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Alwyn
Alwyn is a name, primarily used as a given name. Notable people with the name include: Given name *Alwyn Bramley-Moore (1878–1916), politician and soldier from Alberta, Canada *Alwyn Davey (born 1984), Indigenous Australian rules footballer * Alwyn Eato (born 1929), English cricketer * Alwyn Hamilton, author of '' Rebel of the Sands'' * Alwyn Jones (biophysicist) (born 1947), Welsh biophysicist and professor at the University of Uppsala *Alwyn Jones (athlete) (born 1985), Australian triple jumper *Alwyn Kurts (1915–2000), Australian drama and comedy actor * Alwyn MacArchill (12th century), a ''rannair'' to the King of Scots * Alwyn Morris (born 1957), Canadian flatwater canoeist *Alwyn Myburgh (born 1980), South African hurdler *Alwyn Rice Jones (1934–2007), Archbishop of Wales from 1991 to 1999 * Alwyn Schlebusch (1917–2008), Vice State President of South Africa 1981–1984 *Alwyn Scott (born 1963), American business journalist and editor *Alwyn Sheppard Fidler CBE (1909 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Alwyn
Joseph Matthew Alwyn (born 21 February 1991) is an English actor. He made his feature film debut as the titular character in Ang Lee's 2016 war drama, '' Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk,'' and has since played supporting roles in films such as ''The Favourite'' (2018), ''Boy Erased'' (2018), ''Mary Queen of Scots'' (2018), and '' Harriet'' (2019). His accolades include a Trophée Chopard, a Critics' Choice Movie Award, a Satellite Award, and a Grammy Award. Born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, and raised in North London, Alwyn developed an interest in acting during his teenage years and joined the National Youth Theatre in 2009. He acted in two student productions at Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and graduated with a BA degree in English literature and drama from the University of Bristol (2012). He received another BA, in acting, from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (2015). He won the Trophée Chopard at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, following his appearance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenneth Alwyn
Kenneth Alwyn (born Kenneth Alwyn Wetherell) (28 July 1925 – 10 December 2020) was a British conductor, composer, and writer. Described by BBC Radio 3 as "one of the great British musical directors", Alwyn was known for his many recordings, including with the London Symphony Orchestra on Decca's first stereophonic recording of Tchaikovsky's ''1812 Overture''. He was also known for his long association with BBC Radio 2's orchestral live music programme '' Friday Night is Music Night'', appearing for thirty years as a conductor and presenter, and for his contribution to British musical theatre as a prolific musical director in the 1950s and 1960s. He was a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music and married the actress Mary Law in 1960. His website and the first volume of his memoirs ''A Baton in the Ballet and Other Places'' were both published in 2015. The second volume ''Is Anyone Watching?'' was published in 2017. A Book of Remembrance was opened on his website in December 2020 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alwyn MacArchill
Alwyn MacArchill was a mid-12th-century man who appears in numerous charters of the Kings of Scots. He, and his son, held the office of ''rannair''—a distributor of the food and provisions—to the King of Scots. Over the years, some historians have suggested that he was an ancestor of the Earls of Lennox; some made him the first earl, others made him a male-line ancestor of the first earl, another suggestion is that he is an ancestor of the first earl in the female-line. Biography Various names Alwyn MacArchill appears in numerous contemporary sources during the reigns of David I and Malcolm IV. Jackson 1972: pp. 63–66. Historian G. W. S. Barrow noted that nineteen acts of David I were witnessed by Alwyn MacArchill. The 20th-century linguist Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson noted numerous sources and stated that his name appears four times as ''Alfwin''; once as ''Alfwin''; six times as ''Alwyn''; and once as ''Algune'' (in the ''Book of Deer''). Jackson stated that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alwyn Davey
Alwyn Davey, Jr. (born 15 May 1984) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Essendon Football Club of the Australian Football League (AFL) between 2007 and 2013. Early life Davey is of Indigenous Australian descent with tribal ancestry that can be traced to the Kokatha people in South Australia Alwyn was born to mother Lizzie, named after father Alwyn DaveyFlanagan, M., "", ''Real Footy'', 9 May 2007. Retrieved on 9 May 2007. and raised in Darwin, Northern Territory. Davey played his junior football in Darwin. His father died when he was eight years old. Davey moved to Adelaide to play football semi-professionally with South Adelaide in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). Davey first attracted the attention of AFL talent scouts after the impressive first and second seasons of his brother Aaron for the Melbourne Football Club. In the 2006 pre-season, Alwyn was invited to train with his brother at Melbourne, and many believed that the cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alwyn Williams (geologist)
Sir Alwyn Williams (8 June 1921 – 4 April 2004) was a Welsh geologist, who was Principal of the University of Glasgow from 1976 to 1988, and President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh from 1985 to 1988. Early life Williams was born in Aberdare, an industrial town in Rhondda Cynon Taf, South Wales, and attended Aberdare Boys' Grammar School. He was a keen sportsman in his youth, taking part in athletics and rugby, and had ambitions to join the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy, although these were thwarted by a bout of tuberculosis in 1939, which confined him for a time to a sanitorium. He instead won a scholarship to study at University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, where he achieved a First in geology in 1939, and a PhD, studying Welsh Ordovician rocks and describing new species of brachiopods. Whilst at Aberystwyth he served both as President of the institution's Students' Representative Council, and as National Vice-President of the National Union of Students. In 1948, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malcolm And Alwyn
Malcolm and Alwyn were a popular British gospel beat music group in the 1970s. They played rock music influenced by Simon and Garfunkel, Bob Dylan and The Beatles with lyrics reflecting their conversion to Christianity. The duo was composed of Malcolm Wild and Alwyn Wall, who had been performing together in a band called The Zodiacs prior to their conversion. Malcolm and Alwyn recorded two albums in the early '70s before they disbanded in 1976, and a live reunion album in 1981 before again parting ways. The live album was recorded on 24 January 1981 at Calvary Chapel, Costa Mesa, California, U.S. Both Malcolm and Alwyn released solo albums following the group's disbanding. Alwyn Wall featured on Larry Norman's 1981 live '' Friends on Tour'' album. Career Their 1973 debut album ''Fool's Wisdom'' sported a stellar cast of session musicians including John Wetton of King Crimson on bass, Rod Edwards and Roger Hand of Edwards Hand on keyboards and percussion, veteran drummer Clem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alwyn Hamilton
Alwyn Hamilton is a Canadian author. She is known for her bestselling young adult book '' Rebel of the Sands''. Biography Hamilton was born in Toronto and had lived in Europe and Canada before her parents decided to settle in France. She grew up in Beaune a small town in France before moving to England to study History of Art at King's College in Cambridge University. She later moved back to France for work after graduation. She currently lives in London. Work ''Rebel of the Sands'' is Hamilton's debut novel and she wrote two more books to make it a trilogy. The book is written for young adults and is part of the fantasy genre. In ''Rebel'', Amani leaves her hometown, Dustwalk, and travels through a magical countryside to reach the fictional nation of Miraji, in order to avoid an arranged marriage to her uncle. ''Publishers Weekly'' wrote that "Hamilton successfully mingles romance with thrilling stakes, and hints at a welcome sequel." ''Rebel'' made YALSA's nominations fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alwyn Jones (biophysicist)
Thomas Alwyn Jones (born 30 August 1947) is a Welsh biophysicist and a professor at the Uppsala University in Sweden. Early life and education Alwyn Jones attended the primary school at Bedlinog, and went on to the Lewis School, Pengam where he studied his GCE Ordinary Levels and A-levels. He was educated at King's College London, where he received his BSc in physics and a PhD degree in biochemistry. Career He held various positions at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Munich from 1973 to 1979, and in Uppsala from 1979. Jones was a Research Professor employed by the Swedish Natural Science Research Council 1987–1994, and has been Professor of Structural Biology at the Department of Molecular Biology, Uppsala, from 1994. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society (elected in 1992) and a Foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (elected in 2000). He is a recipient of the Gregori Aminoff Prize (2003), "for his pioneering development of methods to interpret ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alwyn Morris
Alwyn Morris, CM (born November 22, 1957) is a retired Canadian sprint kayaker. A member of the Mohawk nation in Kahnawake, he is considered one of the most influential Indigenous athletes of all time. He is the first and only Aboriginal Canadian athlete who won a gold medal at the Summer Olympic Games and one of the only three North American aboriginals to do so, alongside Jim Thorpe and Billy Mills. Sporting career Early years Morris was inspired to compete in elite level of canoeing while watching Olympic canoeing competition in his early teens. This pursuit received encouragement and guidance from his grandfather. Morris' first notable canoeing accomplishment was winning the Canadian National Junior Title in 1977 for K-1 1,000 m, as well as K-1 500 m. He was the winner of multiple junior regional and provincial titles in late 1970s before won six consecutive K-1 Canadian champions between 1980 and 1984. Morris also won two medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Champio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alwyn Schlebusch
Alwyn Louis Schlebusch (16 September 1917 – 7 January 2008) was a South African politician, the only holder of the title Vice State President of South Africa from 1 January 1982 to 14 September 1984. He was an Afrikaner with a surname of German origin. He was born in Lady Grey, Eastern Cape. He was the son of Charel Johannes Schlebusch and Elizabeth Cornelia Myburgh and eldest brother of Charel Johannes Schlebusch, Elsie Cornelia Schlebusch and Anna Christina Schlebusch. Career Schlebusch was appointed chair of the eponymous Schlebusch Commission in 1972, which had the power to cut foreign funding and seize the assets of anti-apartheid organizations, such as the Christian Institute of Southern Africa. The position of Vice State President was created when the Senate was abolished in 1981. During his tenure, Schlebusch chaired the President's Council, which advised on the creation of a new constitution. The post was abolished when the new constitution came into effec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alwyn Kurts
Alwyn Cecil Kurts (28 October 1915 – 4 May 2000) was an Australian drama and comedy actor of radio, television and film, best remembered for his role as gruff Inspector Colin Fox in the TV series ''Homicide''. Biography Kurts' father, David Day, was a well-known radio personality in the postwar years. Kurts worked on breakfast radio on Perth station 6PR in 1942. He then became an accredited war correspondent reporting from Burma, New Guinea and the Philippines. After the war he moved to 3XY with his program ''Raising a Husband''. His television career started with the television version of his radio show ''Raising a Husband'' (which was pushed off air by the success of Graham Kennedy), then ''Hutton's Family Quiz'', '' Don't Argue'' and ''Fighting Words''. He made the successful transition to television in ''Homicide''; after one 1968 appearance as criminal Frank Inglis, he took on the role of country-based Inspector Colin Fox for one episode the same year. Kurts then retur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alwyn Williams (bishop)
Alwyn Terrell Petre Williams (20 July 188818 February 1968) was Bishop of Durham (1939–1952) and then Bishop of Winchester (1952–1961). Family and education Born the eldest son of John (a physician) and Adeline (née Peter) Williams, at Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire, he was educated at Rossall School and then went up to Jesus College, Oxford, where he had a remarkable career. He was a Scholar of his college and took a Triple First in Classical Moderations (1908), Greats (1910), and Modern History (1911), having won the Gladstone Historical Essay in 1909. He was elected a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, for the period 1911–1918. Williams married Margaret, née Stewart, of Perthshire, on 23 August 1914; they had no children, and she died in 1958. Career He was ordained deacon on St Thomas's day (21 December) 1913 and priest on 20 December 1914—both times by Charles Gore, Bishop of Oxford, at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford—and soon moved to Winchester College, whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
