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Skelton may refer to: Places United Kingdom *Skelton, Cumbria, England **Skelton Transmitting Station, a radio transmitter and the tallest structure in the UK *Skelton, East Riding of Yorkshire, England *North Yorkshire, England **Skelton, Richmondshire **Skelton-on-Ure, Harrogate **Skelton, York **Skelton and Brotton, parish in Redcar and Cleveland ***Skelton-in-Cleveland *** Skelton Castle ***North Skelton United States *Skelton, Indiana *Skelton Township, Warrick County, Indiana *Skelton Township, Carlton County, Minnesota * Skelton, West Virginia People Surname *Aaron Skelton (born 1974) *Arvonne Fraser (née Skelton; 1925–2018), American women's rights activist * Aylmer Skelton (1884–1959) *B. R. Skelton (born 1933) *Barbara Skelton (1916–1996) *Betty Skelton Erde (1926–2011), women's land speed record holder and aviator *Bevil Skelton (1641–1696) *Bill Skelton (1920–2003) * Byron George Skelton (1905–2004) *Cameron Skelton (born 1995), rugby player *Carol Skel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skelton, Cumbria
Skelton is a small village and civil parish about north west of Penrith in the English county of Cumbria. It is on the former route of the B5305 road, which is now about to the north. The parish had a population of 1,059 in 2001, increasing slightly to 1,153 at the 2011 Census. The village has a primary school, pub, and Anglican and Methodist churches. Close to the village is the Skelton transmitting station and the stately home of Hutton-in-the-Forest, the family home of Lord Inglewood. Skelton Agricultural Show is one of the largest in Cumbria and takes place on the first Saturday in July at Hutton-in-the-Forest. The large parish of Skelton includes the villages and hamlets of Ellonby, Ivegill, Lamonby, Unthank, Unthank End, Skelton Wood End, Laithes, Hutton End, Hutton Row, New Rent, Braithwaite and Middlesceugh. In 1934 the parish absorbed the former civil parishes of Hutton-in-the-Forest, and Middlesceugh and Braithwaite, plus part of Dalston. Hutton-in-th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Skelton
Barbara Olive Skelton (26 June 1916 – 27 January 1996) was an English memoirist, novelist and socialite. Background Skelton was born at The Croft, Ellington Road, Taplow, Buckinghamshire, elder daughter of Eric George Skelton, who had been a Major in the West India regiment before being invalided out at a young age, and Ada Eveline (née Williams), a theatre Gaiety Girl. Eric Skelton was a descendant of playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan; his brother was the Army officer and writer Dudley Skelton. Her younger sister, Brenda, was born in 1922. Skelton spent some of her early years in India; a difficult child, she once charged at her mother with a carving knife and was later expelled from a convent school. As a teenager, she had an affair with a friend of her father's, which led an abortion. King Farouk mistress In World War II, she was recruited into the Foreign Office as a cipher clerk by Donald Maclean, a diplomat who unknown to her was a Soviet spy. In 1942, she was assigne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Skelton
George Alfred Skelton (27 November 1919 in Thurcroft, near Rotherham, Yorkshire – 1994) was a professional footballer who played as a midfielder for Huddersfield Town & Leyton Orient Leyton Orient Football Club is a professional football club based in Leyton, East London, England, who compete in , the fourth tier of the English football league system. They are the second oldest football club in London to play at a professio .... 1919 births 1994 deaths People from Thurcroft English footballers Association football forwards English Football League players Huddersfield Town A.F.C. players Leyton Orient F.C. players Sportspeople from Yorkshire {{England-footy-forward-1910s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Skelton
Geoffrey David Skelton (1916–1998) was a British author and translator. He specialized in German music, writing biographies of Richard Wagner, Cosima Wagner, Wieland Wagner and Paul Hindemith. He also translated numerous plays by leading German-language writers such as Bertolt Brecht, Max Frisch and Peter Weiss. He won the Schlegel-Tieck Prize twice, the first one for his translation of Robert Lucas' biography of Frieda Lawrence and the second one for Siegfried Lenz's novel ''The Training Ground''. Translations * ''Frieda Lawrence'' by Robert Lucas * ''Cosima Wagner's Diaries: A New Selection'' by Cosima Wagner * ''Man in the Holocene'' by Max Frisch * ''Sketchbook 1966–1971'' by Max Frisch * ''Selected Letters of Paul Hindemith'' by Paul Hindemith * ''Bluebeard: A Tale'' by Max Frisch * ''The Training Ground'' by Siegfried Lenz * ''As You Were: A Farce'' by Johann Nestroy * ''Arden Must Die'', opera libretto by Erich Fried Co-translations * ''Marat/Sade'' by Peter Weiss ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gavin Skelton
Gavin Richard Skelton (born 27 March 1981) is an English football coach, manager, and former professional footballer. As a player, he was primarily deployed as a defensive midfielder. He is the first-team coach of Carlisle United. Skelton's playing career including a seven-year spell at Gretna as well as stints at Carlisle United, Workington (two spells), Kilmarnock, Hamilton Academical, Barrow and Queen of the South. Skelton began his managerial career at Workington. After a stint as assistant manager at Queen of the South, Skelton was then manager of the club from April to November 2016. Playing career Skelton was born on 27 March 1981, in Carlisle, England. He started his career at Carlisle United as a trainee. In 1997, after three years at Brunton Park he moved to non-League club Workington Reds and one year later joined then Northern Premier League outfit Gretna. Gretna joined the Scottish Football League in 2002, eventually gaining promotion to the Scottish Premier ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dudley Skelton
Lieutenant-General Dudley Sheridan Skelton, (8 August 1878 - 2 March 1962) was a British Army officer, author and physician. Skelton was educated at Bloxham School. He commissioned into the British Army as a lieutenant ''on probation'' in the Royal Army Medical Corps on 1 September 1902. Skelton served in the First World War in the Royal Artillery, and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order and the Military Cross. He was promoted to Brevet Lieutenant Colonel in August 1917, and transferred to the Royal Army Medical Corps. He was promoted to colonel in 1930. In 1935 he became Honorary Surgeon to George V. He was invested as a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1936 Birthday Honours, while serving as Deputy Director of Medical Services, Southern Command, India. He retired as a Lieutenant-General on 13 October 1937. Skelton was a descendant of the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan. His niece was the writer Barbara Skelton Barbara Olive Skelton (26 June 1916 – 27 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craig Skelton
Craig Skelton (born 14 September 1980) is an English footballer who played as a striker in the Football League for Darlington and in non-league football for a large number of clubs, mostly in the north east of England. Football career Darlington As a youngster with Darlington, the Middlesbrough-born Skelton was a regular goalscorer for the junior teams. Celtic's city rivals Rangers also showed an interest, but an ankle injury prevented further progress. He returned to Scotland for further trials after his recovery, but no move ensued. In February 2000, Skelton signed on loan for Conference Premier club Altrincham: his debut, playing in midfield in a home defeat to the division's bottom club, Welling United, was described in the local newspaper as "a baptism of fire for Skelton, who could add nothing to an ineffective Robins attack, and found himself in referee Clattenburg's book for an over-zealous challenge". He appeared in four Conference matches without scoring. In Octob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Skelton
Charlie Skelton is a comedy writer, journalist, artist and actor from Suffolk, England. Early work A University of Oxford graduate, he started out as a journalist, writing features for the ''Evening Standard'' and ''The Guardian''. Career Skelton writes for several television programmes, including '' Have I Got News For You'', ''8 Out of 10 Cats'', ''10 O'Clock Live'' and ''The Big Fat Quiz of the Year''. He has also written for ''A League of Their Own'', ''The Eleven O'Clock Show'', and ''FAQ U'', and he was one of the writers on the ''MTV Europe Music Awards 2004''. In 2009, he began to report on the Bilderberg Group for The Guardian (series title: Our Man at Bilderberg), with his first article entitled "Our man at Bilderberg: in pursuit of the world's most powerful cabal". He has covered all the subsequent Bilderberg Group conferences: the 2010 conference in Sitges, Spain; the 2011 conference in St Moritz, Switzerland; the 2012 conference in Chantilly, Virginia, US; the 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Skelton
Charles Skelton (April 19, 1806 – May 20, 1879) was an American Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1851 to 1855. Skelton was born in Buckingham Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania on April 19, 1806. He moved to Trenton, New Jersey about 1829, where he attended the country schools and Trenton Academy. He engaged in mercantile pursuits, and moved to Philadelphia in 1835. He graduated from Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia in 1838 and commenced the practice of his profession in that city. He returned to Trenton in 1841, and was superintendent of the Trenton Public Schools in 1848. He was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-second and Thirty-third Congresses, serving in office from March 4, 1851 to March 3, 1855. After leaving Congress, he was a member of the common council from 1873-1875. He died in Trenton on May 20, 1879, and was interred in City Cemetery in Hamil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carol Skelton
Carol Skelton, (born December 12, 1945 in Biggar, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian politician. She is a member of the Security Intelligence Review Committee which oversees the operation of Canadian Security Intelligence Service. She formerly served as Member of Parliament from 2000 to 2008, and was the Minister of National Revenue from 2006 to 2007. She was first elected in the 2000 federal election by 68 votes over incumbent Dennis Gruending of the New Democratic Party in the riding of Saskatoon—Rosetown—Biggar, as a member of the Canadian Alliance. She was deputy leader of the Canadian Alliance for six months in 2003 before that party disbanded itself to merge into the new Conservative Party of Canada. She was re-elected in the 2004 federal election by over 2,000 votes in a rematch against Gruending. She is the former official opposition critic of Family Issues, Children and Youth, Human Resources Development, the Deputy Prime Minister, Social Economy, Western Economic Diver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cameron Skelton
Cameron Skelton (born 8 March 1995 in Auckland, New Zealand), is a professional rugby union player who plays for Counties Manukau. He is the brother of Australian international second-row Will Skelton and represented the Samoa national under-20 team at the 2014 Junior World Rugby Championship. Born in New Zealand, he moved with his family to Australia at the age of 7. He is noted for his immense size, and at 207 cm (6 ft 9 ½ in) in height, and 153 kg (24 st 2 lb, 338 lb) in weight, he is both taller and heavier than older brother Will. He wears a size 17 (UK) boot. He is eligible to play for Australia, New Zealand or Samoa. He was signed by the Waikato Chiefs The Chiefs (formerly known as the Waikato Chiefs and officially called the Gallagher Chiefs for sponsorship reasons) are a New Zealand professional rugby union team based in Hamilton, Waikato. The team competes in the Super Rugby competition ... in the Summer of 2014. References {{D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Byron George Skelton
Byron George Skelton (September 1, 1905 – February 6, 2004) was a judge of the United States Court of Claims. Education and career Born September 1, 1905, in Florence, Williamson County, Texas, Skelton received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1927 from the University of Texas at Austin and a Master of Arts degree in 1928 from the same institution. He received a Bachelor of Laws in 1931 from the University of Texas School of Law. He entered private practice in Temple, Texas from 1931 to 1942. He served as county attorney of Bell County, Texas from 1934 to 1938. He was special assistant to the United States Ambassador to Argentina with the United States Department of State from 1942 to 1945. He was the city attorney of Temple from 1945 to 1960, concurrently returning to private practice in Temple from 1945 to 1966. Federal judicial service Skelton was nominated by President Lyndon B. Johnson on August 17, 1966, to the United States Court of Claims, to a new seat authorized by 80 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |