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Maunder (surname)
Maunder is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Alexander Maunder (1861–1932), British sport shooter * Annie Scott Dill Maunder (1868–1947), Irish astronomer and mathematician * Edward Walter Maunder (1851–1928), English astronomer *John Henry Maunder (1858–1920), English composer and organist *Jack Maunder (born 1997),English rugby player *Lucy Maunder, Australian cabaret and theatre performer, daughter of Stuart *Maria Maunder (born 1972), Canadian rower * Paul Maunder (born 1945), New Zealand film director, playwright and cultural activist *Richard Maunder (1937–2018), British mathematician and musicologist *Samuel Maunder (1785–1849), English writer and composer * Stuart Maunder (born 1957), Australian opera director, father of Lucy *Wayne Maunder (1937–2018), Canadian-American actor *William Maunder William "Podge" Maunder (30 November 1902 – 25 June 1964) was an Australian soccer player. Maunder is recognised as the player who scored Austra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Maunder
Alexander Elsdon Maunder (3 February 1861 – 2 February 1932) was a British sport shooter who competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics and the 1912 Summer Olympics The 1912 Summer Olympics ( sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1912), officially known as the Games of the V Olympiad ( sv, Den V olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Stockholm 1912, were an international multi-sport event held in Stockholm, Sweden, be .... In the 1908 Olympics, he won a gold medal in team trap shooting and a bronze medal in individual trap shooting. Four years later, he won a silver medal in the team clay pigeons event and was 45th in the trap event. References External linksAlexander Maunder's profile at databaseOlympics 1861 births 1932 deaths British male sport shooters Trap and double trap shooters Olympic shooters of Great Britain Shooters at the 1908 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 1912 Summer Olympics English Olympic medallists Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain Olympic silv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie Scott Dill Maunder
Annie Scott Dill Maunder (née Russell) (14 April 1868 – 15 September 1947) was an Irish-British astronomer, who recorded the first evidence of the movement of sunspot emergence from the poles toward the equator over the sun's 11-year cycle. She was one of the leading astronomers of her time, but because of her gender, her contribution was often underplayed at the time. In 1916 she was elected to the Royal Astronomical Society, 21 years after being refused membership because of her gender. Early life and education Annie Scott Dill Russell was born in 1868 in The Manse, Strabane, County Tyrone, Ireland, to William Andrew Russell and Hessy Nesbitt Russell (née Dill). Her father was the minister of the Presbyterian Church in Strabane until 1882. Her mother was the daughter of a minister at the same church. Annie was one of six children brought up in a devoutly Christian household with a "serious minded upbringing." All of the children were talented, high-level academics. Her ol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Walter Maunder
Edward Walter Maunder (12 April 1851 – 21 March 1928) was an English astronomer. His study of sunspots and the solar magnetic cycle led to his identification of the period from 1645 to 1715 that is now known as the Maunder Minimum. Early and personal life Maunder was born in 1851, in London, the youngest child of a minister of the Wesleyan Society. He attended King's College London but never graduated. He took a job in a London bank to finance his studies. In 1873 Maunder returned to the Royal Observatory, taking a position as a spectroscopic assistant. Shortly after, in 1875, he married Edith Hannah Bustin, who gave birth to six children: four sons (one of whom died in infancy) and two daughters. Following the death of Edith in 1888, in 1890 he met Annie Scott Dill Russell (later Annie Russell Maunder, 1868–1947), a mathematician and astronomer educated at Girton College in Cambridge, with whom he collaborated for the remainder of his life. She worked as a " lady compu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Henry Maunder
John Henry Maunder (February 21, 1858 – January 21, 1920) was an English composer and organist best known for his cantata "Olivet to Calvary" . Life John Henry Maunder was born in Chelsea and studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He was organist at St Matthew's, Sydenham 1876-7, and St Paul's, Forest Hill 1878-9, neither of which now exists, as well as churches in Blackheath and Sutton, and accompanied concerts in the Albert Hall. He was conductor of the Civil Service Vocal Union from 1881, and also trained the choir for Henry Irving's original production of Faust at the Lyceum Theatre in 1887. Compositions Like the music of his close contemporary Caleb Simper, Maunder's music goes unmentioned in Baker's and Grove's dictionaries, as well as in the ''Oxford Companion to Music'', probably because he did not emerge from the cathedral tradition. His works are characteristic expressions of the Victorian era – a style replaced by the music of Stanford, Parry, Wood and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Maunder
Jack Maunder (born 5 April 1997) is an English rugby union player who plays Scrum-half for Exeter Chiefs in the Aviva Premiership. Club career In October 2016, Maunder made his club debut for the Exeter Chiefs against ASM Clermont Auvergne in the pool stage of the Champions Cup. On 19 March 2017, Maunder started for Exeter in the final of the Anglo-Welsh Cup, losing to the Leicester Tigers. Maunder was a key part of the Chiefs premiership winning season playing 13 games and starting 5 throughout the season in his breakthrough year. International career Maunder has represented England at U16 and U18 levels. He was named in the England U20 squad for their 2016 campaign but was unable to feature due to a fractured wrist. On 20 April 2017, Eddie Jones named Maunder in a 31-man squad for the summer tour of Argentina. Maunder made his debut in the first test against Argentina, coming on for Danny Care in the 77th minute. On 3 August 2017, Maunder was selected for Eddie Jone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucy Maunder
Lucy Maunder, is an Australian cabaret and theatre performer. She originated the role of Lara in the Australian premiere of ''Doctor Zhivago'' opposite Anthony Warlow, and has toured with her own cabaret ''Songs in the Key of Black'', releasing an album with the same name. Maunder toured with the national touring company of '' Grease'' playing the role of Rizzo. She then starred in the role of Miss Honey in the Australian tour of ''Matilda the Musical'', replacing Elise McCann. She is currently starring in the Australian production of Fun Home, in the adult lead role. Biography Lucy Maunder, the daughter of stage director, Stuart Maunder, moved to England when she was five while her father was resident director of the Royal Opera House. Her mother is singer Anne-Maree McDonald. After an initial desire to become a dancer, Maunder commenced singing at the age of fourteen. Maunder graduated from Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) with a Bachelor in Music Theat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Maunder
Maria Maunder (born 19 March 1972, in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador) is a Canadian rower. Maunder was a member of the Canadian national team that placed second in the 1996 Summer Olympics and earned a silver medal. Early life and education Maunder graduated from the preparatory school Ridley College in 1990 and matriculated to the University of Western Ontario. Though she went to the Olympics for rowing, she also swam, winning gold in the 50 and 200 meter free races under the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations during secondary school. At university, she participated in swimming and rowing. During that time, she also joined the university's chapter of the sorority Alpha Gamma Delta. Career Maunder competed in her first major international tournament in 1994 at the Commonwealth Rowing Championships in Thames Centre, Ontario, Canada. Her women's eight team placed seventh at that year's World Championships in Indianapolis, USA, while her coxless fours tea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Maunder
Paul Allan Maunder (born 8 February 1945) is a New Zealand film director, playwright and cultural activist. He is best known for his 1979 film of the novel ''Sons for the Return Home'' by Albert Wendt, his 1983 play ''Hemi'' about the life of James K. Baxter, and his work in community-based theatre. Biography Maunder was born in Palmerston North and attended Palmerston North Boys' High School. He played one first-class cricket match for Central Districts in the 1961–62 season. He studied at Victoria University of Wellington, the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney and the London Film School.1992 Playmarket Directory Appendix 1 Returning to New Zealand, Maunder worked for the state-owned National Film Unit. In addition to dire cting a number of the documentaries the unit was best known for, he directed three drama productions which were screened on television: ''Gone up North for a While'', ''One Of Those People That Live In The World'' and ''Landfall'' (the film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Maunder
Charles Richard Francis Maunder (23 November 1937 – 5 June 2018) was a British mathematician and musicologist. Early life Maunder was educated at the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe, and Jesus College, Cambridge, before going on to complete a PhD at Christ’s College, Cambridge, in 1962. After teaching at Southampton University he became a fellow of Christ’s in 1964. Mathematics Maunder's field of work was algebraic topology. He used Postnikov systems to give an alternative construction of the Atiyah–Hirzebruch spectral sequence. With this construction, the differentials can be better described. The family of higher cohomology operations on mod-2 cohomology that he constructed has been discussed by several authors. In 1981 he gave a short proof of the Kan-Thurston theorem, according to which for every path-connected topological space X there is a discrete group π such that there is a homology isomorphism of the Eilenberg–MacLane space K(π,1) after X. His textbo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Maunder
Samuel Maunder (1785 – 30 April 1849) was an English writer and composer of many works. He married a sister of William Pinnock, the author of numerous catechisms and educational works. Maunder was the author of several books, most notably ''The Biographical Treasury''. Life He belonged to a Devon family settled near Barnstaple. His sister married William Pinnock, the well-known projector of the educational ''Catechisms'', which were published in eighty-three parts between 1837 and 1849. Maunder took part in their preparation, although only Pinnock's name appears on their title-page. The two were also partners in a publishing business in London, and published for two or three years the ''Literary Gazette''. Under his own name Maunder compiled and issued numerous dictionaries, chiefly for educational purposes. He died at his house in Gibson Square, Islington, on 30 April 1849. Works ''The Scientific and Literary Treasury''(London 1843) ''Treasury of Natural History''(London 185 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuart Maunder
Stuart Lionel Maunder (born 1957) is an Australian theatre director, currently appointed as the artistic director of State Opera of South Australia. He has also directed for Opera Australia, Victorian Opera, West Australian Opera, New Zealand Opera and Scottish Opera. Biography Born in Sydney but raised in Boggabri, Maunder studied law, but turned to the stage and started his career as a stage manager in 1978 at The Australian Opera before becoming a resident director in 1981. Whilst continuing to direct in Australia, he joined The Royal Opera, London, as a staff director in 1992. In 1999 he was appointed artistic administrator of Opera Australia by Simone Young and then became executive producer from 2004 to 2008. In 2012, he was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) "for service to the performing arts, particularly with Opera Australia, as an artistic director, and as a mentor to emerging artists." From 2014 until 2018 Maunder was general director of New Zealand Op ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wayne Maunder
Wayne Ernest Maunder (December 19, 1937 – November 11, 2018) was a Canadian-born American actor who starred in three American television series between 1967 and 1974. Three television series From September 6 to December 27, 1967, Maunder starred as 28-year-old George Armstrong Custer during the time that Custer was stationed in the American West on the series ''Custer''. Maunder's next series was '' Lancer'', with co-stars Andrew Duggan, James Stacy, and Paul Brinegar. ''Lancer'' ran from 1968 to 1970, with an additional rebroadcast cycle in Summer 1971. Maunder's last regular series, ''Chase'', is a 23-episode drama about an undercover police unit which aired on NBC during the 1973–1974 television season, co-starring Mitchell Ryan as Chase Reddick and Reid Smith as officer Norm Hamilton. Maunder played the role of police Sergeant Sam MacCray, one of whose duties was to handle the police dog named "Fuzz". A Jack Webb production, ''Chase'' was created by Stephen J. Cannel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
