What was the christian name of Arkwright’s nephew in Open All Hours
"to be too small for the act. Arkwright and Gladys apparently never got married before Arkwright's death; Gladys claims he died to save the cost of the church. Arkwright (Open All Hours) Albert E. Arkwright, usually referred to simply as Arkwright, is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the British sitcom, ""Open All Hours"", played by Ronnie Barker. Arkwright is the uncle of Granville and the proprietor of an old fashioned Yorkshire corner shop, which in the era of the programme (1970s and 1980s) was a product of a bygone age. Arkwright's signature characteristic is his stutter, which"
"thrice-widowed patriarch Ben Cartwright (Lorne Greene). He had three sons, each by a different wife: the eldest was the urbane architect Adam Cartwright (Pernell Roberts) who built the ranch house; the second was the warm and lovable giant Eric ""Hoss"" Cartwright (Dan Blocker); and the youngest was the hotheaded and impetuous Joseph or ""Little Joe"" (Michael Landon). Via exposition (S01:E01 – ""Rose for Lotta"") and flashback episodes, each wife was accorded a different ancestry: English (S02:E65 – ""Elizabeth My Love""), Swedish (S03:E95 – ""Inger My Love"") and French Creole (S04:E120 – ""Marie My Love"") respectively. The family's cook was the"
"same year, determined not to be remembered only as Fletcher, Barker opted to end ""Porridge"" after three series and instead focused on the second pilot ""Open All Hours"", alongside David Jason. Barker starred as Arkwright, a money-grabbing, stuttering shopkeeper. Arkwright's stutter was not in the script; Barker was inspired to use it by Melvyn's performance and use of a stutter in a 1955 play the two performed at the Palace Theatre called ""Hot Water"". ""Open All Hours"" aired one series in 1976 on BBC Two but was not renewed due to low ratings. As a result, Barker backtracked on his"
"is one of five siblings who were abandoned by their mother at an early age; his father was a miner. Arkwright spent most of his formative childhood in care homes and after performing badly at school, which led him into a life of crime and a sentence to a borstal. Rumours persisted that he was the product of an incestuous relationship. By the time he was 21, Arkwright was working at a scrap merchants in Mexborough, South Yorkshire, but was sacked on 27 August 1988 for a poor attendance record. It was after this sacking that the 56-hour killing spree"
"Open All Hours Open All Hours is a British television sitcom created and written by Roy Clarke for the BBC. It ran for 26 episodes in four series, which premiered in 1976, 1981, 1982 and 1985. The programme developed from a television pilot broadcast in Ronnie Barker's comedy anthology series, ""Seven of One"" (1973). ""Open All Hours"" ranked eighth in the 2004 Britain's Best Sitcom poll. A sequel, entitled ""Still Open All Hours"", was created in 2013. The setting is a small grocer's shop in Balby, a suburb of Doncaster in South Yorkshire. The owner, Arkwright (Ronnie Barker), is a"
"now running the shop with his son Leroy (played by James Baxter), after inheriting it from Arkwright. Clarke wrote the script in two weeks, and production began in October 2013. The exterior scenes were filmed at the original location at Lister Avenue in Doncaster from 18 to 20 November 2013. The interior scenes were recorded on 3 December 2013 at dock10, MediaCityUK in Salford in front of a studio audience. A 30-minute documentary accompanying the show's return, entitled ""Open All Hours: A Celebration"", aired on 27 December 2013, the day after the new episode was broadcast, on BBC One. On"
"Richard Arkwright (1781–1832) Richard Arkwright (30 September 1781 – 28 March 1832) was an English politician. He was the oldest son of Richard Arkwright (died 1843) of Willersley Castle, Derbyshire, and grandson of the entrepreneur Sir Richard Arkwright (1732–1792), whose invention of the spinning frame and other industrial innovations made him very wealthy. Young Richard was educated at Eton and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He and his five brothers were endowed as landed gentry by their father, who gave Richard £30,000 on his marriage in 1803 (equivalent to £ in 2019). He managed his father's estates at Normanton Turville (near"
"Augustus Arkwright Augustus Peter Arkwright (6 March 1821 – 6 October 1887) was a Royal Navy officer and a Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1880. Arkwright was the seventh son of Peter Arkwright J.P. of Hock Houses near Matlock, and his wife Mary Anne Hurt, daughter of Charles Hurt. He was the grandson of Richard Arkwright Junior. Between 1829 and 1832, he was educated at Seaforth near Liverpool and in 1833 at the age of 12 went to Portsmouth Naval College. He left there in June 1835 and joined HMS ""Barham"" at"
"Richard Arkwright junior Richard Arkwright junior (19 December 1755 – 23 April 1843), the son of Sir Richard Arkwright of Cromford, Derbyshire, was the financier (creditor) of Samuel Oldknow of Marple and Mellor and a personal friend. His son Captain Arkwright married Francis Kemble, daughter of the theatre manager Stephen Kemble. Richard Arkwright junior was born in Bolton. His mother, Patience Holt, died when he was only a few months old, and his father, Sir Richard Arkwright, raised him on his own until he was six, then married Margaret Biggensin, with whom he had a daughter, Susan. The couple divorced"
"the Holy See at the Peace of Augsburg. Julius' papacy was marked by scandals, the most notable of which is centered around the pope's adoptive nephew, Innocenzo Ciocchi Del Monte. Innocenzo del Monte was a teenaged beggar found in the streets of Parma who was hired by the family as a lowly hall boy in their primary residence, the boy's age being variously given as 14, 15 or 17 years. After the elevation of Julius to the papacy, Innocenzo Del Monte was adopted into the family by the pope's brother and, by Julius, was then promptly created cardinal-nephew. Julius showered"
"guest at St Hugh's Charterhouse, Parkminster. Robin Bruce Lockhart Robin Bruce Lockhart (1920–2008) was a British author. He was the son of British spy R. H. Bruce Lockhart. During the Second World War, he served in British naval intelligence. ""Ace of Spies"", his book about legendary secret agent Sidney Reilly, was published in 1967 and adapted into the 1983 television miniseries """", starring Sam Neill as the title character with Ian Charleson as his father. The book was republished in 1984 as """". Bruce Lockhart converted to Roman Catholicism. His book about the Carthusians, ""Half-way to Heaven"" (1985), came from"
"""Harpocrates"", meaning ""Horus the Child""; Horus, the son of Isis and Osiris, sometimes distinguished from their brother Horus the Elder, who was the old patron deity of Upper Egypt. Hoor is represented as a young boy with a child's sidelock of hair, sucking his finger. The Greeks, Ovid and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn attributed silence to him, presumably because the sucking of the finger is suggestive of the common ""shhh""-gesture. Aiwass, the being who dictated ""The Book of the Law"" to Crowley, introduces himself as ""the minister of Hoor-paar-kraat"" in the book's first chapter. Also known as"
"Agra Bank Limited. He was elected at the 1868 general election as one of the two Members of Parliament (MPs) for North Derbyshire, and held the seat until his defeat at the 1880 general election. Augustus Arkwright Augustus Peter Arkwright (6 March 1821 – 6 October 1887) was a Royal Navy officer and a Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1880. Arkwright was the seventh son of Peter Arkwright J.P. of Hock Houses near Matlock, and his wife Mary Anne Hurt, daughter of Charles Hurt. He was the grandson of Richard Arkwright Junior."
"a mystery story with supernatural elements. In 1889, he published a second novel, ""The Queen Anne’s Gate Mystery"". This is a detective story with an aristocratic female detective Lady Geraldine accompanied by her husband, who is also the narrator. Richard Arkwright (barrister) Richard Arkwright (1835 – 14 November 1918) was an English barrister and Conservative Party politician. Arkwright was the second son of John Arkwright, of Hampton Court, Herefordshire, and the great-grandson of the cotton-spinning industrialist Sir Richard Arkwright. His brother, John Hungerford Arkwright, was Lord Lieutenant of Herefordshire, whose son John Stanhope Arkwright was also an MP. He was"
"Alex Albrecht Alexander Jennings Albrecht (born August 14, 1976) is an American television personality, actor and podcaster. He is known for co-hosting the former G4techTV television program ""The Screen Savers"", an hour-long computer and technology variety show, as well as the weekly podcast ""Diggnation"" and the weekday podcast ""The Totally Rad Show"" on the Revision3 network. On July 15, 2008, he released his new podcast/website ""Project Lore"", all about ""World of Warcraft"". Albrecht has expressed a penchant for dressing up as characters from Street Fighter, most recently appearing as Guile . Alex is the son of Dr. Mark Albrecht, former"
"Harpocrates Harpocrates () was the god of silence, secrets and confidentiality in the Hellenistic religion developed in Ptolemaic Alexandria (and also an embodiment of hope, according to Plutarch). Harpocrates was adapted by the Greeks from the Egyptian child god Horus, who represented the newborn sun, rising each day at dawn. Harpocrates's name was a Hellenization of the Egyptian ""Har-pa-khered"" or ""Heru-pa-khered"", meaning ""Horus the Child"". In Egyptian mythology, Horus was the child of Isis and Osiris. Osiris was the original divine pharaoh of Egypt, who had been murdered by his brother Set (by ""interpretatio graeca"", identified with Typhon or Chaos),"
"to hang in the dining hall of Trinity College, Oxford. Henry Ireton Henry Ireton (1611 – 26 November 1651) was an English general in the Parliamentary army during the English Civil War, the son-in-law of Oliver Cromwell. Ireton was the eldest son of German Ireton of Attenborough, Nottinghamshire, and was baptised in St Mary's Church on 3 November 1611. He became a gentleman commoner of Trinity College, Oxford in 1626, graduated BA in 1629 and entered the Middle Temple the same year. On the outbreak of the Civil War, he joined the parliamentary army, fighting at the Battle of Edgehill"
"Roman Catholicism after being widowed and became a friend of Siegfried Sassoon, who also converted, following her example. She also remained in touch with Evelyn Waugh, another convert. All three of her children were brought up as Roman Catholics. Raymond Asquith Raymond Herbert Asquith (6 November 1878 – 15 September 1916) was an English barrister and son of British prime minister H. H. Asquith. A distinguished Oxford scholar, he was a member of the fashionable group of intellectuals known as The Coterie, notable for their unconventional lifestyles and lavish hospitality. Like several of them, Asquith was killed in action in"
"research to be conducted in order to sway the belief of impact the relationship between bilingualism and stuttering has. Jazz and Eurodance musician Scatman John wrote the song ""Scatman (Ski Ba Bop Ba Dop Bop)"" to help children who stutter overcome adversity. Born John Paul Larkin, Scatman spoke with a stutter himself and won the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association's Annie Glenn Award for outstanding service to the stuttering community. Fiction character Arkwright from the British sitcom ""Open All Hours"" stammered and much of the series' humour revolved around this. Recurring character Reginald Barclay from the ""Star Trek"" television franchise and the"
"Richard Arkwright (barrister) Richard Arkwright (1835 – 14 November 1918) was an English barrister and Conservative Party politician. Arkwright was the second son of John Arkwright, of Hampton Court, Herefordshire, and the great-grandson of the cotton-spinning industrialist Sir Richard Arkwright. His brother, John Hungerford Arkwright, was Lord Lieutenant of Herefordshire, whose son John Stanhope Arkwright was also an MP. He was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating in 1857. He was called to the bar from Lincoln's Inn in 1859 and in 1862 married Lady Mary Caroline Byng, a daughter of the Earl of Strafford. Arkwright was elected"
"and on 10 November in the Coptic Orthodox Church. Cleopas Cleopas (or Cleophas, Greek Κλεόπας, ""Kleopas"") was a figure of early Christianity, one of the two disciples who encountered Jesus during the Road to Emmaus appearance in . Some writers claim that the name Clopas in John 19:25 (""Mary of Clopas"" Κλωπᾶς) is a Hellenized form of a claimed Aramaic name Qlopha (קלופא), and that Cleopas' name (Κλεόπας) is an abbreviated form of ""Cleopatros"", a Greek name meaning ""glory of the father"" (best known in the feminine form Cleopatra). Catholic and Orthodox traditions hold that Clopas, believed as brother of"
"Barbon was the eldest son of Praise-God Barebone (or Barbon), after whom the Barebone's Parliament of 1653—the predecessor of Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate—was named. Praise-God's reputed Christian name was ""Unless-Jesus-Christ-Had-Died-For-Thee-Thou-Hadst-Been-Damned"", a variant of his son's middle name. He became a religious separatist with Millenarianist beliefs, with fervent views in favour of infant baptism in particular. Nicholas was born in London in either 1637 or 1640. He studied medicine at the Universities of Leiden and Utrecht in the Netherlands, and received his Doctor of Medicine qualification from the latter in 1661. Three years later, he became an honorary fellow of the Royal"
"habitual criminal"", Fletcher (played by Ronnie Barker, already famous for his comedy partnership with Ronnie Corbett) and a young, naive, first-time prisoner, Lennie Godber. The two would bicker but endured a relationship of mutual respect. Barker also formed a partnership with David Jason in Open All Hours, with Jason playing Granville while Barker played Albert Arkwright. Many don't see this as a comedy duo, but the straight-man element coupled with Barker's funny-man antics on the show are still compressed into the script. Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson combined their success in sitcoms (""The Young Ones"") and as a double act"
"was revived for three made-for-television movies featuring the Cartwrights' children: """" (1988), """" (1993), and """" (1995). Michael Landon Jr., played Little Joe's son Benji while Gillian Greene, Lorne Greene's daughter, played a love interest. In the second movie, airing on NBC, a one-hour retrospective was done to introduce the drama. It was hosted by both Michael Landon Jr., and Dirk Blocker, who looks and sounds much like his father Dan Blocker. According to the magazine ""TV Guide"", producer Dortort told Blocker he was too old to play the Hoss scion, but gave him the role of an unrelated newspaper"
"Robin Bruce Lockhart Robin Bruce Lockhart (1920–2008) was a British author. He was the son of British spy R. H. Bruce Lockhart. During the Second World War, he served in British naval intelligence. ""Ace of Spies"", his book about legendary secret agent Sidney Reilly, was published in 1967 and adapted into the 1983 television miniseries """", starring Sam Neill as the title character with Ian Charleson as his father. The book was republished in 1984 as """". Bruce Lockhart converted to Roman Catholicism. His book about the Carthusians, ""Half-way to Heaven"" (1985), came from his own experiences as a lay"
"Granville is often curious and engrossed in thoughts about who his father was and saddened not to have known his mother. Although a kind provider (as long as it isn't too stressful on his wallet), Arkwright's miserly and eccentric personality makes him withdraw Granville from school and he starts helping in his uncle's shop at age eleven. The tedious routine weighs heavily on Granville, who hates getting up well before dawn in the morning and not being free until nine at night. He is poorly paid, at three pounds a week, and is made to pay for anything he helps"
"graveyard and see Doc Robinson, Muff Potter, and Injun Joe, a ""half-breed"" troublemaker, robbing a man's grave. (""Hands All Clean""). After a scuffle about ownership of the dead man's watch, Joe murders Doc Robinson and arranges to frame Muff for it. The boys run away and swear in blood to ""keep mum forever"" about what they saw (""The Vow""). On the way to church, Aunt Polly and Judge Thatcher, single parents, lament about ""Raising A Child By Yourself"". In church, Tom tries to impress Becky by fooling Reverend Sprague into giving him the ""Bible Prize"" (""It’s In The Bible""). Tom"
"One of his closest friends at school was Matthew Beovich, a future Archbishop of Adelaide. In later life he said ""I owe everything I have in life, under Almighty God and next to my parents, to the Christian Brothers"". Calwell's mother died in 1913, aged 40, when her oldest son was 16 and her youngest child was only three months old. His father remarried, eventually dying in 1938 at the age of 69. Calwell was an officer in the Australian Army Cadets at the outbreak of World War I, and made two unsuccessful applications for a commission in the Australian"
"came with ""Rookwood"" in 1834, which features Dick Turpin as its leading character. A stream of 39 novels followed, the last of which appeared in 1881. Ainsworth died in Reigate on 3 January 1882. Ainsworth was born on 4 February 1805 in the family house at 21 King Street, Manchester, to Thomas Ainsworth, a prominent Manchester lawyer, and Ann (Harrison) Ainsworth, the daughter of the Rev. Ralph Harrison, the Unitarian minister at Manchester Cross Street Chapel. On 4 October 1806, Ainsworth's brother, Thomas Gilbert Ainsworth, was born. Although the family home was eventually destroyed, it was a three-storey Georgian home"
"""One suggestion was to return Pernell Roberts, who had played another Cartwright son when ""Bonanza"" first premiered on NBC fourteen years ago. We only considered that briefly, [producer Richard] Collins says... Some people felt it was a logical step—the oldest son returning at a time of family need—but most of us didn't think it would work.' Dan Blocker was 6-foot-4, 320-pounds when chosen to play the gentle middle son Eric, better known as ""Hoss"". The nickname was used as a nod to the character's ample girth, an endearing term for ""big and friendly"", used by his Swedish mother (and Uncle"
"the boy, the defence tried to trip him up on his answers, but the jury and those present in the court room seemed to believe him. As the Toronto Globe accounts, ""His answers were, as a rule, given very promptly and with a fearlessness that did him credit… looking straight into the face of the Crown counsel, seldom looking elsewhere."" Hugh McMahon questioned Johnny next, first about the gold watch that he was wearing and secondly about the fact that his christened name was Jeremiah and that he was actually 15 years old as records in St. Patrick's parish had"
"baby. During his childhood he did not have a great taste for Quakerism or religion at all, although his mother would read accounts of his father’s sufferings to him in the evenings, and he went with his mother to meeting and to visit Friends imprisoned in Appleby. He was apprenticed to his uncle as a blacksmith, at the age of 13. In 1696, his life was changed. At this time he was apprenticed to Samuel Parrott, a Friend from Briggflatts meeting in Sedbergh. Attending meeting for worship, another Friend, Anne Wilson rose in worship and accused him of being no"
"Arthur Read Arthur Timothy Read is the son of David and Jane Read and the titular protagonist of both the book series and the PBS children's television show ""Arthur,"" created by Marc Brown. On the show, he is eight years old, in Mr. Ratburn's third grade class, and lives in Elwood City. He is of English-American descent. Arthur is an anthropomorphic aardvark. In Brown's first ""Arthur"" book, ""Arthur's Nose"" (1976), Arthur is shown with a long nose and resembles an actual aardvark, though as the books progressed and eventually became a TV series, a noticeable, simplified version of Arthur took"