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Saxmundham LTC Tournament
Saxmundham ( ) is a market town in Suffolk, England, set in the valley of the River Fromus about north-east of Ipswich and west of the coast at Sizewell. The town is bypassed by the main A12 road between London and Lowestoft. The town is served by Saxmundham railway station on the East Suffolk Line between Ipswich and Lowestoft. Governance Saxmundham Town Council comes under East Suffolk District. It was previously in Suffolk Coastal District before April 2019. The district electoral ward also has the name Saxmundham. Its population at the 2011 census was 4,913. As of December 2022, Saxmundham Town Council consisted of ten councillors. Heritage The place-name Saxmundham is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086 as ''Sasmunde(s)ham''. It appears as ''Saxmundham'' in the Feet of Fines of 1213. The name denotes "Seaxmund's village or estate". The Parish Church of St John the Baptist dates back to the 11th century. Some features remain from the medieval period, but its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Suffolk (district)
East Suffolk is a local government district in Suffolk, England, which was established on 1 April 2019, following the merger of the existing Suffolk Coastal and Waveney districts. At the 2011 census, the two districts had a combined population of 239,552. The main towns and villages in the district include Aldeburgh, Beccles, Bungay, Felixstowe, Framlingham, Halesworth, Leiston, Lowestoft, Saxmundham and Southwold as well parts of the wider Ipswich built-up area including Kesgrave, Martlesham and Woodbridge. The district covers a smaller area compared to the former administrative county of East Suffolk, which was abolished by the Local Government Act 1972. Governance As of the 2019 elections on 2 May, the composition of East Suffolk Council is as follows: See also *2019 structural changes to local government in England *West Suffolk West Suffolk may refer to the following places in Suffolk, England: * West Suffolk (county), a county until 1974 * West Suffolk District ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Allen
Walter Ray Allen Jr. (born July 20, 1975) is an American former professional basketball player. He played 18 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a player in September 2018. Allen is widely considered to be one of the greatest three-point shooters of all-time, and he held the record for most three-pointers made in a career until 2021, when he was surpassed by Stephen Curry. Allen played college basketball for the Connecticut Huskies for three seasons, gaining a reputation as an efficient long-range shooter. He entered the NBA in 1996 as the fifth overall selection. In the NBA, he developed into a prolific scorer for the Milwaukee Bucks, featuring alongside Glenn Robinson and Sam Cassell as the team achieved playoff success. However, the trio were unable to capture a championship, and Allen was traded to the Seattle SuperSonics. In Seattle, Allen's reputation as a scorer was solidified; he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Miller
Sam Miller (born 28 September 1962) is an English television director. He has worked on the BBC television dramas ''Cardiac Arrest'', ''This Life'' and ''Luther''. He works with London-based production company Mustard Film Company. He is father of the actor William Miller, who played Oliver Twist in the 2007 television adaptation. Miller has received three Emmy nominations for Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special, one in 2012 for ''Luther'' and two in 2021 for ''I May Destroy You'' for the episodes "Eyes Eyes Eyes Eyes" and "Ego Death" (with Michaela Coel). Filmography As a director As an actor *''The Great Escape II: The Untold Story'' (1988) (TV) .... Air Reconnaissance Officer *''Murder East - Murder West'' (1990) (TV) .... Christian *''The Bill'' (TV) Sgt. John Maitland 1990-1993 *''Fergie & Andrew: Behind the Palace Doors'' (1992) (TV) .... Prince Andrew, Duke of York Prince Andrew, Duke of York, (Andrew Albert Christian Edward; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maggi Hambling
Margaret ("Maggi") J. Hambling (born 23 October 1945) is a British artist. Though principally a painter her best-known public works are the sculptures ''A Conversation with Oscar Wilde'' and '' A Sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft'' in London, and the 4-metre-high steel ''Scallop'' on Aldeburgh beach. All three works have attracted controversy. Early life and education Maggi Hambling was born in Sudbury, Suffolk to Barclays bank cashier and local politician Harry Smyth Leonard Hambling (1902-1998) and Marjorie (née Harris: 1907-1988). She had two siblings, a sister, Ann, who was 11 years older, and a brother, Roger, nine years older than Hambling. Her brother had wanted a younger brother but ignored the fact that his new sibling was female and taught her carpentry and "how to wring a chicken's neck." Hambling was close to her mother who taught ballroom dancing and took Hambling along to be her partner. It was from her father that she inherited her artistic skills. She was not a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eleanor Berwick
Eleanor Muriel Berwick (born 4 November 1943), previously Knowles, is a retired English wine-grower. Born in 1943 at Mengo, in British East Africa, Eleanor Knowles was the daughter of Robert Knowles OBE, Commissioner of Trade and Customs, by his marriage to Phyllis Muriel Jarrett. In 1947, the family moved to North Borneo. She returned to Britain to be educated at St Winifred's School, Llanfairfechan, Kendal Girls High School, Westmorland, and Newnham College, Cambridge.''Newnham College Register, 1871—1971: 1951–1970'' (Newnham College, 1990), p. 160 On leaving Cambridge in 1964, she married Ian Berwick; they have one son. In 1974, after retiring from the rubber industry, Eleanor and Ian Berwick planted Bruisyard, a ten-acre vineyard at the village of the same name near Saxmundham in Suffolk, unusually deciding to plant only Müller-Thurgau Müller-Thurgau is a white grape variety (sp. ''Vitis vinifera'') which was created by Hermann Müller from the Swiss Canton of Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert Heyner
Herbert Heyner (26 June 188218 January 1954) was a noted English baritone. Heyner appeared in a handful of operas, and a number of broadcast operas, but his stage appearances were predominantly in oratorio and songs. He sang in some notable performances of Sir Edward Elgar's oratorios under the composer's baton. He sang in Britain, France, Germany, the United States and Canada, and he sang at The Proms 59 times between 1909 and 1937, in songs and operatic arias. Career Herbert Augustus Otto Heyner was born in London on 26 June 1882.''Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians'', 5th ed (1954), Vol. IV, p. 271 He was a choirboy at St Botolph's Aldersgate, making his debut in that capacity in 1892; he was also accepted for Lincoln's Inn Chapel. He studied at Brighton House School and it was planned that he would become an actuary, but music had a greater pull on him, and he studied singing with Frederic King in London, Victor Maurel in Paris, and Karl Scheidemantel in Dresden. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buck Read
Herbert William "Buck" Read (February 8, 1880 - August 15, 1970) was an American basketball coach. He was the head coach for the Western Michigan Broncos men's basketball team from 1922 through 1949. He was also president of the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) from 1948 to 1949 and the chairman of its rules committee in 1937, 1938, and 1944. Early years Read was born in Saxmundham, England, in February 1880. He immigrated to the United States in April 1880 at age two months. Read was the athletic director at Kalamazoo High School until he resigned in 1908. Western Michigan Read worked for many years on the coaching staff of Western State Normal School in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He became the school's second head basketball coach in 1922, replacing William H. Spaulding who served as basketball coach from 1913 to 1922. Read remained as the head basketball coach at Western State until 1949. Read has been credited with introducing the fast break to basketball duri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Collins
Bernard Abdy Collins (17 February 1880 – 22 October 1951) was a British administrator in India and English first-class cricketer. Collins was born at Saxmundham in February 1880 to Henry Abdy Collins and his wife, Florence Ellen Cartwright. He was educated at Malvern College, before going up to Brasenose College, Oxford. While studying at Oxford, he made a single appearance in first-class cricket for Oxford University against the Marylebone Cricket Club at Oxford in 1901. Collins batted twice in the match at number eleven. He was dismissed in the Oxford first-innings and was dismissed without scoring by John Rawlin. In their second-innings he top-scored with an unbeaten 83, sharing in a last wicket partnership of 149 with Frank Hollins. In addition to playing first-class cricket, Collins also played minor counties cricket for Suffolk in 1904, making five appearances in the Minor Counties Championship. He was also the editor of 'Psychic Science' and the author of the b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamlet Watling
Hamlet Watling (born Kelsale, Suffolk, 1818, died Ipswich, 2 April 1908) was a Suffolk-born antiquary, who worked as a schoolmaster. He spent much of his life to recording clerical and other antiquities in his native county. His prolific records and illustrations contain much unique information, though mostly unpublished. Many are held in public and private collections. He conducted excavations, contributed to learned societies, and wrote lengthy weekly columns in the regional press over some 40 years from about 1868 until his death. Family and teaching career Hamlet was born in 1818 at Kelsale near Saxmundham, Suffolk, the son of Henry Watling, Master of the Endowed School there from 1818 to 1858, and his wife Phyllis (''née'' Newson). Four sons followed their father's profession: Walter and Llewellyn were assistant masters at Banbury and Edwin, married to a descendant of the actor William 'Gentleman' Smith) was writing master at Cheltenham in 1852–1869. Hamlet taught at Aldebur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Thurlow (sculptor)
:''You may be looking for Thomas Thurlow (bishop), an 18th-century Church of England bishop.'' Thomas Thurlow (1813 – 1899) was a renowned English sculptor who created memorials in churches in the Saxmundham, Suffolk area, including a bust of the poet George Crabbe in St Peter and St Paul's Church, Aldeburgh. His father, John Thurlow (b. c1784), was a builder and stonemason who built 'The White House' (now Holly Lodge) in the High Street. Both are buried along with other members of the Thurlow family in the churchyard of the parish church. Life Thomas Thurlow was born in North Entrance in Saxmundham and went to a school in Brook Cottage; Henry Bright (painter) went to the same school, and in Thurlow's memoirs he also claims Newson Garrett (who later built Snape Maltings) as a school friend. As a teenager he would turn his hand to anything such as wood and plaster carving, polishing stones, and he even made a violin, succeeding at the second attempt. At the age of 23 he left ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Bright (painter)
Henry Bright (5 June 1810 – 21 September 1873), was a distinguished English landscape painter associated with the Norwich School of painters. Life 
Henry Bright was born on 5 June 1810 in , , the third son of some nine children of Jerome Bright (1770–1846), a clockmaker, and Susan ...
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