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Cranleigh School
Cranleigh School is a public school (English independent day and boarding school) in the village of Cranleigh, Surrey. History It was opened on 29 September 1865 as a boys' school 'to provide a sound and plain education, on the principles of the Church of England, and on the public school system, for the sons of farmers and others engaged in commercial pursuits'. It grew rapidly and by the 1880s had more than 300 pupils although it declined over the next 30 years and in 1910 numbers dropped to 150. Cranleigh started to admit girls in the early 1970s and became fully co-educational in 1999. The current headmaster is Martin Reader with former East Housemaster, Simon Bird, as the Deputy Head. The ''Good Schools Guide'' at one time described the school as a "Hugely popular school with loads on offer, improving academia and mega street cred. Ideal for the sporty, energetic, sociable, independent and lovely child." The school's Trevor Abbott Sports Centre was opened by Sir Richa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latin Language
Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the Roman Republic it became the dominant language in the Italy (geographical region), Italian region and subsequently throughout the Roman Empire. Even after the Fall of the Western Roman Empire, fall of Western Rome, Latin remained the common language of international communication, science, scholarship and academia in Europe until well into the 18th century, when other regional vernaculars (including its own descendants, the Romance languages) supplanted it in common academic and political usage, and it eventually became a dead language in the modern linguistic definition. Latin is a fusional language, highly inflected language, with three distinct grammatical gender, genders (masculine, feminine, and neuter), six or seven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baroness Greenfield
Baron is a rank of nobility or title of honour, often hereditary, in various European countries, either current or historical. The female equivalent is baroness. Typically, the title denotes an aristocrat who ranks higher than a lord or knight, but lower than a viscount or count. Often, barons hold their fief – their lands and income – directly from the monarch. Barons are less often the vassals of other nobles. In many kingdoms, they were entitled to wear a smaller form of a crown called a ''coronet''. The term originates from the Latin term , via Old French. The use of the title ''baron'' came to England via the Norman Conquest of 1066, then the Normans brought the title to Scotland and Italy. It later spread to Scandinavia and Slavic lands. Etymology The word '' baron'' comes from the Old French , from a Late Latin "man; servant, soldier, mercenary" (so used in Salic law; Alemannic law has in the same sense). The scholar Isidore of Seville in the 7th century ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Brunton
Sir Gordon Charles Brunton (27 December 1921 – 30 May 2017) was a British businessman, publisher, racehorse owner and breeder. Early life, education and military service Born in London, Brunton was educated briefly at Cranleigh School, Surrey and then at the London School of Economics where he studied under Harold Laski, John Maynard Keynes, RH Tawney, Joan Robinson and Eileen Power. It was Laski's arguments and ideas had a particular influence on Gordon Brunton's thinking. During the onset of World War II, Brunton left university prematurely and was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1940 and went onto serve as a Captain in the Indian Army and Royal Artillery. For much of the war, he fought in the Burma campaign before joining the British Military Government in Düsseldorf and Hamburg working on the reconstruction of local infrastructure. After the war, Brunton worked as a door to door salesman selling classified advertising space to small businesses outside Lon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luke Braid
Luke Gary Braid (born 5 October 1988) is a rugby union footballer who plays for the Blues in Super Rugby and Auckland in the ITM Cup. He plays as a loose forward. Braid has also played for three national rugby union teams, the New Zealand Schoolboys, the New Zealand Under 19's, and the New Zealand Under 20s Infonews.co.nz (21 November 2008). Retrieved 16 August 2011. Braid is the son of former player Gary Braid and the younger brother of fellow Blues player Daniel Braid. Braid made his professional debut with St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derek Bourgeois
Derek David Bourgeois (16 October 1941 – 6 September 2017) was an English composer. Career Derek Bourgeois was born in Kingston upon Thames in 1941. After receiving his university education at Magdalene College, Cambridge (honours degree and doctorate), Bourgeois spent two years at the Royal College of Music, studying composition with Herbert Howells and conducting with Sir Adrian Boult. From 1971 to 1984, Bourgeois was a lecturer in music at Bristol University, and director of the National Youth Orchestra from 1984 to 1993. In 1980 he began conducting the Sun Life Band (now the Stanshawe Band of Bristol), which was his introduction to brass bands. In 1994 Bourgeois was appointed director of music at St Paul's Girls School, London, a position previously held by a number of noted composers, including Gustav Holst and Herbert Howells. After retiring from this post in 2002 he and his wife settled in Mallorca. Following her death in 2006, he remarried in 2008 and moved to N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Blaker
Hugh Blaker (1873–1936) was an English artist, collector, connoisseur, dealer in Old Masters, museum curator, writer on art, and a supporter and promoter of modern British and French painters. Life and career Hugh Oswald Blaker was born on 13 December 1873 at 31 Marine Parade, Worthing, Sussex. Both his parents were originally from Worthing – master builder Robert Charles Blaker (born May 1836) and Jane Rosalie Redstone (née Sanders, born April 1845). Following Robert's death, Jane married John Richard Eyre in the Church of the Sacred Heart, Teddington on 27 August 1898. Blaker's collection of essays on social problems of the day, ''Points for Posterity'' (1910), paints a detailed portrait of its author: a free thinker, open minded, opinionated, cynical, reactionary, critical, and a socialist. The book – which in its manuscript form is titled ''Hints for Historians'' – opens: "There is no greater proof of stupidity than to be in love with your generation. Strong men ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Blake (judge)
Sir Nicholas John Gorrod Blake (born 21 June 1949), styled The Hon. Mr Justice Blake, is a retired judge of the High Court of England and Wales. He was educated at Cranleigh School and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He was called to the bar at Middle Temple in 1974 and became a bencher there in 2002. He was made a QC in 1994, specialising in immigration, asylum and free movement and human rights law. He was a founding member of Matrix Chambers and first chair of its management committee. He was appointed as a special advocate and as a Deputy High Court judge in 2002, and judge of the High Court of Justice (Queen's Bench Division) since 2007. From 2004 to 2013 he was a Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery. From 2010 to 2013 he was President of the newly established Upper Tribunal The Upper Tribunal is part of the administrative justice system of the United Kingdom. It was created in 2008 as part of a programme, set out in the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Alexander Barns
Thomas Alexander Barns Zoological Society of London, FZS Royal Entomological Society of London, FES (4 June 1881 – 4 March 1930), known in his private life as Alexander Barns, was an English businessman, exploration, explorer, Big game hunting, big game hunter, author, artist, naturalist and lecturer connected with the opening up of Central Africa by Europeans in the early 20th century. The amateur entomologist James John Joicey commissioned Barns to collect specimens of lepidoptera in Africa on his behalf. Early life and background The second son of the Rev. William Amos Barns, by his marriage to Eva Cecilia Buckworth, Barns was born at Bletchingley, Surrey, in 1881 and educated at Cranleigh School.'BARNS, Thomas Alexander', in ''Who's Who (UK), Who Was Who 1929–1940'' (London: A. & C. Black, 1967 reprint, ) His father was a Church of England clergyman and a graduate of St John's College, Oxford. His mother, Eva Cecilia Buckworth, was the daughter of the Rev. Thomas Evera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stacy Aumonier
Stacy Aumonier (31 March 1877 – 21 December 1928) was a British writer and stage performer, most highly regarded for his short stories. Between 1913 and 1928, he wrote more than 85 stories, 6 novels, a volume of character studies, and a volume of 15 essays. The Nobel Prize winner (and ''Forsyte Saga'' author) John Galsworthy described Aumonier as "one of the best short-story writers of all time" and predicted that, through the best of his stories, he would "outlive all the writers of his day."Foreword to ''Ups And Downs'', Stacy Aumonier, Heinemann, London,1929Aumonier, Stacy: ''Extremely Entertaining Short Stories'', Phaeton, 2008, Biography pp.vii-xvi, (pbk.) James Hilton (author of ''Goodbye, Mr Chips'' and ''Lost Horizon'') said of Aumonier: "I think his very best works ought to be included in any anthology of the best short stories ever written." Asked to choose "My Favourite Short Story" for the March 1939 edition of ''Good Housekeeping'', James Hilton chose a story ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olivia Attwood
Olivia Jade Attwood (born 2 May 1991) is an English television personality, presenter and model. In 2017, she appeared on the third series of '' Love Island'' and later became a regular cast member on the ITVBe reality series ''The Only Way Is Essex''. In November 2022, she participated in Series 22 of '' I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!'' but withdrew on medical grounds two days after arriving. Early life Attwood was born on 2 May 1991 in London. She has two siblings, Georgia and Max. After young years living in London, Surrey, England and Alberta, Canada, she attended Tormead School and Cranleigh School. Career Attwood began her career as a model and a motorsport grid girl. In 2017, she became a contestant on the third series of the ITV2 reality dating show '' Love Island''. Along with Chris Hughes, she reached the final and the pair finished in third place. The following year, Attwood and Hughes starred in their own spin-off series ''Chris & Olivia: Crackin' On''. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sammy Arnold
Sammy Arnold (born 8 April 1996) is an English-born, Irish rugby union player for French club Brive. He plays as a centre. Early life Born in Redhill, Surrey, Arnold moved to Kent aged five and attended a state school until sixth form, when he earned a rugby scholarship at Cranleigh School. Harlequins had shown interest in Arnold joining their academy, but as a scrum-half rather than a centre. Arnold, who wanted to play as a centre for Ireland, instead decided to join Ulster. He qualifies for Ireland through his mother, who is from Wexford – he also has a grandfather from Bere Island, County Cork. Club career Ulster Arnold made his debut against Dragons at Rodney Parade in March 2015 as an 18-year-old. At the end of the season he won the Club's Academy Player of the Year award. He made his first Champions Cup appearance against Oyonnax in January 2016, but was forced off through injury after 23 minutes. Munster On 4 February 2016, it was announced that Arnold would be jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Anholt
Anthony Anholt (19 January 1941 – 26 July 2002) was a British television actor, known for his role as Charles Frere in the BBC drama series ''Howards' Way'' (1985–90). In 1974 he was cast as Mark Colebrook, a crooked architect in ''Contact Breaker'' the 12th episode of the first series of the police drama, ''The Sweeney.'' Anholt appeared in an episode of Juliet Bravo in 1984 as Martin Lee. His other appearances include Gerry Anderson's '' Space: 1999'' (1976–77) playing the role of Security Chief Tony Verdeschi in the second series, and ''The Protectors'' (1972–74) as Paul Buchet. His only credited film role was as an FBI agent in '' Fear Is the Key'' in 1972; he also made appearances in the 1984 miniseries ''The Last Days of Pompeii'' and as small time crook Abdul, in the ''Only Fools and Horses'' episode ''To Hull and Back''. He died after a long illness caused by a brain tumour on 26th July, 2002. Early life and education Anholt was born in Singapore to an Anglo-Dut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
