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Creswell (surname)
Creswell is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Carolyn Creswell (born 1973), Australian entrepreneur, television host and philanthropist * Cathy Creswell, British psychologist * Charles Creswell (1813–1882), English cricketer *Edmund Creswell (1849–1931), British soldier who played in the 1872 FA Cup Final * Emily Grace Creswell (1889–1931), English artist *Frederic Creswell (1866–1948), South African politician *Harry Bulkeley Creswell (1869–1960), British architect and author. *John Creswell (1828–1891), American politician * John Creswell (MP) ( fl. 1597), English Member of Parliament * John Creswell (sportsman) (1858–1909), South Australian all-round sportsman and administrator * John W. Creswell, Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln *Joseph Creswell (1557–1623), English Jesuit priest * Gregory Creswell (born 1957), Michigan politician *Julia Pleasants Creswell (1827-1886), American poet, novelist * K. A. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carolyn Creswell
Carolyn Claire Creswell (née Tennent, born 30 December 1973) is an Australian businesswoman and television host. She is best known as the founder of Australian brand Carman's Fine Foods. Early life and education Creswell was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia; her parents are Marcia and David Tennent. Creswell graduated from St Catherine's School, Toorak, St Catherine's School in Toorak, Victoria, Toorak, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, before attending Monash University where she received her BA in Arts in 1994. She completed a year of a law degree at the University of London in 1996. Career Carman's Fine Foods At the age of 18, Creswell purchased a small local hand-made muesli business for $1,000, whom she had worked and founded her own brand, Carman's Fine Foods. In 1993, Carman's Fine Foods obtained its first interstate distributor in New South Wales. The turning point for Creswell came when Coles Supermarkets agreed to trial her muesli in some of its Melbourne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Creswell
Joseph Creswell (real name Arthur) (1557 of Yorkshire stock in London – c. 1623) was an English Jesuit controversialist. Life Creswell joined the Society of Jesus at Rome, 11 October 1583, having previously studied at Reims and at the Roman College. Having been rector (1589–1592) after Robert Persons at the English College, Rome, he also succeeded Persons as vice-prefect for the English Jesuit interests in Spain. Creswell's character and conduct in connection with his difficulties over the seminaries in Seville and Valladolid, and his controversies about the Benedictine vocations have been criticized.Bede Camm, ''Life of Ven. John Roberts'', and Pollen, ''The Month'', London, September–October 1899. Father Creswell had considerable intercourse with Sir Charles Cornwallis, the English resident at Madrid, till the Gunpowder Plot, when Creswell was summoned to Rome. Sent to Belgium in 1614, he was at St-Omer in 1620, and in 1621 was made rector of Ghent. Works His chief ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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__NOTOC__ Creswell may refer to: Places United Kingdom * Creswell, Derbyshire * Creswell Crags * Creswell Model Village * Creswell, Staffordshire United States * Creswell, also called Smyrna, Jefferson County, Indiana * Creswell Township, Cowley County, Kansas * Creswell, Kentucky * Creswell, Maryland * Creswell, North Carolina * Creswell, Oregon * Creswell, Pennsylvania Elsewhere * Creswell Bay, Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada * Creswell Gardens, Adelaide, Australia Other * Creswell (surname) * Creswell High School (other) Creswell High School may refer to: * Creswell High School (Oregon), Creswell, Oregon * Creswell High School (North Carolina), Creswell, North Carolina {{Schooldis ... * HMAS ''Creswell'', a Royal Australian Navy base on the South Coast of New South Wales See also *Cresswell (other) *Carswell {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Rooke Creswell
Vice Admiral Sir William Rooke Creswell, (20 July 1852 – 20 April 1933) was an Australian naval officer, commonly considered to be the 'father' of the Royal Australian Navy. Early life and family Creswell was born in Gibraltar, son of Edmund Creswell (head of the postal service at Gibraltar and for the Mediterranean), and Margaret Mary Ward, née Fraser. He was educated at Gibraltar and Eastman's Royal Naval Academy, Southsea. Creswell's brother Edmund (1849–1931) played for the Royal Engineers in the first FA Cup Final in 1872. Another brother, Frederic (1866–1948) was a Labour Party politician in South Africa, who was Minister of Defence from 1924 to 1933. Naval career Beginning his naval career at the age of 13 as a cadet on the Royal Navy's training ship ''Britannia'', Creswell was promoted to midshipman in 1867 and on 20 October 1871 became a sub-lieutenant. Having already served in the Channel Fleet, Creswell was transferred to the China Station. In 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toby Creswell
Toby Creswell (born 21 May 1955) is an Australian music journalist and pop-culture writer. He was editor of ''Rolling Stone'' (Australia) and a founding editor of ''Juice''. In 1986, he co-wrote, with Martin Fabinyi, his first book, ''Too Much Ain't Enough'' a biography of pub rocker and former Cold Chisel vocalist Jimmy Barnes. He also wrote ''The Real Thing: Adventures in Australian Rock & Roll, 1957-Now'' (1999) and ''1001 Australians You Should Know'' (2006). The latter was written with his domestic partner, fellow writer and journalist, Samantha Trenoweth. Biography Creswell wrote his first article on rock & roll for ''Nation Review'' in 1972. He subsequently wrote articles about all aspects of popular culture and music for ''RAM'', ''Billboard'', ''Roadrunner'' and a range of national and international magazines and newspapers. He has worked for ''MTV'' and a variety of television programs as a writer and presenter. As a keyboard player for seminal post-punk band, Sur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Creswell
Thomas Edgar Creswell (18 March 1852 – 5 January 1920) was an Australian politician. He was born in Hobart to schoolmaster Thomas Creswell and Martha Chadwick. After attending Hobart Collegiate School he became a law clerk in 1867, and in 1874 was admitted as a solicitor. Around 1877 he married Charlotte Hannah, with whom he had a daughter. He moved to Sydney in 1880, becoming a partner in Creswell and Whatmore. In 1904 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the Liberal member for St Leonards. He lost preselection in 1907 and stood as an Independent Independent or Independents may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Artist groups * Independents (artist group), a group of modernist painters based in the New Hope, Pennsylvania, area of the United States during the early 1930s * Independ ... Liberal, but was defeated. A North Sydney alderman from 1901 to 1913, he was honorary treasurer of the North Sydney Benevolent Society from around 1904 to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robyn Creswell
Robyn Creswell is an American critic, scholar and translator. Life He graduated from Brown University in 1999 and gained a doctorate in comparative literature from New York University in 2011. In addition to teaching comparative literature at Brown University, he also serves as poetry editor of the ''Paris Review''. Creswell's specialization is contemporary Arabic literature. He has translated several literary works from the Middle East, including ''That Smell and Notes from Prison'' by Sonallah Ibrahim and ''The Clash of Images'' by Abdelfattah Kilito, and has written numerous essays for various literary periodicals. A revised version of his thesis ''Tradition and Translation: Poetic Modernism in Beirut'' (2012) was published by Princeton University Press as ''City of Beginnings: Poetic Modernism in Beirut'' (2019). Creswell won the 2013 Roger Shattuck Prize for Criticism, awarded by the Center for Fiction The Center for Fiction, originally called the New York Mercantil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Creswell
Sir Michael Justin Creswell (21 September 1909 - 25 April 1986) was a British diplomat. During World War II, he was an attaché at the British Embassy in Spain. He worked with the Comet Line, Comet Escape Line to help allied airmen who had been shot down over Nazi-occupied Europe to escape to neutral Spain and return to Britain. He was Ambassador to Finland from 1954 to 1958, Ambassador to Yugoslavia from 1960 to 1964, and Ambassador to Argentina from 1964 to 1969. He was the son of Col Edmund Creswell, Edmund William Creswell (who played for the Royal Engineers A.F.C., Royal Engineers in the 1872 FA Cup Final) and Isabel Agnes Vulliamy. Michael's son, Alexander Creswell, Alexander is a renowned architectural artist. World War II During World War II, Creswell was stationed as an attaché at the British Embassy in Madrid, Spain. The diplomatic objective of Great Britain was for Spain to remain neutral in the war despite the close association of the Francisco Franco, Franco governm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Ethel Creswell
Mary Ethel Creswell (October 15, 1879 – August 7, 1960) was the first female to receive an undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens, Georgia. In 1918, Creswell was appointed the head of the newly created Division of Home Economics for the University. The following year, she received a baccalaureate degree (B.S. in Home Economics) from the University. In 1933, UGA established the College of Family and Consumer Sciences and Creswell was named as the first dean and served in that position until her retirement in 1945. She continued to teach in the college as a professor until 1949. Creswell was a charter member of the Phi Kappa Phi honor society at UGA and its first female president, and she was the first female recipient of the Georgia Alumni Award for outstanding service to the University in 1949. Creswell died in Athens, Georgia on August 7, 1960. Creswell Hall, a dormitory A dormitory (originated from the Latin word ''dormitorium'', often ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julia Pleasants Creswell
Julia Pleasants Creswell (, Pleasants; pen names, Adrienne and Amelia; August 21, 1827 - June 9, 1886) was an American poet and novelist of the south who lived in Alabama and Louisiana. She was author of ''Aphelia, and Other Poems by Two Cousins of the South'', in conjunction with Thomas M. Bibb Bradley, of Huntsville, published in 1854; ''Poems''; ''Callamura'', an allegorical novel, published 1868; posthumous volume of poems; ''Abracadabra'', a novel which was never published; and a book of short poems which she had ready for publication but never published, dedicated to George D. Prentice in appreciation of his devotion to Southern literature. Early life and education Julia Pamelia Pleasants was born in Huntsville, Alabama, August 21, 1827. Her parents were Col. James Jay, a commission merchant, and a native of Hanover County, Virginia, and Emily Julia (Bibb) Pleasants. Her father belonged to the Pleasants family, of Virginia, which contributed several distinguished names to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gregory Creswell
The Libertarian Party of Michigan is a Michigan state political party advocating a libertarian ideology and the state affiliate of the Libertarian Party of the United States. The party gained primary ballot access status in 2016 because of the vote total of presidential nominee Gary Johnson. The party lost their status since their 2018 gubernatorial nominee Bill Gelineau failed to reach that threshold in the general election. Several Libertarians have held public office in Michigan, most at the local level. The party is a member of the Michigan Third Parties Coalition which advocates changes in Michigan's election laws. History Libertarian Party of Michigan was founded in 1972. In the mid-1990s, the party had 1,500 dues paying members. The party was down to 800 such members in 2004. The party had a candidate in every congressional race in 2000 but failed to repeat in 2002. For 2004, the party had candidates in all 15 congressional races and 21 state House races in 2007, the part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Nebraska–Lincoln
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln (Nebraska, NU, or UNL) is a public land-grant research university in Lincoln, Nebraska. Chartered in 1869 by the Nebraska Legislature as part of the Morrill Act of 1862, the school was known as the University of Nebraska until 1968, when it absorbed the Municipal University of Omaha to form the University of Nebraska system. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship institution of the state-wide system. The university has been governed by the Board of Regents since 1871, whose members are elected by district to six-year terms. The university is organized into nine colleges: Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Architecture, Arts and Sciences, Business, Education and Human Sciences, Engineering, Fine and Performing Arts, Journalism and Mass Communications, and Law. NU offers over two hundred degrees across its undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs. The school also offers programs through the University of Nebr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
