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Pardoe Northdown Conservation Area
Pardoe is a surname, and may refer to: *Blaine Pardoe, American science fiction writer and military historian * Geoffrey Pardoe (1928–1996), English rocket scientist * Glyn Pardoe (born 1946), English former footballer *John Pardoe (born 1934), retired British businessman and Liberal Party politician * Julia Pardoe (1806–1862), English poet and novelist * Margot Pardoe (1902–1996), English children's author * Matthew Pardoe (born 1991), English cricketer * T. Earl Pardoe (1885–1971), American drama teacher * Thomas Pardoe (1770–1823), English enameler *Thomas Pardoe (boxer) (1911–1992), English boxer See also *Pardo (other) Pardo is a word used in the Spanish colonies in the Americas to refer to the tri-racial descendants of Europeans, Amerindians, and Africans. Pardo may also refer to: People *Pardo (surname) *Pardo Brazilians, a race/skin color category used by t ... {{surname English-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blaine Pardoe
Blaine Lee Pardoe is a bestselling and award-winning American author and military historian, known primarily for writing the ''Battletech'' and '' MechWarrior: Dark Age'' series of science fiction books, business management books, military history books, and true crime works. He is an avowed political conservative, incorporating anti-progressive themes into his work. Early life Pardoe was born in Newport News, Virginia, in 1962 and raised in Battle Creek, Michigan. He attended Central Michigan University, where he wrote for CM Life, the school newspaper. After graduating with a bachelor's degree in business management, he worked for Michigan auto companies Ford, GM, and Chrysler. He began writing for sci-fi games and reference books and moved back to Virginia. Career He has been a regular contributor to American Thinker, PJ Media, American Greatness, Bizpac Review, and other conservative sites. Pardoe designed the '' Domination'' role-playing game, which was published by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Pardoe
Geoffrey Keith Charles Pardoe OBE FREng FRAeS FBIS (2 November 1928 – 3 January 1996) was the project manager for the Blue Streak ballistic missile programme. He was also an advocate for British advanced science and technology, and involvement in space exploration, deploring (repeated) government negligence and its aborted technology programmes. Early life He attended Wanstead County High School, a co-educational grammar school in Wanstead, east London. He attended and gained a BScEng from Loughborough of College of Technology (the college's degree was awarded by the University of London). He later gained a PhD in Astronautics from Loughborough University in 1984. Career From 1949-1951 he was senior aerodynamicist at Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft, then part of Hawker Siddeley. He worked on rocket design and the Sea Slug (missile) (Britain's first guided missile). From 1951-19566 he was chief aerodynamicist at the Guided Weapons division of de Havilland Propellers, workin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glyn Pardoe
Glyn Pardoe (1 June 1946 – 26 May 2020) was an English association football, footballer who played for Manchester City F.C., Manchester City between 1962 and 1974. He made his first-team debut against Birmingham City F.C., Birmingham City in April 1962. At nearly 16 years of age he became Manchester City's youngest-ever player, a record which still stands in 2022. A versatile right-footer who played mainly on the left, Pardoe was a Forward (association football), forward early in his career, but converted to Defender (association football)#Full-back, full-back in 1966, a position he retained for the rest of his career. Pardoe was part of the Manchester City team in the club's most successful era. Under the management of Joe Mercer and Malcolm Allison, the club won the league championship, FA Cup, Football League Cup, League Cup and European Cup Winners' Cup in a three-year period. After suffering a severe leg injury in 1970, Pardoe spent two years on the sidelines, and struggl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Pardoe
John Wentworth Pardoe (born 27 July 1934) is a retired British businessman and Liberal Party politician. He was Chairman of Sight and Sound Education Ltd from 1979 to 1989. Early life and education Pardoe was the son of Cuthbert B. Pardoe and Marjorie E. W. (''née'' Taylor). He attended King's College School, Cambridge, and was a chorister in the Choir of King's College, Cambridge. He then went to Sherborne School, a boarding independent school for boys in the market town of Sherborne in Dorset, followed by Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He was active in the famous Footlights drama club; one critic of their 1955 revue panned future comedian Jonathan Miller, whilst predicting a bold comedic future for Pardoe. He gained an MA at Cambridge. Early career Pardoe worked for Television Audience Measurement Ltd from 1958 to 1960, Osborne Peacock Co. Ltd from 1960 to 1961 and ''Liberal News'' from 1961 to 1966. Political career In the 1964 general election, Pardoe unsuccess ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julia Pardoe
Julia Pardoe (4 December 1804 – 26 November 1862), was an English poet, novelist, historian and traveller. Her most popular work, ''The City of the Sultan and Domestic Manners of the Turks'' (1837), presented the Ottoman Turkish upper class with sympathy and humanity. Life Julia Sophia H. Pardoe was born in Beverley, Yorkshire. She was the second daughter born to Major Thomas Pardoe, who was said to be of Spanish extraction, and his wife Elizabeth. Her father reportedly served in the Peninsular campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars and fought at Waterloo before retiring from the service. Pardoe was baptized at Beverley on 4 December 1804. She began writing at an early age and anonymously published her first work, ''The Nun: a Poetical Romance, and Two Others'' (1824), at the end of her teens. Like many others in the early 19th century, she moved south to avoid tuberculosis. There she found material for her first book. In 1835, she travelled to Turkey with her father, on a trip whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margot Pardoe
Margot Pardoe (8 August 1902 – 5 January 1996) was a British writer of children's fiction under the name M. Pardoe. Her career spanned over 20 years from the late 1930s to the early 1960s. She is known best for the Bunkle adventure series. Pardoe published over 20 books, most of which were extremely popular as well as positively reviewed. ''The Times Literary Supplement'' characterised ''The Far Island'' as "realistic as well as charming"; some of her later books were featured on ''Children's Hour'' when the part of Bunkle was taken by a young Billie Whitelaw, under the supervision of producer Trevor Hill. Life Margot Pardoe's childhood provided her with many of the settings for her books: she was born in London, educated in Hertfordshire and Paris, and had holidays in the continent and remote locations in Britain.Robertson, iii She married John Swift in 1934 and settled in Somerset where she began ''The Far Island''. She wrote under her maiden name but only used her first in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Pardoe
Matthew Graham Pardoe (born 5 January 1991) is an English cricketer. A left-handed opening/middle order batsman, he played for Worcestershire. In Birmingham league cricket, Pardoe plays for Kidderminster Victoria. He went to Haybridge High School and having progressed through Worcestershire's academy system and played for Worcestershire's Second XI, Pardoe made his first-class debut against Yorkshire at New Road, Worcester New Road is a cricket ground in the English city of Worcester. It has been the home ground of Worcestershire County Cricket Club since 1896. Since October 2017 the ground has been known for sponsorship purposes as Blackfinch New Road following ... at the start of the 2011 season, scoring 26 and 0. In his second first-class match, against Warwickshire at New Road, he scored 54, his maiden first-class half-century. He went on to make his second half century against Nottinghamshire finishing on 74 before being caught off the bowling of Samit Patel. Par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Pardoe
Thomas Pardoe (3 July 1770 – 1823) was a British enameler noted for flower painting. Pardoe was born in Derby on 3 July 1770 and was apprenticed at the Derby (Nottingham Road) porcelain factory in the 1780s, later moving to Worcester. He painted creamware at Swansea between 1795 and 1809, coming under the influence of potter and botanist Lewis Weston Dillwyn, and working together with William Weston Young. The following addresses are listed for him in the Bristol directories: Under the Bank (1809–11); 28 Bath Street (1812–16), and Thomas Street (1820–22). In Bristol he was an independent decorator and gilder, painting china and pottery supplied in the white by John Rose of Coalport and possibly others. His Bristol pieces are the only ones he signed e.g., "Pardoe Bristol". I assume that only the signatures that include the word "fecit" are ones he decorated, other inscriptions simply indicating retailing. According to Pountney the enamel was fired at the Te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Pardoe (boxer)
Thomas Leonard Pardoe (13 January 1912 – 7 December 1992) was an English boxer who competed for Great Britain in the 1932 Summer Olympics and fought as Tommy Pardoe. Boxing career Amateur record As an amateur Pardoe a five times champion of Britain winning the Amateur Boxing Association British flyweight title, when boxing out of the Metropolitan ABC during the years 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932 and 1933. At the 1930 British Empire Games he won the silver medal in the flyweight class after losing the final to Jacob Smith. Two years later in 1932 he finished fourth at the 1932 Olympic Games in the flyweight class after losing the bronze-medal bout by walkover to Louis Salica of the United States. 1932 Olympic record * Round of 16: bye * Quarterfinal: defeated Kiyonobu Murakami (Japan) on points * Semifinal: lost to Francisco Cabañas (Mexico) on points * Bronze Medal Bout: lost to Louis Salica Louis ("Lou") Salica (November 16, 1912 – January 30, 2002) was an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pardo (other)
Pardo is a word used in the Spanish colonies in the Americas to refer to the tri-racial descendants of Europeans, Amerindians, and Africans. Pardo may also refer to: People *Pardo (surname) *Pardo Brazilians, a race/skin color category used by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) in Brazilian censuses Other *Pardo Ridge, the highest part of Elephant Island, South Shetland Islands, UK *Pardo River (other) *Capivari River (Pardo River) *Claro River (Pardo River) *Novo River (Pardo River) *Palmital River (Pardo River) *Rio Pardo (tribe) *Rio Pardo, a municipality in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil *Rio Pardo de Minas, a municipality in Minas Gerais, Brazil *Vargem Grande do Rio Pardo, a municipality in Minas Gerais, Brazil *Ribas do Rio Pardo, a municipality in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil *Santa Rita do Pardo, a municipality in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil *Santa Cruz do Rio Pardo, a municipality in São Paulo, Brazil *São José do Rio Pardo, a municipality in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
