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Digory Kirke
Narnia character
Jim Broadbent as the adult Digory Kirke in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Race
Human
Nation
United Kingdom
Gender
Male
Birthplace
England, Earth
Family
Parents
Mr. Kirke and Mrs. Mabel Ketterley-Kirke
Family
Andrew Ketterley (uncle), Letitia Ketterley (aunt)
Major character in
The Magician's Nephew
Portrayals in adaptations
1988 BBC miniseries: Michael Aldridge
2005 Walden/Disney film: Jim Broadbent
Professor Digory Kirke(1888-1949) is a fictional character from C. S. Lewis' fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia. He appears in three of the seven books: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Magician's Nephew, and The Last Battle.
In the 2005 film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, he is played as an adult by Jim Broadbent.
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1 Biography
1.1 The Magician's Nephew
1.2 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
1.3 The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
1.4 The Last Battle
2 Portrayals
3 References
Biography[edit]
The Magician's Nephew[edit]
In The Magician's Nephew, the sixth book to be published but the first in the chronology of Narnia, Digory is a young boy, who was born in UK in 1888. He lives in London with his Uncle Andrew and Andrew's sister Aunt Letty, because his father is in India, and his mother is deathly ill. Andrew, an eccentric, alcoholic and manipulative old man, has made magic rings that allow whoever wears them to travel to other worlds by passing through the Wood between the Worlds, although he knows nothing of this place. Uncle Andrew first tricks Digory's friend Polly Plummer into trying one of the yellow rings. When she disappears, he then blackmails his nephew into following her with another ring in order to bring her back. Upon meeting Polly, the two agree to go back into the pool that will lead them home, but Digory persuades Polly to first try one of the many other pools, but Polly says that they should go to their pool and see if it works first and it is successful.
They find themselves in a lifeless world called Charn, over which a dying red sun hangs. In a great hall, they find a hall full of wax figures, and a golden bell with a little hammer and an inscription. Although Polly is vehemently opposed to it, Digory rings the bell, thus breaking the enchantment that holds Queen Jadis, the last living resident of Charn, from her self-imposed enchanted sleep. Upon learning that Jadis was the one who brought death to her world with a single word, Digory and Polly attempt to escape her as she follows them into the Wood Between the Worlds and then to their world. Though Jadis has lost her magic, she still possesses her superhuman strength and she intends to conquer Earth. Digory resolves to take her back to Charn after she causes havoc in London for an afternoon, but instead brings her (and accidentally Uncle Andrew, and a cabbie and his horse) before Aslan as he was creating Narnia. After Jadis flees at the sight of Aslan when unable to harm him, Digory is allowed to redeem himself for introducing evil in Narnia by going to a mysterious locked garden to retrieve an apple that grants the desire of the one who eats it, but despair to those who steal it.
But Jadis is already there, using one apple to become immortal while tempting Digory to eat one himself and take another to save his ill mother. Digory overcomes his moral conflict and takes the apple to Aslan, instructed by the lion to plant it by the river so it would become a tree whose magic will keep Jadis, who will later be known as the White Witch, at bay for many centuries. With Aslan's permission and blessing, Digory is allowed to take an apple from this tree back to his world to cure his mother. With Polly's help, Digory then buries all the magic rings and the apple core behind the Ketterlys' house. Over time, a seed from the apple core grows into a new tree with special but non magical fruit.
Soon afterwards, Digory's father returns from home in India, able to retire from the army having inherited a fortune and a large house in the country from a recently deceased uncle. Digory, his parents and Uncle Andrew go and live there.
In later years, the mature tree is blown down by a storm and Digory uses the wood to build the wardrobe that becomes the portal to Narnia in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe[edit]
40 years later, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie stay with the now 52-year-old Professor Kirke at his house in the country during The Blitz of London. A bachelor, he lives at the great house with his housekeeper, Mrs Macready.
The four children discover Narnia via a wardrobe, revealed at the end of The Magician's Nephew to have been made from the wood of the tree which grew from the apple Digory had fed to his sick mother (by this stage presumably deceased). After Lucy visits Narnia for the first time and her siblings do not believe her story, Kirke speaks to them wisely and shows them that she is logically likely to be telling the truth. In particular, he points out that the idea of an alternate reality having a course of time completely separate to ours is unlikely to have been made up by a child Lucy's age. The professor's first name (Digory) is not used in the text.
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader[edit]
In The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, it is mentioned in passing that Professor Kirke has lost his fortune and has had to downsize to a cottage with only one spare bedroom. (This explains why Edmund and Lucy, at the beginning of the book, are forced to stay with their cousin Eustace Scrubb when their parents and Susan go abroad, with only Peter being able to stay with the professor so as to be tutored for his upcoming university examinations.)
The Last Battle[edit]
In The Last Battle, Digory dies in a train accident and is pulled into Narnia, with the other listed major characters. He and Polly (age 60 and 61), both become young again, and are dressed as royalty. They are thus allowed to take up lives in New Narnia. The Last Battle also notes that, prior to the events of the book, Digory, Polly, the Pevensie siblings (with the exception of Susan, who comes to believe that Narnia was a youthful fantasy), Eustace, and Jill Pole had been gathering on occasion as "friends of Narnia", to reminisce about their various adventures.
Portrayals[edit]
Michael Aldridge as Digory in the 1988 BBC miniseries adaptation of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Michael Aldridge played Digory in the 1988 BBC miniseries adaptation. Jim Broadbent played the character in the 2005 film.
References[edit]
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Ford, Paul (2005), Digory Kirke (in The Companion to Narnia: A Complete Guide to the Magical World of C.S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia), HarperSanFrancisco, ISBN 0-06-079127-6
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Gazetted Officers are executive / managerial / supervisorial level ranked public servants in India. Authority for a gazetted officer to issue an official stamp comes from the President of India or the Governors of States. To that effect, they are de jure representatives and delegates of the Indian State and the President.
The Gazette of India is published on the regular basis by the Directorate of Printing, Department of Publication, Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India.[1] It is an official Central Government or State Government publication, which publishes the appointments or promotions of certain government officials. An officer or public servant, who is appointed under the seal of the Governor at State level or by the President of India at the national level (and in the Union Territories), requires being listed in the Indian Gazette or State Government Gazette and is considered to be a Gazetted Officer. If a person's name is published in the Gazette, he/she is called Gazetted. Many are honourary Justices of the Peace and have the same standing as some of the Magistrates. Such officers, among other functions, have the power to verify the documents for academic, immigration and other purposes.
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2 Who can certify documents
3 Non-Gazetted
4 References
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Ranks[edit]
The Government of India or a Government of States in India classifies public employees into Group A (Gazetted/Executive), B (Gazetted), B (Non-Gazetted), C and D. Earlier classification was Class I (Gazetted), II (Gazetted), II (Non-Gazetted), III and IV. Class I or Group A is the highest rank class and the Class IV or Group D is the least. The Government of India has plans to merge Group D into Group C.[2] Class I and II (Gazetted) belong to the class of officers whose transfers, appointments, promotions and superannuation are published on a yearly basis in the official gazette of State or Union Government. Defence Personnel are categorised as Commissioned Officers, Junior Commissioned Officers and Other Ranks. Commissioned Officers in Indian Armed Forces are counter parts of All India Services / Group A Services.
Class I or Group A (Gazetted)
These officials belong to the managerial or highest class of government servants who are placed in Level 10 and above in Civilian and Defence Pay matrices, Previously in the pay band 3 with 5400 grade pay and above in 6th CPC and Level 10 and above in Pay Matrix in 7th CPC pay structure. However, Pay structure (Grade Pay or Level) is not the sole criteria and many though drawing pay in above pay structure due to financial upgradation under MACP Scheme etc. , may not be holding class I rank.
Examples - Commissioned Officers in Indian Armed Forces and officers of the All India Services i.e. IAS, IPS, IFoS[3] [4], Officers of 61[5] Central Group A Civil Services including IFS, IA&AS, IRS, IRTS, Assistant Secretaries / Under Secretaries /Dy.Directors/Dy.Secretaries/Jt.Directors/Directors etc. in Secretariat, Geologist/Director/Director General(DG)/DDG/ADG and Geo scientists from Central Geological Services (Geological Survey of India, GSI),ISRO, DRDO, DAE, AERB also fall under this category. Assistant Professor and above in Central, State or in an Autonomous University, State governments also appoints certain category officers under Group A Services in state civil services. However officials of PSUs/Autonomous bodies etc though in above pay structure, are not classified as Group A (Gazetted) as their names are not notified in the Gazette of the Government.
Class II or Group B (Gazetted)
Examples - DANIPS DANICS, Puducherry Civil Service, Puducherry Police Service, Section officers of AFHQ Civil Services and Central Secretariat Services, Assistant Engineers, Income Tax officers, Asst. Audit/Accounts Officers of Indian Audit & Accounts Department, JCOs in Armed Forces[6] [7], Principal/Headmaster of High School, Officers in State Civil Services etc.
Class II or Group B (Non-Gazetted)
Examples - Assistant Section Officers in various ministries, Junior Engineers in different departments of GoI and State govts, Income Tax/ Custom /Excise Tax Inspectors etc.
Class III or Group C
Public servants in non-supervisory roles.
Examples - Naib Tehsildar ,Head clerks / Section heads, Police Head Constables, Typists, Stenographers, Tax Assistants, Telephone operators,Nurses, TTEs, Junior Engineers, Sr.Section Engineers on Railways etc.
Class IV or Group D The category since stands upgraded to Group C lowest pay scale of PB1 Grade Pay Rs.1800 in 6th CPC pay structure en masse on account of implementation of recommendations of 6th CPC, though continuing to largely perform their erstwhile manual functions. Their recruitment qualification also stands upgraded to Matric or ITI. In 7th CPC pay structure they are in Level 1 in Pay Matrix.
They are generally Manual workers (skilled or semi-skilled).
Examples - Peons, Sweepers, Multi Tasking Staff (MTS), Trackmen Grade IV on Railways etc.
Who can certify documents[edit]
Attestation of copies of original documents: Group A and B (Gazetted) public servants and Commissioned officers of Indian Armed Forces
Character certificate, Police records verification: Group A officers, Commissioned officers of Indian Armed Forces
Citizenship certification: Group A officers, certification is limited to very few officials such as Sub-Divisional Magistrate etc.
Verification for issue of Passport : It can be done by the Group 'A' officers of the rank of Under Secretary/Dy.Director (Grade Pay 6600/Level 11) and above.
Non-Gazetted[edit]
Officers falling under the category of class III and IV are not gazetted. They do not have the personal authority to issue an official stamp on behalf of the Government. Further, Employees serving in Nationalized Banks and PSUs are not gazetted but they can attest financial documents.
References[edit]
Jump up ^ "DoP - Gazette". Department of Publication. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
Jump up ^ http://www.imyideas.com/2010/10/group-d-posts-abolished-in-department.html
Jump up ^ "Table of Appointments". Retrieved 30 October 2017.
Jump up ^ "Annexure F" (PDF). MEA. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
Jump up ^ "Group A Central Civil Services" (PDF). DoPT.
Jump up ^ "JCOs are Gazetted Officers". rediff. Retrieved 2 November 2017.
Jump up ^ "http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/mod-drops-use-of-term-pbor-in-armed-forces/756929/". Indian Express. Retrieved 30 October 2017. External link in |title= (help)
External links[edit]
http://egazette.nic.in/
http://wbxpress.com/attestation-by-gazetted-officer/
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