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Gardiner (surname)
Gardiner is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Addison Gardiner (1797–1883), New York Lieutenant Governor and Chief Judge * Ainsley Gardiner, film producer from New Zealand * Sir Alan Gardiner (1879–1963), English Egyptologist * Albert Gardiner, Australian politician * Alfred George Gardiner (1865–1946), English journalist and essayist * Allen Francis Gardiner (1794–1851), English missionary * Anthony W. Gardiner (1820–1885), President of Liberia * Antoinette Avril Gardiner (born 1941), known as Princess Muna al-Hussein, second wife of King Hussein of Jordan * Asa Bird Gardiner (1839–1919), American lawyer and politician * Barry Gardiner (born 1957), Scottish politician * Bernard Gardiner (c. 1668–1726), English academic administrator * Boris Gardiner (born 1943), Jamaican reggae musician * Charlie Gardiner (ice hockey player) (1904–1934), Scottish-born Canadian ice hockey player * Charles Gardiner (1720–1769), Irish politician and landow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a 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, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 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 (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Gardiner
Christopher Gardiner (born 5 January 1986 in Bellshill) is a Scottish football striker. Gardiner began his career with Heart of Midlothian, but failed to make an appearance for the first team. He had a 6-month loan spell with Clyde in 2005. BBC Sport - Retrieved 28 August 2008 He left Hearts in July 2005, and joined Elgin City
Elgin City Football Club (also known as City or The Black and Whites) is a professional senior football club based in Elgin, Moray.
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Henry Balfour Gardiner
Henry Balfour Gardiner (7 November 1877 – 28 June 1950) was a British musician, composer, and teacher. He was born at Kensington (London), began to play at the age of 5 and to compose at 9. Between his conventional education at Charterhouse School and New College, Oxford, where he obtained only a pass degree, Gardiner was a piano student at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt, where he was taught by Iwan Knorr and Lazzaro Uzielli, who had been a pupil of Clara Schumann. He belonged to the Frankfurt Group, a circle of composers who studied at the Hoch Conservatory in the late 1890s. With George Gardiner (no relation) he collected folk songs in Hampshire (1905–1906),Purslow, F; Marrowbones, English Folk Songs from the Hammond and Gardiner Collections; London; 2007 pp xvi–xvii taught music briefly at Winchester College (1907), and composed. His works included compositions in a variety of genres, including two symphonies (No 2 premiered at the Proms in 1908), but many of h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Gardiner (footballer)
Henry Gardiner (1868 – 1922) was a Scottish footballer who played in the Football League for Bolton Wanderers Bolton Wanderers Football Club () is a professional football club based in Horwich, Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, which competes in . The club played at Burnden Park for 102 years from 1895 after moving from their original home at Pike's .... References 1868 births 1922 deaths Scottish footballers Footballers from Kilmarnock English Football League players Scottish Football League players Renton F.C. players Rangers F.C. players Bolton Wanderers F.C. players English Football League representative players Association football defenders FA Cup Final players {{Scotland-footy-defender-1860s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Gardiner
Harry H. Gardiner (1871 – perhaps 1933), better known as the Human Fly, was an American man famous for climbing buildings. He began climbing in 1905, and successfully climbed over 700 buildings in Europe and North America, usually wearing ordinary street clothes and using no special equipment. "One hundred and twenty of those who have sought to imitate me in this hazardous profession have fallen to death," Gardiner is quoted as saying in a 1905 article published in ''Muscle Builder''. "There is no chance of 'rehearsing' your performance. Each new building is an unknown problem. If you do not guess the right answer, death awaits below, with a breath of up-rushing air, and arms of concrete." Former President Grover Cleveland reportedly nicknamed him "The Human Fly." When he visited Logan, West Virginia in January 1927, the '' Logan Banner '' described him as a "boyish-looking man of 57 years." Gardiner reportedly moved to Europe after New York enacted legislation forbidding anyo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald Gardiner, Baron Gardiner
Gerald Austin Gardiner, Baron Gardiner, (30 May 1900 – 7 January 1990) was a British Labour politician, who served as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain from 1964 to 1970 and during that time he introduced into British law as many reforms as any Lord Chancellor had done before or since. In that position he embarked on a great programme of reform, most importantly setting up the Law Commission in 1965.ODNB article by Norman S. Marsh, 'Gardiner, Gerald Austin, Baron Gardiner (1900–1990)', rev., Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200ODNB Online accessed 27 March 2008. Early life and education His father was Robert Septimus Gardiner (died 16 November 1939) and his mother was Alice von Ziegesar (died 31 January 1953), daughter of Count von Ziegesar and granddaughter of Dionysius Lardner. Gardiner was born in Chelsea, London and attended Harrow School. When his father visited him at Harrow he noticed a copy of ''The Nation'', later incorporate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Gardiner (soldier)
George Gardiner (1821 – 17 November 1891) was born in Clonallon, Warrenpoint, County Down and was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Details He was about 34 years old, and a sergeant in the 57th Regiment of Foot (later The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own)), British Army during the Crimean War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC. On 22 March 1855 at Sebastopol, Crimea, Sergeant Gardiner acted with great gallantry upon the occasion of a sortie by the enemy, in having rallied the covering parties which had been driven in by the Russians, thus regaining the trenches. On 18 June during the attack on the Redan he himself remained and encouraged others to remain in the holes made by the explosions of the shells, and whence they were able to keep up a continuous fire until their ammunition was exhau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Gardiner (settler)
George Gardiner (1608/1615 - c. 1677), sometimes spelled Gardner, was an early inhabitant of Newport in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, and one of the original settlers of Aquidneck Island. He held some minor offices within the colony in the early 1640s, shortly after which he began a common-law marriage with Herodias (Long) Hicks, who came to live with him after separating from her first husband. This relationship lasted for nearly 20 years, after which Herodias petitioned the court to have Gardiner leave her alone, and she left Newport to go west of the Narragansett Bay and live with John Porter, a land-rich settler who was one of the original purchasers of the Pettaquamscutt lands (later South Kingstown, Rhode Island). Gardiner apparently had seven children with Herodias, and after her departure, five more with subsequent wife Lydia Ballou. His family produced a large number of descendants. A grandson, John Gardner served as Deputy Governor of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Gardiner (folk-song Collector)
George Barnet Gardiner (1852 – 1910) was a Scottish-born folk-song collector who collected songs from traditional singers in Southern England, chiefly in Hampshire, but also in Surrey, Sussex, Somerset and other counties. He collected over 1,400 songs in a six-year period between 1904 and his death in 1910. Biography Early life, education and career Gardiner was born in Kincardine-on-Forth, Fife, Scotland. He studied classical subjects at the University of Edinburgh and after graduating became an assistant there. From 1883 he taught at Edinburgh Academy, where he met and formed a friendship with fellow teacher Henry Edward Denison Hammond, with whom he shared an interest in folk song. He retired in 1896 to translate and write textbooks.Purslow, F; Marrowbones, ''English Folk Songs from the Hammond and Gardiner Collections''; London; 2007 pp. xvi-xvii Folk song collecting In 1903, he began a "systematic study" of European folk song, building up a large collection of songs and le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Gardiner (politician)
Sir George Arthur Gardiner (3 March 1935 – 16 November 2002) was a British Conservative Party politician and journalist who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Reigate from 1974 to 1997. Two months before the 1997 general election he defected to the Referendum Party, becoming the only MP it ever had. The party dissolved later that year. Political scientists David Butler and Dennis Kavanagh described Gardiner as "a staunch right-wing Thatcherite". Early life and career Born at Bush Bungalow in Waltham Abbey, Gardiner was the son of Stanley Frederick, a gasworks manager, and Ethel Emma (née Gale) Gardiner, a bookkeeper. Gardiner's parents divorced when he was 10, at the end of the Second World War. As an only child (though he would gain two half-brothers from his father's second marriage), from this point he was raised by his mother as a single parent who worked in a butcher's shop and lived in a cheaply rented home. He was educated at The Harvey Grammar Scho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Gardiner
Frederick Goldwin Gardiner, (January 21, 1895 – August 21, 1983) was a Canadian politician, lawyer and businessman. He was the first chairman of Metropolitan Toronto council, the governing body for the Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto, from 1953 to 1961. As Metro Chairman, Gardiner, nicknamed "Big Daddy," was a staunch advocate of growth and expansion and was responsible for many capital works projects, including the Gardiner Expressway (named for him) and the Don Valley Parkway. Gardiner, after graduating first in his law class, became a well-known criminal lawyer. He invested in various businesses, including consumer credit, sawmills, manufacturing and mining. At one time, he was the largest shareholder in the Toronto-Dominion Bank. Gardiner was a prominent member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in both federal and provincial politics, organized conventions and developed policy in the 1930s and 1940s. He was instrumental in the updating of the Conservat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Gardiner
Frank Gardiner (1830 – c. 1882) was an Australian bushranger who gained infamy for his lead role in the a robbery of a gold escort at Eugowra, New South Wales in June 1862. It is considered the largest gold heist in Australian history. Gardiner and his gang, which included bushrangers Ben Hall, John O'Meally, Johnny Gilbert, Henry Manns, Alexander Fordyce, John Bow and Dan Charters, made off with a pile of cash and 77 kilograms of gold, worth about $10 million today. After several years in prison for the robbery, Gardiner was exiled and moved to the United States, where he died on or about 1882. Early life Gardiner, born Francis Christie, was born in 1830 in Rosshire, Scotland. He migrated to Australia as a child in 1834. Also aboard was Henry Monro, a wealthy Scottish businessman who would soon form a relationship with his mother, Jane.Morrison 2003 In 1835 Monro appointed his father, Charles Christie, as overseer of his property at Boro Creek, south of Goulburn. In 183 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
