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Mobbs
Mobbs is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Edgar Mobbs (1882–1917), English rugby union footballer * Nigel Mobbs (1937–2005), businessman and Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire * Noel Mobbs (1878–1959), founder of Slough Estates See also *Dobbs (surname) Dobbs is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alfred Dobbs (1882–1945), British politician and trade unionist * Amanda Dobbs (born 1993), American figure skater * Arthur Dobbs (1689–1765), Anglo-Irish politician, colon ... * Hobbs (surname) {{Surname English-language surnames Surnames from given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar Mobbs
Edgar Roberts Mobbs (1882–1917) was an English rugby union footballer who played for and captained Northampton R.F.C. and England. He played as a three quarter. Mobbs is commemorated in the Ella-Mobbs Trophy, first competed for by the Australia and England rugby union teams in the 2022 series. Life Edgar Roberts Mobbs was born on 29 June 1882 in Northampton, England, the son of Oliver L. and Elizabeth Anne Mobbs. A brother was Noel Mobbs (1878–1959), founder of Slough Estates. He was educated at Bedford Modern School where the name of a house commemorates him. After initially being turned down as too old to join the army in the First World War, Mobbs raised his own "sportsman's" company of 250 sportsmen (also known as Mobbs' Own) for the Northamptonshire Regiment. He rose to command his battalion (7th (Service) Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment) with the rank of lieutenant colonel. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order in the 1917 New Year Honours. Mobbs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noel Mobbs
Sir Arthur Noel Mobbs (1878–1959) was the founder of Slough Estates, one of the United Kingdom's largest property businesses. Career Brought up in Northampton, Mobbs was educated at Bedford Modern School. Together with his brother, Herbert, he founded the ''Pytchley Autocar Company'' in 1903 to sell private vehicles: the business was later bought by Mercantile Credit. Another of Noel's brothers, Edgar, was a well-known Rugby player and Captain of the England team in 1910. In 1920, Noel Mobbs and Sir Percival Perry acquired Slough Depot, a vehicle park where thousands of disused military vehicles had been abandoned. They sold the vehicles and converted the factories and let them out for industrial use, so establishing the Slough Trading Estate. Mobbs was also keen to establish sporting and social facilities for the people of Slough and in 1928 he bought Stoke Park Golf Club for £30,000 and reformed it. He also established the Stoke Poges Memorial Gardens which are open ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nigel Mobbs
Sir Gerald Nigel Mobbs KStJ JP (22 September 1937 – 21 October 2005) was a businessman who was Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire between 1997 and 2005. He was chairman of Slough Estates, a property firm founded by his grandfather, Noel Mobbs. He was the senior non-executive director of Barclays Bank from 1980 to 2003.The TelegraphSir Nigel Mobbs 22 Oct 2005 He was also the High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire from 1982 to 1983 and was a Knight of St John, a Justice of the Peace and was made a Knight Bachelor in the 1986 Birthday Honours. He was chairman of the council of the University of Buckingham between 1987 and 1998. He married, in 1961, Jane Berry, who was a daughter of Lionel Berry, 2nd Viscount Kemsley (Geoffrey) Lionel Berry, 2nd Viscount Kemsley (29 June 1909 – 28 February 1999), was a British Conservative politician, peer and newspaper editor. Biography Berry was born in Hendon. His father was Gomer Berry, 1st Viscount Kemsley (1883–19 ...; they had a son ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Surname
English names are names used in, or originating in, England. In England as elsewhere in the English-speaking world, a complete name usually consists of a given name, commonly referred to as a first name, and a (most commonly patrilineal) family name or surname, also referred to as a last name. There can be several given names, some of these being often referred to as a second name, or middle name(s). Given names Most given names used in England do not have English derivation. Most traditional names are Hebrew ( Daniel, David, Elizabeth, Susan), Greek ( Nicholas, Dorothy, George, Helen), Germanic names adopted via the transmission of Old French/Norman (Robert, Richard, Gertrude, Charlotte), or Latin (Adrian, Amelia, Patrick). There remains a limited set of given names which have an actual English derivation (see Anglo-Saxon names); examples include Alfred, Ashley, Edgar, Edmund, Edward, Edwin, Harold and Oswald. A distinctive feature of Anglophone names is the surnames of im ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dobbs (surname)
Dobbs is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alfred Dobbs (1882–1945), British politician and trade unionist * Amanda Dobbs (born 1993), American figure skater * Arthur Dobbs (1689–1765), Anglo-Irish politician, colonial governor of North Carolina 1754–1765 * Arthur Frederick Dobbs (1876–1955), Irish politician * Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs (1930–1994), American historian specializing in Isaac Newton's occult studies * Bobby Dobbs (1922–1986), American footballer * Catherine Dobbs (1908–1974), first woman mayor of a major U.S. industrial city, Barberton, Ohio * Demarcus Dobbs (born 1987), American footballer * Farrell Dobbs (1907–1983), American Trotskyist and trade unionist * Francis Dobbs (1750–1811), Irish barrister, politician and writer * Frank Q. Dobbs (1939–2006), American screenwriter, film director, film producer and cinematographer * Gerald Dobbs (born 1971), retired English footballer * Glenn Dobbs (1920–2002), American foot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hobbs (surname)
{{Wictionary, Hobbs Hobbs is a surname. Notable people with this surname include: *Albert Hobbs (1822–1897), New York politician * Anne Hobbs, English tennis player * Alfred Charles Hobbs, a famous lockpicker *Angie Hobbs, British philosopher *Becky Hobbs *Bill Hobbs (American football) (1946–2004), American football linebacker * Bill Hobbs (baseball) (1893–1945), American baseball shortstop *Bill Hobbs (rower) (1949–2020), American Olympic rower, brother of rower Franklin Hobbs * Braydon Hobbs, American basketball player * Brian Kenneth Hobbs, medical doctor in South Australia *Bruce Hobbs * Cathy Hobbs *Carleton Hobbs *Chelsea Hobbs *Dara Hobbs, American operatic soprano *David Hobbs (racing driver), British former racing driver *David Hobbs (basketball), American basketball coach *David Hobbs (rugby league), rugby league player *Eddie Hobbs, Irish celebrity accountant *Ellis Hobbs * Franklin Hobbs (born 1947), American Olympic rower, brother of rower Bill Hobbs * Frederic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English-language Surnames
English is a West Germanic languages, 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 language, Scots, and then closest related to the Low German, Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is Genetic relationship (linguistics), genealogically West Germanic language, West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by Langues d'oïl, dialects of France (about List of English words of French origin, 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 (Ingvae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
