Anne Marie Morris was first elected the Member of Parliament for Newton Abbot in 2010 and was re-elected in May 2015 with an increased majority of 11,235, June 2017 with a further increased majority of 17,160 and most recently in December 2019 with an other increased majority of 17,501. Anne Marie lives in Newton Abbot and has a family history in Devon that can be traced back some 200 years. She likes to get out and about in the community with her two dogs (Darcy and Charlie). Anne Marie holds regular surgeries and also meets constituents in Westminster
https://www.annemariemorris.co.uk/
Anne Marie Morris is a Conservative MP, and on the vast majority of issues votes the same way as other Conservative MPs. However, Anne Marie Morris sometimes differs from their party colleagues
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Anne Marie Morris (born 5 July 1957) is a British Conservative Party politician and former lawyer. She has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Newton Abbot since 2010.
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Gary and Jan have lived in this area since 1979 and have two grown up children both born in Plymouth and educated at local state schools. They are now blessed with four grandchildren, all of whom live locally.
Gary was brought up on a dairy farm in East Devon while Janet hails from the north (Barnstaple!). They live in the South Hams and are members of a Plympton church.
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Gary Streeter is a Conservative MP, and on the vast majority of issues votes the same way as other Conservative MPs.
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Sir Gary Nicholas Streeter (born 2 October 1955) is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. Since 1997 he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for South West Devon, previously holding the nearby seat of Plymouth Sutton between 1992 and 1997. Since the convening of the Fifty-fifth Parliament, Streeter has been the longest serving MP representing a constituency in the county of Devon.
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Anthony Mangnall was born in 1989 and as the son of a soldier he spent his early years in Northern Ireland and Zimbabwe before moving back to the United Kingdom. Throughout his time abroad and while in the UK the one constant home to him was the South Hams, staying with close family in Battisborough Cross and Diptford.
https://www.totnesconservatives.co.uk/people/anthony-mangnall
Anthony Mangnall is a Conservative MP, and on the vast majority of issues votes the same way as other Conservative MPs
https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/25868/anthony_mangnall/totnes
Anthony James Holland Mangnall (born 12 August 1989) is a British Conservative Party politician, who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Totnes since the 2019 general election. Prior to his parliamentary career, Mangnall worked in shipbroking and as a special adviser.
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Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg (born 3 January 2003) is a Swedish environmental activist who is internationally known for challenging world leaders to take immediate action against climate change. Thunberg initially gained notice for her youth and her straightforward speaking manner, both in public and to political leaders and assemblies, in which she criticises world leaders for their failure to take what she considers sufficient action to address the climate crisis.
Thunberg's activism started after convincing her parents to adopt several lifestyle choices to reduce their own carbon footprint. In August 2018, at age 15, she started spending her school days outside the Swedish Parliament to call for stronger action on climate change by holding up a sign reading Skolstrejk för klimatet (School strike for climate). Soon, other students engaged in similar protests in their own communities. Together, they organised a school climate strike movement under the name Fridays for Future. After Thunberg addressed the 2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference, student strikes took place every week somewhere in the world. In 2019, there were multiple coordinated multi-city protests involving over a million students each. To avoid flying, Thunberg sailed to North America where she attended the 2019 UN Climate Action Summit. Her speech there, in which she exclaimed "how dare you", was widely taken up by the press and incorporated into music.
Her sudden rise to world fame has made her both a leader and a target for critics. Her influence on the world stage has been described by The Guardian and other newspapers as the "Greta effect". She has received numerous honours and awards including an honorary Fellowship of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, inclusion in Time's 100 most influential people, being the youngest Time Person of the Year, inclusion in the Forbes list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women (2019), and two consecutive nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize (2019 and 2020).
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I am a Professor in Physical Geography at the University of Exeter, with over 25 years research experience in Earth System Science. My research focuses on the role of vegetation in the climate system.
I was principal developer of the LPJ model, the World’s most highly cited Dynamic Global Vegetation Model (DGVM), and was theme leader for plant physiology (2009-2011), vegetation dynamics and disturbance (2011-2014) and community experiments of the Joint UK Land Environment Simulator, JULES, the land component of the Hadley Centre climate model (UKESM). I have published extensively on plant physiology, vegetation dynamics, biogeochemical cycles, and ecosystem-atmosphere interactions.
I co-lead TRENDY, the international activity providing land flux estimates for the Global Carbon Project’s (GCP) annual carbon budget update, and GCP’s regional synthesis chapters.
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Andrew the Apostle , also called Saint Andrew, was an apostle of Jesus according to the New Testament. He is the brother of Saint Peter. He is referred to in the Orthodox tradition as the First-Called .
According to Orthodox tradition, the apostolic successor to Saint Andrew is the Patriarch of Constantinople.
Andrew is the patron saint of several countries and cities including: Barbados, Romania, Russia, Scotland, Ukraine, Sarzana, Pienza and Amalfi in Italy, Esgueira in Portugal, Luqa in Malta, Parañaque in the Philippines and Patras in Greece. He was also the patron saint of Prussia and of the Order of the Golden Fleece. He is considered the founder and the first bishop of the Church of Byzantium and is consequently the patron saint of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. The Apostle Andrew is also the patron of the Russian Navy.
The flag of Scotland (and consequently the Union Flag and those of some of the former colonies of the British Empire) feature Saint Andrew's saltire cross. The saltire is also the flag of Tenerife, the former flag of Galicia and the Russian Navy Ensign.
The feast of Andrew is observed on 30 November in both the Eastern and Western churches, and is the national day of Scotland. In the traditional liturgical books of the Catholic Church, the feast of Saint Andrew is the first feast day in the Proper of Saints.
He is the patron saint of fishermen, fishmongers and rope-makers, textile workers, singers, miners, pregnant women, butchers, farm workers, protection against sore throats, protection against convulsions, protection against fever, protection against whooping cough.
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George Parker Bidder was a native of Moretonhampstead, in this county, and was brought into public notice at a very early age through the wonderful power of mental calculation which he developed without having received any instruction. He was born in very humble circumstances, his father being a stonemason; and at the age of seven, when his talent first became apparent, he did not know the meaning of the word “multiplication”, nor could he read the common numerical symbols.
[His talent gained him a place at Edinburgh University where he was a classmate of Robert Stevenson. He worked as a surveyor, as a civil engineer, and from 1834 with the] staff of Messrs. George and Robert Stephenson, with whom he was engaged for many years, taking part in the construction of the London and Birmingham, the South Eastern, North Kent, London and Blackwall, Norwich and Yarmouth, Northampton and Peterborough, Trent Valley, North Staffordshire, and many other railways.
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Two of the three Founding Fathers of the Devonshire Association were elected to Fellowship of the Royal Society, the mark of outstanding scientific excellence in Britain. William Pengelly is widely recognised as a geologist and a pioneer of Palaeolithic archaeology, but Charles Spence Bate, the Association’s equally distinguished second President, is far less well known today.
He was in his time the foremost authority – possibly in the world – on Crustacea, the immense animal group that ranges from tiny planktonic copepods to giant crabs via shrimps, woodlice, and barnacles, on which latter he corresponded with Darwin, a specialist in the group. His mammoth report on 2,000 specimens from the Challenger expedition of 1873-6 took him ten years, and his two volume monograph, with the entomologist J. O. Westwood, on the British sessile-eyed Crustacea was the standard work for more than a century.
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JOHN JAMES ALEXANDER, M.A., F.R.Hist. SOC., J.P., was the eldest surviving son of Joseph Alexander, J.P.; his mother was Mary Frances Gouldsbury Long, daughter and heiress of Francis Gouldesbury Long, M.D., of Heath Hill, Co. Donegal. Mr. Alexander was born 12th November 1865 at Imlick House, near Carrigans, in the same county, and went to school first at the Academy and then at Foyle College, in Londonderry, from which he proceeded to Queen’s College, Belfast in 1883, and St. John’s College, Cambridge in 1887. During the period of his education he won at least thirteen exhibitions and scholarships, in mathematics, physics, and chemistry. He took first class degrees at the Royal University of Ireland in 1886, 1889, and was finally eighth wrangler at Cambridge, in 1890, proceeding M.A. of the latter university in 1895.
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Members [of the Devonshire Association] who attended the Annual Meeting of the Association in Tiverton in 1974 will recall with pleasure the inauguration of Sir Richard Acland as President, and the memorable Presidential Address he gave on that occasion. Taking ‘Six Generations of Change’ as his theme, Sir Richard argued that change ‘does not take place by benign consensus of all concerned’ but ‘emerges out of a struggle of contrary ideas and opposing intentions’, to which he added the comment that ‘there is a continual and mutual interaction between the material things around us and our own ideas, feelings and beliefs’. This, he worked out through a close examination of the contribution made, through six generations of his own family, in public life and to the development of education in this country from the eighteenth to the twentieth century.
Acland, Richard Thomas Dyke – The Devonshire Association (devonassoc.org.uk)
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