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Sherring
Sherring is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Billy Sherring (1877–1964), Canadian marathon runner *Frank Sherring (1914–2007), Canadian auto dealer and politician *M. A. Sherring (1826–1880), English Protestant missionary in British India and Indologist See also *Shearing (surname) {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Sherring
William John Sherring (September 18, 1877 – September 5, 1964) was a Canadian athlete of English and Irish descent, winner of the marathon race at the 1906 Intercalated Games (or 1906 Olympic Games, as they were at the time considered to be). During the decade of the early 1900s, Sherring, from Hamilton, Ontario was acknowledged to be a world class marathoner. He had won a second place behind a fellow countryman Jack Caffery at the Boston Marathon in 1900. He also had won the Hamilton Around the Bay Road Race on two occasions. In 1906, Sherring – an athlete of St. Patrick's Athletic Club – was chosen to represent Canada in the Athens Olympic Games. However, it was left up to him, a working man with meager resources (he was a brakeman at the Grand Trunk Railway), to finance his journey to Athens. Sherring managed to collect an amount claimed to be between $45 and $90 (a clearly insufficient amount to travel to Athens), which he then bet on a horse named ''Cicel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Sherring
Frank Sherring (August 7, 1914 – September 23, 2007) was an auto dealer and politician in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. Sherring served as the 21st mayor of Lethbridge from 1962 to 1968, and he was the first mayor to be elected by the general populace rather than by Lethbridge City Council. One of Lethbridge's business parks is named after him. History In 1947, Sherring and his wife Violet moved to Lethbridge, then with a population of 16,000. He started work as a gas station attendant before working for a Ford dealership where he eventually became a manager. Sherring spent much of his time in community service, volunteering for the Jaycees, the Lions, the John Howard Society and the Alberta Amateur Hockey Association. It was this service that made him popular enough to be elected to city council in 1955 and become the most popular alderman in successive elections. When he was elected to the mayor seat in 1962, he was the first mayor to be elected by the people of Lethbridge. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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