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Horace Barks, OBE was Lord Mayor of Stoke-on-Trent in 1951–2.〔(People of Stoke-on-Trent )〕 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.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】title= People who made the Potteries - Horace Barks ) 〕 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. ==Esperanto== Barks was involved with starting classes at the Wedgwood Memorial College in Barlaston, which remains an important centre of Esperanto education.〔"A Tribute to a Noble Worker for Esperanto: Horace Barks", was included in ''Rubenaj Refrenoj'' (Ruby Refrains), Gubbins, Paul (ed.), Berkeley: Bero Publishers, 2001 〕 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.〔::Cxe l’ Verda Stel’ en Stoke-on-Trent ::-se cxio sekvos sian fluon- ::la filoj de potfara gent’ ::el potoj cxerpos novan gxuon〕 Smallthorne also has a street named after Zamenhof.〔(Green Star Public House, Esperanto Way, Smallthorne, Stoke-on-Trent )〕 He married Agnes Catherine Johnson. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Horace Barks」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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