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Biffy Clyro Songs
Biffy may refer to: __NOTOC__ People Nickname * Amyas Borton (1886–1969), British First World War pilot, air commander and air vice marshal * Wilfred Dunderdale (1899–1990), British spy and intelligence officer * Langdon Lea (1874–1937), American football player and coach * Jay L. Lee (1887–1970), American football player and coach Other people * Count de Biffy, a chess player in the 1786 chess treatise ''Traité des Amateurs'' Fictional characters * Charles "Biffy" Biffen, the title character of "The Rummy Affair of Old Biffy", a P. G. Wodehouse short story * Bifford T. "Biffy" Goldstein, a main character in ''Detentionaire'', a Canadian animated series Other uses * Biffy Clyro, sometimes shortened to Biffy, a Scottish rock band * ''Biffy'', a 1920 play written by Vera Beringer and William Ray * Blackpool Faith Forum for Youth (BIFFY), a Blackpool Blackpool is a seaside resort in Lancashire, England. Located on the North West England, northwest coast of England, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amyas Borton
Air Vice Marshal Amyas Eden Borton, (20 September 1886 – 15 August 1969) was a pilot and commander in the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War and a senior commander in the Royal Air Force during the 1920s. He saw active service on the Western Front, in Palestine and in Iraq. In the latter part of his career, Borton was the second Commandant of the RAF College at Cranwell before becoming the Air Officer Commanding RAF Inland Area. Early life and infantry service Amyas Borton was born on 20 September 1886 in Tanfield, Durham, the younger son of Irish-born Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Borton, a soldier and barrister. His elder brother, named Arthur Borton like their father, was known as "Bosky" whereas Amyas was known as "Biffy". He was commissioned into the Black Watch Militia in January 1904. In 1906, while remaining in the Black Watch, Borton transferred to the Regular Army. Borton learned to fly whilst on leave from his regiment in 1911, gaining Royal Aero Club ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilfred Dunderdale
Commander Wilfred Albert "Biffy" Dunderdale, (24 December 1899 – 13 November 1990) was a British spy and intelligence officer.John Bruce Lockhart, "Dunderdale, Wilfred Albert (1899-1990)", rev., ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004 It has been suggested that Dunderdale was used by Ian Fleming as a basis for the character of James Bond. Life Wilfred Dunderdale was born in Odessa, son of Richard Albert Dunderdale, a shipping magnate. Dunderdale served in the Royal Navy during the First World War, despite his thick accent. He worked for the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) between 1921 and 1959. His work involved liaison with French intelligence (1926–40) and Polish intelligence (1940–45). Later moving to New York, he died there in November 1990. According to notes compiled by Stephen Dorril for his 1989 book, ''A Who's Who of the British State'', Dunderdale was a member of Boodle's. Notes Further reading * Matthew M. Aid, " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Langdon Lea
Langdon "Biffy" Lea (May 11, 1874 – October 10, 1937) was an American football player and coach. He played college football at Princeton University, where he was selected as a first-team College Football All-America Team, All-American at Tackle (gridiron football position), tackle three consecutive years, in 1893, 1894, and 1895. He later served as head football coach at the University of Michigan in 1900 and at Princeton in 1901. Lea was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a player in 1964. Biography Lea graduated from St. Paul's School (Concord, New Hampshire), St. Paul's School in the 1892, and entered the scientific department of Princeton University in the fall of 1892. He first became famous as a football player in 1893 when he played a brilliant game against Winters of Yale on Thanksgiving. He played Tackle (gridiron football position), tackle for Princeton and became recognized as one of the best tackles ever to play the game. He was selected as a fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jay L
A jay is a member of a number of species of medium-sized, usually colorful and noisy, passerine birds in the Crow family, Corvidae. The evolutionary relationships between the jays and the magpies are rather complex. For example, the Eurasian magpie seems more closely related to the Eurasian jay than to the East Asian blue and green magpies, whereas the blue jay is not closely related to either. Systematics and species Jays are not a monophyletic group. Anatomical and molecular evidence indicates they can be divided into an American and an Old World lineage (the latter including the ground jays and the piapiac), while the grey jays of the genus ''Perisoreus'' form a group of their own.http://www.nrm.se/download/18.4e32c81078a8d9249800021299/Corvidae%5B1%5D.pdf PDF fulltext The black magpies, formerly believed to be related to jays, are classified as treepies. Old World ("brown") jays Grey jays American jays In culture Slang The word ''jay'' has an archaic me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Traité Des Amateurs
''Traité des Amateurs'' is the short name of the chess treatise ''Traité Théorique et Pratique du jeu des Echecs, par une Société des Amateurs'', published in France in 1786 and subsequently translated into German and English. A reviewer in 1830 wrote that: The ''Traite des Amateurs'', is one of the best practical works on Chess, extant. It contains a great number of beautifully played games, together with much solid information, and it is matter of regret that the scarcity of the book, prevents its being more generally used by the Chess student. ''Le Traité des Amateurs'' ''Le Traité des Amateurs'' is a chess treatise composed by a "Society of Amateurs" who were contemporaries of Philidor and all frequented the Café de la Régence in Paris. Of these, the strongest players were Bernard, Carlier, Leger and Verdoni. Philidor, who lived in London, took no part in writing the ''Traité des Amateurs'' (which embodies many criticisms and comments on his earlier book). Georg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rummy Affair Of Old Biffy
"The Rummy Affair of Old Biffy" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, and features the young gentleman Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves. The story was published in the ''Saturday Evening Post'' in the United States in September 1924, and in ''The Strand Magazine'' in the United Kingdom in October 1924. The story was also included in the 1925 collection ''Carry On, Jeeves''. Bertie's forgetful friend Biffy loses the woman he loves after he forgets her surname and address. He asks Bertie for help when he inadvertently gets engaged to the formidable Honoria Glossop instead. Plot Bertie is staying in Paris, where he meets with an old friend, Charles "Biffy" Biffen. Biffy fell in love with a model named Mabel on an ocean liner going to New York. He proposed to her and she said yes. Biffy arranged to meet her at her hotel the next day, but he forgot the name of the hotel, and could not make inquiries because he forgot Mabel's last name. She knows Biffy's name and where he lives, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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