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Bodley
Bodley may refer to: Surname * Edward Fisher Bodley (1815–1881), English businessman * George Frederick Bodley (1827–1907), English architect * John Edward Courtenay Bodley (1853–1925), English civil servant and historian * Josias Bodley (1550–1618), English soldier notable for his service in Ireland * Mick Bodley (born 1967), English footballer * R. V. C. Bodley (1892–1970), English author and military officer * Rachel Bodley (1831–1888), American professor and university leader * Robert Bodley (1878–1956), South African Olympic rifle shooter * Seóirse Bodley (1933–2023), Irish composer * Thomas Bodley (1545–1613), English diplomat and founder of the Bodleian Library Given name * Bodley Scott (other), several people Other * The Bodley Head, publishing imprint founded in 1887 * Bodley Medal, literary award * Bodley Gallery, New York * Bodley, Devon, English village * Bodley Survey, a study of Ireland undertaken in 1609 * Codex Bodley, Mixtec pictograph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mick Bodley
Michael John Bodley (born 14 September 1967) is an English former professional association football, footballer who made 258 appearances in the English Football League, Football League playing for Chelsea F.C., Chelsea, Northampton Town F.C., Northampton Town, Barnet F.C., Barnet, Southend United F.C., Southend United, Gillingham F.C., Gillingham, Birmingham City F.C., Birmingham City and Peterborough United F.C., Peterborough United. He played as a central defender. Playing career Early career Bodley was born in Hayes, Hillingdon, Hayes, in the London Borough of Hillingdon. He began his football career as an apprentice with Chelsea F.C., Chelsea, and turned professional in 1985. He played eight times for the first team in all competitions before leaving for Northampton Town F.C., Northampton Town for a fee of £50,000 in January 1989. He played 20 league games for the club before moving into non-league football with Barnet F.C., Barnet, who paid £15,000 for his services in Oc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bodley Head
The Bodley Head is an English book publishing imprint of Penguin Random House. Founded in 1887 by John Lane and Elkin Mathews, The Bodley Head existed as an independent entity or as part of multiple consortia until it was acquired by Random House in 1987 alongside sister companies Jonathan Cape and Chatto & Windus. Random House used The Bodley Head as a children's book imprint until April 2008, when it was repositioned as an adult non-fiction imprint within the Vintage Books division. The Bodley Head launched Penguin Books as an imprint in 1935, which John Lane spun off as an independent company the following year. The Bodley Head acquired several other imprints prior to the Random House acquisition, including Martin Hopkinson and Gerald Howe in 1941, Nonesuch Press in 1953, Werner Laurie in 1957, and Hollis & Carter in 1962. History Originally named Elkin Mathews and John Lane, The Bodley Head was a partnership set up in 1887 by booksellers Elkin Mathews and John Lane, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Fisher Bodley
Edward Fisher Bodley (1815–1881) was an English businessman, owner of a Staffordshire pottery. It operated on several sites in what is now Stoke-on-Trent. He had been a Congregationalist minister, and retained religious interests. Early life In early life, Bodley was an nonconformist minister. He trained at Highbury College, and ministered at Steeple Bumpstead, Essex, as successor to Ebenezer Temple. He moved south within Essex, to a congregation at Rochford, where he was in 1842. In 1843 he published ''Three Sermons on Revivals of Religion''. Potter Bodley spent time as a commercial traveller. In business on his own account, he was successful as a pottery owner. The pottery company E. F. Bodley & Co. was set up in the early 1860s. A table service used on ''CSS Alabama'' was manufactured by it. It was established manufacturing earthenwares at the Scotia Pottery in Burslem in 1862. In 1863–7 its activities or trading are not easily distinguished from those of Bodley & Harrol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Frederick Bodley
George Frederick Bodley (14 March 182721 October 1907) was an English Gothic Revival architect. He was a pupil of Sir George Gilbert Scott and worked with C. E. Kempe. He was in partnership with Thomas Garner for much of his career and was one of the founders of Watts & Co. Personal life Bodley was the youngest son of William Hulme Bodley, of Edinburgh, physician at Hull Royal Infirmary, Hull, who in 1838 retired to his wife's home town, Brighton. George's eldest brother, the Rev. W. H. Bodley, became a well-known Roman Catholic preacher and a professor at St Mary's College, New Oscott, Birmingham. He married Minna F. H. Reavely, daughter of Thomas George Wood Reavely, at Kinnersley Castle in 1872. They had a son, George H. Bodley, born in 1874. Career Bodley was articled to the architect Sir George Gilbert Scott, a relative by marriage, under whose influence he became imbued with the spirit of the Gothic revival, and he became known as the chief exponent of 14th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Edward Courtenay Bodley
John Edward Courtenay Bodley (6 June 1853 – 28 May 1925) was an English civil servant, known for his writings on France. Life He was the son of the pottery owner Edward Fisher Bodley (1815–1881), and his wife Mary Ridgway Bodley, and brother of the pottery owner Edwin James Drew Bodley. He was educated at Mill Hill School and studied at Balliol College, Oxford, from 1873 to 1876. An active Freemason, he approached Oscar Wilde, then also an undergraduate, and introduced him to a Masonic Lodge in Oxford. Richard Ellmann attributes to Bodley a long, spiteful ''New York Times'' article that appeared on Wilde, on 21 January 1882. "Bodelino" was a member of James McNeill Whistler's circle in Paris. He was secretary to Charles Dilke, from 1880. Initially Dilke thought him frivolous, but he came to play a major part in Dilke's official work and private life. He was a witness in the divorce case that broke Dilke's career. He subsequently believed that Dilke's downfall was caused by J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josias Bodley
Sir Josias Bodley (1550-1618) was an English military engineer noted for his service in Ireland during the Nine Years' War. Following the end of the war he remained in Ireland where he oversaw the rebuilding of several major forts. In 1609 he was entrusted with the Bodley Survey which mapped out terrain for the Ulster Plantation. Early life He was the son of John Bodley a merchant from Exeter, and the younger brother of the scholar Sir Thomas Bodley, known for his involvement in the Bodleian Library. Josias spent some of his youth abroad, where his Protestant father had gone as a Marian exile during reign of the Catholic Mary I of England, Mary I. He attended Merton College, Oxford before travelling around Europe. He then joined the English forces fighting for the Dutch Republic against Spain in the Low Countries. By 1598, he had reached the rank of captain. Ireland Bodley served during the Nine Years' War The Nine Years' War was a European great power conflict from 168 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Bodley
Rachel Littler Bodley (December 7, 1831 – June 15, 1888) was an American professor, botanist, and university leader. She was best known for her term as Dean of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania (1874–1888). She helped found the American Chemical Society in New York City. Bodley's main contribution to botany was ''Catalogue of Plants Contained in Herbarium of Joseph Clark'', a report on an herbarium she personally organized and catalogued. She taught various subjects, primarily chemistry and medicine, the latter of which she developed toward a more science-focused method of study. Through her work ''The College Story'', she compiled the first survey of the lives and successful careers of female medical students after graduating from medical college. She received numerous honors and maintained membership in many professional societies during her career. Life Early life and education Bodley was born December 7, 1831, in Cincinnati, Ohio. She was the eldest daughter o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Bodley
Robert Bodley (31 July 1878 – 6 November 1956) was a South African sport shooter who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics and in the 1920 Summer Olympics. 1912 Stockholm In the 1912 Summer Olympics, he participated in the following events: * Team military rifle – fourth place * Team free rifle – sixth place * 300 metre military rifle, three positions – 45th place * 600 metre free rifle – 54th place * 300 metre free rifle, three positions – 55th place 1920 Antwerp Eight years later, he won the silver medal with the South African team in the team 600 metre military rifle, prone competition. In the 1920 Summer Olympics The 1920 Summer Olympics (; ; ), officially known as the Games of the VII Olympiad (; ; ) and commonly known as Antwerp 1920 (; Dutch language, Dutch and German language, German: ''Antwerpen 1920''), were an international multi-sport event held i ..., he also participated in the following events: * Team 300 and 600 metre military rifle, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seóirse Bodley
Seóirse Bodley (; 4 April 1933 – 17 November 2023) was an Irish composer and associate professor of music at University College Dublin (UCD). He was the first composer to become a Saoi of Aosdána, in 2008. Bodley is widely regarded as one of the most important composers of twentieth-century art music in Ireland, having been "integral to Irish musical life since the second half of the twentieth century, not just as a composer, but also as a teacher, arranger, accompanist, adjudicator, broadcaster, and conductor". Biography Bodley was born George Pascal Bodley in Dublin. His father was George James Bodley (1879–1956), an employee of the London Midland & Scottish Railway Company (Dublin office), and later of the Dublin Ports and Docks Board. His mother, Mary (''née'' Gough, 1891–1977), worked for the Guinness brewery.Cox (2010), p. 1. He attended schools in the Dublin suburbs of Phibsboro and Glasnevin before he moved at the age of nine to Coláiste Mhuire at Parnell Squ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Bodley
Sir Thomas Bodley (2 March 1545 – 28 January 1613) was an England, English diplomat and Scholarly method, scholar who founded the Bodleian Library in Oxford. Origins Thomas Bodley was born on 2 March 1545, in the second-to-last year of the reign of King Henry VIII of England, Henry VIII, in the city of Exeter in Devon. He was one of the seven sons of John Bodley (d. 15 Oct. 1591) of Exeter, a Protestant merchant who chose foreign exile rather than staying in England under the Catholic Church, Roman Catholic government of Queen Mary I of England, Mary (). He was thereby involved in the publication of Rowland Hill (MP), Sir Rowland Hill's Geneva Bible. John's father, also John Bodley, was a younger son of the gentry family of Bodley of Dunscombe, near Crediton in Devon. Thomas's mother was Joan Hone, a daughter and co-heiress of Robert Hone of Ottery St Mary, Devon. Thomas's younger brother was Sir Josias Bodley, knighted in Ireland by the Earl of Devon. Childhood and educatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bodley Scott (other) (1906–1982), English haematologist and Royal physician
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Bodley Scott may refer to: * Mark Bodley Scott (1923–2013), English rower who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics * Sir Ronald Bodley Scott Sir Ronald Bodley Scott (10 September 1906 – 12 May 1982) was an English haematologist and expert on therapy for leukaemia and lymphoma. Biography After education at Marlborough College, he matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford, where in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bodley Medal
The Bodley Medal is awarded by the Bodleian Library at Oxford University to individuals who have made "outstanding contributions ... to the worlds of communications and literature" and who have helped the library achieve "the vision of its founder, Sir Thomas Bodley, to be a library not just to Oxford University but also to the world". Description of the Medal The medal's obverse shows the right profile of Thomas Bodley and bears the Latin inscription "TH BODLY EQ AVR PVBL BIBLIOTH OXON FVNDATOR", which translates "Sir Thomas Bodley, Founder of the Public Library at Oxford". The reverse reads "R P LITERARIAE AETERNITAS", which means "The Eternity of the Republic of Letters". It shows a female figure, probably representing the Republic of Letters, bearing a head in each hand. The medal is signed "Warin" on the obverse. History The original medal was engraved in 1646 to honour Sir Thomas Bodley, who rebuilt the first public library at Oxford in 1602, now called the Bodleian Lib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
