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Shelley (name)
Shelley is a given name and surname. In many baby name books, ''Shelley'' is listed as meaning "meadow’s edge" or "clearing on a bank". It is Old English in origin. As with many other names (Courtney, Ashley, etc.), Shelley is today a name given almost exclusively to girls after historically being male. It is commonly used as a nickname for ''Michelle'' (and formerly as a variant of ''Shirley''). Shelley is also a transferred surname used by those in Essex, Suffolk and Yorkshire, particularly in settlements where a wood/clearing was beside a ledge or hillside. ''Shelly'' is a common alternative spelling. It is featured in tile on the ceiling of the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. Notable people with the name include: Surname * Adolphus Edward Shelley (1812–1854), the first Auditor-General in British Hong Kong * Alex Shelley (born 1983), stage name of American wrestler Patrick Martin * Alexander Shelley (born 1979), English conductor * Arthur Shelley (fl.1905), Britis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michelle (name)
Michelle is a given name, originally a variant of Michèle, the France, French feminine form of Michel (name), Michel, derived from the Hebrew name Michael (name), Michael meaning "Who is like God?". It is now extensively used in English-speaking as well as French-speaking countries, partly influenced by the Beatles Michelle (song), song of the same name. It is also a surname. Variants and cognates * Albanian language, Albanian: Miçel * Arabic: ميشيل * Armenian language, Armenian: Միշել * Belarusian language, Belarusian: Мішэль ( Mišeĺ) * Bengali language, Bengali: মিশেল ( Miśēla) * Bulgarian language, Bulgarian: Мишел, Микаела, Михаела * Chinese language, Chinese Simplified: 米歇尔 (Mǐ xiē ěr) * Chinese Traditional: 米歇爾 (Mǐ xiē ěr) * Czech language, Czech: Michaela, Michala * Danish language, Danish: Mikaela, Mikkeline * Finnish language, Finnish: Mikaela * French language, French: Michèle * Georgian language, G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deck Shelley
Robert Pendexter "Dexter" "Deck" Shelley (June 4, 1906 – December 17, 1968) was born and raised in San Antonio. He was recruited to play high school football in Dallas for the Terrill School, a forerunner of St. Mark's School of Texas. He went on to become an all conference running back for the University of Texas. During the 1929 edition of the rivalry game between Texas and the University of Oklahoma, Shelley recovered an early fumble on defense and then scored a rushing touchdown to catalyze the victory. Professional career Shelley was a player in the National Football League. He split the 1931 NFL season between the Providence Steam Roller and the Portsmouth Spartans before splitting the following season between the Green Bay Packers The Green Bay Packers are a professional American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The Packers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the National Football Conference (NFC) NFC North, Nort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Shelley
Sir James Shelley (1884–1961) was a notable New Zealand university professor, educationalist, lecturer, critic and director of broadcasting. He was born in Coventry, Warwickshire, England, in 1884. During the 1920s to the late 1940s James Shelley was a major influence on New Zealand's cultural and educational scene. His carefully crafted political and social contacts with New Zealand's social, cultural and political elites ensured that his ideas had considerable impact on New Zealand's cultural scene during this era, especially his efforts to impose an Anglophile, 'high' culture regime on the Dominion's cultural development. Shelley was born in England in 1883. After graduating from Cambridge he taught for year, then lectured at various English training colleges and in the Education Dept. of Manchester University Taught for one year, before taking up posts at training colleges and University of Manchester. ‘after war he took up new chair of education at Canterbury U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Shelley (footballer)
Jack Shelley (1 August 1905 – 3 December 1979) was an Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...er who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Shelley later served in the Australian Army during World War II. Notes External links * * 1905 births 1979 deaths Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) St Kilda Football Club players People educated at Melbourne Grammar School {{AFL-bio-1905-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Shelley
Hubert Leneirre Shelley (October 26, 1910 – June 16, 1978) was an American baseball outfielder. He played professional baseball for 13 seasons from 1932 to 1943 and in 1946. He appeared in seven games in Major League Baseball for the Detroit Tigers during the 1935 season, though he was not on their World Series roster that season. Early years Shelley was born in 1910 in Rogers, Texas. His father was a farmer there. Professional baseball Shelley began his professional baseball career in 1932, playing for the Decatur Commodores of the Three-I League and the Moline Plowboys of the Mississippi Valley League. He also played for the Shreveport Sports of the Dixie League (1933), and the Beaumont Exporters of the Texas League (1933–1935). In 1935, he was called up by the Detroit Tigers. He appeared in his first major league game on June 25, 1935. He appeared in a total of seven games for the 1935 Tigers, one of them as the starting center fielder. He had only 10 plate appearances ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howard Shelley
Howard Gordon Shelley (born 9 March 1950) is a British pianist and conductor. He was educated at Highgate School and the Royal College of Music. He was married to fellow pianist Hilary Macnamara (her death), with whom he has performed and recorded in a two-piano partnership, and they have two sons. Performer After winning the premier prize at the Royal College of Music at the end of his first year, Howard Shelley's career began with a successful London recital and a televised BBC Proms concert with the London Symphony Orchestra under Michael Tilson Thomas in the same season. Since then he has performed regularly throughout the UK, Europe, Scandinavia, North America, Russia, Australia, and the Far East. He has also made over seventy-five commercial recordings. In 1994, an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Music was conferred on him by the Prince of Wales. As pianist he has performed, broadcast and recorded around the world with leading orchestras and conductors inclu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Rowe Shelley
Harry Rowe Shelley (June 8, 1858 – September 12, 1947) was an American composer, organist (church and concert), and professor of music. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Shelley studied with Gustave J. Stoeckel at Yale College, Dudley Buck, Max (Wilhelm Carl) Vogrich, and Antonín Dvořák in New York, and completed his musical education in London and Paris. According to his ''New York Times'' obituary, Shelley "penned church music that won him wide popularity. For 60 years a host of English-speaking peoples throughout the world sang his hymns." Shelley attended Hopkins Grammar School in New Haven, Connecticut and at fourteen played the organ at Center Church on the Green in New Haven. Although he entered Yale, he did not complete his freshman year. Shelley was organist at the Church of the Pilgrims during the ministry of Henry Ward Beecher and played at his funeral. Shelley died at age 89 in Short Beach, Connecticut. Shelley taught at the American Institute of Applie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gladys Shelley
Gladys Shelley (née Shaskan, December 15, 1911 – December 9, 2003) was an United States, American lyricist and composer, who was responsible for over 300 songs. Early life Gladys Shaskan was born in Lawrence, Nassau County, New York, Lawrence, New York to George Fried and Fannie Shaskan. She began writing at an early age. Her first efforts were primarily poetry and before graduating from high school she had had several items of her light verse published by Walter Winchell and other newspaper columnists. After high school, she moved to Manhattan, enrolling at Columbia University and working for a time as an actress and dancer. She began writing song lyrics in the late 1930s. Collaborations In 1940, Gladys Shelley and Abner Silver penned "How Did He Look?", which became her first hit and most frequently recorded song, originally done in 1941 by Joan Merrill. Her second song with Silver, "There Shall Be No Night", had its title taken from a then-current anti-Nazism, Nazi play, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerard Shelley
George Frankham Shell known as George Gerard Shelley ( Sidcup, Kent 1891 – 24 August 1980) was a British linguist, author and translator who travelled in Imperial Russia before and during the Russian Revolution. He became a priest and lived in a community of the Oblates of St. Joseph. He was ordained in March 1950 as a bishop in the Old Roman Catholic Church in Great Britain (ORCCGB). In 1952 he became the third archbishop. Life Brought up as a Roman Catholic, Shelley attended an Italian college near Lake Garda in 1907. Near Venice he was invited by a Russian aristocrat, Countess Bobrinsky, to visit her. He was a graduate of the University of Heidelberg as well as the Major Seminary and Collège Saint-Sulpice in Paris. In 1913, influenced by Stephen Graham, he travelled by train from Warsaw to Kursk, Kharkov, Belgorod and Shebekino where he stayed for a year with his host and learned Russian at Kharkov University. (He already spoke French, German, and Italian from an earl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George M
''George M!'' is a Broadway musical based on the life of George M. Cohan, the biggest Broadway star of his day who was known as "The Man Who Owned Broadway." The book for the musical was written by Michael Stewart, John Pascal, and Francine Pascal. Music and lyrics were by George M. Cohan himself, with revisions for the musical by Cohan's daughter, Mary Cohan. The story covers the period from the late 1880s until 1937 and focuses on Cohan's life and show business career from his early days in vaudeville with his parents and sister to his later success as a Broadway singer, dancer, composer, lyricist, theatre director and producer. The show includes such Cohan hit songs as "Give My Regards To Broadway", "You're a Grand Old Flag", and "Yankee Doodle Dandy." Productions The musical opened on Broadway at the Palace Theatre on April 10, 1968 and closed on April 26, 1969 after 433 performances and 8 previews. The show was produced by David Black and directed and choreographed by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Ernest Shelley
Captain George Ernest Shelley (15 May 1840 – 29 November 1910) was an English geologist and ornithologist. He was a nephew of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Shelley was educated at the Lycée de Versailles and served a few years in the Grenadier Guards "Shamed be whoever thinks ill of it." , colors = , colors_label = , march = Slow: " Scipio" , mascot = , equipment = , equipment .... His books included ''A Monograph of the Cinnyridae, or Family of Sun Birds'' (1878), ''A Handbook to the Birds of Egypt'' (1872) and ''The Birds of Africa'' (5 volumes, 1896–1912) illustrated by J. G. Keulemans. (with bibliography of publications by G. E. Shelley) References External links * Illustrations appearing in Handbook to the Birds of Egypt 1840 births 1910 deaths English geologists English ornithologists Grenadier Guards officers Place of birth missing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Shelley (singer)
George Paul Shelley (born 27 July 1993) is an English singer, actor and presenter, and a member of the boy band Union J. In 2015, he competed in the fifteenth series of the ITV reality show '' I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!'' and finished as a runner-up to Vicky Pattison. He co-presented '' The Capital Breakfast Show'' alongside Dave Berry and Lilah Parsons. He also appeared on BBC show ''Murder in Successville'' as a sidekick. Early life Shelley was born to Toni Harris in Clevedon, North Somerset (then in Avon). He attended Kings of Wessex Academy in Cheddar before graduating from Weston College in 2011. Shelley has two brothers, two step-sisters Anabelle and Louisa, four half-brothers. He had a younger sister, Harriet, who died after being hit by a car in 2017. Shelley attended Weston College in Weston-super-Mare from 2010 until 2011, where he completed a BTEC Extended Diploma in Graphic Design. Career Union J In 2012, Shelley was part of British band Only the Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
