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Poulton
Poulton may refer to: Places in England *Poulton, Cheshire **RAF Poulton * Poulton-with-Fearnhead, civil parish in Warrington, Cheshire *Poulton, Merseyside, an area of Wallasey **Liscard and Poulton railway station *Poulton, Gloucestershire *Poulton or Poulton Lancelyn, a locality in Bebington, Merseyside *Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire *Poulton-le-Sands, the village that became Morecambe, Lancashire People with the surname * Alonzo Poulton, English footballer * Bruce Poulton (1927–2015), American university administrator * Diana Poulton (1903–1995), English lutenist * Edward Bagnall Poulton (1856–1943), British zoologist * Edward Palmer Poulton (1883–1939), British physician and physiologist * Ferdinand Poulton (1601–1641), English missionary * George Poulton (1929–2010), English footballer * George R. Poulton (1828–1867), English songwriter * Harry Poulton (born 1919–1981), Canadian sprint canoer * Henry Mortimer Poulton (1898–1973), administrator in Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poulton-le-Fylde
Poulton-le-Fylde (), commonly shortened to Poulton, is a market town in Lancashire, England, situated on the coastal plain called the Fylde. In the 2021 United Kingdom census, it had a population of 18,115. There is evidence of human habitation in the area from 12,000 years ago, and several archaeological finds from Roman Britain, Roman settlement in England have been found in the area. At the time of the Norman conquest of England, Norman conquest, Poulton was a small agricultural settlement in the List of hundreds of England, hundred of Amounderness. The St Chad's Church, Poulton-le-Fylde, church of St Chad was recorded in 1094, when it was endowed to Lancaster Priory. By the post-Medieval period, the town had become an important commercial centre for the region with weekly and triannual markets. Goods were imported and exported through two harbours on the River Wyre. In 1837, the town was described as the "metropolis of the Fylde", but its commercial importance waned from th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poulton, Cheshire
Poulton is a settlement and former civil parish, now in the parish of Poulton and Pulford, in the Cheshire West and Chester, in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. In 2001 census the parish had a recorded population of 92. Since 1995, significant archaeological activity has been conducted in the area, first by the University of Liverpool and later by the independent group known as the Poulton Research Project. History Archaeological research has established there has been human habitation in the area since the Mesolithic period (8,000 B.C.). In the Sub-Roman Britain period, Iron Age roundhouse ditches, Briquetage and animal bones have also been found suggesting the area was once an important site for the processing and preserving of meat for trading. Roman finds include ditches, domestic ceramics and building materials relating to the Legio XX Valeria Victrix that was garrisoned at the nearby legionary fortress of Deva Victrix (Chester). During the medieval period, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George R
George may refer to: Names * George (given name) * George (surname) People * George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George * George Papagheorghe, also known as Jorge / GEØRGE * George, stage name of Giorgio Moroder * George, son of Andrew I of Hungary Places South Africa * George, South Africa, a city ** George Airport United States * George, Iowa, a city * George, Missouri, a ghost town * George, Washington, a city * George County, Mississippi * George Air Force Base, a former U.S. Air Force base located in California Computing * George (algebraic compiler) also known as 'Laning and Zierler system', an algebraic compiler by Laning and Zierler in 1952 * GEORGE (computer), early computer built by Argonne National Laboratory in 1957 * GEORGE (operating system), a range of operating systems (George 1–4) for the ICT 1900 range of computers in the 1960s * GEORGE (programming language), an autocode system invented by Charles L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richie Poulton
Richie Graham Poulton (1962 – 29 September 2023) was a New Zealand psychologist and the director of the University of Otago's Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health & Development Research Unit, which runs the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study (also known as the Dunedin Study). He was also a professor of psychology at the University of Otago, the 2007 founder and co-director of the National Centre for Lifecourse Research, the founder in 2011 of the Graduate Longitudinal Study, New Zealand, and the chief science adviser of the Ministry of Social Development in the New Zealand government. Early life Richie Graham Poulton was born in Christchurch in 1962. His father was a financier, his mother was a "stay-at-home mum". He was one of two sons. For Poulton's father's work, the family moved from Christchurch to Wellington, and then to Auckland. Poulton's last four years of school were at Auckland Grammar School. Although he enjoyed the academic parts of his schooling, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Poulton
Peter Jarrod Poulton (born 2 January 1970), known professionally as Bam Bam and briefly as Peter Jarrod, is a British radio personality. Career Poulton began his radio career at the age of 16 when he joined Radio City in Liverpool, where he worked as a technician. His first full-time presenter's role was with Marcher Sound in Wrexham, North Wales. In 1993 he joined the now defunct Sunset Radio in Manchester as a presenter and commercial producer. By 1994 he had moved to Atlantic 252 where he presented the mid-morning show. In 1995 he moved to Invicta FM in Kent and presented the evening show. He later went to Kiss 105 in Yorkshire where he launched the station as breakfast show presenter. He stayed with Kiss 105 for its entire existence, moving across the Pennines to its newly branded sister station Galaxy 102 after the sale of both stations to the Chrysalis group in 1997. In March 1998 Poulton moved to Virgin Radio where he stayed until September of the same year. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Poulton
Neil Poulton (born 1963) is a Scottish product industrial designer, designer, based in Paris, France. He specialises in the design of 'deceptively simple-looking mass-produced objects' Hudson, Jennifer " Process : 50 Product Designs From Concept to Manufacture ", Laurence King Publishing, UK, 2008, pp168, pp169-171 and has won numerous international design awards. Poulton is best known for his designs in the fields of technology and lighting design and is often associated with manufacturers LaCie and Artemide. ''Time (magazine), Time'' magazine has included Poulton in 'The Design 100 – The people and ideas behind today's most influential design'.Time, Style & Design, Summer 2008 " The people and ideas behind today's most influential design " pp 51 The Centre Georges Pompidou museum in Paris includes six Poulton-designed objects including the Rugged Hard Drive in its Permanent Contemporary Collection. Poulton's first major solo exhibition 'design by neil poulton' was held ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Poulton
Mike Poulton is an English writer, translator and adapter of classic plays for contemporary audiences. He received a Tony nomination for his play 'Fortune's Fool' along with his adaptations of 'Wolf Hall' and 'Bring Up the Bodies'. Poulton began his career in 1995 with Anton Chekhov's ''Uncle Vanya'' and Ivan Turgenev's '' Fortune's Fool'', which were staged at the Chichester Festival Theatre, the former with Derek Jacobi, the latter with Alan Bates. Bates reprised his role for a 2002 Broadway production that earned Poulton a Tony Award nomination for Best Play. Poulton's subsequent works include Chekov's '' Three Sisters'', ''The Cherry Orchard'', and ''The Seagull'', Euripides' ''Ion'', Henrik Ibsen's ''Hedda Gabler'' and ''Ghosts'', August Strindberg's '' The Father'' and ''Dance of Death''. His adaptation of Friedrich von Schiller's ''Don Carlos'' was performed at the Chichester and in the West End with Derek Jacobi. Charlotte Loveridge has written, "Mike Poulton's new tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mabel Poulton
Mabel Lilian Poulton (13 April 1901 – 21 December 1994) was an English film actress, popular in Britain during the era of silent films. Career Born in Bethnal Green, London, England, Poulton worked as a stenographer and entered films by chance. Her first role in George Pearson's ''Nothing Else Matters'' (1920) was opposite Betty Balfour, who was also making her debut, and the film was a success. Over the next several years, Poulton was cast in a succession of roles, and usually played feisty or mischievous characters. A petite blonde, she also became well regarded for her fashion style, and was a highly recognisable celebrity. In 1928, she starred in '' The Constant Nymph'' by Adrian Brunel and received excellent reviews for her performance. By the end of the decade, she was considered to be one of Britain's leading screen actresses along with Balfour, and was described by critics as Balfour's only serious rival. The advent of sound film brought a premature end to Poulton' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leah Poulton
Leah Joy Poulton (born 27 February 1984) is an Australian former cricketer who played for New South Wales Breakers, New South Wales and Australia women's national cricket team, Australia. She played as a specialist batting (cricket), batter who usually batting order (cricket), opened the batting. Poulton came to prominence in youth cricket by captaining New South Wales to the Under-17 national championships in 2000. In 2002–03, she made her senior debut for New South Wales in the Women's National Cricket League (WNCL). She found Run (cricket), runs hard to come by in her first three seasons and was in and out of the team frequently, aggregating only 24 runs in her second and third seasons combined. Despite this, she regularly captained Australia's Under-19 and Under-23 teams during this time, leading the latter on a successful tour of Sri Lanka in 2004. In 2005–06, she made a substantial impact on the WNCL for the first time, scoring 325 runs, more than twice her previous bes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joanna Poulton
Joanna Poulton is a British medical researcher, and Professor of Mitochondrial Genetics at the University of Oxford. She is an honorary consultant in Oxford, where she works on diseases caused by mutations in mitochondrial DNA. Such mutations are associated with many diseases, including diabetes, organ failure, deafness, and blindness, and are also important in neurodegeneration and aging. Poulton has spoken up on behalf of women in academia, as well as on the effects of neurodiversity on women’s careers. Education and career Poulton is the daughter of the physician and psychologist E. C. Poulton. Her mother, one of the earliest women to study medicine at the University of Cambridge, gained her MD at the age of 90. Poulton credits her parents for having taught her and her siblings a scientific attitude and critical thinking. In 1976, Poulton gained a BA in physiological sciences at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, followed by a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Sur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Poulton
John Poulton is an electrical engineer at Nvidia Corporation in Durham, North Carolina. He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2012 for his contributions to high-speed, low power signaling and graphics Graphics () are visual images or designs on some surface, such as a wall, canvas, screen, paper, or stone, to inform, illustrate, or entertain. In contemporary usage, it includes a pictorial representation of the data, as in design and manufa ... architecture. References Fellows of the IEEE Living people Nvidia people Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) American electrical engineers {{US-electrical-engineer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jared Poulton
Jared Poulton (born 21 April 1977) is a former Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League. Debuting with the Port Adelaide Football Club in 1999, he was noted as an impact player and when Port was playing well in 2004. Poulton cemented his spot in the side until a hamstring injury led him to miss the finals series of that year and ultimately, a premiership win. In 2002, Poulton became the 35th player in VFL/AFL history to kick a winning goal after the siren, against the Sydney Swans. Poulton retired in 2005 after playing just one game for the year, with 88 games to his credit. After that he went back to the SANFL to play for the Port Adelaide Magpies alongside fellow Power teammate Byron Pickett Byron Pickett (born 11 August 1977) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the North Melbourne Football Club, Port Adelaide Football Club and Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was .... Externa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
