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Royal Masonic School For Boys
The Royal Masonic School for Boys was an English independent school for boys at Bushey in Hertfordshire. History The origins of the school lie in the charities established in the late 18th century to clothe and educate the sons of Freemasons near their homes. These charities amalgamated in 1852 and established a boys' school at Wood Green in North London in 1857. The foundation stone for a new school in Bushey was laid by the Duke of Connaught and Strathearn. It was designed by Gordon & Gunton and completed in 1903. A Junior School was added on the other side of The Avenue in 1929 and by 1939 there were 800 boys at the school. Following a decline in pupil numbers the junior school closed in 1970, with the senior school closing in 1977. The site of the junior school is now occupied by The Grange Academy. The Royal Masonic School for Girls, based at Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, was unaffected by the closure. The site was acquired by Comer Homes in 1998; the buildings were rente ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bushey
Bushey is a town in the Hertsmere borough of Hertfordshire in the East of England. It has a population of over 25,000 inhabitants. Bushey Heath is a large neighbourhood south east of Bushey on the boundary with the London Borough of Harrow reaching elevations of above sea level. History The first written record of Bushey is its entry in the Domesday Book of 1086, which describes a small agricultural village named 'Bissei' (which later became 'Biss(h)e' and then 'Bisheye' during the 12th century). However, chance archaeological findings of Stone Age tools provide evidence that the area was inhabited as far back as the Palaeolithic period. The town also has links to the Roman Britain, Roman occupation of Great Britain, Britain, with the main road running through it being Roman; sites of possible Roman villas being unearthed in the area; and a Roman tessellated pavement was discovered near Chiltern Avenue. The origin of the town's name is not fully known. In terms of the origi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Football Association
The Football Association (also known as The FA) is the Sports governing body, governing body of association football in England and the Crown Dependencies of Jersey, Bailiwick of Guernsey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man. Formed in 1863, it is the oldest football association in the world and is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the amateur and professional game in its territory. The FA facilitates all competitive football matches within its remit at national level, and indirectly at local level through the county football associations. It runs numerous competitions, the most famous of which is the FA Cup. It is also responsible for appointing the management of the English national football team, men's, England women's national football team, women's, and England national under-17 football team, youth national football teams. The FA is a member of both UEFA and FIFA and holds a permanent seat on the International Football Association Board (IFAB) which is responsible for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Phillips (archaeologist)
Charles William Phillips (24 April 1901 – 23 September 1985) was a British archaeologist best known for leading the 1939 excavation of the Sutton Hoo burial ship, an intact collection of Anglo-Saxon grave-goods. In 1946 he replaced O G S Crawford as the Archaeology Officer of the Ordnance Survey. He was awarded the Victoria Medal of the Royal Geographical Society in 1967 for his contributions to the topography and mapping of Early Britain. Early life and education Charles Phillips was born on 24 April 1901, the son of Harold and Mary Elizabeth. His parents had met in London and were married on 14 October 1899. Harold Phillips had started to suffer from depression around 1893, and despite a number of "crises" during the short engagement, as Charles Phillips would later describe them, apparently no efforts were made to apprise his fiancée's family of his condition; nevertheless, none of her relatives showed up for the wedding. The couple had two sons and a daughter, with Char ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Pickering
Paul Pickering (born 9 May 1952) is a British novelist and playwright. Early life Pickering was born in Rotherham, Yorkshire, England, the son of Arthur Samuel Pickering and Lorna (née Grocock). On his father’s side he is related to the Pre-Raphaelite artist Evelyn de Morgan, (née Pickering) and George III, and on his mother’s side to Yorkshire and Irish gypsy showmen. His father died when he was nine and he was educated at the Royal Masonic Schools for Boys in Bushey, Hertfordshire and in vacations worked for Pearl Connor Magotsi, at the Edric Connor agency, which was a pioneer in promoting black theatre and the musical, Hair. He attended the University of Leicester, where he read Psychology and Combined Arts and participated in revolutionary politics, was a union representative, and helped found the Anti-Interment League. From working in the steel works in vacations he financed hitch-hiking expeditions in north Africa and the Middle East but was prevented from gettin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dean Of Wells
The Dean of Wells is the head of the Chapter of Wells Cathedral in the Mendip district of Somerset, England. The dean's residence is The Dean's Lodging, 25 The Liberty, Wells. List of deans High Medieval *1140–1164: Ivo *1164–1189: Richard of Spaxton *1190–1213: Alexander *1213–1216: Leonius *1216–1219: Ralph of Lechlade *1219–1236: Peter of Chichester *1236–1241: William of Merton *1241–1253: John Saracenus *1254–1256: Giles of Bridport *1256–1284: Edward of Cnoll *1284–1292: Thomas Bytton *1292–1295: William Burnell *1295–1302: Walter Haselshaw Late Medieval *1302–1305: Henry Husee *1305–1333: John Godelee *1333–1333: Richard of Bury *1334–1335: Wibert of Littleton *1335–1349: Walter of London *1349–1350: Thomas Fastolf *1350–1361: John of Carleton *1361–1379: Stephen Penpel *1379–1381: John Fordham *1381–1396: Thomas Thebaud ( of Sudbury) *1397–1398: Henry Beaufort *1398–1401: Nicholas Slake *1401–1410: Thomas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Lewis (dean)
Richard Lewis (24 December 1935 – 10 June 2022) was the Dean of Wells from 1990 to 2003. Lewis was educated at the Royal Masonic School for Boys and Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. Ordained in 1960 he began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy in Hinckley following which he was Priest in charge of St Edmund, Riddlesdown. He then held incumbencies in South Merstham, Wimbledon and Dulwich before his elevation to the Deanery A deanery (or decanate) is an ecclesiastical entity in the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Anglican Communion, the Evangelical Church in Germany, and the Church of Norway. A deanery is either the jurisdiction or residenc .... Lewis died on 10 June 2022, at the age of 86. References 1935 births 2022 deaths People educated at the Royal Masonic School for Boys Alumni of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge Deans of Wells {{ChurchofEngland-dean-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RAF Medical Services
The Royal Air Force Medical Services is the branch of the Royal Air Force that provides health care at home and on deployed operations to RAF service personnel. Medical officers are the doctors of the RAF and have specialist expertise in aviation medicine to support aircrew and their protective equipment. Medical officers also carry out Aeromedical evacuations, providing vital assistance on search-and-rescue missions or emergency relief flights worldwide. Personnel and training The Royal Air Force Medical Services employs servicemembers trained only by the RAF, as well as professionals trained by the NHS such as doctors and nurses. Both officers and aircrew are present within the Medical Services. Roles requiring specialist degrees such as Medical Officers (Doctors), Nursing Officers, and Dental Officers (Dentists), as well as roles not requiring specialists degrees such as Medical Support Officers, are all commissioned, with most (except general Medical Support Officers) a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Charles Hurrell
Air Vice Marshal Frederick "Freddie" Charles Hurrell, (24 April 1928 – 3 October 2008) was a senior medical officer in the Royal Air Force who spent his 35-year military career in aviation medicine and served as Director-General of the RAF Medical Services from 1986 to 1988. Early years Hurrell was born in the Lady Ozanne Maternity Hospital in Guernsey in 1928, the son of Alexander John Hurrell (1884–1933), a British Army officer, and a Spanish mother, Maria Del Carmen Bierma Cordero (1887–1968). His father died in 1933 and from the age of eight Hurrell was educated at the Royal Masonic School for Boys in Bushey in Hertfordshire where he enjoyed various sports and played rugby for England Schoolboys against Scotland and Wales Schoolboys.Obituary for Air Vice-Marshal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Air Vice-Marshal
Air vice-marshal (AVM) is a two-star air officer rank which originated in and continues to be used by the Royal Air Force. The rank is also used by the air forces of many countries which have historical British influence and it is sometimes used as the English translation of an equivalent rank in countries which have a non-English air force-specific rank structure. Air vice-marshal is a two-star rank and has a NATO ranking code of OF-7. It is equivalent to a rear-admiral in the Royal Navy or a major-general in the British Army or the Royal Marines. In other NATO forces, such as the United States Armed Forces and the Canadian Armed Forces, the equivalent two-star rank is major general. The rank of air vice-marshal is immediately senior to the rank air commodore and immediately subordinate to the rank of air marshal. Since before the Second World War it has been common for air officers commanding RAF groups to hold the rank of air vice-marshal. In small air forces such as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Holme
Richard Gordon Holme, Baron Holme of Cheltenham CBE, PC (27 May 1936 – 4 May 2008) was a British Liberal Democrat politician. Educated at University of Oxford ( BA Jurisprudence; St John's College) and Harvard Business School, Holme joined the Liberal Party in 1959, and was elected as the party's President in 1980 and 1981. He stood unsuccessfully as the Liberal candidate in East Grinstead, West Sussex, in 1964, and in a 1965 by-election. He then stood in Braintree, Essex, in October 1974. He later sought election at the more promising Cheltenham at the 1983 general election and at the 1987 general election. He was appointed a CBE in the 1983 New Year's Honours. After the Liberal Party's merger with SDP in 1988, he joined the newly formed Liberal Democrats. He later said that he believed that had the merger happened before the 1987 general election, then the party could have attracted more votes and seats at that election and displaced Labour in the opposition. However, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Lewis Partnership
The John Lewis Partnership plc (JLP) is a British company which operates John Lewis & Partners department stores, Waitrose & Partners supermarkets, its banking and financial services, and other retail-related activities. The privately-held public limited company is owned by a trust on behalf of all its employees — known as ''Partners'' – and a bonus, akin to a share of the profit, is paid to employees. John Lewis has around 80,800 Partners/employees as of 2020. JLP group is the third-largest UK non-traded company by sales in ''The Sunday Times'' Top Track 100 for 2016. The chain's image is upmarket, and its customers are likely to be more affluent consumers. It was a member of the International Association of Department Stores from 2004 to 2010. The Partnership also supplied the Ocado web supermarket with Waitrose own-brand foods and John Lewis own-brand non-food items such as home items e.g. furniture. This deal expired in September 2020, when Marks & Spencer began a new ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Stuart Hampson
Sir Stuart Hampson (born 7 January 1947) is a British businessman. He was formerly chairman of the John Lewis Partnership. He was the fourth person to be appointed and held the position since 1993. Biography Hampson joined the Partnership in 1982 and, after gaining experience in a number of department stores, became Managing Director of Tyrrell & Green (now John Lewis Southampton). He was appointed to the Board as Director of Research and Expansion in 1986, adding The Deputy Chairmanship to his responsibilities in 1989 and he became the fourth Chairman of the Partnership in 1993. During those 14 years, Hampson presided over a programme of modernisation without sacrificing the partnership ethos and principles that were embodied in its 1929 constitution of co-ownership and the happiness of its staff. His 14 years as chairman saw steady expansion, the refurbishment of the Oxford Street and Sloane Square department stores, the extension of trading hours, the expansion of the prod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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