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Harry Clifton (Harry Clifton Byrd, 1889–1970), American university administrator, athlete and coach
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Harry Clifton may refer to: * Harry Clifton (poet) (born 1952), Irish poet * Harry Clifton (actor), American silent film actor * Harry Clifton (footballer, born 1914) (1914–1998), English footballer * Harry Clifton (footballer, born 1998), Welsh footballer for Grimsby Town F.C. * Harry Clifton (producer) (1907–1979), English aristocrat and film producer * Harry Clifton (singer) (1832–1872), English music hall singer and songwriter See also * Henry Robert Clifton (1832–1896), High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire * Harold Clifton, main character in Clifton (comics) * Curley Byrd Harry Clifton "Curley" Byrd (February 12, 1889 – October 2, 1970) was an American university administrator, educator, athlete, coach, and politician. Byrd began a long association with the University of Maryland as an undergraduate in 1905, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Clifton (producer)
Henry Talbot de Vere Clifton (1907–1979) was an eccentric, British aristocrat, poet, race horse owner, art collector and film producer. He spent some time in Hollywood during the early 1930s and, in the mid 1930s, produced films in Britain. In the 1930s and 40s he had three books of poetry published. Early life He was born on 16 December 1907, the son of John Talbot Clifton and Violet Mary Beauclerk, from a very wealthy family with extensive estates and other property holdings in England and Scotland. He was educated at Downside School and Oxford University. He knew the novelist Evelyn Waugh, having possibly met him at Oxford, and who is thought by some to have used him as a model for the ''Brideshead Revisited'' character, Sebastian Flyte, although other sources (e.g. Paula Byrne) attribute the inspiration to Hugh Lygon. Waugh was certainly a guest at the family seat, Lytham Hall, in the 1930s and described the Clifton family as “tearing mad”. Clifton's mother, Violet, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Clifton (singer)
Henry Robert Clifton (baptised 20 May 1832 – 15 July 1872) was an English music hall singer, songwriter and entertainer. A prolific composer in the popular genre, his most successful song was " Pretty Polly Perkins of Paddington Green". Biography The son of a carpenter, Clifton was born in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire. He was orphaned as a child, and little is known of his early adulthood. By the early 1860s he had become well known as a singer and songwriter in the song and supper rooms and early music halls of London. Nicknamed "Handsome Harry Clifton" during his career,Monuments Restored , The Friends of Kensal Green Cemetery; retrieved 22 May 2014. his repertoire included comic songs, Irish songs, and "motto songs", with an improving moral message, such as "Paddle Your Own Canoe" (1864) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Clifton (poet)
Harry Clifton (born 1952) is an Irish poetry, Irish poet. Biography Clifton was born in Dublin, where he was educated at Blackrock College and University College, Dublin. He has 3 younger brothers and 2 sisters. After graduating, Clifton began an extended period of travel outside of Ireland. Many of his experiences from this time had major influence on his poetry because he believes the true home of the poet is 'not in a place, but in the language itself'. He has lived in places throughout Europe, Africa and Asia. He lectured at a teacher training college in Nigeria in the early 1970s. He worked as an aid administrator in Thailand for Indo-Chinese refugees in the 1980s. He lived in Italy's Abruzzi Mountains, Switzerland, England and Germany before settling in Paris for ten years. He was poet-in-residence at the Frost Place in New Hampshire, an International Fellow at the University of Iowa, and a representative for Ireland at the International Writing Program in Iowa. He has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Clifton (actor)
Harry Clifton was an actor in silent movies in the USA from 1908 to 1919, not to be confused with the producer of the same name. Career IMDB lists one Harry Clifton as both an actor and a producer, but this is a conflation: the productions belong to a different Harry Clifton. His first film as an actor was the 1908 version of the tale of the Younger brothers. Johnny D. Boggs, chapter 3, p.28, pub. McFarland, 6 May 2011, Several other acting roles are credited to Harry Clifton up to 1919, including his best known film ''Man and Beast'' (1917) where he played the lead, and ''Hey There!'' in which he appeared with |
Harry Clifton (footballer, Born 1914)
Henry Clifton (28 May 1914 – 1998) was an English professional footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ... who played as an inside forward. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Clifton, Harry 1914 births 1998 deaths English men's footballers Men's association football inside forwards West Bromwich Albion F.C. players Annfield Plain F.C. players Scotswood F.C. players Chesterfield F.C. players Newcastle United F.C. players Grimsby Town F.C. players Goole Town F.C. players Ashfield United F.C. players English Football League players Sportspeople from the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead Footballers from Tyne and Wear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Clifton (footballer, Born 1998)
Harry Louis Clifton (born 12 June 1998) is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder and winger for club Grimsby Town. Born in England, he represents Wales internationally. Club career Grimsby Town Clifton joined Grimsby Town as an under-10 and progressed through the club's youth system. Clifton signed his first professional contract in July 2015. He joined NPL Premier Division side Grantham Town in September 2016, initially on a month's loan deal. After impressing in his initial loan, it was then extended another two months. After scoring 3 goals in 21 appearances, his loan was extended in December 2016 until the end of the 2016–17 season. Clifton made 47 appearances for them, scoring six goals. He returned to Grimsby in May 2017, signing another two-year deal. Clifton made his full debut on 29 August 2017 in the EFL Trophy against Doncaster Rovers. He made his professional League Two debut on 30 January 2018, coming on as a 79th-minute substitute, in a 3–0 d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Robert Clifton
Henry Robert Clifton (1832 - 1896) was High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire in 1875. Until he succeeded to the Clifton estates, he was known as Henry Robert Markham.A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Great Britain, Ashworth Peter Burke 1894 Family He was the only son of the Rev. Henry Spencer Markham (1805-1844), Rector of St. Mary's Church, Clifton and Prebendary of York, and his wife Sophia Charlotte. His grandparents were Frances Clifton, daughter of Sir Gervase Clifton, 6th Baronet, and her husband the Venerable Robert Markham, Archdeacon of York. Henry was born at Clifton, Nottingham, where his father rebuilt the Rectory. He married Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev. William MacBean, Rector of St Peter Tavy, Devon, in 1860. They had no children. Career Henry was educated at Harrow School and Christ Church, Oxford. He succeeded his cousin, Sir Robert Juckes Clifton, 9th Baronet, to the Clifton estate in Nottinghamshire in 1869. In the same year he assu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Clifton
''Clifton'' is a Franco-Belgian comics series in the humorous spy-genre, featuring the exploits of Colonel Sir Harold Wilberforce Clifton. It was created by Raymond Macherot in 1959, and has since passed on to other artists and writers. Over the fifty years of publication of the Clifton series, approximately twenty albums and twenty smaller stories have been published, totalling about 800 pages. Character A British colonel, retired from MI5, though sometimes still active for the British government, Clifton functions as an amateur sleuth, and his phlegmatic approach to stress leads to humorous situations. Harold Clifton lives in Puddington, near London, supported by housekeeper Miss Partridge, who makes a prize-winning goulash. Clifton drives a red MG TD from the early fifties, which gets mangled in most stories, but is repaired regardless of cost. Clifton's hobbies include Boy Scouting (he's Boy Scoutmaster Singing Heron), cats, and collecting cigar wraps. In ''Passé Composé'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
