Gillian Brown (linguist)
Gillian D. Brown( born 1937) is a British linguist.
She is known for her expertise on discourse analysis.
Thomas Fairbairn
Sir Thomas Fairbairn, 2nd Baronet (18 January 1823 - 12 August 1891) was an English industrialist and art collector.
Fairbairn was born in the Polygon in Ardwick, near the centre of Manchester.
He was the third of eight surviving children of Sir William Fairbairn (1789–1874).
His father was a Scottish engineer who moved to Manchester in the early 19th century, where he designed bridges, and established a business, William Fairbairn & Sons, that was involved in iron founding, boilermaking, ship building, and manufacturing steam locomotives.
He was a nephew of Peter Fairbairn of Leeds - also an engineer like his brother - and first cousin of MP Andrew Fairbairn.
After a private education, Thomas Fairbairn worked in his father's businesses from 1840, and took charge of the firm's shipbuilding operation in Millwall.
After a tour of Italy in 1841-2, he started to use his industrial wealth to collect paintings.
He married Allison Callaway on 23 March 1848 and settled back in Manchester.
They had at least five children together.
Two—his son Arthur and daughter Constance—were born deaf.
Fairbairn was impressed by the works of William Holman Hunt exhibited at the 1853 Royal Academy exhibition, and commissioned Hunt to complete his 1853 painting "The Awakening Conscience", although he asked Hunt to repaint the expression of the female figure.
He also persuaded Hunt to make changes to his 1854 painting "The Scapegoat".
Fairbairn commissioned a group portrait of his wife and five children from Hunt in 1864, which became his "The Children's Holiday".
Although he acquired portraits from Hunt, Fairbairn generally preferred Pre-Raphaelite landscapes and historical painting.
He commissioned paintings by Edward Lear, and sculptures by Thomas Woolner, including a life-sized marble sculpture of his two deaf children in 1857-1862.
Fairburn was a commissioner of the 1851 Great Exhibition, and chairman of the Executive Committee that organised the 1857 Art Treasures Exhibition in Manchester, selecting the firm that built the temporary exhibition building, C. D. Young & Co, who were already building the Museum of Science and Art in South Kensington (later the Victoria and Albert Museum).
His friend Augustus Egg was appointed as director of the gallery of Modern Masters at the exhibition, with many of Fairburn's favourite Pre-Raphaelites being selected.
He was responsible for the decision to purchase Jules Soulages's collection for £13,500, to form the core of the collection of medieval and Renaissance decorative arts.
It was later sold in instalments to
the V&A. Fairbairn was offered a knighthood for his efforts, but declined.
Fairbairn worked on the International Exhibitions of 1862, 1867 and 1871.
From 1860, he struggled with a project to open a new, free new art gallery for Manchester, which finally opened as the City Art Gallery in 1882.
He was elected to the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 in May 1861.
In around 1862, he moved to Burton Park, near Petworth in Sussex, but moved to Brambridge House, in Bishopstoke near Southampton, by 1866.
He was High Sheriff of Hampshire in 1870 and succeeded his father as 2nd Baronet in 1874.
Many of his pictures were auctioned off in the 1890s, and the remainder of the collection was broken up after his death from a stroke.
He died in Bishopstoke, in Hampshire, and was buried at Twyford church.
Captain Veale
“ Captain Veale ” was the name shared by two unrelated Massachusetts pirates active in the 17th century.
The first, Thomas Veale, was known for legends of his buried treasure.
The second Veale attacked ships along New England from Virginia to Boston with pirate John Graham.
George Eric Fairbairn
George Eric Fairbairn( 18 August 1888 – 20 June 1915) was a British rower who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics.
He was killed in action in the First World War. Fairbairn was born at Melbourne Australia, the son of Thomas Fairbairn, a pastoralist and his wife Lena Carmyle.
He was also the nephew of rower Steve Fairbairn.
He was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge and rowed for Cambridge in the Boat Race in 1908.
At the 1908 Summer Olympics, most of the Cambridge crew competed in the eight which won bronze medal, but Fairbairn went into the coxless pairs with Philip Verdon and won the silver medal.
In 1909 he missed the Boat Race because of illness.
Fairbairn also played rugby for Rosslyn Park F.C. During the First World War, Fairbairn served as a second lieutenant with the Durham Light Infantry and was killed in action, aged 26, at Bailleul.
He was buried at the Bailleul Communal Cemetery nearby.
Gillian Brown (diplomat)
Dame Gillian Gerda Brown( 10 August 1923 – 21 April 1999) was a British diplomat who was the second woman to be a British ambassador.
Muiredach Ua hÉnlainge
Muiredach Ua hÉnlainge was a Bishop of Clonfert who died in 1117.
T. C. Fairbairn
Thomas C. Fairbairn( usually credited as T. C. Fairbairn) was a theatre impresario, particularly known for his productions of Samuel Coleridge- Taylor's" Hiawatha".
Fairbairn first produced his dramatised, costumed version of" Scenes from the Song of Hiawatha" in 1924.
Held at the Royal Albert Hall, and featuring the Royal Choral Society, it raised funds for the Royal National Institute for the Blind.
The eight performances were so successful that he rebooked the hall and choir for the following year.
He repeated the show every year until 1939, apart from 1926, the year of the General Strike.
All but the first show featured 1,000 performers, 200 of whom were dancers.
The production also toured other venues in the greater London area.
Fairbairn appeared as a" castaway" on the BBC Radio programme" Desert Island Discs" on 18 May 1974.
David Scotus
David Scotus was a Gaelic chronicler who died in 1139.
Hélène Grenier
Hélène Grenier was a Canadian librarian born in 1900 who died in 1992.
Frances Lasker Brody
Frances Lasker Brody( 1916–2009) was an American arts advocate, collector, and philanthropist who influenced the development of Los Angeles' cultural life as a founding benefactor of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and later as a guiding patron of the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Gardens.
Mrs. Brody, who died on November 12, 2009 at 93, was the wife of Sidney F. Brody, a real estate developer who died in 1983, and the stepdaughter of Mary Lasker, a philanthropist and champion of medical research who died in 1994.
The Brodys lived in a modernist house in the Holmby Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles that was designed by the architect A. Quincy Jones and the decorator William Haines to show off the couple ’s collection.

Question: Who died first, Thomas Fairbairn or Gillian Brown (Diplomat)?
Answer: Thomas Fairbairn