Who was a founding member of the Achilles Club and immortalized in a 1981 British historical drama
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Achilles Club The Achilles Club is a track and field club formed in 1920 by and for past and present representatives of Oxford and Cambridge Universities. Members have won 19 Olympic Gold Medals (most recently Steph Cook in the pentathlon), and held 38 World Records. One of its founding members was Evelyn Aubrey Montague, who is immortalized in the 1981 film "Chariots of Fire".
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Chariots of Fire Chariots of Fire is a 1981 British historical drama film. It tells the fact-based story of two athletes in the 1924 Olympics: Eric Liddell, a devout Scottish Christian who runs for the glory of God, and Harold Abrahams, an English Jew who runs to overcome prejudice.
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Ajax (mythology) Ajax or Aias ( or ; Ancient Greek: Αἴας ] , gen. Αἴαντος "Aiantos") is a mythological Greek hero, the son of King Telamon and Periboea, and the half-brother of Teucer. He plays an important role, and is portrayed as a towering figure and a warrior of great courage in Homer's "Iliad" and in the Epic Cycle, a series of epic poems about the Trojan War. He is also referred to as "Telamonian Ajax", "Greater Ajax", or "Ajax the Great", which distinguishes him from Ajax, son of Oileus (Ajax the Lesser). In Etruscan mythology, he is known as Aivas Tlamunus.
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Daniel Roberts (Royal Navy officer) Daniel Roberts (18 February 1789 – 18 February 1869) was an officer in the Royal Navy who made a series of cameo-like appearances in the lives of Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Edward Ellerker Williams, and Edward John Trelawny. Roberts is best known for having designed and supervised the construction of Shelley’s schooner, "Don Juan", and Lord Byron’s yacht, "Bolivar".
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The Rage of Achilles The Rage of Achilles is a 2009 novel by Terence Hawkins, American author and founder of the Yale Writers' Conference and the Company of Writers. It is based on two premises: the historicity of the Homeric Trojan War and the accuracy of Julian Jaynes' theory of the bicameral mind. In it Hawkins imagines the battlefield and war councils peopled by real men to whom the gods appear merely as hallucinations and command voices at a time in which modern consciousness is suddenly and painfully emerging from prehistory. Thus, while Achilles appears as a killing machine driven by a fury he doesn't care to understand, Odysseus is a truly modern man, deeply aware of himself and his comrades. The language is modern and often graphic, but no more so than historic accuracy and literary craft require.
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Borgå Akilles Borgå Akilles, or Porvoon Akilles in Finnish, is a Finnish sports club from the city of Porvoo, named for Achilles in ancient Greek mythology.
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Ian Hendry Ian Mackendrick Hendry (13 January 1931 – 24 December 1984) was an English film, television and stage actor. He was best known for his work on several British TV series of the 1960s and 1970s, including the lead in the first series of "The Avengers" and "The Lotus Eaters", as well as for his roles in films such as "The Hill" (1965), "Repulsion" (1965), "Get Carter" (1971), and "Theatre of Blood" (1973).
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Achilles (automobile) The Achilles was an English shaft drive voiturette manufactured by B Thompson & Co. in Frome, Somerset between 1903 and 1908.
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Desmond MacCarthy Sir Charles Otto Desmond MacCarthy FRSL (20 May 1877–7 June 1952) was a British literary critic and journalist; he was a member of the Cambridge Apostles, the intellectual secret society, from 1896.
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Roy Horniman He was the owner of "The Ladies Review" for some years and was a member of the British Committee of The Indian National Congress. As well as acting he became tenant and manager of the Criterion Theatre and wrote many plays as well as adaptations of his own and others’ novels. In his later years he wrote and adapted for the screen. Amongst his notable works were "Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal" (1907), which was republished by Faber Finds in 2008 and again by Cavalier Classics in 2014. The 1949 film "Kind Hearts and Coronets" was based on "Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal" and the novel also inspired the 2013 Broadway musical "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder". Horniman also wrote "The Sin of Atlantis" in 1900 and "Lord Cammarleigh’s Secret: A Fairy Story of To-Day" in 1907.
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Kenneth Spring Lieutenant Colonel Kenneth Arthur Spring {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (23 October 1921 – 25 December 1997) was a British Army officer, artist and co-founder of the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain.
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Henry Irving Sir Henry Irving (6 February 1838 – 13 October 1905), born John Henry Brodribb, sometimes known as J. H. Irving, was an English stage actor in the Victorian era, known as an actor-manager because he took complete responsibility (supervision of sets, lighting, direction, casting, as well as playing the leading roles) for season after season at the Lyceum Theatre, establishing himself and his company as representative of English classical theatre. In 1895 he became the first actor to be awarded a knighthood, indicating full acceptance into the higher circles of British society.
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Anthony Andrews Anthony Colin Gerald Andrews ( ; born 12 January 1948) is an English actor best known for his role as Lord Sebastian Flyte in the 1981 ITV miniseries "Brideshead Revisited" (1981). He is also known for playing the title roles in "Ivanhoe" and "The Scarlet Pimpernel" (both 1982), and for portraying Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin in "The King's Speech" (2010). For his performance in "Brideshead Revisited" Andrews won a Golden Globe and BAFTA TV Award, as well as being nominated for an Emmy.
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Pembroke Players Pembroke Players (formerly Pembroke College Players) is an amateur theatrical society in Cambridge, England, founded in 1955 and run by the students of Pembroke College, Cambridge. It is the most active College drama society in the University, staging or producing over 25 drama productions and comedy smokers every year. It is also the only College drama society to run its own international tours. During its lifetime it has been the starting point for many prominent actors and comedians, such as Clive James, Peter Cook and Eric Idle, and more recently Tom Hiddleston, Jonny Sweet and Joe Thomas. The Society celebrated its 60th birthday in 2015.
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Rex Davis Captain Reginald Graham Davis {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (7 November 1890 – 1 December 1951), known as Rex Davis, was a British soldier, silent film actor and sportsman.
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James Yates (poet) James Yates (fl. 1582), poet, describes himself in the dedication of his only known volume as a "serving man", and no further details of his biography have been discovered. Park conjectured that he came from Suffolk on the ground that "he addressed verses to 'Mr. P. W.' who visited Ipswich and wrote an epitaph on Mrs. Pooley of Badley.’ Mrs. Pooley was "sister to my lady Wentworth", who may have been one of the wives of Thomas, second baron Wentworth, though there were many knights in the Wentworth family. Most of them, however, belonged to Suffolk, and it is possible that "Mr. P. W." may have been Peter or Paul Wentworth. Yates has also been associated with Warwickshire on the grounds that he dedicates his work to one Henry Reynolds, who is assumed to be identical with Henry Reynolds, and that Drayton, who was a Warwickshire man, also dedicated his epistle "Of Poets and Poesie" to Reynolds. Upon this flimsy evidence is also based the theory that the "verses written at the departure of his friend W. S. when he went to dwell in London" included in Yates's volume refer to Shakespeare. It is more probable that Yates's patron was the Henry Reynolds of Belstead who married Elizabeth, daughter of Edmund Withipol of Ipswich, and that "Mr. P. W." was Edmund's brother, Paul Withipol (Davy, Suffolk Collections, vol. xciii. f. 341).
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Floreat Etona! Floreat Etona! is an 1882 painting by Elizabeth Thompson, Lady Butler. The title is the motto of Eton College, "may Eton flourish". The painting depicts an incident in 1881, during the First Boer War.
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Edward Ellerker Williams Edward Ellerker Williams (22 April 1793 – 8 July 1822) was a retired army officer who became a friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley in the final months of his life and died with him.
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Edmund Blackadder Edmund Blackadder is the single name given to a collection of fictional characters who appear in the BBC mock-historical comedy series "Blackadder", each played by Rowan Atkinson. Although each series is set within a different period of British history, each character is part of the same familial dynasty and is usually called Edmund Blackadder. Each character also shares notable personality traits and characteristics throughout each incarnation.
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Ulysses (broadcast) The "Ulysses" broadcast occurred on Bloomsday 1982 when the Irish state broadcaster, RTÉ Radio, transmitted an uninterrupted 30-hour dramatised performance, by 33 actors of the RTÉ Players, of the entire text of James Joyce's epic novel, "Ulysses", to commemorate the centenary of the author's birth (born 2 February 1882). The broadcast was carried by live relay internationally and won a Jacob's Broadcasting Award in recognition of its achievement.
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Bailey Davies David Bailey "Beili" Davies (3 December 1884 – 24 August 1968) was a Welsh rugby union fullback who played club rugby for Oxford University, Llanelli and London Welsh and international rugby for Wales. In his personal life he was a schoolmaster, clergyman and soldier.
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HMS Achilles (1905) HMS "Achilles" was a "Warrior"-class armoured cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the first decade of the 20th century. She served with the 2nd Cruiser Squadron for most of the First World War. The ship did not participate in the Battle of Jutland in 1916, but did sink the German raider "Leopard" in 1917. "Achilles" became a training ship in 1918 and was sold for scrap in 1921.