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"Davies Rhys John Davies (16 April 1877 – 31 October 1954) was a British trade unionist and Labour Party politician. Davies was born in Llangennech, Carmarthenshire, Wales, the son of Rhys and Ann Davies. After an elementary education he initially worked as a farm labourer. He subsequently moved to the Rhondda Valley, where he worked as a coalminer for ten years. From an early age he was involved in the local co-operative society and became a union official organising shop-assistants throughout South Wales. This led to his moving to Manchester, to take up a post with the Amalgamated Union of Co- operative Employees and later the National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers.'Obituary: Mr R J Davies', The Times, 2 November 1954. He was a member of Manchester City Council for thirty years, and also president of the Manchester and Salford Trades Council and of the Withington Divisional Parliamentary Labour Party. In 1921, William Wilson, Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for Westhoughton, died, and Davies was elected at a by- election to succeed him. He served in the first Labour Government in 1924 as Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department. This was the only government office he held. He retained the Westhoughton seat through successive elections until he retired from the House of Commons early in 1951 due to ill health.'MP not to seek re-election', The Times, 10 April 1951, p. 7. At the time he was the longest-serving Labour MP. Davies was a strong supporter of the temperance and pacifist movements, whose causes he advocated in Parliament and in the country. He was also a committed parliamentarian, and served as joint secretary of the British group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union. He married Margaret Griffiths in 1902, and they had three sons. Davies died at his home in Porthcawl, Glamorgan, in 1954, aged 77. References External links * Category:1877 births Category:1954 deaths Category:Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Category:National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers-sponsored MPs Category:UK MPs 1918–1922 Category:UK MPs 1922–1923 Category:UK MPs 1923–1924 Category:UK MPs 1924–1929 Category:UK MPs 1929–1931 Category:UK MPs 1931–1935 Category:UK MPs 1935–1945 Category:UK MPs 1945–1950 Category:UK MPs 1950–1951 Category:People from Llanelli Category:Welsh pacifists "
"Flora Payne Whitney, also known as Flora Whitney Miller (July 27, 1897 – July 18, 1986), was an American artist and socialite,"Flora Whitney died in 1986, inevitably wikipeded as a 'wealthy socialite.'" art collector, and patron of the arts. Early life Flora Payne Whitney was born on July 27, 1897 and raised in Manhattan. Her father was Harry Payne Whitney (1872–1930), a sportsman and heir to the Whitney family fortune, and her mother was Gertrude Vanderbilt (1875–1942), heiress to a substantial part of the Vanderbilt family fortune. She attended Brearley School in New York and Foxcroft School in Middleburg, Virginia, where she met and became close lifelong friends with the artist Kay Sage. Career During World War I, she worked with Ruth Hanna McCormick, wife of Senator Joseph M. McCormick, at the Washington headquarters of the Republican Women's National Executive Committee. Whitney worked closely with her mother, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney in the founding and endowing of the Whitney Museum of Art in New York. After her mother's death, Whitney served as President of the Museum from 1941 until 1966, and as Chairman from 1966 through 1974. Whitney's daughter and granddaughter remain active in museum affairs to this day. Personal life On August 4, 1916, Whitney made her debut at "The Reefs," the Payne-Whitney "cottage" in Newport, Rhode Island. She was escorted by Quentin Roosevelt, son of President Theodore Roosevelt, although her father did not approve of young Roosevelt. After the United States entered World War I, Quentin enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Service, and became engaged to Whitney before leaving for duty overseas. The glamorous young couple never married, since Quentin was killed in aerial combat in July, 1918. Love letters exchanged between Flora and Quentin while he was at the front were featured in Edward Renehan's book about TR's sons, The Lion's Pride (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998). In 1920, Whitney married Roderick Tower at St. Bartholomew's Church, New York. He was an aviator who had trained with Quentin Roosevelt at Mineola air field on Long Island. Tower was also a stockbroker, and son of U.S. Ambassador to Russia and Germany Charlemagne Tower, Jr. The marriage was a failure, however, due to Tower's drinking and infidelity. Before their divorce in August 1925, they had two children together: *Pamela Tower (b. 1921), who married Jay Ketchum Secor (1912–1960) in 1941. They divorced in 1950 and she later married Thomas LeBoutillier (1913–1979) *Whitney Tower (1923–1999) In 1927, Whitney married George Macculloch Miller III (d. 1972) in Cairo, Egypt. Miller was an artist and member of the architectural firm of Noel & Miller, from 1930 to 1948, and a grandson of George Macculloch Miller (1832–1917), the founder what would become the United Hospital Fund. The marriage to "Cully" Miller was long and happy, and Whitney had two more children: *Flora Miller (b. 1928), who married Michael Henry Irving She later married Sydney Francis Biddle (1918–2004) *Leverett Saltonstall Miller (b. 1931) She died on July 18, 1986 at Community Hospital in Glen Cove, L.I. =Descendants= Whitney's grandson John LeBoutillier is a political columnist and commentator and a one-term U.S. Representative representing a Long Island district. Her great-grandson, Josiah Hornblower (son of Whitney Tower's daughter, Alexandra Tower Hornblower Thorne) was featured in the documentary Born Rich. References =Sources= * "Society Welcomes Miss Flora Whitney", The New York Times, August 5, 1916. * "Flora Whitney Wed to Roderick Tower", The New York Times, April 20, 1920. Category:20th-century philanthropists Category:1897 births Category:1986 deaths Category:American people of Dutch descent Category:American people of English descent Category:American people of Welsh descent Category:Brearley School alumni Category:New York (state) Republicans Category:Philanthropists from New York (state) Flora Payne Flora Payne "
"HD 88522 is a double or multiple star. The component stars are two white stars of similar spectral type—A1V and A2V—and luminosity. References Category:A-type main-sequence stars Category:Binary stars Category:Antlia Category:Durchmusterung objects 088522 049967 4003 "