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Johanna Ropner
Johanna Ropner (née Stroyan) is a businessperson and the lord lieutenant for North Yorkshire. Life Ropner, the second of three children, was born on 3 January 1963 to Colin Strathearn Ropner Stroyan and Caroline Jane Brownlow. She attended Newcastle University where she graduated with an honours degree in agriculture. Ropner was confirmed as the successor to Barry Dodd Barry John Dodd (2 October 1947 – 30 May 2018) was an entrepreneur who ran a graphics company, GSM Group. He was appointed as the Lord Lieutenant of North Yorkshire in September 2014. Dodd was killed in a helicopter crash in North Yorksh ... in November 2018. The vacancy had arisen after Dodd died in a helicopter crash, and Ropner had previously been a deputy lord-lieutenant of North Yorkshire under Dodd, and his predecessor, Lord Crathorne. Personal life Ropner lives in Kirklington with her husband, Robert Ropner. The couple are third cousins. Together they have three grown-up children. Refere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord Lieutenant Of North Yorkshire
The position of Lord Lieutenant of North Yorkshire was created on 1 April 1974. Since 1996 the position has included the areas south of the River Tees in the former county of Cleveland. Upon the dissolution of Cleveland, Lord Gisborough was made joint lord-lieutenant of North Yorkshire. North Yorkshire is the largest lieutenancy region in England, that in 2018, had a population of over 1,135,000. *1 April 1974 – 1987: Oswald Phipps, 4th Marquess of Normanby (previously Lord Lieutenant of the North Riding of Yorkshire) *1987–1999: Sir Marcus Worsley, 5th Baronet, ''with a lieutenant'': :*1996–2001: Richard Chaloner, 3rd Baron Gisborough (formerly Lord Lieutenant of Cleveland) *1999–2014: James Dugdale, 2nd Baron Crathorne *2014–2018: Barry Dodd *2018–: Johanna Ropner References External linksOfficial website of the Lieutenancy Yorkshire, North * 1974 establishments in England {{job-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newcastle University
Newcastle University (legally the University of Newcastle upon Tyne) is a UK public university, public research university based in Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England. It has overseas campuses in Singapore and Malaysia. The university is a red brick university and a member of the Russell Group, an association of research-intensive UK universities. The university finds its roots in the School of Medicine and Surgery (later the College of Medicine), established in 1834, and the Edward Fenwick Boyd#College of Physical Science, College of Physical Science (later renamed Armstrong College), founded in 1871. These two colleges came to form the larger division of the federal University of Durham, with the Durham Colleges forming the other. The Newcastle colleges merged to form King's College in 1937. In 1963, following an Act of Parliament, King's College became the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. The university subdivides into three faculties: the Faculty of Humanities and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry Dodd
Barry John Dodd (2 October 1947 – 30 May 2018) was an entrepreneur who ran a graphics company, GSM Group. He was appointed as the Lord Lieutenant of North Yorkshire in September 2014. Dodd was killed in a helicopter crash in North Yorkshire in May 2018. Life Dodd was born in Salford, but raised in Canada and in Chicago where his mother worked as a court reporter and then in real estate. Dodd returned to England to finish his schooling and to study engineering at Hatfield Polytechnic. Dodd worked as a graduate trainee at the petrochemicals firm ICI where he took on management roles in Teesside, London and New York. He formed GSM with a colleague from his days at ICI in 1974. The company specialises in labels and barcoding equipment, sheet metal assemblies and automotive components. Through many acquisitions, the company employed over 400 people at nine sites across the United Kingdom by the time of Dodd's death. He was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Dugdale, 2nd Baron Crathorne
Charles James Dugdale, 2nd Baron Crathorne, (born 12 September 1939) was Lord Lieutenant of North Yorkshire from 1999 until 2014. He is also one of the ninety hereditary peers elected to remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999, sitting as a Conservative. In 1977, he succeeded to his father's title. Career The son of Thomas Dugdale, 1st Baron Crathorne and Nancy Tennant, he was educated at Eton College in Berkshire. He was further educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a BA degree (later converted to an MA) in fine arts in 1963. Crathorne worked in the impressionist painting department of Sotheby & Co from 1963 to 1966, when he became assistant to president of the Parke-Bernet Galleries in New York City, a post he held until 1969. In 1969, he created an independent fine art consultancy, James Dugdale & Associates, which later became James Crathorne & Associates, and has made many lecture tours to the United S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirklington, North Yorkshire
Kirklington is a village in the English county of North Yorkshire close to the A1(M) motorway. Kirklington forms the major part of the civil parish of Kirklington-cum-Upsland which is in the district of Hambleton. The population of the parish in the 2001 UK Census was 277, 315 in the 2011 census and estimated to be 220 in 2014. Governance The village lies within the Richmond (Yorks) UK Parliament constituency. It also lies within the Bedale electoral division of North Yorkshire County Council and the Tanfield ward of Hambleton District Council. History There is some evidence of Roman occupation around the village, in the form of a white-ware burial at the ''Lady well'', a stretch of Healam Beck, behind the Hall. Also close to the village on the A1(M), at Healam Bridge lie buried the remains of a Roman Dere Street fort, almost entirely ploughed away. Just beyond the village to the north lies 'Camp Hill', the remains of an Iron Age camp. Kirklington is mentioned in the ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1963 Births
Events January * January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cove River, Sydney, Australia. * January 2 – Vietnam War – Battle of Ap Bac: The Viet Cong win their first major victory. * January 9 – A total penumbral lunar eclipse is visible in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia, and is the 56th lunar eclipse of Lunar Saros 114. Gamma has a value of −1.01282. It occurs on the night between Wednesday, January 9 and Thursday, January 10, 1963. * January 13 – 1963 Togolese coup d'état: A military coup in Togo results in the installation of coup leader Emmanuel Bodjollé as president. * January 17 – A last quarter moon occurs between the penumbral lunar eclipse and the annular solar eclipse, only 12 hours, 29 minutes after apogee. * January 19 – Soviet spy Ghe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People Associated With Newcastle University
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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