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Wolton (surname)
Wolton or Woolton is an English toponymic surname, deriving from a place name (Woolton) in Kent or Lancashire. People with the name include: * Althea Wolton (née Willoughby, 1904–1982), British artist * Bert Wolton (1929 – 1990), English cricketer * (b. 1947), French sociologist * Douglas Wolton (1898 – 1988), British communist activist * Georgie Wolton, (born 1934), British architect * (born 1951), French journalist and essayist * John Woolton (1535?–1594), Bishop of Exeter See also * Earl of Woolton, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom * Wolton (other) Wolton may refer to: * Wolton (surname), including a list of people with the name * Wolton, Wyoming See also * Woolton Woolton (; ) is an affluent suburb of Liverpool, England. It is located southeast of the city and is bordered by Allerto ... References {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toponymic Surname
A toponymic surname or topographic surname is a surname derived from a place name."Toponymic Surnames as Evidence of the Origin: Some Medieval Views" , by Benjamin Z. Kedar. This can include specific locations, such as the individual's place of origin, residence, or of lands that they held, or can be more generic, derived from topographic features.Iris Shagir, "The Medieval Evolution of By-naming: Notions from the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem", ''In Laudem Hierosolymitani'' (Shagir, Ellenblum & Riley-Smith, eds.), Ashgate Publishing, 2007, pp. 49-59. Toponymic surnames originated as non-hereditary personal s, and only subsequently came to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kent
Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames; it faces the French department of Pas-de-Calais across the Strait of Dover. The county town is Maidstone. It is the fifth most populous county in England, the most populous non-Metropolitan county and the most populous of the home counties. Kent was one of the first British territories to be settled by Germanic tribes, most notably the Jutes, following the withdrawal of the Romans. Canterbury Cathedral in Kent, the oldest cathedral in England, has been the seat of the Archbishops of Canterbury since the conversion of England to Christianity that began in the 6th century with Saint Augustine. Rochester Cathedral in Medway is England's second-oldest cathedral. Located between London and the Strait of Dover, which separates England from mainla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lancashire
Lancashire ( , ; abbreviated Lancs) is the name of a historic county, ceremonial county, and non-metropolitan county in North West England. The boundaries of these three areas differ significantly. The non-metropolitan county of Lancashire was created by the Local Government Act 1972. It is administered by Lancashire County Council, based in Preston, and twelve district councils. Although Lancaster is still considered the county town, Preston is the administrative centre of the non-metropolitan county. The ceremonial county has the same boundaries except that it also includes Blackpool and Blackburn with Darwen, which are unitary authorities. The historic county of Lancashire is larger and includes the cities of Manchester and Liverpool as well as the Furness and Cartmel peninsulas, but excludes Bowland area of the West Riding of Yorkshire transferred to the non-metropolitan county in 1974 History Before the county During Roman times the area was part of the Bri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Althea Wolton
Althea Willoughby (1904–1982) was a British artist. She worked as a book and magazine illustrator, painted decorative tiles and made wood engravings. Biography Willoughby was born in London. Her mother, Vera Willoughby was also a professional illustrator and her father was the actor Lewis Willoughby. Willoughby was educated at the Royal College of Art during the 1920s. Her work was exhibited at the Redfern Gallery in 1930 and at ''The British Art in India'' exhibition of 1935. Willoughby designed the woodcut frontispiece for Alexander Somerton's ''The Glades of Glenbella'' (1929) and illustrated three volumes of Faber and Faber's Ariel Poems: James Stephens' ''The Outcast'' (1929), D. H. Lawrence's ''The Triumph of the Machine'' (1930), and Henry Newbolt's ''A Child is Born'' (1931) She designed posters for London Transport, including ''Chrysanthemums in London's Parks'' (1933), and for the Southern Railway. She also designed patterned papers for the Curwen Press. Af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bert Wolton
Albert Victor George Wolton (12 June 1919 – 9 September 1990) was an English cricketer. He was a right-hand batsman and right-arm off-spin bowler who played for Warwickshire. Cricket career Born in Maidenhead, Berkshire, Wolton began his cricket career with his home county, playing seven matches in the 1939 Minor Counties Championship The NCCA 3 Day Championship (previously the Minor Counties Cricket Championship) is a season-long competition in England and Wales that is contested by the members of the National Counties Cricket Association (NCCA), the so-called national cou .... After the Second World War Wolton played in the Birmingham League before making his first-class debut in 1947, aged 28."Obituaries", '' Wisden Cricketers' Almanack'', 1991, pp. 1284–85. He played 297 first-class matches during his career, scoring 12,930 runs at an average of 31.00. All but one of those appearances came for Warwickshire, the other occurred in 1956 when selected for the No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglas Wolton
Douglas Gordon Wolton (1898 – 1988) was a British communist activist, best known for leading the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA). Born in Doncaster in England, Wolton moved to South Africa in 1921, and he joined the CPSA in 1925. He met a fellow party member named Molly, who had been born in Lithuania, and were married by the end of the year.Les Switzer, ''South Africa's Alternative Press: Voices of Protest and Resistance, 1880-1960'', pp.366-367 From about 1928, the Comintern proposed a policy in which the CPSA would first campaign for a "native republic", in which black South Africans would assume leading roles, with this being a stepping stone to socialism. Party leader Sydney Bunting strongly opposed the approach, but the Woltons supported it. By the start of 1929, they had won the debate in the party, which adopted the policy, and Douglas was elected as general secretary of the CPSA and editor of its newspaper, the ''South African Worker''.Les Switzer, ''South ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgie Wolton
Georgie Wolton (née Cheesman; February 1934 – 25 August 2021) was a British architect, an original member of the architecture firm Team 4. Critic Jonathan Meades describes her as the "outstanding woman architect of the generation before Zaha adid. Biography Georgie Cheesman trained at the Architectural Association and during her travels to the United States became a fan of the Eames House and Philip Johnson's Glass House. Together with her sister, Wendy Cheesman, she was a founding member in 1963 of the architectural firm, Team 4, together with Su Brumwell, Norman Foster and Richard Rogers. As the only qualified architect in the group, she effectively enabled the practice to operate. Wolton left the practice after a few months, leaving the others to pass their professional exams. Wolton went on to practise on her own, her most well known works being Cliff Road Studios in Lower Holloway, London, and The River Cafe garden in Hammersmith. They both date from the late 1960 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Woolton
John Woolton (or Wolton) (1535? – 13 March 1594) served as Bishop of Exeter in Devon, England, from 1579 to 1594. Origins He was born at Whalley, Lancashire in about 1535, the son of John Woolton of Wigan, by his wife Isabella Nowell, a daughter of John Nowell of Read Hall near Whalley, and sister of Alexander Nowell (13 February 1602), Protestant theologian and Dean of St Paul's. Career He was admitted as a student of Brasenose College, Oxford, on 26 October 1553, when aged about 18, and supplicated for the degree of B.A. on 26 April 1555. Soon afterwards he left for Germany with his uncle Alexander Nowell and remained abroad until the accession of Queen Elizabeth I in 1558. On 25 April 1560 he was ordained a deacon by Edmund Grindal, Bishop of London, and he proceeded to priest on 4 June 1560. Woolton found patrons in William Alley, Bishop of Exeter, and Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford, Lord Lieutenant of Devon (1584-5). He was appointed to the rectory of Sampfor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Earl Of Woolton
Earl of Woolton is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 9 January 1956 for the businessman and Conservative politician Frederick Marquis, 1st Viscount Woolton. He had already been created Baron Woolton of Liverpool in the County Palatine of Lancaster on 7 July 1939, Viscount Woolton of Liverpool in the County Palatine of Lancaster on 2 July 1953, and was made Viscount Walberton of Walberton in the County of Sussex at the same time as he was given the earldom. These titles are also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. As of 2014 the titles are held by his grandson, the third Earl, who succeeded his father in 1969. The 1st Earl of Woolton lived at Walberton House, in Arundel, Sussex. The family seat is Auchnacree House, near Forfar, Angus Angus may refer to: Media * ''Angus'' (film), a 1995 film * ''Angus Og'' (comics), in the ''Daily Record'' Places Australia * Angus, New South Wales Canada * Angus, Ontario, a community in Essa, Ontario * E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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