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Barrowcliffe
Barrowcliffe is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Mark Barrowcliffe (born 1964), English writer * Geoff Barrowcliffe (1931–2009), English professional footballer {{surname English-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Barrowcliffe
Mark Barrowcliffe (born 14 July 1964), also known as M.D. Lachlan and Mark Alder, is an English writer. He was born in Coventry and studied at the University of Sussex. After graduating, Barrowcliffe worked as a journalist before penning his first novel, '' Girlfriend 44''. He then made a name for himself writing " lad lit". He currently lives and writes in Brighton, East Sussex, and South Cambridgeshire. Barrowcliffe wrote under the pseudonym "M.D. Lachlan" for the Wolfsangel series, which began with ''Wolfsangel'' in 2010 and continued to '' Lord of Slaughter'' in 2012. A fourth novel in the series, " Valkyrie's Song", is in progress. He was drawn to fantasy after penning '' The Elfish Gene''. In 2013, Barrowcliffe began a new series, 'The Banners of Blood', under another pseudonym "Mark Alder", with the first book titled ''Son of the Morning''. Early life Barrowcliffe felt that, as he was growing up, he kept his distance from girls and "cool kids", and he turned his atte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoff Barrowcliffe
Geoff Barrowcliffe (18 October 1931 – 26 September 2009) was an English professional footballer who played as a fullback in The Football League for Derby County, and also played for several non-league clubs. Barrowcliffe began his career at non-league Ilkeston Town, before being signed by Derby in October 1950. He spent the next 16 years at the Baseball Ground, and played 475 league games for the Rams. He also scored 37 goals for the club, most of them from the penalty spot. He left Derby at the end of the 1965–66, and joined Boston United, where he played 41 games and scored 11 goals. He later played for Heanor Town, Moor Green Colliery, Kimberley Town and Long Eaton United and managed Kimberley Town and Radford. Barrowcliffe died in Ilkeston on 26 September 2009, a few weeks before his 78th birthday. He had been suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Minute silences were observed before both Derby County's Championship game against Sheffield Wednesday Sheffield W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Surname
English names are names used in, or originating in, England. In England as elsewhere in the English-speaking world, a complete name usually consists of a given name, commonly referred to as a first name, and a (most commonly patrilineal) family name or surname, also referred to as a last name. There can be several given names, some of these being often referred to as a second name, or middle name(s). Given names Most given names used in England do not have English derivation. Most traditional names are Hebrew ( Daniel, David, Elizabeth, Susan), Greek ( Nicholas, Dorothy, George, Helen), Germanic names adopted via the transmission of Old French/Norman (Robert, Richard, Gertrude, Charlotte), or Latin (Adrian, Amelia, Patrick). There remains a limited set of given names which have an actual English derivation (see Anglo-Saxon names); examples include Alfred, Ashley, Edgar, Edmund, Edward, Edwin, Harold and Oswald. A distinctive feature of Anglophone names is the surnames of im ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |