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Hart-Davis Letters
Hart-Davis is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Adam Hart-Davis (born 1943), English scientist, author, photographer, historian and broadcaster * Alice Hart-Davis (born 1963), British journalist and author * Deirdre Hart-Davis (1909–1999), English socialite * Duff Hart-Davis (born 1936), British biographer, naturalist and journalist * Jack Hart-Davis (1900–1963), South African cricket umpire * Rupert Hart-Davis (1907–1999), British publisher, literary editor, and man of letters Others * Hart Davis (1791–1854), British politician, MP for Colchester 1812–18 * Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, British publishing house * ''Lyttelton/Hart-Davis Letters'', Rupert Hart-Davis' published volumes of correspondence with George William Lyttelton * William Hart Davis, pen name of Bill Pronzini (born 1943), American writer * William Watts Hart Davis (1820–1910), American brigadier general See also * Hart (surname) * Davis (surname) Davis is a surname of English an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Hart-Davis
Adam John Hart-Davis (born 4 July 1943) is an English scientist, author, photographer, historian and broadcaster. He presented the BBC television series '' Local Heroes'' and '' What the Romans Did for Us'', the latter spawning several spin-off series involving the Victorians, the Tudors, the Stuarts and the Ancients. He was also a co-presenter of ''Tomorrow's World'', and presented '' Science Shack''. Hart-Davis was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society in 2007. Personal life Hart-Davis was born and brought up in Henley-on-Thames, the youngest child of the publisher Sir Rupert Hart-Davis (1907–1999) and his second wife, Catherine Comfort Borden-Turner. He was educated at St Andrew's Preparatory School, near Pangbourne, and then at Eton College, before studying chemistry at Merton College, Oxford. He then took a PhD degree in organometallic chemistry at the University of York and spent three years as a post-doctoral scholar at the Univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyttelton/Hart-Davis Letters
The Lyttelton/Hart-Davis Letters are a correspondence between two literary Englishmen, George Lyttelton (1883–1962) and Rupert Hart-Davis (1907–99), written between 1955 and Lyttelton's death, and published by Hart-Davis in six volumes between 1978 and 1984. History George Lyttelton had been a master at Eton College, where he encouraged the literary tastes of the teenaged Hart-Davis during the latter's final year (1925–26) there. After Hart-Davis left Eton their paths diverged, but they embarked on a weekly correspondence in 1955, by which time Lyttelton had retired and Hart-Davis had become an eminent (if not outstandingly profitable) publisher. The letters continued without a break for the rest of Lyttelton's life. In 1978, 16 years after Lyttelton's death, Hart-Davis began publishing the correspondence, and by 1984 all the letters had been published, in six volumes. The philosopher A. C. Grayling observed: :Hart-Davis was a civilised and well-connected man, whose quot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Compound Surnames
In some cultures, a surname, family name, or last name is the portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family, tribe or community. Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name, as the forename, or at the end; the number of surnames given to an individual also varies. As the surname indicates genetic inheritance, all members of a family unit may have identical surnames or there may be variations; for example, a woman might marry and have a child, but later remarry and have another child by a different father, and as such both children could have different surnames. It is common to see two or more words in a surname, such as in compound surnames. Compound surnames can be composed of separate names, such as in traditional Spanish culture, they can be hyphenated together, or may contain prefixes. Using names has been documented in even the oldest historical records. Examples of surnames are documented in the 11th ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Davis (surname)
Davis is a surname of English and Welsh origin. As an English surname it may be a corruption of Davy or a reference to King David in the Old Testament. As a Welsh surname may be a corruption of Dyfed, related to Irish colonists who occupied an area of southwest Wales in the late third century and established a dynasty there which lasted five centuries. Dyfed is recorded as a surname as late as the twelfth century, e.g. Gwynfard Dyfed, born 1175. Dafydd (generally translated into English as David) appears as a given name in the thirteenth century, e.g. Dafydd ap Gruffydd (1238–1283), Prince of Wales, and Dafydd ab Edmwnd ( ), a Welsh poet. Alternatively, Davis may be a patronymic surname (''son of David''). Davis is the 45th most common surname in England and 68th most common in Wales. According to the 2000 United States census, it is the seventh most frequently reported surname, accounting for 0.48% of the population, preceding Garcia and following Miller. It was the seventh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hart (surname)
Hart is a surname. Notable people with the surname Hart include: A * Aaron Hart (other), any of several people of the same name * Abigail Hart, victim of the Hart family murders * Alan Hart (other), any of several people of the same name * Albert Bushnell Hart (1854–1943), American historian * Alden Hart (1860–1947), American businessman and politician * Alfred A. Hart (1816–1908), American photographer * Alfred S. Hart (1904–1979), American businessman and banker born as Alfred Harskovitz * Allie Carroll Hart (1913–2003), director of the Georgia Department of Archives and History * Alvin Youngblood Hart (born 1963), American musician * Andro Hart (died 1621), English printer * Angie Hart (born 1972), Australian pop singer * Ann Weaver Hart (born 1948), Temple University president * Armando Hart (1930–2017), Cuban politician * Augustus L. Hart (1849–1901), California attorney general B * Basil Liddell Hart (1895–1970), English military ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Watts Hart Davis
William Watts Hart Davis (July 27, 1820 – December 26, 1910) was a brevetted Brigadier General of the United States Volunteers during the American Civil War. The rank was awarded to him on March 13, 1865, "for gallant and meritorious services, during operations against Charleston, South Carolina." Outside of his military service, he worked as a journalist, author and government official. He was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in 1820, to Major General John Davis and Amy (Hart) Davis. He was first educated at a private school run by Anna Longstreth and later attended a school at the Southampton Baptist Church. In 1832, he was enrolled in the Doylestown Academy. He finished his elementary education at a boarding school in Burlington, New Jersey. In 1841, he began studying at Partridge's University and Military School in Norwich, Vermont, graduating in 1842. After graduating he was hired as a maths teacher and commandant of cadets in the military academy at Portsmouth, Virginia, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Pronzini
Bill Pronzini (born April 13, 1943) is an American writer of detective fiction. He is also an active anthologist, having compiled more than 100 collections, most of which focus on mystery, western, and science fiction short stories. Pronzini is known as the creator of the San Francisco-based Nameless Detective, who starred in over 40 books from the early 1970s into the 2000s. Biography William John Pronzini was born in Petaluma, California in 1943. He attended local schools. He has been married three times. The first marriage was to Laura Patricia Adolphson (1965, divorced 1966); the second was to Brunhilde Schier (July 28, 1972, separated December 1985, divorced a couple of years later). He married mystery writer Marcia Muller in 1992. They have collaborated on several novels: ''Double'' (1984), a Nameless Detective novel, ''The Lighthouse'' (1987), ''Beyond the Grave'' (1986), several books in the Carpenter and Quincannon mystery series, and numerous anthologies. DeAnd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George William Lyttelton
The Honourable, The Hon George William Lyttelton (6 January 1883 – 1 May 1962) was a British teacher and ''littérateur'' from the Lyttelton family. Known in his lifetime as an inspiring teacher of classics and English literature at Eton College, Eton, and an avid sportsman and sports writer, he became known to a wider audience with the posthumous publication of his letters, which became a literary success in the 1970s and 80s, and eventually ran to six volumes. Early life Lyttelton was born at Hagley Hall in Worcestershire, the second son of Charles Lyttelton, 8th Viscount Cobham, Charles Lyttelton, 5th Baron Lyttelton and later 8th Viscount Cobham, and Mary Susan Caroline Cavendish (second daughter of the William Cavendish, 2nd Baron Chesham, 2nd Baron Chesham). He was educated at Eton College, Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was a sporting young man, distinguishing himself at the Eton field game (a form of football), and at cricket, in which he shared a second w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hart-Davis, MacGibbon
The British publishing house of Hart-Davis, MacGibbon was formed in 1972 by its parent group, Granada. The parent company had acquired the publishing concern of Rupert Hart-Davis in 1963 and the house of MacGibbon & Kee (founded by James MacGibbon and Robert Kee) in 1968. When Granada exited the publishing business in 1983, the imprint was sold to William Collins, Sons of Glasgow Glasgow ( ; sco, Glesca or ; gd, Glaschu ) is the most populous city in Scotland and the fourth-most populous city in the United Kingdom, as well as being the 27th largest city by population in Europe. In 2020, it had an estimated popul .... References Book publishing companies of the United Kingdom Publishing companies established in 1972 {{UK-publish-company-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Hart-Davis
Alice Hart-Davis (born 1963) is a British people, British journalist, author and founder of thetweakmentsguide.com. Early life Born in Builth Wells, the daughter of the biographer and journalist Duff Hart-Davis, and a granddaughter of publisher and biographer Rupert Hart-Davis, Alice Hart-Davis was brought up in Henley-on-Thames and educated at Headington School before reading history at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. She is also a niece of the broadcaster Adam Hart-Davis. Career After Oxford, Alice worked at ''The Sunday Telegraph''s ''Sunday Magazine'', ''The Daily Telegraph'', the ''Mail on Sunday'' and the ''London Evening Standard'', and now contributes as a freelance basis to many newspapers and magazines, specialising in cosmetic procedures, beauty and health. She has written many articles about anti-aging treatments and has frankly documented her own experiences in trying non-surgical cosmetic procedures such as Botox. She has also written extensively about skincare. Hart-Davis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colchester (UK Parliament Constituency)
Colchester is a Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, constituency in Essex represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, UK Parliament since 2015 United Kingdom general election, 2015 by Will Quince, a Conservative Party (UK), Conservative. History The Parliamentary Borough of Colchester had sent two members to Parliament since the Model Parliament of 1295. In 1885, representation was reduced to one, being one of 36 English boroughs and three Irish boroughs to which this occurred under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885. Under the Representation of the People Act 1918, the Parliamentary Borough was abolished and replaced with a Division of the County of Essex (later a County Constituency). The constituency remained virtually unchanged until it was briefly abolished for the 1983 United Kingdom general election, 1983 general election following the Third Periodic Review of Westminster Const ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
