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Moreton Hall School
Moreton Hall is an independent boarding and day school for girls aged 6 months to 18 and boys aged 6 months to 13, situated in North Shropshire four miles from the market town of Oswestry. Founded in 1913, Moreton Hall celebrated its centenary in 2012/13. Much of the early history of the school is unrecorded, but Michael Charlesworth, chairman of the Governors for twelve years, wrote the "Story of Moreton Hall" to mark the ninetieth anniversary. History Beginnings Ellen Augusta Crawley Lloyd-Williams was left with a family of two sons and nine daughters to care for on the death of her husband, John Jordan Lloyd-Williams, who had been headmaster of Oswestry School. She had already addressed the problem of educating her family by setting up a small school in 1913, in Lloran house, which was once a boarding house for Oswestry School. Among the boarders were her three youngest daughters, some of their cousins and friends. There were also two boys on the rolls. Elder sisters Grace an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independent School (UK)
In the United Kingdom, independent schools () are fee-charging schools, some endowed and governed by a board of governors and some in private ownership. They are independent of many of the regulations and conditions that apply to state-funded schools. For example, pupils do not have to follow the National Curriculum, although, some schools do. They are commonly described as 'private schools' although historically the term referred to a school in private ownership, in contrast to an endowed school subject to a trust or of charitable status. Many of the older independent schools catering for the 12–18 age range in England and Wales are known as public schools, seven of which were the subject of the Public Schools Act 1868. The term "public school" derived from the fact that they were then open to pupils regardless of where they lived or their religion (while in the United States and most other English-speaking countries "public school" refers to a publicly-funded state schoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Midland Regional Hockey Association
The Midland Regional Hockey Association is the organising body for field hockey in the Midlands, England. It feeds teams into the Men's and Women's England Hockey Leagues and receives teams from regional and county leagues. League structure The region has separate men's league structures for 1st, 2nd and 3rd XIs, and an open Central League for 4th XIs and below. The champions of the Premier Division enter the Men's and Women's England Hockey League Conference play-offs. The league covers the counties of Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Rutland, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire Worcestershire ( , ; written abbreviation: Worcs) is a county in the West Midlands of England. The area that is now Worcestershire was absorbed into the unified Kingdom of England in 927, at which time it was constituted as a county (see H .... Recent champions Midlands Hockey League 1XI Premier Division Midlands Women's Hocke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amanda Milling
Amanda Anne Milling (born 12 March 1975) is a British politician serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Cannock Chase since the 2015 general election. She served as Minister without Portfolio in the UK cabinet and, alongside Ben Elliot, as Co-Chairman of the Conservative Party from February 2020 to September 2021. She also served as Minister of State for Asia and the Middle East from September 2021 to September 2022. She previously worked in market research. Milling lives at Rugeley in her constituency. Early life and career Milling was born on 12 March 1975 in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, England. She was privately educated at Moreton Hall School, and studied economics and statistics at University College London, graduating in 1997. Milling joined the Conservative Party while at university. Following university, Milling joined market research firm SW1 Research. She left the company in 1999 to join Quaestor where she eventually became a director. Milling then worked as h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyffin Williams
Sir John Kyffin Williams, (9 May 1918 – 1 September 2006) was a Welsh landscape painter who lived at Pwllfanogl, Llanfairpwll, on the Island of Anglesey. Williams is widely regarded as the defining artist of Wales during the 20th century. Personal life Williams was born in Llangefni, Anglesey, one of two sons into an old landed Anglesey family. His father was a bank manager. Williams wrote that his mother was an emotionally repressed woman who had a virulent dislike of the Welsh and the Welsh language. Kyffin Williams was educated at Moreton Hall School, Trearddur House School in Anglesey, then at Shrewsbury School where he contracted polio encephalitis which led him to develop epilepsy, a misfortune he later described as "my greatest fortune". He joined the 6th Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers as a lieutenant in 1937. After he failed a British Army medical examination in 1941 (because of epilepsy), the examining doctor suggested he pursue his interest in art. Williams enro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheila Reid
Sheila Reid (born 21 December 1937) is a Scottish actress, known for playing Madge Harvey in the ITV sitcom ''Benidorm'' (2007–2016). An original member of the Royal National Theatre in 1963, she played Bianca in the National's 1965 film version of ''Othello'', with Laurence Olivier in the title role. Her other film appearances include ''Brazil'' (1985), ''The Winter Guest'' (1997) and ''Containment'' (2015). Education Born in Glasgow, Reid grew up in Bridge of Weir before her father's army career took the family to India. She was then educated at Moreton Hall School, a boarding independent school for girls, near the market town of Oswestry in Shropshire, in central England. Career Reid has had a long and distinguished career in theatre, film and television. She worked with Laurence Olivier at The Royal National Theatre in London. Roles in film and television 1960s On 27 November 1960, she appeared in ITV drama anthology series ''Armchair Theatre'' as Assistant Librar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shahnaz Pakravan
Shahnaz ( fa, شهناز) or Shahnez or Shehnaz is a given name and surname of Persian origin. The name is made from شاه (''Shah'', "king"), and ناز (''Naz'', "pride"), so the name means "pride of the king". Notable bearers *Shahnaz Bashir, Indian novelist * Shahnez Boushaki, Algerian basketball player *Shahnaz Bukhari, Pakistani clinical psychologist, and activist * Shehnaz Gill (born 1993), Indian actress * Shahnaz Husain (born 1944), Indian entrepreneur * Shahnaz Pahlavi (born 1940), Iranian princess * Shahnaz Pakravan, British radio and television presenter * Shenaz Patel (born 1966), Indo-Mauritian writer *Shahnaz Rahmatullah, Bangladeshi singer * Shahnaz Sheikh, Pakistani field hockey player *Shehnaz Sheikh, Pakistani actress *Shenaz Treasury, Indian actress * Shahnaz Wazir Ali, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister of Pakistan *Jalil Shahnaz Jalil Shahnaz (22 May 1921 – 17 June 2013; Persian: جلیل شهناز) was a Persian classical music musician and a vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thea Musgrave
Thea Musgrave CBE (born 27 May 1928) is a Scottish composer of opera and classical music. She has lived in the United States since 1972. Biography Born in Barnton, Edinburgh, Musgrave was educated at Moreton Hall School, a boarding independent school for girls near the market town of Oswestry in Shropshire, followed by the University of Edinburgh, and in Paris as a pupil of Nadia Boulanger from 1950 to 1954. In 1958 she attended the Tanglewood Festival and studied with Aaron Copland. In 1970 she became Guest Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, a position which confirmed her increasing involvement with the musical life of the United States. She married American violist and opera conductor Peter Mark in 1971. From 1987 to 2002 she was Distinguished Professor at Queens College, City University of New York. Among Musgrave's earlier orchestral works, the Concerto for Orchestra of 1967 and the Concerto for Horn of 1971 display the composer's ongoing fasci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kobalt Music
Kobalt Music Group is an independent rights management and music publishing company. Founded in 2000 by CEO Willard Ahdritz, Kobalt acts primarily as an administrative publishing company, not owning any copyrights. Also offering label services and neighboring rights, the company has developed an online portal to provide royalty income and activity to artists and allow them to manage their rights and royalties directly. In 2015 it was reported that Kobalt was "the top independent music publisher in the UK and the second overall (to Sony/ATV) in the US," with around 600,000 songs and 8,000 artists in its catalogue Examples of artists served by Kobalt include Paul McCartney, Foo Fighters, John Denver, The Weeknd and Marshmello. Kobalt owned 17.3% of the top 100 radio songs in the US in of 2015, ranking it third after Universal. With headquarters in London, Kobalt also has offices in New York, Berlin, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Miami, Nashville, Stockholm and Sydney. Kobalt paid $29 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sas Metcalfe
Sas Metcalfe is President, Global Creative, of Kobalt Music and has been at the company since it was founded in 2001. She is a British music executive, based in Los Angeles, who has worked her entire career in the music industry, for a number of music publishers and record labels signing artists such as Radiohead, Bjork, Snow Patrol, Alt-J, David Gray, Kelly Clarkson, Paul McCartney and Childish Gambino. Metcalfe was honoured in Billboard's Women In Music awards in 2015 and 2016. Early life and career Sas Metcalfe (née Cooke) was born in Wales, United Kingdom, and studied at Moreton Hall after which she studied at Cardiff University, then moved to West London to pursue a career in the music industry. Her first job was as a secretary at CBS Records in London which led to an A&R Scout position at newly formed independent label, Rocking Horse Records. In 1986, she became an A&R Manager at Arista Records, a position she held for three years. She then spent eight years as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Dobbs
Dame Linda Penelope Dobbs, DBE (born 3 January 1951), is a retired High Court judge in England and Wales, who served from 2004 to 2013. Dobbs was the first non-white person to be appointed to the senior judiciary of England and Wales. Biography Linda Penelope Dobbs was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone, to Arthur Ernest Dobbs, and his wife, Loyda Dobbs (née Johnson). Loyda Johnson was a Sierra Leone Creole people, Creole from Sierra Leone and Arthur Dobbs (b. 1914) was an English lawyer originally from Warwickshire, who went on to serve as a High Court judge in Sierra Leone. Education Dobbs was educated at Moreton Hall School, a boarding independent school for girls, near the market town of Oswestry in Shropshire, followed initially by the University of Edinburgh, where she read music but left after a year. She then attended the University of Surrey, where she studied Russian and law, graduating in 1976. She went on to the London School of Economics, where she obtained a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zanny Minton Beddoes
Susan Jean Elisabeth "Zanny" Minton Beddoes (born July 1967) is a British journalist. She is the editor-in-chief of ''The Economist'', the first woman to hold the position. She began working for the magazine in 1994 as its emerging markets correspondent. Education and early life Born in Shropshire, Minton Beddoes was educated at Moreton Hall School near Oswestry, received a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Oxford, where she studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) as an undergraduate student of St Hilda's College, Oxford. She earned a master's degree at Harvard University as a Kennedy Scholar from 1989-1990, and had the scholarship fully renewed for an additional year. Career After graduation, she was recruited as an adviser to the Minister of Finance in Poland, in 1992, as part of a small group headed by Professor Jeffrey Sachs of Harvard. She then spent two years as an economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), where she worked on macroeco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lois Baxter
Lois Ann Baxter (born 26 April 1947) is a British actress, known for playing Marie Stanton in ''Coronation Street'' from 1976 to 1977, and Lady Caroline in the period drama '' When the Boat Comes In''. Baxter was born in Bridgwater, Somerset, the daughter of Dr John Baxter and Christine D. Baxter (née Arkens). The family later moved to Worthen in Shropshire where her father was a GP for many years. She attended Shrewsbury High School from 1951–1959 when she left for Moreton Hall School. Other appearances include: '' The Black Stuff'', '' Spyder's Web'', ''Within These Walls'', '' Hadleigh'', ''Z-Cars'', '' Van der Valk'', ''Crown Court'', ''Doctor Who'' (in the serial as Madame Lamia in ''The Androids of Tara''), '' Dickens of London'' (as Mary Hogarth, Charles Dickens' sister-in-law), '' All Creatures Great and Small'', ''Angels'', '' Minder'', '' The Cleopatras'', '' Bergerac'', '' Tales of the Unexpected'', '' Dempsey and Makepeace'', '' Casualty'', ''Holby City'', '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
