George valentine biography

George Donald Valentine (1877–1946) was a.
George Donald Valentine was a Scottish sheriff, and writer of romantic-style short stories, plays and verse.
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Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Cox, George Valentine

COX, GEORGE VALENTINE (1786–1875), author, born at Oxford in 1786, was educated at Magdalen College school and New College, graduated B. A., and was elected esquire bedel in law in 1806, took the degree of M.A. in 1808, and was elected esquire bedel in medicine and arts in 1815. He held this office until 1866, when he retired on a pension. He was also coroner to the university. He died in March 1875. He published 'Jeannette Isabelle.' a novel in three volumes, London, 1837, 12mo , three translations from the German, viz. F. C. Dahlmann's 'Life of Herodotus,' London, 1845, 8vo; J. A. W. Neander's ' Emperor Julian and his Generation,' London, 1850, 8vo; and C. Ullmann's 'Gregory of Nazianzum,' London, 1851, 8vo; also 'Prayer-Book Epistles,' &c., London, 1846, 8vo; and 'Recollections of Oxford,' London, 1868, 8vo.

[The last-mentioned work contains many interesting personal reminiscences, and is the chief authority for the facts stated above; see also Athenaeum, Jan.-June 1875, p. 425; Brit. Mus. Cat.]

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McINERNEY,GEORGE VALENTINE, lawyer, politician, editor, and author; b. 14 Feb. 1857 in Kingston (Rexton), N.B., son of Owen McInerney, later a member of the Legislative Council of New Brunswick, and Mary McAuley; m. 12 Sept. 1882, in Richibucto, N.B., Christina O’Leary, daughter of Henry O’Leary*, and they had ten children; d. 12 Jan. 1908 in Saint John, N.B.

After a grammar-school education, George Valentine McInerney entered the College of St Joseph in Memramcook, N.B. Having obtained a ba in French literature and Latin in 1875, he moved on to the Université Laval at Quebec, where he took courses in Roman law and philosophy in 1875–76. He completed his studies at the law school of Boston University, from which he received an llb with high honours in 1878, and at Harvard University. The College of St Joseph placed great stress on the art of public speaking, and at some point McInerney attended Charles Wesley Emerson’s school of oratory in Boston. He would be noted throughout his career for his oratorical skills.

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An expansive and beautiful survey of one of New Orleans’s most accomplished and provocative artists

New Orleans artist George Valentine Dureau (1930–2014) has always been an enigma. His status as an important artist gained momentum beginning with his first exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Art, then the Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, in the mid-1960s. Not only did his career undergo a meteoric rise, but his work proved at once controversial and provocative, nuanced and groundbreaking. Critics and collectors embraced his bold images, describing them as sexual, sensual, exploitative, erotic, iconoclastic, and innovative. Beneath the surface, Dureau was even more complex as a person and persona, as he crafted a sensational character out of his artistic acumen. His reputation dimmed after his death, but in recent years his importance, and that of the New Orleans art scene he occupied, has once again been recognized.

George Valentine Dureau: Life and Art in New Orleans reassembles the pieces of Dureau’s puzzle-work life. The complexity of his life came together in the stu