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Shrigley
Shrigley may refer to: ;Places * Shrigley, County Down, Northern Ireland * Pott Shrigley, a small village and civil parish in Cheshire, England **location of Shrigley Hall ;People * David Shrigley (born 1968), British artist * Elsie Shrigley (1899–1978), English vegan activist * Gordon Shrigley (born 1964), British architect * Patricia Shrigley, British video artist ;Other * Shrigley abduction, an attempted forced marriage between an heiress and Edward Gibbon Wakefield * Shrigley and Hunt, a manufacturer of stained glass windows {{disambiguation, geo, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Shrigley
David John Shrigley (born 17 September 1968) is a British visual artist. He lived and worked in Glasgow, Scotland for 27 years before moving to Brighton, England in 2015. Shrigley first came to prominence in the 1990s for his distinct line drawings, which often deal with witty, surreal and darkly humorous subject matter and are rendered in a rough, almost childlike style. Alongside his illustration work, Shrigley is also a noted painter, sculptor, filmmaker and photographer, and has recorded spoken word albums of his writing and poetry. Early life and education Shrigley was born 17 September 1968 in Macclesfield, Cheshire. He moved with his parents and sister to Oadby, Leicestershire when he was two years old. He attended Beauchamp College in Oadby. He took the Art and Design Foundation course at Leicester Polytechnic in 1987, and then studied environmental art at Glasgow School of Art from 1988 to 1991. Talking about his final degree show, Shrigley later told ''The Guardians Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shrigley, County Down
Shrigley is a small village in County Down, Northern Ireland about a mile north-west of Killyleagh. It is named after Pott Shrigley in Cheshire. In the 2001 Census it had a population of 456. It lies within the Down District Council area. History Shrigley is a small satellite industrial village which grew up around the large six-storey cotton mill built in 1824 by John Martin. In 1836, Shrigley mill had more power looms than any other factory in Ireland. In the following year, Samuel Lewis described it at length: The original mill was burned down in 1845. It was replaced by a flax-spinning mill, subsequently occupied by United Chrometanners Limited. The Grecian gate pillars, and some of the subsidiary stone buildings, were probably survivors of the original mill and stood until recently. Naturally, the mill became the principal source of employment in the locality. Most of the workers lived in Killyleagh, but a number of blackstone workers' cottages were built in a cluste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pott Shrigley
Pott Shrigley is a small village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. According to the 2001 census, the civil parish and village has a population of 289.Official 2001 census figures. Accessed 2007-06-11. The nearest town is to the southwest. The village has a primary school with around 22 pupils. The school was founded in 1492 and celebrated its 500th annivers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shrigley Hall
Shrigley Hall is a former English country house, country house standing to the northwest of the village of Pott Shrigley, Cheshire, England. It has since been used as a school, when a chapel was added, and later as a hotel and country club operated by The Hotel Collection. History The hall was built in about 1825 for William Turner (MP for Blackburn), William Turner, a Blackburn mill owner and Member of Parliament. The architect was Thomas Emmet senior from Preston, Lancashire, Preston. During the 20th century the building was used as a school by the religious institute of the Salesians of Don Bosco, who in 1936 added a chapel to the south of the house, dedicating it to Saint John Bosco. This was designed by the Arts and Crafts Movement, Arts and Crafts architect Philip Tilden. An attic was added to the house in the middle of the 20th century. In 1989 the house and church were converted into a hotel and country club. Architecture House This is designed in Regency a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elsie Shrigley
Elsie Beatrice Shrigley (née Salling; 30 October 1899 – 13 May 1978), also known as Sally Shrigley, was an English vegan activist and a co-founder, along with Donald Watson, of The Vegan Society in 1944. She is credited, by some, as coining the word "vegan" with Watson. Biography Shrigley was born in North London, in 1899, to a Swedish mother and Danish father. She married Walter Shrigley, a dentist, in 1939. Shrigley became a vegetarian in 1934 and stopped eating dairy from 1944. In August of the same year, Shrigley along with Donald Watson and others called for "a non-dairy section of the Vegetarian Society"; the rejection of this proposal from the society led to the formation of the vegan movement and the founding of The Vegan Society. Shrigley was an honorary secretary of the Croydon Vegetarian Society from 1940 to 1958 and was later a secretary for the Surrey Vegetarian Society. She was also a temporary secretary for the London Vegetarian Society for three months. She w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Shrigley
Gordon Shrigley (born 1964) is a British architect. His work is primarily concerned with materiality, the language of drawing and artists' book publishing. In 2004 Shrigley founded the artists’ bookwork project Marmalade, Publishers of Visual Theory, which in 2007 expanded into Filmarmalade a DVD publisher of artists' film and video works. Filmarmalade has published work by artists, including two works by Karen Mirza and Brad Butler, with screenings at the and the Arnolfini, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patricia Shrigley
Patricia is a feminine given name of Latin origin. Derived from the Latin word '' patrician'', meaning 'noble', it is the feminine form of the masculine given name Patrick. Another well-known variant is Patrice. According to the US Social Security Administration records, the use of the name for newborns peaked at #3 from 1937 to 1943 in the United States, after which it dropped in popularity, sliding to #745 in 2016.Popularity of a NameSocial Security Administration''ssa.gov'', accessed June 26, 2017 From 1928 to 1967, the name was ranked among the top 11 female names. In Portuguese and Spanish-speaking Latin-American countries, the name Patrícia/Patricia is common as well, pronounced in Portuguese and in Spanish. In Catalan and Portuguese it is written Patrícia, while in Italy, Germany and Austria Patrizia is the form, pronounced in Italian and in German. In Polish, the variant is Patrycja, pronounced . It is also used in Romania, in 2009 being the 43rd most common nam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shrigley Abduction
The Shrigley abduction was an 1826 British case of a forced marriage by Edward Gibbon Wakefield to the 15-year-old heiress Ellen Turner of Pott Shrigley. The couple were married in Gretna Green, Scotland, and travelled to Calais, France, before Turner's father was able to notify the authorities and intervene. The marriage was annulled by Parliament, and Turner was legally married two years later, at the age of 17, to a wealthy neighbour of her class. Both Edward Gibbon Wakefield and his brother William, who had aided him, were convicted at trial and sentenced to three years in prison. Background Ellen Turner was the daughter and only child of William Turner, a wealthy resident of Pott Shrigley, Cheshire, who owned calico printing and spinning mills. At the time of the abduction, Turner was a High Sheriff of Cheshire and lived in Shrigley Hall, near Macclesfield. Fifteen-year-old Ellen came to the attention of Edward Gibbon Wakefield in 1826. He conspired with his brother Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
