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Richard Sharp (other)
Richard Sharp may refer to: * Richard Sharp (BBC chairman) (born 1956), English banker and former BBC chairman * Richard Sharp (executive) (1927–2014), American business and retail executive * Richard Sharp (footballer) (born 1956), Scottish footballer * Richard Sharp (politician) (1759–1835), British hat-maker, banker, merchant, poet, critic, Member of Parliament, and conversationalist * Richard Sharp (priest) (1916–1982), British Anglican priest, Archdeacon of Dorset * Richard Sharp (rugby union) (born 1938), English rugby player and cricketer * Richard Hey Sharp Richard Hey Sharp (2 June 1793 – 25 February 1853) was an English architect based in York and responsible for the design, repair and construction of a number of iconic Yorkshire buildings. Early life Richard Hey Sharp was born on 2 June 1793 to ... (1793–1853), English architect See also * Richard Sharpe (other) {{hndis, Sharp, Richard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Sharp (BBC Chairman)
Richard Simon Sharp (born 8 February 1956) is an English former banker who has been the chairman of the BBC since February 2021. Sharp worked at JP Morgan for eight years, and then for 23 years at Goldman Sachs. He was an advisor to Boris Johnson during his tenure as London Mayor, and to Rishi Sunak as Chancellor. He has donated more than £400,000 to the Conservative Party. Immediately before coming to the BBC, Sharp served as chair of the Royal Academy of Arts (2007–2012) and as a member of the Bank of England's Financial Policy Committee (2013–2019). Commentators had observed that his relationship with Rishi Sunak would help him to lead negotiations with the government over the future of the BBC's licence fee. Early life Richard Sharp was born on 8 February 1956, to a Jewish family in London. He is the son of Eric Sharp, Baron Sharp of Grimsdyke, who was chairman of Cable & Wireless plc from 1980 to 1990. His twin sister, Dame Victoria Sharp, is president of the King ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Sharp (executive)
Richard L. "Rick" Sharp (April 12, 1947 – June 24, 2014) was an American business executive, business and retail executive who served as the CEO of Circuit City, a former consumer electronics retail chain, from 1986 to 2000. In 1993, Sharp co-founded CarMax, the largest used car retailer in the United States, which grew to more than 135 locations with revenue of $12.5 billion by 2013. He was also a founding investor and member of the board of directors of Crocs, a footwear company. Early life and education Sharp was born in Washington D.C. on April 12, 1947, and raised in nearby Alexandria, Virginia. He graduated from the former George Washington High School in Alexandria in 1965. Sharp attended the University of Virginia, where he studied electrical engineering during the middle of the 1960s. However, he dropped out to pursue computer science, a program which was not offered by the University of Virginia at the time. He later explained to the ''Richmond Times-Dispatch'' that he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Sharp (footballer)
Richard "Ricky" Sharp (born 26 January 1956) was a Scottish professional footballer who is best known for his time with Dunfermline Athletic and Kilmarnock. Football career Sharp joined Rangers on 6 April 1974 from Bargeddie Amateurs. He made one appearance for the club during a Scottish League Cup match against Hibernian, on 10 August 1974. Sharp was substituted (replaced by Jim Denny), with Rangers losing 0–3 at half time and he never played for the club again. He moved on to Morton shortly afterwards. On 17 January 1976, Sharp left Morton and joined Kilmarnock before moving on to St Mirren eighteen months later in September 1977. Sharp had subsequent spells with Dunfermline Athletic and East Stirlingshire respectively. Later career Sharp retired from professional football in 1982 and joined Strathclyde Police. Personal life Sharp has one older brother (Andrew) and one younger brother, former Everton and Scotland striker Graeme Graham and Graeme may refer to: People ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Sharp (politician)
Richard Sharp, FRS, FSA (1759 – 30 March 1835), also known as "Conversation" Sharp, was an English hat-maker, banker, merchant, poet, critic, Member of Parliament, and conversationalist. He was at various times known in London society as "Hatter Sharp", "Furrier Sharp", "Copenhagen Sharp" (after a speech that he gave as an MP castigating the British bombardment of Copenhagen), or most famously of all as "Conversation Sharp".Hills, Hon. Mrs Eustace, "Conversation Sharp and his Friends", MS Bodleian Library. Background and early life His grandfather, another Richard Sharp (circa 1690–1775), from a family of clothiers at Romsey, Hampshire, had been apprenticed in 1712 to George Baker, a freeman of the Goldsmiths’ Company of London, but a haberdasher of hats by trade. He completed his apprenticeship, and by the early 1730s he was George Baker’s partner in the successful hatting business on Fish Street Hill in the City of London. Baker & Sharp were frequent buyers of beaver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Sharp (priest)
Richard Lloyd Sharp was Archdeacon of Dorset from 1975 to 1982. Born on 30 November 1916, he was educated at Brighton Hove & Sussex Grammar School, and ordained in 1941. After a curacy at Holy Trinity, Weymouth he held incumbencies in Portland, Wootton Bassett and Salisbury before returning to his first post as Vicar A vicar (; Latin: ''vicarius'') is a representative, deputy or substitute; anyone acting "in the person of" or agent for a superior (compare "vicarious" in the sense of "at second hand"). Linguistically, ''vicar'' is cognate with the English pref .... He died on 4 July 1982. Notes 1916 births People educated at Brighton, Hove and Sussex Grammar School Alumni of St Edmund Hall, Oxford Archdeacons of Dorset 1982 deaths {{Canterbury-archdeacon-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Sharp (rugby Union)
Richard Adrian William Sharp OBE (born 9 September 1938) is a retired English rugby union player. Born in India during the British Raj, his family moved to Cornwall, England, where he was educated at Montpelier School, Paignton and Blundell's School in the neighbouring county of Devon and at Balliol College, Oxford. He is a former player at Redruth R.F.C., Wasps FC, Bristol FC and England (14 caps) rugby union fly-half and captain. He played for England while at Oxford and led England to the Five Nations title in 1963. He played cricket for Cornwall in the Minor Counties Championship between 1957 and 1970. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1986 New Year Honours, for services to Sport, particularly in the South West. Bernard Cornwell Bernard Cornwell (born 23 February 1944) is an English-American author of historical novels and a history of the Waterloo Campaign. He is best known for his novels about Napoleonic Wars rifleman Rich ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Hey Sharp
Richard Hey Sharp (2 June 1793 – 25 February 1853) was an English architect based in York and responsible for the design, repair and construction of a number of iconic Yorkshire buildings. Early life Richard Hey Sharp was born on 2 June 1793 to Richard Sharp and Mary (née Turton) and baptised in Batley two days later. Richard was the eldest of five children including the surgeon and promoter of museums William Sharp and Samuel Sharp who followed his brother into a career in architecture. Initially living in Gildersome, the family had moved to Armley by the end of the 18th century where his father was a drysalter. The Sharps were from an ancient Yorkshire family which included the mathematician Abraham Sharp, the Archbishop of York John Sharp, Archdeacon of Northumbria Thomas Sharp, the surgeon William Sharp and the abolitionist Granville Sharp. Richard's paternal grandmother, Sarah Hey, was the sister of the surgeon and twice mayor of Leeds William Hey, theologian John He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |