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Ruggles-Brise
Ruggles-Brise is a surname. Notable people include: *Dorothea Ruggles-Brise (1866–1937), Scottish folk song collector * Edward Ruggles-Brise (1822–1942), British Conservative Party politician *Evelyn Ruggles-Brise (1857–1935), British prison administrator and reformer * Guy Ruggles-Brise (1914–2000), British Army officer, and High Sheriff of Essex * Harold Ruggles-Brise (1864–1927), British Army officer *John Ruggles-Brise (1908–2007), Lord Lieutenant of Essex * Samuel Ruggles-Brise (1825–1899), British Conservative Party politician See also *Ruggles (surname) Ruggles is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alice Ruggles Sohier (1880–1969), American painter *Carl Ruggles (1876–1971), American composer * Charles H. Ruggles (1789–1865), New York chief judge * Charles Ruggles (1886-1 ... * Brise (other) * {{surname English-language surnames Surnames of English origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Ruggles-Brise
Major-general (United Kingdom), Major General Sir Harold Goodeve Ruggles-Brise (17 March 1864 – 24 June 1927) was a British Army officer in the Second Boer War and World War I, First World War, and a good amateur cricketer. Early life Harold Ruggles-Brise was born in Essex in Spains Hall, Finchingfield on 17 March 1864, the fifth son of Samuel Ruggles-Brise, Sir Samuel Brise Ruggles-Brise, of Spains Hall, Essex, and his wife Marianne Weyland Bowyer-Smith, daughter of Bowyer-Smyth baronets, Sir Edward Bowyer-Smith, 10th Baronet, of Hill Hall (Essex), Hill Hall, Essex.''Burke's Landed Gentry''''Who Was Who''.Obituary, ''Times'' (London) 27 June 1927. His eldest brothers were Archie (who inherited Spains Hall) and Evelyn (later Evelyn Ruggles-Brise, Sir Evelyn Ruggles-Brise, chairman of the Prison Commission). Unlike his elder brothers who went to Eton College, Harold was educated at Winchester College, where he was in the Rev J. T. Bramston's House, and at Balliol College, Oxfor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Ruggles-Brise
Sir Samuel Brise Ruggles-Brise (29 December 1825 – 28 May 1899) was a British Conservative Party (UK), Conservative politician, and owner of Spains Hall, Essex. Early life Samuel Ruggles-Brise was the eldest son of John Ruggles (1782–1852) of Spains Hall, who adopted the additional surname of Brise, and Catherine (died 1877), daughter of John Haynes Harrison, Lord of the Manor of Copford, and sister of Fiske Goodeve Fiske-Harrison, High Sheriff of Essex, who adopted the additional surname of Fiske. John Ruggles was a barrister and High Sheriff of Suffolk in 1829. Samuel was educated at Eton College and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He served in the 1st Dragoon Guards and later was Colonel Commandant of the West Essex Militia (1853–89).''Burke's Landed Gentry'' Political career He was elected as a Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament for East Essex (UK Parliament constituency), East Essex at the 1868 United Kingdom general election, 1868 general ele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Ruggles-Brise
Colonel Sir Edward Archibald Ruggles-Brise, 1st Baronet (19 September 1882 – 12 May 1942) was a British Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party politician. Early life The son of Archibald Weyland Ruggles Brise (1857-1939), he was born at Westminster, London, in September 1882 and was educated at Eton College and Cambridge University. Career Public service He was magistrate and a Deputy Lieutenant for Essex from 1920.Deputy Lieutenancy announced: In 1939 he was appointed as a Vice Lieutenant of Essex.Vice Lieutenancy announced: Political career He served as Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for the Maldon (UK Parliament constituency), Maldon constituency in Essex from 1922 United Kingdom general election, 1922 until his death in 1942, with a brief interruption from 1923 to 1924 when he narrowly lost the seat to his Labour Party (UK), Labour opponent Valentine Crittall, Baron Braintree, Valentine Crittall. Ruggles-Brise was greatly interest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evelyn Ruggles-Brise
Sir Evelyn John Ruggles-Brise (6 December 1857 – 18 August 1935) was a British prison administrator and reformer, and founder of the Borstal system. Biography Ruggles-Brise was born in Finchingfield in Essex, the second son of Sir Samuel Brise Ruggles-Brise (1825–1899) and his wife, Marianne (''née'' Bowyer-Smijth), daughter of Sir William Bowyer-Smijth. He had three brothers and seven sisters. His family have deep roots in Essex, having been based at Spains Hall in Finchingfield since the house was bought by Samuel Ruggles, a clothier, in 1760. His father was Conservative MP for East Essex from 1868 to 1884. Another relation, Sir Edward Ruggles-Brise, 1st Baronet, was MP for Maldon from 1922 to his death in 1942 (with a short intermission in 1923-4), and became a baronet in George V's Silver Jubilee honours list in 1935. Ruggles-Brise was educated at home and at a private school near Hitchin, before attending Eton from 1869 to 1876 on a scholarship. His older brother ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ruggles-Brise
Colonel Sir John Archibald Ruggles-Brise, 2nd Baronet (13 June 1908 – 20 February 2007) was Lord Lieutenant of Essex from 1958 to 1978, and was the first pro-chancellor of Essex University from 1964 to 1979. He was also a president of the Country Landowners' Association (now the Country Land and Business Association) from 1957 to 1959, and was a co-founder of the CLA's annual Game Fair in 1958. Ruggles-Brise was born at Brent Hall in Finchingfield in Essex. His family have deep roots in Essex, having been based at Spains Hall in Finchingfield since the house was bought by Samuel Ruggles, a clothier, in 1760. His father, Edward Ruggles-Brise, Sir Edward Ruggles-Brise, 1st Baronet, was Member of Parliament, MP for Maldon (UK Parliament constituency), Maldon from 1922 to his death in 1942 (with a short intermission in 1923–4), and became a baronet in George V of the United Kingdom, George V's Silver Jubilee honours list in 1935. Ruggles-Brise was educated at Wellesley House ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothea Ruggles-Brise
Lady Dorothea Louisa Ruggles-Brise (née Stewart-Murray; 25 March 1866 – 28 December 1937), was the daughter of the 7th Duke of Atholl. She was an expert about and a collector of Scottish traditional music. Life Lady Dorothea Louisa Stewart-Murray was born in 1866 to John Stewart-Murray, 7th Duke of Atholl, and his wife, Louisa Moncrieff (daughter of Sir Thomas Moncreiffe, 7th Baronet). Her family had been the patrons of Niel Gow, the great Scottish fiddler, composer and music publisher, and she grew up with a lifelong interest in, and later became a great authority on, and collector of, Scottish traditional music. Even in her youth, she had started to compile a collection of little-known Scottish melodies, and would perform these herself. In 1895, she married Harold Goodeve Ruggles-Brise, an officer in the Grenadier Guards, and lived with him in London. A photograph of her, dated the year before this, is in the National Trust Collection at Polesden Lacey. A 6/8 pipe march comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Ruggles-Brise
Captain Guy Edward Ruggles-Brise (15 June 1914 – 14 November 2000) was a British World War II, Second World War officer and High Sheriff of Essex He was born in 1914, the second son of Sir Edward Ruggles-Brise He came from a landed family who had lived at Spains Hall, Finchingfield, Essex, since the 18th century. The original house can be traced to the Domesday survey. He was schooled at Eton College like his elder brother John Ruggles-Brise and joined the 104th (Essex Yeomanry) Field Brigade RA. In 1940, he was sent for Commando training to Scotland, where he met his future wife Elizabeth Knox, and they married soon after. As a captain, he departed with No 7 Commando for North Africa, where he was captured during the raid on Bardia in 1941. He was handed over to the Italians and transferred to Naples by ship. As a prisoner of war, he was held at camp PG35 at Padula near Salerno from May 1942 until June 1943. After the Allies invaded Italy, he was sent to PG19 camp further north ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Brise, Brisé or Briše may refer to: *Brisé (dance), a type of jump in ballet * "Brisé" (song), Maître Gims 2015 *Brisé (music), Style brisé (French: "broken style"), Baroque music Places *Briše, Kamnik, Slovenia * Briše pri Polhovem Gradcu *Briše, Zagorje ob Savi People * Ruggles-Brise, a surname *Ruggles-Brise baronets, Essex *Ronald Brisé (born 1974) *Cornelis Brisé (1622–1670), Dutch Golden Age painter *Tony Brise (1952–1975), English racing driver See also *Brise soleil ("sun break"), an architectural feature *Brise-Glace (French "ice-breaker", as in the type of boat), 1990s instrumental avant-rock "supergroup" *''Jolie Brise ''Jolie Brise'' is a gaff-rigged pilot cutter built and launched by the Albert Paumelle Yard in Le Havre in 1913 to a design by Alexandre Pâris. After a short career as a pilot boat, owing to steam replacing sail, she became a fishing boat, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruggles (surname)
Ruggles is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alice Ruggles Sohier (1880–1969), American painter *Carl Ruggles (1876–1971), American composer * Charles H. Ruggles (1789–1865), New York chief judge * Charles Ruggles (1886-1970), character actor, older brother of Wesley * Clive Ruggles (born 1952) British Astronomer * Daniel Ruggles (1810–1897) Confederate general * David Ruggles (1810–1849), abolitionist * Eleanor Ruggles (1916-2008), American biographer * Nathaniel Ruggles (1761–1819), US Representative from Massachusetts * Samuel B. Ruggles (1800–1881), American lawyer and founder of Gramercy Park, New York City * Steven Ruggles (born 1955), American historical demographer * Timothy Ruggles (1711–1795), American military leader, jurist and politician * Timothy Ruggles (Nova Scotia politician) (1776–1831), grandson of the above * Tom Ruggles (born 1992), Australian footballer * Wesley Ruggles Wesley Ruggles (June 11, 1889 – January ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English-language Surnames
English is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots language, Scots, and then closest related to the Low German, Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is Genetic relationship (linguistics), genealogically West Germanic language, West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by Langues d'oïl, dialects of France (about List of English words of French origin, 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
