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Julian of Norwich (c. 1343 [note 1] – after 1416), also known as Juliana of Norwich, the Lady Julian, Dame Julian [4] or Mother Julian, was an English anchoress of the Middle Ages. Her writings, now known as Revelations of Divine Love , are the earliest surviving English-language works attributed to a woman.
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Statue of Lord Nelson in the Upper Close. Old Norvicensians (ONs) are former pupils of Norwich School, an independent co-educational day public school in Norwich, England.It was founded in 1096 as an episcopal school by the first Bishop of Norwich, Herbert de Losinga, and is one of the longest surviving schools in the United Kingdom.
Balls was born at Norfolk and Norwich Hospital in Norwich. [5] He spent his early years in Bawburgh, Norfolk before moving to Keyworth, Nottinghamshire at the age of eight, [6] where he attended Crossdale Drive Primary School and the private all-boys Nottingham High School, where he played the violin. [7] [8] [9]
He went on to found the Norwich Union Life Insurance Society in 1808. [1] After 1815, the post-war recession started to bite [3] and claims against the Society increased and he initially resisted many of those claims — some legitimately but others not. Eventually, his sons collaborated with the other directors to force him to retire. [1]
He married Heather Jean (née Carlton, 1927-1987) in Norwich in 1954. [2] From the mid 1950s to the early 1970s he led up to 200 artists, writers and musicians living on the beach and dunes at Winterton-on-Sea for six weeks every summer. [3] Davenport's Norwich, a book of his painting of Norwich, was published in 1973. [4]