Show name	Longitude
Genre	Costume drama
Writer	Charles Sturridge, Dava Sobel (book)
Director	Charles Sturridge
Starring	Michael GambonJeremy Irons
Composer	Geoffrey Burgon
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Num episodes	4 (2 DVDs)
Executive producer	Pippa Cross, Delia Fine, Anthony Root
Producer	Selwyn Roberts
Editor	Peter Coulson
Cinematography	Peter Hannan
Runtime	250 min
Channel	Channel 4
First aired	2 January 2000
Production website	}}

''Longitude'' is a 2000 TV drama produced by Granada Productions and the A&E; Network for Channel 4, first broadcast in 2000 in the UK on Channel 4 and the US on A&E.; It is an adaptation of the 1997 book of the same title by Dava Sobel. It was written and directed by Charles Sturridge and stars Michael Gambon as clockmaker John Harrison (1693–1776) and Jeremy Irons as horologist Rupert Gould (1890–1948).

Plot

''Longitude'' presents the story of Harrison's efforts to develop the marine chronometer and thereby win the Longitude Prize in the 18th century. This is interwoven with the story of Gould, a retired naval officer, who is restoring Harrison's four chronometers and popularises his achievements in the early twentieth century.

Cast

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Michael Gambon — John Harrison

Jonathan Coy — Adm. Sir Cloudsley Shovell

Christopher Hodsol — Capt. Ainsley

Gemma Jones — Elizabeth Harrison

John Nettleton — Minister for the Navy

Nigel Davenport — Sir Charles Pelham

Ian Hart — William Harrison

Liam Jennings — Young William Harrison

Frank Finlay — Admiral Sir Charles Wager

Andrew Scott — John Campbell

John Standing — Capt. Proctor

John Wood — Sir Edmund Halley

Ian McNeice — Dr Bliss

David Wood — Ditton

Mark Tandy — Whiston

Stephen Fry — Sir Kenelm Digby

Samuel West — Nevil Maskelyne

Bill Nighy — Lord Sandwich

Brian Cox — Lord Morton

Peter Vaughan — George Graham

Clive Francis — Capt. Digges

Tim McInnerny — Christopher Irwin

Stephen Simms — James Harrison

Cliff Parisi — Lt. Draper

Rupert Baker — Lt. Bertie

Charles Gray — Adm. Balchen

Trevor Cooper — Roger Willis

William Scott-Masson — Lt. Knorvler

William Thomas — Arthur Mason

Ian Burfield — Jos Killick

John Quentin — Dr. Bradley

Alfred Burke — Rear Admiral

Nick Reding — Capt. Campbell

Charles Edwards — Lt. Seward

Gary Waldhorn — Cmdre. Forrest

Frederick Warder — Bosun

Pip Torrens — Capt. Lindsay

Frederick Treves — Governor

Nicholas Rowe — King George

Heike Makatsch — Queen Charlotte

T.P. McKenna — Edmund Burke

Kelvin Cook — Carpenter

Peter-Hugo Daly — John Jefferies

Eliza Darby — Portuguese child

Duane Fierro — Naval captain

Daniela Lavender — Courtesan

Roger Lloyd-Pack — Capt. Man

Gavin Molloy — Marine

Daragh O'Malley — Capt. Bourke

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Jeremy Irons — Rupert Gould

Peter Cartwright — Army doctor

Anna Chancellor — Muriel Gould

Geoffrey Hutchings — Estate manager

Robert Demeger — Observatory porter

Sarah Badel — Society lady

Alec McCowen — Sir Frank Watson Dyson

Sophie Millett — Dyson's secretary

Lucy Akhurst — Nurse Grace Ingram

Michael Cochrane — Waddington, Gould's solicitor

John Leeson — BBC radio producer

Peter Penry-Jones — Surgeon

Sasha Hails — BBC PA

John Normington — Mr. Greene

Rebecca Clay — Observatory assistant

Richard Janes — Young assistant

Faith Kent — Lady curator

John Quayle — Dr. Demainbray

James Bradshaw — Callboy

Barbara Leigh-Hunt — Dodo Gould

Clare Moody — Staff nurse

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Awards

In 2001, ''Longitude'' was nominated for the British Academy Television Awards in ten categories, winning in five, including Best Actor (Michael Gambon) and Best Drama Serial.

Notes

External links

2000 — The Year in Review (Channel 4)

Category:2000s British television series Category:British drama television series

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name	Jeremy Irons
birth name	Jeremy John Irons
birth date	September 19, 1948
birth place	Cowes, Isle of Wight, England
occupation	Actor
years active	1971–present
spouse	Julie Hallam (1969)Sinéad Cusack (1978–present)
children	Samuel, Max }}

Jeremy John Irons (born 19 September 1948) is an English actor. After receiving classical training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Irons began his acting career on stage in 1969, and has since appeared in many London theatre productions including ''The Winter's Tale'', ''Macbeth'', ''Much Ado About Nothing'', ''The Taming of the Shrew'', "Godspell" and ''Richard II''. In 1984, he made his Broadway debut in Tom Stoppard's ''The Real Thing'' and received a Tony Award for Best Actor.

Irons's first major film role came in the 1981 romantic drama ''The French Lieutenant's Woman'', for which he received a BAFTA nomination for Best Actor. After starring in such films as ''Moonlighting'' (1982), ''Betrayal'' (1983), and ''The Mission'' (1986), he gained critical acclaim for portraying twin gynaecologists in David Cronenberg's psychological thriller ''Dead Ringers'' (1988). In 1990, Irons played accused murderer Claus von Bulow in ''Reversal of Fortune'', and took home multiple awards including an Academy Award for Best Actor. Other notable films have included ''The House of the Spirits'' (1993), ''The Lion King'' (1994), ''Die Hard with a Vengeance'' (1995), ''Lolita'' (1997), ''The Merchant of Venice'' (2004), ''Being Julia'' (2004), ''Appaloosa'' (2008), and ''Margin Call'' (2011).

Irons has also made several notable appearances on TV. He earned his first Golden Globe Award nomination for his breakout role in the ITV series ''Brideshead Revisited'' (1981). In 2006, Irons starred opposite Helen Mirren in the historical miniseries ''Elizabeth I'', for which he received a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Since 2011, he has been starring in the Showtime historical drama ''The Borgias''.

On 17 October 2011, he was nominated Goodwill Ambassador of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

Early life

Irons was born in Cowes, Isle of Wight, the son of Barbara Anne Brereton Brymer (Born Sharpe; 1914–1999), a housewife, and Paul Dugan Irons (1913–1983), an accountant. His Dundee-born paternal great-great-grandfather was one of the first Metropolitan Policemen, and later a chartist; one of his mother's ancestors had been from County Cork, Ireland (where Irons lives now). Irons has a brother, Christopher (born 1943), and a sister, Felicity Anne (born 1944). He was educated at the independent Sherborne School in Dorset, (c. 1962–66). He was the drummer and harmonica player (including a rendition of "Stairway to Heaven" on harmonica) in a four-man school band called the Four Pillars of Wisdom. They performed, in a classroom normally used as a physics lab, for the entertainment of boys compulsorily exiled from their houses for two hours on Sunday afternoons. He was also known within Abbey House as half of a comic duo performing skits on Halloween and at end-of-term House Suppers.

Acting career

Irons trained as an actor at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and is now president of its fundraising appeal. He performed a number of plays, and busked on the streets of Bristol, before appearing on the London stage as John the Baptist and Judas opposite David Essex in ''Godspell'', which opened at the Roundhouse on 17 November 1971 before transferring to Wyndham's Theatre playing a total of 1,128 performances.

Irons was bestowed an Honorary-Life Membership by the Law Society (University College Dublin) in September 2008, in honour of his contribution to television, film, audio, music and theatre.

Television

He made several appearances on British television, including the children's television series ''Play Away'' and as Franz Liszt in the BBC 1974 series ''Notorious Woman''. More significantly he starred in the 13-part adaptation of H.E. Bates' novel ''Love for Lydia'' for London Weekend Television (1977), and attracted attention for his key role as the pipe-smoking German student, a romantic pairing with Judi Dench in Harold Pinter's screenplay adaptation of Aidan Higgins' novel ''Langrishe, Go Down'' for BBC television (1978).

The role which brought him fame was that of Charles Ryder in the television adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's ''Brideshead Revisited'' (1981). ''Brideshead'' reunited him with Anthony Andrews, with whom he had appeared in ''The Pallisers'' seven years earlier. In the same year he starred in the film ''The French Lieutenant's Woman'' opposite Meryl Streep.

Almost as a 'lap of honour' after these major successes, in 1982 he played the leading role of an exiled Polish building contractor, working in the Twickenham area of South West London, in Jerzy Skolimowski's independent film ''Moonlighting'', widely seen on television, a performance which extended his acting range.

In 2005, Irons won both an Emmy award and a Golden Globe award for his supporting role in the TV mini-series, ''Elizabeth I''. A year later Irons was one of the participants in the third series of the BBC documentary series ''Who Do You Think You Are?'' In 2008 he played Lord Vetinari in ''Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic'', an adaptation for Sky One.

On 6 November 2008, ''TV Guide'' reported he would star as photographer Alfred Stieglitz with Joan Allen as painter Georgia O'Keeffe, in a Lifetime Television O'Keeffe biopic. Irons also appeared in the documentary for Irish television channel TG4, ''Faoi Lan Cheoil'' in which he learned to play the fiddle.

On 12 January 2011, Irons was a guest-star in an episode of ''Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'' called "Mask". He played Dr. Cap Jackson, a sex therapist. He reprised the role on an episode titled "Totem" that ran on 30 March 2011.

Irons stars in the 2011 U.S. premium cable network Showtime's series ''The Borgias'', a highly fictionalized account of the Renaissance dynasty of that name. Irons portrays patriarch Rodrigo Borgia, better known to history as Pope Alexander VI.

Film

Irons made his film debut in ''Nijinsky'' in 1980. He appeared sporadically in films during the 1980s, including the Cannes Palme d'Or winner ''The Mission'' in 1986, and in the dual role of twin gynecologists in David Cronenberg's ''Dead Ringers'' in 1988. Other films include ''Danny the Champion of the World'' (1989), ''Reversal of Fortune'' (1990), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor, ''Kafka'' (1991), ''Damage'' (1993), ''M. Butterfly'' (1993), ''The House of the Spirits'' (1993) appearing again with Glenn Close and Meryl Streep, ''Die Hard with a Vengeance'' (1995) co-starring Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson, Bernardo Bertolucci's ''Stealing Beauty'' (1996), the 1997 remake of ''Lolita'' and as the musketeer Aramis opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in the 1998 film version of ''The Man in the Iron Mask''.

Other roles include the evil wizard Profion in the film ''Dungeons and Dragons'' (2000) and Rupert Gould in ''Longitude'' (2000). He played the Über-Morlock from the movie ''The Time Machine'' (2002). In 2004, Irons played Severus Snape in Comic Relief's ''Harry Potter'' parody, "Harry Potter and the Secret Chamberpot of Azerbaijan".

In 2005, he appeared in the films ''Casanova'' opposite Heath Ledger, and Ridley Scott's ''Kingdom of Heaven''. He has co-starred with John Malkovich in two movies; ''The Man in the Iron Mask'' (1998) and ''Eragon'' (2006), though they did not have any scenes together in ''Eragon''.

In 2008, Irons co-starred with Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen in ''Appaloosa'', directed by Harris. In 2011, Irons appeared alongside Kevin Spacey in the thriller ''Margin Call''.

Theatre

Irons has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company three times in 1976, 1986–87 and 2010. In 1984, Irons made his New York debut and won a Tony Award for his Broadway performance opposite Glenn Close in ''The Real Thing''.

After an absence from the London stage for 18 years, in 2006 he co-starred with Patrick Malahide in Christopher Hampton's stage adaptation of Sándor Márai's novel ''Embers'' at the Duke of York's Theatre.

He made his National Theatre debut playing Harold Macmillan in ''Never So Good'', a new play by Howard Brenton which opened at the Lyttelton on 19 March 2008.

In 2009 Irons appeared on Broadway opposite Joan Allen in the play ''Impressionism''. The play ran through 10 May 2009 at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater.

Other ventures

Audio

Irons read the audio book recording of Evelyn Waugh's ''Brideshead Revisited'', Paulo Coelho's ''''The Alchemist'''', the audio book recording of Vladimir Nabokov's ''Lolita'' (he had also appeared in the 1997 film version of the novel), and the audio book ''James and the Giant Peach'' by Roald Dahl.

One of his best known film roles has turned out to be lending his distinctive voice to the villain Scar in ''The Lion King'' (1994). Irons has since provided voiceovers for three Disney World attractions. He narrated the ''Spaceship Earth'' ride, housed in the large geodesic globe at Epcot, from November 1994 to July 2007. He was also the English narrator for the Studio Tram Tour: Behind the Magic at the Walt Disney Studios Park at Disneyland Paris. He also voiced H.G. Wells in the English version of the former Disney attraction The Timekeeper. He also played Scar in ''Fantasmic''.

He is also one of the readers in the 4x CD boxed set of ''The Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde'', produced by Marc Sinden and sold in aid of the Royal Theatrical Fund.

He was originally to star as the Phantom in a 2006 French musical adaptation of Gaston Leroux's novel ''The Phantom of the Opera'', though the project was canceled. He will be the narrator for Val Kilmer and Bill Pullman's brand-new Lewis and Clark movie from Revolution Studios.

He serves as the English-language version of the audio guide for Westminster Abbey in London.

Irons has served as voice-over in two big cat documentary films by National Geographic: ''Eye of the Leopard'', which was released in 2006, and ''The Last Lions'', which is a 2011 motion-picture, released on 18 February.

Music

In 1985, Irons directed a music video for Carly Simon and her heavily promoted single, "Tired of Being Blonde". Although the song was not a hit, the video —featuring the fast cutting, parallel narratives and heavy use of stylized visual effects that were a staple of pop videos at the time— received ample attention on MTV and other outlets.

In 1994 Jeremy Irons had a cameo role in the video for Elastica's hit single "Connection". Irons was one of the many naked men sitting down around Elastica as they performed the song. Irons has since claimed that this three-minute slice of nudity was his most enjoyable work to date.

Irons has contributed to other musical performances, recording William Walton's ''Façade'' with Dame Peggy Ashcroft, and in 1987 the songs from Lerner and Loewe's ''My Fair Lady'' with Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, released on the Decca label.

He sang a selection of Noël Coward at the 1999 Last Night of the Proms in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Coward's birth.

In 2003 he played Fredrik Egerman in a New York revival of Stephen Sondheim's ''A Little Night Music'', and two years later appeared as King Arthur in Lerner and Loewe's ''Camelot'' at the Hollywood Bowl.

Jeremy Irons also sang the song "Be Prepared" in the movie ''The Lion King''. However, he actually sang only a section of the song after having vocal problems; Jim Cummings finished the last few lines.

Irons performed the Bob Dylan song "Make You Feel My Love" on the 2006 charity album ''Unexpected Dreams – Songs From the Stars''.

In 2009 Irons appeared on the Touchstone album ''Wintercoast'', recording a narrative introduction to the album. Recording took place in New York City in February 2009 during rehearsals for his Broadway play ''Impressionism''.

Personal life

Irons married Irish actress Sinéad Cusack in March 1978. They have two sons, Samuel James Brefni Irons (16 September 1978), who works as a photographer, and Maximilian Paul Diarmuid Irons (17 October 1985), also an actor, who appeared in the 2006 Burberry fashion campaign and ''Red Riding Hood''. Both of Irons' sons have appeared in films with their father – Sam as the eponymous hero in ''Danny, Champion of the World'' and Max in ''Being Julia''. Irons' wife and children are Catholic; of himself, he has stated, "I don’t go to church much because I don’t like belonging to a club, and I don’t go to confession or anything like that, I don’t believe in it. But I try to be aware of where I fail and I occasionally go to services. I would hate to be a person who didn’t have a spiritual side because there’s nothing to nourish you in life apart from retail therapy."

He has been the patron since 2002 of the Thomley Activity Centre, an Oxfordshire non-profit activity centre for disabled children. The charity is near his Watlington, Oxfordshire home. Irons owns Kilcoe Castle (which he had painted a rusty pink) in County Cork, Ireland, and has become involved in local politics there. He also has another Irish residence in The Liberties, Dublin. Irons is a patron of the Chiltern Shakespeare Company. He is a fan of English football club Portsmouth.

Activism

Charity work

At the 1991 Tony Awards, Irons was one of the few celebrities to wear the recently created red ribbon to support the fight against AIDS, and he was the first celebrity to wear it onscreen. He supports a number of other charities, including The Prison Phoenix Trust, of which he is an active patron.

Politics

In 1998, Irons and his wife were named in the list of the biggest private financial donors to the Labour Party, a year after their return to government after 18 years in opposition. In 2004, he publicly declared his support for the Countryside Alliance, referring to the hunting ban as an "outrageous assault on civil liberties".

In 2010, Irons starred in a promotional video for “The 1billionhungry project” – a worldwide drive to attract at least one million signatures to a petition calling on international leaders to move hunger to the top of the political agenda.

Alternative medicine

He has been criticised in the ''British Medical Journal'' for his fundraising activities in support of ''The College of Medicine'', an alternative medicine lobby group in the UK linked to Prince Charles.

Work

Theatre

Following training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre school Irons initially stayed with the company:

Florizel in ''The Winter's Tale'', Bristol Old Vic 1969

Simon in ''Hay Fever'' (Noël Coward) Bristol Old Vic 1969

Nick in ''What the Butler Saw'' (Joe Orton) Bristol Old Vic 1969

''Major Barbara'' (Shaw) Bristol Old Vic 1969

''A Servant of Two Masters'' (Carlo Goldoni) Bristol Old Vic 1969

''Macbeth'', Bristol Old Vic 1969

''The Boy Friend'' (Sandy Wilson) Bristol Old Vic 1969

''As You Like It'', Bristol Old Vic 1970

''Oh! What a Lovely War'', Little Theatre Bristol 1970

''The School for Scandal'' (Sheridan) Little Theatre Bristol 1970

John/Judas in ''Godspell'', Roundhouse and Wyndham's Theatre, November 1971–1973

The Madman in ''The Diary of a Madman'' (Gogol), Act Inn 1973

Don Pedro in ''Much Ado About Nothing'', Young Vic

Mick in ''The Caretaker'' (Pinter) Young Vic 1974

Petruchio in ''The Taming of the Shrew'', New Shakespeare Company, Roundhouse 1975

Harry Thunder in ''Wild Oats'' (John O'Keefe) RSC Aldwych Theatre, December 1976; RSC Stratford and Piccadilly Theatre 1977

Jameson in ''The Rear Column'' (Simon Gray), Globe Theatre, February 1978 – Clarence Derwent Award

Henry in ''The Real Thing'' (Tom Stoppard) New York 1984 —Tony Award for Best Actor

Leontes in ''The Winter's Tale'', Royal Shakespeare Theatre Stratford 1986)

Willmore in ''The Rover'' (Aphra Behn) RSC Swan Theatre and Mermaid Theatre 1986

Richard II in ''Richard II'', RSC Royal Shakespeare Theatre, 1986, Barbican Theatre 1987

Fredrik Egerman in ''A Little Night Music'' (Sondheim) New York, 2003

Russell in ''Celebration'', a Pinter staged reading, Gate Theatre, Dublin/Albery Theatre, 2005

Henrik in ''Embers'' (Christopher Hampton/Sándor Márai novel) Duke of York's Theatre March 2006

Harold Macmillan in ''Never So Good'' (Howard Brenton) National Theatre Lyttelton, March 2008

Thomas Buckle in ''Impressionism'' (Michael Jacobs) Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre Broadway, March 2009

Filmography

! Year	! Title	! Role	Notes
1980		Mikhail Fokine
1981	''''	Charles Henry Smithson/Mike	Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
1981		Charles Ryder
1982		Nowak
1983		Jerry
1984	''''	Harold
1984		Charles Swann
1986	''''	Father Gabriel	Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama
1988	''''	Guy Jones
1987	''My Fair Lady''	Henry Higgins
1988		Beverly Mantle/Elliot Mantle
1989		Edouard Pierson
1989		William Smith
1990	''Reversal of Fortune''	Claus von Bülow
1991	''''	Prisoner
1991		Kafka
1992	''''	H.G. Wells
1992		Tom Crick
1992		Dr. Stephen Fleming
1993		René Gallimard
1993	''''	Esteban Trueba
1994		Narrator
1994	''''	Scar (Voice)
1995	''Die Hard with a Vengeance''	Simon Gruber
1996	''Stealing Beauty''	Alex	Nominated – Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture
1997	''Chinese Box''	John
1997		Humbert Humbert
1998	''''	Aramis
1999	''Islands of Adventure: Poseidon's Fury: Escape from the Lost City''	Poseidon
2000		Profion
2000		Rupert Gould	Television series (4 episodes)
2001	''''	Jack Elgin
2001	''Beckett on Film'' – ''Ohio Impromptu''	Reader/Listener
2002	''Callas Forever''	Larry Kelly
2002		F. Scott Fitzgerald
2002	''''	Über-Morlock
2003	''And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen''	Valentin Valentin
2003	''Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites''	Voice
2003	''Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There''	Himself
2004		Pukovnik Unprofora
2004	''''	Antonio
2004	''Being Julia''	Michael Gosselyn	Nominated – Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture
2005		Gallipoli
2005		Tiberias
2005		Pucci
2006		Kingsley Stewart
2006		Brom
2006		Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester
2008	''''	Havelock Vetinari	Television miniseries
2008		Randall Bragg
2009	''''	Alonso Avellaneda
2009	''Georgia O'Keeffe''	Alfred Stieglitz
2011	''Margin Call''	John Tuld
2011	''''

References

External links

Jeremy Irons Profile by ''The Daily Telegraph'' (13 March 2008)

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Rupert Thomas Gould (16 November 1890 – 5 October 1948), was a Lieutenant Commander in the British Royal Navy noted for his contributions to horology (the science and study of timekeeping devices).

Life

Gould grew up in Southsea, near Portsmouth, where his father, William Monk Gould, was a music teacher, organist, and composer. From 15 January 1906 on, he attended the Royal Naval College, Osborne, and then the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, being part of the Greynville term, and by Easter 1907 examinations placed him at the top of his class. He became a midshipman, and thereby a naval officer, on 15 May 1907. He initially served on HMS ''Formidable'' and HMS ''Queen'' (under Captain David Beatty) in the Mediterranean. Subsequently he was posted to China (first aboard HMS ''Kinsha'' and then HMS ''Bramble''). He chose the "navigation" career track and, after qualifying as a navigation officer, served on HMS ''King George V'', and HMS ''Achates'' until the outbreak of World War I, at which time he suffered a nervous breakdown and went on medical leave. During his recuperation, he was stationed at the Hydrographer's Department at the Admiralty, where he became an expert on various aspects of naval history, cartography, and expeditions into the polar regions. In 1919 he was promoted to Lieutenant-Commander (retired).

On 9 June 1917 he married Muriel Estall. That marriage ended by judicial separation in November 1927. They had two children, Cecil (born in 1918) and Jocelyne (born in 1920). His last years were spent at Barford St Martin near Salisbury, where he used his horological skills to repair and restore the defunct clock in the church tower. He did not restore the church clock (which was not defunct), but the Rector's long case grandfather clock (which was). The Rector was my grandfather, Revd. Edward Hamilton Blyth. His youngest daughter, my aunt, remembers him mending the clock and wondering how such large hands could do such delicate work. He lived in a cottage on the Shaftesbury Road in Barford St. Martin.

Work

He gained permission in 1920 to restore the marine chronometers of John Harrison, and this work was completed in 1933. The actor Jeremy Irons played him in ''Longitude'', a dramatisation of Dava Sobel's book ''Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time'', which recounted in part Gould's work in restoring the chronometers.

His horological book, "The Marine Chronometer, Its History and Development", was first published in 1923 by J.D. Potter and was the first scholarly monograph on the subject. It was generally considered the authoritative text on marine timekeepers for at least half a century.

In spite of two more nervous breakdowns, Gould had many other interests and activities. In addition, he wrote and published an eclectic series of books on topics ranging from horology to the Loch Ness Monster. He was a science educator, giving a series of talks for the BBC's Children's Hour starting in January 1934 under the name "The Stargazer", and these collected talks were later published. He was a member of the BBC radio panel Brains Trust. He umpired tennis matches on the Centre Court at Wimbledon on many occasions during the 1930s.

Spurred by the arrival of the Loch Ness Monster in the media news and his previous work on the Sea Serpent, Gould spent some days at Loch Ness travelling around it by motorcycle. He interviewed many witnesses and collated evidence for the creature that resulted in the first major work on the phenomenon, entitled "The Loch Ness Monster and Others". After this, Gould became the de facto spokesman on the subject, being a regular contributor to radio shows and newspaper articles.

In 1947 he was awarded the Gold Medal of the British Horological Institute, its highest honour for contributions to horology.

See also

John Harrison

Marine chronometer

References

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Bibliography

and paperback, Lyle Stuart, 1976, ISBN 0806505559

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Tim McInnerny ( ; born 18 September 1956) is an English actor. He is known for his many roles on television and stage. Early in his career he featured as Lord Percy Percy and Captain Darling in the ''Blackadder'' series.

Early life

McInnerny was born in Cheadle Hulme, Stockport, Cheshire (present day Greater Manchester) to William Ronald McInnerny and Mary Joan (née Gibbings). He was brought up in Cheadle Hulme, and Stroud, Gloucestershire, and educated at Marling School, Stroud, and Wadham College, Oxford.

Career

One of McInnerny's first roles was the bumbling aristocrat Lord Percy Percy in the ''The Black Adder'' during the early 1980's. He reprised his role in the second series ''Blackadder II'' but declined to do so for the third series for fear of being typecast, though he did make a guest appearance in one episode. The following year, he returned to the cast for the fourth series ''Blackadder Goes Forth'' as Captain Kevin Darling, the cowardly aide of Stephen Fry's General Melchett. Alongside Rowan Atkinson and Tony Robinson.

McInnerny has also starred in various films including ''Wetherby'', ''101 Dalmatians'', where he was reunited with ''Blackadder'' co-star Hugh Laurie, and ''Notting Hill'', written by ''Blackadder'' creator Richard Curtis.

Dramatic Works

Besides television, McInnerny also does dramatic works. He played Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the 1990 West End production of ''The Rocky Horror Show''. His performance can be heard on the soundtrack album of this production. He was cast in ''Pravda'' alongside Anthony Hopkins. In summer 2007, he played Iago in ''Othello'' at Shakespeare's Globe on Bankside in London and in 2010 Tiberius in a radio adaptation of ''I, Claudius''.

Other

In 1989, he co-starred with Kate Bush in the music video for her song "This Woman's Work". He also appeared in the Westlife video for "Uptown Girl", along with Robert Bathurst, Crispin Bonham-Carter, Ioan Gruffudd and James Wilby. In 2006 he starred in ''One Day'', a short film shown at various international film festivals.

Filmography

{|class="wikitable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! Notes |- | 1983 | ''The Black Adder'' | Lord Percy Percy | |- | 1984 | ''The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'' | John Clay/Vincent Spalding | 1 episode |- | 1985 | ''Wetherby'' | John Morgan | |- | 1986 | ''Blackadder II'' | Lord Percy Percy | |- | 1987 | ''Blackadder the Third'' | Topper/The Scarlet Pimpernel | Episode "Nob and Nobility" |- | rowspan="2"|1989 | ''Erik the Viking'' | Sven the Berserk | |- | ''Blackadder Goes Forth'' | Captain Kevin Darling | |- | 1993 | ''The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles'' | Franz Kafka | 1 episode |- | 1995 | ''Richard III'' | William Catesby | |- | 1996 | ''101 Dalmatians'' | Alonzo | |- | 1997 | ''FairyTale: A True Story'' |John Ferret | |- | rowspan="3"|1999 | ''Notting Hill'' | Max | |- | ''Rogue Trader'' |Tony Hawes | |- | ''Blackadder: Back and Forth'' | various | |- | rowspan="2"|2000 | ''The Miracle Maker'' | Barabbas | voice only |- | ''102 Dalmatians'' | Alonzo | |- | 2001 | ''The Emperor's New Clothes'' | Dr. Lambert | |- | rowspan="2"|2002 | ''Don't Eat the Neighbours'' | Terrapin | |- | ''Trial & Retribution series VI'' |Eric Fowler | |- | 2004 | ''Spooks'' | Oliver Mace | |- | 2004 | ''Gunpowder, Treason & Plot'' | Cecil | |- | 2005 | ''Casanova'' | The Doge | |- | rowspan="2"|2006 | ''Severance'' | Richard | |- | ''The Line of Beauty'' | Gerald Fedden | |- | 2007 | ''Save Angel Hope'' | Backman | |- | rowspan="2"|2008 | ''Doctor Who'' (Series 4) | Klineman Halpen | 1 episode |- | ''Agent Crush'' | Sergeant/Operator | voice only |- | 2009 | ''Hustle'' | Judge Anthony Kent | |- | rowspan="2"|2010 | ''Black Death'' | Hob | |- | ''Midsomer Murders'' | Hugh Dagleish | |- | rowspan="3"|2011 | ''Johnny English Reborn'' | Patch Quartermain | |- | ''Law & Order: UK'' | Simon Bennett | 1 episode |- | ''Twenty Twelve'' | Tony Ward | 1 episode |- | rowspan="1"|2012 | ''The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff'' | Harmswell Grimstone | |}

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Geoffrey Alan Burgon (15 July 194121 September 2010) was a British composer notable for his television and film themes.

Life and career

Burgon was born in Hampshire in 1941, and taught himself the trumpet in order to join a jazz band at school (Pewley Grammar School, Guildford). He entered the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with the intention of becoming a professional trumpet player. However, under the direction of his mentor, composer Peter Wishart, he found that he was more interested in composition. Burgon initially supported himself and his family as a freelance jazz trumpeter. At the age of 30 he sold his instruments, except one, and devoted himself to composition. He lived through a lengthy period of poverty before critical success eventually brought financial reward.

The critical success of his ''Requiem'' at the Three Choirs Festival in 1976 sealed his reputation as a composer and led to many commissions from major organisations. Continuing the tradition established by Benjamin Britten, Burgon’s fluent and effortless language was particularly well suited to the voice and he had a long-standing collaboration with counter-tenor James Bowman. Burgon also had considerable success writing for film and television and twice received both BAFTA and Ivor Novello Awards. His style was essentially conservative, influenced by Benjamin Britten and medieval music rather than modern styles. His music was therefore not favoured by music critics and was sometimes labelled as commercial, but nevertheless it was widely appreciated..

He married Janice Elizabeth Garwood in 1963 and had a son and a daughter. The marriage was later dissolved. In 1992 he married Jacqueline Krofchak (professional name Kroft), a Canadian pianist and singer; they had a son, Daniel. He was a keen cricketer and had written detective novels in his spare time. Burgon died on 21 September 2010 after a short illness.

Career highlights

1974 - ballet ''The Calm'' for London Contemporary Dance Theatre, first of many dance scores.

1976 - first breakthrough, with ''Requiem'' at the Three Choirs Festival.

1979 - Ivor Novello Award for score of BBC television series ''Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy''.

1981 - Ivor Novello Award for score of Granada television series ''Brideshead Revisited''.

1997 - premiere of ''City Adventures'', percussion concerto for Evelyn Glennie at BBC Proms.

2001 - wrote ''Heavenly Things'', commissioned by the BBC for baritone Christopher Maltman.

Selected works

Stage

''The Golden Fish'', ballet (1964)

''Joan of Arc'', music drama for 2 sopranos, tenor, baritone, narrator, flute, cello, harp and percussion (1970)

''The Calm'', ballet (1974)

''The Fall of Lucifer'', music drama in 2 acts for soloists, chorus and five instruments (1974)

''Goldberg's Dream (Running Figures)'', ballet (1975)

''Step at a Time'', ballet (1976)

''Songs, Lamentations and Praises'', ballet (1979)

''Orpheus'', music drama (1982)

''Mass'', ballet for chorus, 4 trombones and percussionist (playing piano) (1984)

''Macbeth'', incidental music (1986)

''Murder in the Cathedral'', incidental music (1987)

''Blood Wedding'', incidental music (1988)

''The Trial of Prometheus'', ballet (1988)

''Hard Times'', opera (1991); after the novel by Charles Dickens

''Nicholas Nickleby'', incidental music for the play by Charles Dickens (2001)

Orchestral

Concerto for string orchestra (1963)

''Gending'' for brass, woodwind, celesta and percussion (1968)

''Alleluia Nativitas'' (1970)

''Cantus Alleluia'' (1973)

''Brideshead Variations'' (1982)

''Suite from The Chronicles of Narnia'' (1991)

''Suite from Bleak House'' (1991)

''Suite from Martin Chuzzlewit'' (1994)

''Suite from Testament of Youth'' (1991)

''A Different Dawn'' for celesta, percussion and string orchestra (1999)

''Industrial Dreams'' (2006)

Brass band

''Narnia Suite'' (1998)

''Paradise Dances'' (1994)

Concertante

Trumpet Concerto: ''The Turning World'' for trumpet, string orchestra and percussion (1993)

''City Adventures'', concerto for percussion and orchestra (1996)

Piano Concerto (1997)

''The Calm'', concerto for violin, trumpet, harp and string orchestra (1974, 2004); arranged for the ballet ''The Calm''

Concerto for cello and chamber orchestra (2007)

Concerto ''Ghosts of the Dance'' for viola and orchestra (2008)

''On the Street'' for alto saxophone and wind orchestra (2009)

Chamber music

''Fanfares and Variants'' for 2 trumpets and 2 trombones (1969)

''Lullaby and Aubade'' for trumpet and piano (1972)

''Gloria'' for piccolo, oboe, clarient, horn, cello and piano (1973)

Three Nocturnes for harp solo (1974)

''Four Guitars'' for 4 guitars (1977)

''Four Horns'' for 4 horns (1977)

Six Studies for cello solo (1980); adapted for viola solo (2000); composed for Julian Lloyd Webber

''Little Missenden Variation'' for English horn, clarinet, bassoon and horn (1984)

''Fanfare'' for horns, trumpets, trombones and tuba (1985)

''The Wanderer'' for clarinet and string quartet (1997–1998)

String Quartet (1999)

''On The Street'' for brass quartet (1999)

''Minterne Dances'' for flute, clarinet, string quartet and harp (2009)

Piano

''Theme from Brideshead Revisited'' (1982)

''Aslan's Theme from The Chronicles of Narnia'' (1988)

''Waiting'', 9 Easy Pieces (1998)

Vocal

''Cantata on Mediaeval Latin Texts'' for countertenor, flute, oboe and bassoon (1964)

''Acquainted with Night'' for countertenor, harp, timpani and string orchestra (1965)

''Hymn to Venus'' for mezzo-soprano and piano (1966)

''Five Sonnets or John Donne'' for soprano, mezzo-soprano, flute, oboe, clarinet (bass clarinet), horn, cello, piano and timpani (1967)

''Songs of Mary'' for mezzo-soprano, viola and piano (1970)

''At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners'' for soprano and organ, with optional trumpet (1971); words by John Donne

''Worldës Blissë'' for countertenor and oboe (1971)

''Threnody'' for tenor, piano and amplified harpsichord (1971)

''This Endris Night'' for tenor, female chorus, brass ensemble and timpani (1972)

''This Ean Night'' for 2 countertenors (1972)

''Dira vi amores terror'' for countertenor solo (1973)

''Canciones del Alma'' for 2 countertenors (or mezzo-sopranos) and 13 solo strings (1975)

''Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis'' (1979)

''Nunc Dimittis'' (1979)

''The World Again'' for soprano and orchestra (1983)

''Lunar Beauty'' for medium voice and guitar (or lute) (1986)

''Title Divine'' for soprano and orchestra (1986)

''Nearing the Upper Air'' for countertenor, 2 recorders, cello and harpsichord (1988)

''The Fire of Heaven'' (setting of Traherne's poetry)

''Title Divine'' (orchestral song cycle) (1987)

''First Was the World'' for countertenor (or mezzo-soprano), mixed chorus and orchestra (1994); words by Andrew Marvell

''A Vision'', Song Cycle for tenor and string orchestra (1991); poems by John Clare

''Almost Peace'', Three Songs to Poems by Emily Dickinson for soprano and chamber ensemble (1995)

''Merciless Beauty'' for countertenor and orchestra (1996); poems by Anonymous, Geoffrey Chaucer, William Blake and Kit Wright

''Heavenly Things'' for medium voice and piano (2000)

''The Road of Love'' for soprano and string quartet (2006)

Choral

''Three Elegies'' for mixed chorus (1964)

''Short Mass'' for mixed chorus (1965)

''Farewell Earth's Bliss'' for 6 solo voices (1966)

''Three Carols'' for mixed chorus (1967)

''Two Hymns to Mary'' for mixed chorus (1967, 1969)

''Think on Dredful Domesday'' for soprano, mixed chorus and orchestra (1969)

''And There was War in Heaven'' for boys (or soprano) chorus and organ (1970)

''Five Alleluias'' for 6 solo voices (1970)

''Golden Eternity'' for mixed chorus, harp and piano (1970)

''Mai Hamama'' for 6 solo voices (1970)

''A Prayer to the Trinity'' for mixed chorus (1972)

''Sleep'' for 5 solo voices (1973)

''The Fire of Heaven'' for triple chorus (1973)

''Noche Oscura'' for 6 solo voices (1974)

''Dos Coros'' for 12 solo voices (1975)

''Requiem'' for soprano, countertenor (or mezzo-soprano), tenor, mixed chorus and orchestra (1976)

''This World From'' for mixed chorus and organ (1979)

''Veni Spiritus'' for soprano, baritone, mixed chorus and orchestra (1979)

''Laudate Dominum'' for mixed chorus and organ (1980)

''Hymn to St. Thomas of Hereford'' for mixed chorus and orchestra (1981); alternalte version with organ and optional timpani

''But Have Been Found Again'' for double mixed chorus (1983)

''A God and Yet a Man'' for double mixed chorus (1984)

''The Names of the Hare'' for mixed chorus (1985)

''The Song of the Creatures'' for mixed chorus and organ (1987)

''Prayer to St. Richard'' for mixed chorus (1989)

''Songs of the Creation'' for mixed chorus and organ (1989)

''Five Love Songs'' for mixed chorus (1992)

''In a Dark Time'' for mixed chorus (1992)

''The First World'' for mixed chorus (1992)

''Christ's Love'' 4 Pieces to Middle English texts for mixed chorus (2000)

''Magic Words'', 6 Pieces to Inuitt texts for mixed chorus, percussion (played by chorus) (2000)

''Alleluia Psallat'' for mixed chorus and orchestra (2002)

''Te Deum'' for mixed chorus and organ (2002)

''Three Mysteries'' for mixed chorus and chamber orchestra (2003)

''Of Flowers and Emeralds Sheen'', Anthem for mixed chorus (2004); poem by St. John of the Cross

''Becket Mass'' for mixed chorus and organ (2005)

''Come Let Us Pity Death'' for mixed chorus, organ and trumpet (optional) (2005)

''Death Be Not Proud'' for mixed chorus, organ and trumpet (optional) (2005)

''Adam lay Ybounden'' for mixed chorus (2008)

Film scores

''Monty Python's Life of Brian'' (1979)

''The Dogs of War'' (1981)

''Turtle Diary'' (1985)

Television scores

''The Letter'' (1969)

''Treasure of Abbot Thomas'' (1974)

''Doctor Who'': ''Terror of the Zygons'' (1975)

''Doctor Who'': ''The Seeds of Doom'' (1976)

''As You Like It'' (1978)

''Testament of Youth'' (1979)

''Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy'' (1979)

''Brideshead Revisited'' (1981)

''How Many Miles to Babylon?'' (1982)

''Soft Targets'' (1982)

''Bewitched'' (1985)

''Bleak House'' (1985)

''The Death of a Heart'' (1985)

''The Happy Valley'' (1987)

''Chronicles of Narnia''

:: ''The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1988) :: ''The Voyage of the Dawn Treader'' and ''Prince Caspian'' (1989) :: ''The Silver Chair'' (1990)

''Robin Hood'' (1991)

''A Foreign Field'' (1993)

''Martin Chuzzlewit'' (1994)

''Silent Witness'' (1996); opening titles music, prominently featuring contralto vocals, was composed by John Harle

''Turning World'' (1996)

''Cider with Rosie'' (1998)

''When Trumpets Fade'' (1998)

''Ghost Stories for Christmas'' (2000)

''Longitude'' (2000)

''The Forsyte Saga'' (2002–2003)

''Island at War'' (2004)

Selected recordings

''Requiem; Nunc Dimittis'' - Decca 470-380-2

''Brideshead Revisited'' - Silva Screen FILM CD117

''The Forsyte Saga'' - Decca 4722752

References

External links

Chester-Novello Biography

Geoffrey Burgon's homepage

Obituary in ''The Telegraph''

Obituary in ''The Guardian''

Obituary in ''The Independent''

BBC obituary

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