Sir david wilkie biography of donald

          Born in Scotland, Wilkie became a student at the Royal Academy in , and in the following years the uncompromising realism of his scenes from rural life made.!

          Kim Howells burned NUM records during strike in a 'panic'

          Police are to investigate after Transport Minister Kim Howells admitted that he destroyed union records while working as an NUM official during the miners' strike.

          Dr Howells makes the admission in a BBC documentary, saying he was worried the police would use the death of a taxi driver during the dispute as an excuse to raid the office of the National Union of Mineworkers' (NUM).

          Wilkie was born in Cults, Fife, the son of a Church of Scotland minister.

        1. Born in Fife, trained in Edinburgh, Wilkie settled in London in and began regularly exhibiting at the Royal Academy small scale scenes of everyday life.
        2. Born in Scotland, Wilkie became a student at the Royal Academy in , and in the following years the uncompromising realism of his scenes from rural life made.
        3. David Andrew Wilkie MBE (8 March – 22 May ) was a Scottish swimmer who was the Olympic m breaststroke champion in , the first British.
        4. The Life of Sir David Wilkie: With His Journals, Tours, and Critical Remarks On Works of Art; and a Selection from His Correspondence, Volume 3 [Cunningham.

          5. David Wilkie died when two striking miners dropped a concrete block from a south Wales bridge onto his taxi as he took miners to work under escort in November1984.

          Although the death was not related to any union work, Mr Howells felt the police would use the incident as an excuse to raid the its offices in Pontypridd and get hold of their plans for running the strike.

          South Wales Police have said they are liaising with the Crown Prosecution Service over the claims by the Pontypridd MP who was a full-time official for South Wales