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Bramham may refer to: People * Christopher Bramham (born 1952), British painter * Sam Bramham (born 1988), Australian Paralympic swimmer * William G. Bramham (1874–1947), American baseball executive Places * Bramham cum Oglethorpe, a civil parish in West Yorkshire, England ** Bramham, West Yorkshire, a village in the parish ** Bramham Park, a historic house near the village * Bramham Gari Matham, a pilgrimage site in Mydukur, India * Bramham Island, British Columbia, Canada Other uses * Battle of Bramham Moor, a battle on Bramham Moor near Wetherby * HMS ''Bramham'' (L51), a Hunt-class destroyer of the Royal Navy * Bramham Horse Trials Bramham International Horse Trials is one of the Europe's leading three-day events, taking place every June at Bramham Park, near Wetherby in West Yorkshire. The event attracts around 60,000 spectators over four days of competition.Official figu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Bramham
Christopher Bramham (born 1952) is a painter from Britain. Biography Bramham was born in Bradford, Yorkshire. He studied at Bradford School of Art from 1970 to 1971, followed by Kingston upon Thames Art School from 1971 to 1973. From 1975 to 1986 he worked as a part-time teacher in various art colleges in London before holding his first solo exhibition, at the Fine Art Society in London in 1988. Bramham was a close friend of the artist Lucian Freud, whom he first met in 1982. Freud painted Bramham alone in 1989, and again with Bramham's children, Polly and Barney, in 1990. They also exhibited together at the Browse and Darby Gallery in London in 2007, in a three-person show along with the painter Duncan Wood. Prior to this Bramham exhibited at Marlborough Fine Art in London in the 1990s, and again in 2002. Bramham has work in the collection of the British Council, and the Elaine and Melvin Merians Collection, and he was included in the exhibition of this latter collection at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Bramham
Sam Julian Bramham, OAM (born 23 May 1988) is an Australian Paralympic swimmer. He competed at the 2004 and 2008 Summer Paralympics. Between those two Games, he won two gold medals, two silver medals and a bronze medal. In 2014 Bramham entered the eleventh season of ''Big Brother Australia'' and was a contestant in the first season of Australian Ninja Warrior in 2017. Personal life Bramham tells several stories about how he lost his leg; one story involves his leg being eaten off by an alligator. Another story is that a shark attacked him. A third story, one he often tells international journalists, involves his leg being "chomped off by a kangaroo". The reality is that he was born missing part of his limb: he has no femur. What remained of his leg was amputated when he was five years old. Bramham was born on 23 May 1988 and is from Ivanhoe, Victoria, where he attended Ivanhoe Grammar School. One of his heroes is Geoff Huegill. Outside of swimming, he competes at water po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William G
William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of England in 1066,All Things William"Meaning & Origin of the Name"/ref> and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era. It is sometimes abbreviated "Wm." Shortened familiar versions in English include Will, Wills, Willy, Willie, Bill, and Billy. A common Irish form is Liam. Scottish diminutives include Wull, Willie or Wullie (as in Oor Wullie or the play ''Douglas''). Female forms are Willa, Willemina, Wilma and Wilhelmina. Etymology William is related to the given name ''Wilhelm'' (cf. Proto-Germanic ᚹᛁᛚᛃᚨᚺᛖᛚᛗᚨᛉ, ''*Wiljahelmaz'' > German ''Wilhelm'' and Old Norse ᚢᛁᛚᛋᛅᚼᛅᛚᛘᛅᛋ, ''Vilhjálmr''). By regular sound changes, the native, inherited English form of the name shoul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bramham, West Yorkshire
Bramham is a village in the civil parish of Bramham cum Oglethorpe in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough, West Yorkshire, England. It sits in the Wetherby ward of Leeds City Council and Elmet and Rothwell parliamentary constituency. Overview According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 1,715, which had fallen to 1,650 by the time of the 2011 census. Bramham is located south of Wetherby, midway between Leeds and York and about south of Harrogate in the so-called Golden Triangle. Bramham is a part of the Wetherby Ward of Leeds Metropolitan Council and is at the north-eastern edge of West Yorkshire where it borders North Yorkshire at Tadcaster, away. Bramham was in the Elmet constituency until the 2010 general election when it became part of the newly created Elmet and Rothwell constituency and the local Conservative M.P. is Alec Shelbrooke. Bramham Park (at ), to the south-west of the village, is home to the Leeds Festival, an annual music and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bramham Park
Bramham Park is a Grade I listed 18th-century country house in Bramham, between Leeds and Wetherby, in West Yorkshire, England. The house, constructed of magnesian limestone ashlar with stone slate roofs in a classical style, is built to a linear plan with a main range linked by colonnades to flanking pavilions. The main block is of three storeys with a raised forecourt. The house is surrounded by a 200 ha (500 acre) landscaped park ornamented by a series of follies and avenues laid out in the 18th-century landscape tradition, surrounded by 500 ha (1235 acres) of arable farmland. Bramham park is used annually for the Leeds Festival. History The Baroque mansion was built in 1698 for Robert Benson, 1st Baron Bingley. It has remained in the ownership of Benson's descendants since its completion in 1710. He died with no male heirs and the barony was extinguished. The estate passed into the hands of his son-in-Law George Fox-Lane (c.1697–1773), who was given the re-created title ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bramham Gari Matham
Bramhamgari Matham is a village in Kadapa district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is located in Brahmamgari Matham mandal of Badvel revenue division. It is a pilgrimage centre. The village is known as Sri Pothuluri Veera Brahmandra Swamy who entered into a samadhi alive in front of his disciples. He is considered to be the author of the ''Kālagnānaṁ'', a book of predictions. His prophetic texts are also known as the ''Govinda Vakyas''. Geography Bramham gari mattam (Kandimallayapalle) is located 70 km away from Kadapa. It is well connected with roads. The preferable route from Kadapa to Kandimallayapalle is via Mydukuru. From Mydukur, the distance is 25 km. The nearest railway station to Bramhamgari Mattam is Kadapa. The nearest airport is Kadapa airport. Bramhamsagar Reservoir The Sri Pothuluri Veerabramhendra Swamy Reservoir was named after Pothuluru Veerabrahmendra Swamy and is part of the Telugu Ganga irrigation project. The reservoir is also kn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bramham Island
Bramham Island is an island in the Queen Charlotte Strait region of the British Columbia Coast, Central Coast of British Columbia, Canada, on the north side of the entrance to that strait. It lies in the entrance to the maze of waterways inland to the northeast, focused on Seymour Inlet, which includes Belize Inlet and Allison Harbour and Nugent Sound, though it is flanked only by Slingsby Channel on its north, and Schooner Channel (formerly Schooner Passage) on its east. To its west are the open waters at the convergence of Queen Charlotte Sound (Canada), Queen Charlotte Sound and Queen Charlotte Strait. About 23 km2 in size, it is mostly low-lying hills and has a number of freshwater lakes. Bramham Island was also the name of a former post office at , though there has been no settlement there since 1923. Name origin The island was named c. 1866 by Captain Pender of the Royal Navy after Bramham Park, the Yorkshire home of George Lane-Fox (MP), George Lane-Fox, in association ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Bramham Moor
The Battle of Bramham Moor on 19 February 1408 was the final battle in the Percy Rebellion of 1402 – 1408, which pitted Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, head of the rich and influential Percy family, against the usurper King of England, Henry IV. The Percys had previously supported Henry in his coup d'etat against his cousin King Richard II in 1399. The Rebellion King Henry and Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland had fallen out in the aftermath of the Battle of Homildon Hill in 1402, a victory over an invading Scottish army by an English force led by Northumberland which succeeded in capturing a large number of Scottish nobles. As was the tradition of the day, a captured nobleman could buy his freedom though a ransom, and Northumberland stood to make a large sum of money from his success. However, King Henry was suffering a financial crisis, due to the chaotic state of affairs following the coup, wars in Wales and Scotland, and the disobedience of several part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Bramham (L51)
HMS ''Bramham'' (L51) was a of the Royal Navy laid down in Alexander Stephen and Sons shipyards Govan, Scotland on 7 April 1941. She was launched on 29 January 1942 and commissioned into the Royal Navy on 16 June 1942. She was named after the Bramham Moor Hunt and has been the only Royal Navy warship to bear the name. She was adopted by the town of Beverley in the East Riding of Yorkshire during the Warship Week savings campaign of 1942. Royal Navy service ''Bramham'' was one of two ships that returned to rescue the survivors of . In the following August she served in Operation Pedestal, a mission to deliver supplies to the besieged island of Malta, as an escorting destroyer. In the last stages of the operation ''Bramham'' along with two other destroyers, and took on the final tow of the tanker into Malta. Royal Hellenic Navy service In March 1943 ''Bramham'' was transferred to the Royal Hellenic Navy and renamed ''Themistoklis'' after the ancient Greek commander Themi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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