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Warr (surname)
Warr is a surname, and may refer to: People * Antony Warr (1913-1995), English rugby union player * Augustus Frederick Warr (1847–1908), English lawyer and Conservative party politician * Charles Warr (1892–1969), Church of Scotland minister and author * Danny Warr (1905–1972), Australian rules footballer * John Warr (1927–2016), English cricketer * Peter Warr (1938–2010), English businessman, racing driver * Simon Warr (1953-2020), Welsh television personality, BBC radio broadcaster, writer and former teacher * Steve Warr (born 1950s), British television director and producer * Steve Warr (ice hockey) (born 1951), Canadian professional ice hockey player See also * Earl De La Warr Earl De La Warr ( ) is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1761 for John West, 7th Baron De La Warr. The Earl holds the subsidiary titles of Viscount Cantelupe (1761) in the Peerage of Great Britain, Baron De La Warr ( ... * Warre Warr as a word * Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antony Warr
Antony Lawley 'Tim' Warr (15 May 1913 – 29 January 1995) was an English rugby union player who represented the England national rugby union team. He also played first-class cricket with Oxford University. Warr's two national caps came during the 1934 Home Nations Championship, where England claimed the triple crown. A winger, he scored a try on debut against Wales and made his other appearance against Ireland. He played club rugby for Old Leodiensians before joining Wakefield during the 1936/37 season, scoring fourteen tries in twelve games in the two seasons he spent at the club. He also played seven times for Yorkshire and gained a blue for Oxford.Wakefield Rugby Football Club—1901-2001 A Centenary History. Written and compiled by David Ingall in 2001. As a cricketer, Warr kept wicket for Oxford University in four first-class matches in 1933 and 1934. He spent some time playing with the Army during the 1940s and in 1950 he represented the Marylebone Cricket Club Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augustus Frederick Warr
Augustus Frederick Warr (September 1847 – 24 March 1908) was an English solicitor from Liverpool and a Conservative Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1895 to 1902. Early life Warr was the third son of Rev George Winter Warr, a Church of England vicar of St Saviour's Church in Liverpool and the Canon of Liverpool from 1880 until his death in 1895. He was educated at the Royal Institution School in Liverpool, and qualified as a solicitor in 1870. He married the sister of the lawyer Gorell Barnes. Career Warr specialised in commercial law, on which he became an established authority. He became a partner in the firm of Batestons, Warr & Wimshurt, and served as President of the Liverpool Law Society in 1892. He was elected as a Liverpool City Councillor in November 1894. The Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Baron Henry de Worms was ennobled in November 1895, giving him a seat and the House of Lords and creating a vacancy in his Commons seat, the Ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Warr
Charles Laing Warr KCVO FRSE (1892–1969) was a Church of Scotland minister and author in the 20th century. Life Warr was born on 20 May 1892, the second son of the Reverend Alfred Warr, sometime minister of Rosneath in Dunbartonshire, and his wife, Christian Grey Laing. He was christened on 24 July 1892. He was educated at Glasgow Academy and then studied Divinity at the University of Edinburgh. He was commissioned into the 9th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in 1914 and served during World War I. When peace returned he was an assistant minister at Glasgow Cathedral. Later he was the minister of St Paul's Greenock and then St Giles' Cathedral. He was Dean of the Thistle and the Dean of the Chapel Royal in Scotland from 1926 to 1969. He was appointed an Extra Chaplain to His Majesty in 1926 and Chaplain-in Ordinary in 1934. He was a sub-prelate of the Order of St John of Jerusalem and an Honorary Chaplain to the King (and later an Honorary Chaplain to the Queen). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danny Warr
Daniel John Warr (22 October 1905 – 27 August 1972) was an Australian rules footballer who played for St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Warr spent two seasons at St Kilda and his 37 games consisted of one final in 1929. He was a goal-kicking rover and managed 24 goals in each of his two years at the club. After captain-coaching Rochester in 1930, Warr returned to his original club Preston. He won a Recorder Cup in 1934, captain-coached them in 1935 and topped Preston's goal-kicking every year from 1932 to 1935 (54, 37, 57 and 42 goals respectively). His coaching career continued with stints at Camperdown(1937-1939) and Finley. After the war he moved to Canberra and was in charge of Eastlake from 1947 to 1953 with the exception of 1951 which he spent at Turner. He steered Eastlake to a premiership in 1948 and coached the ACT.''The Canberra Times ''The Canberra Times'' is a daily newspaper in Canberra, Australia, which is published by Australian Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Warr
John James Warr (16 July 1927 – 9 May 2016) was an English cricketer. A successful county player for Middlesex County Cricket Club, he took part in two Test matches for England. Warr was known for his sense of humour and made many humorous after-dinner speeches. First-class career Warr played for Middlesex as a right-arm fast-medium bowler, in 260 first-class matches between 1949 and 1960. He took 703 wickets for the county at an average of 20.75, with personal best figures of 9 for 65 against Kent in August 1956. Playing for both Middlesex and the University of Cambridge, he took 87 wickets in the 1950 season which ranked him 32nd on the list of wicket-takers in the first-class season. While still studying at Cambridge, Warr was selected for the 1950–51 tour of Australia. He played in two of the five Test matches, with the worst debut bowling performance in Test cricket, taking no wickets but conceding 142 runs, a record which stood until 2009 when Australian Bryce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Warr
Peter Eric Warr (18 June 1938, Kermanshah, Iran – 4 October 2010, Sainte-Foy-la-Grande, France) was a British businessman, racing driver and a manager for several Formula One teams, including Walter Wolf Racing, Fittipaldi Automotive, and Team Lotus. Early life Warr served a period of National Service as an officer in the Guards Division of the British Army, after training at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Following demobilisation he moved into business. Warr joined Lotus Cars in 1958 as a salesman, soon switching to sister company Lotus Components where he handled sales of the company's customer racing cars, quickly rising to become Managing Director. During this period he also enjoyed a career as a racing driver, driving the same Lotus 18 Formula Junior cars that he sold during his day job. As a driver he did not reach Formula One, but he won a Formula Junior race in a Lotus 20 on the 4.8-mile south circuit at the Nurburgring on 28 April 1962, and is famous as the firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Warr
Simon Roderick Warr (9 September 1953 – 22 February 2020) was a British radio broadcaster, television personality, author and teacher. Warr was acquitted of allegations of historical child abuse and wrote a book about his experiences. Early life and education Simon Warr was born in Haverfordwest, in South Wales. He was orphaned at the age of six. Warr was educated at the Royal Masonic School for Boys. After leaving school he embarked on an acting course at the London Drama Centre. He transferred to Goldsmiths College, University of London, qualifying as a languages teacher in 1977. He was subsequently awarded a Master's degree at the Roehampton Institute, University of Surrey. Career Teaching In 1981 Warr took up a post at St George's School, Stowmarket where he taught French, German and Latin. He also coached the 1st XV rugby squad. From 1983 until his arrest in 2012, Warr taught languages at the Royal Hospital School, Ipswich Television Warr's television career began ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Warr
Steve Warr is a British television director and producer. He is currently a company director of Raw Cut TV. In the 1990s, Warr was the first producer to combine police video with observational documentary in the BBC docusoap ''X-Cars''. He was the executive producer and series producer of ITV Network, ITV's ''Police Camera Action!''. He produced Roger Cook (journalist), Roger Cook’s current affairs series ''The Cook Report'' for four years at Central Television. He has also directed ITV's ''Tonight (1999 TV programme), Tonight with Trevor McDonald''. More recently, Warr created and produced ''Road Wars (TV series), Road Wars'' and ''Street Wars (TV series), Street Wars'' for Sky1, ''Police Interceptors'' for Channel 5 (UK), Channel 5, "Neighbourhood Blues "for BBC1 and a number of single documentaries for TV in the UK and America. References British television directors British television producers Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{UK-tv-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Warr (ice Hockey)
Steve Warr (born January 5, 1951) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman. He was drafted by the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League in the fifth round, 61st overall, of the 1971 NHL Entry Draft; however, he never played in that league. He played 72 regular-season games and two playoff games in the World Hockey Association with the Ottawa Nationals in the 1972–73 season and two more playoff games with the Toronto Toros The Toronto Toros were an ice hockey team based in Toronto that played in the World Hockey Association from 1973 to 1976. History The franchise was awarded to Doug Michel in 1971 for $25,000 to play in the WHA's inaugural 1972–73 season. Haro ... in the 1973–74 season. Awards and honors References External links * 1951 births Buffalo Sabres draft picks Canadian ice hockey defencemen Clarkson Golden Knights men's ice hockey players Ice hockey people from Peterborough, Ontario Jacksonville Barons players Living peopl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Earl De La Warr
Earl De La Warr ( ) is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1761 for John West, 7th Baron De La Warr. The Earl holds the subsidiary titles of Viscount Cantelupe (1761) in the Peerage of Great Britain, Baron De La Warr (1572) in the Peerage of England, and Baron Buckhurst, of Buckhurst in the County of Sussex (1864) in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The barony De La Warr is of the second creation; however, it bears the precedence of the first creation, 1299, and has done so since shortly after the death of William West, 1st Baron De La Warr. The family seat is Buckhurst Park, near Withyham, Sussex. Etymology The name ''de La Warr'' is from Sussex and of Anglo- French origin. It may have come from ''La Guerre'', a Norman ''lieu-dit''. This toponymic could derive from the Latin word ''ager'', from the Breton ''gwern'' or from the Late Latin ' (fallow). The toponyms Gara, Gaire also appear in old texts cited by Lucien Musset, where the word ''ga(i)ra'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warre
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Warre is a surname, and may refer to: *Edmond Warre (1837–1920), English rower and head master of Eton College * Émile Warré, French beekeeper who invented the Warré Hive * Francis Warre Warre-Cornish (1839–1916), British scholar and writer * Felix Warre (1879–1953), English rower *Sir Henry Warre (1819-1898), British Army officer * Richard Warre (c. 1649 – 1730), English official *Sir William Warre (1784–1853), British Army officer See also * Warre baronets * *Warr (surname) Warr is a surname, and may refer to: People * Antony Warr (1913-1995), English rugby union player * Augustus Frederick Warr (1847–1908), English lawyer and Conservative party politician * Charles Warr (1892–1969), Church of Scotland m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
