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Rendel Gunboat
Rendel is a surname, and may refer to *Sir Alexander Meadows Rendel (1828–1918), English civil engineer *Alexander Meadows Rendel (Sandy Rendel) (1910–1991) SOE agent *David Rendel (1949–2016), British politician * Emma Rendel (born 1976), Swedish graphic novel author *George Wightwick Rendel (1833–1902), British engineer and naval architect *George William Rendel (1889–1979), British diplomat * Hamilton Owen Rendel (1843–1902), British engineer, designer of the hydraulic system for the Tower Bridge. *James Meadows Rendel (engineer) (1799–1856), British civil engineer *James Meadows Rendel (geneticist) (1915–2001), Australian agricultural scientist * Leila Rendel (1882–1969), English social worker, granddaughter of Sir Alexander Rendel *Robert Rendel Robert Rendel (2 December 1884, in St Mary Abbots Kensington, London – 9 May 1944, in Marylebone, London) was a British actor of stage, screen, television and radio. Career His stage work included roles in the or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Meadows Rendel
Sir Alexander Meadows Rendel, (3 April 1828 – 23 January 1918) was an English civil engineer. Rendel was born in Plymouth, the eldest son of the engineer James Meadows Rendel and his wife Catherine Harris. Three of his brothers were civil engineers: George Wightwick Rendel, Stuart Rendel, 1st Baron Rendel (who was also a Liberal MP), and Hamilton Owen Rendel. He was educated at The King's School Canterbury and Trinity College, Cambridge. Rendel was the engineer of the London Dock Company in 1856, and was responsible for the Shadwell Basin, the Connaught Tunnel and the Royal Albert Dock in London, the Albert and Edinburgh Docks in Leith, Workington Dock and Harbour. In 1857-1858 he visited India, and was consulting engineer to the India Office, the East India Railway and other Indian railways, and was a member of the commission to determine narrow gauge for Indian Railways, in 1870. He designed the Lansdowne Bridge Rohri at Sukkur over the Indus River, which when it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandy Rendel
Alexander Meadows Rendel (1910–1991) was a British diplomat and solicitor who also served as a Special Operations Executive agent in Crete during World War II, rising to the rank of major.Rendel, Alexander M. ''Appointment in Crete: the story of a British agent'', Allan Wingate, London 1953 Rendel was commissioned in the Royal Artillery in May 1940. In early 1943, he met Colonel Thomas Dunbabin, a fellow former student at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in Cairo and Dunbabin recruited him to SOE. Rendel arrived in Crete in September 1943, after being appointed in charge of the easternmost Lasithi region. He was known to Cretans as ''Alexis'' ( el, Αλέξης). After the war, Rendel worked as a diplomatic correspondent for ''The Times''. He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1975 Birthday Honours. His son was the Liberal Democrat MP David Rendel David Digby Rendel (15 April 1949 – 16 May 2016) was a British politician for the Liber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Rendel
David Digby Rendel (15 April 1949 – 16 May 2016) was a British politician for the Liberal Democrats. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Newbury from 1993 to 2005. He won the seat in a by-election in May 1993 caused by the death of Judith Chaplin, and he held it until his defeat at the 2005 general election to Conservative candidate Richard Benyon. At the time he lost his seat he was the Liberal Democrats' spokesman on Higher and Further Education. In September 2014, Rendel was selected as Liberal Democrat candidate in the 2015 general election for the seat of Somerton and Frome in Somerset; however, he lost to the Conservative candidate, David Warburton. Early life Rendel was born in Athens. He was educated at Eton College, Magdalen College, Oxford, and St Cross College, Oxford, Rendel was a member of the winning Oxford boat race crew of 1974. After a gap year volunteering in Africa, he worked in the finance department of Shell Oil Company. His father Sandy Rend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Rendel
Emma Rendel, born 1976 in Uppsala, is a Swedish graphic novel author, artist and illustrator who lives and works in Stockholm. Emma Rendel studied Illustration at Central St Martins and Communication Arts and Design at the Royal College of Art in London. Her graphic stories have been published in magazines such as Galago, Icon magazine, Le Gun and Art Review, and her illustrations have been used by: Time Out, Form and Battersea Arts Centre. Rendel has participated in various exhibitions including ''COMICA'' at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 2008 and ''Cut my legs off and call me shorty!'' at Tensta Konsthall, 2009. She is currently teaching illustration in a Visual Communications course at Konstfack University College of Art and Design. Rendel is credited with coining the term "awkwardist" in an article by Paul Gravett Paul Gravett is a London-based journalist, curator, writer, and broadcaster who has worked in comics publishing since 1981. He is the founder o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Wightwick Rendel
George Wightwick Rendel (6 February 1833 – 9 October 1902) was an English engineer, and naval architect. He was closely associated with the Tyneside industrialist and armaments manufacturer, William George Armstrong. Family George was the third (of five) sons of the civil engineer James Meadows Rendel and his wife Catherine Harris. He was named after George Wightwick, a lifelong friend of his father. (requires login) He was educated at Harrow, but ran away in 1849. His siblings included Alexander Meadows Rendel, Hamilton Owen Rendel and the Liberal MP Stuart Rendel, 1st Baron Rendel. George Rendel married firstly on 13 December 1860 Harriet Simpson, daughter of Joseph Simpson, the British vice-consul at Kronstadt. They had five sons before her death in 1878. He met his second wife, Lucinia Pinelli, in Rome, while serving on a design committee of the Italian Ministry of Marine. They married in 1880 and had three sons (Silvio Rendel, Florian Rendel and George Rendel) and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George William Rendel
Sir George William Rendel (23 February 1889 – 6 May 1979) was a British diplomat.Eid Al Yahya, ''Travellers in Arabia'', (Stacey International, 2006). Early years Rendel, the son of the engineer George Wightwick Rendel was educated at Downside School and at Queen's College, Oxford, graduating in Modern History in 1911. Diplomatic career Rendel entered the Diplomatic Service and was the head of the Eastern Department of the Foreign Office from 1930 to 1938. In 1922 he produced a seven-page British Foreign Office document which detailed the persecution of Greeks and other minorities in the Ottoman Empire. The document drew on official reports and eyewitness testimonies by personnel who were present. Rendel stated that throughout the First World War, "it is generally agreed that about 1,500,000 Armenians perished in circumstances of extreme barbarity, and that over 500,000 Greeks were deported, of whom comparatively few survived". He then went on to describe further massacres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamilton Owen Rendel
Hamilton Owen Rendel (1843–17 September 1902) designed and installed the original raising mechanism of the Tower Bridge while working for Sir W. G. Armstrong Mitchell & Company of Newcastle upon Tyne. Family Rendel was a member of a notable family of engineers. His father, James Meadows Rendel, was a civil engineer who married his mother, Catherine Jane Harris. His siblings were: * Sir Alexander Meadows Rendel (1829–1918) – civil engineer * George Wightwick Rendel (1833–1902) – naval architect and civil engineer * Emily Frances Rendel (1836–1897) married Charles Bowen, 1st Baron Bowen in 1862. * Emily Catherine Rendel (1840–1921) married Clement Francis Wedgwood in 1866 * Stuart Rendel, 1st Baron Rendel A cousin, James Murray Dobson, became resident engineer of the Buenos Aires harbour works in the 1880s and 1890s. Career Rendel took his degree at Cambridge University, and immediately after leaving started at the Armstrong, Mitchell and Company at Elswick, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Meadows Rendel (engineer)
James Meadows Rendel FRS (December 1799 – 21 November 1856) was a British civil engineer. Early life and career Rendel was the son of the surveyor James Rendel or Rendle and his wife Jane, daughter of the architect John Meadows (died 1791); he was born near Okehampton, Devon, in 1799. He was initiated into the operations of a millwright under an uncle at Teignmouth, while from his father he learnt some civil engineering. At an early age he went to London as a surveyor under Thomas Telford, by whom he was employed on the surveys for the proposed suspension bridge across the Mersey at Runcorn. About 1822 he settled at Plymouth, and commenced the construction of roads in the north of Devon. One of his smaller projects, still surviving, was an 1826 bridge over Bowcombe Creek on the Kingsbridge Estuary. In August 1824 he was employed by the Earl of Morley in making a bridge across the Catwater, an estuary of the Plym within the harbour of Plymouth at Laira. To guard against the u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Meadows Rendel (geneticist)
James Meadows Rendel (16 May 1915 - 4 February 2001) was an Australian agricultural scientist who specialised in animal genetics and was Chief of the CSIRO Division of Animal Genetics from 1959 to 1976. He was the grandson of Lytton Strachey's sister Dorothy Bussy, and the nephew of Frances Partridge.Robertson, Celia''Who Was Sophie?: The Two Lives of My Grandmother: Poet and Stranger''(2008). Early life Rendel was the son of Col. Richard Meadows Rendel in Farnham, England and educated at Rugby School and University College London, where he completed his PhD as a student of the geneticist J. B. S. Haldane. During the Second World War he was attached to RAF Coastal Command, where he was involved in experiments on escape from submarines, one of which left him with permanent lung damage. Career After the war Rendel moved to Edinburgh to do animal genetics research at Edinburgh University, where he was jointly in charge of a project on dairy research, establishing the fundamental pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leila Rendel
Leila Rendel OBE (11 October 1882 – 16 March 1969) was an English social worker, suffragist, and children's campaigner. She was the co-founder of the Caldecott Community, a pioneering boarding school in Kent for distressed and vulnerable children, and served as its director for over 50 years. Life and career Rendel was born in London to an upper-middle-class family active in liberal and radical causes. Her father, William Stuart Rendel, was a civil engineer. He was the son of Alexander Meadows Rendel and the nephew of Stuart Rendel. Her mother, Ruth Frances ''née'' Paul, was the daughter of the publisher Kegan Paul. Leila was the eldest of three siblings. Her sister, Olive, became an obstetrician and later wrote a book on the use of exercise in the post-war rehabilitation of children. Her brother, Robert, became a stage and film actor. Rendel left school at 15 after which she was educated by a governess and later attended a school in Wimbledon run by the French feminist Mari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Rendel
Robert Rendel (2 December 1884, in St Mary Abbots Kensington, London – 9 May 1944, in Marylebone, London) was a British actor of stage, screen, television and radio. Career His stage work included roles in the original Broadway theatre, Broadway productions of W. Somerset Maugham, Somerset Maugham's ''The Circle (play), The Circle'' in 1921, and Arnold Ridley's ''The Ghost Train (play), The Ghost Train'' in 1926. In 1935 he played the Duke of Marlborough in Norman Ginsbury's ''Viceroy Sarah''. On film, he played Sherlock Holmes in the original sound film, sound version of ''The Hound of the Baskervilles (1932 film), The Hound of the Baskervilles'' in 1932. Filmography * ''Slander (1916 film), Slander'' (1916) as Harry Carson * ''The Barricade (1917 film), The Barricade'' (1917) as Gerald Hastings * ''Her Night of Romance'' (1924) as Prince George * ''The Hound of the Baskervilles (1932 film), The Hound of the Baskervilles'' (1932) as Sherlock Holmes * ''Death at Broadcastin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuart Rendel, 1st Baron Rendel
Stuart Rendel, 1st Baron Rendel (2 July 1834 – 4 June 1913), was a British industrialist, philanthropist and Liberal politician. He sat as a Liberal Member of Parliament for Montgomeryshire between 1880 and 1894, and was recognised as the leader of the Welsh MPs. He was a benefactor to the University College of Wales at Aberystwyth and served as its president from 1895 to 1913. Background and education Rendel was born at Plymouth, Devon, the son of the civil engineer James Meadows Rendel and his wife Catherine Jane, daughter of W. J. Harris.Stuart Rendel, 1st Baron Rendel in the '' Dictionary of Welsh Biography'' at the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
