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Carless Days
Carless may refer to: * Betty Careless (c. 1704–1739), probably born Elizabeth Carless, notorious courtesan and bagnio owner in London * Ernie Carless (1912–1987), Welsh cricketer * Hugh Carless (1925–2011), British explorer and diplomat * John Henry Carless (1896–1917), English Royal Navy sailor, posthumous First World War recipient of the Victoria Cross * Roy Carless (1920–2009), Canadian cartoonist * Simon Carless, video game industry journalist and editor See also * Carless, having no automobile, without a car also known as Fernando Lezcano. * Petrochem Carless Ltd, originally Carless, a UK oil company * Careless (surname) * List of car-free places * Kahless, a fictional character in the Star Trek universe {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betty Careless
Betty Careless or Betsy Careless (–1739) was a notorious prostitute and later bagnio-owner in 18th-century London. Probably born Elizabeth Carless (though she later used the name Mrs. Elizabeth Biddulph), she adapted her name to better suit her profession. Her name, beauty and reputation made her, like Sally Salisbury before her, something of an archetypal courtesan for the popular culture of the day. Biography She was born around 1704 in London. Nothing is known of her early life, but she was an established courtesan by the 1720s. Initially under the protection of the barrister Robert Henley (later Lord Chancellor), by 1729 when she opened her own house in Tavistock Row she was attached to Sir Charles Wyndham (later Earl of Egremont). Wyndham and Careless probably had a mutually beneficial relationship; he lived for free while his society connections ensured a higher-class clientele for Careless's house. In '' Amelia'', Henry Fielding recalled seeing her at a play when she w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernie Carless
Ernest Francis Carless (9 September 1912 – 26 September 1987) was a Welsh cricketer. Carless was a right-handed batsman who played primarily as a wicketkeeper. He also bowled right-arm off-breaks though he did not bowl in first-class cricket. Carless played football in the Football League for Cardiff City and Plymouth Argyle as an inside forward. He was born at Cadoxton, Glamorgan. Carless made his first-class debut for Glamorgan in 1934 against Middlesex, though Tom Brierley kept wicket in this match; he played one further match for the county in that season, against Surrey, when Carless kept wicket. During the Second World War he played for the club in fund-raising matches. Following the end of the war and the resumption of County Cricket in 1946, Carless made his final first-class appearance, 12 years after his previous first-class match, in a Glamorgan side which was beset by injuries and struggling to field a team. His final first-class match was against Essex. In his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Carless
Hugh Michael Carless CMG (22 April 1925 – 20 December 2011) was a British diplomat, philanthropist and explorer who served in Her Majesty's Diplomatic Service from 1950 to 1985. He is best known for the exploration of Nuristan and the Panjshir Valley along with his friend Eric Newby, which was the subject of Newby's humorous travel book ''A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush'' (1958). Biography Carless was born on 22 April 1925 in Nainital, British India, to Henry Alfred Carless, CIE, who served as a police officer in the Indian Civil Service (Inspector-General of Police, Ajmer-Merwara and advisor to the Resident of Rajputana) and his wife, Gwendolen Pattullo. He was educated at Sherborne School, Dorset, the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) where he spent a year (1942) studying Persian (Farsi), and Trinity Hall, Cambridge where he read History from 1947 until 1950. Carless was commissioned in January 1944 in the Intelligence Corps and posted to Teheran as a sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Henry Carless
John Henry Carless (11 November 1896 – 17 November 1917) was a Great Britain, British recipient of the Victoria Cross during the World War I, First World War. Early life Carless was born in 1896 to John Thomas Carless, an iron foundry worker, and his wife Elizabeth, of 31 Tasker Street, Walsall, Staffordshire (now in the West Midlands (county), West Midlands).Carless, John Henry Commonwealth War Graves Commission Carless had two sisters, Ada and Dora, who were each employed in the local leather trade. He was good at sport and played in the final of the English Schools Football Shield, at Roker Park. After school, he too joined the leather trade, working for Messrs Price and Co., harness makers, as an errand boy. During World War I, he applied repeat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roy Carless
Roy "Roi" Carless (October 3, 1920–January 2, 2009) was a Canadian cartoonist. His cartoons were syndicated across Canada and the United States, and he is considered one of Canada's most productive cartoonists. Biography Born in York County, Ontario in 1920, Roy was first published at the age of 14 in the school newspaper at Runnymede Collegiate in Toronto. His father was an athlete and Chief of Police in Swansea, where Roy explored the community between High Park and the Humber River, observing the differences between life as lived and as perceived and recorded. He said his first drawing instruction came from an architectural student who, courting Roy's older sister, needed to keep the youngster occupied with something else. Receiving no formal art training, Carless was inspired and mentored by the late Duncan Macpherson, editorial cartoonist for the Toronto Star, who nominated Carless to membership in the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists in 1971. Roy was the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Carless
Simon Carless is a video game industry businessperson and former game designer and editor. Simon is the founder of GameDiscoverCo, a video game discoverability consultancy firm, and previously worked overseeing the worldwide Game Developers Conference event and Black Hat information security events. Carless is Chairman Emeritus of the Independent Games Festival, and he co-founded the Independent Games Summit as part of Game Developers Conference in 2007. Carless formerly edited the games section on Slashdot, and he worked as a lead game designer at Kuju Entertainment, Eidos Interactive and Atari. He wrote Gaming Hacks, a book published by O'Reilly Media. Carless was also active in the demoscene of the early 1990s, releasing modules under the moniker ''Hollywood''. He operated the netlabel A netlabel (also online label, web label, digi label, MP3 label or download label) is a record label that distributes its music through digital audio formats (such as MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petrochem Carless Ltd
Haltermann Carless is the present-day continuation of one of the earliest oil companies. History * 1859: Carless was formed by Eugene Carless. Its base was the Hope Chemical Works in Hackney Wick. * 1860: Carless became Carless, Blagdon and Company, when William George Blagdon joined in partnership. * 1870: Carless, Blagdon and Company was dissolved by Blagdon. George Bligh Capel became a partner in the firm. Carless started selling a volatile inflammable petroleum distillate tradenamed 'Petrol'. That is where the word "petrol" came from. At first it was often used as a solvent, including to remove louse#Biology, nits by dissolving the natural glue that the female louse uses to stick the nit to the hair. When internal combustion engines were invented, petrol was found to be suitable fuel for them. * 1872: Carless, Capel and Leonard formed. John Hare Leonard joined Capel as a partner. Carless was no longer a partner but was retained by the new company as the manager of its works ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Careless (surname)
Careless is the surname of: * Betty Careless (c. 1704–1739), notorious courtesan and bagnio owner in London * George Careless George Edward Percy Careless (September 24, 1839 – March 5, 1932) was a prominent Latter-day Saint composer and conductor. Careless was born in London, England. As a child he studied at the Royal Academy in London. He performed at Exeter Hall ... (1839–1932), Latter-day Saint composer and conductor * J. M. S. Careless (1919–2009), Canadian historian from the University of Toronto * William Careless, later known as William Carlos (c. 1610–1689), companion of King Charles II in his hiding in an oak tree in the English Civil War See also * Carless, another surname {{surname, Careless ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Car-free Places
This is a list of car-free islands: islands inhabited by humans which have legally restricted or eliminated vehicle traffic from their territories. See also * Carfree city * Car-free movement * Low Traffic Neighbourhood * Pedestrian zone ** List of pedestrian zones This is a list of pedestrian zones: urban streets where vehicle traffic has been restricted or eliminated for pedestrian use only. These are usually pedestrianised urban centres of a city, town or district with a residential population that have ... References External links * Touropia''10 Laid-back Islands without Cars'' 17 December 2022 {{DEFAULTSORT:Car-free places * Transport lists Car-related lists Car-free places ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
