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Mottram
Mottram is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Buster Mottram, former British tennis player, son of Tony Mottram * Craig Mottram, Australian distance runner * Don Mottram, English flavour chemist * Eric Mottram, English poet * Heidi Mottram, British chief executive * James Cecil Mottram (1879–1945), British cancer researcher and naturalist * Leslie Mottram, Scottish football referee * Linda Mottram (born 1957), former British professional tennis player, daughter of Tony Mottram * Paul Mottram, classical and jazz composer * R.H. Mottram, English writer * Richard Mottram, British civil servant * Tony Mottram (1920–2016), British tennis player See also * Mottram St. Andrew, a village in Cheshire * Mottram in Longdendale Mottram in Longdendale is a village in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England. At the 2011 census, the population for the ward of Longdendale, which includes Mottram and the surrounding area, was 9,950. Historic counties of England, Histori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Mottram
Eric Mottram (29 December 1924 – 16 January 1995) was a British teacher, critic, editor and poet who was one of the central figures in the British Poetry Revival. Early life and education Mottram was born in London and educated at Purley Grammar School, Croydon, and Blackpool Grammar School, Lancashire. In 1943, he was awarded a scholarship to Pembroke College, Cambridge, but opted to serve in the Royal Navy instead, only taking up the scholarship in 1947. He graduated with honours in 1950, obtaining a first in both parts of the English Literature, Life and Thought tripos (Double First). M.A. in 1951. Over the following decade, Mottram travelled extensively and worked as a lecturer at the University of Zurich Switzerland (1951–52), University of Malaya in Singapore (1952–55), and as Professor at the University of Groningen, Netherlands (1955–60). King's College London In 1960, Mottram returned to London and took a post as Lecturer in English and American Literature at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craig Mottram
Craig Mottram (born 18 June 1980) is a former Australian long and middle-distance runner who specialised in the 5000 meter event. Early years Mottram was born on 18 June 1980 in Frankston, Victoria. He attended Geelong Grammar School. Career At 6 feet 2 inches, Mottram is unusually tall for a distance runner. He competed in his first Olympic Games at only 20 years of age, in the 5000 metre event at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney: he did not qualify from his heat, but finished in 8th place with a respectable time of 13 minutes, 31.06 seconds. He fared better in his next Olympic competition: with four additional years of experience and athletic maturity, Mottram qualified for the final of the 5000 metre event and finished 8th with a time of 13:25.70 in Athens. In 2005, he set a course record to win the Great Ireland Run in a third consecutive win at the competition. On 14 August 2005, he reached a career highlight, coming third in the 5000 m event at the 2005 World C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Mottram
Sir Richard Clive Mottram (born 23 April 1946) is a former British civil servant, who retired in 2007 from his most recent senior post as Permanent Secretary, Intelligence, Security and Resilience in the Cabinet Office. He has served on the boards of a number of private and public sector organisations, including chairing the boards of Amey PLC from 2008-17 and of the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) from 2008-2014. He was a Governor of the Ditchley Foundation from 1996-2019 and served on its Council of Management. He was a Visiting Professor in the department of government at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) from 2008-21. He is chair of the advisory board of the LSE's foreign policy think tank (LSE IDEAS) and lectures on its Executive Masters course and other LSE courses. He is a trustee of the Royal Anniversary Trust, which oversees The Queen's Anniversary Prizes for Higher and Further Education. Education and early career Mottram ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Mottram
Anthony John Mottram (8 June 1920 – 6 October 2016) was a British tennis player of the 1940s and 1950s. Mottram reached the quarterfinal of the 1948 Wimbledon Championships in which he lost to Gardnar Mulloy. In the doubles event he reached the final of the 1947 Wimbledon Championships with Bill Sidwell in which they were defeated by the first-seeded team of Jack Kramer and Bob Falkenburg. He reached the French Open's fourth round in both 1947 and 1948, and the third round of the 1951 US Open. Mottram was born in Coventry, then Warwickshire (now West Midlands), England. He appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme ''Desert Island Discs'' on 14 June 1955. The All England Lawn Tennis Club elected him an Honorary Member in 1957. Mottram died on 6 October 2016 at the age of 96. Personal life In 1949 he married Joy Gannon who was also a tennis player, as were their children Buster Mottram Christopher "Buster" Mottram (born 25 April 1955 in Kingston upon Tham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Mottram is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Buster Mottram, former British tennis player, son of Tony Mottram * Craig Mottram, Australian distance runner * Don Mottram, English flavour chemist * Eric Mottram, English poet * Heidi Mottram, British chief executive * James Cecil Mottram (1879–1945), British cancer researcher and naturalist * Leslie Mottram, Scottish football referee * Linda Mottram (born 1957), former British professional tennis player, daughter of Tony Mottram * Paul Mottram, classical and jazz composer * R.H. Mottram, English writer * Richard Mottram, British civil servant * Tony Mottram (1920–2016), British tennis player See also * Mottram St. Andrew, a village in Cheshire * Mottram in Longdendale Mottram in Longdendale is a village in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England. At the 2011 census, the population for the ward of Longdendale, which includes Mottram and the surrounding area, was 9,950. Historic counties of England, Histori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buster Mottram
Christopher "Buster" Mottram (born 25 April 1955 in Kingston upon Thames) is an English former tennis player and UK number 1 who achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 15 in February 1983. Mottram represented Great Britain in the Davis Cup eight times, scoring 31 wins and 10 losses. His parents, Tony Mottram and Joy Gannon, were leading British tennis players in the 1950s. Career titles Singles (2) Doubles (5) Politics While Mottram was still playing professionally, he became known for his right-wing views. He expressed support for the National Front, supported the policies of Enoch Powell,"Tennis: Whatever happened to Buster Mottram?" ''The Independent'', 18 May 2002 and applied unsuccessfully for the |
Heidi Mottram
Heidi Mottram (born ) is a British businesswoman and the CEO of Northumbrian Water. Career Mottram was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, and gained a Bachelor of Science degree in geography at the University of Hull in 1986. After graduating she hoped to study a postgraduate course which would have led to work as a National Park Ranger, but could not get a grant; when asked in 2010 "What's your ideal job, other than the one you've got?" she replied "National Park warden". She joined British Rail in 1986 as a management trainee and rose within the rail industry to become Managing Director of Northern Rail. In 2009 she was awarded the title of Rail Business Manager of the Year. In the New Year Honours 2010 she was appointed OBE for services to the Rail Industry. She was appointed CBE in the 2018 Birthday Honours. In April 2010 she joined Northumbrian Water as its Chief Executive Officer, being the first woman to take the top post in a major British water company. She has said that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Cecil Mottram
James Cecil Mottram (12 December 1879 – 4 October 1945) was a British physician and naturalist. He conducted studies on cancer, conducted experiments on mutation induction using X-rays and contributed to ideas on camouflage. Life and work Mottram was born in Holt, Norfolk to James Alfred and Clara Ellen Swanzy. He studied at the Beacon, Sevenoaks before studying medicine at University College, London. He then joined Cambridge, obtained a DPH in 1906 and joined the Cancer research laboratory of Middlesex Hospital. In 1913 he published on the susceptibility of growing tissues to gamma radiation and he continued these studies. Another study he made was on camouflage which he published in 1914 as ''Controlled natural selection and value marking'' (1914) which made use of group selection. He served briefly with the navy during World War I serving as the experimental officer in the Camouflage School. He also conducted studies on the colours of butterflies (based on illustrations in Fre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie Mottram
Leslie William Mottram (born 5 March 1951) is a Scottish retired football referee best known for supervising two matches in the 1994 FIFA World Cup in the United States. Mottram also officiated at UEFA Euro 1996 in England, including the semifinal match between France and the Czech Republic.UEFA"France 0-0 Czech Republic" 26 June 1996. Retrieved 7 June 2013. He is known to have served as a FIFA referee during the period from 1991 to 1996. Mottram turned to refereeing after a brief professional playing career at Airdrie. He became a professional referee when he left Scotland to officiate in the Japanese J. League in 1996. Although his original contract was only for three-months, J. League organisers, who were impressed by his refereeing ability, offered long term contracts. He refereed 147 matches in J1, 15 in J2 and 25 in the J. League Cup from 1996 to 2001, including each playoff game from 1997 to 2001, and received four "most excellent referee" awards in the 1998 to 2002 seaso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Mottram
Don Mottram (born 1945 in Cheshire) is an English flavour chemist based at the School of Food Biosciences of the University of Reading. Having obtained an honours degree in colour chemistry from the University of Leeds in 1967 he spent a year working as a volunteer with Voluntary Service Overseas in Dacca, Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan) before returning to Leeds to study for a Ph.D. in colour chemistry. Following his graduation in 1971, Mottram took up a post at the Meat Research Institute at Langford, near Bristol, UK. Mottram moved to the University of Reading in 1988. His research interests are mainly in the area of flavour chemistry, the analysis of flavour and the factors affecting its formation and retention in foods, especially meat. Following the detection of the potential carcinogen acrylamide in a range of fried and oven-cooked foods, Mottram, in collaboration with Professor Bronek Wedzicha of the University of Leeds, provided an important breakthrough in u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Mottram
Linda Mottram is a British former professional tennis player. Active on tour in the 1970s, Mottram is the daughter of tennis players Tony Mottram and Joy Gannon. She has an elder brother, Buster Mottram, who also competed professionally. Mottram was runner-up to Evonne Goolagong at the 1975 Auckland Open. She reached the singles third round at both the Australian Open and Wimbledon in 1975, but her best grand slam run was a quarter-final appearance in doubles at the 1978 Wimbledon Championships (with Glynis Coles Glynis Coles (born 20 February 1954), also known by her married name Glynis Coles-Bond, is a retired English professional tennis player and former British number 2. Career Coles played professionally between 1970 and 1988, playing both singles ...). References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mottram, Linda 1957 births Living people British female tennis players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Mottram
Paul Mottram is a composer, arranger and orchestrator of music for film and television, and also writes production music for Audio Network. Commissioned music credits include ''Bank Of Dave'', ''Kirstie's Handmade Britain'' (Channel 4), Vic Reeves' ''Rogues Gallery'' (Discovery, BBC Three) and '' People Like Us'' (BBC Two). His music has also featured on numerous productions including the films ''Bad Santa'', '' The Bee Movie'' and trailer for Woody Allen's ''Blue Jasmine'' and Amazon's '' Generation Wealth'' and television programmes such as ''The Apprentice'', ''Panorama'', ''Horizon'', ''Newsnight'', '' QI'', ''Doctor Who'', '' Who Do You Think You Are?'', ''The Crown'', '' The Restaurant'', ''The Gadget Show'', ''Coast'', ''Hollyoaks'', ''Travel Man'', and ''Downton Abbey'', and television commercials for Barclays, JVC, Pizza Hut, Rover, Renault, and Hitachi. His music also features prominently on some Youtube channels such as BuzzFeed and its affiliated channels, SortedFood, IN ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |