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Mansfield (surname)
Mansfield is an English surname derived from Mansfield in Nottinghamshire or a similar toponym. It can also be a variant of the surname Mansell or Maunsell, as can be illustrated by the case of the politician and Royal Navy Admiral Sir Robert Mansell.History of the Family of Maunsell (Mansell, Mansel), C. A. Maunsell, E. P. Stratham, K. Paul, 1920, p. 478 Notable people with this surname include the following: *Sir Alan Mansfield (1902–1980), Australian judge, Governor of Queensland * Arabella Mansfield (1846–1911), first American female lawyer *Brian Mansfield (born 1963), American writer and journalist *Bruce Mansfield (born 1944), Australian television and radio personality * Charles Mansfield (other) *Comins Mansfield (1896–1984), British chess player and problem composer *Darrell Mansfield, American gospel and blues musician *David Mansfield (born 1956), American musician * Edward Mansfield (other) *Edwin Mansfield, (1930–1997), economist, professor at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eversley Mansfield
Eversley Mansfield (4 July 1887 – 18 October 1954) was an English amateur footballer who played in the Scottish League for Queen's Park as an inside right. He was capped by England at amateur level. He was also part of Great Britain's squad for the football tournament at the 1908 Summer Olympics, but he did not play in any matches. Personal life Mansfield attended Rossell Preparatory School, Thornton. During the First World War, he served in the King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment and was seconded to the Machine Gun Corps. Mansfield reached the rank of captain and served as a temporary major Major (commandant in certain jurisdictions) is a military rank of commissioned officer status, with corresponding ranks existing in many military forces throughout the world. When used unhyphenated and in conjunction with no other indicators .... Career statistics References English men's footballers British Army personnel of World War I English Football League p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jayne Marie Mansfield
Jayne Marie Mansfield (born November 8, 1950) is an American actress and model. She is the first child and eldest daughter of 1950s Hollywood sex symbol and ''Playboy'' Playmate Jayne Mansfield and Mansfield's ex-husband Paul. Mansfield is also the elder half-sister of actress Mariska Hargitay. In July 1976, Mansfield became the first daughter of a Playmate to be a featured model in ''Playboy.'' To date, only one other daughter of a Playmate has been featured in the magazine. Additionally, Mansfield is the only model who was featured in ''100 Beautiful Women'' along with her mother in the magazine's 1988 special issue. She has acted in the film '' Olly, Olly, Oxen Free'' (1978) and TV production ''Blond in Hollywood'' (2003). Biography Jayne Mansfield was born at St Paul’s University Hospital in Dallas, Two weeks before her mother's death on June 29, 1967, Jayne Marie, then 16, claimed that she had been beaten by her mother's then-boyfriend, Sam Brody. Her statement to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jayne Mansfield
Jayne Mansfield (born Vera Jayne Palmer; April 19, 1933 – June 29, 1967) was an American actress, singer, nightclub entertainer, and ''Playboy'' Playmate. A sex symbol of the 1950s and early 1960s while under contract at 20th Century Fox, Mansfield was known for her well-publicized personal life and publicity stunts. Her film career was short-lived, but she had several box-office successes and won a Theatre World Award and a Golden Globe Award. Mansfield enjoyed success in the role of fictional actress Rita Marlowe in the Broadway play ''Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?'' (1955–1956), which she reprised in the film adaptation of the same name (1957). Her other film roles include the musical comedy ''The Girl Can't Help It'' (1956), the drama ''The Wayward Bus'' (1957), the neo-noir '' Too Hot to Handle'' (1960), and the sex comedy ''Promises! Promises!'' (1963); the latter established Mansfield as the first major American actress to perform in a nude scene in a post-silen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaymes Mansfield
James Jeffrey Wirth (born February 19, 1990), better known as Jaymes Mansfield, is an American drag queen and TV personality, best known for competing on the ninth season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' and playing the part of Delia Von Whitewoman in the film ''The Bitch Who Stole Christmas''. Early life Wirth performed as a puppeteer, visual artist and later drag queen in Milwaukee, in 2016 she was cast to appear on ''RuPaul's Drag Race''. Career Jaymes Mansfield was announced as one of the 14 contestants for the ninth season of ''RuPaul's Drag Race'' on February 2, 2017. After being safe in episode one, she was placed in the bottom two in the second episode with Kimora Blac and lost the lip sync for the song "Love Shack" by The B-52's, becoming the first queen eliminated. She appeared as a guest for the first challenge in the premiere of season ten of ''Drag Race''. She made another appearance at the season 11 live finale with other alumni. In 2022, Mansfield returned to the sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jared Mansfield
Jared Mansfield (May 23, 1759 – February 3, 1830) was an American teacher, mathematician and surveyor. His career was shaped by two interventions by President Thomas Jefferson. In 1801 Jefferson appointed Mansfield as Professor at the newly founded United States Military Academy at West Point. Again at Jefferson's appointment, Mansfield served as the Surveyor General of the United States from 1803 to 1812, charged with extending the survey of United States land in the Northwest Territory. Early life Mansfield was born in New Haven, Connecticut, son of a sea captain, Stephen Mansfield of New Haven and Hannah Beach of Wallingford, Connecticut. He entered Yale in 1773, but his father died suddenly near the end of his freshman year. He fell into "bad company" and was expelled from College in January of his senior year for complicity in a theft of books from the Library and "other discreditable escapades". Little is known of his life in New Haven for the next nine years, but he is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Mansfield (cricketer, Born 1862)
The Honourable James William Mansfield (12 February 1862 – 17 June 1932) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Marylebone Cricket Club and Cambridge University between 1883 and 1888. He was a right-handed middle-order batsman. He was born at Pune in India and died at Westminster, London. Mansfield was the fourth son of the Crimean War and Indian Mutiny soldier Sir William Rose Mansfield, who was later created Baron Sandhurst. He was educated at Winchester College and Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating in 1884. Mansfield made his first-class cricket debut while at Cambridge, playing in 1882 for "An England XI" in a match against the university side. In 1883 and 1884, he played regularly for the university team and appeared in both seasons in the University Match against Oxford University. He had limited success, but against the Orleans Club in the first-class game in 1883 he scored 117, and this was the highest score of his cricket career. After leavi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Mansfield (cricketer, Born 1860)
James Emmanuel Mansfield (23 April 1860 – 27 September 1930) was an Australian cricketer who played first-class cricket for Tasmania in 1883/84. He was born at Longford, Tasmania and died at Ascot Vale, Melbourne, Victoria. Mansfield's only matches were on a tour by Tasmania to New Zealand in 1883/84 in which the same 11 players featured in four first-class games, two each against Otago and Canterbury Canterbury (, ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city and UNESCO World Heritage Site, situated in the heart of the City of Canterbury local government district of Kent, England. It lies on the River Stour, Kent, River Stour. .... In a fairly mobile batting order, Mansfield started out as a middle-order batsman, but lack of success led him to be played further down the batting order and in the final game he batted at No 11, from where he made his highest score, an unbeaten 8 in the second innings against Canterbury. His death notice in the Melbourne A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Mansfield
Sir James Mansfield, (originally Manfield; 1734 – 23 November 1821) was a British lawyer, judge and politician. He was twice Solicitor General and served as Chief Justice of the Common Pleas from 1799 to 1814. Early life and career The son of a Hampshire attorney, Mansfield's private life was kept somewhat guarded. His father John James changed the family name from Manfield to Mansfield. James married Grace in 1765 at St Margaret's Westminster, fathered six children (only one of whom is believed to have survived into adulthood), but also had another five children by another partner. One of these five was John Mansfield of Diggeswell, father of General William Mansfield, 1st Baron Sandhurst. Mansfield attended Eton from 1745 until 1750, and then King's College, Cambridge, of which he was elected a fellow in 1754. He graduated with a BA in 1755 and an MA in 1758. Mansfield pursued a career in law, obtaining admission to the Middle Temple on 11 February 1755 and being called ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Mansfield
Henry de Maunsfeld DD (also Henry Mansfield, Maunsfeild, Maunsfield, Maunnesfeld, Mammesfeld, or Maymysfeld; died 1328) was an English medieval theologian, philosopher, churchman, college fellow, and university chancellor. Henry de Maunsfeld was educated at Oxford University and became a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford and he received a Doctor of Divinity degree. He published on theology and philosophy. Between 1309 and 1313, he was for two periods Chancellor of the University of Oxford. He was professor of theology and Rector of Flintham in Nottinghamshire. On 17 December 1314, he was elected Dean of Lincoln, a post he held from 1315 to 1328. In 1316, he became the prebend of Asgarby, Lincolnshire. In 1319, he was elected Bishop of Lincoln, but he did not take up the position. In 1324, he was Canon of Carlisle Carlisle ( , ; from xcb, Caer Luel) is a city that lies within the Northern England, Northern English county of Cumbria, south of the Anglo-Scottish border, Sco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harvey Mansfield
Harvey Claflin Mansfield Jr. (born March 21, 1932) is an American political philosopher. He is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Government at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1962. He has held Guggenheim and NEH Fellowships and has been a Fellow at the National Humanities Center; he also received the National Humanities Medal in 2004 and delivered the Jefferson Lecture in 2007. He is a Carol G. Simon Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He is notable for his generally conservative stance on political issues in his writings. Mansfield is the author and co-translator of studies of and/or by major political philosophers such as Aristotle, Edmund Burke, Niccolò Machiavelli, Alexis de Tocqueville, and Thomas Hobbes, of Constitutional government, and of ''Manliness'' (2006). In interviews Mansfield has acknowledged the work of Leo Strauss as the key modern influence on his own political philosophy.See, e.g., Josh Harlan and Christopher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon H
Gordon may refer to: People * Gordon (given name), a masculine given name, including list of persons and fictional characters * Gordon (surname), the surname * Gordon (slave), escaped to a Union Army camp during the U.S. Civil War * Clan Gordon, aka the House of Gordon, a Scottish clan Education * Gordon State College, a public college in Barnesville, Georgia * Gordon College (Massachusetts), a Christian college in Wenham, Massachusetts * Gordon College (Pakistan), a Christian college in Rawalpindi, Pakistan * Gordon College (Philippines), a public university in Subic, Zambales * Gordon College of Education, a public college in Haifa, Israel Places Australia *Gordon, Australian Capital Territory *Gordon, New South Wales * Gordon, South Australia *Gordon, Victoria *Gordon River, Tasmania *Gordon River (Western Australia) Canada *Gordon Parish, New Brunswick *Gordon/Barrie Island, municipality in Ontario *Gordon River (Chochocouane River), a river in Quebec Scotland *Gordon ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
