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Welchman Hall, Saint Thomas, Barbados
Welchman is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Edward Welchman (1665–1739), English theologian and Archdeacon of Cardigan * Harry Welchman (1886–1966), English actor *Hugh Welchman (born 1975), British filmmaker, screenwriter and producer * Gordon Welchman (1906–1985), English mathematician, academic, codebreaker and writer *William Welchman William Welchman (1866–1954) was Archdeacon of Bristol from 1927 to 1937. Welchman was born in Cullompton and educated at Queens' College, Cambridge. He was ordained after a period of study at Ridley Hall, Cambridge in 1891. After a cu ... (1866–1954), Archdeacon of Bristol {{surname English-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Welchman
Edward Welchman (1665–1739) was an English churchman, known as a theological writer. He was Archdeacon of Cardigan from 1727. Life The son of John Welchman, of Banbury, Oxfordshire, he was born in 1665. He matriculated as a commoner of Magdalen Hall, Oxford, on 7 July 1679. He was one of the choristers of Magdalen College in that university from 1679 till 1682. He proceeded B.A. on 24 April 1683, was admitted a probationer fellow of Merton College in 1684, and commenced M.A. on 19 June 1688. His college presented Welchman in 1690 to the rectory of Lapworth, Warwickshire, and he was also rector of Berkeswell in the same county. He became archdeacon of Cardigan and a prebendary of St. David's Cathedral on 7 August 1727. Later he became chaplain to the bishop of Lichfield, who collated him to the prebend of Wolvey in Lichfield Cathedral on 28 September 1732. Welchman obtained the rectory of Solihull, Warwickshire, in 1736, and held it until his death on 19 May 1739. He was a frien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Welchman
Harry Welchman (24 February 1886 – 3 January 1966) was an English star of musical theatre. He made several appearances in non-musical plays, but was remembered as, in the words of ''The Times'', "perhaps the most popular musical comedy hero on the London stage in the years between the wars.""Mr Harry Welchman", ''The Times'', 4 January 1966, p. 10 Welchman was primarily a stage performer, but he made nineteen films between 1915 and 1954, some of them musical and others straight drama. Early life and career Welchman was born at Barnstaple, Devon, the son of an Army colonel. He was educated at Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, where he was a sporting boy, playing, as he said, "all the games", including hockey at county level. On leaving school at the age of eighteen he joined a touring musical comedy company led by Ada Reeve.Parker, pp. 977–978 When he was twenty he was spotted while playing in Christmas pantomime by the impresario Robert Courtneidge, under whose management he beca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Welchman
Hugh Stewart Jasper Welchman (born February 1975) is a British filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer. Life and career Welchman comes from Bracknell in Berkshire and attended the Dolphin School in nearby Hurst until moving on to Keble College, Oxford during the 1990s and graduated with a degree from Oxford University in Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE). In 2002, Welchman founded the film company BreakThru Films. This led to him becoming the joint winner of the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 2007. This was for the 2006 film ''Peter and the Wolf''. The other winner was the film's director Suzie Templeton. Welchman co-directed the first fully painted animated feature film ''Loving Vincent ''Loving Vincent'' ( pl, Twój Vincent) is a 2017 experimental adult animated biographical drama film about the life of the painter Vincent van Gogh, and, in particular, about the circumstances of his death. It is the first fully painted animat ...'' (2017) wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Welchman
William Gordon Welchman (15 June 1906 – 8 October 1985) was a British mathematician. During World War II, he worked at Britain's secret codebreaking centre, "Station X" at Bletchley Park, where he was one of the most important contributors. After the war he moved to the US, and worked on the design of military communications systems. Early life, education and career Gordon Welchman was born, the youngest of three children, at Fishponds in Bristol, to William Welchman (1866–1954) and Elizabeth Marshall Griffith. William was a Church of England priest who had been a missionary overseas before returning to England as a country vicar, eventually becoming archdeacon of Bristol. Elizabeth was the daughter of another priest, the Revd Edward Moule Griffith. Welchman was educated at Marlborough College and then studied mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1925 to 1928. In 1929, he became a Research Fellow in Mathematics at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. He became a Fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Welchman
William Welchman (1866–1954) was Archdeacon of Bristol from 1927 to 1937. Welchman was born in Cullompton and educated at Queens' College, Cambridge. He was ordained after a period of study at Ridley Hall, Cambridge in 1891. After a curacy at St Paul's, Leamington Spa he was a missionary in Ceylon from 1892 to 1899. He was the Vicar of Fishponds, Bristol from 1901 to 1907; and of Temple Church in the same city until 1941. He died on 7 March 1954.''Obituary'' The Times ''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper ''The Sunday Times'' (fou ... (London, England), Tuesday, March 9, 1954; pg. 6; Issue 52875 References 1866 births People from Cullompton Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge Alumni of Ridley Hall, Cambridge Archdeacons of Bristol 1954 deaths {{Canterbury-a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
