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Cresswell (surname)
Cresswell is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Aaron Cresswell (born 1989), English footballer * Addison Cresswell (1960–2013), British talent agent * Arthur Cresswell (1917–2002), New Zealand cricketer, brother of Fen Cresswell * Brad Cresswell, American radio broadcaster and former opera singer * Chanel Cresswell (born 1990), English BAFTA award-winning actress *Cresswell Cresswell (1794–1863), English judge and politician * D'Arcy Cresswell (1896–1960), New Zealand poet and memoirist *Daryn Cresswell, Australian rules footballer * Douglas Cresswell (1894–1960), New Zealand historian and broadcaster * Elijah Cresswell (1889–1931), Scottish footballer *Fen Cresswell (1915–1966), New Zealand cricketer *Helen Cresswell, British writer * Ian Cresswell, Australian composer *Lyell Cresswell, New Zealand-born composer based in Scotland *Max Cresswell (born 1939), New Zealand philosopher and logician * Peter Cresswell, British immunologist *Sir Peter Cres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aaron Cresswell
Aaron William Cresswell (born 15 December 1989) is an English professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Premier League club West Ham United. Cresswell made his first-team debut for Tranmere Rovers in 2008 and made 70 league appearances for the club before signing for Ipswich Town in 2011, following a tribunal to agree the value of the transfer. He made 138 appearances for Ipswich scoring six goals, before joining West Ham United in July 2014. He made his international debut for England in November 2016 in a friendly against Spain at Wembley Stadium. Early life Cresswell was born in Liverpool, Merseyside. Club career Tranmere Rovers Cresswell started his career with Liverpool, working his way through the academy before being released at the age of 15. Following his release from Liverpool he joined the Tranmere Rovers youth system before signing his first professional contract in July 2008. He made his first-team debut on 1 November 2008 in a League One match with Mil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyell Cresswell
Lyell Richard Cresswell (13 October 1944 – 19 March 2022) was a New Zealand composer of contemporary classical music. He was the younger brother of philosopher Max Cresswell. Cresswell studied in Wellington, Toronto, Aberdeen and Utrecht and lived and worked in Edinburgh from 1985 on. Although he lived more than half his life away from New Zealand, he regarded himself as a New Zealander. Cresswell died from liver cancer, complicated by COVID-19. Early life and education Cresswell was born in Wellington in 1944, the younger brother of Max Cresswell; his family belonged to the The Salvation Army, Salvation Army. He played the trumpet, euphonium and tuba. He studied at Victoria University of Wellington, Victoria University under David Farquhar, Douglas Lilburn and Frederick Page (musician), Frederick Page, gaining a first-class honours degree in composition. In 1969 he went to Toronto to study for a masters degree and three years later in 1972 to Aberdeen to study for a PhD. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Cresswell
Major general (United States), Major General Gordon M. "Biff" Cresswell, United States Marine Corps (USMC) (played by David Andrews (actor), David Andrews) is a fictional character on the American television series ''JAG (TV series), JAG''. After Rear admiral (United States), Rear Admiral A.J. Chegwidden (portrayed by John M. Jackson) retired as Judge Advocate General of the Navy at the end of the ninth season, Gordon Cresswell, a United States Marine Corps Judge Advocate Division#Marine Corps judge advocates, Judge Advocate in the Marine Corps, succeeds him in the tenth season. Career In the show, General Cresswell is also a graduate from the United States Naval Academy like his predecessor. Prior to his featured assignment, the character used to serve as the Staff Judge Advocate to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Prior to that, he served as the SJA in Iraq, where he was wounded and cited for saving a general's life. His injuries brought him to the Walter Reed Army Med ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Nichol Cresswell
William Nicoll Cresswell (12 March 1818 – 19 June 1888) (his middle name is also given as "Nichol") was an English painter who emigrated to Canada in 1848. He is best known for his landscape and marine paintings done in watercolour or oil in Canada. Biography William Nichol Cresswell was born in Shoreditch, London. After studies with several British painters (possibly E. W. Cook and William Clarkson Stanfield), he emigrated in 1848 to Canada West, where he settled with his family in Tuckersmith Township (later Seaforth, Ontario) in Huron County on a remote farm. In 1865, part of the family lot came into the possession of the artist and he ordered the bricks to build his house. The following year he married Elizabeth R. Thompson. Cresswell probably did little farming because he was first and foremost a painter. He quickly established himself in that capacity and began exhibiting at the Upper Canada Provincial Exhibition as of 1856 and would exhibit there in all yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warney Cresswell
Warneford Cresswell (5 November 1897 – 20 October 1973) was an English international footballer who was described as "The Prince of Full Backs" for his renowned tackling and positional skills in the right-back position. In a seventeen-year career in the English Football League he made 571 league appearances, and won seven caps for England. He began his career during World War I, playing in the Scottish Football League with Morton, Heart of Midlothian and Hibernian, before signing with English Second Division club South Shields in 1919. Three years later he moved into the First Division when he was bought by Sunderland for a world-record fee of £5,500. He made 190 league and cup appearances and helped the "Black Cats" to a second-place finish in 1922–23, before moving on to Everton for £7,000 in 1927. He helped the "Toffees" to win the English Football League championship in 1927–28 and 1931–32, the Second Division championship in 1930–31, the FA Cup in 1933, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Cresswell
Tim Cresswell (born 1965) is a British human geographer and poet. Cresswell is the Ogilvie Professor of Human Geography at the University of Edinburgh having formally served as the Dean of the Faculty and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. He is a human geographer by training and the author of six books on the role of place and mobility in cultural life, co-editor of four collections and an inaugural managing editor of the journal, "GeoHumanities". Cresswell is a leading figure in the mobilities paradigm. Tim Cresswell is also a poet and the author of three collections published by Penned in the Margins "Soil" (2013), "Fence" (2015) and "Plastiglomerate" (2020). "Fence" was a result of Cresswell's participation in the artist Alex Hartley's nowhere island project.Rachel Cooke (2011-11-27). "Alex Hartley: The world is still big , Review , Art and design , The Observer". London: Guardian. Retrieved 2016-05-10 Publications *(2022) ''Muyb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Estcourt Cresswell
Thomas Estcourt Cresswell (12 July 1712 – 14 November 1788) was an English landowner and politician. Biography He was the son of Richard Cresswell (MP for Bridgnorth and then Wootton Bassett) and his wife Elizabeth Estcourt, daughter and heiress of Sir Thomas Estcourt, of Pinkney Park, near Malmesbury in Wiltshire. He began his career as a merchant trading with China and India, but ceased this occupation around 1732. He inherited the heavily encumbered Pinkney Park estate in 1743 from his father. Cresswell was returned as Member of Parliament for Wootton Bassett from 1754 to 1774. He died at his seat in Pinkney Park on 14 November 1788. He had gained a degree of notoriety as a bigamist after his marriage in February 1744 to a wealthy heiress, Miss Anne Warneford, granddaughter and eventual heir of Sir Edmund Warneford of Sevenhampton and Bibury, Gloucestershire. Anne had married Cresswell in good faith and had borne him two children but another woman, his cousin Elizabe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Cresswell (MP)
Richard Cresswell (1688–1743) was an English landowner and politician. The first son of a "roaring Shropshire squire" Richard Cresswell of Sidbury, Shropshire and his wife Mary Moreton, and grandson of a staunch Cavalier, also named Richard Cresswell (formerly a page to Charles I); Cresswell was nicknamed "Black Dick Cresswell". He had inherited his father's unstable traits, but also his grandfather's loyalism. His father, having been disinherited, was described as "a perfect madman", "a Judas and devil incarnate" by his son-in-law, who when obliged to stay with the family for a time at Sidbury, wrote that "to live with him (Cresswell the elder) is to live in Bedlam, for he is made up of noise, nonsense, railing, bawling and impertinence....". Richard Cresswell succeeded in 1708 to his grandfather's very considerable estates, including several manors in Staffordshire, Shropshire and Herefordshire. By the time he married, Cresswell was already enjoying a reputation as a "gid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Cresswell
Richard Paul Wesley Cresswell (born 20 September 1977) is an English football coach and former professional player who played as a striker. He played in the Premier League and Football League for York City, Mansfield Town, Sheffield Wednesday, Leicester City, Preston North End, Leeds United, Stoke City and Sheffield United. Cresswell started his career with York City in their youth system, making his first-team debut in a Second Division match in 1996. Having scored 19 goals for York in the 1998–99 season, he signed for Premier League club Sheffield Wednesday in 1999. After their relegation the following year, Cresswell joined Leicester City of the Premier League, but was loaned to First Division club Preston North End in 2001 and played for them in the 2001 First Division play-off final. He signed for Preston permanently later that year. He had four full seasons with Preston, scoring a career best 21 goals in 2004–05, which culminated in defeat in the 2005 Champi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Cresswell (judge)
Sir Peter John Cresswell, DL (born 24 April 1944) is an English former High Court judge, and currently a judge of the Qatar International Court and Dispute Resolution Centre. Cresswell was educated at St John's School, Leatherhead before studying law at Queens' College, Cambridge from 1962 to 1965, gaining an MA and LLB. He was then called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1966. Cresswell was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1983 before being appointed a High Court Judge in 1991 where he was assigned to the Queens' Bench Division. From 1993-94 he was the judge in charge of the commercial court. Between 1993 and 1996 Creswell presided over the Lloyds litigation, the largest piece of civil litigation in the UK. Cresswell retired from the High Court in 2008 and since 2009 has been a judge of the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands The Cayman Islands () is a self-governing British Overseas Territory—the largest by population in the western Caribbean Sea. The territory comprises the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Cresswell
Peter Cresswell FRS is a British immunologist, and Eugene Higgins Professor of Immunobiology and Professor of Cell Biology and of Dermatology, at Yale School of Medicine. His lab primary focuses on the molecular mechanisms of antigen processing particularly the functions of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules and CD1 molecules. He is most notable for discovering and identifying the MHC class II molecules and viperin. Life Cresswell earned a B.S., and M.S. in microbiology from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, and a Ph.D. in biochemistry and immunology from London University. He studied at Harvard University, with Jack Strominger. Before joining the faculty at Yale School of Medicine, Cresswell was Chief of the Division of Immunology at Duke University Hospital. He has been an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute since 1991. Cresswell serves as Section Head of the Faculty of 1000 since 11 July 2001 and is a Member Editor of the ''Proceed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Cresswell
Maxwell John Cresswell (born 19 November 1939) is a New Zealand philosopher and logician, known for his work in modal logic.''Festschrift for Max Cresswell on the occasion of his 65th birthday.'' In: ''Logique et Analyse.'' Number 181, March 2003 (published November 2004). See the introduction by Thomas Forster. Education and career Cresswell received his B.A. in 1960 and M.A. in 1961 from the University of New Zealand and then with the support of a Commonwealth Scholarship attended the Victoria University of Manchester, where he received in 1964 his PhD under the supervision of A. N. Prior. Cresswell's thesis was titled ''General and Specific Logics of Functions of Propositions''. After returning to New Zealand, Cresswell was at the Victoria University of Wellington, from 1963 to 1967 as a lecturer, from 1968 to 1972 as a senior lecturer (also receiving in 1972 Lit.D. from the Victoria University), becoming a reader in 1973, and then a professor from 1974 to 2000, interrupte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
