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Dodwell
Dodwell is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Charles Reginald Dodwell (1922–1994), English art historian * Christina Dodwell (born 1951), explorer and travel writer * Edward Dodwell (1767–1832), Irish writer on archaeology * Grant Dodwell (born 1952), Australian producer, actor, writer and director * H. H. Dodwell (1879–1946), English academic in India * Henry Dodwell (1641–1711), Irish scholar, theologian and writer * Henry Dodwell (priest) 17th century Anglican priest in Ireland * Henry Dodwell (religious controversialist) (1706–1784), satirist, son of Henry * Sam Dodwell (1909–1990), English painter * William Dodwell (1709–1785), theological writer, son of Henry See also * Dodwell, hamlet in Luddington, Warwickshire, England * Dodwell & Co., founded as ''Dodwell Carlill & Co'' in 1891. Changed name to ''Dodwell & Co'' in 1899. Acquired by Inchcape plc Inchcape plc is a British multinational automotive distribution, retail and services ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Reginald Dodwell
Charles Reginald Dodwell (1922–1994) was a British art historian who specialized in the period covering the years 800–1200. Early life Dodwell was born in Cheltenham on 3 February 1922.The British Academ"1999 Lectures and Memorials"pp. 389-394 He was admitted to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he specialized in history. His academic studies were interrupted by the outbreak of World War II. He served in the Royal Navy from 1941 to 1945, although he suffered from sea-sickness. Initially serving as a mine-sweeper in the British home waters, he later took part in both the Allied invasion of Sicily and the Normandy landings. Academic career After the end of the war, Dodwell returned to Cambridge to complete his studies under Philip Grierson. He specialized in medieval art history, particularly in illuminated manuscripts. In 1949, he was made a senior research fellow of the Warburg Institute, which had been relocated a few years earlier from Hamburg to London. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christina Dodwell
Christina Dodwell FRGS (born 1 February 1951) is a British explorer, travel writer, and lecturer. She is Chairman of the Dodwell Trust and was awarded the Mungo Park Medal in 1989.'DODWELL, Christina', in ''Who's Who 2009'', (London: A. & C. Black, 2008) Dodwell has travelled in West Africa, the former Rhodesia, Papua New Guinea, Turkey, China, Afghanistan, Madagascar, Siberia, and Kurdistan, by horse, canoe, elephant, camel and microlight, and has published books and articles about many of her travels. Life Dodwell was born in 1951 in Nigeria to British parents, Christopher Bradford Dodwell DFC, late the Glider Pilot Regiment, and Evelyn Dodwell (née Beddow). Her parents had married in England on 11 May 1946, and her father became the District Officer in Oyo, Nigeria, where he was also a writer on Nigerian topics. Her mother and grandmother had both grown up in China, and Dodwell said in 1996 "I don't know where I belong. My family thought it was totally normal that I had a l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Dodwell
Edward Dodwell (30 November 176713 May 1832) was an Irish painter, traveller and a writer on archaeology. Biography Dodwell was born in Ireland and belonged to the same family as Henry Dodwell, the theologian. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. Dodwell travelled from 1801 to 1806 in Greece, which was then a part of the Ottoman Empire, and spent the rest of his life for the most part in Italy, at Naples and Rome. He died in Rome from the effects of an illness contracted in 1830 during a visit of exploration to the Sabine Mountains. Dodwell's widow, a daughter of Count Giraud and thirty years his junior, subsequently became famous as the "beautiful" countess of Spaur, and played a considerable role in the political life of the papal city. Dodwell published ''A Classical and Topographical Tour through Greece'' (1819), of which a German German(s) may refer to: * Germany (of or related to) ** Germania (historical use) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grant Dodwell
Grant Radnor Dodwell (born 2 July 1952, in Sydney) is an Australian actor, producer, writer, director, voice artist, and drama teacher. He is a triple recipient of the Silver Logie for Most Popular Actor. He is best known for his roles in television soap operas including as an original cast member in ''A Country Practice'', ''Willing and Abel'' and ''Home and Away''. Career Dodwell has more than 40 years' experience in the entertainment industry in theatre, television and film appearing in many of Australia's best known stage shows and television series. He is best known for his Logie award-winning television acting role playing Dr. Simon Bowen in ''A Country Practice''. He would later play Charles Willing in ''Willing and Abel'' (1987) in which he co-starred with his former ACP co-star Shane Withington Shane Withington (born 22 August 1958) is an Australian actor, currently best known for playing surf lifeguard John Palmer in ''Home and Away'' on the Seven Network; his fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Dodwell
Henry Dodwell (October 16417 June 1711) was an Anglo-Irish scholar, theologian and controversial writer. Life Dodwell was born in Dublin in 1641. His father, William Dodwell, who lost his property in Connacht during the Irish rebellion, was married to Elizabeth Slingsby, daughter of Sir Francis Slingsby and settled at York in 1648. Henry received his preliminary education at St Peter's School, York. In 1654 he was sent by his uncle to Trinity College, Dublin, where he became a scholar and fellow, receiving the Bachelor of Arts in 1662 and Master of Arts in 1663. Having conscientious objections to taking religious orders, he relinquished his fellowship in 1666, but in 1688 was elected Camden professor of history at Oxford. In 1691 he was deprived of his professorship for refusing to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary., endnotes: *''The Works of H. D. ... abridg'd'' with an account of his life, by F Brokesby (2nd ed., 1723) * Thomas Hearne, ''Diaries'' Dodwell ret ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Dodwell (priest)
Henry Dodwell was an Anglican priest in Ireland during the 17th century. Dodwell was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. Dodwell was ordained deacon at Tuam in September 1634 and priest at Elphin in June 1636. He was the incumbent at Rathfarnham then Precentor of Elphin Cathedral. He was Dean of Killala The Dean of Killala is based at the Cathedral Church of St Patrick, Killala in the Diocese of Killala within the united bishopric of Tuam, Killala and Achonry of the Church of Ireland. The Cathedral Church of St Crumnathy, Achonry, was closed i ... from 1674 until his death in 1701."Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 4" Cotton,H. pp79/80: Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878 Notes Alumni of Trinity College Dublin 17th-century Irish Anglican priests 18th-century Irish Anglican priests Deans of Killala 1701 deaths {{Ireland-Anglican-clergy-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Dodwell (religious Controversialist)
Henry Dodwell (25 November 1706 – 1784) was a British religious controversialist and lawyer. Dodwell was the son of the theologian Henry Dodwell. He was born in Shottesbrooke, Berkshire, and educated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford. He was awarded a BA in 1726 and then studied Law, becoming a barrister in 1738.James A. Herrick, ‘Dodwell, Henry (1706–1784)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 He is mainly known as the author of ''Christianity Not Founded on Argument'' (1741), which, while it ostensibly argued for a fideist position - it suggested that reason could not be the foundation of Christian faith - was actually a satire on William Law's ''The Case of Reason'' (1731). Many pious Christians took the work at face value, and it was recommended to John Wesley, who however noted that the book was in fact intended to show that Christianity was not reasonable: "the great design uniformly pursued throughout the work was to render the whole of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Dodwell
Samuel William Dodwell RI (1909 in Wandsworth, London – 1990 in Truro) was an English painter. Life and work Sam Dodwell discovered painting at an early age and at the age of 18, while visiting Cornwall on holiday, decided that the county would be his future home. He was initially prevented from this ambition by family pressure and by the Depression, and took up a career in banking. He rose to the top of a US bank in London and also served through World War II as an RAF Squadron Leader. In his late fifties, he suffered three major heart attacks. After then experimental open-heart surgery, predicted to give him four more years of life, he lived 23 years, during which he achieved his ambition. moving to Cornwall to take up a career as prolific painter. He painted daily, his works inspired by regional subjects, in various media: oils, charcoal, gouache or watercolour. His style was inspired by Impressionism, especially Cézanne, and later Cubism. During his career he exhi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Dodwell
William Dodwell (1709–1785) was an English cleric known as a theological writer, archdeacon of Berkshire from 1763. Life He was born at Shottesbrooke, Berkshire, on 17 June 1709, was the second son and fifth child of Henry Dodwell the elder, the nonjuror. He was educated at Trinity College, Oxford, where he took his degree of M.A. in 1732. Dodwell became rector of Shottesbrooke, and vicar of White Waltham and Bucklesbury. Thomas Sherlock as bishop of Salisbury gave him a prebendal stall in Salisbury Cathedral in 1748; and he later obtained a residentiary canonry there. Subsequently, another bishop of Salisbury, John Thomas, made him archdeacon of Berkshire, in 1763. On 23 February 1750 the university of Oxford conferred on Dodwell the degree of D.D. by diploma, in recognition of his services to religion by his replies to Conyers Middleton (see Middletonian Controversy). Dodwell died on 23 October 1785. Works Dodwell, like his father, was a keen controversialist: his oppone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luddington, Warwickshire
Luddington is a small village and civil parish in the English county of Warwickshire. The population in 2001 was 457, increasing to 475 at the 2011 Census. It is located about 5 kilometres (3 miles) outside the town of Stratford-upon-Avon on the banks of the river Avon and has views south over the Cotswolds. Facilities and communications include a phone box, a 19th-century church, a post box, a marina with a 17th-century lock, a village green and a recently refurbished village hall originally built in 1953. The parish encompasses Dodwell Caravan Park to the north of the village. The village is reputed to be the meeting place of Anne Hathaway and William Shakespeare, as Anne was from the parish, and local lore states that they probably conducted their courtship in the area. History The name Luddington is of Old English origin meaning Luda's farmstead. Dodwell is also of Old English origin and means Dodda's well or spring. The village was originally accessed via a road run ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dodwell & Co
Dodwell & Co. () or Dodwell's, was one of the leading British merchant firms, or hongs, active in China and Japan during the 19th and 20th century. It was a direct rival to Jardine, Matheson & Co. History W.R. Adamson and Company – The forerunner of Dodwell & Co. The forerunner of Dodwell & Co., ''W.R. Adamson and Company'', was founded as a result of the efforts of a group of Cheshire weavers who needed to increase supplies of raw silk for their mills. On their behalf, William R. Adamson arrived in Shanghai in 1852. In 1858 he set up his own firm, W.R. Adamson and Company, in London, with its head office in Shanghai and branches in Hong Kong, Foochow and Hankow. It was the first of the British merchant firms to venture into Japan, opening a branch in Yokohama in the early 1860s. W.R. Adamson and Company built up an export business in tea and silk, and also a general import business, and began to acquire shipping agencies. The name changed in 1867 to ''Adamson, Bell and Compa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inchcape Plc
Inchcape plc is a British multinational automotive distribution, retail and services company headquartered in London. An outgrowth of Calcutta-based Mackinnon Mackenzie Company, Inchcape has operations in 32 countries across Asia, Australia, Europe, Africa and South America. Inchcape is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. History 1847–1950 In 1847, William Mackinnon and Robert Mackenzie formed the Mackinnon Mackenzie Company (MMC), a general merchanting partnership based in Calcutta. In 1856 Mackinnon formed the ''Calcutta and Burma Steam Navigation Company'' to carry post to the region: the Company appointed MMC as their agents, secured contracts to transport British troops from Ceylon to India during the Indian Mutiny of 1857 and in 1862 floated on the London Stock Exchange under the name ''British India Steam Navigation Company''. In 1874, James Lyle MacKay joined Mackinnon and Mackenzie in Calcutta and by 1914 was the so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
