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Grainger (surname)
Grainger is a surname of English origin.Grainger Name Meaning and Origin Retrieved on 2007-12-01 It is a variant of the surname '''' which is an occupational name for a farm bailiff.Granger Name Meaning and Origin Retrieved on 2007-12-01 The farm bailiff oversaw the collection of rent and taxes from the barns and storehouses of the |
Surname
In some cultures, a surname, family name, or last name is the portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family, tribe or community. Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name, as the forename, or at the end; the number of surnames given to an individual also varies. As the surname indicates genetic inheritance, all members of a family unit may have identical surnames or there may be variations; for example, a woman might marry and have a child, but later remarry and have another child by a different father, and as such both children could have different surnames. It is common to see two or more words in a surname, such as in compound surnames. Compound surnames can be composed of separate names, such as in traditional Spanish culture, they can be hyphenated together, or may contain prefixes. Using names has been documented in even the oldest historical records. Examples of surnames are documented in the 11th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Grainger (cricketer)
George Grainger (11 November 1887 — 17 August 1977) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire between 1909 and 1921. Grainger was born in Morton, Derbyshire. He began his cricket career for Derbyshire in the 1909 season, making his debut against Lancashire. He was moved up the batting order for the first innings in his next game but did not capitalise on it. He played just one match during the 1910 season, but did not play another game for eleven years. Grainger made his return in the first half of the 1921 season, at the age of 34 and took 4-91 bowling against Somerset. He played one more match in a season when Derbyshire finished in twelfth place in the County Championship. He was a left-handed batsman who played 9 innings in 5 first-class games with a top score of 10 and an average of 6.0. He was a left-arm slow-medium bowler and took 7 wickets with an average of 49.71. Grainger died in Walton, Derbyshire Walton is a suburb of Chest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Grainger
Martin Grainger (born 23 August 1972) is an English former professional footballer who played as a defender. He made 380 appearances and scored 44 goals in the Football League and Premier League. He was an attacking left back who could also play further up the field or even as a winger and was a dead ball specialist. Playing career An experienced player, his career started in 1989 at Colchester United, where he made 37 league starts between July 1992 and October 1993, before moving on to Brentford on 21 October for a fee of £60,000. He was a first-team regular throughout his time at the club, making 100 league starts and scoring 12 goals. He joined Birmingham City on 25 March 1996, and quickly became an inspirational player due to his continued consistency and ability from set-pieces. He picked up the Player of the Season award for 1999–2000, and played for Birmingham in the 2001 Football League Cup Final loss to Liverpool, missing one of the spot kicks in the shootout. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Allerdale Grainger
Martin Allerdale Grainger (17 November 1874 – 15 October 1941) was a Canadian journalist, forester and author. In literary circles, he is best known for his 1908 novel '' Woodsmen of the West'', a realist work about the logging industry. He was an influential figure in developing forestry in British Columbia, as primary author of the report that led to the ''Forestry Act'' of 1912, and as chief forester, a position he held from 1917 until 1920. Biography Grainger was born in London, England, the only child of (Henry) Allerdale Grainger (7 August 1848 – 17 December 1923) and his wife Isabella, née King, who married at Notting Hill on 20 October 1872. In 1876 they emigrated to Adelaide, South Australia, where Allerdale would found a newspaper and serve as a member of Parliament. Allerdale and Isabella separated in 1886 and she and Martin returned to England. As a child in Adelaide he was educated at St Peter's College and after returning to England attended Blundell's School ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katherine Grainger
Dame Katherine Jane Grainger (born 12 November 1975) is a British former rower and current Chair of UK Sport. She is a 2012 Summer Olympics gold medallist, four-time Olympic silver medallist and six-time World Champion. She served as Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University between 2015 and 2020, and is currently Chancellor of the University of Glasgow. Grainger first won silver at the Sydney Olympics in 2000 in the woman's quadruple sculls. In Athens in 2004, she won silver in the coxless pairs. In Beijing 2008 she won her third silver, again in the quadruple sculls. At the London Olympics 2012, Anna Watkins and Grainger broke the Olympic record as they qualified for the double sculls final, before winning the gold medal. Grainger won a silver medal at the Rio Olympic Games 2016 with Victoria Thornley, after a two-year break from the sport. Grainger has won eight medals at the World Championship between 1997 and 2011. Early life and education Born in Glasgow in 1975, she a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Harry Grainger
John Harry Grainger (30 November 1854 , (University of Melbourne). Although Percy Grainger erroneously recorded 1855 as his father's birth year, a footnote states that 1854 is the correct year. - 15 April 1917) was an Australian architect and civil engineer, who was also the father of musician . He designed 14 bridges, notably in Melbourne. As an architect, he designed half a dozen major public buildings, mainly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Grainger (politician)
John Grainger (c. 1803 – 5 December 1872) was an English real estate investor and member of the South Australian Legislative Council from February 1851 to December 1854. History He may have been the John Grainger who arrived in SA in September 1841 aboard the ''Lady Emma'' from Launceston. He was a significant buyer of land in South Australia, particularly in the Mitcham and Goolwa areas. He was, with Edward Stephens, C. H. Bagot, G. Tinline, G. F. Aston and others, investors ("The Nobs") in the "Princess Royal mine" of Burra, South Australia, which was never profitable, by contrast with the adjoining "Monster Mine" of the South Australian Mining Association ("Snobs") that repaid its investors handsomely. He purchased sections 1004 and 1287 in the Brownhill Creek region close to the old Mount Barker Road, where a small but profitable silver/lead/bismuth mine "Grainger Wheal" (or "Wheal Grainger") was established in 1848. He was appointed Justice of the Peace in August 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Grainger (footballer, Born 1924)
John Grainger (3 April 1924 – 10 January 1983) was an English professional footballer who played as a winger. Career Born in Darton, Grainger began his career at Frickley Colliery before making 394 appearances in the Football League for Rotherham United and Lincoln City between 1947 and 1959. He later played non-League football for Burton Albion. Personal life His brother Colin and cousins Jack, Dennis and Edwin Holliday Edwin Holliday (17 June 1939 – 4 October 2021) was an English professional footballer who played as an outside left. Early and personal life Holliday was born in Leeds, or possibly Barnsley, on 17 June 1939. He married in March 1958. He was ... were also all professional footballers. References 1924 births 1983 deaths English men's footballers Frickley Athletic F.C. players Rotherham United F.C. players Lincoln City F.C. players Burton Albion F.C. players English Football League players Men's association football wingers People from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Grainger (footballer, Born 1912)
John Grainger (17 July 1912 – 18 January 1976) was an English professional footballer who played as a full back. Career Born in Royston, Grainger played for Frickley Colliery, Royston Athletic, Barnsley, Southport, Prescot Cables, Hyde United, Clitheroe and Bangor City, as well as playing as a wartime guest for Liverpool. Personal life His brother Dennis Grainger and cousins Jack Jack may refer to: Places * Jack, Alabama, US, an unincorporated community * Jack, Missouri, US, an unincorporated community * Jack County, Texas, a county in Texas, USA People and fictional characters * Jack (given name), a male given name, ... and Colin were also professional footballers. References 1912 births 1976 deaths English men's footballers Frickley Athletic F.C. players Barnsley F.C. players Southport F.C. players Liverpool F.C. wartime guest players Prescot Cables F.C. players Hyde United F.C. players Clitheroe F.C. players Bangor City F.C. players English Footb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Grainger
John Grainger (1830, Belfast– 1891) was an Irish cleric and antiquarian. Grainger was educated at Belfast Academy and Trinity College, Dublin. After gaining a Doctorate of Divinity he became Rector of Broughshane, County Antrim. He was an indiscriminating collector, who filled his house with a mass of often unlabelled specimens including stuffed birds, shells, insects, coins, minerals, a dolmen, weapons from New Zealand, and archaeological finds. According to Robert Lloyd Praeger his collection of Irish stone tools was ‘’especially valuable as a study in the gentle art of forgery’’. Works Partial list * 1853.Catalogue of the Shells found in the Alluvial Deposits of a Belfast site of the Irish Mesolithic. ''Proc. Roy. Irish Acad''. 56 C, 1-195. * --- Results of excavations in High St., Belfast. ''Ulster Journ. Arch''. ix. 113-121. * 1874 On the Fossils of the Post-tertiary Deposits of Ireland. ''Rep. Bmt. Assoc'', for 1874 ; Sections, pp. 73–76. He was a member ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Grainger
James Grainger (c. 1721–1766) was a Scottish doctor, poet and translator. He settled on St. Kitts from 1759 until his death of a fever on 16 December 1766. As a writer, he is best known for his poem ''The Sugar Cane'', which is now valued as an important historical document.John Gilmore, ''The Poetics of Empire: A Study of James Grainger's The Sugar Cane'', The Athlone Press 2000p.1/ref> Early years and military career James Grainger was born about 1721 in Duns, Berwickshire, the son of John Grainger, a former tax collector of Cumbrian origin. After studying medicine at Edinburgh University, he served as a surgeon's mate with John Hadzor under Harry Pulteney with the Pulteney's Regiment of Foot during the 1745 Rebellion. Despite his father having Jacobite sympathies, James had strong Hanoverian views. He attained the rank of surgeon in June 1746 and went on to serve in Holland until the end of the War of the Austrian Succession in 1748. He remained on the armies rolls for s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Liddell-Grainger
Ian or Iain is a name of Scottish Gaelic origin, derived from the Hebrew given name (Yohanan, ') and corresponding to the English name John. The spelling Ian is an Anglicization of the Scottish Gaelic forename ''Iain''. It is a popular name in Scotland, where it originated, as well as other English-speaking countries. The name has fallen out of the top 100 male baby names in the United Kingdom, having peaked in popularity as one of the top 10 names throughout the 1960s. In 1900, Ian was the 180th most popular male baby name in England and Wales. , the name has been in the top 100 in the United States every year since 1982, peaking at 65 in 2003. Other Gaelic forms of "John" include "Seonaidh" ("Johnny" from Lowland Scots), "Seon" (from English), "Seathan", and "Seán" and "Eoin" (from Irish). Its Welsh counterpart is Ioan, its Cornish equivalent is Yowan and Breton equivalent is Yann. Notable people named Ian As a first name (alphabetical by family name) *Ian Agol (born 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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