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Scholefield
Scholefield is a surname of Northern English origin. Notable people with the surname include: * Adam Scholefield (born 1985), English water polo player *Alan Scholefield (1931–2017), South African writer *Edward Scholefield (1893–1929), British Royal Air Force officer and test pilot *Guy Scholefield (1877–1963), New Zealand journalist, historian, archivist, librarian and editor *James Scholefield (1789–1853), English classical scholar *James Scholefield (1790–1855), English religious leader and reformer *Joshua Scholefield (1775–1844), English businessman and politician * Mark Scholefield (1828–1858), English Victoria Cross recipient * William Scholefield (1809–1867), English businessman and politician See also *Scofield (other) Scofield may refer to: People * Barbara Scofield (born 1926), American tennis player * Bryant T. Scofield (1823–1881), American lawyer and politician * C. I. Scofield (1843–1921), American theologian and author of the Scofield ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Scholefield
Guy Hardy Scholefield (17 June 1877 – 19 July 1963) was a New Zealand journalist, historian, archivist, librarian and editor, known primarily as the compiler of the 1940 version of the ''Dictionary of New Zealand Biography''. Early life Scholefield was born in Dunedin, New Zealand, on 17 June 1877. His father, John Hoick Scholefield, was an accountant. Marion, , was his mother. After his father's death in 1885, the family relocated to Milton, where he received his secondary education at Tokomairiro District High School. Professional life Scholefield started work at 16 at the ''Bruce Herald'' as compositor and journalist. He then became a clerk at the Bruce Woollen Manufacturing Company, but produced material for print publications on the side. He moved to Wellington in 1899 and joined ''The New Zealand Times'', where he enjoyed much journalistic freedom working on biographies of notable New Zealanders. He was admitted to the parliamentary press gallery in 1901. Scholefield ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Scholefield (Bible Christian)
James Scholefield (6 April 1790 – 24 April 1855), was an English religious leader, social reformer, undertaker and medical practitioner. He is known for his contributions to the Bible Christian Church, his advocacy for vegetarianism and temperance, and his involvement in the British radical reform movement. Life and career James Scholefield was born at Colne Bridge, in the parish of Kirkheaton, Yorkshire, on 6 April 1790. In 1809, he joined the newly established Bible Christian Church, a non-conformist sect founded by William Cowherd. He was educated at Cowherd's Salford Grammar School and Academy of Sciences, covering subjects such as physical science, medicine, astronomy, Latin, Hebrew, and Greek. In 1813, Scholefield was ordained as a minister in the sect and served at Christ Church in Hulme until 1823. Scholefield founded the Christ Church Chapel in Every Street, Ancoats, Manchester, in 1824. His ministry was characterised by his strong principles; he was a commit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Scholefield
William Scholefield (August 1809 – 9 July 1867) was a British businessman and Liberal politician. He was a leading figure in the politics of the rapidly growing industrial town of Birmingham in the mid-nineteenth century, serving as the first mayor in 1838–39, and one of the constituency's two Members of Parliament from 1847 to 1867. Early life and family Scholefield was born in Birmingham, and was the second son of Joshua Scholefield and his wife Mary née Cotterill. His father was an iron manufacturer, merchant and banker who became one of the town's first members of parliament in 1832. Following a number of years in Canada and the United States, where he had married Jane Matilda Miller of New York, Scholefield returned to Birmingham in 1837 to work in his father's business. First Mayor of Birmingham In 1837 a campaign was launched to secure a charter of incorporation under the Municipal Corporations Act 1835 to create Birmingham a municipal borough with an elected town ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Scholefield
Flight Lieutenant Edward Rodolph Clement Scholefield 1893-1929 DCM AFC (known as Tiny Scholefield) was an aviator and a motor racing driver. He was killed during a test flight of a Vickers Vanguard airliner in 1929. Early life Scholefield was born on 22 October 1893 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. In the 1901 Census of Bournemouth, Scholefield aged 6 is listed with his sister Vandine as a boarder at a School. Aviator Scholefield was awarded a French aviators certificate on 5 April 1912. He joined the Royal Flying Corps as an airman at the start of the First World War and was later commissioned. In 1915 when on patrol over the Western Front he was shot down and taken prisoner; he remained a German prisoner of war until the end of the war. During the war he had won the Distinguished Conduct Medal and following the war he became an experimental test pilot at the Royal Aircraft Establishment. In 1923 he was awarded the Air Force Cross. Test pilot Following his retirement from the R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Scholefield
Alan Scholefield (15 January 1931 – 26 October 2017) was a South African writer famous for his ''Macrae and Silver'' series. He lived in Hampshire and was married to Australian novelist Anthea Goddard. They had three daughters. Biography Born in Cape Town, Scholefield was educated at Queen's College, Queenstown and the University of Cape Town where he read Eng. Lit. and where he won an athletics blue and broke a South African junior record. After university, from which he graduated in 1951, Scholefield became a journalist on The Cape Times and The Cape Argus. Scholefield was one of a group of journalists and writers who left South Africa in the sixties to escape the rigid apartheid of the Prime Minister, Dr. Verwoerd. With his first wife Patricia, he lived in Spain writing short stories for America, Canada and London. The marriage broke up in 1960 and in 1962 he married the Australian journalist and novelist Anthea Goddard and settled in London. He worked in the London bur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joshua Scholefield
Joshua Scholefield (23 May 1775 – 4 July 1844) was a British businessman and Radical politician. He was elected as one of Birmingham's two first members of parliament when the town was enfranchised as a result of the Reform Act 1832. Born in Sheffield, Yorkshire, by 1800 he had established himself as an iron manufacturer, merchant and banker at Birmingham. He subsequently became a director of the National Provincial Bank, the London Joint Stock Bank and the Metropolitan Assurance Company. Birmingham Political Union The growing industrial centre of Birmingham had neither local government nor parliamentary representation at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Scholefield became an advocate for municipal and parliamentary reform. In 1819, he was elected to the largely-ceremonial position of high bailiff of Birmingham's Court Leet. In that capacity, Scholefield chaired a meeting of Birmingham's businessmen in January 1820 that resolved to petition Parliament to hold an inquiry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Scholefield
James Scholefield (15 November 1789 – 4 April 1853), England, English classical scholar, was born at Henley-on-Thames. He was educated at Christ's Hospital and Trinity College, Cambridge, and was in 1825 appointed professor of Greek in the university. He was for some time curate to Charles Simeon, the evangelical churchman, and his low church views involved him in disputes with his own parishioners at St Michael's, Cambridge, of which he was perpetual curate from 1823 till his death at Hastings on 4 April 1853. From 1849 until his death he was canon of Ely, Cambridgeshire, Ely. Scholefield was an excellent teacher with his students coming up with the name Duke Scholefield to pay tribute to his muscular physique and exceptionally wide shoulders. His most useful work was his edition of the ''Adversaria'' of Peter Paul Dobree, PP Dobree, his predecessor in the chair of Greek language, Greek. He also published editions of Aeschylus (1828), in which he dealt very conservatively with t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Scholefield
Adam James Scholefield (born 24 May 1985) is a researcher and British water polo player. He graduated from Imperial College London with a degree in electrical engineering and a Ph.D in image processing. He is tall and weighs . He is coached by Cristian Iordache, Petik Attila and Norman Leighton. Scholefield competed for Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London in the men's tournament at the Water Polo Arena. It was the first time the Great Britain men's national water polo team appeared at an Olympics since the 1956 Games held in Melbourne, Australia. In 2014, he won a gold medal at the Commonwealth Water Polo Championships in Aberdeen. Since June 2015, and as of March 2017, Scholefield is working, with Prof. Martin Vetterli, as a postdoctoral researcher at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne École may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Scholefield
Mark Scholefield, VC (16 April 1828 – 15 February 1858) was a sailor in the Royal Navy and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Royal Navy career Scholefield was 26 years old, and a seaman in the Royal Navy, serving in the Naval Brigade, during the Crimean War when he was awarded the Victoria Cross (VC). On 5 November 1854 at the Battle of Inkerman, Crimea, the Right Lancaster Battery was attacked and many of the soldiers were wounded. Seaman Scholefield with two other seamen ( James Gorman and Thomas Reeves) and two others who were killed during the action, mounted the defense work banquette and, under withering attack from the enemy, kept up a rapid, repulsing fire. The muskets were re-loaded for them by the wounded soldiers under the parapet and eventually the enemy fell back and gave no more trouble. Scholefield later achieved the rank of quartermaster. His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scofield (other)
Scofield may refer to: People * Barbara Scofield (born 1926), American tennis player * Bryant T. Scofield (1823–1881), American lawyer and politician * C. I. Scofield (1843–1921), American theologian and author of the Scofield Reference Bible * Dean Scofield (born 1957), American voice actor * Edward Scofield (1842–1925), American Republican politician and 19th Governor of Wisconsin (1897–1901) * Glenni William Scofield (1817–1891), American politician and judge * Hiram Scofield (1830–1906), American Civil War officer in the Union Army * John Scofield (born 1951), American jazz-rock guitarist and composer * Paul Scofield (1922–2008), British stage and film actor Fictional characters * Maureen Scofield, in ''Close to Home'' * Michael Scofield, protagonist of American TV series ''Prison Break'' (2005–2009) Places * Scofield, Michigan * Scofield, Utah ** Scofield Mine disaster, in 1900 ** Scofield Reservoir Scofield Reservoir is a reservoir impounded by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schofield (other) , a surname
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Schofield may refer to: People * Schofield (name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the name Places * Schofield, Missouri, United States * Schofield, Wisconsin, United States * Schofields, New South Wales, Australia Other uses * Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, a U.S. Army installation * Schofield revolver, a variant of the Smith & Wesson Model 3 * Schofield tank, a New Zealand tank design of the Second World War See also *Schofields (other) *Scofield (other) *Scholefield Scholefield is a surname of Northern English origin. Notable people with the surname include: * Adam Scholefield (born 1985), English water polo player *Alan Scholefield (1931–2017), South African writer *Edward Scholefield (1893–1929), British ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
