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Farthing
Farthing or farthings may refer to: Coinage *Farthing (British coin), an old British coin valued one quarter of a penny ** Half farthing (British coin) ** Third farthing (British coin) ** Quarter farthing (British coin) * Farthing (English coin), the predecessor to the British farthing, prior to the union of England and Scotland ** English Three Farthing coin * Farthing (Irish coin), its counterpart among the pre-decimal Irish coins *''Farthing'', used in the King James Version and Douay–Rheims translations of the Bible to translate κοδράντης (''kodrantes,'' quadrans) and ἀσσάριον (''assarion'', as), both Roman coins Arts, entertainment, and media * ''Farthing'' (magazine), a defunct British science fiction magazine * ''Farthing'' (novel), a 2006 novel written by Jo Walton * Farthings (Middle-earth), the four quarter divisions of the Shire * Timothy Farthing, a fictional character from ''Dad's Army'' People * Alan Farthing (born 1963), British o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Farthing
Stephen Farthing (born 16 September 1950) is an English painter and writer on art history. Education Stephen Farthing grew up in London and earned a bachelor's degree from Saint Martin's School of Art in 1973 and a master's degree in painting from the Royal College of Art, London in 1976. In the final year of his master's program, Farthing won a scholarship to study at the British School at Rome for one year. Life and career Since his return from Italy in 1977, Farthing has had one-man shows in the UK, Brazil, Uruguay, Mexico, Australia, Japan, and the United States. Farthing's work featured in the 1989 São Paulo Art Biennial, São Paulo Biennale and that same year he served as the Artist in Residence at the Hayward Gallery in London. He also won prizes in the John Moores Liverpool Exhibition on eight separate occasions between 1976 and 1999. Farthing was elected as a member of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1998. Farthing's work is in the National Portrait Gallery (London) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Farthing
Michael J. G. Farthing (born 1948) is British emeritus professor at the University of Sussex, where he was previously its vice-chancellor (2007–2016). His early academic career was in medicine, specialising in gastroenterology. Following an appointment as research fellow, honorary lecturer in gastroenterology at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, in 1980, he was appointed Wellcome Tropical Lecturer and worked in India, Boston and Costa Rica as visiting lecturer and assistant professor. In 1983, upon returning to the UK, he became senior lecturer and honorary consultant back at Barts' department of gastroenterology. In 1990 he was appointed professor of gastroenterology at St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College and held this post for five years. He later became Executive Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Professor of Medicine at the University of Glasgow. Following this, he was honorary consultant gastroenterologist for the St George's Healthcare NHS Trust from 2003-2007. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farthing Downs
Farthing Downs is an open space in Coulsdon in the London Borough of Croydon. Together with Eight Acres Common and New Hill to the south-east, it is owned and managed by the Corporation of London. Farthing Downs and Eight Acres Common are part of the ''Farthing Downs and Happy Valley'' Site of Special Scientific Interest. Happy Valley Park is a green space to the south owned by Croydon Council. Farthing Downs is also a scheduled monument. Farthing Downs is a long strip of grassland with pockets of ancient woodland, which narrows to a point at the northern end. It is the most extensive area of semi-natural downland left in Greater London. Its chalk and natural grasslands have a large variety of rare herbs, including some which are nationally scarce, such as the wildflower greater yellow-rattle. This is specially protected by legislation and Farthing Downs and Happy Valley have the major part of the British population. History Archeological finds show human occupation back to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Farthing
John Colborne Farthing (18 March 1897 – 9 March 1954) was a Canadian soldier, thinker, philosopher, economist, teacher, and author of the seminal tract ''Freedom Wears a Crown,'' published posthumously. It rather quickly became an epistle of Red Toryism. Early years Farthing was born in Woodstock, Ontario on March 18, 1897 to John Farthing and Mary (née Kemp) Farthing. His father was an Anglican priest who rose in the church hierarchy in Ontario, becoming Dean of the Diocese in 1907. In 1909 he was called to Montreal as bishop of the Anglican Diocese, where he served until 1939. His aunt Ann Cragg Farthing served as an Anglican missionary in the United States territory of Alaska, in the Interior. She served in Fairbanks and then in smaller Alaska Native villages. The youngest of two sons, Farthing attended Lower Canada College, and McGill University. After his second year at McGill in 1915, he enlisted with, and went overseas as a Gunner in the McGill Battery, Canadian Field ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Farthing
Hugh Cragg Farthing (July 17, 1892 – June 8, 1968) was a Canadian provincial level politician, lawyer and judge from Alberta. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1930 until 1935 representing the electoral district of Calgary. Early life Hugh Cragg Farthing was born July 17, 1892 in Woodstock, Ontario to Revered John Cragg Farthing the Anglican Bishop of Montreal and Elizabeth Mary Kemp, he had one younger brother John Colborne Farthing. He was educated at Kingston Collegiate Institute and McGill University completing his Bachelor of Arts in 1914, where he was also a member of The Kappa Alpha Society, and later Osgoode Hall Law School to complete a Bachelor of Laws in 1919. His education at McGill was interrupted by service in World War I. Farthing was called to the bar in Ontario in 1919 and began to practice in Toronto. He later moved to Calgary and was admitted to the Alberta bar on June 11, 1923. Political career Farthing ran for a sea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Farthing
Alan John Farthing, FRCOG, (born 8 June 1963) is an English obstetrician and gynaecologist and Surgeon-Gynaecologist to Queen Elizabeth II's Royal Household. Career Farthing was born in Winchester, Hampshire. He attended Beacon School in Crowborough, East Sussex, where his father was headmaster. After training at St George's Hospital Medical School, London, Farthing qualified as a doctor in 1986. He became a member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1991, and a Fellow in 2003. Farthing was appointed as a consultant gynaecologist at St Mary's Hospital in 1997, where he also became an honorary Senior Lecturer at Imperial College, London. He is a specialist in gynaecological cancer care, and an internationally recognised expert in the use of laparoscopic and hysteroscopic surgery. Farthing has a private Harley Street practice, and works as a consultant at two teaching hospitals in London: Queen Charlotte's Hospital in Shepherd's Bush, and St Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farthing (novel)
''Farthing'' is an alternate history novel Welsh-Canadian writer Jo Walton and published by Tor Books. It was first published on 8 August 2006. A sequel, '' Ha'penny'', was released in October 2007 by Tor Books. A third novel in the series, '' Half a Crown'', was released in September 2008, also from Tor, and a short story,Escape to Other Worlds with Science Fiction, was published on Tor.com in February 2009. Background The novel is an alternate history set in 1949. Though the divergence point from actual history seems to be Rudolf Hess's flight to Scotland in May 1941, '' Ha'penny'' details that the critical difference is actually the failure of the United States to provide aid to Britain in 1940. With Britain lacking American support, Hess's entreaties for peace negotiations were accepted and have led to a peace between the United Kingdom and Nazi Germany, against Winston Churchill's wishes, and to the British withdrawal from World War II, which continues mainly as a stal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Farthing
Charles Frank Farthing CF (22 April 1953 – 6 April 2014) was a New Zealand doctor who specialised in the treatment of AIDS. He was the medical director of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation from 2001 to 2007. He later worked at Merck Sharp & Dohme as the director of medical affairs for infectious diseases in the Asia-Pacific. Early life Farthing was born on 22 April 1953 in Christchurch, New Zealand. His father was an accountant and his mother was a music teacher. He was educated at Christ's College, Christchurch, an independent boys school. As a child he had considered entering the priesthood. He went on to study medicine at the University of Otago in Dunedin. Medical career Farthing began his medical career in New Zealand where he practiced as a dermatologist. After five years, he moved abroad and worked for a year in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He then moved to England and joined St Stephen's Hospital in Chelsea, London. Between 1985 and 1987, the numbers of AIDS patients treated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shire (Middle-earth)
The Shire is a region of J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional Middle-earth, described in ''The Lord of the Rings'' and other works. The Shire is an inland area settled exclusively by hobbits, the Shire-folk, largely sheltered from the goings-on in the rest of Middle-earth. It is in the northwest of the continent, in the region of Eriador and the Kingdom of Arnor. The Shire is the scene of action at the beginning and end of Tolkien's '' The Hobbit'', and of the sequel, ''The Lord of the Rings''. Five of the protagonists in these stories have their homeland in the Shire: Bilbo Baggins (the title character of ''The Hobbit''), and four members of the Fellowship of the Ring: Frodo Baggins, Sam Gamgee, Merry Brandybuck and Pippin Took. The main action in ''The Lord of the Rings'' returns to the Shire near the end of the book, in " The Scouring of the Shire", when the homebound hobbits find the area under the control of Saruman's ruffians, and set things to rights. Tolkien based the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Farthing (bishop)
John Cragg Farthing (13 December 1861 – 6 May 1947) was the Anglican Bishop of Montreal for 30 years during the first half of the twentieth century. Early life and education John Cragg Farthing was born in Toronto to an upper-class Anglican family. He had a sister Ann Cragg Farthing. He was educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, Caius College, Cambridge, England. Ann Farthing became an Anglican missionary, working in the United States territory of Alaska for years during the early 20th century in the Yukon interior. Clergyman After Farthing's return to Canada from Cambridge, he was ordained and embarked on an ecclesiastical career with a curacy at Woodstock, Ontario, swiftly followed by elevation to vicar within the same parish. Promotion followed rapidly and he was, successively, called as a Canon (priest), Canon of St. Paul's Cathedral (London, Ontario), St Paul's Cathedral, London, Ontario, and Dean of Ontario. He left Ontario when called in 1909 as Anglican Dioc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Farthing
Paul Farthing (April 12, 1887 – December 2, 1976) was an American jurist. Born in Odin, Illinois, Farthing was blinded in a hunting accident when he was twelve years old. Farthing went to the Illinois School for the Blind. He then received his bachelor's degree from McKendree University in 1909 and his law degree from University of Illinois Law School. Farthing practiced law in East St. Louis, Illinois. He served as master in chancery of the city court in East St. Louis, Illinois and as St. Clair County, Illinois judge. From 1933 to 1942, Farthing served on the Illinois Supreme Court The Supreme Court of Illinois is the state supreme court, the highest court of the State of Illinois. The court's authority is granted in Article VI of the current Illinois Constitution, which provides for seven justices elected from the five ... and from 1937 to 1938, served as chief justice of the Illinois Supreme Court. Farthing died in Belleville, Illinois.'Undaunted by Blindness,' s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Third Farthing (British Coin)
The one-third farthing was a British coin worth of a pound, of a shilling, or of a penny. It was minted in copper in 1827, 1835, and 1844, and in bronze in various years between 1866 and 1913. While exclusively authorised for use in the Crown Colony of Malta, one-third farthings are catalogued as British coinage because they are fractions of British currency and Malta otherwise used standard coins of the pound sterling. History When Malta became a British protectorate in 1800, the local monetary standard was the Maltese scudo issued by the Knights Hospitaller in the 18th century, though foreign currencies also circulated. One scudo could be divided into 240 grani, which were small bronze coins. Colloquially, Maltese speakers referred to a grano (and later a one-third farthing) as a ''ħabba'', the Maltese word for a "grain". The lowest denomination of British coinage, the farthing, was equivalent to three grani. In 1825, the British authorities made British coinage the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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