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John Cunnison "Ian" Catford (26 March 1917 – 6 October 2009) was a Scottish linguist and phonetician of worldwide renown. Biography.
John Cunningham was born in Île-à-la-Crosse, Saskatchewan, on 16 February 1817, as the eldest son of Patrick Cunningham, a postmaster from Sligo, Ireland, who had become a voyageur at Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), and of Nancy Anne Bruce, a native of Luisianna. [1] He was only baptized on 27 August 1826, at the age of 9. [2]
Former pupils of St Dunstan's College, Catford are known in some circles as "Old Dunstonians". The abbreviation OD is sometimes used to identify this, and they are collectively abbreviated as "ODs". The abbreviation OD is sometimes used to identify this, and they are collectively abbreviated as "ODs".
1301 – King Andrew III died without any male heirs, ending the Árpád dynasty, which had ruled Hungary since the late 9th century.; 1900 – Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca (poster pictured), based on the play La Tosca by French dramatist Victorien Sardou, premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome.
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She was one of the first women (the "First Eight") to join the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA), alongside Joan Hughes, Margaret Cunnison, Mona Friedlander, Gabrielle Patterson, Marion Wilberforce, Margaret Fairweather and Rosemary Rees, under the command of Pauline Gower. She served from 1940 to 1945. She became second in command at Ferry pool No. 5.
In 1986, they sang a parody of the Jimmy Dean song "Big Bad John", called "Big Bad Bond". It was a tongue-in-cheek reference to the Australian entrepreneur Alan Bond and his involvement in Australia's victory in the 1983 America's Cup .
The estate is bordered to the east and west by railway lines running south from Catford. Along the south it is bordered by Southend Lane, the A2218 main road . The River Ravensbourne runs through Bellingham, although it is either underground or part of a man-made section of the river.