Bevington
Bevington can refer to: People * David Bevington, academic * Dennis Bevington, politician * Helen Bevington, poet * Henry Bevington (1777–1850), English organ builder * Stan Bevington, proprietor of Coach House Press, Toronto * Terry Bevington, baseball manager Places * Bevington, Gloucestershire, a location in England * Bevington, Iowa Bevington is a city in Madison County, Iowa, Madison and Warren County, Iowa, Warren Counties in the U.S. state of Iowa. The population was 57 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. It is part of the Des Moines, Iowa, Des Moines–Wes ...

David Bevington
David Martin Bevington (May 13, 1931 – August 2, 2019) was an American literary scholar. He was the Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Humanities and in English Language & Literature, Comparative Literature, and the college at the University of Chicago, where he taught since 1967, as well as chair of Theatre and Performance Studies. "One of the most learned and devoted of Shakespeareans," so called by Harold Bloom, he specialized in British drama of the Renaissance, and edited and introduced the complete works of William Shakespeare in both the 29-volume, Bantam Classics paperback editions and the single-volume Longman edition. After accomplishing this feat, Bevington was often cited as the only living scholar to have personally edited Shakespeare's complete corpus. He also edited the Norton Anthology of Renaissance Drama and an important anthology of Medieval English Drama, the latter of which was just re-released by Hackett for the first time ...
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Dennis Bevington
Dennis Fraser Bevington (born March 27, 1953) is a Canadian politician from the Northwest Territories, and was the member of Parliament for the riding of Northwest Territories from 2006 until 2015. Born in Fort Smith, he served as mayor from 1988 to 1997. During Bevington's term at the head of council, Fort Smith recognized the Chipewyan and Cree The Cree, or nehinaw (, ), are a Indigenous peoples of the Americas, North American Indigenous people, numbering more than 350,000 in Canada, where they form one of the country's largest First Nations in Canada, First Nations. They live prim ... languages, making the town officially quadrilingual. A businessman, Bevington has long been active on environmental issues. In the 2000 Canadian federal election, 2000 federal election he ran as the New Democratic Party (Canada), NDP candidate for Western Arctic, but lost by 18% to incumbent Ethel Blondin-Andrew. Bevington ran again in the 2004 Canadian federal election, 2004 election ...
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Helen Bevington
Helen E. Bevington (; 1906 – March 16, 2001) was an American poet, prose writer, and educator. Her most noted book, ''Charley Smith's Girl'' (1965), was "banned by the library in the small town of Worcester, N.Y., where she grew up, because the book tells of her minister father's having been divorced by her mother for affairs that he was carrying on with younger female parishioners." Life and works Born Helen E. Smith in Afton, New York, Bevington was reared in Worcester, New York, where her father was a Methodist minister. She attended the University of Chicago and earned a degree in philosophy. She proceeded to write a thesis about Thoreau, earning a master's degree in English from Columbia University. On June 1, 1928, she married Merle M. Bevington, son of reverend M. W. Bevington. The couple travelled abroad, returning in 1929 in response to the Stock Market Crash of 1929. Both Bevingtons taught English at Duke University starting in the 1940s, Helen retiring in 1976. The ...
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Henry Bevington
Henry Bevington (26 July 1777''England & Wales, Quaker Birth, Marriage, and Death Registers, 1578-1837'' – 8 November 1850)''London, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-2003'' was a prolific English organ builder, active in London during the Victorian era. Many of his organs were erected in Australia and South Africa. Bevington was born in London to Samuel and Elizabeth (Portsmouth) Bevington, who were Quakers. He was an apprentice of Ohrmann & Nutt, and also of John Snetzler. He began his trade as journeyman with Robert Gray. He set up his own workshop in Greek Street, Soho, London in 1794, his earliest recorded organ is dated 1820. Bevington was also an accomplished organist and was the organist at King's College, London. He died in 1850, aged 73, and was buried at St Peter's Church, Walworth. Bevington & Sons Bevington's organ building business was continued by his sons; Henry and Martin, in Rose Street, Soho, in the same premises as were occupied by Oh ...
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Stan Bevington
Stan Bevington is a Canadian book publisher who founded Coach House Books. Life and work In 1965, Stan Bevington, a typesetter, newly transplanted to Toronto from Edmonton, rented an old coach house and installed an antique Challenge Gordon platen press, creating Coach House Books, Coach House Press, which introduced Canadians to the early works of writers such as bpNichol, Michael Ondaatje, Margaret Atwood, George Bowering, Di Brandt, Nicole Brossard, Frank Davey, Daphne Marlatt, Ann-Marie MacDonald, David McFadden (poet), David McFadden and Anne Michaels. Known for its advocacy of the avant-garde and for many author/artist collaborations, Coach House has published more than 500 titles since its inception, and prints more than 200 books a year for other presses, including catalogues for libraries and art galleries. As printing technology changed over time, Bevington invited collaboration with computer programmers. In 1996, Coach House launched a digital distribution online ser ...
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Terry Bevington
Terry Paul Bevington (born July 7, 1956) is an American former professional baseball player, coach, and manager who managed the Chicago White Sox of Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1995 until 1997. Early life Bevington was born in Akron, Ohio. His family moved to Santa Monica, California where he was a standout high school baseball player at Santa Monica High. He spent seven seasons in the minor leagues after being drafted by the New York Yankees in 1974. He batted .247 in 368 games played, including 33 with the Triple-A Vancouver Canadians of the Pacific Coast League in 1980. He threw and batted right-handed, stood tall and weighed . Managerial career In the middle of the 1995 season, he was named manager of the White Sox when Gene Lamont was fired on June 2. He went 57–56 to close out the season (as a whole, the White Sox finished 75–76) and he was retained for the next season. Most notably during the year, he engaged in a fight with Milwaukee Brewers manager Phil Garn ...
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