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Tufnell may refer to: People * Carleton Tufnell (1856–1940), English cricketer * Edward Carleton Tufnell (1806–1886), English civil servant and educationalist * Edward Wyndham Tufnell (1814–1896), Australian bishop * Harry Tufnell (1886–1959), English footballer * Henry Tufnell (1805–1854), British politician * Meriel Patricia Tufnell (1948–2002), English jockey * Neville Tufnell (1887–1951), English cricketer and soldier * Olga Tufnell (1905–1985), British archaeologist * Phil Tufnell (born 1966), English cricketer * Richard Tufnell (1896–1956), English politician Places * Tufnell Park, north London, England See also * Nigel Tufnel Nigel Tufnel is a fictional character in the 1984 mockumentary film ''This Is Spinal Tap''. In the film, he is the lead guitarist of the rock band Spinal Tap. He was played by actor Christopher Guest. Character biography Nigel Tufnel was born in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carleton Tufnell
Carleton Fowell Tufnell (20 February 1856 – 26 May 1940) was an English cricketer. Born in Northfleet, Tufnell attended Eton College, where he failed to make an appearance for the school's cricket eleven. A medium pace bowling, medium pace bowler and useful batsman, Tufnell played in eight first-class cricket, first-class matches for Kent County Cricket Club, taking 15 wickets and scoring 108 runs.Carlaw D (2020) ''Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914'' (revised edition), pp. 540–541.Available onlineat the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-12-21.) He moved to India following the 1879 English cricket season, with false reports of his death in Shimla, Simla reaching England in 1884. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Tufnell, Carleton 1856 births 1940 deaths English cricketers Kent cricketers People educated at Eton College People from Northfleet Gentlemen of Kent cricketers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Carleton Tufnell
Edward Carleton Tufnell (27 October 1806, Marylebone, London (then part of Middlesex) – 3 July 1886 Belgravia, London ) was an English civil servant and educationist. Education He was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford, gaining a first class in mathematics. Career He became a commissioner for the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws in 1832. From 1835 to 1846 he was an assistant commissioner to administer the poor law, the new Poor Law having been passed in 1834. Together with James Kay-Shuttleworth, whom he had met as secretary of the Statistical Society of London (founded 1834), in 1839 they jointly published reports on the training of pauper children. In 1840 the Battersea Normal College for the training of teachers of pauper children was founded. This became the College of St Mark and St John at Chelsea, London and is now Plymouth University (also known as 'Marjon'). This was the first training college for school teachers. Today's system of national sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Wyndham Tufnell
Edward Wyndham Tufnell (3 October 1814 – 3 December 1896) was an Anglican priest. He was the first Anglican Bishop of Brisbane in Queensland, Australia. Early life Tufnell was born on 3 October 1814 in Bath, Somerset and educated at Eton and Wadham College, Oxford. He was the son of a banker, John Charles Tufnell, and Uliana Ivanova Margaret Fowell, who had a total of eighteen children. Ecclesiastical career Ordained a priest in 1839, his first posts were curacies at Broadwindsor and Broad Hinton. After this he held incumbencies at Beechingstoke and Marlborough. He served as Anglican Bishop of Brisbane from 1859 to 1874. While in Brisbane in 1863, Edward Tufnell commissioned architect Benjamin Backhouse to build the house ''Riversleigh'' on North Quay as an investment. Tufnell returned to England in 1874. In 1882 he became the vicar of Felpham near Bognor Regis and in 1888 he paid for the school to move to a new site in Felpham Way. The school is still named after him ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Tufnell
Henry Tufnell (1886 – 27 December 1959) was an English professional footballer who played for Bury and Barnsley prior to the First World War as an inside forward. Following the end of his playing career he managed and coached several clubs in the North of England. Club career Harry Tufnell played for Worcester City during the 1906–07 season. Later he joined Bury, and then Barnsley at the beginning of the 1909–10 season. He was part of the Barnsley side that contested both the 1910 and the 1912 FA Cup Finals. He scored in both finals. In 1910, he scored the only Barnsley goal, putting the ball in off the post from a Wilfred Bartrop cross. The game ended a 1–1 draw. Barnsley then lost the replay 2–0. In 1912 the first match ended in 0–0 draw and the replay looked to be going the same way when Tufnell scored in the last few minutes of extra time after a solo run from the halfway line. In total he scored 71 league and FA Cup goals for Barnsley in 128 games. Coaching ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Tufnell
Henry Tufnell (1805 – 15 June 1854) was a British Whig politician. He was born the eldest son of William Tufnell of Chichester (MP for Colchester, 1806) and was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1829. Whilst at Oxford, he, along with George Cornewall Lewis, translated Karl Otfried Müller's book ''The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race'' into English. He was appointed secretary to Sir Robert Wilmot-Horton when the latter was Governor of Ceylon and from 1835 to 1839 was Private Secretary to Lord Minto when that Earl was First Lord of the Admiralty. He entered the House of Commons in 1837 as a member for Ipswich, having previously been defeated in the Colchester election in 1835, but lost that seat a year later. He was returned for Devonport in a by-election in 1840 and held that seat until 1854. He held minor posts in the governments of Lord Melbourne and Lord John Russell, and was made a Privy Counsellor when he resign ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meriel Patricia Tufnell
Meriel Patricia Tufnell (1948–2002) was the first female jockey in the UK to win a race under Jockey Club rules. She was born in Winchester on 12 December 1948 into a prominent Hampshire family. Her grandmother, Sybil Tufnell, was the first woman in the UK to run a firm of estate agents, and her father was a naval captain who served in the Far East and Australia. Born with dislocated hips and later suffering childhood asthma, she overcame these disabilities to ride in gymkhanas and then BSJA showjumping. She rode her mother's novice mare, Scorched Earth, to victory in the Goya Stakes at Kempton Park on 6 May 1972, the first ever ladies' flat race held under Jockey Club rules. Neither horse nor jockey had raced previously. The race was the first in a twelve race series for female jockeys, and with three winners from seven rides, Tufnell was the series champion. She continued to ride competitively until 1974, including in the first mixed race, at Nottingham, in March 1974 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neville Tufnell
Neville Charsley Tufnell (13 June 1887 – 3 August 1951) was a British cricketer and army officer. Born in 1887 in Simla, Punjab, India, Tufnell played first-class cricket for Cambridge University and the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in a first-class career as a wicketkeeper that lasted from 1906 to 1924. He was selected to tour New Zealand in 1906–07 with MCC before he had played a first-class match. He also played one Test match for England at Cape Town against South Africa in 1909–10 while still a student at Cambridge. He played a single first-class match for Surrey in 1922 against Oxford University, captaining the side. Tufnell was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was commissioned into the 1st Volunteer Battalion (later 4th Battalion), Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) in 1908. He left before the First World War with the rank of captain, but rejoined with the same rank in 1914. He later transferred to the Grenadier Guards (Special Reserve). Tu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olga Tufnell
Olga Tufnell (26 January 1905 – 11 April 1985) was a British archaeologist who assisted on the excavation of the ancient city of Lachish in the 1930s. She had no formal training in archaeology, but had worked as a secretary for Flinders Petrie for a number of years before being given a field assignment. Olga then went on to join James Leslie Starkey in the expedition to find Lachish in 1929 and remained part of the team for the following seasons. When Starkey was killed in 1938, the team finished the season then closed the site. Olga volunteered to write up the report of the dig and spent the following twenty years researching and writing up the majority of the excavation report. Olga's work has been regarded as the "pre-eminent source book for Palestinian archeology". Once the report was published, she turned her attention to cataloguing scarabs and other seals. Early life Olga Tufnell was born on 26 January 1905 in Sudbury, Suffolk to a prominent landholding family. Her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Tufnell
Philip Clive Roderick Tufnell (born 29 April 1966) is a former English international cricketer and current television and radio personality. A slow left-arm orthodox spin bowler (cricket), bowler, he played in 42 Test cricket, Test matches and 20 One Day Internationals for the England cricket team, as well as playing for Middlesex County Cricket Club from 1986 to 2002. Tufnell took 121 Test match wickets. His Test average is 37.68 per wicket. Across all first-class cricket he took over 1,000 wickets at an average of 29.35. His cheerful personality and behaviour have made him a popular sports personality. Following his retirement from playing cricket in 2002, Tufnell has built on his popularity with several television appearances, including ''They Think It's All Over (TV series), They Think It's All Over'', ''Deal or No Deal (British game show), Celebrity Deal Or No Deal'', ''A Question of Sport'', ''Strictly Come Dancing'', and winning ''I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! (Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Tufnell
Richard Lionel Tufnell (10 December 1896 – 1 October 1956) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. Richard Tufnell was son of Edward Tufnell, Member of Parliament for South East Essex, and grandson of the civil servant and educationalist Edward Carleton Tufnell.Sources in British Political History 1900-1951, vol. 4: A Guide to the Private Papers of Members of Parliament: L-Z, Chris Cook, Macmillan, p. 212 He was elected as the Member of Parliament for Cambridge at a by-election in 1934, following the ennoblement of the Conservative MP Sir George Newton as Baron Eltisley. Tufnell retained the seat at the 1935 general election, but ten years later at the 1945 general election The following elections occurred in the year 1945. Africa * 1945 South-West African legislative election Asia * 1945 Indian general election Australia * 1945 Fremantle by-election Europe * 1945 Albanian parliamentary election * 1945 Bulgaria ..., he lost his seat to Arthur S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tufnell Park
Tufnell Park is an area in north London, England, in the London boroughs of Islington and Camden. The neighborhood is served by Tufnell Park tube station on the Northern Line. History Origins and boundary ;Medieval and later manor Tufnell Park Road, a straight of was sometimes conjectured by historians to follow the line of a Roman track. There is no evidence of Roman activity in the area and a supposed Roman camp marked on Dent's 1805 parish map has been shown by Museum of London Archaeology excavations to probably be a misidentified medieval moated site.Journal of the Islington Archaeology & History Society Vol 4 No 4 Winter 2014-15 http://www.clcomms.com/iahs/201415/iahs-winter-201415.pdf The road has for centuries been an east–west connector between the roads from the hearts of Islington and Camden which converge into a major northern route at Archway market place, across 500 metres of Dartmouth Park district to the north. ;Boundaries North-east of Tufnell Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
