James Courtney Bevin was an Anglican priest in the 20th century. [1]
He was born in Dulverton, Somerset in 1872 and died on 23 December 1946 and is commemorated on a stone in St Bride's Episcopal Church, North Ballachulish, Inverness-shire.
He was ordained in 1907 [2] and was Dean of Argyll and The Isles from 1940 until his death in 1946.
He was the great great uncle of the British Labour politician Ernest Bevin. [3]
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Bevin Glacier is a glacier 5 nautical miles (9 km) long, which flows east from the plateau escarpment on the east side of Graham Land into the northwest end of Cabinet Inlet between Attlee Glacier and Anderson Glacier. During December 1947 it was charted by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) and photographed from the air by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition. It was named by the FIDS for Rt. Hon. Ernest Bevin, M.P., British Minister of Labour and National Service and member of the War Cabinet.
Matthew Griswold Bevin is an American businessman and politician who served as the 62nd governor of Kentucky from 2015 to 2019 and was the third Republican elected to that office since World War II. He is currently the CEO of Neuronetrix Solutions, LLC.
A general election was held in the U.S. state of Kentucky on November 3, 2015. All of Kentucky's executive officers were up for election. Primary elections were held on May 19, 2015.
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Patrick Bevin is a New Zealand professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Team dsm–firmenich PostNL.
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The Bevin Plan, also described as the Bevin–Beeley Plan was Britain's final attempt in the mid-20th century to solve the troubled situation that had developed between Arabs and Jewish people in Mandatory Palestine.
