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Aveyard
Aveyard is an English surname, found most commonly in Yorkshire. It is derived from an alias ''Hayvyerd'' adopted by a 16th-century resident of Dewsbury named Robert Janyn. It was first recorded in 1540, and has remained most common in the area around Dewsbury and Wakefield. Another mention in the 17th century was that a John Aveyard apprehended John Fawcet, who was one of those involved in the Farnley Wood Plot to overturn the return to monarchy in England. In the 1881 Census, there were 343 people with the surname "Aveyard" and 85% of them were in Yorkshire. Notable people with this name include: * Victoria Aveyard (born 1990), American writer * Walter Aveyard (1918—1985), English footballer References See also * Avey Avey is an English surname. Notable people with this surname include: *Albert Edwin Avey (1886-1963), American philosopher * Dan Avey (1941—2010), American media personality * Denis Avey (1919—2015), British Hero of the Holocaust * Fred Avey, E ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria Aveyard
Victoria Aveyard (born July 27, 1990) is an American writer of young adult and fantasy fiction and screenplays. She is known for her fantasy novel '' Red Queen''. Aveyard wrote the novel a year after graduating from University of Southern California's screenwriting program in 2012. Sony Pictures teamed up with her to write spec screenplay ''Eternal''. Early life Aveyard was born on July 27, 1990 and raised in a small town in Western Massachusetts. Her parents are public school teachers. She moved to California at the age of eighteen after she was accepted into the University of Southern California, where she studied screenwriting Screenwriting or scriptwriting is the art and craft of writing scripts for mass media such as feature films, television productions or video games. It is often a freelance profession. Screenwriters are responsible for researching the story, de .... She is of Scottish and Italian descent and resides in Santa Monica, where she lives with her husband ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Aveyard
Walter Aveyard (11 June 1918 – 16 July 1985) was an English footballer who made more than 100 appearances in the Football League, playing for Sheffield Wednesday, Birmingham City, Port Vale and Accrington Stanley. Career Aveyard was born in Hemsworth, Yorkshire. He played football for Denaby United before turning professional with Sheffield Wednesday in 1938, but the Second World War interrupted his career before he played for the first-team. When competitive football resumed after the war, Aveyard made his first-team debut in the 1945–46 FA Cup, scoring twice in six games, but played only four league games in the 1946–47 season, in which he scored three goals, before leaving for Birmingham City in April 1947. He made a promising start, scoring the only goal of his debut match against Coventry City in August 1947 and two more goals, including another winner, in his next three games, but a thigh injury meant he missed most of the season, and he was allowed to join Port V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avey
Avey is an English surname. Notable people with this surname include: *Albert Edwin Avey (1886-1963), American philosopher * Dan Avey (1941—2010), American media personality * Denis Avey (1919—2015), British Hero of the Holocaust * Fred Avey, English footballer * Linda Avey, American biologist and entrepreneur * Sam Avey, American sports promoter ; As a forename: * Avey Tare, American musician ; Other * Avey temple * Avey's Coliseum * Avey Field State Airport * FC Avey Akstafa See also * Aveyard * Aveyron (other) {{surname English-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aveyron (other)
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Aveyron is a department in southern France. Aveyron may also refer to: * Aveyron (river), in southern France, tributary of the Tarn * Aveyron (Loing), a river in central France, tributary of the Loing See also * Avey * Aveyard Aveyard is an English surname, found most commonly in Yorkshire. It is derived from an alias ''Hayvyerd'' adopted by a 16th-century resident of Dewsbury named Robert Janyn. It was first recorded in 1540, and has remained most common in the area a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yorkshire
Yorkshire ( ; abbreviated Yorks), formally known as the County of York, is a Historic counties of England, historic county in northern England and by far the largest in the United Kingdom. Because of its large area in comparison with other English counties, functions have been undertaken over time by its subdivisions, which have also been subject to History of local government in Yorkshire, periodic reform. Throughout these changes, Yorkshire has continued to be recognised as a geographic territory and cultural region. The name is familiar and well understood across the United Kingdom and is in common use in the media and the Yorkshire Regiment, military, and also features in the titles of current areas of civil administration such as North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and the East Riding of Yorkshire. Within the borders of the historic county of Yorkshire are large stretches of countryside, including the Yorkshire Dales, North York Moors and Peak District nationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dewsbury
Dewsbury is a minster and market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England. It lies on the River Calder and on an arm of the Calder and Hebble Navigation waterway. It is to the west of Wakefield, east of Huddersfield and south of Leeds. Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, after undergoing a period of major growth in the 19th century as a mill town, Dewsbury went through a period of decline. Dewsbury forms part of the Heavy Woollen District of which it is the largest town. According to the 2011 census, Dewsbury had a population of 62,945. History Toponymy The ''Domesday Book'' of 1086 records the name as ''Deusberie'', ''Deusberia'', ''Deusbereia'', or ''Deubire'', literally "Dewi's fort", Dewi being an old Welsh name (equivalent to David) and "bury" coming from the old English word "burh", meaning fort. Other, less supported, theories exist as to the name's origin. For example, that it means "dew hill", from Old English ''d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wakefield
Wakefield is a cathedral city in West Yorkshire, England located on the River Calder. The city had a population of 99,251 in the 2011 census.https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/census/2011/ks101ew Census 2011 table KS101EW Usual resident population, West Yorkshire – Wakefield BUASD, code E35000474 The city is the administrative centre of the wider City of Wakefield metropolitan district, which had a population of , the most populous district in England. It is part of the West Yorkshire Built-up Area and the Yorkshire and The Humber region. In 1888, it was one of the last group of towns to gain city status due to having a cathedral. The city has a town hall and county hall, as the former administrative centre of the city's county borough and metropolitan borough as well as county town to both the West Riding of Yorkshire and West Yorkshire, respectively. The Battle of Wakefield took place in the Wars of the Roses, and the city was a Royalist stronghold in the Civil War. Wake ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farnley Wood Plot
The Farnley Wood Plot was a conspiracy in Yorkshire, England in October 1663. Intended as a major rising to overturn the return to monarchy in 1660, it was undermined by informers, and came to nothing. The major plotters were Joshua Greathead and Captain Thomas Oates, operating primarily in Farnley, West Yorkshire, but also with links to Gildersome, Morley, West Yorkshire and Leeds. The aim was to capture and overthrow the Royalist strongholds of Leeds city centre. The plot was disbanded on 12 October 1663. Twenty-six men were arrested, imprisoned and executed as traitors, with at least some being hanged, drawn and quartered. Background After the Restoration of the monarchy and government by Charles II, the son of defeated and executed king Charles I, there was still division in the nation. Fear of Catholicism continued, fed by the success of the Counter Reformation in Europe. The religious settlement had re-established the Church of England, but presbyterians and other dissen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
