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Conran Family
Conran is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Alexis Conran, British actor * Alys Conran, Welsh poet * H. L. Conran (1861–1924), Australian pastoralist and stockbroker *Jasper Conran (born 1959), fashion designer * John Conran (born 1958), Irish hurling player and manager *Kerry Conran (born 1964), costume designer, writer, director *Shirley Conran (born 1932), British novelist *Saint Conran of Orkney, 7th-century Bishop of the Orkneys. * Sebastian Conran (born c. 1950), product designer, son of Terence and Shirley *Sophie Conran, designer, sister of Sebastian *Sir Terence Conran (1931–2020), designer and writer *Tony Conran Tony Conran (7 April 1931 – 14 January 2013) was an Anglo-Wales, Welsh poet and Translation, translator of Welsh language, Welsh poetry. His own poetry was mostly written in English and Modernist in style but was very much influenced by Wel ... (1931–2013), Welsh poet See also * Conran, Missouri, USA * Conran Octopus, British ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexis Conran
Alexis Conran is a British actor, writer and presenter on TV and radio, who currently hosts the weekend afternoon show on Times Radio. He is perhaps best known for co-hosting the BBC Three show ''The Real Hustle'' from 2006 until 2012. He was born in south Paris, France, and moved to Greece when he was a child. Conran won ''Celebrity Masterchef'' 2016 on 29 July, beating Louise Minchin and Jimmy Osmond in the final. Early life Conran was born in Paris to a father who was a gambling addict and started to get into debt. He turned to crime and became a thief and conman, eventually getting arrested. When Conran was 7 years old, his parents got divorced. He was then raised by his mother with the help of her parents. He is of Greek heritage. Aged 16, he moved to London to study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Career In 2000, Conran starred in the music video for Blockhead's "Insomniac Olympics", directed by Sam Arthur.. Later that year he had a minor role in the T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alys Conran
Alys Conran is a Welsh writer. Her debut novel ''Pigeon'' won the Wales Book of the Year in 2017. Early life Alys Conran was born in north-west Wales, and is the daughter of the poet and translator Tony Conran. She studied literature in Edinburgh before completing an MA in creative writing at Manchester. Career Conran's first novel ''Pigeon'' was published by Parthian Books in 2016. A Welsh language adaptation by Siân Northey was published at the same time as the English original, making it the first fiction novel to be simultaneously published in English and Welsh. At the 2017 Wales Book of the Year Awards, the English-language version of ''Pigeon'' won the overall prize for Wales Book of the Year, as well as the Wales Arts Review People's Choice Award and the Rhys Davies Trust Fiction Award. It was also shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and longlisted for the Author's Choice First Novel Award. In 2018, Conran's second novel ''Dignity'' was picked up by Weidenfeld ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jasper Conran
Jasper Alexander Thirlby Conran (born 12 December 1959) is an English designer. He has worked on collections of womenswear and for the home, as well as productions for the stage in ballet, opera and theatre. Early life He is the second son of Sir Terence Conran, a designer, and Shirley Pearce, an author; his parents divorced when he was two years of age. He was educated at Port Regis School and Bryanston School in the 1970s; he also studied at the Parsons School of Art and Design in New York, United States (US). Career Conran's first collection was for Henri Bendel in New York City. In 1978, aged 19, Conran designed his first womenswear collection under his own name. The following year he was elected to be part of the London Designer collections. Conran designed his first menswear collection in 1985. Conran designed the wedding dress of Princess Margaret's daughter, Lady Sarah Chatto (formerly Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones) in 1994. He also designed clothes for Diana, Prince ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Conran
John Conran (born 1957 in Rathnure, County Wexford, Ireland) is an Irish former hurling manager and player. He played hurling for his local club Rathnure Rathnure () is a small village on the R731 regional road about from the town of Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Ireland. The village is located at the foot of the Blackstairs Mountain, which borders County Carlow on the opposite side. Place ... and at senior level for the Wexford county team from 1976 until 1991. Conran served as manager of Wexford from 2002 until 2004. References 1958 births Living people Hurling managers Hurling selectors Rathnure hurlers Wexford inter-county hurlers {{Wexford-hurling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kerry Conran
Kerry Scott Conran is an American film director and screenwriter, best known for creating and directing the 2004 pulp science fiction film ''Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow''. Early life and influences Conran was born in Flint, Michigan. He was educated at the California Institute of the Arts. He grew up watching such classic adventure movies and serials as ''King Kong'', ''Lost Horizon'', ''Metropolis'', and '' Flash Gordon'' on a local television channel. He was impressed by the whimsy and imagination of these films. He explained in an interview with John Joseph Adams that the adventure films of the 1930s era were not limited by what was practical, but only by the imaginations of the creators. He stated that he found this element lacking in most modern adventure films, which he described as "almost too well informed... and more cynical". As a result, he had aspired ever since his childhood to create an adventure film or serial in the same vein as the aforementioned esc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shirley Conran
Shirley Conran OBE (née Pearce; born 21 September 1932) is a British novelist and journalist. Early life Born in 1932, she attended St. Paul's Girls School, London, and then a finishing school in Switzerland which later provided some inspiration for the fictional school ''L'Hirondelle' in her novel ''Lace''. Her father was an alcoholic and her home life was difficult, causing Conran to leave home at 19. She worked as an artist's model, and then trained as a sculptor at Southern College of Art, Portsmouth (now part of Southampton University), and as a painter at Chelsea Polytechnic (now part of University of the Arts, London). Career Following the breakdown of her first marriage, Conran turned to writing in order to support her children. She wrote for the Daily Mail and in 1968 became women's editor and launched Femail, the newspaper's first dedicated women's section. Conran later became women's editor for The Observer magazine, and wrote columns for '' Vanity Fair.'' Her in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conran Of Orkney
Saint Conran of Orkney was a 7th-century Bishop of Orkney. His feast day is 14 February. Monks of Ramsgate account The monks of St Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate wrote in their ''Book of Saints'' (1921), Butler's account The hagiographer Alban Butler Alban Butler (13 October 171015 May 1773) was an English Roman Catholic priest and hagiographer. Biography Alban Butler was born in 1710, at Appletree, Aston le Walls, Northamptonshire, the second son of Simon Butler, Esq. His father died when ... (1710–1773) wrote in his ''Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints'', Notes Sources * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Conran Medieval Scottish saints 7th-century deaths ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sebastian Conran
Sebastian Orby Conran (born 5 April 1956) is a British designer, entrepreneur and inventor. Early life Sebastian Conran was born in London, the son of British designer, restaurateur and retailer Terence Conran and Superwoman author Shirley Conran née Pearce. He is the elder brother of fashion designer Jasper Conran and half brother of Tom, Sophie Conran and Ned. He was educated at Bryanston School in Dorset, in England, where he became a governor and trustee in 2011. He studied industrial design engineering at the Central School of Art and Design in London from 1974-77. From 1976-77 he worked as a general factotum and roadie with Punk band ''The Clash'', designing clothes, posters, promotional material, record sleeves and stage sets. Design career On graduating in 1978, Conran joined corporate and brand identity consultancyWolff Olins. Three years later he became head of product design at Mothercare. He established product and brand development consultancy Sebastian Con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie Conran
Henrietta Sophia Conran, known as Sophie Conran (born October 1965) is a designer, retailer, cook and author. She is the founder and director of the Sophie Conran Shop. Early life Conran is the daughter of designer and restaurateur Sir Terence Conran and food writer Caroline Herbert. Her brothers Tom and Edmund are both restaurateurs. The fashion designer Jasper Conran and the product designer Sebastian Conran are her half-brothers. Career After leaving school at 17, Conran worked as an apprentice for couture milliner Stephen Jones before joining the fashion team at the studio of her brother Jasper. Following this, Conran interior-designed apartments and show flats in the Butler's Wharf development and overhauled the Design Museum Shop's collections, where she also acted as a buyer. At the same time, she worked as a buyer for The Conran Shop and eventually launched her own store, 'Wong Singh Jones'. She began to receive private interior design commissions after buying a flat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terence Conran
Sir Terence Orby Conran (4 October 1931 – 12 September 2020) was an English designer, restaurateur, retailer and writer. He founded the Design Museum in Shad Thames, London in 1989 The British designer Thomas Heatherwick said that Conran "moved Britain forward to make it an influence around the world." Edward Barber, from the British design team Barber & Osgerby, described Conran as "the most passionate man in Britain when it comes to design, and his central idea has always been 'Design is there to improve your life.'" The satirist Craig Brown once joked that before Conran "there were no chairs and no France." Early life and education Conran was born in Kingston upon Thames, the son of Christina Mabel Joan Conran (née Halstead, d.1968) and South African-born Gerard Rupert Conran (d.1986), a businessman who owned a rubber importation company in East London. Conran was educated at Highfield School in Liphook, Bryanston School in Dorset and the Central School of Art and Desi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Conran
Tony Conran (7 April 1931 – 14 January 2013) was an Anglo-Wales, Welsh poet and Translation, translator of Welsh language, Welsh poetry. His own poetry was mostly written in English and Modernist in style but was very much influenced by Welsh poetic tradition, Welsh culture and history. To some extent there are parallels in Conran's writing with that of R. S. Thomas, but Conran can also be seen in the line of Ezra Pound, Pound, Basil Bunting, Bunting and Hugh MacDiarmid, MacDiarmid. He was born in Kharagpur, Bengal Presidency, Bengal, India], but, because he suffered from cerebral palsy, he was brought to the UK in 1933 and largely brought up by his grandparents in Colwyn Bay, being separated from his parents by the Second War. He was educated at Colwyn Bay High School, took his degree at Bangor and other than a brief spell working at a factory in Essex, Conran spent most of his working life in Bangor, Wales, Bangor, North Wales. Until 1983, he taught at the Bangor Universi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conran, Missouri
Conran is an unincorporated community in eastern New Madrid County, Missouri, United States. It is located approximately ten miles southwest of New Madrid on U.S. Route 61 U.S. Route 61 or U.S. Highway 61 (U.S. 61) is a major United States highway that extends between New Orleans, Louisiana and the city of Wyoming, Minnesota. The highway generally follows the course of the Mississippi River and is designate .... A post office called Conran was established in 1898, and remained in operation until 1992. References Unincorporated communities in New Madrid County, Missouri Unincorporated communities in Missouri {{NewMadridCountyMO-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
