"play the concerto in England. In 1840 he became the Treasurer of the Royal Philharmonic Society, a position he held until his death. By 1841 he was a professor of music. In 1848 he was appointed Master of the Queen's Music by Queen Victoria, succeeding Franz Cramer. He is not recorded as having composed any music, an activity normally associated with this appointment. He remained in the post until 1870; the circumstances of his departure are not known. Until the ten-year fixed-term appointment of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies in 2004, Anderson was the last Master of the Queen's Music to"
"Keith Davies Keith Davies is a Welsh Labour politician and was the National Assembly for Wales member for Llanelli from 2011 until 2016. He beat Helen Mary Jones who was the deputy leader of Plaid Cymru,and incumbent AM for Llanelli, in May 2011. He is a member of the Enterprise and Business Committee, and Environment and Sustainability Committee. His membership of crossparty groups includes: The Armed Forces and Cadets, Human Trafficking, Kidney, Older people, and Muscular Dystrophy. He is the founding chair of the Cross Party Group on the Welsh Language. Davies was a teacher and a Director of Education"
"Peter Maxwell Davies in 1995. He premiered ""A Dance on the Hill"" in 2005, by the same composer. His repertoire included over 100 first performances. In 1990, he co-founded the baroque orchestra Collegium Musicum 90 with Simon Standage. For five years, Hickox was Music Director of the Spoleto Festival, Italy. From 2000 to 2006, he was Principal Conductor of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, thereafter becoming its Conductor Emeritus. He became the Music Director of Opera Australia in 2005. In this role he conducted the Australian premieres of ""The Love for Three Oranges"", ""Rusalka"", and ""Arabella "" (which won"
"Peter Davies (politician) Peter Davies (born 1948) is a British politician who was the Mayor of Doncaster from 2009 to 2013. He was initially elected for the English Democrats, but announced his resignation from the party on 5 February 2013 citing ""a big influx of new members joining from the British National Party"". He subsequently lost narrowly the 2013 election to Labour's Ros Jones. Born in Woodlands on the outskirts of Doncaster in 1948, Davies went to school in Thorne, then worked at Danum School as a teacher. He is married. He is also the Chairman of Sykehouse Cricket Club"
"convened to discuss the proposed closure of a local library – a branch that Mr Davies admitted to having never seen. Peter Davies (politician) Peter Davies (born 1948) is a British politician who was the Mayor of Doncaster from 2009 to 2013. He was initially elected for the English Democrats, but announced his resignation from the party on 5 February 2013 citing ""a big influx of new members joining from the British National Party"". He subsequently lost narrowly the 2013 election to Labour's Ros Jones. Born in Woodlands on the outskirts of Doncaster in 1948, Davies went to school in"
"rather than for life, with the aim of making the post more attractive to composers. Maxwell Davies' work as Master included a Christmas carol for the Queen which was recorded by the Chapels Royal, and a work to accompany a poem by the Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion, to mark the Queen's eightieth birthday in 2006. He played a key role in the creation of the Queen's Medal for Music. After the end of Maxwell Davies's term, Judith Weir was appointed in 2014, for a ten-year term. Reporting the appointment, ""The Guardian"" said that rather than writing pieces for royal occasions,"
"Peter Howell-Jones Peter Howell-Jones (born 1962) is a British Anglican priest. He has been the Dean of Blackburn since his installation at Blackburn Cathedral on 25 March 2017. He was previously vice-dean and a residentiary canon of Chester Cathedral since 2011. Howell-Jones was born in 1962 in Liverpool, England. He was educated at Hillfoot Hey High School, a comprehensive school in Liverpool. He trained as a singer and conductor at the School of Music of Huddersfield Polytechnic, and graduated with a Bachelor of Music (BMus) degree in 1984. He then undertook teacher training at Bretton Hall College, and completed his"
"Conservatives in September 2018. Paul Davies (politician) Paul Windsor Davies (born 1969) is a Welsh politician serving as Leader of the Welsh Conservative Party Group in the Welsh Assembly since 6 September 2018, and Member of the National Assembly for Wales for Preseli Pembrokeshire since 3 May 2007. He gained the seat from Labour and was re-elected in May 2011, and again in May 2016. Davies grew up in Pontsian. He attended Tregroes Primary School and Llandysul Grammar School, obtaining A levels at Newcastle Emlyn Comprehensive School. Davies now lives in Blaenffos, north Pembrokeshire. Davies worked for Lloyds TSB as"
"list for 2007 and topped the list again in 2011. In November 2006 he was made Honorary Vice-President of the Royal Environmental Health Institute of Scotland for his work on the introduction of the ban on smoking in public places. Ahead of the 2016 elections, Maxwell was confirmed as the SNP's candidate for the Eastwood constituency in July 2015. In October it was announced that he would be second on the SNP's list of candidates for West Scotland. In a close contest, Conservative Jackson Carlaw won the seat and Labour's Ken Macintosh was pushed into third. Maxwell was not re-elected."
"Chris Davies (Conservative politician) Christopher Paul Davies is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He is the Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Brecon and Radnorshire after winning the seat in the 2015 general election. Davies attended Morriston School in Wales. He worked as a rural auctioneer and estate agent, before managing a large veterinary practice in Hay-on-Wye. He is a regular main ring commentator at the Royal Welsh Show. Davies was the Conservative candidate for Brecon and Radnorshire at the 2011 Welsh Assembly election. He was elected to Powys County Council in 2012, representing Glasbury"
"fraudulent expense claims submitted by an individual"". Davies attributed the claim to ""my inexperience of the IPSA code"" and stated that he done nothing wrong. On 17 July 2018 he was interviewed under caution. Davies was questioned by police for a second time in October 2018 over the allegations. Chris Davies (Conservative politician) Christopher Paul Davies is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He is the Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Brecon and Radnorshire after winning the seat in the 2015 general election. Davies attended Morriston School in Wales. He worked as a rural auctioneer"
"Paul Davies (politician) Paul Windsor Davies (born 1969) is a Welsh politician serving as Leader of the Welsh Conservative Party Group in the Welsh Assembly since 6 September 2018, and Member of the National Assembly for Wales for Preseli Pembrokeshire since 3 May 2007. He gained the seat from Labour and was re-elected in May 2011, and again in May 2016. Davies grew up in Pontsian. He attended Tregroes Primary School and Llandysul Grammar School, obtaining A levels at Newcastle Emlyn Comprehensive School. Davies now lives in Blaenffos, north Pembrokeshire. Davies worked for Lloyds TSB as a Business Manager based"
"with a slightly reduced majority of 9,624 in the 2015 general election. He was re-elected onto the executive committee of the 1922 Committee of backbench Conservative MPs in 2010 and is a member of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee. He has also become a member of the newly established backbench business committee and a member of the Speaker's Panel, chairing Westminster Hall debates. Davies is rated as one of the Conservatives' most rebellious MPs. On 2 November 2012, Davies wrote to the Metropolitan Police requesting it to open a second investigation into ex-Labour MP Denis MacShane's expenses claims."
"Matthew Davies (historian) Matthew P. Davies, FRHistS, FSA, is a British academic administrator and urban historian, specialising in late medieval and early modern cities. Since 2016, he has been Executive Dean of the School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London where he is also a professor of urban history; between 2002 and 2016, he was Director of the Institute of Historical Research's Centre for Metropolitan History. Davies completed his undergraduate studies (BA) and doctorate at the University of Oxford; his DPhil was awarded in 1994 for his thesis ""The tailors of London and their guild,"
"Peter Ho Davies Peter Ho Davies (born 30 August 1966) is a contemporary British writer of Welsh and Chinese descent. Born and raised in Coventry, Davies studied physics at Manchester University and then English at Cambridge University. In 1992 he moved to the United States to study in the graduate creative writing program at Boston University. He has taught at the University of Oregon and at Emory University and is currently a professor in the Helen Zell MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Davies is a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation,"
"to 2016, he was director of the ""Records of London's Livery Companies Online"" project, and with Vanessa Harding and Richard Smith, he received a Major Grant from Economic and Social Research Council for a project entitled ""Life in the Suburbs: Health, Domesticity and Status in Early Modern London"", which ran from 2008 to 2011. Matthew Davies (historian) Matthew P. Davies, FRHistS, FSA, is a British academic administrator and urban historian, specialising in late medieval and early modern cities. Since 2016, he has been Executive Dean of the School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London where"
"general elections - in addition to the 1991 by-election. The current MP is the Conservative David Davies, elected in 2005 and a former member for the Welsh Assembly seat of the same name. To avoid confusion with the Yorkshire Conservative David Davis, he is named in Hansard as ""David T.C. Davies"". The constituency is one of eight covering the preserved county of Gwent. The other seven are Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Islwyn, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney, Newport East, Newport West and Torfaen. Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney, however, straddles the boundary with the preserved county of Mid Glamorgan. It covers most of"
"name was put forward by Peter Thomas ( owner of Cardiff RFC / Cardiff Blues) to succeed Gerald Davies on the board of the Welsh Rugby Union. http://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/rugby/rugby-news/dragons-ceo-gareth-davies-backed-7398838 Davies was elected Chairman of the WRU on 21 October 2014 Davies was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Cardiff Metropolitan University in 2015 and is an Honorary Fellow of Cardiff University Gareth Davies (rugby player, born 1955) William Gareth Davies (born 29 September 1955) is a former and British and Irish Lions international rugby union player. Born in Carmarthen, he was educated in Llanelli. Davies was an all-round sportsman, representing Welsh schools"
"Cabinet reshuffle. In 2015, he was re-elected in that year's general election with 45% of the vote. One of the votes for him was a drawing of a penis in the box next to his name, which was ruled valid. Davies was again re-elected in the 2017 general election, with a majority of 9,285. In July 2017 it was confirmed that Davies would resume his previous role (2010–2012) as Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to the Secretary of State for Wales Alun Cairns. In October 2016, Davies tweeted a series of remarks about 'academics', suggesting that they lacked the status of"
"English Democrats councillor at parish level for Crowborough Town Council in East Sussex, polling 120 votes of 211 cast; he was returned in 2007 in an uncontested election. In 2011, he was elected as an independent, so the English Democrats lost the seat. Later that year, Markyate Parish councillor Simon Deacon defected from the British National Party, to the English Democrats, having been elected unopposed. However, he resigned in October 2012. The English Democrats gained another parish council seat when Mick Glynn was elected for the Dunsville ward of Hatfield Town Council, Doncaster. Following the resignation of Peter Davies, Glynn"
"the council's decision, and commercial peat extraction on Chat Moss ceased. In 1994 the British composer Peter Maxwell Davies, who was born in Salford, wrote a seven-minute tone poem for school orchestra, titled ""Chat Moss"". Chat Moss was also the subject of a ceiling painting produced as the result of a research project jointly funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board and Arts Council England. The project was a collaboration between artist Derek Hampson and geographer Gary Priestnall. Hampson chose Chat Moss as their subject because of its 19th-century historical significance as the site of the world's first passenger"
"Peter Davies (scientist) Peter Davies, a scientist and active researcher, was born in Wales in 1948. He is the head and director of the Litwin-Zucker Research Center for The Study of Alzheimer’s Disease and Memory Disorders associated with The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research in Manhasset, NY. Peter Davies received his B.Sc. (Hons., 1st class) and Ph.D. both in Biochemistry from the University of Leeds in 1971 and 1974, respectively. He was a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland before joining the staff of the Medical Research Council Brain Metabolism Unit in Edinburgh"
"and Peter Donnelly is a director of the Oxford Centre for Gene Function. She is an Executive Editor of the journal ""Human Molecular Genetics"". She has published more than 400 papers and won numerous awards for her work. She has been a Governor of the Wellcome Trust since 2008 and became Deputy chairman in 2013. She was the recipient of the Women in to Science and Engineering (WISE) Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014. Davies was a founding Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in 1998, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2003. Already a"
"and Pensions, Esther McVey, by a margin of 2,436. Phil Davies (politician) Phillip Leslie Davies (born 1959), is a British Labour politician and current Leader of Wirral Council. BA (Hons) Politics, University of Warwick, 1978-81; PhD in Public Policy, University of Strathclyde, 1981-85. Davies studied at Wirral Met College. Davies was first elected to Wirral Council in 1991 for the then Labour safe seat of Birkenhead. In 2004, he was successfully re-elected to the Birkenhead and Tranmere ward after boundary changes. In March 2012, Davies was deputy leader of the Labour group when then leader Steve Foulkes, who lost a"
"was first elected during the 2008 federal election. He received 15,933 votes, winning the riding by almost 3000 votes over his nearest competitor. Davies was re-elected in the 2011 election, receiving over 50% of the votes cast and winning by 10,300 votes over his nearest competitor. In 2015, he was re-elected for his third term, receiving 46% of the vote and leading his nearest competitor by over 8000 votes. In the 40th Parliament, Davies served as NDP Critic for Public Safety and National Security, Vice-Chair of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security and Deputy"
"lead role in securing the first International Men's Day debate in Parliament in 2015; the debate has since taken place annually. Davies is on the governing council of The Freedom Association pressure group, and is an organiser for the TaxPayers' Alliance. Davies has regularly been criticised by other politicians and prominent public figures for comments he has made on gender equality and women, homosexuality, ethnic minorities and the disabled. His comments on gender equality led to criticism in ""The Guardian"" and a comparison with ""misogynistic online trolls"". Born in Doncaster, Davies' father is Peter Davies, a former elected Mayor of"
"measures to keep lorries and planes moving. Shrinking economic activity and trade will require a squeeze on “expensive” environmental standards and rights at work. So, soon we may all be flying on board Jacob Rees-Mogg's time machine back to Charles Dickens’ Britain."" Geraint Davies (Labour politician) Geraint Richard Davies is a British politician who is the Labour Co-operative Member of Parliament (MP) for Swansea West. Previously, Davies was the Labour Party MP for Croydon Central from 1997 to 2005. He had also served as Leader of Croydon Borough Council. Davies was born on 3 May 1960. His family comes from"
"Maxwell Davies. He recorded Michael Nyman's music for ""La Sept"" with the Michael Nyman Band in 1989. In June 2007, he was horn soloist in the first performance of Matthew King's epic forest piece, King's Wood Symphony. Richard Watkins is in great demand for master classes both in the UK and abroad. At present he is a guest teacher in the Royal College of Music and he is holder of the Dennis Brain Chair in the Royal Academy of Music. He has two sons named Alexei and Louis. Alexei currently attends the Royal Academy of Music studying the horn. Louis"
"apologised to the Assembly for his drunken behaviour at a Cardiff hotel. On 28 September 2012, Keith Davies was admitted to hospital being described as being seriously ill. On the 23 October 2012, Mr Davies was discharged from hospital with the diagnosis of a blood clot. Keith Davies Keith Davies is a Welsh Labour politician and was the National Assembly for Wales member for Llanelli from 2011 until 2016. He beat Helen Mary Jones who was the deputy leader of Plaid Cymru,and incumbent AM for Llanelli, in May 2011. He is a member of the Enterprise and Business Committee, and"
"in the Vale of Glamorgan. Davies was a Welsh delegate on the Council of the National Farmers Union (NFU); Vice president of the local Young Farmers Club; and is a former Chairman of Creative Communities, which seeks to develop structural community development. Davies is also a life governor of the Royal Welsh Agricultural Society, and was the Society’s Oxford Scholar in 2002. He is a former governor at Llanfair Primary School. Joining the Conservative Party in 1997, Davies fought Cardiff West in the 2001 general election, and Brecon and Radnorshire in 2005. He has served as Deputy Chairman (Political) for"
"he will remain as the MHA for Topsail-Paradise until at least the end of the current sitting of the House of Assembly in June. On May 13, 2018 Davis announced he would resign as Leader of the Opposition. Since Ches Crosbie does not have a seat in the House of Assembly MHA David Brazil was appointed Leader of the Opposition on May 14, 2018. On October 18, Davis announced his resignation as MHA effective November 2, 2018. Paul Davis (Canadian politician) Paul Alfred Davis (born June 17, 1961), is a Canadian politician who was the leader of the Progressive Conservative"
"to provide additional funding for education, and to establish a Royal Commission to consider decriminalisation of cannabis. The Littleborough and Saddleworth seat was abolished by the time of the 1997 General Election. Davies contested Oldham East and Saddleworth at the 1997 election but lost to Phil Woolas of Labour. Davies was elected as a Member of the European Parliament for the North West England constituency in 1999 and served as the Liberal Democrat spokesman on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee (ENVI) in the European Parliament. In March 2014 he won a parliamentarian of the year award for"
"a service in Canterbury Cathedral. He was Visiting Professor of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music, and in 2009 became an Honorary Fellow of Homerton College, Cambridge. Davies also received an Honorary Doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 2002 Davies was one of the first classical composers to open a music download website, ""MaxOpus"" (in 1996). The site became temporarily unavailable after the arrest in June 2007 of Michael Arnold (one of MaxOpus's directors) on fraud charges arising from money missing from Davies's business accounts. In October 2008 Arnold and his wife Judith (Davies's former agent) were charged with the"