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Mark Davies (other)
Mark or Marc Davies may refer to: *Mark Davies (athlete) (1960–2011), Australian Paralympic athlete *Mark Davies (footballer, born 1988), English footballer with Bolton Wanderers *Mark Davies (South African soccer) *Mark Davies (rugby union) (born 1958), Wales international rugby union player *Mark Davies (cricketer, born 1980), former English cricketer *Mark Davies (cricketer, born 1959), former Welsh cricketer *Mark Davies (cricketer, born 1969), former Welsh cricketer *Mark Davies (cricketer, born 1962), former English cricketer *Mark Davies (bishop of Middleton) (born 1962), British Anglican bishop * Mark Davies (bishop of Shrewsbury) (born 1959), British Roman Catholic bishop *Mark Davies (linguist) (born 1963), professor of linguistics at Brigham Young University *Marc Davies, character in ''The Man from Saigon ''The Man From Saigon'' is 2009 novel by Marti Leimbach. It was published in the United Kingdom by Fourth Estate in 2009 and in the United States by Nan A. Talese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Davies (athlete)
Mark Hedley Davies (30 June 1960 – 9 January 2011) was an Australian Paralympic athlete. He was born in Darwin, and was the first man to represent the Northern Territory in sport for the blind. He had a degenerative eye condition that caused tunnel vision; he found it more difficult to compete in able-bodied sports as he got older, and by 2000, he had lost all of his sight. He began his athletic career before the establishment of the Northern Territory Institute of Sport, so he had to organise all his training and transport independently. In 1982 he joined the newly formed Northern Territory Blind Sports Association, and went on to win many medals and break Australian records at national blind sporting championships. At the 1984 New York/Stoke Mandeville Paralympics, he won gold medals in the Men's Pentathlon B2, where he broke a world record, and the Men's 100 m B2. He also competed in athletics without winning any medals at the 1988 Seoul, 1992 Barcelona, 1996 Atla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Davies (footballer, Born 1988)
Mark Nicholas Davies (born 18 February 1988) is an English former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Club career Wolverhampton Wanderers Born in Willenhall, West Midlands, Davies was a former student of Pool Hayes Community School in Willenhall. He joined Wolverhampton Wanderers Youth Academy at the age of nine. He signed his first professional contract at Wolves in February 2005, aged 17. In the 2005–06 season, Davies broke into the Wolves first team under then manager Glenn Hoddle, making his league debut as a substitute against Leeds United on 20 August 2005, losing the game 2–0 at Elland Road. He made his first league start for Wolves against Watford on 20 September 2005, losing the game 2–1. Davies scored his first professional league goal against Luton Town on 13 January 2006, winning the game 2–1 at Molineux. He went on to frequently feature for Wolves throughout the season, and becoming a vital member of the team, making 20 appearances for Wol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Davies (South African Soccer)
Mark Davies (born in South Africa) is a South African retired footballer. Career Davies was inspired to start playing football after watching South African Gary Bailey Gary Richard Bailey (born 9 August 1958) is a former footballer who made nearly 300 appearances in the Football League playing as a goalkeeper for Manchester United. Born in Ipswich, Suffolk, he grew up in South Africa, but went on to be capped ... feature in the 1979 English FA Cup final. After helping Manning Rangers, who he spent his entire professional career with, win their first league title in 1996/97, Davies helped the club go within three points of reaching the 1997/98 CAF Champions League final. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Davies (rugby Union)
Mark Davies is a former Wales International Rugby Union player. A flanker, Davies began his rugby career at Maesteg Comprehensive School and Nantyfyllon RFC before joining Swansea. He made his debut for the Wales on 5 December 1981 versus Australia and went on to attain 3 caps for Wales between 1981 and 1985. Davies has been involved with the Wales national rugby union team in non-playing roles since 1991 and joined the Welsh Rugby Union The Welsh Rugby Union (WRU; cy, Undeb Rygbi Cymru) is the Sports governing body, governing body of rugby union in the country of Wales, recognised by the sport's international governing body, World Rugby. The WRU is responsible for the running ... as a full-time member of staff in August, 1999. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Davies, Mark 1958 births Living people Rugby union players from Maesteg Swansea RFC players Newport HSOB RFC players Welsh rugby union players Wales international rugby union players Rugby union flankers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Davies (cricketer, Born 1980)
Mark Davies (born Anthony Mark Davies, 4 October 1980) is an English former first-class cricketer who played for Durham County Cricket Club and, briefly, Kent County Cricket Club. He bowled right-arm medium-pace and batted in the tail. In December 2009, he was called up from the England Lions into the full England squad, to cover for injuries to other bowlers during the tour of South Africa. Davies suffered many injuries during his career. In September 2014, he was forced to retire from all forms of cricket after failing to recover from a shoulder injury picked up in a pre-season fixture. County career Born in Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, England, Davies made his List A debut in 1998, and his first-class debut in 2002. He has represented England under-19s. His career has been blighted by injury, "especially in 2004 and 2005 when he was taking wickets for fun (50 at 18.76 and 47 at 15.55 respectively)." He rarely played in 2006, as recurring back problems left him in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Davies (cricketer, Born 1959)
Mark Nicholas Davies (born 28 December 1959) is a former Welsh cricketer. Davies was a left-handed batsman who bowled occasional right-arm off break. He was born at Maesteg, Glamorgan. Davies made his first-class debut for Glamorgan against Oxford University in 1982 at St. Helen's following a good record in club cricket with Maesteg Celtic and for the Glamorgan Second XI. He played forty-seven games for the Glamorgan Second XI, as well as nine invitational First XI and Second XI matches, and sixteen games for Under-25 team. Batting once during his debut first-class match, Davies was dismissed for a duck, in what was to be his only innings at first-class level, by Timothy Taylor. He made a second first-class appearance in that season's County Championship against Worcestershire at Sophia Gardens, with the match largely washed out by rain. Mark was hit on the head wit ha cricket ball by James Harris References External linksMark Daviesat ESPNcricinfo ESPN cricinfo (forme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Davies (cricketer, Born 1969)
Mark Davies (born 18 April 1969) is a former Welsh cricketer. Davies was a right-handed batsman who bowled slow left-arm orthodox. He was born in Neath, Glamorgan. Having spent time on the MCC staff and played Second XI cricket for the Glamorgan Second XI since 1987, Davies made a single first-class appearance for Glamorgan against Oxford University at the University Parks in 1990. In this match he scored 5 unbeaten runs, while with the ball he bowled 8 wicket-less overs. He joined Gloucestershire in 1992, making his first-class debut for the county in the County Championship against Yorkshire. He made 43 further first-class appearances for Gloucestershire, the last of which came against Yorkshire in the 1995 County Championship. In his 44 first-class appearances for the county, he scored 627 runs at an average of 14.92, with a high score of 54. This score, his only first-class half century, came against Nottinghamshire in the 1994 County Championship. As a bowler, Davies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Davies (cricketer, Born 1962)
Mark Robert Davies (born 24 September 1962) is a former English cricketer. Davies was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace. He was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire and educated at the Priory School, Shrewsbury.Published by Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Davies made his debut for Shropshire in the 1982 Minor Counties Championship against Durham. Davies played Minor counties cricket for Shropshire from 1982 to 2002, which included 136 Minor Counties Championship appearances and 41 MCCA Knockout Trophy appearances. He made his List A debut against Northamptonshire in the 1985 NatWest Trophy. He made 9 further List A appearances, the last of which came against the Surrey Cricket Board in the 2000 NatWest Trophy. In his 10 List A matches, he scored 199 runs at an average of 19.90, with a high score of 89. This score, which was his only List A half century, came against Leicestershire in the 1989 NatWest Trophy. He served as Shropshire Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Davies (bishop Of Middleton)
Mark Davies (born 12 May 1962) is a British Anglican bishop. Since 2008, he has been the Bishop of Middleton, a suffragan bishop in the Church of England Diocese of Manchester. Early life and education Davies was born on 12 May 1962. After graduating from the College of Ripon and York St John in 1985 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA Hons) honours degree awarded by Leeds University, he studied for the Anglican ministry at the College of the Resurrection in Mirfield starting in 1986, where he received a Certificate in Pastoral Theology. Ordained ministry Davies was made a deacon at Petertide 1989 (1 July) by Richard Hare, Bishop of Pontefract, and ordained a priest the Petertide following (1 July 1990) by David Hope, Bishop of Wakefield — both times at Wakefield Cathedral. His first pastoral appointment was as a curate at St Mary's Church in Barnsley from 1989 to 1992, after which he served as the Priest-in-Charge at St Paul's Church, Old Town, Barnsley until 1995. His ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Davies (linguist)
Mark E. Davies (born 1963) is an American linguist. He specializes in corpus linguistics and language variation and change. He is the creator of most of the text corpora from English-Corpora.org (including the Corpus of Contemporary American English/ COCA) as well as the Corpus del español and the Corpus do português. He has also created large datasets of word frequency, collocates, and n-grams data, which have been used by many large companies in the fields of technology and also language learning. Davies earned a bachelor's degree with a double major in linguistics and Spanish from Brigham Young University (BYU) in 1986, followed by an MA in Spanish linguistics from BYU in 1989. He earned his Ph.D. in Iberoromance philology and linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1992. He has received several grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foundation, to create and use corpora of English, Spanish, and Portuguese. From 1992 to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Man From Saigon
''The Man From Saigon'' is 2009 novel by Marti Leimbach. It was published in the United Kingdom by Fourth Estate in 2009 and in the United States by Nan A. Talese/Random House in 2010. Plot In 1967, during the Vietnam War, half-American and half-English war correspondent Susan Gifford finds herself falling in love with Marc Davies, her fellow correspondent who was married to another woman, and who made friends with Hoang Van Son, a photographer. The three agree to cover the war before finding themselves hostages of the Vietcong , , war = the Vietnam War , image = FNL Flag.svg , caption = The flag of the Viet Cong, adopted in 1960, is a variation on the flag of North Vietnam. Sometimes the lower stripe was green. , active ... who suspected Son to be a spy. Susan struggles in her relationship with Marc while Son is put at risk. Characters *Susan Gifford is a wartime journalist born to a British mother and American father. She ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |