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Gerrard Street, London, Gerrard Street
Gerrard may refer to: People * Alfred Horace Gerrard (1899–1998), English sculptor * Anthony Gerrard (born 1986), English footballer * Edward Gerrard (footballer) (1900–1987), English footballer * James Joseph Gerrard, (1897–1991), American Roman Catholic bishop * Liam Gerrard, British-Irish actor * Lisa Gerrard (born 1961), Australian singer and composer * Marguerite Primrose Gerrard (1922–1993), Jamaican-born American artist * Mark Gerrard (born 1982), Australian rugby player * Paul Gerrard (born 1973), English goalkeeper * Sophie Gerrard (born 1978), Scottish photographer * Steven Gerrard (born 1980), English football manager and former player * William Tyrer Gerrard (1831–1866), English botanist and plant collector Places * Gerrards Cross, a village in Buckinghamshire * Gerrard, Colorado, Rio Grande County, Colorado * Gerrard, British Columbia, a ghost town See also * Gerrard Street (other), a street name in two cities * Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Horace Gerrard
Alfred Horace "Gerry" Gerrard RBS (7 May 1899 – 13 June 1998) was an English modernist sculptor. He was head of the sculpture department at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1925 and professor of sculpture there from 1949 to 1968, where he taught a number of well-known sculptors. Early life Gerrard was born on 7 May 1899 in Hartford, Cheshire where his family had been farming for four centuries. He was the youngest of five children and was directly descended from the 16th century herbalist John Gerard. Gerrard was educated at Northwich Technical School which he left in 1916. During the First World War, he served in the army with the Cameron Highlanders, the Black Watch and the Gordon Highlanders and in the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) from 1917. In the RFC, Gerrard flew Farman MF.11s and F.E.2Bs as a night bomber pilot, crashing and injuring his back on one occasion when his undercarriage fell off. Career After being demobilized Gerrard studied at the Manchester School of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Gerrard
Anthony Gerrard (born 6 February 1986) is a former professional footballer who played as a centre back. He made over 500 professional appearances in a career spent mainly in the English Football League, notably at Walsall where he won the 2006-07 League Two title and at Cardiff City where he was on the losing side as he faced his cousin Steven Gerrard's Liverpool side in the 2012 Football League Cup Final. He began his career at the Everton Academy but failed to break into their senior side. He qualified for the Republic of Ireland at international level through his grandparents and was capped at under-18 level. In July 2020 he announced his retirement from football. Club career Everton Born in Huyton, Merseyside, Gerrard joined the Everton Academy at age eight and appeared as captain for the youth academy at one point. His performance in the academy led Gerrard to sign his first professional contract in May 2004 After signing a professional contract with the club, Gerrard w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Gerrard (footballer)
Edward Gerrard (1 December 1900–1987) was an English footballer who played in the Football League for Preston North End Preston North End Football Club, commonly referred to as Preston, North End or PNE, is a professional football club in Preston, Lancashire, England, who currently play in the EFL Championship, the second tier of the English football league syste .... References 1900 births 1987 deaths English footballers Men's association football midfielders English Football League players Preston North End F.C. players People from Aspull {{England-footy-midfielder-1900s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Joseph Gerrard
James Joseph Gerrard (June 9, 1897 – June 3, 1991) was a bishop of the Catholic Church in the United States. He served as an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Fall River from 1959 to 1976. Biography Born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, James Gerrard was educated at Holy Family High School in New Bedford and St. Laurent College in Montreal. He studied for the priesthood at St. Bernard's Seminary in Rochester, New York and was ordained a priest on May 26, 1923, for the Diocese of Fall River. On February 2, 1959 Pope John XXIII appointed him as the Titular Bishop of ''Forma'' and Auxiliary Bishop of Fall River. He was consecrated by Bishop James Connolly on March 19, 1959. The principal co-consecrators were Bishop Russell McVinney of Providence and Auxiliary Bishop Jeremiah Minihan of Boston. Gerrard attended the second session of the Second Vatican Council. He served as auxiliary bishop until his resignation was accepted by Pope Paul VI on January 12, 1976. He died at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liam Gerrard
Liam Gerrard is a British-Irish film, television and theatre actor. He is also an acclaimed voice-over artist and audiobook narrator. He is best known for his BAFTA-nominated work: ''Walter Tull, Walter Tull: Britain's First Black Officer'', ''Peterloo (film), Peterloo'' and ''Coronation Street''. To date he has narrated over 100 audiobooks. Early life Gerrard was born and grew up in Kingston upon Hull before moving to Dubai in his early teens studying at the English College Dubai, before studying at Lancaster University and training at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. Career Gerrard made his film debut in the 2007 Hollywood film ''Death Defying Acts'' playing a reporter. The film also starred Guy Pearce, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Timothy Spall and Saoirse Ronan. He made his television debut in 2008 appearing in the television series ''Hollyoaks''. In 2008 he starred in 6 ''WKD Original Vodka'' comedy television commercials leading their ''have you got a WKD side?'' campaign. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Gerrard
Lisa Germaine Gerrard (; born 12 April 1961) is an Australian musician, singer and composer who rose to prominence as part of the music group Dead Can Dance with music partner Brendan Perry. She is known for her unique singing style technique (glossolalia), influenced by her childhood spent in multicultural areas of Melbourne. She has a dramatic contralto voice and has a vocal range of three octaves. Born and raised in Melbourne, Gerrard played a pivotal role in the city's Little Band scene and fronted post-punk group Microfilm before co-founding Dead Can Dance in 1981. With Perry, she explored numerous traditional and modern styles, laying the foundations for what became known as neoclassical dark wave. She sings sometimes in English and often in a unique language that she invented. In addition to singing, she is an instrumentalist for much of her work, most prolifically using the yangqin (a Chinese hammered dulcimer). Gerrard's first solo album, ''The Mirror Pool'', was re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marguerite Primrose Gerrard
Marguerite Primrose Gerrard (29 July 1922, Jamaica – 11 August 1993, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, born Marguerite Primrose Tyndale-Biscoe, was a Jamaica-born American botanical artist. Life and family Marguerite Primrose Tyndale-Biscoe was born in Jamaica on 29 July 1922 in a family of Robert Stafford Tyndale-Biscoe and Marguerite Eliza Wilson. In 1948 she married James Herbert Gerrard, taking Gerrard as her married name. They had a son, James Herbert Gerrard the Younger (1954-1982). Gerrard died on 11 August 1993 and is buried in the United States at Arlington Cemetery in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania. Art Marguerite Primrose Gerrard worked in techniques of botanical watercolour, tempera, and gouache. Her botanical watercolours and drawings are included to the Catalogue of the Botanical Art Collection at the Hunt Institute The Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation (HIBD), dedicated as the Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt Botanical Library in 1961, is a research division of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Gerrard
Mark Gerrard (born 4 September 1982) is a former Australian professional rugby union footballer. He currently is the assistant coach for the Austin Gilgronis in Major League Rugby (MLR) competition in the United States. In 2011, he was one of 10 players nominated to become the competition's Super Rugby player of the year. Gerrard has played for the Australian Wallabies and previously played for the NSW Waratahs and the ACT Brumbies. He usually plays at fullback or wing but can also cover in the centres and sometimes flyhalf. His sister Mo'onia Gerrard is an Australian representative netballer. He is the cousin of Wallaby Wycliff Palu. Biography Gerrard was educated at both Narrabeen North Primary School and Narrabeen Sports High School, where he started playing rugby league, representing Australian School Boys in that code before switching to Rugby Union. Gerrard made the Australian Schoolboys team in 1999. Gerrard went on to play for the Warringah Rugby Club and represente ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Gerrard
Paul William Gerrard (born 22 January 1973) is an English football goalkeeping coach and retired player. He is currently employed by Football League Two side Carlisle United as a goalkeeping coach, having previously been employed as a player-goalkeeping coach at Oldham Athletic and goalkeeping coach at Doncaster Rovers. Gerrard started his career in the Premier League with Oldham Athletic as a goalkeeper, and his 22-year playing career saw him play for Oldham, Everton, Oxford United, Ipswich Town, Sheffield United, Nottingham Forest, Blackpool and Stockport County, before he finished his playing career in a second spell at Oldham. Towards the end of his playing career, he was employed as a part-time goalkeeping coach by Oldham and Shrewsbury Town, before signing on as a full-time player/coach with Oldham at the start of the 2011–12 season. Gerrard is also a former England Under 21 international, having made 18 appearances between 1993 and 1996, but he never made an appearan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie Gerrard
Sophie Gerrard (born 1978) is a Scottish documentary photographer whose work focuses on environmental and social themes. She is a lecturer at Edinburgh Napier University, a member of the board of trustees for Impressions Gallery in Bradford, and a co-founder member of Document Scotland. She has won the Jerwood Photography Award, the Fuji Film Bursary and the Magenta Foundation Award. Early life and education Gerrard was born in 1978 in Edinburgh. She graduated from Manchester University in 1999 as an environmental scientist. Her interest in environmental and social issues led her to obtain a photography degree from Edinburgh College of Art and a M.A in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography from the London College of Communication in 2006. Career In 2012, she co-founded Document Scotland with Colin McPherson, Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert and Stephen McLaren. Her work has been featured regularly in ''The Guardian'' Weekend Magazine, the ''Financial Times'' Magazine, the'' Teleg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Gerrard
Steven George Gerrard (born 30 May 1980) is an English professional football manager and former player, who most recently managed club Aston Villa. Described by pundits and fellow professionals as one of his generation's greatest players, Gerrard spent the majority of his playing career as a central midfielder for Liverpool and the England national team, captaining both. Born in Merseyside, Gerrard played for Liverpool from 1998 to 2015, winning nine trophies, including the UEFA Champions League, two FA Cups, and three League Cups. He was Man of the Match in the 2005 UEFA Champions League Final, in which Liverpool overturned a 3–0 deficit to defeat AC Milan on penalties, and the 2006 FA Cup Final, which has been termed ''The Gerrard Final'' in homage to his performance. Despite success in cup competitions, he never won the Premier League. Gerrard won 114 England caps between 2000 and 2014, captaining the team 38 times and scoring 21 goals. He played at three UEFA Europ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Tyrer Gerrard
William Tyrer Gerrard (1831 – 9 July 1866) was an English botanical collector in Natal and Madagascar in the 1860s. The genus ''Gerrardanthus'' is named in his honor. Gerrard was born in Knowsley, Merseyside, England, and died at age 34 of yellow fever in July 1866, in Foulepointe (now Mahavelona), Madagascar. He was active as a botanical collector in Australia and then Natal, where he first collected several genera and over 150 previously unknown species, and from which he sent a stuffed aardvark The aardvark ( ; ''Orycteropus afer'') is a medium-sized, burrowing, nocturnal mammal native to Africa. It is the only living species of the order Tubulidentata, although other prehistoric species and genera of Tubulidentata are known. Unlike ... to the Free Public Library, Derby Museum. He left Natal in April 1865 for coastal Madagascar, where he made large collections of plants, insects, and birds, before succumbing to illness. He last bequest of specimens to Derby Museum i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
