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Cornford , an English cricketer
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Cornford is an English surname. It may refer to: * Adam Cornford, an American poet, librettist, and essayist * Christopher Cornford, a British artist and writer. * F. M. Cornford, an English classical scholar and poet * Frances Cornford, an English poet * Holly Cornford, ice hockey player * James Cornford, English first-class cricketer * John Cornford, an English poet and communist * Tich Cornford Walter Latter Cornford (25 December 1900 – 6 February 1964) was an English cricketer. He was a wicket-keeper who played in 4 Tests in New Zealand in 1930 and played county cricket for Sussex County Cricket Club. His nickname of Tich allude ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Cornford
Adam Cornford (born 26 February 1950) is a British poet, journalist, and essayist and a great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin. From 1987 to 2008 he led the Poetics Program at New College of California in San Francisco. Biography Adam Francis Cornford was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the son of Christopher Cornford and a lineal descendant of naturalist Charles Darwin. Cornford moved to California in 1969. He attended the University of California at Santa Cruz, where he studied with (and was first published by) ''kayak'' editor George Hitchcock; and San Francisco State University, where his mentor was the Greek surrealist Nanos Valaoritis. Among his books are four collections of poetry: ''Shooting Scripts'' (Black Stone Press, 1978); ''Animations'' (City Lights Books, 1988), ''Decision Forest'' (Pantograph Press, 1997), and ''Lalia'' (Chax Press, 2021). For 21 years, Cornford led the Poetics Program at New College of California in San Francisco. In 2015, Cornford provided the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Cornford
Christopher Francis Cornford (9 February 1917 – 8 April 1993) was a British artist and writer. A Communist Party member of the 1930s, after World War II he taught at University of Durham, Cambridge and the Royal College of Art. Life He was the son of Francis Cornford, and his wife Frances Cornford (née Darwin). Through his mother, he was a great-grandson of the naturalist Charles Darwin. His elder brother was the poet, communist, and Spanish Civil War victim John Cornford. His son is Adam Cornford, British poet, librettist, and essayist. He was active in politics until into the late 1980s, in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) is an organisation that advocates unilateral nuclear disarmament by the United Kingdom, international nuclear disarmament and tighter international arms regulation through agreements such as the Nucle ... and its offshoot Cambridge Against Missile Bases, and in the environmental movement as a signatory o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frances Cornford
Frances Crofts Cornford (née Darwin; 30 March 1886 – 19 August 1960) was an English poet. Life She was the daughter of the botanist Francis Darwin and Newnham College fellow Ellen Wordsworth Crofts (1856-1903), and born into the Darwin—Wedgwood family. She was a granddaughter of the British naturalist Charles Darwin. Her older half-brother was the golf writer Bernard Darwin. She was brought up in Cambridge, among a dense social network of aunts, uncles, and cousins, and was educated privately. Because of the similarity of her first name, her father's and her husband's, she was known to her family before her marriage as "FCD" and after her marriage as "FCC" and her husband Francis Cornford was known as "FMC". Her father Sir Francis Darwin, a son of Charles Darwin, yet another 'Francis', was known to their family as "Frank", or as "Uncle Frank". In 1909, Frances Darwin married Francis Cornford, a classicist and poet. They had five children: * Helena Cornford (1913†... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holly Cornford
Holly Cornford (born 22 September 1992) plays for the Great Britain women's national ice hockey team as defenseman. She is the captain of the Kingston Kingston may refer to: Places * List of places called Kingston, including the five most populated: ** Kingston, Jamaica ** Kingston upon Hull, England ** City of Kingston, Victoria, Australia ** Kingston, Ontario, Canada ** Kingston upon Thames, ... Diamonds. References 1992 births Living people British women's ice hockey defencemen {{UK-icehockey-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Cornford (cricketer, Born 1978)
James Michael Cornford (born 6 September 1978) is an English former first-class cricketer. The son of an antiques restorer, Cornford was born in Crewe. After completing his secondary education, Cornford attended Reaseheath College where he studied golf course and green management. Having found himself unemployed six months after leaving Reaseheath College, Cornford took a loan of £3,000 from The Prince's Trust to start his own cricket bat making business, which by 2000 counted Keith Semple and Muazam Ali as clients. He made his debut in minor counties cricket for Cheshire in the 1999 Minor Counties Championship against Devon. He made five appearances in 1999 and nine in 2000. Cornford also made six appearances for Cheshire in the 2000 MCCA Knockout Trophy, and one appearance in the 2001 MCCA Knockout Trophy. He travelled to Zimbabwe in March 2002 to play for the Midlands cricket team, making his debut in first-class cricket in the 2001–02 Logan Cup against Matabeleland. He m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Cornford
Rupert John Cornford (27 December 1915 – 28 December 1936) was an English poet and communist. During the first year of the Spanish Civil War, he was a member of the POUM militia and later the International Brigades. He died while fighting against the Nationalists, at Lopera, near Córdoba. Biography Cornford was the son of Francis Cornford and Frances Cornford (née Darwin), and was a great-grandson of Charles Darwin and Emma Darwin. He was born in Cambridge, and named after Rupert Brooke, who was a friend of his parents, but preferred to use his second name. He was educated at King's College School, Cambridge, Stowe School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He began writing poetry at the age of fourteen, strongly influenced by Robert Graves and W. H. Auden, and as a schoolboy argued fiercely about poetry with his mother, a member of the more sedate "Georgian" group whose most famous representative was A. E. Housman. He spent a year in London studying at the London S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
