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Gaitskell
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Gaitskell may refer to: *Arthur Gaitskell (1900–1985), British colonial administrator *Dora Gaitskell, Baroness Gaitskell (1901–1989), British politician * Hugh Gaitskell (1906–1963), British politician; leader of the Labour party *Richard Gaitskell (born 1965), American physicist See also * Gaskell * Gaitskill *Gaitskellism Gaitskellism was the ideology of a faction in the British Labour Party in the 1950s and early 1960s which opposed many of the economic policies of the trade unions, especially nationalisation and control of the economy. Theoretically, it repudia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Gaitskell
Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell (9 April 1906 – 18 January 1963) was a British politician who served as Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1955 until his death in 1963. An economics lecturer and wartime civil servant, he was elected to Parliament in 1945 and held office in Clement Attlee's governments, notably as Minister of Fuel and Power following the bitter winter of 1946–47, and eventually joining the Cabinet as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Facing the need to increase military spending in 1951, he imposed National Health Service charges on dentures and spectacles, prompting the leading left-winger Aneurin Bevan to resign from the Cabinet. The perceived similarity in his outlook to that of his Conservative Party counterpart Rab Butler was dubbed "Butskellism", initially a satirical term blending their names, and was one aspect of the post-war consensus through which the major parties largely agreed on the main points of domestic and forei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dora Gaitskell, Baroness Gaitskell
Anna Dora Gaitskell, Baroness Gaitskell (''née'' Creditor; formerly Frost; 25 April 1901 – 1 July 1989) was a British Labour Party (UK), Labour Party politician and the wife of Hugh Gaitskell, who led the Labour Party in 1955–1963. Early life She was born Anna Dora Creditor near Riga, Latvia, then part of Russia, the eldest of four sisters and a brother. Her father, Leon Creditor was a Hebrew scholar and writer. They emigrated to Britain in 1903 or soon after, arriving in Stepney, London. She was educated at Coopers' Company and Coborn School, Coborn High School for Girls in Bow, London, Bow, east London. She abandoned a career in medicine to marry Isaac Frost, a lecturer in physiology, on 15 March 1921. They had a son, Raymond, in 1925, but divorced in 1937. Political career She had joined the Labour Party at the age of 16. She met Hugh Gaitskell in Fitzrovia, London. Gaitskell had taken a teaching post at University College, London. They married at Hampstead Town Hall on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Gaitskell
Richard Jeremy Gaitskell (born May 2, 1965) is a physicist and professor at Brown University and a leading scientist in the search for particle dark matter."Inside the hunt for dark matter from Popular Science. Published October 2013 He is co-founder, a principal investigator, and co-spokesperson of the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment, which announced world-leading"First results from the LUX dark matter experiment at SURF," Phys. Rev. LettPublished March 2014. first results on October 30, 2013. He is also a leading investigator in the new LUX-Zeplin (LZ) dark matter experiment. Career Gaitskell was educated at Dulwich College and received his BA and MA degrees from Oxford University in 1985. He was a scholar at St John's College and is the grandson of labour party leader Hugh Gaitskell. In 1985-1989 Gaitskell worked for the investment bank Morgan Grenfell in London, including a spell as an Assistant Director of Morgan Grenfell International. In 1993 he received his Ph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Gaitskell
Sir Arthur Gaitskell (23 October 1900 – 8 November 1985) was an administrator in the British Empire. Family life He was born in Rangoon, Burma, British India, to Arthur Gaitskell (1870–1915), of the Indian Civil Service, and Adelaide Mary Jamieson Gaitskell (died 1956), whose father, George Jamieson, was consul-general in Shanghai and prior to that had been Judge of the British Supreme Court for China and Japan. His brother was Hugh Gaitskell. Career He was chairman of the Sudan Gezira Board which had oversight of the Gezira Scheme. He was appointed to the East Africa Royal Commission The East Africa Royal Commission was a commission set up by the British government to review issues of economic development in British colonies across British East Africa. The Commission was established by Royal Warrant on 1 January 1953. It cons ... (1953-5). Publications *Gaitskell A. (1959) ''Gezira: A Story of Development in the Sudan'', London: Faber & Faber References {{DEFAULTS ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaskell
Gaskell is a Gaelic surname. The surname related to "Gaisgeil", meaning valorous. People with the surname * Charles George Milnes Gaskell (1842-1919), British lawyer and politician * Lady Constance Gaskell (1885–1964), British courtier * David Gaskell (born 1940), British football player * Dean Gaskell (born 1983), British rugby league player * Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865), British novelist and biographer * George Gaskell, British social psychologist * Holbrook Gaskell (1813–1909), British industrialist and collector * Holbrook Gaskell II (1846-1919), British chemical industrialist * Holbrook Gaskell III (1878-1951), British chemical industrialist * James Gaskell, (born 1990), Rugby Union player for Sale Sharks * James Milnes Gaskell (1810–1873), British Conservative politician * Jane Gaskell (born 1941), British fantasy novelist * Lucy Gaskell (born 1980), British actress * Richard Gaskell, football player * Walter Holbrook Gaskell (1847–1914), British ph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaitskill
Mary Gaitskill (born November 11, 1954) is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. Her work has appeared in ''The New Yorker'', '' Harper's Magazine'', '' Esquire'', ''The Best American Short Stories'' (1993, 2006, 2012, 2020), and '' The O. Henry Prize Stories'' (1998, 2008). Her books include the short story collection ''Bad Behavior'' (1988). Life Gaitskill was born in Lexington, Kentucky. She has lived in New York City, Toronto, San Francisco, Marin County and Pennsylvania, as well as attending the University of Michigan, where she earned her B.A. in 1981 and won a Hopwood Award. She sold flowers in San Francisco as a teenage runaway. In a conversation with novelist and short story writer Matthew Sharpe for ''BOMB Magazine'', Gaitskill said she chose to become a writer at age 18 because she was "indignant about things—it was the typical teenage sense of 'things are wrong in the world and I must say something.'" Gaitskill has also recounted (in her essay ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
