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Rayner (other)
Rayner is more commonly a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Amy Rayner (born 1977), English football referee * Angela Rayner, British Labour Party politician, trade unionist, Member of Parliament (MP) for Ashton-under-Lyne since 2015, Deputy leader of the Labour Party, Shadow First Secretary of State and Deputy leader of the Opposition since 2020 * Billy Rayner (1935–2006), Australian rugby league player * Cameron Rayner (born 1999), Australian rules footballer * Chuck Rayner (1920–2002), Canadian professional hockey player * Claire Rayner (1931–2010), British journalist and agony aunt * Dave Rayner (born 1982), American professional football player * Denys Rayner (1908–1967), British sailor, writer, and designer of small boats * Dorothy Helen Rayner (1912–2003), British geologist * Eddie Rayner (born 1952), New Zealand musician * Henry Rayner (1902–1957), Australian and British artist * Isidor Rayner (1850–1912), United States Senator * Jack Rayner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy Rayner
Amy Elizabeth Fearn (''née'' Rayner; born 20 November 1977) is an England, English Association football, football Referee (association football), referee from Loughborough, Leicestershire, who in 2010 became the first woman to referee in The Football League. With a degree in economics and a full-time career in accountancy, having also refereed football since age 14, she became only the second woman after Wendy Toms to rise to the position of assistant referee in Football in England, English professional football. On 9 February 2010, she became the first woman to act as the main referee in a The Football League, Football League match. Career She grew up in Staffordshire, where, as a girl, she expressed a desire to play football with her brother.AMY RAYNER: "IT' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Rayner (bishop)
Keith Rayner (22 November 1929 – 12 January 2025) was an Australian Anglican bishop and an Anglican Primate of Australia. He served as Archbishop of Melbourne from 1990 to 1999, Archbishop of Adelaide from 1975 to 1990 and Bishop of Wangaratta from 1969 to 1975. Life and career Rayner was educated at the Church of England Grammar School, Brisbane, Queensland (now known as the Anglican Church Grammar School and popularly called "Churchie"). and the University of Queensland. He was ordained priest in 1953. His first post was as chaplain at St Francis' Theological College, Brisbane, followed by Queensland incumbencies in Sunnybank and Wynnum, during which time he completed his doctoral thesis on the history of Anglicanism within the Anglican Diocese of Brisbane. In 1969, Rayner became the Bishop of Wangaratta, Victoria: he was consecrated a bishop on 24 June at St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne. In 1975 he was translated to the see of Adelaide, South Australi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Rayner
Ray Rayner (born Raymond M. Rahner; July 23, 1919 – January 21, 2004) was an American television presenter, actor and author. He was a staple of Chicago children's television in the 1960s and 1970s on WGN-TV. Early life and education Rayner (the name was initially spelled "Rahner" but pronounced "Rayner") grew up in Queens, New York. He attended the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. Rayner's first media job was for WGBB radio in Freeport on Long Island while he was attending night school at Fordham University. World War II service He enlisted in the Army Air Forces, serving as the navigator of a B-17 during World War II, when he was shot down over France on April 3, 1943. During years as a POW in Stalag Luft III, he helped prepare the escape depicted in the film '' The Great Escape''—though he was transferred to another camp before the escape took place. It was during his time as a POW that he discovered his talent for entertaining, namely through hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Alan Rayner
Peter Alan Rayner (8 December 1924 – 29 July 2007) was a British author of numismatic (coin collecting) books. He was known by his second name Alan, rather than his first, to avoid confusion with Peter Seaby, also a popular author, whose family firm Rayner joined at the age of 24. Biography Rayner lived in Harpenden, Hertfordshire where he attended St George's School, Harpenden as a day boarder. During World War II he was conscripted into the mines as a Bevin Boy, although he was eventually released owing to ill health and enlisted in the Intelligence Corps. In 1948 he joined B.A. Seaby Limited as an assistant in the English Coin Department, and began to specialise in milled silver coins. In early 1954 he wrote a small 26-page booklet entitled ''The Designers and Engravers of the English Milled Coinage 1662 - 1953''. The book was published by Seaby's Numismatic Publications and covered each denomination showing the engravers and designers of both the obverse and reverse o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moira Rayner
Moira Emilie Rayner (née Stockwell, born 10 November 1948), is a New Zealand-born, Australian-based barrister and human rights advocate. In 1986, she was appointed a Commissioner of the Law Reform Commission of Western Australia, a position she held until 1990. In 1990 she was appointed the third Commissioner for Equal Opportunity appointed by the Government of Victoria under the ''Equal Opportunity Act 1984'', an office which she held until 1994. In this position she was responsible for monitoring the ''Equal Opportunity Act''; the '' Racial Discrimination Act 1975'', the ''Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Act 1986'', and the Commonwealth legislated ''Sex Discrimination Act 1984.'' In 1994 the Australian Federal Government appointed her to the ''Institute of Family Studies'' to undertake a special project to fight child abuse. In 2000 Rayner became the first Director of the office of Children's Rights Commissioner for the city of London, UK. Rayner used her time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael H
Michael may refer to: People * Michael (given name), a given name * he He ..., a given name * Michael (surname), including a list of people with the surname Michael Given name * Michael (bishop elect)">Michael (surname)">he He ..., a given name * Michael (surname), including a list of people with the surname Michael Given name * Michael (bishop elect), English 13th-century Bishop of Hereford elect * Michael (Khoroshy) (1885–1977), cleric of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada * Michael Donnellan (fashion designer), Michael Donnellan (1915–1985), Irish-born London fashion designer, often referred to simply as "Michael" * Michael (footballer, born 1982), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born 1983), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born 1993), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born February 1996), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born March 1996), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born 1999), Brazilian football ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Rayner
Michael Rayner (6 December 1932 – 13 July 2015)Mackie, David. "Obituaries: Michael Rayner", ''Gilbert and Sullivan News'', Vol. V, No. 9, Autumn/Winter 2015, pp. 17–18, The Gilbert and Sullivan Society was an English opera singer, best known for his performances in baritone roles of the Savoy Operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. Rayner worked in his family's motor car company before eventually pursuing classical singing and, in his mid-30s, he trained at the Birmingham School of Music. He then joined Welsh National Opera's "Opera for All", to tour for two years. He played more than a dozen Gilbert and Sullivan roles with the D'Oyly Carte continuously from 1971 to 1979, also recording most of these roles with the company. Afterwards, he had a brief government service career and sang on the concert stage. He worked with several more Gilbert and Sullivan companies for three more decades, playing some of his old D'Oyly Carte roles and more than a dozen new ones. He also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark A
Mark may refer to: In the Bible * Mark the Evangelist (5–68), traditionally ascribed author of the Gospel of Mark * Gospel of Mark, one of the four canonical gospels and one of the three synoptic gospels Currencies * Mark (currency), a currency or unit of account in many nations * Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark, the currency of Bosnia and Herzegovina * East German mark, the currency of the German Democratic Republic * Estonian mark, the currency of Estonia between 1918 and 1928 * Finnish markka (), the currency of Finland from 1860 until 28 February 2002 * Polish mark (), the currency of the Kingdom of Poland and of the Republic of Poland between 1917 and 1924 German * Deutsche Mark, the official currency of West Germany from 1948 until 1990 and later the unified Germany from 1990 until 2002 * German gold mark, the currency used in the German Empire from 1873 to 1914 * German Papiermark, the German currency from 4 August 1914 * German rentenmark, a currency issue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Rayner
Margaret Eva Rayner (21 August 1929 – 31 May 2019) was a British mathematician who became vice principal of St Hilda's College, Oxford and president of the Mathematical Association. She was known for her research on isoperimetric inequalities, her work in mathematics education, and her publications on the history of mathematics and of St Hilda's College. Early life and education Rayner was born on 21 August 1929 in Tamworth, Staffordshire; her parents were dairy farmers and most of her relatives were also farmers, but an aunt who was a local school headmistress encouraged her in her studies. After study at The King's High School for Girls (graduating as prefect in 1947) she read mathematics at Westfield College with the plan of becoming a mathematics teacher, earned a first, and completed a master's degree there. On the advice of tutor Kathleen Chesney, she applied to be a tutor at St Hilda's College, and was appointed to St Hilda's in 1953, with a joint appointment to St A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mabel Rayner
Mabel Mary Cheveley Rayner (c. 1890-1948) was an English botanist specialising in mycology. She published books and articles on plant physiology and was one of the first researchers to propose that mycorrhizal interactions could both help and harm plants. Education Rayner received a B.Sc. with honors in botany in 1908 from the University of London. She became interested in studying ''Calluna vulgaris'' in 1910, and earned a doctor of science degree for work on this topic, also from the University of London. Career Rayner became head of the botany department at University College, Reading. She was on staff there from 1908 to 1918. She later shared a laboratory with her husband William Neilson Jones at Bedford College, London. Rayner "thoroughly reviewed" academic research into mycorrhizal research, which had significantly increased in the nineteenth century. After publishing her doctoral thesis on mycorrhizas in 1915, she was employed by The Forestry Commission to underta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise Rayner
Louise Ingram Rayner (21 June 1832 – 8 October 1924) was a British watercolour artist. Family Rayner was born in Matlock Bath in Derbyshire.Simon Fenwick, ‘Rayner, Samuel (1806–1879)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200accessed 14 Feb 2011/ref> Her parents Samuel Rayner and Ann Rayner (née Manser) were both noted artists, Samuel having been accepted for exhibition at the Royal Academy when he was 15. Four of Louise's sisters—Ann ("Nancy"), Margaret, Rose and Frances—and her brother Richard were also artists. Her eldest sister Ann Ingram Rayner (Nancy) exhibited at the Society of Painters in Water Colours and three times at the Royal Academy. The family lived in Matlock Bath and Derby until 1842 when they moved to London. Education Rayner studied painting from the age of fifteen, at first with her father and later with established artist friends of the family such as George Cattermole, Edmund Niemann, David Roberts and F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lionel Benjamin Rayner
Lionel Benjamin Rayner (10 October 1788 – 24 September 1855) was an English actor, usually playing rustic characters. As an actor-manager he opened in 1831 a short-lived theatre in the Strand, London. Life Rayner was born in Heckmondwike in the West Riding of Yorkshire in 1788. His father, a farmer and cloth manufacturer, died before he was seven years old. After seeing, at Leeds, Charles Mathews as Farmer Ashfield in Thomas Morton's '' Speed the Plough'', he ran away from home and joined a company at Cheadle, Staffordshire, where he opened as Jeremy Diddler in James Kenney's farce ''Raising the Wind''. His manager played the light-comedy parts which Rayner wanted to play, so he left and joined, at a salary of three shillings weekly, a company in Stone, Staffordshire, where he stayed for three years. In Stratford-on-Avon, by his performance of Solomon Lob in ''Love laughs at Locksmiths'', he raised his position and his salary. He appeared in Manchester as Robin Roughhead in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
