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Powles Corners, Ontario
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Powles is a surname. Notable people with the name include: *Edward Powles (1921–2008), English Royal Air Force pilot *Guy Powles (1905–1994), New Zealand diplomat *John Powles (1948–2010), Canadian president of the Canada-Japan Society *John Diston Powles (c.1787–1867), English businessman *Lewis Charles Powles (1860–1942), English painter *Michele Powles (born 1976), New Zealand novelist, playwright, and non-fiction writer *Ray Powles (born 1938), British physician *Sophie Powles (born 1988), English actress *Tim Powles (born 1959), New Zealand music producer and artist See also *Powle Powle is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Henry Powle (1630–1692), English lawyer and politician *Richard Powle (1628–1678), English lawyer and politician See also *Pole (surname) *Poole (surname) Poole is a surname. Notabl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Powles
Edward Cyril Powles (1921–2008) was an English Royal Air Force pilot who set two notable records while flying Supermarine Spitfire photo-reconnaissance (PR) aeroplanes over the People's Republic of China. Early life Edward ''Ted'' C. Powles was born in Hereford, England, on 19 April 1921, to George and Louise Tillam Powles. Despite his height of 6 feet, 4 inches (1.93 m), Powles joined the Royal Air Force as an apprentice during the Second World War and trained as a photo-reconnaissance pilot, remaining in service after the cessation of hostilities. On 21 October 1945, he was confirmed in his appointments and promoted from the rank of pilot officer (probationary) to flying officer (war substantive rank), which was gazetted on 7 December. He was gazetted on 11 February 1949, as a flight lieutenant, short service (A.M.O. A899/47) with effect from the 13th October 1948 (and with seniority from the 21st October 1948). Having previously flown twin-engined aircraft, Flight Lieut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Powles
Sir Guy Richardson Powles (5 April 1905 – 24 October 1994) was a New Zealand diplomat, the last Governor of Western Samoa and architect of Samoan independence, and New Zealand's first Ombudsman. Early life Powles was born in Otaki, north of Wellington, in 1905. Powles was the son of Lieutenant-Colonel C. Guy Powles, a decorated military soldier who served with distinction during World War I as brigade major of New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade 1914–1916 and AA & QMG ANZAC Mounted Division 1916–1918. In 1922 he wrote the third volume of the ''Official History of New Zealand's Effort in the Great War'', ''The New Zealanders in Sinai and Palestine'', and in 1928 edited ''The history of the Canterbury Mounted Rifles 1914–1919'' by officers of the regiment, and later became Chief of General Staff of the New Zealand Army. Powles earned his LLB from Victoria University of Wellington and practised as a barrister in Wellington from 1929 to 1940. During the war, Powles went on a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Powles
John Powles (1948 – March 14, 2010) was the Canadian president of the Canada-Japan Society and an important figure within Canadian-Japanese relations for more than 25 years. John Mark Powles was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, but moved to Yokohama, Japan, early in life. His father and grandfather were Anglican missionaries in Japan during the early 20th century. He spent 18 years living in several different Japanese cities. He returned to Canada for college and earned a bachelor's degree from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia. Powles took several positions while working for the government of Canada in Japan, beginning with the Canadian pavilion at Expo '70 in Osaka. This led to a position with the Canadian Department of Expositions, in which Powles was responsible for all of Canada's international expositions. Powles became the Director of Asia and Japan Operations for the Council of Forest Industries, based in Tokyo, in 1987. He also received the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Diston Powles
John Diston Powles (c. 1787 – 14 September 1867) was an English businessman. Powles & Co. Powles was involved in numerous companies, typically as a major shareholder who was also chairman. Powles, Brothers & Co. refers to a London company set up by Powles and two brothers, having dealings with Latin America. Share promotion and Benjamin Disraeli In the mid-1820s Powles was heavily involved in the promotion of South American mining companies, and enlisted a young Benjamin Disraeli to write pamphlets promoting these mines, particularly those in Chile. Disraeli gained experience and material for his first novel ''Vivian Grey'' (1826), in which Powles and his wife appear as Mr and Mrs Millions. But speculation in shares caused Disraeli to be saddled by debts, and these took decades to pay off. South American satrap In 1823 Gran Colombia applied to Powles for colonists. They came, in the form of the Topo Valley settlers, Scottish and Irish, but the colony was unsuccessful. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lewis Charles Powles
Lewis Charles Powles (29 January 1860 – 6 July 1942) was a British Artist. Powles was born in Cirencester, England, in January 1860, one of six children. (Document) His father was Rev. Henry C. Powles. He married Isabel Grace Wingfield on 21 January 1905. Their daughter, writer Viola Bayley, was born in 1911. Powles attended Oxford, where he studied Mathematics under Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, author of ''Alice in Wonderland''. Powles gained his MA from there in 1898. Powles had formal art studies under Hubert von Herkomer, followed by studies in Munich. Powles was elected a member of the Royal Society of British Artists in 1903. Powles traveled extensively throughout Europe, as well as to Canada. His works are in the Bushey Museum and Art Gallery, the Ferens Art Gallery, the National Trust, Lamb House, the Royal Welch Fusiliers Regimental Museum, the Victoria & Albert Museum, and the Royal Collection Trust. Powles is most well known for his water ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michele Powles
Michele Powles (born 1976) is a New Zealand novelist, playwright, and non-fiction writer. Background Powles grew up in the Hawke's Bay. She studied law at Victoria University of Wellington and completed a Master's in Creative Writing at University of Auckland, under Witi Ihimaera. Powles is also a dancer and choreographer. She was the director of the 2008 NZ Book Month. Powles also held the Robert Burns Fellowship, at the University of Otago in 2010, due to the success of her first novel, ''Weathered Bones''. Career Powles has written one novel and two non-fiction books. Her first book, ''Touch Compass'' (2007), traces the lives and stories of the members of the dance company of the same name. Powles was the director of the performance touring company Rifleman Production Limited between 2006 and 2008. New Zealand author Fiona Kidman describes Powles's first novel, ''Weathered Bones'' (2009), as "a book full of real women from an exciting new writer." ''Australia's Women's Week ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Powles
Professor Raymond Leonard Powles CBE, FRCP, FRCPath (born 1938), known as Ray, is a British physician. His identical twin, Professor Trevor Powles, is also a doctor. In 1973 he performed the first successful bone marrow transplant in Europe. and pioneered in 1978 the use of cyclosporine in bone marrow transplantation, published simultaneously with Sir Roy Calne for kidney transplantation. In 1983 he, in conjunction with Prof Tim McElwain reported the first autologous stem cell transplant for multiple myeloma He was Physician-in-Charge (from 1974) and Group Head for Haemato-Oncology (from 1993) at the Leukaemia and Myeloma Units of the Royal Marsden Hospital. He was also, from 1977, Professor of Haemato-Oncology at the University of London, Institute of Cancer Research. Ray and Trevor were each made Commanders of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2002 for their services to medicine. Together, they received Lifetime Achievement awards in the 2013 Pride of Britain awa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie Powles
Sophie Powles (born 16 September 1988) is an English actress, known for her role as Holly Barton in the ITV soap opera ''Emmerdale'' Career Powles has guest-starred in dramas such as ''Holby City'' and ''Dalziel and Pascoe'' before landing a role in the ITV drama series ''Britannia High''. Her character Ronnie was the only one of the main cast who was not a student at the fictional school of performing arts. Ronnie was created especially for Powles, as all the main cast were already in place. On 22 May 2009, it was announced that Powles was to join soap opera ''Emmerdale ''Emmerdale'' (known as ''Emmerdale Farm'' until 1989) is a British soap opera that is broadcast on ITV1. The show is set in Emmerdale (known as Beckindale until 1994), a fictional village in the Yorkshire Dales. Created by Kevin Laffa ...'' as Holly Barton. Powles dyed her natural blonde hair brown for the role. On 5 February 2016, new series producer Iain MacLeod announced that Powles had repris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Powles
Timothy Guy Gerard Powles (born 21 December 1959) is a New Zealand music producer and artist. Also known as "timEbandit" Powles, his main instrument and first love was the drums and percussion in general, though over time he's become a dab hand on a medium-sized pile of instruments and gadgets, not to mention the studio itself- and virtual instruments as they occur. Early career Powles started his music career at Nelson College, which he attended from 1973 to 1977.''Nelson College Old Boys' Register, 1856–2006'', 6th edition He subsequently moved to Wellington and then Auckland to join the band Flight X-7. In the 1970s he won a scholarship to join the New Zealand Youth Orchestra in a training camp in Cambridge. His interest in both classical and rock orchestrations and ambience has continued throughout his career, and was instrumental in his becoming the drummer with the Australian-formed band The Church, with whom he was inducted into the ARIA Hall Of FAME in October 2010, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |