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Elspeth
Elspeth or Elspet is a feminine given name, which is the Scottish form of Elizabeth. It means "chosen by God" or "consecrated by God". The name may refer to: People * Elspeth Attwooll (born 1943), English politician * Elspeth Ballantyne (born 1939), Australian actress * Elspeth Barker (1940–2022), Scottish writer * Elspeth Beard (born 1959), English motorcyclist * Elspeth Buchan (1738–1791), Scottish religious leader * Elspeth Cameron (born 1943), Canadian writer * Elspeth Campbell (1940–2023), English political spouse * Elspeth Champcommunal (1888–1976), English fashion designer and editor * Elspeth Denning (born 1956), Australian field hockey player * Elspeth Duxbury (1909–1967) English actress * Elspeth Eric (1907–1993), American actress * Elspeth Garman (born 1955), English scientist * Elspeth Gibson (born 1963), English fashion designer * Elspeth R. M. Dusinberre (1968), American professor of classics * Elspet Gray (1929–2013), Scottish actress * Elspeth Hanso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elspeth R
Elspeth or Elspet is a feminine given name, which is the Scots language, Scottish form of Elizabeth (given name), Elizabeth. It means "chosen by God" or "consecrated by God". The name may refer to: People *Elspeth Attwooll (born 1943), English politician *Elspeth Ballantyne (born 1939), Australian actress *Elspeth Barker (1940–2022), Scottish writer *Elspeth Beard (born 1959), English motorcyclist *Elspeth Buchan (1738–1791), Scottish religious leader *Elspeth Cameron (born 1943), Canadian writer *Elspeth Campbell (1940–2023), English political spouse *Elspeth Champcommunal (1888–1976), English fashion designer and editor *Elspeth Denning (born 1956), Australian field hockey player *Elspeth Duxbury (1909–1967) English actress *Elspeth Eric (1907–1993), American actress *Elspeth Garman (born 1955), English scientist *Elspeth Gibson (born 1963), English fashion designer *Elspeth R. M. Dusinberre (1968), American professor of classics *Elspet Gray (1929–2013), Scottish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elspeth Champcommunal
Elspeth Champcommunal (1888 – 10 November 1976) was a British fashion designer and the first editor of ''Vogue'' in Britain. She was influential as a designer in her own right in Paris, with an eponymous brand, later taking on the role of chief designer of Worth London. She was among the founder members of the Incorporated Society of London Fashion Designers (IncSoc) and remained involved with the organisation during her tenure at Worth London. Background and life in France Born Elspeth Mary Hodgson, little is known about her early life. British by birth, she married the French artist Joseph Champcommunal, who died in 1914 in the first year of World War I. She remained in France, becoming closely associated with the Paris literary and artistic set and posing for portraits by photographer Man Ray. She was a friend of Virginia Woolf – who called her 'Champco' – and the Bloomsbury Set artist Roger Fry, who helped her sort through her husband's paintings and would later stay in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elspeth Beard
Elspeth Beard (born 28 April 1959) is an architect and motorcyclist, noted for being the first Englishwoman to ride a motorcycle around the world. She later redesigned the historic Munstead Tower in Godalming, winning the 1994 Royal Institute of British Architects award for South East England. She now owns an architectural firm based in a converted stable in Godalming. Personal life Beard currently runs the Elspeth Beard Architects practice in Godalming. She received her pilot's licence in 1991. She has never married. She has a son. Motorcycling Beard learned to ride a motorcycle on Salisbury Plain at the age of 16. She began her global journey in 1982, after the third year of her architect training course, using a BMW R60/6 motorcycle. She added soft panniers, a tank bag and an extra bag lashed to the pillion seat before she embarked on the trip. She began her journey in New York City, United States, having shipped the bike from the United Kingdom. From there, she motorcycl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elspeth Barker
Elspeth Barker (16 November 1940 – 21 April 2022) was a Scottish novelist and journalist whose gothic novel ''O Caledonia'' became a cult classic, known for its combination of detailed imagery of Scotland and its ironic dark humour. Early life and education Elspeth Langlands was born in Edinburgh and raised in Drumtochty Castle, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, where her parents ran a prep school for boys. From 1958, she read Literae Humaniores (Classics) at Somerville College, Oxford. Career As a journalist, Barker wrote features and reviews for ''The Independent'', ''The Observer'', ''The Sunday Times'', the ''London Review of Books'', the ''Times Literary Supplement'' and ''The Guardian''. She taught creative writing at universities in the UK, Europe and the US, also holding a position as a Visiting Professor of Fiction at Kansas University. Barker served as a judge for the McKitterick and Sagittarius literary prizes. Barker's only novel, ''O Caledonia'', was published in 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elspeth Huxley
Elspeth Joscelin Huxley CBE (née Grant; 23 July 1907 – 10 January 1997) was an English writer, journalist, broadcaster, magistrate, environmentalist, farmer, and government adviser. She wrote over 40 books, including her best-known lyrical books, ''The Flame Trees of Thika'' and ''The Mottled Lizard'', based on her youth in a coffee farm in British Kenya. Her husband, Gervas Huxley, was a grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley and a cousin of Aldous Huxley. Early life and education Nellie and Major Josceline Grant, Elspeth's parents, arrived in Thika in what was then British East Africa in 1912, to start a life as coffee farmers in colonial Kenya. Elspeth, aged six, arrived in December 1913, complete with governess and maid. Her upbringing was unconventional; she was "almost treated as a parcel, being passed from hand to hand". Huxley's 1959 book ''The Flame Trees of Thika'' explores how unprepared for rustic life the early British settlers really were. It was adapted into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elspeth Garman
Elspeth Frances Garman is a retired professor of molecular biophysics at the University of Oxford and a former President of the British Crystallographic Association. Until 2021 she was also Senior Kurti Research Fellow at Brasenose College, Oxford, where she is now an emeritus fellow. The "Garman limit", which is the radiation dose limit of a cryocooled protein crystal, is named after her. Education and career Garman studied physics at Durham University and then moved to Linacre College, Oxford, for a doctorate in nuclear physics supervised by Kenneth Allen which she completed in 1980. She taught at Lincoln College, St Hilda's College, St Anne's College, Somerville College, and Worcester College, and switched to biophysics in 1987. Since then, she has co-authored more than 150 Protein Data Bank entries and contributed to techniques for macromolecular structure determination. In particular, Garman has been amongst the pioneers of cryoprotection of macromolecular crystals an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elspeth Eric
Elspeth Thexton Eric (September 15, 1907 – June 15, 1993) was an American actress in old-time radio, "usually cast as the other woman in soaps and serials".DeLong, Thomas A. (1996). ''Radio Stars: An Illustrated Biographical Dictionary of 953 Performers, 1920 through 1960''. McFarland & Company, Inc. . P. 90. Early years The daughter of a doctor, Elspeth Thexton Eric was born in Chicago, Illinois. She attended Bradford Academy and graduated from Wellesley College with a double major in economics and English literature. After hearing tales of woe about "girls who had tried to crash the great White Way and failed, she enrolled in a business school and left word with her friends in New York to let her know when a job was to be had there." She garnered some acting experience in summer stock theatre and moved back to New York, where she worked at various jobs for five years while she tried to find work as an actor. During those years, "She was a switchboard operator, waitress, go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elspeth Probyn
Elspeth Probyn (1958-2025) was an Australian academic. She was most recently Professor Emeritus of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. She was a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. Early life and education In a 2019 ''Feminism & Psychology'' interview, Probyn spoke of growing up in an army family and moving frequently. She described her father as upper middle class and her mother as a Canadian whose own father had been "a staunch socialist". Probyn credited her father's concern that she and her sister speak in English accents appropriate to their class status with having awakened her early awareness about class differences. Probyn attended state schools. Career Concurrently, she held positions as adjunct professor of cultural geography at the University of Western Australia [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elspeth Gibson
Elspeth Gibson (born 4 March 1963) is a British fashion designer, known for her feminine style of design. Her designs are often characterised by lace, beading and embroidery. Gibson was the British Fashion Council's New Generation Designer of the Year in 1998, and examples of her work are held in the design archive at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Her clients have included Madonna, Zara Phillips, Cate Blanchett, Uma Thurman and Queen Rania of Jordan, for whom she has undertaken private commissions. Career During her teenage years Gibson attended Tuxford Comprehensive School. After graduating from Mansfield College of Art and Design in 1984, Gibson began her career with a work experience placement at Zandra Rhodes. She worked as a designer for various high street stores over the next 10 years, including Topshop, Miss Selfridge and Monix, where she was head designer. Gibson left Monix to become a freelance designer in 1994, and launched her own label in 1995. She pitched her d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elspeth Ballantyne
Elspeth Ballantyne (born 1939) is a retired Australian actress, who appeared in theatre, television and film roles over a career that spanned nearly 60 years, a veteran of the industry having started her career as a child actor and becoming a staple of the theatre starting from 1947, in a production of Macbeth and by the age of 15 in 1954 had turned pro., performing in stage roles for the next 37 years, including a stage play tour of the United Kingdom of her iconic ''Prisoner'' role at the Alexandra Theatre in Birmingham. Ballantyne is probably best known for her small screen roles in numerous TV serials. Her first major TV role was in the serial '' Bellbird'' in 1967 as librarian Laura "Lori" Chandler (formerly Grey), opposite actor Dennis Miller, whom she would marry the following year, she remained in the role until 1971. She became best known for her role in the TV cult series ''Prisoner'' (known internationally as ''Prisoner: Cell Block H'') from 1979 to 1986 as origina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elspeth McLachlan
Elspeth McLachlan (born 22 July 1942), an Australian neuroscientist, is a world authority on neural pathways within the autonomic nervous system. Her work has included detailed analyses of transmission in autonomic ganglia to studies of the organisation of autonomic nervous pathways and their disorder in pathological states, particularly injuries to peripheral nerves and the spinal cord. McLachlan was born in Bowral, New South Wales, Australia. Education McLachlan was educated at the University of Sydney, from which institution she received Bachelor of Science degree in 1962, and a PhD in 1973, and a Doctor of Science degree in 1994. Career *1985–1993 – Visiting Professor, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany *1987–1988 – National Health and Medical Research Council Principal Research Fellow and Associate Professor, School of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of New South Wales, Australia *1988–1993 – Professor and Head, Department of Physi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elspeth March
Elspeth March (5 March 1911 – 29 April 1999) was an English actress. Early years March was born as Jean Elspeth Mackenzie in Kensington, London, England, the daughter of Harry Malcolm and Elfreda Mackenzie. She studied speech and drama under Elsie Fogerty at the Central School of Speech and Drama, then based at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Career and marriage She led a long stage, film and television career as a character actress, making her professional debut in ''Jonah and the Whale'' at London's Westminster Theatre in 1932. She met and married actor Stewart Granger in 1938. As his film career blossomed, the marriage faltered, and the couple divorced in 1948. They had a son, Jamie, and a daughter, the theatrical agent Lindsey Granger, who died in 2011. She resumed her career in 1944, continuing to play supporting roles in plays, films and television into her eighties. She appeared with the National Theatre in 1977, playing roles in ''The Madras House'' and '' Don ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
