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Bowyer (surname)
Bowyer is an English language, English surname, taken from the traditional Master craftsman, craftsman name bowyer, a maker of bows.Click here to hear how to pronounce the name. Notable people with the surname include: * Adrian Bowyer (born 1952), British engineer and mathematician * Ashley Bowyer (born 1988), American soccer player * Bernadette Bowyer (born 1966), Canadian field hockey player * Bertram Bowyer, 2nd Baron Denham (1927–2021), British politician * Brendan Bowyer (1938–2020), Irish singer * Chaz Bowyer (1926–2008), British author * Clint Bowyer (born 1979), American racing driver * Charles Stuart Bowyer (1934–2020), astronomer * Dean Bowyer college baseball coach * Edmund Bowyer (other), Edmund Bowyer several people * Eric Bowyer Northern Irish football player * Frank Bowyer (1922–1999), English footballer * Gary Bowyer (born 1971), English footballer * George Bowyer (other), George Bowyer several people * Goof Bowyer (1903–1998) Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goof Bowyer
Ernest J. "Goof" Bowyer (October 2, 1903 – May 19, 1988) was an American football and basketball coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Florida Southern College from 1931 to 1932. Early years Bowyer attended Gainesville High School (Florida), Gainesville High, playing football for J. Rex Farrior and winning a state title. He then attended Lakeland Senior High School (Florida), Lakeland High School in 1923, where he was again quarterback of the Florida state champion team. University of Florida Bowyer attended the University of Florida. He played for coach Tom Sebring and Charlie Bachman's Florida Gators football teams from 1925 Florida Gators football team, 1925 to 1928 Florida Gators football team, 1928. He was captain of the freshman team in his first year, and captain of the varsity in his senior season. In 1927, he broke his leg against 1927 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Georgia, and was elected captain (sports), captain one mon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Bowyer
Ruth Bowyer ( – 5 June 1788), also known as Ruth Baldwin, was an English convict sent to Australia aboard a ship of the First Fleet. Convicted in 1786 for the theft of five spoons from a Surrey hotel, she was sentenced to seven years' transportation but died two years later and was buried beside the shore of Sydney Cove. Early life Prior to her arrest, Bowyer had been living with her aunt in Egham in Surrey. In May 1786 she started work as a kitchen maid at the Bush Hotel at Staines but was dismissed on 24 June. Later that day the publican, Joseph White, noticed that three monogrammed table spoons and two silver dessert spoons were missing from the hotel. Bowyer was arrested on 7 October on suspicion of stealing the spoons. She spent three weeks in Newgate Prison and was brought to trial at the Old Bailey on 25 October before a twelve-member jury and Justice William Rose of London. Trial According to evidence at her trial, Bowyer had on 7 October approached James Coombes, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Bowyer
Robert Bowyer (; bap. 18 June 1758 – 4 June 1834) was a British miniature painter and publisher. Bowyer was born in Portsmouth to Amos and Betty Ann Bowyer and baptized on 18 June 1758. His first job was as a clerk to a merchant in Portsmouth and then London. Two different accounts of his career shift survive. The first claims that he had decided to voyage to America, and before leaving wanted to obtain a portrait of himself for his fiancée, Mary Shoveller. Unable to afford to commission one, he painted one himself and eventually gave up the idea of going to America and became a miniaturist. The second claims that he was simply looking for a job and decided to paint.Graham-Vernon"Robert Bowyer" On 14 July 1777, Bowyer married Shoveller; the couple had one daughter. Bowyer probably began to train with the miniature painter John Smart in the late 1770s and exhibited his first works at the Society of Artists in 1782 and at the Royal Academy in 1783. Bowyer had a successful caree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Percy Bowyer
Harry Percy Bowyer (6 September 1909 – 17 November 1998) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Born in England, – Australian Football League. Published 27 June 2012. Retrieved 27 June 2012. Bowyer was part of a strong Collingwood side during his career and played in four premiership teams. He played on a wing and in the and |
Matthew Bowyer
Matthew Bowyer (born 25 July 1973) is an English cricketer. Bowyer is a right-handed batsman. He was born in Eastbourne, Sussex. Bowyer made his debut for Buckinghamshire in the 1996 Minor Counties Championship against Hertfordshire. Bowyer played Minor counties cricket for Buckinghamshire from 1996 to 2003, which included 12 Minor Counties Championship matches and 10 MCCA Knockout Trophy matches. In 1997, he made his List A debut against Essex in the NatWest Trophy. He played 4 further List A matches for Buckinghamshire, the last coming against Gloucestershire in the 2003 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy The 2003 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy was an County cricket, English county cricket tournament, held between 29 August 2002 and 30 August 2003. The competition was won by Gloucestershire County Cricket Club, Gloucestershire who beat Worcestersh .... In his 5 List A matches, he scored 114 runs at a batting average of 22.80, with a high score of 43. References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Renaissance Theatre
English Renaissance theatre, also known as Renaissance English theatre and Elizabethan theatre, refers to the theatre of England between 1558 and 1642. This is the style of the plays of William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe and Ben Jonson. Background The term ''English Renaissance theatre'' encompasses the period between 1562—following a performance of ''Gorboduc'', the first English play using blank verse, at the Inner Temple during the Christmas season of 1561—and the ban on theatrical plays enacted by the English Parliament in 1642. In a strict sense "Elizabethan" only refers to the period of Queen Elizabeth's reign (1558–1603). ''English Renaissance theatre'' may be said to encompass ''Elizabethan theatre'' from 1562 to 1603, '' Jacobean theatre'' from 1603 to 1625, and '' Caroline theatre'' from 1625 to 1642. Along with the economics of the profession, the character of the drama changed towards the end of the period. Under Elizabeth, the drama was a unified ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Bowyer
Michael Bowyer (1599–1645) was an actor in English Renaissance theatre in the Jacobean era, Jacobean and Caroline era, Caroline eras. He spent most of his maturity with Queen Henrietta's Men, but finished his career with the King's Men (playing company), King's Men. With the former company, he was one of "those of principal note," according to James Wright's ''Historia Histrionica'' (1699 in literature, 1699), one of the troupe's "eminent actors." Bowyer, the son of a John Bowyer, was christened on 20 September 1599 in Kidderminster, Worcestershire. He played a series of important roles through his career, including: * Beaufort in James Shirley's ''The Wedding (1629 play), The Wedding''; * King John in Robert Davenport (dramatist), Robert Davenport's ''King John and Matilda''; * Vitelli in Philip Massinger's ''The Renegado''; * Mr. Spencer in Thomas Heywood's ''The Fair Maid of the West''; * Scipio in Thomas Nabbes's ''Hannibal and Scipio''. Robert Davenport dedicated his poem ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Bowyer
Lee David Bowyer (; born 3 January 1977) is an English football manager and former professional player. As a player, he was a midfielder who featured for Charlton Athletic, Leeds United, West Ham United (two spells), Newcastle United, Birmingham City F.C., Birmingham City and Ipswich Town F.C., Ipswich Town in over 18 years as a professional. He made 397 appearances in the Premier League, took part in semi-finals of the UEFA Cup and UEFA Champions League with Leeds and won the Football League Cup with Birmingham in 2011 Football League Cup Final, 2011. Bowyer was capped once by the England national football team, England national team. His career was punctuated by various incidents both on and off the field. Bowyer has managed two of the clubs for which he formerly played: after three years in charge of Charlton Athletic, he left to become Birmingham City's manager in March 2021 and was sacked at the end of the following season. Club career Charlton Athletic Born in Canning T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Bowyer
Kevin John Bowyer (; born 9 January 1961) is an English organist, known for his prolific recording and recital career and his performances of modern and extremely difficult compositions. Biography Bowyer was born on 9 January 1961 in Southend-on-Sea, England. He sang in a choir and learnt the piano accordion and organ as a child. When the church where he practised refused to let him carry on practising, he says: "I went and had a key cut to the church and I got in anyway."Musicteachers.com online journal, Volume 2 Issue 1, July 2000 He attended Cecil Jones High School in Southend, and studied at the from 1979 to 1982 with organists < ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Bowyer (other)
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John Bowyer may refer to: Politicians *John Bowyer (MP for Penryn) or Bower, MP for Penrhyn, 1563 *John Bowyer (MP for Derby), in 1383, MP for Derby *John Bowyer (fl. 1404), MP for Wells *John Bowyer (died 1605), MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme (UK Parliament constituency) *Sir John Bowyer, 1st Baronet (1623–1666), English soldier and MP for Staffordshire 1646, and Newcastle-under-Lyme *Sir John Bowyer, 2nd Baronet (1653–1691), English MP for Warwick and Staffordshire 1679–1685 Others *John Bowyer (cricketer) (1790–1880), English professional cricketer *John M. Bowyer (1853–1912), officer in the United States Navy See also *John Bower (other) John Bower (1940–2017) was an American skier. John Bower may also refer to: *John Dykes Bower (1905–1981), English cathedral organist * John Oates Bower (1901–1981), Canadian politician, businessman and executive *John W. Bower John White B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerry Bowyer
Gerald "Jerry" Bowyer (born 1962) is an American investment manager, author, and columnist. He is a former radio and broadcasting host who has also been extensively involved in public affairs, political writing, and investment activities. Early career Bowyer, an accountant at the time, began what his biography calls his "first professional position" in 1990 at Arthur Andersen, then one of the six largest accounting firms in the United States. He left the firm in 1993 to work briefly as the vice president of the Beechwood Company, the holding company for Federated Investors, a mutual fund business. Media Bowyer started in broadcast media in 1993 as the host of WPIT-FM’s ''Cross-Town Perspectives'' program. Beginning in October 1999, he hosted ''The Jerry Bowyer Program'' on WPTT radio in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a live 3-hour program focusing on business, politics and current events. He left WPTT in July 2005. Beginning in September 2005, Bowyer was the host on an afternoon sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
