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Welcome to my Author's Page! Creating with beads makes me happy, entertains and challenges me! In my books, I share everything I know and love about how to create beautiful beadwork, whether professionally or simply as a delightful pastime. If you are new to beads, you may not realize yet that beads are one of man's earliest artifacts, and that beading exists in nearly every culture throughout the world, from our earliest times through the present. New beads, made by artists and factories around the world, join vintage and ancient beads to provide a magical mix of raw materials for our playful and inventive pleasure. My books show you not only the techniques for creating jewelry and other art, but also inspirations and methods for developing your own imaginative voice with beads. Most beading books seem to stress projects. The artist/author designs something and gives exact instructions for how to make that specific project. My books are different. I cherish and believe in nurturing the creative impulse in every individual. Thus all of my books stress techniques and proc

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Humphrey Atkins

British politician

Humphrey Edward Gregory Atkins, Baron Colnbrook, KCMG, PC (12 August 1922 – 4 October 1996) was a British politician and a member of the Conservative Party. He served for 32 years as a Member of Parliament (MP), and served in the Cabinet of Prime MinisterMargaret Thatcher from 1979 to 1982.[3]

Early life

Atkins was born on 12 August 1922, in Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire, son of Captain Edward Davis Atkins and Violet Mary (née Preston).[4] His family spent his first few years in Kenya, returning to England after his father died from being attacked by a rhinoceros.[4] Atkins was educated at Wellington College, Berkshire, and served in the Royal Navy from 1940 to 1948.[4]

In 1944, Atkins married Margaret Spencer-Nairn.[4] They had four children, three daughters and one son.[1] He worked for Nairn's, his wife's family's linoleum business in Kirkcaldy, Scotland, then became a director of a financial advertising agency.[4]

Political career

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Humphrey Atkins (1922 - 1996):
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland 1979-1981

Humphrey Atkins was Secretary of State for Northern Ireland for the short period of 18 months, which however witnessed a number of momentous and far-reaching events and developments, in both the security and political spheres.

Atkins was born in Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire, the only son of Captain Edward Davis Atkins, a former Indian army officer who had settled in Nyeri, Kenya, as a coffee planter. He lived in Kenya until the age of three, when his father was killed by a rhinoceros, and his mother returned with him to England. He was educated at Wellington College and joined the Royal Navy with a special cadetship in 1940, serving mostly on destroyers on convoy escort.  He was first elected to Parliament for Merton and Morden in 1955, a seat he retained until 1970, when he transferred to the safer seat of Spelthorne.  He made his career largely as a whip, beginning in 1967 in opposition, becoming became deputy chief whip in 1970 and chief whip (and a privy councillor) in 1973; A

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