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Bellairs
Bellairs is a surname. Notable people with that surname include: * Angus Bellairs (1918–1990), British herpetologist and anatomist * Bart Bellairs (born 1956), American basketball coach * Carlyon Bellairs (1871–1955), British Royal Navy officer * Edmund Bellairs (1823–1898), New Zealand legislator * George Bellairs (1902–1985, English crime writer * John Bellairs (1938–1991), American author * Mal Bellairs (1919–2010), American radio and television personality * Nona Bellairs (1828–1897), British author * William Bellairs (1823–1913), British army officer Fictional characters * Kitty Bellairs, title character of 1930 American film ''Sweet Kitty Bellairs'' See also * Bellairs Research Institute on the island of Barbados *Bellair (other) *Belair (other) *Bel Air (other) *Bel-Aire (other) *Belleair, Florida *Bellaire (other) Bellaire may refer to: Places United States *Bellaire, Arkansas * Bellaire, Florida, multipl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Bellairs
John Anthony Bellairs (January 17, 1938 – March 8, 1991) was an American author best known for his fantasy novel ''The Face in the Frost'' and many Gothic mystery novels for children featuring the characters Lewis Barnavelt, Rose Rita Pottinger, Johnny Dixon, and Anthony Monday. Most of his books were illustrated by Edward Gorey. Thirteen unfinished and original sequels to Bellairs' books have been written by Brad Strickland. At the time of his death, Bellairs' books had sold a quarter-million copies in hard cover and more than a million and a half copies in paperback. Biography Early life and education Bellairs was born in Marshall, Michigan, the son of Virginia (Monk) and Frank Edward Bellairs, a saloonkeeper. His hometown inspired the fictional town of New Zebedee, where he set his trilogy about Lewis Barnavelt and Rose Rita Pottinger. Shy, overweight, and often bullied as a child, he became a voracious reader and a self-described "bottomless pit of useless informat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bart Bellairs
Wesley "Bart" Bellairs (born August 24, 1956) is an American former college basketball coach and college athletics administrator. He worked at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) for fourteen years, including 11 season head coach of VMI Keydets basketball team, from 1994 to 2005. After three years of serving as the school's senior associate athletic director, Bellairs was the athletic director at Savannah State University from 2008 to 2009 and Southeastern Louisiana University from 2009 to 2013. He also coached baseball and cross country. Bellairs is a 1979 graduate of Warren Wilson College, and received his master's degree from Western Illinois University in 1981. He is a native of Richmond, Kentucky. Coaching career Bellairs began his coaching career as an assistant basketball coach at Lycoming College in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. He then spent two years as an assistant coach in baseball and basketball at Western Illinois University in Macomb, Illinois. In August 1981 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mal Bellairs
Mal Bellairs (born November 9, 1919 – July 12, 2010) was a well-known Chicago-area radio and television personality during the second half of the 20th century. He was named a National Radio Hall of Fame Regional Pioneer by the Illinois Broadcasters Association. Early Days Mal was born in Cheyenne, Wyoming in 1919, the only son of Keith Bellairs and Gertrude Sackett of Telluride, Colorado. In his teen years he was raised on the ranch of his uncle Thorwald Sackett in Colorado. He recounted being enthralled by the wonder of radio on a visit to Denver as a boy. He also recounts a family trip to Chicago to attend the worlds fair in 1933. Radio History Mal's career in radio began at WCFL (AM) in Chicago in 1947. He left WCFL to do freelance radio and television in the Chicago market. Mal then spent most of the 1950s and 1960s at WBBM (AM) radio in Chicago Illinois. His history with WBBM is recounted in an oral history interview from 1987. Mal's contributions to WBBM were highlight ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Bellairs
Major-General Sir William Bellairs, (28 August 1828 – 24 July 1913) was a British army officer. Military career Bellairs was born on 28 August 1828, the youngest son of Sir William Bellairs, of Mulbarton, Norfolk, who had served with the 15th Hussars, in the Peninsula and at Waterloo. He entered the 49th Regiment as ensign on 8 May 1846, becoming captain in 1854. He served throughout the Crimean War, being one of the comparatively few combat officers who remained at the front for the duration of the war, and took part in the battles of Alma and Inkerman, and the siege and fall of Sebastopol. He was present at the repulse of the Russian sortie of 26 October 1854, the attack on the Quarries on 7 June 1855, and the two attacks on the Redan on 18 June and 28 September. He particularly distinguished himself at the Battle of Inkerman, and displayed a readiness of resource and clearness of perception in emergencies which would have done credit to a man of greater experience of war; esp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sweet Kitty Bellairs
''Sweet Kitty Bellairs'' is a 1930 American historical musical comedy film directed by Alfred E. Green. The film is based on the 1900 novel, ''The Bath Comedy'' by Agnes Castle and Egerton Castle. Shot entirely in Technicolor, the film stars Claudia Dell, Ernest Torrence and, Walter Pidgeon and is set in Bath, England in 1793. The novel was first adapted for the stage by David Belasco in 1903 and starred Henrietta Crosman. A silent film adaptation starring Mae Murray followed in 1916. Plot Kitty Bellairs (Claudia Dell), a famous flirt of her day, comes to Bath for the season. Early on in the film she declares that "in spite of her thirty or forty affairs, I've lost not a bit of my virtue." Her path is strewn with a number of conquests, including an enamored highwayman, a lord and some others who hang on her every word. A highwayman stops her coach as she is on her way to Bath and is immediately raptured by Kitty Bellairs. He trades the loot from the passengers for a kiss fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlyon Bellairs
__NOTOC__ Commander Carlyon Wilfroy Bellairs (15 March 1871 – 22 August 1955) was a British Royal Navy officer and politician. Bellairs was born at Gibraltar, the son of Lieutenant-General Sir William Bellairs, KCMG, and Blanche St. John Bellairs. He was a Lieutenant of the Royal Navy, and was placed on the retired list 15 March 1902. In the 1906 general election he was elected to Parliament for King's Lynn as a Liberal, but in October 1906 crossed the floor to sit as a Liberal Unionist.David Butler and Gareth Butler, ''Twentieth Century British Political Facts 1900-2000'', eighth edition, Macmillan 2000, p. 244 In the January 1910 general election he unsuccessfully stood for election at West Salford and in December 1910 was also defeated at Walthamstow. In 1911 Bellairs was married to Charlotte, daughter of Colonel H. L. Pierson of Long Island, USA. From 1913 he was a member of the London County Council as Municipal Reform Party member for Lewisham, resigning on 17 Apri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bellairs Research Institute
The Bellairs Research Institute, located on the Caribbean island of Barbados, was founded in 1954 as a field-station for McGill University. Initial funding was from a bequest by British naval commander, Carlyon Bellairs, for whom the institute is named. Bellairs is located in Holetown, next to Folkestone Marine Park and Museum, on the western beach of the island. Initially founded as a marine biology field station, it is also currently used for undergraduates to partake in a Barbados Field Study Semester (BFSS). Environmental Engineering, International Development Studies and Environmental Studies are some of the areas it caters to. Bellairs runs numerous McGill University field-courses and workshops throughout the year, including Applied Tropical Ecology, Geography, and the Barbados Field Study Semester. Bellairs also holds annual field courses from other universities from around the world including the University of Toronto (marine biology) and Western Michigan University (ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Bellairs
George Bellairs was the ''nom de plume'' of Harold Blundell (1902–1982), a crime writer and bank manager born in Heywood, near Rochdale, Lancashire. He began working for Martins Bank at the age of 15, and stayed there in escalating roles of seniority until his retirement. He then settled in the Isle of Man. He wrote more than 50 books, most featuring the detective Inspector Thomas Littlejohn, and all with the same publisher. His radio comedy ''The Legacy'' was aired in 1951. He also wrote four novels under the alternative pseudonym Hilary Landon. His first novel'','' ''Littlejohn on Leave,'' was published in 1941 and his last one, ''An Old Man Dies'', was published close to his death in 1982. He also contributed articles to the ''Manchester Guardian'' and to Manx publications such as '' Manx Life'' and received a short review in the print edition of ''The Spectator'' in 1958 for his book ''Corpse at the Carnival''. Many of his books were also published by the Thriller Book Clu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nona Bellairs
Nona Maria Stephenson Bellairs (1824–1897) was an English author of travel guides, botanical guidebooks, and novels. She was also a philanthropist who assisted weavers in Bedworth to emigrate following the collapse of the local ribbon-weaving industry in the 1860s. Biography Nona Maria Stephenson Bellairs was born into a large family. Her mother was Dorothy (Mackenzie) Bellairs, the daughter of a wealthy sugar planter in the West Indies, and her father was the Rev. Henry Bellairs (1790-1872), who was at various times in his career rector of Bedworth in Warwickshire, vicar of Hunsingore in Yorkshire, and an honorary canon of Worcester Cathedral. Bellairs wrote several travel books that doubled as botanical guidebooks, the first of which, ''Going Abroad'' (1857), was set in France and Italy. Her hybrid approach is evident in this extract from the book's table of contents: "Nice — The English Church — ''Asplenium Trichomanes ''Asplenium trichomanes'', the maidenhair spleenw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angus Bellairs
Angus d'Albini Bellairs (11 January 1918 – 26 September 1990) was a British professor of vertebrate morphology and a specialist in herpetology. He published a landmark two volume ''The Life of Reptiles'' (1970). Bellairs studied at Stowe School, Queen's College, Cambridge, and University College London. He joined the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1942 and served in north Africa, the Middle East, Italy, India and Burma. On his travels he took an interest in natural history and collected numerous specimens. After military service he obtained a comparative anatomy position in the department of human anatomy at the London Hospital Medical College, followed by similar positions at Cambridge University and St. Mary's Hospital Medical School. In 1970 he became Professor of Vertebrate Anatomy in the University of London. Some of his major contributions to herpetology where on the function of Jacobson's organ The vomeronasal organ (VNO), or Jacobson's organ, is the paired auxiliary olfac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmund Bellairs
Edmund Hooke Wilson Bellairs (1823–1896) was a member of the New Zealand Legislative Council. Bellairs was born in Norfolk and arrived in Dunedin in 1852. He was a member of the Legislative Council in Auckland from 31 December 1853 to 17 June 1856, when his membership lapsed due to absence. He left New Zealand about 1856 and afterwards lived mainly in France. Copies and reproductions of Bellairs' pencil drawings and watercolours of historic interest are held at the Hocken Collections. Bellairs died 14 September 1896 at Newlands, Hatfield, Hertfordshire. References * This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain The public domain (PD) consists of all the creative work to which no exclusive intellectual property rights apply. Those rights may have expired, been forfeited, expressly waived, or may be inapplicable. Because those rights have expired, ...: {{DEFAULTSORT:Bellairs, Edmund 1823 births 1896 deaths Members of the N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bellair (other)
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Bellair may refer to: * Bellair, Missouri, unincorporated community * Bellair, Florida, unincorporated community * Bellair (New Bern, North Carolina), building in North Carolina * Bellair (Virginia), building in Virginia * Bellair, townland in County Antrim, Northern Ireland * T. S. Bellair (1825–1893), Australian actor and publican See also *Belleair, Florida *Bellaire (other) *Bellairs *Bel Air (other) *Belair (other) *Bel-Aire (other) Bel-Aire, Bel Aire or Belaire may refer to: Places *Bel-Aire, Calgary, a neighbourhood in Calgary, Alberta, Canada * Bel Aire, Kansas, United States *Bel Aire, Tiburon, California, United States *Bel Aire (Charlottesville, Virginia), United States ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
