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Matthew Kirk (artist)
Matthew John Lushington Kirk (born 10 October 1960) is a British businessman and former diplomat. He was the British Ambassador to Finland from 22 August 2002, until he resigned from the Diplomatic Service in 2006 to take up a position as Director of External Relationships for Vodafone. The youngest son of former Conservative MP Sir Peter Michael Kirk, he was educated at Felsted School and St John's College, Oxford St John's College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford. Founded as a men's college in 1555, it has been coeducational since 1979.Communication from Michael Riordan, college archivist Its founder, Sir Thomas White, intended to pro .... In 1989, he married Anna Thérèse Macey, with whom he has two daughters. References External linksBritish Embassy, Helsinki (during tenure of Matthew Kirk) 1960 births Living people Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Finland {{UK-diplomat-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Kirk
Matthew John Lushington Kirk (born 10 October 1960) is a British businessman and former diplomat. He was the Ambassadors from the United Kingdom to Finland, British Ambassador to Finland from 22 August 2002, until he resigned from the Diplomatic Service in 2006 to take up a position as Director of External Relationships for Vodafone. The youngest son of former Conservative Party (UK), Conservative MP Sir Peter Michael Kirk, he was educated at Felsted School and St John's College, Oxford. In 1989, he married Anna Thérèse Macey, with whom he has two daughters. References External linksBritish Embassy, Helsinki (during tenure of Matthew Kirk) 1960 births Living people Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Finland {{UK-diplomat-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambassadors From The United Kingdom To Finland
The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Finland is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in the Republic of Finland, and head of the UK's diplomatic mission there. The official title is ''His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the Republic of Finland''. Heads of mission Chargés d'affaires *1919: Henry Bell *1919: Coleridge Kennard Ambassadors *1919–1920: The Lord Alton *1920–1921: George Kidston *1921–1930: Sir Ernest Rennie *1930–1935: Sir Rowland Sperling *1935–1937: Herbert Grant Watson *1937–1940: Thomas Snow *1940–1941: Sir George Vereker *1941–1944: ''No representation due to Continuation War'' *1944–1947: Sir Francis Shepherd *1947–1951: Sir Oswald Scott *1951–1954: Sir Andrew Noble *1954–1958: Michael Cresswell *1958–1961: Sir Douglas Busk *1961–1963: Sir Con O'Neill *1963–1966: Sir Anthony Lambert *1966–1969: Sir David Scott Fox *1969–1972: Bernard Ledwidge *1972–1975: Anthony Elliott *1975–1980: Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vodafone
Vodafone Group Public limited company, plc () is a British Multinational corporation, multinational Telephone company, telecommunications company. Its registered office and Headquarters, global headquarters are in Newbury, Berkshire, England. It predominantly operates Service (economics), services in Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. , Vodafone owns and operates networks in 22 countries, with partner networks in 48 further countries. Its Vodafone Global Enterprise division provides telecommunications and IT services to corporate clients in 150 countries. Vodafone has a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. The company has a secondary listing on Nasdaq. Name The name Vodafone comes from ''VO''ice ''DA''ta ''FONE'' (the latter a sensational spelling of "telephone, phone"), chosen by the company to "reflect the provision of voice and data services over mobile phones". History The evolution of Vodafone started in 1981 with the es ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conservative Party (UK)
The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party and also known colloquially as the Tories, is one of the Two-party system, two main political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Labour Party (UK), Labour Party. It is the current Government of the United Kingdom, governing party, having won the 2019 United Kingdom general election, 2019 general election. It has been the primary governing party in Britain since 2010. The party is on the Centre-right politics, centre-right of the political spectrum, and encompasses various ideological #Party factions, factions including One-nation conservatism, one-nation conservatives, Thatcherism, Thatcherites, and traditionalist conservatism, traditionalist conservatives. The party currently has 356 Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Members of Parliament, 264 members of the House of Lords, 9 members of the London Assembly, 31 members of the Scottish Parliament, 16 members of the Senedd, Welsh Parliament, 2 D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Michael Kirk
Sir Peter Michael Kirk, (18 May 1928 – 17 April 1977) was a British writer, broadcaster, Conservative politician, minister in the governments of Alec Douglas-Home and Edward Heath, and leading European Parliamentarian. Early life The elder son and fourth child of Kenneth Escott Kirk (Bishop of Oxford 1937 - 1954), he was educated at Marlborough and at Trinity College, Oxford, where he obtained an MA in modern history having first studied languages (including a period at the University of Bern studying Old High German). He attended the congress in the Hague in 1948 from which the European Movement sprang, and was President of the Oxford Union Society in 1949. Career In the early 1950s he was diplomatic correspondent on the Kemsley Newspapers (part of Ian Fleming's Mercury News Service), and after his election to Parliament he continued to write freelance with regular contributions to (amongst others) the Telegraph, Truth, the National and English Review, Blackwood's, the S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felsted School
(Keep your Faith) , established = , closed = , type = Public schoolIndependent day and boarding , religion = Church of England , president = , head_label = Headmaster , head = Chris Townsend , r_head_label = , r_head = , chair_label = , chair = , founder = Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich , specialist = , address = Stebbing Road , city = Felsted , county = Essex , country = England , postcode = CM6 3LL , local_authority = , urn = 115395 , ofsted = , dfeno = 881/6009 , staff = , enrolment = 1,000 , gender = Co-educational , lower_age = 4 , upper_age = 18 , houses = , colours = Burgundy (Prep School) navy blue (Senior School) , publication = , free_label_1 = Former pupils , free_1 = Old Felstedians , free_label_2 = , free_2 = , free_label_3 = , free_3 = , website ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St John's College, Oxford
St John's College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford. Founded as a men's college in 1555, it has been coeducational since 1979.Communication from Michael Riordan, college archivist Its founder, Sir Thomas White, intended to provide a source of educated Roman Catholic clerics to support the Counter-Reformation under Queen Mary. St John's is the wealthiest college in Oxford, with a financial endowment of £600 million as of 2020, largely due to nineteenth-century suburban development of land in the city of Oxford of which it is the ground landlord. The college occupies a site on St Giles' and has a student body of some 390 undergraduates and 250 postgraduates. There are over 100 academic staff, and a like number of other staff. In 2018 St John's topped the Norrington Table, the annual ranking of Oxford colleges' final results, and in 2021, St John's ranked second with a score of 79.8. History On 1 May 1555, Sir Thomas White, lately Lord Mayor of London, obt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alyson Bailes
Alyson Judith Kirtley Bailes CMG (6 April 1949 – 29 April 2016) was a British diplomat, political scientist, academic and polymath. Early life Bailes was born on 6 April 1949 in Withington, Manchester. She was the eldest of three children of Barbara (née Martin) and John Lloyd Bailes, both of whom were teachers. She attended The Belvedere School and received a scholarship to Somerville College, Oxford. While at Oxford, she represented her college on University Challenge. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree (first class honours) in Modern History in 1969 and a Master of Arts in 1971. Career Bailes joined the London Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1969 as a Desk Officer for the Western European Department and in 1970 received her first international posting as a Desk Officer at the British Embassy in Budapest. From 1974 to 1976 she served as Second Secretary in the UK Delegation to NATO. In 1976, she worked in London in the European Community Department (Internal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1960 Births
Year 196 ( CXCVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Dexter and Messalla (or, less frequently, year 949 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 196 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus attempts to assassinate Clodius Albinus but fails, causing Albinus to retaliate militarily. * Emperor Septimius Severus captures and sacks Byzantium; the city is rebuilt and regains its previous prosperity. * In order to assure the support of the Roman legion in Germany on his march to Rome, Clodius Albinus is declared Augustus by his army while crossing Gaul. * Hadrian's wall in Britain is partially destroyed. China * First year of the '' Jian'an era of the Chinese Han Dynasty. * Emperor Xian o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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