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John Kingsmill
John Kingsmill may refer to: * John Kingsmill (actor) * John Kingsmill (MP for Heytesbury), represented Heytesbury (UK Parliament constituency) * John Kingsmill (MP for Ludgershall) {{hndis, Kingsmill, John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Kingsmill (actor)
John Kingsmill (1 September 1920 – 6 August 2013) was an Australian author, actor and public speaker, and amateur social historian. He was born in Sydney in 1920 and educated at Sydney Boys High School. He was on active service in World War II, after which he completed his accountancy studies and was in practice for some years. He achieved notice for his performance as Des Nolan (Gig) in ''Rusty Bugles'', the controversial 1948 play by Sumner Locke Elliott. In 1955, he was a founding member of the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association (Australia), and was its leader for several years, serving on its Board until 1984. During the 1970s he worked as a senior advertising copywriter at the George Patterson advertising agency Sydney office. John Kingsmill - papers, 1948-2000 at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Kingsmill (MP For Heytesbury)
John Kingsmill may refer to: *John Kingsmill (actor) John Kingsmill (1 September 1920 – 6 August 2013) was an Australian author, actor and public speaker, and amateur social historian. He was born in Sydney in 1920 and educated at Sydney Boys High School. He was on active service in World War ... * John Kingsmill (MP for Heytesbury), represented Heytesbury (UK Parliament constituency) * John Kingsmill (MP for Ludgershall) {{hndis, Kingsmill, John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heytesbury (UK Parliament Constituency)
Heytesbury was a parliamentary borough in Wiltshire which elected two Members of Parliament. From 1449 until 1707 it was represented in the House of Commons of England, and then in the British House of Commons until 1832, when the borough was abolished by the Reform Act 1832. History The borough consisted of a small part of the small market town or large village of Heytesbury, in the south-west of Wiltshire. In 1831, when the population of the whole parish was 1,394, the borough had a population of only 81. Already a small settlement, much of Heytesbury burned to the ground in 1765, but this did not affect its right to return members to parliament. The houses lost were subsequently rebuilt. Heytesbury was a burgage borough, meaning that the right to vote was reserved to the householders of specific properties or "burgage tenements" within the borough; there were twenty-six of these tenements by the time of the Reform Act, and all had been owned by the heads of the A'Court fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |