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Maltby (surname)
Maltby is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Brough Maltby (1826–1894), English archdeacon * Christopher Maltby (1891–1980), British army officer * David Maltby (1920–1943), British bomber pilot * Edward Maltby (1770–1859), English bishop * H.F. Maltby (1880–1963), British actor and writer * Jasper A. Maltby (1826–1867), American army general * John Maltby (1936–2020), British painter and ceramics maker * Judith Maltby (born 1957), American priest and church historian * Kirk Maltby (born 1972), Canadian ice hockey player * Lauren Maltby (born 1984), American actress and psychologist * Margaret Eliza Maltby (1860–1944), American physicist * Peg Maltby (1899–1984), English-born Australian book illustrator and children's writer * Richard Maltby, Sr. (1914–1991), American musician and bandleader * Richard Maltby, Jr. Richard Eldridge Maltby Jr. (born October 6, 1937) is an American theatre director and theatrical producer, producer, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brough Maltby
The Venerable Canon Brough Maltby (29 September 1826 – 30 March 1894) was Archdeacon of Nottingham.''Maltby – Maltbie Family History'', compiled and edited by Dorothy Maltby Verrill (Newark, NJ: Birdsey L. MaltbyRetrieved 5 October 2017./ref> Family Maltby was born in London in 1826, the oldest child of Charles Langley Maltby (1784–1858) and Mary Watson, but his family moved to Southwell shortly after. There he was educated at Southwell Minster School and served as a chorister in the choir of Southwell Minster. He went on to St John's College, Cambridge and graduated with a BA in 1850 and an MA in 1853. Maltby married Isabella Chadwick, daughter of John Chadwick of Oakwood, Rochdale, on 24 October 1850. They had seven children: *Brough Maltby (born 6 May 1852) *James Chadwick Maltby (born 1854), whose grandson David Maltby was an RAF pilot who flew in Operation Chastise. *Mary Maltby (born 1855) *Isabella Maltby (born 1856) *Charles Langley Maltby (1858–1936) *Edward Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Maltby
Major General Christopher Michael Maltby, (13 January 1891 – 6 September 1980) was a senior officer in the British Indian Army who served as Commander of British Troops in Hong Kong in 1941 before the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong, after which he became a prisoner of war. Military career Educated at Bedford School, Maltby attended the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, from where he was commissioned into the 9th Jat Regiment of the Indian Army in 1910.Christopher Michael Maltby Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives In the years leading to war, he served in the . He saw service in the |
David Maltby
Squadron Leader David John Hatfeild Maltby, (10 May 1920 – 15 September 1943) was a bomber pilot in the Royal Air Force, best known for his part in the Operation Chastise, Dambusters raid. He had successfully completed over 30 operations before his death in September 1943. Early life Maltby was born on 10 May 1920 in Baldslow, outside Hastings, Sussex. His father, Ettrick, was a headmaster at Hydneye House School which Maltby attended for a while. His mother was Aileen Hatfeild, who was originally from Hartsdown in Kent. He then joined Marlborough College between 1934 and 1936. In 1938 he began training as a mining engineer in Treeton, South Yorkshire, but resigned at the outbreak of war. He volunteered to join the Royal Air Force (RAF) in 1939 however like thousands of others joining, he was told to wait and that he would be invited back for an assessment as soon as possible. He was eventually called up on 20 June 1940 where he was accepted for aircrew training and formally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Maltby
Edward Maltby (6 April 1770 – 3 July 1859) was an English clergyman of the Church of England. He became Bishop of Durham, controversial for his liberal politics, for his ecumenism, and for the great personal wealth that he amassed. Early life Maltby was born in Norwich. He was the fourth son of George (died 1794), a weaver and deacon at the Presbyterian Octagon Chapel, and Mary (died 1804), his wife. William Maltby was a cousin. Though presbyterian by persuasion, the family were not hostile to the Anglican Church. Maltby attended Norwich Grammar School, where he became close to headteacher Samuel Parr but when Parr retired in 1785, he transferred to Winchester College under Joseph Warton. William Enfield also reputedly played a part in his education.Varley (2004) In 1784, Maltby's cousin Elizabeth had married George Pretyman and Pretyman sponsored Maltby's entry into Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1789. Maltby was a distinguished scholar and, finding his nonconformist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jasper A
Jasper, an aggregate of microgranular quartz and/or cryptocrystalline chalcedony and other mineral phases,Kostov, R. I. 2010. Review on the mineralogical systematics of jasper and related rocks. – Archaeometry Workshop, 7, 3, 209-213PDF/ref> is an opaque, impure variety of silica, usually red, yellow, brown or green in color; and rarely blue. The common red color is due to iron(III) inclusions. Jasper breaks with a smooth surface and is used for ornamentation or as a gemstone. It can be highly polished and is used for items such as vases, seals, and snuff boxes. The specific gravity of jasper is typically 2.5 to 2.9. Jaspillite is a banded-iron-formation rock that often has distinctive bands of jasper. Etymology and history The name means "spotted or speckled stone," and is derived via Old French ''jaspre'' (variant of Anglo-Norman ''jaspe'') and Latin ''iaspidem'' (nom. ''iaspis'') from Greek ἴασπις ''iaspis'' (feminine noun), from an Afroasiatic language (cf. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Maltby
John Maltby (1936 – 22 December 2020) was a distinguished English sculptor and studio potter. Education and career John Maltby was born and brought up in Cleethorpes in Lincolnshire. He attended Clee Grammar School, then went on study for a degree at Leicester College of Art specialising in sculpture and then Goldsmiths College in South London. After a period of teaching art at a small private boys' school at Caterham in Surrey near London, he visited Bernard Leach after reading Leach's ''A Potter's book''. On Leach's advice Maltby joined his son David Leach in 1962 at Lowerdown Pottery in Bovey Tracey, Devon where he was Leach's apprentice for nearly two years. He then set up his own pottery at Stoneshill near Crediton in 1964. Maltby was a member of the Craft Potters Association and the British Crafts Centre, he was also an advisor to the Leach Archive. His work has been exhibited worldwide and is represented in many public collections including Victoria and Albert M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judith Maltby
Judith Diane Maltby (born 1957) is an American-born Anglican priest and historian, who specialises in post-Reformation church history and the history of early modern Britain. She has been the chaplain and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, since 1993, and reader in church history at the University of Oxford since 2004. Early life and education Maltby was born on 14 October 1957 in the United States. She studied for a double major in English and history at the University of Illinois, graduating in 1979 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree. She undertook postgraduate research in early modern British history at Wolfson College, Cambridge, and then at Newnham College, Cambridge, completing her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 1992. Her doctoral thesis was titled ''Approaches to the Study of Religious Conformity in Late Elizabethan and Early Stuart England: With Special Reference to Cheshire and the Diocese of Lincoln''. Career Academic career From 1987 to 1993, Maltby wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
