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Gainsford is a surname. The usual medieval spelling was Gaynesford. Notable people with the surname include: * Anne Gainsford (died c. 1590), lady-in-waiting to Anne Boleyn *Ian Gainsford (born 1930), British academic *John Gainsford (1938–2015), South African rugby union player *Melinda Gainsford-Taylor (born 1971), Australian athlete *Nicholas Gaynesford (c. 1427–1498), British politician * Thomas Gainsford (died 1624), British author and editor Other uses * Gainsford End, a hamlet in Toppesfield, England * Gainsford, Queensland Gainsford is a rural locality in the Central Highlands Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Gainsford had a population of 14 people. Geography The '' Dawson River'' forms the western boundary, while the ''Don River'' forms part of the southe ...
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Anne Gainsford
Anne Gainsford, Lady Zouche (died c.1590) was a close friend and lady-in-waiting to Queen consort Anne Boleyn. She was in the household of Anne Boleyn, as early as 1528 before the latter became the second wife of Henry VIII of England five years later. She served Anne Boleyn before and after her own marriage to Sir George Zouche of Codnor. According to one source, It was Anne to whom Anne Boleyn lent her proscribed copy of William Tyndale's ''The Obedience of a Christian Man''.Antonia Fraser, ''The Wives of Henry VIII'', Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1992, p.145Anne Gainsford or Gaynsford (d. before 1548), A Who’s Who of Tudor Women: G, compiled by Kathy Lyn ...
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Anne Boleyn
Anne Boleyn (; 1501 or 1507 – 19 May 1536) was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536, as the second wife of King Henry VIII. The circumstances of her marriage and of her execution by beheading for treason and other charges made her a key figure in the political and religious upheaval that marked the start of the English Reformation. Anne was the daughter of Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, and his wife, Lady Elizabeth Howard, and was educated in the Netherlands and France, largely as a maid of honour to Queen Claude of France. Anne returned to England in early 1522, to marry her Irish cousin James Butler, 9th Earl of Ormond; the marriage plans were broken off, and instead, she secured a post at court as maid of honour to Henry VIII's wife, Catherine of Aragon. Early in 1523, Anne was secretly betrothed to Henry Percy, son of Henry Percy, 5th Earl of Northumberland, but the betrothal was broken off when the Earl refused to support their engagement. Cardinal Thoma ...
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Ian Gainsford
Sir Ian Derek Gainsford ( Ginsberg; born 24 June 1930) is a British retired dentist and academic. He was dean of King's College School of Medicine and Dentistry, King's College London (1988–1997) and vice-principal of King's College London (1994–1997). He is president of the Maccabaeans, a Zionist friendly society, society. Early life Sir Ian was the son of Rabbi Dr Morris Ginsberg and his wife, Anne Freda (Aucken) Ginsberg. He was educated at Thames Valley Grammar School, Twickenham, King's College London and at the University of Toronto. Career * Junior Staff, King’s College Hospital, 1955–57 * Member of staff, Dept of Conservative Dentistry, London Hospital Medical School, 1957–70 * Senior Lecturer/Consultant, Dept of Conservative Dentistry, KCH, 1970–97 * Deputy Dean of Dental Studies, 1973–77; Dir of Clinical Dental Services, KCH, 1977–87 (Dean of Dental Studies, KCH Medical School, 1977–83) * Dean, Faculty of Clinical Dentistry, KCL, 1983–87 Othe ...
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John Gainsford
John Leslie Gainsford (August 4, 1938 – November 18, 2015) was a South African rugby union player. He was born in Germiston. Gainsford played in 71 matches for South Africa (the Springboks), including tour games, and was known for being the most-capped Springbok centre until his record was overtaken by Japie Mulder in 2001. Early life Gainsford grew up in Lansdowne, Cape Town. He was the eldest of four children. His mother, Enid Francis Gainsford, was Australian. She was a former Sydney swimming champion who came out to South Africa with her mother, when her mother was sent to South Africa to help train women factory workers for the Second World War effort. She met his South African father, John Cecil Gainsford, and moved to South Africa permanently. Gainsford attended Lansdowne High School (now Windsor High School) from 1951-1955. He was a versatile and dedicated young sportsman throughout his school career, earning full colours for both rugby and athletics. He played cric ...
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Melinda Gainsford-Taylor
Melinda Gainsford-Taylor (born 1 October 1971 in Narromine, New South Wales) is a retired Australian athlete, who specialised in sprint events. In 1995 Gainsford-Taylor won the World Indoor championship over 200 m. During her career she also won international medals at the World Championships and Commonwealth Games. She is the cousin of Australian Olympic backstroke swimmer Josh Watson who won silver in the Men's 4 × 100-metre medley relay at the Sydney Olympics in 2000. Junior career In 1989, she won the first of three consecutive Australian Junior 100 m titles, also winning the Junior 200 m championships in 1989 and 1991. At the 1990 World Junior Championships Gainsford reached the semi-finals of both the 100 and 200 metres sprints and assisted the Australian 4 x 100 metres relay team to a new national junior record of 45.01 seconds. Senior career Although Gainsford-Taylor became a world champion in 1995, her senior career really began when she won the first of ...
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Nicholas Gaynesford
Nicholas Gainsford, also written Gaynesford or Gaynesforde, (about 1427–1498) of Carshalton, Surrey, of an armigerous gentry family established at Crowhurst, was a Justice of the Peace, several times Member of Parliament and High Sheriff of Surrey and Sussex, Constable and Keeper of Odiham Castle and Park, Hampshire, who served in the royal households from around 1461 until his death in 1498. Rising to high office during the reign of Henry VI, he was an Usher to the Chamber of Edward IV and, by 1476, to his queen Elizabeth Woodville. Closely within the sphere of Woodville patronage, he was a favourer of Edward V, and was a leader in the Kentish rising of 1483 against Richard III. He was attainted in 1483, but was soon afterwards pardoned, and fully regained his position and estate as Esquire to Henry VII and Elizabeth of York after the Battle of Bosworth Field. He established the Carshalton branch of the Gainsford family. The Gainsfords of Crowhurst Through several generat ...
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Thomas Gainsford
Thomas Gainsford (died 1624) was an author and news editor. Gainsford belonged to the Surrey family of Gainsford. He inherited property in Lombard Street in the City of London. He and Edward Stene apparently purchased of the crown Alne manor, Warwickshire, and a cottage in Stutton, Yorkshire, on 27 November 1599 (Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1598–1601, p. 347). He is known to have served in Ireland under Richard de Burgh, fourth earl of Clanricarde, as "third officer" of the "earl's regiment" when the Spaniards were dislodged from Kinsale on 24 December 1601. He was also engaged in the war against Tyrone in Ulster. As captain, Gainsford undertook to occupy land in Ulster at the plantation of 1610 (Irish State Papers, 1608–10, p. 367). Gainsford is reputed to have been the first London periodical news editor. Ben Jonson, associating the source of these publications with the stationer Thomas Archer's bookshop in Pope's Head Alley between the Exchange and Lombard Street, re ...
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Gainsford End
Gainsford End is a hamlet in the civil parish of Toppesfield, and the Braintree district of Essex, England. The hamlet is southwest from the parish village of Toppesfield. Gainsford End, with the village of Toppesfield, won first prize in the 2016 Essex Village of the Year competition To the south of the hamlet is Gainsford End Mill, a Grade II listed former corn windmill dating to 1869. By 1974 the mill was derelict, but was subsequently refurbished as a private home, selling for £1.1 million in 2017.Booker John M. L. (1974) ''Essex and the industrial revolution'', Essex County Council Essex County Council is the county council that governs the non-metropolitan county of Essex in England. It has 75 councillors, elected from 70 divisions, and is currently controlled by the Conservative Party. The council meets at County Hall ... Record Office, p.84, References External links * Braintree District Hamlets in Essex {{Essex-geo-stub ...
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