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List Of Old Salopians
List of Old Salopians is a list of some of the many notable old boys of Shrewsbury School, a leading UK independent boarding and day school in Shrewsbury, in Shropshire, England. Old Salopians A * Francis William Lauderdale Adams (1862–1893), writer * Sir James Adams (1932–2020), ambassador to Tunisia (1984–1987) and Egypt (1987–1992) * John Adams, (before 1670−1738), cartographer * Sir Thomas Adams, 1st Baronet (1586–1668), Lord Mayor of the City of London 1654–65 * Harold Ackroyd (1877–1917), soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross * Sir John Lawson Andrews (1903–1986), Deputy Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and son of Prime Minister John Miller Andrews * John Langshaw Austin (1911–1960), philosopher of language, White's Professor of Moral Philosophy B * Charles Baillie (born 1989), financial regulatory specialist * Alan Barber (1905–1985), cricketer and headmaster of Ludgrove * Robert Bardsley (1890–1952), cricketer and colon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shrewsbury School
Shrewsbury School is a public school (English independent boarding school for pupils aged 13 –18) in Shrewsbury. Founded in 1552 by Edward VI by Royal Charter, it was originally a boarding school for boys; girls have been admitted into the Sixth Form since 2008 and the school has been co-educational since 2015. As of Michaelmas Term 2020, the school has 807 pupils: 544 boys and 263 girls. There are eight boys' boarding houses, four girls' boarding houses and two for day pupils. There are approximately 130 day pupils.Independent Schools Inspectorate report 2007 Retrieved 19 March 2010 The present site, to which the school moved in 1882, is on the south bank of the |
Alan Barber
Alan Theodore Barber (17 June 1905 – 10 March 1985) was an English amateur first-class cricketer, who played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club from 1929 to 1930. He also played for Oxford University, and appeared in a total of 70 first-class matches. Life and career Barber was born in Ecclesall, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, and educated at Shrewsbury School and The Queen's College, Oxford.BARBER, Alan Theodore ''Who Was Who'', A & C Black, 1920–2016 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2014) He played in 27 cricket matches for Oxford University between 1927 and 1929, and in 42 for Yorkshire. Barber was of Oxford in 1929 and of Yorkshire in 1930, and was awarded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and one of the most prestigious and highly ranked universities in the world. The university is composed of ten academic faculties plus Harvard Radcliffe Institute. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences offers study in a wide range of undergraduate and graduate academic disciplines, and other faculties offer only graduate degrees, including professional degrees. Harvard has three main campuses: the Cambridge campus centered on Harvard Yard; an adjoining campus immediately across Charles River in the Allston neighborhood of Boston; and the medical campus in Boston's Longwood Medical Area. Harvard's endowment is valued at $50.9 billion, making it the wealthiest academic institution in the world. Endowment inco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Berry (biologist)
Andrew Berry (born 1963) is a British evolutionary biologist and historian of science with a particular interest in Alfred Russel Wallace. Previously, he was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and he is currently a lecturer in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. Early life Andrew Berry was born in 1963 in London. His father is biologist R. J. Berry. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and then studied Zoology at St John's College, Oxford. He did his PhD under Martin Kreitman in evolutionary genetics at Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins .... At Harvard, he did post-doctoral work in Richard Lewontin's lab. Career Berry's research combined field and laboratory methods to detect positive Darwinian selection (i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Beazley (born 1952), Member Of The European Parliament 1984-2009
Christopher Beazley (born 5 September 1952) is a British politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1984 to 1994 and again from 1999 to 2009. He was member of the Conservative Party until 2019, when he joined the Liberal Democrats. Background Beazley is the son of Peter Beazley, and earned a BA in History at the University of Bristol in 1974. From 1974 to 1976, he worked at the Bank of England, then as a teacher 1976–1983 and as a research officer at the University of Sussex 1983–1984. He has since been a consultant and writer on European affairs. Political career Beazley was elected at the 1984 European Parliament election as the MEP for Cornwall and Plymouth, serving alongside his father Peter Beazley, who was the MEP for Bedfordshire South. He was re-elected in 1989, but when his constituency was abolished at the 1994 European Parliament election, he was defeated in the new Cornwall and West Plymouth constituency by the Liberal Democrat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand, Myanmar, and Indonesia. Modern humans arrived on the Indian subcontinent from Africa no later than 55,000 years ago., "Y-Chromosome and Mt-DNA data support the colonization of South Asia by modern humans originating in Africa. ... Coalescence dates for most non-European populations average to between 73–55 ka.", "Modern human beings—''Homo sapiens''—originated in Africa. Then, int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecil Beadon
Sir Cecil Beadon, (1816 – 18 July 1880) was an English administrator in British India, serving as lieutenant-governor of Bengal Presidency from 1862 to 1866, when he was relieved of the post after a commission of inquiry, which was critical of his handling of the Orissa famine of 1866. Life He was the youngest son of Richard Beadon (1779–1858), and grandson of Richard Beadon, the bishop of Bath and Wells His mother, Annabella Ashe née à Court (1781–1866) was the daughter of Sir William à Court 1st Baronet à Court of Heytesbury; and sister of William à Court, 1st Baron Heytesbury. Cecil was educated at Eton College and Shrewsbury School. At the age of eighteen he was presented with an appointment to the Bengal civil service, which had been placed by the court of directors at the disposal of his uncle Lord Heytesbury, nominated as Governor-General of India in 1835 (by Robert Peel, but the nomination was cancelled by the fall of Peel's administration). Reaching India i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Henry Bateson
William Henry Bateson (3 June 1812, Liverpool – 27 March 1881, Cambridge) was a British academic, who served as Master of St John's College, Cambridge. The son of Richard Bateson, a Liverpool merchant, Bateson was educated at Shrewsbury School under Samuel Butler, and at St John's College, Cambridge, being admitted in 1829, matriculating in 1831, graduating B.A. (3rd classic) 1836, M.A. 1839, B.D. 1846, D.D. ('' per lit. reg.'') 1857. He trained as a lawyer, teacher, and clergyman: he was admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1836, was second master at the Proprietary School in Leicester in 1837, and was ordained deacon in 1839 and priest in 1840. He was chaplain at Horningsea (1840–43) and Vicar of Madingley (1843–47). He gained a Fellowship at St John's in 1837, and served as Rede Lecturer (1841), Senior Bursar (1846–57), and Public Orator (1848–57). He was appointed Master of St John's in 1857, continuing as Master until his death in 1881. In 1858–59 he was Vice-Chance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archdeacon Of Southwark
The Archdeacons in the Diocese of Southwark are senior clergy in the Church of England in South London and Surrey. They currently include: the archdeacons of Southwark, of Reigate (formerly of Kingston-on-Thames) and of Lewisham & Greenwich (formerly of Lewisham), the Archdeacon of Croydon and the archdeacons of Wandsworth and of Lambeth. Each one has responsibility over a geographical area within the diocese. History The Diocese of Southwark was created on 1 May 1905 from two Diocese of Rochester archdeaconries: the archdeaconry of Southwark and the archdeaconry of Kingston-on-Thames. Parts of Surrey (from the dioceses of Winchester and of London) had first been transferred to Rochester diocese on 1 August 1877, and were organised into the Southwark archdeaconry on 3 May 1878. In 1864, the Bishop of Winchester had split the rural deanery of Southwark into three: Lambeth, Southwark, and Streatham. The Kingston archdeaconry was then created by Order in Council soon after, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglas Bartles-Smith
Douglas Leslie Bartles-Smith (3 June 1937 – 6 June 2014) was an English Anglican priest: he was the Archdeacon of Southwark from 1985 to 2004. Douglas Bartles-Smith was son of Leslie Charles and Muriel Rose Bartles-Smith.Article by Toby Neal. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and St Edmund Hall, Oxford. After National Service as a Second Lieutenant with the Royal Army Service Corps he was ordained in 1963. Following a curacy at St Stephen's, Rochester Row he was Curate in charge of St Michael and All Angels with Emmanuel and All Souls, Camberwell from 1968 to 1972 then its Vicar until 1975. He had a further incumbency at St Luke, Battersea for a decade before his Archdeacon’s appointment. He was also honorary Chaplain to the Queen from 1996 to 2007. He was an honorary freeman of the London Borough of Southwark in 2004. After retiring from full-time ministry, Bartles-Smith returned to live in Shrewsbury. He was a writer of several books, the last of which wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barrington Baronets
There have been two baronetcies created for people with the surname Barrington. As of 2014 one creation is extant. The Barrington Baronetcy, of Barrington Hall in the County of Essex was created in the Baronetage of England on 29 June 1611, for Francis Barrington, Member of Parliament for Essex. His son, the second Baronet, sat in the House of Commons for Newtown, Essex and Colchester. The third Baronet was also member of parliament for Newtown. He died in 1683, and was succeeded by his grandson, who died in turn unmarried in 1691. The latter's younger brother, the fifth Baronet, was a member of parliament for Essex. He died childless in 1715 and the baronetcy went to a son of the younger son of the third Baronet. The seventh Baronet sat for Newtown for 48 years. Since his marriage was without children, he was succeeded by his younger brother. The latter's son, the ninth Baronet, was also a member of parliament for Newtown. He died childless in 1818, and his younger brother be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Barnard (cricketer, Born 1990)
Michael Robert Barnard (born 8 February 1990) is an English former first-class cricketer. The son of the cricketer Andrew Barnard, he was born at Shrewsbury in February 1990. He was educated at Shrewsbury School, before going up to Oxford Brookes University. While studying at Oxford Brookes, he made a single appearance in first-class cricket for Oxford UCCE against Middlesex at Oxford in 2010. He took a single wicket in the match, dismissing Stuart Poynter in Middlesex's first-innings, to finish with match figures of 1 for 64. He batted once in the Oxford MCCU second-innings, when he was dismissed for a duck by Danny Evans. In addition to playing first-class cricket, he also played minor counties cricket for Shropshire from 2008–19, making eight appearances in the Minor Counties Championship, nineteen appearances in the MCCA Knockout Trophy, and two appearances in the Minor Counties T20 Minor may refer to: * Minor (law), a person under the age of certain legal activiti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
