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Spiers
Spiers is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Alexander Spiers (1807–1869), English lexicographer *Bob Spiers (1945–2008), British television director *Cyril Spiers (1902–1967), former English professional footballer and manager * Dick Spiers (1937–2000), English footballer * Edward Louis Spiers, later Edward Spears (1886–1974), British Army officer and politician *Elizabeth Spiers (born 1976), the founding editor of gossip blog Gawker.com and the Wall Street gossip site dealbreaker.com *Felix William Spiers (1832–1911), founder of Spiers & Pond, restaurateurs *Hetty Spiers (1881–1973), theatre and film costumier and screenwriter *John Spiers (born 1975), English squeezebox player, founder member of folk duo Spiers and Boden and Bellowhead *Reg Spiers (born 1941), Australian athlete known for traveling in a wooden box from England to Australia *Richard Phené Spiers (1838–1916), English architect and author * Ronald I. Spiers (1925–2021), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Spiers
John Spiers (born 1975) is an English diatonic button accordion, melodeon, concertina and bandoneon player. He is widely recognised as one of the leading English melodeon players of his generation. Career file:Purbeck_Valley_Folk_Festival_2021_-_Jackie_Oates_&_John_Spiers_(51407571771).jpg , left, Performing with Jackie Oates at Purbeck Valley Folk Festival in 2021 Spiers is best known for his work with Jon Boden in the duo Spiers and Boden and the band Bellowhead. He also played with Eliza Carthy's former band The Ratcatchers in the mid-noughties. Since Bellowhead called it a day in 2016, Spiers has released two highly acclaimed albums with Peter Knight (folk musician), Peter Knight, Well Met (2018) and Both in a Tune (2021), which has been described as 'An extraordinary collaboration between two musicians at the absolute top of their game'; he also plays regularly with Peter Knight'Gigspanner Big Band whose 2020 album Natural Invention has been described as 'a piece of mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surname
In some cultures, a surname, family name, or last name is the portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family, tribe or community. Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name, as the forename, or at the end; the number of surnames given to an individual also varies. As the surname indicates genetic inheritance, all members of a family unit may have identical surnames or there may be variations; for example, a woman might marry and have a child, but later remarry and have another child by a different father, and as such both children could have different surnames. It is common to see two or more words in a surname, such as in compound surnames. Compound surnames can be composed of separate names, such as in traditional Spanish culture, they can be hyphenated together, or may contain prefixes. Using names has been documented in even the oldest historical records. Examples of surnames are documented in the 11th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spears (surname)
Spears is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Aries Spears (born 1975), American actor and comedian * Billie Jo Spears (1937–2011), American country singer * Britney Spears (born 1981), American pop singer * Frank Sydney Spears (1906–1991), a South African artist and designer * Jamie Lynn Spears (born 1991), American actress, singer, and younger sister of Britney Spears * Ken Spears (1938–2020), American animator, writer, television producer and sound editor * Kendra Spears (born 1988), American fashion model * Lynne Spears (born 1955), mother of Britney and Jamie Lynn Spears * Major-General Sir Edward Spears, Bt, KBE (1886–1974), British army officer, MP and author * Marcel Spears Jr. (born 1997), American football player * Marcus Spears (offensive tackle) (born 1971), NFL footballer * Marcus Spears (defensive end) (born 1983), NFL footballer * Monroe K. Spears (1916–1998), American university professor * Randy Spears (born 1961), American for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stewart Spiers
Stewart Spiers was a small but innovative firm of plane-makers in Scotland, founded first of all in Ayr in Ayrshire and continuing under the registered name of Stewart Speirs Ltd 'sic''in Paisley, Renfrewshire, from c. 1933 until its demise in the mid to late 1930s. Like the Glasgow firm of Alexander Mathieson & Sons, Spiers benefited hugely from the thriving industries on the Firth of Clyde in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Early years Stewart followed his father William Spiers into the cabinet-making trade in Ayr, and when his father died in 1844 he apparently took over the workshop in River Street. He was later to claim 1840 as the year his plane-making firm began. How Stewart came to be a plane-maker was, according to the ''Ayrshire Post'', purely by accident, however. He is said to have bought a rough casting in Edinburgh for 1/6, finished it at home and sold it to a local cabinet-maker for 18/-. This supposedly was the beginning of what soon became a success ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claremont Serial Killings
The Claremont serial killings is the name given by the media to a case involving the disappearance of an Australian woman, aged 18, and the killings of two others, aged 23 and 27, in 1996–1997. After attending night spots in Claremont, a wealthy western suburb of Perth, Western Australia, all three women disappeared in similar circumstances leading police to suspect that an unidentified serial killer was the offender. The case was described as the state's biggest, longest running, and most expensive investigation. In 2016, a suspect, Bradley Robert Edwards, was arrested. He was held on remand and his trial began in November 2019 and ended on 25 June 2020, after seven months of hearings and evidence from more than 200 witnesses. On 24 September 2020, he was found guilty of the murders of Jane Rimmer and Ciara Glennon, and not guilty of the murder of Sarah Spiers, whose remains have yet to be located. On 23 December 2020, he was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronald I
Ronald is a masculine given name derived from the Old Norse ''Rögnvaldr'', Hanks; Hardcastle; Hodges (2006) p. 234; Hanks; Hodges (2003) § Ronald. or possibly from Old English '' Regenweald''. In some cases ''Ronald'' is an Anglicised form of the Gaelic ''Raghnall'', a name likewise derived from ''Rögnvaldr''. The latter name is composed of the Old Norse elements ''regin'' ("advice", "decision") and ''valdr'' ("ruler"). ''Ronald'' was originally used in England and Scotland, where Scandinavian influences were once substantial, although now the name is common throughout the English-speaking world. A short form of ''Ronald'' is ''Ron''. Pet forms of ''Ronald'' include ''Roni'' and ''Ronnie''. ''Ronalda'' and ''Rhonda'' are feminine forms of ''Ronald''. ''Rhona'', a modern name apparently only dating back to the late nineteenth century, may have originated as a feminine form of ''Ronald''. Hanks; Hardcastle; Hodges (2006) pp. 230, 408; Hanks; Hodges (2003) § Rhona. The names '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Phené Spiers
Richard Phené Spiers (1838 – 3 October 1916 London) was an English architect and author. He occupied a unique position amongst the English architects of the latter half of the 19th century, his long mastership of the architectural school at the Royal Academy of Arts having given him the opportunity of moulding and shaping the minds of more than a generation of students. Spiers wrote most of the articles dealing with architecture for the 1911 ''Encyclopædia Britannica''. Biography Phené Spiers was educated in the engineering department of King's College London, and proceeded thence to the atelier of Charles-Auguste Questel at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, for upwards of three years, a method of study rare for an architectural student in those days. On his return he won the gold medal and travelling scholarship of the Royal Academy, and in 1865 the Soane medal of the R.I.B.A. In 1871, after he had worked in the offices of Sir Digby Wyatt and Wil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reg Spiers
Reginald James "Reg" Spiers (born 14 December 1941) is an Australian former athlete who competed in the javelin throw at the 1962 Commonwealth Games, before his later conviction on drug smuggling charges. He is best known for successfully posting himself in a box from England to Australia to avoid paying for a plane ticket. Athletic career Born in Adelaide, South Australia, Spiers, who grew to be over two metres tall and strongly built,Rettie, J. "Australian's French connection", ''The Age'', p. 1., 13 February 1987 took up javelin and became one of the leading javelin throwers in Australia while still a teenager, placing third in the 1960/61 Australian Track and Field Championships and second in 1961/62. His results led to his qualification for the 1962 Commonwealth Games in Perth, Western Australia, where he came fifth with a best throw of 69.70 metres. Spiers continued to compete but his performances during the 1963/64 Australian summer were not enough to gain admission to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hetty Spiers
Henrietta Elizabeth Spiers (6 August 18811973) was a British costume designer for the theatre and silent films, a screenwriter, and an author. Columbia University's Women Film Pioneers Project counts her among those on its list of 'Unhistoricized Women Film Pioneers'. Early life Hetty Spiers was born in Toxteth in Liverpool in 1881 the daughter of Amelia Matilda ''née'' Bromley and Kaufmann Charles Spiers, of German and Irish descent. From a family of writers, her father was the drama, music, and art critic for the ''Liverpool Daily Post'' while her older brother Kaufmann Charles St. George Spiers Jr. was a reporter, correspondent writer, and book reviewer. He also wrote the play ''If Youth But Knew'', which was made as a silent film in 1926 starring Godfrey Tearle and Mary Odette. By 1901 her parents were separated and Spiers was living with her mother and brother at 121 Stockwell Park Road in Lambeth in London where she was listed as a 'chorister' and her brother as a 'journalis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Spiers
Alexander Spiers (1807–1869), was an English lexicographer. Life Spiers, was born at Gosport in Hampshire in 1807. He studied in England, in Germany, and in Paris and graduated doctor of philosophy at the University of Leipzig. Acting under the advice of Andrieux, a well-known poet, he settled in Paris as a professor of English, and found employment at L'École de Commerce, at L'École des Ponts et Chaussées, at L'École des Mines, and at the Lycée Bonaparte. Spiers was nominated an Agrégé de l'Université (roughly, a professorship), an Officier de l'Instruction Publique (officer of the Education Minister), Examinateur à la Sorbonne, and Inspecteur Général de l'Université. He received the cross of the Legion of Honour from Napoleon III. He married in 1853 Victoire Dawes Newman, by whom he left five sons. He died at Passy, near Paris, on 26 Aug. 1869. English-French dictionary For fourteen years he devoted himself largely to compiling a new English-French and Frenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felix William Spiers
Felix William Spiers (born London, England 1832, died Paris, France 1911) was a British restaurateur and hotelier. Spiers' family originated in Glasgow, Scotland in the very early 18th century. One of the family moved to France, where he dealt in tobacco. Later family members were born in Calais, Dunkerque, Boulogne, France and in England. After his death his wife, Constance Albertine Spiers, donated money to the town of Belle-Ile, an island off the coast of Brittany, for a lifeboat which was named after him. His father was Felix Theodore Benjamin Augustus Spiers, born at Calais, in 1797, a shipbroker and merchant, agent in London for the Bristol General Steam Navigation Company. Australia In 1851 Felix William sailed to Melbourne to join the gold rush where he was a wine merchant, having acquired a publican's licence in 1857. He set up in business at George Coppin and Gustavus Brooke's Theatre Royal, Melbourne with George Hennelle, but Hennelle was badly injured by a falling P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Spiers
Elizabeth Spiers (born December 11, 1976) is an American web publisher and journalist, the founding editor of Gawker, a media gossip blog. From February 2011 until August 2012 she was the editor of ''The New York Observer''."I worked for Jared Kushner. He's the wrong businessman to reinvent government." by Elizabeth Spiers, '''', 30 March 2017 Early life and education Spiers was born in |
