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Grimshaw may refer to: Places *Grimshaw, Alberta, Canada * Grimshaw, Lancashire, England * Grimshaw, Texas, also known as Oil City, built during the beginning of the oil industry and named for Amos Grimshaw, on whose land oil was discovered People with the surname Grimshaw * Aiden Grimshaw (b. 1991), English singer * Arthur Edmund Grimshaw (1868-1913), English artist, composer, organist and conductor * Arthur John Grimshaw (1933-2019), Australian Anglican clergyman * Beatrice Grimshaw (1870-1953), Irish writer * Billy Grimshaw (1892-1968), English footballer * Charlotte Grimshaw, New Zealand novelist * Francis Grimshaw (1901-1965), British archbishop * Gary Grimshaw (1946-2014), American graphic artist and political activist * John Grimshaw (cyclist) (b. 1945), British cycling activist * John Grimshaw (politician) (1842-1917), American politician * John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893), English painter * John Elisha Grimshaw (1893-1980), English army officer, recipient of the Victo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grimshaw, Alberta
Grimshaw is a town in northern Alberta, Canada. It is approximately west of the Town of Peace River at the junction of Highway 2 and Highway 2A and along Mackenzie Northern Railway. By virtue of being the original starting point of Highway 35, which leads to the Northwest Territories, Grimshaw is referred to as Mile Zero of the Mackenzie Highway. History The town was named after Dr. M.E. Grimshaw, a pioneer doctor from Kingston, Ontario who settled in Peace River (then known as Peace River Crossing) in 1914. He practiced in the area for many years and also served at different capacities in the local government at the county and the village levels until 1922, retiring from politics as the mayor of Peace River. In 1929 he moved his family to Fairview, where he died in November of that year. Dr. Grimshaw would later be the posthumous father-in-law of actor John Carradine, who was married to Grimshaw's daughter, Doris Grimshaw (Doris Erving, Doris Rich), from 1957 until her d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Grimshaw
Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, CBE, PPRA (born 9 October 1939) is a prominent English architect, particularly noted for several modernist buildings, including London's Waterloo International railway station and the Eden Project in Cornwall. He was President of the Royal Academy from 2004 to 2011. He was chairman of Grimshaw Architects (formerly Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners) from its foundation to 2019, when he was succeeded by Andrew Whalley. He is a recipient of the RIBA Gold Medal. Biography Grimshaw was born in Hove, East Sussex 9 October 1939. His father was an engineer, and his mother a portrait painter and he inherited an interest in engineering and art. One of his great-grandfathers was a civil engineer who built dams in Egypt, and another was a physician who campaigned for the installation of Dublin's drainage and sanitation system after showing a link between waterborne diseases and streams joining River Liffey. His father died when he was two and a half, and he grew up with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ford Pinto
The Ford Pinto is a subcompact car that was manufactured and marketed by Ford Motor Company in North America from 1971 until 1980 model years. The Pinto was the first subcompact vehicle produced by Ford in North America. The Pinto was marketed in three body styles throughout its production: a two-door fastback sedan with a trunk, a three-door hatchback, and a two-door station wagon. Mercury offered rebadged versions of the Pinto as the Mercury Bobcat from 1975 until 1980 (1974–1980 in Canada). Over three million Pintos were produced over its ten-year production run, outproducing the combined totals of its domestic rivals, the Chevrolet Vega and the AMC Gremlin. The Pinto and Mercury Bobcat were produced at Edison Assembly in Edison, New Jersey, St. Thomas Assembly in Southwold, Ontario, and San Jose Assembly in Milpitas, California. Since the 1970s, the safety reputation of the Pinto has generated controversy. Its fuel-tank design attracted both media and government scru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grimshaw V
Grimshaw may refer to: Places *Grimshaw, Alberta, Canada * Grimshaw, Lancashire, England * Grimshaw, Texas, also known as Oil City, built during the beginning of the oil industry and named for Amos Grimshaw, on whose land oil was discovered People with the surname Grimshaw * Aiden Grimshaw (b. 1991), English singer * Arthur Edmund Grimshaw (1868-1913), English artist, composer, organist and conductor * Arthur John Grimshaw (1933-2019), Australian Anglican clergyman * Beatrice Grimshaw (1870-1953), Irish writer * Billy Grimshaw (1892-1968), English footballer * Charlotte Grimshaw, New Zealand novelist * Francis Grimshaw (1901-1965), British archbishop * Gary Grimshaw (1946-2014), American graphic artist and political activist * John Grimshaw (cyclist) (b. 1945), British cycling activist * John Grimshaw (politician) (1842-1917), American politician * John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893), English painter * John Elisha Grimshaw (1893-1980), English army officer, recipient of the Victo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grimshaw Guitars
Grimshaw Guitars (initially "Emile Grimshaw & Son") was a British manufacturer of guitars and related instruments from the 1930s to the 1980s, known for producing acoustic archtop guitars in the 1930s–1940s, electrified archtop guitars (with pickups) in the 1940s and 1950s, semi-solid (thinline) electric guitars in the 1950s–1960s, and mainly solidbody guitars from the late 1950s to 1980s, along with smaller quantities of banjos (including a "Vivavox" line), hawaiian guitars (both acoustic and solidbody electric), electric bass guitars, acoustic guitars (some with pickups) and nylon string guitars. Their archtop guitars were used by British players from the 1930s to the 1950s, when equivalent (and potentially higher quality) U.S.-made instruments were difficult to obtain in Britain, and their early electric thinline instruments such as the "S.S.1" and "S.S.1 deluxe" (S.S. standing for "short scale") were popular with British "beat" groups of the early 1960s. Sales declined in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grimshaw Architects
Grimshaw Architects (formerly Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners) is an architectural firm based in London. Founded in 1980 by Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, the firm was one of the pioneers of high-tech architecture. In particular, they are known for their design of transport projects including Amsterdam Bijlmer ArenA railway station, Waterloo International railway station and the award-winning Southern Cross railway station which was the recipient of the Royal Institute of British Architects Lubetkin Prize. Grimshaw is behind the design of the Sustainability Pavilion, an innovative net-zero building, for Expo 2020. The firm currently has offices in Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Dubai, Melbourne and Sydney, employing over 600 staff. Organisation Partners Grimshaw has 21 partners worldwide: Jolyon Brewis, Keith Brewis, Andrew Byrne, Vincent Chang, Andrew Cortese, Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, William Horgan, Mark Husser, Michael Janeke, Ewan Jones, Annelie Kvick Thompson, Kirsten Lees, D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grimshaw (chess)
A Grimshaw is a device found in chess problems in which two pieces arriving on a particular square mutually interfere with each other. It is named after the 19th-century problem composer Walter Grimshaw. The Grimshaw is one of the most common devices found in directmates. Examples with description The theme can be understood by reference to the displayed example by A. G. Corrias (published in ''Good Companion'', 1917). A. G. Corrias example The problem is a mate in two (White must move first and checkmate Black in two moves against any defense). The key is 1.Qb1, which threatens 2.Qb7#. Black has three ways to defend against this. * One is to play 1...c3, giving his king a new flight square at c4, but this unguards d3, allowing White to mate with 2.Qd3#. It is the other two black defenses, however, which show the Grimshaw theme. * Black can play 1...Bb2, thus cutting off the white queen's path to b7. However, the bishop on b2 interferes with the a2 rook and stops it moving a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Grimshaw
Walter Grimshaw (12 March 1832 – 27 December 1890) was a 19th-century British composer of chess problems. In 1854 he won the first ever chess problem composition tourney in London. He is perhaps best known for giving his name to the Grimshaw, a popular problem theme. Sample compositions This is one of his problems, a mate in five (white moves first, and must checkmate black within five moves against any defence) first published in the ''Illustrated London News'' in 1850. The key Key or The Key may refer to: Common meanings * Key (cryptography), a piece of information that controls the operation of a cryptography algorithm * Key (lock), device used to control access to places or facilities restricted by a lock * Key (map ... is 1.Bc8 which threatens 2.Qc5# or Qd2#. To defend, black plays 1...Bxc8 white plays 2.Qf6 (threatening 3.c4#) and now a Grimshaw interference comes into play: black can defend by cutting off the white queen from the defence of d6 with 2...Ne6 or 2... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trevor Grimshaw
Trevor Grimshaw (1947–2001) was an English artist whose main subject is the northern industrial town landscape as it used to be. Life and work Grimshaw was born in Hyde, Greater Manchester, Hyde, Cheshire in 1947 and studied at the Stockport College of Art from 1963 to 1968. He developed a unique style working in oils, charcoal and graphite to produce atmospheric, stylised images of the Northern industrial landscape, mainly in monochrome. As a child he had a passion for steam engines and trainspotting, which continued into adulthood; for example he made the journey to the Barry Scrapyard, scrapyard at Barry in South Wales which held hundreds of steam locomotives awaiting scrapping, and made a personal photographic record of the occasion, 34 photo images being used in his publication "Stilled Life". Much of his work overall features steam engines. He spent much of his working career at Manchester advertising agency Stowe Bowden Ltd. Artistic career Grimshaw exhibited widely ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tracy Grimshaw
Tracy Grimshaw (born 3 June 1960) is an Australian journalist and television presenter. She was the host of ''A Current Affair'' between 2006–2022, and was a co-host of ''Today'' between 1996–2005. Career Grimshaw's career began in 1981 when she joined '' Nine News'' in Melbourne as a reporter. In 1985 she began presenting news bulletins and by 1987 had been appointed the presenter of '' Nine Morning News''. Through the early 1990s, Grimshaw reported on overseas events for the Nine Network, as well as reporting for ''A Current Affair'' and hosting the program over the summer non-ratings period. In 1995, Grimshaw appeared as co-host of ''The Midday Show'' with David Reyne. The following year she was host of '' Today on Saturday'' and ''Animal Hospital''. In November 1996, Grimshaw was appointed the co-host of ''Today'' with Steve Liebmann, a position she held for nine years. She finished her role as co-host of ''Today'' on 23 December 2005 and was replaced by Jessica Rowe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Wrigley Grimshaw
Thomas Wrigley Grimshaw (16 November 1839 – 23 January 1900) was an Irish physician, surgeon and statistician who became Registrar General for Ireland from 1879 to 1900. Life He was born in Whitehouse, County Antrim, the only child of Wrigley Grimshaw and Alicia Grimshaw. His father Wrigley Grimshaw was an eminent dentist and was dental surgeon to Dr Steevens' Hospital and St. Mark's Hospital, Dublin. He entered Trinity College, Dublin in 1858 and graduated in Arts in 1860, proceeding to the M.B. and M. Chir., degrees in 1861, and M.D. in 1867, while working at Dr Steevens' Hospital and Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital. He became a physician to the Coombe Women's Hospital and held several lectureships in Dr Steevens' Hospital. In 1879 he was appointed Registrar General for Ireland. He was President of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, and was known as a distinguished statistician. He was also one of the founders of the Dublin Sanitary Association and of the Du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Grimshaw
Samuel Grimshaw (March 2, 1840 - November 9, 1918) was an American soldier who fought in the American Civil War. Grimshaw received his country's highest award for bravery during combat, the Medal of Honor. Grimshaw's medal was won for his actions in Atlanta, Georgia, when he threw away a lit shell that had fallen near his company on August 6, 1864. He was honored with the award on April 5, 1894. Grimshaw was born in Jefferson County, Ohio, entered service in Smithfield, Ohio, and was buried in Holton, Kansas Holton is a city in and the county seat of Jackson County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 3,401. History The party that chose the site of Holton started at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in May 1856. A .... Medal of Honor citation See also * List of American Civil War Medal of Honor recipients: G–L References {{DEFAULTSORT:Grimshaw, Samuel 1840 births 1918 deaths American Civil War recipients of the Medal of Honor Bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
