Alphabet associations - I

[Norfolk Born]

As your Lordship pleases.

[Anna]

Angle was the first to indicate a solution.

But Norfy was the first to actually say the R-word (in two solutions), subcontra finished it off, so under the rules I think that means Norfy gets it?

[mercia]

Norfy gets it?

[Norfolk Born]

Diffidently, I offer an 'S' question which I hope meets, if not with universal, then with a degree of, approval.
Which device features in compositions by: (a) a Canadian song-writer born in a Royal Borough; (b) an Irish lawyer/poet; (c) a famous Northern pensioner born in a Grand Duchy; and (d) the son of a parish schoolmaster?

[Nick Armstrong]

But Norfy was the first to actually say the R-word (in two solutions), subcontra finished it off, so under the rules I think that means Norfy gets it?

[Lateralthinking1]

I think the first is Leonard Cohen - the song Chelsea Hotel? The poet could be Duffy. Luxembourg "gave birth" to the broadcasting career of the late Jimmy Savile. The son of the schoolmaster could be Brooke.

[mercia]

the son of a parish schoolmaster?

Schubert ?

[Anna]

I honestly thought I was getting somewhere with this, then I realised the Pensioner I had was a dead historical one (!) and, I have totally misread the question and failed to notice something significant in the wording <doh> And I fear I won't be around for a couple of hours now.

[Lateralthinking1]

I have a horrible feeling that if the singer isn't Cohen, it is Bryan Adams who was born in Kingston (Ontario).

[mercia]

an Irish lawyer/poet

is this person a composer as well?

[Lateralthinking1]

Don't think so. Duffy was a lawyer and a poet. We don't know though if it is him. My thinking is turning to the title "Everything I Do (I Do It for You)". Is there a literary device here? I don't know what - something like a "stutter"?

[mercia]

a famous Northern pensioner born in a Grand Duchy

is this person a composer and is the Duchy Luxembourg? other Duchies are available

[subcontrabass]

Diffidently, I offer an 'S' question which I hope meets, if not with universal, then with a degree of, approval.
Which device features in compositions by: (a) a Canadian song-writer born in a Royal Borough; (b) an Irish lawyer/poet; (c) a famous Northern pensioner born in a Grand Duchy; and (d) the son of a parish schoolmaster?

A question for the distaff side, I think.

[Lateralthinking1]

As In Arkwright? Richard (spinning) and the stutterer in Open All Hours? RA was born in Preston. The Duchy of Lancaster?

Charles Gavan Duffy incidentally wrote about a stuttering boy.

[Lateralthinking1]

.....Hold on. Rupert Brooke - "Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle".

It has to be a stutter device.