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Folkard is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Bert Folkard (1878–1937), Australian cricketer *Charles Folkard (1878–1963), English illustrator * Julia Bracewell Folkard (1849–1933), British painter *Mark Folkard (born 1965), Australian politician *Naomi Folkard Naomi Anne Folkard (born 18 September 1983) is a British archer who has represented Great Britain at the Olympic Games five times between 2004 and 2020. She has also represented Great Britain at the World Archery Championships and the Archery Wo ...

Bert Folkard
Bert Folkard (17 May 1878 – 31 January 1937) was an Australian cricketer. He played fifteen first-class matches for New South Wales between 1910/11 and 1920/21. Folkard was an all-rounder who batted aggressively, utilizing the pull shot especially, and bowled in-swingers slightly above medium pace. He played well for New South Wales and he was selected in the Australian Test squad to tour South Africa in 1914/15, however the tour was cancelled due to the outbreak of the First World War. He was extremely successful for Balmain in grade cricket, being described by the Melbourne ''Sporting Globe'' as the second best player in club cricket to Monty Noble since district cricket was established in New South Wales. See also * List of New South Wales representative cricketers This is a list of male cricketers who have played for New South Wales in first-class, List A and Twenty20 cricket. It is complete to the end of the 2017–18 season. The list refers to the sides named a ...
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Charles Folkard
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "free man". The Old English descendant of this word was '' Ċearl'' or ''Ċeorl'', as the name of King Cearl of Mercia, that disappeared after the Norman conquest of England. The name was notably borne by Charlemagne (Charles the Great), and was at the time Latinized as ''Karolus'' (as in ''Vita Karoli Magni''), later also as '' Carolus''. Some Germanic languages, for example Dutch and German, have retained the word in two separate senses. In the particular case of Dutch, ''Karel'' refers to the given name, whereas the noun ''kerel'' means "a bloke, fellow, man". Etymology The name's etymology is a Common Germanic noun ''*karilaz'' meaning "free man", which survives in English as churl (< Old English ''ċeorl''), which developed its de ...
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Julia Bracewell Folkard
Julia Bracewell Folkard (1849–1933) was a British painter. Life She was born in 1849 and she was a student at the Royal Academy. She repaid this 1871 when she shared a silver medal with Julia Cecilia Smith for their paintings. The gold medal that year was taken by Jessie MacGregor. It was noted how these three women revealed the silliness of the rules that excluded women from becoming full members of the Royal Academy. She became a portrait and genre painter who was a frequent exhibitor at the Royal Academy and Suffolk Street from 1872. Her painting ''I Showed Her the Ring and Implored Her to Marry'' was included in the 1905 book '' Women Painters of the World''.Women painters of the world, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day', by Walter Shaw Sparrow, The Art and Life Library, Hodder & Stoughton, 27 Paternoster Row, London, 1905 Folkard died in Paris. Bracewell's painting of Mary Anne Keeley is in the National Portrait Gallery Nat ...
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Mark Folkard
Mark James Folkard (born 23 January 1965) is an Australian politician. He has been a Labor member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly since the 2017 state election, representing Burns Beach. Folkard was a Western Australia Police Sergeant before entering politics. Folkard has been awarded the Police Overseas Service Medal with East Timor clasp, the National Police Service Medal, the National Medal, the Australian Defence Medal, the Commissioner's Medal for Excellence, the Western Australia Police Medal, and the United Nations Medal A United Nations Medal is an international decoration An international decoration is a military award which is not bestowed by a particular country, but rather by an international organization such as the United Nations or NATO. Such awards ar ... (UNMISET). References 1965 births Living people Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Western Australia Members of the Western Australian Legislative Ass ...
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