|
Ackland
Ackland is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Cain Ackland (born 1982), Australian rules football player *Janet Ackland (1938–2019), Welsh bowler *John Ackland (politician) (1890–1958), Western Australian politician *John Ackland (rugby league) (born 1958), New Zealand rugby coach *Joss Ackland (1928–2023), English actor *Oliver Ackland (born 1979), Australian actor *Rodney Ackland (1908–1991), English dramatist and playwright *Ron Ackland (1934–2013), New Zealand rugby league footballer and coach *Valentine Ackland (1906–1969), British poet *William Hayes Ackland (1855–1940), American author, lawyer and art collector See also *June Ackland, fictional character from the television series ''The Bill'' *Ackland Art Museum The Ackland Art Museum is a museum and academic unit of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It was founded through the bequest of William Hayes Ackland (1855–1940) to The University of North Carolina at Chap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cain Ackland
Cain Jed Ackland (born 16 March 1982) is an Australian rules football player formerly in the Australian Football League (AFL). Originally from South Australian National Football League (SANFL) club Port Adelaide Magpies, Ackland was drafted by Port Adelaide in the second round of the 1999 AFL Draft. He made his AFL debut in 2001, playing twelve games but did not play another senior game for Port in three seasons and was delisted at the end of the 2004 AFL season. , who had a shortage of quality ruckman, especially following the departure of Trent Knobel, selected Ackland in the second round of the 2004 AFL Draft. He played 22 games during the 2005 AFL season and earned the Rex Hunt nickname "The Street" in his commentary, in reference to the St Kilda nightspot Acland Street. Out of contract with St Kilda at the end of 2006, Ackland joined Carlton with the club's first pick in the 2007 pre-season Draft. Ackland, who St Kilda had sought to retain, rejected St Kilda's t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janet Ackland
Janet Ackland (1938–2019) was a Welsh international lawn and indoor bowler. Bowls career World Championships Ackland won two bronze medals and a silver medal at the 1977 World Outdoor Bowls Championship; the silver medals came in the pairs with Lilian Nicholas and the fours with Joan Osborne, Enid Morgan and Margaret Pomeroy, the silver medal was in the team event (Taylor Trophy). Eleven years later the pinnacle of her long career came when she took the singles gold medal at the 1988 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Auckland. Commonwealth Games Ackland competed at four successive Commonwealth Games and in the 1994 Commonwealth Games she won a bronze in the pairs with Ann Dainton. National Ackland began bowling in 1959 and won her first title at Llandrindod Wells in 1969 and was the 1980 and 1987 Welsh National Bowls Championships The Welsh National Bowls Championships is organised by the Welsh Bowling Association The Welsh Bowling Association (WBA) is the governi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ackland (politician)
John Hugh Ackland (21 August 1890 – 29 July 1958) was an Australian politician, and a member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 1947 until 1958 representing the seats of Irwin-Moore and Moore. Biography Ackland was born in Mitcham, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia, to John Barnes Ackland, a warehouse manager, and Edith Ackland (née Randell). In 1896, the family moved to Western Australia, and he was educated at state schools in East Perth, Claremont and Northam before attending Scotch College. He obtained work as a jackaroo for Thomas Wilding at Mokine in 1906–1908, and from then on farmed at family properties. In 1910, he selected land at Lake Ninan near Wongan Hills, which became productive. During this time he became a member of the town's Board of Health, and on 21 December 1914, he married Elsie Stokes with whom he was to have two sons. With the onset of the First World War, Ackland was enlisted into the Australian Imperial Force on 16 Aug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ackland (rugby League)
Richard John Ackland (born 2 August 1958) is a New Zealand former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s and 1980s, Coach (sport), coach in the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s, and scout in the 2000s, and former cricketer in the 1980s, who works for the New Zealand Warriors in the National Rugby League. He represented New Zealand national rugby league team, New Zealand in 1983. His late uncle, Ron Ackland, Ron, also played for New Zealand. Background Ackland was born in Auckland, New Zealand. Playing career Ackland played rugby league in New Zealand in the 1980s as a Rugby league positions#Forwards, forward. In 1981, he won the Auckland Rugby League club trophies, Lipscombe Cup while playing in the Auckland Rugby League competition for Mt Albert Lions, Mt Albert. He also was named man of the match in the 1981 Fox Memorial grand final, after scoring a try. In 1983, he won the Bert Humphries Memorial for best forward in the competition. He spent the 1982-83 off-sea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joss Ackland
Sidney Edmond Jocelyn Ackland CBE (born 29 February 1928) is an English retired actor who has appeared in more than 130 film and television roles. He was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for portraying Jock Delves Broughton in '' White Mischief'' (1987). Early life Ackland was born in North Kensington, London on 29 February 1928, the son of Major Sydney Norman Ackland (died 1981), an Irish journalist who had been sent to England to live with an aunt by his parents for seducing their maid, but subsequently seduced his aunt's maid, Ruth Izod (died 1957), whom he married. He was trained by Elsie Fogerty at the Central School of Speech and Drama, then based at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Ackland and Rosemary Kirkcaldy were married on 18 August 1951, when Ackland was 23 and she 22. She was an actress and Ackland wooed her when they appeared on stage together in Pitlochry, Scotland. The couple struggled initially as Ackland's acting career was in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oliver Ackland
Oliver Ackland (born 9 November 1979) is an Australian actor. Biography In 2009 he was awarded the inaugural Heath Ledger scholarship by Australians in Film. Ackland starred in Ben Lucas' ''Wasted on the Young'', which premiered at the 2010 Sydney Film Festival and screened at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival. His other feature film credits include Roger Scholes’ ''Cable'' and John Hillcoat's feature ''The Proposition''. In 2011, he appeared as 'Toby Raven' in the mini-series realization of Tim Winton's ''Cloudstreet'', directed by Matthew Saville, and as 'Rhys' in ''The Slap'', adapted from the novel by Christos Tsiolkas. Ackland's other television credits include ''All Saints'', ''Always Greener'', ''Young Lions'' and ''Outriders''. He also appeared in the telemovie ''Emerald Falls'' and co-starred in the miniseries ''Jessica'', both directed by Peter Andrikidis. In 2012, Ackland was seen in the comedy horror film, ''100 Bloody Acres'', directed by Colin and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rodney Ackland
Rodney Ackland (18 May 1908 in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex – 6 December 1991 in Richmond upon Thames, Surrey) was an English playwright, actor, theatre director and screenwriter. Born as Norman Ackland Bernstein in Southend, Essex, to a Jewish father from Warsaw and a non-Jewish mother, he was educated at Balham Grammar School in London. In his 16th year he made his first stage appearance at the Gate Theatre Studio, playing Medvedieff in Gorky's ''The Lower Depths'' and later studied acting at the Central School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art. He married Mab Lonsdale, daughter of the playwright Frederick Lonsdale, in 1952; she died in 1972. Theatre career In 1929, after performing with various repertory companies, he toured as Young Woodley in the play of that name. At the Gaiety Theatre in 1933 he played Paul in his own adaptation of ''Ballerina'', which also toured the following year, and at the Criterion in 1936 he played the role of Oliver Nashwick in his own origina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Ackland
Ronald Charles Ackland (27 December 1934 − 25 October 2013) was a New Zealand professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, and Coach (sport), coached in the 1960s and 1970s, who represented New Zealand national rugby league team, New Zealand in the 1957 Rugby League World Cup, 1957 and 1960 Rugby League World Cup, 1960 World Cups, and coached New Zealand national rugby league team, New Zealand in the 1977 Rugby League World Cup, 1977 World Cup. His nephew, John Ackland (rugby league), John, also played for New Zealand. Playing career Ackland was a Mt Wellington Warriors, Mt Wellington player. During the Auckland Rugby League's District era he played for Eastern Districts. In 1960, Ackland won the inaugural Auckland Rugby League club trophies, Rothville Trophy for player of the year, a feat he repeated in 1961. Ackland also played for the Mount Albert Lions and captained the City Newton Dragons in 1961.Bruce Montgomerie ''Those Who Played'', Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valentine Ackland
Valentine Ackland (born Mary Kathleen Macrory Ackland; 20 May 1906 – 9 November 1969) was an English poet, and life partner of novelist Sylvia Townsend Warner. Their relationship was strained by Ackland’s infidelities and alcoholism, but survived for nearly forty years. Both were closely involved with communism, remaining under continued scrutiny by the authorities. Ackland’s poetry did not become widely noticed until after her death, when her reflective, confessional style was more in vogue, and left-wing writers of the 1930s had become a popular topic. Life Mary Kathleen Macrory "Molly" Ackland was born 20 May 1906 at 54 Brook Street, London to Robert Craig Ackland and Ruth Kathleen (née Macrory). Nicknamed "Molly" by her family, she was the younger of two sisters. With no sons born to the family, her father, a West End London dentist, worked at making a symbolic son of Molly, teaching her to shoot rifles and to box. The attention to Molly made her elder sister, Joan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Hayes Ackland
William Hayes Ackland (born William H. Acklen, September 6, 1855 – February 16, 1940) was an American lawyer, writer, and art collector from Nashville, Tennessee. He lived most of his life away from Tennessee, in Washington, DC, and various social spots, traveling to England annually for its social season. The Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill was begun with his collection. Early life William Hayes Acklen was born on September 6, 1855, in Nashville, Tennessee.Robert Franklin Durden, ''The Launching of Duke University, 1924–1949'', Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1993, p. 28/ref> He changed his last name to Ackland by 1892. He was a son of Colonel Joseph Alexander Smith Acklen (1816–1863), a lawyer from Alabama who had served in the Mexican–American War of 1846–1848, and Adelicia (Hayes) Franklin Acklen (1817–1887). She was a wealthy widow when she married Col. Acklen, and their children benefitted by her wealth.Daphne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
June Ackland
'' The Bill'' is a long-running British television police procedural television series, named after a slang term for the police. The characters are all police officers or civilian staff at the fictional Sun Hill police station in London. Senior officers The following actors appeared as senior officers in ''The Bill''. Simon Rouse, as Jack Meadows, appeared in 884 episodes, including the series finale "Respect". He is the longest serving actor to portray a character in a senior role. Andrew Lancel, as Neil Manson, and Alex Walkinshaw, as "Smithy", also appeared in the series finale. The character of D.I. Roy Galloway appeared in the pilot episode, "Woodentop", played by Robert Pugh. This character would go on to be portrayed by John Salthouse from 1984 onwards. Notable senior officers * Peter Ellis played Chief Superintendent Charles Brownlow from the start of the series in 1984 to 2000, when the character tendered his resignation in light of the Don Beech scandal. He was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
