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Streatham And Clapham High School
Streatham & Clapham High School is an independent day school for girls aged 3 to 18, in south London. The school was founded in 1887 by the Girls' Day School Trust, Girls' Public Day School Company, which established schools for girls providing academic, moral and religious education. The Head Master is Mr Richard Hinton. The ability profile of the school is above the national average, with a proportion of pupils being far above the national average. The 2019 Independent Schools Inspectorate report awarded the school the highest grade in both categories inspected ('Excellent'): the quality of pupils' academic and other achievements and the quality of their personal development. The school is located on two sites, the Prep School in a Victorian building in Wavertree Road, London SW2, and the Senior School (including the Sixth Form) in buildings designed in the 1930s by J. E. K. Harrison. History 'Brixton Hill High School' began in February 1887 in a house at 260 Brixton Hil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
College Of Arms
The College of Arms, or Heralds' College, is a royal corporation consisting of professional officers of arms, with jurisdiction over England, Wales, Northern Ireland and some Commonwealth realms. The heralds are appointed by the British Sovereign and are delegated authority to act on behalf of the Crown in all matters of heraldry, the granting of new coats of arms, genealogical research and the recording of pedigrees. The College is also the official body responsible for matters relating to the flying of flags on land, and it maintains the official registers of flags and other national symbols. Though a part of the Royal Household of the United Kingdom, the College is self-financed, unsupported by any public funds. Founded by royal charter in 1484 by King Richard III, the College is one of the few remaining official heraldic authorities in Europe. Within the United Kingdom, there are two such authorities, the Court of the Lord Lyon in Scotland and the College of Arms for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scraptoft
Scraptoft is a village in Leicestershire, England. It has a population of about 1,500, measured at the 2011 census as 1,804. It lies north of the A47 road east of Leicester, and runs directly into the built up area of Thurnby and Bushby to the south. For local government the village forms part of the district of Harborough, and constitutes a civil parish. Rail transport The Thurnby and Scraptoft railway station (which connected to the Great Northern Railway) closed to passenger traffic in the mid-1950s. Seaside excursions and freight continued to use the line until around 1964, and in the early part of 1965 the track was lifted and the bridge across the road on Station Road was demolished. Road transport Services through, to or from Scraptoft were run by Ernest Jordan of Halstead near Tilton-on-the-Hill in the early years of the 20th century. Hincks of Hungarton also ran services until c1930 when the company was taken over by the "Birmingham & Midland Motor Omnibus C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bell Ribeiro-Addy
Bellavia Janet Ribeiro-Addy (born 1 March 1985) is a British Labour Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament for Streatham since the 2019 general election. Solidly on the left of the Party, she considers herself a "life-long socialist" and a feminist and was briefly Shadow Minister of State for Immigration in 2020. Early life Born and raised in Streatham, Ribeiro-Addy grew up in a working-class family on a council estate on Brixton Hill. She is Christian and of Ghanaian descent. Ribeiro-Addy was able to attend the independent Streatham and Clapham High School on a scholarship. She went on to graduate with a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Science with Ethics & Philosophy of Science from the University of Bradford in 2006. She then completed a Master of Arts in Medical Law & Ethics at Queen Mary University of London, awarded in 2007, and a Graduate Diploma in Law at BPP Law School, awarded in 2015. She was the National Black Students' Officer for the Na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elsie Owusu
Elsie Owusu is a Ghana-born British architect, a founding member and the first chair of the Society of Black Architects. She is also known to have co-led the refurbishment of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom in 2009 and worked on Green Park tube station. She has been an elected Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Council member since 2014, and vice-chair of the London School of Architecture. Education and career Elsie Owusu was born in Ghana and in November 1953 moved with her parents to the UK, where her father was a diplomat in London. She attended Streatham and Clapham High School in London. She has been working as an architect since 1986, founding her own architectural practice, Elsie Owusu Architects (EOA), of which she remains principal."RIBA Role Model: Elsie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maryam Moshiri
Maryam Moshiri is a television broadcaster who currently works for the BBC. Career Moshiri began her career as a business reporter for Independent Radio News, before joining the BBC in 2003. She worked for 16 years as a Business News Anchor on some of the BBC's flagship business programmes such as ''The Business Briefing'', ''Work Life'' and ''Talking Business''. Maryam also broadcast on Radio 4, BBC Breakfast news and presented the 8pm News bulletin on BBC1. She was also a regular presenter of the afternoon and evening business news on BBC News, the corporation's 24-hour news channel. In 2019 Maryam became a Chief News Presenter at BBC World News and BBC News. She has anchored most of the global news channel's flagship programmes, including OS, Impact and Global. Maryam has also presented ''The Papers'' on BBC News. Personal life Moshiri graduated from University College London , mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward , established ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Llewellyn
Elizabeth Lorraine Llewellyn (née Davidson; born 1974) is an English opera singer who debuted with the English National Opera in 2010. She was named the "Best newcomer" in 2010 by ''The Daily Telegraph'' for her performance as Mimi in Giacomo Puccini's ''La bohème'', and according to Mary Ann Sieghart of the BBC is "set to become one of the great stars of opera." Early life The daughter of Jamaican parents, Llewellyn was born Elizabeth Davidson near Brixton, South London. and showed interest in music at an early age, playing both the piano and the violin as well as singing while attending Streatham and Clapham High School. Partly influenced by the recordings of opera great Jessye Norman, she chose to pursue singing, and gained a place at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. Due to consistent illness which affected her voice, she stopped singing at twenty-two, and soon started work in recruitment and training at an information technology company. Opera career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Academy Of Engineering
The Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) is the United Kingdom's national academy of engineering. The Academy was founded in June 1976 as the Fellowship of Engineering with support from Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who became the first senior fellow and remained so until his death. The Fellowship was incorporated and granted a royal charter on 17 May 1983 and became the Royal Academy of Engineering on 16 March 1992. It is governed according to the charter and associated statutes and regulations (as amended from time to time). History Conceived in the late 1960s, during the Apollo space program and Harold Wilson's espousal of " white heat of technology", the Fellowship of Engineering was born in the year of Concorde's first commercial flight. The Fellowship's first meeting, at Buckingham Palace on 11 June 1976, enrolled 126 of the UK's leading engineers. The first fellows included Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, the jet engine developer, the structural engineer Sir Ove Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Killick
Elizabeth "Betty" Audrey Killick (10 September 1924 – 7 July 2019) was a British naval electronics engineer who worked on radar and weapons systems for the Ministry of Defence. In 1982, she became the first woman to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. Early life Killick was born in Brixton Hill, London, to George Killick and Winifred Baines. Her father was a chartered accountant who was appointed to the Order of the British Empire in 1954 for service to the Cotton Board. Her maternal grandfather was a political agent, and her mother's brothers worked for the London Stock Exchange. Killick attended Streatham and Clapham High School. She moved with her family to Cheshire during World War II to avoid the Blitz. Career Killick joined the Women's Auxiliary Air Force in about 1942 and worked as a radar mechanic. When she was demobilized in 1947, Killick was briefly at the Royal Air Force Institute of Aviation Medicine as a laboratory assistant, befor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eileen Hogan
Eileen Hogan (born 1946) is a painter, who has shown in museums and private galleries in the UK and America. Her retrospective exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, USA in 2019, accompanied by a book published by Yale University Press, focused particularly on two dominant themes – enclosed gardens and portraiture. She is a professor at the University of the Arts London, a trustee of the Royal Drawing School, and an ambassador for the Salveson Mindroom Centre, a Scottish charity. She lives and works in London. Education Eileen Hogan studied at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, the Royal Academy Schools, Royal College of Art and the British School at Athens. Work Through painterly analysis Hogan explores the importance of green spaces in an urban environment. She investigates an expanded notion of what gardens are, their dynamics, the way that they are used, the patterns of life they generate and their impact on health. Hogan has used painting to s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209 and granted a royal charter by Henry III in 1231, Cambridge is the world's third oldest surviving university and one of its most prestigious, currently ranked second-best in the world and the best in Europe by '' QS World University Rankings''. Among the university's most notable alumni are 11 Fields Medalists, seven Turing Award winners, 47 heads of state, 14 British prime ministers, 194 Olympic medal-winning athletes,All Known Cambridge Olympians . ''Hawks Club''. Retrieved 17 May 2019. and some of world history's most transformational and iconic figures across disciplines, including [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippa Fawcett
Philippa Garrett Fawcett (4 April 1868 – 10 June 1948) was an English mathematician and educationalist. She was the first woman to obtain the top score in the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos exams. She taught at Newnham College, Cambridge, and at the normal school (teacher training college) in Johannesburg, and she became an administrator for the London County Council. Family Philippa Garrett Fawcett was born on 4 April 1868, the daughter of the suffragist Millicent Fawcett (née Garrett) and Henry Fawcett MP, Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge and Postmaster General in Gladstone's second government. Her aunt was Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, the first English female doctor. When her father died, she and her mother went to live with Millicent's sister Agnes Garrett, who had set up an interior design business on Gower Street, Bloomsbury. Education Philippa Fawcett was educated at Bedford College, London (now Royal Holloway) and Newnham College, Cambridge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
