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Ashwell
Ashwell may refer to: Places *Ashwell, Devon *Ashwell, Hertfordshire *Ashwell, Rutland *Ashwell, Somerset *Ashwell, Queensland, a suburb of Ipswich, in Australia *Kana Cone, a volcanic cone in British Columbia, Canada People *Gilbert Ashwell (1916–2014) *Lena Ashwell (1872–1957) *Richard Ashwell (died 1392) *Thomas Ashwell (1470s–16th-century) *Arthur Rawson Ashwell (1824–1879) *John Ashwell (died 1541) *Johnny Ashwell (born 1954) *Pauline Ashwell (born 1928) *Rachel Ashwell (born 1959) *Ashwell Prince (born 1977) Buildings *Ashwell (HM Prison) {{disambiguation, surname, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashwell, Devon
Ashwell is a village in Devon, England.
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Ashwell, Hertfordshire
Ashwell is a village and civil parish in the North Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire, England. It lies north-east of Baldock. History To the southwest of the village is Arbury Banks, Hertfordshire, Arbury Banks, the remains of an Iron Age hill fort which have been largely removed by agricultural activity. In 2002, local Metal detector, metal detectorists found a silver Roman figurine of a goddess, Senuna, Dea Senuna. A subsequent archaeological dig over four summers revealed 26 more gold and silver objects situated in a major open-air ritual site. The Buckinghamshire family of Nernewt (Nernuyt) held land here in the 14th century, which was originally part of the Abbot of Westminster's Manorialism, manor. This land became the manor of Westbury Nernewtes. The village has a wealth of architecture spanning several centuries. There was also a great fire of Ashwell on Saturday 2 February 1850, without fatalities. The village itself is mostly in a fine state of preservation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashwell, Rutland
Ashwell is a village and civil parish in the county of Rutland in the East Midlands of England. It is about north of Oakham. Toponymy The village's name means 'spring or stream with ash trees'. Demography The population of the civil parish was 290 at the 2001 census falling to 269 at the 2011 census. Church St Mary's church is mainly of 14th-century origin, but in 1851 it underwent a major restoration by William Butterfield. James Adams (died 1903), rector, who won a Victoria Cross in Afghanistan in 1879, is buried in the churchyard. (Unpaginated) The Royalist rector, Thomas Mason, was ejected in 1644 and Richard Levett (or Levet) was intruded in his place on 13 May 1646. The previous incumbent was reinstated in 1660 when Charles II was restored to the throne and served for twenty years until his death. The minister Levett was the father of Sir Richard Levett who was possibly born in Ashwell; he was Lord Mayor of London in 1699 and owner of Kew Palace. Levett Blackbor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashwell, Queensland
Ashwell is a rural locality in the City of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. In the , Ashwell had a population of 97 people. Geography Kunkala is a neighbourhood in the north of the locality () near the Kunkala railway station () on the now-closed Marburg branch railway line. History The origin of the name Ashwell is from a town in the United Kingdom by the name of Ashwell. Walter Loveday and Henry Stevens provided an acre each of land for a school in this district to be named Ashwell after Walter Loveday's farm titled Ashwell which he named after Ashwell, United Kingdom. Ashwell State School opened on 8 November 1887. The name ''Kunkala'' may be an Aboriginal word for ''running fresh water.'' Demographics At the Ashwell and nearby Lanefield recorded a population of 234. In the , Ashwell had a population of 85 people. In the , Ashwell had a population of 97 people. Education Ashwell State School is a government primary (Prep-6) school for boys and girls at 35 Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kana Cone
Kana Cone is a red nested cinder cone in northern British Columbia, Canada, located northeast of Eve Cone in Mount Edziza Provincial Park. The name of the cone was adopted 2 January 1980 on National Topographic System map 104G/12 after being submitted to the BC Geographical Names office by the Geological Survey of Canada, although the cone was labelled as Ashwell Cone on a 1988 Geological Survey of Canada map by Canadian volcanologist Jack Souther. See also *List of volcanoes in Canada *List of Northern Cordilleran volcanoes *Volcanism of Canada *Volcanism of Western Canada Volcanism of Western Canada has produced lava flows, lava plateaus, lava domes, cinder cones, stratovolcanoes, shield volcanoes, greenstone belts, submarine volcanoes, calderas, diatremes and maars, along with examples of more less common volca ... References Cinder cones of British Columbia Holocene cinder cones Monogenetic cinder cones Volcanoes of the Mount Edziza volcanic complex One-thousa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilbert Ashwell
Gilbert Ashwell (July 16, 1916 – June 27, 2014) was an American biochemist at the National Institutes of Health. He was elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences for his work with Anatol Morell in isolating the first cell receptor. Biography Ashwell was born in Jersey City, New Jersey in 1916. After high school, he went to college to further his education. He attended the University of Illinois, where he earned his B.A. in 1938 and M.S. in 1941. He then went to Columbia University in New York, which was closer to his hometown, to spend two years doing research. In 1950, Ashwell joined the National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism, and Digestive Diseases.Kresge, Nicole, Robert D. Simoni, and Robert L. Hill. “Hepatic Carbohydrate Binding Proteins and Glycoprotein Catabolism: the Work of Gilbert G. Ashwell.” ''The Journal of Biological Chemistry''. n.d. Web. 11 March 2010. This Institute had grown and later split into two institutes, which are the National Insti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lena Ashwell
Lena Margaret Ashwell, Lady Simson ( Pocock; 28 September 1872 – 13 March 1957) was a British actress and theatre manager and producer, known as the first to organise large-scale entertainment for troops at the front, which she did during World War I. After the war she created the Lena Ashwell Players. Biography She was born Lena Margaret Pocock' on the ''HMS Wellesley (1815), Wellesley'' while anchored in the River Tyne at North Shields, at the time under her father's 'command' as a home for “boys 'unconvicted of crime' but under suspicion”. Ashwell's father was Commander Charles Ashwell Boteler Pocock, Royal Navy (March 1829–February 1899), a nephew of Nicholas Pocock, and her mother was Sarah Margaret Stevens (December 1839–May 1887), who died as a result of an accident in Canada. Lena, the second youngest of seven siblings, had two brothers and four sisters. One of her siblings died as a child while the family was in New Zealand. She grew up in Canada, and studi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Ashwell
Richard Ashwell (died 1392) was an English politician. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Gloucester Gloucester ( ) is a cathedral city, non-metropolitan district and the county town of Gloucestershire in the South West England, South West of England. Gloucester lies on the River Severn, between the Cotswolds to the east and the Forest of Dean ... in 1391. References Year of birth missing 1392 deaths 14th-century English people Politicians from Gloucester Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) for Gloucester {{14thC-England-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Ashwell
Thomas Ashwell or Ashewell (c. 1478 – after 1513 (possibly 1527?)) was an English composer of the Renaissance. He was a skilled composer of polyphony, and may have been the teacher of John Taverner. His admission to St. George's Chapel as a chorister in 1491 suggests a birthdate of approximately 1478, but nothing else is known about his early life. He stayed at St. George's until 1493, and account records at Tattershall College in Lincolnshire list him as a singer there in 1502 and 1503.John Bergsagel, Grove online He was in a position of authority at Lincoln Cathedral in 1508, according to records there, and was employed at Durham Cathedral as Cantor or Master of the singing boys, and to provide music for the Lady Chapel, in 1513; no further records survive of his life. The Durham Cathedral archives show the first successor to his duties there as being a William Robson, who began his duties in 1527, and this may be an indication of Ashwell's death some time before that. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Rawson Ashwell
Arthur Rawson Ashwell (1824–1879) was a canon residentiary of Chichester and principal of the Theological College, Chichester. Biography Ashwell was born at Cheyne Walk, Chelsea. In 1843 he entered Trinity College, Cambridge, but migrated to Caius College in 1845, being elected a foundation scholar there the following year. In 1847 he graduated BA as fifteenth wrangler, and in 1848 he received holy orders, and became curate of Speldhurst, Kent. In the following year he returned to Cambridge as curate of St. Mary the Less, in order that he might study theology under the direction of Professor Blunt. In 1851 he was appointed vice-principal of St. Mark's College, Chelsea, and in 1853, partly through the instrumentality of Canon Butler of Wantage, he was appointed by Bishop Wilberforce principal of the newly founded Oxford Diocesan Training College at Culham. Here he remained for several years, and, besides his work in the college, assisted the bishop in organising a system of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ashwell
John Ashwell (died 1541), was the prior of Newnham Abbey, in Bedfordshire. Ashwell was best known for his opposition to the principles of the Reformation, was a graduate of Cambridge University. In 1504 it is probable that Ashwell, who was then a bachelor of divinity, became rector of Mistley in Essex, and held in subsequent years the benefices of Littlebury and Halstead in the same county. In 1515 he was appointed chaplain to Lord Abergavenny's troops in France (Brewer's Letters of Henry VIII, ii. part i. 137), and six years later a prebendal stall in St. Paul's Cathedral was conferred upon him. He became prior of Newnham Abbey about 1527. In the same year he addressed a secret letter, written partly in Latin and partly in English, to John Longland, the Bishop of Lincoln, bitterly complaining of the heretical opinions held by George Joye, a bold advocate of Lutheranism, with whom he had lived on terms of great intimacy. The epistle unhappily fell into Joye's hands, and the r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
