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The mallard (/ˈmælɑrd/ or /ˈmælərd/) or wild duck (Anas platyrhynchos) is a dabbling duck which breeds throughout the temperate and subtropical Americas, Europe, Asia, and North Africa, and has been introduced to New Zealand, Australia, Peru, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, the Falkland Islands and South Africa.[2] This duck belongs to the subfamily Anatinae of the waterfowl family Anatidae.
The male birds (drakes) have a glossy green head and are grey on wings and belly, while the females have mainly brown-speckled plumage. Both genders have an area of white-bordered black speculum feathers which commonly also include irridescent blue feathers especially among males. Mallards live in wetlands, eat water plants and small animals, and are social animals preferring to congregate in groups or flocks of varying sizes. This species is the ancestor of most breeds of domestic ducks.[3]
Taxonomy and evolution
The mallard was one of the many bird species originally described by Carl Linnaeus in his 18th-century work, Systema Naturae, and still bears its original binomial name.[4]
The name mallard is derived from the Old French malart or mallart "wild drake", although its ultimate derivation is unclear. It may be related to (or at least influenced by) an Old High German masculine proper name Madelhart, clues lying in the alternate English forms "maudelard" or "mawdelard".[5] Masle (male) has also been proposed as an influence.[6] Mallards frequently interbreed with their closest relatives in the genus Anas, such as the American black duck, and also with species more distantly related, such as the northern pintail, leading to various hybrids that may be fully fertile.[7] This is quite unusual among such different species, and apparently is because the mallard evolved very rapidly and recently, during the Late Pleistocene. The distinct lineages of this radiation are usually kept separate due to non-overlapping ranges and behavioural cues, but are still not fully genetically incompatible.[8] Mallards and their domesticated conspecifics are also fully interfertile.
The genome of Anas platyrhynchos was sequenced in 2013.[9]
Mallards appear to be closer to their Indo-Pacific relatives than to their American ones judging from biogeography. Considering mitochondrial DNA D-loop sequence data, they may have evolved in the general area of Siberia; mallard bones rather abruptly appear in food remains of ancient humans and other deposits of fossil bones in Europe, without a good candidate for a local predecessor species.[10] The large ice age palaeosubspecies which made up at least the European and west Asian populations during the Pleistocene has been named Anas platyrhynchos palaeoboschas.[citation needed]
In their mitochondrial DNA, mallards are differentiated between North America and Eurasia,[11] however, in the nuclear genome there is a particular lack of genetic structure.[12] Haplotypes typical of American mallard relatives and spotbills can be found in mallards around the Bering Sea.[13] The Aleutian Islands hold a population of mallards that appear to be evolving towards a subspecies, as gene flow with other populations is very limited.[10]
The size of the mallard varies clinally, and birds from Greenland, although larger than birds further south, have smaller bills and are stockier. They are sometimes separated as subspecies, the Greenland mallard (A. p. conboschas).[citation needed]
Description
The mallard is a medium-sized waterfowl species although is often slightly heavier than most other dabbling ducks. It is 50–65 cm (20–26 in) long (of which the body makes up around two-thirds), has a wingspan of 81–98 cm (32–39 in),[14] and weighs 0.72–1.58 kg (1.6–3.5 lb).[15][16] Among standard measurements, the wing chord is 25.7 to 30.6 cm (10.1 to 12.0 in), the bill is 4.4 to 6.1 cm (1.7 to 2.4 in) and the tarsus is 4.1 to 4.8 cm (1.6 to 1.9 in).[17]
The breeding male mallard is unmistakable, with a glossy bottle-green head and white collar which demarcates the head from the purple-tinged brown breast, grey brown wings, and a pale grey belly. The rear of the male is black, with the dark tail having white borders.[18] The bill of the male is a yellowish orange tipped with black while that of the female is generally darker ranging from black to mottled orange. The female mallard is predominantly mottled with each individual feather showing sharp contrast from buff to very dark brown, a coloration shared by most female dabbling ducks, and has buff cheeks, eyebrow, throat and neck with a darker crown and eye-stripe.[18]
Owing to their highly 'malleable' genetic code, Mallards can display a large amount of variation, as seen here with this female, who displays faded or 'apricot' plumage.
Both male and female mallards have distinct iridescent purple blue speculum feathers edged with white, prominent in flight or at rest, though temporarily shed during the annual summer moult. Upon hatching, the plumage colouring of the duckling is yellow on the underside and face (with streaks by the eyes) and black on the backside (with some yellow spots) all the way to the top and back of the head. Its legs and bill are also black. As it nears a month in age, the duckling's plumage will start becoming drab, looking more like the female (though its plumage is more streaked) and its legs will lose their dark grey colouring.[18] Two months after hatching, the fledgling period has ended and the duckling is now a juvenile. Between three to four months of age, the juvenile can finally begin flying as its wings are fully developed for flight (which can be confirmed by the sight of purple speculum feathers). Its bill will soon lose its dark grey colouring and its sex can finally be distinguished visually by three factors. The bill colouring is yellow in males, black and orange for females. The breast feathers are reddish-brown for males, brown for females. The centre tail feather is curled for males (called a drake feather), straight for females.[citation needed]
During the final period of maturity leading up to adulthood (6–10 months of age), the plumage of female juveniles remains the same while the plumage of male juveniles slowly changes to its characteristic colours.[citation needed] This plumage change also applies to adult mallard males when they transition in and out of their non-breeding eclipse plumage at the beginning and the end of the summer moulting period. The adulthood age for mallards is 14 months and the average life expectancy is 3 years, but they can live to twenty.[19]
Several species of duck have brown-plumaged females which can be confused with the female mallard. The female gadwall (A. strepera) has an orange-lined bill, white belly, black and white speculum which is seen as a white square on the wings in flight, and is a smaller bird.[18] More similar to the female mallard in North America are the American black duck (A. rubripes), which is notably darker hued in both sexes than the mallard, and the mottled duck (A. fulvigula), which is somewhat darker than the female mallard, with no white edge on the speculum and slightly different bare-part colouration.
In captivity, domestic ducks come in wild-type plumages, white, and other colours. Most of these colour variants are also known in domestic mallards not bred as livestock, but kept as pets, aviary birds, etc., where they are rare but increasing in availability.
A noisy species, the male has a nasal call, and a high-pitched whistle, while the female has a deeper quack stereotypically associated with ducks.[20][21]
The mallard is a rare example of both Allen's Rule and Bergmann's Rule in birds. Bergmann's Rule, which states that polar forms tend to be larger than related ones from warmer climates, has numerous examples in birds. Allen's Rule says that appendages like ears tend to be smaller in polar forms to minimize heat loss, and larger in tropical and desert equivalents to facilitate heat diffusion, and that the polar taxa are stockier overall. Examples of this rule in birds are rare, as they lack external ears. However, the bill of ducks is very well supplied with blood vessels and is vulnerable to cold.[citation needed]
Due to the malleability of the mallard's genetic code, which gives it its vast interbreeding capability, mutations in the genes that decide plumage colour are very common and have resulted in a wide variety of hybrids such as Brewer's duck (mallard × gadwall, Anas strepera).[22]
Distribution and habitat
The mallard is widely distributed across the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, North America from southern and central Alaska to Mexico, the Hawaiian Islands, and across Eurasia, from Iceland and southern Greenland and parts of Morocco (North Africa) in the west, Scandinavia to the north, and to Siberia, Japan,and South Korea, in the east, Australia and New Zealand in the Southern hemisphere.[14] It is strongly migratory in the northern parts of its breeding range, and winters farther south. For example, in North America, it winters south to Mexico, but also regularly strays into Central America and the Caribbean between September and May.[23]
The mallard inhabits a wide range of habitat and climates, from Arctic tundra to subtropical regions. It is found in both fresh- and salt-water wetlands, including parks, small ponds, rivers, lakes and estuaries, as well as shallow inlets and open sea within sight of the coastline. Water depths of less than 1 metre (3.3 ft) are preferred, birds avoiding areas more than a few metres deep. They are attracted to bodies of water with aquatic vegetation
Behaviour
Feeding
The mallard is omnivorous and very flexible in its foods choice. Its diet may vary based on several factors, including the stage of the breeding cycle, short-term variations in available food, nutrient availability, and inter and intraspecific competition.[24] The majority of the mallard's diet seems to be made up of gastropods, invertebrates (including beetles, flies, lepidopterans, dragonflies, and caddisflies), crustaceans, worms, many varieties of seeds and plant matter, and roots and tubers. During the breeding season, male birds were recorded to have eaten 37.6% animal matter and 62.4% plant matter, most notably Echinochloa crus-galli, and nonlaying females ate 37.0% animal matter and 63.0% plant matter, while laying females ate 71.9% animal matter and only 28.1% plant matter.[25] Plants generally make up a larger part of the bird's diet, especially during autumn migration and in the winter.[26][27]
It usually feeds by dabbling for plant food or grazing; there are reports of it eating frogs. It usually nests on a river bank, but not always near water. It is highly gregarious outside of the breeding season and forms large flocks, which are known as sords.[28]
Breeding
Mallards usually form pairs (in October and November in the Northern hemisphere) only until the female lays eggs at the start of nesting season which is around the beginning of spring, at which time she is left by the male who joins up with other males to await the moulting period which begins in June (in the Northern hemisphere). During the brief time before this, however, the males are still sexually potent and some of them either remain on standby to sire replacement clutches (for female Mallards that have lost or abandoned their previous clutch) or forcibly mate with females that appear to be isolated or unattached regardless of their species and whether or not they have a brood of ducklings.
The nesting period can be very stressful for the female since she lays more than half her body weight in eggs. She requires a lot of rest and a feeding/loafing area that is safe from predators. When seeking out a suitable nesting site, the female's preferences are areas that are well concealed, inaccessible to ground predators, or have few predators nearby. This can include nesting sites in urban areas such as roof gardens, enclosed courtyards, and flower boxes on window ledges and balconies more than one story up, which the ducklings cannot leave safely without human intervention. The clutch is 8–13 eggs, which are incubated for 27–28 days to hatching with 50–60 days to fledgling. The ducklings are precocial and fully capable of swimming as soon as they hatch. However, filial imprinting compels them to instinctively stay near the mother not only for warmth and protection but also to learn about and remember their habitat as well as how and where to forage for food. When ducklings mature into flight-capable juveniles, they learn about and remember their traditional migratory routes (unless they are born and raised in captivity). After this, the juveniles and the mother may either part or remain together until the breeding season arrives.[citation needed]
When they pair off with mating partners, often one or several drakes end up left out. This group sometimes targets an isolated female duck, even one of a different species, and proceeds to chase and peck at her until she weakens, at which point the males take turns copulating with the female. Lebret (1961) calls this behaviour "Attempted Rape Flight" and Cramp & Simmons (1977) speak of "rape-intent flights". Male mallards also occasionally chase other male ducks of a different species, and even each other, in the same way. In one documented case of "homosexual necrophilia", a male mallard copulated with another male he was chasing after the chased male died upon flying into a glass window.[29] This paper was awarded with an Ig Nobel Prize in 2003.[30]
Mallards are opportunistically targeted by brood parasites, occasionally having eggs laid in their nests by Redheads, ruddy ducks, lesser scaup, gadwalls, northern shovelers, northern pintails, cinnamon teal, common goldeneyes, and other mallards. These eggs are generally accepted when they resemble the eggs of the host mallard, although the hen may attempt to eject them or even abandon the nest if parasitism occurs during egg laying.[31] Mallards of all ages (but especially young ones) and in all locations must contend with a wide diversity of predators including raptors, mustelids, corvids, snakes, raccoons, opossums, skunks, turtles, large fish and felids and canids, including domesticated ones.[32] The most prolific natural predators of adult mallards are red foxes (which most often pick off brooding females) and the faster or larger birds of prey, i.e. peregrine falcons or Haliaeetus eagles.[33][34] In North America, adult mallards face no fewer than 15 species of birds of prey, from hen harriers and short-eared owls (both smaller than a mallard) to huge bald and golden eagles, and about a dozen species of mammalian predator, not counting several more avian and mammalian predators who threaten eggs and nestlings.[31]
Mallards are also preyed upon occasionally by 'unorthodox' species, such as the Grey heron (Ardea cinerea), European herring gull (Larus argentatus) and the Northern pike (Esox lucius).
Conservation
Unlike many waterfowl, mallards have benefited from human alterations to the world. They are very adaptable, being able to live and even thrive in urban areas which may have supported more localized, sensitive species of waterfowl before development. The release of feral mallards in areas where they are not native sometimes creates problems through interbreeding with indigenous waterfowl. These non-migratory mallards interbreed with indigenous wild ducks from local populations of closely related species through genetic pollution by producing fertile offspring. Complete hybridization of various species of wild ducks gene pools could result in the extinction of many indigenous waterfowl. The wild mallard itself is the ancestor of most domestic ducks and its naturally evolved wild gene pool gets genetically polluted in turn by the domesticated and feral populations.[35][36][37]
The mallard is considered an invasive species in New Zealand.[14] There, and elsewhere, mallards are spreading with increasing urbanization and hybridizing with local relatives.[38] Over time, a continuum of hybrids ranging between almost typical examples of either species will develop; the speciation process beginning to reverse itself.[39] This has created conservation concerns for relatives of the mallard, such as the Hawaiian duck,[38][40] the A. s. superciliosa subspecies of the Pacific black duck,[38][41][42][43] the American black duck,[38][44][45][46] the mottled duck,[38][47][48] Meller's duck,[49] the yellow-billed duck,[39] and the Mexican duck,[38][48] in the latter case even leading to a dispute whether these birds should be considered a species[50] (and thus entitled to more conservation research and funding) or included in the mallard.
The availability of mallards, mallard ducklings, and fertilized mallard eggs for public sale and private ownership, either as livestock or as pets, is currently legal in the United States except for the state of Florida which has currently banned domestic ownership of mallards. This is to prevent hybridisation with the native mottled duck.[51]
Mallards are also causing severe "genetic pollution" of South Africa's biodiversity by breeding with endemic ducks, although the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds applies to the mallard. The hybrids of mallards and the yellow-billed duck are fertile and can produce more hybrid offspring. If this continues, only hybrids will occur and in the long term this will result in the extinction of various indigenous waterfowl. The mallard duck can cross breed with 63 other species and is posing a severe threat to the genetic integrity of indigenous waterfowl. Mallards and their hybrids compete with indigenous birds for resources such as food, nest sites and roosting sites.[37]
The Eastern or Chinese spot-billed duck is currently introgressing into the mallard populations of the Primorsky Krai, possibly due to habitat changes from global warming.[13] The Mariana mallard was a resident allopatric population—in most respects a good species—apparently initially derived from mallard-Pacific black duck hybrids;[52] unfortunately, it became extinct in the late twentieth century.[53]
The Laysan duck is an insular relative of the mallard with a very small and fluctuating population. Mallards sometimes arrive on its island home during migration, and can be expected to occasionally have remained and hybridized with Laysan ducks as long as these species have existed. But these hybrids are less well adapted to the peculiar ecological conditions of Laysan Island than the local ducks, and thus have lower fitness, and furthermore, there were—apart from a brief time in the early 20th century when the Laysan duck was almost extinct—always many more Laysan ducks than stray mallards. Thus, in this case, the hybrid lineages would rapidly fail.[citation needed]
In the cases mentioned above, however, ecological changes and hunting have led to a decline of local species; for example, the New Zealand grey duck population declined drastically due to overhunting in the mid-20th century.[43] Hybrid offspring of Hawaiian ducks seem to be less well-adapted to native habitat, and utilizing them in reintroduction projects apparently reduces success.[38][54] In summary, the problems of mallards "hybridizing away" relatives is more a consequence of local ducks declining than of mallards spreading; allopatric speciation and isolating behaviour have produced today's diversity of mallard-like ducks despite the fact that in most if not all of these populations, hybridization must have occurred to some extent.[citation needed]
Relationship with humans
The mallard is depicted in a marginal decoration of the 15th century English illuminated manuscript the Sherborne Missal.[55]
Since 1933, the Peabody Hotel in Downtown Memphis, Tennessee has maintained a long tradition of keeping one mallard drake and four mallard hens, called The Peabody Ducks, as a popular hotel attraction and as guests of honour. The mallards are provided by a local farmer and friend of the Peabody Hotel and are rotated out and returned to the farm for a new team of mallards every three months. This tradition has also been maintained and observed at the other Peabody Hotels in Little Rock, Arkansas and Orlando, Florida.[56]
Although mallard do not have as fine a flavour as teal, they have the advantage of being one of the larger ducks, so are selected for breeding for shooting and the table.[57] Shot sizes four and five are recommended for a clean and efficient kill in shooting mallard.[58]
The children's picture book Make Way for Ducklings, published in 1941 and winner of the 1942 Caldecott Medal for its illustrations, is the story of a pair of mallards who decide to raise their family on an island in the lagoon in Boston Public Garden in Massachusetts.[59]
Duck Head, a U.S. clothing brand, uses the image of a mallard's head as its logo.
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?????memory of Lt.Col. Henry Lester Lewis D.S.O. died November 25th 1953.
Birth
The birth of a Henry Lester Lewis was recorded in the Cardiff District of Glamorganshire in the January to March quarter, (Q1), of 1879.
1891 Census for England and Wales
Based on the details in the 1905 newspaper report below, I took another look at the earlier census, as I’d been unable to find Henry. In fact there is a 12 year old Henry “H” Lewis, born Cardiff who was recorded living at Tynant House, Radyr, Glamorgan. This was the household of his parents, Henry, (aged 40 and a Mining Engineer from Tregethan(?) Parish, Monmouthshire) and Cath.H., (aged 35 and from Cardiff). As well as Henry, their other children are:-
Thomas P………..aged 9….born Cardiff
Clifford M……….aged 5….born Radyr
Trevor E…………aged 3….born Radyr.
There is also a cousin, Alice M Ettery(?-tbc) aged 24 and living with them as a Governess. There are also two live in servants.
1897 – Military Career
The London Gazette of the 21st January 1898 reports that Gentleman Cadet Henry Lester Lewis of the Royal Military Academy, was to be a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers effective 23rd December 1897.
www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/26931/page/376/data.pdf
1901 Census for England and Wales
Given the content of the 1905 newspaper article below, its likely Henry Lester Lewis was abroad at the time of this census. I also couldn’t find father Henry. Mother Katherine H, (45), was recorded as the “wife of the head of the household”, living at Tynant House, Radyr. Still at home with her at this time were:-
Thomas……aged 19…….Medical Student
Trevor Ed….aged 13
Cousin Alive Mary Ettry(?-tbc) was still living with them, plus Katherines sister-in-law, the 48 year old married Mary Lewis Sully, from Tallywain, Monmouthshire. There are also two live in servants.
1902 – 1904 Younghusband Expedition
At the start of the 20th century, the British still considered Tibetans as a mysterious Buddhist society high in the mountains and nominally, under the control of China. The then viceroy of India, Lord Curzon, believed that Tibet was a threat to British interests. Even incursions into British border territory by herdsmen and their flocks, was an irritation enough to become a diplomatic incident.
Curzon told the India Office in London that according to a secret agent, Tibet had decided on war with India and were relying on Russian and Chinese support. Curzon's decided in 1902 to send an emissary, Major Francis Younghusband, to Lhasa to negotiate with the Dalai Lama (who anyway, by this time had fled into Mongolia) and establish a British legation. In London, Broderick, the India Secretary was wary of the scheme. Prime Minister, Balfour was equally sceptical and did not want to do anything that would further weaken relations with the Tsar.
In the summer of 1903 Younghusband, with a military force of about 200 Sikhs and large reinforcements coming up, crossed the border. They waited in Khamba Jong for what they expected to be a large Tibetan and Chinese representation. Although Younghusband met the Panchen Lama, others failed to show. By the time Younghusband moved on from Khamba Jong, he had more than 1000 British and Sikh soldiers, artillery and machine guns and, apparently, as many as 7,000 labourers. But winter had arrived early and they were now fighting the cold rather than Tibetans. In March 1904 the Younghusband expedition with reinforcements of cavalry, infantry and pioneers in support and commanded by Brigadier General James Macdonald, halted before the small township of Guru.
They were faced by 2000 Tibetan soldiers. A shot was fired - it was later said by the Tibetan commander. Macdonald's machine gunners opened up. The Tibetans walked forward as a mass into the machine gun fire. It was a massacre. Younghusband entered Lhasa on 2 August 1904. A month later he signed an agreement that gave the British trading advantages and excluded, in theory, others from Tibet.
www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/empire/episodes/episode_74.s...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_expedition_to_Tibet
1905 – Home from Tibet
Evening Express 15th November 1905.
LIEUT. LEWIS' HOMECOMING.
Public Reception at Radyr,
After four years' absence from home Lieutenant Henry Lester Lewis, R.E., who was one of the members of Colonel Sir Francis Younghusband's Tibetan Mission, was given a rousing welcome by the inhabitants of Radyr and Morganstown and the workmen at the Albion Collieries, Cilfynydd, of which his father is the managing director, when he returned to his home at Tynant on Tuesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lewis, his father and mother, met him upon his landing in London, and at Cardiff Station the family party was joined by his youngest brother, Mr. Trevor Lewis. They all alighted at Radyr-where the Taff Vale Railway Company had decorated the long platforms with flags from end to end - amid the rapid explosion of fog-signals and the cheering of a crowd of about a thousand people.
newspapers.library.wales/view/4158046/4158050/104/rev%20h...
1906 Marriage
Evening Express 28th August 1906.
MR, LESTER LEWIS MARRIED
Mr. Henry Lester Lewis, R.E., son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lewis, Tynant, near Cardiff, was married at Welshpool Parish Church this afternoon to Miss Myfanwy Davis, eldest daughter of the Vicar of Welshpool. The bride was dressed in soft cream satin, trimmed with Brussels point de Gaze lace, and touches of siler. She also wore a diamond and opal bracelet, the gift of the bridegroom. Mr. T. Lewis, brother of the bridegroom, was best mail, and the ceremony was performed by the Ven. Archdeacon Thomas. Among the guests at the reception were the Countess of Powis and Sir Alfred Thomas, M.P., The honeymoon will be spent at the English Lakes.
newspapers.library.wales/view/4166580/4166583/61/rev%20he...
The marriage of a Henry Lester Lewis to a Myfanwy Davis was recorded in the Forden District of Montgomeryshire in the July to September quarter, (Q3), of 1906.
1911 Census for England and Wales
The 32 year old Henry Lester Lewis, an Army Captain in the Royal Engineers who was serving as a Territorial Force Adjutant and who was originally from Cardiff, was recorded as the married head of the household at 77 Ninian Road, Cardiff.
He lives there with his wife Myfanwy, aged 27 and from Conway, Caenarvonshire. The couple have been married 4 years and have had two children, both then still alive and also still living at home.
These are Henry Clifford, (aged 3 and born Mussoonie, M.P. India) and David Lester, (aged 2 and born Gillingham, Kent). The family also has three live in servants.
Post August 1911 it became compulsory when registering a birth in England and Wales to also record the mothers maiden name. A check of the General Registrars Office index of births for England and Wales 1911-2006 produces a large number of matches for children registered with the surname Lewis, mothers maiden name Davis. However there are some recorded in the Cardiff District, which was the Civil Authority that covered Radyr, and so could possibly be children of Henry Lester and Myfanwy.
Winifred K………….April to June 1913
Ronald………………October to December 1916
(There is then a gap as far as the Cardiff District is concerned until the mid-1930’s).
The Great War
There are Two Medal Index Cards for a Major H L Lewis, Royal Engineers.
One is in series WO 372/24/37757 which covers Mentions in Despatches, Meritorious Service Medals and Territorial Force Efficiency Medals.
discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D6512621
There is another one in the same series - WO 372/24/37756
discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D6512620
Major Henry Lester Lewis, Royal Engineers appointment as a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order appears in the London Gazette of the 14th January 1916.
www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/29438/supplement/573/da...
By 1923 Henry was in the Army Reserve of Officers. The London Gazette of the 8th June 1923 records that Lieutenant Colonel Henry Lester Lewis, D.S.O., Royal Engineers with seniority of the 7th November 1920, took retired pay effective 4th April 1923.
www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/32832/page/4062/data.pdf
Death
The death of a Henry L Lewis, aged 74, was recorded in the Norwich District in the October to December quarter, (Q4), of 1953.
The 1954 Probate Calendar recorded that a Henry Lester Lewis, D.S.O., of Sunnycroft, Suffolk Road, Sheringham, Norfolk, died on the 25th November 1953 at Grove House Nursing Home, 77a Newmarket Road, Norwich. Probate was granted at the Llandaff Court on the 1st March 1954 to Lloyds Bank Limited and Henry Clifford Lewis of no occupation. His effects were valued at £63,090 17s.
probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Calendar?surname=Lewis&y...
Lloyds Bank and Major Henry Clifford Lewis placed a notice in the London Gazette asking for creditors to contact them by the 31st March 1954. It notes that Henry Lester Lewis was a Retired Colonel in the Royal Engineers.
www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/40086/page/675/data.pdf
The next grave at Sheringham records the death of a David Lester Lewis, born October 10th 1908, died October 2nd 1940. There is no record on the Commonwealth War Grave site for David, nor is there an obvious Civil Probate.
Postscript
The death of a Myfanwy Lewis, aged 75, was recorded in the April to June quarter, (Q2), of 1959.
The 1959 Probate Calendar records that a Myfanwy Lewis, of Sunnycroft, 1 Hooks Hill Road, Sheringham, died on the 22nd June 1959 at the Private Patients Nursing Home, Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, Norwich. Administration, (with Will), was granted at the Norwich Court to Lloyds Bank Limited. Effects were valued at £87,428 4s 11d.
I went to clean out all the junk and decided to take a photo for the What's in your bag? group. Sorry already threw away the used tissues.....
Decided to weigh my bag... 21lbs.
Update for 2010 (4 yrs later)(since I still get lots of views on this photo): I no longer carry this bag around but I do still use it occasionally. I have a laptop (only) bag that I use for the laptop and a few peripherals.
I still use the (now antique) HP calculator. I use a separate bag for photography equipment. Actually two different ones depending on the occasion.
I still have the laptop but to prevent the usual performance degradation over time that Windows provides it now runs Ubuntu Linux with Windows running in a VM (Virtual Box) if I need it.
The electronic Scrabble dictionary does not have the current version of the Scrabble dictionary so it is rarely used anymore. The Sharp Zaurus is rarely used anymore as well.
The money has been spent. The battery still works in the keychain flashlight. I have a different cellphone. Don't use the Nintendo any more. And I still try to have a penny whistle with me wherever I go.
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To what extent can media companies employ predictive analytics and other data driven approaches to improve content performance? This event, organized by NYC Media Lab and hosted by Bloomberg on February 25, fused short 5 minute presentations and discussion from startups, media companies and university researchers advancing the state of the art in a variety show intended to provoke discussion and debate on opportunities in this fast-moving field of interest.
Speakers included Brian Eoff, Lead Data Scientist, bitly; Ky Harlin, Director, Data Science, BuzzFeed; Mor Naaman, Associate Professor, Cornell Tech and Co-founder and Chief Scientist, Seen.co; Simon Smith, Senior Vice President, Platforms, News Corp; Joshua Schwartz, Lead Data Scientist, Chartbeat.com; and Lisa Strausfeld, Global Head of Data Visualization, Bloomberg LP.
Photos by Yang Jiang.
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Les chercheurs MINES ParisTech détiennent une expertise pointue en simulation numérique. Ils font de leurs outils des références dans leurs domaines (matériaux, procédés, énergétique, exploitation minière…), utilisés par les industriels dans le cadre d'actions de recherche partenariale. Pour présenter leurs travaux et proposer une vision transversale et pluridisciplinaire de la « data science » et de ses enjeux pour les entreprises, MINES ParisTech créée le Data Science Day
Crédits photos : © MINES ParisTech / S. Boda 2019
Coded Matter(s): Big Bias was an evening program with talks and a closing lecture-performance that introduced the audience to the data-driven processes and automated technologies that are radically changing our world.
There is a widely held belief that the machines we use are neutral. But the data they learn with is often fake, incomplete or exclusionary. Rather than giving us new affordances of accessibility and connectivity the problems around fake news, predictive policing and racist twitter bots show that technology also amplifies, rather than rectifies, the inequalities that exist in our society.
These ‘smart’ technologies are already embedded within the interaction designs of internet platforms and commercial products and are quickly changing our systems of governance, policing and public services. Big Bias explores what role artists, designers, researchers and companies play in addressing these ethical issues.
For more information: www.codedmatters.nl/event/coded-matters-big-bias/