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Bamber Bridge F
Bamber is both an English surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: Surname: * Bessie Bamber ( fl. 1900–1910), British artist * Dave Bamber (b. 1959), English former professional footballer * David Bamber (b. 1954), British actor * Earl Bamber (b. 1990), New Zealand motor racing driver * Edward Bamber (1646-??), English Roman Catholic priest * Helen Bamber (1925–2014), English psychotherapist * Jack Bamber (1895–1971), English footballer * Jamie Bamber (b. 1973), British actor * Jeremy Bamber (b. 1961), convicted murderer * Jim Bamber (b. 1946), English cartoonist * John Bamber (footballer, born 1912) (1912-??), English footballer * Mary Bamber (1874–1938), English suffragist and trade unionist * Mike Bamber (d. 1988), chairman of Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club (1973–83) Given name: * Bamber Gascoigne (1935–2022), English television presenter * Bamber Gascoyne (other) Other: * Bamber Boozler, virtual host of the Teletext quiz game '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bessie Bamber
Bessie Bamber was a British artist from Birkenhead who was active between 1900 and 1910. It is not known if Bamber was her married name or maiden name. Bessie Bamber worked in oils and specialised in painting cats, kittens and occasionally puppies. She usually painted on porcelain or opaline glass, and sometimes on a polished mahogany panel. She preferred to work using stuffed animals rather than live ones. There is no record of her exhibiting her paintings. A picture of three kittens with a pile of books was sold for £2,468 by Bonhams Bonhams is a privately owned international auction house and one of the world's oldest and largest auctioneers of fine art and antiques. It was formed by the merger in November 2001 of Bonhams & Brooks and Phillips Son & Neale. This brought to ... in 2004. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Bamber (footballer, Born 1912)
John Belfield Bamber (8 June 1912 – 2000) was an English footballer who played in the Football League for Stoke City. Career Bamber was born in Preston and played for his local club, Preston North End. He failed to break into the team at Deepdale and left for non-league Fleetwood Town before signing for Stoke City Stoke City Football Club is a professional football club based in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, which competes in the . Founded as Stoke Ramblers in 1863, it changed its name to Stoke in 1878 and then to Stoke City in 1925 after Stoke ... in 1933. He made a perfect start to his Stoke career scoring on his debut against Leicester City in December. Despite this however, Bamber soon became used as a reserve player and he went on to spend six seasons at the Victoria Ground making just 24 appearances. Career statistics References {{DEFAULTSORT:Bamber, John English footballers Stoke City F.C. players Preston North End F.C. players Fleetwood Town F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bamber Bridge F
Bamber is both an English surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: Surname: * Bessie Bamber ( fl. 1900–1910), British artist * Dave Bamber (b. 1959), English former professional footballer * David Bamber (b. 1954), British actor * Earl Bamber (b. 1990), New Zealand motor racing driver * Edward Bamber (1646-??), English Roman Catholic priest * Helen Bamber (1925–2014), English psychotherapist * Jack Bamber (1895–1971), English footballer * Jamie Bamber (b. 1973), British actor * Jeremy Bamber (b. 1961), convicted murderer * Jim Bamber (b. 1946), English cartoonist * John Bamber (footballer, born 1912) (1912-??), English footballer * Mary Bamber (1874–1938), English suffragist and trade unionist * Mike Bamber (d. 1988), chairman of Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club (1973–83) Given name: * Bamber Gascoigne (1935–2022), English television presenter * Bamber Gascoyne (other) Other: * Bamber Boozler, virtual host of the Teletext quiz game '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bamber Bridge
Bamber Bridge is an urban village in Lancashire, England, south-east of Preston, in the borough of South Ribble. The name derives from the Old English "bēam" and "brycg", which probably means "tree-trunk bridge". The population was 13,945 at the 2011 census. History Textiles By 1764 calico printing had been established in what was then a village; this was the first example of calico printing anywhere in Lancashire. Previously had been mainly carried out in the south of England, before spreading to Scotland and the northern counties. In 1857, as a result of the downturn in the cotton trade, a large manufacturer and spinner in the village (Bamber Bridge SP & WN Co.) reported liabilities estimated at £40,000 to £60,000, and were about to go on short time. On 31 October 1859, the Withy Trees Mill in the village, owned by Eccles and Company, burnt down. It was reported that the spinning-master and engineer had stayed on after the mill had closed at 6:00 pm to repair some ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bamber Lake, New Jersey
Bamber Lake is an unincorporated community located in Lacey Township, New Jersey, United States, west of the Garden State Parkway The Garden State Parkway (GSP) is a controlled-access toll road that stretches the north–south length of eastern New Jersey from the state's southernmost tip near Cape May to the New York state line at Montvale. Its name refers to New Jersey .... The area is protected by the “New Jersey Pinelands Comprehensive Management Plan of 1979, which has placed limits on the development in these areas”. The two prominent roads for the area are Lacey Road and Dover Road, which provide the only direct routes to Bamber Lake. The lake has two beachfronts and a man-made dam with a walk across bridge. In addition to the lake, which can be used for fishing, swimming, and non-motorized watercraft, the area provides many recreational facilities including two playgrounds, a soccer field, a tennis court, and a basketball court. The area is also well known for its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bamboozle (quiz)
''Bamboozle!'' was a quiz game featured on Channel 4 Teletext in the United Kingdom. It was originally part of Teletext's "Fun & Games" category, though the rest of the category had been discontinued for some years before Bamboozle! ended (due to the general discontinuation of all Teletext news and editorial content in December 2009). The last edition, themed around 'Ends and Lasts', appeared on Monday 14 December 2009. The Boozler 'family' appeared one last time on Tuesday 15 December 2009 saying farewell to the Teletext audience. On 9 August 2010 Bamboozle! was given a new home by Teletext on the iPhone complete with all the retro graphics (no longer available). On 11 July 2019, Teletext Holidays launched a version of the Bamboozle quiz on their 404 error page. Bamboozle! was originally intended as a real-time game that could be played in conjunction with a broadcast TV programme using a similar multiple choice format as ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?''. The decision by t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bamber Gascoyne (other)
Bamber Gascoyne may refer to: *Bamber Gascoyne (the elder) (1725–1791), British MP for Maldon, Bossiney, Midhurst, Weobley and Truro *Bamber Gascoyne (the younger) Bamber Gascoyne of Childwall Hall, Lancashire (1758 – 17 January 1824), was a British politician. He was an ancestor of two British Prime Ministers, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, and Arthur Balfour. He was the son of Bamber ... (1758–1824), British MP for Liverpool See also * Bamber Gascoigne (1935–2022), British television presenter and author {{hndis, Gascoyne, Bamber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bamber Gascoigne
Arthur Bamber Gascoigne (24 January 1935 – 8 February 2022) was an English television presenter and author. He was the original quizmaster on ''University Challenge'', which initially ran from 1962 to 1987. Early life and education Gascoigne was born in London on 24 January 1935. He was the elder son of Lieutenant-Colonel Derek Ernest Frederick Orby Gascoigne by his marriage in 1934 to Mary ("Midi") Louisa Hermione O'Neill. Gascoigne was educated at Sunningdale School in Berkshire before winning scholarships to both Eton College and Magdalene College, Cambridge (1955), where he read English literature. He initially wanted to become an actor, though found it tiresome to have to play the same part for more than a week, so instead turned to writing. While at Magdalene, he initially submitted scripts to the Footlights sketch troupe, though they were never performed. However, he wrote a college review in his second year, which was seen by the producer Michael Codron. He like ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Bamber
Mike Bamber (16 October 1930 – 11 July 1988) was a British businessman and football executive. He was chairman of Brighton & Hove Albion for a period of more than ten years during the 1970s and 1980s during which time he oversaw the football club's promotion to the First Division of English football for the first time. Mike Bamber was a musician and then a property developer before becoming chairman of Brighton & Hove Albion. Brighton & Hove Albion Bamber joined the board of Brighton & Hove Albion in 1970 and became joint chairman during the Christmas of 1972. Alongside vice-chairman Harry Bloom, Bamber negotiated the appointment of Brian Clough as manager in November 1973. Clough would later describe Bamber as "a wealthy, night-club-owning, gem of a man, who turned out to be the nicest and best chairman I ever worked for," and "If he was alive today and I was tempted to come out of retirement, Mike's would be the offer I would take" and of his decision to leave Brig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Bamber
Mary Hardie Bamber (''née'' Little; 18 January 1874 – 4 June 1938), often known as Ma Bamber, was a Scottish socialist, trade unionist, social worker, and suffragist. Her daughter Bessie Braddock was a prominent Labour Member of Parliament (MP). Bamber was active in Liverpool and nationally for the best part of fifty years, present at key moments in Merseyside labour history, in the forefront of several prominent disputes. As a Labour councillor and a Justice of the Peace she promoted the dissemination of contraceptive advice as a mechanism to empower women. Privately educated and living in one of the most affluent parts of Edinburgh, Mary's early life was very different from that of the poor in Liverpool she was ultimately to live among. However, when still a girl, her lawyer father took to the drink and one day walked out on the family never to be seen again. Her mother Agnes Glanders Little's (née Thomson) life up until then had been poor preparation for the rigours o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Bamber
Jim Bamber (1948 – 20 June 2014) was a British artist and editorial cartoonist specialising in motorsport, who is best known for his motor racing related caricatures which incorporate his distinctive driver designs, that adorned every issue of '' Autosport'' magazine as well as his annual compilation of cartoons from the magazine called ''The Pits''. Background Bamber was born in Preston, Lancashire in 1948. After completing his studies at the Harris College of Art (now part of University of Central Lancashire) in Preston,Jim Bamber bio page he moved to London to pursue a career as an artist, where he worked in numerous renowned publications and would soon gradually become freelance. There he worked for '' |
Floruit
''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicating the time when someone flourished. Etymology and use la, flōruit is the third-person singular perfect active indicative of the Latin verb ', ' "to bloom, flower, or flourish", from the noun ', ', "flower". Broadly, the term is employed in reference to the peak of activity for a person or movement. More specifically, it often is used in genealogy and historical writing when a person's birth or death dates are unknown, but some other evidence exists that indicates when they were alive. For example, if there are wills attested by John Jones in 1204, and 1229, and a record of his marriage in 1197, a record concerning him might be written as "John Jones (fl. 1197–1229)". The term is often used in art history when dating the career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
