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Wotton (other)
Wotton may refer to: Places * Wotton, Barbados * Wotton, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England *Wotton, Quebec, Canada *Wotton, Surrey, England ** Wotton House, Surrey, Grade II listed building * Wotton-under-Edge, town in Gloucestershire, England * Wotton Underwood, village in Buckinghamshire, England **Wotton House, Grade I listed country house People *Anthony Wotton (c.1561–1626), English clergyman and controversialist *David Wotton (born 1942), Australian politician * Sir Edward Wotton (1489–1551), English public official, treasurer of Calais *Edward Wotton (zoologist) (1492–1552), English zoologist * Edward Wotton, 1st Baron Wotton (1548–1628), English diplomat *Sir Henry Wotton Sir Henry Wotton (; 30 March 1568 – December 1639) was an English author, diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1614 and 1625. When on a mission to Augsburg, in 1604, he famously said, "An ambassador is an honest gentlema ... (1568–1639), English author and dipl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lou Wotton
Louise Wotton (born 8 November 1983) is an Australian rules footballer who played for the Collingwood Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW). Early life and state football Wotton played 13 seasons with the VWFL. She won four best and fairest awards at the Eastern Devils, the Helen Lambert medal twice, represented Victoria, was selected twice for the All-Australian team and played for in the 2013 and 2014 exhibition matches. In 2014, she announced her retirement from football and took up triathlon training, wanting to compete in the Ironman Triathlon. In September 2016, Wotton came out of retirement to nominate for the inaugural AFLW draft. AFL Women's career After not being selected in the draft, Wotton was signed by as a free agent. She made her debut in round 2, 2017, in a match at IKON Park against . Wotton was delisted by Collingwood ahead of the 2018 season. Personal life Apart from her sports career, Wotton works as a physical education and health teacher at Row ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wotton Tramway
The Brill Tramway, also known as the Quainton Tramway, Wotton Tramway, Oxford & Aylesbury Tramroad and Metropolitan Railway Brill Branch, was a six-mile (10 km) rail line in the Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire, England. It was privately built in 1871 by the Richard Plantagenet Campbell Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, 3rd Duke of Buckingham as a Horsecar, horse tram line to help transport goods between his lands around Wotton House and the national rail network. Lobbying from the nearby village of Brill, Buckinghamshire, Brill led to its extension to Brill and conversion to passenger use in early 1872. Two locomotives were bought but trains still travelled at an average speed of . In 1883, the Duke of Buckingham planned to upgrade the route to main line standards and extend the line to Oxford, creating the shortest route between Aylesbury and Oxford. Despite the backing of the wealthy Ferdinand de Rothschild, investors were deter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wotton Hundred
The Hundred of Wotton, Wotton Hundred or Dorking Hundred was a hundred in Surrey, England. The hundred comprised a south-central portion of the county, clockwise the parishes of Abinger, Wotton, Dorking, Capel and Ockley. The area's owner initially had pecuniary rights (to incomes) over parts of parishes on the borders of the area and just beyond, from just north of Guildford to Sussex. The site of the Hundred Court is indicated in the later medieval records as Dorking, hence its latter alternative name. What vestiges of rights to minor rents and other such rights in the hundred still remained in the 17th century were granted to Sir Edward Zouche in 1620 by James I, and later passed to the Earls of Onslow, heirs to the estates of the Earls of Surrey. Subsequent large village-size settlements within this area include the three Holmwoods collectively and Holmbury St Mary. The majority of it today, which is farmland or woodland, is Metropolitan Green Belt. The largest curr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Picture Of Dorian Gray
''The Picture of Dorian Gray'' is a philosophical fiction, philosophical novel by Irish writer Oscar Wilde. A shorter novella-length version was published in the July 1890 issue of the American periodical ''Lippincott's Monthly Magazine''.''The Picture of Dorian Gray'' (Penguin Classics) – Introduction The novel-length version was published in April 1891. The story revolves around a Oil painting, portrait of Dorian Gray (character), Dorian Gray painted by Basil Hallward, a friend of Dorian's and an artist infatuated with Dorian's Aesthetics, beauty. Through Basil, Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton and is soon enthralled by the aristocrat's Hedonism, hedonistic worldview: that beauty and sensual fulfillment are the only things worth pursuing in life. Newly understanding that his beauty will fade, Dorian expresses the desire to Deal with the Devil, sell his soul, to ensure that the picture, rather than he, will age and fade. The wish is granted, and Dorian pursues a libertine lif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Wotton
William Wotton (13 August 166613 February 1727) was an English theologian, classical scholar and linguist. He is chiefly remembered for his remarkable abilities in learning languages and for his involvement in the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns. In Wales he is remembered as the collector and first translator of the ancient Welsh laws. Life Early years William Wotton was the second son of the Rev. Henry Wotton, rector of Wrentham, Suffolk. He was a child prodigy who could read verses from the Bible in English, Latin, Greek and Hebrew before he was six. In April 1676, when he was not yet ten years old, he was sent to Catharine Hall, Cambridge, and graduated in 1679. By this time Wotton had acquired Arabic, Syriac, and Aramaic, as well as a knowledge of logic, philosophy, mathematics, geography, chronology, and history. His parents died whilst he was still at Cambridge, and as a teenager he was taken into the household of Gilbert Burnet, later bishop of Salisbury. He was aw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Wotton (other)
Thomas Wotton may refer to: * Thomas Wotton (surgeon) (1582–1669), with first colonists to Jamestown, Virginia * Thomas Wotton (genealogist) Thomas Wotton (died 1766), was an English antiquarian and genealogist, best remembered for his work ''The English Baronetage'' (1727, 1741). Origins Wotton was the son of Matthew Wotton, who kept a bookshop at the Three Daggers and Queen's Head, n ... (died 1766), compiler of ''The English Baronetage'' * Thomas Wotton (sheriff) (1521–1587), sheriff of Kent * Thomas Wotton, 2nd Baron Wotton (1587–1630), English peer {{hndis, Wotton, Thomas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Wotton
Roger Corfield Anson Wotton (14 June 1919 – 6 September 2012) was an Australian politician. He was the Country Party (later National Party) member for Burrendong from 1968 to 1971 and from 1973 to 1981, and then for Castlereagh from 1981 to 1991 in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. Wotton was born in Ardlethan, New South Wales, and attended the local public school and then Yanco Agricultural High School. He served in the 2nd Australian Imperial Force 1940–45, rising to the rank of lieutenant and serving in Darwin, Morotai and Borneo. He married Shirley Crick on 3 February 1945, with whom he had five children. He became a farmer and grazier after the war, and joined the Country Party in 1950. He served on Coonabarabran Shire Council from 1963 to 1968, and as Deputy Shire President from 1965. Political career In 1968, Wotton was selected as the Country Party's candidate for the new state seat of Burrendong, which largely replaced the old seat of Mudgee. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob Wotton
Rob Wotton is a soccer presenter for Sky Sports and on Sky Sports News. He is a fan of Chelsea FC and his commentary has appeared on their club DVD. He has covered England games home and away for Capital Gold and worked with Jonathan Pearce. Career As part of the team that kicked Sky Sports News off way back in 1998, he has become a fixture on the screens and has presented most of, if not all, of the shows at one time or another. His most regular role though is the early Saturday evening slot, where he takes the viewers through the Premier League talking points and Football League goals as soon as Jeff Stelling and the Soccer Saturday boys are off air. Before beginning his 12-year service (and counting) Wotton was the sports editor at Capital Radio in London, where Euro 96 and the 1998 World Cup in France were among the highlights, as well as annual broadcasts from Wimbledon. Since joining Sky Sports News, Wotton has presented a number of our frontline football producti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Wotton
Paul Anthony Wotton (born 17 August 1977) is an English former professional footballer who is the manager of Truro City. Having begun his career with his home-town side, Wotton went on to become the club's most successful captain as they won two Football League titles in three seasons. By the time he left Plymouth in 2008, Wotton had broken into the top ten of the club's all-time appearance list – playing in more than 400 matches – and won their Player of the Year award twice. A year later, he was inducted into the club's Hall of Fame. Wotton went on to spend three seasons with Southampton, with whom he won the Football League Trophy at Wembley Stadium during the 2009–10 season. Towards the end of his time with the club, he was loaned out to Oxford United and Yeovil Town before joining the latter permanently. A year later, Wotton returned to Plymouth Argyle. He was appointed player-coach at Argyle at the end of the 2013–14 season and formally retired from playing the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Wotton
Nicholas Wotton (c. 1497 – 26 January 1567) was an English diplomat, cleric and courtier. Life He was a son of Sir Robert Wotton of Boughton Malherbe, Kent, and a descendant of Sir Nicholas Wotton, Lord Mayor of London in 1415 and 1430, who was Member of Parliament for the City from 1406 to 1429. Soon after ordination Wotton was granted the benefices of Boughton Malherbe and of Sutton Valence, and later of Ivychurch, Kent. Desirous of a more worldly career, he entered the service of Prince-Bishop Cuthbert Tunstall, then Bishop of London. Having helped to draw up the ''Institution of a Christian Man'', Wotton in 1539 went to arrange the marriage between Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves and the union of Protestant princes which was to be the complement of this union. Wotton crossed over to England with the new royal bride but, unlike Thomas Cromwell, he did not lose the royal favour when the king repudiated Anne. In 1541, having already refused the bishopric of Hereford, he b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Wotton (mayor)
Nicholas Wotton (or Wootton; d. 1448) was an English merchant and official who twice served as Lord Mayor of London, in 1415 and 1430. Family Wotton was the son of William Wotton (d. 1391), a wealthy wool merchant, and his wife Margaret (d. 1404). His father may be the same William Wotton who was alderman of Dowgate Ward. He married Joane Corbie, only daughter and heiress of Robert Corbie. This marriage brought with it the estate of Boughton Malherbe, which would remain in the Wotton family for generations. After Joan's death in 1413, he remarried to a woman named Margaret. Career Wotton was a member of the Drapers' Company. Like his father, he was a large investor in wool, with royal licenses to ship large quantities to Calais. His growing wealth enabled him to advance large loans to both Kings Henry IV and Henry V, in return for which he gained an exemption on customs duties until the loans were repaid. Apart from his mercantile activities, Wotton held a number of political o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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