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Elwin may refer to: *Elwen Elwen (also known as Elvan, Elven, etc.) was the name of an early saint or saints venerated in Cornwall and Brittany. The hagiographical material asserts that he came to Cornwall from Ireland in the company of Breage and six others, but this is ..., Cornish saint * Elwin, Illinois, United States, an unincorporated community * Hastings Elwin (1776-1852), British-Australian politician * Whitwell Elwin (1816 -1900), British clergyman and editor * Maurice Elwin (1896–1975), British singer and songwriter, real name Norman Blair * Verrier Elwin, (1902–1964), British-Indian anthropologist and ethnologist * Ross Elwin (born 1946), retired Australian rules football player {{disambig, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elwen
Elwen (also known as Elvan, Elven, etc.) was the name of an early saint or saints venerated in Cornwall and Brittany. The hagiographical material asserts that he came to Cornwall from Ireland in the company of Breage and six others, but this is attested late. A chapel at Porthleven in Sithney parish, Cornwall, dedicated to Elwen, existed from the 13th century until 1549, and in Brittany several sites and placenames are associated with possibly related figures. History The name St Elvan is attached to a chapel at Porthleven in Sithney recorded as early as 1270.Orme, p. 112. This chapel was rebuilt c. 1510 but was destroyed in 1549. Elwen appears in John Leland's extracts from a lost late-medieval ''Life of Saint Breage'' included in his ''Itinerary''. Leland's extracts name Elwen as one of Saint Breage's seven Irish companions who join her on her mission to Cornwall, the others being Sithney, Germoe, Mavuanus (perhaps Mawnan), Crowan, Helena, and Tecla. The text also refers to a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elwin, Illinois
Elwin is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in South Wheatland Township, Macon County, Illinois, United States. It was first listed as a CDP in 2020, with a population of 119. The name "Elwin" is an amalgamation of the surnames of founders Elwood and Martin. Geography Elwin is located in central Macon County at (39.851636, -88.944228). Centrally located within South Wheatland Township, it was once known as South Wheatland. It is south of the center of Decatur, the Macon county seat. U.S. Route 51 bypasses Elwin on its east side, with its old alignment passing through the center of the community as U.S. Route 51 Business. The two routes join south of Elwin and lead south to Pana. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Elwin CDP has an area of , all land. The community is in the Spring Creek watershed, which flows north to the Sangamon River The Sangamon River is a principal tributary of the Illinois River, approximately long,U.S. Geological ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hastings Elwin
Hastings Elwin (1776 – 31 August 1852) was an English-born Australian politician. He was the son of Hastings Elwin and Elizabeth Diana Woolhead. A minor aristocrat, he was lord of the manor of Booton in Norfolk, and his friends included the Marquess of Lansdowne and the poet Thomas Moore. He was a founding member of the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution and a member of the Anacreontic Society. He was a barrister, and spent time in Antigua as advocate general. In 1803 he married Margaret Matilda Ottley; she died in 1826 and he remarried Mary Anne Cole in 1829. Having moved to New South Wales, he was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council The New South Wales Legislative Council, often referred to as the upper house, is one of the two chambers of the parliament of the Australian state of New South Wales. The other is the Legislative Assembly. Both sit at Parliament House in th ... from 1843 to 1844, during which time he was also Chairman o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitwell Elwin
Whitwell Elwin (26 February 1816 – 1 January 1900) was an English clergyman, critic and editor of the ''Quarterly Review''. Life He was the son of Marsham Elwin, a country gentleman of Thurning, Norfolk, and a descendant of John Rolfe and Pocahontas. Whitwell Elwin studied at Caius College, Cambridge, and took holy orders in 1840. He was Rector of Booton, Norfolk from 1849 until his death. There he rebuilt St Michael the Archangel's Church to his own design. Works Elwin was an important contributor to the ''Quarterly Review'', of which he was editor from 1853 until 1860. He undertook to complete John Wilson Croker's edition of Alexander Pope, and brought out five volumes, when he dropped it, leaving it to be finished by William John Courthope. As an editor he was extremely autocratic, and on all subjects had pronounced opinions, and often singular likes and dislikes. The ''Quarterly Review'' was published by John Murray, who on 1 April 1859 agreed to publish Charles Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Elwin
Norman MacPhail Blair (14 June 1896 – 5 October 1975), who most often used the pseudonym Maurice Elwin in his professional work, was a British dance band singer and songwriter who was popular between the First and Second World Wars. He used over 60 different pseudonyms, both as a singer and composer, including John Curtis, Maurice Kelvin, Donald O'Keefe, Guy Victor, and Max Wynn, as well as sometimes using the name Norman Blair. Life and career He was born in Uddingston, Lanarkshire, Scotland, the son of a stockbroker's cashier and a music teacher. Both his parents sang and played piano locally, and several of his brothers and sisters also became musically active. Norman Blair started performing as a child. He attended Glasgow Academy, before moving to London where he studied at the Royal Academy of Music under Sir Henry Wood. In the First World War, he enlisted with the Highland Light Infantry, but seems not to have seen combat, and was eventually discharged on healt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verrier Elwin
Harry Verrier Holman Elwin (29 August 1902 – 22 February 1964) was a British-born Indian anthropologist, ethnologist and tribal activist, who began his career in India as a Christian missionary. He first abandoned the clergy, to work with Mahatma Gandhi and the Indian National Congress, then converted to Hinduism in 1935 after staying in a Gandhian ashram, and split with the nationalists over what he felt was an overhasty process of transformation and assimilation for the tribals. Verrier Elwin is best known for his early work with the Baigas and Gonds of Orissa and Madhya Pradesh in central India, and he married a 13 year old member of one of the communities he studied. He later also worked on the tribals of several North East Indian states especially North-East Frontier Agency (NEFA) and settled in Shillong, the hill capital of Meghalaya. Linebaugh, p. 162 In time he became an authority on Indian tribal lifestyle and culture, particularly on the Gondi people. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
