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Stansfeld Family
Stansfeld is an English surname deriving from the Old English 'stan' (meaning stony) and 'feld' (field). This toponymic surname originates from the ancient township of Stansfield (near Todmorden, West Yorkshire), which was listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as 'Stanesfelt’. The surname is most commonly found around the town of Todmorden, West Yorkshire. Notable people with this surname include: Stansfeld (surname) * Anthony Stansfeld (b.1945), English Conservative politician and Thames Valley Police and Crime Commissioner * Caroline Ashurst Stansfeld (1816–89), English activist and wife of James Stansfeld * James Stansfeld (1820–98), English Liberal politician and President of the Local Government Board * James Rawdon Stansfeld (1866–1936), English army officer * John Stansfeld (1855–1939), English Anglican priest, physician, and founder of Stansfeld Oxford and Bermondsey Club Football Club * John Raymond Evelyn Stansfeld (1880–1915), English army officer * Margaret ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a 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, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 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 (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Stansfeld
John Stedwell Stansfeld (; 16 December 185517 December 1939) was a doctor, Anglican priest and philanthropist in Oxford, England, who founded the Oxford Medical mission in Bermondsey, London, and the Stansfeld Oxford & Bermondsey Club Football Club in 1897. Early life Stansfeld was born in West Street, Walworth, Surrey, in 1855, the son of Alfred Stansfeld (1823–86) and Eliza Stedwell (1819–1914). His father was a relative of the Stansfeld family of Stansfield and Field House, Sowerby, Yorkshire. Career Stansfeld began his career as a civil servant in HM Customs and Excise. In 1877, he moved to Oxford, and later matriculated as a student at Exeter College, where he studied Medicine, attaining his BA in 1889, MA in 1893 and qualified as a doctor in 1897. In 1897 he started the Oxford Medical Misson in Bermondsey, London, where he founded the Stansfeld Oxford & Bermondsey Club in the same year. [...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] |
Dunninald Castle
Dunninald Castle is a privately owned country house south of Montrose, Angus, Montrose in Angus, Scotland, Angus, Scotland, which was listed as Category A by Historic Scotland in 1971. History The name ''Dunninald'' is derived from the Gaelic expressions "Dun" (fortification, castle) and "Ard" (high, towering). Dunninald has given its name to three buildings since the Middle Ages. The first Dunninald Castle referred to a castle known colloquially as ''Black Jack Castle'' on a cliff above the North Sea. The second building was a manor house, built around 1590, which was near the location of today's building. the property was held by the Gray family until 1610 Patrick Leighton of Usan acquired the property in 1617 before it passed to Thomas Allardyce of Allardyce through marriage in 1663. It was sold to the Scotts of Usan in 1696. The foundations of the surrounding park were probably laid during the 17th century. In the 1800s the property passed to the Scotts of Logie. The merc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Field House, Sowerby
Field House is a Grade II* listed privately owned historic house in Sowerby Bridge, West Yorkshire, England. History Field House (Old Hall) is mentioned as being in the possession of William Brig in 1533 and it passed to other owners during the 17th century but by the 1740s was owned by George Stansfeld (1725–1805) of Sowerby, a descendant of the Stansfeld family of Stansfield, Yorkshire. He built a new house (Field House) in 1749, and this estate later passed to his cousin Robert Stansfeld (1771–1855), then his son, Col. Robert Stansfeld (1805–85), to his second son, John Stansfeld (1840–1928) who married Eliza Arkley of Dunninald Castle, and then passed to a cousin, George Reginald Stansfeld (1870–1964). Architecture Field House Old Hall This Grade II listed house, dating from the early 17th century and with 19th century alterations, is now 2 dwellings. It has hollow-moulded double-chamfered mullion windows and a heavily-moulded Tudor-arched doorway amongs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stansfield (other)
Stansfield is a village in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk. Stansfield may refer to: People * Stansfield (surname) * Stansfield Turner (1923–2018), American admiral * Robert Timothy Stansfield Frankford (1939–2015), Canadian politician Places *Stansfield, West Yorkshire, an ancient township near Todmorden, West Yorkshire * Stansfield Hall, Todmorden, Grade II* listed historic house in Stansfield, Todmorden, West Yorkshire *Stansfield Hall railway station, former railway station in Todmorden, West Yorkshire * Jean Stansfield Memorial Park, public park in Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire * Stansfield Tower, tower in Blacko, Pendle, Lancashire *Stansfield Windmill, windmill near the village of Stansfield, Suffolk *Stansfield's Varieties, former name of the Leeds City Varieties music hall * Mount Stansfield, Enderby Land, Antarctica See also * Stansfeld Stansfeld is an English surname deriving from the Old English 'stan' (meaning stony) and 'feld' (field). This toponymic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timothy Stansfeld Engleheart
Timothy Stansfeld Engleheart (; 1803–1879), was an English engraver. He engraved some of the plates in ‘The British Museum Marbles,’ but seems to have removed to Darmstadt, as there is a fine engraving by him of ‘Ecce Homo,’ after Guido Reni Guido Reni (; 4 November 1575 – 18 August 1642) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, although his works showed a classical manner, similar to Simon Vouet, Nicolas Poussin, and Philippe de Champaigne. He painted primarily religious ..., executed at Darmstadt in 1840. References External links by Alexander Chisholm, engraved by Engleheart for Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1837 and with a poetical illustration by Letitia Elizabeth Landon. 1803 births 1879 deaths English engravers 19th-century engravers {{UK-printmaker-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Stansfeld Jones
Charles Robert Stansfeld Jones (; 1886–1950), aka Frater Achad, was an occultist and ceremonial magician. An early aspirant to the A∴A∴ (the 20th to be admitted as a Probationer, in December 1909) who "claimed" the grade of Magister Templi as a Neophyte. He also became an O.T.O. initiate, serving as the principal organizer for that order in British Columbia, Canada. He worked under a variety of mottos and acronymic titles, including V.I.O. (Unus in Omnibus, "One in All," as an A∴A∴ Probationer), O.I.V.V.I.O., V.I.O.O.I.V., Parzival (as an Adeptus Minor and O.T.O. Ninth Degree), and Tantalus Leucocephalus (as Tenth Degree O.T.O.), but he is best known under his Neophyte motto "Achad" ( he, אחד, "unity"), which he used as a byline in his various published writings. Early life Jones was born in London on 2 April 1886. He became an accountant. Prior to joining the A∴A∴, he investigated Spiritualism, as recounted in the notes of his magical progress, "A Master of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grey Owl
Archibald Stansfeld Belaney (; September 18, 1888 – April 13, 1938), commonly known as Grey Owl, was a British-born conservationist, fur trapper, and writer who disguised himself as a Native American man. While he achieved fame as a conservationist during his life, after his death, the revelation that he was not Indigenous, along with other autobiographical fabrications, negatively affected his reputation. Belaney rose to prominence as a notable author and lecturer, primarily on environmental issues. In working with the National Parks Branch, Grey Owl became the subject of many films, and was established as the "'caretaker of park animals' at Riding Mountain National Park in Manitoba" in 1931. Together with his numerous articles, books, films and lectures, his views on conservation reached audiences beyond the borders of Canada. His conservation views largely focused on humans' negative impact on nature through their commodification of nature's resources for profits, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Wolryche Stansfeld
Brigadier-General Thomas Wolryche Stansfeld (; 30 June 1877 – 22 February 1935) was a British army officer who served in the Boer War (1899–1902) and World War I, seeing action at the First Battle of Ypres and Battle of Passchendaele and other battles. Early life Stansfeld was born in Leeds on 30 June 1877, the youngest son of Thomas Wolryche Stansfeld (1822–1885), JP, of Weetwood Grange, Leeds. His mother was his father's second wife Louisa Agnes Chapman, second daughter of Joseph Barker Chapman and granddaughter of Aaron Chapman. Military career Stansfeld was educated at Winchester School, before entering the Army in 1897. He served in the Boer War in South Africa (1899–1902) during which he was involved in operations near Colesberg and the Relief of Kimberley and also saw action at the Battle of Paardeberg and was mentioned in dispatches. He was appointed a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) in 1900 and promoted to Captain in 1902. Stans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Stansfeld
Margaret Stansfeld (; 10 March 1860 – 28 June 1951) was a British teacher and educator who was the founder and Principal of the Bedford Physical Training College from 1903 to 1945 and promoted physical education for girls. Career Stansfeld was born in Edmonton, Middlesex, on 10 March 1860 and was the daughter of the baker James Stansfeld and his wife Mary Stansfeld, the daughter of James Fallon. She and her elder sister were educated at a board school in London. In 1881, Stansfeld enrolled on courses for female school teachers, taught by Martina Bergman-Osterberg, and she was recruited as an instructor for Hampstead Physical Training College in 1885. She taught gymnastics and games at girls' schools, including Bedford High School for Girls, and also taught at the Froebel Institute, London, and the Cambridge Training College for Women Teachers. She played a leading role in founding the Ling Association, for the promotion of Swedish gymnastics, in 1899 and later establishe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Raymond Evelyn Stansfeld
John Raymond Evelyn Stansfeld (; 20 April 1880 – 28 September 1915) was a British army officer involved in the Relief of Ladysmith, the Battle of Spion Kop during the Boer War and the First Battle of Ypres. Stansfeld died at the Battle of Loos during World War I. He served with the Gordon Highlanders. Early life Stansfeld was born on 20 April 1880. He was the youngest child and only son of John Birkbeck Evelyn Stansfeld (1846–1911), Rector of Preston, and his wife Marie Agnes Barrenger. John Snr was the son of Rev. John Stansfield (1814–61), Vicar of Coniston Cold. His cousin, was John Stansfeld (1840–1928) of Field House, Sowerby, and Dunninald Castle, Montrose. He was a descendant of the Stansfeld family of Stansfield and Sowerby, Yorkshire, and a distant cousin of William Crompton-Stansfield, Sir James Stansfeld, James Rawdon Stansfeld and Thomas Wolryche Stansfeld. Stansfeld was educated at Uppingham School where in 1896 he was awarded the school's Si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
