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Dickins
Dickins is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Alan Dickins, Arundel Herald of Arms Extraordinary *Barry Dickins (born 1949), Australian author, artist and playwright *Bruce Dickins FBA (1889–1978), Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon, Cambridge University *Frederick Victor Dickins (1838–1915), British surgeon, barrister, orientalist and university administrator *George Dickins (1821–1903), English cricketer and soldier * John Dickins (1746–1798), early Methodist preacher in the United States *Matt Dickins (born 1970), English professional goalkeeper *Michael Dickins Ford (born 1928), art director in film and commercial television *Punch Dickins OC OBE DFC (1899–1995), pioneering Canadian aviator and bush pilot *Rob Dickins (born 1950), formerly chairman of Warner Music UK, founder of Instant Karma and Dharma Music *Zara Dickins DBE (1909–1989), Australian fashion designer, wife (later widow) of Prime Minister Harold Holt of Australia See al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Dickins
Alan Roger Dickins was Arundel Herald of Arms Extraordinary from 1998 to 2016. He was educated at Epsom College, Surrey and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a law degree in 1968. He qualified in 1972 as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales, but a keen interest in genealogy and heraldry eventually led to his engagement in 1986 as a research assistant at the College of Arms. From 1995 he worked closely with Garter Principal King of Arms, Peter Gwynn-Jones while at the same time pursuing a fully independent legal career. He has made a special study of the relationship between intellectual property law and the present-day law of arms. He was appointed Arundel Herald of Arms Extraordinary in 1998, succeeding Rodney Dennys (d.1993), and demitted that office in 2016. He was married from 1983 to 2015 and has two sons. His other interests include music and fell-walking Walking is one of the most popular outdoor recreational activities in the Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zara Dickins
Dame Zara Kate Bate (; previously Fell and Holt; 10 March 190914 June 1989) was an Australian fashion entrepreneur. She was best known as the wife of Harold Holt, who was prime minister of Australia from 1966 until his disappearance in 1967. Early life Bate was born Zara Kate Dickins on 10 March 1909 at her parents' home in Kew, Victoria. She was the second of four children born to Violet () and Sydney Dickins. She was of Irish and Scottish descent, her mother being born in Scotland. Bate's father was a successful businessman. The family owned a Grégoire motorcar and employed a cook, parlour maid and governess. She was educated at home until about the age of 10, which she "remembered with distaste" and "remained convinced that such an education was a poor preparation for school and life". In 1919, Bate began attending Ruyton Girls' School. She left school in 1925 at the age of 16, after completing her final year of secondary education at Toorak College. She was first introduc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English-language Surnames
English is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots language, Scots, and then closest related to the Low German, Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is Genetic relationship (linguistics), genealogically West Germanic language, West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by Langues d'oïl, dialects of France (about List of English words of French origin, 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dillon & Dickins
Dillon & Dickins is a dance music production group based in London, England, and one of the many aliases used by house music producers and DJs Marc Dillon and Patrick Dickins who also founded the dance record company and music publishing company Higher State. Other aliases include the commonly miss-spelt Dillon & Dickens, Dpd, 99 Allstars, Disco Biscuit, Sound Environment, Spacebase, Upstate and their more successful one, Illicit. Career As Dillon & Dickins, their ''Steers & Queers EP'' (catalogue numbers 99NTH15 & CDNTH15), released on Higher State's sublabel 99 North in May 1999, contained a track entitled "Queers R Doin It" which was used in the U.S. TV series '' Queer as Folk''. Having released a number of unofficial so-called mashup songs under the alias of Illicit, one of their first official releases under this alias was "Pulsation" featuring Shannon, released on 99 North in 2000. However, their most successful chart bound release was "Cheeky Armada", released in Sep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dickins Hill
Dickens Hill is a fictional prison in the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders''. The prison is part of a storyline that first aired between 1988 and 1989. The storyline centres on the popular character Den Watts and was filmed on location at Dartmoor Prison in Devon. The episodes were shot in a block of intensive filming, over five weeks, but they were worked into regular episodes of ''EastEnders'' later in the year, from September 1988 to February 1989. This was done in order to keep the character Den Watts on-screen after Den's actor, Leslie Grantham, had left the show. Although not part of the original storyline, the prison also briefly appears in 2017 when Max Branning (Jake Wood) visits his former cellmate, Luke Browning (Adam Astill). The prison also appears in a separate storyline in 2018 when Mick Carter (Danny Dyer) is on remand for the shooting of Stuart Highway (Ricky Champ). Storyline development Two of the most successful and popular characters in the history of ''EastEnder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dickins & Jones
Dickins & Jones was a high-quality department store in London, England, which traded between 1835 and 2007, although tracing its origins to 1790. From 1835, the main store was in London's Regent Street. In its final years the store had branches at Epsom, Richmond, and Milton Keynes. The name is now a fashion brand of House of Fraser. History In 1790, Dickins and Smith opened a shop at 54, Oxford Street, at the sign of the Golden Lion. In 1830, the shop was renamed "Dickins, Sons and Stevens", and in 1835 it moved its premises to Numbers 232 and 234 in the newly built Regent Street. In the 1890s the business changed its name to "Dickins & Jones", when Sir John Prichard-Jones became a partner. Christopher Hibbert, Ben Weinreb, & John Keay, ''The London Encyclopedia'' (2010), p. 236 In 1914, the business was bought by Harrods, as its first acquisition beyond its own original store. In 1919, the Dickins & Jones store acquired a new site at 224-244 Regent Street, a short distance fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read today. Born in Portsmouth, Dickens left school at the age of 12 to work in a boot-blacking factory when his father was incarcerated in a debtors' prison. After three years he returned to school, before he began his literary career as a journalist. Dickens edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, five novellas, hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles, lectured and performed readings extensively, was an indefatigable letter writer, and campaigned vigorously for children's rights, for education, and for other social ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dickens (other)
Charles Dickens (1812–1870) was an English writer and social critic. Dickens may also refer to: People *Dickens (surname) *Dickens family, descendants of John Dickens, including his son Charles Dickens Places * Dickens (crater), a crater on Mercury ;Canada *Dickens, Vancouver, British Columbia, a small neighbourhood in East Vancouver ;United Kingdom *Dickens Heath, village in the borough of Solihull, West Midlands ;United States *Dickens, Iowa (population 202 at the 2000 census), a city in Clay County *Dickens, Maryland, an unincorporated community in Allegany County *Dickens, Missouri, an unincorporated community *Dickens, Nebraska, an unincorporated community in Lincoln County *Dickens, Texas (population 332 at the 2000 census), a city in Dickens County *Dickens County, Texas (population 2,762 at the 2000 census) Arts, entertainment, and media *''Dickens (TV miniseries)'', 2002 PBS miniseries *''Dickens in America'', 2005 BBC television documentary * Dickensian (TV series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob Dickins
Rob Dickins (born July 1950, East Ham, London) is a British music industry executive, who currently holds a number of trustee and consultant positions in music and the arts in the United Kingdom. Dickins began his music industry career at Warner Music UK. Early life and education Dickins grew up in East Ham and in the surrounding suburbs. His father Percy was a saxophonist and pianist and one of the founders of the ''NME'', who started the first British Record Charts at the paper in November 1952. He attended Ilford County High School for Boys, before going on to Loughborough University, graduating with an undergraduate degree in Politics, Sociology, and Russian. While at university, Dickins was chair of the Folk Club, the Film Society, and the Entertainments Committee. He also served as Social Secretary of the Students Union. Career Warner After graduating in 1971, Dickins joined Warner Bros Music Publishing and was appointed Managing Director in 1974, and International Vice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry Dickins
Barry Dickins (born 6 November 1949) is a prolific Australian playwright, author, artist, actor, educator and journalist, probably best known for his historical dramas and his reminisces about growing up and living in working class Melbourne. His most well-known work is the award-winning stage play ''Remember Ronald Ryan'', a dramatization of the life and subsequent death of Ronald Ryan, the last man executed in Australia. He has also written dramas and comedies about other controversial figures such as poet Sylvia Plath, opera singer Joan Sutherland, criminal Squizzy Taylor, actor Frank Thring, playwright Oscar Wilde and artist Brett Whiteley. Dickins primarily writes for Australia's independent theatre scene, frequently collaborating with La Mama Theatre, Malthouse Theatre, The Pram Factory, Griffin Theatre Company, fortyfivedownstairs and St Martin Youth Theatre. Biography Dickins was born in the Melbourne suburb of Reservoir. Leaving school early he worked for five years ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Punch Dickins
Clennell Haggerston "Punch" Dickins (12 January 1899 – 2 August 1995) was a pioneering Canadian aviator and bush pilot."Dickins, Clennell Haggerston." ''Canadian Encyclopedia'' (Historica Foundation, Toronto), 2011. Retrieved: 31 January 2011. Northern Indigenous Canadians called him "Snow Eagle", northern Europeans called him "White Eagle", while the press dubbed him the "Flying Knight of the Northland". Early years Clennell Haggerston Dickins was born in and moved with his family to |
Michael Dickins Ford
Michael Dickins Ford (11 June 1928 – 31 May 2018) was an English film art director and set decorator. Life and career Born in southern England, Ford trained as an illustrator at Goldsmiths College, London. He worked as a scenic artist before "drifting into" the film industry via commercial television. His first film credit was ''Man in the Moon'' (1960); among his first major projects were ''The Anniversary'' (1968), with Bette Davis, and ''Kelly's Heroes'' (1970). In 1982, Ford was a co-recipient of the Academy Award for Best Art Direction for his contributions as set decorator to ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' (1981). This was preceded by a nomination for ''The Empire Strikes Back'' (1980) and followed by nominations for ''Return of the Jedi'' (1983) and ''Empire of the Sun'' (1987). He won his second Academy Award in 1998 for his work on ''Titanic'' (1997). Ford also served in a design capacity on the ''James Bond'' films ''The Living Daylights'' (1987), ''Licence to Kill'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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