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Laver (surname)
Laver is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Arnold Laver, British timber merchant * Arthur Laver (1880–1965), South African cricket umpire * Augustus Laver (1834–1898), Canadian architect * Basil Laver (1894–1934), British surgeon * Frank Laver (1869–1919), Australian cricketer and baseball player * Jack Laver (1917–2017), Australian cricketer * James Laver (1899–1975), English fashion historian, writer, and curator * John Laver (1938–2020), British phonetician * Les Laver (1900–1982), Australian rules footballer * Richard Laver (1942–2012), American mathematician known for his work in set theory * Rod Laver (born 1938), Australian tennis player * Rudolph Laver (1872–1946), German-Australian electrical engineer See also * Lavers, a surname * Leaver Leaver or Leavers may refer to: * Leaver, a supporter of Brexit * Surname ** Brett Leaver (born 1970), New Zealand field hockey player ** Charles Owen Leaver Riley (1854–1929), fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnold Laver
Arnold Laver is a British timber merchant based in Sheffield, United Kingdom. Founded by Arnold Laver in 1920, the company has 16 timber depots across the UK, employing over 750 people. History Arnold Laver started his business using a hand cart, he made customers pay in advance, bought the wood then delivered it. In its first year, Laver made enough money to buy a horse, named ''Charlie'', to help him with his deliveries. In 1925 Arnold Laver began negotiations to purchase a much larger site on Bramall Lane and in 1927 the new Olympic Sawmills opened. This site was the Company's head office in later years, with the main depot moving to the old goods-yard off Queens road, as the firm expanded. The saw mill on Bramall Lane/Shoreham Street has been redeveloped as Arnold Laver's new head office and ''Anchor Point'', a residential complex, which has been built above the offices on the site of the old offices and saw mill. The site is next door to Sheffield United's ground and thei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Laver
Arthur Laver (6 June 1880 – 6 July 1965) was a South African cricket umpire, born in Sydney, Australia. Laver umpired 21 first-class matches in South Africa between 1921 and 1935. He stood in 10 Test matches between 1921 and 1928. See also * List of Test cricket umpires A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby union ... References 1880 births 1965 deaths Sportspeople from Sydney South African Test cricket umpires {{SouthAfrica-cricket-bio-1880s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augustus Laver
Augustus Laver (19 or 20 September 1834 – 27 March 1898) was a Canadian architect. Dictionary of Canadian Biography He worked for and later designed extensive alterations and additions to Ottawa's Russell Hotel, as well as and on |
Basil Laver
Basil Laver (18 December 1894 – 28 December 1934), was a British surgeon whose highly successful career was cut short through illness.Obituary in ''The Times'', ''Mr. B.L. Laver'', 31 December 1934, p 17c Laver's obituary in the British Medical Journal commented on his 'dynamic energy and capacity for work, his acute inquisitiveness of mind, and his absolute intolerance of shibboleths of medicine'. Life Basil Leslie Laver was born 18 December 1894 at Witfoot, Middelburg, Transvaal, South Africa, the third of the three sons of Henry Laver, merchant of Middelburg. Laver’s parents came originally from Southampton and he received his formal education at Bedford Modern School and medical education at Guy's Hospital. During World War I he received a commission on 27 February 1915 as second-lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery, and was subsequently adjutant and temporary major. Laver returned to Guy's Hospital at the end of World War I, qualified, won the Arthur Durham scho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Laver
Frank Jonas Laver (7 December 1869 – 24 September 1919) was an Australian cricketer and baseball player. He played in 15 Test matches between 1899 and 1909 and visited England as a player and team manager on four occasions. An accomplished photographer and author, he wrote an illustrated account of his 1899 and 1905 tours of England, ''An Australian Cricketer on Tour''. Cricket career The son of Jonas Laver, grazier and timber merchant, and Mary Ann, née Fry, Frank Laver was the 78th player to represent Australia. He was a right-hand batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler. In his first season with the East Melbourne Cricket Club, as a gangling six-footer from the country, he took 94 wickets and made three centuries, and held his place in the club for 25 years. In the 1892/93 season he scored more than 1000 runs for his club, including a record 352 not out. Batting with his friend and fellow Test player Peter McAlister in 1903/04 season, Laver scored 341 in a club reco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Laver
Jack Francis Lee Laver (9 March 1917 – 3 October 2017) was a Tasmanian cricketer who played 13 matches of first class cricket for Tasmania between 1946 and 1952. Laver was an off-spin bowler and lower-order batsman. He made his highest first-class score of 93 on his debut, playing against Victoria in 1946–47. His innings took only 94 minutes. Two weeks later he took his best bowling figures of 5 for 26 (off only 34 balls) against the touring MCC team, including the wickets of Denis Compton and Bill Edrich. He captained Tasmania against Victoria in the 1950–51 season, but Tasmania lost the match by nine wickets. He served in World War II as a lieutenant in the 6th Australian Division Provost Company. In March 2017 he became only the third Australian first-class cricketer, after Ted Martin and Harold Stapleton, to reach 100 years of age. He died on 3 October 2017; his wife Nancy predeceased him. Test cricketer Frank Laver Frank Jonas Laver (7 December 1869 – 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Laver
James Laver, CBE, FRSA (14 March 1899 – 3 June 1975) was an English author, critic, art historian, and museum curator who acted as Keeper of Prints, Drawings and Paintings for the Victoria and Albert Museum between 1938 and 1959. He was also an important and pioneering fashion historian described as "the man in England who made the study of costume respectable".Gibbs-Smith, Charles, Obituary in ''Costume (Journal of The Costume Society)'' no 10 (1976) Early life James Laver was born in Liverpool, England, on 14 March 1899, the second child and only son of Arthur James Laver, a maritime printer and stationer, and his wife, Florence Mary (née Barker), strict Congregationalists who brought up their children in a puritanical manner. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Laver
John David Michael Henry Laver, (20 January 1938 – 6 May 2020) was a British phonetician. He was emeritus professor of speech sciences at Queen Margaret University, and served as president of the International Phonetic Association from 1991 to 1995. Life and career Laver was born in Nowshera, British India. His father was in the Indian and later British Army. He was raised in India for six years and spoke Hindustani and English, and later lived in Egypt, Libya, Kenya, and Cyprus up until the age of ten. After attending a boarding school in Hampshire, Laver entered the Royal Air Force College Cranwell to pursue a career as a military pilot, which he eventually gave up. He subsequently entered the University of Edinburgh in 1958 and graduated in 1962 with a degree in French language and literature. At Edinburgh, he was introduced to phonetics and to the Department of Phonetics headed by David Abercrombie, under which he obtained a postgraduate diploma in 1963. From 1963 to 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Laver
Leslie Frederick Laver (9 December 1900 – 9 January 1982) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong in the VFL during the late 1920s and early 1930s. After five games in his debut season, Laver managed just three more appearances for Geelong, each in different seasons. In the 1940 VFL season he stepped in as caretaker coach of Geelong when Reg Hickey Reginald Joseph Hickey (27 March 1906 – 13 December 1973) was an Australian rules footballer who was a player, the captain, the captain-coach, and the non-playing coach for the Geelong Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) ... was unavailable and steered them to a win over Footscray and loss to Essendon. In his playing career he had never experienced a loss, playing in winning sides in all but one of his games, the other was drawn. Hickey and Laver had made their VFL debuts in the same match in 1926. References * *Holmesby, Russell and Main, Jim (2007). ''The Encyclopedia of AFL Footba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Laver
Richard Joseph Laver (October 20, 1942 – September 19, 2012) was an American mathematician, working in set theory. Biography Laver received his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley in 1969, under the supervision of Ralph McKenzie, with a thesis on ''Order Types and Well-Quasi-Orderings''. The largest part of his career he spent as Professor and later Emeritus Professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Richard Laver died in Boulder, CO, on September 19, 2012 after a long illness. Research contributions Among Laver's notable achievements some are the following. * Using the theory of better-quasi-orders, introduced by Nash-Williams, (an extension of the notion of well-quasi-ordering), he proved Fraïssé's conjecture (now Laver's theorem): if (''A''0,≤),(''A''1,≤),...,(''A''''i'',≤), are countable ordered sets, then for some ''i''<''j'' (''A''i,≤) isomorphically embeds into (''A''''j'',≤). This also holds if the ordered sets ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rod Laver
Rodney George Laver (born 9 August 1938) is an Australian former tennis player. Laver was the world number 1 ranked professional in some sources in 1964, in all sources from 1965 to 1969 and in some sources in 1970, spanning four years before and three years after the start of the Open Era in 1968. He was also ranked the world number 1 amateur in 1961 by Lance Tingay and 1962 by Tingay and Ned Potter. Laver's 200 singles titles are the most in tennis history. This included his all-time men's record of 10 or more titles per year for seven consecutive years (1964–1970). He excelled on all of the court surfaces of his time: grass, clay, hard, carpet, and wood. Laver won 11 Grand Slam singles titles, though he was banned from playing those tournaments for the five years prior to the Open Era. Laver is the only player, male or female, to win a Grand Slam (winning all four major titles in the same calendar year) twice in singles, in 1962 and 1969; the latter remains the only tim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudolph Laver
Rudolph Laver (19 July 1872 in Castlemaine, Victoria – September 1946 in Berlin) was an Australian-German electrical engineer. Biography Rudolph Laver was one of seven sons of farmer Jonas Laver (1819-1880) from Somerset and of Mary Ann née Fry (†1885). In 1899 Rudolph Laver emigrated to Germany, studied electrical engineering in Karlsruhe and Charlottenburg, and was naturalized in Germany in 1915. Laver was director at the power plant company ''Bergmann Elektrizitätswerke'' in Berlin. With the outbreak of World War I, large parts of the Bergmann works were converted to armaments production, and Laver was released from his work. In 1934 Laver replaced the then managing director Martin Rosenfeld of the ''Paul Bouveron GmbH''. The name of the company changed to ''Transformatorenfabrik Rudolph Laver vormals Paul Bouveron GmbH''. After his death, his widow Klara, née Rothweiler, inherited the company.''Verordnungsblatt für Gross-Berlin, Volume 4, 1948, p. 348'' See also * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
