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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] |
Stewart Spiers
Stewart Spiers was a small but innovative firm of Plane (tool), plane-makers in Scotland, founded first of all in Ayr in Ayrshire and continuing under the registered name of Stewart Speirs Ltd [''sic''] in Paisley, Renfrewshire, from c. 1933 until its demise in the mid to late 1930s. Like the Glasgow firm of Alexander Mathieson & Sons, Spiers benefited hugely from the thriving industries on the Firth of Clyde in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Early years Stewart followed his father William Spiers into the cabinet-making trade in Ayr, and when his father died in 1844 he apparently took over the workshop in River Street. He was later to claim 1840 as the year his plane-making firm began. How Stewart came to be a plane-maker was, according to the ''Ayrshire Post'', purely by accident, however. He is said to have bought a rough casting in Edinburgh for 1/6, finished it at home and sold it to a local cabinet-maker for 18/-. This supposedly was the beginning of what soon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronald I
Ronald is a masculine given name derived from the Old Norse ''Rögnvaldr'', Hanks; Hardcastle; Hodges (2006) p. 234; Hanks; Hodges (2003) § Ronald. or possibly from Old English '' Regenweald''. In some cases ''Ronald'' is an Anglicised form of the Gaelic '' Raghnall'', a name likewise derived from ''Rögnvaldr''. The latter name is composed of the Old Norse elements ''regin'' ("advice", "decision") and ''valdr'' ("ruler"). ''Ronald'' was originally used in England and Scotland, where Scandinavian influences were once substantial, although now the name is common throughout the English-speaking world. A short form of ''Ronald'' is ''Ron''. Pet forms of ''Ronald'' include ''Roni'' and '' Ronnie''. ''Ronalda'' and ''Rhonda'' are feminine forms of ''Ronald''. ''Rhona'', a modern name apparently only dating back to the late nineteenth century, may have originated as a feminine form of ''Ronald''. Hanks; Hardcastle; Hodges (2006) pp. 230, 408; Hanks; Hodges (2003) § Rhona. The names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Phené Spiers
Richard Phené Spiers (19 May 1838 – 3 October 1916 London) was an English architect and author. He occupied a unique position amongst the English architects of the latter half of the 19th century, his long mastership of the architectural school at the Royal Academy of Arts having given him the opportunity of moulding and shaping the minds of more than a generation of students. Spiers wrote most of the articles dealing with architecture for the 1911 ''Encyclopædia Britannica''. Biography Phené Spiers was educated in the engineering department of King's College London, and proceeded thence to the atelier of Charles-Auguste Questel at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, for upwards of three years, a method of study rare for an architectural student in those days. On his return he won the gold medal and travelling scholarship of the Royal Academy, and in 1865 the Soane medal of the R.I.B.A. In 1871, after he had worked in the offices of Sir Digby Wyatt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reg Spiers
Reginald James "Reg" Spiers (born 14 December 1941) is an Australian former athlete who competed in the javelin throw at the 1962 Commonwealth Games, before his later conviction on drug smuggling charges. He is best known for successfully posting himself in a box from England to Australia to avoid paying for a plane ticket. Athletic career Born in Adelaide, South Australia, Spiers, who grew to be over two metres tall and strongly built,Rettie, J. "Australian's French connection", ''The Age'', p. 1., 13 February 1987 took up javelin and became one of the leading javelin throwers in Australia while still a teenager, placing third in the 1960/61 Australian Track and Field Championships and second in 1961/62. His results led to his qualification for the 1962 Commonwealth Games in Perth, Western Australia, where he came fifth with a best throw of 69.70 metres. Spiers continued to compete but his performances during the 1963/64 Australian summer were not enough to gain admission to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felix William Spiers
Felix William Spiers (born London, England 1832, died Paris, France 1911) was a British restaurateur and hotelier. Spiers' family originated in Glasgow, Scotland in the very early 18th century. One of the family moved to France, where he dealt in tobacco. Later family members were born in Calais, Dunkerque, Boulogne, France and in England. After his death his wife, Constance Albertine Spiers, donated money to the town of Belle-Ile, an island off the coast of Brittany, for a lifeboat which was named after him. His father was Felix Theodore Benjamin Augustus Spiers, born at Calais, in 1797, a shipbroker and merchant, agent in London for the Bristol General Steam Navigation Company. Australia In 1851 Felix William sailed to Melbourne to join the gold rush where he was a wine merchant, having acquired a publican's licence in 1857. He set up in business at George Coppin and Gustavus Brooke's Theatre Royal, Melbourne with George Hennelle, but Hennelle was badly injured by a falling ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Spiers
Alexander Spiers (1807–1869), was an English lexicographer. Life Spiers, was born at Gosport in Hampshire in 1807. He studied in England, in Germany, and in Paris and graduated doctor of philosophy at the University of Leipzig. Acting under the advice of Andrieux, a well-known poet, he settled in Paris as a professor of English, and found employment at L'École de Commerce, at L'École des Ponts et Chaussées, at L'École des Mines, and at the Lycée Bonaparte. Spiers was nominated an Agrégé de l'Université (roughly, a professorship), an Officier de l'Instruction Publique (officer of the Education Minister), Examinateur à la Sorbonne, and Inspecteur Général de l'Université. He received the cross of the Legion of Honour from Napoleon III. He married in 1853 Victoire Dawes Newman, by whom he left five sons. He died at Passy, near Paris, on 26 Aug. 1869. English-French dictionary For fourteen years he devoted himself largely to compiling a new English-French and Fre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Spiers
Elizabeth Spiers (born December 11, 1976) is an American web publisher and journalist, the founding editor of '' Gawker'', a media gossip blog. From February 2011 until August 2012, she was the editor of ''The New York Observer''. Early life and education Spiers was born in Wetumpka, Alabama. She attended Edgewood Academy, which she later characterized as a segregation academy. Spiers has written that she was “raped in college by an ostensibly nice guy who was not a stranger to me.” After graduating from Duke University in 1999 with a degree in public policy, Spiers headed to Wall Street to work in finance, but soon became involved in the fast-growing blog industry. Career Spiers began in journalism as the founding editor of Gawker.com and later became a contributing writer and editor at '' New York'' magazine. She has written for ''The New York Times'', ''Salon'', ''Fortune'', ''Fast Company'' and ''The New York Post'', among other publications, and was an early blogge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 was head of the British Military Mission in Paris, concluding World War I as a Brigadier-General. Between the wars, he was a Member of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. During World War II, he resumed his role as an Anglo-French liaison officer, holding the rank of Major-General. Family and early life Spears was born on 7 August 1886 at 7 Chaussée de la Muette in the Passy district of Paris. His parents, Charles McCarthy Spiers and Melicent Marguerite Lucy Hack, were British residents of France. His paternal grandfather, Alexander Spiers, was a lexicographer known for publishing an English-French and French-English dictionary in 1846, which was widely used in French colleges. During his childhood, his parents separated, and hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
