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Merchant Taylors' Girls' School
Merchant Taylors' Girls' School is a selective independent girls' school in Great Crosby, Merseyside, England. History Merchant Taylors' Girls' School was established in 1888, having inherited the buildings from the boys' school that had moved less than a mile away in 1874. The then governing body was dilatory in providing for the 'new' school and it was due to the insistence of James Fenning, the Master of the Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors, that the girls' school was started. At the School's opening all of the female staff were graduates. This was a feat, considering that at the time only four universities granted degrees to women. In June 1888, twelve pupils attended the school, by the 1920s it had grown to 300 and, in 2014, the figure has almost doubled. The continuing increase in pupil numbers enabled the purchase in 1911 of the adjoining house, "The Mulberries", which doubled the existing space. One of the buildings is the now Listed building, Grade II-listed 162 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selective School
A selective school is a school that admits students on the basis of some sort of selection criteria, usually academic. The term may have different connotations in different systems and is the opposite of a comprehensive school, which accepts all students, regardless of aptitude. The split between selective and comprehensive education is usually at secondary level; primary education is rarely selective. At the university level, selection is almost universal, but a few institutions practice open admissions or open-door enrollment, allowing students to attend regardless of prior qualification. Australia New South Wales In New South Wales, selective high schools are government schools that select students on the basis of academic ability. Most students enter a selective high school in Year 7, after sitting the Selective High Schools Test in the previous year. The process of entering selective schools is much like that of a university, with students electing their preferences and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Rowing Championships
The British Rowing Championships usually take place every year. The event is held at the National Water Sports Centre, Holme Pierrepont (Nottingham) with occasional championships held at the Strathclyde Country Park. The championships originally incorporated Senior and Junior crews but since 2013 have been held separately. It is a major event for club rowers and schools and events are held for open, women, open junior, women's junior, under 23, lightweight, adaptive and coastal boats. Each crew member of the first, second and third placed crews in each event receive gold, silver and bronze medals respectively. The club champion in each event (i.e. the highest placed non-composite crew) also receives a wooden club champions plaque to display in their clubhouse. History The Championships were inaugurated in 1972 and held at the National Watersports Centre in Nottingham, which had only been built the previous year. In 2010, the Regatta adopted the title British Rowing Championsh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Watkinson
Emma Watkinson is a British entrepreneur who co-founded and is chief executive officer of the online retail business SilkFred. Biography Early life and education Emma Watkinson was born in Liverpool in 1986. Her parents were entrepreneurs — her mother ran her own fashion boutiques, while her father started on a market stall and later owned pubs and nightclubs in Liverpool. Watkinson attended Merchant Taylors' Girls' School until 2000. Watkinson and her family moved to Marbella, Spain in 2001 where she attended The English International College. She graduated from the University of Liverpool in 2008 with a bachelor's degree in English. She began her career working part-time on the shop floor at Whistles in 2005 whilst studying at university and then went on to work on buying and merchandising teams for various retailers, including my-wardrobe.com. In 2010, Watkinson lived in New York City and interned for various fashion magazines and websites, including Guest of a Guest. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julie Smith (academic)
Julie Elizabeth Smith, Baroness Smith of Newnham (born 1 June 1969) is an academic specialising in European politics and a Liberal Democrat politician. From 2003 to 2015, she was a local councillor on Cambridge City Council. Since September 2014, she has been a life peer and a member of the House of Lords. Early life Smith was born on 1 June 1969. From 1980 to 1987, she was educated at Merchant Taylors' Girls' School, an all-girls selective private school based in Great Crosby, Merseyside. After taking a gap year, she studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Brasenose College, Oxford and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree. She then undertook postgraduate study in politics at St Antony's College, Oxford, graduating with a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) degree and a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree. Her doctoral thesis was titled "Direct elections to the European Parliament: a reevaluation" and was submitted in 1995. Having been awarded a Hanseatic Scholars ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adele Roberts
Adele Claire Roberts (born 9 March 1979) is a British broadcaster and reality TV personality and DJ. Roberts worked for BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 2. Her best known television appearances were in '' Big Brother'', '' I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!'' and ''Celebrity Coach Trip''. Early life Roberts was born in Southport, Merseyside. She is the eldest of six siblings and is of mixed Barbadian and British descent. She was privately educated at Merchant Taylors' Girls' School in Crosby, Merseyside. Roberts studied pharmacology at University of Leeds, where she joined Leeds Student Radio presenting a weekly mix show. ''Big Brother'' Roberts was a housemate in '' Big Brother 3''. She came in seventh place after being evicted on 5 July 2002, seen by 7.1 million viewers. Adele later returned to the series in 2007, and participated in a task for '' Big Brother 8'' alongside Alex Sibley. Career Radio In 2002, she landed her first radio job at Rock FM in Lancashire, pres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennifer Johnston (mezzo-soprano)
__NOTOC__ Jennifer Johnston is an English operatic mezzo-soprano. Born in Liverpool, she studied law at the University of Cambridge and worked in London chambers as a barrister before studying opera at the Royal College of Music (RCM). She is universally known as the 'Scouse Diva'. A former BBC New Generation Artist, she made her professional debut as Humperdinck's Hänsel for Scottish Opera, followed by her international debuts at the Aix-en-Provence Festival as Dido in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, and at the Salzburg Festival as Carmi in an unstaged performance of Mozart's ''La Betulia Liberata''; a performance which was recorded and released on DVD by Deutsche Grammophon. She is particularly associated with the Bayerische Staatsoper and its distinguished musical director Kirill Petrenko, where her roles have included Second Norn, Roßweise, Floßhilde, Hedwige and La Ciesca. She has appeared in opera at the Teatro alla Scala as Mrs Grose in '' The Turn of the Screw' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clare Lilley
Clare Lilley is a British art curator and Director at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. She previously held the post of Director of Programme. Lilley graduated with a degree in the History of Art from Manchester University. Since 2012 she has curated Frieze Sculpture in London's Regents Park and she has curated William Turnbull for Chatsworth House, Derbyshire and Jaume Plensa at San Giorgio Maggiore as Venice Biennale collateral event. Lilley sits on the Advisory Committee of the Government Art Collection and the boards of Art UK, London, the George Rickey Foundation, New York and the Jupiter Artland Foundation, Edinburgh. She is a nominator for the Nasher Sculpture Prize and has been a judge for the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Visual Art Awards, the Kleinwort Hambros Emerging Artist Award and the Eden Project Pollinator Commission. She is the author of '' Vitamin C: Clay and Ceramic in Contemporary Art'', published by Phaidon. Lilley has twice been cited on the Artylst Alt Power List. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Garvey (broadcaster)
Jane Susan Garvey (born 23 June 1964) is a British radio presenter, until recently of BBC Radio 4's ''Woman's Hour'', and co-founder of the weekly podcast series ''Fortunately'' (since March 2017). Garvey's was the first voice on BBC Radio 5 Live when it launched at 5:00 am on 28 March 1994. She presented the station's breakfast programme and the relaunched ''Midday'' show, and co-presented its ''Drive'' show on weekday afternoons with Peter Allen, for which she and Allen won four Sony Gold Awards. Early life and education Garvey was born in Crosby, near Liverpool, in 1964. Her father is Ray Garvey, and her mother, Maureen (born O'Neill), was a hospital receptionist. She was educated at Merchant Taylors' Girls' School in Crosby, an independent school in Merseyside. She is a graduate in English of the University of Birmingham. Career Garvey was employed as a medical records clerk in a finance company, as a trainee for an advertising agency and as a receptionist before be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keele University
Keele University, officially known as the University of Keele, is a public research university in Keele, approximately from Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England. Founded in 1949 as the University College of North Staffordshire, Keele was granted university status by Royal Charter in 1962. Keele occupies a rural campus close to the village of Keele and consists of extensive woods, lakes and Keele Hall set in Staffordshire Potteries. It has a science park and a conference centre, making it the largest campus university in the UK. The university's School of Medicine operates the clinical part of its courses from a separate campus at the Royal Stoke University Hospital. The School of Nursing and Midwifery is based at the nearby Clinical Education Centre. History Establishment Cambridge and Oxford Extension Lectures had been arranged in the Potteries since the 1890s, but outside any organised educational framework or establishment. In 1904, funds were raised by local in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janet Finch
Dame Janet Valerie Finch DBE, DL, FAcSS (born 13 February 1946) is a British sociologist and academic administrator. She was Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Social Relations at Keele University, and has held a number of other public appointments in the UK. She currently holds an honorary position at the Morgan Centre for the Study of Relationships and Personal Life, based in the School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester. She is also part of Flooved advisory board. Biography Finch was educated at Merchant Taylors' Girls' School, Crosby, Merseyside, and then Bedford College, London (now merged with Royal Holloway College, London (RHC)) where she obtained BA in Sociology. She obtained a PhD in Sociology from the University of Bradford in 1975. She was made an Honorary Fellow of RHC in 1999. Finch has published extensively on family relationships, her research interests focusing especially on inter-generational family relationships. In September 1995, Finch was appo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dame Jean Davies
Commandant Dame Jean Lancaster, ( Davies; 11 August 1909 – 29 August 1996) was a senior British naval officer who served as Director of the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) from 1961 to 1964. Early life Davies was born on 11 August 1909 to Richard C. Davies. She was educated at Merchant Taylors' Girls' School, an all-girls selective private school in Great Crosby, Lancashire (now Merseyside). After leaving school, Davies worked as a secretary to the headmaster of Merchant Taylors' Boys' School in Crosby. Naval career Second World War In December 1939, with the Second World War having broken out, Davies joined the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS). In May 1940, she was granted the rank of third officer (equivalent to sub-lieutenant) with seniority from 6 December 1939. From 1940 to 1942, Davies was a member of the staff of Flag Officer Liverpool; her tasked included encoding and decoding messages concerning the Royal Navy's fight against the German U-boats. In Februar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kelly Cates
Kelly Cates (née Dalglish) is a Scottish presenter, currently working for Sky Sports, Radio 5 Live, and ESPN. Early life Born in Glasgow, Kelly is the eldest of four children of former Celtic and Liverpool player and manager Sir Kenny Dalglish and his wife Marina and grew up in Southport. Her brother Paul also had a professional football career. She also has two younger sisters, Lynsey and Lauren. Career Television Cates presented the news on The Biggest Breakfast Ever, the 8-hour Millennium special of The Big Breakfast. She was a presenter on Sky Sports News, and was part of the presenter line up for Virgin Media's new portal. She interviewed managers and footballers as part of Setanta's Premier League coverage in 2007, and was a presenter on Setanta Sports News. In the 2009–10 football season, she was part of the ESPN team for their Premier League coverage and co-presented ''Talk of the Terrace'' alongside Mark Chapman and for Series 2, Nat Coombs. In May 2010 s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
