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Sholto Douglas, 20th Earl Of Morton
Sholto may refer to: People with the name *Sholto Kairakau Black (1902–1963), New Zealand teacher, principal, community services co-ordinator, community leader *Sholto Kynoch, English pianist *Basil William Sholto Mackenzie, 2nd Baron Amulree (1900–1983), British physician and leading advocate of geriatric medicine in the UK *Sholto Marcon (1890–1959), Church of England schoolmaster, clergyman and international field hockey player *Sholto Percy, pseudonym of Joseph Clinton Robertson (1787–1852), Scottish patent agent, writer and periodical editor *Sholto Taylor (born 1972), wheelchair rugby player, and a member of the national team, the Wheel Blacks Fictional entities *Bartholomew and Thaddeus Sholto, characters in Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novel, ''The Sign of the Four'' (1890) * Sholto, character in Emily Rodda's ''The Three Doors'' See also *Sholto Douglas (other) *Holo (other) *Holt (other) * Hoto (other) * Solo (disambiguat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sholto Kairakau Black
Sholto Kairakau Black (13 January 1902–23 February 1963) was a New Zealand teacher, principal, community services co-ordinator, community leader. Of Māori descent, he identified with the Te Whānau-ā-Apanui iwi. He was born in Ōpōtiki, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island coun ... on 13 January 1902. References 1902 births 1963 deaths New Zealand educators Te Whānau-ā-Apanui people New Zealand Māori schoolteachers People from Ōpōtiki {{Māori-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sholto Kynoch
Sholto Kynoch is an English pianist. Biography Born in London, Kynoch attended Ampleforth College before reading music at Worcester College, Oxford, where he was organ scholar. He studied piano accompaniment at the Royal Academy of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama; his teachers have included Michael Dussek, Graham Johnson, Malcolm Martineau, Ronan O'Hora and Vanessa Latarche. He is the founder and artistic director of the Oxford Lieder Festival, and is the pianist of the Phoenix Piano Trio. Discography *Hugo Wolf - the complete songs - volume 5: Heine, Reinick, Shakespeare & Byron (with Sarah-Jane Brandon - soprano, Daniel Norman - tenor & William Dazeley - baritone), Stone Records 2013 *Beethoven piano trios (with Phoenix Piano Trio), Stone Records 2012 *Hugo Wolf - the complete songs - volume 4: Keller, Fallersleben, Ibsen & other poets (with Mary Bevan - soprano, & Quirijn de Lang - baritone), Stone Records 2012 *Hugo Wolf - the complete songs - volum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basil William Sholto Mackenzie, 2nd Baron Amulree
Basil Mackenzie, 2nd Baron Amulree (25 July 1900 – 15 December 1983) was a British physician and leading advocate of geriatric medicine in the United Kingdom. Background and education Amulree was born in South Kensington, London, England, the son of William Mackenzie, a barrister, and Lilian, daughter of W. H. Bradbury. He was educated at Lancing College and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. G. E. Cokayne, Vicary Gibbs, et al., ''The Complete Peerage'' (Gloucester: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume XIII, page 472 Career Upon graduating Amulree joined the Ministry of Health, initially working on the delivery of cancer services, but then on what would become geriatrics. Amulree at the ministry, J. H. Sheldon in Wolverhampton, Marjory Warren, Trevor Howell in Croydon and Oxford's Lionel Cosin were some of the founders of the Medical Society for the Care of the Elderly in 1947. In time, this would become the British Geriatrics Society and Amulree would lead this u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sholto Marcon
Charles Sholto Wyndham Marcon (31 March 1890 – 17 November 1959), known as Sholto Marcon, was a Church of England schoolmaster, clergyman and international field hockey player. Born at Headington, Oxfordshire, the only son of Charles Abdy Marcon and his wife Sophia Wyndham Winter, Marcon was educated at Lancing and at Oriel College, Oxford. and ended his career as Vicar of Tenterden in Kent, where he died on 17 November 1959. At Lancing, Marcon played in the cricket 1st XI in 1907–1908. He was a University of Oxford field hockey blue in 1910, 1911, 1912, and 1913, in his final year captaining the team, and went on to play hockey for England, gaining twenty-three caps. Representing Great Britain in the 1920 Summer Olympics The 1920 Summer Olympics (french: Jeux olympiques d'été de 1920; nl, Olympische Zomerspelen van 1920; german: Olympische Sommerspiele 1920), officially known as the Games of the VII Olympiad (french: Jeux de la VIIe olympiade; nl, Spele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sholto Percy
Joseph Clinton Robertson (c.1787–1852), pseudonym Sholto Percy, was a Scottish patent agent, writer and periodical editor. He was a political radical prominent in the early days of the working-class press in London, and in the debates within the Mechanics Institute movement. Early life He was born about 1787, the son of Rev. Joseph Robertson and Isobel Mathieson of Stewarton, Scotland. Rev. Joseph Robertson was Minister of Leith Wynd Chapel, Edinburgh, Scotland, but banished from Scotland for performing illegal marriages. ''The Mechanics' Magazine'' Robertson founded ''The Mechanics' Magazine'' in 1823, and edited and largely wrote it until the year of his death. It was a low-priced scientific weekly, and the first publication of its kind. To begin with he was in close alliance with Thomas Hodgskin: they had met in Edinburgh. It took advantage of a stamp tax exemption for technical weeklies not dealing in news. Robertson also devised a way of generating cheap content by an ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sholto Taylor of the 2008 Paralympics. His team finished in fifth place at those games.
Sholto Taylor (born 1 September 1972) is a New Zealand wheelchair rugby player, and a member of the national team, the Wheel Blacks. He has competed with the Wheel Blacks at several international events, including the 1996 Summer Paralympics, the 2000 Summer Paralympics (winning bronze), the 2004 Summer Paralympics (gold), and the 2006 World Championships (silver). Taylor was the flagbearer of New Zealand's delegation at the Opening Ceremony An opening ceremony, grand opening, or ribbon-cutting ceremony marks the official opening of a newly-constructed location or the start of an event. References Ext ...
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The Sign Of The Four
''The Sign of the Four'' (1890), also called ''The Sign of Four'', is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes by British writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle wrote four novels and 56 short stories featuring the fictional detective. Plot On a foggy day in 1888, Dr. Watson remonstrates with Holmes about his cocaine usage. Holmes claims he needs a problem to solve and is bored; shortly thereafter, Miss Mary Morstan arrives with a case. Miss Morstan explains that, in December 1878, her father Captain Morstan had arrived in London, on leave from his post as a convict guard in the Andaman Islands. He requested her to meet him at the Langham Hotel, but he was not there when she arrived. Mary contacted Major John Sholto, a former convict guard who had known her father and was now living in England; however, he denied having seen Morstan, and Morstan was never heard from again. Four years later, Miss Morstan answered an anonymous newspaper advertisement, asking for her whereabo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emily Rodda
Jennifer June Rowe, (born 4 April 1948), is an Australian author. Her crime fiction for adults is published under her own name, while her children's fiction is published under the pseudonyms Emily Rodda and Mary-Anne Dickinson. She is well known for the children's fantasy series '' Deltora Quest'', '' Rowan of Rin'', '' Fairy Realm'', '' Teen Power Inc.'', the ''Rondo'' trilogy and '' The Three Doors'' trilogy, and her latest ''His Name Was Walter''. Biography Jennifer Rowe was born in Sydney, New South Wales, on 2 April 1948, and raised with two younger brothers in Sydney's North Shore. Her father was Jim Oswin, the founding general manager of ATN7 in Sydney, and was responsible for classic 1960s TV shows such as '' My Name's McGooley, What's Yours?'' and ''The Mavis Bramston Show''. She attended the Abbotsleigh School for Girls on the Upper North Shore of Sydney. She attained her Masters of Arts in English Literature at the University of Sydney in 1973. Her first job was as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Three Doors
''The Three Doors'' is a series of three fantasy novels written by Australian author Emily Rodda. The series follows a sixteen-year-old boy named Rye as he journeys through three mysterious doors in search of his missing brothers. The story takes place on an island called Dorne, located in the same ocean as the land of Deltora, the prominent setting in Rodda's ''Deltora Quest'' series. The series was first published in 2011 by Omnibus Books, a corporate division of Scholastic Press. It was published in the United States in October, 2012 and a compiled set was published in 2013. Plot ''The Golden Door'' The first novel in the series follows a young boy named Rye who lives in the walled city of Weld, on the island of Dorne. He lives with his mother, Lisbeth, a beekeeper, and his two older brothers: Dirk, a worker that maintains that wall of the city, and Sholto, a solitary individual studying to become a doctor. For years Weld has been attacked by beasts known as 'Skimmers', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sholto Douglas (other)
Sholto Douglas was the mythical progenitor of the Scottish Clan Douglas. Sholto Douglas may also refer to: * Sholto Douglas, 15th Earl of Morton (1732–1774), Scottish nobleman and peer * Sholto Douglas (naval officer), (1833–1913) Admiral in the Royal Navy * Sholto Douglas, 19th Earl of Morton (1844–1935), Scottish landowner, businessman and representative peer * Sholto Johnstone Douglas (1871–1958), Scottish artist * Sholto Douglas (cricketer) (1873–1916), English cricketer * Sholto Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas of Kirtleside Marshal of the Royal Air Force William Sholto Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas of Kirtleside, (23 December 1893 – 29 October 1969) was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force. After serving as a pilot, then a flight commander and finally as a squ ... (1893–1969), Marshal of the Royal Air Force * Sholto Douglas (fencer), Australian fencer {{hndis, Douglas, Sholto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holo (other)
Holo may refer to: * Holo, the theme, formerly-recommended by Google, for the design of Android apps, introduced with Android version 4.0 * Hölö, a village in Södertälje Municipality, Sweden * Hoklo people (also spelled ''Hō-ló'' or ''Holo''), a Han ethnic group whose traditional homeland is in South China **''Holo'' or ''Hoklo'' the varieties in the Min Nan family of Chinese spoken by the Hoklo people * Théodore Holo (b. 1948), Beninese politician and foreign minister of Benin from 1991 to 1992 * Holo-Man, fictional American superhero who starred in a 1978 single-issue comic book about holography, ''The Amazing Adventures of Holo-Man'' * Holo (''Spice and Wolf''), the main female character of the ''Spice and Wolf'' light novel series * Holo-Me, is the name of the character customisation process in the video game Elite: Dangerous * HOLO card, a public transit smart card used in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi See also * * * Holos (other) * Holocaust * Holocene * Holodomor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holt (other)
Holt or holte may refer to: Natural world *Holt (den), an otter den * Holt, an area of woodland Places Australia * Holt, Australian Capital Territory * Division of Holt, an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives in Victoria Canada *Holt, Ontario, a hamlet Denmark * Holte, a town in Rudersdal municipality, Copenhagen county Germany * Holt, Germany, a municipality in Schleswig-Holstein Iceland * Holt (Akureyri), a residence in Sandgerðisbót Akureyri *Skálholt, the first bishopric of medieval Iceland and the site of a cathedral The Netherlands * Holt, Overijssel, a town in Overijssel Norway * Holt, Aust-Agder, a former municipality in Aust-Agder county, Norway (now a part of Tvedestrand municipality) Romania * Holt, a village in Letea Veche Commune, Bacău County United Kingdom *Holt, Dorset ** Holt Heath, Dorset *Holt End, Hampshire *Holt Town, Manchester * Holt, Norfolk **Holt (North Norfolk Railway) railway station ** Holt railway station, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
