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Brookfield (surname)
Brookfield is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Arthur Brookfield (1870–1930), English footballer * Arthur Montagu Brookfield (1853–1940), British army officer etc. * Charles Brookfield (1857–1913), British actor, playwright etc. * Edward Brookfield (1880–1965), British fencer * Gaz Brookfield (born 1979), English folk and rock musician * Harold Brookfield (1926–2022), British and Australian geographer * Jane Octavia Brookfield (1821–1896), English literary hostess and writer * John Brookfield (born 1955), British population geneticist * Percy Brookfield (1875–1921), Australian politician and trade unionist * Price Brookfield (1920–2006), American basketball and baseball player * Ryan Brookfield (born 1987), English footballer * Stephen Brookfield (born 1949), English-born scholar in adult education * William Brookfield (politician) (1844–1903), American businessman and politician * William Henry Brookfield William Henry Brookfield (31 Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Brookfield
Arthur Brookfield (1870–1930) was an English footballer who played in the Football League for Stoke. Career Brookfield was born in Stoke-upon-Trent and played for Longton Atlas before joining Stoke in 1894. He played eight matches for Stoke during the 1894–95 season scoring twice against Bolton Wanderers. He managed just two appearances in 1895–96 and left for Crewe Alexandra Crewe Alexandra Football Club is an English professional association football club based in the town of Crewe, Cheshire, that competes in League Two, the fourth tier of the English football league system. Nicknamed 'The Railwaymen' because of .... Career statistics References {{DEFAULTSORT:Brookfield, Arthur English men's footballers Stoke City F.C. players Crewe Alexandra F.C. players English Football League players 1870 births 1930 deaths Men's association football outside forwards Footballers from Stoke-on-Trent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Montagu Brookfield
Arthur Montagu Brookfield, KGStJ (18 March 1853 – 3 March 1940) was a British Army officer, diplomat, author and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1903. Biography Brookfield was the son of Rev. William Henry Brookfield, curate of St. Luke's, Berwick Street, and Jane Octavia, daughter of Sir Charles Elton, 6th Baronet. He was educated at Rugby School and Jesus College, Cambridge. He served as a lieutenant in the 13th Hussars in India and retired from the regular army in 1880. He was Colonel commanding the 1st Cinque Ports Rifle Volunteers and was a JP for Sussex. At the 1885 general election, Brookfield was elected Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Rye. In parliament he was responsible for the Uniforms Act of 1894. During his time in parliament, he commanded a battalion of the Imperial Yeomanry in the Second Anglo-Boer War. Brookfield left his parliamentary seat in 1903 to become British Consul at Montevideo, and in 1904 tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Brookfield
Charles Hallam Elton Brookfield (19 May 1857 – 20 October 1913) was a British actor, author, playwright and journalist, including for '' The Saturday Review''. His most famous work for the theatre was ''The Belle of Mayfair'' (1906). Brookfield achieved success in a 20-year acting career, including with the company of Squire Bancroft at London's Haymarket Theatre in the 1880s. After he was diagnosed with tuberculosis, in 1898, Brookfield focused on writing plays and musical theatre. In his last years, he was Britain's Examiner of Plays, even though he had been criticised as biased against various playwrights and also for writing a particularly risqué comedy in 1908. Early life and career Brookfield was born in London, the third child of Rev. William Henry Brookfield, curate of St. Luke's, Berwick Street and his wife, Jane Octavia Brookfield (née Elton), novelist, daughter of Sir Charles Elton, 6th Baronet and niece of Henry Hallam. Brookfield was named after his paternal gra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Brookfield
Edward Brookfield (24 June 1880 – 8 February 1965) was a British fencer. He competed at four Olympic Games. References External links * 1880 births 1965 deaths British male fencers Olympic fencers for Great Britain Fencers at the 1908 Summer Olympics Fencers at the 1912 Summer Olympics Fencers at the 1924 Summer Olympics Fencers at the 1928 Summer Olympics {{UK-fencing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaz Brookfield
Gareth "Gaz" Brookfield (born 4 July 1979) is an English folk and rock musician, who is based near Swindon, England. He is usually a solo artist, playing acoustic guitar, but is regularly joined by fiddle player Ben Wain and also has a full band, the Company of Thieves. He is also followed on his expansive tours by a loyal following calling themselves "The Land Pirates". Biography In his early career, Brookfield played with a number of bands but moved to a solo career in 2006. In 2010, he won Acoustic Magazine's Singer-Songwriter of the Year award, which also won him a place on the Big Top stage at Beautiful Days Festival, where he played twice more since. He played at other major festivals such as Glastonbury, and supported artists such as The Levellers, New Model Army, Ferocious Dog, and Frank Turner. In 2011, he became the first (and to this date only) unsigned solo act to sell out the 450-capacity Fleece in Bristol, an achievement which he has since repeated four more times ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Brookfield
Harold Chillingworth Brookfield (March 9, 1926 in England - May 22, 2022 in Canberra) was a British and Australian geographer specialising in the analysis of rural development, small-scale societies, family farming, and the relationship between land use and society in developing countries. He retired from the Australian National University in 1991. Background Harold Brookfield was born in 1926 and grew up in North London, England. He attended Minchenden Grammar School from 1937–1943. He joined the RAF in 1943 and trained as ground crew. In 1946 the government offered university scholarships to qualified servicemen, so he took a BSc degree in geography, graduating in 1949 from the London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London. His PhD followed in 1950, a study of post-eighteenth century urban development in coastal Sussex. However interests soon shifted to rural issues in developing nations. His academic positions were: * Assistant lecturer in Geograp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Octavia Brookfield
Jane Octavia Brookfield (25 March 1821 – 27 November 1896) was a literary hostess and writer, best known for her platonic friendship with William Makepeace Thackeray. She also wrote four novels; some critics have drawn parallels between the events in these novels and her relationship with Thackeray. Biography Brookfield was born on 25 March 1821, the youngest daughter of Sir Charles Abraham Elton, a former soldier. She lived with her seven sisters and five brothers, along with her father and mother Sarah in Clevedon Court, near Bristol. Sir Charles was a published author, writing an elegy about two of his sons who had drowned in the Bristol Channel, and was friends with both Charles Lamb and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In 1837, the family moved to Southampton, and due to Jane's height her father nicknamed her "Glumdalclitch". In 1838 she was courted by and became engaged to William Henry Brookfield, the priest at the local church, twelve years her senior. After he found a better ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Brookfield
John Brookfield, (born 30 May 1955), is a British population geneticist. He is Professor of Evolutionary Genetics at the University of Nottingham, in the School of Biology. Research summary Brookfield is interested in how the genome evolves and has recently focussed on the evolution of DNA sequences which control development, particularly in Drosophila, and on the evolution of transposable elements. Education, appointments and honours Brookfield received his BA in Zoology from the University of Oxford 1976. He received his Ph.D. in Population Genetics at the University of London in 1980. Following a post as Research Demonstrator in Genetics at the University College of Swansea from 1979-1981, he became a visiting fellow in the Laboratory of Genetics at The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, North Carolina from 1981-1983. Returning to the UK, he became a Lecturer in Genetics at the University of Leicester from 1983-1986. He is now Professor of evolutionary gene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Percy Brookfield
Percival Stanley Brookfield (7 August 1875 – 22 March 1921) was an Australian politician and militant trade unionist. He was variously known as Percival Jack Brookfield or Jack Brookfield, a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1917 until his violent death in 1921. In parliament he was a member of the Labor Party (ALP) until July 1919 and then joined the Industrial Socialist Labor Party. Early life Brookfield was born in Wavertree, Lancashire, England, the son of a local grocer Cuthbert Brookfield and Jane Brookfield (née Peers) and after an elementary education went to sea at age 13. After spending about 6 years at sea working on various merchant ships, at his request he was discharged from his service on the vessel "Godiva", with an endorsement of good conduct, in Port Melbourne in 1894. He was a swagman and prospector in New South Wales and Queensland but had settled in Broken Hill by 1910. He became an official of the Amalgamated Miners' Association an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Price Brookfield
Emery Price Brookfield (May 11, 1920 – April 17, 2006) was an American professional basketball and baseball player. Brookfield played college basketball for the West Texas A&M Buffaloes and Iowa State Cyclones. He played professionally for the Indianapolis Jets and Rochester Royals of the Basketball Association of America (BAA)) and National Basketball Association (NBA) for 61 games. Brookfield also played baseball for the Borger Gassers of the West Texas–New Mexico League as a pitcher in 1942 and 1946. Brookfield served in the United States Navy during World War II. After his retirement from playing, he coached high school basketball, baseball and golf in Indiana. Brookfield died in his home in Pinehurst, North Carolina Pinehurst is a village in Moore County, North Carolina, United States. As of the 2010 census, the village population was 13,124. It is home of the historic Pinehurst Resort, a Golf resort, which has hosted multiple United States Open Champion .... BAA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan Brookfield
Ryan Brookfield (born 10 May 1987) is a semi-professional English footballer who plays as a goalkeeper. He currently plays for City of Liverpool, as well as acting as their goalkeeper coach. Earlier in his career, he played in the Football League for Chester City, also representing Colwyn Bay. Playing career Brookfield made one appearance in the Football League for Chester City, when he replaced the injured Chris MacKenzie during a 3–1 defeat at Lincoln City in December 2005. At the end of the season he was released and dropped into non-League football with Colwyn Bay. He left Colwyn Bay towards the end of the 2006–07 season, and has since played for Waterloo Dock while working as a heat technician. In 2008–09, Brookfield helped Waterloo reach the final of the Liverpool Senior Cup The Liverpool County Football Association Senior Cup, commonly known as the Liverpool Senior Cup, is a football knockout tournament involving teams from the city of Liverpool, England ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Brookfield
Stephen Brookfield (born 1949 in Liverpool, England) is a scholar in adult education who has held positions at the University of British Columbia, Columbia University, Harvard University and the University of Saint Thomas. He is currently Distinguished Scholar at Antioch University, Adjunct Professor at Columbia University, and Emeritus Professor at the University of St. Thomas. Education Brookfield earned his Ph.D. from the University of Leicester in 1980 and wrote a thesis oindependent adult learning Career In his teaching career, Brookfield has worked in England, Canada, Australia, and the United States, teaching in a variety of college settings. He has written nineteen books on adult learning, adult teaching, critical thinkingdiscussion methods critical theory as well as critical pedagogy and teaching race'. His overall project is to help adults learn to think critically about the dominant ideologies they have internalized and how these can be challenged. Influenced b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
