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List of Chief Ministers of Uttar Pradesh
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Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
Incumbent
Yogi Adityanath
since 19 March 2017
Appointer
Governor of Uttar Pradesh
Inaugural holder
Govind Ballabh Pant
Formation
26 January 1950
The Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (UP), a North Indian state, is the head of the Government of Uttar Pradesh. As per the Constitution of India, the governor is the state's de jure head, but de facto executive authority rests with the chief minister. Following elections to the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, the governor usually invites the party (or coalition) with a majority of seats to form the government. The governor appoints the chief minister, whose council of ministers are collectively responsible to the assembly. Given that he has the confidence of the assembly, the chief minister's term is for five years and is subject to no term limits.[1]
On 26 January 1950 Govind Ballabh Pant, Premier of United Provinces, became the first Chief Minister of the newly renamed Uttar Pradesh. Including him, 11 out of UP's 21 chief ministers belonged to the Indian National Congress. Among these is V. P. Singh, a future Prime Minister of India, as was Charan Singh of the Rashtriya Lok Dal. UP has also had two women chief ministers—Sucheta Kriplani and Mayawati. Akhilesh Yadav of the Samajwadi Party served as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh from 2012 to 2017, having assumed office at the age of 38, he is the youngest person to have held the office. On ten occasions, most recently in 2002, the state has come under President's rule, leaving the office of chief minister vacant.
Yogi Adityanath of the Bharatiya Janata Party has served as the incumbent chief minister since 19 March 2017.
Contents
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1 Premiers of United Provinces
2 Chief Ministers of Uttar Pradesh
3 References
4 External links
Premiers of United Provinces[edit]
Govind Ballabh Pant, the first Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
The United Provinces, headquartered in Allahabad was a province of British India that comprised present day Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand. Under the Government of India Act, 1935, a bicameral legislature was set up with a legislative assembly and a legislative council.
No
Name
Term of office[2]
Party
1 Muhammad Ahmad Said Khan Chhatari 3 April 1937 16 July 1937 Independent
2 Govind Ballabh Pant 17 July 1937 2 November 1939 Indian National Congress
Vacant
(2) Govind Ballabh Pant 1 April 1946 25 January 1950 Indian National Congress
Chief Ministers of Uttar Pradesh[edit]
Colour key for parties
Bahujan Samaj Party
Bharatiya Kranti Dal
Bharatiya Janata Party
Indian National Congress
Indian National Congress (O)
Janata Dal
Janata Party
Samajwadi Party
N/A (President's rule)
UP's fifth chief minister, Charan Singh of the Bharatiya Kranti Dal, went on to become India's fifth prime minister.
Ram Naresh Yadav served as UP's chief minister in the late 1970s as a member of the Janata Party.
Although V. P. Singh's chief-ministerial reign was as a Congressman, as Prime Minister of India he headed the National Front government as a member of the Janata Dal.
Kalyan Singh was the first chief minister from the BJP. His tenure also witnessed the demolition of Babri Masjid
UP's 19th chief minister, Rajnath Singh, is the current Union Home Minister.
Mulayam Singh Yadav of the Samajwadi Party has served three stints as UP's chief minister.
Mayawati was the one who completed her tenure in UP as Chief Minister from 2007 to 2012 after 1960.
Akhilesh Yadav, the state's youngest-ever Chief Minister, holding office from 2012 to 2017.
No
Name
Constituency
Term of office[2][3]
Tenure length
Party[a]
Assembly[4]
(Election)
Ref
1 Govind Ballabh Pant
Bareilly Municipality[5] 26 January 1950 20 May 1952 4 years, 335 days Indian National Congress Not yet created
20 May 1952 27 December 1954 First Assembly (1952–57)
(1951 election) [6]
2 Sampurnanand
Varanasi South 28 December 1954 9 April 1957 5 years, 344 days
10 April 1957 6 December 1960 Second Assembly (1957–62)
(1957 election) [7]
3 Chandra Bhanu Gupta
Ranikhet South 7 December 1960 14 March 1962 2 years, 298 days
14 March 1962 1 October 1963 Third Assembly (1962–67)
(1962 election) [8]
4 Sucheta Kriplani
Mendhwal 2 October 1963 13 March 1967 3 years, 162 days
(3) Chandra Bhanu Gupta [2]
Ranikhet 14 March 1967 2 April 1967 19 days Fourth Assembly (1967–68)
(1967 election) [9]
5 Charan Singh
Chhaprauli 3 April 1967 25 February 1968 328 days Bharatiya Kranti Dal
– Vacant[b]
(President's rule) 25 February 1968 26 February 1969 1 year, 1 day N/A Dissolved
(3) Chandra Bhanu Gupta [3]
Ranikhet 26 February 1969 17 February 1970 356 days Indian National Congress Fifth Assembly (1969–74)
(1969 election) [11]
(5) Charan Singh [2]
Chhaprauli 18 February 1970 1 October 1970 225 days Bharatiya Kranti Dal
– Vacant[b]
(President's rule) 1 October 1970 18 October 1970 17 days N/A
6 Tribhuvana Narayana Singh 18 October 1970 3 April 1971 167 days Indian National Congress (O)
7 Kamlapati Tripathi
Chandauli 4 April 1971 12 June 1973 2 years, 69 days Indian National Congress
– Vacant[b]
(President's rule) 13 June 1973 8 November 1973 148 days N/A
8 Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna
Bara 8 November 1973 4 March 1974 2 years, 21 days Indian National Congress
5 March 1974 29 November 1975 Sixth Assembly (1974–77)
(1974 election) [12]
– Vacant[b]
(President's rule) 30 November 1975 21 January 1976 52 days N/A
9 N. D. Tiwari
Kashipur 21 January 1976 30 April 1977 1 year, 99 days Indian National Congress
– Vacant[b]
(President's rule) 30 April 1977 23 June 1977 54 days N/A Dissolved
10 Ram Naresh Yadav
Nidhauli Kalan 23 June 1977 27 February 1979 1 year, 249 days Janata Party Seventh Assembly (1977–80)
(1977 election) [13]
11 Banarsi Das
Hapur 28 February 1979 17 February 1980 354 days
– Vacant[b]
(President's rule) 17 February 1980 9 June 1980 113 days N/A Dissolved
12 V. P. Singh
Tindwari 9 June 1980 18 July 1982 2 years, 39 days Indian National Congress Eighth Assembly (1980–85)
(1980 election) [14]
13 Sripati Mishra
Isauli 19 July 1982 2 August 1984 2 years, 14 days
(9) N. D. Tiwari [2]
Kashipur 3 August 1984 10 March 1985 1 year, 52 days
11 March 1985 24 September 1985 Ninth Assembly (1985–89)
(1985 election) [15]
14 Vir Bahadur Singh
Paniyara 24 September 1985 24 June 1988 2 years, 274 days
(9) N. D. Tiwari [3]
Kashipur 25 June 1988 5 December 1989 1 year, 163 days
15 Mulayam Singh Yadav
Jaswantnagar 5 December 1989 24 June 1991 1 year, 201 days Janata Dal Tenth Assembly (1989–91)
(1989 election) [16]
16 Kalyan Singh
Atrauli 24 June 1991 6 December 1992 1 year, 165 days Bharatiya Janata Party Eleventh Assembly (1991–92)
(1991 election) [17]
– Vacant[b]
(President's rule) 6 December 1992 4 December 1993 363 days N/A Dissolved
(15) Mulayam Singh Yadav [2]
Jaswantnagar 4 December 1993 3 June 1995 1 year, 181 days Samajwadi Party Twelfth Assembly (1993–95)
(1993 election) [18]
17 Mayawati 3 June 1995 18 October 1995 137 days Bahujan Samaj Party
– Vacant[b]
(President's rule) 18 October 1995 17 October 1996 1 year, 154 days N/A Dissolved
17 October 1996 21 March 1997 Thirteenth Assembly (1996–2002)
(1996 election) [19]
(17) Mayawati [2]
Harora 21 March 1997 21 September 1997 184 days Bahujan Samaj Party
(16) Kalyan Singh [2]
Atrauli 21 September 1997 12 November 1999 2 years, 52 days Bharatiya Janata Party
18 Ram Prakash Gupta
MLC 12 November 1999 28 October 2000 351 days
19 Rajnath Singh
Haidergarh 28 October 2000 8 March 2002 1 year, 131 days
– Vacant[b]
(President's rule) 8 March 2002 3 May 2002 56 days N/A Fourteenth Assembly (2002–07)
(2002 election) [20]
(17) Mayawati [3]
Harora 3 May 2002 29 August 2003 1 year, 118 days Bahujan Samaj Party
(15) Mulayam Singh Yadav [3]
Gunnaur 29 August 2003 13 May 2007 3 years, 257 days Samajwadi Party
(17) Mayawati [4]
MLC 13 May 2007 15 March 2012 4 years, 307 days Bahujan Samaj Party Fifteenth Assembly (2007–12)
(2007 election) [21]
20 Akhilesh Yadav
MLC 15 March 2012 19 March 2017 5 years, 4 days Samajwadi Party Sixteenth Assembly (2012–17)
(2012 election) [22]
21 Yogi Adityanath
MLC 19 March 2017 Incumbent 1 year, 91 days Bharatiya Janata Party Seventeenth Assembly (2017–)
(2017 election) [23]
Jump up ^ This column only names the chief minister's party. The state government he heads may be a complex coalition of several parties and independents; these are not listed here.
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i When President's rule is in force in a state, its council of ministers stands dissolved. The office of chief minister thus lies vacant. At times, the legislative assembly also stands dissolved.[10]
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Durga Das Basu. Introduction to the Constitution of India. 1960. 20th Edition, 2011 Reprint. pp. 241, 245. LexisNexis Butterworths Wadhwa Nagpur. ISBN 978-81-8038-559-9. Note: although the text talks about Indian state governments in general, it applies for the specific case of Uttar Pradesh as well.
^ Jump up to: a b Chief Ministers. Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly. Retrieved on 27 July 2013.
Jump up ^ President's rule. Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly. Retrieved on 27 July 2013.
Jump up ^ Date of Constitution & Dissolution of Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha Archived 12 August 2013 at the Wayback Machine.. Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly. Retrieved on 27 July 2013.
Jump up ^ http://www.patrika.com/news/bareilly/up-first-cm-pandit-govind-ballabh-pant-was-won-from-bareilly-constituency-hindi-news-1505294/
Jump up ^ "Statistical Report on General Election, 1951, to the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh" [pdf]. Election Commission of India. Retrieved on 28 July 2013.
Jump up ^ "Statistical Report on General Election, 1957, to the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh" [pdf]. Election Commission of India. Retrieved on 28 July 2013.
Jump up ^ "Statistical Report on General Election, 1962, to the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh" [pdf]. Election Commission of India. Retrieved on 28 July 2013.
Jump up ^ "Statistical Report on General Election, 1967, to the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh" [pdf]. Election Commission of India. Retrieved on 28 July 2013.
Jump up ^ Amberish K. Diwanji. "A dummy's guide to President's rule". Rediff.com. 15 March 2005. Retrieved on 3 March 2013.
Jump up ^ "Statistical Report on General Election, 1969, to the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh" [pdf]. Election Commission of India. Retrieved on 28 July 2013.
Jump up ^ "Statistical Report on General Election, 1974, to the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh" [pdf]. Election Commission of India. Retrieved on 28 July 2013.
Jump up ^ "Statistical Report on General Election, 1977, to the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh" [pdf]. Election Commission of India. Retrieved on 28 July 2013.
Jump up ^ "Statistical Report on General Election, 1980, to the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh" [pdf]. Election Commission of India. Retrieved on 28 July 2013.
Jump up ^ "Statistical Report on General Election, 1985, to the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh" [pdf]. Election Commission of India. Retrieved on 28 July 2013.
Jump up ^ "Statistical Report on General Election, 1989, to the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh" [pdf]. Election Commission of India. Retrieved on 28 July 2013.
Jump up ^ "Statistical Report on General Election, 1991, to the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh" [pdf]. Election Commission of India. Retrieved on 28 July 2013.
Jump up ^ "Statistical Report on General Election, 1993, to the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh" [pdf]. Election Commission of India. Retrieved on 28 July 2013.
Jump up ^ "Statistical Report on General Election, 1996, to the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh" [pdf]. Election Commission of India. Retrieved on 28 July 2013.
Jump up ^ "Statistical Report on General Election, 2002, to the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh" [pdf]. Election Commission of India. Retrieved on 28 July 2013.
Jump up ^ "Statistical Report on General Election, 2007, to the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh" [pdf]. Election Commission of India. Retrieved on 28 July 2013.
Jump up ^ "Statistical Report on General Election, 2012, to the Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh" [pdf]. Election Commission of India. Retrieved on 28 July 2013.
Jump up ^ "Uttar Pradesh Election Results". Economic Times. Retrieved on 12 March 2017.
External links[edit]
States of India since 1947 on WorldStatesmen.org
"Chief Ministers of Uttar Pradesh". The Indian Express. 15 May 2007. Retrieved on 28 July 2013.
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Sampurnanand
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Sucheta Kriplani
Charan Singh
Tribhuvan Narain Singh
Kamalapati Tripathi
Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna
N. D. Tiwari
Ram Naresh Yadav
Banarsi Das
V. P. Singh
Sripati Mishra
Vir Bahadur Singh
Mulayam Singh Yadav
Kalyan Singh
Mayawati
Jagdambika Pal
Ram Prakash Gupta
Rajnath Singh
Akhilesh Yadav
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Topics in Uttar Pradesh
History
History of Uttar Pradesh
Late Harappan
Painted Grey Ware culture
Vedic period
Mahajanapadas
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Sunga
Kushan
Gupta
Harsha
Delhi Sultanate
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Geography
Geography of Uttar Pradesh
Bakhira Sanctuary
Chambal Wildlife Sanctuary
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Dudhwa National Park
Dudhwa Tiger Reserve
Hastinapur Sanctuary
Kachhua Sanctuary
Kaimoor Sanctuary
Katarniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary
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Sandi Bird Sanctuary
Sohagi Barwa Sanctuary
Suhelva Sanctuary
Sur Sarovar Sanctuary
Vijai Sagar Sanctuary
Climate
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Governors
Chief Ministers
Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Parishad
Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha
Allahabad High Court
Uttar Pradesh Police
Divisions
Districts
Cities
Political parties
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Languages
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Braj Bhasha
Kannauji
Hindustani
Hindi
Urdu
Bundeli
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Awadhi
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Literature
Vedas
Epic poetry
Sanskrit
Hindi
Urdu
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Culture
Culture of Uttar Pradesh
Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb
Music of Uttar Pradesh
Hindustani classical music
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Kathak
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Skiffle
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comb and paper
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Skiffle is a music genre with jazz, blues, folk and American folk influences, usually using a combination of manufactured and homemade or improvised instruments. Originating as a term in the United States in the first half of the 20th century, it became popular again in the UK in the 1950s, where it was associated with artists such as Lonnie Donegan, The Vipers Skiffle Group, Ken Colyer and Chas McDevitt. Skiffle played a major part in beginning the careers of later eminent jazz, pop, blues, folk and rock musicians and has been seen as a critical stepping stone to the second British folk revival, blues boom and British Invasion of the US popular music scene.
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1 Origins in the United States
2 Revival in the United Kingdom
3 Notes
4 External links
Origins in the United States[edit]
Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers, c. 1928
The origins of skiffle are obscure but are generally thought to lie in African-American musical culture in the early 20th century. Skiffle is often said to have developed from New Orleans jazz, but this claim has been disputed.[1] Improvised jug bands playing blues and jazz were common across the American South in the early decades of the 20th century.[2] They used instruments such as the washboard, jugs, washtub bass, cigar-box fiddle, musical saw and comb-and-paper kazoos, as well as more conventional instruments, such as acoustic guitar and banjo.[3]
The origin of the English word skiffle is unknown. However, in the dialect of the west of England to make a skiffle meaning to make a mess of any business is attested from 1873.[4] In early 20th century America the term skiffle was one of many slang phrases for a rent party, a social event with a small charge designed to pay rent on a house.[5] It was first recorded in Chicago in the 1920s and may have been brought there as part of the African-American migration to northern industrial cities.[1]
The first use of the term on record was in 1925 in the name of Jimmy O'Bryant and his Chicago Skifflers. Most often it was used to describe country blues music records, which included the compositions "Hometown Skiffle" (1929) and "Skiffle Blues" (1946) by Dan Burley & his Skiffle Boys.[6] It was used by Ma Rainey (1886–1939) to describe her repertoire to rural audiences.[1] The term skiffle disappeared from American music in the 1940s.
Revival in the United Kingdom[edit]
Skiffle was a relatively obscure genre, and it might have been largely forgotten if not for its revival in the United Kingdom in the 1950s and the success of its main proponent, Lonnie Donegan. British skiffle grew out of the developing post-war British jazz scene, which saw a move away from swing music and towards authentic trad jazz.[1] Among these bands were Ken Colyer's Jazzmen, whose banjo player Donegan also performed skiffle music during intervals. He would sing and play guitar with accompaniment of two other members, usually on washboard and tea-chest bass. They played a variety of American folk and blues songs, particularly those derived from the recordings of Lead Belly, in a lively style that emulated American jug bands. These were listed on posters as "skiffle" breaks, a name suggested by Ken Colyer's brother Bill after recalling the Dan Burley Skiffle Group.[7] Soon the breaks were as popular as the traditional jazz. After disagreements in 1954, Colyer left to form a new outfit, and the band became Chris Barber's Jazz Band.[1]
The first British recordings of skiffle were carried out by Colyer's new band in 1954, but it was the release by Decca of two skiffle tracks by Barber's Jazz Band under the name of the "Lonnie Donegan Skiffle Group" that transformed the fortunes of skiffle in late 1955.[1] Donegan's fast-tempo version of Lead Belly's "Rock Island Line" was a major hit in 1956, featuring a washboard (but not a tea-chest bass), with "John Henry" on the B-side. It spent eight months in the Top 20, peaking at No. 6 (and No. 8 in the U.S.). It was the first debut record to go gold in Britain, selling over a million copies worldwide.[1]
It was the success of this single and the lack of a need for expensive instruments or high levels of musicianship that set off the British skiffle craze. A few bands enjoyed chart success in the skiffle craze, including the Chas McDevitt Skiffle Group ("Freight Train"),[8] Johnny Duncan and the Bluegrass Boys, and the Vipers, but the main impact of skiffle was as a grassroots amateur movement, particularly popular among working class males, who could cheaply buy, improvise, or build their own instruments and who have been seen as reacting against the drab austerity of post-war Britain.[1][9] The craze probably reached its height with the broadcasting of the BBC TV programme Six-Five Special from 1957. It was the first British youth music programme, using a skiffle song as its title music and showcasing many skiffle acts.[1]
Liverpool skiffle group the Quarrymen playing their first full show in 1957: John Lennon is centre stage.
It has been estimated that in the late 1950s, there were 30,000–50,000 skiffle groups in Britain.[7] Sales of guitars grew rapidly, and other musicians were able to perform on improvised bass and percussion in venues such as church halls and cafes and in the flourishing coffee bars of Soho, London, like the 2i's Coffee Bar, the Cat's Whisker and nightspots like Coconut Grove and Churchill's, without having to aspire to musical perfection or virtuosity.[1] A large number of British musicians began their careers playing skiffle in this period, and some became leading figures in their respective fields. These included leading Northern Irish musician Van Morrison and British blues pioneer Alexis Korner, as well as Ronnie Wood, Alex Harvey and Mick Jagger; folk musicians Martin Carthy, John Renbourn and Ashley Hutchings; rock musicians Roger Daltrey, Jimmy Page, Ritchie Blackmore, Robin Trower and David Gilmour; and popular beat-music successes Graham Nash and Allan Clarke of the Hollies.[10] Most notably, the Beatles developed from John Lennon's skiffle group the Quarrymen.[11] Similarly, the Bee Gees developed from Barry Gibb's skiffle group the Rattlesnakes.[12]
After splitting from Barber, Donegan went on to make a series of popular records as "Lonnie Donegan's Skiffle Group", with successes including "Cumberland Gap" (1957), "Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour" (1958) and "My Old Man's a Dustman" (1960).[1] However, the British rock and roll scene was starting to take off, producing home-grown stars like Tommy Steele, Marty Wilde and Cliff Richard and the Shadows (themselves originally involved in skiffle). Donegan was the only skiffle act to make a serious impact on the charts, and even he began to look outmoded. The skiffle craze was largely over by 1958, as its enthusiasts either abandoned music for more stable employment or moved into some of the forms of music that it had first suggested, including folk, blues and rock and roll. As a result, it has been seen as a critical stepping stone to the second folk revival, blues boom and the British Invasion of the US popular music scene.[1] Donegan continued his career in skiffle until his death in 2002.[13]
More recently the stylings of Quinns Quinney have bought skiffle in to the new millennium.
Notes[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l M. Brocken, The British folk revival, 1944–2002 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003), pp. 69–80.
Jump up ^ L. R. Broer and J. D. Walther, Dancing Fools and Weary Blues: the Great Escape of the Twenties (Popular Press, 1990), p. 149.
Jump up ^ J. R. Brown., A Concise History of Jazz (Mel Bay Publications, 2004), p. 142.
Jump up ^ A Glossary of Provincial Words & Phrases in Use in Somersetshire (Longmans, London: 1873), 33.
Jump up ^ J. Simpson and E. Weiner, eds, The Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2nd edn., 1989), c.f. "skiffle".
Jump up ^ J. Minton, 78 Blues: Folksongs and Phonographs in the American South (University Press of Mississippi, 2008), pp. 119–20.
^ Jump up to: a b R. D. Cohen, Folk Music: the Basics (CRC Press, 2006), p. 98.
Jump up ^ http://www.chasmcdevitt.com/Skiffle.htm Chas McDevitt: Skiffle
Jump up ^ J. P. Ward, Britain and the American South: From Colonialism to Rock and Roll (University Press of Mississippi, 2009), pp. 192–6.
Jump up ^ C. McDevitt, Skiffle: The Roots of UK Rock (Robson Books, 1998).
Jump up ^ J. Roberts, The Beatles (Lerner Publications, 2001), p. 13.
Jump up ^ Talevski, Nick. The Unofficial Encyclopedia of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Retrieved 31 March 2015.
Jump up ^ Skiffle king Donegan dies (BBC), accessed 05/01/08
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Belinda Stewart-Wilson
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Belinda Stewart-Wilson
Born
(1971-04-16) 16 April 1971 (age 47)
London, England[citation needed]
Occupation
Actress
Years active
1995–present
Spouse(s)
Ben Miller
(m. 2004; div. 2011)
Children
1
Belinda Stewart-Wilson (born 16 April 1971) is an English actress, best known for her role as Polly McKenzie in The Inbetweeners.
Contents
1 Early life
2 Personal life
3 Career
4 Filmography
5 Television movies
6 Television appearances
7 References
8 External links
Early life[edit]
The daughter of Sir Blair Stewart-Wilson, a British Army officer, Stewart-Wilson grew up on military postings in the UK, Germany, and Austria before her family settled in London, her father becoming an Equerry to Queen Elizabeth II. She was educated at St Mary's Calne in Calne, Wiltshire and Hurst Lodge School in Berkshire, before completing a three-year degree in classical acting at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, in London.[1]
Personal life[edit]
Stewart-Wilson was married to actor and comedian Ben Miller, until they were divorced in 2011. They have a son, Sonny (b. 2006).[2]
Career[edit]
Stewart-Wilson's first television role was in the series Shine on Harvey Moon, a show based on 1950s London. Her next two roles were one-time appearances in the popular British sitcom Goodnight Sweetheart and playing a secretary in a TV adaptation of Agatha Christie's Poirot story The Murder on the Links.
From there Stewart-Wilson went on to play roles in British sitcoms Days Like These and Starting Out as well as Kiss Kiss, a feature film starring Chris Penn and Stellan Skarsgård. She also played Dina in La Passione, a feature film based on the life of Chris Rea, which opened the London Film Festival in 1997.
In 2004 she made an appearance in the long-running British medical drama Holby City, before moving on to two satirical programs: making an appearance in Look Around You, which won the Rose d'Or award for best comedy, as well as in three episodes of the 24-hour news-mocking Broken News.
Throughout 2007 and 2008, Stewart-Wilson worked on a number of television shows. Her most notable credits during this time period were the roles of Barbara Reynholm, the wife of Denholm Reynholm in The IT Crowd, and Nikki in the TV series Jekyll alongside James Nesbitt and Gina Bellman. She also made an appearance in the commercially successful mockumentary feature film Razzle Dazzle: A Journey into Dance. Belinda also played a cameo role in Stephen Poliakoff's Joe's Palace in a scene with Michael Gambon.
In 2007 Belinda played various roles in The Peter Serafinowicz Show, going on to appear in The Peter Serafinowicz Show Christmas Special in 2008 which was nominated for a Bafta for Best Comedy in 2009. A "best of" compilation was also aired in 2008.
Between 2008 and 2010, she played Will McKenzie's mother Polly in The Inbetweeners, the multi-award-winning sit-com which was nominated for a BAFTA Award for "Best Sitcom" in 2009 and won the BAFTA audience award in 2010. It also won most popular comedy programme at the National Television Awards in 2011. Stewart-Wilson also appears in both Feature films of the Inbetweeners which were both huge commercial box office successes. However, she is only 13 years older than actor Simon Bird, who played Will. She also plays the recurring role of Christine Johnson in the third series of the cult science-fiction show Primeval.
In 2010 she once again appeared in The IT Crowd, this time playing Victoria Reynholm, the wife of Douglas (Denholm Reynholm's son, played by Matt Berry, making her the daughter-in-law of her previous character), who mysteriously vanished two weeks into their marriage whilst washing the car.
In August 2010, Irish band Pugwash announced that they would be including a song called "Dear Belinda" on their album The Olympus Sound, the track being written as a tribute to Stewart-Wilson for her 40th birthday. Pugwash frontman Thomas Walsh (also of The Duckworth Lewis Method) added that Stewart-Wilson had requested that she appear on the final version of the song.[3]
Between 2011 and 2014, Stewart-Wilson appeared in the critically acclaimed TV film about Monty Python, Holy Flying Circus, as well as the successful period drama Ripper Street. She also played Nancy in Robert B Weide's Mr Sloane, alongside Nick Frost.
In 2015, Stewart-Wilson played Alison, wife of Mike, (played by Max Beesley) in 5 episodes of BBC drama, Ordinary Lies.
Stewart-Wilson can be seen starring as American Fiona Crossley in 25 episodes of Disney's production of The Evermoor Chronicles on The Disney Channel. (2014-2016)
In 2015, Stewart-Wilson appeared alongside Toby Jones, playing his wife, Alice, in a Radio Play for BBC Radio 4 called "The Len Continuum" by Peter Strickland.
Filmography[edit]
Kiss Kiss (2001)
Razzle Dazzle: A Journey into Dance (2007)
Primeval (2009), Christine Johnson
The Inbetweeners Movie (2011), Polly McKenzie
All That Way for Love (2011), Kate
The Inbetweeners 2 (2014), Polly McKenzie
The Brother (2014)
Television movies[edit]
Joe's Palace (2007)
Television appearances[edit]
Shine on Harvey Moon (1995)
Murder on the Links (1996)
Goodnight Sweetheart (1999)
Days Like These (1999)
Holby City (2004)
Look Around You (2005)
Broken News (2005)
Party Animals (2007)
Jekyll (2007)
The Peter Serafinowicz Show (2007)
The IT Crowd (2007, 2010), Barbara Reynholm, Victoria Reynholm
The Inbetweeners (2008–2010), Polly McKenzie
Primeval (2009)
New Tricks (2010)
Miranda (2010)
The Impressions Show with Culshaw and Stephenson (2010)
My Family (2011)
Jack Whitehall's Little Cracker (2011), Mrs Whitehall
Citizen Khan (2013)
Ordinary Lies (2015)
Evermoor (2014-2016)
Casualty (2018), Ciara Cassidy
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Belinda Stewart-Wilson at tv.com
Jump up ^ Rees, Caroline (11 September 2010). "Ben Miller: My family values". The Guardian. London.
Jump up ^ "Pugwash Plead The 5th", 19 August 2010. Retrieved 29 September 2010.
External links[edit]
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