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Talk:Dana Rosemary Scallon

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I have heard that her favourite type of cake is strawberry cake but I can't find a citation anywhere. Can anyone send me a link? - A concerned Dananite

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I don't think she went to America in the eighties and didn't return until 1997 - her son was at my primary school a few years below me. I attended that school until 1993 and I clearly remeber going to her house in the late 80s/early 90s when a younger friend was attending a birthday party.

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I thought her name was Rosemary Brown. Is one of these her married surname? Deb 21:21 Feb 22, 2003 (UTC)

Yes, she is married to Damien Scallon and has used his surname rather than her maiden name since their marriage in the 1970s. During the 1997 presidential election, to ensure people recognised her, she got onto the ballot paper as Dana Rosemary Scallon JTD 21:44 Feb 22, 2003 (UTC)

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I have problem with the following line:

Most political experts predict that she will lose her European Parliament seat when in the next European election the number of Irish seats is reduced from 15 to 13.

Whoever wrote this doesn't understand what a political comeback is. STV aside, there is always A chance that Dana could make a comeback and be reelected as an MEP in 2004. Whoever wrote this doesn't remember the comeback of Bill Clinton in 1996. When the GOP won Congress in 1994, the "political experts" predicted that Clinton would lose in '96. As history shows, Clinton won a strong victory in 1996 by defeating Bob Dole by eight points in 1996.

Bottom line: This line is POV. It is removed.

Actually it isn't and the above writer is completely missing the point:

1. Clinton was from a mainstream political party with a party organisation behind him to deliver votes. Dana is an independent without party affiliations or an organisation with a haphazard coterie of backers.

2. Most of her support base relied on pro-life voters. She has since alienated much of them by siding with extreme pro-life elements in a referendum on abortion. In the referendum on abortion mainstream anti-abortion groups supported what they regarded as a weak anti-abortion amendment but one which not merely was the best they could get but the last they were ever likely to get. A few fanatics on the far right fringe rejected it as too weak and promised they would get a better one. A combination of extreme pro-life, pro-choice and pro-abortion groups separately but on the one side united to defeat the mainstream pro-life group. Public opinion is overwhelmingly against any more votes on the issue and she personally is blamed by mainstream pro-lifers for the defeat of what they believe was the last ever chance to strength the law from a pro-life perspective. (A fact proven to be correct by a blanket refusal of any politician to call for another vote, while the third largest national party is now supporting the introduction of abortion) She support base has collapsed, as shown in her performance when she ran for Dáil Éireann in the 2002 general election, where she humiliatingly lost her deposit. Though very high profile as an MEP and a former presidential candidate, and predicted to be in the running for the last seat in the constituency, he bombed spectacularly badly, limping in with a tiny vote that had no impact on the outcome and made her election in that election an impossibility.

3. In 1999 she entered the race as a political newcomer with few negative traits, having got good exposure in the 1997 presidential election. In 2004 she will go into the race as a controversial associate for far right pro-life organisations. So the novelty factor that was her appeal in 1999 won't exist in 2004. In 1999 she was able to pick up over 72,000 votes in a large euro-constituency. In 2002 in a far smaller general election constituency, where 1999 she had picked up tens of thousands that went to her final euro vote tally, she got a miserable 1600, so back she humiliatingly lost her deposit, the ultimate political humiliation that for a once successful electoral candidate usually spells the deathknell of their electoral career.

3. With the reduction in seat numbers from 15 to 13 (and 12 the next election after that), the boundaries in all the Euro-constituencies are expected to be changed, with Meath moving from Leinster to Dublin, her strongholds of Monaghan and possibly Cavan moving to Leinster, and Clare, where she has no organisation but where her biggest challengers for the third seat, Fianna Fáil have a very large one, moving to Connacht-Ulster. (Fianna Fáil often wins of out of four seats in that Dáil constituency. It was a Fianna Fáil seat she took in Connacht-Ulster. For her to win again, she needs

(a) Fianna Fáil to do exceptionally badly (a possibility given the current Irish public conviction that they lied to win he last general election, their popularity now plummeting as a result, but the inclusion of Clare if it comes about should strengthen its Connacht-Ulster challenge);

(b) Fine Gael to do badly (a possibility given the electoral drubbing it got in the last general election, as the fact that its longterm MEP Joe McCartain is retiring, though they may have a strong replacement);

(c) Sinn Féin not to enter the race and if they do not to do well. (They will and probably will, possibly making them a challenger for the third seat);

(d) No strong alternative independent to arrive on the scene. (Her rival in 1999, Marian Harkan, is now a TD and unlike Dana has broadened not narrowed her appeal. If she runs, it probably means curtains for Dana.).

All four are unlikely to happen but without all four, Dana is in deep electoral trouble. In 1999, as a good speaker who has impressed in the presidential election, she had a strong cross party appeal that helped earn her crucial lower preferences. In 2004, her achievements in the presidential election have been overshadowed by the widespread belief that she has marginalised herself since, supporting the losing side in the abortion poll and associating with groups that most supporters of most parties would not want to associate with. So her transfer appeal has been severely limited, in contrast to some like Harkan who has broadened not narrowed her appeal since 1999.

In the circumstances to compare Clinton or other comback kids, with a professional organisation and vast resources, to a situation of an independent candidate, alienated from most of her original supporters, in a competitive constituency with different boundaries, thanks to a reduction in the number of seats, and in which her declining electoral appeal is also evidenced by her disastrous electoral bid in 2002, is misleading. The fact that her own remaining supporters are already questioning whether she should even run again shows the status of her appeal and the fact that her re-election is unlikely. In view of that I am re-inserting the line, which is simply an accurate summary of the consensus across all parties and none and including her own few remaining sypprters. FearÉIREANN 21:56, 29 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Two more issues:

The EP site has a nice photo of Dana here:

http://wwwdb.europarl.eu.int/ep5/owa/whos_mep.data?ipid=0&ilg=EN&iucd=4389&ipolgrp=PPE-DE&ictry=IE&itempl=&ireturn=&imode=

I think it would be good to add it if C/R issues are worked out. I am hoping to add the results of her election in '99 if I can find them.

hoshie

Requested move

 * Dana (singer) → Dana Rosemary Scallon. This article was unilaterally moved by a user. Dana was once just a a singer. However for over a decade she has been primarily a politician who was an MEP and ran for the presidency of Ireland. Calling her just a singer is no longer accurate. Many people who know of her today aren't aware of his old musical career and only know her as a politician.  Fear ÉIREANN [[Image:Ireland coa.png|10px]]\(caint)  18:37, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Move to Dana Rosemary Scallon instead. If she is better known as a politician, it doesn't make sense to list her under her former stage name. -- Naive cynic 19:27, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Support alternative of 'cynic, with similar reasoning. This is the first bold title in the article, and is how she's generally referred to in reportage, at least on a "first reference".  Alai 06:31, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I've renamed the proposed rename to that. That is a good option. It is her politician's name and includes her musical career name. Fear ÉIREANN [[Image:Ireland coa.png|10px]]\(caint)  07:06, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Support alternative. The redirect after the move will take care of her stage name. Philip Baird Shearer 19:30, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

This article has been renamed after the result of a move request. Dragons flight 00:42, September 3, 2005 (UTC)

Citizenship
Firstly 'have removed the red link to granted citizenship in the 90s. User:Barlinerchat

Secondly have removed reference to her being a US citizen. She may well be, but this needs a source citing, especially as it has also been said that she was not a dual citizen, and if she was not an Irish Citizen she could not have been nominated as a candidate for President of Ireland in 1997 and 2004. The minutes of Kerry County Council (www.kerrycoco.ie/minutedocs/Minutes%20of%20September%202004%20meeting.rtf) clearly refer to her as a "loyal citizen" who was nominated in 1997 and 2006. I believe further references to her citizenship need citations in support,  User:Barlinerchat

 * Don't believe she can be described as a British catholic singer songwriter and politician. In this context are least "Irish" can be seen as describing her Irish catholicism, very different from British Catholicism, her songs are definitely  Irish and her political career definitely Irish.

User:Barlinerchat 19 July 2007

 * If she was born in London, and her parents were from Londonderry (OFFICIAL NAME: even the council weren't allowed to change the local signs) then that makes her BRITISH and not IRISH, since Londonderry is in Northern Ireland. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.171.235.115 (talk) 10:37, 5 December 2012 (UTC)

Dispute banner, citizenship etc
1)I tried an inline dispute tag, but that was simply removed with a comment about SSNs. These are available to those applying for an immigrant visa so not necessarily proof of citizenship. User:Barlinerchat 11:18, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

 * Hi Barliner. Using Google, I can't find any mention of her being a US citizen. Iwillfollowyou 16:13, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

 * Neither have I, but HM Revenue and Customs describes the effects of double taxation agreement between Britain and the US For some reason they chose the to call one of their fictional characters Dana User:Barliner  [[Image:Flag of Berlin.svg|25px]]  chat 17:26, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

2)Dana's website says she was nominated for the Presidency while still in the US. Is that correct? User:Barlinerchat 11:18, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

 * I'd say it's correct because she'd want to know she had been successfully nominated before moving the family back to Ireland. Iwillfollowyou 16:13, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

3) the DS Music site also says she was born in Derry Is that correct? User:Barlinerchat 11:18, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

 * According to her autobiography, she was born in Frederica St; Islington, London. There are over 4 pages describing her 5 years spent there. It also mentions this in the blurb of her 1990 compilation album. Her website stating she was born in Derry is probably due to her wanting a quiet life—if it mentioned she was born in London it would confuse everyone—like it's doing here! Iwillfollowyou 19:19, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

4) She lives in Ireland, and presumably has down so since 1999 (not sure about 2004-2006). How will that affect any naturalisation?  Most countries object to naturalised citizens abandoning their new homeland, loss of US citizenship would not make her stateless so no problem there, and she did return to Ireland at er employer's job needs, she came back and then chose to get a job as an elected public servant User:Barlinerchat 11:18, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

 * If she is a US citizen while now living in Ireland, it shouldn't matter too much because she's always visiting the place. Less queuing on entry as well I suppose. Iwillfollowyou 16:13, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

Citzenship
1 - My understanding is she was born in the UK but from an Irish father and mother from British occupied country (Northern Ireland). From what I read she would take after her mothers heritage and is actuall an Irish citizen (Irish passport and all) and recognized as a UK citizen granting her dual status with both of those countries. Seems pretty common from what I have read.

2 - She applied and received her US Citzenship status in the early to mid 90's. Seems pretty common that people, especially in politic, carry two passports and maintain dual citzenship status. Especially if their parents are from Ireland.

I think that it should be noted that she was born in London but retained her Irish identity and was honored to receive her US citzenship status in the early 90's and is one of the many that enjoys a dual citzenship status.

 * Reply to 69.66.245.73 's pointsI have no problem about born in the UK. In the 1950s birth would make her a British subject.  Her parents/grandparents birth in Ireland pre-partition would have enabled her to claim Irish citizenship, but where is the evidence for US citizenship?  No one seems to be able to cite any evidence.  Surely her political opponents would have used info like that.

Please stay NPOV.

Not sure how you can get "evidence" of citizenship. We are friends with the family I and I know she applied and received he US Citizenship status before returning to Ireleland for the presidential campaign.

If she didn't claim that when she ran or didn't tell people I do not know why she wouldn't. The fact is she is a US Citizen and it should be in this "life" story of Dana as it is a important fact.

Removed text
I've removed a few bits of text from this entry. Please do not reinsert them without finding a reliable source for the information. Thank you. Phil Sandifer 21:54, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Heartbeat Records and Susan Stein
If you visit the US Library of Congress and search out "The Rosary", "The Perfect Gift", "The Luminouse Mysteries", "The Healing Rosary", "Forever Christmas", "Humble Myself", and others of Dana's original recordings Heartbeat is listed as the Copyright holder and owner of these titles.

If you pick up any of these CD's some of which date back to release dates as late as 1989, Susan Stein is listed as the manager and point of contact on all these original recordings in the actual artwork included with the CD and Cassettes.

It was based on the formation of Heartbeat Records that Dana's Catholic recording career catapulted in US and history shows when searched out via web and past articles that Heartbeat backed 100% of all appearances between 1990 and 2005 and that Susan Stein was the manager and agent for this time period. During that time nearly 30 release between Cass, CD, and Videos were relased by Heartbeat with Dana as the artist.

In fact when you search out Damien Scallon now under Google you will see that Heart Beat has filed a law suit against Dana, Damien, and DS Music productions for violating Heart Beats copyrights which are listed with the US Library of Congress.

I am confused as to why Phil S. as well as other insist on removing factual history on Heart Beat, Susan Stein, and their copyright ownership which is easily verified by doing some simple research on the web.

 * Because the citations need to be in the article. The issue here is not (necessarily) our policy on verifiability, but rather our policy that you have to cite your sources. It's not enough to say "This can be verified." The citation needs to be included in the article, especially for a biography of a living person like this one. I have no idea who Dana Scallon's manager was in the 90s. I have no idea who holds the copyright on her songs. But unsourced material like this cannot be allowed to stand in the article. Phil Sandifer 16:40, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

22:46, 9 August 2007 Their are contracts dating back to the late 90's that clearly show Susan Stein in the managerial position for Dana. How do I cite this? Do I scan copies and sent them to you? You can also pick up any of the CD's and Susan is listed in the cover artwork as contact person for bookings and contacting Dana. That has been that way since the first release done under Heartbeat up and until 2004.

You can visitUS Copyright Officeand search out Heartbeat Records and / or Dana and see clearly that Heartbeat is the copyright holder for many most of the Catholic titles released between 1989 and 2004. Some of the registered #'s are as follows:

1 - SR-367-695: Say yes. CLNA: (p) on production, sound recording, performance; acHeart Beat Records (employer for hire) 2 - SR-367-706: Mother of Mercy, a rosary of healing. CLNA: (p) on production, recording, performance; acHeart Beat Records 3 - SR-368-294: The rosary / aDana & aKevin Scallon CLNA: (p) on production, sound recording, performance; acHeart Beat Records (employer for hire) 4 - SR-368-339: The perfect gift. CLNA: (p) on production, sound recording, performance; acHeart Beat Records (employer for hire) 5 - SR-369-776: The stations of the cross. CLNA: (p) on production, sound recording, & performance; acHeart Beat Records

These are just a few of the ones I found using the information provided by previous posters. Why is this not enough for you Phil? You could have done the same research as I did, as could anyone that came to the this site.

You can also go to Heartbeat VS. DS Music, Dana, and Damien Scallon and clearly see that Heartbeat has filed a suit against DS Music, Dana, and Damien, Scallon for violating their copyrights.

If this is not enough information for you then please tell me what more you need to satisfy your request? I am highly suspicious as to why you came along just recently and decided to pull mention of Heartbeat and Susan Stein out of this entire article and question your motives and relations to Dana and Damien. Who do I need to contact to issue a official complaint agains you? This site is not for personal renditions of what you or Dana want to believe the truth is, it is a site of facts based on evidence you can verify not simply what you say it is or wish it to be.

Now please reinstate the two items you deleted as they belong in this document and while you are at it you should add to the last section that she has been sued for violating copyrights as this is evidince you can cite based on the information I have provided.

 * Wait, the copyright issue is being litigated? Then we definitely should not be proclaiming that one side or the other has the copyright - it's a contested issue, and we should state as much. As for the managerial issue, scanning in the documents would brush up against and possibly violate our policy on original research. Which ties in with another concern I'm having here - the article seems to be being heavily edited by two sides of a legal dispute. This falls afoul of our policy on conflicts of interest. In any case - is there a published source that can be cited, whether current or historical, that uses the word "manager" to describe Susan Stein's relationship with Ms. Scallon? Phil Sandifer 05:09, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

 * After reading the above discussion, I decided to do a little simple research and have discovered two newspaper articles archived online which confirm that Dana's husband Damien has been her manager for her entire Catholic music career. The first article is from the BBC News BBC Article on Dana Rosemary Scallon from 1997 which states that Damien Scallon became Dana's full-time manager after their marriage in 1979. The article was written in 1997, a time at which another Wiki user claims Dana was still under the management of her sister, Susan Stein.  The second article is from The Huddersfield Daily Examiner in the UK Huddersfield Examiner Article on Dana Rosemary Scallon from 2006, which states that Dana and her "manager/husband Damien" moved to the United States in the 80s.  Neither of the articles makes any mention of Susan Stein or Heartbeat Records, nor of any other manager besides her husband Damien Scallon.

 * Additionally, I visited the US Copyright Office, as recommended by the user PhillipStein, but he seems to be mistaken on the following point: there is no work of Dana's registered that was published prior to 1991, even though PhillipStein claims that they, Heartbeat Records, own Dana's works as far back as 1989.

 * Oddly enough, it appears that Heartbeat Records did not register copyrights on any of these works that they claim until April 2005  see previous Heartbeat Records copyright link.  (Bpatterson291 05:18, 10 August 2007 (UTC))

Firstly to answer Phil S. Heart Beat is listed at the US Copyright Office as the owner. It is Heart Beat that has filed suit agains DS Music Productions in order to protect these registered copyrights that are in the name of Heart Beat Records. Heart Beat is the one that is suing to protect what it owns.

Secondly to answer BPatterseron that article states that Damien "later" became her manager and does not mention time frames. In fact you article was puclished in 1997 and does not refer to him as the current manage. Your second reference is for 2006 which is 2 years past the date of 2004 I reference and well into a 2 year family dispute. Bottom line is that all recorded material dating between 1989 and 2004 list Susan stein as manager and contact for bookings and all things related to Dana.

Finally in regards to BPAtterson (p)and(c)with release dates are stamped on all CD's and artwork. These original release dates are also referenced on the on the registered copyright material US Copyright Office and were on the samples that they received. Further more if your link you reference worked you will see under the US Copyright Officethat works were registered in 2005 with release dates one of which is as late as 1991. Below is the detailed report on one example "The Rosary" HBC5:

Registration Number: SR-368-294 Title: The rosary / aDana & aKevin Scallon Imprint: Heart Beat Records HBC 5, c1991. Description: Sound cassette. Claimant: (p) on production, sound recording, performance; acHeart Beat Records (employer for hire) Created:   1991 Published: 1May91

 * It looks like both of these issues are very contested. Given that the copyright claim was in a description of an external link and is the subject of litigation, it seems like there's more reason for it to go than to be there. And given that nobody has yet linked to a reliable source that actually makes a statement about managers, it looks to me like that just shouldn't be in the article one way or another. That said, what I find most disturbing here is the observation that there has been a multi-year family dispute here. It is clear that the editors of this page are involved in that dispute, and that this page has become little more than a battleground for the suit. That is, simply put, inappropriate. Both of you have obvious conflicts of interest, and should step back from the article. Our goal is a neutral presentation of verifiable facts that explains all sides of a debate, giving each side's claims, the other side's rebuttals of those claims, etc. All sourced to reliable sources that give a clear account of what's going on. We are not a battleground, and I would ask you both to stop treating us like one. Phil Sandifer 13:58, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

 * By the above statement(I have no idea who Dana Scallon's manager was in the 90s. I have no idea who holds the copyright on her songs.)by Phil Sandifer leads one to believe that only info from him is verifiable

But by his above statement we can see he clearly does not understand verifiability. By removing statements that are creditable (US Library of Congress- not a good source?) it then leaves the rest of the article in question

Ex. The statements listed below

Born on 30 August 1951...True or false no source to back it up-no one has seen the birth certificate - according to Phil S. we should see this

In February 1969, Dana was invited to take part in the Irish National Song Contest with the song "Look Around" by Michael Reade...True or false no source to back it up-link(1969) does not back up this statement

where she lived for five years until her family moved back to Derry, Northern Ireland, from where they had moved six years earlier to find work. Hers was a musical family—Dad played the trumpet and Mum the piano, and they encouraged their three sons and three daughters to learn how to play an instrument, to sing and dance. Young Rosemary Brown was a quick learner; she won her first talent contest as a six-year-old. Years later she was introduced to her future manager, Tony Johnston, after winning another contest in...True or false no source to back it up - if you cite her autobiograpy this by WP:V does not meeet the criteria

By now she was known as Dana, a name chosen by her school friends and thought more suitable for the world of pop....True or false no source to back it up

It went on to become a million-seller...True or false no source to back it up

Dana's parents had a strong sense of religious duty and she and her siblings were taught the importance of daily prayer and going to Mass on Sundays. Despite a few doubts along the way, she never lost her faith. In 1979, she and Damien were inspired to write a Catholic song, "Totus Tuus", named after the motto of Pope John Paul II, who came to Ireland that year. It entered the Irish singles chart on 16 December and stayed there for nine weeks, peaking at number one....True or false no source to back it up

There it played to packed houses and the original seven-week run was extended to twelve....True or false no source to back it up

where Damien was now working as the manager for retreats at the traditional Catholic broadcasting network, EWTN.....True or false no source to back it up

Dana appeared at conferences and public gatherings across the States......True or false no source to back it up

Although the amendment was supported by the mainstream political parties and the Roman Catholic Bishops in Ireland......True or false no source to back it up

In what was seen as a backlash against her stance in the previous abortion referendum......True or false no source to back it up

Since leaving politics, Dana has spoken at many colleges and universities in Ireland and America......True or false no source to back it up

I think you are beginning to get the point - to delete statements because you- Phil S - feel it is incorrect makes this whole article nonsense and bias- not good admin qualities.. If US Library of Congress can not be used as a source then you had better delete this whole page because the other sources cited are in question also.

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Article problems
This article seems to be written like a press release with a strong bias towards Dana (particularly in her music career). It's also written in a very non-factual way with statements such as: "The 80s ended as they had begun – with Dana pregnant" - apart from the fact that this is untrue (if she had a baby in January 1981 and another in August 1989, she was pregnant neither at the start or the end of the 1980s), it's sounds like it's straight out of a novel. The other big problem here is the reference section. Virtually every single one is a "Youtube" clip. Not allowed - nor particularly useful anyway. Certainly things like Chart positions, record releases and Eurovision-related appearances are easily verifiable.--Tuzapicabit (talk) 12:50, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

 * Hi Tuzapicabit and thanks for your input. The article's strong bias towards Dana is because it's about Dana, and there is no way I'm going to slag her off, but I will try and make it read more like a dry old encyclopedia. Sadly, Dana is not considered "cool", so information on her is hard to find, hence the lack of references. I mostly use her books, so perhaps I should reference each sentence, but that would be tedious. I want it to read like a novel, a brief story of her life so far, not just a list of dates. And the 80s did begin and end with her with being pregnant: the 80s began in, let me think...1980! As for when they ended, well, everyone knows that, it was...
 * Youtube not allowed? Why? It's the perfect accompaniment. Just like Wikipedia, a great idea, daft not to use it. (I did try to link youtube to External links, but couldn't.) Iwillfollowyou, 9/10/8 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Iwillfollowyou (talk • contribs) 17:21, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

 * Forgot about this, but nobody's asking you to slag Dana off, just take out the biased tone and report the facts. As for her pregnancies - the 1980s started on 1 January 1980 - if she was indeed pregnant then, then her baby was four months overdue! And how was she pregnant in December 1989? (Not to mention that referring to the decade as the 80s is inaccurate as well! (see 80s))--Tuzapicabit (talk) 15:40, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

Clearly biased and poorly written
This article needs a fresh start, preferably written by people who aren't self-proclaimed fans. If people want to read her biography they can go and buy it somewhere. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.97.143.239 (talk) 14:26, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

Very biased and not factual
I have read this bio and it is clearly very biased and written from by either a fan, fanatic, or Dana's family. There are many inconsistencies between what is here and what is available on line from several sites like Dana's own. If you research any of the sites that have published information on her then you quickly get a snapshop of the fact someone close to Dana or a FAN is keeping a close watch over this page.

I didn't think this was what Wilipedia was about. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.23.94.89 (talk) 00:42, 4 October 2010 (UTC)

Removed false information
Ireland does not compete on an all-Ireland basis at Eurovision, thus I have once again removed the claim that Dana represented a united Ireland. While that might have been her personal aspiration or belief, it is of no relevance since she did not represent an all-Ireland entry. In addition the information was improperly cited, and birthplaces do not generally go in the lead. O Fenian (talk) 09:23, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

Cleanup
Trawling through the overly-detailed article, I have attempted a major cleanup and pruning back to cover the main points of her career. Hopefully it's better and the article tone more neutral. It could probably use more work and it certainly still needs citations.--Tuzapicabit (talk) 13:42, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

General semi-protection for candidates in the upcoming presidential election
I've proposed that all articles on candidates on the upcoming presidential election be semi protected until the 28th of October. This is owing to all of these articles coming under increasing pressure from vandals and unregistered/newly-registered editors with obvious axes to grind.

I've opened a general discussion on this at at WikiProject Ireland. -- RA (talk) 17:52, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Nationality
Since it is publicly admitted by Dana now, the 1st line of her Wikipedia article should read that she is a dual Irish and American singer and former MEP - not Irish - she isn't only Irish anymore. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Saipan101 (talk • contribs) 13:46, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

 * Yes but Irish-American is not correct here either .Murry1975 (talk) 11:03, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Agree Irish-American is not correct. Mo ainm  ~Talk  20:45, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Since she was born in London, England and grew in Derry she should be tri-national. Irish-British-American. That looks a bit awkard, maybe we should just say Dana is International! Snappy (talk) 20:29, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

I find it amusing a few sections up someone challenged or tried to insert the fact she was indeed a U.S. citizen but Phil S. made it a point to let his own views cloud judgement. This entire article needs to be reviewed for accuracy as "Iwillfollow" is a personal friend of the Scallons and should not be the one who contributes the most to this page. Biased information and trying to conceal facts like citizenship, Dana's brother being accused of child abuse etc is not what Wikipedia is about. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.218.105.2 (talk) 18:54, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

Photo
I was amazed to find no photo for her in the article. Surely somebody has one?

Please at least add a photo of her to wp:COMMONS, so that any of us can then copy it into here.

Trafford09 (talk) 06:00, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
 * A word of caution. Beware of potential copyvios. RashersTierney (talk) 10:01, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

She's better known as Dana, not Scallon
If Lulu, Cliff Richard, Lady Gaga, David Bowie, Marc Bolan, Dean Martin, etc; can be referred to by their stage name, then why not Dana?
 * She's been known by this name since 1997. She's a politician now, so Dana (singer) wouldn't cover her adequately.--Tuzapicabit (talk) 21:56, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Agree about her title being Dana Rosemary Scallon, but to have the name Scallon used throughout the article looks wrong - no one called Scallon won Eurovision and had hit records. Her 40 year music career as Dana far outweighs her 5 year stint as an MEP called Dana Rosemary Scallon, which ended 10 years ago in 2004.

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At the top of the "1970s – Eurovision victory and pop career" section. Should it be clarified that Dana's recording was released a week before she appeared in the contest, and was No. 1 during the contest? This seems important but it isn't clear in the text. Also, this article is much too long. Fishlandia (talk) 19:24, 25 June 2016 (UTC)

 * "The streets were lined with well-wishers when the Eurovision winner arrived home. The Troubles had not long started and her achievement gave the locals something to cheer about" - looking for cite-able material for this important information, at Google Books I found The Derry Anthology, which has only snippet views but appears to contain an excerpt from Dana's autobiography on her homecoming. An old edition of this page might be quoting her autobio in a description to the effect of, People lined the streets cheering for 15 miles, she was carried on people's shoulders "like a carcass", She fell asleep to the sound of people outside her house singing the song. "All Kinds of Everything" includes an explanation of how politics affected the Irish contest but is also uncited. Fishlandia (talk) 20:43, 25 June 2016 (UTC)

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Year of birth
Can we clarify her year of birth? It can't be that obscure. PatGallacher (talk) 16:36, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

Most of the article, including mention of her winning Eurovision at 18, seem consistent with the 1951 date. PatGallacher (talk) 16:56, 16 September 2023 (UTC)

 * The major sources that mention it say 1951 so it should be accurate. 23impartial (talk) 18:02, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

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Matchmaking

Matchmaking is the process of matching two or more people together, usually for the purpose of marriage, in which case the matchmaker is also known as a marriage broker. The word is also used in the context of sporting events such as boxing, in business, in online video games and in pairing organ donors.

Practice
These services often rely on personality tests (but genetics has even been proposed), aiming to maximize the identification of the best match.

In some cultures, the role of the matchmaker was and is quite professionalised. The Ashkenazi Jewish shadchan, or the Hindu astrologer, were often thought to be essential advisors and also helped in finding right spouses as they had links and a relation of good faith with the families. In cultures where arranged marriages were the rule, the astrologer often claimed that the stars sanctified matches that both parents approved of, making it quite difficult for the possibly-hesitant children to easily object – and also making it easy for the astrologer to collect his fee. Tarot divination has also been employed by some matchmakers.

Social dance, especially in frontier North America, the contra dance and square dance, has also been employed in matchmaking, usually informally. However, when farming families were widely separated and kept all children on the farm working, marriage-age children could often only meet in church or in such mandated social events. Matchmakers, acting as formal chaperones or as self-employed "busybodies" serving less clear social purposes, would attend such events and advise families of any burgeoning romances before they went too far. The influence of such people in a culture that did not arrange marriages, and in which economic relationships (e.g. "being able to support a family", "good prospects") played a larger role in determining if a (male) suitor was acceptable, is difficult to determine. It may be fair to say only that they were able to speed up, or slow down, relationships that were already forming. In this sense they were probably not distinguishable from relatives, rivals, or others with an interest. Clergy probably played a key role in most Western cultures, as they continue to do in modern ones, especially where they are the most trusted mediators in the society. Matchmaking was certainly one of the peripheral functions of the village priest in Medieval Catholic society, as well as a duty of rabbis in traditional Jewish communities. Today, the shidduch is a system of matchmaking in which Jewish singles are introduced to one another in Orthodox Jewish communities.

In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in traditional matchmaking. Dissatisfaction with dating apps, television shows like Million Dollar Matchmaker and Indian Matchmaking, and a pandemic that made it harder for singles to meet organically created increased interest the role of the professional matchmaker. Those who find dating systems or services useful but prefer human intelligence and personal touches can choose from a wide range of such services now available.

In Asia
In Singapore, the Social Development Unit (SDU), run by the city-state's government, offers a combination of professional counsel and dating system technology, like many commercial dating services. Thus the role of the matchmaker has become institutionalized, as a bureaucrat, and every citizen in Singapore has access to some subset of the matchmaking services that were once reserved for royalty or upper classes.

As of July 2023, there were 50 Iranian dating agencies according to Ministry of Islamic Culture and Guidance.

Other uses
The concept of matchmaking is also used in the business world and is known as B2B Matchmaking, Investor Matchmaking, Business Speed Dating, or Brokerage Events. In contradiction to social networking solutions, real meetings between business people are in focus. Trade fair organisations e.g. find this concept an added value for their exhibitors because it gives them the opportunity of advanced planned meetings. Following the inspiration of dating sites, some online B2B networking platforms developed advanced business matching solutions enabling relevant business partners' identification.

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Crewe and Nantwich

Crewe and Nantwich was, from 1974 to 2009, a local government district with borough status in Cheshire, England. It had a population (2001 census) of 111,007. It contained 69 civil parishes and one unparished area: the town of Crewe. It now forms part of the unitary authority of Cheshire East.

History
The Borough of Crewe and Nantwich was created on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972 by the merger of the borough of Crewe (an industrial town), the urban district of Nantwich (a smaller market town), and Nantwich Rural District. The new district was proposed to be called just "Crewe", but the shadow authority elected in 1973 to oversee the transition to the new system successfully petitioned the government to change the name to "Crewe and Nantwich" before the district came into being. The new district was awarded borough status from its creation, allowing the chairman of the council to take the title of mayor.

In 2006 the Department for Communities and Local Government considered reorganising Cheshire's administrative structure as part of the 2009 structural changes to local government in England. The decision to merge the boroughs of Crewe and Nantwich, Congleton and Macclesfield to create a single unitary authority was announced on 25 July 2007, following a consultation period in which a proposal to create a single Cheshire unitary authority was rejected.

The Borough of Crewe and Nantwich was abolished on 1 April 2009, when the new Cheshire East unitary authority was formed.

Civil parishes
The former Crewe Municipal Borough was unparished, but the rest of the Crewe and Nantwich district included the following civil parishes: • Acton

• Alpraham

• Aston juxta Mondrum

• Audlem

• Austerson

• Baddiley

• Baddington

• Barthomley

• Basford

• Batherton

• Bickerton

• Blakenhall

• Bridgemere

• Brindley

• Broomhall

• Buerton

• Bulkeley

• Bunbury

• Burland

• Calveley

• Checkley cum Wrinehill

• Cholmondeley

• Cholmondeston

• Chorley

• Chorlton

• Church Minshull

• Coole Pilate

• Crewe Green

• Dodcott cum Wilkesley

• Doddington

• Edleston

• Egerton

• Faddiley

• Hankelow

• Haslington

• Hatherton

• Haughton

• Henhull

• Hough

• Hunsterson

• Hurleston

• Lea

• Leighton

• Marbury cum Quoisley

• Minshull Vernon

• Nantwich (town)

• Newhall

• Norbury

• Peckforton

• Poole

• Ridley

• Rope

• Shavington cum Gresty

• Sound

• Spurstow

• Stapeley

• Stoke

• Walgherton

• Wardle

• Warmingham

• Weston

• Wettenhall

• Willaston

• Wirswall

• Wistaston

• Woolstanwood

• Worleston

• Wrenbury cum Frith

• Wybunbury

Demographics
From the Census 2001:

 * Average age: 39.1 (England and Wales: 38.6)
 * Marital status:
 * Never married: 26% (30.1%)
 * Married or remarried: 55.2% (50.9%)
 * Separated: 2.1% (2.4%)
 * Divorced: 8.2% (8.2%)
 * Widowed: 8.5% (8.4%).
 * Ethnicity:
 * White: 98.0% (90.9%)
 * Mixed: 0.7% (1.3%)
 * Asian/Asian British: 0.5% (4.6%)
 * Black/Black British: 0.4% (2.1%)
 * Chinese or other: 0.4% (0.9%)
 * Religion:
 * Christian: 80.2% (71.8%)
 * Buddhist: 0.1% (0.3%)
 * Hindu: 0.1% (1.1%)
 * Jewish: 0.0% (0.5%)
 * Muslim: 0.4% (3.0%)
 * Sikh: 0.0% (0.6%)
 * Other religion: 0.2% (0.3%)
 * No religion: 11.9% (14.8%)
 * No religion stated: 6.9% (7.7%).
 * Economic activity:
 * Employed: 62.2% (60.6%)
 * Unemployed: 2.8% (3.4%)
 * Economically active full-time student: 2.6% (2.6%)
 * Retired: 15.0% (13.6%)
 * Economically inactive student: 3.6% (4.7%)
 * Looking after home/family: 6.1% (6.5%)
 * Permanently sick or disabled: 5.1% (5.5%)
 * Other economically inactive: 2.6% (3.1%).
 * Crime levels (per 1000 population)
 * Violence against the person: 5.7 (England and Wales: 11.4).
 * Sexual offences: 0.2 (0.7).
 * Robbery: 0.4 (1.8).
 * Burglary from a dwelling: 7.2 (7.6).
 * Theft of a motor vehicle: 2.4 (6.4).
 * Theft from a motor vehicle: 7.8 (11.9).

According to 2003 figures, Crewe had the lowest crime rate and highest detection levels in Cheshire.

Political control
The first elections to the council were held in 1973, initially operating as a shadow authority until the new arrangements came into effect on 1 April 1974. Political control of the council from 1974 until its abolition in 2009 was held by the following parties:

Leadership
The leaders of the council from 1974 were:

On 4 May 2006 a referendum was held to decide whether the "Leader and Cabinet" form of local government would be replaced by an elected mayor. The proposal was rejected by 18,768 (60.8%) votes to 11,808 (38.2%) on a 35.3% turnout.

Premises
The council met at the Municipal Buildings in Earle Street, Crewe, which had been completed for the former Crewe Borough Council in 1905. The main administrative offices were at Delamere House on Delamere Street in Crewe, which was built as a joint facility for both the new Crewe and Nantwich Borough Council and Cheshire County Council, being completed in 1974 just before local government reorganisation took effect. Delamere House was later supplemented with additional offices in a large extension to the rear of the Municipal Buildings, completed in 1991.

Twin towns
Crewe and Nantwich was twinned with:

 * 🇫🇷 Mâcon, France

Council elections

 * 1973 Crewe Borough Council election
 * 1976 Crewe and Nantwich Borough Council election
 * 1979 Crewe and Nantwich Borough Council election (New ward boundaries)
 * 1980 Crewe and Nantwich Borough Council election
 * 1982 Crewe and Nantwich Borough Council election
 * 1983 Crewe and Nantwich Borough Council election
 * 1984 Crewe and Nantwich Borough Council election
 * 1986 Crewe and Nantwich Borough Council election
 * 1987 Crewe and Nantwich Borough Council election
 * 1988 Crewe and Nantwich Borough Council election
 * 1990 Crewe and Nantwich Borough Council election
 * 1991 Crewe and Nantwich Borough Council election
 * 1992 Crewe and Nantwich Borough Council election
 * 1994 Crewe and Nantwich Borough Council election
 * 1995 Crewe and Nantwich Borough Council election
 * 1996 Crewe and Nantwich Borough Council election
 * 1998 Crewe and Nantwich Borough Council election
 * 1999 Crewe and Nantwich Borough Council election (New ward boundaries)
 * 2000 Crewe and Nantwich Borough Council election
 * 2002 Crewe and Nantwich Borough Council election
 * 2003 Crewe and Nantwich Borough Council election
 * 2004 Crewe and Nantwich Borough Council election
 * 2006 Crewe and Nantwich Borough Council election
 * 2007 Crewe and Nantwich Borough Council election

Freedom of the Borough
The following people and military units have received the Freedom of the Borough of Crewe and Nantwich.

Individuals

 * Dario Gradi: 13 August 2003.
 * John Bowler : 13 August 2003.

Military Units

 * The Cheshire Regiment: 1986.
 * 1st Battalion The Mercian Regiment: 5 November 2008.

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Harkonnen

Harkonnen may refer to:

 * Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, a fictional villain in the Dune series of novels and films
 * Dune: House Harkonnen, the second book in the Prelude to Dune series, written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
 * Harkonnen Chair, a series of chair designs by H. R. Giger
 * Harkonnen, a weapon used by Seras Victoria in the series Hellsing. The weapons's full name is the Hellsing ARMS Anti-Midian Cannon 'Harkonnen'.

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1876 in music

This article is about music-related events in 1876.

Events

 * February – Baritone Lithgow James joins the English Opera Company, where he begins a partnership with his future wife Florence St. John.
 * April - Tchaikovsky completes Swan Lake
 * February 24 – Incidental music composed by Edvard Grieg for Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt premieres.
 * May 17 – Antonín Dvořák begins composing his Moravian Duets.
 * August 16 – Richard Wagner's Siegfried debuts in the new Bayreuth Festspielhaus.
 * August 17 – Richard Wagner's Götterdämmerung debuts in the new Bayreuth Festspielhaus.
 * Soprano Rosa Hasselbeck marries the conductor and composer Josef Sucher.

Published popular music

 * "Grandfather's Clock" by Henry Clay Work
 * "The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond" by Andrew Lang
 * "Gay As A Lark" by Septimus Winner
 * "When The Great Red Dawn is Shining" (anon)
 * "Old Aunt Jemima" by Billy Kersands
 * "Molly Malone"
 * "Rose of Killarney" by George Cooper & John Rogers Thomas

Classical music

 * Johannes Brahms – Symphony No. 1
 * Pietro Abbà Cornaglia – Requiem
 * Felix Draeseke – Six Fugues for piano; Dämmerungsräume: five piano pieces, Op. 14
 * Antonín Dvořák – Piano Concerto in G minor, Op. 33
 * Gabriel Fauré – Violin Sonata No. 1 in A major, Op. 13
 * César Franck – Les Éolides
 * Benjamin Godard – Concerto Romantique
 * Edvard Grieg – Ballade in the Form of Variations on a Norwegian Folk Song (for piano), Op. 24
 * Édouard Lalo – Cello Concerto
 * Gustav Mahler – Piano Quartet movement in A
 * Bedřich Smetana – String Quartet No. 1 in E minor, From My Life
 * Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – The Seasons (for piano), Op. 37a
 * Charles-Marie Widor – Organ Symphonies Nos. 1–3, Op. 13

Opera

 * Arrigo Boito – Mefistofele
 * Luigi Denza – Wallenstein
 * Amilcare Ponchielli – La Gioconda
 * Bedřich Smetana – The Kiss
 * Richard Wagner
 * Siegfried
 * Götterdämmerung
 * Ivan Zajc – Nikola Šubić Zrinski

Musical theater

 * Richard Genée – Der Seekadette
 * Robert Planquette – Les cloches de Corneville

Births

 * January 12
 * Annie Krull, operatic soprano (died 1947)
 * Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, composer (died 1948)
 * January 19 – Rosina Storchio, Italian lyric soprano (died 1945)
 * January 29
 * Havergal Brian, composer (died 1972)
 * Ludolf Nielsen, composer (died 1939)
 * February 2 – Giovanni Zenatello, tenor (died 1949)
 * February 28 – John Alden Carpenter, composer
 * March 11 – Carl Ruggles, composer (died 1971)
 * May 17 – Carrie Tubb, soprano (died 1976)
 * May 19 – Jan Ingenhoven, Dutch composer and conductor
 * June 2 – Hakon Børresen, Danish composer (died 1954)
 * June 5 – Tony Jackson, jazz musician (died 1920)
 * August 14 – Florrie Forde, Australian-born English music hall singer (died 1940)
 * August 16 – Karl Hoschna, Bohemian-born US composer
 * September 15 – Bruno Walter, conductor (died 1962)
 * November 23 – Manuel de Falla, composer (died 1946)
 * December 11 – Mieczysław Karłowicz, composer (died 1909)
 * December 29
 * Pablo Casals, cellist (died 1973)
 * Lionel Tertis, violist (died 1975)

Deaths

 * February 28 – Raimondo Boucheron, composer, 75
 * March 5
 * Francesco Maria Piave, librettist and friend of Giuseppe Verdi, 65
 * Marie d'Agoult, lover of Franz Liszt and mother of Cosima Wagner, 70
 * March 28 – Joseph Böhm, violinist, 80
 * April 19 – Samuel Sebastian Wesley, organist and composer, 65
 * June 28 – August Wilhelm Ambros, composer and music historian, 69
 * August 29 – Félicien-César David, composer, 66
 * September 9 – Mary Shaw, operatic contralto, 62
 * September 30 – Henri Bertini, pianist and composer, 77
 * October 1 – James Lick, American carpenter and piano builder, 80
 * November 8 – Antonio Tamburini, operatic baritone, 76
 * November 9 – Édouard Batiste, organist and composer, 56
 * November 18 – Nicolas Bosret, blind organist and composer, 77
 * December 3 – Hermann Goetz, composer, 35 (tuberculosis)
 * December 14 – George Frederick Anderson, violinist, 83

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1879 in music

This article is about music-related events in 1879.

Specific locations

 * 1879 in Norwegian music

Events

 * January 1 – The Violin Concerto of Johannes Brahms is premiered in Leipzig. Joseph Joachim was the soloist with Brahms conducting.
 * December 31 – Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera The Pirates of Penzance opens at the Fifth Avenue Theatre in New York City (following a token performance the day before for U.K. copyright reasons in Paignton, Devon).
 * Engelbert Humperdinck becomes the first winner of the Mendelssohn Award awarded by the Mendelssohn Stiftung (foundation) of Berlin.
 * The Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra gains a permanent home at the Garnier Palace.

Published popular music

 * "Oh, Dem Golden Slippers" by James A. Bland
 * "In the Morning By the Bright Light" by James A. Bland
 * "My Visit to the Opera" by Joseph P. Skelly
 * "Some Day I'll Wander Back Again", words by Arthur W. French, music by William A. Huntley

Classical music

 * Henri Duparc – Le Manoir de Rosemonde
 * Gabriel Fauré – Berceuse, for violin and piano
 * César Franck – Piano Quintet
 * Carl Goldmark
 * Penthesilea, Op.31
 * Piano Trio No.2, Op.33
 * Asger Hamerik – Concert Romance for Cello and Piano
 * Stephen Heller
 * 4 Mazurkas, Op.148
 * 20 Preludes, Op.150
 * Hans Huber
 * 10 Ländler vom Luzerner See, Op.47
 * Eine Lustspiel-Ouverture, Op.50
 * Franz Lachner – Elegie for Flute and Organ
 * Max Meyer-Olbersleben – Ballade, Op.9
 * Pablo de Sarasate – Spanish Dances for violin and piano, Book II
 * Bedřich Smetana – Ten Czech Dances, for piano
 * Charles-Marie Widor – Symphony for Organ No. 5

Opera

 * Giovanni Bottesini – Ero e Leandro
 * Emmanuel Chabrier – Une éducation manquée, premiered May 1 in Paris
 * Miguel Marqués – Camoens
 * Viktor Nessler – Der Rattenfänger von Hameln
 * Camille Saint-Saëns – Étienne Marcel
 * Peter Tchaikovsky – Eugene Onegin

Musical theater

 * The Mulligan Guards' Ball Broadway production opens at the Comique Theatre on January 13 and runs for 153 performances
 * The Mulligan Guards' Chowder Broadway production opens at the Comique Theatre on August 11 and runs for 112 performances
 * The Mulligan Guards' Christmas Broadway production opens at the Comique Theatre on November 17 and runs for 104 performances

Births

 * January 3 – Lina Abarbanell, German-American soprano (d. 1963)
 * January 10 – Armanda Degli Abbati, Italian opera singer (d. 1946)
 * January 26 – Hugo Riesenfeld, film music composer (died 1939)
 * February 9 – Natanael Berg, Swedish composer (d. 1957)
 * February 26 – Frank Bridge, composer (d. 1941)
 * April 1 – Louise Gunning, Broadway and vaudeville singer (d. 1960)
 * May 22
 * Jean Cras, French composer (d. 1932)
 * Eastwood Lane, composer (d. 1951)
 * June 13 – Maria Gay, opera singer (d. 1943)
 * June 21 – Henry Creamer, US songwriter (d. 1930)
 * July 5
 * Philippe Gaubert, composer (d. 1941)
 * Wanda Landowska, harpsichordist (d. 1959)
 * July 9 – Ottorino Respighi, composer (d. 1936)
 * August 1 – Eva Tanguay, singer, vaudeville star (d. 1947)
 * August 18 – Gus Edwards, Prussian-born US songwriter and entertainer (d. 1945)
 * August 31 – Alma Mahler, born Alma Schindler, Viennese-born composer and wife of Gustav Mahler (d. 1964)
 * September 29 – Willem Willeke, Dutch cellist and music editor (died 1950)
 * September 30 – Henri Casadesus, violist and music publisher (d. 1947)
 * October 12 – Chris Smith, composer (d. 1949)
 * October 13 – Leopold Weninger, composer (died 1940)
 * October 18 – Grzegorz Fitelberg, Polish conductor, violinist and composer (d. 1953)
 * October 21 – Joseph Canteloube, composer (d. 1957)
 * November 2 – Ramón Montoya, Spanish flamenco guitarist (d. 1949)
 * December 1 – Beth Slater Whitson, US lyric writer (d. 1930)
 * December 4 – Hamilton Harty, composer (d. 1941)
 * December 7 – Rudolf Friml, pianist and composer of operettas and musicals (d. 1972)
 * December 19 – Otto Olsson, Swedish composer (d. 1964)
 * December 26 – Julius Weismann, German conductor and composer (d. 1950)

Deaths

 * January 8 – Ferdo Livadić, composer (born 1799)
 * February 20 – John Orlando Parry, pianist, singer and comedian (born 1810)
 * April 9 – Ernst Friedrich Eduard Richter, music theorist
 * May 27 – E. S. Engelsberg, composer
 * June 3 – Frances Ridley Havergal, hymn-writer
 * July 6 – Henry Smart, organist and composer (born 1813)
 * August 4 – Adelaide Kemble, opera singer
 * September 12 – Peter Arnold Heise, composer
 * October 14 – Karl Anton Eckert, conductor and composer (born 1820)
 * November 30 – August Bournonville, Danish ballet-master and choreographer (born 1805)
 * December 24 – Anna Bochkoltz, German operatic soprano, voice teacher and composer (born 1815)

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John Sergeant (journalist)

John James Sergeant (born 14 April 1944) is an English television and radio journalist and broadcaster. He was the BBC's chief political correspondent from 1992 to 2000 and the Political Editor of ITN from 2000 until 2002.

Early life
The son of a missionary and linguist, Sergeant is of Russian origin on his mother's side. Sergeant's early life meant that he followed his father's work, and was brought up in locations including Jerusalem and Oxford. Sergeant was educated at Great Tew Primary School, briefly at the independent Bloxham School near Banbury, in Oxfordshire, and then at the independent Millfield School in Street, Somerset.

Sergeant graduated from Magdalen College, Oxford, where he studied philosophy, politics and economics. Whilst at university Sergeant performed in student comedy revues. After graduation he starred with Alan Bennett in a series of sketch shows on the BBC entitled On the Margin and wrote comedy scripts. He then trained as a journalist at Darlington College while reporting for the Liverpool Echo.

Whilst in Washington during his "gap year" he was present in the crowd to witness Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963.

Career
Sergeant started his journalism career as a correspondent for the Liverpool Echo where he worked for around three years before joining the BBC as a radio reporter in 1970. He was tasked to join the international desk, covering stories in over 25 countries. He then worked as a war reporter in Vietnam and Israel and reported the death of the first British soldier during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. He later covered the opening sessions of the European Parliament and became a political correspondent in 1981. He then worked on a documentary called "The Europe We Joined" and has presented BBC Radio 4 programmes Today and The World at One. Having progressed through newspaper, radio and television journalism, he became the BBC's chief political correspondent from 1992 until 2000.

In 2000, Sergeant joined ITN as political editor, replacing the retiring Michael Brunson. Sergeant retired himself in 2002 and was replaced at ITN by Nick Robinson.

Highlights
In 1987, in Moscow following Margaret Thatcher, he made a comment implying that she had already started campaigning for the general election in June 1987, despite not having officially declared the contest. "I am serving my country", Thatcher replied.

One of his most memorable moments was when he waited outside the British embassy in Paris for Thatcher, in the hope of hearing her reaction to the first ballot in the 1990 Conservative Party leadership election, only to be pushed aside by her press secretary, Sir Bernard Ingham, when Thatcher emerged from the building. For this broadcast, Sergeant won the British Press Guild award for the most memorable broadcast of the year, beating Paul Gascoigne who had been nominated for bursting into tears during the Football World Cup semi-final against West Germany.

Another political scoop was gained when he was granted the only interview with the then Welsh secretary, Ron Davies, after he had been forced to resign following his "moment of madness" on Clapham Common in October 1998.

Strictly Come Dancing
Sergeant competed with partner Kristina Rihanoff in the sixth series of Strictly Come Dancing which began on 20 September 2008. Although he repeatedly finished bottom of the score board after the judges' votes, the public consistently voted to keep him in the competition, prompting criticism of the viewers' voting by the judges and some dancers. He left the show in week 10 following a farewell dance saying: "The trouble is that there is now a real danger that I might win the competition. Even for me that would be a joke too far."

After Strictly
Sergeant has appeared on television programmes such as Have I Got News for You. He was also a reporter for The One Show; when the hosts Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley were on holiday, Sergeant hosted the show alongside Myleene Klass for a week starting on 24 August 2009. Sergeant has been a guest in Countdown's Dictionary Corner with Susie Dent. In February 2009, he appeared on QI (series F, episode 10). In 2014, he became the narrator for the UK version of the interesting facts game programme, Duck Quacks Don't Echo, first series only.

He has since subsequently been engaged by Mentorn TV to produce a number of documentaries that include a three-part series entitled John Sergeant's Tourist Trail in which he asked the question "why do tourists come to Britain?" In 2013 Sergeant presented Tracks of Empire, a two-part documentary produced by Mentorn for the BBC, on the history and legacy of the Indian railway system, in which he followed the path of the early railway engineers of British India and also discussed the use of the railways in the extensive growth of India now. He was also the host of Argumental, a comedy debating game on Dave. In 2011 he was the narrator for the ITV television series Grimefighters.

Sergeant presented Britain's First Photo Album about the pioneering photography of Francis Frith. It aired 12–23 March 2012 on BBC Two. Frith travelled through Britain in Victorian times capturing life in photographic form; many of his pictures were subsequently sold as picture postcards.

In 2015, Sergeant began presenting the factual ITV series Barging Round Britain with John Sergeant (also shown under the alternative title Britain's Best Canals with John Sergeant). The programme returned for a second series in April 2016.

In 2023, Sergeant appeared in the Channel 5 series The Big Steam Adventure alongside Peter Davison and steam buff Paul "Piglet" Middleton.

Personal life
Whilst appearing on the ITV game show The Chase, Sergeant made clear the one memory he has over his many years of experience in broadcasting is when he was a young man working in Washington, D.C.; he heard Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 speech "I Have a Dream" live, at the Lincoln Memorial.

He was president of the Johnson Society in 2003. Interviewed by Sophie Lam in The Independent in June 2008 about his holiday memories, he stated: "I'm programmed not to be disappointed by holidays." He has two sons, Will and Mike: the latter is also a journalist, working at the BBC as a reporter. Sergeant once saved his son's life after Mike began choking on a 50p coin at a restaurant aged two. Sergeant managed to dislodge the coin with his first aid knowledge.

Sergeant was presented with an honorary doctor of letters by University of Lincoln chancellor Victor Adebowale on 3 September 2013 at in Lincoln Cathedral.

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1880 in music

This article is about music-related events in 1880.

Specific locations

 * 1880 in Norwegian music

Events

 * April 3 – Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera The Pirates of Penzance has its London premiere at the Opera Comique on the Strand.
 * June 12 – Richard Strauss completes composition of his first major work, his Symphony in D minor, at age 16.
 * June–August – Gustav Mahler takes his first professional conducting job, in a small wooden theatre in the Austrian spa town of Bad Hall, conducting operetta.
 * November 1 – Mahler completes composition of Das klagende Lied.
 * November 27 – The Teatro Costanzi in Rome is inaugurated with a performance of Rossini's opera Semiramide.

Published popular music

 * "The Beauty of Limerick" – David Braham
 * "Blow the Man Down"    trad
 * "Funiculì Funiculà"    w. G. Turco m. Luigi Denza
 * "Keep the Horseshoe Over the Door" w. m. Joseph P. Skelly
 * "Haste to the Wedding" published by Jean White
 * "In The Evening By The Moonlight" w. m. James A. Bland
 * "O Canada!" w. Adolphe-Basile Routhier m. Calixa Lavallée
 * "Roses from the South" m. Johann Strauss II
 * "Sailing, Sailing"    w.m. Godfrey Marks
 * "Softly and Tenderly" w.m. Will L. Thompson
 * From The Pirates of Penzance, w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan
 * "Away, Away! My Heart's On Fire"
 * "Now for The Pirates' Lair"
 * "Oh, Better Far To Live And Die"
 * "A Rollicking Band Of Pirates, We"
 * "To Gain A Brief Advantage"
 * "When A Felon's Not Engaged"
 * "When The Foeman Bares His Steel"
 * "When You Had Left Our Pirate Fold"
 * "Yes! I Am Brave! Oh, Family Descent"
 * "Come and meet me, Rosa darling," w. by Samuel N. Mitchell, m. by William A. Huntley

Classical music

 * Ján Levoslav Bella – String Quartet No. 2 in C minor
 * Giovanni Bottesini – Gran Duo Concertante
 * Johannes Brahms
 * Tragic Overture
 * Academic Festival Overture
 * 2 Rhapsodies, Op.79, premiered January 20 in Krefeld.
 * Alfons Czibulka – Stephanie-Gavotte, Op.312
 * Felix Draeseke – Weihestunden. Six songs for baritone (or mezzo-soprano) and piano
 * Antonín Dvořák
 * Waltzes, Op.54
 * Violin Sonata, Op. 57 (B. 106)
 * Symphony No. 6 in D major, Op. 60 (B. 112)
 * Songs My Mother Taught Me
 * Gabriel Fauré – Élégie, for cello and piano
 * César Franck – Piano Quintet, premiered January 17
 * Niels Gade – Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D minor, Op.56
 * Edvard Grieg – 2 Elegiac Melodies, Op.34
 * Emilie Mayer – Faust Overture
 * Ion Ivanovici – The Danube Waves
 * Hubert Parry – Piano Concerto
 * Giacomo Puccini – Messa di Gloria
 * Hans Rott – Symphony in E major
 * Camille Saint-Saëns
 * Suite algérienne in C major
 * Violin Concerto No. 3
 * Septet
 * Pablo Sarasate – Spanish Dances for violin and piano, Book III
 * Richard Strauss – Symphony in D minor
 * Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
 * 1812 Overture
 * Italian Capriccio, Op.45, premiered December 18 in Moscow.
 * Serenade for Strings

Opera

 * Dudley Buck – Deseret, or A Saint's Affliction
 * Léo Delibes – Jean de Nivelle
 * Miguel Marqués – Florinda
 * Adolf Neuendorff – The Rat-Charmer of Hamelin/Der Rattenfänger von Hameln
 * Anton Rubinstein – The Merchant Kalashnikov
 * George Stephănescu
 * Peste Dunare
 * Sinziana si Pepelea
 * Johann Strauss, Jr. – Das Spitzentuch der Königin, premiered October 10 in Vienna.

Musical theater

 * La Mascotte    Paris production
 * The Pirates of Penzance    London production

Published Writings

 * Alexander John Ellis – The History of Musical Pitch

Births

 * January 3 – Lina Abarbanell, German-American singer and actress (d. 1963)
 * January 5 – Nikolai Medtner, Russian pianist and composer. (d. 1951)
 * January 6 – John McKenna, traditional Irish flute player (d. 1947)
 * February 19 – Arthur Shepherd, American composer (d. 1958)
 * April 7 – Fritz Grünbaum, Austrian Caberet artist (murdered 1941)
 * June 13 – Vincent Rose, Italian-born American bandleader and composer (d. 1944)
 * July 5 – Jan Kubelík, Czech violinist (d. 1940)
 * July 24 – Ernest Bloch, Swiss-born American Jewish composer (d. 1959)
 * July 31 – Manuel Penella, Spanish composer (d. 1939)
 * September 19 – Zequinha de Abreu, Brazilian musician and composer (d. 1935)
 * September 20 – Ildebrando Pizzetti, Italian composer (d. 1968)
 * September 27 – Jacques Thibaud, French violinist (d. 1953)
 * October 12 – Healey Willan, English-born Canadian composer (d. 1968)
 * November 2
 * John Foulds, English-born composer (d. 1939)
 * Brian Hooker, American lyricist and librettist (died 1946)
 * Aunt Molly Jackson, American folk singer and union activist (d. 1960)

Deaths

 * January 24 – George Jackson Lambert, English organist and composer (born 1794)
 * February 18 – Christina Enbom, Swedish operatic soprano (born 1804)
 * March 20 – Joaquim Antônio da Silva Calado, choro composer and flautist (born 1848)
 * March 31 – Henryk Wieniawski, violinist and composer (born 1835) (heart attack)
 * May 1 – Samuel Naumbourg, composer (born 1817)
 * May 9 – Hermann Berens, composer (born 1826)
 * May 30 – James Planché, word artist (born 1796)
 * August 16 – Ernst Ferdinand Wenzel (born 1808)
 * August 17 – Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist (born 1810)
 * October 5 – Jacques Offenbach, composer (born 1819)
 * October 7 – Fredrika Stenhammar, operatic soprano (born 1836)
 * November 24 – Napoléon Henri Reber, composer (born 1807)
 * November 27 – William Saurin Lyster, opera impresario (born 1828)
 * December 2 – Josephine Lang, composer (born 1815)
 * December 27 – Alessandro Nini, composer (born 1805)
 * date unknown – Knut Eriksson Helland, Hardanger fiddle maker (born 1851)

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1870 in music

Events

 * January 6 – The Musikverein concert hall opens in Vienna
 * March 16 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's fantasy-overture Romeo and Juliet debuts in Moscow, conducted by Nikolai Rubinstein
 * May 25 – Léo Delibes' ballet Coppélia is debuted by the Théâtre Impérial de l'Opéra at the Salle Le Peletier in Paris
 * June 26 – Richard Wagner's opera Die Walküre premieres at the Königliches Hof- und National-Theater, Munich
 * September – Siege of Paris (1870–71) begins: Georges Bizet, Gabriel Fauré and Camille Saint-Saëns are among those enrolled in the National Guard for defence of the city
 * Madame Rentz's Female Minstrels established in the United States by Michael B. Leavitt
 * Richard Wagner nears completion of his opera Siegfried

Published popular music

 * "Come In Old Adam, Come In!" w. Alice Cary m. C. F. Shattuck
 * "Just Touch the Harp Gently, My Pretty Louise" w. Samuel N. Mitchell m. Charles Blamphin
 * "More Love to Thee" w. Elizabeth P. Prentiss m. William H. Doane
 * "Pass Me Not O Gentle Savior" w. Fanny Crosby m. William H. Doane
 * "Rescue the Perishing" w. Fanny Crosby m. William H. Doane
 * "Waiting For Pa" w. & m. Henry Clay Work

Classical music

 * Max Bruch – Symphony No. 2 in F minor, Op. 36 (premiered September 4)
 * Ignaz Brüll – Tarantella, Op.6
 * Antonín Dvořák
 * Dramatic Overture (overture to the opera Alfred) (B. 16a)
 * String Quartet no. 3 in D, B. 18
 * String Quartet no. 4 in E minor, B. 19
 * Charles Gounod – Messe des Orphéonistes
 * Heinrich Lichner – 3 Sonatinen, Op.66
 * Robert Planquette – Le régiment de Sambre et Meuse
 * Joachim Raff
 * Piano Trio No.3, Op.155
 * 2 Piano Pieces, Op.157
 * Piano Trio No.4, Op.158
 * Josef Rheinberger – Piano Trio No.1, Op.34
 * Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – 6 Romances, Op.8
 * Giovanni Sgambati – Marcia-Inno, arranged for 4-hand piano
 * Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
 * Chorus of Flowers and Insects
 * Nature and Love
 * Romeo and Juliet overture (first version)
 * To Forget So Soon
 * Valse-Scherzo, Op.7
 * Capriccio, Op.8
 * 3 Pieces, Op.9
 * Valentin Zubiaurre – Symphony in E major

Opera

 * Antonín Dvořák
 * Alfred, B. 16 (libretto by Karl Theodor Körner, premiered in 1938 in Olomouc)
 * Karel Miry
 * La Saint-Lucas (opera in 1 act, libretto by J. Story, premiered on February 17 in Ghent)
 * Het Driekoningenfeest (opera in 1 act, libretto by P. Geiregat, premiered in Brussels)
 * Emile Pessard – La cruche cassée (comic opera in 1 act, libretto by Hyppolite Lucas and Emile Abraham, premiered on February 21 at the Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique in Paris)
 * Bedřich Smetana – Prodana Nevesta (eng. The Bartered Bride)
 * Pyotr Tchaikovsky – Undina, premiered March 28 in Moscow
 * Richard Wagner – Die Walküre

Musical theater

 * Chilpéric    London production
 * La Mascotte    Paris production
 * Jacques Offenbach - La Périchole    London production

Births

 * January 3 – Henry Eichheim, conductor, violinist and composer (d. 1942)
 * January 20 – Guillaume Lekeu, composer (d. 1894)
 * January 22 – Charles Tournemire, French composer and organist (d. 1939)
 * January 30 – Rudolf Louis, critic, conductor and author (d. 1914)
 * February 12 – Marie Lloyd, British music-hall singer (d. 1922)
 * February 13 – Leopold Godowsky, Polish American pianist, composer, and teacher (d. 1938)
 * March 6 – Oscar Straus, Viennese composer of operettas (d. 1954)
 * March 10 – George Evans, songwriter (died 1915)
 * March 29 – Tom Lemoinier, composer and performer (died 1945)
 * April 7 – Joseph Ryelandt, Belgian composer (d. 1965)
 * April 9 – Colin McAlpin, composed (died 1942)
 * April 28 – Hermann Suter, Swiss composer and conductor (d. 1926)
 * April 30 – Franz Lehár, composer of operettas and waltzes (d. 1948)
 * May 3 – Edouard Gregory Hesselberg, pianist (died 1935)
 * May 4 – Zygmunt Stojowski, Polish pianist and composer (d. 1946)
 * June 16 – Mon Schjelderup, composer (died 1934)
 * July 17 – Harry P. Guy, composer (died 1950)
 * July 18 – Emil Młynarski, Polish conductor, violinist, composer, and pedagogue (d. 1935)
 * July 27 – Hilaire Belloc, lyricist (died 1953)
 * August 4 – Harry Lauder, Scottish singer, comedian and songwriter (d. 1950)
 * August 12 – Arthur J. Lamb, lyricist and actor (d. 1928)
 * September 28 – Florent Schmitt, French composer (d. 1958)
 * October 7 – Uncle Dave Macon, banjo player, singer and songwriter (d.1952)
 * October 8 – Louis Vierne, French organist and composer (d. 1937)
 * October 24 – August Brunetti-Pisano, Austrian composer (d. 1943)
 * November 30 – Cecil Forsyth, composer and musicologist (d. 1941)
 * December 5 – Vítězslav Novák, Czech composer (d. 1949)
 * December 16 – Alfred Hill, Australian composer (d. 1960)

Deaths

 * January 26 – Cesare Pugni, ballet composer
 * March 9 – Théodore Labarre, composer (born 1805)
 * March 10 – Ignaz Moscheles, Bohemian composer (b. 1794)
 * March 16 – Theodore Oesten, musician, composer and music teacher (b. 1813)
 * April 8 – Charles de Bériot, violinist (b. 1802)
 * April 19 – Camille-Marie Stamaty, French pianist and composer (b. 1811)
 * July 22 – Josef Strauss, composer (b. 1827)
 * August 14 – Manuel Saumell, composer (b. 1818)
 * September 17 – Joseph David Jones, composer and schoolmaster (b. 1827)
 * October 20 – Michael William Balfe, composer (b. 1808)
 * October 31 – Mihály Mosonyi, composer (b. 1815)
 * November 23 – Giuseppina Bozzachi, ballerina (b. 1853)
 * December 5
 * Alexandre Dumas, lyricist (born 1802)
 * Herman Severin Løvenskiold, composer (born 1815)
 * December 7 – Mykhailo Verbytsky, composer (b. 1815)
 * December 17 – Saverio Mercadante, composer (b. 1795)
 * December 18 – Eugène Ketterer, French composer and pianist (b. 1831)
 * December 28 – Alexei Lvov, Russian composer (b. 1799)

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Nantwich

Nantwich is a market town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East in Cheshire, England. It has among the highest concentrations of listed buildings in England, with notably good examples of Tudor and Georgian architecture. It had a population of 14,045 in 2021.

History
The origins of the settlement date to Roman times, when salt from Nantwich was used by the Roman garrisons at Chester (Deva Victrix) and Stoke-on-Trent as a preservative and a condiment. Salt has been used in the production of Cheshire cheese and in the tanning industry, both products of the dairy industry based in the Cheshire Plain around the town. Nant comes from the Welsh for brook or stream. Wich and wych are names used to denote brine springs or wells. In 1194 there is a reference to the town as being called Nametwihc, which would indicate it was once the site of a pre-Roman Celtic nemeton or sacred grove.

In the Domesday Book of 1086, Nantwich is recorded as having eight salt houses. It had a castle and was the capital of a barony of the earls of Chester, and of one of the seven hundreds of medieval Cheshire. Nantwich is one of the few places in Cheshire to be marked on the Gough Map, which dates from 1355 to 1366. It was first recorded as an urban area at the time of the Norman Conquest, when the Normans burnt the town to the ground, leaving only one building standing.

The Norman castle was built at the crossing of the Weaver before 1180, probably near where the Crown Inn now stands. Although nothing remains of the castle above ground, it affected the town's layout. During the medieval period, Nantwich was the most important salt town and probably the second most important settlement in the county after Chester. By the 14th century, it was holding a weekly cattle market at the end of what is now Beam Street, and it was also important for its tanning industry centred in Barker Street.

A fire in December 1583 destroyed most of the town to the east of the Weaver. Elizabeth I contributed funds to the town's rebuilding and made an England-wide appeal for support for the rebuilding fund which thereby received funds from many successful medieval towns, including Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk. The rebuilding occurred rapidly and followed the plan of the destroyed town. Beam Street was so renamed to reflect the fact that timber (including wood from Delamere Forest) to rebuild the town was transported along it. A plaque marking the 400th anniversary of the fire and of Nantwich's rebuilding was unveiled by the Duke of Gloucester on 20 September 1984.

From the time of the Henrician Reformation, the town had trouble finding good Protestant preachers. An example of the problem was Stephen Jerome, a puritanical preacher, who in 1625 nonetheless tried to rape one of his maidservants, Margaret Knowsley. Rumours of this spread across the town, eventually leading to Knowsley's imprisonment and public shaming in 1627. A few years later, Jerome went to Ireland to continue his preaching career.

During the English Civil War Nantwich declared for Parliament and was besieged several times by Royalist forces. A final six-week siege was lifted after a Parliamentary victory in the Battle of Nantwich on 26 January 1644. This has been re-enacted as "Holly Holy Day" on every anniversary since 1973 by Sealed Knot, an educational charity. The name is taken from commemorative sprigs of holly worn by townsfolk in caps or on clothing in the years after the battle.

The salt industry peaked in the mid-16th century, with about 400 salt houses in 1530, but had almost died out by the end of the 18th century; the last salt house closed in the mid-19th century. Nikolaus Pevsner considered the salt-industry decline to have been critical in preserving the town's historic buildings. The last tannery closed in 1974. The town's location on the London–Chester road meant that Nantwich began to serve the needs of travellers in medieval times. This trade declined in the 19th century with the opening of Telford's road from London to Holyhead, which offered a faster route to Wales, and later with the Grand Junction Railway, which bypassed the town.

Nantwich Mill
The presence of a watermill south of Nantwich Bridge was noted in 1228 and again about 1363, through the cutting of a mill race or leat and creation of an upstream weir. The resulting Mill Island was ascribed to the 16th century, possibly after the original mill was destroyed in the 1583 Great Fire of Nantwich.

In the mid-17th century, the mill was acquired by local landowners, the Cholmondeleys, who retained it until the 1840s. Originally a corn mill, it became a cotton mill (Bott's Mill) from 1789 to 1874, but reverted to being a corn mill and was recorded as such on the Ordnance Survey First Edition map of Nantwich in 1876. A turbine was installed in about 1890 to replace the water wheel.

The mill was demolished in the 1970s after a fire and then landscaped, with further stabilisation of the mill foundations in 2008. Today it forms part of a riverside park area. Proposals, so far unfollowed, have been made for small-scale hydropower generation using the mill race. Nantwich Mill Hydro Generation Ltd was incorporated in April 2009, but dormant in December 2016.

Brine baths
Nantwich's brine springs were used for spa or hydrotherapy purposes at two locations: the central Snow Hill swimming pool inaugurated in 1883, where the open-air brine pool is still in use, and the Brine Baths Hotel, standing in 70 acres (28 ha) of parkland south of the town from the 1890s to the mid-20th century. The hotel was originally a mansion, Shrewbridge Hall, built for Michael Bott (owner of Nantwich Mill) in 1828. It was bought by Nantwich Brine and Medicinal Baths Company in 1883, extended and opened as a hotel in 1893, with "a well-appointed suite of brine and medicinal baths," – also described as the "strongest saline baths in the world". These were used to treat patients with ailments that included gout, rheumatism, sciatica and neuritis, using two suites of baths.

The hotel's grounds included gardens, tennis courts, a nine-hole golf course and a bowling green. The last survives today under the Nantwich Park Road Bowling Club founded in 1906.

The hotel served as an auxiliary hospital during the First World War. In the Second World War it became an army base and then accommodated WAAF personnel. It closed as a hotel in 1947 and in 1948 became a convalescent home for miners. In 1952 that closed and the building was unsuccessfully put up for sale and demolished in 1959. The grounds were later developed for housing – the Brine Baths Estate – and schools (Brine Leas School and Weaver Primary School).

Governance
The civil parish now falls within the unitary authority of Cheshire East and has its own Town Council covering the civil parish (originally this comprised two wards and then divided into three wards from 2023).

Previously the town fell within the Borough Council of Crewe and Nantwich which was abolished on 1 April 2009; the borough had been formed in 1974 when the Local Government Act 1972 replaced urban district and rural district councils with a uniform system of larger districts. Some town administration responsibilities of Nantwich Urban District Council passed to Nantwich Town Council, while Nantwich Rural District Council responsibilities passed to the combined Crewe and Nantwich borough.

Since 1983, Nantwich has been in the parliamentary constituency of Crewe and Nantwich. Between 1955 and 1983, Nantwich was a parliamentary constituency in its own right, largely covering the areas managed by Nantwich urban and rural district councils (rural areas to the south, west and north of Nantwich now form part of the west Cheshire Eddisbury constituency).

Places of interest
Nantwich has one of the county's largest collections of historic buildings, second only to Chester. These cluster mainly in the town centre on Barker Street, Beam Street, Churchyard Side, High Street and Hospital Street, and extend across the Weaver on Welsh Row. Most are within the 38 ha of conservation area, which broadly follows the bounds of the late medieval and early post-medieval town.

The oldest listed building is the 14th-century St Mary's Church, which is listed Grade I. Two other listed buildings are known to predate the fire of 1583: Sweetbriar Hall and the Grade I-listed Churche's Mansion, both timber-framed Elizabethan mansion houses. A few years after the fire, William Camden described Nantwich as the "best built town in the county". Particularly fine timber-framed buildings from the town's rebuilding include 46 High Street and the Grade I-listed Crown coaching inn. Many half-timbered buildings, such as 140–142 Hospital Street, have been concealed behind brick or rendering. Nantwich contains many Georgian town houses, good examples being Dysart Buildings, 9 Mill Street, Townwell House and 83 Welsh Row. Several examples of Victorian corporate architecture are listed, including the former District Bank by Alfred Waterhouse. The most recent listed building is 1–5 Pillory Street, a curved corner block in 17th-century French style, which dates from 1911. Most of the town's listed buildings were originally residential, but churches, chapels, public houses, schools, banks, almshouses and workhouses are represented. Unusual listed structures include a mounting block, twelve cast-iron bollards, a stone gateway, two garden walls and a summerhouse.

Dorfold Hall is a Grade I listed Jacobean mansion in the nearby village of Acton, considered by Pevsner to be one of the two finest Jacobean houses in Cheshire. Its grounds accommodate Nantwich Show each summer, including, until 2021, the International Cheese Awards.

Nantwich Museum, in Pillory St, has galleries on the history of the town, including Roman salt-making, Tudor Nantwich's Great Fire, the Civil War Battle of Nantwich (1644) and the more recent shoe, clothing and local cheese-making industries. Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker, a few miles outside the town, is a once government-owned nuclear bunker, now a museum. Also in Pillory St is the 82-seat Nantwich Players Theatre, which puts on about five plays a year.

The name of Jan Palach Avenue in the south of the town commemorates the self-immolation of a student in Czechoslovakia in 1969.

Geography
Nantwich is on the Cheshire Plain, on the banks of the River Weaver. The Shropshire Union Canal runs to the west of the town on an embankment, crossing the Acton lane on the western boundary of the town via an iron aqueduct. There is a basin nearby which is a frequent mooring for visitors to the town. It joins the Llangollen Canal at Hurleston to the north. The town is some four miles south-west of Crewe and twenty miles south-east of Chester. The town is served by a by-pass to the north and west into which, directly or indirectly, the A51, A500, A529, A530 and A534 roads all feed.

The stretch of A534 from Nantwich to the Welsh border is seen as one of the ten worst stretches of road in England for road safety.

The tower of St Mary's Church was the origin (meridian) of the 6-inch and 1:2500 Ordnance Survey maps of Cheshire.

Public transport
Nantwich railway station is on the line from Crewe to Whitchurch, Shrewsbury and other towns along the Welsh border. It is served mainly by stopping trains between Crewe and Shrewsbury.

D&G Bus, Stagecoach and Mikro Coaches operate bus routes from Nantwich Bus Station and in and around Nantwich, some with funding from Cheshire East council.

Bus routes served from the Bus Station are:

- 39 - Crewe to Wybunbury to Nantwich (Mikro)

- 70 - Nantwich to Bulkeley (D&G)

- 71 & 72 - Nantwich to Wrenbury & Audlem (D&G)

- 73 - Nantwich to Audlem & Wrenbury (D&G)

- 84X - Crewe to Nantwich (D&G)

- 84 - Crewe to Chester, via Nantwich, including                      84 Crewe to Nantwich direct once an hour. (Stagecoach)

- 85 - Newcastle to Nantwich, via Keele   University and Crewe. (D&G)

- 551 - Liverpool to London (Coach) (National Express)

Education
The town has eight primary schools (Highfields Community, Willaston Primary Academy, Millfields, Pear Tree, St Anne's (Catholic), Stapeley Broad Lane (Church of England), The Weaver and Nantwich Primary Academy) and two secondary schools, Brine Leas School and Malbank School and Sixth Form College. Reaseheath College runs further education and higher education courses in conjunction with Harper Adams University and the University of Chester. A sixth-form college at Brine Leas opened in September 2010.

For the London 2012 Olympic Games, Malbank School and Sixth Form College was nominated to represent the North West.

Sport

The town's football club, Nantwich Town, competes in and in 2006 won the FA Vase. It plays at the Weaver Stadium, opened in 2007.

Rugby union is played at two clubs. Crewe and Nantwich RUFC, founded in 1922, is based at Vagrants Sports Club in Newcastle Road, Willaston, and runs four senior teams including a ladies team; the first XV play in the Midlands 1 West (Level 6). It holds Club Mark and RFU Seal of Approval accreditations and has a mini and junior section of over 250 young people aged 5–18 taking part every Sunday, with a girls section. Acton Nomads RFC, founded in 2009, won the 2010 RFU Presidents XV "This is Rugby" Award; it operates two senior sides.

In rugby league, Crewe & Nantwich Steamers play at the Barony Park, Nantwich, also the home ground for Acton Nomads RFC.

The town's cricket club in Whitehouse Lane won the ECB-accredited Cheshire County Premier League title in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2018. It regularly hosts Cheshire Minor County cricket matches. Midway through the 2017 season, bowler Jimmy Warrington became the first player in the history of the Cheshire County Premier League to take 500 wickets. In 2019, Nantwich reached the final of the ECB National Club Cricket Championship. In the final, played at Lord's, it met Swardeston and lost by 53 runs.

Media
The daily Sentinel, weekly Nantwich Chronicle and Crewe and Nantwich Guardian, and monthly Dabber cover the town.

Local TV coverage is provided by BBC North West and ITV from the Winter Hill TV transmitter.

Radio stations for the Nantwich area include BBC Radio Stoke, Cheshire's Silk Radio from Macclesfield, Signal 1 and Greatest Hits Radio Staffordshire & Cheshire from Stoke-on-Trent, Crewe-based The Cat 107.9 community radio, and Nantwich-based online radio and networking organisation RedShift Radio.

The Nantwich News is a hyperlocal blog for local events and issues. The inNantwich website gives Nantwich information, including shops, firms, schools, wifi spots, car parking and toilets.

Cheese awards
Until 2019, the annual International Cheese Awards were held in July each year during Nantwich Show, at the Dorfold Hall estate. In 2021 it was announced the Awards would be moving to the Staffordshire Show Grounds and would no longer be part of the Nantwich Show event.

Jazz and blues
Since 1996, Nantwich has hosted an annual Nantwich Jazz and Blues Festival over the Easter Bank Holiday weekend. Jazz and blues artists from around the country perform in pubs and venues.

Food festival
The annual Nantwich Food Festival is held in the town centre on the first weekend of September. Re-established as a free-entry festival in 2010, it attracts numerous artisan producers from the local area and further afield, and offers chef demonstrations, family activities and entertainment. It draws some 30,000 visitors a year.

Public service

 * Sir Nicholas Colfox (flourished 1400, from Nantwich) was a medieval knight involved in the murder of Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, uncle of King Richard II, in 1397.
 * Blessed Thomas Holford (1541–1588), a Protestant schoolteacher, then a Catholic priest, was martyred in Clerkenwell and beatified in 1896.
 * Sir Roger Wilbraham (1553 in Nantwich – 1616), prominent English lawyer and Solicitor-General for Ireland under Elizabeth I.
 * Roger Mainwaring (died 1590), Elizabethan judge in Ireland,  was born  in Nantwich. Lord Chief Justice.
 * Sir William Brereton, 1st Baronet (1604–1661) established his headquarters in Nantwich during the English Civil War in 1643.
 * Matthew Henry (1662–1714), a British nonconformist minister, died of apoplexy in Nantwich.
 * Hanmer George Warrington (c. 1776 in Acton – 1847), British Army officer, became Consul General on the Barbary Coast for 32 years.
 * George Latham (c. 1800 in Nantwich – 1871), architect
 * Eddowes Bowman (1810 in Nantwich – 1869), dissenting tutor
 * Thomas Egerton Hale VC CB (1832 in Nantwich – 1909), recipient of the Victoria Cross
 * Thomas Bower (1838–1919), English architect and surveyor, was based in Nantwich
 * William Pickersgill (1861 in Nantwich – 1928) was chief mechanical engineer of the Caledonian Railway until 1923
 * David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty (1871 in Stapeley – 1936), Admiral of the Fleet
 * Sir Andrew Witty (born 1964), CEO of GlaxoSmithKline, went to Malbank School in Nantwich.

Politics

 * Roger Wilbraham FRS (1743 in Nantwich – 1829), MP, bibliophile, antiquary, local historian, published work on Cheshire dialects.
 * Robert Grant-Ferris, Baron Harvington (1907–1997), Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons 1970–1974, was MP for Nantwich.
 * Michael Winstanley, Baron Winstanley (1918–1993), Liberal MP
 * Gwyneth Dunwoody (1930–2008), British Labour Party politician from 1974 to her death in 2008 MP for Exeter 1966–70, and then for Crewe (later Crewe and Nantwich)
 * Mike Wood (born 1946), Labour MP for Batley and Spen 1997 to 2015, went to school in Nantwich.
 * John Dwyer (born c. 1950), police officer, borough councillor, Assistant Chief Constable and Cheshire Police and Crime Commissioner
 * Laura Smith (born 1985) is a politician and a councillor for Crewe South since 2020. She was a Labour Party Member of Parliament for Crewe and Nantwich in 2017–2019.

Science

 * John Gerard (1545 in Nantwich – 1612), botanist and author of Herball, or Generall Historie of Plantes (1597)
 * Joseph Priestley (1733–1804), co-discoverer of oxygen, Nonconformist minister and teacher, lived in Nantwich in 1758–1761.
 * Sir William Bowman (1816 in Nantwich – 1892), surgeon, histologist, anatomist and ophthalmologist
 * Albert Thomas Price (1903 in Nantwich – 1978), geophysicist, developed mathematical models on global electromagnetic induction.
 * Sir Kenneth Mather CBE FRS (1911 in Nantwich – 1990) British geneticist and botanist
 * Professor Stephen Eichhorn (1974 - 1990 in Nantwich) British materials scientist

Arts

 * Isabella Whitney (born 1545 in Coole Pilate – 1577), was arguably the first female poet and professional writer in England.
 * Geoffrey Whitney (c. 1548 in Acton – c. 1601), poet
 * Briget Paget (1570 in Nantwich – c. 1647), Puritan, acted as her husband John Paget's literary executor and editor.
 * Reverend Joseph Partridge (1724–1796), waggoner, antiquary and historian, wrote the town's first history in 1774.
 * Peter Bayley (1779 in Nantwich – 1823), writer and poet
 * James Hall (1846–1914), lived in the town for 40 years and wrote its history.
 * Kim Woodburn (born 1942), television personality, lives in Nantwich.
 * Penny Jordan (1946–2011), writer of over 200 romance novels
 * Ben Miller (born 1966), actor, director and comedian, grew up in Nantwich.
 * Thea Gilmore (born 1979), singer/songwriter, lives in Nantwich
 * Alex "A. J." Pritchard (born 1994), ballroom and Latin dancer, who won fame on the BBC Television show Strictly Come Dancing, went to school in Nantwich.
 * Blitz Kids (active 2006–2015) were an English alternative rock band originating in Nantwich and Crewe.

Sport

 * William Downes (1843 in Nantwich – 1896), a New Zealand cricketer
 * A. N. Hornby (1847–1925), the first to captain England in both cricket and rugby; buried in Acton churchyard, Nantwich
 * George Davenport (1860–1902), cricketer
 * John Wright (1861–1912), cricketer
 * Harry Stafford (1869–1940), footballer, made 271 professional appearances. He was later a hotelier in Canada.
 * Ernest Piggott (1878–1967), jump racing jockey.
 * Alf Lythgoe (1907 in Nantwich - 1967), footballer, made 191 professional appearances for Stockport County and Huddersfield Town before becoming manager of non-League Altrincham.
 * Dario Gradi, (born 1941), manager of Crewe Alexandra (1983–2007 and 2009–2011), lives in Willaston
 * Ian Cowap (1950–2016), cricketer
 * Ashley Westwood (born 1990 in Nantwich), footballer with Crewe, Aston Villa and Burnley

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