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Allardyce
Allardyce is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: ;Surname * Alexander Allardyce (1846–1896), Scottish author *Craig Allardyce (born 1975), English football manager and former player and agent, son of Sam Allardyce * Paula Allardyce, a pseudonym of Ursula Torday (1912–1997), novelist * Sam Allardyce (born 1954), English football manager and retired player, father of Craig Allardyce *William Allardyce (1861–1930), British civil servant, governor of several former colonies ;Given name * Allardyce Mallon (born 1965), Scottish composer, conductor, repetiteur and pianist *Allardyce Nicoll (1894–1976), English literary scholar and teacher Allardyce is one of 44 variant spellings and is part of the Allardice Castle legacy in NE Scotland. (See www.allerdice.net) See also *Allardyce Range, mountain range in South Georgia, an island in the South Atlantic *Rosita Harbour The Bay of Isles is a bay wide and receding , lying between Cape Buller an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Allardyce
Samuel Allardyce (; born 19 October 1954), colloquially referred to as Big Sam, is an English association football, football manager and former professional player. Allardyce made 578 league and cup appearances in a 21-year career spent mostly in the Football League, as well as brief spells in the North American Soccer League (1968–84), North American Soccer League and League of Ireland. He was signed by Bolton Wanderers F.C., Bolton Wanderers from Dudley Town F.C., Dudley Town in 1969 and spent nine years at Bolton, helping the club to win the Football League Second Division, Second Division title in 1977–78. He spent the 1980s as a journeyman player, spending time with Sunderland A.F.C., Sunderland, Millwall F.C., Millwall, Tampa Bay Rowdies (1975–93), Tampa Bay Rowdies, Coventry City F.C., Coventry City, Huddersfield Town A.F.C., Huddersfield Town, Bolton Wanderers (for a second spell), Preston North End F.C., Preston North End, and West Bromwich Albion F.C., West Bro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Allardyce
Sir William Lamond Allardyce, (14 November 1861 – 10 June 1930) was a career British civil servant in the Colonial Office who served as governor of Fiji (1901–1902), the Falkland Islands (1904–1914), Bahamas (1914–1920), Tasmania (1920–1922), and Newfoundland (1922–1928). Biography Allardyce was born near Bombay, India, the son of Georgina Dickson Abbott and Colonel James Allardyce. Educated in Aberdeen, Scotland and at Oxford Military College, at the age of 18, he joined the British Civil Service in the Colonial Office. His brother Kenneth was also a colonial administrator, serving as Secretary for Native Affairs in Fiji.Death of K.J. Allardyce '' |
Craig Allardyce
Craig Samuel Allardyce (born 9 June 1975) is a retired footballer and a football agent. He is the son of former player and current manager, Sam Allardyce. He was the manager of non-League club Turton from 2007 to 2009. Footballing career Playing career Allardyce had a journeyman career, playing for eleven clubs in seven years. Allardyce started his career in 1993 with Preston North End and left the club in 1994, to join Macclesfield Town. In 1994, Allardyce moved to Chinese outfit Guangdong Hongyuan. On 31 July 1994, Allardyce was involved in an on-pitch brawl with Hao Haidong in Guangdong Hongyuan's league match with Bayi FC. This resulted in Allardyce and Hao receiving a half-year ban by the Chinese Football Association. He left China after this incident. Allardyce then returned to England to play for a short spell at Northwich Victoria, before moving to Blackpool, where his father Sam was manager until he was sacked in 1996. He stayed at the club for three yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Allardyce (author)
Alexander Allardyce (21 January 1846 – 23 April 1896) was a Scottish author, journalist and historian. He wrote for ''Friend of India'', ''Indian Statesman'', ''Fraser's Magazine'', the ''Spectator'' among other publications, and was at one time the editor of the Ceylon Times.Bayne, T. (2004-09-23). Allardyce, Alexander (1846–1896), journalist and historian. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 11 Mar. 2018, from http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-362. Life Allardyce was the son of James Allardyce, farmer, born on 21 January 1846 at Tilly-minit, Gartly, parish of Rhynie, Aberdeenshire. Receiving his first lessons in Latin from his maternal grandmother), he was educated at Rhynie parish school, Aberdeen Grammar School, and the University of Aberdeen. In 1868 he became sub-editor of the ''Friend of India'' at Serampore, Bengal. Lord Mayo appreciated him so highly that he offered him an assistant-commis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allardyce Nicoll
John Ramsay Allardyce Nicoll (28 June 1894 – 17 April 1976) was a British literary scholar and teacher. Allardyce Nicoll was born in Partick, Glasgow, and educated at Stirling High School and the University of Glasgow, where he was the G. A. Clark scholar in English. He became a lecturer at King's College London in 1920 and took the chair of English at East London College (later Queen Mary's College) in 1923. In 1933 he went to Yale University as professor of the history of drama and dramatic criticism and chair of the drama department. He established a strong graduate programme in theatre history. Around 1943–45 he performed war work at the British embassy in Washington. From 1945 to 1961 he headed the English Department at the University of Birmingham; from 1951 to 1961 he was also founding director of the Shakespeare Institute at Birmingham. He served as president of the Society for Theatre Research from 1958 to 1976. Research His major work was his six-volume ''History ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paula Allardyce
Ursula Torday (; 19 February 1912 in London, England – 6 March 1997), was a British writer of some 60 gothic, romance and mystery novels from 1935 to 1982. She also used the pseudonyms of Paula Allardyce (), Charity Blackstock, Lee Blackstock, and Charlotte Keppel. In 1961, her novel '' Witches' Sabbath'' won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association Biography Early years Ursula Joyce Torday was born on 19 February 1912 (in some sources wrongly 1888) in London, England, United Kingdom; her mother, Gaia Rose Macdonald, was Scottish, and her father, Emil Torday (1875–1931) was a Hungarian anthropologist - they had married on 17 March 1910. She studied at Kensington High School in London before going to Oxford University, where she obtained a BA in English at Lady Margaret Hall College; she later achieved a Social Science Certificate at London School of Economics. First jobs In the 1930s, she published her first three novels under her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allardyce Range
The Allardyce Range ( es, Cordillera de San Telmo) is a mountain range rising south of Cumberland Bay and dominating the central part of South Georgia, a UK overseas territory. It extends for from Mount Globus in the northwest to Mount Brooker in the southeast, with peaks of and including Mount Paget () the highest peak of the range and also the highest point in the UK territory. Other peaks of the range include Mount Roots. Although not shown on the charts of South Georgia by Cook in 1775 or Bellingshausen in 1819, peaks of this range were doubtless seen by those explorers. The range was named c. 1915 after Sir William Lamond Allardyce (1861–1930), Governor of the Falkland Islands and Dependencies, 1904–14. See also *Nachtigal Peak *Sutton Crag Sutton Crag is a crag, , standing north of and connected by a long ridge to the west peak of Mount Paget in the Allardyce Range of South Georgia. Charted and unofficially named Sentinel or Sentinel Peak by the British So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allardyce Mallon
Allardyce Mallon is a Scottish composer, conductor, repetiteur and pianist. He was born in Hong Kong in 1965, moving to Scotland at age nine. He was educated at University of Edinburgh, University of Surrey and Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, then subsequently studied piano and conducting at the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève, in Geneva, Switzerland, from 1990 to 1994. Mallon's style of composition has evolved over the last two decades. His early style was strongly influenced by his teachers Kenneth Leighton and James MacMillan, along with a number of American composers among them John Adams and William Schuman. His more recent work has crossed disciplines and has been permeated by influences spanning contemporary architecture, theatre and traditional diatonic elements. His "Visions and Interludes", premiered in Chicago in 1997, demonstrates architectonic elements as represented by sonic structures. His many compositions include his 2008 ''Alba Song'' fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosita Harbour
The Bay of Isles is a bay wide and receding , lying between Cape Buller and Cape Wilson along the north coast of South Georgia. It was discovered in 1775 by a British expedition under James Cook and so named by him because numerous islands (at least twelve) lie in the bay. Of South Georgia's 31 breeding bird species, 17 are found here. Named features The features around the Bay of Isles have been charted and named by a number of Antarctic expeditions since 1775. The bay is wide, and has a complex coastline that includes many subsidiary bays, coves, inlets, and other features, many of which have named headlands and points between them. The west coast of the Bay of Isles is roughly C-shaped. Its northernmost point is the rugged headland Cape Buller; Cleveland Rock sits nearby. Pyramid Peak rises over the cape. Just southeast of the cape sits Barlas Bank, a small submarine bank. At the top of the C-shape, Koppervik cove indents the north coast of the west side of the bay, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allardice (other)
Allardice is a surname of Scottish origin deriving from the name of a town in Kincardineshire (Alrethes) where the family was located. Notable people with the surname include: * Geoff Allardice (born 1967), Australian cricketer * James B. Allardice (1919—1966), American television comedy writer * Lesley Allardice (born 1957), British swimmer *Michael Allardice (born 1991), New Zealand rugby union player * Robert Barclay Allardice (1779—1854), a.k.a. Captain Barclay, Scottish Laird and noted sport walker *Robert Edgar Allardice (1862–1928), Scottish mathematician *Robert R. Allardice (born c. 1958), United States Air Force general * Scott Allardice, Scottish footballer See also * Allardice Castle, a sixteenth-century manor house in Kincardineshire, Scotland *Allardyce Allardyce is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: ;Surname * Alexander Allardyce (1846–1896), Scottish author *Craig Allardyce (born 1975), English football manager and former ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
