Sir peter thompson biography of martin

PERSONAL:

Born February 6, 1938, in Poole, England; son of John William (a Methodist minister) and Lily Thomson; married Elizabeth Rita Prince (an activist organizer), October 18, 1963; children: James, Katharine, Stephen, Anne. Ethnicity: "British." Education: Jesus College, Cambridge, B.A., 1961. Politics: Labour. Hobbies and other interests: Wild flowers.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Exeter, Devon, England. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Victoria University of Manchester, Manchester, England, lecturer in drama, 1964-71; University of Wales, Swansea, lecturer in drama, 1971-74; University of Exeter, Exeter, England, professor of drama, 1974-2003.

WRITINGS:

(Editor, with Kenneth Richards) Essays on Nineteenth-Century British Theatre, Methuen (London, England), 1970.

(Editor) Notes on Julius Caesar, Ginn (London, England), 1971.

(Editor, with Kenneth Richards) Essays on the Eighteenth-Century English Stage, Methuen (London, England), 1971.

(With Clive Goodhead) Ideas in Action, Hodder & Stoughton (London, England), 1973.

(With Jan Needle) Brecht, Basil Blackwell (Oxford, England), 1980, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL), 1981.

Shakespeare's Theatre, Routledge & Kegan Paul (Boston, MA), 1983, 2nd edition, Routledge (New York, NY), 1992.

(Editor and author of notes) Dion Boucicault, Plays,Cambridge University Press (New York, NY), 1983.

(With Gamini Salgado) The Everyman Companion to the Theatre, J.M. Dent (London, England), 1985.

Shakespeare's Professional Career,Cambridge University Press (New York, NY), 1992.

(Editor, with Glendyr Sacks) The Cambridge Companion to Brecht, Cambridge University Press (New York, NY), 1994, 2nd edition, 2006.

Brecht: Mother Courage and Her Children, Cambridge University Press (New York, NY), 1997.

On Actors and Acting, University of Exeter Press (Exeter, England), 2000.

The Cambridge History of British Theatre, three vo

THOMPSON, Sir JOHN SPARROW DAVID, lawyer, politician, and judge; b. 10 Nov. 1845 in Halifax, seventh and last child of John Sparrow Thompson* and Charlotte Pottinger; m. 5 July 1870 Annie Emma Affleck*, and they had nine children, five of whom survived infancy; d. 12 Dec. 1894 at Windsor Castle, England.

John David Thompson was educated at the Royal Acadian School and the Free Church Academy in Halifax. He was a demure, quiet lad whose shyness his father attempted, with some success, to overcome by having him give recitations of poetry at school ceremonies and later to meetings at the Halifax Mechanics’ Institute, of which Thompson Sr was secretary for a number of years. He also taught his son a form of shorthand, one he had learned when he had first come to Halifax in 1827 and used when reporting speeches for Joseph Howe*’s Novascotian, or Colonial Herald. It was to serve both father and son for reporting trials and the debates of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly.

Of John David’s six brothers and sisters only a little is known. His two oldest sisters died in the late 1840s; his brother William went to South Africa in 1859 after an unsuccessful career as deputy surveyor of Lunenburg County, and died there of drink – despite, or because of, the stern temperance principles of Thompson Sr. His other brother, Joseph, emigrated to Texas in 1866 and died the following year of yellow fever. Another sister married in 1867 and moved to Barrington. Thompson Sr died in October 1867. (At about this point, probably as a mark of filial reverence for his father and his father’s Irish family, John David adopted the name Sparrow – he was to use the name John Sparrow David Thompson henceforth.) Thus, by 1867, when he was 22, Thompson’s family had broken up. His one remaining sister and his mother were almost wholly dependent on him; the small family home on Gottingen Street was probably still car

Australian professional golfer (1929–2018)

Peter William ThomsonAO, CBE (23 August 1929 – 20 June 2018) was an Australian professional golfer. In the late 1940s, Thomson turned pro and had much success on the Australasian circuits, culminating with a win at the 1951 Australian Open. He then moved onto the PGA Tour, playing on the circuit in 1953 and 1954, but did not have much success, failing to win. He decided to focus on Europe thereafter with extraordinary success, winning dozens of tournaments on the British PGA, including the Open Championship five times. As a senior, Thomson continued with success, winning 11 times on the Senior PGA Tour. He is generally regarded as one of the greatest golfers of all-time.

Early life

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Professional career

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British businessman

Sir Martin Stuart Sorrell (born 14 February 1945) is a British businessman and the founder of WPP plc, the world's largest advertising and PR group, both by revenue and the number of staff. Sorrell was the longest-serving chief executive of a FTSE 100 company.

He is consistently one of the UK's highest-paid corporate executives. According to The Sunday Times Rich List in 2019, Sorrell is worth £368 million. Sorrell has served on boards and advisory bodies of a number of high-profile public, academic and business organisations, including several leading business schools, both in the UK and internationally.

Early life and education

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Career

Early career

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WPP

In 1985, Sorrell privately invested in Wire and Plastic Products plc, a British wire shopping basket manufacturer, and joined it full-time as chief executive in 1986. He began to acquire "below-the-line" advertising-related companies, purchasing 18 in three years, including in 1987 when he stunned the ag