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James Sharples (police Officer)
James Sharples may refer to: * James Sharples (portrait painter) (1751/52–1811), English portrait painter and pastelist * James Sharples (blacksmith) (1825–1893), English blacksmith and self-taught artist and engraver * James Sharples (cricketer) (1890–1969), English cricketer who played for Glamorgan * Sir James Sharples (police officer), chief constable (1989–1998) of Merseyside Police Merseyside Police is the territorial police force responsible for policing Merseyside in North West England. The service area is 647 square kilometres with a population of around 1.5 million. As of September 2017 the service has 3,484 police of ... * James Sharples (bishop) (1797–1850), Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of the Lancashire District {{hndis, Sharples, James ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Sharples (portrait Painter)
James Sharples (1751 or 1752, in Lancashire – 26 February 1811, in New York City) was an English portrait painter and pastelist, who moved to the United States in 1794. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1779. Biography Sharples first intended to enter the Catholic priesthood, but became an artist instead. Sharples headed a family of successful portrait artists, including his third wife Ellen Sharples. He had four children: George by his first wife; Felix Thomas Sharples from his second marriage (c. 1786- after 1823); and James Sharples Jr.(c. 1788–1839) and daughter Rolinda Sharples (1793–1838) with this third wife, Ellen. Felix, James Jr. and Rolinda joined the family enterprise at ages 17, 15, and 13 respectively. Before marrying Ellen Wallace, James had been active in Bristol, Liverpool, and Bath, where he taught drawing. The family left for the United States in 1796, but, according to Ellen's diaries, their ship fell into the hands of the French, and for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Sharples (blacksmith)
James Sharples (4 September 1825 – 13 June 1893) was an English blacksmith and self-taught artist and engraver. He is best known for his work '' The Forge'', which he painted and then engraved in his spare time. Sharples was born in Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire, into a large family of thirteen. His father was a blacksmith, as were both of his grandfathers. Sharples had little formal education and began to work as a smithy-boy in an iron foundry aged ten, later moving to work as a riveter in the engine shop where his father worked. He discovered his artistic bent by helping the foreman to draw the designs for boilers on the workshop floor, and practised by copying lithographs and engravings in his spare time. Aged 16, he attended a drawing class at Bury Mechanics' Institution each week for three months. He learnt technique from John Burnet's ''Practical Treatise on Painting'', asking his family to help him to read it, and then John Flaxman's ''Anatomical Principles' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Sharples (cricketer)
James Sharples (26 December 1890 – 23 March 1969) was an English cricketer who played for Glamorgan. He was born in Pendlebury, Lancashire and died in Bishop's Castle, Shropshire Shropshire (; alternatively Salop; abbreviated in print only as Shrops; demonym Salopian ) is a landlocked historic county in the West Midlands region of England. It is bordered by Wales to the west and the English counties of Cheshire to th .... Sharples played cricket first in Lancashire, then when he moved to South Wales, for Briton Ferry Town. He made a single first-class appearance for Glamorgan during the 1922 season. He scored a duck in the only innings in which he batted, and conceded a single run from an over's worth of bowling. External linksJames Sharplesat Cricket Archive {{DEFAULTSORT:Sharples, James 1890 births 1969 deaths English cricketers Glamorgan cricketers People from Bishop's Castle People from Pendlebury Cricketers from Greater Manchester Sportspeople from t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Sharples (police Officer)
James Sharples may refer to: * James Sharples (portrait painter) (1751/52–1811), English portrait painter and pastelist * James Sharples (blacksmith) (1825–1893), English blacksmith and self-taught artist and engraver * James Sharples (cricketer) (1890–1969), English cricketer who played for Glamorgan * Sir James Sharples (police officer), chief constable (1989–1998) of Merseyside Police Merseyside Police is the territorial police force responsible for policing Merseyside in North West England. The service area is 647 square kilometres with a population of around 1.5 million. As of September 2017 the service has 3,484 police of ... * James Sharples (bishop) (1797–1850), Coadjutor Vicar Apostolic of the Lancashire District {{hndis, Sharples, James ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merseyside Police
Merseyside Police is the territorial police force responsible for policing Merseyside in North West England. The service area is 647 square kilometres with a population of around 1.5 million. As of September 2017 the service has 3,484 police officers, 1,619 police staff, 253 police community support officers, 155 designated officers and 208 special constables. The force is led by Chief Constable Serena Kennedy. History The service came into being in 1974 when Merseyside was created, and is a successor to the Liverpool and Bootle Constabulary (itself formed in 1967 by a merger of the Liverpool City Police with the Bootle Borough Police), along with parts of Cheshire Constabulary and Lancashire Constabulary. A proposal to merge the force with the Cheshire Constabulary to form a strategic police force was made by the Home Secretary on 6 February 2006 but later abandoned. Merseyside maintained in 2018 it could lose 300 officers, reducing the force to 3,172. This would be a 31% ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
