## Geography

The Dorchester Poundbury ward covers the Poundbury area of Dorchester.

## Councillors

| Election | Councillors | Councillors |
| 2019 | | Richard Biggs (Liberal Democrats) |
| 2024 | | Richard Biggs (Liberal Democrats) |

## Election
### 2019 Dorset Council election

2019 Dorset Council election: Dorchester Poundbury (1 seat) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Liberal Democrats | Richard Biggs | 457 | 35.9 | |
| | Conservative | Peter Jonathon Stein | 415 | 32.6 | |
| | Independent | William Gibbons | 273 | 21.4 | |
| | Green | Tim Oram | 73 | 5.7 | |
| | Labour | Sinead McCarney | 55 | 4.3 | |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | | | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 46.20 | |
| | Liberal Democrats win (new seat) | Liberal Democrats win (new seat) | Liberal Democrats win (new seat) | Liberal Democrats win (new seat) | Liberal Democrats win (new seat) |

### 2024 Dorset Council election

2024 Dorset Council election: Dorchester Poundbury (1 seat) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Liberal Democrats | Richard Martin Biggs* | 780 | 54.0 | +18.1 |
| | Conservative | Peter Jonathon Stein | 449 | 31.1 | −1.5 |
| | Labour | Nick Boothroyd | 122 | 8.4 | +4.1 |
| | Green | Len Herbert | 93 | 6.4 | +0.7 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,444 | 41.38 | |
| | Liberal Democrats hold | Liberal Democrats hold | Swing | | |
# Donald McCallum (engineer)

Sir Donald Murdo McCallum CBE FRAeS FREng FRSE FIET (6 August 1922 – 18 October 2011) was a Scottish radar engineer and an important industrialist.

## Early life

Don McCallum was born in Edinburgh. His father, Roderick McCallum, was a headmaster who married Lillian McPhee. He attended George Watson's Boys' College. He gained a BSc (1st) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Edinburgh in 1942.

### Second World War

He worked for the Navy on homing beacons on the Implacable-class aircraft carriers HMS Indefatigable (R10) and HMS Implacable (R86). From 1942-46 he worked for the Admiralty Signal Establishment, later known as the Admiralty Research Establishment.
From June 1944 he worked on the short range VHF radio system for Talk Between Ships (TBS). On the day before D-Day, he had worked on HMS Bulolo, which had directed the landings off Gold Beach.

## Career
### Ferranti

He worked for forty years at Ferranti Scotland in Edinburgh, half of those years as general manager from 1968; the company had 8,000 employees. He joined Ferranti in 1947. The company had established itself in Edinburgh during World War II to make gyroscopic gunsights (gyro gunsights).
Projects he oversaw included the Ferranti Laser Target Marker (LTM or FLTM) and the Seaspray radar, and aircraft interception radars.
He was made an FIEE in 1969 and an FEng in 1982. In 1985 he won the British Gold Medal of the Royal Aeronautical Society. He became a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society in 1986.
He retired as general manager in 1985, then as Chairman in 1987; six years later Ferranti went bankrupt. Some people believe that had he still been at the company, that bankruptcy may not have happened.

### Education

In the early 1990s he was President of the Scottish Council for Development and Industry. He was Chairman of the Scottish Committee of the Universities Funding Council, now the Scottish Funding Council. He also served on the Scottish Tertiary Education Advisory Council.

## Personal life

He married Barbara Black in 1949, and they had a daughter in 1950, who died in 2007; his first wife died in 1971. He married again in 1974, and his second wife died in 1997. He married in 2007.
He received a CBE in the 1976 Birthday Honours and a knighthood in the 1988 New Year Honours. He lived in his later life from 2007 at Egton with Newland near Ulverston in South Lakeland. He died aged 89 in Cumbria. He was buried on Wednesday 26 October 2011 in Edinburgh. He had grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
# Donald S. Long

Donald S. Long (December 17, 1935 - April 28, 2012) was a widely known Louisiana State University sports blogger and the author of DandyDon.com. He was a lifelong LSU sports fan. Dandy Don died from colon cancer on April 28, 2012.

## Background

Donald Long was born in Tannehill, Louisiana to Ruben Ray Long (1900–1966) and the former Ruby Smith (1906–1984). He was raised in the Winnfield area and was a resident of Lafayette for 51 years. Long was married to his wife, Joy Ardoin Long, for 53 years. They raised five children together. Don had a career in the meat and seafood industries. He worked as a meat cutter and market manager. Later, he was a meat and seafood inspector for the state of Louisiana.
The Long family is part of a Louisiana political dynasty lasting over 100 years. His brother, Jimmy D. Long, was elected to Louisiana House of Representatives (District 23) from 1968 until 2000. Another brother, Gerald Long, was elected to the Louisiana State Senate in 2007. Their third cousins, Earl Long and Huey Long, were both former governors of Louisiana.

## Dandy Don Blog

Long loved sports and served as a football official for the Louisiana High School Association for 18 years. He faithfully attended every LSU football game for over 30 years. To honor his passion for LSU sports his son, Scott, built a website for Don for his 61st birthday. Scott chose the name Dandy Don for the site because his father had used that moniker in the 1970s when he made high school football predictions for his brother’s newspaper, The Red River Journal. Don’s years spent officiating football games gave him insight and contacts to the high school football talent. He would type a report of his LSU knowledge and predictions and give it to his son, who posted it to the blog. Don gave LSU fans a daily installment of Tiger news, game predictions, and Louisiana high school football prospects. The website now includes other features such as recipes, a media gallery, a Ticket Exchange page where users can post LSU tickets for sale, and links to LSU sports schedules. The DandyDon.com website attracted almost 70,000 regular readers within ten years of its inception and grew to over 150,000 readers by Don’s death in 2012. The website is currently run by Don’s son, Scott Long, and remains free for all readers.
# John Gerrard (police officer)

John Henry Gerrard CBE MC KStJ QPM (25 November 1920 – 2 June 2003) was a British police officer with the London Metropolitan Police.
Gerrard was the son of Archie Reginald Gerrard and his wife Evelyn. He was educated at Cordwainers' Technical College and enlisted in the British Army in 1939, serving in Iceland from 1940 to 1942. On 20 March 1943, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Middlesex Regiment and served with the 1st Battalion until he was demobilised with the rank of captain in 1946. He was awarded the Military Cross (MC) as a lieutenant on 1 March 1945 for gallantry in North-West Europe.
In 1946, he joined the Metropolitan Police as a constable. He was promoted sergeant in 1951, inspector at Hammersmith in 1955, chief inspector soon afterwards, superintendent at West End Central in 1961 and chief superintendent soon afterwards. In 1965, he was promoted commander and took command of West End Central. In 1968, he was appointed Commander (Public Order and Operations) and in February 1970 was promoted to Deputy Assistant Commissioner (Public Order and Operations). On 15 June 1974, he was in command of the public order operation in Red Lion Square which resulted in the death of Kevin Gately.
In 1974, he took over No.1 Area and on 1 January 1978 he was appointed Assistant Commissioner "D" (Personnel and Training), a post he held until his retirement in 1981.
Gerrard was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1972 New Year Honours, awarded the Queen's Police Medal (QPM) in the 1975 New Year Honours, and appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1981 New Year Honours.
From 1983 to 1986, Gerrard was London District Commissioner of the St John Ambulance Brigade. He was appointed Knight of Justice of the Order of St John (KStJ) in 1986. He married Gladys Hefford in 1943; they had two sons.

## Footnotes

* 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Biography, Who Was Who
* ↑ "No. 36031". The London Gazette (Supplement). 28 May 1943. p. 2382.
* ↑ "No. 36961". The London Gazette (Supplement). 27 February 1945. p. 1176.
* 1 2 "New head for Yard crowd control", The Times, 7 February 1970
* ↑ "No. 47452". The London Gazette. 31 January 1978. p. 1269.
* ↑ "No. 45554". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1971. p. 10.
* ↑ "No. 46444". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 1974. p. 31.
* ↑ "No. 48467". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 1980. p. 8.
Police appointments :
| Preceded byUnknown | Commander, West End Central, Metropolitan Police 1965–1968 | Succeeded byUnknown |
| Preceded byUnknown | Commander (Public Order & Operations), Metropolitan Police 1968–1970 | Succeeded byUnknown |
| Preceded byJohn Lawlor | Deputy Assistant Commissioner (Public Order & Operations), Metropolitan Police 1970–1974 | Succeeded byUnknown |
| Preceded byUnknown | Deputy Assistant Commissioner, No.1 Area, Metropolitan Police 1974–1978 | Succeeded byUnknown |
| Preceded byHenry Hunt | Assistant Commissioner "D", Metropolitan Police 1978–1981 | Succeeded byGeoffrey Dear |
# Doodia media

Doodia media, also known as rasp fern (or pukupuku in Māori), is a fern species in the family Blechnaceae. The species was formally described by botanist Robert Brown in 1810. Distribution of the species includes New Zealand's North Island and the upper part of the South Island (Nelson and Marlborough). It is also found in Australia and Lord Howe Island.
Young fronds contain flavonoids that protect them from ultraviolet radiation and give them a pink colour.
Phylogenic studies have shown that the genus Doodia is embedded within the paraphyletic genus Blechnum, when that genus is broadly circumscribed. Christenhusz et al., 2011, therefore reassigned all Doodia species to Blechnum. Doodia media R.Br. was transferred to Blechnum medium and Doodia media subsp. australis (Doodia australis) was transferred to Blechnum parrisii. Other sources, such as World Ferns, based on the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification, split Blechnum, accepting Doodia.
# Donald R. Toussaint

Donald R. Toussaint (May 21, 1927 – January 1986) was appointed by President Jimmy Carter as United States ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives, and served from 21 January 1980 to 7 January 1982.
He was born in Oakland, California and got his PhD from Stanford University. He joined the Foreign Service in 1956 and was posted in Indonesia, the United Nations, and Iran. He was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from 1976 to 1977 and deputy coordination of the U.N. Conference on Science and Technology from 1977 to 1978.
# John Hope, 1st Baron Glendevon

John Adrian Louis Hope, 1st Baron Glendevon, PC (7 April 1912 – 18 January 1996), known as Lord John Hope from 1912 to 1964, was a British aristocrat and Tory politician.

## Early life

Hope was the younger son of Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow, and Doreen Maud Milner. His elder twin brother was Charles Hope, 3rd Marquess of Linlithgow. He was educated at Ludgrove, Eton and Christ Church, Oxford and served in the Second World War in Norway and Italy with the Scots Guards, achieving the rank of temporary Major. He was twice mentioned in despatches.

## Political career

In 1945 Hope was elected Member of Parliament for Midlothian and Peebles North, a seat he held until 1950, and then represented Edinburgh Pentlands from 1950 to 1964.
Hope served in the Conservative administrations of Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan as Joint Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from 1954 to 1956, as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations from 1956 to 1957 and as Joint Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland from 1957 to 1959. In 1959 he was appointed Minister of Works and sworn a Privy Counsellor. Hope remained as head of the Ministry of Works until 1962. In 1964 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Glendevon, of Midhope in the County of Linlithgow.

## Personal life

Lord Glendevon married Elizabeth Paravicini (1915–1998), the former wife of Vincent Paravicini and the only child of the author W. Somerset Maugham, in 1948. They had two sons. Lord Glendevon died on 18 January 1996, aged 83, and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son, Julian.
# John Gray (locomotive engineer)

John Gray was an early English steam locomotive engineer who introduced several innovations in locomotive design during the 1830s and 1840s. John Gray's origins were thought to be unknown but he appears to have originated from Newcastle. John Gray was born 29 August 1810 in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England.

## Career
### Innovations

In 1838 he was working for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway where he was the first engineer to use the balanced slide valve on locomotives, and later applied a form of expansion gear. In 1840 he was appointed locomotive superintendent of the Hull and Selby Railway where he became the first locomotive engineer to use long-travel valve motion.

### Locomotive superintendent

In 1845 he was appointed locomotive superintendent of the Croydon Dover and Brighton Joint Committee, which then operated the pooled locomotive fleets of the London and Croydon Railway, the South Eastern Railway and the London and Brighton Railway. On the dissolution of this committee and the formation of the London Brighton and South Coast Railway in 1846 Gray was appointed Locomotive Superintendent at Brighton works. However in 1847 he was dismissed from this post as a result of problems over the late delivery of locomotives from Timothy Hackworth.
# Dongda

Dongda (东大; lit. 'Eastern university') may refer to:
* Northeastern University (东北大学), a public university in Shenyang, Liaoning, China
* Southeast University (东南大学), a public university based in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
* University of Tokyo (東京大学; also as Todai), a public university in Tokyo, Japan
# John How (bishop)

John Charles Halland How OGS (16 September 1881 – 22 May 1961) was an Anglican bishop.

## Family and education

Born to Charles How, a draper, and Elizabeth Halland, he was educated at Pocklington School and St John's College, Cambridge.
How was married twice: first in 1925 to Junie Katherine Reynolds (who died in 1938), and second in 1939 to Barbara Collcutt. His son by his first marriage was the organist and composer Martin How.

## Career

How was ordained in 1906 and began his career at the Wellington College Mission, Walworth. From 1906 he was Lecturer in Hebrew at St John's College. He was a Temporary Chaplain to the Forces from 1915 to 1919, eventually serving in Egypt. He was regarded as 'manly' and popular, and a good preacher and lecturer. He could speak French and Arabic.
In 1920 he became warden of the OGS Oratory House, Cambridge. Following this he became an honorary canon of Liverpool Cathedral in 1922 and in 1924 became the missioner in the Diocese of Manchester. In 1926, he became rector of St Nicholas' Church in Liverpool. Simultaneously he also became Rural Dean of Liverpool in 1930. He resigned both posts to become vicar of West Blatchington, Sussex in 1935. How served as an Honorary Chaplain to the King from 1933 to 1938 and as a canon of Chichester Cathedral.
How was elected Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway in 1938. Eight years later, on 18 June 1946, he became Primus of Scotland, a post he held until his retirement in 1952.
How died on 22 May 1961.
# Double clutch

Double clutch may refer to:
* Double clutch, a baseball term for a fielder drawing his arm back twice before throwing
* Double clutch (technique), a method of driving that involves pressing and releasing the clutch twice per shift
* Double-clutch transmission, a type of transmission that has two separate clutches
* Double-clutching (zoology), when an oviparous animal lays two sets of viable eggs in one season
* Double Clutch (Transformers), a fictional character in the Transformers franchise
* Double Clutch (video game), a Sega Mega Drive game released in 1993
* Double Clutch (album), an album by Andrew Cyrille and Richard Teitelbaum
# Doug Hall (art curator)

Douglas Grant Hall AM (born 1954) is an Australian art curator and historian.
He had a 20-year tenure as the director of the Queensland Art Gallery from 1987 to 2007.
He was born in Morwell, Victoria and attended the Victorian College of the Arts where he graduated with a Diploma of Fine Arts.
After working as a gallery director at a number of regional art galleries, Hall commenced his role as director of the Queensland Art Gallery in 1987.
Hall is credited with encouraging international partnerships which led to the establishment of the Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art.
He also led the founding of the Gallery of Modern Art in 2006.
Returning to Melbourne in 2010, Hall was appointed Associate Professor and Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne.
Hall is also credited with helping get art from North Korea into the Asia Pacific Triennial. He curated an exhibition by North Korean artist Kim Guang-Nan in 2016 entitled "The Future Is Bright".
Among the organisations Hall has served with are the Australia Council, the Australian International Cultural Council, the Asia Arts Council, the Australia-Thailand Institute, the Victorian College of the Arts, the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation and The Guggenheim. He has also served on the board of the Australia Japan Foundation.
In 2019, he authored "Present Tense: Anna Schwartz Gallery and Thirty-five Years of Contemporary Australian Art".

## Honours

In 1999, Hall received an honorary Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Queensland.
In the 2001 Queen's Birthday Honours, Hall was made a Member of the Order of Australia in recognition of his service as an art administrator and for his promotion of art from the Asia-Pacific region.
The Republic of France named Hall a Chevalier (knight) dans Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2006.
In 2007, Hall was named as a Queensland Great.
# John Essex

John Essex (born c.1680 - died 1744, London) was an English dancer, choreographer and author who promoted the recording of dance steps through notation as well as performing in London theatre. In 1728 he published his major work The Dancing-Master, or, The Art of Dancing Explained, a translation of Pierre Rameau's Le maître à danser (1725).

## Life

He is first mentioned in record in 1702 as a dancer at Drury Lane Theatre, performing serious and comic dances. In 1703 he left after a dispute with the manager, Christopher Rich. He set up as an independent dance teacher and teacher of music in Rood Lane (off Fenchurch Street) in the parish of St Dionis Backchurch in the City of London.
He became part of a group of dance teachers who sought to modernise and improve the teaching and recording of dancing. These included a Mr Isaac, Thomas Caverley, and John Weaver.
Essex was involved in several publications in the early 1700s which brought to England and explained the dance notations of the French dance masters Raoul Auger Feuillet and Pierre Rameau. Essex translated the introduction to Feuillet's Recueil de contredances (1706), and was the author of a treatise on the notation of country dances entitled, For the Further Improvement of Dancing (1710). In 1715 a second edition was printed containing 4 additional country dances to supplement the original 10 and "The Princess's Passpied", his only surviving ball dance. His most important book appeared in 1728 The Dancing-Master, or, The Art of Dancing Explained, which was a translation with diagrams of Rameau's Le maître à danser (1725). This ran to a second edition in 1731 and a third about 1733 which included new illustrations by George Bickham the Younger. A fourth edition appeared in 1744, the year of his death.
In 1721 he authored The Young Ladies Conduct, or, Rules for Education, for its day an orthodox treatise on female education, apart from the emphasis it puts on the usefulness of dancing.
In 1724 he returned to performance, appearing at Drury Lane and later at The Haymarket Theatre.
With his wife Catherine (née Hawtayne) (d. 1721), he had six children of whom three died in infancy, all are recorded in the parish register of St Dionis Backchurch.
# John Jay Park

John Jay Park is a 3.3-acre (13,000 m$^2$) park in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is located between East 76th and 78th Streets, and between the FDR Drive and a short street called Cherokee Place, on Manhattan's Upper East Side. The park is named for statesman and New York Governor John Jay.
In 1902 the city acquired through condemnation a parcel of land at the site of the park and opened a public bath house in 1906. A swimming pool and promenade was built nearby from 1940 to 1942, part of a Work Projects Administration construction program. In 1941 the bath house was renovated to include an auditorium, recreation room, gym, and changing facility which could accommodate 1,002 male and 590 female bathers. In 2010, a substantial upgrade was completed on the bath house, allowing visitors who are disabled to have full access to the facilities.
A large playground occupies almost half of the park's total acreage. The remaining half has basketball courts, handball courts, tennis court, and the pool and bath house. The park is used for physical education classes by Eleanor Roosevelt High School, Lycée Français de New York, P.S. 158, and M.S. 177. It used to house East Side Middle School students until the school moved further uptown.
# John Mills (swimmer)

John Maurice Mills (born 28 March 1953) is a retired British international swimmer.

## Swimming career

He competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics and the 1976 Summer Olympics.
He represented England and won a bronze medal in the 4 x 200m freestyle relay, at the 1970 British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland. Eight years later he won double silver in the 100 metres butterfly and the 4 x 100m medley relay, at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Montreal, Canada. He also won the ASA National Championship title in the 100 metres butterfly (1972, 1976, 1977, 1978) and the 1971 title in the 200 metres butterfly. He also won the 1971 ASA British National 1500 metres freestyle title.
# Doomsday Book (disambiguation)

Doomsday Book may refer to:
* Domesday Book or Doomsday Book, an 11th-century survey of England
* Doomsday Book (novel), a 1992 novel by Connie Willis
* Doomsday Book (film), a 2012 science-fiction anthology film directed by Kim Jee-woon and Yim Pil-sung