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Mortlock High School
Mortlock is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *John Mortlock (1755–1816), British banker and politician *Stirling Mortlock (born 1977), Australian rugby player *Bryce Mortlock (1921–2004), Australian architect * David Favis-Mortlock (born 1953), English geomorphologist and musician *The Mortlock family of Martindale Hall included **William Ranson Mortlock (1821–1884), South Australian grazier and politician (father) **William Tennant Mortlock (1858–1913), South Australian grazier and politician (son) ** See also *Mortlock Flying Fox, a species of flying fox *Mortlock Football League, an Australian rules football league in Western Australia *Mortlock Islands (other) *Mortlock Library of Australiana, in the Mortlock wing of the State Library of South Australia *Mortlock Shield The Mortlock Shield Championship, known for commercial reasons as the Port Lincoln Bendigo Bank Mortlock Shield Championship and commonly known as just the M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Mortlock
John Mortlock (1755–1816) was a British banker, Member of Parliament and 13 times mayor of Cambridge. He was the only son of John Mortlock, a prosperous woollen draper of Cambridge. He succeeded his father in the business in 1777. His family seat was Abington Hall in Abington Magna outside Cambridge. In 1778 Mortlock bought himself the Freedom of Cambridge for £40. In 1780 he founded the first bank in Cambridge. Mortlock's bank, which was originally situated on the corner of Rose Crescent and then moved to Bene't Street, would be run by members of the Mortlock family for over one hundred years. In 1896 the bank was amalgamated with Barclays & Co. In 1782 he became an alderman, then mayor and, in 1784, the Member of Parliament for Cambridge. Mortlock, who was a great friend and supporter of Pitt the Younger, was called corrupt by his political opponents, though as the plaque suggests he had a different view of things:"''without influence, which you call corruption, men wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stirling Mortlock
Stirling Austin Mortlock AM (born 20 May, 1977) is a former Australian professional rugby union player. He has scored more than 1,000 points in Super Rugby, and nearly 500 test points for the Wallabies. Mortlock is a former Wallaby, Melbourne Rebels and Brumbies captain. Early life Born in Sydney, Mortlock began playing rugby with Lindfield Juniors. Mortlock was educated at The King's School in Parramatta Sydney. He represented Gordon Juniors at Colt level and still represents Gordon at club level today. He represented Australia at Under 19 and Under 21 level before pursuing a professional career with the Brumbies. Professional career Brumbies career In 1998, Mortlock joined the ACT Brumbies. He was part of the Brumbies Super Rugby championships team in 2001. In 2004 he succeeded George Gregan as ACT Brumbies Captain and played every game that season except the final due to injury and thus was unable to lead the team to claim the Super 12 title that year. Wallabies career Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bryce Mortlock
Harold Bryce Mortlock , LFRAIA, (14 October 1921 – 3 July 2004) was an Australian architect and planner, alongside Sydney Ancher, Stuart Murray and Ken Woolley. His career spanned the era which saw the consolidation of modern Australian architecture. His two best known projects include the Sulman Award winning Badham House in Sydney's Cronulla and the Engineering Precinct at Sydney University. He was also responsible for the University of Melbourne master plan. Early life Mortlock was born in Lithgow on 14 October 1921. His father was an engineer at the local steel works, and died when Mortlock was still young. His mother moved the family to live with relatives in Sydney, in the suburb of Five Dock. Watching the local boat builders there fostered Mortlock's interest in design and construction. He built several boats while still at school. During World War II, Mortlock traveled to Canada to train as a pilot with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He returned to Australia in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Favis-Mortlock
David T. Favis-Mortlock is an English geomorphologist and musician. Born David Mortlock on 27 August 1953, he grew up in Barking, Essex, UK, later moving to Basildon New Town, where he attended Barstable School. He studied environmental sciences at Lancaster University, graduating in 1975. After several years as a musician, he commenced a PhD study on soil erosion modeling at Brighton Polytechnic, under the supervision of geomorphologist John Boardman. Subsequently, he worked with Boardman at the University of Oxford'Environmental Change Unit(now the Environmental Change Institute). Publications include the first quantitative study of the impact of climate change on soil erosion by water, and a novel modelling study of soil erosion in prehistory together with archaeologist Martin Bell. In 1996 he developed a self-organising systems model for rill initiation and developmentRillGrow He is also responsible for thSoil Erosion website Favis-Mortlock was elected a Council Mem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martindale Hall
Martindale Hall is a Georgian style mansion near Mintaro, South Australia which appeared in the film '' Picnic at Hanging Rock''. Construction Martindale Hall was built for a wealthy bachelor pastoralist, Edmund Bowman Jr (1855–1921). The architect was Ebenezer Gregg of London, the chief supervisor was Adelaide architect Edward John Woods and the builder was R. Huckson, who completed the work in 1880. Due to the specialist nature of the work involved, 50 of the 60 tradesmen were brought from England, and they returned when it was completed. The hall has 32 rooms and also a large seven-room cellar, and its environs at the time also included a polo ground, a racecourse, a boating lake and a cricket pitch.Martindale Hall martindalehall-mintaro.com.au. Retrieved 2017-08-28 History A decade after its co ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Ranson Mortlock
William Ranson Mortlock (1821 – 10 May 1884) was a grazier and politician in colonial South Australia.H. Kempe'Mortlock, William Ranson (1821 - 1884)' Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 5, Melbourne University Press, 1974, pp 301-302. Mortlock was born at Moat House, Melbourn, Cambridgeshire, England. Mortlock arrived in South Australia on the ''Imaum of Muscat'' on 9 November 1843. In 1850 at Port Lincoln he married Margaret, 18-year-old daughter of John Tennant who had arrived in South Australia from Scotland in 1839. He was a veterinary surgeon and sheep inspector in Adelaide for a period. In 1847, he occupied land near Port Lincoln that would subsequently become Yalluna Station, and he resigned his inspector role in 1856. He acquired three more leases in 1867-68: the Mount Arden, Pichi Richi, and Yudnapinna Stations. He was elected to the South Australian House of Assembly at the 1868 election, representing Flinders, but did not contest the 1870 election. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Tennant Mortlock
William Tennant Mortlock (1858 – 17 August 1913) was a South Australian grazier and politician. Mortlock was born near Port Lincoln, the son of William Ranson Mortlock. He was educated at St Peter's College, Adelaide and Jesus College, Cambridge. He read for the law at the Inner Temple while in England, but returned to South Australia in 1883 and did not pursue his legal studies further. He worked on his father's Yudnapinna Station, near Port Augusta, and he increased the family's pastoral property after inheriting it upon his father's death in 1884. In 1891 he purchased Martindale Hall at Mintaro, which would become his family's main station. Mortlock was elected to the South Australian House of Assembly at the 1896 election, winning his father's old seat of Flinders. He re-entered parliament in 1901, winning a by-election for Flinders caused by the election of Alexander Poynton to the inaugural Australian House of Representatives The House of Representatives is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mortlock Flying Fox
''Pteropus pelagicus'' is a species of fruit bat in the family Pteropodidae. It includes two subspecies that were formerly recognized as full species— ''Pteropus insularis'' (Chuuk flying fox) and ''Pteropus phaeocephalus'' (Mortlock flying fox). It is endemic to Micronesia. It is threatened by habitat loss. Etymology and taxonomy The species was described by German naturalist Heinrich von Kittlitz in 1836. He gave it the species name '' pelagicus'' .Kittlitz FH. (1836. eprinted 1971 Observation Zoologiques faites pendant l’expédition de la corvette Le Séniavine. In: Lütke F, Voyage autour du monde, 1826–1829, Volume 3 Bibliotheca Australiana No. 60. Da Capo Press, New York, 237–330 In 2013, a study was published that challenged the status of the Chuuk flying fox and the Mortlock flying fox as species. The study stated that the Chuuk flying fox was not significantly different from the Mortlock flying fox, and that they represent two subspecies of the same spec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mortlock Football League
The Mortlock Football League is an Australian rules football competition based around 8 clubs in the south-west region of Western Australia Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th .... It is one of a number of football leagues in the wheat-belt region of WA. The eight teams represent the towns of Calingiri, Dalwallinu, Dowerin, Gingin, Goomalling, Toodyay, Wongan- Ballidu. Wyalkatchem played until the end of 2010. Mortlock League also includes a hockey competition which involves all clubs mentioned above. Teams compete in a home and away season of 14 rounds with a number of byes and one week during the season dedicated to playing country week football against other south-western country leagues. The season ends with a finals campaign including the top 4 teams from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mortlock Islands (other) , a Melanesian outlier atoll northeast of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea
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Mortlock Islands can refer to: *Nomoi Islands, a group of three large atolls in the state of Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia *Takuu Atoll Takuu, formerly known as Tauu and also known as Takuu Mortlock or Marqueen Islands, is a small, isolated atoll off the east coast of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea. Geography Takuu lies about 250 km to the northeast of Kieta, capital of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mortlock Library
The State Library of South Australia, or SLSA, formerly known as the Public Library of South Australia, located on North Terrace, Adelaide, is the official library of the Australian state of South Australia. It is the largest public research library in the state, with a collection focus on South Australian information, being the repository of all printed and audiovisual material published in the state, as required by legal deposit legislation. It holds the "South Australiana" collection, which documents South Australia from pre-European settlement to the present day, as well as general reference material in a wide range of formats, including digital, film, sound and video recordings, photographs, and microfiche. Home access to many journals, newspapers and other resources online is available. History and governance 19th century On 29 August 1834, a couple of weeks after the passing of the ''South Australia Act 1834'', a group led by the Colonial Secretary, Robert Gouger, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
