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Gregson is a surname. People *Alf Gregson (1889–1968), English footballer *Edward Gregson (born 1945), English composer *John Gregson (1919–1975), English actor * Joseph Gelson Gregson (1835–1909), a Baptist preacher from England who worked with British Indian Army * Matthew Gregson (1749–1824), English antiquary * Michael Craig (actor) (born Michael Francis Gregson, 1929), English actor and screenwriter * Natasha Gregson Wagner (1970) American actress *Randy Gregson (c. 1919 – 2010), American tennis player and official * Richard Gregson (1930-2019), English film producer and screenwriter *Thomas Gregson (1798–1874), Premier of Tasmania * William Gregson (slave trader) (1721–1800), English slave trader and Lord Mayor of Liverpool *William Gregson (barrister) (1790–1863), English barrister and Home Office under-secretary * William Gregson (cricketer) (1877–1963), Scottish cricketer Fictional characters *Michael Gregson, a character in the show ''Downton Abbey'' *In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alf Gregson
Alfred Gregson (2 March 1889 – March 1968) was an English professional Association football, football inside left who played in the The Football League, Football League for Grimsby Town F.C., Grimsby Town and Bury F.C., Bury. Personal life Gregson was married with a daughter born in 1915 and a son, who died in infancy in May 1917. In 1914, he was working as a tinsmith. In February 1915, six months after the outbreak of the First World War, Gregson enlisted as a Private (rank), private with the Football Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment. He suffered a gunshot wound to the left thigh near Bruay-la-Buissière in April 1916. Gregson finished the war as a corporal in the 4th (Service) Battalion and was Military discharge, discharged from the British Army during World War I, army in March 1920. Career statistics References English footballers English Football League players Association football inside forwards Rochdale A.F.C. players Grimsby Town F.C. players 1889 bir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Gregson (slave Trader)
William Gregson (12 January 1721 – 1800) was a British slave trader. He was responsible for at least 152 slave voyages, and his slave ships are recorded as having carried 58,201 Africans, of whom 9,148 died. Gregson was the co-owner of a ship called the ''Zong'', whose crew perpetrated the ''Zong'' massacre. Early life William Gregson was born on 12 January 1721 in Liverpool and worked as a rope maker in his youth. Slave trade Gregson was one of Britain's most prolific slave traders with at least 152 slave voyages recorded to his name. The only slave traders based in the Port of Liverpool with more recorded voyages were William Boats with 157 and William Davenport with 155. Gregson's vessels are recorded as having carried 58,201 Africans, of whom 9,148 died on board. Gregson plied the Atlantic slave trade route. His ships left the Port of Liverpool loaded with goods to be traded for enslaved people in Africa. They were then taken to the Caribbean or Spanish America to be so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English-language Surnames
English is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots language, Scots, and then closest related to the Low German, Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is Genetic relationship (linguistics), genealogically West Germanic language, West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by Langues d'oïl, dialects of France (about List of English words of French origin, 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elementary (TV Series)
''Elementary'' is an American procedural drama television series that presented a contemporary update of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's character Sherlock Holmes. It was created by Robert Doherty and starred Jonny Lee Miller as Sherlock Holmes and Lucy Liu as Dr. Joan Watson. The series premiered on CBS on September 27, 2012. It was set and filmed primarily in New York City. With 24 episodes per season, by the end of season two, Jonny Lee Miller became the actor who had portrayed Sherlock Holmes in the most episodes on television or in film. The show follows Holmes, a recovering drug addict and former consultant to Scotland Yard, as he assists the New York City Police Department in solving crimes. His indifference to police procedure often leads to conflict with Captain Thomas Gregson (Aidan Quinn), although the two still remain respectful of one another. Holmes is accompanied by Dr. Joan Watson (Lucy Liu), who initially acts as his sober companion. She is a former surgeon and was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minor Sherlock Holmes Characters
This article describes minor characters from the ''Sherlock Holmes'' stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and from non-canonical derived works. The list excludes the titular character as well as Dr. Watson, Professor Moriarty, Inspector Lestrade, Mycroft Holmes, Mrs. Hudson, Irene Adler, Colonel Moran, the Baker Street Irregulars, and characters not significant enough to mention. Inspectors Inspector Baynes Inspector Baynes of the Surrey force appears in the two-part story " The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge", subtitled (i) "The Singular Experience of Mr John Scott Eccles", and (ii) "The Tiger of San Pedro". He is the only official policeman in the books to have ever matched Sherlock Holmes in his investigative skills. He is described as a very heavy man with a "puffy" face, but very intelligent eyes. In this story, the reader finds that, despite working along different lines, Holmes and Baynes both arrive at the correct conclusion and solve the case at the same time. In fact, Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Downton Abbey
''Downton Abbey'' is a British historical drama television series set in the early 20th century, created and co-written by Julian Fellowes. The series first aired in the United Kingdom on ITV on 26 September 2010 and in the United States on PBS, which supported production of the series as part of its ''Masterpiece Classic'' anthology, on 9 January 2011. The series, set on the fictional Yorkshire country estate of Downton Abbey between 1912 and 1926, depicts the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their domestic servants in the post-Edwardian era—the great events of the time having an effect on their lives and on the British social hierarchy. Events depicted throughout the series include news of the sinking of the ''Titanic'' in the first series; the outbreak of the First World War, the Spanish influenza pandemic, and the Marconi scandal in the second series; the Irish War of Independence leading to the formation of the Irish Free State in the third series; the Te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Gregson (cricketer)
William Russell Gregson (5 August 1877 – 18 June 1963) was a Scottish cricketer active from 1906 to 1907 who played for Lancashire. He was born in Glasgow and died in Lancaster. He appeared in five first-class matches as a righthanded batsman who bowled right arm fast. He scored 62 runs with a highest score of 26 and took 24 wicket In cricket, the term wicket has several meanings: * It is one of the two sets of three stumps and two bails at either end of the pitch. The fielding team's players can hit the wicket with the ball in a number of ways to get a batsman out. ...s with a best analysis of five for 8. Notes 1877 births 1963 deaths Scottish cricketers Lancashire cricketers {{england-cricket-bio-1870s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Gregson (barrister)
William Gregson (1790–1863) was a British barrister and parliamentary draftsman. He assisted in drafting a variety of laws in the 1820s and 1830s, including the 1832 Great Reform Act, and was private secretary to Robert Peel. He served as under-secretary of state for the Home Department for three months in 1835. Life Born in Liverpool in 1790, Gregson studied classics at Brasenose College, Oxford, graduating with a first-class degree in 1810. His examiners on that occasion called his work the best they had ever seen. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1815. From early in his career he acted as private secretary to the Tory, later Conservative, politician Robert Peel. He was employed as counsel by successive home secretaries from 1826 to 1833, including under Whig governments, and assisted in the drafting of Peel's law reforms and the 1832 Great Reform Act. He served as under-secretary of state for the Home Department from 3 January to 18 April 1835 during the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Gregson
Thomas George Gregson (7 February 1796 – 4 January 1874) was the second Premier of Tasmania, serving from 26 February 1857 until 25 April 1857. Early life Gregson was born in Buckton, Northumberland, England, the son of John Gregson who was the nephew of Anthony Gregson, Snr. (d. 1806) the squire of Lowlynn. John Gregson possibly lived at Lowlynn with his family but was not the landowner of that estate. In 1806 Anthony Gregson Jnr inherited: Thomas George Gregson was to inherit from his bachelor cousin Anthony Gregson but after a family dispute Lowlynn passed to another family member a Henry Knight, son of the Rev. Thomas Knight of Ford. Thomas Gregson was educated in Edinburgh and migrated to Van Diemen's Land, (later renamed Tasmania) in 1821 with his wife as the result of the family differences. He brought over £3000 with him and was given a grant of 2500 acres (10 km²). Subsequently, he received an additional 1000 acres (4 km²). Gregson was made a magistr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Gregson
Edward Gregson (born 23 July 1945) is an English composer of instrumental and choral music, particularly for brass and wind bands and ensembles, as well as music for the theatre, film, and television. He was also principal of the Royal Northern College of Music. Early life and education He was born in Sunderland, England, in 1945. He studied composition (with Alan Bush) and piano at the Royal Academy of Music from 1963–7, winning five prizes for composition. Although his works have no opus numbers, he referred to his Oboe Sonata as his Opus 1 Career In 1988 he was nominated for an Ivor Novello award for his title music to BBC Television's Young Musician of the Year programmes, for which he also regularly officiated as a jury member and broadcaster. He was Principal of the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester from 1996–2008. There he faced criticism for the appointment of Malcolm Layfield, previously a violin teacher at the College, to the post of Head of Strin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Gregson
Richard John Gregson (5 May 1930 – 21 August 2019) was a British talent agent, film producer and screenwriter. Career Gregson spent his early career working in America, alongside stars such as Robert Redford, Julie Christie, Alan Bates and Gene Hackman and director John Schlesinger. He married the American actress Natalie Wood on 30 May 1969. The couple filed for divorce on 4 August 1971, and the divorce was finalised in April of the following year. Together they had one child, the actress Natasha Gregson Wagner, born 1970. Gregson was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay at the 33rd Academy Awards for his work on '' The Angry Silence'' with his elder brother Michael Craig and Bryan Forbes. Among his clients were Joe Janni, John Schlesinger and Alan Bates.Brian McFarlane, ''An Autobiography of British Cinema'', Metheun 1997 p. 246-248 Personal life He was born in India to Violet Hanson, a granddaughter of Reginald Hanson, who was Lord Mayor o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Randy Gregson
Randy Gregson (December 11, 1918 – May 23, 2010) was an American tennis player and official. He was the president of the United States Tennis Association from 1985 to 1986. Early life James Randolph (Randy) Gregson was born on December 11, 1918, in Jonesboro, Arkansas. He attended Arkansas State University, where he played tennis, and he graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in petroleum engineering. During World War II, he served in the United States Navy in the Pacific. After the war, he moved to New Orleans, Louisiana. ‹› Career Gregson became a successful amateur tennis player in New Orleans, where he joined the New Orleans Lawn Tennis Club (the oldest tennis club in the Americas) in 1948, and later in the region and the nation. For example, he won the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships in singles and doubles for the 45s and 65s age divisions. He also won 25 Southern Championships in singles and doubles, including father-son doubles. He competed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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