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Gyles
Gyles is a masculine given name and a surname. Bearers of the name include: Surname * Abbey-Anne Gyles (born 1997), English model * Alfred William Gyles (1888–1967), New Zealand chess player * Althea Gyles (1867–1949), Irish poet * Ced Gyles (born c. 1928), Canadian football player * George Gyles (1877–1959), Canadian sailor * Harry Gyles (1880–1959), Australian rules footballer * Henry Gyles (1640–1709), English glass painter * John Gyles (1678–1755), American interpreter * John Gyles (MP) (died 1406), English politician * Mascal Gyles (1595–1652), English polemic * Roger Gyles (born 1938), Australian judge * Thomas Gyles, English politician Given name * Gyles Brandreth (born 1948), English writer * Gyles Isham (1903–1976), English actor * Gyles Longley (1918–2015), British officer * Gyles Mackrell (1889–1959), British tea planter See also * Giles (given name) * Giles (surname) The surname Giles or Gyles comes from the given name Giles, for which multi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abbey-Anne Gyles
Abbey-Anne Gyles-Brown (born March 12, 1997) is an English model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned as Miss Earth England 2018. She represented England at Miss Earth 2018 Abbey-Anne was awarded the Ms Junca Beauty 2018 sponsor award. Life and career Abbey-Anne Gyles studied performing arts at Northampton College and worked as match day hostess at Leicester City Football Club Abbey-Anne works as an International model. She has modelled all over the UK, Europe, South Pacific & Asia. . Abbey-Anne passed all of her British Theatre Dance Association exams with platinum and distinction. Abbey-Anne is the Lead Youth Activist For Clean Up Britain organisation, which organises school tours to teach children about litter, television guesting and radio interviews, by posting on social media, and attending/organising events or by organising events. She also launched the first inland 2 Minute Litter pick boards in leamington spa for the Now Or Never Campaign which is a new ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Gyles
Roger Vincent Gyles (born 22 August 1938) is a former Australian judge who is currently the Independent National Security Legislation Monitor. In this role he is tasked to monitor and examine the Australian Government’s new counter-terrorism legislation. He has previously been an Acting Judge of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, a judge of the Federal Court of Australia and a Royal Commissioner. Early life Gyles was educated at Newington College (1950–1954) and graduated from the University of Sydney with First Class Honours in Law in 1961. Legal career After practising as a solicitor, Gyles was admitted to the New South Wales Bar in 1964 and took silk in 1975. He acted as Master in Equity in 1975 and as a Judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales in 1989. Between 1982 and 1984 he acted as Special Commonwealth Prosecutor into Bottom of the harbour tax avoidance, and between 1990 and 1992 he was Royal Commissioner into the Building Indust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giles (given Name)
Giles or Gyles is a masculine given name. Giles () is the Medieval English form of the name of the French hermit '' Saint Giles'',"qui avoit nom Giles de nos avons ceste vile conquise par la dieu Landas, et fu feruz par mi l'ueil.." which itself is the Old French form of the Latin name Aegidius. The modern French forms are Gilles and the less common Égide. Notable people with this given name ;Giles * Saint Giles, 7th/8th-century Christian hermit saint * Giles of Assisi, Aegidius of Assisi, 13th-century companion of St. Francis of Assisi * Giles of Rome, 13th-century archbishop * Giles Blunt (born 1952), Canadian novelist and screenwriter * Giles Chichester (born 1946), British Conservative Party politician * Giles Coren (born 1969), British journalist * Giles Corey (1621–1692), victim of the Salem witch trials * Giles Fraser (born 1964), English Anglican priest and broadcaster * Giles Gilbert Scott (1880–1960), British architect * Giles Henderson (born 1942), CBE, Master ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gyles Mackrell
__NOTOC__ Gyles Mackrell DFC GM (9 October 1888 – 20 February 1959) was a British tea planter known for organising a rescue of refugees retreating from the advancing Japanese across the Burma-India border during World War II. Mackrell was a shikari in Shillong, Assam with his own elephant transport business and also acted as an agent for the tea agents Octavius Steel & Co. On 4 June 1942, some refugees managed to cross the Dapha River, which had been swollen by monsoon rains, by forming a human chain and told Mackrell about the great difficulty others were experiencing trying to cross the Chaukan PassThe Chaukan Pass () lies between the Indian Lohit District of Arunachal Pradesh and the Burmese Kachin State. at the Burma-India border. When the monsoon winds and river calmed he decided to use his elephants to help. "These elephants are quite capable of such a daunting task," he said and by September had rescued about 200 people, mainly British and Indian soldiers, feeding ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gyles Longley
Oliver Gyles Longley CBE MC (30 September 1918 - 28 May 2015) was a British Army officer of the Second World War who won the Military Cross in 1943 for his actions in Italy while commanding a squadron of 44th Reconnaissance Regiment near Battipaglia. Longley had a number of narrow escapes during his military service, including stepping on a mine that failed to explode.Gyles Longley, Reconnaissance officer - obituary. '''', 15 June 2015. Retrieved 18 June 2015. Longley was born in the London district of Streatham, the son of an officer in the |
Gyles Isham
Sir Gyles Isham, 12th Baronet (31 October 1903 – 29 January 1976) was an English aristocrat, actor (who appeared in several films in the 1930s) and historian. Life and career Gyles Isham was born 31 October 1903 in Lamport, Northamptonshire, England to Sir Vere Isham, the 11th Baronet of Lamport, and his wife Millicent Vaughan. Educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1926 he was President of the Oxford Union and graduated as a Bachelor of Arts (promoted to M.A. in 1930). He became an actor, appearing from 1929 to 1938 in several Shakespeare plays at the Old Vic Theatre in London, the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, and other venues. He also appeared from 1933 to 1937 in ten films, including the acclaimed ''Anna Karenina'' of 1935. Enlisting in the British Army during the Second World War, in 1940 he was commissioned as an officer into the King's Royal Rifle Corps and served in Libya in the Western Desert Campaign, by 1943 reaching the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He also s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gyles Brandreth
Gyles Daubeney Brandreth (born 8 March 1948) is an English broadcaster, writer and former politician. He has worked as a television presenter, theatre producer, journalist, author and publisher. He was a presenter for TV-am's '' Good Morning Britain'' in the 1980s, and has been regularly featured on Channel 4's game show ''Countdown'' and the BBC's ''The One Show''. On radio, he makes frequent appearances on the BBC Radio 4 programme '' Just a Minute''. In 1992, Brandreth was elected to the House of Commons as the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for the City of Chester constituency. He served until he was defeated in 1997, and resumed his career in the media. He has written both fiction and non-fiction books, and makes appearances as a public speaker. Early life Brandreth was born on 8 March 1948 in Wuppertal, West Germany, where his father, Charles Brandreth, was serving as a legal officer with the Allied Control Commission. He moved to London with his parents at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Gyles
Thomas Gyles ( fl. 1402–1406) of Dover, Kent, was an English politician. Family He was the son of John Gyles, also an MP for Dover and Mayor of Dover. The name of Thomas' mother is unrecorded. At some point before February 1413, Thomas married a woman named Martha. Career He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England The Parliament of England was the legislature of the Kingdom of England from the 13th century until 1707 when it was replaced by the Parliament of Great Britain. Parliament evolved from the great council of bishops and peers that advised ... for Dover in 1402 and 1406. He was mayor of Dover in 1406–1408 and 1413–14. References 14th-century births 15th-century deaths English MPs 1402 Mayors of Dover English MPs 1406 {{15thC-England-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mascal Gyles
Mascal Gyles (died 1652), was an English polemic. Gyles was vicar of Ditchling, Sussex, from 1621 till about 1644. In 1648 he became vicar of Wartling, also in Sussex, as appears by an order of the House of Lords, 2 March of that year. Gyles was buried at Wartling 14 August 1652. By Sarah his wife (died 1640) he had a numerous family of sons and daughters. Gyles was engaged in a controversy, carried on with the usual personalities and violent invective of the period, with Thomas Barton (17th century rector), Thomas Barton, rector of Westmeston in Sussex, as to the propriety of bowing at the name of Jesus. He wrote: * &c., dedicated to Anthony Stapley, M.P. for Sussex (UK Parliament constituency), Sussex, London, 1642, 4to, reprinted with Barton's reply, 1643. * ''A Defense of a Treatise against Superstitious Jesu-Worship, falsely called scandalous, against the truly scandalous Answer of the Parson of Westmenston [sic] in Sussex,'' &c., dedicated to the House of Commons of England ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred William Gyles
Alfred William Gyles (7 March 1888 – 15 May 1967) was New Zealand chess champion on two occasions—1930/31 and 1935/36. Gyles was born in Wellington, New Zealand Wellington ( mi, Te Whanganui-a-Tara or ) is the capital city of New Zealand. It is located at the south-western tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Remutaka Range. Wellington is the second-largest city in New Zealand by me ... and died in Levin. References Further reading *''30th Congress of the New Zealand Chess Association'' *''Who's Who in New Zealand'' **7th ed., 1961, p. 145 **8th ed., 1964, p. 146 **9th ed., 1968, p. 355 1888 births 1967 deaths New Zealand chess players {{NewZealand-chess-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gyles (MP)
John Gyles (died c. 1406) of Dover, Kent, was an English politician. Family He was married, but his wife's name is unrecorded. He had two sons, Peter, a clerk, and Thomas, an MP and king's esquire. Career By 1366, he was a tavern owner and in 1368 he was fined 10s for stabbing a man with a dagger. He attended the coronation of Richard II of England as a canopy bearer. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Dover in 1385, 1386, February 1388, September 1388, January 1390, 1391, 1393, 1395 and 1399. He was Mayor of Dover Mayor In many countries, a mayor is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town. Worldwide, there is a wide variance in local laws and customs regarding the powers and responsibilities of a mayor ... during the periods September 1382 – 1384, 1389–1391, 1392–3, 1399–1400 and 1401–2. References 14th-century births 1406 deaths English MPs 1385 English MPs 1386 Members of the P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gyles
John Gyles (1680 at Pemaquid, Maine1755 at Roxbury, Boston) was an interpreter and soldier, most known for his account of his experiences with the Maliseet tribes at their headquarters at Meductic, on the Saint John River. King William's War During King William's War, in 1689, when he was nine years of age, he was living with his family at Fort Charles. On 2 August, while labouring with his father Thomas near the new fort, he was taken prisoner by Maliseets in the Siege of Pemaquid (1689). His father was killed, one brother James was taken by the Penobscot, and only one brother escaped. John was conveyed up the Penobscot River, across portages to the Chiputneticook Lakes, and on to the main Maliseet village Meductic. , held in slavery by Madockawando for attempting to escape, were tortured by fire, compelled to eat their noses and ears and then burned to death at the stake" (SeJohn Gyles' captivity narrative, p. 10-11. For six years, Gyles was a Slavery among the ind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
