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Sir Humphry Wakefield, 2nd Baronet
Sir Edward Humphry Tyrrell Wakefield, 2nd Baronet, (born 11 July 1936) is an English baronet and expert on antiques and architecture. Wakefield has made his career a study of antique furniture and historic restoration. He worked for Christie's of London, and subsequently became director and chairman of antique-dealing firms. In 1982 he bought Chillingham Castle, Northumberland, from the Baron Grey of Werke, Grey family of Northumberland, the family of his third wife Katherine, daughter of Lady Mary Grey. He has since restored the ruined castle to a habitable state to house a wide collection of antiquities. Early life Wakefield is the elder son of the politician Sir Edward Wakefield, 1st Baronet, Sir Edward Wakefield, a nephew of Wavell Wakefield, 1st Baron Wakefield of Kendal, the 1st Baron Wakefield of Kendal, and Constance Lalage Thompson, the second child of John Perronet Thompson, Sir John Perronet Thompson. He was educated at Gordonstoun School and Trinity College, Cambr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Wakefield (journalist)
Mary Elizabeth Lalage Wakefield (born 12 April 1975) is a British journalist, and a columnist and commissioning editor for ''The Spectator''. Early life Wakefield is the daughter of the antique and architectural expert Humphry Wakefield, Sir Humphry Wakefield, 2nd Baronet and the Hon. Katherine Mary Alice, daughter of Evelyn Baring, 1st Baron Howick of Glendale, a colonial administrator in Africa. She has two brothers; Maximilian Wakefield (born 1967), an entrepreneur and racing car driver, and Jack Wakefield (born 1977), former director of the Dmytro Firtash, Firtash Foundation and an art critic who writes for ''The Spectator'' and other publications. A third brother, William Wakefield, was born in 1975 and died in infancy. Wakefield was educated at the independent girls' boarding school Wycombe Abbey and at the University of Edinburgh (Master of Arts (Scotland), MA). Career Wakefield has worked at the weekly magazine ''The Spectator'' for twenty years, since Boris Johnson w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wilderness Foundation
The Wilderness Foundation UK is a British charity focused on promoting environmental conservation and environmental education. It operates initiatives such as community allotments, school visits, extra-curricular programs, and nature therapy. The charity collaborates with vulnerable young people and adults, bringing thousands of people into contact with nature each year. It is part of Wilderness Foundation Global, a group of organisations that does similar conservation work in different parts of the world. One of the seven charities nominated by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to receive donations in lieu of wedding presents when the couple married on 19 May 2018, Prince Harry visited the charity's headquarters at Chatham Green, near Chelmsford, Essex, a year earlier in 2017 when he engaged with students during a survival Survival or survivorship, the act of surviving, is the propensity of something to continue existing, particularly when this is done despite conditions th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evelyn Baring, 1st Baron Howick Of Glendale
Evelyn Baring, 1st Baron Howick of Glendale (29 September 1903 – 10 March 1973), was Governor of Southern Rhodesia from 1942 to 1944, High Commissioner for Southern Africa from 1944 to 1951, and Governor of Kenya from 1952 to 1959. Baring played an integral role in the suppression of the Mau Mau rebellion. Together with Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd, Baring played a significant role in the government's efforts to deal with the rebellion, and see Kenya through to independence. He was created Baron Howick of Glendale in 1960. Education and early career Baring followed in the footsteps of his father, the famed "Maker of Modern Egypt" – Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer. Baring went to Winchester College and then to New College, Oxford, graduating from Oxford University with First Class Honours in Modern History before serving in the Indian Civil Service. He then joined Britain's Foreign Office, where he was sent first to Southern Rhodesia before being posted in South Af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turf Club (Gentlemen's Club)
The Turf Club is a London gentlemen's club, established in 1861 as the Arlington Club. It has been located at 5, Carlton House Terrace since 1965. History The Turf Club was founded in 1861 as the Arlington Club, with premises in Bennett Street, Piccadilly.Nevill, op. cit., p. 218 It was while there that a committee of the Arlington, consisting of George Bentinck, Sir Rainald Knightley, Charles C. Greville, H. B. Mayne, John Bushe, G. Payne, and Colonel Pipon, under the chairmanship of John Clay MP, drew up the laws of whist, officially sanctioned by the Portland Club in 1864. Members had originally wished to call themselves simply The Club until it was discovered that they had been beaten to it: a hundred years or so earlier the name had been claimed by Dr Johnson and Sir Joshua Reynolds for their renowned dining society. The Turf Club moved in 1875 to the corner of Piccadilly and Clarges Street. The new building at 85 Piccadilly, designed by John Norton, remained the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cavalry And Guards Club
The Cavalry and Guards Club is a Private members' club, located in London at 127 Piccadilly, Its membership consists of current and former officers of Guards and Cavalry regiments of the British Army. It is situated next door to the Royal Air Force Club. History The club has three foundation dates: *1810, the foundation date of the Guards Club, which was based in Pall Mall. *1890, the foundation date of the Cavalry Club, which has always been based at its current location. *1975, the date when the two clubs merged. When the Cavalry Club first occupied the site in 1890, it was a proprietary club owned by an officer in the 20th Hussars, but five years later, ownership passed into the hands of its members and it became a members' club. They raised the funds to build an entirely new clubhouse, which was completed on the site in 1908. The work was carried out by the architect's firm Mewes and Davies. Edward VIII was known to spend a great deal of time in the Cavalry Club pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beefsteak Club
Beefsteak Club is the name or nickname of several 18th- and 19th-century male dining clubs in Britain and Australia that celebrated the beefsteak as a symbol of patriotic and often Whig concepts of liberty and prosperity. The first beefsteak club was founded about 1705 in London by the actor Richard Estcourt and others in the arts and politics. This club flourished for less than a decade. The Sublime Society of Beef Steaks was established in 1735 by another performer, John Rich, at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, where he was then manager, and George Lambert, his scenic artist, with two dozen members of the theatre and arts community (Samuel Johnson joined in 1780). The society became much celebrated, and new members included royalty, statesmen and great soldiers: in 1785, the Prince of Wales joined. At the weekly meetings, the members wore a blue coat and buff waistcoat with brass buttons bearing a gridiron motif and the words "Beef and liberty". The steaks and baked pot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Society Of Dilettanti
The Society of Dilettanti (founded 1734) is a British society of noblemen and scholars that sponsored the study of ancient Greek and Roman art, and the creation of new work in the style. History Though the exact date is unknown, the Society is believed to have been established as a gentlemen's club in 1734 by a group of people who had been on the Grand Tour. Records of the earliest meeting of the society were written somewhat informally on loose pieces of paper. The first entry in the first minute book of the society is dated 5 April 1736. For a number of years it held its meetings at the Thatched House Tavern in St James's. In 1743, Horace Walpole condemned its affectations and described it as "... a club, for which the nominal qualification is having been in Italy, and the real one, being drunk: the two chiefs are Lord Middlesex and Sir Francis Dashwood, who were seldom sober the whole time they were in Italy." The group, initially led by Francis Dashwood, contained ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Standing Council Of The Baronetage
The Standing Council of the Baronetage is a United Kingdom organisation which deals with the affairs of baronet A baronet ( or ; abbreviated Bart or Bt) or the female equivalent, a baronetess (, , or ; abbreviation Btss), is the holder of a baronetcy, a hereditary title awarded by the British Crown. The title of baronet is mentioned as early as the 14th ...s. It was first established in January 1898 as the Honourable Society of the Baronetage. In July 1903, it was reconstituted as a permanent organisation under the name of the Standing Council of the Baronetage. Its roles include publishing the Official Roll of the Baronetage (latest edition in 2023), providing advice to those wishing to prove their succession to a baronetage, providing an environment for social interaction between members of the society, and making contributions to charitable good causes. Membership of the organisation is restricted to recognised baronets and their heirs apparent. In order to be officiall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harlequin FC
Harlequins (officially Harlequin Football Club) is a professional rugby union club that plays in Premiership Rugby, the top level of English rugby union. Their home ground is the Twickenham Stoop, located in Twickenham, in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. The club, which was founded in 1866 as "Hampstead Football Club", split the following year with some of the membership forming Wasps RFC. Three years later Hampstead renamed itself Harlequins and became one of the founding members of the Rugby Football Union in 1871. For more than a hundred years, Harlequins had been one of the top UK teams during the amateur era and this continued with the introduction of professionalism in 1995. The club has been champions of England twice, winning the title in 2011-12 Premiership Rugby, 2012 and most recently in 2020-21 Premiership Rugby, 2021. They won the European Challenge Cup in 2001, 2004 and 2011, the joint most wins of any team in the competition, and the domestic cup in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Polar Institute
The Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI) is a centre for research into the polar regions and glaciology worldwide. It is a sub-department of the Department of Geography in the University of Cambridge, located on Lensfield Road in the south of Cambridge. SPRI was founded by Frank Debenham in 1920 as the national memorial to Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his companions, who died on their return journey from the South Pole in 1912. It investigates issues relevant to the Arctic and Antarctic in the environmental sciences, social sciences and humanities. The institute is home to the Polar Museum and has some 60 personnel, consisting of academic, library and support staff plus postgraduate students, associates and fellows attached to research programmes. The institute also hosts the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research. Research SPRI has several research groups. Notable researchers that have been based at the institute include Julian Dowdeswell, British diplomat Bryan R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Geographical Society
The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), often shortened to RGS, is a learned society and professional body for geography based in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1830 for the advancement of geographical sciences, the society has 16,000 members, with its work reaching the public through publications, research groups and lectures. The RGS was founded in 1830 under the name ''Geographical Society of London'' as an institution to promote the 'advancement of geographical science'. It later absorbed the older African Association, which had been founded by Joseph Banks, Sir Joseph Banks in 1788, as well as the Raleigh Club and the Palestine Association. In 1995 it merged with the Institute of British Geographers, a body for academic geographers, to become officially the Royal Geographical Society ''with IBG''. The society is governed by its council, which is chaired by the society's president, according to a set of statutes and standing orders. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierpont Morgan Library
The Morgan Library & Museum (originally known as the Pierpont Morgan Library and colloquially known the Morgan) is a museum and research library in New York City, New York, U.S. Completed in 1906 as the private library of the banker J. P. Morgan, the institution is housed at 225 Madison Avenue in the Murray Hill neighborhood of Manhattan. , the museum is directed by Colin B. Bailey and governed by a board of trustees. The site was formerly occupied by several Phelps family residences, one of which was sold to J. P. Morgan in 1880. After collecting thousands of objects in the late 19th century, Morgan erected the main library building between 1902 and 1906, with Belle da Costa Greene serving as its first librarian for more than four decades. The library was made a public institution in 1924 by J. P. Morgan's son John Pierpont Morgan Jr., in accordance with his father's will, and further expansions were completed in 1928, 1962, and 1991. The Morgan Library was renamed the Mor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
