Great Lives

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Christmas Spectacular 2019

Leaders: John Jebson and Robert Young:

The group allows members to present a summary of the life and times of a subject of their choice followed by a group discussion on the presentation.Lives may be current or historical and from any field of human achievement. Participants are guaranteed to learn something new!!

Leader: John Jebson and John Parry
Location and times: 3rd Wednesday at 11:00 in The Catholic Church Hall


The group allows members to present a summary of the life and times of a subject of their choice, followed by a group discussion on the presentation.Lives may be current or historical and from any field of human achievement.Participants are guaranteed to learn something new!


 

The famous people we have learned about in recent years have included:-

 

F.M.ALEXANDER, William George ARMSTRONG, Nancy ASTOR

 

William BLIGH, Isambard Kingdom BRUNEL, James COOK

 

Albert EINSTEIN, ELIZABETH 2, Elizabeth FRY

 

Robert GRAVES, HENRY V, A.E.HOUSEMAN

 

James HUTTON, Rudyard KIPLING, T.E.LAWRENCE

 

George MALLORY, Horatio NELSON (and EMMA HAMILTON)

 

Lord PALMERSTON, Adam SEDGWICK, Dmitri SHOSTAKOVICH

 

Jonathan SILVER, Wallis SIMPSON, Bessie SMITH,

 

F.E.SMITH, Charles Edward STUART (Bonnie Prince Charlie),

 

Publius TERENCE, Oscar WILDE, John WESLEY

 

William WILBERFORCE, Emile ZOLA