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Arkell is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * A. J. Arkell (1898–1980), English archaeologist and colonial administrator * Frank Arkell (1935–1998), Australian politician * Henry Arkell (1898–1982), English cricketer * John Arkell (1835–1923), English rower and clergyman * Keith Arkell (born 1961), English chess grandmaster * Myles Arkell (born 1932), English cricketer * Reginald Arkell (1882–1959), English writer * Simon Arkell (born 1966), Australian Olympic pole vaulter * Thomas Arkell (1823–1906), English-Canadian politician * Valerie Arkell-Smith (1895–1960), an English transgender man better known as Colonel Sir Victor Barker * William Joscelyn Arkell (1904–1958), English geologist and paleontologist See also * Arkell Cirque, large cirque on the south face of the central Read Mountains in Antarctica * Arkell Museum, American art and historical museum in Canajoharie, New York * Arkell Spring Grounds, bedrock aquifer along the Eramosa R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Arkell
Francis Neville (Frank) Arkell (13 September 193526 June 1998) was an Australian politician. Arkell was a long-serving Lord Mayor of Wollongong and an independent member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, representing Wollongong. In 1998 Arkell was violently murdered in his home, aged 62 years. His home was exposed as the venue of pedophile parties with some boys brought from Brisbane and the Gold Coast, with Arkell identified as the one paying money to the traffickers. Arkell was a Knight of the Order of the Star of Italy, according to his biography on the Parliament of NSW site. Early life Arkell was born on 13 September 1935 in Port Kembla, New South Wales. He grew up in a modest house out on the swamplands south of Wollongong, within walking distance of the Port Kembla steelworks that was built in the 1920s and which employed his truck-driving father through the Depression and beyond. The Arkells sent their sons to the local Christian Brothers College. The mos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Arkell
Henry John Denham Arkell was an English first-class cricketer. He played in two first-class matches for Northamptonshire in 1921. His son Myles played first-class cricket for Cambridge University , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola .... References English cricketers Northamptonshire cricketers 1898 births 1982 deaths {{England-cricket-bio-1890s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Arkell
John Arkell (1835–1923) was an English clergyman and a rower who won Silver Goblets at Henley Royal Regatta. Arkell was born in Boddington, GloucestershireBritish Census 1881 RG11 1503/10 p13 and educated at Pembroke College, Oxford, where he was an oarsman. He rowed for Oxford in the Boat Race in 1857, 1858 and 1859. Oxford won in 1857 but lost in 1858. Arkell succeeded Edmond Warre as O.U.B.C. President, and implemented his idea of Trial Eights at Oxford in the autumn of 1858. Oxford won the 1859 Boat Race when Arkell was stroke. In 1859, Arkell also partnered Warre to win Silver Goblets at Henley Royal Regatta beating A. A. Casamajor and James Paine in the final by four lengths. Arkell took Holy Orders, and was at |
Keith Arkell
Keith Charles Arkell (born 8 January 1961) is an English chess Grandmaster. He won the English Chess Championship in 2008. In 2014 he was European Senior (50+) Champion, and, later in the year, tied for first in the World Senior (50+) Championship, but received the silver medal on tie-break. Chess career Arkell was born in Birmingham, and learned to play chess aged 13. His brother Nicholas was also a strong player. FIDE awarded Arkell the title of International Master in 1985, and he became a Grandmaster ten years later, after gaining norms at Ostend 1990, Parthenay 1993 and at the final leg of the French League Championship in 1995. He was the 1998 British Rapidplay Chess Champion, having recorded his peak Elo rating of 2545 just two years earlier. In the early part of the 2000s, before taking a break from serious chess, he showed that he could perform consistently at a high level; he tied for second place at the 2001 British Chess Championship, tied for second at the str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myles Arkell
Richard Henry Myles Arkell is an English cricketer who played in three first-class matches for Cambridge University between 1953 and 1955. He was born at Abington, Northampton Northampton () is a market town and civil parish in the East Midlands of England, on the River Nene, north-west of London and south-east of Birmingham. The county town of Northamptonshire, Northampton is one of the largest towns in England; .... References Cambridge University cricketers 1932 births English cricketers Living people {{England-cricket-bio-1930s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reginald Arkell
Reginald Arkell (14 October 1881 – 1 May 1959) was a British script writer and comic novelist who wrote many musical plays for the London theatre. The most popular of those was an adaptation of the spoof history book '' 1066 and All That'': ''1066—and all that: A Musical Comedy based on that Memorable History by Sellar and Yeatman''. He was the author of ''A Cottage in the Country'' and the Green Fingers series of garden verse. Arkell was born on 14 October 1882 at Lechlade, Gloucestershire, England, was educated at Burford Grammar School and trained as a journalist. He married actress Elizabeth Evans in 1912. During the First World War he served with the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and The Norfolk Regiment. He also scripted a propaganda comic book, ''Bosch the soldier'', illustrated by Alfred Leete. Arkell died on 1 May 1959 at Cricklade, England. Works *''The Round House'' (1958, novel) *''Charley Moon'' (1953, novel, published by Michael Joseph Ltd) *"Trumpets Ov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Arkell
Simon Graham Arkell (born 1 July 1966) is an Olympic pole vaulter from Australia, who competed in two consecutive Summer Olympics The Summer Olympic Games (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques d'été), also known as the Games of the Olympiad, and often referred to as the Summer Olympics, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years. The inau ..., starting in 1992. During his career he was Commonwealth Champion, NCAA All-American (5 times), WAC Conference Champion (7 times) and broke 9 Australian and 4 Commonwealth records. He was also Australian (3) and British (2) Champion, was 1993 Australian Athlete of the Year and is in the Athletics Hall of Fame for the State of South Australia and the University of New Mexico, USA. After his athletic career Arkell went on to co-found Versifi Technologies, Predixion Software and Deep Lens, an oncology-focused clinical trial matching software company that uses artificial intelligence to match cancer patient ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Arkell
Thomas Arkell (10 November 1823 - 2 February 1906) was a Canadian politician, farmer and grain merchant. He was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in 1878 as a Member of the Liberal-Conservative Party to represent the riding of Elgin East. He was defeated in the election of 1882. Prior to his federal experience, he was elected mayor of St. Thomas, Upper Canada (later Ontario) between 1865 and 1871. Arkell was born in Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom and immigrated to Upper Canada The Province of Upper Canada (french: link=no, province du Haut-Canada) was a part of British Canada established in 1791 by the Kingdom of Great Britain, to govern the central third of the lands in British North America, formerly part of th .... He married Olive Eldridge and they had nine children. External links * 1823 births 1906 deaths English emigrants to Canada Conservative Party of Canada (1867–1942) MPs Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valerie Arkell-Smith
Victor Barker, born Lillias Irma Valerie Barker (27 August 1895 – 18 February 1960) and called Valerie Arkell-Smith after marriage and who also went by the pseudonyms John Hill and Geoffrey Norton, was a transgender man who is notable for having married a woman. He was an officer of the National Fascisti, as well as a bankrupt and a convicted criminal. Early life Barker was born Lillias Irma Valerie Barker on 27 August 1895 in Saint Clement on the Channel Island of Jersey, the child of Thomas William Barker, farmer and architect, and his wife, Lillias Adelaide Hill. The family moved to Surrey in 1899. In April 1918, Barker married an Australian, Lieutenant Harold Arkell Smith, in Milford, Surrey. The marriage lasted only a short period and the husband returned to Australia early the following year. On 26 August 1918, Barker enrolled as a member of the Women's Royal Air Force.Martin Pugh, ''Hurrah for the Blackshirts: Fascists and Fascism in Britain Between the Wars'', Piml ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Joscelyn Arkell
William Joscelyn Arkell FGS, FRS (9 June 1904 – 18 April 1958) was a British geologist and palaeontologist, regarded as the leading authority on the Jurassic Period during the middle part of the 20th century. Childhood Arkell was born in Highworth, Wiltshire, the youngest of a family of seven. His father, James Arkell was a partner in the prosperous family business '' Arkell's Brewery'' (which is still family owned today). His mother, Laura Jane Arkell was an artist of noted ability. He developed a deep love of the English countryside from an early age, perhaps gained from long family summer holidays spent at Swanage, Dorset. He was later educated at Wellington College in Berkshire, where his ability in Natural History was recognised and he was able to devote significant time to develop his knowledge of this subject. He was a regular prize winner for his natural history essays, one of which was a treatise on the Dorset Robber Flies (''Asilidae''). He privately published a s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arkell Cirque
Arkell Cirque () is a large cirque on the south face of the central Read Mountains, Shackleton Range. It was photographed from the air by the U.S. Navy in 1967 and surveyed from the ground by the British Antarctic Survey, 1968–71. It was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee after William Joscelyn Arkell, English geologist, a specialist in Jurassic stratigraphy and paleontology Paleontology (), also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossi .... References * Cirques of Coats Land {{CoatsLand-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arkell Museum
The Arkell Museum is a museum in Canajoharie, New York that has an extensive collection of American paintings, primarily from 1860–1940, as well as historical exhibits about the history of the Mohawk River Valley and of the Beech-Nut babyfood company. The Canajoharie Library was founded in 1924, and a gallery was added in 1927. The museum was originally built to house copies of European masterpieces and original 19th-century American paintings collected by Bartlett Arkell, then the town's leading industrialist. Susan Finch has written of the museum, "The institution has evolved into more than just an art gallery with a library attached, but an art gallery with a small town attached. The roster of American painters exhibited here is astounding and completely out of scale with what you would expect from a Thruway exit between Albany and Utica." Arkell acquired and donated some of the finest American paintings he came across. He incorporated several elements from different art mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
