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Prest (surname)
Prest is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Agnes Prest, English Protestant martyr *Arthur Prest, Nigerian politician *Bill Prest, Australian politician *Cedar Prest, Australian artist *Charles Prest, English cricketer *Edward Prest, English cricketer *Edward Prest (priest), British archdeacon *Harold Prest, English cricketer *John Prest, British historian *Martín Prest, Argentine footballer *Sid Prest, Canadian politician *Steve Prest, English snooker player *Thomas Peckett Prest, British writer *Tommy Prest, English footballer *Warren Prest, Australian rules footballer *Wilfrid Prest, Australian academic *William Prest, English cricketer and footballer *William Prest (Cambridgeshire cricketer), English cricketer See also *Prest (other), Prest (other) *Prest family {{surname, Prest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agnes Prest
Agnes Prest (died 15 August 1557) was a Cornish Protestant martyr from the reign of the Catholic Mary I of England, Queen Mary. She was burned at the stake at Southernhay in Exeter in 1557. According to ''Foxe's Book of Martyrs'', and the story of Exeter Protestant Martyrs she lived near Launceston, Cornwall, and was married to a Catholic husband. She left her husband over his Catholicism, and went to be a spinner but she later on returned to him and was arrested and indicted at the Launceston Assizes. She was then put in Launceston jail and then transferred to Exeter jail. In Exeter jail, she was brought before the Bishop of Exeter, James Turberville, Bishop Turberville. When questioned, she denied the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation. She was then released for a month. Whilst she was released, she is said to have met a Dutch stonemason in Exeter Cathedral who was repairing the statues of the saints beloved of the Catholics. According to Foxe, she said to him "What a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sid Prest
Sidney Wilson Prest (1943–2015) was a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly in the 2009 provincial election. He was a lifelong resident of Mooseland, Nova Scotia, and represented the electoral district of Eastern Shore as a member of the New Democratic Party. Prest was defeated when he ran for re-election in the 2013 election. Prest died on December 14, 2015. Electoral record , - , Liberal , Kevin Murphy , align="right", 3,770 , align="right", 52.99 , align="right", , - , New Democratic Party , Sid Prest , align="right", 1,922 , align="right", 27.01 , align="right", , - , Progressive Conservative , Steve Brine , align="right", 1,423 , align="right", 20.00 , align="right", , - , New Democratic Party , Sidney Prest , align="right", 3,627 , align="right", 49.54 , align="right", , - , Progressive Conservative , Bill Dooks , align="right", 2,517 , align="right", 34.38 , align="right", , - , Liberal Party The Liberal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Prest (Cambridgeshire Cricketer)
William Pitt Prest (28 May 1832 – 5 November 1877) was an English cricketer who played for Cambridge University, Cambridge Town Club (''aka'' Cambridgeshire) and other amateur teams between 1850 and 1862. He was born at Stapleford, Cambridgeshire and died at East Molesey, Surrey. Prest was educated at Eton College and for a year only at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge; he did not remain at Cambridge University and did not take a degree. As a cricketer, he played in the Eton v Harrow match in both 1849 and 1850 and made his first-class debut for a Gentlemen of England team in August 1850, taking four wickets in the game. At Cambridge University in 1851 he had limited success as a bowler and as a batsman, and he was not picked for the University Match against Oxford University Oxford () is a city in England. It is the county town and only city of Oxfordshire. In 2020, its population was estimated at 151,584. It is north-west of London, south-east of Birmingha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Prest
William Prest (1 April 1832 – 10 February 1885) was a cricketer and footballer born in York. He lived most his life in Sheffield where he went on to become co-founder of Sheffield Football Club and captained Sheffield Cricket Club (''aka'' Yorkshire). He was also involved with the formation of a local regiment, the Hallamshire Rifles, with which he served for most of his life. William was son of John and Arabella Prest and moved with them to Sheffield when his brother John Beevor Prest bought a wine business. There he became a noted cricketer and played cricket for Sheffield 16 times between 1852 and 1862. He scored 286 runs at an average of 10.21 as a batter and got at total of 3 wickets for 69 runs as a bowler. All 3 wickets came in the same match. In the winter of 1854, Prest attended the meeting at the Adelphi Hotel in Arundel Gate when the Sheffield Cricket Club agreed to lease a new ground from the Duke of Norfolk next to Bramall Lane. He also played for "The Eleve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilfrid Prest
Wilfrid Prest, AM (born 1940) is a historian, specialising in legal history, who is professor emeritus at the University of Adelaide. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the Australian Academy of the Humanities, the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australiabr> and Queen's College (University of Melbourne), Queen's College, University of Melbourne, and a member of the Council of the Selden Society, London. He has published five sole-author books, three scholarly textual editions, and twelve edited collections, together with numerous journal articles and entries in works of reference. Life Born in Melbourne, Australia, of English parents and educated at schools in Melbourne, York and Cambridge, Prest read history at the University of Melbourne, then studied as a Rhodes Scholar (Victoria and New College, 1962) for his doctorate at the University of Oxford. After six months as a publishing trainee in London, he became a lecturer in history at the University of Ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warren Prest
Warren James Prest (9 December 1932 – 6 February 2008) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He later played with Preston in the Victorian Football Association (VFA), Epping Epping may refer to: Places Australia * Epping, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney ** Epping railway station, Sydney * Electoral district of Epping, the corresponding seat in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly * Epping Forest, Kearns, a he ..., and was captain-coach of Mernda. Notes External links * *Essendon Football Club past player profile {{DEFAULTSORT:Prest, Warren 1932 births 2008 deaths Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Essendon Football Club players Aberfeldie Football Club players Preston Football Club (VFA) players Epping Football Club players People educated at St. Bernard's College, Melbourne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Prest
Thomas Walsh Prest (4 February 1908 – 1987) was an English professional footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ... who played as an inside forward. References * 1908 births 1987 deaths Footballers from Darwen English men's footballers Men's association football forwards Burnley F.C. players Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. players Aldershot F.C. players Rochdale A.F.C. players English Football League players {{England-footy-forward-1900s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Peckett Prest
Thomas Peckett (or Preskett) Prest (probable dates 1810–1859) was a British hack writer, journalist, and musician. He was a prolific producer of penny dreadfuls and was known as a skilled author in the horror genre. He is now remembered as the co-creator (with James Malcolm Rymer) of the fictional Sweeney Todd, the 'demon barber' immortalized in his ''The String of Pearls'', as well as the co-author with Rymer of ''Varney the Vampire''. He wrote under pseudonyms including Bos, a takeoff of Charles Dickens' own pen name, Boz. He also was noted to have a style similar to Dickens. Before joining Edward Lloyd's publishing factory, Prest had made a name for himself as a talented musician. Style Prest was noted to follow a similar style to Dickens, often outright imitating his work like he did with ''Oliver Twiss.'' His work was also noticed to not have as strong a narrative or continuity throughout its story, little description and lots of action in order to ensure people would keep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Prest
Steven Robert Prest (1966 – 13 May 2009) was an English professional snooker player and coach. Playing career Prest competed on the professional snooker circuit in the 1990s before turning to full-time coaching. His professional career spanned a total of seven seasons, bringing no success. Prest began his first season in 1991 ranked 149th in the world, which would be the highest position he would reach, and was relegated from the tour in 1997. Although he regained his place for the 1998–99 season, the highlight of Prest's career was reaching the last 64 of two ranking events - the 1991 Dubai Classic, where he lost 4–5 to Dene O'Kane, and the 1993 International Open, where he was defeated 1–5 by the veteran Eddie Charlton. Coaching career Prest worked with youngsters in his native Yorkshire and was an accredited World Snooker coach. Prest was the manager and coach of Shaun Murphy Shaun Peter Murphy (born 10 August 1982) is an English professional snooker player ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martín Prest
Martín Prest is a former Argentine football striker. He was born on November 30, 1978, in the city of Mar del Plata in the Buenos Aires Province of Argentina. He last played for Atletico Vieste before retiring. Prest played for a selection of lower league teams in Scotland and Spain before joining Marítimo in 2006. Prest is currently the sporting director of the Malaysia Super League club, Johor Darul Ta'zim and has been at the club since 2013. Honours ;Airdrieonians *Scottish Challenge Cup The Scottish Professional Football League Challenge Cup,2000–01 References External links< ...
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Arthur Prest
Chieftain, Chief Arthur Edward Prest (10 February 1906 – 26 September 1976) was an Itsekiri politician of biracial heritage from the Warri, Nigeria, Warri division of southern Nigeria. Life Prest was born in February 1906 to a white English people, English father from Liverpool who was a ship's captain and a colonialist, and an Itsekiri royal Nigerian people, Nigerian mother, Princess Mami Ogbe, who was the daughter of the Olu of Warri. He was an officer in the Nigerian police force, and the first Nigerian commissioned police officer. He studied law in England, and registered at the supreme court of Nigeria in 1947, prior to his nomination as a representative of the Warri district in the Western Regional House of Assembly. In 1950 Prest and Anthony Enahoro founded the ''Mid-West Party''. Enahoro had already started the Mid-West Press and he published the ''Nigerian'' newspaper from 1950 to 1953. The Mid-West Party became part of the Action Group (Nigeria), Action Group in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Prest
John Prest (1929 – 3 July 2018) was a British historian. He was born in Tadworth, Surrey, to Dorothy Martin (a watercolourist) and Thomas Prest (a civil servant). He was educated at Bradfield College in Berkshire.Jeremy Burchardt,John Prest obituary, ''The Guardian'' (5 August 2018), retrieved 17 August 2019. He performed his national service in the Royal Air Force before attending King's College, Cambridge in 1949. He gained a First and was made a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford in 1954, which he held until 1996.Tom Williams,OBITUARY: Balliol College, Oxford, modern historian John Prest, ''Oxford Mail'' (13 September 2018), retrieved 17 August 2019. Whilst at Balliol, Prest campaigned for the admittance of women into the College and also for more state-educated pupils to be educated there. After marrying Susan Davis in 1961, Prest moved to Walled Cottage in Wheatley, Oxfordshire. His 1981 book, ''The Garden of Eden'', was the result of his interest in horticulture and it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
