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Holroyd may refer to: People * Alexandre Holroyd, French politician * Charles Holroyd (1861–1917), English artist and curator * Chris Holroyd (born 1986), English footballer * Edward Dundas Holroyd (1828–1916), Australian judge * Edwin Holroyd (1855–1914), English cricketer * Fred Holroyd, British soldier in Northern Ireland in the 1970s * Henry Holroyd, 3rd Earl of Sheffield * John Baker Holroyd, 1st Earl of Sheffield * Michael Holroyd (born 1935), English biographer * Shelley Holroyd (born 1973), English female javelin thrower * Stuart Holroyd (born 1933), British writer * Thomas Holroyd (1821–1904), British portrait and landscape painter Places * Holroyd, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney, Australia * Holroyd River, a locality in the Shire of Cook, Queensland, Australia * City of Holroyd, a defunct local government area in western Sydney, Australia Other uses * '' Holroyd v Marshall'', a 1862 judicial decision of the House of Lords, U.K. * Holroyd High School, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandre Holroyd
Alexandre Holroyd (born 17 May 1987) is a French politician who also holds British citizenship. He was elected to the National Assembly for La République En Marche! (later Renaissance) in the 2017 legislative election in the 3rd constituency for French residents overseas, which includes the British Isles, Iceland, Scandinavia, Finland and the Baltic states. He won in the second round against Socialist candidate Axelle Lemaire, whom he succeeded in office. He won reelection in 2022. Early life and education Born in Switzerland, Holroyd holds French and British citizenship. He was educated at the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle, a school in South Kensington in London, followed by King's College London, the London School of Economics and Sciences Po (also known in English as the Paris Institute of Political Studies). Upon graduation, Holroyd worked with FTI Consulting in Brussels and later London.Vincent Collen (1 June 2017)Législatives : en Grande-Bretagne, le candidat dâ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shelley Holroyd
Shelley Holroyd OLY (born 17 May 1973) is a British Olympic javelin thrower. Athletics career Holroyd was the sixth British javelin thrower to throw over 60 metres (1993) and the first thrower to reach an Olympic Games since Tessa Sanderson. At the age of 23 she had already competed in every major championship. She started throwing at the age of 12 and at 13 threw 37m58cm to win the English Schools Championships. At the age of 16 Holroyd threw 52m50 and became a senior international athlete. In 1992 she broke the English Schools record with 56m50 and it is still the longest throw in the history of the English Schools female javelin. Later that year Holroyd was picked for the GB Junior team and subsequently came fourth at the World Junior Championships (1992) and was ranked Britain's number one thrower. In 1993 Holroyd threw 60m10cm to win the World Championship Trials and qualified for the World Championships, Stuttgart. In March 1995 Holroyd was involved in a car accident that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holroyd V Marshall
''Holroyd v Marshall'' (1862) 10 HLC 191, 11 ER 999 was a judicial decision of the House of Lords. In that case the House of Lords affirmed that under English law a person could grant a mortgage or other security interest over future property, ie. property that they did not actually own at the time of granting the charge. Prior to decision, the generally accepted principle under English law was that pursuant to the ''nemo dat'' rule it was impossible for a person to convey a security interest in property which they did not own at the time of granting the charge. The case is also notable in that no less than three persons who were, or one day would be, Lord Chancellor, gave judgments. It is also a rare example of one Law Lord interrupting another during their speech to object to a point in their judgment. Background The case was decided against the backdrop of the industrial revolution in Victorian England. With the expansion of industry, companies were hungry for capital, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of Holroyd
The City of Holroyd was a local government area in the western suburbs of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. First proclaimed in July 1872 as the "Municipal District of Prospect and Sherwood", it became the "Municipality of Prospect and Sherwood" from 1906 and in 1927 it was renamed the "Municipality of Holroyd" after Arthur Holroyd, the first mayor. From 1 January 1991, city status was granted, becoming the Holroyd City Council. The administrative centre of the City was located in the suburb of Merrylands, located approximately west of the Sydney central business district. The final Mayor of the Holroyd City Council was Councillor Greg Cummings, a member of the Labor Party. On 12 May 2016, the majority of Holroyd City Council merged into the newly formed Cumberland Council, with a small northern section merged into the newly re-formed City of Parramatta Council. Council history First proclaimed in July 1872 as the Municipal District of Prospect and Sherwood. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holroyd River
The Holroyd River is a river located on the Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland, Australia. Course and features The headwaters of the river rise south of Mount White in the McIlwraith Range in the Great Dividing Range. It then flows westwards forming a series of braided channels and continuing through the uninhabited country until merging with the Kendall river near the Kulinchin Outstation and discharging into the Gulf of Carpentaria. The river is joined by eight tributaries including the Kendall River, Sandlewood Creek, Station Creek, Potlappa Creek, The Big Spring, First Spring, Christmas Creek and the Kendle River. The catchment area of the creek occupies an of which an area of is composed of estuarine wetlands. A variety of landscapes are found within the catchment including tropical savannah woodlands, open grasslands, beach ridges, wetlands and paperbark stands. The river has a mean annual discharge of . The river was named in 1864 by the pastoralist Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holroyd, New South Wales
Holroyd is a small suburb in western Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Holroyd is located west of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the Cumberland Council. The previous local government area of Holroyd City took its name from Arthur Holroyd, first Mayor of the area, local landowner and businessman. The administrative centre is located in nearby Merrylands. Holroyd shares the postcode of 2142 with the separate nearby suburbs of Granville, South Granville, Camellia and Rosehill. History Arthur Todd Holroyd (1806-1887) acquired Sherwood Scrubs in 1855. Located in Merrylands, it was named after his former home in England. Holroyd became a Member of Parliament for Bathurst Plains then Parramatta Parramatta () is a suburb and major Central business district, commercial centre in Greater Western Sydney, located in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located approximately west of the Sydney central business district on th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Holroyd
Thomas Holroyd (1821 – 10 March 1904) was an English portrait and landscape painter working in Harrogate, North Riding of Yorkshire, England. Before his marriage he undertook painting tours to the United States, Canada, Europe, Egypt, Russia and the Holy Land. Returning to Harrogate, he painted portraits of the local worthies there. He shared responsibility for the successful photography business T & J Holroyd with his brother James, and continued to run the business after his brother died. Holroyd was a founding member of Harrogate Liberal Club. Holroyd left to Harrogate Corporation a bequest, which included his paintings of foreign lands, some sculptures by his friend William John Seward Webber, and several vintage carved oak furniture props from the photography business. Life Thomas Holroyd (Rastrick 1821 – Harrogate 10 March 1904) was the son of photographic artist Benjamin Holroyd (b. Huddersfield c.1789) of Rastrick, West Riding of Yorkshire. Thomas attended the vill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuart Holroyd
Stuart Holroyd (born 10 August 1933) is a British writer.''Contemporary Authors'' (Thomson Gale, 1 January 2004) Born in Bradford, Yorkshire, he first came to prominence for the philosophical and critical works produced during his close association with the writers Colin Wilson and Bill Hopkins, but has since written prolifically on parapsychology, contacts with extraterrestrial life, sexual love and other topics. Life The son of Thomas Holroyd and Edith (King) Holroyd, Stuart Holroyd attended University College London (1957–58) but left without completing his degree. He published his first book, ''Emergence from Chaos'', in 1957 at the age of twenty-three. The same publisher, Victor Gollancz, had recently published '' The Outsider'', the first book by Holroyd's friend Colin Wilson. Wilson and Holroyd, along with the novelist Bill Hopkins, were associated with the literary movement known as the Angry Young Men. In the same year, Holroyd, Wilson and Hopkins each contrib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Holroyd
Sir Michael de Courcy Fraser Holroyd (born 27 August 1935) is an English biographer. Early life and education Holroyd was born in London, the son of Basil de Courcy Fraser Holroyd (a descendant of Sir George Sowley Holroyd, Justice of the King's Bench, whose ancestor was Isaac Holroyd, younger brother of George, the great-great-grandfather of John Baker Holroyd, 1st Earl of Sheffield), and his wife, Ulla (known as "Sue"), daughter of Karl Knutsson-Hall, a Swedish army officer. His parents having separated- their son "left to grow up in a bewilderingly extended family, shunted back and forth among parents and stepparents and grandparents and uncles and aunts"- Holroyd was raised at his father's family home, Norhurst, at Maidenhead, Berkshire. The Holroyds "for a time enjoyed a small fortune", provided by, amongst other things, an Indian tea plantation; this fortune was eventually "done in by mismanagement of resources and foolish investments" including investment in Lalique glas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Holroyd
Sir Charles Holroyd (9 April 1861 – 17 November 1917) was an English artist and curator. He was Keeper of the Tate from 1897 to 1906, and Director of the National Gallery from 1906 to 1916. Biography Early years Charles Holroyd was born in Potternewton, Leeds and studied at Leeds Grammar School then Mining Engineering at Yorkshire College of Science. From 1880 to 1884 received his art education under Professor Legros at the Slade School, University College, London, teaching there from 1885 to 1891. Holroyd, William Strang, and J. B. Clark are the three pupils of Legros mentioned in Arthur M. Hind’s ''A History of Engraving and Etching''. After passing six months at Newlyn, where he painted his first picture exhibited in the Royal Academy, ''Fishermen Mending a Sail'' (1885), he obtained a travelling scholarship and studied for two years in Italy, a sojourn which greatly influenced his art. He met his wife, the artist Fannie Fetherstonhaugh Macpherson, in Rome and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Baker Holroyd, 1st Earl Of Sheffield
John Baker Holroyd, 1st Earl of Sheffield (21 December 1735 – 30 May 1821) was an English politician who came from a Yorkshire family, a branch of which had settled in the Kingdom of Ireland. Biography His grandfather was Isaac Holroyd (1643–1706), a merchant who emigrated to Ireland after the Restoration. His father was Isaac Holroyd (1708–78), who lived at Dunamore in County Meath. John, the eldest son, first took the name of Baker on inheriting the estates of his uncle, Rev. James Baker, in 1768 and added Holroyd on the death of his own father in 1778. Having served in the Army until 1763, he travelled for a while on the continent where he became close friends with the writer and historian Edward Gibbon, later the author of ''The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire''. On his return he used his inherited wealth to buy in 1769 the country house of Sheffield Hall in Sussex for £31,000 from Lord De La Warr. In 1780 he was elected to represent Coventry i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Holroyd, 3rd Earl Of Sheffield
Henry North Holroyd, 3rd Earl of Sheffield (18 January 1832 – 21 April 1909), styled Viscount Pevensey until 1876, was an English Conservative politician and patron of cricket. The Sheffield Shield is named after him. Life Born in Marylebone, London, Sheffield was the second but eldest surviving son of George Holroyd, 2nd Earl of Sheffield, and his wife the former Lady Harriet Lascelles, daughter of Henry Lascelles, 2nd Earl of Harewood. He was educated at Eton College, and served as a diplomat in Constantinople and Copenhagen. He sat as Conservative Member of Parliament for Sussex East from 1857 to 1865. In 1876 he succeeded his father in the earldom. Sheffield played cricket in his younger days, including one first-class match, but is best remembered as a patron of the sport. He established a private ground at Sheffield Park near Uckfield, Sussex, and held numerous matches there, many of them against touring teams from overseas, and some of them of first-class standing.''T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
