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Walsham ( ) may refer to: People: * Geoff Walsham (born 1946), English scholar in the Social Study of Information Systems *Walsham baronets, of Knill Court in the County of Hereford, a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom **Sir John Walsham, 2nd Baronet (1830–1905), British diplomat *Walsham How (1823–1897), English bishop Places: *North Walsham, market town and civil parish in Norfolk, England *South Walsham, village and civil parish in Norfolk, England * Walsham Rocks, group of rocks east of Buff Island at the southwest end of the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica * Walsham le Willows, village in Suffolk, England See also * Walsheim *Walsingham *Willisham *Wolsingham Wolsingham is a market town in Weardale, County Durham, England. It is situated by the River Wear, between Crook and Stanhope. History Wolsingham sits at the confluence of the River Wear and Waskerley Beck. It is a small settlement and one of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoff Walsham
Geoff Walsham (born 10 June 1946 in Manchester) is an English scholar in the Social Study of Information Systems. He has done much to establish the value and legitimacy of interpretive research in the field of Information Systems, particularly through his book ''Interpreting Information Systems in Organizations'' (Wiley, 1993). He has also written extensively about IT in developing countries, including the book ''Making a World of Difference: IT in a Global Context'' (Wiley, 2001). After studying Mathematics at the University of Oxford, he worked as an operational researcher at BP, and later gained an MSc at University of Warwick. He then joined the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge and became one of the founding members of the Judge Business School Cambridge Judge Business School is the business school of the University of Cambridge. The School is a provider of management education. It is named after Sir Paul Judge, a founding benefactor of the sch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walsham Baronets
The Walsham Baronetcy, of Knill, Knill Court in the County of Hereford, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 30 September 1831 for John James Walsham. He received the baronetcy as the eldest co-heir and representative of Sir Thomas Morgan, 1st Baronet (a title which had become extinct on the death of the fourth Baronet in 1767; see Morgan baronets, Morgan baronets, of Llangatock). The second Baronet was List of Ambassadors from the United Kingdom to the People's Republic of China, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to China from 1885 to 1892 and to List of Ambassadors from the United Kingdom to Romania, Romania from 1892 to 1893. The fourth Baronet was a rear admiral in the Royal Navy. Walsham baronets, of Knill Court (1831) *Sir John James Walsham, 1st Baronet (1805–1874) *Sir John Walsham, 2nd Baronet (1830–1905) *Sir John Scarlett Walsham, 3rd Baronet (1869–1940) *Sir John Scarlett Warren Walsham, 4th Baronet (1910–1992) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir John Walsham, 2nd Baronet
Sir John Walsham, 2nd Baronet (29 October 1830 – 10 December 1905) was a British diplomat who was envoy to China and Romania. Career Walsham was the eldest son of Sir John James Walsham, 1st Baronet. He was educated at Bury St Edmunds Grammar School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He joined the Audit Office in March 1854 but transferred to the Foreign Office that October. He served in Mexico 1857–65, including acting as ''chargé d'affaires'' 1863–65. He served in Madrid 1866–70 at a time when the Spanish forts on the Strait of Gibraltar would fire on passing merchant ships if they failed to display their national flags. Walsham was a commissioner dealing with the arbitration of claims under an agreement of 1865, such as that of the schooner ''Mermaid'', of Dartmouth, alleged to have been sunk by the fort at Ceuta. In 1870 Walsham moved to The Hague, and in 1873 he was nominated as secretary of legation at Peking but did not go there; instead he withdrew from the servic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walsham How
William Walsham How (13 December 182310 August 1897) was an English Anglican bishop. Known as Walsham How, he was the son of a Shrewsbury solicitor; How was educated at Shrewsbury School, Wadham College, Oxford and University College, Durham. He was ordained in 1846, and after a curacy at Kidderminster, began more than thirty years actively engaged in parish work in Shropshire, as curate at the Abbey Church in Shrewsbury in 1848. In 1851 he became Rector of Whittington and was at one point Rural Dean of Oswestry in 1860, then Suffragan Bishop of Bedford (for East London) and in turn Bishop of Wakefield. Writings It was during his period at Whittington he wrote the bulk of his published works and founded the first public library in Oswestry. In 1863–1868 he brought out a ''Commentary on the Four Gospels'' and he also wrote a manual for the Holy Communion. Published by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge during the 1890s under the title "Holy Communion, Preparation and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Walsham
North Walsham is a market town and civil parish in Norfolk, England, within the North Norfolk district. Demography The civil parish has an area of and in the 2011 census had a population of 12,634. For the purposes of local government, the parish falls within the district of North Norfolk. Transport The town is south of Cromer, and the same distance north of Wroxham. The county town and city of Norwich is south. The town is served by North Walsham railway station, on the Bittern Line between Norwich, Cromer and Sheringham. The main road through the town is the A149. The town is also located on the B1145, a route that runs between King's Lynn and Mundesley. The town is on the North Walsham & Dilham Canal (privately owned by the North Walsham Canal Company). The canal ran from Antingham Mill, largely following the course of the River Ant, to a point below Honing. A short branch canal leaves the main navigation near Honing and terminates at the village of Dilham. History ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Walsham
South Walsham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It covers an area of and had a population of 738 in 303 households at the 2001 census. increasing to 845 living in 345 households at the 2011 Census. For the purposes of local government, it falls within the district of Broadland. Historically, the village comprised two separate parishes, that of St Mary and of St Lawrence. After fire damage in 1827, the church of St Lawrence slowly fell into disuse and the two parishes were combined in 1889. The village has a primary school, a pub and the disused St Lawrence's church, the tower of which collapsed in 1971, has been repurposed as the St Lawrence Centre for Training and the Arts, hosting various music concerts, art exhibitions, craft fairs and charity events. The parish is also home to the South Walsham estate, purchased in 1946 by Major Henry Broughton, 2nd Lord Fairhaven, which remains in the ownership of the family. Large parts of the estate are o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walsham Rocks
Walsham Rocks is a group of rocks lying 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) east of Buff island, at the southwest end of the Palmer Archipelago, off the coast of Antarctica. The rocks were surveyed by the British Naval Hydrographic Survey Unit in 1956-57 and named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Able Seaman John Walsham, Royal Navy The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against F ..., a member of the Unit. Rock formations of the Palmer Archipelago {{PalmerArchipelago-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walsham Le Willows
Walsham le Willows is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district, in Suffolk, England, located around 3 miles (4 km) south-east of Stanton. Queen Elizabeth I granted Walsham le Willows to Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, in 1559. Because the village is documented unusually fully in surviving records of the time, the Cambridge historian John Hatcher chose to use it as the setting for his semi-fictionalised account of the effects of the mid-14th century plague epidemic in England, ''The Black Death: A Personal History'' (2008). Sport and leisure Walsham le Willows has a Non-League football club Walsham-le-Willows F.C. currently in the Eastern Counties League The Eastern Counties Football League, currently known as the Thurlow Nunn League for sponsorship purposes, is an English football league at levels 9 and 10 of the English football league system. It currently contains clubs from Norfolk, Suff ... who play at Sumner Road. Sources *Ke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walsheim
Walsheim is a municipality in Südliche Weinstraße district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe .... References Municipalities in Rhineland-Palatinate {{SüdlicheWeinstraße-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walsingham
Walsingham () is a civil parish in North Norfolk, England, famous for its religious shrines in honour of Mary, mother of Jesus. It also contains the ruins of two medieval Christian monasticism, monastic houses.Ordnance Survey (2002). ''OS Explorer Map 251 – Norfolk Coast Central''. . Walsingham is northwest of Norwich. The civil parish includes Little Walsingham and Great Walsingham, together with Egmere medieval settlement, Egmere (a depopulated medieval village at ), and has an area of 1 E7 m², 18.98 km². At the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 census, it had a population of 819.Office for National Statistics & Norfolk County Council (2001). Census population and household counts for unparished urban areas and all parishes''. Retrieved 2 December 2005. The village's name means 'Homestead/village of Waels' people'. Walsingham is a major centre of Christian pilgrimage, pilgrimage. In 1061, according to the Walsingham legend, an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman, Richeldis de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willisham
Willisham is a small village in the suburbs of the county town of Ipswich, Suffolk. The small parish village has been present since the 11th century and was included in the Domesday Book. During the 18th century the village was once home to wheat and barley farmers. During the 20th century the village has gained new homes with the local authority building at Fiske Pightle, and private dwellings in the cul-de-sac of North Acres being built in 1965/1966. In the year 2000 the village had 9 new houses built down Tye Lane. The village post office was renovated into a house 8 years ago. The 2011 census recorded a population of 362 people. During the 1870s Willisham was described as: :"a parish in Bosmere district, Suffolk; 3 miles W of Claydon r. station, and 7 NW of Ipswich." History The earliest records of Willisham date back to 1066 when it was known as Willaluesham. It was recorded in the Domesday Book as part of the hundred of Bosmere and had a value of £4.6 to the lord. At ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
