Ivor
Proper noun
Meaning
A male given name from the Germanic languages.
A town in Virginia.
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Accepting, in 1916, Howells wrote his first major piece, the Piano Quartet in A minor, inspired by the magnificent view of the Malverns ; he dedicated it to "the hill at Chosen ( Churchdown ) and Ivor Gurney who knows it".
Among its first publications were Crowley's Collected Works, edited by Ivor Back.
Earning hardly enough to get by, but too much to claim universal credit, the find themselves trapped in what the writer Ivor Southwood calls the ‘non-stop inertia’ of insecure work and low life chances.
Another memorable wartime composition is Ivor Gurney 's climactic declamation of "By a bierside", a setting quickly set down in 1916 during a brief spell behind the lines.
In 2000, they won their third Ivor Novello Award, honouring their "Outstanding Contribution" to music.
In 1978, Fulham had signed Gordon "Ivor" Davies who, during two spells at Fulham, became the club's leading goalscorer of all time with a total of 178 goals in all competitions; the record still stands.