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Llewelyn
Llywelyn, Llewelyn or Llewellyn is a name of Welsh language origins. See Llywelyn (name) for the name's etymology, history and other details. As a surname Arts * Carmen Llywelyn, American actress and photographer * Chris Llewellyn (poet), American poet *David Llewellyn (author) (born 1978), Welsh author of '' Eleven'' * Desmond Llewelyn (1914–1999), Welsh actor who played Q in several James Bond films * Dylan Llewellyn, English actor * Grace Llewellyn, American author of several books on homeschooling * Kate Llewellyn (born 1936), Australian poet * Morgan Llywelyn (born 1937), U.S.-born Irish historical author * Olivia Llewellyn (born 1980), English actress * Patricia Llewellyn (1962–2017), British television producer * Richard Llewellyn (1906–1983), English author of Welsh descent *Robert Llewellyn (born 1956), English actor, presenter, and writer *Roddy Llewellyn (born 1947), British landscape gardener, author, and television presenter * Roger Llewellyn, British actor * Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desmond Llewelyn
Desmond Wilkinson Llewelyn (; 12 September 1914GRO Register of Births: DEC 1914 11a 490 NEWPORT M. – Desmond W. Llewelyn, mmn = Wilkinson – 19 December 1999GRO Register of Deaths: JUN 2000 A70E 247 EASTBOURNE – Desmond Wilkinson Llewelyn, DoB = 12 September 1914, aged 85) was a Welsh actor. He was best known for his role as Q in 17 of the ''James Bond'' films between 1963 and 1999. Biography Early life Llewelyn was born on 12 September 1914 at Blaen-y-Pant House in Bettws in Newport, the son of Mia (née Wilkinson) and Ivor Llewelyn. Desmond's father was a coal mining engineer, who notably purchased the first Bentley production automobile, a Bentley 3-litre from W. O. Bentley in 1921. His paternal grandfather, Llewelyn Llewelyn of Kings Hill was the High Sheriff of Monmouthshire as well as General Manager of the Powell-Dyffryn Steam Coal Company. While Llewelyn originally wanted to be a minister, he became involved in theatrical productions during his education at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theodora Llewelyn Davies
Theodora Llewelyn Davies (18 April 1898 – 21 December 1988) was a British barrister and penal reform campaigner. She was the first woman to apply for admission to the British legal profession's Inner Temple in 1920 and one of the first to be admitted in November 1922. Early life and education Theodora Llewelyn Davies was born in Birkenhead on 18 April 1898 to Maurice Llewelyn Davies and May Roberts. She was one of three children with brother Roland and sister Mary. Her mother died in childbirth when she was four. Llewelyn Davies was raised by her father and her mother's sister, Nellie. She came from an illustrious family. Her father's sister was Margaret Llewelyn Davies and his brother was Arthur Llewelyn Davies. Her great aunt Emily Davies was the founder of Girton College in Cambridge, the first college for women. Her grandfather was Rev. John Llewelyn Davies, Rector of Christ Church, Marylebone, who was a strong advocate for women's education. She had a cousin, Winifred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Llewelyn Davies
Margaret Caroline Llewelyn Davies (16 October 1861 – 28 May 1944) was a British social activist who served as general secretary of the Co-operative Women's Guild from 1889 until 1921. Her election has been described as a "turning point" in the organization's history, increasing its political activity and beginning an era of unprecedented growth and success. Catherine Webb considered Davies's retirement such a significant loss for the Guild that she began writing '' The Woman with the Basket'', a history of the Guild to that time. Davies compiled ''Maternity: Letters from Working Women'' (1915), a book based on letters from Guild members about their experiences of pregnancy, childbirth and raising children. She was the editor of ''Life as we have Known it'' (1931), a collection of Guild members' reflections, which included an introduction by her friend Virginia Woolf. Davies was a prominent and dedicated pacifist of her era. Early life Margaret Caroline Llewelyn Davies was bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Q (James Bond)
Q is a character in the James Bond films and novelisations. Q is the head of Q Branch (later Q Division), the fictional research and development division of the British Secret Service charged with oversight of top secret field technologies. Q (standing for quartermaster), like M, is a job title rather than a name. The use of letters as pseudonyms for senior officers in the British Secret Service was started by its first director, Captain Sir Mansfield George Smith-Cumming (1859–1923), who signed himself with a C written in green ink. Q has appeared in 22 of the 25 Eon Productions James Bond films, the exceptions being '' Live and Let Die'' (1973), '' Casino Royale'' (2006) and '' Quantum of Solace'' (2008). Q also featured in both non-Eon Bond films, ''Casino Royale'' (1967) and '' Never Say Never Again'' (1983). Between 1963 and 1999, Q was portrayed in the Eon films by Desmond Llewelyn until his death in late 1999. He was played in subsequent films first by John Cleese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Llywelyn (name)
Llywelyn () is a Welsh personal name, which has also become a family name most commonly spelt Llewellyn ( ). The name has many variations and derivations, mainly as a result of the difficulty for non-Welsh speakers of representing the sound of the initial double ''ll'' (a voiceless alveolar lateral fricative). The name '' Lewis'' became closely associated with Llywelyn as early as the 13th century, when Anglo-Norman scribes often used the former as an anglicised version of the latter; many Welsh families came to do the same over the following centuries as the adoption of formal English-style surnames became more widespread. Etymology The name evolved from the Common Brittonic name ''Lugubelinos'', which was a compound of two names for Celtic deities. The first, ''Lugus'', is also the source of the first element in the names '' Llywarch'' and '' Lliwelydd'', and, as an independent name, evolved into Welsh '' Lleu''. The second element, ''Belenus'', evolved as an independent na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dylan Llewellyn
Dylan John Llewellyn (born 10 September 1992) is an English actor, known for portraying Martin "Jono" Johnson in ''Hollyoaks'', James Maguire in the Channel 4 sitcom ''Derry Girls'', Jack in '' Big Boys'' and PC Kelby Hartford in '' Beyond Paradise''. Early life Llewellyn was born and raised in Reigate, Surrey, the youngest of three boys born to English parents. He attended More House School in Farnham, a specialist school for children with autism, developmental language disorder and dyslexia. Llewellyn has dyslexia and found the support at a specialist school helpful. He studied media, photography, and drama as GCSEs. Llewellyn attended RADA, where he did a foundation in acting. Career Llewellyn appeared in the short film ''Travel Bag'' in 2009 and in 2010 he played Adam Wilcock in an episode of the television series ''The Bill''. In 2011, Llewellyn began playing Martin "Jono" Johnson in the soap opera ''Hollyoaks'' and in the spin-off ''Hollyoaks Later''. He made his la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bert Llewellyn
Herbert Arthur Llewellyn (5 February 1939 – 8 September 2016) was an English footballer. A centre-forward, he scored 114 goals in 239 league and cup appearances in a nine-year career in the Football League. He began his career at Everton in May 1956 and played eleven top-flight games before moving on to Crewe Alexandra in July 1958. He proved a prolific signing, hitting 51 goals in 96 league games, before he was sold on to Port Vale for a £7,000 fee in November 1960. He was sold to Northampton Town for £7,000 in February 1963 but soon found himself without a club after breaking his leg 11 minutes into his "Cobblers" debut. He returned to the game with Walsall in February 1964 before he signed with Cheshire County League side Wigan Athletic in the summer of 1965. He spent three seasons with the "Latics", bagging 140 goals in 185 games as the club won a succession of minor trophies. Career Llewellyn signed his first senior contract with Everton in May 1956. He scored on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Llewellyn
Carl Llewellyn (born 29 July 1965) is an assistant racehorse trainer to Nigel Twiston-Davies and a retired Welsh professional National Hunt jockey. Llewellyn won the Grand National on two occasions along with the Welsh Grand National and Scottish Grand National as a jockey. He has also won the Whitbread / Bet365 Gold Cup both as a jockey and as a trainer and many grade races. Racing career Llewellyn began his riding career with his father Eryl, a farmer, riding in point to points and moved on to ride under National Hunt rules, where he rode as an amateur with Stan Mellor and Jim Old. His first winner came on 14 March 1986 with Stargestic at Wolverhampton Racecourse, who was trained by Roy Robinson. His first big race victory was the Mildmay of Flete Challenge Cup at the 1988 Cheltenham Festival meeting on Smart Tar trained by Mark (Jumbo) Wilkinson. He broke his leg in two places at Market Rasen on Saturday 3 March 1990 on Suncia, after Cool Trade fell. He had multip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Llewellyn
Sam Llewellyn (born 1948) is a British author of literature for children and adults. Biography Sam Llewellyn was born on Tresco, Isles of Scilly, where his ancestors lived for many years. He grew up in Norfolk. He attended Eton College and later St Catherine's College, Oxford. Llewellyn went on to live in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and Ireland, before settling in Herefordshire, England, where he still lives. Llewellyn has a deep love for the sea, and this has influenced much of his writing. He goes sailing regularly. He was originally an editor and fine art dealer before becoming an author. He has become a prolific writer, and has written for both children and adults. He has also worked as a journalist with newspapers and magazines from both America and Britain. He is a columnist for Practical Boat Owner, Hortus, Broad Sheep and the RYA website, and the owner and editor of The Marine Quarterly, a journal of the sea - 'The thinking sailor's sea journal' according to Tom Cunliffe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royce R
Royce may refer to: Places Physical geography * Royce Brook, a creek in New Jersey, USA * Royce Peak, a mountain in California, USA Settlements * Royce, Alberta, Canada; an inhabited locality Facilities and structures * Royce Hall, on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles; in Los Angeles, California, USA * ROYCE' Town Station, a train station in Tōbetsu, Hokkaidō, Japan People Surname * Royce (surname) Given name * Royce D. Applegate (1939–2003), American actor and screenwriter * Royce Ayliffe, Australian rugby league footballer * Royce Berry (born 1946), American professional football defensive end * Royce Brownlie (born 1980), Australian football (soccer) player * Royce Campbell (born 1952), jazz guitarist * Royce Chan (born 1978), Hong Kong rugby union player * Royce Clayton (born 1970), American Major League Baseball shortstop * Royce de Mel, first indigenous commander of the Sri Lanka Navy * Royce Deppe (born 1965), South African tennis player ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Llewellyn
Charles Bennett "Buck" Llewellyn (29 September 1876 – 7 June 1964) was the first non-white South African Test cricketer. He appeared in 15 Test matches for South Africa between 1895 and 1912, and played in English cricket as a professional for Hampshire between 1899 and 1910. Life and career Born out of wedlock in Pietermaritzburg to a Welsh father and a black Saint Helenan mother, the dark-eyed and dark-skinned Llewellyn had an underprivileged upbringing in Natal, being considered of mixed blood. He showed all round cricketing prowess from a young age as a hard hitting left-handed batsman, slow left-arm bowler (with a dangerous slow left-arm wrist-spin delivery as part of his arsenal) and a great fielder, particularly at mid-off. While the racism of late nineteenth-century South Africa had led to other leading non-white players being omitted from representative sides, Llewellyn's ability to pass himself off as white in some cases ( Wilfred Rhodes described him as "like a ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Llewellyn
Karl Nickerson Llewellyn (May 22, 1893 – February 13, 1962) was an American jurisprudential scholar associated with the school of legal realism. '' The Journal of Legal Studies'' has identified Llewellyn as one of the twenty most cited American legal scholars of the 20th century. Biography Karl Llewellyn was born on May 22, 1893, in Seattle but grew up in Brooklyn. He was the son of William Henry Llewellyn, a businessman of Welsh ancestry, and Janet George, a passionate suffragette and prohibitionist of Congregationalist conviction. He attended Boys High School. At the age of sixteen he was sent to study in Germany, at the Realgymnasium of Schwerin, where he spent three years and passed his ''Abitur'' (school-leaving examination) in the spring of 1911; he learned to speak an excellent German and was able later in life to publish in that language. After having attended the University of Lausanne for a brief time, in September 1911 he entered Yale College and in 1915 Yale Law ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
