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List Of People From Wakefield
This is a list of people from the City of Wakefield, a local government district in West Yorkshire, England. This list includes notable people from Wakefield, and the wider district, and so includes people from Normanton, Pontefract, Featherstone, Castleford and Knottingley and other areas. This list is arranged alphabetically by surname: A *Victor Adebowale, Baron Adebowale of Thornes B * William Baines, pianist * Ron Barber, politician * Stan Barstow, writer * Nigel Boocock, speedway rider * Matthew Booth, actor, ''Emmerdale'' * Geoffrey Boycott, former Yorkshire and England cricketer * Tom Briscoe, rugby league footballer who has played for Hull; currently representing Leeds Rhinos and England * Thomas Byran, Victoria Cross recipient in 1917 * Andrew Burt, actor C * John Carr, architect * Claire Cooper, actress * Martin Creed, artist D * Janet Davies, actress * Reece Dinsdale, actor, ''Home to Roost'', ''Ahead of the Class'', ''Coronation Street'' E * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of Wakefield
The City of Wakefield is a local government district with the status of a city and metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. Wakefield, the largest settlement, is the administrative centre of the district. The population of the City of Wakefield at the 2011 Census was 325,837. The district includes the ''Five Towns'' of Normanton, Pontefract, Featherstone, Castleford and Knottingley. Other towns include Ossett, Horbury, Hemsworth, South Kirkby and Moorthorpe and South Elmsall. The city and district are governed by Wakefield Metropolitan District Council from headquarters in County Hall. In 2010, Wakefield was named as the UK's third most musical city by PRS for Music. Economy The economic and physical condition of several of the former mining towns and villages in Wakefield District have started to improve due to the booming economy of Leeds – and an increase in numbers of commuters to the city from the sub-region – and a recognition of undeveloped assets. For i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Bryan (VC)
Thomas Bryan VC (21 January 1882 – 13 October 1945) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Early life Byran was born in Worcestershire, but grew up in Castleford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England. He moved as a toddler with his family who headed north to find work in the Yorkshire collieries. His father worked as a miner at the Whitwood Colliery. Byran followed his father into the mines working at Askern Colliery. VC action Bryan was 35 years old, and a lance-corporal in the 25th (Service) Battalion (2nd Tyneside Irish), Northumberland Fusiliers, British Army during the First World War at the Battle of Arras when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC. On 9 April 1917 near Arras, France, during an attack Lance-Corporal Bryan although wounded, went forward alone in order to silence a machine-gun whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Fernandes
Charles Walker Luis Fernandes (3 April 1857 – 12 August 1944) was an English rugby union footballer who played in the 1880s, and cricketer of the 1900s. He played representative level rugby union (RU) for England, and at club level for Leeds, and Yorkshire Wanderers, as a forward, and cricket for the Gentlemen of Yorkshire. Prior to Tuesday 27 August 1895, Leeds was a rugby union club. Background Charles Fernandes was born in Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, and he died aged 87 in Thirsk, North Riding of Yorkshire, England. He was the younger brother of Henry Walker Luis Fernandes and was the older brother of the twins; cricketer Rowland Walker Luis Fernandes and cricketer Ramsden Walker Luis Fernandes Playing career Charles Fernandes won caps for England while at Leeds in 1891 against Ireland, Wales, and Scotland. Cricket Charles Fernandes was also a cricketer, playing for the Gentlemen of Yorkshire against the Household Brigade Household Divi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Fergusson
Jean Fergusson (30 December 1944 – 14 November 2019) was a British television and theatre actress, who was best known for playing the part of Marina on the British situation comedy '' Last of the Summer Wine'' from 1985 until it was cancelled in 2010, and her several guest roles in the soap ''Coronation Street''. Early life Fergusson was born in the village of Woolley, near Wakefield, to Margaret (née Jackson) and Francis Fergusson, a civil engineer. They moved several times between Yorkshire and Dumfriesshire, Scotland before settling in Bridgend, Glamorgan in 1956 where Fergusson attended Bridgend Girls' Grammar School. While studying for her A-levels, she joined an amateur dramatics company, the Bridgend Castle Players, then trained as an actor at Cardiff College of Music and Drama (now the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama) and graduated in 1965. Career After touring schools with Brian Way’s Theatre Centre company, she spent two years in rep at Oldham Colis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisa Fennell
Louisa Fennell (1847–1930) was an English watercolour painter. She was best known as a painter of landscapes and townscapes of the towns and cities of the West Riding of Yorkshire, particularly the County town of Wakefield, its surrounding area, and the city of York. Biography Louisa Fennell was born in the Wakefield area of the West Riding of Yorkshire in 1847. She died in 1930. Fennel was a watercolourist who exhibited widely in the North of England. For example, her watercolour entry to the 1884 Spring exhibition in Derby was singled out by the local newspaper as "particularly noticeable". In 1881 she departed from her usual subject-matter and published an album of 12 lithographs on ''The Life of Saint Paul in Rome'', which a reviewer in the ''Magazine of Art'' described as "not very well done" in a round-up of what leading women artists had been working on. A set of print reproductions of her watercolours was issued in 1900, described as "well known" and repr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mick Exley
George Henry Exley (15 November 1911 – February 1990),England & Wales, Death Index: 1916–2006 also known by the nickname of 'Mick', was an English rugby union, and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s, and coached rugby league in the 1940s. He played representative level rugby league (RL) for Great Britain (non- Test matches), England and Yorkshire, and at club level for Wakefield Trinity ( Heritage No. 352) (captain) (two spells, pre and post- World War II) and Hanging Heaton WMC ARLFC, as a and later as , i.e. number 2 or 5, or, 11 or 12 during the era of contested scrums, and club level rugby union (RU) for Wakefield RFC Old Boys (in a period of dispensation for "retired" rugby league players during World War II, he would later return to rugby league with Wakefield Trinity), and coached at club level for Batley. Background Exley was born in Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, he worked at Yorkshire Electr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monica Edwards
Monica Edwards (née Monica le Doux Newton; 8 November 1912 – 18 January 1998) was an English children's writer of the mid-twentieth century best known for her Romney Marsh and Punchbowl Farm series of children's novels. Early life She was born in Belper, Derbyshire on 8 November 1912, the third of four children born to the Reverend Harry and Beryl Newton. The family moved to Wakefield, Yorkshire in 1919. As well as being a vicar, Harry Newton was a diocesan exorcist and often took his children with him when performing exorcisms. In 1927 the family moved to Rye Harbour in Romney Marsh, Sussex where Harry Newton remained as vicar until 1936. The young Monica Newton received a fragmentary formal education: she is known to have attended Wakefield Girls' High School between September 1920 and July 1921 and when the family were living at Rye Harbour she was sent to St Brandon's School, Bristol where she remained for just three months in 1928 before returning to Sussex. She receiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Earnshaw (cyclist)
Harold Earnshaw, Harry "Shake" Earnshaw, (24 September 1915 – 16 May 1985) was an English racing cyclist from Yorkshire. In 1938 he was acclaimed as the British Best All-Rounder when his three best event performances were aggregated into 399 miles at 22.627 mph. His achievements were celebrated in 1939 when Cycling Weekly awarded him his own page in the Golden Book of Cycling, which is now held in 'The Pedal Club' archive. Personal life Harry Earnshaw lived in Royston, South Yorkshire and was a natural athlete and cyclist. He worked as a coal-miner Coal mining is the process of resource extraction, extracting coal from the ground. Coal is valued for its Energy value of coal, energy content and since the 1880s has been widely used to generate electricity. Steel and cement industries use c ... from school-leaving age (c. 1930) until 1938. Harry was given the nickname "Shake" by a visiting uncle. Who after reading a popular magazine called "Fragments", within its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reece Dinsdale
Reece Dinsdale (born 6 August 1959) is an English actor and director of stage, film and television. He is a Huddersfield Town fan. In 2017 he became a patron of the Square Chapel, an arts centre in Halifax. He is also an honorary patron of The Old Courts multi-arts centre in Wigan Acting career Dinsdale trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama from 1977 until 1980. After initially working in theatre in Exeter, Nottingham, Birmingham and at the Edinburgh Festival, Dinsdale got his first TV role in the Granada thriller ''Knife Edge'' in 1981. He followed this up by appearing in ''Out on the Floor'' a single drama for the BBC in 1982. This led to him being cast as Albert in ''Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime'' series for ITV in 1982. More theatre followed with ''Beethoven's Tenth'' with Peter Ustinov at the Vaudeville Theatre, London and the highly acclaimed ''Red Saturday'' at the Royal Court. He played Jimmy Kemp in '' Threads'' (1984), a-soon-to-be-father and hus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janet Davies (actress)
Janet Kathleen Davies (14 September 1927 – 22 September 1986) was an English actress best known for her recurring role as Mrs. Pike in the long-running sitcom ''Dad's Army''. Although mainly remembered for her role in ''Dad's Army'', appearing in 30 episodes of the series, she also featured in many other television and film roles including '' Dixon of Dock Green'', ''The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin'', '' All Creatures Great and Small'', ''Last of the Summer Wine'', ''Z-Cars'', ''The Citadel'', ''Pride and Prejudice'', ''Open All Hours'', ''Are You Being Served?'', and in the films '' The Ghost Goes Gear'' (1966) and '' Interlude'' (1968). When she was not acting, Davies exploited her typing and shorthand training by working with various theatrical agencies. She was married to the actor Ian Gardiner, who was best known for having played Reginald Molehusband in a Central Office of Information public information film in the 1960s. She died on 22 September 1986, aged 5 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Creed
Martin Creed (born 21 October 1968) is a British artist, composer and performer. He won the Turner Prize in 2001 for exhibitions during the preceding year, with the jury praising his audacity for exhibiting a single installation, '' Work No. 227: The lights going on and off'', in the Turner Prize show. Creed lives and works in London. Life and education Martin Creed was born in Wakefield, England. He moved with his family to Glasgow at age 3 when his silversmith father got a job teaching there.Farah Nayeri (24 January 2014)When Art Is Beside the Point'' International Herald Tribune''. He grew up revering art and music. His parents were Quakers, and he was taken often to Quaker meetings. He attended Lenzie Academy, and studied art at the Slade School of Art at University College London from 1986 to 1990. Since then he has lived in London, apart from a period (2000—2004) living in Alicudi, an island off Sicily in the South of Italy. He currently lives and works back in London ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claire Cooper
Claire Elizabeth Cooper (born 26 October 1980) is a British actress, best known for portraying Jacqui McQueen in Channel 4 soap opera '' Hollyoaks'', a character she played from 2006 to 2013. Cooper co-owns clothing rental boutique The Closet in Liverpool with ''Hollyoaks'' co-stars Jennifer Metcalfe and Leah Hackett. Early life Cooper was a British champion gymnast for 10 years. Cooper attended the Guildford School of Acting. Career Cooper has appeared in various British television shows, including a two-part episode on '' Waking the Dead'' in 2004. She made appearances on ''Coronation Street'' and '' Waterloo Road'' in 2006. Cooper made her on-screen debut in ''Hollyoaks'' in September 2006. In 2009 she played a character in the second series of ''Hollyoaks Later ''Hollyoaks Later'' (originally ''Late Night Hollyoaks'') is a British television spin-off of the Channel 4 soap opera ''Hollyoaks''. The series allows for more sexual content, 'edgier' storylin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
