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Ravenscroft School Alumni
Ravenscroft may refer to: People * John Ravenscroft (other), several people * Christopher Ravenscroft (born 1946), English actor * Edward Ravenscroft (c. 1654–1697), English dramatist * Edward James Ravenscroft (1816–1890), author of ''Pinetum Britannicum'' * George Ravenscroft (1632–1683), developer of lead crystal glass in England * Raphael Ravenscroft (1954–2014), saxophonist * Steve Ravenscroft (born 1970), rugby player * Thomas Ravenscroft (c. 1588–1635), English composer * Thomas Ravenscroft (died 1681), English politician and civil war officer * Tim Ravenscroft (born 1992), Guernsey cricketer * Tom Ravenscroft (born 1980), British radio presenter and disc jockey. * Trevor Ravenscroft, author * Thurl Ravenscroft (1914–2005), American voice actor and singer * William Ravenscroft (1561–1628), English politician * Ravenscroft Stewart (1845–1921), Anglican priest Characters * Alistair, Margaret, and Celia Ravenscroft, characters in Agatha Christie's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ravenscroft (other) (1772–1830), American bishop of the Episcopal Church
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John Ravenscroft may refer to: * John Ravenscroft (engineer), engineer and engine designer for British manufacturer TVR * John Ravenscroft (horticulturalist), British founder of Bridgemere Garden World * John Ravenscroft (composer) (c. 1665 – 1697), English violinist and composer * John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, English radio broadcaster known as John Peel * John Stark Ravenscroft John Stark Ravenscroft (May 17, 1772 – March 5, 1830) was the first Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina and helped organize the Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee. Early life Ravenscroft was born in 1772 on his family plantation near ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thurl Ravenscroft
Thurl Arthur Ravenscroft (; February 6, 1914May 22, 2005) was an American actor and bass singer. He was known as one of the booming voices behind Kellogg's Frosted Flakes animated spokesman Tony the Tiger for more than five decades. He was also the uncredited vocalist for the song "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" from the classic Christmas television special, Dr. Seuss' ''How the Grinch Stole Christmas!'' Ravenscroft did some voice-over work and singing for Disney in both the films and the attractions at Disneyland (which were later featured at Walt Disney World). The best known of these attractions are Haunted Mansion as a singing bust, Country Bear Jamboree, Mark Twain Riverboat, Pirates of the Caribbean, Disneyland Railroad, and Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room as "Fritz". His voice acting career began in 1940 and lasted until his death in 2005 at age 91. Early life and career Ravenscroft left his native Norfolk, Nebraska, in 1933 for California, where he studied at Otis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ravenscroft Psalter
Ravenscroft may refer to: People * John Ravenscroft (other), several people * Christopher Ravenscroft (born 1946), English actor * Edward Ravenscroft (c. 1654–1697), English dramatist * Edward James Ravenscroft (1816–1890), author of ''Pinetum Britannicum'' * George Ravenscroft (1632–1683), developer of lead crystal glass in England * Raphael Ravenscroft (1954–2014), saxophonist * Steve Ravenscroft (born 1970), rugby player * Thomas Ravenscroft (c. 1588–1635), English composer * Thomas Ravenscroft (died 1681), English politician and civil war officer * Tim Ravenscroft (born 1992), Guernsey cricketer * Tom Ravenscroft (born 1980), British radio presenter and disc jockey. * Trevor Ravenscroft, author * Thurl Ravenscroft (1914–2005), American voice actor and singer * William Ravenscroft (1561–1628), English politician * Ravenscroft Stewart (1845–1921), Anglican priest Characters * Alistair, Margaret, and Celia Ravenscroft, characters in Agatha Christi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ravenscroft School, Somerset
Ravenscroft School (founded 1931 at Yelverton, Devon, and until 1978 known as Ravenscroft Preparatory School) was an independent day and boarding school, initially for boys only, but from 1964 co-educational. From 1945 onwards its premises were in Somerset, England. It closed in July 1996, when most staff and pupils transferred to the new Farleigh College. History Ravenscroft was founded by Mr Henry F. Bailey as a preparatory school for boys at Yelverton, Devon, in 1931. In the course of its existence, it had at least three different homes. Its first home was a house at Yelverton called Ravenscroft House, on the edge of Yelverton Common, with views over Dartmoor. This was previously known as 'Hayesleigh' and is now the Ravenscroft Care Home. In 1941, during the Second World War, a new but temporary Royal Air Force airfield called RAF Harrowbeer was constructed on part of Roborough Down close to Yelverton, and Ravenscroft House was requisitioned to become the officers' mess. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ravenscroft School (Asheville, North Carolina)
Ravenscroft School, also known as Chateau Nollman, is a historic school building located at Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. The oldest section was built about 1845, and is a two- to three-story brick building in the Greek Revival style. It consists of a squat, three-story, pyramidal-roofed tower with projecting two-story rectangular wings. The building has a number of later additions including a two-story brick wing and two-story frame wing. It was originally built as a residence, and housed a school from 1856 to the turn of the 20th century. It was used as a boarding or rooming house until 1977. The building is currently used as office space. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. It is located in the Downtown Asheville Historic District Downtown Asheville Historic District is a national historic district located at Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina. The district encompasses about 279 contributing buildings and one contri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ravenscroft School
Ravenscroft School is a coed independent school located in Raleigh, North Carolina. The school enrolls students between PreKindergarten and 12th grade, and serves 1,239 students. The school has three divisions: Lower School, Middle School and Upper School. History Ravenscroft is named for John Stark Ravenscroft, the first Episcopal bishop of North Carolina and first rector of Christ Episcopal Church in Raleigh, North Carolina. The idea of a parish school for Christ Episcopal Church was born when Josiah Ogden Watson bequeathed $5,000 to the church to employ a teacher for a new parish school in 1852. His silent bequest became known in 1862, and the church began the process of opening a new school – Ravenscroft School. Founded in 1862, Ravenscroft continued under the auspices of Christ Episcopal Church until 1966 when it became non-sectarian. Housed in locations such as Raleigh's Christ Church, St. Saviour's Chapel and on Tucker Street, Ravenscroft moved to its cur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ravenscroft, Tennessee
Ravenscroft is an unincorporated community in White County, Tennessee, United States. Ravenscroft lies on the Cumberland Plateau to the east of Sparta off US Highway 70. Along with the adjacent areas of Bon Air and DeRossett, Ravenscroft is part of a greater community known as "BonDeCroft." Ravenscroft is the birthplace of journalist and author Carl T. Rowan, who served as United States Ambassador to Finland and director of the United States Information Agency The United States Information Agency (USIA), which operated from 1953 to 1999, was a United States agency devoted to "public diplomacy". In 1999, prior to the reorganization of intelligence agencies by President George W. Bush, President Bill C .... , "Reporting Civil Rights" website, The Library of America; accessed October 2, 2009 Reference ...
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Pamela Swynford De Beaufort
Pamela Ravenscroft, known as Pamela Swynford De Beaufort in ''True Blood'', is a fictional character from ''The Southern Vampire Mysteries'' by author Charlaine Harris. She is a vampire, created by Eric Northman and co-owner of ''Fangtasia'', a vampire bar. Her age is not mentioned in ''True Blood.'' However, in the short story "Two Blondes," it is later revealed that she is approximately 160 years old. Backstory Little is known about Pam's human life in the book series until the seventh novel, ''All Together Dead,'' in which she tells Sookie Stackhouse that she had lived in London with her parents during the Victorian era. As a human, Pam was romantic and bold. At the age of 19, while traveling at night to see a friend's cousin with whom she had a romantic relationship, she encountered vampire Eric Northman, who changed her into a vampire. Her human history was edited for the 5th season of the television series, making her a madam in a Barbary Coast (San Francisco) brothel in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elephants Can Remember
''Elephants Can Remember'' is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in 1972.Chris Peers, Ralph Spurrier and Jamie Sturgeon. ''Collins Crime Club – A checklist of First Editions''. Dragonby Press (Second Edition) March 1999 (Page 15) It features her Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and the recurring character Ariadne Oliver. This was the last novel to feature either character, although it was succeeded by '' Curtain: Poirot's Last Case'', which had been written in the early 1940s but was published last. ''Elephants Can Remember'' concentrates on memory and oral testimony. Plot summary At a literary luncheon Ariadne Oliver is approached by a woman named Mrs Burton-Cox, whose son Desmond is engaged to Oliver's goddaughter Celia Ravenscroft. Mrs Burton-Cox questions the truth regarding the deaths of Celia's parents. Twelve years before, Oliver's close school friend Margaret Ravenscroft and her husband, General Alistair Ravenscroft, were f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ravenscroft Stewart
Ravenscroft Stewart was an eminent Anglican priest in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Stewart was born in Newton Stewart on 23 June 1845, educated at Loretto; Uppingham and Trinity College, Cambridge and ordained in 1870. After a curacy in Bakewell he was Rector of Pleasley from 1871 to 1883; Vicar of All Saints Ennismore Gardens from 1884 to 1909; Archdeacon of Bristol from 1904 to 1910; and Archdeacon of North Wilts from 1910 to 1919. He died at home in Burnham-on-Sea on 16 August 1921. His brother Henry, also a priest, was a member of the Wanderers team which won the FA Cup in 1873; and his son Weston Weston may refer to: Places Australia * Weston, Australian Capital Territory, a suburb of Canberra * Weston, New South Wales * Weston Creek, a residential district of Canberra * Weston Park, Canberra, a park Canada * Weston, Nova Scotia * W ... was Bishop in Jerusalem from 1943 to 1957. References Archdeacons of Bristol People educate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Ravenscroft
William Ravenscroft (1561 – 27 October 1628) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1586 and 1628. Ravenscroft was the son of George Ravenscroft. He was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford in 1578, aged 17 and was awarded BA in 1580. He entered Lincoln's Inn in 1580. In 1586, he was elected Member of Parliament for Flintshire. He was called to the bar in 1589. In 1597 he was elected again as MP for Flintshire. He became Clerk of the Petty Bag for life in 1598. In 1601 he was re-elected MP for Flintshire. He was elected MP for Old Sarum in 1604 and 1614. In 1621 he was elected MP for Flint Flint, occasionally flintstone, is a sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, categorized as the variety of chert that occurs in chalk or marly limestone. Flint was widely used historically to make stone tools and start fir .... He became associate bencher and treasurer of Lincoln's Inn in 1621 and became master of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Spear Of Destiny (Ravenscroft)
''The Spear of Destiny: the occult power behind the spear which pierced the side of Christ'' is a best-selling 1972 occult book by the anthroposophist writer Trevor Ravenscroft (1921–1989) about the Holy Lance, published by Neville Armstrong's Neville Spearman Publishers. Ravenscroft claimed that the book was based on research "by using mystical meditation" and on the papers of the Austrian anthroposophist Walter Stein given to Ravenscroft by his widow. Ravenscroft originally claimed to have met Stein, but later only claimed contact through a medium with Walter Stein's spirit. Court case In 1979 Ravenscroft sued James Herbert James John Herbert, OBE (8 April 1943 – 20 March 2013) was an English horror writer. A full-time writer, he also designed his own book covers and publicity. His books have sold 54 million copies worldwide, and have been translated into 34 l ... for copyright infringement in Herbert's 1978 novel '' The Spear''. The defendant declined to pay Ravenscrof ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
