"Clouds Hill Clouds Hill is an isolated cottage near Wareham in the county of Dorset in South West England. It is the former home of T. E. Lawrence (""Lawrence of Arabia"") and is now run as a writer's home museum by the National Trust. The site is in the parish of Turners Puddle in Purbeck District. The small building has colourwashed brick walls and a tiled roof. It was probably built as forester's cottage in the early 19th century. The lintel over the door now bears a Greek inscription ""οὐ φροντὶς"" (""Why Worry""). It is now a Grade II* listed"
"close to the cottage, and died in the Bovington Camp hospital on 19 May 1935. The following year, his heir, his brother A. W. Lawrence, gave Clouds Hill to the National Trust. It is now a museum, dedicated to Lawrence. It is open to visitors from March to the beginning of October, seven days a week, from 11am to 5pm. The cottage remains largely as Lawrence left it at his death. It features an exhibition detailing Lawrence's life, and most of his original furniture and possessions. The cottage reflects his complex personality and links to the Middle East. The circular"
"to the 48-hour working week in 1919 and again in 1924. Shaw did not support communist ideology, but favoured friendly political and trade relations with Russia. In 1893, Shaw married Susannah Whitaker Sterne Ryan Woodhead. They had four daughters. Shaw died in September 1938 in Middlesex, aged 66. Tom Shaw (politician) Thomas Shaw (9 April 1872 – 26 September 1938), known as Tom Shaw, was a British trade unionist and Labour Party politician. Shaw was born in Waterside, Colne, Lancashire. He was the eldest son of a miner, Ellis Shaw, and his wife, Sarah Ann (""née"" Wilkinson). At age 10,"
"discovery in ""The Times"", Lawrence followed Malory scholar Eugene Vinaver from Manchester to Winchester by motorcycle. At the age of 46, two months after leaving military service, Lawrence was fatally injured in an accident on his Brough Superior SS100 motorcycle in Dorset, close to his cottage, Clouds Hill, near Wareham. A dip in the road obstructed his view of two boys on their bicycles; he swerved to avoid them, lost control, and was thrown over the handlebars. He died six days later on 19 May 1935. The location is marked by a small memorial at the side of the road."
"Tom Shaw (politician) Thomas Shaw (9 April 1872 – 26 September 1938), known as Tom Shaw, was a British trade unionist and Labour Party politician. Shaw was born in Waterside, Colne, Lancashire. He was the eldest son of a miner, Ellis Shaw, and his wife, Sarah Ann (""née"" Wilkinson). At age 10, Shaw began working part-time in a textile factory, and two years later quit school to work full-time. Later, he took evening classes to catch up with his education and was particularly skillful in languages. His knowledge of German and French proved useful to him later in his career."
"which was published posthumously and detailed his time in the Royal Air Force working as an ordinary aircraftman. He corresponded extensively and was friendly with well-known artists, writers, and politicians. For the Royal Air Force, he participated in the development of rescue motorboats. Lawrence's public image resulted in part from the sensationalised reporting of the Arab revolt by American journalist Lowell Thomas, as well as from ""Seven Pillars of Wisdom"". In 1935, Lawrence was fatally injured in a motorcycle accident in Dorset. Thomas Edward Lawrence was born on 16 August 1888 in Tremadog, Carnarvonshire (now Gwynedd), Wales in a house"
"Charles Shaw was a 19th-century potter who's in-depth autobiography has given some of the clearest insights into the Victorian Potteries, and provided Arnold Bennett with inspiration for his Clayhanger novels. Tunstall became widely known for its tiles, regarded to be as good as slate. Decorative ceramic tiles are still made in Tunstall by H and R Johnson-Richards Tiles Ltd. Tunstall's industries were served by the Trent and Mersey Canals, constructed over 11 years from 1766. The canal was designed by James Brindley, resident of Turnhurst Hall in nearby Chell. Just north of Tunstall lies one of Brindley's greatest achievements, the"
"1st Baronet in 1908. Shaw married at St. Mark's, Piccadelly, on 17 January 1900, Emily White Bursill, daughter of Henry Bursill, of Hampstead. The couple lived at Charters at Sunningdale in Berkshire, with their two daughters. Sir Charles Shaw, 1st Baronet Theodore Frederick Charles Edward Shaw (11 September 1859 – 17 April 1942) was a British Liberal Party politician. Shaw was the eldest son of Edward Dethick Shaw and Millicent Augusta Gough, both of Wolverhampton. He was educated at Tettenhall College, Wolverhampton and Balliol College, Oxford. He was Managing Director and Chairman of John Shaw & Sons Ltd. of Wolverhampton."
"his nickname ""Louis Second"" as a pen name. He lived in a sprawling 15-room mansion in Topsfield, a town founded by the Gould family. According to Alex Beam's ""Gracefully Insane"" (a history of McLean Hospital, where Shaw spent the last years of his life) Shaw kept a copy of the Social Register next to the telephone and instructed his staff not to accept calls from anyone not listed. He often rode his horse along a bridle path from his estate, and through the area now known as the Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary, in order to reach the Myopia Hunt Club."
"racing. Sopwith's house in Mayfair, No. 46 Green Street, where he lived from 1934 until 1940, has a blue plaque. In 1940 he moved to Warfield Hall in Berkshire which he had acquired the previous year. Sopwith's 100th birthday was marked by a flypast of military aircraft over his home, Compton Manor in King's Somborne, Hampshire. He died in Hampshire on 27 January 1989, aged 101. His grave and that of his second wife Phyllis Brodie can be found in the grounds of the 11th-century All Saints Church at Little Somborne near Winchester. Thomas Sopwith Sir Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith,"
"home, Fenners, in Wimborne, Dorset, on 24 April 1937. Shaw Road in Singapore was either named after Shaw or a Mr. Shaw, a partner in Shaw, Whitehead and Company. Walter Shaw (judge) Sir Walter Sidney Shaw (15 April 1863 – 24 April 1937) was an English lawyer and judge in the early 20th century. He served as a judge in a number of British colonies, his last judicial appointment being the Chief Justice of the Straits Settlements. He was also the chairman of the Shaw Commission which investigated the 1929 Palestine riots. Shaw, born in 1863, was the son of"
"three living rooms, described as an eating room, book room and music room. For heat insulation Lawrence had the eating room lined with asbestos that was covered in aluminium foil, and he kept his food under glass domes. In the book room he installed a large leather divan, and in the music room above it he had his gramophone ""with a huge amplifier horn"", a leather sofa and chair. In 1935 Lawrence left the Royal Air Force and lived at Clouds Hill. A few weeks later, at the age of 46, he suffered severe head injuries in a motorcycle accident"
"the West Bay Club, and a small enclave of summer homes at East Bay. Meanwhile, at Shaw Point, Frank and Josephine Shaw lived year round in their Sand Island home until November 1905, when they moved to Bayfield for the winter due to Josephine’s poor health. For the next few years the Shaws moved to Sand Island in the spring and wintered in Bayfield until fall 1908 when Josephine Shaw became seriously ill. In 1910 Frank Shaw sold his fishing rig and Sand Island property to his son-in-law, Burt Hill. Josephine Shaw died in 1911 followed by Frank Shaw in"
"hosting ""Police 5"" in the seventh episode of the BBC TV drama ""Ashes to Ashes"", set in October 1981, in which he uses the aforedescribed ""keep 'em peeled!"" In 2014, at the age of 89, he returned to TV with a weekly segment on the new Channel 5 version of ""Police 5"", and revived his 'keep 'em peeled!' catchphrase. He played bridge and presented a television series on the subject. Taylor died at his home in Totland on the Isle of Wight on 17 March 2015, aged 90. He was survived by his partner Shirley and his son Richard. Shaw"
"Hall, and had a villa in St Tropez. Bernard was known for helping projects at Norwich Cathedral, Norwich Hospital, University of East Anglia, True's Yard Museum, Norwich Castle Museum, 2d Air Division Memorial Library and others across Norfolk. Matthews was a multi-millionaire with a fortune estimated at over £300m. His possessions included a motor yacht (sold by the time of his death), a Cessna Citation II private jet, and a Rolls-Royce motor car. He died on 25 November 2010, aged 80. Bernard Matthews Bernard Trevor Matthews CVO CBE QSM (24 January 1930 – 25 November 2010) was the founder of"
"descendants of emigrants return every year to find their roots. The genealogical records for this area have been computerised at the South Mayo Family Research Centre in nearby Ballinrobe to make the task of tracing roots easier. The English actor Robert Shaw, best known for his work in ""From Russia with Love"", ""Jaws"" and ""The Sting"", lived in Drimbawn House, Toormakeady until his death in 1978. Toormakeady Toormakeady or Tourmakeady (, the official name) is a Gaeltacht in south County Mayo in the west of Ireland. It is located between the shores of Lough Mask and the Partry Mountains, and"
"wife Charlotte had been one of the survivors of the ""Titanic"" sinking. The pub was taken over by Gales Brewery in the 1950s. The Grayshott Village Archive website has a page on notable former village residents with biographical and historical detail. From 1898 to 1900 Flora Thompson, author of ""Lark Rise to Candleford"", was assistant postmistress in Grayshott and lived in The Avenue. Among her customers were Arthur Conan Doyle, who lived at Undershaw (which became the Undershaw Hotel, now a school for pupils with special needs) next to Hindhead crossroads, and George Bernard Shaw, who lived at Blen Cathra,"
"injudicious investments, and died, exonerated, in 1843. Shaw was born on 26 August 1764, in Riccarton, Kilmarnock, Scotland, the son of a ""respectable farmer"", John Shaw, whose family had farmed the area of Mosshead for over 300 years, and Hellen Sellars. On the death of his father, the family moved to Kilmarnock, and Shaw studied at the local grammar school. At the age of 17, he followed his elder brother to America to seek work, returning after three years to take up a position in the same company's London offices and becoming a junior partner in the firm. He became"
"Thomas Shaw (World War I veteran) Thomas Shaw (June 1899 – 2 March 2002) was the last known Irish World War I British Army veteran. He served in the Royal Irish Rifles after joining up in 1916 and fought in battles such as Passchendaele. Shaw was born in Belfast, Ireland (now Northern Ireland), in June 1899. He first enlisted as a rifleman at 15 in 1914 and went into battle, but was sent home after his brother, a military policeman, met him by chance while in France. In 1916 he joined the 16th battalion of the Royal Irish Rifles and"
"1978, while driving from Castlebar, County Mayo, to his home in Tourmakeady. He suddenly became ill, stopped the car, stepped out, and then collapsed and died on the roadside. He was rushed to Castlebar General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. He had just completed acting in the film ""Avalanche Express"". His body was cremated and its ashes scattered near his home in Toormakeady. A stone memorial to him was unveiled there in his honour in August 2008. It can be seen at 53°40'29.1""N 9°20'34.8""W Shaw had a pub named after him in his birthplace of Westhoughton. Villain Sebastian Shaw"
"room above one of her old illegal hotels at 212 Devonshire Street, Surry Hills and was financially dependent on her nephew, William John Beahan, who ran a mixed business in the shop in the downstairs part of the premises. She resided at 212 Devonshire Street, Surry Hills from 1951 until her death in 1964. Continuing to live at Surry Hills, she suffered a severe stroke on 31 January 1964 at her residence at 212 Devonshire Street and was rushed to hospital. She died on 4 February 1964 at St Vincent's Hospital in Darlinghurst, and her funeral was held on 7"
"elected an honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Shaw also studied air pollution, and was the first to study and discuss smog and look at its health problems. Shaw retired in 1924 aged 70 and died in London aged 91. In 1885 he married Sarah Jane Dugdale Harland (d.1923). They had no children. Napier Shaw Sir William Napier Shaw FRS HFRSE LLD (March 4, 1854 – March 23, 1945), was a British meteorologist. He introduced the tephigram, a diagram of temperature changes. Shaw was born at 84 Vyse Street in Birmingham the son of Charles Thomas Shaw, a"
"of the Savoy in Bangor on 4 August 2014 Photo of plaque at Savoy Thomas Shaw (World War I veteran) Thomas Shaw (June 1899 – 2 March 2002) was the last known Irish World War I British Army veteran. He served in the Royal Irish Rifles after joining up in 1916 and fought in battles such as Passchendaele. Shaw was born in Belfast, Ireland (now Northern Ireland), in June 1899. He first enlisted as a rifleman at 15 in 1914 and went into battle, but was sent home after his brother, a military policeman, met him by chance while in"
"in Pembroke Villas in Kensington. In his later years he was a diabetic. Due to petrol rationing in the war, he returned to travelling on his bicycle; on 14 October 1945 he was knocked off at a set of traffic lights on Gloucester Road near his home, dying aged 67 in Kingston County Hospital on 21 October 1945. He had lived from 1932 at Palings Cottage on Warboys Road at Kingston Hill, in the Municipal Borough of Malden and Coombe. His funeral was at 3pm on Monday 29 October 1945 at St. John the Baptist in Kingston Vale. He was"
"Thomas Shaw, minister at St John's Wolverhampton and perpetual curate of Claverley ""circa"" 1765–1810. A condition of inheritance was that the recipient change his name to that of his benefactor, and in 1786 Reverend Shaw became Shaw-Hellier. He lived at the Wodehouse with his wife Mary, worked at St. John's Wolverhampton and at Tipton, and died in 1812. His son James, manager of Netherton colliery, died in 1827; he had also been known to steward the races at nearby Penn Common. The family continued its close ties with St. John's Wolverhampton; in addition to Sir Samuel's endowment and his successor's"
"from the common design of terraced housing. Shaw was a member of the Architects' Club and a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Linnean Society of London and the Society of Antiquaries of London. Shaw exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1799 and 1834, showing landscapes as well as designs for buildings. Shaw died suddenly at Ramsgate in July 1832, aged 56. His son John Shaw Jr., born 1803, took over his posts as architect at Christ's Hospital and Ramsgate, as well as finishing St Dunstan's. Shaw's most famous son was John Shaw Jr., born 1803, who also became an"
"Scholarships . He was elected as M.P. for Halifax at a by-election in 1882. He held the seat until his death at the age of 69 in 1893. His son William Rawson Shaw was elected in succession to him. Shaw married Elizabeth Rawson at Manchester in 1855 and had a son William Rawson. Thomas Shaw (Halifax MP) Thomas Shaw (1823 - 15 January 1893) was an English Liberal politician who represented Halifax. Shaw was born at Green Bank, Holywell Green, Yorkshire the third son of Joseph Shaw who owned the Brookroyd Mills. He was educated at Huddersfield and later became"
"Thomas Shaw (blues musician) Thomas Edgar Shaw (March 4, 1908 – February 24, 1977), aka Tom Shaw, was an American blues singer and guitarist. Shaw was born in Brenham, Texas, United States. He was taught to play both the harmonica and guitar by his relatives, and based his style on his collaborations with Blind Lemon Jefferson, J. T. Smith and Ramblin' Thomas. After spending time as an itinerant musician in Texas, in 1934 he relocated to California. He continued to perform and appeared on radio, before setting up his own club which he operated for many years. By the 1960s,"
"But with one eye on his profits, he left some areas unlit, to allow sex workers to continue plying their trade. Tyers set out a quite different style of garden at his weekend home of Denbies, near Dorking in Surrey. In contrast to the merriment of Vauxhall Gardens, The Valley of the Shadow of Death, as the garden at Denbies was known, was designed as a reminder of man's mortality. Tyers died at his home in Vauxhall Gardens in 1767, and his sons Thomas and Jonathan became joint proprietors of the pleasure garden. Jonathan Tyers was born on 10 April"
"During a Kurdish revolt in 1926, Shaw was instrumental in obtaining the release of two Royal Air Force officers that had been captured by forces loyal to Mahmud Barzanji. He resigned his commission shortly thereafter, joining the Iraq Petroleum Company as their Chief Medical Officer in October 1927. He died in Iraq at the K3 Pipe Line Station near Haditha in December 1935. He is buried at the Haifa Cemetery in Israel. Frederick Shaw (cricketer) Frederick Roland Studdert Shaw MC (29 February 1892 – 2 December 1935) was an Irish first-class cricketer and British Army officer. Shaw was born at"
"horse stable in 1910, a cow barn in 1912, and a primary residence (the Appleton/Shaw House) in 1912. The family lived briefly in a brownstone building located at 35 Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay in 1915, presumably awaiting the completion of their new home in Newton. As the Gilded Age gave way to the Progressive Era and eventually the Great Depression, the Shaw fortune collapsed. RGS II died in 1930. The vacant and decaying Shaw estate in Newton was sold in 1939 to Dr. William Fitts Carlson. Carlson used the property as the new campus for Mount Ida Junior"
"then as science correspondent to ""The Belfast Telegraph"" from 1966–1969, and as publicity officer for Vickers Shipbuilding (1973–1975), before starting to write full-time. In April 1973, during the Troubles, Shaw and his family moved from Northern Ireland to England, where he produced the majority of his work: first to Ulverston, then to Grappenhall in Warrington. Sadie died suddenly in 1991 and Shaw lived alone there for some years. Shaw had nearly lost his sight through illness, and suffered migraine-induced visual disturbances throughout his life. These, and references to eyes and vision, appear as a theme in some of his works."
"Charles Shaw (potter) Charles Shaw (1832 – 5 March 1906) was an English potter, born in Tunstall, Staffordshire. He is notable for his autobiography (""When I was a Child""), published by Methuen in March 1903 under the name ""An Old Potter"". Shaw was a staunch Liberal and believer in free trade, who intended to warn of the dangers of protectionism. Fellow Liberal Robert Spence Watson wrote the book's introduction, calling it a reminder of the condition of child labour in the 1840s and as an inspiration to improve children's conditions. However, despite Watson financing 1500 copies, Shaw's autobiography did not"