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Wensley Old Railway Station Buildings (1914-1993), South African character actor
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Wensley may refer to: Placename *Wensley, Derbyshire, England *Wensley, North Yorkshire, England People ;Surname *Albert Wensley (1898-1970), English cricketer *Frederick Porter Wensley (1865—1949), British police officer *Olivia Wensley (born 1985), New Zealand lawyer *Penelope Wensley (born 1946), Australian state governor and ambassador :;Pseudonym :*Shapcott Wensley, pseudonym of the English author and poet Henry Shapcott Bunce (1854–1917) ;Given name *Wensley Christoph (born 1984), Surinamese soccer player * Wensley Haydon-Baillie, English businessman *Wensley Pithey Wensley Ivan William Frederick Pithey (21 June 1914 – 10 November 1993) was a South African character actor who had a long stage and film career in Britain. Biography Pithey was born in Cape Town, South Africa. A graduate of the Univers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wensley, Derbyshire
Wensley is a small village in South Darley parish in Derbyshire of limestone and gritstone properties mainly arranged along the single road which zig-zags through the village or around the square. The whole village, together with part of the adjacent Wensley Dale is a Conservation Area. Until fairly recently there was a Methodist Chapel, a village shop and two public houses, but these have all closed. The former school is now a village hall, Wensley Reading Room. Quite a few of the houses are holiday lets. The parish church is St Mary the Virgin in the Cross Green area of Darley Bridge. The nearest schools are South Darley Primary School, Winster Primary School, Elton Primary School and Darley Dale Primary School. Its nearest senior schools are Lady Manners School in Bakewell and Highfields School in Matlock, Derbyshire. The 172 bus route of Hulleys of Baslow runs from Bakewell to Matlock, via Wensley, Darley Bridge and Darley Dale. History The villagers in Wensley were em ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wensley, North Yorkshire
Wensley is a small village and civil parish in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England. It consists of a few homes and holiday cottage, an inn, a pub and a historic church. It is on the A684 road south-west of the market town of Leyburn. The River Ure passes through the village. The etymology of the name ultimately originates from a compound of an Old English form of the god Woden (attested ''Wednesleg'' 1212, earlier ''Wodnesleie'', see Wednesday). Wensley gives its name to the dale Wensleydale. For a century after its charter in 1202, Wensley had the only market in the dale and this continued into the 16th century. Plague struck Wensley in 1563, some surviving villagers fled to Leyburn, but the village recovered a century later when Charles Paulet built Bolton Hall in 1678 and became Duke of Bolton. In fact, Bolton Hall, is from the heart of Wensley, near Preston-under-Scar, Richmondshire; it was a rebuild after a fire in 1902. Wensley's Holy Trinity ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Wensley
Bert Wensley (24 May 1898 – 17 June 1970) was an English first-class cricketer. In 400 first-class matches, mainly for Sussex from 1922 to 1936, he took 1,135 wickets with his medium pace bowling and scored more than 10,000 runs. He did the double in 1929 and took over 100 wickets on four other occasions. His best bowling, 9 for 36, came in New Zealand against Otago in 1929–30, when he played the first of two seasons for Auckland Auckland (pronounced ) ( mi, Tāmaki Makaurau) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. The most populous urban area in the country and the fifth largest city in Oceania, Auckland has an urban population of about .... He scored five centuries, with a best of 140 against Glamorgan. His fastest hundred saw him hit 120 in 110 minutes against Derbyshire in 1930. See also * List of Auckland representative cricketers References External links * Albert Wensley at CricketArchive 1898 births 1970 deaths ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Porter Wensley
Frederick Porter Wensley (28 March 1865 – 4 December 1949) served as a British police officer from 1888 until 1929, reaching the rank of chief constable of the Scotland Yard Criminal Investigation Department (CID). Serving in Whitechapel for part of his career, he was involved in street patrols during the investigation of the Jack the Ripper murders, details of which he would later publish in his memoirs in 1931.''Frederick Porter Wensley'' Casebook: Jack the Ripper Retrieved 22 January 2008 He was one of the 'Big Four', a nickname given to the four ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olivia Wensley
Olivia Wensley (born 25 April 1985) is a former lawyer and New Zealand #MeToo advocate. She has worked for Startup Queenstown Lakes on a part-time basis and had been with the organisation as chief executive from 2020-22. Wensley says she has inspired hundreds to share their sexual harassment stories and has been credited for making important efforts in highlighting the working conditions and harassment young practitioners can face as lawyers in New Zealand. Biography Wensley studied law at the University of Canterbury and the University of Waikato, and worked as a lawyer in New Zealand, Australia and Singapore. On 28 February 2018, Wensley published a piece on LinkedIn titled ''We Need to Talk About Law's Dirty Little Secret,'' which was re-published by media outlet ''Stuff''. The article described sexual harassment Wensley had experienced at law firms; it quickly went viral and attracted international media attention. In speaking out, Wensley helped uncover other women's sto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penelope Wensley
Penelope Anne Wensley, (born 18 October 1946) is a former Australian public servant and diplomat who served as the 25th Governor of Queensland from 2008 to 2014. She was previously High Commissioner to India from 2001 to 2004 and Ambassador to France from 2005 to 2008. Early life Penelope Anne Wensley was born in Toowoomba, Queensland, to Neil Wensley and his wife Doris McCulloch. She was educated at Penrith High School in New South Wales, the Rosa Bassett School in London (UK), and the University of Queensland, where she graduated with a first class Honours degree in English and French literature. She was a resident of the Women's College there. Her brothers, Robert Wensley and Bill Wensley, also attended the University of Queensland, as had her parents. Diplomatic career Wensley joined the Australian Public Service in 1967, working in the Department of External Affairs in 1967. Wensley was posted to Paris (1969–1972), returned to work in Australia, and was then given a po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shapcott Wensley
Shapcott Wensley was the pseudonym of the English author and poet Henry Shapcott Bunce (1854 – 1 June 1917). Life He was born in Bristol in the summer of 1854. He died in Bristol on 1 June 1917. He married a singer, Alice Mary Wensley, and they had one daughter, Gertrude. By profession he was a clerk in a soap works. As a poet he adopted the combined names of his mother and his wife as his pseudonym, Shapcott Wensley. He wrote lyrics for songs and librettos for cantatas. Among the composers he worked for were Edward Elgar and John Henry Maunder. Many of his texts were written on commission of the publishing house Novello. Works *''Summer on the River'': a cantata for female voices, music by F. H. Cowen (1893) *''A Sea Dream'': a cantata for female voices, music by Walter Battison Haynes (1893) *''The Banner of St. George'': a ballad for chorus and orchestra, music by Edward Elgar (1896) *''The Gate of Life'': a dramatic cantata, music by Franco Leoni (1898) *''The Stor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wensley Christoph
Wensley Christoph (born 9 December 1984 in Paramaribo) is a Surinamese football player. He is capped for Suriname's national team. Christoph has played for Suriname in qualifying matches for the 2006 and 2010 World Cups. In the 2010 qualifying campaign, he was Suriname's top goalscorer with five goals. He currently plays club football for SV Notch Sporting Vereniging Notch is a Surinamese football club based in Moengo, Marowijne. The club presently competes in the Surinamese Hoofdklasse, the top tier of Surinamese football. Notch earned promotion into the Hoofdklasse after winning the ... in the SVB Topklasse in Suriname and leads now in the football season 2017 the topscorerslist with 7 goals. External links * 1984 births Living people Association football forwards Sportspeople from Paramaribo Surinamese footballers Suriname international footballers SVB Eerste Divisie players S.V. Excelsior players {{Suriname-footy-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wensley Haydon-Baillie
Wensley Grosvenor Haydon-Baillie (born 1943) is the son of a surgeon from Worksop, Nottinghamshire, was once one of the 50 richest men in the UK after working his way up in the pharmaceutical industry. A company he invested in, Porton International, sold at high prices when it seemed it had a cure for herpes. It collapsed when it turned out it did not and the company wound up selling at a discounted price to Ipsen Pharmaceutical. He owned a collection of Rolls-Royces and an aviation museum housing and restoring many Spitfires. He also owned Wentworth Woodhouse in Yorkshire – one of the largest private homes in Europe with an assumed 365 rooms. In the 1980s, he invested millions in a firm that claimed to have a cure for herpes but it never materialised and in 1998 he admitted to debts of £13m. In 1994, Haydon-Baillie married Samantha Acland, a secretary. He was once the owner of the two largest passenger hovercraft in the world, the SRN4s, and also one of the fastest boats ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
