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Alan Davies (other)
Alan Davies (born 1966) is a British comedian and actor. Alan Davies may also refer to: * Alan Davies (footballer) (1961–1992), English-born Welsh international footballer * Alan Davies, guitarist of the Soft Boys * Alan Davies (mathematician) (born 1945), professor of mathematics at the University of Hertfordshire, England * Alan Davies (poet) (born 1951), American poet, critic and editor * Alan Davies (charity executive), British chief executive of mental health charity Mind and local councillor * Alan Davies (rugby union coach) (born 1944), head coach of the Wales national rugby union team, 1991–95 * Alan Davies (rugby league) (1933–2009), rugby league footballer of the 1950s and 1960s for Great Britain, England, Oldham, Wigan, Wakefield Trinity and Salford * Alan Davies (RAF officer) (1924–1998), British Royal Air Force officer * Alan Seymour Davies Alan Seymour Davies (born 21 February 1947) is a former headmaster (so-called "superhead") of Copland Community School ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Davies
Alan Roger Davies (; born 6 March 1966) is an English stand-up comedian, writer, actor and TV presenter. He is best known for his portrayal of the title role in the BBC mystery drama series ''Jonathan Creek'' (1997–2016) and as the only permanent panellist on the BBC panel show '' QI'' since its premiere in 2003, outlasting its original host Stephen Fry. Early life Davies was born in Loughton, Essex, and spent his childhood years in Chingford. When Davies was six his mother died from leukaemia and he was raised by his father. He was sexually abused by his father from age 8 to 13, as described in his book ''Just Ignore Him''. Davies wrote that his brother and sister were turned against him. Davies identified this as making him strongly want to please others, which led him to shoplift for schoolmates, and play the joker at home. Davies attended Staples Road School in Loughton and was privately educated at the independent Bancroft's School in Woodford Green, where he gained eig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Davies (footballer)
Alan Davies (5 December 1961 – 4 February 1992) was an English-born Welsh international footballer who played as a right winger, although he could also play on the left. Davies began his football career with Manchester United, before spending time with Newcastle United, Charlton Athletic, Carlisle United, Swansea City (two spells) and Bradford City. Davies committed suicide in February 1992. Career Club career Born in Manchester, Davies began his football career at Manchester United, turning professional in December 1978. He made his senior debut for United on 1 May 1982, and made a total of 10 appearances for them, scoring one goal, in the first leg of their European Cup Winners' Cup semi-final against Juventus in April 1984. He made his final United appearance on 5 May 1984. He played in both games in the 1983 FA Cup Final when United defeated Brighton. Davies then moved to Newcastle United and made 21 league appearances in his two seasons there, although he also had loa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Soft Boys
The Soft Boys were an English rock band led by Robyn Hitchcock primarily during the 1970s, whose initially old-fashioned music style of psychedelic/folk-rock became part of the neo-psychedelia scene with the release of '' Underwater Moonlight''. The band formed in 1976 in Cambridge, England as Dennis and the Experts comprising Robyn Hitchcock (guitar), Rob Lamb (half-brother of radio host and author Charlie Gillett) guitar, Andy Metcalfe (bass), and Morris Windsor (drums). Alan Davies replaced Lamb after only four gigs late in 1976, and Kimberley Rew eventually replaced Davies. Matthew Seligman replaced Metcalfe in 1979. The band broke up in 1981 after ''Underwater Moonlight''. Rew formed the more mainstream pop group Katrina and the Waves, while Hitchcock went on to a prolific career with a similar whimsical, surrealistic style, forming Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians in 1984 with fellow Soft Boys Morris Windsor and Andy Metcalfe, who went on to tour and record for ten years. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Davies (mathematician)
Alan Davies (born 22 December 1945) is a British professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Hertfordshire. He obtained a first class honours degree in mathematics (1968) from Southampton University. He followed that with a master's degree, with distinction, in structural engineering (1974) and a doctorate in numerical computation (1989) from Imperial College. He has spent most of his working life as an academic at the University of Hertfordshire (UH), formerly the Hatfield Polytechnic. He had short spells in industry working as a research engineer in the aircraft industry and as a process engineer in the food industry. During his time in Hatfield his major activity has been teaching mathematics to undergraduates and postgraduates in mathematics, science and engineering. He has also been engaged in research in numerical computation. In 1992 he became Head of the Department of Mathematics and was appointed Professor of Mathematics and, in 2004, the Department mer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Davies (poet)
Alan Davies (born August 26, 1951), is a contemporary American poet, critic, and editor who has been writing and publishing since the 1970s. Today, he is most often associated with the Language poets. Life and work Alan Davies was born in Lacombe, a town in central Alberta, Canada. By the mid-1970s, he was editing a poetry journal, ''Occulist Witnesses'', in the Boston area where he had stayed for a few years after attending Robert Creeley's poetry class at Harvard Summer School in 1972. By this time he had hand-published John Wieners' treatise on and for young poets, ''"The Lanterns along the Wall,"'' which Wieners had written especially for Creeley's class. and began more actively publishing his own poetry. Soon, Davies was forming relations with an experimental group of writers whose practice became determining features of what grew into the ''Language School''. This 'school' was not a group precisely, but a ''tendency'' in the work of many of its so-called practitioners. D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Davies (charity Executive)
Richard Alan Michael Davies, known as Alan Davies, was Chief Executive of mental health charity ' Mind' and a Liberal Democrat politician. Davies was a Civil Servant with the Immigration Service, Head of the Conveyancing Department at Essex County Council and a member of the legal department of Brentwood District Council having moved down from Clwyd County Council where he was also involved with property matters following his promotion from Slough Borough Council's legal department. Prior to 1974 Davies had worked in various law firms as a Legal Executive in Muswell Hill, Barnet and Neasden. Davies is married to Vicky Cook and has two grown-up daughters. His interests include squash, cricket and hockey. Davies was the first elected Liberal Democrat Member for Hutton East Ward in Brentwood in May 1990. During the period of Liberal Democrat control of the council, he was Chairman of the Planning Committee A planning committee in the United Kingdom is a committee of local ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Davies (rugby Union Coach)
Alan Davies (born 22 August 1944 in Ynysybwl Ynysybwl ( cy, Ynys-y-bŵl ) is a village in Cwm Clydach in Wales. It is situated in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, roughly north-north-west of Cardiff, north of Pontypridd and south of Merthyr Tydfil, and forms part of the communit ...) is a rugby union coach. He was coach of the Wales national rugby union team from 1991 to 1995, winning 18 of their 35 matches. Davies also coached Nottingham RFC, Notts, Lincs and Derbys, Midlands Division, England B and England, Bristol RFC. References External linksWales profile Welsh rugby union coaches Wales national rugby union team coaches Living people Sportspeople from Ynysybwl 1944 births People educated at Carlton le Willows Academy {{wales-rugbyunion-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Davies (rugby League)
Alan Davies (4 February 1933 – 2 February 2009) was an English World Cup winning professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1950s and 1960s. He played at representative level for Great Britain and England, and at club level for Oldham ( Heritage No.), Wigan ( Heritage No. 612), Wakefield Trinity ( Heritage No. 705) and Salford, as a or , i.e. number 2 or 5, 3 or 4, or 6. Background Davies was born in Leigh, Lancashire, England, and he died aged 76 from Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (emphysema) in hospital in Blackburn, Lancashire, England. Playing career International honours Alan joined Oldham from Leigh amateur club Dootsons in July 1950 and made his senior debut on 9 September in the 35 - 8 victory over Wakefield, on the left-wing. Alan Davies won caps for England while at Oldham in 1953 against Wales, in 1956 against France, and won caps for Great Britain while at Oldham in 1955 against New Zealand, in 1956 against Australia (3 matches), in the 1957 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Davies (RAF Officer)
Air Marshal Sir Alan Cyril Davies, (31 March 1924 – 27 January 1998) was a Royal Air Force officer who served as Deputy Commander of RAF Strike Command in 1977. RAF career Davies joined to Royal Air Force in 1941 during the Second World War: he served in Coastal Command, and was commissioned in 1943.Debrett's People of Today 1994 After the war he was involved in the introduction of the Shackleton as a maritime reconnaissance aircraft. He was given command of the Joint Anti-Submarine School Flight in 1952 and the Air Sea Warfare Development Unit in 1958, where he was involved in the development of the Nimrod, and then commanded No. 201 Squadron in 1959. He went on to be Deputy Director of Operational Requirements at the Ministry of Defence in 1964, Station Commander of RAF Stradishall in 1967 and Director of Air Plans at the Ministry of Defence in 1969. Davies then became Assistant Chief of the Air Staff in 1972, Deputy Chief of Staff at Headquarters Allied Air Forces Centra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Seymour Davies
Alan Seymour Davies (born 21 February 1947) is a former headmaster (so-called "superhead") of Copland Community School and Technology Centre Foundation 1988–2009. In 2000, he was made a Knight Bachelor for services to education. In 2013, Davies was convicted of false accounting False accounting is a legal term for a type of fraud, considered a statutory offence in England and Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. England and Wales This offence is created by section 17 of the Theft Act 1968 which provides: ... ( fraud), and given a 12-month suspended sentence. Consequently, his knighthood was rescinded in 2014. In 2019 he was ordered to pay back £1.4 Million he obtained through illegal bonuses to the local authority. References 1947 births Living people People stripped of a British Commonwealth honour {{UK-crime-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan T
Alan may refer to: People *Alan (surname), an English and Turkish surname *Alan (given name), an English given name **List of people with given name Alan ''Following are people commonly referred to solely by "Alan" or by a homonymous name.'' *Alan (Chinese singer) (born 1987), female Chinese singer of Tibetan ethnicity, active in both China and Japan *Alan (Mexican singer) (born 1973), Mexican singer and actor * Alan (wrestler) (born 1975), a.k.a. Gato Eveready, who wrestles in Asistencia Asesoría y Administración *Alan (footballer, born 1979) (Alan Osório da Costa Silva), Brazilian footballer *Alan (footballer, born 1998) (Alan Cardoso de Andrade), Brazilian footballer *Alan I, King of Brittany (died 907), "the Great" *Alan II, Duke of Brittany (c. 900–952) * Alan III, Duke of Brittany(997–1040) *Alan IV, Duke of Brittany (c. 1063–1119), a.k.a. Alan Fergant ("the Younger" in Breton language) *Alan of Tewkesbury, 12th century abbott *Alan of Lynn (c. 1348–1423), 15th ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Fraser Davies
Alan Fraser "Foo" Davies (25 September 1924 – 18 August 1987) was an Australian political scientist and author, known for his quip that Australians have a "talent for bureaucracy" and for his work on the relation between bureaucracy and public service. A professor at the University of Melbourne, Davies wrote a series of highly influential books on Australian politics. Notable works * ''Australian Democracy: An Introduction to the Political System'' (1958) * ''A Sunday Kind of Love'' (1961), a collection of short stories * ''Australian Society: A Sociological Introduction'' (1965), edited with Sol Encel Solomon "Sol" Encel (3 March 192523 July 2010) was a noted Jewish-Australian academic, sociologist and political scientist.Reich, Chanan. "Australia and the" Yom Kippur" War of 1973." ''Australian Journal of Jewish Studies'' 26 (2012): 10-30. ... * ''Private Politics: A Study of Five Political Outlooks'' (1966) * ''Images of Class: An Australian Study'' (1967) * ''Essays ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
