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Boddington (surname)
Boddington is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Ann Boddington (1929–2007), Canadian academic * Craig Boddington (born 1952), American hunter * Diana Boddington (1921–2002), British stage manager * Harold Boddington (active 1903–05), English footballer * Henry John Boddington (1811–1865), British landscape painter * Jennie Boddington (1922–2015), Australian filmmaker and photography curator * Karen Boddington, Australian singer-songwriter * Myles Boddington (1924–2002), English cricketer and golf administrator * Peter Boddington (born 1942), British boxer * Samuel Boddington (1766–1843), Irish politician * Thomas Boddington Thomas Boddington (3 June 1736 – 28 June 1821) was a West Indies merchant and political activist in London in the late 18th century. He lived in Clapton (then in Middlesex). Boddington was involved in the Atlantic slave trade and active as part ... (1736–1821), English activist and merchant in the West Indies * Willi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Boddington
Anne, alternatively spelled Ann, is a form of the Latin female given name Anna. This in turn is a representation of the Hebrew Hannah, which means 'favour' or 'grace'. Related names include Annie. Anne is sometimes used as a male name in the Netherlands, particularly in the Frisian speaking part (for example, author Anne de Vries). In this incarnation, it is related to Germanic arn-names and means 'eagle'.See entry on "Anne" in th''Behind the Name'' databaseand th"Anne"an"Ane"entries (in Dutch) in the Nederlandse Voornamenbank (Dutch First Names Database) of the Meertens Instituut (23 October 2018). It has also been used for males in France (Anne de Montmorency) and Scotland (Lord Anne Hamilton). Anne is a common name and the following lists represent a small selection. For a comprehensive list, see instead: . As a feminine name Anne * Saint Anne, Mother of the Virgin Mary * Anne, Queen of Great Britain (1665–1714), Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1702–07) and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craig Boddington
Craig Boddington is a professional hunter, TV show host, author and United States Marine Corps, Marine. Biography Craig Boddington was born in Kansas in 1952. His early big-game experience included pronghorn and mule deer in Wyoming, White-tailed deer, whitetail and mule deer in Kansas, and mule deer in Colorado. A notable portion of his early years was dedicated to Scout (Scouting), Boy Scout activities. At the age of 14, he achieved the rank of Eagle Scout, followed by earning a Silver Palm on his Eagle at 16. At the age of 17, he became the youngest person to serve as activities director at his regional Boy Scout camp. Boddington attended the University of Kansas on a Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps, NROTC scholarship and graduated with a degree in English and a regular commission in the United States Marine Corps. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity. He retired from the USMC Reserves in 2005 with the rank of colonel after service in the Gulf War in 1991 and Ku ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diana Boddington
Diana Boddington, (30 July 1921 – 17 January 2002) was an English stage manager. Career Born in Blackpool in 1921, Boddington's first worked as an assistant electrician for Tyrone Guthrie at the Old Vic in 1941. Later she worked with Orson Welles on his production of Othello in 1951. Boddington frequently worked with Laurence Olivier. She was stage manager at the Old Vic under Olivier and Sir Ralph Richardson's leadership in the 1940s, moving with Olivier when he ran the St James' Theatre in the 1950s, the Chichester Festival Theatre and later with the Royal National Theatre, National Theatre company in 1963. Boddington formed a strong working relationship with Laurence Olivier. Her lifelong bond with Olivier was essentially one of camaraderie, epitomized by the fact that they had once taken refuge together under a table one rehearsal during the war, when surprised by an air raid. According to Simon Callow something of those days characterised their relationship. She w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Boddington
Harold Boddington (active 1903–05) was an English footballer who played in the Football League as an outside left for Middlesbrough in 1903–04. He also played non-league football for Darlington. Boddington made his only League appearance for Middlesbrough on 28 March 1904 in a 3–0 defeat away to Sheffield United in the First Division. He played and scored for Darlington of the Northern League in the 1904–05 FA Cup The 1904–05 FA Cup was the 34th season of the world's oldest association football competition, the Football Association Challenge Cup (more usually known as the FA Cup). Aston Villa won the competition for the fourth time, beating Newcastle Unite .... References Year of birth missing Year of death missing Footballers from Darlington Men's association football outside forwards Middlesbrough F.C. players Darlington F.C. players English Football League players Northern Football League players Place of death missing English men's footballers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry John Boddington
Henry John Boddington (1811 – 11 April 1865) was an English landscape painter during the Victorian era, and a member of the Williams family of painters. Biography Henry John Boddington was born Henry John Williams on 14 October 1811 in London. He was the second son of the painter Edward Williams (1781-1855) and Ann Hildebrandt (c.1780-1851), and a member of the Williams family of painters, who were related to such famous artists as James Ward, R.A. and George Morland. His father was a well-known landscape artist, who taught him how to paint; otherwise he received no formal instruction. In 1832, when just of age, he married Clarissa (Clara) Eliza Boddington (daughter of John Boddington), and adopted her surname, becoming Henry John Boddington, in order to distinguish his work from that of his brothers and other relatives; They had one child, Edwin Henry Boddington, (14 October 1836, Islington – 1905), who also became a painter. After a few years of great poverty a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennie Boddington
Jennifer "Jennie" Boddington (née Blackwood) (1922 – 15 November 2015) was an Australian film director and producer, who was first curator of photography at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, Melbourne (1972–1994), and researcher. Early life Boddington was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1922. She married in the early 1940s, bearing a son, Tim in 1943. Beginning her career amongst Australia's New Wave of filmmakers in Sydney, she worked as wardrobe assistant with costume designer Dahl Collings on Harry Watt (director), Harry Watt's Ealing Studios, Ealing feature film The Overlanders (film), ''The Overlanders'' (1946), then on eight hundred costumes for Watt's unfinished follow-up, ''Eureka Stockade'' (1948). Training Boddington entered the Film Australia, Commonwealth Film Unit in 1948 as cutting room assistant and was there for two and a half years making a lifelong friend in Joan Long (scriptwriter and film producer later known for writing ''Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karen Boddington
Karen Boddington and Mark Williams formed the Australian vocal duet that sang the original theme tune for the TV soap ''Home and Away''. Mark Williams has performed with several other groups, while Karen Boddington was a vocalist for Almighty Records' Hi-NRG ABBA covers project Abbacadabra, alongside other singers such as Tracy Ackerman, Belle Lawrence and Martin Jenkins. Charts The theme tune is entitled "Home and Away", and it was released on the First Night label. It entered the UK Singles Chart on 2 September 1989, and remained in the charts for only one week, reaching position 79. (Note: misprinted as "Baddington") Usage It was used as the theme tune to the show ''Home and Away'' from 1988 until 1995. There have been seven different full versions of the theme song used, including two by The Robertson Brothers The Robertson Brothers is an Australian band of brothers who are best known for singing the ''Home and Away'' theme song, broadcast from 2000 to 2006. At the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myles Boddington
Myles Alan Boddington (30 November 1924 – 14 February 2002) was an English first-class cricketer, noted racehorse breeder and president of the English Golf Union. The son of the first-class cricketer Robert Boddington and his wife Constance Mary Cornall, he was born at Hale, Cheshire. He was educated at Rugby School, where he played cricket for the school cricket team and was regarded as a "a fast bowler of height and hostility". He played for the school in their centenary match in 1941 against the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), marking a hundred years since the MCC played a Rugby School side captained by Thomas Hughes. After leaving Rugby School, Boddington briefly served in the Royal Air Force, during which he played for the Royal Air Force cricket team in a first-class cricket match against Worcestershire at Worcester in 1946. Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed without scoring in the Royal Air Force first-innings, while in their second-innings he was dismissed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Boddington
Peter Boddington (1 October 1942 – 19 December 2020) was a British boxer. He was the Amateur Boxing Association 1967 heavyweight champion and subsequently a professional boxer. Boddington was member of his local boxing club, Rootes ABC. He went to Whitley Abbey Comprehensive School in Whitley, Coventry. Boxing career Amateur Boddington became the British amateur heavyweight boxing champion winning his title in the 80th Amateur Boxing Association Championships at the Wembley Arena, Wembley, London on 5 May 1967. Boddington won a silver medal in the 20th European Amateur Boxing Championships in Rome (25 May - 2 June 1967) having a weight of 91 kg. Professional Boddington turned professional in September 1967, running his record up to 12-0 with 11 KOs by March 1969. He then started the tail end of his career, losing 4 of his last 10 bouts - a points and TKO loss to Bunny Johnson, a KO by Paul Cassidy, and a TKO by Mike Schutte to close Boddington's career in his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Boddington
Samuel Boddington (19 June 1766 – 19 April 1843) was an Anglo-Irish politician. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Tralee from January 1807 to May of the same year. The Boddington family held large estates in the West Indies and Samuel had been left a fortune by his father who had been a director of the South Sea Company as well as a West India merchant with offices at Mark Lane. In 1792 Samuel fell in love with a penniless orphan, Grace Ashburner, and in 1792 they were married. But Grace soon tired of her husband's quiet intellectual interests (Henry Fox rather unkindly referred to Samuel Boddington as "the arch-bore old Bod.") and eventually she eloped with his cousin Benjamin Boddington who had recently joined the family firm. Thereafter, Samuel approached his friend, Richard Sharp (politician), a fellow Dissenter, fellow member of the Fishmongers' Company, and both mutual friends of Samuel Rogers, asking if he would join him in business, and eventually a West India compa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Boddington
Thomas Boddington (3 June 1736 – 28 June 1821) was a West Indies merchant and political activist in London in the late 18th century. He lived in Clapton (then in Middlesex). Boddington was involved in the Atlantic slave trade and active as part of the West India lobby, including the London Society of West India Planters and Merchants, but also participated in other committees: the Committee for the Relief of the Black Poor, and the Committees for Repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts. He was a director of the Bank of England (1776–1810) and was on the Board of the London Dock Company. He worked at the Board of Ordnance based at the Tower of London from 1770, where he was the direct superior of Granville Sharp. Along with James Ware, Samuel Bosanquet and William Houlston, Boddington was involved in setting up the School for the Indigent Blind in St George's Fields, Southwark in 1799, housed in the former Dog and Duck tavern. Both he and his brother, Benjamin Boddington were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |