Mark Read (other)

	Mark Read (other) Mark Read may refer to: * Mark Read (bookmaker), Australian bookmaker of the 1980s * Mark Read (singer) (born 1978), British singer/songwriter, member of the boy band a1 * Mark "Chopper" Read (1954–2013) Australian celebrity criminal * Mary Read (1685–1721), Caribbean pirate in her masculine guise See also * Mark Reid (born 1961), retired Scottish footballer * Mark Reed (other) Mark Reed may refer to: * Mark Reed (academic), President of St. Joseph's University * Mark Reed (American football) (born 1959), American football quarterback * Mark Reed (baseball) (born 1986), catcher for the Arizona Diamondbacks * Mark Reed (fi ... {{hndis, Read, Mark ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Mark Read (bookmaker) Mark Read is an Australian businessman and former bookmaker, founder of International All Sports. Read was a leading bookmaker at a time when racing, particularly in Queensland, was beset with corruption, and avoided accepting bets from Queensland races. Read was one of the first bookmakers to sniff out the Fine Cotton substitution scam. At the height of his success in 1982, Read bought a mansion, Boomerang, Elizabeth Bay, but then retired. Sportsbet.com.au Sportsbet, is an online gambling company owned by Flutter Entertainment, primarily targeting the Australian market. Sportsbet is licensed as a corporate bookmaker in the Northern Territory under the ''Racing and Betting Act 1993'' (NT). Sportsb ... acquired International All Sports in 2009.Scott Woodward ''Living & Learning With The World's Biggest Punters'' p.30 "... the acquisition of Mark Read's International All Sports in 2009, Sportsbet are set to hit trading revenues in excess of 2 billion dollars in 2010. Mark Read i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Mark Read (singer) Mark Daniel Read (born in Worcester Park, London on 7 November 1978) is an English singer/songwriter, best known as member of the boy band A1 from 1998 to 2002, and 2009 to the present. Background Read grew up in a very musical family; his father Keith was in The Wild Angels, a rock 'n' roll band. His mother, Pam, played piano and drums as well as being a singer/songwriter. Read began playing piano at the age of two and eventually joined the family band on keyboards at the age of 11, where he would regularly perform in pubs, clubs and hotels across the country. He attended Auriol Junior School and then went on to Epsom and Ewell High School. At the age of 15, Read joined the Songtime Theatre Arts group, where he received training and gained experience in acting. He subsequently took lead roles in several of their productions, including ''Guys and Dolls'' and ''Aladdin''. Between the ages of 15 and 18, Read – along with his parents' band – performed onboard sever ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Mark "Chopper" Read Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read (17 November 1954 – 9 October 2013) was an Australian convicted criminal, gang member and author. Read wrote a series of semi-autobiographical fictional crime novels and children's books. The 2000 film '' Chopper'' is based on his life. Early life Read was born on 17 November 1954 to a former army and World War II veteran father Keith Read of Irish descent and a mother who was a devout Seventh-day Adventist. He was placed in a children's home for the first five years of his life. He grew up in the Melbourne suburbs of Collingwood and Fitzroy. He was bullied at school, saying that by the age of 15 he had been on the "losing end of several hundred fights" and that his father, usually on his mother's recommendation, beat him often as a child. Read had been molested as a child. Read was made a ward of the state by the age of 14 and was placed in several mental institutions as a teenager, where he stated he underwent electroshock therapy. Criminal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Mary Read Mary Read (1685 – 28 April 1721), also known as Mark Read, was an English pirate. She and Anne Bonny were two famous female pirates from the 18th century, and among the few women known to have been convicted of piracy at the height of the "Golden Age of Piracy". Read was born in England in 1685. She began dressing as a boy at a young age, at first at her mother's urging in order to receive inheritance money and then as a teenager in order to join the British military. She then married and upon her husband's death moved to the West Indies around 1715. In 1720 she met Jack Rackham and joined his crew, dressing as a man alongside Anne Bonny. Her time as a pirate was successful but short lived, as she, Bonny and Rackham were arrested in November 1720. Rackham was executed, but Read and Bonny both claimed to be pregnant and received delayed sentences. Read died of a fever in April 1721. Early life Mary Read was born in the Kingdom of England in 1685. Her mother had married a sai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Mark Reid Mark Reid (born 15 September 1961) is a Scottish retired professional footballer who played as a left back. Reid made over 350 appearances in the Scottish and English Football Leagues between 1980 and 1993. Career Born in Kilwinning, Reid played League football for Celtic, Charlton Athletic Charlton Athletic Football Club is an English professional football club based in Charlton, south-east London, which compete in . Their home ground is The Valley, where the club have played since 1919. They have also played at The Mount in ... and St Mirren before retiring in 1993 due to injury. References 1961 births Living people Footballers from Kilwinning Scottish men's footballers Scotland men's under-21 international footballers Men's association football fullbacks Celtic F.C. players Charlton Athletic F.C. players St Mirren F.C. players Scottish Football League players English Football League players {{Scotland-footy-defender-1960s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]