Torr (surname)
Torr is an English surname. Notable people named Torr include *A. C. Torr, punning pseudonym of actor Frederick Hobson Leslie (1866–1892) * Cecil Torr (1857–1928), English antiquarian and author * Jane Torr, Australian academic *Michèle Torr (born Michelle Cléberte Tort in 1947), French singer and author * William George Torr (1853–1939), teacher and religious educator in South Australia See also * Torr (other) Torr may refer to: * Torr, a unit of pressure named for physicist Evangelista Torricelli * Torr (surname), an English surname (including a list of persons with the name) * Torr Works, a limestone quarry in Somerset, England * ''Torr.'', the stand ...

Frederick Hobson Leslie
Frederick George Hobson, known as Fred Leslie (1 April 1855 – 7 December 1892), was an English actor, singer, comedian and dramatist. Beginning his career in operetta, Leslie became best known for starring in, and writing (under the pseudonym A. C. Torr, a pun on the word "actor"), popular burlesque plays and other comic works of theatre. Biography Leslie was born in Woolwich, London. He was the youngest son of Charles Hobson, a wealthy military outfitter, and Sarah Hobson, ''née'' Pye. Leslie was educated in Woolwich, Lewisham and Pas-de-Calais. As a young man, he performed in amateur plays while working in commerce. He married Louisa (Louie) Agate in 1879. The couple had three children. The oldest of them, William Herbert Leslie Hobson (1880–1945), became a stage and film actor and singer also using the name "Fred Leslie". Career After briefly touring the British provinces, he made his first stage appearance in London at the Royalty Theatre as old Colonel Hardy i ...
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Cecil Torr
Cecil Torr (11 October 1857, Mitcham, London – 17 December 1928) was a British antiquarian and author. Early life Torr was the son a Solicitor, and was educated at Harrow School, Cecil Torr matriculated on 7 June 1876 at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating there B.A. 1880 and M.A. 1883. He was admitted in 1879 at the Inner Temple and was called to the Bar in 1882. Works Torr inherited the family property of the Wreyland estate in Lustleigh, Dartmoor and took up a life of a country squire. He also travelled widely including to Moscow, Damascus, Granada and Sparta. The estate included Yonder Wreyland, where he lived, as well as the Hall House, Souther Wreyland, Bow Cottage, Barn House and a number of further buildings and grounds. He was a councillor for the Newton Abbot Rural District Council. He is noted for writing ''Small Talk at Wreyland'' (3 vols., 1918–1923); the first volume was an unexpected commercial success. His 1894 book ''Ancient Ships'' deals with the stru ...
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Jane Torr
Jane Torr is an Australian academic in the fields of early childhood language and literacy development in home and early childhood education and care settings. She is an honorary associate in the department of educational studies at Macquarie University, where she has been teaching and researching for over 30 years. Torr's research draws on systemic functional linguistic theory to explore the relationship between context and meaning in adult-child interactions, and the implications for children's learning. She has published over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, as well as publications in professional journals. Biography In 1976 Torr completed an undergraduate degree at the University of New South Wales majoring in English literature. Her Honours thesis took as its subject the medieval English mystic Margery Kempe. Torr completed a graduate diploma in linguistics at University College London in 1978. She then undertook her PhD studies at the University of ...
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Michèle Torr
Michèle Torr (born Michelle Cléberte Tort 7 April 1947) is a French singer and author, best known in non-Francophone countries for her participation in the Eurovision Song Contest for Luxembourg in 1966 and for Monaco in 1977. Early career Born in Pertuis, Vaucluse, Torr won her first singing contest at age fifteen, in 1962, winning the first year's ''On Chante dans mon Quartier'' contest in Avignon. Michèle was a tall beautiful woman with actress-like expression, and easily wins the audience over by singing the Édith Piaf song ''Exodus''. Mireille Mathieu was runner-up that year with ''Les cloches de Lisbonne'' by Maria Candido. Then in 1963, at age sixteen, Michèle won a recording contract with the Mercury label, and opened for Jacques Brel at the Paris Olympia. She released three EPs (four songs each) throughout 1964, which were aimed at radio and juke-box play. Torr's release of ''Dans mes bras, oublie ta peine'' in 1964 was a big hit. Further releases of both orig ...
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William George Torr
William George Torr MA, BCL, LLD (29 March 1853 – 13 September 1939), often referred to as "Old Oxford", was a religious educator in South Australia. History William G. Torr was a son of John Torr (c. 1815 – 14 February 1884) of Tavistock, Devon, who with his wife Ann Montrose Torr, née Green, and family emigrated to Burra, South Australia, arriving on the ''Hooghly'' in 1855. William was educated there and at Stanley Grammar School, Watervale, before taking up work on a sheep station in Tasmania.Arnold D. Hunt'Torr, William George (1853–1939)' ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'', National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, published first in hardcopy 1990. Retrieved 18 May 2015 He started his working life as a teacher at Ulooloo in 1872, and gained experience as an assistant at the City Model School, Grote Street, (an institution devoted to giving young teachers practical experience) from 1875. The following year he was in charge of a new class i ...
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