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Elkington (surname)
Elkington is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Audrey Elkington (born 1957), English priest, Archdeacon of Bodmin * George Elkington (1801–1865), English businessman and electroplating pioneer * Henry Elkington (1890–1963), Australian rules footballer * Jodi Elkington (born 1993), Australian sprinter *John Elkington (business author) (born 1949), English businessman and author * John Elkington (British Army officer) (1830–1889), British Army general, Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey * John Simeon Colebrook Elkington (1871–1955), Australian public health advocate * Joseph Elkington (1740–1806), English agriculturalist * Lilian Elkington (1900–1969), English pianist and composer *Steve Elkington Stephen John Elkington (born 8 December 1962) is an Australian professional golfer on the PGA Tour Champions. Formerly on the PGA Tour, he spent more than fifty weeks in the top-10 of the Official World Golf Ranking from 1995 to 1998. Elkington ... (born 1962 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Audrey Elkington
Audrey Anne Elkington (born 1 November 1957) is a retired British people, British Anglican priest. She served as the Archdeacon of Bodmin in the Diocese of Truro. Early life and education Elkington was born in or near Newcastle-upon-Tyne on 1 November 1957 to Henry and Alexandra King. She studied Biochemistry at St Catherine's College, Oxford, St Catherine's College, University of Oxford, graduating Bachelor of Arts (BA) in 1980; she then undertook post-graduate research at the University of East Anglia where she completed her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 1983 — entitled ''"Streptomyces gene fusions involving the Escherichia coli B-glactosidase gene"''. She later also graduated Master of Arts (MA) from Durham University in 1999. Career Elkington felt the call to ministry during her postgraduate studies, but the Church of England did not at that time Ordination of women in the Anglican Communion, ordain women. Therefore, she began ministerial training in 1985 at St John' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Elkington
George Richards Elkington (17 October 1801 – 22 September 1865) was a manufacturer from Birmingham, England. He patented the first commercial electroplating process. Biography Elkington was born in Birmingham, the son of a spectacle manufacturer. Apprenticed to his uncles' silver plating business in 1815, he became, on their death, sole proprietor of the business, but subsequently took his cousin, Henry Elkington, into partnership. The science of electrometallurgy was then in its infancy, but the Elkingtons were quick to recognize its possibilities. They had already taken out certain patents for the application of electricity to metals when, in 1840, John Wright, a Birmingham surgeon, discovered the valuable properties of a solution of cyanide of silver in potassium cyanide for electroplating purposes. The Elkingtons purchased and patented Wright's process (British Patent 8447 : Improvements in Coating, Covering, or Plating certain Metals), subsequently acquiring the right ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Elkington
Henry Smith Elkington (22 February 1890 – 5 May 1963) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). It ... (VFL). Notes External links * * 1890 births 1963 deaths Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Essendon Football Club players {{AFL-bio-1890-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jodi Elkington
Jodi Elkington-Jones (born 17 May 1993) is Australian athlete who has cerebral palsy. She represented Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics and has also competed in two Commonwealth Games, winning gold in the 2014 Games in the F37/38 long jump. She represented Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics in athletics. Personal Elkington was born on 17 May 1993 in Wodonga, Victoria. At the age of eighteen months, she was diagnosed with cerebral palsy and this effects her mobility on the right side of her body. Her cousin is runner Jarrem Pearce. Elkington went to school at Wodonga South Primary School. Outside of athletics Elinkton enjoys netball, umpiring games. She married Warrick Jones in May 2015. Athletics Elkington is a T37 classified athlete competing in 100 m, 200 m and long jump events. She is a member of the Wodonga Athletics Club. She first became involved in Paralympic sport in year six when her school teacher Leon Price convinced her to try swimming. She repr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Elkington (business Author)
John Elkington (born 23 June 1949) is an author, advisor and serial entrepreneur. He is an authority on corporate responsibility and sustainable development. He has written and co-authored 20 books, including the ''Green Consumer Guide'', ''Cannibals with Forks: The Triple Bottom Line of 21st Century Business'', ''The Power of Unreasonable People: How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets That Change the World'', and ''The Breakthrough Challenge: 10 Ways to Connect Tomorrow's Profits with Tomorrow's Bottom Line.'' He is a founding partner and chairman & chief pollinator at Volans; co-founder and honorary chairman of SustainAbility; honorary chairman of Environmental Data Services (ENDS, 1978); senior advisor to the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre; member of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Council of Ambassadors; visiting professor at Cranfield University School of Management, Imperial College and University College London (UCL). He is a member of over 20 boards and advi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Elkington (British Army Officer)
Lieutenant General John Henry Ford Elkington (10 April 1830 – 21 February 1889) was a British Army officer who became Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey. Military career Elkington became a lieutenant with the 6th Regiment of Foot in 1849. He served with his Regiment during the 7th and 8th Xhosa Wars. He was appointed Assistant Quartermaster-General to the Ottoman Contingent during the Crimean War and then became Aide-de-Camp to Sir John Michel during the Indian Mutiny. He continued to serve as Aide-de-Camp to Michel during the Second Opium War. In 1880 he became Deputy Adjutant-General for the Auxiliary Forces at Army Headquarters. He was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey in 1885 and died in office in 1889. He was also Honorary Colonel of the Fortress and Railway Forces. His son, John Ford Elkington, was also an officer in the Royal Warwickshire regiment, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel and command of a battalion. He was cashiered in 1914 during the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Simeon Colebrook Elkington
John Simeon Colebrook Elkington (1871–1955) was a leading advocate of public health in Australia. He pioneered programs for checking the health of schoolchildren and the federal quarantine service. He also researched tropical medicine, an important issue in northern Australia. Early life John Simeon Colebrook Elkington was born on 29 September 1871 at Castlemaine, Victoria, son of John Simeon Elkington and his wife Helen Mary (née Guilfoyle). From 1890 he studied medicine at the University of Melbourne but failed in his examinations. He later qualified as a licentiate at Edinburgh and Glasgow in 1896. Career In 1903, Dr Elkington was asked to come to Launceston, Tasmania to advise on how to deal with an outbreak of smallpox and how to prevent it spreading to other areas. Elkington recommended mass vaccination. In 1904, Dr Elkington made a study of school hygiene factors for the Tasmanian Government, resulting in new design rules for ventilation, lighting and "sanitary accom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Elkington
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Lilian Elkington
Iris Lilian Mary Elkington (15 September 1900 – 13 August 1969) was an English pianist and composer. Lilian Elkington was born in Aston, Birmingham, the daughter of W. H. Elkington. She showed early promise as a pianist, making her first public performance at the age of six. She studied piano, organ and composition (with Sir Granville Bantock) at the Birmingham and Midland School of Music and began her musical career as a pianist, performing piano concertos and solo pieces at Birmingham Town Hall and in Bournemouth and Harrogate. Her compositions were all written in the early and mid-1920s. The short orchestral tone poem ''Out of the Mist'', commemorating the last journey of the coffin bearing the body of The Unknown Warrior across the English Channel in November 1920, was first performed in June 1921 by the Birmingham and Midland Orchestra, conducted by Granville Bantock. Howard Carr conducted a second performance 15 months later, on 21 December 1922 in Harrogate. During the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Elkington
Stephen John Elkington (born 8 December 1962) is an Australian professional golfer on the PGA Tour Champions. Formerly on the PGA Tour, he spent more than fifty weeks in the top-10 of the Official World Golf Ranking from 1995 to 1998. Elkington won a major title at the PGA Championship in 1995, and is a two-time winner of The Players Championship. Early years Born in Inverell, New South Wales, Elkington grew up in Wagga Wagga. He moved to the United States to attend college in Texas at the University of Houston, where he played on the Cougar golf team that won national titles in 1982, 1984, and 1985. Elkington was the first prominent Australian to play college golf in the U.S., and turned professional in 1985. Professional career Elkington was the runner-up at the PGA Tour Qualifying Tournament in December 1986 to earn his tour card for 1987. He had ten victories on the PGA Tour, all in the 1990s, and won four events twice. Elkington had ten top-10 finishes in major champions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
