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Bucknell may refer to: Places *Bucknell, Oxfordshire, England *Bucknell, Shropshire, England *Bucknell railway station, Shropshire, England *Bucknell Ridge Antarctica *Bucknell Wood Meadows, Northamptonshire, England Educational institutions *Bucknell University, Pennsylvania, United States People *Barry Bucknell, Robert "Barry" Barraby Bucknell was an English TV presenter who popularised Do It Yourself (DIY) *Katherine Bucknell, an American scholar and novelist *John Bucknell (7 June 1872 – 5 March 1925) was an English cricket player. *William Bucknell, American Businessman, and benefactor of Bucknell University. *Margaret Bucknell Pecorini, American painter. *Peter Bucknell, a filmmaker, an author and classical violist residing in Barcelona. See also *Bucknall (other) {{disambiguation, geo, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bucknell, Oxfordshire
Bucknell is a village and Civil parishes in England, civil parish northwest of Bicester in Oxfordshire, England. The United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 260. Manor After the Norman Conquest of England, William I of England, William the Conqueror granted the Manor of Bucknell to Robert D'Oyly. In 1300 the Lord of the Manor of Bucknell was Sir Robert d'Amory, father of Roger d'Amory. The present manor house is early 17th century, but was mostly rebuilt in the 19th century. Parish church The Church of England parish church of Saint Peter has a central Norman architecture, Norman tower. The nave and chancel were enlarged in the 13th century and are English Gothic architecture#Early English Gothic, Early English Gothic. In the 15th century the bell stage was added to the bell tower and the English Gothic architecture#Perpendicular Gothic, Perpendicular Gothic clerestory was added to the nave. St Peter's is a Listed building#Categories of lis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bucknell, Shropshire
Bucknell is a village and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in south Shropshire, England. The village lies on the River Redlake, within of the River Teme and close to Wales-England border, the border of Wales and Herefordshire. It is about east of Knighton, Powys, Knighton and is set within the Shropshire Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The name is derived from Old English and means 'Bucca's hill' or 'he-goats' hill'. The village has the "P"s identified by Country Life (magazine), ''Country Life'' as essential to a successful village: a pub, a post office, a place of worship, a primary school and public transport. History The settlement of Bucknell was first mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, as ''Buckehale'' or ''Buckenhill''. At the time of the Domesday survey, the Shropshire and Herefordshire boundary divided the village. The Normans, Norman magnate Roger de Montgomery held the village from William the Conqueror, the King. He built many castles inclu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bucknell Railway Station
Bucknell railway station serves the village of Bucknell in Shropshire, England south west of Shrewsbury on the Heart of Wales Line. This railway station is located at street level, adjacent to the level crossing and parallel with Weston Road near the centre of the village. All trains serving the station are operated by Transport for Wales. The station has two platforms, although currently only the one adjacent to the original station building (now a private house and holiday cottage, which has been Grade-II listed since 1987) is operational, the other track having been taken out of use in 1965 and subsequently dismantled. History The station and line was constructed by the ''Knighton Railway'' and opened in 1861. Further construction and route openings in 1865 and 1868 subsequently put the station on a through route between Shrewsbury and Swansea. Bucknell station quickly became the rail outlet for a wide area, stimulating a growth in the village itself. Facilities The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bucknell Ridge
Mount Aldrich () is a massive, somewhat flat-topped mountain standing at the east side of Ragotzkie Glacier in the Britannia Range, Antarctica. Discovery and name Mount Aldrich was discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition (BrNAE; 1901–04) and named for Admiral Pelham Aldrich, who gave assistance to Robert Falcon Scott in preparing the expedition. Location Mount Aldridge is in the east of the Britannia Range. It lies on the main ridge, to the northeast of Mount McClintock, and overlooks the head of the Ragotzkie Glacier to the west. Its southern slopes drain to the Merrick Glacier and to other tributaries of the Byrd Glacier. Northern features Waldrip Ledge A conspicuous area of relatively level exposed rock along the north margin of Britannia Range. The feature about and rising to about high is located on the east side of the terminus of Ragotzkie Glacier at the juncture with Hatherton Glacier. Named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bucknell Wood Meadows
Bucknell Wood Meadows is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest north-west of Silverstone in Northamptonshire. This site consists of agriculturally unimproved fields on seasonally waterlogged soils. The flora is diverse with many herbs, including bird's-foot-trefoil, meadow buttercup ''Ranunculus acris'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae, and is one of the more common buttercups across Europe and temperate Eurasia. Common names include meadow buttercup, tall buttercup, common buttercup and giant but ... and devil's-bit scabious. Variations in the types of flora are partly due to different soils and partly to previous management practices. There is access from public footpaths which pass through the site. References {{Authority control Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Northamptonshire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bucknell University
Bucknell University is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal-arts college in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1846 as the University at Lewisburg, it now consists of the College of Arts and Sciences, the Freeman College of Management, and the College of Engineering. It offers 65 majors and 70 minors in the sciences and humanities. Located just south of Lewisburg, the campus rises above the West Branch Susquehanna River, West Branch of the Susquehanna River. Approximately 3,700 undergraduate students and 50 graduate students attend Bucknell. It is a member of the Patriot League in NCAA Division I athletics. Its athletic teams are the Bucknell Bison and its mascot is Bucky the Bison. History Founding and early years Founded in 1846 as the University at Lewisburg, Bucknell traces its origin to a group of Baptists from White Deer Valley Baptist Church who deemed it "desirable that a Literary Institution should be establish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry Bucknell
Robert "Barry" Barraby Bucknell (26 January 1912, Hampstead, County of London, London – 21 February 2003, St Mawes, Cornwall, aged 91) was an English TV presenter who popularised Do It Yourself (DIY) in the United Kingdom. Bucknell was educated at the William Ellis School, London Borough of Camden, Camden, and served an apprenticeship with Daimler Company, Daimler, after which he joined his father's building and electrical firm in St Pancras, London. He was a conscientious objector in the Second World War, working in the National Fire Service in London during the Blitz and later. In the 1950s he served as a Labour Party (UK), Labour Party member of St Pancras Borough Council. Home improvement shows After his first child was born, Bucknell was asked by a BBC radio producer to give a talk on becoming a parent. It was after this that he was asked to demonstrate home improvements on TV. About the Home Initially, he was one of a number of experts answering viewers' questions, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katherine Bucknell
Katherine Bucknell (born 1957 in Saigon) is an American scholar and novelist who resides in England. Katherine Bucknell is the editor of W. H. Auden's ''Juvenilia'' and of three volumes of the diaries of Christopher Isherwood Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood (26 August 1904 – 4 January 1986) was an Anglo-American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and diarist. His best-known works include '' Goodbye to Berlin'' (1939), a semi-autobiographical ..., as well as ''The Animals: Love Letters Between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy''. In 2024, Bucknell published the biography ''Christopher Isherwood: Inside Out'' (Chatto & Windus). She is the author of four novels: ''Canarino'' (2004), ''Leninsky Prospekt'' (2005), ''What You Will'' (2007), and ''+1'' (2013). References External linksKatherine Bucknell's Official Website [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Bucknell
John Bucknell, known as Jack Bucknell, (7 June 1872 – 5 March 1925) was an English cricket player who played first-class cricket for Somerset between 1895 and 1905. He was born at Bedminster, Bristol and died at Darlington, Co Durham. Bucknell was a right-handed lower-order batsman and a right-arm medium pace or leg-break bowler. His first-class cricket career was spasmodic, with three matches in each of the 1895, 1899 and 1905 seasons and a single game in 1904. His best bowling and batting performances were both achieved in his first season, 1895. In his first game, against Cambridge University, he took three Cambridge wickets for 93 runs. Then a week later, in the match against Oxford University he made 33, batting at No 10. His brother Arthur played Minor Counties The National Counties, known as the Minor Counties before 2020, are the cricketing counties of England and Wales that do not have first-class status. The game is administered by the National Counties Cri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Bucknell
William Robert Bucknell (April 1, 1811 – March 5, 1890) was an American real estate investor, businessman, philanthropist, and benefactor to Bucknell University, for whom the university is named. Early life and education Bucknell was born in Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, to English immigrants. His father was a Lincolnshire farmer, carpenter, and early settler of Delaware County, Pennsylvania. He had intermittent schooling and was trained as a wood carver. Career Bucknell began his career as a wood carver, acquired some savings from that trade and set himself up in business. After his first marriage, Bucknell began conducting real estate transactions with the purchase of suburban lands and the erection of buildings. Bucknell invested in laying gas lines in the city of Chester, Pennsylvania. He founded the Chester Gas Company in 1856. Bucknell became a director in the United Gas Improvement Company of Philadelphia. Bucknell was also a director in the Buffalo Gas Light Company ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Bucknell Pecorini
Margaret Bucknell Pecorini (1879–1963) was an American painter. A native of Philadelphia, Margaret Crozer Bucknell was the daughter of the patron of Bucknell University, William Bucknell and his third wife, ''Titanic'' survivor Emma (Ward) Bucknell. She studied in Paris, at the Académie Julian, and occasionally showed work at the Paris Salon. She married twice, first to Charles F. Stearns – Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island – and second to Count Daniele Pecorini of Rome. She worked for the International Red Cross in Italy during World War I and in London during World War II. As a painter, she specialized in children's portraits. Pecorini's portrait of Janet Scudder is in the collection of the National Academy of Design, and a painting titled Baby in White Cap is in the Brooklyn Museum. She died in Guttenberg, New Jersey Guttenberg ( ) is a Town (New Jersey), town in the North Hudson, New Jersey, northern part of Hudson County, New Jersey, Hudso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Bucknell
Peter Wentworth Bucknell (born 1967) is a filmmaker, author and classical violist residing in Barcelona. Film Bucknell is a commercial and documentary film maker who has made underwater films. In 2014 he wrote ''The Underwater GoPro Book'', a manual on the use of the GoPro. He is an underwater cameraman who has worked on New York's shipwrecks and in Mexico's caves. Performing arts Author of ''Violin is Easy'', a pedagogical book for teachers and students, Bucknell began in the performing arts as a classical musician. He performed the Australian premiere, broadcast live by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, of ''Chaconne for Viola and Orchestra'' by Michael Colgrass. He performed and recorded as solo violist with Apollo's Fire, the Los Angeles Baroque Orchestra, Les Concerts du Monde, and Los Angeles Musica Viva. He was guest principal viola in the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra and National Orchestra of Catalonia. He was the principal violist with the Rebel Baroque Orchestra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
