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Arthur Sclater (Royal Marines Officer)
Arthur William Sclater (11 November 1909 – 7 June 2002) was a British land owner and businessman. He was a Royal Marines officer during World War II and served as commander of the "Shetland bus" between 1942 and 1945, a group that maintained a supply line and escape route to the Norwegian resistance fighters. Early life and career Sclater was born on 11 November 1909 at Newick Park in Sussex to the Reverend Francis Sanderson Sclater and Norwegian-born Hedda Beer. He was educated at Charterhouse School then Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, spending his summers in Norway. He married Norwegian-born Alice Collet (1913–2005) in 1936 and they had two sons. After working for the Anglo-Mexican Petroleum Company in Brazil, Turner's Asbestos Cement in Rochdale, Lancashire, and C Tennant and Sons in London, he became a wood pulp agent for Berner, Nicol and Company. Military service He was denied enlistment in the Royal Marines following the outbreak of World War II as a wood pulp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. Typically deployed in symmetric pairs, an individual bracket may be identified as a 'left' or 'right' bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. Specific forms of the mark include parentheses (also called "rounded brackets"), square brackets, curly brackets (also called 'braces'), and angle brackets (also called 'chevrons'), as well as various less common pairs of symbols. As well as signifying the overall class of punctuation, the word "bracket" is commonly used to refer to a specific form of bracket, which varies from region to region. In most English-speaking countries, an unqualified word "bracket" refers to the parenthesis (round bracket); in the United States, the square bracket. Glossary of mathematical sym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
