Belsey
Belsey is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Bill Belsey, Canadian politician *Catherine Belsey (1940–2021), British literary critic and academic *Hugh Belsey (born 1954), British art historian *Ian Belsey, lyric baritone *Belsey family in ''On Beauty'' See also *Besley, a surname *Belsay Belsay is a village and civil parish in Northumberland, England. The village is about 5 miles from Ponteland on the A696, which links the village with Newcastle upon Tyne and Jedburgh. The population of the civil parish was 436 at the 2001 censu ...

Catherine Belsey
Catherine Belsey (13 December 1940 – 14 February 2021) was a British literary critic and academic. Early life Belsey was born in Salisbury and attended Godolphin and Latymer School in London. She studied at Somerville College, Oxford, and subsequently as a postgraduate at the University of Warwick. Career Belsey was briefly a Fellow at New Hall, Cambridge. She chaired the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory at Cardiff University (1988–2003) before moving to Swansea University (2006–2014). Her book ''Critical Practice'' (1980) was an influential post-structuralist text in suggesting new directions for literary studies. She was later Visiting Professor of English at the University of Derby and Fellow of the English Association and Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales The Learned Society of Wales ( Welsh: Cymdeithas Ddysgedig Cymru) is a learned society and charity that exists to "celebrate, recognise, preserve, protect and encourage excellence in all of the scholarl ...
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Ian Belsey
Ian Belsey (born 1962) is a lyric baritone specialising in opera of the bel canto period, but is best known for his performances in light music and operetta, particularly the works of Gilbert and Sullivan. Biography Belsey was born in Bromley, making his stage debut in 1970 at the age of 8 at the Pier Theatre, Bournemouth in ''The Sooty Show''. He studied at the Royal Academy of Dancing, the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and at the Royal College of Music, both in the Opera School and as a post-graduate.Ian Belsey
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Hugh Belsey
Hugh Graham Belsey, MBE, (born May 1954) is a British art historian who is an authority on the art of Thomas Gainsborough. For 23 years he was the curator of Gainsborough's House in Sudbury. His most recent contribution to Gainsborough scholarship is his catalogue raisonné of Gainsborough's portraits published in February 2019 by the Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Early life and education Hugh Belsey was born in May 1954 in the district of Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Manchester which he followed with a post-graduate diploma in art gallery and museum studies. He earned an MLitt in fine arts from the Barber Institute, University of Birmingham, where he specialised in the Grand Tour and the collecting of George, 3rd Earl Cowper.Hug ...
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Bill Belsey
Bill Belsey is a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of North Coast in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 2001 to 2005. He sat as a member of the BC Liberal Party."Minister shared e-mails about Skeena Mill allegations with insider"
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On Beauty
''On Beauty'' is a 2005 novel by British author Zadie Smith, loosely based on ''Howards End'' by E. M. Forster. The story follows the lives of a mixed-race British/American family living in the United States, addresses ethnic and cultural differences in both the USA and the UK, as well as the nature of beauty, and the clash between liberal and conservative academic values. It takes its title from an essay by Elaine Scarry—"On Beauty and Being Just". ''The Observer'' described the novel as a "transatlantic comic saga". The novel was shortlisted for the 2005 Man Booker Prize on 8 September 2005. Smith won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for fiction and Orange Prize for Fiction in June 2006. Plot summary ''On Beauty'' centres around two families and their different yet increasingly intertwined lives. The Belsey family consists of university professor Howard, a white Englishman and a scholar of Rembrandt; his African-American wife Kiki; and their children, Jerome, Zora and Levi ...
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Besley
Besley is a surname. People with that name include: * Kirkland Besley (1902–1994), American hospital administrator and college football player * Robert Besley (1794–1876), English typographer and Lord Mayor of London ** Besley Clarendon, a typeface designed by Robert Besley * Tim Besley (other), several people * Tina Besley, New Zealand education academic See also * Beasley (other) * Belsey, a surname * Edmund Besley Court Kennedy Edmund Besley Court Kennedy J. P. (5 September 1818 – December 1848) was an explorer in Australia in the mid nineteenth century. He was the Assistant-Surveyor of New South Wales, working with Sir Thomas Mitchell. Kennedy explored the interio ...