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David Burt (violinist)
David Burt may refer to: * David Raitt Robertson Burt (1899–1983), Scottish zoologist * David Burt (cricketer) (1901–?), New Zealand cricketer * Dave Burt (born 1937), Australian rules footballer * David Burt (actor) (born 1953), British actor * David Burt (filtering advocate) (fl. 1992–2007), American librarian and content-control software advocate * David Burt (politician) Edward David Burt (born 23 November 1978) is the Premier of Bermuda and leader of the Progressive Labour Party (PLP). Burt is Bermuda's youngest ever premier, having taken office at the age of 38. Early life and career His mother, Merlin, is f ...
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David Raitt Robertson Burt
Prof David Raitt Robertson Burt BSc FRSE FLS FZS (1899-1983) was a Scottish zoologist with strong links to Ceylon. St Andrews University’s Burt Memorial Lecture is named after him. He is also credited with mounting the Bell Pettigrew Museum collection in the Zoology Department. Life He was born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, on 19 June 1899. He attended Kirkcaldy High School. In the First World War he joined the Black Watch and reached the rank of Second Lieutenant. He was not discharged until 1919. In 1924 he moved to Ceylon to lecture in Zoology at University College, Ceylon. He was promoted to Professor of Zoology in 1939. In 1946 he returned to Scotland to lecture at St Andrews University. His students included the marine biologist Norman Tebble FRSE. In 1930 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, his proposer being, amongst others, D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson. St Andrews University awarded him an Honorary Doctorate (DSc) in 1976. He died at home in St Andrews ...
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David Burt (cricketer)
David Burt (born 28 November 1901, date of death unknown) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played in one first-class match for Wellington in 1924/25. See also * List of Wellington representative cricketers This is a list of cricketers who have represented the New Zealand-based Wellington cricket team in either a first-class, List A or Twenty20 match. Wellington's inaugural first-class match commenced on 28 November 1873, against Auckland cricke ... References External links * 1901 births Year of death missing New Zealand cricketers Wellington cricketers Cricketers from Auckland 20th-century New Zealand sportsmen {{NewZealand-cricket-bio-1900s-stub ...
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Dave Burt
Dave Burt (born 1937) is an Australian rules footballer who played in 1957 with Collingwood Football Club in the Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). I ... (VFL). Notes External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Burt, Dave 1937 births Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Collingwood Football Club players Ivanhoe Amateurs Football Club players Living people 20th-century Australian sportsmen ...
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David Burt (actor)
David Burt (born 1953) is a British actor, known primarily for his many and wide-ranging West End performances. David Burt is the son of Pip Hinton, better known for her role in ''Crackerjack'' alongside Eamonn Andrews and later Leslie Crowther. He graduated from RADA. His West End theatre work includes Enjolras and Javert in ''Les Misérables'', Anatoly Sergievsky in ''Chess'', Pontius Pilate in ''Jesus Christ Superstar'', Orin Scrivello in ''Little Shop of Horrors'', Agustín Magaldi in ''Evita'', Munkustrap in ''Cats'', and John Jasper in ''The Mystery of Edwin Drood''. He has also played many leading roles at the Royal National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company. His television work includes ''The Trojan Horse'', ''Poldark'' and ''The Merchant of Venice''. Burt played the flamboyant Count Fosco opposite Yvette Robinson in Andrew Lloyd Webber's '' The Woman in White'' at the Palace Theatre (2005) and was featured as Captain Andy Hawks in ''Show Boat'' at the Royal A ...
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David Burt (filtering Advocate)
David Burt is a former librarian and a longtime advocate for content-control software. Burt's research on Internet filtering and the problems allegedly associated with unfiltered Internet access have been cited by both the United States Congress and the Supreme Court of the United States in upholding the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA). He is discussed in various sources such as the book ''Pornified''. Early life and career David Burt completed an undergraduate degree in history and a masters of library science from the University of Washington in 1992. He worked for the New York Public Library for three years, then worked at the Lake Oswego, Oregon Public Library as an information technology manager from 1996 to 2000. Since then he has worked with filtering software companies. Filtering Facts In July 1997, his concerns about children potentially being exposed to pornography on the Internet led him to start Filtering Facts, a nonprofit organization that encouraged li ...
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