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Gwyneth (sometimes Gweneth) is a Welsh feminine given name which derives from the kingdom of Gwynedd. Notable people: * Gwyneth Boodoo, an American psychologist and expert on educational measurement *Gwyneth Cravens, an American novelist and journalist *Gwyneth Dunwoody (1930–2008), a Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom *Gwyneth Glyn (born 1979), a Welsh language poet and musician * Gwyneth Herbert (born 1981), a British singer-songwriter and composer * Gwyneth Ho (born 1990), a Hong Kong social activist and former journalist *Gwyneth Hughes, British screenwriter and documentary director * Mabel Gweneth Humphreys, mathematician *Gwyneth Johnstone (1915–2010), English landscape painter *Gwyneth Jones (novelist) (born 1952), a British science fiction and fantasy writer and critic *Dame Gwyneth Jones (soprano) DBE (born 1936), a Welsh soprano *Gwyneth Lewis (born 1959), a Welsh poet, and the first National Poet for Wales * Gweneth Lilly (1920–2004), Welsh writer and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gwyn
Gwyn or Gwynn may refer to: People * Gwyn (name), includes a list of people with the given name or surname Gwyn, including variants such as Gwynn and Gwynne Fictional or mythological characters * Gwyn ap Nudd, in Welsh mythology * Gwynn (Sluggy Freelance), Gwynn (''Sluggy Freelance''), a character in the webcomic * Gwyn, Lord of Cinder, a character in the video game ''Dark Souls (video game), Dark Souls'' * Gwyn, nickname of Gwyndala, a character in the animated television series ''Star Trek: Prodigy'' Places in the United States * Gwynn, Virginia * Gwynn's Island, Virginia See also * Gwynn Park High School, Maryland * St Richard Gwyn Roman Catholic High School (other) * Nell Gwyn (other) * Ty Gwyn (other) * Gwin (other) * Gwynne (other) {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gwyneth Lewis
Gwyneth Denver Davies (born 1959), known professionally as Gwyneth Lewis, is a Welsh poet, who was the inaugural National Poet of Wales in 2005. She wrote the text that appears over the Wales Millennium Centre. Biography Gwyneth Lewis was born into a Welsh-speaking family in Cardiff. Her father started teaching her English when her mother went into hospital to give birth to her sister. Lewis attended Ysgol Gyfun Rhydfelen, a bilingual school near Pontypridd, and then studied at Girton College, Cambridge, University of Cambridge, where she was a member of Cymdeithas Y Mabinogi. She was awarded a double first in English literature and the Laurie Hart Prize for outstanding intellectual work. Lewis then studied creative writing at Columbia and Harvard, before receiving a D. Phil in English from Balliol College, Oxford, for a thesis on 18th-century literary forgery featuring the work of Iolo Morganwg. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Moore
Margaret Moore is a Canadian author of romance novels. Biography The ''USA Today'' bestselling author of over 40 historical romance novels and novellas, Margaret Moore graduated with distinction from the University of Toronto with a degree in English literature. She sold her first book, ''A Warrior's Heart'', to Harlequin Historicals in 1991. She has also sold historical romances to Avon Books and a Young Adult historical romance to HarperCollins Children's Books. Moore has been a '' Romantic Times Book reviews'' finalist for Career Achievement in Medieval Historical Romance, won an award for Best Foreign Historical from Affaire de Coeur, and two of her characters have received K.I.S.S. (Knights in Shining Silver) Awards from ''Romantic Times Book reviews''. In 2005 her medieval romance ''The Unwilling Bride'' made the ''USA Today'' bestseller list. The sequel, ''Hers To Command'', was nominated for a Reviewers' Choice award by SingleTitles.com. ''Publishers Weekly'' review ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fur Fighters
''Fur Fighters'' (titled ''Furrballs'' in early development) is a video game developed by Bizarre Creations and published by Acclaim Entertainment for the Dreamcast in 2000, later for Microsoft Windows. The game was first announced as a Dreamcast exclusive in the January 1999 issue of EGM Magazine, having started development in the summer of 1998. It was designed very much as a standard third-person shooter, but used a world populated by cute little animals as its setting. As a result, the game's depiction of violence is very cartoon-like without losing any of its intensity. In 2001, an updated version for the PlayStation 2 was released as ''Fur Fighters: Viggo's Revenge''. On 20 July 2012, members of Muffin Games, ex-Bizarre Creations staff, announced a conversion for iPad, called ''Fur Fighters: Viggo on Glass''. Plot The plot of the game revolves around the Fur Fighters, a group dedicated to fighting against General Viggo, the game's main antagonist. At the beginning of the g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gweneth Whitteridge
Gweneth Whitteridge FRCP (20 October 1910 – 3 September 1993), a British scholar of medical history, was president of the History of Medicine Society of the Royal Society of Medicine of the United Kingdom from 1983 to 1985. She studied Mediaeval French at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford from 1929 and then palaeography at the Sorbonne, before becoming archivist to St Bartholomew's Hospital St Bartholomew's Hospital, commonly known as Barts, is a teaching hospital located in the City of London. It was founded in 1123 and is currently run by Barts Health NHS Trust. History Early history Barts was founded in 1123 by Rahere (die ..., London, of which she wrote brief histories. Works * ''The Royal Hospital of Saint Bartholomew'' (1952) * ''A brief history of the Hospital of Saint Bartholomew'' ith Veronica Stokes(1963) * ''William Harvey and the circulation of the blood'' (1969) References Presidents of the History of Medicine Society Fellows of the Royal College of Phy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gwenethe Walshe
Gwenethe Walshe (5 February 1908 – 22 January 2006)Peggy Spencer; Janet Clark; Vernon Kemp death announcement, retrieved 12 August 2007 was a leading British Latin and ballroom dancer. Born in Wanganui, New Zealand, she lived most of her life in England and moved to Australia after her retirement. She arrived in England in 1936, and by 1938 she had founded a dance school bearing her name in London's West End, which (as of 2006) is still operating as the Central London Dance. During World War II she worked by day as a WVS nurse and by night continued to run classes, even during air raids. Gwenethe simply turned up the music and the dancing continued!Janet Clar Profile of Miss Gwenethe Walshe retrieved 12 August 2007 Taught latin dance by the leading experts of the day, Monsieur Pierre (Pierre Zurcher-Margolle) and Doris Lavelle, Gwenethe and her partner Dimitri Petrides won the first Latin dance competitions. Gwenethe went on to become a key member of the Imperial Society of T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gwyneth Walker
Gwyneth Van Anden Walker (born 22 March 1947) is an American music educator and composer. Biography Walker was born in New York to a Quaker family and grew up in New Canaan, Connecticut. She began her first efforts at composition at an early age and went on to receive BA, MM and DMA degrees in Music Composition from Brown University and the Hartt School of Music, where she studied under Arnold Franchetti. She married composer David Burton on September 12, 1969; they divorced in 1974. She taught music for fourteen years at Hartt School of Music, the Hartford Conservatory and the Oberlin College Conservatory, and then moved to a dairy farm in Vermont and went to work as a full-time composer. In 1988, she helped found the Consortium of Vermont Composers and later became the director of the organization. Awards *1999 Brock Commission (American Choral Directors Association The American Choral Directors Association (ACDA), headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, is a non-profit org ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gwyneth Strong
Gwyneth Strong (born 2 December 1959) is an English actress. She has appeared in '' Shadows'' (1975), ''Angels'' (1976), ''Crown Court'' and ''Z-Cars'' (1977), ''Play for Today'' (1980-1984), ''Silent Witness'' (1996). However, she is best known for her role as Cassandra, the love interest and, later, wife of Rodney ( Nicholas Lyndhurst), in ''Only Fools and Horses'' (1989-2003), and for playing Geraldine Clough in seven episodes of ''EastEnders'' in 2016. Career Strong's first acting appearance was in the Royal Court Theatre's production ''Live Like Pigs'', when she was 13. In 1973, whilst a pupil at Holland Park School, she appeared in the horror film '' Nothing But the Night'' as Mary Valley, and had a role as Princess Dagmar, younger sister of the Princess of Wales, later Queen Alexandra, in the series Edward the Seventh. She was a regular in the children's TV series '' The Flockton Flyer'' between 1977 and 1979, as Jan Carter. Another of her early television appearances ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gwyneth Stallard
Gwyneth Mary Stallard is a British mathematician whose research concerns complex dynamics and the iteration of meromorphic functions. She is a professor of pure mathematics at the Open University. Education and career Stallard read mathematics at King's College, Cambridge, finishing in 1985, and earned her Ph.D. from Imperial College London in 1991. Her dissertation, ''Some problems in the iteration of meromorphic functions'', was supervised by Irvine Noel Baker. She has spoken about the difficulty of finding postdoctoral research positions at a time when there were few such positions in England and the ties of her husband's job prevented her from moving abroad; she maintained her mathematical career at this stage by taking a temporary lectureship teaching engineering students at the University of Southampton. When she became a professor of mathematics at the Open University, she became the first woman to be a professor in the department. Activism and recognition Stallard won th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gwyneth Scally
Gwyneth Scally (born in Washington, DC) is a visual contemporary artist in New York, United States. Artwork Scally's work is figurative and psychological, much of it deals with elevating biology over religion and with issues of nature and ecology. It includes large scale paintings, installation, and fiberglass sculpture. Scally worked as an artist in Arizona for the last decade. Her work has been shown internationally, and she has received numerous grants and awards. She received the Community Foundation of Southern Arizona Buffalo Exchange Visual Arts Award in 2003. In 2004 she completed a residency at the Red Gate Gallery of Beijing, China. In 2005 she showed "Jelly" at the Tucson Museum of Art and received a grant from The George Sugarman Foundation. In 2007 she held an exhibition, "Jelly", at the Mesa Contemporary Arts Center, Arizona, inspired by studies of jellyfish. The exhibition consisted of eight sculptures of jellyfish, six paintings and a panelled piece, each alludi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gwyneth Rees
Gwyneth Rees (born 10 May 1968) is a British author of children's books. Her novel ''The Mum Hunt'' won the Red House Children's Book Award for Younger Readers in 2019, and another, ''My Mum's from Planet Pluto'', was nominated for the Carnegie Medal in the same year. Her other popular books for younger children include the ''Fairy Dust'' series, the first of which was an Ottakar's Book of the Month choice, and the ''Mermaid Magic'' trilogy. Biography Gwyneth Rees was born in Leicester in 1968. She is half Welsh and half English, and grew up in Scotland after her family moved to Glasgow when she was six. She studied medicine at Glasgow University, has worked in London as a consultant child psychiatrist, but now writes full-time. She wrote her first book when she was ten, inspired by Enid Blyton, but the first to be published was ''Something Secret'' in 2001. Books Gwyneth Rees writes both books of everyday life and fantasies for younger children, both kinds written with humou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gwyneth Powell
Gwyneth Powell (5 July 1946 – 8 September 2022) was an English actress. She was best known for her portrayal of headmistress Bridget McClusky in the BBC television series ''Grange Hill'' for eleven series between 1981 and 1991. Background Powell was born on 5 July 1946 in Levenshulme, Manchester, and attended Cheadle County Grammar School for Girls, during which time she appeared to some acclaim as Fat Urs in the National Youth Theatre's production of Ben Jonson's ''Bartholemew Fair''. She originally trained as a teacher at Goldsmiths, University of London, but instead chose to act in repertory theatre. Career Powell's first major television role was in the 1971 LWT dystopian drama series, '' The Guardians''. She was a regular, if minor, player in many television dramas until being cast in ''Grange Hill'', in which she played the "firm but fair" headmistress Bridget ("The Midget") McClusky for eleven years. Of her role, she said in 2008: Eventually, however, Powell want ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
