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Anna Braithwaite
Anna Braithwaite (born Anna Lloyd; 27 December 1788 – 18 December 1859) was a prominent English Quaker minister. She visited the United States three times in an effort to avoid the schism created by the views of Elias Hicks. Life Anna Lloyd was born in 1788 in Edgbaston Street, Birmingham, the daughter of Charles Lloyd and Mary (née Farmer). The Lloyds were an influential Quaker banking family. Anna's brother was the poet Charles Lloyd, and her sister Priscilla married Christopher Wordsworth (brother of William the poet). In 1808, Anna married Isaac Braithwaite (two years earlier, her sister Mary had married Isaac's brother George), thus forging the union of two prominent Quaker dynasties. They had nine children, including the Quaker minister Joseph Bevan Braithwaite.Edward H. Milligan, ‘Braithwaite, Joseph Bevan (1818–1905)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200accessed 9 April 2017/ref> Doctrinal differences within the Quakers were cre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birmingham
Birmingham ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. It is the second-largest city in the United Kingdom with a population of 1.145 million in the city proper, 2.92 million in the West Midlands metropolitan county, and approximately 4.3 million in the wider metropolitan area. It is the largest UK metropolitan area outside of London. Birmingham is known as the second city of the United Kingdom. Located in the West Midlands region of England, approximately from London, Birmingham is considered to be the social, cultural, financial and commercial centre of the Midlands. Distinctively, Birmingham only has small rivers flowing through it, mainly the River Tame and its tributaries River Rea and River Cole – one of the closest main rivers is the Severn, approximately west of the city centre. Historically a market town in Warwickshire in the medieval period, Birmingham grew during the 18th century during the Midla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joyce Carey
Joyce Carey, OBE (30 March 1898 – 28 February 1993) was an English actress, best known for her long professional and personal relationship with Noël Coward. Her stage career lasted from 1916 until 1987, and she was performing on television in her 90s. Although never a star, she was a familiar face both on stage and screen. In addition to light comedy, she had a large repertory of Shakespearean roles. Career Joyce Carey was born Joyce Lilian Lawrence, the daughter of actor Gerald Lawrence, a matinée idol who had been a juvenile in Henry Irving's Shakespeare company, and his wife, actress Lilian Braithwaite,''Gaye'', pp 426–427 a major West End star."Obituary", ''The Times'', 3 March 1993, p. 17 Carey was educated at the Florence Etlinger Dramatic School. Carey made her stage debut in 1916, aged 18, as Princess Katherine in an all-female production of ''Henry V''. She joined Sir George Alexander's company at the St James's Theatre playing Jacqueline, a French countess, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Bevan-Baker
Peter Stewart Bevan-Baker (born 3 June 1962) is a Scottish-Canadian politician, currently the leader of the Green Party of Prince Edward Island and a member of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island representing New Haven-Rocky Point (formerly representing Kellys Cross-Cumberland.) He previously stood as a candidate for both the Green Party of Ontario and the Green Party of Canada. Bevan-Baker is a dentist by profession as well as being an active writer, musician and public speaker. As a result of the 2019 election, Bevan-Baker is the current Leader of the Official Opposition in the 66th General Assembly of Prince Edward Island."Seven things to know about the P.E.I. election results" |
John Bevan Baker
John Stewart Bevan Baker (3 May 1926 – 24 June 1994) was a British composer, born in England, but a longtime resident of Scotland. Biography He was born in Staines, Middlesex, to an English father, Bevan Braithwaite Baker FRSE (1890-1963), a professor of mathematics at Royal Holloway, University of London, and a Scottish mother, Margaret Stewart Barbour, of Edinburgh. John was the youngest of five children. He went to preparatory school at the Downs School in Herefordshire, and in 1939 he went up to Blundell's School in Devon on an art scholarship. He fulfilled his war service from 1944 to 1946 as a Bevin Boy at a coal mine at Newbiggin in Northumberland. In 1946 he entered the Royal College of Music to study organ and composition. His tutors included Ralph Vaughan Williams and Gordon Jacob. In 1949 he became an assistant to the organist of Westminster Abbey. He stayed in this position for two years, and then devoted himself to giving lectures for the WEA and freelance organ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Martha Baker
Sarah Martha Baker D.Sc. F.L.S. (1887–1917) was an English botanist and ecologist who is remembered for her studies of brown seaweeds and zonation patterns on the seashore. Early life Born in London on 4 June 1887, she was the daughter of Martha Braithwaite Baker and George Samuel Baker and grew up in a Quaker family with two younger brothers, George and Bevan. As well as their main London home the family had a country house at Mersea Island where Baker first took an interest in seaweed. She is said to have been interested in plants and flowers from an early age. Another interest was art and she studied briefly at the Slade School of Art before moving into science. This art training resulted in her producing scientific illustrations of high quality. Education and career Baker began studying at University College London in 1906, where one of her teachers was the chemist Sir William Ramsay,Miss Sarah Martha Baker D.Sc., in ''The Times'', 30 May 1917 and received a Bachelor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Savory
Sir Michael Berry Savory (born 1943) was Lord Mayor of London for 2004-05. Savory was elected to Common Council in 1980 and as an Alderman in 1996. He served as Aldermanic Sheriff in 2001-02 and Lord Mayor in 2004-05. He is currently Managing Partner of the Muckleburgh Collection in North Norfolk. Knighted in the New Year Honours 2006 for "services to the City of London", Sir Michael was a City stockbroker for forty years and has been Master of two Livery Companies. Early life Savory was born in Ayr, Scotland, in 1943. His parents emigrated with him from Norfolk to Southern Rhodesia when he was quite small, but in 1956 he returned to Britain to attend Harrow School. Career Savory trained as a stockbroker in New York, after which he joined the family firm of Foster & Braithwaite in 1963, where he specialised in research, fund management and corporate finance. In 1967 he became a partner in the firm, and also became a member of the London Stock Exchange. He became joint s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muckleburgh Collection
The Muckleburgh Collection is a military museum sited on a former military camp at Weybourne, on the North Norfolk coast, England. It was opened to the public in 1988 and is the largest privately owned military museum in the United Kingdom. History The museum is located on the site of the Second World War and post-war Weybourne Anti Aircraft Training Camp. Weybourne Camp is north west of the coastal village of Weybourne. The site, originally called Carvel Farm, was first used in 1935 by the Anti–Aircraft Division of the Territorial Army as a summer training camp. In 1937 and as a result of the growing threat of war, it was decided to make the camp permanent and more fixed structures and defences were erected. During the Second World War, the camp was surrounded by a perimeter anti-tank ditch and defended by a system of gun emplacements and barbed wire. The interior of the camp consisted of groups of Nissen huts, barracks and other military buildings. The cliff top to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Handel Elvey
Reverend George Frederick Handel Elvey (29 June 1883 – 20 March 1967) was a croquet player from England. He was the youngest son of composer George Elvey and his fourth wife Mary née Savory. Handel Elvey won the Doubles Championship in 1936 partnering his wife Nora and the Men's Championship of the South Of England in 1955. As an administrator, Elvey served on the Council of the Croquet Association The Croquet Association, which was formed as the United All England Croquet Association in 1897, is the national governing body for the sport of croquet in England. Until 1974 the association was responsible for croquet in the whole of the Unit ... between 1931 and 1967, serving as Chairman (1939 to 1948) and Vice President (1952 to 1967). Elvey spent most of his clerical life in the diocese of Chichester. Works * ''Croquet — A Handbook On The Strokes And Tactics Of The Game'' (John Jaques and Son, Ltd, 1949). References External linksThe Croquet Records site {{DEFAULT ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Elvey
Sir George Job Elvey (1816–1893) was an English organist and composer. Life He was born at Canterbury on 29 March 1816, a son of John Elvey. For several generations, his family had been connected with the musical life of the cathedral city. At an early age, he was admitted as a chorister of Canterbury Cathedral, under Highmore Skeats, his brother, Stephen Elvey, being then master of the boys. In 1830, Stephen Elvey having been appointed organist of New College, Oxford, George went to reside with him, and completed his musical education under his brother's guidance. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music under Cipriani Potter and William Crotch. Before he was seventeen, he had become an expert organist and took temporary duty at Christ Church, Magdalen, and New College. In 1834, he gained the Gresham gold medal for his anthem "Bow down Thine ear, Lord." In 1835, he succeeded Skeats as organist of St. George's Chapel, Windsor. Among his earliest pupils were Prince George ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John De Monins Johnson
John de Monins Johnson (1882–1956) was an English papyrologist, printer of the ''Oxford English Dictionary'', and collector. Biography Johnson was born in Lincolnshire in England, the second son of John Henry Johnson and Anna Braithwaite née Savory. He attended Magdalen College School, Oxford and then earned a scholarship to Exeter College, Oxford. He studied the classics and Arabic in preparation for a career in the Egyptian Civil Service. In Egypt, he became a papyrologist, discovering a papyrus by Theocritus that was 900 years older than any such previously discovered manuscript. Johnson returned to Oxford during World War I, physically unfit for military service. He became Assistant Secretary to the Delegates of Oxford University Press. In 1918, he married Dorothea, the daughter of his supervisor Charles Cannan Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglas Savory
Sir Douglas Lloyd Savory (17 August 1878 – 5 October 1969) was a professor of French and a member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. He was born at Palgrave in Suffolk and educated at Marlborough College and St John's College, Oxford. He taught French and English including at the University of Marburg before becoming Professor of French Language and Romance Philology at Queen's University, Belfast in 1909. In the First World War, he was attached to the Intelligence Division of the Admiralty. Following the death of Thomas Sinclair, Savory was elected unopposed as Ulster Unionist Member of Parliament (MP) for the seat of Queen's University of Belfast, retiring from his university chair. He held the seat until its abolition in 1950, at which point he was elected for South Antrim, which he represented until 1955. He was knighted in 1952. He became special investigator into the Katyn massacre The Katyn massacre, "Katyń crime"; russian: link=yes, Катынска ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Savory
Sir Joseph Savory, 1st Baronet (23 July 1843 – 1 October 1921) was a Sheriff of London, Lord Mayor of London and MP. He was born in Clapton, London, the eldest son of Joseph Savory of Buckhurst Park and Mary Caroline née Braithwaite, at Winkfield in Berkshire which he inherited in 1879. He was educated at Harrow School. He joined the family business of A.B. Savory and Sons and became an alderman of the City of London for the Bridge Without ward. He was appointed Sheriff of London and Middlesex for 1882 and elected Lord Mayor of London for 1890. He was a J.P. and Deputy Lieutenant for Berkshire and for Westmorland, where he was Lord of the Manors of Wharton and Nateby. He was made baronet in September 1891. In 1892 he was returned as MP for Appleby until 1900. He was involved in the management of the New River Company and the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company. He made several improvements to the Buckhurst Park estate and was a lay preacher who took morning services at nearby ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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