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bench-whistler
† ˈbench-ˌwhistler Obs. One who sits idly whistling on a bench: a term of reproach.1542 Boorde Dyetary viii. 245 Fye on the, benche-whystler, wylt thou sterte away nowe? 1607 Chapman All Fooles Plays (1873) I. 137 Y'are but bench-whistlers now a dayes to them that were in our times. 1618 Hornby Sco.... Oxford English Dictionary
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Kenneth Street (jurist)
These offices were held before him by his father Sir Philip Whistler Street and after by his son Sir Laurence Whistler Street, the only such viceregal He retired from the bench on his 70th birthday, as did his father. wikipedia.org
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whistler
whistler (ˈhwɪs(ə)lə(r)) Forms: see whistle v.; also 6 Sc. quhuslar, 7 whisler. [OE. hwistlere, f. hwistlian, whistle v.: see -er1.] A person, animal, or thing that whistles. 1. a. One who sounds, or plays upon, a whistle or pipe; a flute-player, piper, or fifer. Now rare.c 1000 Ags. Gosp. Matt. ix.... Oxford English Dictionary
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John William Mellor
Sir John Mellor, of Otterhead, Devonshire, a Judge of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court, Mellor was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. In 1878 Mellor was involved in the Whistler v Ruskin libel trial. wikipedia.org
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bench
▪ I. bench, n. (bɛnʃ) Forms: 1 benc(e, 3–6 benche, (Orm. bennche), 4– bench. For Sc. and northern forms, see benk, bink. [Comm. Teut.: OE. bęnc = ON. *benkr (Sw. bänk, Da. bænk, Icel. bekkr), OS., MHG., MDu. banc, OHG. banch, mod.G., Du. bank:—OTeut. *banki-z ‘bench’: cf. bank n.1, n.2, which are or... Oxford English Dictionary
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Philip Whistler Street
Sir Laurence Whistler Street. According to Percival Serle, this may be the first time a father and son have sat on the same Supreme Court bench together. wikipedia.org
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Bond Street
A negative review by John Ruskin of exhibits by James McNeill Whistler led to Whistler suing Ruskin for libel, winning a farthing in compensation. Roosevelt, who are portrayed sitting in conversation on a park bench, sculpted by Lawrence Holofcener. wikipedia.org
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Clinton Rosemond
Brother Dickey (uncredited) Santa Fe Trail (1940) - Black Man on Train (uncredited) Blossoms in the Dust (1941) - Zeke Belle Starr (1941) - Black Man on Bench Flesh and Fantasy (1943) - Elderly Man (uncredited) Heavenly Days (1944) - Servant (uncredited) Jungle Queen (1944, Serial) - Godac Voice of the Whistler wikipedia.org
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Laurence Street
Following his retirement from the bench, Street became the chairman of Fairfax Media and a director of Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, the oldest bank He was the grandson of Sir Philip Whistler Street. wikipedia.org
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Diana de Vere Beauclerk
She frequently sat on the bench alongside Huddleston during trials, as she had done during the infamous case of Whistler v. Ruskin. wikipedia.org
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Fred F. Sears
The Jolson Story (1946) The Lone Hand Texan (1947) The Corpse Came C.O.D. (1947) Millie's Daughter (1947) West of Dodge City (1947) The Return of the Whistler Actor The Return of Rusty (1946) - Detective (uncredited) The Jolson Story (1946) - Oscar - Cutter (uncredited) Blondie Knows Best (1946) - Man on Park Bench wikipedia.org
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John Street (Australian politician)
His father descended from Baron Sir Thomas Street, an English Chief Justice who sat on the last King's Bench before the Glorious Revolution of 1688. Street's brother-in-law via his sister Sarah Maria was the Australian politician Thomas Whistler Smith, deputy chairman of the Commercial Banking Company wikipedia.org
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Coventry Stakes
1943: Orestes 1944: Dante 1945: Khaled 1946: Tudor Minstrel 1947: The Cobbler 1948: Royal Forest 1949: Palestine 1950: Big Dipper 1951: King's Bench 1952: Whistler 1953: The Pie King 1954: Noble Chieftain 1955: Ratification 1956: Messmate 1957: Amerigo 1958: Hieroglyph 1959: Martial 1960: wikipedia.org
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Street family
Their son Sir Philip Whistler Street, grandson Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Kenneth Whistler Street, and great-grandson Colonel Sir Laurence Whistler Street He was elevated as a judge of the Supreme Court on 7 October 1931, thus joining the bench of which his father was then Chief Justice. wikipedia.org
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John Walter Huddleston
Today, the case he presided over that remains famous is Whistler v. Ruskin, where his wife and that of Ruskin's counsel sat beside him on the bench. wikipedia.org
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