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Wintour Family
Wintour may refer to ;Places *Wintour's Leap, a rock climbing location in Gloucestershire, England *Mount Wintour in Canada ;Surname * Anna Wintour, Dame Anna Wintour (born 1949), the editor-in-chief of American ''Vogue'' **''Anna Wintour (song)'' by Azealia Banks **Anna Wintour Costume Center, a wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, U.S. * Charles Wintour (1917–1999), British publisher, father of Anna and Patrick * Cordelia James, Baroness James of Rusholme, Cordelia Mary Wintour, British educator and magistrate, sister of Charles * Dave Wintour, British bass guitarist * Fitzgerald Wintour, British military officer, father of Charles * John Wintour (other), multiple people * Marelyn Wintour-Coghlan, Australian physiologist * Patrick Wintour (born 1954), political editor of ''The Guardian'', son of Charles, brother of Anna * Robert and Thomas Wintour, two of the leading members of the 1605 Gunpowder Plot * Wintour baronets ;Other * The Wintour Vestments mad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wintour's Leap
Wintour's Leap is a noted rock climbing location and viewpoint. It is located near the village of Woodcroft, Gloucestershire, Woodcroft in Gloucestershire, on the England, English side of the River Wye, Wye Valley, north of Chepstow. History Wintour's Leap is named after Cavalier, Royalist John Winter (Royalist), Sir John Wintour who, hotly pursued on his horse by Roundhead, Parliamentary forces, according to local myth survived a leap off the cliff and, landing safely in the Wye below, swam to safety in the nearby Chepstow Castle. In fact, Wintour did escape from the Roundheads by using the river nearby on two separate occasions, but from less spectacular positions at Lancaut and Sedbury.Jeremy Knight, ''Civil War & Restoration in Monmouthshire'', 2005, Ownership Wintour's Leap is owned by Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust and forms part of the Lancaut, Lancaut SSSI Nature Reserve. The cliffs of Wintour's Leap are frequent nesting grounds for Peregrine Falcons and provide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Wintour
Mount Wintour is a ridge-like mountain summit located in the Opal Range of the Canadian Rockies of Alberta, Canada. It is situated in the Kananaskis River Valley east of Lower Kananaskis Lake and Highway 40 in Peter Lougheed Provincial Park. The nearest higher neighbor is Mount Jerram, to the east. The northern end of Mount Wintour forms the south canyon wall of King Creek which is a popular ice climbing destination. There are two climbing routes to the summit, the North Ridge and the South Ridge, both rated class 5.4. History The mountain was named in honor of Captain Charles John Wintour (1871–1916), Royal Navy commander of the 4th Destroyer Flotilla. He was killed when his flagship, the destroyer was sunk by the German battleship during the Battle of Jutland in World War I. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Wintour
Dame Anna Wintour (; born 3 November 1949) is a British journalist based in New York City who has served as editor-in-Chief of ''Vogue'' since 1988 and Global Chief Content Officer for Condé Nast since 2020; she is also the artistic director of Condé Nast and the Global Editorial Director of ''Vogue''. With her trademark pageboy bob haircut and dark sunglasses, Wintour has become an important figure in much of the fashion world, praised for her eye for emerging fashion trends. Her reportedly aloof and demanding personality has earned her the nickname "Nuclear Wintour". Her father, Charles Wintour, Editor of the London ''Evening Standard'' (1959–1976), consulted with her on how to make the newspaper relevant to the youth of the era. She became interested in fashion as a teenager. Her career in fashion journalism began at two British magazines. Later, she moved to the US, with stints at '' New York'' and '' House & Garden''. She returned to London and was the editor of B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Wintour (song)
"Anna Wintour" is a song recorded by American singer and rapper Azealia Banks. It was released on April 6, 2018, by eOne and Chaos & Glory as the planned lead single from her mixtape ''Fantasea II: The Second Wave''. Production of the song was handled by Junior Sanchez, while the song was penned by Banks, Sanchez, Dorian Strickland, Kevin James, and "Shug". The song is named after Anna Wintour, who is the editor-in-chief of ''Vogue'', and is about self empowerment. The music video was released on May 24, 2018, and surpassed 1 million views in 48 hours. Production While Banks was signed to Interscope Records, Junior Sanchez was commissioned by the label to do a remix of Banks's song "Ice Princess," from ''Broke with Expensive Taste'' (2014), with the working title of the track being "Anna Wintour". This would explain the presence of a sample in the song. One of the initial plans for the song was for it to feature Mel B, however, this concept was ultimately scrapped due to scheduling ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Wintour Costume Center
The Anna Wintour Costume Center is a wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's main building in Manhattan that houses the collection of the Costume Institute. The center is named after Anna Wintour, the longtime and current editor-in-chief of ''Vogue'', artistic director of Condé Nast, and chair of the museum's annual Met Gala (often called the "Met Ball") since 1995. It was endowed by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch. As of August 2017, the chief curator is Andrew Bolton. The center was formally opened by the First Lady of the United States Michelle Obama on May 5, 2014. Guests included Sarah Jessica Parker, Diane Von Furstenberg, Tory Burch, Zac Posen, Ralph Lauren, and Donatella Versace. History In 1902, wealthy philanthropists Irene and Alice Lewisohn began to volunteer at the Henry Street Settlement House in New York, a community center that provided social services and healthcare to immigrant families. Alice, who acted in plays herself, began working as a drama teacher, while ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Wintour
Charles Vere Wintour (18 May 1917 – 4 November 1999) was a British newspaper editor, the father of ''Vogue'' magazine editor-in-chief, Anna Wintour, and of the diplomatic editor of ''The Guardian'' newspaper, Patrick Wintour. After a life in media and publishing, Charles Wintour went on to become the editor-in-chief of the ''London Evening Standard''. Under his leadership, the ''Evening Standard'' was described as a "blend of popular and serious news and opinion" which prefigured many of the broadsheets of the 21st century". Wintour was educated at the University of Cambridge where he edited Granta magazine. Early life Wintour was born in Pamphill Manor, near Wimborne, Dorset, the son of Alice Jane Blanche Foster and Major-General Fitzgerald Wintour. He was the brother of Cordelia Mary Wintour. He wrote articles for the ''Radio Times'' while he was at Oundle School, and won a prize awarded by the ''Daily Mail''. He then went up to university where he studied at Peterhouse, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cordelia James, Baroness James Of Rusholme
Cordelia Mary James, Baroness James of Rusholme (née Wintour; 30 November 1912 – 12 March 2007) was a British teacher and judicial officer. She served as a justice of the peace and as chairwoman on the report of the Howard League for Penal Reform's Working Party on Custody During Trial. Wintour was the wife of fellow educator Eric James, Baron James of Rusholme, who was created a life peer in 1959. She was an aunt of ''Vogue'' editor-in-chief Dame Anna Wintour. Early life and family Lady James of Rusholme was born Cordelia Mary Wintour on 30 November 1912 in York, Yorkshire to Major-General Fitzgerald Wintour and Alice Jane Blanche Foster. On her father's side, she was a great-granddaughter of James Milnes Gaskell and a great-great granddaughter of Charles Williams-Wynn. She was also the great-great-great granddaughter of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet and the great-great-great granddaughter of British Prime Minister George Grenville. On her mother's side, she wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Wintour
David M. Wintour (1 September 1944 – 12 July 2022) was a British bass guitarist and session musician. Wintour was born on 1 September 1944 in Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire and died on 12 July 2022 in Drumnacross, Kilraine. Dave Wintour is best known for his active part as a member of The Wurzels. from 1995 to 2002. He played and recorded with artists such as Rick Wakeman, Eric Carmen, Pete Atkin, Kenny Young, the pioneer jazz-rock band If, Clifford T. Ward, Roger Daltrey, Slapp Happy, Steve Swindells, Pretty Things, Stealers Wheel, Russ Ballard and Leo Sayer Gerard Hugh "Leo" Sayer (born 21 May 1948) is an English-Australian singer and songwriter whose singing career has spanned five decades. He has been an Australian citizen and resident since 2009. Sayer launched his career in the United Kingdom .... He played bass on the song "Dammit Janet" on the 1975 ''Rocky Horror Picture Show'' soundtrack. Wintour died from cancer on 12 July 2022, at the age of 77. Severa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fitzgerald Wintour
Major-General Fitzgerald Wintour (1860—1949) was a British military officer who served in the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment and the Royal Norfolk Regiment. Wintour was commissioned in the British Army in 1880 and fought in the Anglo-Egyptian War, the Mahdist War, the Tochi Expedition, the Second Boer War, and in World War I. He was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his military service. Wintour was the father of newspaper editor Charles Wintour and of Cordelia James, Baroness James of Rusholme. He was the grandfather of Dame Anna Wintour and Patrick Wintour. Early life and family Fitzgerald Wintour was born in 1860 to Rev. Fitzgerald Wintour and Isabel Milnes Gaskell. He was the grandson of Mary Wynn Williams-Wynn, the daughter of Charles Williams-Wynn, and Conservative politician James Milnes Gaskell of Thornes House, Wakefield, Yorkshire, and of Wenlock Abbey, Much Wenlock, Shropshire. His maternal great ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Wintour (other) (c. 1600–1676), ironmaster and landowner
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John Wintour may refer to: * John Wintour (Gunpowder Plot) (executed 1606), member of the Gunpowder Plot * John Winter (Royalist) Sir John Winter or Wintour (about 1600–1676) was an English ironmaster and landowner at Lydney in Gloucestershire, who was an ardent supporter of Charles I during the English Civil War. Biography John Winter was the grandson of William Wynter, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marelyn Wintour-Coghlan
Elvie Marelyn Wintour-Coghlan is an Australian physiologist who has focused her career on the endocrinology of the pregnant mother and foetus. She has developed techniques enabling her to follow development of foetal organs, showing that concentration of foetal urine can be used as an indicator of stress in the foetus. The important focus of her work was the discovery that foetal stressful conditions can be translated into adult health. Education and career Professor Wintour-Coghlan was born in Queensland as one of six children and grew up in Brisbane where she attended All Hallows Catholic Girls School. She studied physiology and biochemistry at the University of Queensland, after which she moved to University of Melbourne in 1960, taking up a position in the Department of Physiology where she obtained her MsC in 1964 and PhD in 1972. She has also received her DSc in 1988 at the same institution. In 1990 she became an NHMRC Senior Research Fellow at the Howard Florey Inst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Wintour
Patrick Wintour (born 1 November 1954) is a British journalist and the diplomatic editor of ''The Guardian''. He was the political editor of ''The Guardian'' from 2006 to 2015 and was formerly the newspaper's chief political correspondent for two periods, from 1988 to 1996, and 2000 to 2006. In the intervening period he was the political editor of ''The Observer''. Early life Wintour was born on 1 November 1954, the son of former ''Evening Standard'' editor Charles Wintour, Charles Vere Wintour by his marriage to Eleanor "Nonie" Trego Baker (1917–1995), an American, the daughter of a Harvard law professor. His parents married in 1940 and divorced in 1979. His elder sister, Dame Anna Wintour, is the current Editor-in-Chief of the American edition of ''Vogue (magazine), Vogue'' magazine. His brother Jim arranged equestrian events at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Wintour is the grandson of Major-General Fitzgerald Wintour. Wintour was educated at The Hall School (Hampstead), The Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
