| 词条 | Horace Barks |
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| name = Horace Barks | image = | image_size = 100px | known_for = Lord Mayor of Stoke-on-Trent Esperanto | caption = | birth_date = 1895 | birth_place = Ipstones, Staffordshire }} Barks was born in Ipstones in the countryside near Stoke-on-Trent and came from a working-class background. His experiences in World War I left him with pacifist beliefs and experience of railway operations. After the war he became a train guard and, in 1921, a member of the Labour Party, the dominant party in Stoke-on-Trent during the twentieth century. He was elected a Stoke councillor in 1930 and made an Alderman in 1948. He served as Mayor for 1951–52.[2] Barks' cultural interests included Esperanto and the writer Arnold Bennett. Barks and his son Guy were active in the Arnold Bennett Society, which is based in Stoke-on-Trent. The reference library in the city is named after Barks. Personal lifeHe married Agnes Catherine Johnson. EsperantoBarks was involved with starting classes at the Wedgwood Memorial College in Barlaston, which remains an important centre of Esperanto education.[3] Through Barks' influence his local pub in Smallthorne, Stoke-on-Trent, acquired the name "The Green Star" (an Esperanto symbol) and a sign in Esperanto "La Verda Stelo". It is mentioned in a poem by Raymond Schwartz.[4] Smallthorne also has a street named after Zamenhof.[5] References1. ^People of Stoke-on-Trent 2. ^{{cite web| url =http://www.thepotteries.org/federation/061_barks.htm|title= People who made the Potteries - Horace Barks|accessdate= 31 July 2014}} 3. ^"A Tribute to a Noble Worker for Esperanto: Horace Barks", was included in {{eo icon}} Rubenaj Refrenoj (Ruby Refrains), Gubbins, Paul (ed.), Berkeley: Bero Publishers, 2001 4. ^::Ĉe l’ Verda Stel’ en Stoke-on-Trent ::-se ĉio sekvos sian fluon- ::la filoj de potfara gent’ ::el potoj ĉerpos novan ĝuon 5. ^Green Star Public House, Esperanto Way, Smallthorne, Stoke-on-Trent There are two posthumous autobiographical publications by Barks, both based on taped reminiscences.
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