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Allingham Formation
These notable people have the surname Allingham: * John Till Allingham (1776–1812), English dramatist. * William Allingham (1824 or 1828 – 1889), Irish man of letters and poet * Helen Allingham (née Helen Mary Elizabeth Paterson) (1848–1926), watercolour painter and illustrator of the Victorian era * Herbert William Allingham (1862-1904), British surgeon. * Herbert Allingham (1867–1936), English editor and writer. *Emmie Allingham (1879-1960), English writer. * Henry Allingham (1896–2009), supercentenarian, World War I veteran and briefly the world's oldest living man * Margery Allingham (1904–1966), English crime writer born in Ealing, London * Michael Allingham (born 1943), economist *Cedric Allingham, British fictional contactee of the 1950s, who claimed to have encountered the pilot of a Martian spacecraft *Mike Allingham Michael James de Grey Allingham (born 6 January 1965) is a former Scotland international cricketer and a former Scotland 'B' international ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Till Allingham
John Till Allingham ( – 28 February 1812)John Till Allingham in the ''England & Wales, Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial Registers, 1567-1970'' was an English dramatist. Life Allingham was the son of a wine merchant in the City of London. He was brought up to the profession of the law, but is known as a successful and prolific dramatist. Allingham died aged 36, at his father's house in Islington, and was buried in March 1812 at Bunhill Fields. In his ''Life of John Kemble'' (1825), James Boaden suggested his early death was caused by drinking. Works Allingham's afterpiece, '' Fortune's Frolic'', first produced at Covent Garden Theatre in 1799, long enjoyed popularity, and the leading character Robin Roughhead wasplayed by celebrated actors. His second play, '' Tis all a Farce'', was produced at the Haymarket Theatre in 1800. Others of his works were: the '' Marriage Promise'', a comedy with music by Michael Kelly, produced at Drury Lane Theatre 1803; ''Mrs. Wiggins'', a farce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Allingham
William Allingham (19 March 1824 – 18 November 1889) was an Irish poet, diarist and editor. He wrote several volumes of lyric verse, and his poem "The Faeries" was much anthologised. But he is better known for his posthumously published ''Diary'', in which he records his lively encounters with Tennyson, Carlyle and other writers and artists. His wife, Helen Allingham, was a well-known watercolourist and illustrator.I. Ousby (ed.): ''The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English'' (1995), p. 18. Biography William Allingham was born on 19 March 1824 in Ballyshannon, a small town in the south of County Donegal in Ulster in the north of Ireland, which is now in the Republic of Ireland. He was the son of the manager of a local bank who was of English descent.D. Daiches (ed.): ''The Penguin Companion to Literature 1'' (1971), p. 19. His younger brothers and sisters were Catherine (born 1826), John (born 1827), Jane (born 1829), Edward (born 1831, and lived only a few months) and a st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Allingham
Helen Allingham (née Paterson; 26 September 1848 – 28 September 1926) was a British watercolourist and illustrator of the Victorian era. Biography Helen Mary Elizabeth Paterson was born on 26 September 1848, at Swadlincote in Derbyshire, the daughter of Alexander Henry Paterson, a medical doctor, and Mary Herford Paterson. Helen was the eldest of seven children. The year after her birth the family moved to Altrincham in Cheshire. In 1862 her father and her three-year-old sister Isabel died of diphtheria during an epidemic. The remaining family then moved to Birmingham, where some of Alexander Paterson's family lived. Paterson showed a talent for art from an early age, drawing some of her inspiration from her maternal grandmother Sarah Smith Herford and aunt Laura Herford, both accomplished artists of their day. Her younger sister Caroline Paterson also became a noted artist. She initially studied art for three years at the Birmingham School of Design. She spent a year at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert William Allingham
Herbert William Allingham FRCS (17 April 1862 – 4 November 1904) was a British surgeon. He was surgeon to the Household of King Edward VII, and surgeon in ordinary to the Prince of Wales (later King George V). Early life He was born on 17 April 1862, the eldest son of William Allingham, and educated at Chatham House Grammar School, Ramsgate, and University College School, London. Career He was Surgeon to the Household of King Edward VII, and then Surgeon in Ordinary to the Prince of Wales (later King George V). He was also Surgeon to the Surgical Aid Society and to the Osborne Home for Officers. In 1904, he was listed honorary medical staff at King Edward VII's Hospital for Officers. Personal life In 1889, he married Alexandrina von der Osten. She died in January 1904, after her Allingham had become inoculated with syphilis in 1903, whilst operating. After his wife's death he became depressed, and headed off to Egypt. He died in Marseilles on 4 November 1904, from an overdose ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert Allingham
Herbert John Allingham (1867–10 January 1936) was an English editor, journalist, serial pulp fiction writer, husband of writer Emmie Allingham and father of crime novelist Margery Allingham. Early life Herbert John Allingham was born in Kennington, South London in 1867, the second of eight sons of James William Allingham (then a printer) and his wife, Louisa. When aged 15 he went to University of Cambridge as a non-collegiate student, graduating as BA in 1889.Herbert Allingham biography golden-duck.co.uk website; accessed 2013-09-16. Editor In 1874, Allingham's grandfather died. His father used the legacy to found ''The Christian Globe'', a p ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmie Allingham
The Emmy Awards, or Emmys, are an extensive range of awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international television industry. A number of annual Emmy Award ceremonies are held throughout the calendar year, each with their own set of rules and award categories. The two events that receive the most media coverage are the Primetime Emmy Awards and the Daytime Emmy Awards, which recognize outstanding work in American primetime and daytime entertainment programming, respectively. Other notable U.S. national Emmy events include the Children's & Family Emmy Awards for children's and family-oriented television programming, the Sports Emmy Awards for sports programming, News & Documentary Emmy Awards for news and documentary shows, and the Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards and the Primetime Engineering Emmy Awards for technological and engineering achievements. Regional Emmy Awards are also presented throughout the country at various times through the year, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Allingham
Henry William Allingham (6 June 1896 – 18 July 2009) was an English supercentenarian. He is the longest-lived man ever recorded from the United Kingdom, a First World War veteran, and, for one month, the verified oldest living man in the world. He is also the second-oldest military veteran ever, and at the time of his death was the 12th- verified oldest man of all time. Allingham was the oldest-ever surviving member of any of the British Armed Forces, and one of the oldest surviving veterans of the First World War. He was the last survivor of the Battle of Jutland, the last-surviving member of the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS), and the last-surviving founding member of the Royal Air Force (RAF). In 2001, he became the face of the First World War veterans' association and made frequent public appearances to ensure that awareness of the sacrifices of the First World War was not lost to modern generations. He received many honours and awards for his First World War service ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margery Allingham
Margery Louise Allingham (20 May 1904 – 30 June 1966) was an English novelist from the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", and considered one of its four " Queens of Crime", alongside Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and Ngaio Marsh. Allingham is best remembered for her hero, the gentleman sleuth Albert Campion. Initially believed to be a parody of Dorothy L. Sayers's detective Lord Peter Wimsey, Campion matured into a strongly individual character, part-detective, part-adventurer, who formed the basis for 18 novels and many short stories. Life and career Childhood and schooling Margery Louise Allingham was born on 20 May 1904 in Ealing, London, the eldest daughter of Herbert John (1868-1936) and Emily Jane ( Hughes; 1879-1960). She had a younger brother Philip William, and a younger sister Emily Joyce Allingham. Her family was immersed in literature; her parents were both writers. Her father was editor of the ''Christian Globe'' and ''The New London Journal'', to which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Allingham (economist)
Michael Allingham is a British economist whose main work has been on equilibrium theory, choice theory, and distributive justice. Life Michael Allingham was educated at Lancing College and then at the University of Edinburgh, where he 'read natural philosophy and then political economy'. From 1967 until 1977 he taught at various universities in the U.K. and the U.S.; from 1977 to 1993 he held the chair in economic theory at the University of Kent; and from 1993 to 2009 he was Frank Richardson Fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he is now an Emeritus Fellow. He has ridden under Jockey Club rules, and was joint-owner of the winner of the 2002 Dewhurst Stakes, 'the single most significant two-year-old race in Europe'. He has been a Local Steward, and Racecourse Chairman, with the Jockey Club. Work Before moving to Oxford Allingham's main work was on general equilibrium theory; while he was teaching at Magdalen it was on rational choice theory; and subsequently it has been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cedric Allingham
Cedric Allingham (born June 27, 1922) is a fictional British writer reputed in the 1954 book ''Flying Saucer from Mars'' to have encountered the pilot of a Martian spacecraft.Allingham, C. ''Flying Saucer from Mars'', London: Frederick Muller, 1954. An American edition was published in 1955 (New York: British Book Center) as well as a 1969 German translation (''Fliegende Untertasse vom Mars'', Wiesbaden: Ventla, 1969) and even a Japanese version (空飛ぶ円盤実見記, ''Soratobu enban jikkenki'', Tōkyō : Kōbunsha, 1955) It was speculated that Allingham's account was fabricated and that Allingham himself never existed. Three decades later the elaborate hoax was revealed to have been perpetrated by British astronomer Patrick Moore and his friend Peter Davies. Autobiography Allingham's book stated that he had been born in 1922 in Bombay, and educated in England and South Africa. He had taken up amateur astronomy while posted to the Middle East with the RAOC, and subsequently tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Allingham
Michael James de Grey Allingham (born 6 January 1965) is a former Scotland international cricketer and a former Scotland 'B' international rugby union player. He was born at Inverness in 1965. Cricket career Allingham played as a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler. He was and educated at Strathallan School. He played 49 matches for Scotland, including first class, List A, international and ICC Trophy matches. Rugby Union career He played as a scrum-half in rugby union for Heriot's. He played provincially for North and Midlands North and Midlands - and now known as Caledonia - is a select provincial amateur rugby union team that draws its players mainly from north of Scotland, roughly corresponding from around Stirling northwards. Historically the North and Midlands te ... and later played for Edinburgh District. He was capped by the Scotland 'B' side on 28 December 1991 to play against Ireland 'B'. Allingham retired from rugby following a knee inju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
