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Wingrove (surname)
Wingrove is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Billy Wingrove (born 1982), English freestyle footballer * David Wingrove (born 1954), English writer *Elsie Wingrove (1923–2016), Canadian baseball player * Francis Wingrove (1863–1892), Australian cricketer * Gerald Wingrove (1934–2019), English writer *Nigel Wingrove Nigel Wingrove (born 26 October 1957) is the founder of the horror film company Salvation Films and the Redemption film label and creator of the online alternative female collectivethe Satanic Sluts He is also a film director and the only direct ... (born 1957), English film director * Rixon Wingrove (born 2000), Australian baseball player {{surname, Wingrove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Wingrove
The F2Freestylers, also known as The F2, are a British freestyle football duo comprising former amateur footballers Billy Wingrove and Jeremy Lynch. They are best known for their YouTube channel which has over 13 million subscribers. Early careers Wingrove and Lynch have been described as "teenage rejects", having been rejected by the academies of professional football clubs in their youths before finding success as influencers and YouTube freestyle footballers. Billy Wingrove Wingrove comes from a footballing family, with his father Alan briefly playing in the youth set-ups of Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal and his cousin, Greg Lincoln, being part of the first team squad at Arsenal—though Lincoln never actually played for the club. Wingrove had a trial for Tottenham Hotspur aged 11, but was told he was too small and therefore not physically strong enough to make it at professional level. He began performing freestyle football to earn money while continuing to pursue a f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Wingrove
David Wingrove (born September 1954) is a British science fiction writer. He is well known as the author of the '' Chung Kuo'' novels. He is also the co-author (with Rand and Robyn Miller) of the three ''Myst'' novels. Biography Wingrove worked in the banking industry for seven years until he became fed up with it. He then attended the University of Kent, Canterbury, where he read English and American Literature. He is married and, with his wife Susan, has four daughters: Jessica, Amy, Georgia, and Francesca. Career Between 1972 and 1982 he wrote over 300 unpublished short stories and 15 novels. He started work on a new fictional project called ''A Perfect Art''. Between 1984 and 1988, when it was first submitted, the title was changed twice, becoming first ''A Spring Day at the Edge of the World'' and then finally ''Chung Kuo'', under which title it was sold to 18 publishers throughout the world. The ''Chung Kuo'' series ran to eight of nine planned volumes before the series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elsie Wingrove
Elsie "Earl" Wingrove (September 26, 1923 – July 13, 2016) was a Canadian outfielder who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 6", 130 lb. she batted and threw right-handed. Born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Elsie Wingrove was one of the 68 players born in Canada to join the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in its twelve-year history. While growing up on a farm, Wingrove learned to play baseball with her two brothers and sister and father. ''Every Sunday the neighbors congregated at our farm; the kids played ball in the pasture, the men played horseshoes in the laneway and the ladies picked fruit from our garden'', she recalled in an interview. At age nine, she joined the girl's adult team. She later had the opportunity to play multiple sports at high school, including ice hockey, track and field, curling and fastpitch softball, while also playing five-pin bowling in a commercial league. After high scho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Wingrove
Francis Wingrove (20 April 1863 – 27 May 1892) was an Australian cricketer. He played one first-class cricket First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officiall ... match for Victoria in 1886. See also * List of Victoria first-class cricketers References External links * 1863 births 1892 deaths Australian cricketers Victoria cricketers Cricketers from Melbourne People from Eltham, Victoria People from the Colony of Victoria {{Australia-cricket-bio-1860s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald Wingrove
Gerald Amery Wingrove is a model engineer and author from the United Kingdom. He is best known as a modeller of cars. Career Wingrove left his job as a lathe operator to create models full-time in November 1967, and launched himself as a freelance model engineer, since which time he has hand crafted in metal almost 280 automobile miniatures in the scales of 1/20 & 1/15th, primarily in 1/15th scale. Most of these were commissioned by the vehicles' owners. The first sale of his work by a major London Auction House was by Christie's on 2 August 1967 with the sale of 2 models of sailing ships in 96th scale and a SE5A aircraft model (1/20th scale) in brass and silk. Further sales of his work were with Brooks (later amalgamated with Bonhams) of London, 21 Lots, in (Sale 112) on 4 December 1999 – and Bonhams (Sale 1793) with 74 Lots on 1 December 2003, in London. In July 2000, Wingrove was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire for craftsmanship, and "services to Mod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nigel Wingrove
Nigel Wingrove (born 26 October 1957) is the founder of the horror film company Salvation Films and the Redemption film label and creator of the online alternative female collectivethe Satanic Sluts He is also a film director and the only director to have had a film banned in the UK on the grounds of blasphemy. Redemption films Wingrove founded the film distribution company Redemption Films (now called Salvation Films) in 1992, which was the first UK company to specialise in releasing obscure European films by directors such as Jean Rollin, Jess Franco, Dario Argento and Peter Walker. Redemption's logo features a white, eyeless face, which is of Wingrove's former girlfriend, the actress and scream queen, Eileen Daly. Films Separate to his work as managing director of Salvation Films, Wingrove has written and directed a number of low-budget films including Sacred Flesh (2000), "Red Kiss" (2004), Sexcretares (2005), Purple Haze (2005) and three titles; The Black Order Cometh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
