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Furness (other)
Furness is a peninsula in the southern part of Cumbria, in north-west England. Furness may also refer to: * Furness Abbey, a former monastery in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria * Furness Building Society, a British building society * Furness Church, a church in County Kildare, Ireland * Furness College, Barrow-in-Furness, A college of further education situated in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria * Furness College, Lancaster, A constituent college of Lancaster University, named after the Furness area * Furness Fells, a multitude of hills and mountains in Furness * Furness line, a railway in North West England * Furness Railway, a former railway company operating in Furness * Furness Vale, a village in High Peak, Derbyshire, England * '' Silurus furness'', a species of fish * Viscount Furness, a former title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom People with the surname Furness: * Betty Furness (1916–1994), American actress, consumer advocate and current affairs commentator * Bruce Furness ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Furness
Furness ( ) is a peninsula and region of Cumbria in northwestern England. Together with the Cartmel Peninsula it forms North Lonsdale, historically an exclave of Lancashire. The Furness Peninsula, also known as Low Furness, is an area of villages, agricultural land and low-lying moorland, with the industrial town of Barrow at its head. The peninsula is bordered by the estuaries of the River Duddon to the west and the River Leven in Morecambe Bay to the east. The wider region of Furness consists of the peninsula and the area known as ''High Furness'', which is a relatively mountainous and sparsely populated part of England, extending inland into the Lake District and containing the Furness Fells. The inland boundary of the region is formed by the rivers Leven, Brathay and Duddon, and the lake of Windermere. Off the southern tip of Furness is Walney Island, long, as well as several smaller islands. The Borough of Barrow-in-Furness, which developed when the Furness iron ind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deborra-Lee Furness
Deborra-Lee Furness (born 30 November 1955) is an Australian actress and producer. She is married to actor Hugh Jackman. Early life Furness was born in Annandale, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, and raised in Melbourne, Victoria. At the age of 18, Furness attended secretarial school to learn shorthand and typing after her mother advised her to have a back-up career if her acting ambitions didn't eventuate to anything. She then got a job as the assistant to John Sorell, the news director at Channel 9. Despite describing herself as "such a bog secretary", Furness has said she thoroughly enjoyed the urgency, the fast action and the high energy of the newsroom. After working in the newsroom for a year, Furness was asked to work on ''No Man's Land'', the station's daytime current affairs program which produced exclusively by women and hosted by Mickie de Stoop. Furness started working on the show as a researcher before becoming an on-air reporter. After her work at Channe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Anthony Furness, 2nd Viscount Furness
William Anthony Furness, 2nd Viscount Furness (31 March 1929 – 1 May 1995) was a British peer. He was the producer and financier of many West End plays, and an active member of the Royal Central Asian Society. He was also a knight of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. Early life Furness was born in Melton Mowbray, England, the only child of Marmaduke Furness, 1st Viscount Furness, and his second wife, Thelma Furness, Viscountess Furness (formerly Converse, née Morgan), an American socialite and mistress of King Edward VIII while he was still the Prince of Wales. He was the grandson of Christopher Furness, 1st Baron Furness, of Furness Withy Shipping, and a first cousin of the American fashion designer Gloria Vanderbilt. Tony Furness, as he was known, was educated in England at Downside School and in America. He succeeded to the title in 1940 on the death of his father, his half brother Christopher Furness having been killed in action earlier that year at Arras whilst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vera Furness
Vera Isabella Furness (2 June 1921 –2002) was an English chemist and industrial manager who worked for Courtaulds in Coventry and later Campsie from 1953 to 1981. She worked on the production of the acrylic Courtelle and developed a copolymer that would allow for a more successful commercial dying of the filter. Furness then incorporated a reagent into the process giving it a near white fibre. She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1971. Biography She was born in Birmingham on 2 June 1921. Furness originally studied to become a teacher at a teacher training college and went on to become a secondary school teacher. She studied for an external chemistry degree at the University of London whilst teaching full-time at Birmingham Central Technical College (today Acton University). Following her graduation from the university with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1946 in which she did a doctoral thesis on hexomethylenetetramines with dialkylanilines and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thelma Furness, Viscountess Furness
Thelma Furness, Viscountess Furness ( Morgan, 23 August 1904 – 29 January 1970), was a mistress of King Edward VIII while he was Prince of Wales. She was supplanted in his affections by Wallis Simpson, for whose sake Edward abdicated and became the Duke of Windsor. She was the maternal aunt of the writer, fashion designer, and socialite Gloria Vanderbilt. During most of Furness's relationship with the Prince of Wales, she was married to British nobleman Marmaduke Furness, 1st Viscount Furness. They married in 1926 and divorced in 1933, the year before Thelma's relationship with the Prince of Wales ended. Furness's first name was pronounced in Spanish fashion as "TEL-ma". Early life Born in Lucerne, Switzerland, Thelma Morgan was a daughter of Harry Hays Morgan Sr., an American diplomat who was U.S. consul in Buenos Aires and in Brussels, and his half-Chilean, half-Irish-American wife, Laura Delphine Kilpatrick. Married in 1893, they were divorced in 1927. Morgan's maternal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Furness
Stephen Robert Furness (December 5, 1950 – February 9, 2000) was an American defensive tackle for the Pittsburgh Steelers and Detroit Lions of the National Football League, and a member of the Steelers' famed Steel Curtain defense. He earned four Super Bowl rings as a professional player and ranks 23rd on the Steelers' all-time sack list. He was of English and Armenian descent. Furness grew up in Warwick, Rhode Island, where he attended Bishop Hendricken High School before accepting a football scholarship to the University of Rhode Island. In addition to being a star football player for URI, he excelled at the hammer throw and turned down an invitation to the 1972 Olympic Trials to attend the Steelers' training camp. Furness was selected in the fifth round of the 1972 NFL Draft and initially served as a backup to Joe Greene and Ernie Holmes before replacing Holmes as defensive tackle in 1977. He started in Super Bowl XIII and was primarily known for his skills as a pass rusher, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Furness
Richard Furness (2 August 1791 – 13 December 1857) was a British poet. Biography Richard Furness was known as "The Poet of Eyam" after the village in Derbyshire, England where he was born on 2 August 1791. His parents, Samuel and Margaret sent him to school, although he could already read fluently by the age of four. He initially got a job keeping accounts locally but then went as apprentice to a currier in Chesterfield at the age of fourteen. He was able to extend his linguistic skills by learning French from prisoners of war. He learned mathematics and music and at the age of seventeen he was a Wesleyan preacher. Four years later he walked to London, and enlisted as a soldier. He did not, however, give up preaching. At the request of Dr. Adam Clarke, he spoke at the City Road Chapel. After a year he returned to Derbyshire. He separated from the Methodists at about this time because he wrote a patriotic song which was sung in a public house. In 1813 he started business at Eyam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Furness
Rachel Furness (born 19 June 1988) is a professional Association football, footballer who plays for FA Women's Championship club Liverpool F.C. Women, Liverpool and the Northern Ireland women's national football team, Northern Ireland national team. A powerful central midfielder, she featured as a Midfielder#Winger, winger or Forward (association football)#Striker, striker earlier in her career. Furness' ex-manager at Sunderland, Mick Mulhern, described her as "a strong and determined player." Club career Early career Furness attended Usworth Comprehensive School and represented Durham at County level. By season 2002–03 she was already playing for Chester-le-Street Ladies, alongside several other youngsters and former England women's national football team, England striker Aran Embleton. Senior career In 2004 Furness moved to Gateshead College to study sports development and fitness. She began playing for the women's football academy at the college and Sunderland W.F.C., Sunde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horace Howard Furness
Horace Howard Furness (November 2, 1833 – August 13, 1912) was an American Shakespearean scholar of the 19th century. Life and career Horace Furness was the son of the Unitarian minister and abolitionist William Henry Furness (1802–1896), and brother of the architect Frank Furness (1839–1912). He graduated from Harvard University in 1854, embarked on a journey to Europe with Atherton Blight, and then studied in Germany. After returning to the United States, he was admitted to the Philadelphia Bar in 1858, but his growing deafness interfered with the practice of law. In 1860, he joined the Shakspere Society of Philadelphia, an amateur study group that took its scholarship seriously. As he later wrote: Every member had a copy of the Variorum of 1821, which we fondly believed had gathered under each play all Shakespearian lore worth preserving down to that date. What had been added since that year was scattered in many different editions, and in numberless volumes disperse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Furness
Harold Alan Furness (May 11, 1887 – October 1975) was an American cricketer. He played seven first-class cricket, first-class matches between 1912 and 1913. Five of these were for the Philadelphian cricket team, Philadelphia and the other two were for a combined Canadian cricket team, Canada/United States cricket team, USA team. All were played against Australian cricket team, Australia. He had a highest score of 106 not out in those seven games, his only first-class century. References Cricket Archive profile {{DEFAULTSORT:Furness, Harold 1887 births 1975 deaths American cricketers Philadelphian cricketers People from Pittsfield, Maine People from Haddonfield, New Jersey Sportspeople from Camden County, New Jersey Sportspeople from Maine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Furness
George Furness (31 October 1820 – 9 January 1900) was an English Victorian construction engineer and benefactor. He described himself as a "contractor of public works". He worked all around the world, on railways, drainage, and brickwork among numerous other things. Birth Furness was born in Great Longstone, Derbyshire. The old Croft House was part of the Furness' property there. Career George Furness did a wide variety of jobs and contracts throughout his life, both overseas and local. Railway In the early 19th century, the railway was born in Britain. Furness took advantage of this new type of business; from 1842 onwards, he worked on the construction of major railways in the Midlands, Western and Southern counties of England. Among those he contributed to were: * Abingdon Railway, opened in 1856 * Redditch Railway, opened in 1859 *West Somerset Railway, open in 1862 *Isle of Grain to (Kent), opened in 1882 Some of these still exist. Overseas work When Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Furness
Frank Heyling Furness (November 12, 1839 - June 27, 1912) was an American architect of the Victorian era. He designed more than 600 buildings, most in the Philadelphia area, and is remembered for his diverse, muscular, often unordinarily scaled buildings, and for his influence on the Chicago architect Louis Sullivan. Furness also received a Medal of Honor for bravery during the American Civil War, Civil War. Toward the end of his life, his bold style fell out of fashion, and many of his significant works were demolished in the 20th century. Among his most important surviving buildings are the University of Pennsylvania Library (now the Fisher Fine Arts Library), the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia, all in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the Baldwin School Residence Hall in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, Bryn Mawr. Biography Furness was born in Philadelphia on November 12, 1839. His father, William Henry Furness, was a prominent Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
