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"View east from the junction with Woodstock Road. St Margaret's Road is a road in North Oxford, England. Location The road runs between Kingston Road to the west and Banbury Road to the east, crossing Woodstock Road. To the south are Farndon Road to the west and Canterbury Road to the east. To the north are Polstead Road (west) and Rawlinson Road (east). The main entrance of St Hugh's College, the northernmost Oxford college and one of the former women's colleges, is on the south side of the road. The grounds of the College stretch along the road from Woodstock Road to Banbury Road. On the northeast corner with Kingston Road at the western end is St Margaret's parish church.The Church Building , St Margaret's Church.Short History , St Margaret's Church, Oxford. Green Templeton College has accommodation in several houses on St Margaret's Road.St Margaret's Road , Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, UK. History Rackham Lane, which later became St Margaret's Road, was laid out in 1879 as part of the Norham Manor estate. According to Henry Taunt, the part of the road between Banbury Road and Woodstock Road was called Gallows-Baulk Road. When the road was improved, the remains of several people who had been hanged were found. The houses in St Margaret's Road were mostly designed by William Wilkinson and Harry Wilkinson Moore in partnership. They were built between 1879 and 1886. The main buildings of St Hugh's College are by Herbert Tudor Buckland and William Haywood, dating from 1914–16 and built in a neo-Georgian style. Gallery File:St Margaret's Road, Oxford.JPGView west along St Margaret's Road from the junction with Woodstock Road. File:North side of St Hugh's College, Oxford.JPGSt Hugh's College buildings on the south side of St Margaret's Road. File:St Hugh's Front.jpgThe main entrance of St Hugh's College on St Margaret's Road. References Streets in Oxford St Hugh's College, Oxford Green Templeton College, Oxford 1879 establishments in England "
"Rogers Ernest Malcolm Whitaker (January 15, 1900 - May 11, 1981) was an editor of The New Yorker magazine who was known to readers for his many contributions to Talk of the Town under the pen name of E. M. Frimbo, World's Greatest Railroad Buff. Early life Whitaker's father, Charles Harris Whitaker, was an editor of the Journal of the American Institute of Architects. He lectured frequently and transited the Atlantic over 50 times on steamships. When Rogers Whitaker was nine he took his first solo train ride. He developed a love for trains that lasted his entire life. During Whitaker's sophomore year at Princeton, Whitaker's father declined to continue paying his tuition, and instead gave him $40 and a letter of introduction to use in seeking a job. Whitaker lived in a theatrical boarding house down the hall from Mae West and worked at the New York Times checking bridal announcements for hoaxes placed by jilted suitors while also selling advertising for a trade magazine. Career at The New Yorker In 1926, Whitaker was employed by The New Yorker magazine as head of the make-up department, responsible for laying out each issue. He went on to establish the fact-checking department and acted as chief proofreader at the copy desk. Eventually he rose to the level of editor, and took on many interesting duties. He covered college football from 1937 until 1968, signing the pieces "J.W.L." because an editor reportedly liked the look of the letters together. He was also a major contributor to the magazine's "Goings on About Town" section, spending much time at cabarets and supper clubs. Whitaker retired from The New Yorker in 1975. E. M. Frimbo Whitaker's greatest love in life was traveling by train. He accumulated 2.7 million miles of such travel during his lifetime, and wrote extensively about his trips under the pen name "E. M. Frimbo," often in collaboration with the staff writer Tony Hiss. He put his knowledge of trains to good use during World War II, where he was commissioned as a Major in the U.S. Army's Traffic Control Division of the Transportation Corps. There he helped to plan the routing of troop trains. In 1970, Whitaker testified before the Interstate Commerce Commission to argue against the Penn Central Railroad's plan to eliminate all 34 of its long distance passenger trains. A year before his death Whitaker appeared in the first episode ("Coast to Coast") of the BBC documentary series Great Railway Journeys, in which he is interviewed by the episode's narrator Ludovic Kennedy. Personal life Whitaker was a cat enthusiast who gave his cats names based on unusual criteria. "Epiphany" was named for the important day in the church calendar on which the cat came to his home. "Edward W. Riegelman" was named for a ferryboat he enjoyed riding. "Rosemont" was named for the similarly patterned horse of that name that won the 1935 Withers Stakes at Belmont Park.Cat People, Bill Hayward, introduction by Rogers E. M. Whitaker. New York: Dolphin/Doubleday, 1978 References *Rogers E. M. Whitaker and Tony Hiss (1997), All Aboard with E. M. Frimbo, World's Greatest Railroad Buff, Kodansha International, New York. 1900 births 1981 deaths United States Army officers American army personnel of World War II 20th-century American essayists Rail transport writers "
"Patrick Weston Joyce, commonly known as P. W. Joyce (1827 – 7 January 1914) was an Irish historian, writer and music collector, known particularly for his research in Irish etymology and local place names of Ireland. Biography He was born in Ballyorgan in the Ballyhoura Mountains, on the borders of counties Limerick and Cork in Ireland, and grew up in nearby Glenosheen. The family claimed descent from one Seán Mór Seoighe (fl. 1680), a stonemason from Connemara, County Galway. Robert Dwyer Joyce was a younger brother. Joyce was a native Irish speaker who started his education at a hedge school. He then attended school in Mitchelstown, County Cork. Joyce started work in 1845 with the Commission of National Education. He became a teacher and principal of the Model School, Clonmel. In 1856 he was one of fifteen teachers selected to re- organize the national school system in Ireland. Meanwhile he earned his B.A. in 1861 and M.A. in 1863 from Trinity College, Dublin. He was principal of the Training College, Marlborough Street, in Dublin from 1874 to 1893. As a member of the Society for the Preservation of the Irish Language he wrote an Irish Grammar in 1878. He was President of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland from 1906 to 1908, an association of which he was a member from 1865. Joyce was a key cultural figure of his time. His wide interests included the Irish language, Hiberno-English, music, education, Irish literature and folklore, Irish history and antiquities, place-names and much else. He produced many works on the history and culture of Ireland. His most enduring work is the pioneering The Origin and History of Irish Names of Places (first edition published in 1869).Robert Hogan, ed., Dictionary of Irish Literature (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1979) Joyce collection in St. Patrick's College The P.W. Joyce collection at the Cregan Library in St Patrick's College, Drumcondra, Dublin, reflects many of Joyce's interests and includes many rarities. These include autographed presentation copies by Joyce and his brother Robert, as well as books from Joyce's own library. The collection also contains nine manuscripts associated with Joyce and his family members, including a very fine manuscript in P.W. Joyce's own hand of Echtra Cormaic itir Tairngiri agus Ceart Claíd Cormaic (Adventures of Cormac in the Land of Promise), a passage from the Book of Ballymote, which Joyce translated into English. Select works *The Origin and History of Irish Names of Places (3 volumes, 1869, 1875, 1913) *Irish Local Names Explained (1870) *Ancient Irish music (1873), with piano accompaniments by John William Glover (1815–1899) *A Handbook of School Management (1876) *An Irish Grammar (1878) *On the Old Celtic Romances (1879) *Old Irish Folk Music, 842 airs, partly from the Forde and Pigot collections (1909) *Irish Peasant Songs *Irish Music and Song (1888) *A Concise History of Rome: From the Foundation of Rome to the Death of Trajan, 117 A.D. *A Concise History of Ireland *A History of Gaelic Ireland from the Earliest Times to 1608 (1893) *English as We Speak it in Ireland (1910) *Ireland's Battles and Battlefields *Irish Names of Places *Old Irish Folk Music and Songs *A Social History of Ancient Ireland, 2 vols. (1906) *The Story of Ancient Irish Civilisation (1907) *The Wonders of Ireland (1911) Bibliography * Margaret Drabble (ed.), The Oxford Companion of English Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985) * Seamus Deane (ed.), The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing (Derry: Field Day, 1991), vol. 2 References External links A Concise History of Ireland (by P. W. Joyce) * Origin and History of Irish Names of Places Available online at Archive.org * Limerick County Council Joyce collection 1827 births 1914 deaths 19th-century Irish historians 19th- century Irish people 20th-century Irish historians 20th- century Irish people Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Burials at Glasnevin Cemetery Irish folk-song collectors Irish-language writers Irish writers Members of the Royal Irish Academy People from County Limerick "