Old Tom Morris

Thomas Mitchell Morris (16 June 1821 – 24 May 1908), otherwise known as Old Tom Morris, was a Scottish golfer. He was born in St Andrews, Fife, the "home of golf" and location of the St Andrews Links, and died there as well. Young Tom Morris (died 1875), also a golfer, was his son.

Early golf career

Morris was the son of a weaver, and began golf by age ten, by knocking wine-bottle corks pierced with nails (to serve as balls) around the streets of the town using a homemade club, in informal matches against other youths; this was known as 'sillybodkins'. He started caddying and playing golf from a young age, and formally was hired as an apprentice at age 14 to Allan Robertson, generally regarded as the world's first professional golfer; Robertson ran the St Andrews Links and an equipment-making business. Morris served four years as apprentice and a further five years as journeyman under Robertson, by most accounts the world's top player from about 1843 until his death in 1859.

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Old Tom (TV series)

Old Tom is a TV show created by Yoram Gross, which ran from 2001 to 2002 in France and Australia. It was shown in the UK and US in 2002. It was about a lady named Ms Throgmortin who owned a cat named Old Tom. Together, they created mischief in their suburb. It was based on a series of books by Leigh Hobbs.

In Australia, it continues re-runs on the children's network, ABC3.

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Robinsons Brewery

Robinsons is a family-run, regional brewery, founded in 1849 at the Unicorn Inn in Stockport, England.

The company owns more than 300 public houses, mostly in North West England.

History

William Robinson purchased the Unicorn Inn from Samuel Hole on the 29th September 1838. His oldest son George brewed the first Robinsons Ale there in 1849.

In 1859, Frederic Robinson took over from George and bought a warehouse to the rear of the inn to expand brewing capacity. As a result, Robinsons ale became available at pubs around the Stockport area. To control the quality of ale sold, Frederic began to purchase public houses. From 1878 until his death in 1890, Frederic established twelve pubs which exclusively served his ale. This was the beginning of what was to become an estate of over 300 pubs across the North West of England and North Wales.

The Unicorn Brewery still rests on the foundations of the public house on Lower Hillgate in Stockport, Greater Manchester.

The brewery continues to be run by the fifth and sixth generations of the Robinson family. The company took over Hartley's Brewery in Ulverston in 1982, closing it and transferring the brewing of Hartley's beers to Stockport in 1991. Robinsons have acquired a number of other breweries over the years, including John Heginbotham, Stalybridge (1915); T. Schofield & Son, Ashton under Lyne (1926); Kays Atlas Brewery, Ardwick (1929) and Bell & Co, Stockport (1949).

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Tom Morris (director)

Richard Thomas "Tom" Morris (born 22 June 1964 in Stamford, Lincolnshire) is an English theatre director, writer and producer. He was the Associate Director at the National Theatre in London, before taking over as Artistic Director of the Bristol Old Vic theatre in 2009.

Early life and education

Morris was born in 1964. He is the younger brother of satirist Chris Morris. He was educated at Stonyhurst College, a Jesuit boys' boarding independent school in Lancashire in north west England, and then read English Literature at Pembroke College at the University of Cambridge from 1983 to 1986.

Career

From 1988 to 1994, Morris worked in broadcasting and journalism, as a critic and feature-writer for The Times Literary Supplement, The Independent, The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian and The Observer, and appeared on BBC television and radio programmes Kaleidoscope, Night Waves and The Late Show. Morris was Artistic Director of Battersea Arts Centre (BAC) before taking up his post at the National Theatre in 2004. In September 2009 Morris took over as Artistic Director of the Bristol Old Vic theatre. Here he oversaw a £20 million renovation of the building, as well as producing and directing new productions.

Tom Morris (businessman)

Thomas Joseph Morris (born February 1954) is a British billionaire businessman and the founder of Home Bargains.

Early life

Thomas Joseph Morris was born in February 1954. He is the son of a shopkeeper in Liverpool's Scotland Road, and one of seven children.

He received a degree in Engineering.

Career

Morris started the Liverpool-based discount retail chain Home Bargains in 1976, when he was 21 years old. It now has more than 300 stores, and Morris has net worth of £2.05 billion. The parent company is the privately held TJ Morris.

Morris owns 89% while his younger brother, Joe Morris, is a smaller shareholder and operations director. Three other brothers also work for the company.

Morris is worth an estimated £2.05 billion.

Personal life

He is married and lives in Merseyside, England.

In 2001, the Liverpool Echo reported that his son Simon worked for the company, and that his daughter Lisa and her American husband Brian run Morris Textiles, the linen warehouse.

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