“The membership list of the Council for National Policy is supposed to be a prized secret.”
Clarence Thomas -is in disguise! What is behind his – BLACK ROBE! How dare this Uncle Tom declared himself – A VICTIM! Is he a member of the CNP? Has heard of Bohemian Grove and the Council of Cultural Freedom? He and the other right-wing Christians on the Supreme Court have launched a Western Front for Emperor Putin and his Crusader Pope – Killer Kirill! Have members of the CNP promoted closer ties with Putin – and his Art Patrons?
Oregon should be the Cultural Center For Western Political Art. We can do Denis de Rougemont’s Congress for Cultural Freedom of the Pacific. We need a College of Spies to prepare America for the New Cold War. Thomas knows all about the billionaires funding Christian think tanks – which the Supreme Court has become.
Vote for me and make me the Governor of Oregon! You – BE THE JUDGE! If I do not win, I ask the new Governor to make me Colonel Presco of the International Oregon Art Police.
“When International art looters and money laundering oligarchs hear the name “Oregon” they will know their fake days as lovers of art – is over!?”
EUREKA! I promised my therapist I will promote myself as a Script Writer. I got a week to send out..
The Oregon Art Squad
Colonel John Presco
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Clarence Thomas says Supreme Court changed by leak of draft abortion opinion (msn.com)
Justice Clarence Thomas says the Supreme Court has been changed by the shocking leak of a draft opinion earlier this month. The opinion suggests the court is poised to overturn the right to an abortion recognized nearly 50 years ago in Roe v. Wade.
“When you lose that trust, especially in the institution that I’m in, it changes the institution fundamentally. You begin to look over your shoulder. It’s like kind of an infidelity that you can explain it, but you can’t undo it,” he said while speaking at a conference Friday evening in Dallas.
The Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF) was an anti-communist advocacy group founded in 1950. At its height, the CCF was active in thirty-five countries. In 1966 it was revealed that the CIA was instrumental in the establishment and funding of the group.[1][2]
Historian Frances Stonor Saunders writes (1999): “Whether they liked it or not, whether they knew it or not, there were few writers, poets, artists, historians, scientists, or critics in postwar Europe whose names were not in some way linked to this covert enterprise.”[3] A different slant on the origins and work of the Congress is offered by Peter Coleman in his Liberal Conspiracy (1989), where he talks about a struggle for the mind “of Postwar Europe” and the world at large.[4]
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- Russian oligarchs will be able to exploit legal loopholes around Britain’s art market to evade sanctions and launder money, experts have said, despite Boris Johnson’s claim there will be “nowhere to hide” from a clampdown on Kremlin-linked wealth.
It comes as the Labour MP Chris Bryant said “valuable assets” were likely to be traded by supporters of Vladimir Putin, and called on Christie’s and Sotheby’s – the leading auction houses – to refuse to handle them.
However, experienced advisers said the ultimate “beneficial” owner of priceless art works could still be concealed, aided by the market’s global scale and increasing online presence.
The membership list of the Council for National Policy is supposed to be a prized secret. A 2016 internal CNP policy obtained by Documented threatens expulsion for anyone that breaks the rules and names names. So anytime a list like this comes out, it’s a big deal for those trying to follow what is happening in right-wing circles.
CNP members range from the leaders of the Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society, to the Southern Poverty Law Center designated anti-LGBTQ hate groups Family Research Council and Alliance Defending Freedom. The heads of major foundations on the right, including those of Donors Trust and the Bradley Foundation, are also members.
Justice Clarence Thomas has spoken at CNP. His wife, the right-wing activist Ginni Thomas, is a leader within the group and a board member of CNP Action, the organization’s 501(c)(4) arm. Much has been written recently about Ginni Thomas’ role in CNP, including by Jane Mayer of the New Yorker, and by Danny Hakim and Jo Becker for the New York Times Magazine.
The group was founded in 1981 by leaders in the so-called “new-right,” including Paul Weyrich (who also founded the Heritage Foundation and ALEC), and Rev. Tim LaHaye of the Moral Majority. For decades, the Council for National Policy managed successfully to keep the names of its members secret, as well as details of what went on at their closed-door meetings. Those meetings are almost always held at luxurious 5-star Ritz-Carlton resorts, because culture-war doesn’t come cheap.
In recent years, the veil of secrecy has been falling.
In 2016, the Southern Poverty Law Center published a leaked copy of CNP’s 2014 membership directory. Then Max Blumenthal published a 2018 CNP meeting packet, which included a membership list. Both of these were significant breakthroughs.
On November 1, 2020 Documented published a total of 14 membership directories spanning three years, which outlined hundreds of members, including some overlap from the 2014 and 2018 directories as well as many new members. This new list is now the most recent publicly available list of CNP memberships.
Documented has also published many other internal CNP documents, along with dozens of recordings from the private CNP meetings. These materials have resulted in significant increased press coverage of CNP in recent years. In October 2021, Robert O’Harrow published a major investigation of CNP, based on many of the internal materials obtained by Documented, for the Washington Post Magazine.
The new membership list was shared by a member of CNP in January 2022 and obtained by Documented. Although the list does not include a specific date, metadata of the file shows it was created on January 19, 2022
Documented Research on the Council for National Policy Featured in Major Washington Post Investigation
OCTOBER 25, 2021
BY NICK SURGEY
The most recent CNP membership list includes dozens of new members since Documented published the September 2020 CNP membership directory, including former Vice President Mike Pence (his CNP membership was previously reported By Robert O’Harrow in the Washington Post Magazine in October 2021), former Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis who wrote two memos outlining how then-Vice President Mike Pence could overturn the results of the 2020 election, and Florida Congressional Candidate Cory Mills.
A searchable list of names in the directory is below. The original directory (an excel spreadsheet) can be made available to reporters upon request.
The CNP has been described by The New York Times as “a little-known club of a few hundred of the most powerful conservatives in the country”, who meet three times yearly behind closed doors at undisclosed locations for a confidential conference.[5] The Nation has called it a secretive organization that “networks wealthy right-wing donors together with top conservative operatives to plan long-term movement strategy”.[6] The organization has been described by Anne Nelson as a “pluto-theocracy”.[7]
Nelson Bunker Hunt was active in conservative political causes[11] and was a member of the Council of the John Birch Society.[4] Among the candidates he supported financially were the fervent segregationists Sen. Strom Thurmond and George Wallace.[12] Hunt played a key role in the 1968 presidential campaign in rejecting Wallace’s first vice presidential choice, former Kentucky governor Happy Chandler, whom Hunt considered too moderate, and making possible the selection of Curtis LeMay. When LeMay balked at losing his salaried job if he joined the Wallace campaign, Hunt created a secret, $1 million trust fund to compensate LeMay for loss of income.[13]
While those involved in the organization are almost entirely from the United States, their organizations and influence cover the globe, both religiously and politically. Members include corporate executives,[15] legislators[15] former high ranking government officers,[15] leaders of ‘think tanks’[15] dedicated to molding society and those whom many view as “Christian leadership”.[15]
On May 18, 2018 House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-CA, gave a speech to the Council for National Policy in which he asserted that the American political climate was “increasingly belittling Christian conservatives for their beliefs” and forcing Christians “‘out of the public square'”.[38]
On August 21, 2020, President Trump attended a CNP meeting where he gave a speech.[39]
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Cleopatra Rosemond Bond of 35 Bond Street
Posted on May 25, 2018 by Royal Rosamond Press
http://www.sothebys.com/en/news-video/videos/2016/07/bowie-collector.html
Richard Burton was Ian Fleming’s first choice to play James Bond. Richard married my kin, Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, whose father ran an art gallery at 35 Bond Street, that was named after Jame’s fictional ancestor. Roger Moor was in a movie with this famous married couple, separately. There is the term ‘Hollywood Royalty’ that is now applicable to Meghan Markle, who was granted a coat of arms. The Bond name is a real name in the Peerage. The sons of Princess Diana ‘England’s Rose’ are assuming real roles in worldly affairs, and thus the time of them being merely figureheads, is coming to an end. What I suggest, is, that James Bond movies and book, can play a big role in making this world a better place to live.
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I awoke this morning from a dream. I was James Bond (somewhat) and I was writing myself a check. It was for an emergency, just incase I got hurt and suffered from memory loss. It would pay for my hospital bill, a hotel room, and dinner at a fine restruant. Is $10,000 enough? How about $50,000? Is the sky the limit?
I did not want to get rid of the idea for a Female Bond. Who would be my model? Who would understand? Who would get behind my cause? Who would not give me all this grief? Then, she came to me. My Savior. My kindred………Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor!
I got up and looked at Richard Burton who is in my family tree. Ian Fleming wanted him to be the first James Bond. I then looked at the paintings and drawings of Augustus John, that Francis Taylor and Liz owned. John had a daughter, Amaryllis, who was the mother of Ian Flaming. Elizabeth Taylor’s father had a art gallery at 35 Old Bond Street that was named after Sir Thomas Bond that is the ancestor of James Bond. Liz and Richard are in the Getty family tree, and we are kin to Talkitha Getty.
Caspar John is in my rosy family tree. He was a Sea Lord, and half-brother of Poppet Pol (John) There is no doubt that Rena’s late husband, Commander Sir Ian Easton, and John, knew each other. Tabitha Getty is Caspar’s second-niece. She was a Bohemian fashion model, and step-mother of John Paul, who was abducted. John is the subject of a movie and television series titled ‘Trust’. Why are these knighted men marrying beautiful American women? May I dare wonder?
Rena was the muse of my late, Christine Rosamond, and I. This is the love story of our time. The children born at the end of the World War were given a special mission. Rena and I were destined to meet – and part – so our spirits can rescue Britain from her enemies. Britannia rules the waves! Like Phoenix Birds…………..We will rise from the ashes?
Sotheby’s is located at 35 Bond Street. Is it on the same building that Francis Taylor had his art gallery? Did Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor ever go into this gallery? Today, there is a statue of Sekhmet above the door. She is The Guardian. She is the Daughter of God Ra!
On this day, May 25, 2018 at 9:00 A.M. PST…….Cleopatra Rosemond Bond…..is born! She will be called ‘Cleo Bond’. Cleopatra ‘Rose of the World’.
I bury Victoria Bond, and dismiss Lara Roozemond as the model of my Bond Woman. However, she might be my model for Cleo’s arch rival.
I FOUND a incredible connection that already existed. It lie there, dead, waiting for The Heir to come along – and resurrect the Rose-Bond Lineage. I am a immortal! I am in the cat-bird-seat. I have been given a blank check – from beyond the grave! There is a great battle brewing on the horizon! I am with ‘The Champions’! When I get my first royalty check, I’m moving to Bond Street. I want to open a Art Gallery on Bond Street, called –
‘The John Gallery’
John Presco
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Artist Augustus John auction by Elizabeth Taylor. See Tamara Cohen story.
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Marie de la Garde Peliot1
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Marie de la Garde Peliot was the daughter of Charles Peliot, Sieur de la Garde.1 She married Sir Thomas Bond, 1st Bt., son of Thomas Bond and Catharine Osbaldeston.1 She died circa August 1696 at Hengrave, Suffolk, EnglandG.1 She was buried on 12 August 1696 at Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London, EnglandG.1 Her will (dated 9 August 1695) was proven (by probate) on 20 August 1696.1
Her married name became Bond.1
Children of Marie de la Garde Peliot and Sir Thomas Bond, 1st Bt.
- Mary Bond+1
- Sir Henry Bond, 2nd Bt.+1 d. bt 22 Aug 1721 – 31 Dec 1721
- Thomas Bond+1
- http://www.thepeerage.com/p17199.htm#i171987Sir Charles Bond, 4th Bt. was born posthumously in December 1734.1 He was the son of Sir Thomas Bond, 3rd Bt. and Dorothea Wynne.1 He died on 22 June 1767 at age 32 at Beaumaris, Anglesey, WalesG, unmarried.1
He succeeded as the 4th Baronet Bond [E., 1658] in December 1734.1
On his death, his death became possibly extinct, or at least, dormant.1
London’s famous Bond Street is revered throughout the world for its wealth of elegant stores, exclusive brands, designer fashion, luxury goods, fine jewels, art and antiques. Set in the heart of historic Mayfair, in London’s popular West End, Bond Street has become a haven for gracious living.
Since its foundation in 1700, Bond Street has been a playground for society’s wealthiest, most stylish and influential people. Past residents of the street have included Admiral Horatio Nelson and Lady Emma Hamilton as well as a number of renowned authors and poets. Today over 300 years on, Bond Street remains a much-loved destination for celebrities, socialites and the international jet set.
Home to some of the world’s most prestigious retailers including Asprey, Bulgari, Burberry, Chanel, Cartier, Dolce Gabbana, Hermès, Jimmy Choo, Louis Vuitton, Mulberry, Ralph Lauren and Tiffany Co. Bond Street offers an unrivalled mix of history, traditional elegance and modern luxury.
Bond Street and its surrounding area boasts a impressive number of Royal Warranties and is home to some of the world’s most individual and unique hotels and restaurants, including Claridge’s and The Ritz, as well fine establishments such as The Royal Academy of Art and the world famous auction house, Sotheby’s.
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Elizabeth grew up with an understanding and appreciation for fine art. Her father, Francis Taylor, was an art dealer with a gallery located at 35 Old Bond Street in London. He learned the business under the tutelage of his uncle, Howard Young. After relocating with his family to sunny California during the war, Francis opened an art gallery at the Château Elysée, but quickly relocated it to the more impressive Beverly Hills Hotel. It was at that location that such celebrities as Howard Duff, Vincent Price, James Mason, Alan Ladd, Hedda Hopper, and Greta Garbo could be found selecting art for their own collections. Francis Taylor was also a trendsetter; responsible for the popularity of Augustus John in the United States. Francis, who had a keen eye, asked John if he could buy some of the paintings John had discarded. John felt they weren’t good enough to sell, and gave them to Francis free of charge. They were sold back at the art gallery in the States, where Augustus John paintings would be sold exclusively for many years. Francis would soon find an art connoisseur in his daughter, Elizabeth, who would amass one of the great private collections of Impressionist art in America.
London’s famous Bond Street is revered throughout the world for its wealth of elegant stores, exclusive brands, designer fashion, luxury goods, fine jewels, art and antiques. Set in the heart of historic Mayfair, in London’s popular West End, Bond Street has become a haven for gracious living.
Since its foundation in 1700, Bond Street has been a playground for society’s wealthiest, most stylish and influential people. Past residents of the street have included Admiral Horatio Nelson and Lady Emma Hamilton as well as a number of renowned authors and poets. Today over 300 years on, Bond Street remains a much-loved destination for celebrities, socialites and the international jet set.
Home to some of the world’s most prestigious retailers including Asprey, Bulgari, Burberry, Chanel, Cartier, Dolce Gabbana, Hermès, Jimmy Choo, Louis Vuitton, Mulberry, Ralph Lauren and Tiffany Co. Bond Street offers an unrivalled mix of history, traditional elegance and modern luxury.
Bond Street and its surrounding area boasts a impressive number of Royal Warranties and is home to some of the world’s most individual and unique hotels and restaurants, including Claridge’s and The Ritz, as well fine establishments such as The Royal Academy of Art and the world famous auction house, Sotheby’s.
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Bond Street is a major shopping street in the West End of London. It links Piccadilly in the south to Oxford Street in the north and has been popular for retail since the 18th century, being the home of many fashion outlets that sell prestigious or expensive items. The southern section is Old Bond Street and the longer northern section New Bond Street—a distinction not generally made in everyday usage.
The street was built on fields surrounding Clarendon House on Piccadilly, which were developed by Sir Thomas Bond. It was built up in the 1720s, and by the end of the 18th century was a popular place for the upper-class residents of Mayfair to socialise. Prestigious or expensive shops were established along the street, but it declined as a centre of social activity in the 19th century, although it held its reputation as a fashionable place for retail, and is home to the auction houses Sotheby’s and Bonhams (formerly Phillips) and the department stores Fenwick and Tiffany’s. It is one of the most expensive and sought after strips of real estate in Europe.
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Francis Lenn Taylor (December 28, 1897 – November 20, 1968) was an American art dealer and father of actress Elizabeth Taylor.
Life and career[edit]
He was born in Springfield, Illinois, the son of Elizabeth Mary (née Rosemond; 1869–1937) and Francis Marion Taylor (1860–1946). The family later moved to Arkansas City, Kansas.
Francis began dealing in art in New York City for a wealthy in-law, Howard Young.[citation needed]
Taylor married stage actress Sara Sothern (whose real name was Sara Viola Warmbrodt and who was also from Arkansas City) in 1926 in New York.[citation needed]
They were the parents of Howard Taylor (born 1929) and of Elizabeth Taylor (1932–2011).
Within a few years of his marriage, Taylor was transferred to Young’s art gallery in London, England, where he and Sara lived for several years, and where their children were born. In April 1939, five months before the outbreak of World War II in Europe, they returned to the United States.
Taylor later ran an art gallery at The Beverly Hills Hotel in California.[1]
He died at age 70 in Los Angeles, California. He is interred beside his widow in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, Westwood, Los Angeles.[2]
http://www.dameelizabethtaylor.com/art.html
http://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2011/05/the-first-vampire.html
| Elizabeth Mary Taylor (Rosemond) | |
| Birthdate: | June 1869 (68) |
| Birthplace: | Guernsey County, Ohio |
| Death: | 1937 (67) Arkansas City, Cowley County, Kansas |
| Immediate Family: | Daughter of Moses Morton Rosemond and Martha E Likes Wife of Francis Marion Taylor Mother of John Taylor and Francis Lenn Taylor Sister of Frank Rosemond; Jessie Rosemond; Mable Rosemond and W F Rosemond |
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Richard Burton could have been the first James Bond â but turned down author Ian Flemingâs overtures because he thought it would be âjust another movieâ – reports icWales.
Fleming approached Burton when he entered talks to turn his 1953 novel Casino Royale into a film. He was looking for someone manly and virile, dark and brooding â and thought the great Welsh actor would fit the bill.
âAt the time he was doing Camelot and enjoying great stardom because of it,â says Burtonâs great-nephew Guy Masterson.
âMy uncle told me that Ian Fleming had approached him, asking him to play Bond. But back then, in 1959, Bond was a new concept â nobody had any idea it would be as big as it became.
âMy uncle told me that he thought it was going to be âjust another movieâ.â
Despite Bondâs consequent mass appeal, Burton never admitted to family or friends that he regretted the decision.
âNo matter how big Bond became, he never said he regretted missing out on the role,â said Guy, whose grandmother Cissy was Burtonâs aunt.
âHad Burton played Bond, I think he would have been absolutely fantastic.
âI saw Daniel Craig in Casino Royale the other day and I thought to myself: yes, thatâs Richard. Thatâs very much how my uncle would have played the role.â
A different scenario, and cinema history might have changed beyond recognition.
For had Burton played Bond, he probably would not have taken the part of Marc Anthony in the 1963 classic Cleopatra in which he met stunning co-star Elizabeth Taylor.
And in that case, arguably the worldâs most famous celebrity couple might never have been.
Playing Bond was not the only mega-role that the Welsh movie legend, who died in 1984, turned down.
âMy uncle was also offered the role of Captain Georg von Trapp in The Sound of Music, to star opposite Julie Andrews,â revealed Guy, who lives in North London with his wife and two daughters, aged seven and three.
The Taylor family enjoyed a long association with Augustus John (1878-1961) and these portraits and figure studies have been in the family’s possession for over 70 years.
In a recent letter to Chiswick Auctions, Dame Elizabeth wrote “In the late 1930s my father Francis Taylor based his business as an art dealer in London. During that time he acquired a great many works by Augustus John including these drawings that the artist had torn up in a fit of anger… and which my father subsequently persuaded him to allow to be pieced back together, a task that my father undertook himself.”
Francis Taylor was an art dealer with a gallery located at 35 Old Bond Street. He relocated with his family to California during the War, and opened an art gallery in the Beverly Hills Hotel where his clients included Vincent Price, James Mason, Alan Ladd and Greta Garbo.
Taylor was considered something of a trendsetter and was largely responsible for the popularity of Augustus John in the United States. Dame Elizabeth’s elder brother Francis was later the Pembrokeshire artist’s American agent for many years.
Jan Leman, picture specialist at Chiswick Auctions, said he had been unaware of the celebrity source of the drawings until, 40 minutes into a telephone conversation, his client Christopher Wilding requested the advice of his mother – who just happened to be the famous actress.
Mr Wilding (son of actor Michael Wilding who was Taylor’s second husband) is handling the sale for the Taylor family. He said: “There are 47 drawings, and almost all were torn up into four to six pieces by the artist and subsequently rescued.”
Augustus John himself referred to the incident in a letter dated September 23, 1939. Discussing his desire to paint the Queen at Windsor for an informal portrait that he could include in “my show in America”, he states: “Francis Taylor is stashing all my beloved drawings and things away (many of which I tore up by-the-by in a fit of madness, but he has pieced them together again.”
Today is the anniversary of the death of the great Richard Burton. Once considered for the role of James Bond, he was a voracious reader and one wonders what he thought of Ian Fleming. The closest we might get is a short diary entry published in ‘Richard Burton: A Life’ (p. 292).
On March 28th 1969, Burton writes:
“I went to bed at 9 and read a book of Ian Fleming’s called You Only Live Twice. A clever schoolboy mind and atrociously vulgar.”
Burton did not suffer fools and someone with an intellect as he possessed, a James Bond novel might have appeared very lightweight to him at first glance. Melvyn Bragg described Burton’s reading habits as “indiscriminate but he chews on whatever he finds and turns it into something for himself.” And chew he did.
His brief ‘review’ particularly picked up on the gastronomical aspects of the novel describing Fleming as having a “pompous attitude to food and cocktails” and it clearly hit a nerve!
“[…] he has the cordon-bleu nerve to attack one of my favourite discoveries: American short-order cooking.”
Despite taking umbrage with Fleming’s treatment of American fast-food and describing the novel as “diffuse, urbane and empty”, he does offer some final, grudging respect:
“Yet you cannot help liking Fleming. He is so obviously enjoying the creation of his extroverted, Hemingway-esque, sadistic, sexually-maniacal boy-scout that in the end he becomes likable.”
Back handed praise from the great man. One wonders if he read any more?
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Sir Thomas Bond, 1st Baronet
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Sir Thomas Bond (ca. 1620–1685) was an English landowner and Baronet, Comptroller of the household of Queen Henrietta Maria.
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Life[edit]
The son of Doctor Thomas Bond (1580–1662), by his marriage to Catherine, daughter of John Osbaldeston, Bond was born about 1620 at Peckham. The exact dates of his birth, death and marriage are unknown. He is not to be confused with Thomas Bond, a 19th-century artist and the author of a book on Cornwall.[1]
On 9 October 1658, before the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, Bond was created by King Charles II a Baronet in the Baronetage of England. He also became Comptroller of the household of Queen Henrietta Maria, the mother of Charles II, an appointment which it was suggested he had obtained by the payment of one thousand pistoles, a very large sum, to Henry Jermyn, a favourite of the Queen who had recently been created Earl of St Albans.
After the Restoration, Bond had a house in Pall Mall, assessed for Hearth Tax in 1674 as having twenty hearths, and a country estate in Peckham and Camberwell. He also owned land in Yorkshire, at Kirkby Malham, Malham Dale, and Fountains Fell. He bought a large estate from his brother-in-law Sir Thomas Crymes (or Grimes), Baronet, and Westminster‘s Bond Street is named after one of his developments. He is reported to have built a new manor house at Peckham, long since demolished and now the site of Peckham Hill Street.
Sir Thomas Bond was buried on 8 June 1685, in Saint Giles Church, Camberwell.
Marriage[edit]
Bond married a French wife, Marie da la Garde (died 1696), a daughter of Charles Peliot, Sieur de la Garde, of Paris, one of the maids of the Queen Mother‘s privy chamber. They had two sons, Henry (died 1721) and Thomas (died 1732), and a daughter, Mary Charlotte (c1656-1708), who married Sir William Gage 2nd Baronet of Hengrave Hall in Suffolk.
Arms and motto[edit]
The arms of the Bond family (argent, on a chevron sable three bezants) and their crest (a winged demi-horse ensigned with six stars), with the motto “Orbis non sufficit” (The world is not enough), were emblazoned in a window of the church of St Giles, Camberwell, destroyed by a fire in the 19th century.
Gemma Arterton followed in the footsteps of a long list of Bond girls when she was plucked to star in Quantum Of Solace.
Her name was suddenly being mentioned in the same breath as silver screen legends Ursula Andress, Jane Seymour, Halle Berry and Diana Rigg.
But now she has set her sights even higher… by emulating Elizabeth Taylor in one of her most memorable scenes.
The 23-year-old actress has recreated a moment from Dame Liz’s 1958 classic Cat On A Hot Tin Roof to promote the upcoming Virgin Media Shorts competition.
Dressed in white negligee and a curly black wig, Gemma reclined on a gold brass bed to recreate an early scene in the movie, in which Elizabeth’s character Maggie ‘The Cat’ attempts to entice her hard-drinking husband Brick (Paul Newman) to bed.
The film, adapted from a Tennessee Williams play, starred Taylor and Newman as a couple experiencing the breakdown of their marriage after the suicide of Brick’s best friend Skipper.
‘I’m not living with you, we just occupy the same cage’: Elizabeth and her late co-star Paul Newman in the movie
While Maggie is desperately trying to resurrect their sex life, Brick is more interested in drinking to get over his hatred of the ‘mendacity’ of the world.
The film was nominated for six Oscars, but failed to win any.
Gemma posed as Elizabeth to launch the Virgin Media Shorts competition, which asks budding filmmakers to submit a short film.
The Kent-born actress joins Kevin Spacey, actor/director Noel Clarke, director Daniel Barber and film critic Jason Solomons on the judging panel.
Gemma enthused: ‘Iâm so excited that I got to recreate the iconic shot that made Elizabeth Taylor a household name. She is a complete goddess and my favourite actress in the whole world.
‘I had such a ball on set and I hope that by taking people back to the Golden Age of cinema, weâre giving all budding film-makers food for thought for Virgin Media Shorts.’
Oscar-winning actor Spacey added: ‘With the success of last yearâs competition and the high calibre of entries, Iâm delighted to be a part of the Virgin Media Shorts judging panel for the second year running.
‘As it is increasingly difficult to get a break in the film industry, we’re hoping to uncover and champion the next big thing in British film through this worthwhile competition.’
The competition closes on June 22 with the winner being announced on September 22.
To find out more, visit the Virgin Media Shorts website: http://www.virginmediashorts.co.uk
It was a moment of madness that linked one of Britain’s greatest portrait painters and one its greatest movie stars.
Consumed by rage, Augustus John ripped up his collection of delicately sketched nudes because he believed they were not good enough to sell.
The scene was witnessed by Elizabeth Taylor’s father Francis who was then an art dealer living in Hampstead. He calmed Mr John and persuaded him to allow him to piece them back together.
It was the 1930s and John was already one of Britain’s best-known artists.
His subjects included TE Lawrence, Thomas Hardy, WB Yeats, actress Tallulah Bankhead and George Bernard Shaw.
Though many of his works sold for considerable sums of money, the cache of damaged paintings has remained with the Taylor family – until now.
Miss Taylor has decided to sell them through small auction house Chiswick Auctions in West London.
The company’s art consultant Jan Leman was approached by Californian businessman Christopher Wilding – Miss Taylor’s son from her second marriage to actor Michael Wilding.
In an email to the Daily Mail, Mr Wilding said he believes his mother met John when she was six or seven.
The actress, who is now 78, remembers the ‘tearing up’ episode well from her father. In a signed letter to the auctioneers she wrote: ‘In the late 1930s my father Francis Taylor based his business as an art dealer in London.
Art lovers: Elzabeth Taylor with her father Francis. Miss Taylor is said he have an art collection housing paintings from Van Gogh, Rembrandt, Picasso and Monet
Fit of rage: Augustus John destroyed several nude sketches, claiming they were not good enough to sell
‘During that time he acquired a great many works by Augustus John, including these drawings that the artist had torn up in a fit of anger…and which my father subsequently persuaded him to allow to be pieced back together, a task that my father undertook himself.’
Miss Taylor, whose art collection includes paintings by Picasso, Degas, Monet, Van Gogh and Rembrandt, decided to sell them through the little-known auction house because of her affinity with the area.
Mr Leman said: ‘She filmed at Chiswick House many years ago. She also used to go to a pub in Chiswick High Road with Richard Burton.’
John was close to the Taylor family and the home where Elizabeth was born in Hampstead in 1932 had been owned by him.
He lived for many years with his wife, five children, and his mistress on a gypsy camp in the New Forest. David Lloyd George, Ramsay MacDonald and Winston Churchill were all painted by him. He died in 1961.
The 44 drawings for sale are female nude studies and portraits with estimates ranging from £200 to £800.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1315001/Elizabeth-Taylor-sells-nude-paintings-father-saved-artist-ripped-thinking-worthless.html#ixzz5GWOdNKqZ
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