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St Edmund's School, Hindhead
, established = 1874 , closed = , type = Independent prep and senior school(boarding and day) , religious_affiliation = , president = , head_label = Headmaster , head = A. J. Walliker MA (Cantab.) , r_head_label = , r_head = , chair_label = Chairman of Governors , chair = Mrs J. Alliss , founder = , specialist = , address = , city = Hindhead , county = Surrey , country = England , postcode = GU26 6BH , dfeno = , urn = 125347 , ofsted = , staff = 40 (approx.) , enrolment = 420 pupils , gender = Mixed , lower_age = 2 , upper_age = 16 , houses = , colours = , publication = , free_label_1 = , free_1 = , free_label_2 = , free_2 = , free_label_3 = , free_3 = , website = http://www.saintedmunds.co.uk St Edmund's School is a coeducational nursery, pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independent School
An independent school is independent in its finances and governance. Also known as private schools, non-governmental, privately funded, or non-state schools, they are not administered by local, state or national governments. In British English, an independent school usually refers to a school which is endowed, i.e. held by a trust, charity, or foundation, while a private school is one that is privately owned. Independent schools are usually not dependent upon national or local government to finance their financial endowment. They typically have a board of governors who are elected independently of government and have a system of governance that ensures their independent operation. Children who attend such schools may be there because they (or their parents) are dissatisfied with government-funded schools (in UK state schools) in their area. They may be selected for their academic prowess, prowess in other fields, or sometimes their religious background. Private schools r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Bicknell Auden
John Bicknell Auden (14 December 1903 – 21 January 1991) was an English geologist and explorer, older brother of the poet W. H. Auden, who worked for many years in India with the Geological Survey of India and later with the Food and Agriculture Organization. He studied the Himalayan strata, particularly the Krol Belt where he recognized rocks from the Peninsula thrusting north into the Himalayas. He also studied groundwater and was involved in studying the geology of many dam sites in India. Auden's Col is named after him. Biography Auden was born at 54 Bootham in York, the second son of George Augustus Auden with Constance Rosalie née Bicknell (1869–1941) and was an older brother of the poet W. H. Auden. He was educated along with his younger brother Wystan at St Edmund's School, Hindhead, a Surrey prep school, after his father moved to teach public health at Birmingham. He excelled in French, English and the classics and being bespectacled earned the nickname of "dodo". ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Siner
Guy Domville Siner (born 16 October 1947) is an American-born English actor best known for his role as Oberleutnant Hubert Gruber in the British television series '''Allo 'Allo!'' and Dr. Mittenhand in '' Leprechaun 4: In Space''. Early life Siner was born in New York City. His father was American, born in Manhattan, New York, and his mother was English, born in Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex. His mother wanted him to be educated in the United Kingdom, and the family returned there when he was five. After attending St Edmund's School, Hindhead, he trained for the stage at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London. He is a cousin of the actress Selina Cadell and her brother, the late Simon Cadell. Career Siner's TV credits include '' Z Cars'', '' Softly, Softly: Taskforce'', ''Doctor Who'' (''Genesis of the Daleks''), ''I, Claudius'', '' Secret Army'', ''You Rang, M'Lord?'', '''Allo 'Allo!'', '' The Brittas Empire'', ''Seinfeld'', '' Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Shearman
John Kinder Gowran Shearman (pronounced "Sherman"; 24 June 1931 – 11 August 2003) was an English art historian who also taught in America. He was a specialist in Italian Renaissance painting, described by his colleague James S. Ackerman as "the leading scholar of Italian Renaissance painting", who published several influential works, but whose expected major book on Quattrocento painting, for the Penguin/Yale History of Art series (commissioned in 1984, and still a gap in the series in 2019), never appeared.Independent However, what is widely acknowledged as his most influential book, on the concept of Mannerism, published in 1967, is still in print. Early life and education Born in 1931 to Charles E. G. Shearman, a British army brigadier, and Evelyn Shearman (née White) in Aldershot, Hampshire,https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/1515/24_Shearman_1820.pdf John Shearman was educated in Surrey at St Edmund's School, Hindhead, and Felsted School in Essex. After complet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Schlesinger
John Richard Schlesinger (; 16 February 1926 – 25 July 2003) was an English film and stage director. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for ''Midnight Cowboy'', and was nominated for the same award for two other films ('' Darling'' and ''Sunday Bloody Sunday''). Early life Schlesinger was born and raised in Hampstead, London, in a Jewish family, the eldest of five children of distinguished Emmanuel College, Cambridge-educated paediatrician and physician Bernard Edward Schlesinger (1896–1984), OBE, FRCP, who had also served in the Royal Army Medical Corps as a brigadier, and his wife Winifred Henrietta, daughter of Hermann Regensburg, a stockbroker from Frankfurt. She had left school at 14 to study at the Trinity College of Music, and later studied languages at the University of Oxford for three years. Bernard Schlesinger's father Richard, a stockbroker, had come to England in the 1880s from Frankfurt. After St Edmund's School, Hindhead and Uppingham School (whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilfrid Noyce
Wilfrid ( – 709 or 710) was an English bishop and saint. Born a Northumbrian noble, he entered religious life as a teenager and studied at Lindisfarne, at Canterbury, in Francia, and at Rome; he returned to Northumbria in about 660, and became the abbot of a newly founded monastery at Ripon. In 664 Wilfrid acted as spokesman for the Roman position at the Synod of Whitby, and became famous for his speech advocating that the Roman method for calculating the date of Easter should be adopted. His success prompted the king's son, Alhfrith, to appoint him Bishop of Northumbria. Wilfrid chose to be consecrated in Gaul because of the lack of what he considered to be validly consecrated bishops in England at that time. During Wilfrid's absence Alhfrith seems to have led an unsuccessful revolt against his father, Oswiu, leaving a question mark over Wilfrid's appointment as bishop. Before Wilfrid's return Oswiu had appointed Ceadda in his place, resulting in Wilfrid's retirement to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iain Mackay-Dick
Major General Sir Iain Charles Mackay-Dick, (born 24 August 1945) Is a retired British Army officer. He was the Major-General commanding the Household Division and General Officer Commanding London District. Military career Educated at St Edmund's School, Hindhead, then at Sherborne School and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Mackay-Dick was commissioned into the Scots Guards in 1965.Biography of Major General Sir Iain Mackay-Dick KCVO MBE Buckingham Covers He was appointed a for his service in |
Anthony Loyd
Anthony William Vivian Loyd (born 12 September 1966) is an English journalist and noted war correspondent, best known for his 1999 book ''My War Gone By, I Miss It So''. He gained prominence in February 2019 when he tracked down a British Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, ISIL bride, Shamima Begum. Biography Loyd grew up in Churt on the Hampshire–Surrey border and attended St Edmund's School, Hindhead, Eton College, and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. War correspondent He went to school for journalism and then went to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia with a vague plan to cover the ongoing war. He started taking pictures but almost by accident an American reporter offered to buy some that he saw. So Loyd became a war photographer supporting himself by selling photos for 50 Deutsche Marks per photograph. Much later Loyd was traveling taking photos with British forces around Travnik, central Bosnia and Herzegovina about 90 km west of Sarajevo. While covering a fire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Isherwood
Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood (26 August 1904 – 4 January 1986) was an Anglo-American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and diarist. His best-known works include '' Goodbye to Berlin'' (1939), a semi-autobiographical novel which inspired the musical ''Cabaret''; ''A Single Man'' (1964), adapted as a film by Tom Ford in 2009; and '' Christopher and His Kind'' (1976), a memoir which "carried him into the heart of the Gay Liberation movement". Biography Early life and work Isherwood was born in 1904 on his family's estate in Cheshire near Stockport in the north-west of England. He was the elder son of Francis Edward Bradshaw Isherwood (1869–1915), known as Frank, a professional soldier in the York and Lancaster Regiment, and Kathleen Bradshaw Isherwood, nee Machell Smith (1868–1960), the only daughter of a successful wine merchant. He was the grandson of John Henry Isherwood, squire of Marple Hall and Wyberslegh Hall, Cheshire, and he included ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Farley
Guy Farley (born 5 February 1963) is a British musician and composer based in Battersea, south London. Farley is a film composer whose work includes orchestral scores, world music, contemporary sound design and has also collaborated with pop artists and producers. Recent works by Farley include ''Downfall'' (2015), ''A Good American'' (2015), and ''Exodus to Shanghai'' (2015). His most famous works include soundtracks to: '' Modigliani'' (2004), ''Wake of Death'' (2004), '' Cashback'' (2006), '' The Flock'' (2007) and ''Land of the Blind'' (2006). Farley has an extensive list of other films, television series and documentaries that he has composed music for. Career Farley started his career as a musician, composer and conductor in the early 1980s. His first significant credits in the film industry saw him work on the sound for the horror film ‘The Gardener’ (1998), followed by ‘Darkness Falls’ (1999) and then ‘Sorted’ in the year 2000. During this time he also wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Dimbleby
Jonathan Dimbleby (born 31 July 1944) is a British presenter of current affairs and political radio and television programmes, author and historian. He is the son of Richard Dimbleby and younger brother of television presenter David Dimbleby. Education Dimbleby was educated at Charterhouse, a boys' independent school in Surrey. Later, he studied farm management at the Royal Agricultural College and graduated in 1965. He then studied philosophy at University College, London, where he was editor of the student newspaper '' Pi'', and graduated in 1970. He was later elected an honorary fellow but resigned in 2015 in protest at the forced resignation of Tim Hunt as an honorary fellow. In July 2007 he received an honorary degree from the University of Exeter. He is an Honorary Fellow of Bath Spa University (2006) and holds an Honorary Doctorate from the University of the West of England (2018). TV and radio career Dimbleby began his career at the BBC in Bristol in 1969. In 1970 he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
