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Thorley
Thorley may refer to: Places * Thorley, Hertfordshire, England * Thorley, Isle of Wight, England People with the surname Thorley * Di Thorley, Australian politician * Wilfrid Thorley, English poet * Ollie Thorley, English rugby player People with the given name Thorley Thorley is a rare given name, usually male. People with that name include: ''Real people'' * Thorley Walters (1913-1991), English actor * Thorley Smith Thorley Smith (1873 - 1940) was Britain's first Parliamentary candidate to stand on a platform of women's suffrage. He stood in the 1906 general election in Wigan, Lancashire. He lost to the Conservative candidate, but polled more votes than th ... (1873-1940), Britain's first Parliamentary candidate to stand on a platform of women's suffrage ''Fictional characters'' * Thorley "Thor" Callum, main female character in Raoul Walsh's 1947 film '' Pursued'' {{disambiguation, geo, surname, given name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ollie Thorley
Ollie Thorley (born 11 September 1996) is an English rugby union player who plays for Gloucester in the Premiership Rugby. Club career Thorley made his professional debut at age 17, becoming the youngest player to play for Gloucester in the professional era when he played the full 80 minutes, partnered with World Cup winner Mike Tindall in a Anglo-Welsh Cup match against Northampton Saints in November 2013. Ollie became the club's youngest first team try scorer when he crossed against Ospreys in March 2015 in the Anglo-Welsh Cup and he marked his debut in the Aviva Premiership, from off the bench, with the game's only try against the Exeter Chiefs in April 2016. In November 2017, he was awarded Try of the week for his week 8 try against Saracens. Following a spate of tries and Man of the Match presentations, Thorley was awarded the Gallagher Premiership Rugby Player of the Month for November 2018. Ollie won the RPA Young Player of the Year Award for the 2018/2019 season and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thorley, Hertfordshire
__NOTOC__ Thorley is a village and civil parish in East Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire, England. The parish includes the hamlets of Thorley Street, Thorley Wash and Old Thorley, and is bordered at the north by the market town of Bishop's Stortford. History Thorley is listed in the ''Domesday book'' as "Torlei", belonging to Geoffrey de Mandeville, a notable Norman baron. During the reign of Edward the Confessor, Thorley Manor belonged to Earl Tostig. Thorley is less than one mile north from Blounts Farm in the adjoining parish of High Wych, the place where, in 1966, the criminal Harry Roberts was found by police during a long manhunt after he had participated in the Shepherd's Bush murders of three London-based policemen. He was found in a barn hiding under straw. Roberts was familiar with the area as he had often visited it as a child with his mother. Landmarks Thorley Church, dedicated to St James the Great, is a Grade I listed building. It dates to the 13th centu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thorley, Isle Of Wight
Thorley is a village on the Isle of Wight, from Yarmouth in the northwest of the island and is west from Newport. History Thorley has a manor house called Torlei (meaning thorny lea) which was held by Earl Tostig in the time of Edward the Confessor. It was originally governed by Earl Tostig during the reign of King Edward the Confessor from the manor house. Following the Norman Invasion of England, it was granted by King William the Conqueror to Richard de Redvers, (purportedly) Earl of Devon. The Earls of Devon held the land until the Isle of Wight was surrendered back to the Crown under the reign of Edward I of England. It was then granted to the Earls of Salisbury until it was confiscated by an Act of Attainder against John Montagu, 3rd Earl of Salisbury. Henry IV of England then granted it to George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence before it was returned to the Crown following an act of attainder. In 1472, King Edward IV of England gave Thorley to Anthony Woodvi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thorley Smith
Thorley Smith (1873 - 1940) was Britain's first Parliamentary candidate to stand on a platform of women's suffrage. He stood in the 1906 general election in Wigan, Lancashire. He lost to the Conservative candidate, but polled more votes than the Liberal. He replaced Hubert Sweeney, who had been the Women's Suffrage candidate-elect from 1904 to 1905.Manchester Archives. Reel 3 M50/1/4/27-40. 1889-1918 Annual Reports if the North of England Society for Women's Suffrage 1899-1911, 24/11/1905 (33) 7/12/1906 Sweeney, a Headmaster for London's Hackney School Board, a trainee barrister and a member of the London Ethical Society, had been chosen by a committee of the North of England Society for Women's Suffrage. The Lancashire and Cheshire Women Textile and Other Workers Representation Committee were a group of suffragists, not suffragettes associated with the Pankhurts' Women's Social and Political Union. Hubert Sweeney's campaign Hubert Sweeney's Wigan campaign began in January ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thorley Walters
Thorley Swinstead Walters (12 May 1913 – 6 July 1991) was an English character actor. He is probably best remembered for his comedy film roles such as in ''Two-Way Stretch'' and '' Carlton-Browne of the FO''. Early life Walters was born in Teigngrace, Devon, the son of Prebendary Thomas Collins Walters of Silverton, Devon and his wife Mary née Swinstead. He was educated at Monkton Combe School, Somerset. Walters appeared in the West End in the 1942 naval play '' Escort'' by Patrick Hastings and the 1949 musical ''Her Excellency'' at the London Hippodrome. Career Films He featured in three of the St Trinian's films, starting as an army major in ''Blue Murder at St Trinian's''. He later appeared as Butters, assistant to Education Ministry senior civil servant Culpepper-Brown (Eric Barker) in ''The Pure Hell of St Trinian's'' and played the part of Culpepper-Brown in ''The Wildcats of St Trinian's''. From the 1960s onwards he also appeared in several Hammer horror films, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Di Thorley
Dianne "Di" Thorley (born 1 December 1949 in Stanthorpe, Queensland) is an Australian politician and a former mayor of Toowoomba, Queensland. Biography Thorley trained as a nurse in Brisbane and later took up a nursing position at Stanthorpe Hospital. She also spent some time working as a governess in Blackall. She moved to Toowoomba in 1986, where she worked and owned a number of businesses in the local hospitality industry. Thorley was elected as a Councillor on Toowoomba City Council in 1997 and became mayor in 2000. She was returned to office for a second term in 2004. On 26 June 2007, Thorley confirmed that she would not seek re-election for mayor in March 2008, or any other council position. Toowoomba Water Futures In light of the region's worst drought in a hundred years, which saw the city's dam storages fall below 25% capacity, in 2006 Mayor Di Thorley championed a plan ( Toowoomba Water Futures) to build a recycled sewage plant that would process the city's sewage an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilfrid Thorley
Wilfrid Charles Thorley (31 July 1878 in Southport, Lancashire – 28 January 1963 in Wirral, Cheshire) was an English poet and translator. Thorley was the son of a well-to-do retired draper and magistrate, and his young wife. He was twice married, first to Katherine E Dunn in 1914, and after her death in 1925, second to Gertrude M Neville in 1937. He was educated privately, then at the Liverpool Institute The Liverpool Institute High School for Boys was an all-boys grammar school in the English port city of Liverpool. The school had its origins in 1825 but occupied different premises while the money was found to build a dedicated building on ... (and possibly the University of Liverpool) and Grenoble University. However, he said that he learnt most while teaching English to foreign students in Sweden, Belgium, France and Italy, during the ten years preceding World War I. His best-known poem is "Chant for Reapers", due to its inclusion in the ''Oxford Book of Eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
