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Bromfield (surname)
Bromfield is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Andrew Bromfield (fl. 2000s–2020s), British translator * Arthur Bromfield (d. 1650), English politician * Beatrice Bromfield (c. 1880–1966), Australian-born American art dealer * Dionne Bromfield (born 1996), English singer * Edmund de Bromfield (d. 1393), English bishop of Llandaff * Edward Bromfield (fl. 1620s–1630s), Lord Mayor of London in 1636 * Harry Bromfield (born 1932), South African cricketer * Henry Bromfield (1610–1683), English politician * John Bromfield (1922–2005), American actor * John Bromfield Jr. (1779–1849), American merchant * Joseph Bromfield (1744–1824), English architect * Lois Bromfield (fl. 1980s–2000s), Canadian comedic actress * Louis Bromfield (1896–1956), American author * Mary Ellen Bromfield (b. 1928), American actress * Rex Bromfield (fl. 1970s–2000s), Canadian director * Richard Bromfield (fl. 1990s–2000s), psychologist * Robert Bromfield (d. ...
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Andrew Bromfield
Andrew Bromfield is a British editor and translator of Russian works. He is a founding editor of the Russian literature journal ''Glas'', and has translated into English works by Boris Akunin, Vladimir Voinovich, Irina Denezhkina, Victor Pelevin, and Sergei Lukyanenko, among other writers. Bibliography (as a translator) Victor Pelevin :Stories and novellas *" The Blue Lantern" *" Bulldozer Driver's Day" *"Crystal World" *"Hermit and Six-Toes" *" The Life and Adventures of Shed Number XII" *" Mid-Game" *" News from Nepal" *" Nika" *" The Ontology of Childhood" *" Prince of Gosplan" *"Sleep" *"Tai Shou Chuan USSR (A Chinese folk tale)" *" The Tambourine of the Upper World" *" The Tarzan Swing" *" Vera Pavlovna's Ninth Dream" *"A Werewolf Problem In Central Russia" *"The Yellow Arrow" :Novels *"The Life of Insects" *"Omon Ra" *" Clay Machine Gun" ("Chapayev and Void", "Buddhas Little Finger") *"Homo Zapiens" ("Babylon", "Generation "П") *" The Helmet of Horror: The Myth of Theseus an ...
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Louis Bromfield
Louis Bromfield (December 27, 1896 – March 18, 1956) was an American writer and conservationist. A bestselling novelist in the 1920s, he reinvented himself as a farmer in the late 1930s and became one of the earliest proponents of sustainable and organic agriculture in the United States. He won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1927 for Early Autumn, founded the experimental Malabar Farm near Mansfield, Ohio, and played an important role in the early environmental movement. Life Early life Lewis Brumfield was born in Mansfield, Ohio, in 1896 to Charles Brumfield, a bank cashier and real estate speculator, and Annette Marie Coulter Brumfield, the daughter of an Ohio farmer. (Brumfield later changed the spelling of his name to "Louis Bromfield" because he thought it looked more distinguished.) As a boy, Bromfield loved working on his grandfather's farm. In 1914, he enrolled in Cornell University to study agriculture. Yet his family's deteriorating financial situa ...
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Bromfield Baronets
The Bromfield Baronetcy, of Southwark in the County of Surrey, was a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 20 March 1661 for John Bromfield. The second Baronet was High Sheriff of Surrey in 1689. The title became either extinct or dormant on the death of the third Baronet in 1733. Sir Edward Bromfield, father of the first Baronet, was Lord Mayor of London The Lord Mayor of London is the mayor of the City of London and the leader of the City of London Corporation. Within the City, the Lord Mayor is accorded precedence over all individuals except the sovereign and retains various traditional powe ... from 1636 to 1637. Bromfield baronets, of Southwark (1661) *Sir John Bromfield, 1st Baronet (–c. 1666) *Sir Edward Bromfield, 2nd Baronet (c. 1631–1704) *Sir Charles Bromfield, 3rd Baronet (c. 1672–1733) References * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bromfield Extinct baronetcies in the Baronetage of England ...
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William Arnold Bromfield
William Arnold Bromfield (1801–1851), was an English botanist. Bromfield was born at Boldre, in the New Forest, Hampshire, in 1801, his father, the Rev. John Arnold Bromfield, dying in the same year. He received his early training under Dr. Knox of Tunbridge, Dr. Nicholas of Baling, and Rev. Mr. Phipps, a Warwickshire clergyman. He entered Glasgow University in 1821, and two years later he took his degree in medicine. During his university career he first showed a liking for botany, and made an excursion into the Scottish highlands in quest of plants. He left Scotland in 1826, and, being independent of professional earnings, travelled through Germany, Italy, and France, returning to England in 1830. His mother died shortly afterwards, and he lived with his sister at Hastings and at Southampton, and finally settled at Ryde in 1836. He published in '' The Phytologist'' some observations on Hampshire plants, and then began to amass materials for a Flora of the Isle of Wight, whic ...
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William Bromfield
William Bromfield (24 January 1868 – 3 June 1950) was an English trade unionist and Labour Party politician from Leek in Staffordshire. He was the town's Member of Parliament (MP) for all but four of the years between 1918 and 1945. Bromfield came to prominence in the local trade union movement in the early 1900s. William Stubbs had been the leader of almost all the many small unions of silk workers in the town, but he was ageing, and by 1907, Bromfield had taken over from him as secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Winders, Fillers and Braid Makers, the Amalgamated Society of Silk Spinners and Throwsters, the Amalgamated Society of Female Silk Operatives, and the Leek Amalgamated Society of Silk and Cotton Dyers. He also succeeded James Cockersole as secretary of the Associated Trimming Weavers' Society. In 1907, all the unions led by Bromfield, with the Amalgamated Society of Silk Pickers, still led by Stubbs, affiliated to the new Leek Textile Federation. In an elec ...
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Walter H
Walter may refer to: People * Walter (name), both a surname and a given name * Little Walter, American blues harmonica player Marion Walter Jacobs (1930–1968) * Gunther (wrestler), Austrian professional wrestler and trainer Walter Hahn (born 1987), who previously wrestled as "Walter" * Walter, standard author abbreviation for Thomas Walter (botanist) ( – 1789) Companies * American Chocolate, later called Walter, an American automobile manufactured from 1902 to 1906 * Walter Energy, a metallurgical coal producer for the global steel industry * Walter Aircraft Engines, Czech manufacturer of aero-engines Films and television * ''Walter'' (1982 film), a British television drama film * Walter Vetrivel, a 1993 Tamil crime drama film * ''Walter'' (2014 film), a British television crime drama * ''Walter'' (2015 film), an American comedy-drama film * ''Walter'' (2020 film), an Indian crime drama film * ''W*A*L*T*E*R'', a 1984 pilot for a spin-off of the TV series ''M*A*S*H'' * ''W ...
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Valri Bromfield
Valri Bromfield (born February 10, 1949) is a Canadian comedian, actress, writer, and television producer who started her career as one half of a comedy team with Dan Aykroyd. Together, they joined the first Toronto company of The Second City where she was one of the original players. Career She formed a comedy team with Dan Aykroyd. Bromfield was a regular performer on the 1974 '' The Bobbie Gentry Show''. She performed comedy on the first episode of ''Saturday Night Live'' on October 11, 1975. Between dress rehearsal and the live airing, Lorne Michaels told her she had to cut her monologue from five minutes to two. She also appeared on another ''SNL'' episode in 1978. In 1979 she played "Mary Mary" on the ABC series '' Angie''. In 1980, she appeared as the character "Debbie Smith" on ''The David Letterman Show''. She played "Laney Gibbs" in ''Best of the West'' in 1981 and appeared on six episodes of '' SCTV'' between 1983 and 1984. In 1984, she appeared on nine episodes of ...
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Robert Bromfield
Robert Bromfield (died 1647) was an English timber merchant and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1621 and 1624. Bromfield was described as a "woodmonger", in the diary of Philip Henslowe, of whose will he was one of the overseers in 1616. He leased a wharf in Southwark from 1601. In 1621, Bromfield was elected Member of Parliament for Southwark. In the same year, he obtained a mortgage of Hammonds Place, Clayton Sussex, which by 1666 was in the hands of Sir Edward Bromfield, 2nd Baronet. He was re-elected MP for Southwark in 1624. In 1625 Bromfield and Thomas Overman bought Montague House and Montague Close, including various wharves and buildings around Southwark Priory, from Anthony-Maria Browne, 2nd Viscount Montagu; Bromfield redeveloped the site to make the buildings "suitable for men of better ability". He purchased Merton Grange, Merton for £2,100 in 1629. Bromfield probably died in 1647 and was buried in Lambourne Church, Essex. He was related to ...
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Richard Bromfield
Richard Bromfield is an American psychologist on the faculty of Harvard Medical School Harvard Medical School (HMS) is the graduate medical school of Harvard University and is located in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1782, HMS is one of the oldest medical schools in the United States and is consi ... who specializes in the therapy and upbringing of children and adolescents. His writings for the popular press have been widely praised for their relevance and accessibility. Books * ''Playing for Real: The World of a Child Therapist'' (Dutton, 1992) (, ) re-issued Basil Books 2007. * ''Doing Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy: The Ways and Whys'' (Jason Aronson, 1999) (, ) * ''Handle with Care: Understanding Children and Teachers: a Field Guide for Parents and Educators'' (Teachers College Press, 2001) (, ) * ''How to Turn Boys Into Men Without a Man Around the House: A Single Mother's Guide,'' with Cheryl Erwin (Prima Pub., 2002) (, ) * ''Livi ...
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Rex Bromfield
Rex Bromfield is a Canadian film and television director and writer."Filmmakers get serious in fall releases". ''Vancouver Sun'', September 12, 1987. He is best known for his 1982 film ''Melanie'', which garnered seven Genie Award nominations at the 4th Genie Awards in 1983, including a nod for Bromfield as Best Director. He has directed five feature films and numerous episodes of Canadian television series. He subsequently left the film business to start a software company, but in 2004 he briefly returned to film as co-writer with Jackson Davies of the screenplay for ''The Wild Guys''."Wild Guys scatter across B.C.". ''The Province'', November 12, 2004. He has since published several works of fiction as e-books on Smashwords. He is the brother of comedians Valri Bromfield and Lois Bromfield who appeared in the 1990s, Bromfield with Chris Aable in her first television interview, on '' Hollywood Today'' . Filmography Films *''Love at First Sight'' (1977) *''Tulips'' (1981) *''Me ...
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Mary Ellen Bromfield
Mary Ellen Bromfield (born Mary Ellen Tillotson on March 13, 1928) is an American actress, dancer, and writer. Biography Mary Bromfield was born in Fresno County, California to Frank and Edna Tillotson. She attended University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in Music. Bromfield's early career consisted of dancing, where she became a popular headliner under the names Aleene Dupree and Kalantan. She performed at various venues in Las Vegas, Nevada, New Orleans, Louisiana, and Mexico City, Mexico. She was given the name Kalantan which she used as her stage name for a while during the time she was in Mexico. As ''Kalantan'', she starred in her first film, Howard Hughes 1953 3D production ''Son of Sinbad''. Bromfield first wed hair stylist Adolfo Martinez in Mexico City, Mexico; they divorced. Later, she married actor John Bromfield in 1962. They remained married until his death in 2005. After marrying Bromfield, she retired from performing a ...
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Lois Bromfield
Lois Bromfield is a Canadian-American comedic actor, writer, and television producer originally from Toronto, Ontario. Her credits include ''Roseanne'', ''Grace Under Fire'', ''The Jackie Thomas Show'' and ''The New Hollywood Squares''. In 1990, Bromfield appeared with Chris Aable in her first television interview, along with her HBO comedy video on Aable's show, '' Hollywood Today'' where she was interviewed along with her then-husband Steve Moore . She was in a lavender marriage to comedian Steve Moore from 1980 to 1995, which ended after they both decided to publicly come out as gay. Bromfield officially came out as lesbian in 1994 on ''The Arsenio Hall Show''. She gained American citizenship in the 1990s, and has been living with her partner near Nürnberg, Germany, since 2009. She is the sister of Valri Bromfield and film director Rex Bromfield. Filmography * 1985: actor, "Sorority Girls from Hell" segment, ''Television Parts'' (NBC)
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