Harrod And Funck
Harrod may refer to: People with the surname Harrod * Benjamin Morgan Harrod (1837–1912), New Orleans civil engineer * Billa Harrod (1911–2005), British architectural conservationist, wife of Roy * Charles Digby Harrod (1841–1905), British retailer, son of Charles Henry * Charles Henry Harrod (1799–1885), British retailer * Henry Harrod (1817–1871), English antiquarian * James Harrod (born ), Kentucky pioneer * Jeffrey Harrod (born 1935), English writer and essayist on politics * Roy Harrod (1900–1978), English economist * Tim Harrod (born 1968), American comedy writer * William Harrod (1753–1819), English printer and antiquary Given name * Harrod Blank (born 1963), American documentary filmmaker Places * Harrod, Ohio, a village See also * Harrods, a London department store * Harrop (other) * Herod (other) * Herrod * Garrod Garrod is a surname, and may refer to: * Alfred Baring Garrod (1819–1907), English physician * Alfred Henry Garrod (1846 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Benjamin Morgan Harrod
Benjamin ( he, ''Bīnyāmīn''; "Son of (the) right")blue letter bible: https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/h3225/kjv/wlc/0-1/ H3225 - yāmîn - Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (kjv) was the last of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel (Jacob's thirteenth child and twelfth and youngest son) in Jewish, Christian and Islamic tradition. He was also the progenitor of the Israelites, Israelite Tribe of Benjamin. Unlike Rachel's first son, Joseph (Genesis), Joseph, Benjamin was born in Canaan according to biblical narrative. In the Samaritan Pentateuch, Benjamin's name appears as "Binyamēm" (Samaritan Hebrew: , "son of days"). In the Quran, Benjamin is referred to as a righteous young child, who remained with Jacob when the older brothers plotted against Joseph. Later rabbinic traditions name him as one of four ancient Israelites who died without sin, the other three being Chileab, Jesse (biblical figure), Jesse and Amram. Name The name is first mentioned in letters from King Sîn-kāšid ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Billa Harrod
Wilhelmine Margaret Eve "Billa" Harrod (''née'' Cresswell, 1 December 1911 – 9 May 2005), was a British writer and architectural conservationist, best known for saving the mediaeval churches of Norwich, and the wife of the economist Sir Roy Harrod. Early life She was born Wilhelmine Margaret Eve Cresswell on 1 December 1911 at New Hunstanton, Snettisham, Norfolk, the daughter of Lieutenant (later Captain) Francis Joseph Cresswell (died 1914) of the Norfolk Regiment and his wife, Barbara Cresswell, née ffolkes (1884–1977). She was related to several Quaker gentry families, including the Gurneys. Her father was killed in action at Mons not long after the beginning of the First World War, aged 31. Her mother remarried in 1918, General Sir Peter Strickland (1869–1951). She had a sister, Puffin, and they grew up in Egypt, where their stepfather was the Commander-in-Chief of British forces. Career From the 1930s, she lived between Norfolk and London, where she had a flat in ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Charles Digby Harrod
Charles Digby Harrod (25 January 1841 – 15 August 1905)N. Hansen, ‘Harrod, Charles Digby (1841–1905)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200accessed 11 Aug 2014/ref> was an English businessman who expanded Harrods in London into a department store after his father, Charles Henry Harrod Charles Henry Harrod (16 April 1799, Lexden, Colchester – 31 March 1885, Chiswick Urban District)N. Hansen, ‘Harrod, Charles Henry (1799–1885)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200accessed 11 Aug 2014/r ... had retired. References 1841 births 1905 deaths People from Chelsea, London English merchants People from Whitechapel English Anglicans 19th-century English businesspeople {{UK-business-bio-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Charles Henry Harrod
Charles Henry Harrod (16 April 1799, Lexden, Colchester – 31 March 1885, Chiswick Urban District)N. Hansen, ‘Harrod, Charles Henry (1799–1885)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200accessed 11 Aug 2014/ref> was an English business tycoon, involved in the retail trade. He is best known as the founder of the highly successful and world renowned Harrods Department Store in London, which is well known today for its food halls, specialism in luxury foreign foods and its fashion and beauty departments. Harrods also retails its own exclusive brand. Early life At a young age, Harrod worked as a miller in Clacton, but in 1834 he moved to London where he began selling groceries in Stepney. Harrods In the 1840s he rented a small shop on Brompton Road, Knightsbridge, known as "Harrods". The shop sold groceries and only had a turnover of £20 per week, during the 1850s when Knightsbridge grew into one of the most fashionable parts of London. In 1860 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Henry Harrod
Henry Harrod (1817–1871) was an English lawyer and antiquary. Life Harrod was born at Aylsham in Norfolk on 30 September 1817, and educated at Norwich. He was admitted an attorney in Michaelmas term 1838, and for many years was in practice at Norwich. In 1862 Harrod moved to Marlborough, and entered into partnership with Richard Henry Holloway, solicitor. In 1865 he went to 4 Victoria Street, Westminster, where he became a professional antiquary. He was working on a monograph on the Tower of London when he died at 2 Rectory Grove, Clapham, Surrey, on 24 January 1871, and was buried at West Norwood Cemetery. His wife was the eldest daughter of Colonel Franklin Head. Works Harrod was for twelve years secretary to the Norfolk and Norwich Archæological Society, and contributed papers to their ''Transactions.'' During this period he collected the information which in 1857 he published in ''Gleanings among the Castles and Convents of Norfolk.'' It combined documentary evidence with p ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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James Harrod
James Harrod () was a pioneer, soldier, and hunter who helped explore and settle the area west of the Allegheny Mountains. Little is known about Harrod's early life, including the exact date of his birth. He was possibly underage when he served in the French and Indian War, and later participated in Lord Dunmore's War. He also rose to the rank of colonel in the local militia. A contemporary of better known explorers, like Daniel Boone, George Rogers Clark, Benjamin Logan, and Simon Kenton, Harrod led many expeditions into the regions that are now a part of Kentucky and Illinois. He and a band of almost forty men founded the first permanent settlement in Kentucky on June 16, 1774, although it had to be abandoned the same year. Restored in 1775, the community was known as Harrodstown and then Harrodsburg in his honor. In 1792, Harrod disappeared while on a hunting trip in the wilderness. While it is possible that he was killed by Indians or became ill and died of natural causes, so ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jeffrey Harrod
Jeffrey Harrod is a writer and essayist on politics and international political economy and known for his work on the power of corporations and the position of labour in international economic relations. He has been critical of global approaches which reduce the importance of nation-states. Working with Robert W. Cox a power dynamics approach to the political economy of work was developed. Harrod's application of this approach to those in low-waged or precarious employment is currently used by researchers in those fields. Since 2012 he has maintained a blog and in 2016 published his first novel, ''After Man''. He is professor emeritus from Erasmus University, Rotterdam, and visiting professor emeritus, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Biography Academic Harrod was born in London, England and started work as an office boy at age 15 and later worked as a London bus conductor. After two years compulsory military service he graduated in international law from U ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Roy Harrod
Sir Henry Roy Forbes Harrod (13 February 1900 – 8 March 1978) was an English economist. He is best known for writing ''The Life of John Maynard Keynes'' (1951) and for the development of the Harrod–Domar model, which he and Evsey Domar developed independently. He is also known for his ''International Economics'', a former standard textbook, the first edition of which contained some observations and ruminations (wanting in subsequent editions) that would foreshadow theories developed independently by later scholars (such as the Balassa–Samuelson effect). Biography Born in London he attended St Paul's and then Westminster School. Harrod attended New College in Oxford on a history scholarship. After a brief period in the Artillery in 1918 he gained a first in "literae humaniores" in 1921, and a first in modern history the following year. Afterwards he spent some time in 1922 at King's College, Cambridge. It was there that he met and befriended Keynes. After moving back to Ox ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tim Harrod
Tim Harrod (born May 25, 1968) is an American comedy writer and actor, known for ''Late Night with Conan O'Brien'', ''The Onion'', 58th Primetime Emmy Awards The 58th Primetime Emmy Awards were held on Sunday, August 27, 2006, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California on NBC at 8:00 p.m. ET (00:00 UTC) with Conan O'Brien hosting the show. The ceremony attracted 16.2 million viewers, 2. ..., and ''Golden Age'' (2006 film). The Early years Harrod acted with the improvisational franchise ComedySportz, in Ann Arbor, Michigan 1987–1989. He acted with the West Bloomfield, Michigan Comedy Sports in 1991–92. He also worked extensively in stand-up comedy, in a two-person act with Tim Pryor (a member of the first cast of Second City, Detroit, and a ComedySportz veteran). Filmography Writer * ''The Onion's Extremely Accurate History of the Internet'' (2012) * ''Late Night with Conan O'Brien'' (2005–2007) * ''Golden Age'' (2007) * ''The 58th Annual Primetime ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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William Harrod
William Harrod (1753 – 1 January 1819) was an English printer and antiquary, publishing histories of Stamford, Mansfield and Market Harborough. Life Harrod was the eldest of five children of a printer and bookseller in Market Harborough, Leicestershire, who was also for many years master of the free school there. After working as a journeyman printer in London, Harrod opened in 1776 a business as printer, bookseller and stationer in Stamford, Lincolnshire He became an alderman, and from 1793 until its closure in 1795 he edited and printed a newspaper, the ''Stamford Herald, or, The Lincolnshire, Rutland, Leicestershire, Huntingdonshire and Northamptonshire Advertiser'', a Whig rival to the established ''Stamford Mercury''. In 1799 he moved to Mansfield, Nottinghamshire where, finding little work, he printed handbills and billheads. After his father's death in December 1805 he returned to Market Harborough. He left the town in 1818, perhaps because of business or domestic difficu ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Harrod Blank
Harrod Blank (born 1963, in Westminster, California, United States) is an American documentary filmmaker and art car artist living at Berkeley in California. He is the son of Gail, a ceramic artist, and filmmaker Les Blank. His works include the 1992 film ''Wild Wheels'', which documents the artcar phenomenon in America, and the 1998 follow-up ''Driving The Dream'', which focuses on the artists behind the cars. His films have been shown on PBS, TBS, and in cities all over the USA. Harrod has created three art cars of his own: ''Oh My God!'', ''Pico de Gallo'' and ''The Camera Van''. Blank is also the co-founder (along with Philo Northrup) of one of the largest annual art car gatherings in the country - the Art Car Fest, held every September in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is largely responsible for the organization of an art car theme camp at the annual Burning Man festival and is working on a documentary about the event. Blank is currently renovating a building complex in D ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Harrod, Ohio
Harrod is a village in Allen County, Ohio, United States. The population was 417 at the 2010 census. It is included in the Lima, Ohio Metropolitan Statistical Area. History A post office called Harrod has been in operation since 1884. The village was named for the local Harrod family. Geography Harrod is located at (40.708427, -83.920298). According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land. Demographics 2010 census As of the census of 2010, there were 417 people, 143 households, and 111 families living in the village. The population density was . There were 161 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the village was 99.3% White and 0.7% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.7% of the population. There were 143 households, of which 46.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 60.1% were married couples living together, 11.9% had a female householder with no husband present, 5.6% h ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |