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Biscoe (surname) (1863–1949), British missionary and educationist
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Biscoe is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Bert Biscoe, Cornish bard * Charles Biscoe (1875-1948), British fencer *Chris Biscoe (1947 - ), English jazz multi-instrumentalist *Donna Biscoe (born 1955), American actress *John Biscoe (1794 - 1843), nineteenth-century English explorer * John Biscoe (MP) (1613-1672), English politician and colonel in the New Model Army * Maurice B. Biscoe ( - 1953), American architect *Patsy Biscoe (1946 - ), Australian singer * Richard Biscoe ( - 1748), English clergyman and dissenting minister See also *Alec Julian Tyndale-Biscoe (1906-1997), Rear Admiral and naval engineer *Cecil Tyndale-Biscoe Cecil Earle Tyndale-Biscoe (9 February 1863 – 1 August 1949) was a British missionary and educationist, who worked in Kashmir where he established the Tyndale Biscoe School. He was born with the family name Biscoe. It was changed to Tyndale- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bert Biscoe
Bert Biscoe is a Cornish politician, historian and bard of the Cornish Gorseth also known by the bardic name Viajor Gans Geryow. He represented Cornwall Council's Truro Boscawen District as an independent Cornwall Councillor until May 2019 and is still serving as an independent Truro City Council councillor for the new Boscawen & Redannick ward. Bert Biscoe is known locally for his work as a local historian and for his activism related to the Cornish identity debate. In 2012, his book of poems called "Trurra" won a Waterstones Publishers Award at the Holyer An Gof literary competition. Biscoe was made Mayor of Truro 2020/21 in an online ceremony. Personal life Bert Biscoe was born in Stithians, Cornwall. He attended Truro School and his higher education was completed at Bangor University. He lives in Truro, Cornwall. Bardic work Bert Biscoe is a traditional musician and poet, specialising in Cornish folk music, some of which is in the Cornish language. Some of his audio wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Biscoe
Karl Heinrich Remigius Biscoe (28 June 1875 – 22 December 1948) better known as Charles Henry Biscoe was a German born British fencer, he competed mainly in the épée. Biography He competed at two Olympic Games. In 1924, he was selected to represent Great Britain at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris. He competed in both the individual épée event and the team épée event. Also in 1924, he won the épée title at the British Fencing Championships The British Fencing Championships are held annually to determine the British champion. The Championships are currently held at the English Institute of Sport, Sheffield. The championships were not held during World War I, World War II and in 202 .... Four years later in 1928 he competed at his second Olympic Games when he took part in the individual épée event and the team épée event again. References External links * 1875 births 1948 deaths British male fencers British expatriates in Germany Olympic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Biscoe
Chris Biscoe (born 5 February 1947, East Barnet, Hertfordshire, England) is an English jazz multi-instrumentalist, a player of the alto, soprano, tenor and baritone saxophone, the alto clarinet, piccolo and flute. Biscoe is most notable for his work with Mike Westbrook and the NYJO. Early life In 1963, Biscoe taught himself to play the alto saxophone, and then started playing tenor, soprano, baritone saxes, and the comparatively rare alto clarinet. Career Biscoe was a computer programmer before he became a notable presence on the UK jazz scene. From 1970 to 1973, Biscoe played with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra in London, doing gigs with various other London-based bands of that period. Biscoe worked with several notable jazz musicians during the 1970s, such as Harry Beckett, Ken Hyder, Didier Levallet, Chris McGregor, Andy Sheppard, Graham Collier, Danilo Terenzi, Pete Hurt, Tommy Chase, Pete Saberton, Barry Guy, Dave Holdsworth, and Pete Jacobsen. Biscoe was a founder me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donna Biscoe
Donna Biscoe (born September 30, 1955) is an American actress. Early years Biscoe was born in Fort Benning, Georgia, the daughter of Mildred Skillern, a retired Carver High School English teacher. Biscoe attended Carver, then graduated from Kendrick High School in Columbus in 1973 and later graduated from Clark Atlanta University with a bachelor's degree in elementary education. Biscoe later went to Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York for six months. In the 1980s, a casting agent discovered Biscoe while she worked as a flight attendant for Eastern Airlines. Career After returning to Atlanta, Biscoe began acting in plays, including playing Martin Luther King Jr.’s mother in ''A Boy King'' at the Atlanta Children’s Theater. In late 1980s, Biscoe also began appearing in an supporting roles in film and television, including four appearances in '' In the Heat of the Night'', CBS miniseries ''Mama Flora's Family'' (1998), and well as films '' Love Crimes'' (1992 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Biscoe
John Biscoe (28 April 1794 – 1843) was an English mariner and explorer who commanded the first expedition known to have sighted the areas named Enderby Land and Graham Land along the coast of Antarctica. The expedition also found a number of islands in the vicinity of Graham Land, including the Biscoe Islands that were named after him. Early life Biscoe was born in Enfield, Middlesex, England. In March 1812, aged seventeen, he joined the Royal Navy and served during the 1812–1815 war against the United States. By the time of his discharge in 1815, he had become a justice Master. Thereafter he sailed on board merchant shipping as a mate or master, mostly to the East or West Indies. Southern Ocean expedition, 1830–1833 In 1830, the whaling company Samuel Enderby & Sons appointed Biscoe master of the brig ''Tula'' and leader of an expedition to find new sealing grounds in the Southern Ocean. Accompanied by the cutter ''Lively'', the ''Tula'' left London and by December ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Biscoe (MP)
John Biscoe (28 April 1794 – 1843) was an English mariner and explorer who commanded the first expedition known to have sighted the areas named Enderby Land and Graham Land along the coast of Antarctica. The expedition also found a number of islands in the vicinity of Graham Land, including the Biscoe Islands that were named after him. Early life Biscoe was born in Enfield, Middlesex, England. In March 1812, aged seventeen, he joined the Royal Navy and served during the 1812–1815 war against the United States. By the time of his discharge in 1815, he had become a justice Master. Thereafter he sailed on board merchant shipping as a mate or master, mostly to the East or West Indies. Southern Ocean expedition, 1830–1833 In 1830, the whaling company Samuel Enderby & Sons appointed Biscoe master of the brig ''Tula'' and leader of an expedition to find new sealing grounds in the Southern Ocean. Accompanied by the cutter ''Lively'', the ''Tula'' left London and by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice B
Maurice may refer to: People *Saint Maurice (died 287), Roman legionary and Christian martyr *Maurice (emperor) or Flavius Mauricius Tiberius Augustus (539–602), Byzantine emperor *Maurice (bishop of London) (died 1107), Lord Chancellor and Lord Keeper of England *Maurice of Carnoet (1117–1191), Breton abbot and saint *Maurice, Count of Oldenburg (fl. 1169–1211) *Maurice of Inchaffray (14th century), Scottish cleric who became a bishop *Maurice, Elector of Saxony (1521–1553), German Saxon nobleman *Maurice, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (1551–1612) *Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange (1567–1625), stadtholder of the Netherlands *Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel or Maurice the Learned (1572–1632) *Maurice of Savoy (1593–1657), prince of Savoy and a cardinal *Maurice, Duke of Saxe-Zeitz (1619–1681) *Maurice of the Palatinate (1620–1652), Count Palatine of the Rhine *Maurice of the Netherlands (1843–1850), prince of Orange-Nassau *Maurice Chevalier (1888–1972), Fre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patsy Biscoe
Patsy Biscoe (born 21 March 1946) is an Australian children's television personality, singer and guitarist. She regularly appeared on children's national television shows, ''Here's Humphrey'' and ''Fat Cat and Friends''. She has released many children's music albums containing nursery rhymes and similar children's songs and has sold in excess of 500,000 units in her musical career. Early life and training Biscoe was born in Shimla, India, to a British army officer and a civil servant. She came to Australia and settled in Sydney with her family during the Partition of India, and they moved to Sandy Bay in Hobart when she was nine. She won a classical singing scholarship after making an unscheduled appearance at the St Mary's College annual eisteddfod. While studying medicine at the University of Tasmania, she sang and played the guitar at a Sunday night jazz club. Her studies and fledgling career were interrupted by a car accident which damaged her eyesight. She covered a scar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Biscoe
Richard Biscoe (died 1748) was an English clergyman. Initially a Dissenting minister, he later was an Anglican, Boyle Lecturer, and President of Sion College. Life He was educated at an academy kept by Samuel Benion at Shrewsbury, and on 19 December 1716 was made a Dissenting minister at the Old Jewry Meeting-house. From 1716 to 1727 he was minister of Newington Green Chapel. In 1727 he conformed and was made rector of St. Martin Outwich, London. He also held the living of Northwald, near Epping, was a minor canon of St. Paul's Cathedral, a prebendary from 1736, and a chaplain to George II. He died in May 1748. Works He delivered the Boyle lectures in 1736, 1737, and 1738, and in 1742 published two volumes based on them under the title ''History of the Acts of the Holy Apostles confirmed from other authors; and considered as full evidence of the truth of Christianity, with a prefatory discourse on the nature of that evidence.'' It was praised by Philip Doddridge, and was re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alec Julian Tyndale-Biscoe
Rear Admiral Alec Julian Tyndale-Biscoe OBE (10 August 1906 – 26 April 1997) was a British naval engineer and a senior officer in the Royal Navy. He played a leading role in the design of the biggest and last battleship to be built for the Royal Navy, HMS Vanguard (23), HMS Vanguard. Some years later, when UK-based auto manufacturer Standard Motor Company wished to name a new model as the Standard Vanguard, Tyndale-Biscoe was involved in the decision as to whether they should be permitted to do so. Life and career Alec Julian Tyndale-Biscoe was born at North Petherton (Bridgwater, Somerset) in the southwest of England, the elder of the two recorded sons of Lt. Col. Arthur Annesley Tyndale-Biscoe (1872–1969) by his marriage two years earlier to Emily Beatrice Duff (1883–1976). Tyndale-Biscoe was a great-grandson of George Duff, Captain George Duff (1764–1805), through his mother's family. He was educated at the Royal Naval College, Osborne, Royal Naval Colleges, Osborne an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |