Captain Lord’s uremia

Captain Lord's uremia.

The hundredth anniversary of the worst ever civilian maritime disaster was also the fiftieth anniversary of the death of arguably its most controversial character, Captain Stanley Lord, skipper of the Californian, a "tramp" steamer that became entrapped in ice just off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland on April 14, 1912. Although Lord was faulted in two widely publicized inquiries for failing to ...

Lords' Debate Problem of Leisure

WHEN Baroness Burton of Coventry rose in the House of Lords on Wednesday, May 13th, 1964, to call attention to the problem of leisure, she reminded the House of a debate during the previous month on the need for an increase of automation in British industry and commerce, and for effective planning to meet the inevitable changes which it would cause in our society. She said that in 1957, she had...

Captain Thomas Dover

were disbanded because of hooliganism. They have been restarted in this century and take place on the first weekend in May. The games consisted of various contests at single stick (backsword), wrestling, running, jingling, Morris dancing, greyhound coursing and horse racing. It is said that Shakespeare, whose aunt Joan Arden lived at Barton on the Heath, attended the games and included scenes f...

Captain E. B. Hartnell

Captain Edward Mills Grace