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Dench
Dench is an English surname. Notable people with the name include: *Charles Dench (1873–1958), English cricketer and umpire * David Dench (born 1951), former Australian rules footballer, father of Michelle Dench * Doug Dench (1930–2012), Australian rules footballer *Emma Dench, English ancient historian, classicist, and academic administrator * Geoff Dench (1940–2018), British social scientist * Henry Dench, Mayor of Port Chalmers, New Zealand 1871-1873 *Ian Dench (born 1964), English songwriter and musician * Jeffery Dench (1928–2014), English actor, older brother of Judi Dench * Judi Dench (born 1934), English actress * Michelle Dench, Australian sportswoman *Oliver Dench (born 1993), English actor and theater maker * Patricia Dench (born 1932), Australian sports shooter * Peter Dench (born 1972), English photojournalist * Rosemarie Dench (born Rosemarie Stewart, 1914–2001), English pair skater *Sacha Dench Sacha Dench is an Australian biologist, conservationist and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Dench
Charles Edward Dench (September 6, 1873 – June 28, 1958) was an English first-class cricketer and Test match umpire. Born in 1873 in East Stoke, Nottinghamshire, he played 91 matches for Nottinghamshire as a right-handed batsman and right arm medium bowler between 1897 and 1902. He scored 2660 runs with a best of 88 and took 78 wickets, including a haul of 7 for 28. He then turned to umpiring, standing in the 1909 Ashes Test at Lord's. He died in 1958 in Sherwood, Nottingham Sherwood () is a large district and ward of the city of Nottingham, England, north of the city centre. The population at the 2011 census was 15,414. It is bordered by Woodthorpe to the northeast, Mapperley to the east, Carrington to the so .... References External links Charles Denchat CricketArchive 1873 births English cricketers Nottinghamshire cricketers English Test cricket umpires 1958 deaths {{England-cricket-bio-1870s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judi Dench
Dame Judith Olivia Dench (born 9 December 1934) is an English actress. Regarded as one of Britain's best actresses, she is noted for her versatile work in various films and television programmes encompassing several genres, as well as for her numerous roles on the stage. Dench has garnered various accolades throughout a career spanning over six decades, including an Academy Award, a Tony Award, two Golden Globe Awards, four British Academy Television Awards, six British Academy Film Awards and seven Olivier Awards. Dench made her professional debut in 1957 with the Old Vic Company. Over the following few years, she performed in several of Shakespeare's plays, in such roles as Ophelia in ''Hamlet'', Juliet in '' Romeo and Juliet'' and Lady Macbeth in '' Macbeth''. Although most of Dench's work during this period was in theatre, she also branched into film work and won a BAFTA Award as Most Promising Newcomer. In 1968, she drew excellent reviews for her leading role of Sal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sacha Dench
Sacha Dench is an Australian biologist, conservationist and adventurer. In 2016, she set a Guinness World Record as the first woman to cross the English Channel by paramotor. She is the recipient of the Britannia Trophy and winner of the Green Swan Award. Career In 2016, Dench flew 7000 kilometres across 11 countries in a paramotor, for the purpose of tracking the migrating Bewick's swan from the Russian Arctic to the UK. During that time, she was working as a biologist for Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust. She is the co-founder and CEO of Conservation Without Borders and, in 2020, became a UN Ambassador for Migratory Species. In October 2018, she gave a TED talk entitled "The Human Swan" about finding your own passion. In February 2020, she gave a similar talk to the Scientific Exploration Society. Her career as a biologist focused mainly on marine turtles, and she won the Australian free diving championship while diving for her work. In June 2021, it was announced that Dench ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosemarie Stewart
Rosemarie Stewart (married name: Dench; 22 June 1914 – September 2001) was an English pair skater. She competed in the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in the pairs event with partner Ernest Yates. They placed 10th out of a field of 18 teams. She was born in Woodbridge, Suffolk. After the Olympics she married Robert Dench and, together, they toured with the Ice Capades The Ice Capades were traveling entertainment shows featuring theatrical ice skating performances. Shows often featured former Olympic and US National Champion figure skaters who had retired from formal competition. Started in 1940, the Ice Cap ... through the 1940s and the 1950s. Robert became an American citizen in 1944. She and her husband published a book to introduce people to pair skating in 1943. References 1914 births 2001 deaths British female pair skaters English emigrants to the United States Olympic figure skaters of Great Britain Figure skaters at the 1936 Winter O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Dench
Peter Dench (born 23 April 1972) is a British Photojournalism, photojournalist working primarily in advertising, editorial and portraiture. His work has been published in a number of books. Biography Dench was born and grew up in Weymouth, Dorset. He graduated from the University of Derby with a degree in Photographic Studies in 1995 and has been working as a photojournalist since 1998. He currently lives in Crouch End, London. Dench spent a decade documenting England, which he split into the following themes: ''drinkUK'', ''ethnicUK'', ''rainUK'', ''loveUK'', ''royalUK'', ''summerUK'', ''fashionUK'', and ''Carry on England''. He was a member of the photo agency Independent Photographer's Group (IPG) from 2000 until the company's closure in 2005. In January 2012 he joined Reportage by Getty Images as one of their Represented Photographers (later known as Getty Verbatim). Around 2007 Dench spent 15 months photographing ''Football's Hidden Story'' in 20 countries as a commission ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patricia Dench
Patricia Dench (born 8 March 1932) is an Australian sport shooter. She won the bronze medal in the 25 m pistol in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Dench is regarded as Australia's first Olympic medallist in shooting. Previously Donald Mackintosh was considered the first, for his gold and bronze medals in pigeon shooting at the 1900 Paris Olympics. However, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has since ruled that Mackintosh's events were non-Olympic. She competed at the 1981 ISSF 10 meter air pistol The 10 meter air pistol is an Olympic shooting event governed by the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF). It is similar to 10 meter air rifle in that it is shot with 4.5 mm (or .177) caliber air guns at a distance of 10 m ..., winning a silver medal. References 1932 births Living people Australian female sport shooters ISSF rifle shooters Shooters at the 1984 Summer Olympics Olympic shooters for Australia Olympic medalists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oliver Dench
Oliver Mayer (born 9 September 1993), known professionally as Oliver Dench, is an English actor and theatre maker. He is co-founding artistic director of the Revolve Theatre Company. On television, he is known for his roles in the CW series ''Pandora'' (2019–2020) and the BritBox period drama '' Hotel Portofino'' (2022–). Early life Dench was born in Reading. His maternal grandfather was Jeffery Dench, actor and brother of Judi Dench. He attended Gillotts School and the Henley College. Dench has said he was "obsessed with Shakespeare as a child thanks to my granddad". Career In 2014, Dench formed the Henley-on-Thames-based Revolve Theatre Company with Joe Morris and Tom Smith. Their debut show at the Henley Fringe Festival was Dench in a one-man version of ''Hamlet'' playing all fifteen roles. Dench made his television debut in 2016 as Will Palmerston in the Canadian YTV series ''Ride'' about an equestrian school in England. He made his London stage debut in ''School Play' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michelle Dench
Michelle Dench is an Australian sportswoman who played women's Australian rules football and basketball in the Women's National Basketball League. Dench played for the Melbourne University Mugars in the Victorian Women's Football League. She was a member of the Australia women's international rules football team that played against Ireland in the 2006 Ladies' International Rules Series. She has been an All-Australian and the AFL Women's National Championships in 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 & 2007. She is the daughter of North Melbourne Football Club great David Dench David Dench (born 23 August 1951) is a former Australian rules footballer in the (then) Victorian Football League. He played his whole career with North Melbourne Football Club during one of its most successful periods. VFL career Dench play .... Saltau, Chloe (31 May 200Women in a league of their own/ref> She retired at the end of the 2009 season. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Den ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeffery Dench
Jeffery Danny Dench (29 April 1928 – 27 March 2014) was an English actor, best known for his work with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He was the older brother of actress Judi Dench. Personal life Jeffery Dench was born in Tyldesley, Lancashire to Eleanora Olive (née Jones), a native of Dublin, and Reginald Arthur Dench, a physician who met his future wife while studying medicine at Trinity College, Dublin. Jeff lived in Tyldesley with his brother Peter; later the family moved to York where his sister, Judith, was born. Dench attended St Peter's, York, where he began acting with the role of Cleopatra in George Bernard Shaw's '' Caesar and Cleopatra''. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Dench
Ian Alec Harvey Dench (born 7 August 1964) is an English songwriter and musician. He was the guitarist and principal songwriter for EMF, who scored a major international hit reaching number 1 in the United States with " Unbelievable" in 1991. It was voted one of BBC Radio 2's 'Greatest Guitar Riffs'. Early life Ian Alec Harvey Dench was born in Cheltenham, on 7 August 1964, to Harold and Jackie Dench. He has two siblings, Alan and Paul. Dench’s father, Harold Dench, taught Ian classical guitar. Ian attended The Crypt School in Gloucester from 1975, where one year at Prizegiving, his chosen prize of "100 Greatest Rock Licks" was somewhat frowned upon, compared to the preferred academic tomes of others. Ian began his music career playing in a Gloucester City punk band called Curse. He then formed the Gloucester-based band Apple Mosaic who were signed to Virgin Records and released the single "Honey If". EMF In 1989, Dench met the other members of EMF, and within a few mon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Chalmers
Port Chalmers is a town serving as the main port of the city of Dunedin, New Zealand. Port Chalmers lies ten kilometres inside Otago Harbour, some 15 kilometres northeast of Dunedin's city centre. History Early Māori settlement The original Māori name for Port Chalmers was or , which may have indicated the hill where the , or altar, was sited. is a later name meaning ‘full tide’ and refers to an incident in which a group of warriors decided to spend the night in a cave that once existed at what was later known as Boiler Point and pulled their canoes well above the high tide mark. Overnight the tide rose and beached canoes were set adrift. As some of them swam out to reclaim the canoes those onshore cried out “Koputai!, Koputai!”Bowman, pp. 1, 4, 8–10, 19, 20, 28, 70–71, 98–109, 156–166, 168, 169, 173–175, 177. When a peace was made between Kāti Māmoe and Kāi Tahu, about 1780, Koputai was one of two southern terminuses of Kāi Tahu territory. The ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
