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Grigson
Grigson is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: People * Christopher Grigson (1926–2001), British naval architect and electronics engineer credited with inventing scanning electron diffraction *Geoffrey Grigson (1905–1985), British writer *Jane Grigson (1928–1990), English cookery writer *John Grigson DFC and two bars DSO (1893–1943), British pilot in the Royal Air Force *Lionel Grigson (1942–1994), British jazz pianist, cornettist and teacher * Mary Grigson (born 1971), Australian cyclist *Ryan Grigson (born 1972), American football executive *Sophie Grigson (born 1959), English cookery writer and celebrity chef * Wilfrid Grigson CSI (1896–1948), British soldier and civil servant Fictional characters *Colin Grigson, bass player for parody metal band Bad News (band) See also *Jane Grigson Award The Jane Grigson Award is an award issued by the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP). It honours distinguished scholarship and depth of re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Grigson
Jane Grigson (born Heather Mabel Jane McIntire; 13 March 1928 – 12 March 1990) was an English cookery writer. In the latter part of the 20th century she was the author of the food column for ''The Observer'' and wrote numerous books about European cuisines and traditional British cuisine, British dishes. Her work proved influential in promoting British food. Born in Gloucestershire, Grigson was raised in Sunderland, North East England, before studying at Newnham College, Cambridge. In 1953 she became an editorial assistant at the publishing company Rainbird, McLean, where she was the research assistant for the poet and writer Geoffrey Grigson. They soon began a relationship which lasted until his death in 1985; they had one daughter, Sophie Grigson, Sophie. Jane worked as a translator of Italian works, and co-wrote books with her husband before writing ''Charcuterie and French Pork Cookery'' in 1967. The book was well received and, on its strength, Grigson gained her position ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Grigson
Geoffrey Edward Harvey Grigson (2 March 1905 – 25 November 1985) was a British poet, writer, editor, critic, exhibition curator, anthologist and naturalist. In the 1930s he was editor of the influential magazine ''New Verse'', and went on to produce 13 collections of his own poetry, as well as compiling numerous anthologies, among many published works on subjects including art, travel and the countryside. Grigson exhibited in the London International Surrealist Exhibition at New Burlington Galleries in 1936, and in 1946 co-founded the Institute of Contemporary Arts. Grigson's autobiography ''The Crest on the Silver'' was published in 1950. At various times he was involved in teaching, journalism and broadcasting. Fiercely combative, he made many literary enemies. Art curator In 1946, Grigson was one of the founders of the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London, together with Roland Penrose, Herbert Read, Peter Watson and Peter Gregory. In 1951, Grigson curated an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lionel Grigson
Lionel Grigson (12 February 1942 – 14 June 1994) was an English jazz pianist, cornettist, trumpeter, composer, writer and teacher, who in the 1980s started the jazz course at the Guildhall School of Music. As Simon Purcell wrote in ''The Independent'', "Whether he inspired or inflamed, Grigson's energies often acted as a catalyst and his interest in, and support for, young jazz musicians contributed significantly to the growth and consolidation of jazz education in Britain....Within the context of a leading international conservatoire, the Guildhall School of Music, in London, Grigson did much to demonstrate and explain the underlying principles common to jazz, classical and indeed all music, and as a result produced a generation of jazz educators possessing a thorough grounding in an area where much educational work is left to chance." [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan Grigson
Ryan Richard Grigson (born February 23, 1972) is an American football executive who is the assistant general manager of the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League (NFL). From 2012 to 2016, he served as the general manager of the Indianapolis Colts. Grigson played college football as a tight end and offensive tackle for the Purdue Boilermakers and was drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals in the sixth round of the 1995 NFL draft. He was a member of the Detroit Lions from 1995 to 1996, and played for the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League in 1997 before he retired due to a back injury. Grigson was a pro scout for the Saskatchewan Roughriders and an assistant coach for McPherson College in 1998. In 1999, he was a player personnel coordinator and assistant coach for the Buffalo Destroyers of the Arena Football League. From 1999 to 2003, Grigson was a national and regional scout for the St. Louis Rams. He was hired by the Eagles as a western regional scout in 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Grigson
Air Commodore John William Boldero Grigson (26 January 1893 – 3 July 1943) was a highly decorated British pilot who served in the Royal Naval Air Service and Royal Air Force in World War I, continuing his service and serving in World War II until his death in an air crash in 1943. Early life John Grigson was born in 1893 in the Vicarage at Pelynt, Cornwall, to Rev. Canon William Shuckforth Grigson M.A. and Mary Beatrice Boldero, and was one of seven brothers, including Geoffrey Grigson, Kenneth Grigson and Wilfrid Grigson. John was educated at St John's School, Leatherhead (along with his brothers) before joining the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve as an Ordinary Seaman (rating), Ordinary Seaman in February 1913. World War I Grigson was serving aboard the armed merchant cruiser SS India (1896), HMS ''India'' in the 10th Cruiser Squadron when the ship was sunk on 8 August 1915 and although he survived the loss news had not reached England before an announcement of his death appe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie Grigson
Hester Sophia Frances Grigson (born 19 June 1959) is an English cookery writer and celebrity cook. She has followed the same path and career as her mother, Jane Grigson. Her father was the poet and writer Geoffrey Grigson, and her half-brother was musician and educator Lionel Grigson. Life Sophie Grigson was born in the village of Broad Town, near Swindon, Wiltshire, in 1959 and attended Oxford High School. From there she went on to study mathematics at UMIST, Manchester. After graduating in 1982 with a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics (she was vice-president of the UMIST Alumni Association), she worked for a time as a production manager of pop videos for groups including Bonnie Tyler and the Style Council. Having inherited her mother's love of food, she found she also enjoyed writing about it. Her first food article, published in 1983 in the '' Sunday Express Magazine'', was entitled "Fifty ways with potatoes". She has since written columns for publications includi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Grigson
Christopher William Baisely "Grig" Grigson (1 December 1926 – 19 February 2001) was a British naval architect and electronics engineer who is credited with the invention of scanning electron diffraction. Early life and education Grigson was born in Hoshangabad, India, to Sir Wilfrid Grigson, Deputy Commissioner of the Central Provinces and Berar, and his wife, Lady Phyllis Grigson. Grigson and his sister Claudia (who later married Henry Chilver) were both educated at a prep school in Sussex. While visiting his uncle and aunt in Cambridge he became ill with osteomyelitis of the hip, which left him bedridden for two years. Unable to leave, he was brought up by his uncle and aunt, and in 1946 won a place to study mechanical science at Trinity College, Cambridge. Despite still being ill he gained Firsts in both the Part I and Part II mechanical science triposes. After his health improved he took a PhD in electronics at Cambridge. Career Grigson began to work at the university, be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilfrid Grigson
Sir Wilfrid Vernon Grigson CSI (1896 – 26 November 1948) was a British soldier and civil servant. Biography Wilfrid Grigson was born in 1896 in the Vicarage at Pelynt in Cornwall, south-west England, to Canon William Shuckforth Grigson and Mary Beatrice Boldero, and was one of seven brothers, including Geoffrey, Kenneth (1895–July 1918) and John (1893–1943). Five of the brothers died during the First and Second World Wars (the surviving brother being Geoffrey). Wilfrid Grigson was educated at St John's School, Leatherhead, in Surrey, before matriculating to Christ Church, Oxford. During the First World War, Grigson served as a lieutenant in the Machine Gun Corps, serving in four different theatres of war. After the war, he joined the Indian Civil Service and rose up through the ranks. At one point, while resident in Hyderabad State, his house was burned by people connected with the Razakars. The highest rank he achieved was serving as deputy commissioner of the Central P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Grigson
Mary Grigson (born 3 June 1971) is an Australian cross-country mountain biker. Grigson participated in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta coming 15th in the women's Cross-country event. She also competed in the women's Cross-country event at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney where she came 6th. She won a bronze medal at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in the cross-country event. She was inducted into the Cycling Australia Hall of Fame Cycling Australia Hall of Fame was established in 2015. The focus of the Hall of Fame is on athletic performance but also acknowledge administrators, officials and coaches. A ‘Legends of the sport’ category will be introduced three years after ... in 2016. References Living people 1971 births Cyclists from Wellington City Australian female cyclists Olympic cyclists for Australia Cyclists at the 1996 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2002 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games bronze medallists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bad News (band)
Bad News are a fictional English heavy metal band created for the Channel 4 television series '' The Comic Strip Presents...''. Its members were Vim Fuego (played by Ade Edmondson) on vocals and lead guitar; Den Dennis (Nigel Planer) on rhythm guitar; Colin Grigson (Rik Mayall) on bass; and Spider "Eight-Legs" Webb ( Peter Richardson) on drums. The band continued outside the context of the TV series, with the actors (in character) eventually playing a number of live gigs as Bad News, and recording an album (1987's ''Bad News'') and a single (a cover of "Bohemian Rhapsody") that made the UK charts. Biography Early incarnation: "Bad News Tour" (1983) Bad News made their television debut during 1983, in the first series of '' The Comic Strip Presents...'' (written by Edmondson, and produced by Michael White/Comic Strip Productions). The episode, "Bad News Tour", took the form of a satirical fly-on-the-wall rockumentary, in which the incompetent band is followed travelling to a g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Grigson Award
The Jane Grigson Award is an award issued by the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP). It honours distinguished scholarship and depth of research in cookbooks and is named in honour of the British cookery writer Jane Grigson. The winners of the award are: * 1992: Margaret Visser, ''The Rituals of Dinner'' * 1993: Betty Fussell, ''The Story of Corn: The Myths and History, the Culture and Agriculture, the Art and Science of America's Quintessential Crop'' * 1994: William Woys Weaver and Jerry Orabona, ''Pennsylvania Dutch Country Cooking'' * 1995: Elizabeth David and Jill Norman, ''Harvest of the Cold Months: The Social History of Ice and Ices'' * 1996: Sandra L. Oliver, ''Saltwater Foodways: New Englanders and Their Food, at Sea and Ashore, in the Nineteenth Century'' * 1997: Rachel Laudan, ''The Food of Paradise: Exploring Hawaii's Culinary Heritage'' * 1998: William Woys Weaver, ''Heirloom Vegetable Gardening: A Master Gardener's Guide to Planting, Seed Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
