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Le Fanu
Le Fanu is a surname, also spelled LeFanu. Notable people with the name include * Alicia Le Fanu (born 1791), Irish poet and writer * Alicia Sheridan Le Fanu (1753–1817), Irish writer *Henry Le Fanu (1870–1946), Anglican bishop in Australia * James Le Fanu (born 1950), British physician, medical journalist and author * Michael Le Fanu (1913– 1970), British Royal Navy officer, Admiral of the Fleet *Nicola LeFanu (born 1947), British composer * Sarah LeFanu (born 1953), Scottish academic and author * Sheridan Le Fanu (1814–1873), Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels * Thomas Le Fanu (priest) (1784–1845), Irish Dean * Thomas Le Fanu (civil servant) (1858-1945), Irish civil servant * Victor Le Fanu (1865–1939), Irish rugby union player *William LeFanu William Richard LeFanu FSA (9 July 1904 – 1 April 1995) was an Irish librarian. He was the husband of composer Elizabeth Maconchy. Life LeFanu was born in Ireland, the son of Thomas Philip Le Fanu and hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alicia Le Fanu
Alicia Le Fanu (1791 – 29 January 1867) was an Irish poet and writer. Biography Alicia Le Fanu was the daughter of Betsy Sheridan and Captain Henry Le Fanu, and a granddaughter of actor Thomas Sheridan and his wife, writer Frances Sheridan. She had a younger sister, Harriet. The family moved from Dublin to Kingsbridge, Devon in the 1790s, and later Bath, from where her mother wrote letters mentioning Le Fanu's emerging literary talents, she considered her daughter's talent for writing to be "much superior" to her own. Her mother encouraged her writing, and ensured that the family library held books that would interest and educate Le Fanu. She began her publishing career in 1809. Le Fanu moved to Leamington Spa around 1822 with her mother, following the deaths of her father and sister. The exact date of her death is generally stated to be unknown and has been asserted as early as 29 January 1826, but is usually stated to have been in or after 1844. She is known to have been a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alicia Sheridan Le Fanu
Alicia Sheridan Le Fanu (1753–1817) was an Irish writer. She was the daughter of actor Thomas Sheridan and his wife, writer Frances Chamberlaine Sheridan. She was the sister of Richard Brinsley Sheridan and Betsy Sheridan Ann Elizabeth "Betsy" Sheridan Le Fanu (1758–1837) was an Anglo-Irish diarist and novelist. She was a daughter of Irish stage actor Thomas Sheridan and the sister of satirist Richard Brinsley Sheridan and playwright Alicia Sheridan Le Fanu. S ... and the aunt of writer Alicia LeFanu (with whom she is sometimes confused). Select bibliography * ''The Sons of Erin; Or, Modern Sentiment'' References 1753 births 1817 deaths 18th-century Irish dramatists and playwrights 18th-century Irish women writers 19th-century Irish dramatists and playwrights 19th-century Irish women writers Irish women dramatists and playwrights Alicia Sheridan Writers from Dublin (city) {{playwright-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Le Fanu
Henry Frewen Le Fanu (1 April 1870 – 9 September 1946) was an Anglican bishop in Australia. Early life Le Fanu was born in Dublin, Ireland. He was educated at Haileybury and Keble College, Oxford. Religious life Le Fanu was ordained in 1894,The Times, Tuesday, Dec 24, 1895; pg. 14; Issue 34768; col C ''London Ordinations'' he began his ecclesiastical career as a curate in Poplar. From 1899 to 1901 he was Chaplain to the Bishop of Rochester after which he held a similar post at Guy's Hospital. Emigrating to Australia he was successively Canon Residentiary and Archdeacon of St John's Cathedral, Brisbane (1904–1915), Coadjutor Bishop of Brisbane (1915–1929), Archbishop of Perth and Primate of Australia. He was consecrated a bishop on 21 September 1915 at the cathedral by St Clair Donaldson, Archbishop of Brisbane, and appointed a Sub-Prelate of the Order of St John of Jerusalem The Order of Knights of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem ( la, Ordo F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Le Fanu
James Le Fanu (born 1950) is a British retired General Practitioner, journalist and author, best known for his weekly columns in the ''Daily'' and ''Sunday Telegraph''. He is married to publisher Juliet Annan. Life He was educated at Ampleforth College and graduated from Clare College, Cambridge University and the Royal London Hospital in 1974, and worked as a junior doctor at the Renal Transplant Unit and Cardiology Department of the Royal Free Hospital and St Mary’s Hospital in London. For 20 years he combined working as a general practitioner with writing medical columns for the ''Sunday Telegraph'' and ''Daily Telegraph'' as well as contributing reviews and articles to ''The Times'', ''The Spectator'', ''The British Medical Journal'' and ''Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine''.Biography of James Le Fanu jameslefanu.com, retrieved Sep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Le Fanu
Admiral of the Fleet (Royal Navy), Admiral of the Fleet Sir Michael Le Fanu (2 August 1913 – 28 November 1970) was a Royal Navy officer. He fought in the Second World War as gunnery officer in a cruiser operating in the Home Fleet during the Norwegian campaign and the Battle of the Mediterranean and then as gunnery officer in a battleship operating in the Eastern Fleet before becoming liaison officer between the British Pacific Fleet and the United States Third Fleet. After the War he commanded a frigate, a training establishment and an aircraft carrier. He served as First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff in the late 1960s. In that role, in the face of economic difficulties, he worked hard to reshape the Navy as an anti-submarine force operating primarily in the Atlantic Ocean. Early life Born the son of Captain (Royal Navy), Captain Hugh Barrington Le Fanu Royal Navy, RN (of Huguenot descent) and Georgiana Harriott Le Fanu (née Kingscote), Le Fanu was educated at Bedford ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicola LeFanu
Nicola Frances LeFanu (born 28 April 1947) is a British composer, academic, lecturer and director. Life Nicola LeFanu was born in Wickham Bishops, Essex, England, to William LeFanu and Elizabeth Maconchy (also a composer, later Dame Elizabeth Maconchy). She studied at St Hilda's College, Oxford, before taking up a Harkness Fellowship at Harvard. In 1972 she won the Mendelssohn Scholarship. She later became Director of Music at St Paul's Girls' School (1975–77), taught at King's College London (1977–1995, as Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Professor), and was then a Professor of Music at the University of York, where she was Head of Department from 1994 to 2001. She retired from teaching in 2008. In 1979 she married the composer David Lumsdaine. She earned a Doctorate in Music from the University of London in 1988 and holds honorary doctorates from the Universities of Durham and Aberdeen and from the Open University. She is active in many aspects of the musical profession, as co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Le Fanu (priest)
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Thomas Philip Le Fanu (1784–1845) was an Irish Dean in the first half of the 19th century. He was the son of Joseph Le Fanu and Alicia Sheridan, and the father of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and William Richard Le Fanu. He married Emma Lucretia Dobbin. He was Dean of Emly and rector of Abington, Limerick from 1826 to 1845. Prior to this position, he was chaplain at the Royal Hibernian Military School in Phoenix Park, Dublin.William Richard Le Fanu (1893''Seventy Years of Irish Life'' Edward Arnold, London He died in Abington Glebe House on 20 June 1845. He was buried in the grounds of Abington Church. References Deans of Emly 1784 births 1845 deaths Thomas Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (other) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Le Fanu (civil Servant)
Thomas Philip Le Fanu (9 December 1858 – 21 October 1945) was an Anglo-Irish civil servant. Born in Ireland to a Huguenot family, he was the son of William Richard Le Fanu (1816-1894) and his wife Henrietta Victorine Barrington, daughter of Sir Matthew Barrington, 2nd Baronet. He was educated in England at Haileybury College and Trinity College, Cambridge,''Alumni Cantabrigienses'' whence he graduated as a Bachelor of Arts in 1881. Le Fanu worked first in the Public Record Office of Ireland from 1881, transferring to the Chief Secretary of Ireland's Office in 1884. He rose to become Private Secretary to the Chief Secretary of Ireland, Augustine Birrell, between 1910 and 1913. In 1913 he was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath. From 1913 to 1926, through the period when Ireland gained independence, he was Commissioner of Public Works. LeFanu was Vice-President of the Royal Irish Academy from 1918 to 1920 and again from 1925 until 1930. He was President of the Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Le Fanu
Victor Charles Le Fanu (14 October 1865 – 9 August 1939)Griffiths (1987), 12:24. was an Irish international rugby union flanker who played club rugby for Landsdowne. Le Fanu was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge and would later play for Cambridge rugby team. He won three sporting Blues, playing in all three Varsity matches from 1884-1886. His father was William Le Fanu, a Commissioner of the Irish Board of Works, who more famously was the brother of Sheridan Le Fanu. International career Le Fanu was first capped for Ireland Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ... on 6 February 1886 in a home game against England. Le Fanu, still at Cambridge, had a difficult start which saw England win comfortably, in front of a then record crowd of 7,000. Le Fanu would represe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
