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Frere
Frere is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alexander Stuart Frere (1892–1984), English publisher *Bartholomew Frere (1776–1851), English diplomat * Henry Frere (1830–1881), English cricketer *Sir Henry Bartle Frere (1815–1884), British colonial administrator *James Frere (1920–1994), Chester Herald at the College of Arms in London *James Hatley Frere (1779–1866), English writer on prophecy * John Frere (1740–1807), English antiquary *John Hookham Frere (1769–1846), English diplomat, author and poet * Mary Frere (1845–1911), English writer *Sheppard Frere (1916–2015), British historian and archaeologist *Tobias Frere-Jones (born 1970), American typeface designer and design educator *Toby Frere (1938–2020), Royal Navy vice-admiral *Walter Frere (1863–1938), British Anglican bishop *William Frere (1775–1836), English lawyer and academic See also * Frère *Friar * Fryar * Freer (other) *Fryer (surname) Fryer is a surname. Notable ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Bartle Frere
Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere, 1st Baronet, (29 March 1815 – 29 May 1884) was a Welsh British colonial administrator. He had a successful career in India, rising to become Governor of Bombay (1862–1867). However, as High Commissioner for Southern Africa (1877–1880), he implemented a set of policies which attempted to impose a British confederation on the region and which led to the overthrow of the Cape's first elected government in 1878 and to a string of regional wars, culminating in the invasion of Zululand (1879) and the First Boer War (1880–1881). The British Prime Minister, Gladstone, recalled Frere to London to face charges of misconduct; Whitehall officially censured Frere for acting recklessly. Early life Frere was born at Clydach House, Clydach, Monmouthshire, the son of Edward Frere, manager of Clydach Ironworks, and Mary Ann Green. His elder sister, Mary Anne Frere, was born circa 1802 in Clydach, and his younger sister, Frances Anne Frere, was born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tobias Frere-Jones
Tobias Frere-Jones (born Tobias Edgar Mallory Jones; August 28, 1970) is an American type designer who works in New York City. He operates the company Frere-Jones Type and teaches typeface design at the Yale School of Art MFA program. Among his typefaces are Gotham which was used by the Obama 2008 presidential campaign, and Archer which has been used by ''Martha Stewart Living'' and Wells Fargo. Career Frere-Jones grew up in Brooklyn and became interested in letter design while attending Saint Ann's School. He is a son of Robin Carpenter Jones, who wrote for advertising agencies, and his British wife, the former Elizabeth Frere, daughter of Alexander Stuart Frere. His brother is music critic Sasha Frere-Jones and his great-grandfather was writer Edgar Wallace. After receiving a BFA in 1992 from Rhode Island School of Design, Frere-Jones joined Font Bureau in Boston, becoming Senior Designer. He created a number of the typefaces that are Font Bureau's best known, among them Inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Frere
John Frere (10 August 1740 – 12 July 1807) was an English antiquary and a pioneering discoverer of Old Stone Age or Lower Palaeolithic tools in association with large extinct animals at Hoxne, Suffolk in 1797. Life Frere was born in Roydon Hall, Norfolk, the son of Sheppard Frere and Susanna Hatley. Ellenor Fenn was his sister. In 1766, Frere received his MA from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he was Second Wrangler and was elected to a fellowship. He subsequently held several political offices and was appointed High Sheriff of Suffolk for 1776–77. He was elected a member of parliament for Norwich from 1799 to 1802. Antiquary An interest in the past, instigated by observing worked stone tools in a clay mining pit, led him to become a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and the Royal Society and to conduct excavations at a site just south of Hoxne, 8 km east, and across the River Waveney, from his home in Roydon, near Diss. Frere wrote a l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheppard Frere
Sheppard Sunderland Frere, CBE, FSA, FBA (23 August 1916 – 26 February 2015) was a British historian and archaeologist who studied the Roman Empire. He was a fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. Biography The son of Noel Gray Frere, of the Colonial Service, and his wife Agnes (née Sutherland), Sheppard "Sam" Frere was born in 1916. He was educated at Lancing College and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He was a master at Epsom College from 1938–41, and became classics master and housemaster at Lancing College from 1945 to 1954, when he was in charge of the excavations at Canterbury during his summer vacations. He made a number of broadcasts about his work at that time. He left Lancing in 1954 to become a university lecturer in archaeology at the University of Manchester. His family details and dates are given under the family of 'Frere' in ''Burke's Landed Gentry'' for 1969. For three seasons early in the 1970s, he was in charge of the archaeological summer school that exca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Stuart Frere
Alexander Stuart Frere (born Frere-Reeves; 23 November 1892 – 3 October 1984) was an English publisher who was highly influential in the interwar and post-Second World War period. He was chairman of the board of William Heinemann Ltd and helped guide some of the century's most significant authors to worldwide prominence. Early life and education Alexander Frere-Reeves was born in Dulwich, Surrey,''1901 England Census'' the son of Alexander Wilfred Reeves and Mary Stewart Frere. His mother was the daughter of Henry Tobias Frere, a first-class cricketer. He was known as Alexander Stuart Frere from a young age, and in 1939, he officially dropped "Reeves" from the family surname. He read economics at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he was editor of the literary magazine ''Granta''. Wartime service In 1914, during the First World War, Frere joined the Royal East Kent Yeomanry. He fought in the Gallipoli Campaign in 1915, and in 1916 transferred to the Royal Flying Corps. Af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hookham Frere
John Hookham Frere (21 May 1769 – 7 January 1846) was an English diplomat and author. Early life Frere was born in London. His father, John Frere, a member of a Suffolk family, had been educated at Caius College, Cambridge, and became Second Wrangler in 1763. His mother, Jane, daughter of John Hookham, a rich London merchant, was cultured and wrote verse in private. His father's sister Ellenor, who married Sir John Fenn, editor of the ''Paston Letters'', wrote educational works for children under the pseudonyms "Mrs Lovechild" and "Mrs Teachwell". Young Frere was sent to Eton College in 1785, and there began a friendship with George Canning which greatly affected his life. From Eton, he went to his father's college at Cambridge, and graduated BA in 1792 and MA in 1795. He entered public service in the foreign office under Lord Grenville, and sat from 1796 to 1802 as Member of Parliament for the borough of West Looe in Cornwall. Career From his boyhood he had admired Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Frere
Henry Tobias Frere (27 September 1830 – 15 August 1881) was an English first-class cricketer. Frere was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm roundarm fast and who played occasionally as a wicket-keeper. Frere made his first-class debut for Hampshire against an All-England Eleven in 1850. Frere played a number of non first-class matches forHampshire and numerous other sides from 1850 to 1863. In 1855 Frere made his second first-class appearance, this time for the Gentlemen of England against the Marylebone Cricket Club. Three years later Frere made played two matches for the Gentlemen, the first of which came in the 1858 Gentlemen v Players fixture and the second of which came for the Gentlemen of the South against the Gentlemen of the North. The following season Frere played in the same two fixtures once again. In 1863 Frere played for Hampshire County Cricket Club in the year of their founding in two non first-class matches against Surrey. In 1864 Frere made hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Frere
Mary Eliza Isabella Frere (1845–1911) (nickname ''May'') was an English author of works regarding India. In 1868 Frere published the first English-language field-collected book of Indian storytales, ''Old Deccan Days''. Early life Frere was born at the rectory of Bitton in Gloucestershire, England on 11 August 1845. Nicknamed ''May'', she was the eldest of five children (the others being Catherine, Georgina, Eliza and Bartle) of Henry Bartle Frere and his wife Catherine (died 1899) who was the daughter of Lieutenant-General Sir George Arthur, 1st Baronet. Mary's father had served in the colonial administration of Bombay since 1834, and in 1862 he was appointed Governor of Bombay. The family lived in the Parish of St Mary, Wimbledon, where Mary was privately educated. Dorson, R. M. (1999). History of British folklore'. Taylor and Francis. . p. 334. Published works Frere published several poems and a play. Her most popular work was ''Old Deccan Days; or, Hindoo Fairy Legends, Cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Hatley Frere
James Hatley Frere (1779–1866) was an English writer on prophecy and developer of a tactile alphabet system for teaching the blind to read. Life Frere was the sixth son of John Frere, of Roydon, South Norfolk, and Beddington, Surrey, by Jane, daughter and heiress of John Hookham of London. On 15 June 1809 he married Merian, second daughter of Matthew Martin, F.R.S., of Poets' Corner, Westminster, by whom he had six sons: * Hatley Frere (1811–1868), Judge of the High Court, Madras (great-grandfather of Mary Leakey) * Chales Frere (1813–1884), Taxing Master of the House of Commons, Barrister-at-law * John Alexander Frere (1814–1877), Vicar of Shillington, Bedfordshire * Edward Daniel Frere (1816–1881) * Constantine Frere (1817–1905), Rector of Finningham * William Theodore Frere (1820–?), died as an infant. Frere met Edward Irving in 1825, and influenced him in the direction of the study of biblical prophecy. He died at the residence of his third son, the Rev. John A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Frere
Walter Howard Frere (23 November 1863 – 2 April 1938) was a co-founder of the Anglican religious order the Community of the Resurrection, Mirfield, and Bishop of Truro (1923–1935). Biography Frere was born in Cambridge, England, on 23 November 1863, the younger son of Philip Howard Frere and his wife Emily, née Gipps. His siblings were Arthur, Ellen and Lucy. Lucy became the wife of Wilfred J. Barnes. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge and Wells Theological College; and ordained in 1889. His first post was as a curate at Stepney Parish Church. He was Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Southwark from 1896 to 1909. Frere was twice Superior of the order 1902–1913 and 1916–1922, and returned to it after resigning the see of Truro. He was consecrated bishop at Westminster Abbey on 1 November 1923, by Randall Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury; and as he regarded membership of a religious order an obligation taking precedence over others, the bishop's palace ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toby Frere
Vice Admiral Sir Richard Tobias Frere (born Frere-Reeves; 4 June 1938 – 5 March 2020) was a Royal Navy officer who ended his career as Chief of Fleet Support. Early life and education Frere was born in London, the son of publisher Alexander Stuart Frere-Reeves and Patricia Marion Caldecott Wallace. His mother was the daughter of writer Edgar Wallace. J. B. Priestley was his godfather. He was named after his great-grandfather Henry Tobias Frere, a first-class cricketer. When he was 1, his father legally dropped Reeves from their surname. He was educated at Eton College and the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. Naval career Frere joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve through National Service in 1955 and was commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1958.''Debrett's People of Today'' 1994 During the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, as a submariner based at Halifax, he was involved in setting up a barrier patrol with American air support off Newfoundland. He commanded the sub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Frere
William Frere (28 November 1775 – 25 May 1836), was an English lawyer and academic, a law-serjeant and Master of Downing College, Cambridge. Life Frere was the fourth son of John Frere of Roydon, South Norfolk, and younger brother of John Hookham Frere. He was born 28 November 1775, but spent much of his childhood at the house of his uncle John Fenn and aunt Ellenor Fenn whom he later described as 'looking up to my uncle and aunt as parents.' He was sent to Felsted School and Eton College, and in 1796 obtained a scholarship at Trinity College, Cambridge. In the same year he was elected to the Craven scholarship, and subsequently won several university honours, among them the senior chancellor's medal. He graduated fifth senior optime in 1798. In 1800 he became fellow of the newly founded Downing College. He was called to the bar, and joined the Norfolk circuit in 1802. He was serjeant-at-law in 1809, and three years later was elected Master of Downing College, his appointme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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