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Spiers
Spiers is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alexander Spiers (1807–1869), English lexicographer *Bob Spiers (1945–2008), British television director * Carson Spiers (born 1997), American baseball player * Cyril Spiers (1902–1967), former English professional footballer and manager * Dick Spiers (1937–2000), English footballer * Edward Louis Spiers, later Edward Spears (1886–1974), British Army officer and politician *Elizabeth Spiers (born 1976), the founding editor of gossip blog Gawker.com and the Wall Street gossip site dealbreaker.com * Felix William Spiers (1832–1911), founder of Spiers & Pond, restaurateurs * Hetty Spiers (1881–1973), theatre and film costumier and screenwriter *John Spiers (born 1975), English squeezebox player, founder member of folk duo Spiers and Boden and Bellowhead * Reg Spiers (born 1941), Australian athlete known for traveling in a wooden box from England to Australia *Richard Phené Spiers (1838–1916), Engl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Spiers
John Spiers (born 1975) is an English diatonic button accordion, melodeon, concertina and bandoneon player. Early life Spiers was born in Birmingham but moved to Abingdon-on-Thames, Abingdon at an early age. His father is a Morris dancer. He attended John Mason School in Abingdon, and then went on to study genetics at King's College, Cambridge. As a child he learned the organ (music), organ and piano and when he was a university student he began to play the piano accordion and Diatonic button accordion, melodeon. After spending some time busking he started a new career selling melodeons, of which he owns several. Career file:Purbeck_Valley_Folk_Festival_2021_-_Jackie_Oates_&_John_Spiers_(51407571771).jpg , left, Performing with Jackie Oates at Purbeck Valley Folk Festival in 2021 Spiers is best known for his work with Jon Boden in the duo Spiers and Boden and the band Bellowhead. He also played with Eliza Carthy's former band The Ratcatchers in the mid-noughties. After Bellowh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surname
In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several given names and surnames are possible in the full name. In modern times most surnames are hereditary, although in most countries a person has a right to name change, change their name. Depending on culture, the surname may be placed either at the start of a person's name, or at the end. The number of surnames given to an individual also varies: in most cases it is just one, but in Portuguese-speaking countries and many Spanish-speaking countries, two surnames (one inherited from the mother and another from the father) are used for legal purposes. Depending on culture, not all members of a family unit are required to have identical surnames. In some countries, surnames are modified depending on gender and family membership status of a person. C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hetty Spiers
Henrietta Elizabeth Spiers (6 August 18811973) was a British costume designer for the theatre and silent films, a screenwriter, and an author. Columbia University's Women Film Pioneers Project counts her among those on its list of 'Unhistoricized Women Film Pioneers'. Early life Hetty Spiers was born in Toxteth in Liverpool in 1881 the daughter of Amelia Matilda ''née'' Bromley and Kaufmann Charles Spiers, of German and Irish descent. From a family of writers, her father was the drama, music, and art critic for the ''Liverpool Daily Post'' while her older brother Kaufmann Charles St. George Spiers Jr. was a reporter, correspondent writer, and book reviewer. He also wrote the play ''If Youth But Knew'', which was made as a silent film in 1926 starring Godfrey Tearle and Mary Odette. By 1901 her parents were separated and Spiers was living with her mother and brother at 121 Stockwell Park Road in Lambeth in London where she was listed as a 'chorister' and her brother as a 'journalis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spears (surname)
Spears is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Aries Spears (born 1975), American actor and comedian *Billie Jo Spears (1937–2011), American country singer *Britney Spears (born 1981), American pop singer * Frank Sydney Spears (1906–1991), South African artist and designer * Jamie Lynn Spears (born 1991), American actress, singer, and younger sister of Britney Spears *Ken Spears (1938–2020), American animator, writer, television producer and sound editor * Kendra Spears (born 1988), American fashion model *Lynne Spears (born 1955), mother of Britney and Jamie Lynn Spears *Edward Spears Major-General Sir Edward Louis Spears, 1st Baronet, (7 August 1886 – 27 January 1974) was a British Army officer and politician. He served as a liaison officer between British and French forces during both World Wars. From 1917 to 1920, he ..., Bt, KBE (1886–1974), British army officer, MP and author * Marcel Spears Jr. (born 1997), American football player * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
