Who founded the facility where Robert John Godfrey received his education?
Edward Fisher
Title: Robert John Fleming (Canadian politician)
Passage: Born in Toronto, Robert John Fleming was of Irish ancestry, the son of William and Jane (Cauldwell) Fleming. Educated in Toronto public schools he first entered the business world in real estate. From there he moved on to the Toronto Railway Company becoming the general manager in 1905. He was also a member of the Orange Order in Canada.
Title: The Royal Conservatory of Music
Passage: The Royal Conservatory of Music, branded as The Royal Conservatory, is a music education business and performance venue headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was founded in 1886 by Edward Fisher as The Toronto Conservatory of Music. In 1947, King George VI incorporated the organization through royal charter.
Title: Charles Godfrey Leland
Passage: Charles Godfrey Leland (August 15, 1824 – March 20, 1903) was an American humorist, writer, and folklorist, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was educated at Princeton University and in Europe.
Title: Annals of Philosophy
Passage: Annals of Philosophy was a learned journal founded in 1813 by the Scottish chemist Thomas Thomson. It shortly became a leader in its field of commercial scientific periodicals. Contributors included John George Children, Edward Daniel Clarke, Philip Crampton, Alexander Crichton, James Cumming, John Herapath, William George Horner, Thomas Dick Lauder, John Miers, Matthew Paul Moyle, Robert Porrett, James Thomson, and Charles Wheatstone.
Title: John Pinches
Passage: Pinches was born at Chelsea, London, the son of John Robert Pinches and Irene Inchbold. His father was a medallist in the family business which was founded in London by Pinches’ great-great uncle in 1840. After attending Chelsea Polytechnic and two years’ engineering training, Pinches joined the family firm.
Title: Robert J. Morris
Passage: Robert John Morris (September 30, 1914 – December 29, 1996) was an American anti-Communist activist who served as chief counsel to the United States Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security from 1951 to 1953 and from 1956 to 1958, was President of the University of Dallas and founded the now-defunct University of Plano.
Title: William Henry Thorne
Passage: Born in Saint John, New Brunswick, the son E. L. and Susan (Scovil) Thorne, Thorne was educated at Saint John Schools, Rev. Charles Lee's Private School and Grammar School. A businessman, he was president of the Thorne Wharf and Warehousing Co., Ltd. He was a Director of the Royal Bank of Canada and The Eastern Trust Company. He was president of the St. John Board of Trade for two years. He was called to the Senate of Canada for the senatorial division of St. John, New Brunswick on the advice of Conservative Prime Minister Robert Borden in 1913. He served until his death in 1923.
Title: Robert John Godfrey
Passage: Born on the Leeds Castle estate in Kent, England, Godfrey was educated at Finchden Manor in Tenterden, which was described by its founder George Lyward as a "therapeutic community for adolescents", other alumni of which included Alexis Korner and Tom Robinson. Although he didn't start to play the piano until the age of twelve, Godfrey's talent was prodigious enough to gain him admission to the Royal College of Music, then the Royal Academy of Music. He studied under concert pianist Malcolm Binns, and those around him included Sir Michael Tippett, Benjamin Britten and Hans Werner Henze.
Title: Klumpke-Roberts Award
Passage: The Klumpke-Roberts Award, one of seven international and national awards for service to astronomy and astronomy education given by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, was established from a bequest by astronomer Dorothea Klumpke-Roberts to honor her husband Isaac Roberts and her parents.
Title: University of Chicago
Passage: Founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and wealthiest man in history John D. Rockefeller, the University of Chicago was incorporated in 1890; William Rainey Harper became the university's first president in 1891, and the first classes were held in 1892. Both Harper and future president Robert Maynard Hutchins advocated for Chicago's curriculum to be based upon theoretical and perennial issues rather than on applied sciences and commercial utility. With Harper's vision in mind, the University of Chicago also became one of the 14 founding members of the Association of American Universities, an international organization of leading research universities, in 1900.
Title: David Alexander (singer)
Passage: David Alexander was the name given to Derek (Ricky) Ebdon by his manager Byron Godfrey, legal name Raymond William Godfrey an old teenage friend, after learning of the successful conclusion of Godfrey and his partner, Raymond John Glastonbury's London High Court action against Tom Jones, who they had discovered and managed. Both Godfrey and Glastonbury were also from Blackwood, together known as Myron & Byron in the music business. Godfrey, along with Tony King (musical arranger) and Johnny Caesar (songwriter / comedian) produced Alexander's first single for EMI (Columbia) ``If I could see the Rhondda one more time ''in 1971, through the publishing arm of their company, Million Dollar Music Co. Ltd... It sold thousands of copies and stayed on catalogue for years (being reissued in 1975). To this day in 2015, Godfrey and Caesar still receive publishing and writing royalties for this record which elevated Alexander's career. After a less successful single for Columbia the same year (`` Dream On Dreamer''), he was released without recording an album. His next single ``Taste the Wine ''was released on Larry Page's Penny Farthing label in 1974 which was also released across Europe.
Title: Joe Brazil
Passage: Joseph Brazil (August 25, 1927 – August 6, 2008) was an American jazz saxophonist and educator. Local musicians and touring acts performed in his basement. He taught jazz at Garfield High School, co-founded the Black Music curriculum at the University of Washington, and founded the Black Academy of Music in Seattle. He appeared on the albums "Om" by John Coltrane and "Ubiquity" by Roy Ayers.
Robert John Godfrey The Royal Conservatory of Music