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Events with high posterior probability

George Johnson (artist)	Johnson decided to relocate to Melbourne, Australia, in 1951 where he was soon drawn into contemporary art circles, mixing with Leonard French, Roger Kemp, Inge King, Julius Kane, Peter Graham, Clement Meadmore and others.
Oliver St. John Gogarty	In 1900 he made the acquaintance of W. B. Yeats (of whom his mother highly approved) and of George Moore (of whom she did not) and began to frequent Dublin literary circles.
Abbott Lawrence Lowell	On June 19, 1879, while a law student, he married a distant cousin, Anna Parker Lowell in King's Chapel in Boston and honeymooned in the Western U. S. His first scholarly publications appeared before he undertook an academic career.
Ayn Rand	In 1958 Nathaniel Branden established Nathaniel Branden Lectures, later incorporated as the Nathaniel Branden Institute (NBI), to promote Rand's philosophy.
Sydney Ure Smith	They employed such prominent Sydney artists as James Muir Auld, Fred Britton, Frank Burdett, Harold Cazneaux, Albert Collins (who was a director from 1916 -- 51), Roy de Maistre, Adrian Feint, George Frederick Lawrence, Percival Leason, John Passmore, Lloyd Rees, Bill Sparrow and Roland Wakelin.
J. R. R. Tolkien	In 1911, while they were at King Edward's School, Birmingham, Tolkien and three friends, Rob Gilson, Geoffrey Bache Smith and Christopher Wiseman, formed a semi-secret society they called the T. C. B. S.
Thomas Sopwith (geologist)	He later built up contacts in London, especially in the area of geology, where he became a fellow of the Geological Society (and its more exclusive Geological Club) in 1835, sponsored by John Phillips.
John Middleton Murry	In 1914 he met D. H. Lawrence, and became an important supporter.
Rudyard Kipling	In 1922 Kipling, who had made reference to the work of engineers in some of his poems, such as The sons of Martha, Sappers, and McAndrew's hymn, and in other writings such as short story anthologies, for instance The Day's Work, was asked by University of Toronto civil engineering professor Herbert E. T. Haultain for his assistance in developing a dignified obligation and ceremony for graduating engineering students.
George Simon (artist and archaeologist)	During this time, Simon formed a close friendship with the Guyanese archaeologist, anthropologist and novelist, Denis Williams, and in 1985 Williams invited Simon to work as his research assistant at the Walter Roth Museum of Anthropology.
W. H. D. Rouse	Also in 1911, James Loeb chose W. H. D. Rouse, together with two other eminent Classical scholars, T. E. Page and Edward Capps, to be founding editors of the Loeb Classical Library.
Hector Abhayavardhana	In 1936 he joined University College, Colombo where he read liberal arts and came under the influence of E. F. C. Ludowyk and Doric de Souza, who had Marxist sympathies.
M. R. James	Sir John Betjeman, in an introduction to Peter Haining's book about James, shows how influenced he was by James's work : In the year 1920 I was a new boy at the Dragon school, Oxford, then called Lynam's, of which the headmaster was C. C. Lynam, known as' the Skipper'.
Eric Birley	He was influenced in the study of history and archaeology by Michael Holroyd, his Brasenose tutor ; Under the direction of F. G. Simpson, Birley began excavating at Hadrian's Wall in 1927 while an undergraduate.
Theodore Dwight Weld	After 1830 Weld became one of the leaders of the antislavery movement working with Arthur and Lewis Tappan, New York philanthropists, James G. Birney, Gamaliel Bailey, and the Grimké sisters.
Byron Brown	By spring of 2003, Brown was a rising star in the declining years of the'' Harlem Clubhouse'', a loose political fraternity of David Dinkins, Charles Rangel, Basil Paterson, Percy Sutton and sometimes H. Carl McCall that had dominated state politics while forging the careers of its members for much of the late 20th century.
Peter G. Gerry	In the summer of 1899, Gerry and his brother Robert were tutor ed by William Lyon Mackenzie King, who later became the Prime Minister of Canada.
Walter Sherman Gifford	According to one historian, : One of Gifford's most brilliant early staff appointments was that of Arthur W. Page to the job of vice-president for public relations... Gifford persuaded him to join AT&T early in 1927.
Samuel Butler (novelist)	After 1878, Butler became close friends with Henry Festing Jones, whom Butler persuaded to give up his job as a solicitor to be Butler's personal literary assistant and traveling companion, at a salary of 200 pounds a year.
Al Hansen	Hansen studied with composer John Cage at the now famous 1958 Composition Class at the New School for Social Research in New York City along with fellow students, Dick Higgins, George Brecht, and Allan Kaprow amongst others.
John Lomax	His sons and daughters assisted with his folksong research and with the daily operations of the Archive : Shirley, who performed songs taught to her by her mother ; John Jr., who encouraged his father's association with the Library ; Alan Lomax who accompanied John on field trips and who from 1937 -- 42 served as the Archive's first paid (though very nominally) employee as Assistant in Charge ; and Bess, who spent her weekends and school vacations copying song texts and doing comparative song research.
Aleister Crowley	Back in London, Baker introduced Crowley to George Cecil Jones, a member of the occult society known as the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, which had been founded in 1888.
Arthur O'Shaughnessy	At the age of seventeen, in June 1861, Arthur O'Shaughnessy received the post of transcriber in the library of the British Museum, reportedly through the influence of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton.
Henry Page Croft, 1st Baron Croft	In February 1919 Croft denounced H. H. Asquith, Reginald McKenna, Walter Runciman, Arthur Henderson and Ramsay MacDonald as'' the worse type of pacifist cranks'' :'' It is very delightful to have been able to mention their names in this House.
Gerald Finzi	In 1925, at the suggestion of Adrian Boult, Finzi took a course in counterpoint with R. O. Morris and then moved to London, where he became friendly with Howard Ferguson and Edmund Rubbra.
Douglas Goldring	He became more involved in the 1917 Club, meeting there not only the President of the Club, Ramsay Macdonald, but also Aldous Huxley, C. E. M. Joad, and E. D. Morel, until it petered out in the 1930s.
Arthur Maurice Hocart	With this broad and idiosyncratic training in hand, he was picked by W. H. R. Rivers to accompany him on the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Solomon Islands in 1908.
Richard Claverhouse Jebb	In 1874 she married Richard Claverhouse Jebb and joined social circles embracing George Eliot, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Charles Darwin, Mark Twain, and Bret Harte.
Robert E. Howard	He shared this enthusiasm with Harold Preece, a friend made in Austin in the summer of 1927 ; Howard's letters to both Preece and Clyde Smith contain much Irish-related material and discussion.
Ellen Swallow Richards	The biography all began the evening of April 2, 1911, when Professor R. H. Richards overheard a gathering at the College Club in Boston of Ellen's friends and co-workers, who were in town for her funeral, reminiscing about how inspirational an influence on them all she truly had been, and set out to'' give permanent form to what had been said there so informally.''
Peter Ochs	Textual reasoning evolved into a larger movement which Ochs dubbed'' scriptural reasoning'', and Ochs co-founded the Society for Scriptural Reasoning in 1995 together with David F. Ford and Daniel W. Hardy.
Charles Lindbergh	Eventually he was able to secure local funding for the purchase of the Spirit, however, by way of a $ 15,000 State National Bank of St. Louis loan made on February 18, 1927, to St. Louis businessmen Harry H. Knight and Harold M. Bixby, the project's two principal backers and trustee s. Harry H. Knight, Harold M. Bixby, Maj. William B. Robertson, Maj. Albert B. Lambert, Earl C. Thompson, Harry F. Knight, E. Lansing Ray Another $ 1,000 was donated by Frank Robertson of RAC on the same day giving Lindbergh and his backers a relatively modest $ 18,000 with which to compete against his much more highly funded rivals for the $ 25,000 Orteig Prize.
Kerr Grant	He held this position until 1948 and his students included Dr. Douglas Allen of the British atomic research team, Professor Eric Jauncey, professor of physics at Washington University, St. Louis, Hugh Cairns, Mark Oliphant, and Howard Florey (later Baron Florey).
William Thompson (naturalist)	In 1852 Thompson died of a heart attack in London where he had been tended by his friends William Yarrell, author of British Birds, Edward Forbes, Edwin Lankester, of the Ray Society and George Busk.
Hereward Carrington	Among Carrington's best known subjects was Mina'' Margery'' Crandon whom he observed in 1924 on behalf of the Scientific American as part of an enquiry into Spiritualism, sitting on a committee alongside Harry Houdini, Malcolm Bird, William McDougall, Walter Franklin Prince and Daniel Frost Comstock.
Ralph Douglas Stacey	Also in 1995 he set up a group supervision of PhD students and it was through this activity that he met Patricia Shaw and Doug Griffin as their PhD supervisor.
Hugh Walpole	A correspondence ensued and in February 1909 James invited Walpole to lunch at the Reform Club in London.
Fred Mitchell (artist)	In 1952 Mitchell, Angelo Ippolito, Lois Dodd, Charles Cajori and William King organized the Tanager Gallery, which belonged to the Tenth Street galleries.
William Timothy Cape	For seven years Cape was a successful headmaster ; some of his distinguished pupils included Sir John Robertson, William Forster, William Bede Dalley, Sir James Martin, and T. A. Browne, and the number of students was approaching 300 when Cape came into conflict with the trustees and resigned at the end of 1841.
David James Davies	In 1924 Davies travelled to Denmark to attend the International People's College in Elsinore, and a Folk High School in Vestbirk, where'' -LSB- Davies' -RSB- attitude towards the relationship between socialism and nationalism changed completely'', according to Dr. Thomas.''
Sonia Orwell	Together with David Astor and Richard Rees, Orwell's literary executor, she established the George Orwell Archive at University College London, which opened in 1960.
Mary Quinn Sullivan	She married Cornelius J. Sullivan in 1917 ; he was a prominent lawyer who specialized in managing large trusts and divorce proceedings for the wealthy, was a member of the New York Board of Education, and he was a friend of art and manuscript collector John Quinn - both he and this titan of the art world shared an enthusiasm for collecting in addition to identifying as'' Irish patriots.''
Jeremy Larner	Larner graduated from Brandeis University in 1958 (where he was close to Herbert Marcuse, Irving Howe, Philip Rahv, and a fellow student named Abbie Hoffman, who later, running a small bookstore in Worcester, Massachusetts, became an early champion of Larner's first novel.)
Nora S. Unwin	Her interest in children's literature was also enhanced by her friendship with Elizabeth Yates, whom she met in London in 1937 and worked with on many book projects.
James Edward Freeman	Freeman joined the National Academy of Design's Antique School in its inaugural year, 1826, alongside two other notable American painters, William Sidney Mount and William Page.
Natasha Marsh	In 1999 she won the MOCSA (Morriston Orpheus Choir Supporters' Association) Young Welsh Singer of the Year, whose previous winners have included Bryn Terfel and Anthony Stuart Lloyd.
William A. Chanler	In December 1916 Chanler, Scottish industrialist John C. Moffat and other philanthropists including Theodore Roosevelt, Joseph Choate, Clarence Mackay, George von Lengerke Meyer, John Grier Hibben, and Nicholas Murray Butler purchased the Château de Chavaniac, birthplace of the Marquis de Lafayette in Auvergne, to serve as a headquarters for the fund, which was managed by Chanler's ex-wife Beatrice Ashley Chanler.
Augustus Pugin	In 1832 he had made the acquaintance of John Talbot, 16th Earl of Shrewsbury, a Roman Catholic, sympathetic to his aesthetic views who employed him in alterations and additions to his residence Alton Towers, which subsequently led to many other commissions.
James Wasserman	In 1983, he worked with two other members of O. T. O. to produce The Holy Books of Thelema, a collection of Crowley's Class A (inspired) writings.
Edward Shirley Kennedy	A wood engraving by Edward Whymper of The Alpine Club at Zermatt in 1864 shows Kennedy with John Ball, William Mathews, T. G. Bonney, John Tyndall, Alfred Wills (the Alpine Club's third president), and Ulrich Lauener.
Eli Lilly (industrialist)	In May 1922 Lilly and the company's director of biochemical research, George Henry Alexander Clowes, met in Toronto with J. J. R. Macleod, Frederick G. Banting, and Charles H. Best, the scientists who had discovered insulin as an effective treatment for diabetes.
James Meade	His interest in economics grew from an influential postgraduate year at Trinity College, Cambridge (1930 -- 31), where he held frequent discussions with leading economists of the time including Dennis Robertson and John Maynard Keynes.
Kathleen Whyte	In 1948, on the advice of Mr. D. M. Southerland, Head of Gray's School of Art, and supported by Dorothy Angus, Kathleen successfully applied for the post of embroidery and weaving lecturer at Glasgow School of Art.
Alex Sanders (Wiccan)	to seek employment in 1963 as a porter, book-duster and odd-job man in the John Rylands Library, Manchester, where he could access an original copy of the Key of Solomon.
Ziauddin Ahmad	He invited Sir Morrison, a faculty member at M. A. O. College, in 1894, to Marehra to lay down the foundation stone of Morrison Islamia School.
Clement Scott	Scott's long-time wish to be elected a member of the famous literary gentlemen's club, the Garrick Club (to which Henry Irving, Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, among many other notable men belonged), was finally realized in 1892.
Howard Costigan	his former secretaries Sylvia Keen and Irene Borowski, University of Washington professors E. Harold Eby and Mel Jacobs, union officials Karley A. Larsen and Harry Jackson, in addition to those already named in the 1948 Canwell proceedings.
Jane Andrews (author)	In 1860, she was able to open a small primary school in her home, where her students included author Ethel Parton, suffragist Alice Stone Blackwell, and chemist J. Lewis Howe.
Thomas Anthony Dooley III	Although he died in 1961, H. A. L. O. (Helping And Loving Orphans) was founded by Betty Tisdale, who met Dooley and was inspired by his work.
Vilma Lwoff-Parlaghy	She became known as a 5th Avenue portraitist, partly as a result of a well-publicized 1911 visit to her cousin Abbott Lawrence Lowell, then President of Harvard, during which she travelled to Boston by private railway car and insisted on dining off her own solid-gold dinnerware.
Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane	In 1904 he was President of the Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club and gave the Toast to Sir Walter at the Club's annual dinner.
Derek Birley	In 1951, he was joint winner with J. G. Ballard of a short story competition held by Varsity, the Cambridge student newspaper.
Irving T. Bush	In 1922 Bush became one of the founding trustees of New York City's Grand Central Art Galleries, an artists' cooperative established that year by John Singer Sargent, Edmund Greacen, Walter Leighton Clark, and others.
Alvan Ikoku	Soon after, in 1931, Ikoku established one of the earliest private secondary schools in Nigeria : the Aggrey Memorial College, located in Arochukwu and named after James E. K. Aggrey, an eminent Ghana ian educationist.
Isabel Bassett Wasson	She was hired when Horace Albright, then the Park Superintendent, heard her lecture on geology to a group of her family and friends who were visiting the park in the summer of 1919 on a tour of national parks organized by the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
Alexander Stewart Herschel	For the British Association (1874 -- 81) he prepared reports of a committee, consisting of himself, his colleague at Newcastle, George A. Lebour, and John T. Dunn, which was formed to determine the thermal conductivities of certain rocks.
Richard Owen	Darwin was reticent about his own thoughts, understandably, when, on 19 December 1838, as secretary of the Geological Society of London, he saw Owen and his allies ridicule the Lamarckian' heresy' of Darwin's old tutor, Robert Edmund Grant.
Pavlo Vigderhaus	In 1947 thanks to work in Oblproekt he met already known Donetsk architects A. Strashnov and A. Kuznetsov.
Donna Tartt	Following the suggestion of Morris and others, she transferred to Bennington College in 1982, where she was friends with fellow students Bret Easton Ellis, Jill Eisenstadt, and Jonathan Lethem, and studying classics with Claude Fredericks.
Robert Sparrow Smythe	1887, besides the ongoing association with Rev. Clark, Smythe piloted Locke Richardson the Shakespearian scholar, Smythe's old associate Dr. H. S. Lynn and undertook to manage Williamson, Garner and Musgrove's Opera season in New Zealand.
Piers Paul Read	He later enrolled in an academy for writers funded by the Ford Foundation, the Literarisches Colloquium, where he made friends with fellow members Tom Stoppard and Derek Marlowe His stay in Berlin inspired his second novel The Junkers (1968, which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize) and confirmed the general sympathy towards the Germans that he felt on account of his mother's part-German ancestry.
Bernard Ashmole	In 1939, Ashmole was appointed Keeper of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the British Museum following a public incident over abrasive cleaning of the Elgin Marbles ; there he nurtured the budding careers of two generations of Classical scholars.
Karl Pearson	In 1890 he married Maria Sharpe, who was related to the Kenrick, Reid, Rogers and Sharpe families, late 18th century and 19th century non-conformists largely associated with north London ; they included : Karl and Maria Pearson had two daughters, Sigrid Loetitia Pearson and Helga Sharpe Pearson, and one son, Egon Sharpe Pearson, who became an eminent statistician himself and succeeded his father as head of the Applied Statistics Department at University College.
Reginald Pollack	Art critic Alexis Gray wrote :'' Reginald Murray Pollack, who studied at New York City's High School of Music and Art before serving in the U. S. Army Air Force during World War II, was described by his twin brother in a June 1977 Esquire article as'' a fine artist, humanist, poetically inclined anti-Vietnam war peace marcher, participant, with other artists, in an antiwar coalition, occasional user of pot and sympathizer with hippies and yippies and most youthful rebels.''
Horace Parnell Tuttle	Charles Wesley Tuttle was an amateur astronomer who constructed his own telescope, and on a visit to the Harvard Observatory so impressed William Cranch Bond that by 1850 he was hired as an assistant observer.
Anthony Wynn	Wynn and Robert E. Wood also co-wrote Valiant for Truth : Barry Morse and his Lifelong Association with Bernard Shaw (2012) based on lectures they gave to the International Shaw Society and the Shaw Society of England, in London.
Hermann Kolbe	A new opportunity arose in 1845, when he became assistant to Lyon Playfair at the new Museum of Economic Geology in London, where he became a close friend of Edward Frankland.
Archibald Strong	Strong graduated in Literae Humaniores (1900) and spent several months at the University of Marburg, Germany, before returning to read law with F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead, then a rising barrister, afterwards to become Lord Chancellor of England.
Rolf Gardiner	In 1941 he formed with H. J. Massingham and Gerald Wallop, Lord Lymington the Kinship in Husbandry, a group of a dozen men with an interest in rural revival.
Mel Cummin	On course at a young age for his eventual career, Melville Cummin is listed in Mary Mapes Dodge's St. Nicholas Magazine in 1909 as President of a seven-member chapter of the St. Nicholas League called'' St. Nick Drawing Club''.
Robert van't Hoff	In 1906, on the advice of an architect friend of his father's, Studying under William Bidlake, he came under the influence of the theories of William Lethaby and the work of the Glasgow School, and worked in the progressive architectural practice of Herbert Tudor Buckland.
Harley Granville-Barker	In 1900 he became a leading member of the Stage Society and this led to contacts with George Bernard Shaw, William Archer, Elizabeth Robins, and William Poel, among others.
Robert Karplus	He also thoroughly enjoyed experimental work, investigating the chemistry of Land Camera instant pictures and setting up an experimental germanium purification assembly line for transistor s. In 1948, Karplus married Elizabeth Frazier, whom he had met at an international folk dance group he organized while at Harvard.
Edward Shirley Kennedy	During an ascent of the Finsteraarhorn on 13 August 1857, Kennedy discussed the formation of a national mountaineering club with William Mathews, who had corresponded with F. J. A. Hort about the idea in February 1857.
James Bond (ornithologist)	His interest in natural history was spurred at an expedition his father, Francis E. Bond, undertook in 1911 to the Orinoco Delta.
William Jacobson	On 3 May 1823 he was admitted commoner of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, being, it is said, befriended by Dawson Turner of Yarmouth, a member of the Society of Friends.
Edward Marsh (polymath)	Marsh and the critic J. C. Squire were the group's most important patrons, and it was in Marsh's London rooms that Siegfried Sassoon and Rupert Brooke met for the first and only time, in June 1914.
Robert Hughes (composer)	In 1966, as part of a delegation together with John Antill and Harold Evans, he persuaded Menzies (by now Sir Robert Menzies) to form the Commonwealth Assistance to Australian Composers.
John McCaul	During the Trent Affair of 1862, William Mulock asked John McCaul as the head of the college to call a student meeting that led to the formation of the University Company of volunteers, later K Company of the Queen's Own Rifles.
Frederick Soddy	In 1903, with Sir William Ramsay at University College London, Soddy verified that the decay of radium produced alpha particles composed of positively charged nuclei of helium.
Ruth Fuller Sasaki	As Ruth Fuller Everett (during her first marriage), she met and studied with Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki in Japan in 1930.
John Savile, 4th Earl of Mexborough	In 1834 he joined his Eton contemporary Alexander William Kinglake on an expedition through the Ottoman Empire.
Paula Rego	Unhappy here, Rego attempted in 1952 to start studies in art at the Chelsea School of Art in London, but this was thwarted by her legal guardian in Britain, David Phillips, who feared her parents might not approve of their daughter mixing with art students.
John Thomson (photographer)	In London, Thomson renewed his acquaintance with Adolphe Smith, a radical journalist whom he had met at the Royal Geographic Society in 1866.
Lynn Garrison	Garrison purchased Lancaster FM-136 in 1960 and ferried it to Calgary where, with the help of Harradence and Arthur R. Smith MP, he created the Lancaster Memorial Fund.
Charles Christian Hennell	Hennell was associated with John Thomas Barber Beaumont in the establishment of the New Philosophical Institution, Beaumont Square, Mile End, and was one of the trustees who endeavoured to implements his plans after his death in 1841.
Dugald Louis Poppelwell	He had been interested in horticulture and conservation for sometime, and his interest was greatly increased by reading Manual of the New Zealand Flora by T. F. Cheeseman in 1906, and also by Plants of New Zealand by R. M. Laing and E. W. Blackwell.
Leonard Beaumont	Beaumont co-founded the Sheffield Print Club, with fellow Sheffield artists, Stanley Royle and Henry G. Hoyland in 1930.
Lange Powell	During 1900 he was articled to G. H. M. Addison of the firm Addison & Corrie Architects, and during the next five years he would attend lectures at Brisbane Technical College.
John Everett Millais	While there, he met William Holman Hunt and Dante Gabriel Rossetti with whom he formed the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (known as the'' PRB'') in September 1848 in his family home on Gower Street, off Bedford Square.