• Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell (16 July 1867 – 1 May 1962) was an English museum curator and collector. From 1908 to 1937, he was director of the Fitzwilliam...
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    Christopher Sydney Cockerell (4 June 1910 – 1 June 1999) was an English engineer, best known as the inventor of the hovercraft. Cockerell was born in...
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  • wife of Sydney Frederick Pepys Cockerell (1833–1878), British architect John Cockerell (1845–1937), English football player Mark Cockerell, American...
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  • in London, England to parents Alice Elizabeth (née Bennett) and Sydney John Cockerell. They were a middle class family but when his father died in 1877...
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    watercolour drawings donated to the university by John Ruskin in 1861. Sir Sydney Cockerell, who was serving as director of the museum at the time, acquired a...
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    boxer Gene Tunney; the nun Laurentia McLachlan; and the art expert Sydney Cockerell. In 2007 a 316-page volume consisting entirely of Shaw's letters to...
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  • play by Hugh Whitemore about the friendship of George Bernard Shaw, Sydney Cockerell and Dame Laurentia McLachlan, based on the lengthy correspondence that...
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    collection of letters written by Jenny to her father's legal executor Sydney Cockerell between 1897 and 1919 are in the British Library. She died at Over...
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  • friendships between McLachlan and George Bernard Shaw and the scholar Sir Sydney Cockerell. The book was adapted into The Best of Friends, a play by Hugh Whitemore...
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    (1988). He played Sir Sydney Cockerell, director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, in a representation of a friendship between Cockerell, Bernard Shaw and Laurentia...
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    Robert Steele – medievalist who was a disciple of Morris Simple living Sydney Cockerell – friend of Morris and secretary of Kelmscott Press Victorian decorative...
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    naval officer. He had two older brothers, Sydney and Herbert (nicknamed "Ber"), and an older sister, Grace. Sydney James later became Archdeacon of Dudley...
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    Christopher Calladine Richard V. Southwell Frank Whittle Sir Christopher Sydney Cockerell Sir Bennett Melvill Jones Charles Oatley Harry Ricardo Andrew Schofield...
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  • friendship between the nun Laurentia McLachlan (Gray), the antiquarian Sydney Cockerell (Denison), and the playwright Bernard Shaw (Thornton). Later in 1991...
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    Hotel Speaker The Best of Friends January 1988 Apollo Theatre Sir Sydney Cockerell A Tale of Two Cities March 1988 Royalty Theatre Voice only Royal Birthday...
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  • Corrigan), provides a window on the friendship of McLachlan with Sir Sydney Cockerell and Bernard Shaw through adaptations from their letters and writings...
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  • horrible extravagance') and in November that year was sounded out by Sydney Cockerell about becoming Emery Walker's assistant. Through Geoffrey Keynes, he...
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  • Best of Friends, depicting the friendship between the antiquarian Sydney Cockerell (Denison), the nun Laurentia McLachlan (Gray) and the playwright Bernard...
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  • Catherine "Casty" Cobb (née Cockerell; 28 March 1903 – 17 September 1995) was a British jeweller and silversmith, she was from an established Art and...
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    Stanbrook Community whose correspondence with George Bernard Shaw and Sydney Cockerell was the subject of the film The Best of Friends. Coatbridge is also...
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  • biographical television film about the friendship of George Bernard Shaw, Sydney Cockerell and Dame Laurentia McLachlan, based on the lengthy correspondence that...
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  • Dumont d'Urville. Named in 1977 by the UK-APC after Sir Christopher (Sydney) Cockerell, British pioneer of the hovercraft. 63°23′S 58°09′W / 63.383°S 58...
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    sites were selected for the installation of PCM equipment. Died: Sir Sydney Cockerell, 94, English curator and art collector The value of the Canadian dollar...
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    and published in 1921 by Macmillan. It earned her the admiration of Sydney Cockerell and drew respect for her as a poet from writers such as Sara Teasdale...
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    curator Sydney Cockerell and they married in 1907. They had three children, among them the inventor Christopher Cockerell. By 1900, Cockerell was exhibiting...
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  • Stanbrook Abbey in Worcestershire, shared with George Bernard Shaw and Sydney Cockerell, director of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. An adaptation by...
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    at 3 Blenheim Road, marked with a Bedford Park Society plaque. Sir Sydney Cockerell (1867–1962), Fitzwilliam Museum curator, arts collector, lived at 51...
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  • (Engineering) 1964 - Erwin Wilhelm Müller (Engineering) 1965 - Christopher Sydney Cockerell (Engineering) 1966 - Robert Kunin (Chemistry) 1967 - John Louis Moll...
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    and Sons, started selling a Kelmscott Old Style type. Subsequently, Sydney Cockerell, the Kelmscott Press's administrator, threatened legal action against...
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    the latter's excavations of Troy in 1933. In 1926, Wace was asked by Sydney Cockerell, director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, to authenticate a marble statuette...
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