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Ascroft
Ascroft is an English surname. Notable people with this name include: * Eileen Ascroft, journalist and writer * Harry Ascroft, Australian footballer * John Ascroft, English footballer * Nick Ascroft, New Zealand poet and writer * Robert Ascroft, English politician See also * Ashcroft (other) {{surname English-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Ascroft
Nick Ascroft (born 1973) is a New Zealand poet and writer. Life Nick Ascroft was born in Oamaru, New Zealand in 1973. In his career of writing, his poetry has been featured widely in both New Zealand and international journals. Ascroft's published poetry collections have been well received, and he has helped in editing New Zealand literary magazines Landfall (journal), ''Landfall'', ''Glottis: New Writing'' and ''takahē.'' Recently he has expanded into non-fiction, writing about football. Ascroft's poetic influences include song lyrics, Bruce Robinson's screenplay for ''Withnail & I'', the wordier skits of Monty Python, Peter Cook or Fry & Laurie, and Tina Fey. Away from writing, Ascroft enjoys competitive Scrabble, indoor soccer, and also identifies as a wikipedian. Ascroft describes the Scrabble urge and the sonnet-writing urge as similar, as they are both about the mathematical puzzle and that he is "genuinely delighted by language." Career Nick Ascroft's literary career b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Ascroft
Harry Andrew Ascroft (born 1 July 1995) is an Australian professional footballer who plays as a centre back or central midfielder for Dandenong Thunder in the National Premier Leagues. Ascroft was born in Sydney, and played youth football with Bankstown City FC before starting his senior career with Sydney University. In 2013, he moved to the Netherlands to play for VVV-Venlo in the Eerste Divisie and later moved back to Australia to play for Central Coast Mariners in 2015. He has represented Australia at under-20 level. Club career In late 2013, aged 18, Ascroft signed with Dutch Eerste Divisie side VVV-Venlo. He was released by VVV along with fellow Australian Travis Cooper in early 2015 due to the club's financial difficulties On 29 July 2015, Ascroft was signed by Central Coast Mariners on a three-year deal. Ascroft made his Mariners debut against the Perth Glory as the Mariners stole three points in the 3–2 win. He netted his maiden A-League goal as the Mariners were plu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Ascroft
Robert Ascroft, JP. MP, (1847 – 19 June 1899) was a prominent Lancashire solicitor and an English politician. He entered the House of Commons on 13 July 1895 and was one of the two Members of Parliament for Oldham between 1895 until his death, as a member of the Conservative Party. He was known as the "Workers' Friend" and after his death, a public subscription enabled a statue of him to be erected in Alexandra Park, Oldham. Robert Ascroft is mentioned in Chapter XVII of Sir Winston Churchill Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War, and again from 1 ...'s book ' My Early Life'. In the seventeenth chapter, entitled 'Oldham', Mr Churchill recalls the day where Mr Ascroft, MP for Oldham, talked to him about running the constituency together. Oldham was a two-member constituency and evident ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eileen Ascroft
Eileen Ascroft (1914 – 29 April 1962) was a British journalist and writer. Ascroft worked as a journalist at the ''Daily Mirror'', where she met her second husband, Hugh Cudlipp; the couple married in 1945. (Her first husband was the film director Alexander Mackendrick.) In her book about Cudlipp, ''Newspapermen'', Ruth Dudley Edwards describes Ascroft as "blonde, talented and ambitious". Ascroft was sacked from the ''Mirror'' by the Editorial Director, Harry Guy Bartholomew, for using his oak office door as a dartboard. Ascroft was responsible for starting the women's page at the ''Evening Standard''. She and Hugh went on to become the most powerful couple on Fleet Street: "The combined power of Mr and Mrs Cudlipp over the livelihoods of hundreds, maybe thousands, of newspaper men and woman ic even benevolently exercised as they have always been, are going to be immense and terrifying". According to an obituary notice in ''The Times ''The Times'' is a British dail ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ascroft
John H. Ascroft (born 1909) was an English professional footballer who played as an outside left. He made appearance in the English Football League for Wrexham. He also was on the books of EFL clubs Oldham Athletic and Arsenal but never made an appearance for either club. Reviews The ''Football Gazette (South Shields)'' said: Wrexham are not going to miss Gunson, their goalgetting left winger, so very much if John Herbert Ascroft repeats the delightful form he displayed against Stockport County a week ago, for apart from scoring this youngster was a real live wire in all he did. He played with the Bangor City club last season and there attracted quite a lot of attention, but did not wish to go far from North Wales , area_land_km2 = 6,172 , postal_code_type = Postcode , postal_code = LL, CH, SY , image_map1 = Wales North Wales locator map.svg , map_caption1 = Six principal areas of Wales common .... Wrexham have q ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashcroft (other)
Ashcroft may refer to: Places * Ashcroft, British Columbia, a village in Canada **Ashcroft House in Bagpath, Gloucestershire, England—eponym of the Canadian village * Ashcroft, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney, Australia * Ashcroft, Colorado, a former U.S. mining town, south of Aspen * Ashcroft (Geneva, New York), a historic house * Ashcroft Technology Academy, a secondary school in London, UK People * Catherine Ashcroft, English musician (Irish Folk) * Charlie Ashcroft, English footballer * Chloe Ashcroft, British television presenter * Christina Ashcroft (born 1964), Canadian sport shooter * Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki, British occultist * Edgar Arthur Ashcroft (1864–1938), invented zinc extraction process in Australia * Ernest Ashcroft (b. 1925), English professional rugby league footballer * Lee Ashcroft, English footballer * Jay Ashcroft, American politician * Jimmy Ashcroft, English footballer * John Ashcroft, the 79th Attorney General of the United States under Georg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
