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    and nothing was heard of him again. Melville Lyons attended the District High School in Feilding. Before WWI, Lyons was an agricultural editor. He worked...
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  • Brandy Melville is a multinational fast-fashion clothing company. Established in Italy by Silvio Marsan, it gained international popularity after switching...
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  • journalist and humorist Melville H. Long (1889–1969), American tennis player Melville Lyons (1889–1955), New Zealand politician Melville Douglas Mackenzie (1889-1972)...
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    Table footnotes: Melville Lyons was elected for the Reform Party, originally the votes were equal (4900), then a recount found for Lyons. But on appeal...
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    Melville Peninsula is a large peninsula in the Canadian Arctic north of Hudson Bay. To the east is Foxe Basin and to the west the Gulf of Boothia. To the...
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    South electorate was contested by Robert Macfarlane for Labour and Melville Lyons for National, with Macfarlane winning the election. At the time, Macfarlane...
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    re-elected, defeating former Labour MP David Barnes and deputy mayor Melville Lyons. Fourteen Citizens' candidates were elected to the Christchurch City...
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  • Melville is a Lowland Scottish clan. The clan does not currently have a chief and is therefore considered an Armigerous clan registered with the Lyon...
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    Statham 61 votes to 17. The 1925 general election was contested by Melville Lyons and the incumbent, McCombs. The original count resulted in a tie of...
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    John Septimus "Jack" Barnett 1938–1941 38 Ernest Andrews 1941–1950 11 Melville Lyons 1941–1947 12 James (Jim) Neil Clarke 1947–1950 Robert Macfarlane, 2nd...
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    not seen as serious. Melville Lyons was the candidate put forward by the National Party. A seasoned political campaigner, Lyons had briefly been elected...
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  • under the name "National Political Federation" selected Melville Lyons as their candidate. Lyons had a rural background as he was secretary of the New Zealand...
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    Malietoa Tanumafili II (fifth from left) welcomed to Christchurch in 1945 by Mayor Ernest Andrews (fourth from left) and Deputy-Mayor Melville Lyons (right)...
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  • McCombs reinstated. Melville Lyons was elected for the Reform Party, originally the votes were equal (4900), then a recount found for Lyons. But on appeal...
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    Table footnotes: Melville Lyons was elected for the Reform Party, originally the votes were equal (4900), then a recount found for Lyons. But on appeal...
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  • candidates were put forward: Robert Macfarlane for the Labour Party and Melville Lyons for the National Party. Mabel Howard, Ted Howard's daughter, had hoped...
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  • Marquis and Sarah Lyons, Catherine Walrond, married Captain John Lyons, by whom she had had 15 children, including Edmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons. Therefore,...
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  • composer 31 January: Bob Semple, trade union leader and politician. 7 May: Melville Lyons, politician 24 May: Louis Hekenui Bidois, policeman 5 June (in England):...
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    Owen Chase (category Herman Melville)
    of the Whale-Ship Essex, was published in 1821 and would inspire Herman Melville to write Moby-Dick. Chase was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts, the son...
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    Labour Jack Barnett 389 1.39 Labour Mabel Howard 845 3.02 Citizens' Melville Lyons 1,098 3.92 Citizens' William Hayward 1,071 3.82 Citizens' Thomas Milliken...
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    held at the municipal offices in Manchester Street, with councillor Melville Lyons chosen as his deputy. In mid-May 1944, the Electors' Association formed...
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  • Great Depression. Melville represented Australia at the 1932 Ottawa Imperial Trade Conference, after the Prime Minister Joseph Lyons had revoked Sir Robert...
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  • Miss Melville Mystery series, which chronicles the exploits of a middle-aged socialite-turned-assassin. Under the pseudonym of Delphine C. Lyons, she...
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    Candidate Votes % ±% Citizens' John Beanland 21,444 53.87 Citizens' Melville Lyons 20,312 51.03 Citizens' Ernest Andrews 19,708 49.51 Citizens' John Guthrie...
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    Lyons rage and rore/ Defy them all, and feare not to win out" (edition of 1606). Melville's father was the courtier and diplomat Sir James Melville of...
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  • Gordon Mixed doubles – Frederick Wilding and E. Gordon 27 February: Melville Lyons, politician 19 June: Cora Louisa Burrell, politician (MLC). 26 July:...
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    OCLC 13066530. Daniels, Bebe; Lyons, Ben (1953). Life with the Lyons, the Autobiography of Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyon. Odhams Press. ASIN B0000CIGNZ....
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    Votes % ±% Citizens' Thomas Milliken 17,962 65.90 +20.48 Citizens' Melville Lyons 16,692 61.24 +15.81 Labour Jack Barnett 16,534 60.66 +3.18 Citizens'...
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    Tanumafili II (second from right) welcomed to Christchurch in 1945 by Mayor Ernest Andrews (fourth from left) and Deputy-Mayor Melville Lyons (right)...
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    David Melville (March 21, 1773 - September 3, 1856) was an American inventor, credited with the first gas street lighting in America, and the first American...
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