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Maddocks
Maddocks is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Ada Maddocks (1927–2007), British trade unionist *Ann Maddocks (1704–1727), Welsh maid and a figure in Welsh folklore * Anne Maddocks (1911–2006), English musician * Charné Maddocks (born 1998), South African field hockey player * Chris Maddocks (born 1957), English racewalker * David Maddocks (born 1983), Welsh rugby union player * Henry Maddocks (other), multiple people *Ian Maddocks (born 1951), Australian cricketer *Kenneth Maddocks (1907–2001), British colonial official *Len Maddocks (1926–2016), Australian cricketer * Margaret Maddocks (1906–1993), English writer * Melrick Maddocks, South Africa field hockey * Mildred Maddocks, American cooking journalist and writer * Morris Maddocks (1928–2008), English Anglican bishop *Peter Maddocks Peter Maddocks (born 1 April 1928) is an English cartoonist. He has contributed to many of the United Kingdom's leading daily and Sunday national papers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Maddocks
Christopher ("Chris") Lloyd Maddocks (born 28 March 1957) is a male retired race walker from Great Britain. He competed in five consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1984. In his final competitive race, the 50 km walk at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, he overcame a hamstring injury to finish in last place. In completing the race, he set the record as the first British track athlete to compete in five Olympic Games. Following his retirement, he became a sports journalist. Athletic career Born in Tiverton, Devon, he started in athletics as a cross country runner, and had ambitions to run marathons. Prior to the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, he set a new British record in the 50 km walk, winning in Gydinia. In spite of achieving the Olympic qualifying time, he was not selected for the Games. He broke the record again winning in Paris a month after the Olympics. He then retired from the sport on a "semi-basis" for two and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mildred Maddocks
Mildred Agnes Maddocks (3 August 1881 – 17 May 1955), also known as Mildred Agnes Maddocks Bentley, was an American cooking journalist and writer. She was head of the Good Housekeeping Institute. Biography Maddocks was approached by Corning Glass Works to trial the prototype product, Pyrex Pyrex (trademarked as ''PYREX'' and ''pyrex'') is a brand introduced by Corning Inc. in 1915 for a line of clear, low-thermal-expansion borosilicate glass used for laboratory glassware and kitchenware. It was later expanded to include kitchenw .... She endorsed the product in magazine articles and by giving cooking demonstrations in department stores across the country. In her role as director of the Good Housekeeping Institute, she wrote ''The Consumer Viewpoint'', explaining what women look for when buying domestic appliances such as an iron, a vacuum cleaner, washing machine and refrigerator. Publications * Maddocks, M., & Rumford Chemical Works. (1911). ''Rumford receipt book''. P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Maddocks
Richard Ivor Maddocks (30 July 1928 – 10 September 1968) was an Australian first-class cricketer who represented Victoria in the Sheffield Shield. He also played Australian rules football with North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Maddocks, who also went by the first name of Dick, debuted at first-class level with Victoria in 1948. From the 1948–49 to 1951–52 seasons, he was restricted to non Sheffield Shield fixtures against Tasmania, who were yet to enter the competition. In the last of these matches, at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in February 1952, Maddocks scored his maiden first-class century and was involved in a record 343 run partnership with debutant Jeffrey Hallebone for the fifth wicket. He finished on 271, the second highest score made by a Victorian against Tasmania after Bill Ponsford. Finally in 1953–54, Maddocks got his chance to play Sheffield Shield and took part in all seven matches Victoria played, scoring 345 runs at 28.75. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Maddocks
Peter Maddocks (born 1 April 1928) is an English cartoonist. He has contributed to many of the United Kingdom's leading daily and Sunday national papers with cartoon series such as ''Four D. Jones'' in the Daily Express in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He has also created children's animated series for the BBC, including ''The Family-Ness'', ''Penny Crayon'', ''Jimbo and the Jet-Set'' and ''The Caribou Kitchen''. Education Maddocks was born in Birmingham Birmingham ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. It is the second-largest city in the United Kingdom with a population of 1.145 million in the city proper, 2.92 million in the West ... on 1 April 1928. In 1939 he won a scholarship to the city's Moseley School of Art, where he was taught by Norman Pett. At the age of 15, Maddocks decided to leave school and join the Merchant Navy from 1943 to 1949. Career After his six years in the Navy, Maddocks set up his o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morris Maddocks
Morris Henry St John Maddocks (28 April 1928 – 19 January 2008) was a bishop in the Church of England. He was a leading proponent of healing ministry and an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Chichester from 1987. He died on 19 January 2008. Morris served in parishes in London and York before being consecrated as a bishop and founding the Acorn Christian Healing Trust, now the Acorn Christian Healing Foundation, with his wife, Anne. He was the author of ''The Christian Healing Ministry'', published in 1981. Life Morris Henry St John Maddocks was born in 1928, the son of a West Yorkshire priest. He was educated at St John's School, Leatherhead, and gained an MA at Trinity College, Cambridge. A keen sportsman, his military service was in the Duke of Wellington's Regiment, Royal Signals and Royal Army Service Corps. Rugby and cricket were his great interests. He trained for the ordained ministry at Chichester Theological College in 1952, then was ordained a deacon in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Maddocks
Margaret Kathleen Maddocks (''née'' Cooper; 10 August 1906 – 20 October 1993) was a British writer of 17 Gothic fiction, gothic and romance novels. Before retiring she wrote her autobiography: ''An Unlessoned Girl'' in 1977. She is the only novelist to win four Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association. Biography Personal life Born in Caversham, Berkshire, Caversham, Oxfordshire (now Berkshire), Maddocks was educated at St. Helen's School, Northwood, London, Middlesex, and in Dresden, Staffordshire. On 1937, she married Richard Maddocks, who died in 1970. She died in October 1993. Career Published since 1947 under her married name, Margaret Maddocks, she is the only novelist who has won four Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association for her novels ''Larksbrook'' (1962), ''The Silver Answer'' (1965), ''Thea (novel), Thea'' (1970), and ''The Moon is Square'' (1976). In 1977, before retiring she published her autobi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Len Maddocks
Leonard Victor Maddocks (24 May 1926 – 1 September 2016) was an Australian cricketer and cricket administrator who played in seven Tests from 1954 to 1956. He was born in Beaconsfield, Victoria. He played first-class cricket for Victoria and Tasmania, and he was trapped lbw by Jim Laker to be the last dismissal of ten in an innings by the latter, at Old Trafford in 1956. Maddocks was a wicket-keeper. He vied with Gil Langley for the position of Australian gloveman, replacing him when Langley was injured, although pressure from Langley, Don Tallon and Wally Grout, some of Australia's finest glovemen, meant he only played 7 tests. His career as a cricket administrator was marred by the 3–0 loss in the 1977 Ashes tour, and the World Series Cricket split during his managerial reign of the Australian cricket team. A brother, Richard, and son, Ian, both played first-class cricket for Victoria. On the death of Arthur Morris Arthur Robert Morris (19 January 1922 – 22 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Maddocks
Anne Maddocks (23 October 1911 in Heyshott, West Sussex – October 2006) was an English musician. Maddocks' parents were enthusiastic amateur musicians and, by the age of 14, Anne was playing the organ for services at two village churches. In 1942 she was appointed Assistant Organist at Chichester Cathedral by Horace Hawkins (a pupil of Widor) who was the cathedral's Organist & Master of the Choristers. She was the first woman in Great Britain to hold such a post in the cathedral. She had perfect pitch and as Hawkins put it, she played Widor's music "with the master's interpretation". She gave the first British performance of Poulenc's Organ Concerto in Chichester Cathedral in 1943. She was married to Morris Maddocks, then curate of St Peter's Church, Ealing and later Assistant Bishop of Bath and Wells, in Chichester Cathedral in 1955. In 1983, she and her husband started the Acorn Christian Healing Foundation. 11 years later, Anne and Morris retired to the Cathedral Close ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Maddocks
Ann Maddocks (born Thomas, 1704–1727) was a Welsh maid who according to tradition was forced to marry against her wishes and died pining for her true love. She is also known by the poetic name, The Maid of Cefn Ydfa. Ann Thomas was born in 1704 to William Thomas of Cefn Ydfa, Llangynwyd, Maesteg and his wife Catherine Price of Tynton, Llangeinor, who was sister to Rees Price, the father of philosopher Richard Price. Thomas and Price married in 1703, but her father died in 1706, and tradition tells that he had placed Ann in the wardship of Anthony Maddocks, a lawyer from Cwmrisga. Maddocks decided that Ann would marry his son, also called Anthony, and records show that the two were married on 4 May 1725. The folklore The legend states that Ann had fallen in love not with the wealthy Maddocks, but with the poet and thatcher, Wil Hopcyn (William Hopkin) and when discovered were forbidden to see each other. Ann was kept prisoner, locked in her bedroom in the Manor house. The famili ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charné Maddocks
Charné Lynn Maddocks (born 10 June 1998) is a field hockey player from South African. In 2020, she was an athlete at the Summer Olympics. Personal life Charné Maddocks was born and raised in Kimberley, South Africa. Her brother, Melrick, also represents South Africa in field hockey. Maddocks is a student at North-West University in Potchefstroom. Career National team Despite never having made an international appearance, Maddocks was named to the South Africa squad for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. She will make her international and Olympic debut on 24 July 2021, in the Pool A match against 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 .... References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Maddocks, Charné 1998 births Living people Female field hockey f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenneth Maddocks
Sir Kenneth Maddocks, (8 February 1907 – 28 August 2001) was a British colonial official who served as Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Fiji from 1958 until 1963. Kenneth Phipson Maddocks was the son of a civil engineer from Coventry. He had relatives in government service scattered across India, Egypt, Canada, and Australia. His mother died of influenza in 1918. He was educated at Bromsgrove School and at Wadham College, Oxford, where he read Physics and rowed for his college. He joined the Colonial Administrative Service in 1929 and was sent to northern Nigeria, for which he had expressed a preference, following in the footsteps of a brother who had joined the new Tanganyika Territory Service. After barely a year in Kano Province, a district whose administration exemplified the British policy of indirect rule, he suddenly found himself posted to the "punishment" province of Benue - for seven years. There he became one of the few district officers to learn Tiv. But h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Maddocks
David 'Dai' Maddocks (born 20 January 1983, in Haverfordwest) is a Welsh Under 21 international rugby union player. A prop forward, he made 26 appearances for the Welsh regional team Newport Gwent Dragons and also represented the Scarlets. He previously played for Llanelli RFC, Bedwas RFC, Coventry RFC and Newport RFC. Maddocks joined Jersey Jersey ( , ; nrf, Jèrri, label=Jèrriais ), officially the Bailiwick of Jersey (french: Bailliage de Jersey, links=no; Jèrriais: ), is an island country and self-governing Crown Dependencies, Crown Dependency near the coast of north-west F ... in June 2010 and was released by the club in May 2012 References External linksNewport Gwent Dragons profile 1983 births Living people Dragons RFC players Jersey Reds players Llanelli RFC players Newport RFC players Rugby union players from Haverfordwest Scarlets players Welsh rugby union players {{Wales-rugbyunion-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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