Pocklington

Although anthropocentrically enough titled and most likely commissioned as a marriage portrait, this painting is really a study of Captain Pocklington's horse.

'Sweet Influences': Human/Animal Difference and Social Cohesion in Wordsworth and Coleridge, 1794-1806 2001

Others have reported it as "Pocklington attacks federal Liberals," or "Pocklington is a Trudeau-basher."

Let's Make Canada Great Again 1982

One might say quite fairly that Peter Pocklington is no politician, but one has to admit that he is a very successful businessman, a good administrator, and that he has the respect he deserves within his organization.

Let's Make Canada Great Again 1982

In George Stubbs's portrait of Captain Pocklington and family, the foundational relationship of husband and wife is symbolically triangulated by an animal (their horse), to whom Mrs. Pocklington gives her hand and beside which the captain stands, legs poised like and yet unlike the animal's own.

Abstracts 2001

Pocklington was a colorful, popular maverick owner who once piled up roughly $100,000 on the team's pingpong table and told his players it was their money if they beat the Los Angeles Kings.

Former Oilers owner Pocklington entertaining in life and in print 2009

Pocklington would bring his Oilers to Toronto and Ballard would take the Maple Leafs to Edmonton.

Former Oilers owner Pocklington entertaining in life and in print 2009

• In its day, the slot-machine museum in Pocklington, near York, was peerless.

Letters: Loose ends 2011

When former Edmonton Oilers owner Peter Pocklington agreed to participate in the writing of a book about his life, he drew no boundaries because he has his own Peter Principle.

Former Oilers owner Pocklington entertaining in life and in print 2009

It didn't feel like spring when I recently drove up into the wolds near Pocklington, with snow-sprinkled verges still not thawed after an afternoon of winter sun – a low, heatless sun that gave rise to long shadows.

Country diary: East Yorkshire 2011

Pocklington said he isn't surprised that former Leafs executives didn't know about.

Former Oilers owner Pocklington entertaining in life and in print 2009