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        "content_text": "112\n\n18\n\nherein after Lugard (Sir Frederick Lugard, Governor-General of Nigeria from 1912 to 1919) joining which was the difficult task of unifying the north and south of the country.\n\nLugard retired to his family home at Abinger in Surrey. His wife, Flora (née Shaw), predeceased him in 1929, and Lugard had no children.\n\n†\n\nAt the time of Lugard's death in 1945, it is likely that The Tribute passed directly to the Harrison sisters. Colonel John Harrison, an engineer whose mother was a Lugard maternal great aunt, was related to Miss Annie Harrison and Priscilla Ramsey. The Harrisons had a family of four renowned and musically gifted daughters: May, Beatrice, Morna, and Margaret, who were among the leading figures in the British and world musical scene in the first half of the 20th century.\n\nThe Harrisons were close associates of several famous composers, including Frederick Delius and Sir Edward Elgar, and had several works dedicated to them. Beatrice Harrison, the most famous of the quartet, was the leading cellist of her time and a household name as a concert artist in the 1920s and 1930s. She was also Elgar's most favoured interpreter of his cello concerto. Before one performance in Manchester, Elgar took hold of Beatrice and said, \"Give it them, Beatrice. Give it them. Don't mind about the notes or anything - give them the spirit.\"\n\nThe Harrison sisters, none of whom married, were the custodians of The Tribute for about ten years. Beatrice, who died in 1965, gave The Tribute to her younger cousin, Major Pinker, and his family for safekeeping around 1955.\n\nPage 18\n\nBeatric Harrison celebrated cellist and one-time custodian of The Tribute on the cover of The Strad, which celebrated her centenary in December 1892 (Reproduced with permission).",
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        "content_text": "Peacock \n\nBALAUDAMA* (RAS \n\n* A*MMERMERAD \n\n125 \n\n. An emblem of beauty, sometimes used in place of the phoenix. The phoenix's appearance in Chinese history is common and “liable to glorify a peaceful reign or flatter a successful ruler\". The peacock's feather decoration was granted for meritorious services and contributions to charity. The feathers had 3, 2 or 1 \"eye\" according to the grade conferred. \n\n: Flower of riches and honour; emblem of love and affection; omen of good fortune, \n\nPeony \n\n牡丹花,代表富贵,所以又稱國色天香, \n\nPlum blossom: Purity, nobility, constancy, modesty. \n\nKAHA AA· KOAXAC \n\n懷若谷。 \n\nSilk \n\n: \n\nThe silkworm is an emblem of industry and its product is symbolic of delicate purity and virtue. \n\n蠶緣強勤,它產的絲象征純潔的德行。 \n\nSilver \n\nBrightness and purity, a measure of value. \n\n***COMK HAMUN - \n\nVine and grapes : Symbolises abundant harvest of all food crops. \n\nFuk (fu) : Luck, Luk (lu) : Prosperity; Sau (shou) : Longevity \n\n福:幸福、祿:富貴、壽:長壽 \n\nBibliography \n\nJulian Lloyd Webber. Beatrice Harrison: A Pioneering Spirit of Her Age. The Strad, December 1992, p.1172. \n\nMargery Perham and Mary Bull (eds). The Diaries of Lord Lugard. Vols 1-3. London: Faber and Faber, 1959. \n\nMargery Perham and Mary Bull (eds). The Diaries of Lord Lugard, Vol. 4. Illinois: North Western University Press, 1963. \n\nC. A. S. Williams, Outlines of Chinese Symbolism and Art Motives. Third Revised Edition. New York: Dover Publications Inc., 1976.",
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