"the Pleasance Theatre, Islington, for a limited run in late September 2007. The production returned to the Edinburgh Fringe in August 2008, alongside its sequel ""Tony of Arabia"". Previews were performed at the Oxford North Wall and the Theatre Royal, Wakefield, in July 2008. The production begins with a news reporter announcing the fall of Tony Blair, before the erstwhile prime minister is carried onstage, funeral-style, by four pallbearers, to melancholic chants of ""Tony!"". He is then thrown to the ground to the crash of a drum fill, where he begins to sing the opening number, ""Tony's Entrance,"" in which"
"2002. The Blair children attended Catholic secondary schools. All four children have Irish passports, by virtue of Tony Blair's mother, Hazel Elizabeth Corscadden, a Protestant, the daughter of George Corscadden, a butcher and Orangeman who moved to Glasgow in 1916 but returned to Ballyshannon in 1923, where Hazel was born to George and Sarah Margaret (née Lipsett), above her family's grocery shop. Via her father, Blair and her younger sister Lyndsey have six half-sisters, including British journalist Lauren Booth. Her first grandchild (a girl) was born in October 2016. Blair has described herself as a socialist and, at times, has"
"Cherie Blair Cherie Blair (née Booth; born 23 September 1954), also known professionally as Cherie Booth, is a British barrister and lecturer. She is married to Tony Blair, who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Booth was born in 23 September 1954 at Fairfield General Hospital, Bury, Lancashire, England, and brought up in Ferndale Road, Waterloo, Merseyside, just north of Liverpool. Although her birth was registered as 'Cherie', owing to her maternal grandmother's influence she was christened 'Theresa Cara' in deference to the requirement that she be given a saint's name. Her father, British actor Tony Booth, left"
"to secure the blessings of liberty to people around the globe. On 8 July 2010, Blair was awarded the Order of Freedom by the President of Kosovo, Fatmir Limaj. As Blair is credited as being instrumental in ending the conflict in Kosovo, some boys born in that country following the war have been given the name Toni or Tonibler. Tony Blair Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He previously served as"
"UK. When Tony Blair mentioned her in his speech at the 1998 Labour Party Conference, she received a standing ovation. Mowlam was born at 43 King Street, Watford, Hertfordshire, England, the middle of three children of Tina and Frank, but grew up in Coventry, where her father rose to become Coventry's assistant postmaster. She would later be awarded the Freedom of the City in 1999. She was the only one of the family's three children to pass the 11-plus exam. She started at Chiswick Girls' grammar school in West London, then moved to Coundon Court School in Coventry, which, at"
"Leo Blair Leo Charles Lynton Blair (born Charles Leonard Augustus Parsons; 4 August 192316 November 2012) was a British barrister and law lecturer at Durham University. He was the author of the book ""The Commonwealth Public Service"". He was the father of Tony Blair, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and of Sir William Blair, a High Court judge. Born Charles Leonard Augustus Parsons in Filey, Yorkshire, England, he was the illegitimate son of two middle class travelling entertainers. His father Charles Parsons (16 July 1887 – 19 January 1970) had the stage name Jimmy Lynton while his"
"new leader Tony Blair, he was created a life peer on 1 November 1997 taking the title Baron Montague of Oxford, of Oxford in the County of Oxfordshire. It later emerged that this was after he had made a donation of £5,000 to the Labour party. Montague collapsed while attending the House of Lords on 5 November 1999. He was pronounced dead in the ambulance on the way to St Thomas' Hospital. In February 2000, openly gay Lord Alli raised the issue of Montague's Japanese partner of 35 years, Takashi Sizuki, having to sell their home in Dorchester-on-Thames to pay"
"1872, but continued to be active in state politics until his death. Blair was born in Lexington, Kentucky. He was the third and youngest son of newspaper editor and politician Francis Preston Blair, and Eliza Violet (Gist) Blair. He was the brother of Montgomery Blair, a Mayor of St. Louis and Postmaster General under Lincoln, and the cousin of B. Gratz Brown, a U.S. Senator and Governor of Missouri. Blair attended schools in Washington, D.C., was matriculated in Yale and the University of North Carolina, but graduated from Princeton University in 1841, and then studied law at Transylvania University. After"
"Tony Blair Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He previously served as Leader of the Opposition before becoming Prime Minister and remains the last British Labour Party leader to have won a general election. From 1983 to 2007, Blair was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sedgefield. He was elected Labour Party leader in July 1994, following the sudden death of his predecessor, John Smith. Under Blair's leadership, the party used"
"to 1993. Blair was born on 30 November 1922 in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Lancashire, England. He was the only child born to William Henry Murray Blair (1875–1945), cotton-goods merchant, and Lilian Blair (née Wearing; 1891–1983). He was educated at William Hulme's Grammar School, a grammar school in Manchester. Following military service in World War II, Blair matriculated into the University of Manchester in 1946. He studied history, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1950. He later studied for a Master of Arts (MA) degree from Manchester which he completed in 1963 with a thesis titled ""The Emperor Maximilian"
"2010. Ian Blair was born in Chester to Jim and Sheila Blair in 1953. His father spent most of his career working for Lever Brothers, eventually rising to manage the dock at Port Sunlight in Merseyside. His mother was from Sheffield and her father had made a living as a steel merchant until he suffered major losses in the Great Depression in the 1930s. Both Blair and his brother, six years his senior, were sent to independent school at the expense of one of their father's brothers, who was a successful doctor. Blair's brother, Sandy, left school early to work"
"28 June 1975 of thyroid cancer. He remarried and lived in Shrewsbury, Shropshire with his second wife, Olwen, until his death. Cherie and Tony Blair named their youngest son Leo after him. Blair was a ""militant atheist"" according to his son Tony. Blair died at the age of 89 on 16 November 2012. Blair's book ""The Commonwealth Public Service"" (1958) was described by the journal ""Canadian Public Administration"" as ""an excellent primer on the Australian Federal Public Service"". Leo Blair Leo Charles Lynton Blair (born Charles Leonard Augustus Parsons; 4 August 192316 November 2012) was a British barrister and law"
"and ""Homage to Catalonia"" (1938), an account of his experiences in the Spanish Civil War, are widely acclaimed, as are his essays on politics, literature, language and culture. In 2008, ""The Times"" ranked him second on a list of ""The 50 greatest British writers since 1945"". Orwell's work continues to influence popular and political culture and the term ""Orwellian""—descriptive of totalitarian or authoritarian social practices—has entered the language together with many of his neologisms, including ""Big Brother"", ""Thought Police"", ""Room 101"", ""memory hole"", ""newspeak"", ""doublethink"", ""proles"", ""unperson"" and ""thoughtcrime"". Eric Arthur Blair was born on 25 June 1903 in Motihari,"
"English Literature. He undertook formal stage training at Guildford School of Acting where he graduated with a First in Musical Theatre. At Durham university he was part of the sly dog society Nathan Kiley Nathan Kiley (born 2 April 1981 in Nathan Kiely) is an English stage actor who has most notably starred in the West End production of Chicago as Mary Sunshine at the Cambridge Theatre as well as Tony Blair in Tony Blair the Musical, performed at the 2007 Edinburgh Festival. Nathan was raised in Boroughbridge, a small town near York, North Yorkshire, where he grew up with"
"Queensland. His biographer states that Blair was thought of as a ""dandy"" because he wore a white gardenia in his coat buttonhole and a silk handkerchief protruding from his breast pocket. Blair was said to be witty, possess a delightful personality, a gift of speech, and a love of humour, although author Frank Hardy is accused of referring to Blair as ""venal"" through veiled references in the book ""Power Without Glory"". Blair was born at Coalfalls, Ipswich, Queensland on 16 May 1870. He was the son of Gordon Blair and Julie Blair (née Droughton). He was first educated by his"
"He met his future wife, Cherie Booth (daughter of the actor Tony Booth) at the law chambers founded by Derry Irvine (who was to be Blair's first Lord Chancellor), 11 King's Bench Walk Chambers. Blair joined the Labour Party shortly after graduating from Oxford in 1975. In the early 1980s, he was involved in Labour politics in Hackney South and Shoreditch, where he aligned himself with the ""soft left"" of the party. He put himself forward as a candidate for the Hackney council elections of 1982 in Queensbridge ward, a safe Labour area, but was not selected. In 1982, Blair"
"had a reunion with his half-sister, Pauline Harding, .) Blair grew up in a tenement in Golspie Street, Govan, Glasgow, and attended Govan High School. When he left school he worked as a copy boy on the Communist Party newspaper ""The Daily Worker"" and was Secretary of the Scottish Young Communist League from 1938 to 1941. He studied law at the University of Edinburgh, becoming a barrister and later, a university law lecturer. Blair married Hazel Elizabeth Rosaleen Corscadden from a Protestant family in Donegal, Ireland. They were married by the future Moderator, Rev William Roy Sanderson at Barony Church"
"in Glasgow. They had three sons and two daughters. Sanderson married Leo Blair to his first wife Hazel. They went on to be the parents of Tony Blair. William Roy Sanderson Very Rev Dr William Roy Sanderson DD (1907–2008) was a Scottish minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1967. In 1961 he had organised the first meeting between a moderator and the pope. He was chaplain in ordinary to Queen Elizabeth ii in Scotland. He was born on 23 September 1907 at Talbot House, 216 Ferry Road in Leith, the son"
"Lauren Booth Lauren Booth (born Sarah Jane Booth; 22 July 1967) is an English broadcaster, journalist and activist. Sarah Jane Booth was born and grew up in North London. Booth is a half-sister of Cherie Blair (wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair) and the sixth daughter of actor Tony Booth. She trained as an actress at the London Academy of Performing Arts spending several years touring Europe with various, regional, theatre completely . In 1997, she entered journalism. Her earliest writing experiences were with the ""London Evening Standard"", writing the column ‘About Town’. In 1999, she began to"
"in Granita but had been struck before the men met in the restaurant. In her autobiography, Cherie Blair writes that the deal took place at a neighbour's home, not at Granita. In an interview with Peter Hennessy on BBC Radio 4, Blair claimed that the agreement had been struck '...in a couple of different places in Edinburgh', claiming that by the time they dined at Granita, minds had been made up as to what was going to happen. Blair–Brown deal The Blair–Brown deal (or Granita Pact) was a gentlemen's agreement struck between the British Labour Party politicians Tony Blair and"
"Citizens Club, and with its purchase by the Burnside Council, it has become the Dulwich Community Centre. Between 1955 and 1958, a young Tony Blair (British Prime Minister 1997–2007) lived with his family in a house on Ormond Grove while his father Leo was a Law lecturer at the University of Adelaide. One of the first Kentucky Fried Chicken stores in the country was established in Dulwich in the 1980s, however by 2000 it had moved to nearby Eastwood. According to the 2001 Census, the population of the Dulwich census area (which includes adjoining Rose Park) is 2,663 people, with"
"Tony Blair attempted to address part of the West Lothian question by introducing English regional assemblies with no legislative powers. Originally, it was planned that these would be directly elected. The London Assembly was the first of these, established following a referendum in 1998, in which public and media attention was focused principally on the post of Mayor of London. Ken Livingstone was the first directly elected Mayor of London. He started his victory speech with ""As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted 14 years ago"", making it clear he saw the London Assembly as a recreation"
"Tony Blair's private office. He was created a life peer as Baron Bernstein of Craigweil, of Craigweil in the County of West Sussex, on 15 May 2000. He was also active in the arts, serving on several governing bodies and trusts. He married Vanessa Anne Mills in 1962; they had a son and a daughter, and divorced in 1993. In 1995, he married Angela Mary Serota, the former wife of Sir Nicholas Serota. Alexander Bernstein, Baron Bernstein of Craigweil Alexander Bernstein, Baron Bernstein of Craigweil (15 March 1936 – 13 April 2010) was a British television executive and a Labour"
"birthday in 2006, Blair was named the Honorary Mayor of Cypress Gardens and was often seen thereafter donning the large yellow ribboned ""Mayor"" button he received. Blair continued his active lifestyle barefoot waterskiing and snowboarding until the age of 92. He then led a relatively quieter life at home in New York City, surrounded by family and following his passion for music by playing drums and attending jazz concerts. Blair died peacefully, at home, on October 17, 2013. In 1939, George married Dorothy Spies, of Detroit, and raised four daughters in Shrewsbury, New Jersey where he became a businessman and"
"Bateman's mother was born in Shrewsbury. Comedian George Robey lived in the town, near Lord Hill's Column, before and during the Second World War. People with political associations also have connections with the town. Leo Blair, the father of former Prime Minister Tony Blair, was a resident of the town. Former residents have included Michael Heseltine, a Conservative politician who was educated at Shrewsbury School, and Sir William Pulteney, 5th Baronet, who was once Britain's richest man, and was MP for Shrewsbury. He lived in apartments at Shrewsbury Castle. Robert Clive was MP for Shrewsbury, and also the mayor. Ian"
"minister Tony Blair was educated, and the state-run Broughton High School. Edinburgh Academy, an independent day school where the previous British Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer was educated, is located nearby in the north of the New Town. Inverleith was for over two centuries owned by the Rocheid (sometimes spelt Rochead) family. It changed hands when a co-heiress, Mary (d. 1749) married Sir Francis Kinloch, 3rd Baronet, of Gilmerton (1676–1747). Their son Alexander (d. 1755) inherited the entire Inverleith estates, and changed his surname to become Alexander Rocheid of Inverleith. Alexander and his descendants spent most of their time in Germany,"
"The Terrace, Wellington aged 71 years old after a fairly long illness. He was survived by his wife and son. John Rutherford Blair John Rutherford Blair (1843 – 25 November 1914) was the Mayor of Wellington, New Zealand from 1898 to 1899. He was born in Balphuock, Lanarkshire, Scotland, and was a paper merchant. His career started with a large Glasgow paper merchant firm. In 1860 he migrated first to Otago and then to Melbourne, Australia. In Melbourne he was appointed in charge of the printers Sands and McDougall. He came to Wellington as the company's representative in 1869. In"
"and Chairman of the Yale Graduate Football Committee. He received the 1968 Walter Camp Man of the Year award. The year after his death, the Yale football team began awarding the ""Edwin Foster Blair Award"" to the team's most valuable player, an award funded by the Yale Club of New York City A lifelong Republican, Blair served on the Republican Finance Committee and was a delegate to the Republican National Convention from Connecticut. Blair was a supporter of global governance. Blair was born in Weatherford, Texas and grew up in Wichita Falls and then Dallas. His father's business, Anderson &"
"Tony Blair (song) ""Tony Blair"" is a single by Chumbawamba which was made available exclusively to the United Kingdom mailing list as a Christmas present in December 1999. The song is an attack on then British Prime Minister Tony Blair, performed in a 1950s doo-wop style. The lyrics read like a heartbroken letter to an ex lover, who had broken all his promises. The cover art pays tribute to the iconic artwork of Elvis Presley's debut album, which was also referenced by The Clash's ""London Calling"" album cover. Rupert Perry, the head of EMI Records UK at the time, was"
"Tony Blair Faith Foundation The Tony Blair Faith Foundation was an interfaith charitable foundation established in May 2008 by former British prime minister Tony Blair. Since December 2016 its work has been continued by the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. The Foundation was launched in May 2008 in New York at the headquarters of the media group Time Warner. In his speech, Blair outlined the Foundation's aim that ""idealism becomes the new realism"", and that one of its goals was to ""counter extremism in all six leading religions"" (i.e., according to the Foundation, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Judaism, and"
"2011. Blair was married to the television producer and author Jane Blanchard. The couple lived in Torquay in Devon. Blair is survived by two sons from a previous marriage. Iain Blair Iain Blair (12 August 1942 – 3 July 2011) was a Scottish actor and author who, using the pen name Emma Blair wrote a series of romantic novels. Blair was born in Glasgow and spent the first few years of his life there. His father died shortly after his birth, and following the death of his mother, when Blair was aged eleven, he moved to the United States to"
"John Rutherford Blair John Rutherford Blair (1843 – 25 November 1914) was the Mayor of Wellington, New Zealand from 1898 to 1899. He was born in Balphuock, Lanarkshire, Scotland, and was a paper merchant. His career started with a large Glasgow paper merchant firm. In 1860 he migrated first to Otago and then to Melbourne, Australia. In Melbourne he was appointed in charge of the printers Sands and McDougall. He came to Wellington as the company's representative in 1869. In Wellington he entered into partnership with William Lyon opening a premises called Lyon and Blair on Lambton Quay. When William"
"Terry Blair (politician) Terry Blair (November 23, 1946 – June 26, 2014) was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives, serving the 38th District from 2009 to 2014. A graduate of Notre Dame and Loyola, Blair formerly served as a Washington Township trustee. He also served as the President of Buckeye Pools, Incorporated before retiring When incumbent Representative John White was term limited, Blair was one of two who sought to replace him. In the 2008 primary, Blair faced Dayton resident Tom Young, and went on to defeat him by 1,400 votes. He went on to easily win the"