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Ellerton Prize
Ellerton may refer to: Places *Ellerton, Barbados *Ellerton, East Riding of Yorkshire, England *Ellerton, a deserted medieval village in the parish of Ellerton Abbey, North Yorkshire, England *Ellerton-on-Swale, North Yorkshire, England *Ellerton, Shropshire, England People *Edward Ellerton (1770–1851), English cleric * John Ellerton (1826–1893), English hymnwriter *John Lodge Ellerton (1801–1873), English composer *Nerida Ellerton (born 1942), Australian mathematics educator *Walter Ellerton Admiral Walter Maurice Ellerton CB (5 August 1870 – 27 November 1948) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be commander-in-chief of the East Indies Station. Naval career Educated at Sherborne, Ellerton joined the Royal Navy in 1884. He ser ... (1870–1948), British naval officer See also * Ellerton Priory (other) {{disambiguation, geo, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellerton, Barbados
Ellerton is a populated place in the parish of Saint George, Barbados. See also * List of cities, towns and villages in Barbados This is a list of cities, towns and villages in Barbados. Barbados is a sovereign island country in the Lesser Antilles, in the Americas. It is in length and up to in width, covering an area of . It is situated in the western area of the Nort ... References Saint George, Barbados Populated places in Barbados {{Barbados-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellerton, East Riding Of Yorkshire
Ellerton is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately north-west of the market town of Howden and 8 miles south-west of the market town of Pocklington. It lies west of the B1228 road and east of the River Derwent. According to the 2011 UK census, the parish had a population of 388, an increase on the 2001 UK census figure of 355. and covers an area of . Civil parish The parish includes Aughton. In 1935 the civil parishes of Ellerton Priory and Aughton were abolished and merged into Ellerton. Although the civil parish is called "Ellerton" its parish council is called "Ellerton & Aughton Parish Council". History A priory of canons of the Gilbertine Order existed at Ellerton, which was known as Ellerton Priory. The priory was founded before 1212, and relinquished on 11 December 1536 under the Suppression of the Monasteries. The site of the priory is now a scheduled ancient monument. In 1823 Ellerton, was in the Wapent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellerton Abbey
Ellerton Abbey is a civil parish in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England. It is located on the River Swale in lower Swaledale, south-west of Richmond. The population of the parish was estimated at 20 in 2016. The parish consists of farmland, a few scattered houses and an area of moorland which is part of the army training area associated with Wathgill Camp. The parish includes the site of the deserted medieval village of Ellerton, not to be confused with the modern village of Ellerton-on-Swale 11 miles to the east, but there is no modern village in the civil parish. The parish includes Ellerton Abbey House and the adjacent ruins of Ellerton Priory. Etymology The place-name ''Ellerton'' derives from the Old English words ''elri'' "alder" and ''tun'' "farm or enclosure". The place was mentioned in the Domesday Book, as ''Elreton'', when it was held by Count Alan of Brittany. History Ellerton appears to have been a village in the Middle Ages. It was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellerton-on-Swale
Ellerton-on-Swale or Ellerton (historically known as Ellerton-upon-Swale) is a small village and civil parish about a mile east of Catterick in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England. In 2015, North Yorkshire County Council estimated the population of the parish at 110. At the 2011 census, the population of the parish was included with Bolton-on-Swale) and not counted separately. The village sits just south of the B6271 road between Richmond and Northallerton, and has a large lake used for diving between the settlement and the River Swale to the south. Another lake to the west, Bolton-on-Swale Lake, is a former sand and gravel quarry and is now a Yorkshire Wildlife Trust sponsored nature reserve. The village has an entry in the Domesday Book Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellerton, Shropshire
Ellerton is a small hamlet in Shropshire, England. It lies in a rather isolated rural area several miles north of the town of Newport, close to the village of Sambrook, and is part of the civil parish of Cheswardine. Its name may be derived from the Old English ''alor'' (alder), and ''tun'' (farm or enclosure); "the farm at the alder tree".Bowcock, E. W. ''Shropshire place names'', Wilding & Son, 1923, p.178 The hamlet is clustered around Ellerton Hall, an early 19th-century manor built on the site of an earlier house.Raven, M. ''A Guide to Shropshire'', 2005, p.78 Next to the road is a large millpond fed by the Goldstone Brook, with a derelict waterwheel. King Charles I was supposed to have drunk from a well here, later known as the King's Well.Bord, C. ''Sacred waters: holy wells and water lore in Britain and Ireland'', Paladin, 1986, p.118 The well is still located by the side of a lane to the east of Ellerton hamlet, near the Kingswell Cottages. See also *Listed buildings ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Ellerton
Edward Ellerton, DD (1770–1851) was an English cleric, academic and schoolmaster, known as a founder of scholarships. Life He was the son of Richard Ellerton of Downholme, Yorkshire and his wife Catherine Whitelock, born on 30 January 1771. He was educated at Richmond School, and matriculated at University College, Oxford, graduating BA in 1792, and MA in 1795. Ellerton was appointed master of Magdalen College School in 1799; was afterwards elected fellow of the college, and proceeded BD in 1805, and DD in 1815. He was appointed to the perpetual curacy of Horspath, Oxfordshire, in 1814, and to the perpetual curacy of Sevenhampton, Gloucestershire, in 1825. He resigned the latter charge early in 1851. For some time also he acted as curate to Martin Routh, the president of Magdalen, at Theale near Reading, a chapelry attached to the rectory of Tilehurst. A lecturer in divinity, and senior fellow of Magdalen College, Ellerton died at his curacy of Theale on 26 December 1851. L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ellerton
The Rev. John Ellerton (16 December 1826 – 15 June 1893) was a hymnodist and hymnologist. Life He was born in Clerkenwell, Middlesex, England, to George Ellerton, the head of an evangelical family. He was educated at King William's College on the Isle of Man, and Trinity College, Cambridge, (B.A. 1849; M.A. 1854), where he came under the influence of Frederick D. Maurice. He died in Torquay, Devon, England, aged 66. Service Taking orders in 1850, he was Curate of Easebourne, Sussex. In 1852, he was in Brighton, and Lecturer of St. Peter's, Brighton. In 1860, he became chaplain for Lord Crewe and vicar of Crewe Green in Cheshire, about thirty miles southeast of Liverpool. He became chairman of the education committee at the Mechanics Institute for the local Railway Company. Reorganizing the institute, he made it one of the most successful in England. He taught classes in English and Bible History. He also organized one of the first Choral Associations of the Midlands. In 1872 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Lodge Ellerton
John Lodge Ellerton (11 January 1801 – 3 January 1873) was an English composer of classical music. Life Ellerton was born in Cheshire with the name of John Lodge. According to the Dictionary of National Biography of 1889, he attended Rugby School and graduated with an MA from Brasenose College, Oxford University in 1828. Between 1829 and 1831 he studied under in Rome, where he wrote 7 operas in Italian. In 1837 he adopted the name of Ellerton and on 24 August that year married Henrietta Barbara Lumley, the sister of the 8th Earl of Scarbrough. His English opera "Domenica" was produced at Drury Lane in 1838, but this was unsuccessful; his oratorio ''Paradise Lost'' (op. 125; for soloists (SSAATTTBB), chorus (SATB) and orchestra.), published in 1857, had more critical success although apparently few performances. His Mass in D appeared in 1843: a reviewer wrote, "This is the composition of an amateur, and evidently one who has studied in the right school... it is by no m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nerida Ellerton
Nerida Fay Ellerton (née Gersch, born 1942) is an Australian mathematics educator and historian of mathematics. She is professor of mathematics education at Illinois State University. As well as studying the present state of mathematics education, she and her husband McKenzie A. (Ken) Clements have researched the history of mathematics education, in the process discovering school worksheets in the Harvard Library that are among the oldest known writings of Abraham Lincoln. Education and career Ellerton was born in 1942; her father was a schoolteacher in a small school in the Australian Outback. She completed a Ph.D. in physical and inorganic chemistry in 1966, at the University of Adelaide; her dissertation was ''The interaction of aminoacridines and aminobenzacridines with DNA''. By the 1980s she worked in mathematics education at Deakin University. She was director of the National Center for Mathematics Education Research from 1992 to 1993, as professor of mathematics educa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Ellerton
Admiral Walter Maurice Ellerton CB (5 August 1870 – 27 November 1948) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be commander-in-chief of the East Indies Station. Naval career Educated at Sherborne, Ellerton joined the Royal Navy in 1884. He served in World War I and, as captain of HMS ''Cornwall'', took part in the Battle of the Falkland Islands in December 1914. He was commended for his service in Gallipoli in 1915. Promoted to rear admiral in 1921, he was appointed director of training and staff duties at the Admiralty that year, senior naval officer in Gibraltar in 1923 and commander-in-chief of the East Indies Station in 1925. He was promoted to vice admiral on 4 October 1926, and retired with the rank of admiral Admiral is one of the highest ranks in some navies. In the Commonwealth nations and the United States, a "full" admiral is equivalent to a "full" general in the army or the air force, and is above vice admiral and below admiral of the fleet, ... in 1929. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
