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Ashwell
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Ashwell may refer to: Places *Ashwell, Devon * Ashwell, Hertfordshire * Ashwell, Rutland * Ashwell, Somerset * Ashwell, Queensland, a suburb of Ipswich, in Australia 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) HM Prison Ashwell was a Category C men's prison located in the parish of Burley, in the county of Rutland, England. The site of the former prison is located about two miles south of the centre of the village of Ashwell, alongside the road to O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashwell, Devon
Ashwell is a village in Devon Devon ( , historically known as Devonshire , ) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in South West England. The most populous settlement in Devon is the city of Plymouth, followed by Devon's county town, the city of Exeter. Devo ..., England. Villages in Devon {{Devon-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashwell, Hertfordshire
Ashwell is a village and civil parish in Hertfordshire situated north-east of Baldock. History To the southwest of the village is Arbury Banks, the remains of an Iron Age hill fort which have been largely removed by agricultural activity. In 2002 a local metal detector, Alan Meek, found a silver Roman figurine of a goddess, 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 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, from the medieval cottage to the fine town house, plastered or timbered, thatched or tiled, in Tu ... [...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. The population of the civil parish was 290 at the 2001 census falling to 269 at the 2011 census. It is located about north of Oakham. The village's name means 'spring/stream with ash trees'. St Mary’s church is mainly of 14th-century origin, but in 1851 it underwent a major restoration by William Butterfield. James Adams, rector, who won a Victoria Cross in Afghanistan in 1879, is buried in the churchyard. Ashwell Hall stands in a small park about half a mile south of the village. It was built in 1879 in the Tudor style. Aviator Beryl Markham (''née'' Clutterbuck) was born in Westfield House and lived here until her family moved to Kenya when she was four years old. Ashwell Prison, a former Category C prison, was located about south of the centre of the village but actually in the parish of Burley. Previously the site was a Second World War US army base, home to part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashwell, Somerset
Whitelackington is a village and civil parish on the A303 one mile north east of Ilminster, in Somerset, England. The parish includes Dillington Park and the hamlets of Atherstone and Ashwell. Etymology The village's name is from Old English and is composed of two elements: the Old English personal name Hwitlāc and ''tun'' meaning "farm" but here in the sense of "estate, village". The name was recorded as ''Witelecintone'' in 1127. History Whitelackington was part of the hundred of Abdick and Bulstone. The village was the main home in the 17th century of the Speke family, including George Speke, Mary Speke and their son Hugh Speke. Rev. F. C. Johnson was vicar from 1825 to 1874. His wife was the elder sister of James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, and their second son, Charles, succeeded him after his elder brother, John Brooke Johnson (later changed to Brooke) was disinherited. John is buried in the churchyard, along with some other family members. Governance The parish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashwell, Queensland
Ashwell is a rural locality Locality may refer to: * Locality (association), an association of community regeneration organizations in England * Locality (linguistics) * Locality (settlement) * Suburbs and localities (Australia), in which a locality is a geographic subdivis ... in the City of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. In the , Ashwell had a population of 85 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, Devon, 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, Devon, Ashwell, United Kingdom. Ashwell State School opened on 8 November 1887. The name ''Kunkala'' may be an Aboriginal word for ''running fresh water.'' A ... [...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 Ins ... [...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 '' 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 studied music in both Lau ... [...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 and the county town of Gloucestershire in the South West of England. Gloucester lies on the River Severn, between the Cotswolds to the east and the Forest of Dean to the west, east of Monmouth and east ... 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 Culham is a village and civil parish in a bend of the River Thames, south of Abingdon in Oxfordshire. The parish ... [...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 George Joye (also Joy and ) (c. 1495 – 1553) was a 16th-century Bible translator who produced the first printed translation of several boo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Ashwell
Johnny Armando Ashwell Fernández (born 1 February 1954) is a Paraguayan naturalized Chilean former footballer who played for Universidad de Chile in the Primera Division of Chile. Playing career A product of Olimpia in his country of birth, Ashwell came to Chile in 1974 to study engineering at the University of Chile and joined Club Universidad de Chile. After playing on loan at Unión La Calera and O'Higgins, he returned to Universidad de Chile in 1976. His last club was Everton de Viña del Mar, with whom he won the 1984 Copa Polla Gol. Managerial career In 2007, he joined Universidad de Chile as Sport Manager. After, he held the same charge in Unión Española Club Unión Española S.A.D.P. is a professional football club based in the Independencia neighborhood, commune of Santiago, Chile. They currently participate in the Primera División de Chile. It has a branch of women's football, and competes .... Personal life Ashwell naturalized Chilean by residence. Ref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
