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Townend (surname)
Townend is a surname. Notable people with the surname include * Annie Quayle Townend (c.1845–1914), Australian-born New Zealand heiress and philanthropist * Gertrude Townend, British nurse and suffragette * John Townend, British politician * Oliver Townend, British event rider * Peter Townend (novelist), British novelist, thriller writer, photographer and journalist * Stuart Townend (headmaster), British athlete, soldier and school headmaster * Tosh Townend, American skateboarder See also * Townend, Cumbria, England * Townsend (other) * Tausend (surname) {{surname, Townend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie Quayle Townend
Annie Quayle Townend (née Moore; c.1845 – 1914) was an Australian-New Zealand heiress and philanthropist. Biography Townend's birthplace and date have been recorded as Sydney around 1845 and elsewhere as Tasmania in 1843. Her parents were George Moore and Anne Kermode; Kermode's parents owned the large sheep run that Moore worked on ( Mona Vale, in Tasmania) and there was speculation that Moore married her for access to the family wealth. The couple had four children together, however the marriage ended and in 1853 Moore emigrated to New Zealand alone, purchasing what would become Glenmark Estate in the Waipara Valley, North Canterbury, with funds from his ex-wife's family. Townend was sent to be raised in her father's homeland of Isle of Man. When she was 19 years old she joined her father in New Zealand, living in a large mansion on the Glenmark property. The property was destroyed by fire in 1891 and Townend and her father moved to Christchurch. By this time her father's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gertrude Townend
Gertrude Catherine Townend was a British nurse and suffragette. She provided, with Nurse Catherine Pine, a care home for suffragettes recovering from imprisonment and force-feeding, and participated in suffragette gatherings. Nursing career Gertrude Townend trained at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London, qualified in 1901 and became a sister at Great Ormond Street Hospital, (Great) Ormond Street Hospital. By 1908, she was running a private nursing home with Nurse Catherine Pine in 3 Pembridge Gardens, Notting Hill, London. Suffragette activism Townend and Pine's nursing home was watched by police looking for escaped suffragettes, due to return to prison to finish their sentences. At the home, medical assistance was provided by Dr. Flora Murray, a fellow suffragette. The service provided by Townend was particularly used by women released from prison temporarily, to recover after becoming seriously ill during force-feeding under the "Prisoners (Temporary Discharge for Ill H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suffragette
A suffragette was a member of an activist women's organisation in the early 20th century who, under the banner "Votes for Women", fought for the right to vote in public elections in the United Kingdom. The term refers in particular to members of the British Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), a women-only movement founded in 1903 by Emmeline Pankhurst, which engaged in direct action and civil disobedience. In 1906, a reporter writing in the ''Daily Mail'' coined the term ''suffragette'' for the WSPU, derived from suffragist (any person advocating for voting rights), in order to belittle the women advocating women's suffrage. The militants embraced the new name, even adopting it for use as the title of the newspaper published by the WSPU. Women had won the right to vote in several countries by the end of the 19th century; in 1893, New Zealand became the first self-governing country to grant the vote to all women over the age of 21. When by 1903 women in Britain had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Townend
John Ernest Townend (12 June 1934 – 18 August 2018) was a British politician who was a Member of Parliament for the Conservative Party. Early years The son of Charles Hope and Dorothy Townend, he was born on 12 June 1934 in Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, and educated at Hymers College in Hull. He studied accountancy from 1951 to 1957 as an articled clerk, and received the Plender Prize for the top prize when he became a Chartered Accountant. He then served in the Royal Air Force as a commissioned Pilot Officer from 1957 to 1959. In the latter year, he joined his family business as commercial secretary and finance director, becoming managing director (1961–1979) and then chairman of House of Townend wine merchants in Hull. He was Chairman of the Yorkshire and Humberside Wine and Spirit Merchants' Association (1975–76). In 1977, he became an Underwriter at Lloyds. Politics Townend was active in local politics and unsuccessfully contested the parliamentary seat of Hull N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oliver Townend
Oliver David Townend (born 15 November 1982) is a British eventing rider competing at the international three-day level. His wins include team gold at the 2007, 2009 and 2017 European Championships and wins at Badminton Horse Trials, Burghley Horse Trials, and the Kentucky Three Day Event. He also represented Britain at the World Equestrian Games in 2006 and 2014. He was the Event Rider Masters series champion in 2016. He has been eventing's world number one twice, in 2009 and again in 2018, and British number one seven times since 2009. Biography Townend was raised in Scapegoat Hill, a small settlement on the moors near Huddersfield in West Yorkshire. He won the junior newcomers showjumping at the Horse of the Year Show with Cool Mule aged 11, rode in the pony European Eventing Championships aged 13 and left school at 16 to pursue riding and selling horses professionally. He credits his love of horses to his parents. His father was also an event rider and his mother showed sid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Townend (novelist)
Peter (Robert Gascoigne) Townend (6 March 1935 – 6 June 1999was a thriller writer, photographer, bit-part actor and journalist. Life and work Townend was educated at the Dragon School, Oxford, Westminster and St Pauls, London. He won an open classics scholarship to study classics at Christs College, Cambridge where he became part of future thriller writer Alan Williams's entourage. He dressed in the then fashionable style of "Teddy Boy". After graduating he dabbled in filmmaking, getting small parts in films and plays He eventually moved to Spain, befriending many expatriates including Gerald Brenan and famous transsexual April AshleyWhile there, he co-founded ''Look Out'Spain's first English-language literary and travel magazine. Essentially a two-man operation, the magazine had Townend editing, art directing and writing features. He also did the magazine's photography, a hobby he relished. Townend's own photography appears in several books: Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy's 1992 bio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuart Townend (headmaster)
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Stuart Townend (24 April 1909 – 26 October 2002) was a British military officer, athlete, headmaster, and politician. Townend was the first headmaster to educate an heir to the British throne, having founded Hill House School in 1949. Early life Born at Shrawardine, Shropshire, the son of a Church of England clergyman, the Rev. F. W. Townend, later of Tilney St Lawrence, Townend was educated at St Edmund's School, Canterbury, Brasenose College, Oxford and the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Sporting career Townend went up to Oxford in 1928, where he became president of the Oxford University Athletic Club and winner of six Oxford University blues. In 1930 he won a gold medal at the British Empire Games in Hamilton, Ontario, in the 4x440 yard relay. Professional career After university, Townend joined the Royal Artillery in 1931. He was commissioned in 1933 and held the appointment of Assistant Quartermaster general during the war. He s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tosh Townend
Tosh Townend (born March 12, 1985) is a professional skateboarder from Huntington Beach, California. He is married to entrepreneur and Shark Tank alumna Nicole Townend, (formerly DeJesus— born November 13, 1985). Together, they have a daughter named Jemmaly (born March 10, 2010). He turned pro at the age of 16. Tosh Townend got sponsored by Element when he was 11, and was on the team until 2008. Tosh Townend's father is Australian Peter Townend, the 1976 surfing Surfing is a surface water sport in which an individual, a surfer (or two in tandem surfing), uses a board to ride on the forward section, or face, of a moving wave of water, which usually carries the surfer towards the shore. Waves suitabl ... world champion. His father would have boards around the house and would let Tosh ride them. Tosh first followed his father's footsteps and surfed. He started surfing in the National Scholastic Surfing Association when he was seven years old and became the NSSA Junior ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Townend
Townend is a 17th-century house located in Troutbeck, in the civil parish of Lakes, near Windermere, Cumbria, England, and in the ownership of the National Trust. It was donated to the Trust in 1948. Prior to this it was the home of the Browne family, local farmers, for 400 years. Although not the sort of stately home usually associated with the National Trust, it provides an insight into the life of a reasonably wealthy farming family. It is a grade I listed building In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel .... References External links Papers of several generations of the Browne family of Townend, Troutbeck, at Cumbria Archive Centre, Kendal Country houses in Cumbria National Trust properties in the Lake District Historic house museums in Cumbria Grade I l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Townsend (other)
Townsend (pronounced tounʹ-zənd) or Townshend may refer to: Places United States *Camp Townsend, National Guard training base in Peekskill, New York *Townsend, Delaware *Townsend, Georgia *Townsend, Massachusetts, a New England town **Townsend (CDP), Massachusetts, the main village in the town **Townsend Harbor, Massachusetts, another village in the town *Townsend, Montana *Townsend Township, Huron County, Ohio *Townsend Township, Sandusky County, Ohio *Townsend, Tennessee *Townsend, Wisconsin, a town *Townsend (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community *Townshend, Vermont, a New England town ** Townshend (CDP), Vermont, the main village in the town *Port Townsend, Washington **Port Townsend Bay **Port Townsend Film Festival Canada * Townsend Township, Ontario * Townsend, Ontario * Townsend Lake, Saskatchewan United Kingdom *Townsend, Buckinghamshire *Townshend, Cornwall *Townsend, Bournemouth, Dorset * Townsend, Poulshot, Wiltshire *Townsend, Kingswinford, an area at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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