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