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Featherstonhaugh
Featherstonhaugh ( ) (also spelt Fetherstonhaugh and Featherstonehaugh) is an English surname. The name comes from Featherstonhaugh in Northumberland, from the Old English , 'feather', , 'stone', and , 'corner'. Notable people with this surname include: * Francis Fetherston ( – after 1624), an English statesman * George William Featherstonhaugh (1780–1866), an English-American geologist * George W. Featherstonhaugh Jr. (1814–1900), an American legislator and businessman * Godfrey Fetherstonhaugh (1859–1928), an Irish politician * F. B. Fetherstonhaugh (1863–1945), a Canadian patent lawyer * Constance Featherstonhaugh (later Benson; 1864–1946), an English actress * Francis Featherstonhaugh Johnston (1891–1963), an Anglican bishop of Egypt * Harold Lea Fetherstonhaugh (1887–1971), a Canadian architect * Buddy Featherstonhaugh (1909–1976), an English jazz saxophonist * Mary Featherstonhaugh Frampton (; 1928–2014), an English civil servant * Robert Fetherstonh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George William Featherstonhaugh
George William Featherstonhaugh ( /ˈfɪərstənhɔː/ '' FEER-stən-haw''; 9 April 1780, in London – 28 September 1866, in Le Havre) was a British-American geologist and geographer. He was one of the proposers of the Albany and Schenectady Railroad and was the first geologist to the US government. He surveyed portions of the Louisiana Purchase for the US government. Early life and career Born to George and Dorothy Simpson Featherstonhaugh in London, he grew up in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England. Featherstonhaugh liked climbing cliffs, collecting fossils, and gathering wild bird eggs to sell. He was adept at writing and became a Fellow of the Geological Society and the Royal Society. In 1809, he was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia. Railroad plans In 1806 he went to the United States where he planned to study the languages of the indigenous people. He married Sarah Duane of Schenectady, New York, on 6 November 1808. They had four ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buddy Featherstonhaugh
Rupert Edward Lee "Buddy" Featherstonhaugh ( ; 4 October 1909 – 12 July 1976) was an English jazz saxophonist and clarinetist. Musical career Born in Paris in 1909, the son of an English marine architect and his Scottish wife. His grandfather, George William Featherstonhaugh, a geologist and geographer, had already emigrated to America. After moving to England, he studied in Sussex, and had his first professional gig with Pat O'Malley in 1927. He was with Spike Hughes from 1930 to 1932, and toured England in Billy Mason's band behind Louis Armstrong that same year and in 1933 he recorded with a group called The Cosmopolitans, which included Fletcher Allen. He recorded with Valaida Snow in 1935 and Benny Carter in 1937. During World War II, he led a Royal Air Force band which had among its members Vic Lewis, Don McAffer, and Jack Parnell. They went on to record as The BBC Radio Rhythm Club Sextet during 1943-45. After the war he toured Iceland in 1946, and then left the jaz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Irregularly Spelled English Names
This is a set of lists of English personal and place names having spellings that are counterintuitive to their pronunciation because the spelling does not accord with conventional pronunciation associations, or because a better known namesake with the same spelling has a markedly different pronunciation. The latter types are known as heterophonic names or heterophones (unlike heterographs, which are written differently but pronounced the same). Excluded are the numerous spellings which fail to make the pronunciation obvious without actually being at odds with convention: for example, the pronunciation of ''Schenectady'' is not immediately obvious, but neither is it counterintuitive. See Help:IPA/English for guides to the IPA symbols used, and variations depending on dialect. Place names Boldened names indicate place names where only one part is pronounced irregularly, italicized pronunciations are uncommon. Exonyms are listed among examples. General rules Specific places ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constance Featherstonhaugh
Gertrude Constance Cockburn Benson ( Samwell; 26 February 1864 – 19 January 1946) was a British stage and film actress. Before her marriage to Frank Benson, she was known by the stage name Constance Featherstonhaugh, pronounced "Fanshaw" (). Born in British India into a military family, and christened Gertrude Constance Cockburn Samwell, she took to the stage under the name of Featherstonhaugh, which was the middle name of her father, Morshead Featherstonhaugh Samwell.Arthur Machen, Montgomery Evans, ''Arthur Machen & Montgomery Evans: Letters of a Literary Friendship, 1923–1947'' (Kent State University Press, 1994)p. 170/ref> She married the actor Frank Benson in 1886, and they had two children, Eric William (1887–1916), killed at the battle of the Somme, and Brynhild Lucy (1888–1974). When Benson played Cleopatra in 1898, reviewers were astonished by her "terrible rage", one commenting that she treated a struck-down messenger so violently that only the intervention of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Featherstonhaugh Frampton
Mary Featherstonhaugh Frampton ( ; 16 February 1928 – 28 August 2014), was a British civil servant who worked as clerk in charge of the Serjeant at Arms department in the House of Commons. Tam Dalyell, writing for her obituary in ''The Independent'', wrote that Frampton was one of "a number of ladies in the Palace of Westminster who would not have been offended had I described them as tanks - heavily armoured Panzers with 88mm guns, at that." Betty Boothroyd, former Speaker of the House of Commons, wrote about the time that Frampton had in 1978 served a writ In common law, a writ (Anglo-Saxon ''gewrit'', Latin ''breve'') is a formal written order issued by a body with administrative or judicial jurisdiction; in modern usage, this body is generally a court. Warrants, prerogative writs, subpoenas, a ... on Sir Charles Villiers, and was recognised as a "formidable stickler for the rules". References {{DEFAULTSORT:Frampton, Mary Featherstonhaugh 1928 births 2014 death ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Featherstonhaugh Wylie
Alexander Featherstonhaugh Wylie, Lord Kinclaven (; born 2 June 1951) was a Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of the Supreme Courts of Scotland. Early life Wylie was educated at Perth Academy, Aberdeen Grammar School and the independent Kelvinside Academy, Glasgow, studied at the School of Law of the University of Edinburgh and qualified as a solicitor in 1976. He was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1978. Legal career Wylie served as Standing Junior Counsel to the Accountant of Court from 1986 to 1989, and as an Advocate Depute from 1989 to 1992. He was called to the Bar in England and Wales in 1990 at Lincoln's Inn, and took silk in Scotland in 1991. He was appointed a part-time Sheriff and a member of the Scottish Council of Law Reporting in 2000, part-time Chairman of the Police Appeals Tribunal in 2001, and a member of the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission in 2004, remaining in all these positions until his appointment to the Bench in 2005. Wylie was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Featherstonhaugh Johnston
Francis Featherstonhaugh Johnston ( ) was the third Bishop of Egypt from 1952 until 1958. Johnston served continuously in the Middle East from 1916 to 1957. Born on 21 April 1891 and educated at Reigate Grammar School and Hatfield College, Durham, he was ordained in 1915. After a curacy at All Saints, Fishponds, Bristol he was a Temporary Chaplain to the Forces. He had been appointed in 1915 as one of the youngest TCFs:the Chaplain-General described him as 'young, strong, bright personality'. He served in France, Salonica and then Palestine After World War I he was Chaplain of Port Said and then Archdeacon of Egypt before his elevation to the episcopate. During World War 2, he was praised for his ministry to British troops in Cairo and appointed a CBEChurch Times obituary 17.9.63 With the coming of the Suez Crisis and the heightened tension between Britain and Egypt that it brought, Johnston found himself expelled from the country 'virtually with the garments he was wearing'. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fanshawe (other)
Fanshawe (less commonly Fanshaw) can refer to: Places * Fanshawe, Oklahoma, a town in the United States * Fanshawe College, a school in London, Ontario, Canada * Fanshawe Dam in London, Ontario * Fanshawe Lake in London, Ontario * Fanshawe Pioneer Village in London, Ontario Other uses * Fanshawe (surname) * Featherstonhaugh, of the same pronunciation as Fanshawe * Anthony Royle, Baron Fanshawe of Richmond Anthony Henry Fanshawe Royle, Baron Fanshawe of Richmond, (27 March 1927 – 28 December 2001), was a British Conservative Party politician and businessman. A son of Sir Lancelot Royle, a wealthy businessman, he was educated at Harrow and RMA ... (1927–2001) * ''Fanshawe'' (novel), a 19th-century novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne * USS ''Fanshaw Bay'' (CVE-70), US navy aircraft carrier {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Fetherstonhaugh
Sir Matthew Fetherstonhaugh, 1st Baronet ( ; c. 1714 – 18 March 1774) was an English politician and landowner. He was the son of Matthew Fetherstonhaugh of Featherstone Castle, Northumberland. In 1746, he inherited the estates of a kinsman Sir Henry Fetherston but not Sir Henry's baronetcy which became extinct on his death. However, on 3 January 1747, Fetherstonhaugh was created a baronet of Featherstonehaugh in the County of Northumberland, in the Baronetage of Great Britain. On his marriage to Sarah Lethieullier, sister of Benjamin Lethieullier, in December 1746, he bought Uppark, Sussex and the manors of East And West Harting and in 1747 sold the family estate at Featherstone to James Wallace. Between 1748 and 1753 he undertook the Grand Tour with his brother-in-law Benjamin Lethieullier and his step brother-in-law Lascelles Iremonger. They brought back to Uppark an impressive collection of Italian art. He served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Morpeth from 1755 to 17 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Featherstonehaughs
The Featherstonehaughs are a London-based, all-male contemporary dance company, described by Arts Council England as "one of the leading contemporary dance companies in Britain," presenting work that "is diverse, witty and instantly recognisable." History The Featherstonehaughs company was formed by Lea Anderson (now Artistic Director/Choreographer) in 1988, complementing The Cholmondeleys, an all-female company formed four years earlier. Works created by Anderson for The Featherstonehaughs include: * ''The Show'' (1990) * ''The Featherstonehaughs’ Big Feature'' (1991) * ''The Featherstonehaughs Immaculate Conception'' (1992) * ''The Bends '' (1994) * ''The Featherstonehaughs Go Las Vegas'' (1995) * ''The Featherstonehaughs Draw On The Sketchbooks Of Egon Schiele'' (1997) (2010) * ''Edits'' (2010) One of the founding members of the Featherstonehaughs (1990–1997) is movement director Dan O'Neill who has worked extensively in opera at the Royal Opera House and the Grange Opera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Featherstone (other)
Featherstone is a town in West Yorkshire, England. Featherstone may also refer to: Places ;in England *Featherstone, Northumberland, village **Featherstone Castle *Featherstone, Staffordshire, village **HM Prison Featherstone ;in the United States *Featherstone Township, Minnesota *Featherstone, Virginia ;in Zimbabwe *Featherstone, Zimbabwe Sports clubs *Featherstone Rovers, professional rugby league club from Featherstone, West Yorkshire *Featherstone Lions, amateur rugby league club from Featherstone, West Yorkshire People *Featherstone (surname), people with the surname Other uses *Featherstone (rock band) *Featherstone High School, Southall, London, England *Featherstone Education, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing *Featherstone's algorithm, a technique used for computing the effects of forces applied to a structure of joints and links See also *Featherston {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Featherstone Castle
Featherstone Castle, a Grade I listed building, is a large Gothic style country mansion situated on the bank of the River South Tyne about southwest of the town of Haltwhistle in Northumberland, England. Medieval origins In the 11th century the manor house on this site belonged to the Featherstonehaugh family. It has played an important role in the battles between the English and the Scots. Originally a 13th-century hall house, a square three-storey pele tower was added in 1330 by Thomas de Featherstonehaugh. A survey from the year 1541 reported the property to be a tower in good repair, occupied by Thomas Featherstonehaugh. The earliest recorded history of this area derives from the Roman occupation period; in 122 AD, the Romans erected Hadrian's Wall, the course of which lies about 5 kilometres to the north of Featherstone Castle. Post medieval In the 17th century the property was acquired by Sir William Howard (father of the 1st Earl of Carlisle) and was remodelled and s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
