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Borlase
Borlase is a surname and masculine given name. A branch of the family De Taillefer, of Périgord, who were descended from the Count of Angoulême, came to England before the reign of Henry III (1207–1272). A king granted lands in the parish of St Wenn in Cornwall to Frank (French) Borlas Taillefer. Following the ancient Cornish tradition, the family adopted the name of their place of residence, Borlas, as their surname. Originally Borlase was a manor, but the name now exists as three farms: Borlase-Vath, Borlase Burgess and Borlase farm near Rosenannon. A common saying in west Cornwall was ″Borlases were in Cornwall before the birth of Christ″. People with the surname * Charles Borlase (1820–1875), New Zealand politician, Mayor of Wellington * Darryl Borlase (), Australian footballer * Deirdre Borlase (1925–2018), English painter and printmaker * Edmund Borlase (1620–1682), Irish Protestant historian * George Borlase (1743–1809), Knightbridge Professor of Philosoph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jenny Borlase
Jenny Borlase , also known as Jenny Kennett, is a former Australia netball international. Between 1989 and 1999 she made 70 senior appearances for Australia. She was a member of the Australia teams that won gold medals at the 1991, 1995 and 1999 World Netball Championships, the 1993 World Games and the 1998 Commonwealth Games. At club level, Borlase played for Garville in both the South Australia state league and the Mobil Superleague and for Adelaide Ravens and Melbourne Kestrels in the Commonwealth Bank Trophy league. She also represented South Australia. Borlase was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in 1992. After retiring as a player, Borlase has remained involved in netball as both an administrator and coach. Early life and family Borlase is originally from the Eyre Peninsula. She is married to Darryl Borlase, a former Australian rules footballer. Playing career Early years In her youth, Borlase, then known as Jenny Kennett played for Eyre Academy. In 1983 s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmund Borlase
Edmund Borlase (1620–1682) was an Anglo-Irish historian and physician. Life He was son of John Borlase (1576–1648), Sir John Borlase, who received the appointment of master-general of the ordnance, Ireland, in 1634, and held office as lord justice there from 1640 to 1643. Edmund Borlase is stated by Anthony à Wood to have been educated at Dublin, and to have obtained the degree of doctor in physic at Leyden in 1650. He subsequently settled in Chester, where, according to Wood, he 'practised his faculty with good success to his dying day.' Borlase in 1660 received the degree of doctor of medicine from the University of Oxford. He enjoyed the patronage of Charles Stanley, 8th Earl of Derby, to whom he dedicated a treatise, published in 1670, on 'Latham Spa in Lancashire, with some remarkable Cases and Cures affected by it.' In 1676, Borlase published at London an octavo volume of 284 pages, with the following title: ''The Reduction of Ireland to the Crown of England; with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Borlase
Charles Bonython Borlase (1820 – 15 May 1875) was Mayor of Wellington, New Zealand in 1874. He had been a member of the first Wellington Town Board in 1863, and a Councillor to 1874. He held the position of Provincial Solicitor from 1857 until his death in 1875. Background Borlase was born in Calcutta, Bengal, India in 1820, although his family was from Cornwall. His father was Lieutenant-Colonel Charles B. Borlase of the Dragoons. He was stationed with the East India Company in India at the time and died just before Borlase was born. The family returned to England, where Borlase studied law and was admitted as a solicitor. For a time he was a law reporter with the London press before becoming a partner in a law firm. Through his families connections with the Molesworth's he migrated with his wife, Elizabeth Emma Borlase (née Holmes), and their three children (Charles, Charlotte, and William) on the ''Victory'' to Wellington on 16 August 1848. In the 1850s he moved from Welli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Borlase
Peter Borlase (born 22 May 1985) is a New Zealand rugby union former player and former head coach of the Colorado Raptors in Major League Rugby (MLR). Playing career Canterbury and Crusaders He has played 33 times for Canterbury in the ITM Cup. Being behind the Franks brothers, Ben and Owen, in the pecking order for the Crusaders he only made 2 Super Rugby appearances. Pro 12 In June 2010, Borlase joined Munster on a 2-year contract. He was signed as a project player, meaning he would make himself available to play for Ireland once qualified to by 3 years residency. He made his Munster début on 16 November 2010 against a touring Australia side and made 7 appearances in the 2010/11 season. Borlase joined Irish province Connacht on loan in February 2012, to gain match time following injuries and to provide cover at prop. He made his debut for Connacht against Scarlets on 2 March 2012. He was recalled from his loan at Connacht and added to Munster's 2011–12 Heineken Cup s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Borlase (other)
John Borlase or Borlace may refer to: *John Borlase (high sheriff) (died 1593), High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire *Sir John Borlase (1576–1648), Lord Justice of Ireland, 1641–43 *Sir John Borlase, 1st Baronet (1619–1672), English Member of Parliament for Chipping Wycombe, 1661–73 *John Borlase (died 1681), MP for Great Marlow 1679 and 1681 *Sir John Borlase, 2nd Baronet (1642–1689), English Member of Parliament for Chipping Wycombe, 1673–85, and Great Marlow, 1685–89 *John Borlase (1667–1754), English Member of Parliament for St Ives (UK Parliament constituency), 1705–10 See also *John Borlase Warren (1753–1822), English admiral, politician and diplomat *Borlase (other) {{DEFAULTSORT:Borlase, John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darryl Borlase
Darryl Borlase is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Port Adelaide Football Club. Football Borlase was recruited by Port Adelaide from the Ceduna Football Club. He would debut for Port Adelaide in 1985 playing 5 games in his first season. Borlase would go on to have a successful career with Port Adelaide winning four South Australian National Football League (SANFL) premierships during his time at the club. However, he was also unfortunate to miss the 1988, 1989, 1999 and 1995 SANFL Grand Finals due to injury. In his final year at Port Adelaide, he captained the SANFL side to victory in the 1998 Grand Final. Agriculture Borlase is an agribusiness executive being a graduate from the University of Adelaide. He began his career in agriculture with the South Australian Cooperative Bulk Handler. He has also worked for the Australian Wheat Board both in Australia and overseas. Darryl currently works for Archer Daniel Midland. Personal life Darryl i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Borlase
George Borlase (1743 – 7 November 1809) was an English churchman, Registrary and Knightbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. Life and career George Borlase was born 1743 in Cornwall. He was the sixth son of Walter Borlase, vicar of Madron, and his wife Margaret. After attending a grammar school in Exeter, he was admitted to Peterhouse, Cambridge in 1759 at the age of 16. He graduated from the Mathematical Tripos in 1764. He subsequently became Fellow of Peterhouse in 1766, and in February 1778 was elected Registrary to the university. After taking his BD in 1780 he began his career in the church, first as vicar of Little St Mary's, Cambridge, 1773–89 then as rector of Newton, Suffolk, 1790–1809 and finally as Vicar of Cherry Hinton in 1789. Borlase was nominated for the Mastership of Peterhouse, but after a contested election against Barnes he was rejected. He was elected Professor of Casuistry in 1788. He never gave any lectures and held his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nancy Borlase
Nancy Wilmot Borlase (24 March 1914 – 11 September 2006) was a New Zealand-born Australian artist, known for her landscape-based abstract paintings and portraits, and as an art critic and commentator. Her work is displayed in the National Gallery of Australia and other major galleries. Biography Born in Taihape, New Zealand, in 1914, Borlase was 16 when she decided that art was her calling and shifted to Christchurch, where she studied at Canterbury College School of Art under Francis Shurrock. Borlase moved to Australia in 1937, at age 22, where she studied life drawing and sculpture at East Sydney Technical College under Frank Medworth and Lynden Dadswell (1937–1940)and also life drawing under Rah Fizelle and Grace Crowley before switching to painting. In 1939 she joined the Contemporary Art Society, NSW branch and was an active committee member of the Society between 1952 and 1970. She lived for a while next to Sidney Nolan in Melbourne, was befriended by his benefac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deirdre Borlase
Deirdre Borlase (1925–2018) was a British painter and printmaker. Biography Borlase was born at Dulwich in London and grew up Margate, where her father was a plumber. She studied at the Bromley School of Art between 1940 and 1944 and then at the Royal College of Art in London for a further two years. After graduating she taught at the Harrow School of Art for two years and then at the Kingston School of Art until 1950. After a career break, Borlase returned to art in 1967, creating landscapes of Venice and, later, of Carperby in north Yorkshire where the family had a cottage from 1981. She was commissioned for six paintings by St Luke's Hospital in Bradford. As well as painting Borlase took up print making after taking a course at Morley College in 1977 and in the 1990s began experimenting with computer graphics and also decorating furniture. Borlase was a frequent exhibitor at the Royal Academy in London and in group shows. She had a solo show at the David Thompson Gallery in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borlase Warren
Borlase Warren (1677 – 15 May 1747) was a British Member of Parliament. He was the eldest son of Arthur Warren of Stapleford, Nottinghamshire and his wife Anne Borlase, heiress of Sir John Borlase, 1st Baronet, Sir John Borlase, Bt after her brother Sir John Borlase, 2nd Baronet, John's death in 1689. Warren succeeded his father in 1697. On the death of his mother in 1703 he inherited the Stratton Audley estate. He was appointed High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire for 1703–04 and for High Sheriff of Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire for 1707–08. He was elected MP for Nottingham (UK Parliament constituency), Nottingham in 1713, sitting until 1715, and again from 1727 to 1747, having been defeated in the intervening elections. He married Anne, the daughter of Sir John Harpur, Bt, with whom he had 7 sons and 7 daughters. His grandson John Borlase Warren, Admiral Sir John Borlase Warren, 1st Baronet also served as MP for Nottingham. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Warren, Borlase ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Borlase (other)
William Borlase (1696–1772) was a Cornish clergyman, antiquary, geologist and naturalist. William Borlase may also refer to: * Sir William Borlase (died 1629) (c. 1564–1629), English politician and Member of Parliament * William Borlase (died 1630) (c. 1588–1630), English politician and Member of Parliament * William Borlase (died 1665) (1620–1665), English politician and Member of Parliament * William Copeland Borlase (1848–1899), English antiquarian and Member of Parliament See also * Sir William Borlase's Grammar School, Buckinghamshire, England, established by the William Borlase who died in 1629 {{hndis, Borlase, William ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borlase Baronets
The Borlase Baronetcy, of Bockmer in the County of Buckinghamshire was a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 4 May 1642 for John Borlase, Member of Parliament for Great Marlow, Corfe Castle and Wycombe. He was succeeded by his only son, who also sat in the House of Commons for Wycombe and Great Marlow. On the second Baronet's death in 1689, the baronetcy became extinct. Borlase baronets, of Bockmer (1642) *Sir John Borlase, 1st Baronet (1619–1672) *Sir John Borlase, 2nd Baronet Sir John Borlase, 2nd Baronet (1640 – 1 February 1689) was an English politician. Born in Bockmer End in Buckinghamshire, he was the son of Sir John Borlase, 1st Baronet and Alice Bankes, daughter of Sir John Bankes, Lord Chief Justice of t ... (1640–1689) References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Borlase Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of England ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |