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Colmore Family
Colmore is a surname. Notable people called Colmore include: *Charles B. Colmore (1879–1950), second bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Puerto Rico *George Cyril Colmore (1885–1937), English aviator and Royal Naval Air Service officer *Gertrude Colmore (1855–1926), writer and suffragist *Jacob Colmore (1912–1996), English anti-fascist and gangster *Rupert Colmore (1914–1972), college football player *Charles Colmore Grant, 7th Baron de Longueuil, the son of Charles James Irwin Grant, 6th Baron de Longueuil *Rupert Colmore Sr. (1883–1958), college football player and physician See also In the Colmore district of Birmingham, England: *The Colmore Building, formerly known as Colmore Plaza, a 14-storey office building *Colmore Gate, office and retail building *Colmore Row, a street in Birmingham City Centre from Victoria Square past Snow Hill station *103 Colmore Row, 26-storey commercial office skyscraper *122–124 Colmore Row, Grade I listed building on Colmore Row in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles B
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "free man". The Old English descendant of this word was '' Ċearl'' or ''Ċeorl'', as the name of King Cearl of Mercia, that disappeared after the Norman conquest of England. The name was notably borne by Charlemagne (Charles the Great), and was at the time Latinized as ''Karolus'' (as in ''Vita Karoli Magni''), later also as '' Carolus''. Some Germanic languages, for example Dutch and German, have retained the word in two separate senses. In the particular case of Dutch, ''Karel'' refers to the given name, whereas the noun ''kerel'' means "a bloke, fellow, man". Etymology The name's etymology is a Common Germanic noun ''*karilaz'' meaning "free man", which survives in English as churl (< Old English ''ċeorl''), which developed its depr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Cyril Colmore
George Cyril Colmore (1885–1937) was an English aviator and the first Royal Naval Air Service officer to gain a Royal Aero Club Aviators Licence. Military career Colmore was born at Hathern, Leicestershire on 14 September 1885 and in 1901 he enrolled, aged 15, as an Officer Cadet at the Thames Nautical Training College (also known as HMS Worcester) in Dartford, Kent. In 1910, at his own expense, he joined the Royal Aero Club and learned to fly at the Royal Naval Flying School, Eastchurch. On 21 June 1910 he received Aviators Certificate No. 15 flying a Short biplane. Following his success the RAeC approached the Admiralty offering to train further naval aviators. In 1917 Colmore was promoted Squadron Commander Squadron may refer to: * Squadron (army), a military unit of cavalry, tanks, or equivalent subdivided into troops or tank companies * Squadron (aviation), a military unit that consists of three or four flights with a total of 12 to 24 aircraft, ... in command of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gertrude Colmore
Gertrude Baillie-Weaver (née Renton; 8 June 1855 – 26 November 1926) was an English suffragette and writer who published as Gertrude Colmore. She co-founded the National Council for Animals' Welfare and wrote in support of animal and human rights. Her books about Suffragette Sally and Emily Wilding Davison were republished in the 1980s. Personal life Gertrude Renton was born on 8 June 1855 in Kensington, London. Her parents were Elizabeth (née Leishman) and John Thomas Renton, a stockbroker. She had five older sisters. In 1882, she married lawyer Henry Arthur Colmore Dunn, who died in 1896. In 1901, when she was in her forties, she married the feminist Harold Baillie-Weaver, who was a barrister and a Theosophist. He was an advocate for human and animal rights. Writing and activism Baillie-Weaver wrote under the name Gertrude Colmore. She published poetry, short stories and novels in support of theosophy and women's suffrage and against vivisection and physiology. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
