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Rowlands
Rowlands is a surname, and may refer to: * Clive Rowlands * David Rowlands (other) * Gena Rowlands * Graham Rowlands * Hugh Rowlands * Jim Rowlands * John Rowlands (other), several persons * June Rowlands * Keith Rowlands * Mark Rowlands * Martin Rowlands * Patsy Rowlands * Richard Rowlands * Samuel Rowlands * Ted Rowlands, Baron Rowlands * William Bowen Rowlands * William Penfro Rowlands, composer of the hymn tune ''Blaenwern Blaenwern is a Welsh Christian hymn tune composed by William Penfro Rowlands (1860–1937), during the Welsh revival of 1904–1905. It was first published in Henry H. Jones' ''Cân a Moliant'' (1915). The metre of the tune is 8.7.8.7.D (alterna ...'' See also * Rowland (other) {{surname English-language surnames Patronymic surnames Surnames from given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gena Rowlands
Virginia Cathryn "Gena" Rowlands (born June 19, 1930) is an American retired actress, whose career in film, stage, and television has spanned seven decades. A four-time Emmy and two-time Golden Globe winner, she is known for her collaborations with her late actor-director husband John Cassavetes in ten films, including ''A Woman Under the Influence'' (1974) and '' Gloria'' (1980), which earned her nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She also won the Silver Bear for Best Actress for '' Opening Night'' (1977). She is also known for her performances in Woody Allen's '' Another Woman'' (1988), and her son, Nick Cassavetes's film, ''The Notebook'' (2004). In 2021, Richard Brody of ''The New Yorker'' said, “The most important and original movie actor of the past half century-plus is Gena Rowlands.” In November 2015, Rowlands received an Honorary Academy Award in recognition of her unique screen performances. Early years Rowlands was born on June 19, 1930, in Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Rowlands
Martin Charles Rowlands (born 8 February 1979) is an English-born Irish former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Club career After starring for Heston Gaels GAA club at underage level, Rowlands started his football career at Wycombe Wanderers, but did not earn a professional contract and joined Farnborough Town in 1997 before moving to Brentford in August 1998 for a transfer fee of £45,000. In five seasons with Brentford, he made 186 appearances in all competitions, scoring 23 goals. After suffering a broken leg, Queens Park Rangers manager Ian Holloway took a gamble on Rowlands and signed him on a free transfer from local rivals Brentford in the summer of 2003. This gamble paid off, as Rowlands scored 12 goals from midfield, helping his new side to promotion from the Second Division. That season, Rowlands also showed versatility, playing right back, right midfield, left midfield and centre midfield; excelling in all positions. He won both the supporters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
June Rowlands
June Rowlands (née Pendock; May 14, 1924 – December 21, 2017) was a Canadian politician who was the 60th mayor of Toronto from 1991 to 1994. She was the first woman to serve as Toronto's mayor. Rowlands also served as a city councillor and was chair of the Metropolitan Toronto Police Commission. Early years Rowlands was born as June Pendock in 1924 in Saint-Laurent, Quebec, and raised in Toronto. She graduated from the University of Toronto. Before public life Rowlands worked as a customer representative with Bell Canada. Rowlands served with the Association of Women Electors and National Council on Welfare in the 1970s. She was also president of the Metro Family Service Association and served on the board of directors of the Central Mortgage and Housing Corp. She and her husband Harry Rowlands (1922–1989), whom she divorced, raised five children. Political career Rowlands was elected to Toronto City Council in 1976. She served as the junior alderman for Ward 10 coverin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patsy Rowlands
Patricia Amy Rowlands (19 January 1931 – 22 January 2005) was an English actress who is best remembered for her roles in the ''Carry On'' films series, as Betty Lewis in the ITV Thames sitcom '' Bless This House'', and as Alice Meredith in the Yorkshire Television sitcom '' Hallelujah!''. Early years She was born in Palmers Green, London and attended the Sacred Heart convent school at Whetstone. While attending, an elocution teacher spotted her potential and encouraged her to pursue a career in acting. She applied for the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and won a scholarship aged fifteen. Early career Rowlands began her career in the chorus of '' Annie Get Your Gun'', followed by a summer season in Torquay. She then spent several years with the Players' Theatre in London, before making her West End debut in Sandy Wilson's musical '' Valmouth''. It was at this time she met her future husband, the composer Malcolm Sircom. They divorced in 1967. Other West End the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Rowlands
Keith Alun Rowlands (7 February 1936 – 18 November 2006), was a Welsh international lock rugby union player and later administrator, who was the first chief executive officer of the International Rugby Board. Playing career Rowlands was born in Brithdir, Bridgend, the son of a Glamorgan Constabulary Police Inspector. After attending Cowbridge Grammar School, on his father's transfer to Aberdare, Rowlands entered the second year at Aberdare Boys' Grammar School and went on to captain both the rugby (1953–54) and cricket teams (1954 and 1955). He won a Welsh Secondary School Cap in 1955, playing against England at Cardiff. He graduated from University of London and served National Service with the 1st Battalion of The Welch Regiment from 1958 to 1960. Rowlands played for Aberaman and then London Welsh. He transferred to Llanelli for one season in 1958, before Cardiff signed him in September 1961. He played 147 games for the Welsh capital side until 1967. In March 1962 he gain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ted Rowlands, Baron Rowlands
Edward Rowlands, Baron Rowlands (born 23 January 1940) is a Welsh politician, who served as a Labour Party Member of Parliament for over thirty years, including a period as a junior minister in the 1960s and 1970s. Education He attended Rhondda Grammar School and Wirral Grammar School, and then King's College London, where he obtained a BA in History in 1962. Political career Rowlands was first elected to the Commons at the 1966 general election as Member of Parliament for Cardiff North, but lost his seat at the 1970 election. He was elected to represent Merthyr Tydfil at the 1972 by-election called after the death of the long-standing MP S. O. Davies. Rowlands served as Member of Parliament for Merthyr Tydfil until the constituency boundaries were redrawn and renamed for the 1983 general election, when he was returned for the new Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney constituency. He was returned at three further elections before he stepped down at the 2001 general election. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Rowlands
General Sir Hugh Rowlands (6 May 1828 – 1 August 1909) was a Wales, Welsh recipient of the Victoria Cross for courageous action that led to the rescue of Colonel William O'Grady Haly during the Crimean War. Early life Hugh Rowlands was born in the village of Plastirion, Llanrug. He was the second son of miner and Welsh landowner John Rowlands, heir to the Plastirion estate, and his wife Elizabeth (née Hartwell). His family claimed descent from Bleddyn ap Cynfyn, Prince of Powys, and Dafydd ap Llywelyn, Prince of Gwynedd and had resided in the area for almost 200 years. He was educated at Beaumaris Grammar School and Mr John Taylor's Cramming Academy, Woolwich. Career Rowlands entered the military at the age of 21, purchasing a commission as an Ensign (rank), Ensign in the 41st (Welch) Regiment of Foot, British Army. Rowlands served in Ireland, Malta and the Ionian Islands and was promoted to Captain (land and air), captain in the 41st in September 1954, during the Crimea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Rowlands
Samuel Rowlands (c. 1573–1630) was an English author of pamphlets in prose and verse which reflect the follies and humours of lower middle-class life in his day. He seems to have had no literary reputation at the time, but his work throws much light on the development of popular literature and social life in London, where he spent his life. His contact with the middle and lower classes of society included working in 1600–1615 for William White, and then George Loftus, booksellers, who published Rowlands's pamphlets in this time. Selected sacred and secular poems *''The Betraying of Christ'' (1598) *''The Letting of Humour's Blood in the Head-vaine'' (epigrams and satires) and ''A Mery Meetinge, or tis Mery when Knaves mete'' (1600) – the two latter being publicly burnt by order, but republished later under other names (''Humors Ordinarie'' and ''The Knave of Clubbes'') *''Greene's Ghost haunting Conie-Catchers'' (1602), which he pretended to have edited from Greene's papers, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clive Rowlands
Clive Rowlands OBE (born 14 May 1938) is a former Welsh rugby union footballer and later coach. Rowlands was born in Upper Cwmtwrch. As recorded in the preface for the book 'The Children of Craig-Y-Nos', Rowlands was admitted in 1947, as an eight-year-old, to Craig-y-nos TB hospital in Breconshire. He was given a rugby ball as a gift and accidentally kicked it through a glass door, for which he was put in a straitjacket for a week. A teacher by profession, he played club rugby at scrum-half for Abercraf, Pontypool, Llanelli and Swansea. He captained Pontypool in the 1962 – 63 season, and captained Swansea in the 1967–1968 season Unusually, his first cap for Wales against England in 1963 was as captain, a position which he retained for his next 13 caps between 1963 and 1965, leading Wales to their first Triple Crown victory since 1952. He captained Wales in every game he played including Wales' first match outside of Europe and its first in the Southern Hemisphere; played ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Rowlands
Mark Rowlands (born 1962) is a Welsh writer and philosopher. He is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami, and the author of several books on the philosophy of mind, the moral status of non-human animals, and cultural criticism. He is known within academic philosophy for his work on the animal mind and is one of the principal architects of the view known as vehicle externalism, or the extended mind, the view that thoughts, memories, desires and beliefs can be stored outside the brain and the skull. His works include ''Animal Rights'' (1998), ''The Body in Mind'' (1999), ''The Nature of Consciousness'' (2001), ''Animals Like Us'' (2002), and a personal memoir, ''The Philosopher and the Wolf'' (2008). Rowlands was born in Newport, Wales and began his undergraduate degree in engineering at the University of Manchester before changing to philosophy. He took his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Oxford, and has held various academic positions in philosophy in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Rowlands (other)
John Rowlands may refer to: *birth name of Henry Morton Stanley (1841–1904), Welsh-American journalist and explorer *John Rowlands (footballer) (1947–2020), English professional footballer * John Rowlands (author) (1938–2015), Welsh language novelist and academic *John Rowlands (RAF officer) (1915–2006), George Cross recipient, World War II bomb disposal expert, post-war developer of British A-bomb * John Rowlands (priest) (1925–2004), Anglican Dean of Gibraltar * John Rowlands (Giraldus) (1824–1891), Welsh antiquary and educator * John J. Rowlands (1892–1972), journalist, writer, and outdoorsman * John Rowlands, programmer of ''Mayhem in Monsterland ''Mayhem in Monsterland'' is a 1993 platform game for the Commodore 64. Its titular hero, "Mayhem", is a yellow triceratops blessed with the gift of speed. His goal is to return his world from sad to happy, ridding the world of monsters along th ...'' and other video games See also * John Rowland (other) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Bowen Rowlands
William Bowen Rowlands (1837 – 4 September 1906), was a British politician and Member of Parliament. He was educated at Jesus College, Oxford, matriculating on 22 March 1854 at the age of 18. He was a scholar from 1855 to 1858, obtaining his BA degree in 1859 and his MA in 1865. In 1864, he was appointed headmaster of a grammar school in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire and also curate of Narberth in the same county. He studied law from 1868 at Gray's Inn, and was called to the Bar in 1871. He was appointed QC in 1871 and made a Bencher in 1882. In 1885 he sought the Liberal candidature for the East Glamorganshire constituency and had some influential supporters such as Idris Williams, Porth. However, he lost the nomination to Alfred Thomas. In 1886, following the decision of David Davies to join the Liberal Unionists, Rowlands was selected as the new Liberal Party candidate for the Cardiganshire constituency. Initially, he was regarded as an outsider due to the networ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
