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Dring Chachhar , a townland in the parish of Kildallan, County Cavan, Ireland
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Dring may refer to: *Clive Dring (born 1934), English cricketer *Edgar Dring (1896–1955), Australian politician *Sir John Dring (1902–1991), British colonial administrator, Prime Minister Bahawalpur *Lawrie Dring (1931–2012), British scouter * Lilian Dring (1908–1998), British artist *Madeleine Dring (1923–1977), English composer and actress *Rawlins Dring (fl.1688), English physician *Ray Dring (1924–2003), English professional footballer * Simon Dring (1945–2021), English journalist *Thomas Dring (died 1668), English publisher and bookseller *William Dring (1904–1990), English portrait painter Other uses *Dring, County Cavan Dring () is a small townland in the civil parish of Kildallan, barony of Tullyhunco, County Cavan, Ireland. Geography Dring is bounded on the west by Cornacrum townland, on the east by Clonkeen and Kildallan townlands, on the south by Drummi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clive Dring
Clive Frederick Dring (born 30 June 1934) is a former English cricketer who played one first-class cricket match for Kent County Cricket Club. He was a right-handed batsman. Dring was born in Shooter's Hill in metropolitan Kent in 1934.Clive Dring CricInfo. Retrieved 2017-05-30. He was first spotted as a potential cricketer as a schoolboy and was selected for the Evening News Colts programme.Talking Sport: England selection at sixes and sevens '' |
Edgar Dring
Edgar Percy Dring (18 March 1896 – 17 December 1955) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1941 until his death in 1955. He was a member of the Labor Party (ALP). Dring was born in Gol Gol, New South Wales. He was the son of a farmer and was educated at Gol Gol Public School and Hereford House teacher training school in Sydney. He taught in several high schools in Sydney and rural New South Wales and was elected as a councillor on Parkes Shire Council from 1947 to 1953. After losing at the 1938 election, Dring was elected to the New South Wales Parliament at the subsequent election as the Labor Party member for Ashburnham. He defeated the incumbent Country Party member Hilton Elliott. He retained the seat at the next 2 elections but the electorate was abolished by a re-distribution prior to the 1950 election. He stood for the urban seat of Auburn and defeated the Lang Labor incumbent Chris Lang Chris Lang ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Dring
Lieutenant Colonel Sir Arthur John Dring (4 November 1902 – 16 June 1991) was the second Prime Minister of the princely state of Bahawalpur (now in modern Pakistan). He was also the senior member of the Indian Political Service in the last decades of the British Raj, Assistant Private Secretary to the Governor-General of India and an advisor to governments on plebscites for two former British colonies in Africa. Dring Stadium in the city of Bahawalpur, the site of the second test cricket match of the India-Pakistan test series in 1955, is named after him. He was called John throughout his life.Allen, Charles (1975) ''Plain Tales from the Raj: Images of British India in the Twentieth Century'' Early life Dring was born on 4 November 1902 in Calcutta, India, the second child and only son of Sir William Arthur Dring and his wife Lady Jane Reid Greenshields Dring (née Ross, formerly Alston). The Dring family had been resident in India since 1830. Dring spent his earliest yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrie Dring
Lawrence 'Lawrie' Dring (4 July 1931 – 6 September 2012) was a British Scouter who was one of the founding members of the Baden-Powell Scouts' Association (BPSA) and of the World Federation of Independent Scouts (WFIS). He was President of the BPSA at the time of his death. Dring was born on Dundee railway station, one of twin boys. At the time of his birth his mother was attempting to return to Leeds to ensure that the boys were born Yorkshiremen. Although born in Scotland, with a Scottish father and proud to call himself a Scot, his birth was registered in Leeds. His brother was killed as an adult in a car accident. After leaving school, Dring worked for Fisons Chemicals, until joining Allied Colloids in 1973. He also ran his own company, Dring Associates, which dealt with the disposal of hazardous waste. In 1947, Dring was a soldier in the British Army stationed in Wuppertal, Germany when a colleague asked him to become a Cub Scout leader. After returning from hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lilian Dring
Lilian Margery Dring ( Welch; 1908–1998) was a British artist known for her paintings, poster designs and textile designs. needlework and embroidery work. Biography Dring was born in Surbiton in Surrey and attended the Kingston School of Art from 1922 to 1926 before studying for three years at the Royal College of Art in London. After she graduated Dring lived in Teddington and undertook freelance illustration work and also created designs for needlework and embroidery pieces. At the Royal College, Dring was among the first students to take the newly created course in poster design and this led to her submitting a number of poster designs to London Transport during the 1930s. One of these, ''The Modern God of Transport'', was a large design over three poster sheets depicting the god Mercury running the London Underground network. In 1940 Dring created a series of billboard posters for the Youth Hostels Association after which she appears to have concentrated on textile d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madeleine Dring
Madeleine Winefride Isabelle Dring (7 September 1923 – 26 March 1977) was an English composer, pianist, singer and actress. Life Madeleine Dring spent the first four years of her life at Raleigh Road, Harringay, before the family moved to Streatham. She showed talent at an early age and was accepted into the junior department of the Royal College of Music where she began on her tenth birthday. She was offered scholarships for violin and piano and chose violin. She studied piano as a secondary instrument, with RCM students guiding her studies for the first several years. As part of their training, all of the students performed in the children's theatre under the guidance of Angela Bull. Dring formally began composition studies at the junior department with Stanley Drummond Wolff in 1937, in 1938 with Leslie Fly, and the next two years worked with Sir Percy Buck. Near the end of her studies she was assigned Lilian Gaskell for piano studies. She continued at the Royal College f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rawlins Dring
Rawlins Dring ( fl. 1688), was an English physician. Dring, son of Samuel Dring, born at Bruton, Somersetshire, was educated at Wadham College, Oxford, of which he became first scholar and a fellow in 1682. He proceeded B.A. 27 June 1679, M.A. 24 May 1682. Then entering on the physic line, he practised at Sherborne Sherborne is a market town and civil parish in north west Dorset, in South West England. It is sited on the River Yeo, on the edge of the Blackmore Vale, east of Yeovil. The parish includes the hamlets of Nether Coombe and Lower Clatcombe. ..., Dorset. He was the author of ''Dissertatio Epistolica ad amplissimum virum & clarissimum pyrophilum J. N. Armigerum conscripta; in qua Crystallizationem Salium in unicam et propriam, uti dicunt, figuram, esse admodum incertam, aut accidentalem ex Observationibus etiam suis, contra Medicos & Chymicos hodiernos evincitur'', 16mo, Amsterdam, 1688. According to Wood, "the reason why 'tis said in the title that it was print ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Dring
Raymond "Ray" Dring (13 February 1924 - October 2003) is a former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Huddersfield Town. He was born in Lincoln Lincoln most commonly refers to: * Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), the sixteenth president of the United States * Lincoln, England, cathedral city and county town of Lincolnshire, England * Lincoln, Nebraska, the capital of Nebraska, U.S. * Lincol .... References * Alan Hodgson - Huddersfield Town F.C. Matchday Programme - 2007-08 seasonEngland and Wales, Death Registration Index 1837-2007 1924 births 2003 deaths Sportspeople from Lincoln, England English footballers Association football goalkeepers English Football League players Huddersfield Town A.F.C. players Colchester United F.C. players Place of birth missing {{England-footy-goalkeeper-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Dring
Simon John Dring (11 January 1945 – 16 July 2021) was a British foreign correspondent, television producer, and presenter. He worked for Reuters, ''The Daily Telegraph'' of London, and BBC Television, Radio News, and Current Affairs, covering, over 30 years, major stories and events, including 22 wars and revolutions, around the world. He had a wide range of experience in many areas of television broadcasting development and management, designing and producing global television events. Early life and education Dring grew up in Fakenham, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom. He was expelled from boarding school in Woodbridge for midnight swimming in the River Deben. He then studied at King's Lynn Technical College. In 1962, at the age of 17, he left home and hitch-hiked overland across Europe and the Middle East, out to India and South-East Asia. Career Dring got his first media job in early 1963, at the age of 18, working as a proofreader and feature writer for the ''Bangkok World ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Dring
Thomas Dring (died 1668) was a London publisher and bookseller of the middle seventeenth century. He was in business from 1649 on; his shop (as his title pages indicate) was located "at the sign of the George in Fleet Street, near St. Dunstan's Church." Drama Much like his contemporary William Cooke, Thomas Dring specialized in the publication of law books, but also issued works in a range of subjects including English Renaissance drama. In the latter subject, his most significant single project was the ''Five New Plays'' of 1653, an important collection of the dramas of Richard Brome that Dring published in partnership with Humphrey Moseley and Richard Marriot. Dring also issued first or later editions of other plays of the period: * Walter Montague's masque ''The Shepherd's Paradise'', 1659 * Sir Robert Stapylton's '' The Slighted Maid'', 1663 * James Shirley's ''Love Tricks'', 1667 (the 3rd edition) * Thomas Middleton and William Rowley's '' The Changeling'', 1668 (2nd e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Dring
Dennis William Dring (26 January 1904 – 29 September 1990) was a British portraitist. Early life Dring was born in Streatham, London and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art between 1922 and 1925, where he won several prizes and scholarships. He taught drawing and painting at the Southampton School of Art until 1942. In the late 1920s Dring was commissioned by the architects Edwin Lutyens and Albert Edward Richardson to paint a number of murals. World War Two At the start of the Second World War Dring completed several portrait commissions for the War Artists' Advisory Committee, WAAC. In early 1942 he resigned from Southampton School of Art to work on a full-time contract for the Committee, specialising in Admiralty portraits. He travelled extensively within Britain at this time, painting subjects in Portsmouth, Scotland and the Western Approaches. In the late summer of 1943 he was given a second full-time contract which included more general subjects. His final ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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