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| Handel has generally been accorded high esteem by fellow composers, both in his own time and since.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2009/01_january/13/composer6.shtml |title=BBC Press Release |publisher=Bbc.co.uk |date=13 January 2009 |access-date=13 April 2012 |archive-date=27 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131127140028/http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2009/01_january/13/composer6.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref> ] attempted, unsuccessfully, to meet Handel while he was visiting ].<ref>{{harvnb|Dent|2004|p=23}}</ref> (Handel was born in the same year as Bach and ].) ] is reputed to have said of him, "Handel understands ] better than any of us. When he chooses, he strikes like a thunder bolt."<ref name="YoungMM">{{cite book |last=Young |first=Percy Marshall |url=https://archive.org/details/handel00youn_0 |title=Handel (Master Musician series) |date=1 April 1975 |publisher=J. M. Dent & Sons |isbn=0-460-03161-9 |page= |author-link=Percy Young |url-access=registration |orig-year=1947}}</ref> To ] he was "the master of us all... the greatest composer that ever lived. I would uncover my head and kneel before his tomb."<ref name="YoungMM" /> Beethoven emphasised above all the simplicity and popular appeal of Handel's music when he said, "Go to him to learn how to achieve great effects, by such simple means." | |||
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| {{Infobox person | |||
| | name = Sir Jim Knox | |||
| | image = <!-- filename only, no "File:" or "Image:" prefix, and no enclosing ] --> | |||
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| | birth_name = Walter Knox Jr | |||
| | birth_date = {{Birth date|1919|03|16}} | |||
| | birth_place = ], ] | |||
| | death_date = {{Death date and age|1991|12|01|1919|03|16}} | |||
| | death_place = ], ] | |||
| | spouse = Margret Knox and Elizabeth Knox | |||
| | mother = Doris Knox | |||
| | father = Walter Knox | |||
| | organization = ], ], Auckland Watersiders’ Action Committee, ] | |||
| | office = {{plainlist| | |||
| *Secretary of the Auckland Trades Council | |||
| *President of ] | |||
| }} | |||
| | term = 1979-1987 | |||
| | predecessor = ] | |||
| | successor = ] | |||
| }} | |||
| '''Walter James Knox''' {{post-nominals|country=NZL|size=100%|ONZ|JP}} (6 March 1919 – 1 December 1991) was a leading New Zealand trade union leader. He was born in ] on 6 March 1919.<ref name="DNZB Knox">{{DNZB|title=Walter James Knox|first= Peter|last= Franks|id=5k13|accessdate=23 April 2017}}</ref><ref>''Who’s Who in New Zealand'', 12th edition, edited by Max Lambert p350 (1981, Reed, Wellington)</ref> | |||
| Knox worked as a truck driver and watersider, becoming involved in the ], and rose through the union ranks to become secretary of the Auckland District Woollen Mills Employees’ Union and vice president of the Auckland Trades Council in 1961. In 1969, Knox became secretary of the ], working alongside the organisation's president, Sir ]. | |||
| Skinner, Knox and other trade union leaders ], ], ], Blue Kennedy and ] were all well known in New Zealand 1980s due to ongoing industrial action.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-07-23|title=Still no justice for Trades Hall bomb death|url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/114412583/still-no-justice-for-trades-hall-bomb-death|access-date=2022-01-16|website=Stuff|language=en}}</ref> | |||
| On 6 February 1988, Knox was the seventh appointee to the ].<ref name=induction02>"The Order of New Zealand" (12 February 1988) 23 '']'' 447 at 448.</ref> | |||
| ==Personal life== | |||
| Knox played ] for the Suburbs club in Auckland before switching codes and playing ] for the ] in the ] competition. His sports injuries made him unfit for war service during World War II.<ref name="DNZB Knox"/> | |||
| Knox was married twice, first to Margaret Joyce Svendsen in 1943, they had two children and a long marriage, then to Elizabeth Watson Bell Curtis (née Norrie) in 1983.<ref name="DNZB Knox" /> | |||
| ==References== | |||
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Handel has generally been accorded high esteem by fellow composers, both in his own time and since. Johann Sebastian Bach attempted, unsuccessfully, to meet Handel while he was visiting Halle. (Handel was born in the same year as Bach and Domenico Scarlatti.) Mozart is reputed to have said of him, "Handel understands affect better than any of us. When he chooses, he strikes like a thunder bolt." To Beethoven he was "the master of us all... the greatest composer that ever lived. I would uncover my head and kneel before his tomb." Beethoven emphasised above all the simplicity and popular appeal of Handel's music when he said, "Go to him to learn how to achieve great effects, by such simple means."
- "BBC Press Release". Bbc.co.uk. 13 January 2009. Archived from the original on 27 November 2013. Retrieved 13 April 2012.
- Dent 2004, p. 23 harvnb error: no target: CITEREFDent2004 (help)
- ^ Young, Percy Marshall (1 April 1975) . Handel (Master Musician series). J. M. Dent & Sons. p. 177. ISBN 0-460-03161-9.