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Hepworth may refer to: Places * Hepworth, Suffolk * Hepworth, West Yorkshire (in Kirklees, near Huddersfield) * Hepworth, Ontario * Hepworth Gallery (art gallery in Wakefield) People * Dame Barbara Hepworth (1903–1975), British sculptor and artist * Cecil Hepworth (1874–1953), British film director, producer and scriptwriter * David Hepworth (born 1950), British music journalist * David Hepworth (racing driver) British racing car driver * Dorothy Hepworth (1898–1978), British painter and associate of Patricia Preece * John Hepworth (born 1944), Australian Archbishop and Primate of the Traditional Anglican Communion * John Hepworth (writer) (1921–1995), Australian left-wing author and journalist * Joseph Hepworth (tailor) (1834–1911), founder Joseph Hepworth & Son, clothing manufacturers, now Next plc. * Joseph Hepworth (c. 1876–1945), British Conservative Party politician * Philip Hepworth (1888–1963), British architect * Sally Hepworth Sally Hepworth (born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hepworth, Suffolk
Hepworth is a village and civil parish in the West Suffolk (district), West Suffolk district of the England, English county of Suffolk. Nearby settlements include the villages of Stanton, Suffolk, Stanton and Barningham, Suffolk, Barningham. For transport there is the A143 road nearby. Hepworth has a place of worship. The population at the 2011 Census was 536. St Peter's Church St Peter's church dates from the 13th century. However following a fire in 1898 the church was substantially rebuilt by John Shewell Corder. It is a grade II* listed building. Notable residents *Henry Hand *John Hayter (antiquary), John Hayter *Charles Payne (cricketer, born 1827), Charles Payne References Genuki [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hepworth, West Yorkshire
Hepworth is a small village to the southeast of Holmfirth and southwest of Jackson Bridge in West Yorkshire, England. It is in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees and the parish of Holme Valley. Although it started as a fairly small hamlet it has grown considerably through the 1980s and 1990s with new housing and small businesses. It has been extensively used as one of the locations in the BBC's long-running comedy series ''Last of the Summer Wine'', much of which has centred on the village pub the 'Butchers Arms', which provides a central meeting place for the village residents. History Toponymy The name Hepworth is Anglo-Saxon. H. T. Moorhouse states, in his ''History of Kirkburton and the Graveship of Holme'' (1861), that the name is derived from the Anglo-Saxon “Hep” meaning high and “worth” meaning place of residence. The Oxford Dictionary of Place Names has ''–worth'' as meaning an enclosure, hence enclosure of a man called Heppa. In the ''Domesday Book'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hepworth Wakefield
The Hepworth Wakefield is an art museum in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, which opened on 21 May 2011. The gallery is situated on the south side of the River Calder and takes its name from artist and sculptor Barbara Hepworth who was born and educated in the city. It is the successor of (and subsumed) the municipal art collection, founded in 1923 as Wakefield Art Gallery, which spans the Old Masters to the twentieth century. The gallery was designed by British architect David Chipperfield, who won an architectural design competition managed by RIBA Competitions and was built by Laing O'Rourke with funding from Wakefield Council, Arts Council England and the Heritage Lottery Fund. Yorkshire Forward, the Homes and Communities Agency, and the European Regional Development Fund have also supported the building of the gallery alongside a number of charitable trusts, corporations and private individuals. The Hepworth Wakefield is a registered charity under English law. The galler ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Hepworth
Dame Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth (10 January 1903 – 20 May 1975) was an English artist and sculptor. Her work exemplifies Modernism and in particular modern sculpture. Along with artists such as Ben Nicholson and Naum Gabo, Hepworth was a leading figure in the colony of artists who resided in St Ives during the Second World War. Born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, Hepworth studied at Leeds School of Art and the Royal College of Art in the 1920s. She married the sculptor John Skeaping in 1925. In 1931 she fell in love with the painter Ben Nicholson, and in 1933 divorced Skeaping. At this time she was part of a circle of modern artists centred on Hampstead, London, and was one of the founders of the art movement Unit One. At the beginning of the Second World War, Hepworth and Nicholson moved to St. Ives, Cornwall, where she would remain for the rest of her life. Best known as a sculptor, Hepworth also produced drawings – including a series of sketches of operating rooms foll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecil Hepworth
Cecil Milton Hepworth (19 March 1874 – 9 February 1953) was a British film director, producer and screenwriter. He was among the founders of the British film industry and continued making films into the 1920s at his Hepworth Studios. In 1923 his company Hepworth Picture Plays went into receivership. His works include '' Alice in Wonderland'' (1903), the first film adaptation of Lewis Carroll's children's book ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland''. History Hepworth was born in Lambeth, in present-day South London. His father, Thomas Cradock Hepworth, was a famous magic lantern showman and author. Cecil Hepworth became involved in the early stages of British filmmaking, working for both Birt Acres and Charles Urban, and wrote the first British book on the subject in 1897. With his cousin Monty Wicks he set up the production company Hepworth and Co. (also known as "Hepwix" after the word mark in its trade logo), which was later renamed the Hepworth Manufacturing Compan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Hepworth
David Hepworth (born 27 July 1950) is a British music journalist, writer and publishing industry analyst who was instrumental in the foundation of a number of popular magazines in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. Along with the journalist, editor and broadcaster Mark Ellen, he turned the pop magazine ''Smash Hits'' into one of the most popular UK music magazines of the 1980s. He co-presented the BBC broadcast of Live Aid on 13 July 1985, when he was the presenter told by Bob Geldof to "fuck the address" when pleading with viewers to send in their money. Early life David Hepworth was born in Dewsbury, then in the West Riding of Yorkshire, and attended the Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield, and Trent Park College of Education. He worked for HMV and Beserkley Records, before becoming a freelance journalist. Career His career in journalism began with contributions to ''NME'' and ''Sounds''. He joined the newly launched magazine ''Smash Hits'' in 1979, and two years later, after tu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Hepworth (racing Driver)
David Hepworth was a British racing driver, who won the British Hill Climb Championship twice, in 1969 and 1971. In the early-mid 1960s Hepworth drove an Austin-Healey 3000 fitted with a Chevrolet engine in both rallies and circuit racing, but by 1968 he was driving a Hepworth-Oldsmobile; in this he won a Formula Libre race at Croft late in that season. In hillclimbing, Hepworth competed in a Repco-Brabham before turning to a self-constructed Hepworth-FF four-wheel drive special. With this car he won the British Hill Climb Championship in 1969 and 1971, in the latter year also becoming the first driver to break the 30-second barrier at Shelsley Walsh. He drove a BRM- Chevrolet P154 (and later a P167) in Interserie Interserie is the name of a European-based motorsport series started in 1970 that allows for a wide variety of racing cars from various eras and series to compete with less limited rules than in other series. Created in 1970 by German Gerhard Härl ... racing (a E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Hepworth
Dorothy Mary Hepworth (30 September 1894 – 8 September 1978) was a British painter and the life partner of Patricia Preece. Hepworth signed Preece's name to many of Hepworth's paintings, even after Preece's death. Early life Hepworth was born in 1894 in Leicester, Leicestershire, the oldest of two daughters of Adela ''née'' Jarvis (1865–1954) and Alfred James Hepworth (1859–1930), the owner of a hosiery warehouse. She also had a younger brother, Eric Pachley Hepworth (1897–1898). She met Patricia Preece at the Slade School of Fine Art in 1917, and graduated from there with first class honours in 1919. The two became lovers. While still a student, Hepworth began exhibiting her work. After graduation, she spent four years with Preece in Paris, where Hepworth studied at the Académie Colarossi and Preece was a pupil of André Lhote. They returned to England in 1925, where they relocated to Cookham for Hepworth's health. The two received financial help from Hepworth's wealth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hepworth
John Anthony Hepworth (23 March 1944 – 1 December 2021) was an Australian bishop. He was the ordinary of the Anglican Catholic Church in Australia and the archbishop and primate of the Traditional Anglican Communion, an international body of continuing Anglican churches, from 2003 to 2012. Life Hepworth began his seminary studies in 1960 at St Francis Xavier Seminary in Adelaide. In 1968 he was ordained to the priesthood in the Roman Catholic Church for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Adelaide, Archdiocese of Adelaide. In 1972 he moved to Britain. After returning to Australia in 1976 he was received into the Anglican Church of Australia as a priest. From 1976 to 1977 he had permission to officiate in the Anglican Diocese of Ballarat. From 1977 to 1978 he was the assistant priest in the Colac, Victoria, Colac parish and, from 1978 to 1980, was the rector of the South Ballarat parish based in Sebastopol, Victoria, Sebastopol. In 1992 Hepworth joined the Anglican Catholic Chu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hepworth (writer)
John Hepworth (4 September 1921 – 24 January 1995) was an Australian author and journalist, best known for his "Outsight" column in ''Nation Review'' magazine, which he edited for several years. Career He was born in Pinjarra, Western Australia, and moved to Perth as a young boy. He attended Perth Modern School. With the outbreak of World War II, he enlisted and served in South-west Asia, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), and New Guinea. He wrote the regular "Outsight" column for ''Nation Review'' and was its editor for several years, then contributed to ''Toorak Times'', the eccentric weekly newspaper published by Jack Pacholli (1929-2004). He also worked for the ABC, earning the attention of ASIO as a Communist sympathiser. He died from lung cancer. Family He had a longterm relationship with writer Oriel Gray, with whom he had two sons, Peter and Nicholas. Peter Hepworth (1948 – 2011) had a successful career as a television screenwriter, including writing episodes fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Hepworth (tailor)
Joseph Hepworth (1834–1911) was the clothing manufacturer who founded ''Joseph Hepworth & Son'', a company which grew to become the United Kingdom's largest clothing manufacturer and which is now known as Next plc. Career Born at Lindley, West Yorkshire, Lindley in Huddersfield, Joseph Hepworth left school at ten to join George Walker's Mill in Leeds in 1844. In 1864 Joseph Hepworth went into business with James Rhodes, his wife's brother, as a tailor in Leeds. By 1881 their factory in Wellington Street employed 500 people and, unusually, made all three pieces of a gentlemen's three-piece suit. In the 1880s they innovated further establishing shops to sell their suits direct to the public. By 1890 they employed 2,000 operatives who sold their stock through 107 shops. Joseph Hepworth died in Harrogate in 1911 and within 6 years of his death ''Joseph Hepworth & Son'' was the largest clothing manufacturer in the United Kingdom. Family Hepworth married Sarah Rhodes in 1855 they we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
