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Anne Davies (other)
Ann or Anna or Anne Davies may refer to: * Anne Davies (British journalist) (born 1958), presenter for the BBC local news programme ''East Midlands Today'' * Anne Davies (figure skater) (1930–1995), American figure skater * Anne Davies (Australian journalist), Washington correspondent for Australian newspapers ''The Age'' and ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' * Anne Davies (academic), lawyer at the University of Oxford * Ann Davies (occultist) (1912–1975), American occultist * Ann Davies (actress) (1934–2022), English actress * Ann Davies (translator) (1914–1954), British actress and translator * Ann Catherine Davies (1894–1965), later Ann Horton, British physicist * Ann Romney (born 1949 as Ann Davies), wife of politician Mitt Romney * Anna Morpurgo Davies (1937–2014), Italian philologist * Ann Davies (politician), Welsh politician, Member of Parliament for Caerfyrddin (UK Parliament constituency) *Anna Davies, novelist in the ''Point Horror'' series, novels include ''Wrecke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Davies (British Journalist)
Anne Christina Davies DL (born 3 October 1958) is a British television presenter and newsreader, currently solo presenting ''BBC East Midlands Today''. Her mother was born in County Mayo. Television and radio Davies began work for BBC Current Affairs, working behind the scenes on '' Question Time'', ''Panorama'' and ''The Money Programme''. She moved to BBC Radio Leicester and BBC Radio Derby. Then, after training for a year on the ITN News Trainee Scheme, Anne became the regular newsreader for '' Central News East'' based in Nottingham. In 1993, she fronted the ITV Daytime Programme ''Look Good Feel Great'' with Diana Moran, the environmental series ''Earthdwellers Guide'', and produced and presented fashion shows for the ITV network entitled ''Off The Peg''. Anne then moved to ''GMTV'', presenting the first breakfast programme with Eamonn Holmes. By April she was presenting ''Sunday Best'' with Mike Morris. She left this show by January 1994. Between 1994 and 1998 she read ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Davies (figure Skater)
Anne Davies Rieley (December 21, 1930 – February 25, 1995) was an American figure skater who competed in both ice dance and pairs with partner Carleton Hoffner. They won the dance title at the 1946 U.S. Figure Skating Championships and won the bronze medal in pairs at the 1949 World Figure Skating Championships The World Figure Skating Championships are an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union (ISU). The first World Championships were held in 1896 in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and they have been held e .... Results (Pairs with Hoffner) (Ice Dance with Hoffner) References 1930 births 1995 deaths American female ice dancers American female pair skaters World Figure Skating Championships medalists 20th-century American sportswomen {{US-figure-skating-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Davies (Australian Journalist)
Anne Davies is a former Washington correspondent for Australian newspapers ''The Age'' and ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' and investigative journalist with ''The Guardian''. Early life She is an alumna of SCEGGS Darlinghurst, an inner-city school for girls in Sydney, Australia. Career Davies has previously been the state political editor and urban affairs editor for ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' and also spent 10 years covering U.S. federal politics. She wrote an opinion column, "National Times," for ''The Sydney Morning Herald''. In 2002, she won a Gold Walkley, an investigative journalism award, with Kate McClymont for coverage of a rugby league salary cap scandal associated with the Canterbury Bulldogs. She is a member of the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA) is the Australian trade union and professional organisation which covers the media, entertainment, sports and arts industries. Its Musicians section consis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Davies (academic)
Anne C. L. Davies is a British legal scholar, who is Professor of Law and Public Policy in the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford and professorial fellow in law at Brasenose College, Oxford, She was dean of the Faculty of Law from 2015 to 2020. She is also a senior research fellow at the Blavatnik School of Government, where she chairs the Procurement of Government Outcomes Club. She is a former general editor of the '' Oxford Journal of Legal Studies''. she is editor-in-chief of the ''International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations''. Biography Davies was a student at Lincoln College, Oxford, and won the Gibbs and Martin Wronker University Prizes for Law. She was a Prize Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford (1995 to 2001), during which time she completed her doctorate on contractualisation in the National Health Service. After moving to Brasenose College, Oxford in 2001, she became reader in public law in 2006. She was awarded a title of distinct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Davies (occultist)
Ann Davies (October 28, 1912 – June 9 1975) was an American occultist. Early life An aspiring dancer left crippled by a tragic illness, Ann Davies was born in Cleveland, Ohio. Perhaps as a result of this early disappointment, Davies explored atheism and agnosticism before discovering Hindu philosophy and practicing Buddhism. In 1944 she met Paul Foster Case, who inspired a lifelong devotion to Hermetic Qabalah and B.O.T.A. Tarot. Davies trained extensively with Case for a decade, until his death in 1954. B.O.T.A. Successor to Paul Foster Case in Builders of the Adytum (B.O.T.A.), Davies served as Prolocutor General until her death in 1975. She expanded the curriculum of the school by amplifying and reworking Case's 'Esoteric Astrology' and by authoring the courses on 'Developing Supersensory Powers,' 'Sexual Polarity,' 'Meditational Ascent of the Tree of Livingness,' and 'Qabalistic Doctrines of Rebirth.' According to her B.O.T.A. obituary, Ann was born on October 28, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Davies (actress)
Ann Cuerton Briers (25 November 1934 – 26 April 2022), better known by her stage name Ann Davies, was an English actress. Davies was the wife of actor Richard Briers until his death in February 2013, and the mother of actress Lucy Briers and Kate Briers. She acted with her husband in the films ''Peter's Friends'' (1992), '' In the Bleak Midwinter'' (1995) and '' Run for Your Wife (2012)''. One of her earliest television appearances was as the character Jenny in the BBC series ''Doctor Who'' in the story entitled ''The Dalek Invasion of Earth''. In 2003, Davies appeared in an episode of the series ''Doctors'' as the character Annette Ludlow. Davies also appeared alongside her husband in the radio adaptation of the TV series ''Brothers in Law'' as well as in two episodes of the sitcom ''Ever Decreasing Circles ''Ever Decreasing Circles'' is a British sitcom which ran on BBC1 between 1984 and 1989, consisting of four series and one feature-length special. It was written b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Davies (translator)
Ann Lorraine Davies (2 October 1914 – 9 January 1954), also known as Ann Lindsay, was a British actress and translator. She translated Émile Zola's controversial novel '' La Terre'' (1887; ''The Earth'') in the 1950s. Life Davies was born in Cardiff, Wales, in 1914 to Sarah Ann and Morgan Davies, as one of three children. She went to school locally, before going on to University College, Cardiff in 1932. There she was vice-president of the Students Union and toured America in the 1936 Welsh Hockey team. Her degree was in French. She became a clerk at Harrods whilst appearing as Robin Hood (the Principal Boy) in the Unity Theatre's political version of ''Babes in the Wood'', which lampooned Neville Chamberlain's appeasement policy and had Davies in a Russian uniform. The production ran for seven months and Montagu Slater credited the play with making political change. She volunteered to help Basque children and the League of Nations. Davies also had strong links to the co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Catherine Davies
Ann Catherine Horton ( Davies, 7 April 1894 – 15 July 1967) was a British physicist and academic who was the first woman to be appointed to the lecturing staff of the Cavendish Laboratory. Early life Ann Catherine Davies was born in London on 7 April 1894, the daughter of merchant tailor Robert Davies. She studied Physics at Royal Holloway College, where she received her bachelor in science in 1915 followed by her master's in science and DSc. Career Horton was employed as an Assistant Lecturer in Physics at Holloway while she conducted research for her doctorate, and was later promoted to Staff Lecturer. Her research chiefly concerned radiation from and ionization potentials of the rare gases, and contributed to the verification of Niels Bohr's theory of stationary states. While a research student, she began working together with Frank Horton. The two collaborated on experiments measuring characteristic X-rays. In 1921, their work called into question the conclusions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Romney
Ann Lois Romney ( Davies; born April 16, 1949) is an American author and philanthropist. She is married to politician and businessman Mitt Romney. From 2003 to 2007, Romney was First Lady of Massachusetts during her husband's tenure as governor. Romney was raised in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and attended the private Kingswood School there. She converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in 1966. She attended Brigham Young University (BYU), married Mitt Romney in 1969, and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in French in 1975. As First Lady of Massachusetts, Romney served as the governor's liaison for federal faith-based initiatives. She was involved in a number of children's charities, including Operation Kids. Later, she was an active participant in her husband's U.S. presidential campaigns in 2008 and 2012. Romney was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1998. She has credited a mixture of mainstream and alternative treatments with giving her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Morpurgo Davies
Anna Elbina Morpurgo Davies (21 June 1937 – 27 September 2014) was an Italian philologist who specialised in comparative Indo-European linguistics. She spent her career at Oxford University, where she was the Professor of Comparative Philology and Fellow of Somerville College. Personal life and education Anna Elbina Morpurgo was born in Milan, the fourth child of a Jewish family. Her grandfather Guido Castelnuovo was a mathematician; her father, Augusto Morpurgo,Andreas Willi"Anna Morpurgo Davies obituary" ''The Guardian'', 9 October 2014. was dismissed in 1938 under the Fascist racial laws and died the following year after trying to find a way to take his family to Argentina. She and her mother Maria moved to Rome, where they survived with false papers and in hiding. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Davies (politician)
Celia Ann Davies (also known as Ann Bremenda) is a Welsh Plaid Cymru politician serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Caerfyrddin since 2024. Davies is also a councillor on Carmarthenshire County Council, and served before becoming an MP as cabinet member for rural affairs, community cohesion and planning policy. Career Davies has experience in the agriculture sector and has farmed a tenant farm in Llanarthney with her husband since 1992. She is also co-owner of a local nursery and was a lecturer in early years learning at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David and before that she worked as a peripatetic music teacher. She started becoming an active member of Plaid Cymru at 18 years old. Davies stood to become a Carmarthenshire County Council member for Llanddarog in 2017 after her children had finished university education. She was appointed as a cabinet member of the Council in 2021 originally under the portfolio of Communities and Rural Affairs. This was expande ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caerfyrddin (UK Parliament Constituency)
(), also known as Carmarthen, is a List of UK Parliament constituencies, constituency of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom, UK Parliament, first contested at the 2024 United Kingdom general election, 2024 general election, following the 2023 review of Westminster constituencies. It is currently represented by Ann Davies (politician), Ann Davies of Plaid Cymru. In the Parliamentary Constituencies Order 2023, the name is given as ''Caerfyrddin (Carmarthen)''. Of the twenty-five Welsh constituencies with names in both English language, English and Welsh language, Welsh, Caerfyrddin is the only one where the Welsh name comes first followed by the English name in brackets (in each of the other cases, the opposite is true). ''Caerfyrddin'' is the form used by the UK Parliament. A similar constituency existed between 1918 and 1997 United Kingdom general election, 1997 under the name ''Carmarthen''. Boundaries Unde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
