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Vallance is a surname, and may refer to: * Elizabeth Vallance (1945–2020), British philosopher, magistrate and policy maker * Gerald Aylmer Vallance (1892–1955), born George Alexander Gerald Vallance, was a Scottish newspaper editor * Iain Vallance, Baron Vallance of Tummel (born 1943) Scottish businessman * Jeffrey Vallance (born 1955), American artist * Jim Vallance (born 1952), Canadian songwriter * Sir Patrick Vallance (born 1960), British doctor and Chief Scientific Adviser to the Government of the United Kingdom * Louise Vallance (born 1958), Canadian actress and singer * Thomas Vallance (1924–1980), English football player * Thomas George Vallance (1928–1993), Australian geologist and historian of science * Tom Vallance (1856–1935), Scottish international football player * William Fleming Vallance (1827–1904), Scottish artist Groups * Vallance F. C., a football club in Bethnal Green, London See also *Valance (other) *Valence (other) Val ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Vallance
Elizabeth Vallance, Baroness Vallance of Tummel, (née MacGonnigal; 8 April 1945 – 9 July 2020) was a British philosopher, magistrate and policy maker. She held non-executive roles on various boards, and was High Sheriff of Greater London in 2009. Early life and education Vallance was born to William Henderson MacGonnigal and Jean Brown Kirkwood. She studied philosophy at the University of St Andrews. She moved to the London School of Economics for her graduate studies, where she specialised in political philosophy and graduated in 1968. She was a Sloan Fellow at the London Business School. Her early research considered the role of women in society and the impact of women politicians on equality. Career Vallance started her career as a lecturer in philosophy at the University of London. She moved to Queen Mary University of London, where she was promoted to Assistant Professor in Government and Politics from 1968. In 1985 she was promoted to Head of the Department of Poli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aylmer Vallance
Gerald Aylmer Vallance (4 July 1892–24 November 1955), born George Alexander Gerald Vallance, was a Scottish newspaper editor. Born in Partick, Vallance studied at Fettes College in Edinburgh and Balliol College, Oxford, before serving with the Somerset Light Infantry and the General Staff of the 2nd Indian Division during World War I.Martin Gilbert, ''Winston S. Churchill: 1922-1939'', p.541 n.1 After the war, he was appointed as General Secretary of the National Maritime BoardGeoffrey Cox, "The editor who made love - and great news", ''British Journalism Review'' 1996 7: 16 and became a director of the Political Research Bureau. From 1930 to 1933, Vallance was assistant editor of ''The Economist''. He was then appointed editor of the ''News Chronicle'', which he took in a more radical direction, investigating and critically reporting on the British Union of Fascists, and recruiting writers such as Vernon Bartlett, Tangye Lean, Ian Mackay and Gerald Barry. He also laun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeffrey Vallance
Jeffrey Karl Reese Vallance (born January 25, 1955, in Redondo Beach, California) is an American contemporary artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. He is best known for projects that blur the lines between object-making, installation, performance, curation and anthropological study. Early life Raised in Southern California's San Fernando Valley during that region's transformation from a mix of agricultural and suburban communities into one enormous expanse of strip malls and cookie-cutter houses, much of Vallance's early work is informed by regional iconography and pop culture, including his parents' fascination with Polynesian/Tiki imagery, and, later, his stepfather's affection for President Richard M. Nixon. Vallance received a BA in Art from California State University, Northridge, in 1979, and an MFA from the Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, in 1981. Vallance is the leading force in a distinct version of Intervention Art called Infiltration Art. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Vallance
James Douglas Vallance (born May 31, 1952) is a Canadian songwriter, arranger and producer. He is best known as the songwriting partner of Canadian musician Bryan Adams. Vallance began his professional career as the original drummer and main songwriter for Canadian rock band Prism under the pseudonym "Rodney Higgs."History of Prism, Jim Vallance Discography In addition to Adams, Vallance has written songs for many famous international artists such as , , |
Patrick Vallance
Sir Patrick John Thompson Vallance (born 17 March 1960) is a British physician, scientist, and clinical pharmacologist who has worked in both academia and industry. He has served as the Government Chief Scientific Adviser (United Kingdom), Chief Scientific Adviser to the Government of the United Kingdom since 2018. From 1986 to 1995, Vallance taught at St George's Hospital Medical School, where his research concentrated on vascular biology and endothelial cell physiology. In 1995, he was appointed Professor at UCL Medical School, and in 2002 he became head of UCL's Department of Medicine. From 2012 to 2018, he was President of Research and Development at global pharmaceutical company, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). Early life and education Patrick Vallance was born on 17 March 1960 to Peter and Barbara Vallance, in south-west Essex, now part of Greater London. Before his family moved to Cornwall he was educated at Woodford Green Preparatory School and Buckhurst Hill County High Schoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stevie Vallance
Stephanie Louise Vallance, commonly known as Stevie Vallance, also credited as Louise Vallance during the 1970s90s, is a Canadian actress, musician, composer and director who has worked on numerous films and television series, both live-action and animated. Vallance is most recognized as Jenny in ''The Ropers'', Det. Stevie Brody in ''Night Heat,'' and Whazzat Kangaroo in ''Zoobilee Zoo''. As a director, she received a ''Daytime Emmy'' for voice-directing the music and dialogue on the children's animated series ''Madeline'', in which she also portrayed "Miss Clavel" and "Genevive". Early life and career Montréal-born, Toronto-raised Stephanie Louise Vallance began work as a professional actress at age eleven. At that time she was discovered by Alan Lund, who cast her in the lead role of "Adele" in the Charlottetown Festival musical production of ''Jane Eyre'', which performed at Toronto's O'Keefe Centre (now the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts). As a teenager, Vallance mad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Vallance
Thomas Henshall Wilson Vallance (28 March 1924 - July 1980) was an English professional footballer who played as an outside-left. Career Vallance was born in Stoke-on-Trent, and was the son of Jimmy Vallance, the trainer at Stoke City. Vallance began his career at Stoke City during the Second World War. He moved to Torquay United in 1945, playing in the FA Cup First Round, second leg tie which Torquay drew away to Newport County to lose 2–1 on aggregate in November 1945 . He left Torquay before playing a league game and subsequently joined Arsenal in 1947. Mainly a reserve, he finally made his league debut on 4 September 1948 in a 1–1 draw against Sheffield United after Arsenal's regular left-winger, Denis Compton had been injured. He shared the left wing position with Ian McPherson that season, playing 14 times and scoring twice, but played just once the following season as McPherson and Compton monopolised the left wing position. After several more seasons in Arsenal's re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas George Vallance
Thomas George Vallance (23 April 1928, Guildford, New South Wales, Australia – 7 March 1993, Roseville, New South Wales) was an Australian geologist, specializing in petrology, and a historian of geology. The Geological Society of London awarded him the 1993 Sue Tyler Friedman Medal. Biography One of his ancestors was a schoolmaster who settled in Sydney in 1797. Thomas George Vallance grew up in Sutherland, New South Wales (NSW) and in 1945 matriculated at Sydney's Canterbury Boys' High School. He graduated from the University of Sydney (USYD) with a B.Sc. in 1950 and a Ph.D. in 1954. Under the influence of William Rowan Browne, he focused on geology, especially petrology. Vallance's Ph.D. thesis ''Studies in the metamorphic and plutonic geology of the Wantabadgery-Adelong-Tumbarumba district, NSW'' is based on research in central NSW and the region near Broken Hill. With Browne, he coauthored papers on the metamorphic petrology of the region near Cooma and on the geology of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Vallance
Thomas Vallance (27 May 1856 – 16 February 1935) was a Scottish football player. He made 38 Scottish Cup appearances for the Rangers club. Football Before football, Vallance was a rower. He was noted as being abnormally tall for the times but was only around six feet two inches. He played at right-back for the Rangers from 1874 to 1882. He left Scotland on 22 February 1882 to take a position in Calcutta. He embarked on a career in the tea plantations of Assam but returned after a year suffering from blackwater fever. Vallance was also capped at international level, making seven appearances for Scotland Scotland (, ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a Anglo-Scottish border, border with England to the southeast ... between 1877 and 1881. References External links * 1856 births 1935 deaths Rangers F.C. players Scottish men ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Fleming Vallance
William Fleming Vallance (13 February 1827 – 30 August 1904) was a Scottish marine painter. Biography Vallance was born at Paisley on 13 Feb. 1827, the youngest son in the family of six sons and one daughter of David Vallance, tobacco manufacturer, by his wife Margaret Warden. William, whose father died in William's childhood, was sent at a very early age to work in a weaver's shop; on the family's subsequent move to Edinburgh he was apprenticed in 1841 as a carver and gilder to Messrs. Aitken Dott. During his apprenticeship he began to paint, and made a little money by drawing chalk-portraits, but he was twenty-three before he received any proper instruction. He then worked for a short time in the Trustees' Academy under E. Dallas, and later, from 1855, studied under R. S. Lauder. Vallance commenced to exhibit at the Royal Scottish Academy in 1849. On 2 January 1856 he married in Edinburgh Elizabeth Mackie, daughter of James Bell; they had two sons and six daughters. In 185 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Vallance is a surname, and may refer to: * Elizabeth Vallance (1945–2020), British philosopher, magistrate and policy maker * Gerald Aylmer Vallance (1892–1955), born George Alexander Gerald Vallance, was a Scottish newspaper editor * Iain Vallance, Baron Vallance of Tummel (born 1943) Scottish businessman * Jeffrey Vallance (born 1955), American artist * Jim Vallance (born 1952), Canadian songwriter * Sir Patrick Vallance (born 1960), British doctor and Chief Scientific Adviser to the Government of the United Kingdom * Louise Vallance (born 1958), Canadian actress and singer * Thomas Vallance (1924–1980), English football player * Thomas George Vallance (1928–1993), Australian geologist and historian of science * Tom Vallance (1856–1935), Scottish international football player * William Fleming Vallance (1827–1904), Scottish artist Groups * Vallance F. C., a football club in Bethnal Green, London See also *Valance (other) *Valence (other) Val ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
