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Cheesman
Cheesman is a surname, meaning a maker or seller of cheese. Notable people with the surname include: *Barry Cheesman, American professional golfer * Clive Cheesman, an officer of arms at the College of Arms in London *Edith Cheesman (1877–1964), British artist *Georgie Cheesman, British architect, better known by her married name of Georgie Wolton * Ernest Entwistle Cheesman (1898–1983), English botanist specialising in Musaceae *Evelyn Cheesman, British entomologist and explorer * Darren Cheesman, an English field hockey player *Jenny Cheesman, former Australian women's basketball player and captain * Linda Cheesman, American bodybuilder and figure competitor *Paul R. Cheesman (1921–1991), American archeologist and a professor of religion at Brigham Young University. *Robert Ernest Cheesman (1878-1962), British military officer, explorer and ornithologist *Thomas Cheesman (cricketer) (1816–1874), English cricketer *Walter Cheesman (1838–1907), American capitalist: railroa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheesman Park
Cheesman Park is an urban park and neighborhood located in the City and County of Denver, Colorado, United States. Geography Cheesman Park is located in central Denver, southeast of downtown. The Park has inexact borders, as it is framed on three sides by private residences, but is located in the center of the Cheesman Park neighborhood, between Humboldt Street on the west, Race Street and Denver Botanic Gardens on the east, 13th Avenue on the north, and 8th Avenue on the south. The neighborhood's borders are approximately: *West: Downing Street *East: York Street *North: Colfax Avenue *South: 8th Avenue The 80 acres of park land are planted with 1,880 trees from 57 different species. These include groves of American Linden in the western part of the park, American elm, Black Walnut, Green Ash and large conifers like the Colorado Blue Spruce and Douglas Fir. Early park history In the late 19th century, the land that is now Cheesman Park was Prospect Hill Cemetery, which also in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evelyn Cheesman
Lucy Evelyn Cheesman (8 October 1881 – 15 April 1969) was a British entomologist and traveller. Between 1924 and 1952, Cheesman went on 8 solo expeditions in the South Pacific, and collected over 70,000 specimens, which she accompanied with sketches and notes. These are now part of the collections of the Natural History Museum in London. Cheesman published extensively about her work and travels. In 1955, she was appointed an OBE for her services to science. Biography Early life Lucy Evelyn Cheesman was one of five children of Florence Maud Tassell and Robert Cheesman, born 8 October 1881. Lacking both money and education, she worked for a time as a governess with the Murray-Smith family in Gumley, Leicestershire, but did not find it congenial work. She taught herself French and German by travelling in both countries. Interested in the natural world, Cheesman was unable to train for a career as a veterinary surgeon because the Royal Veterinary College did not accept women ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Cheesman
Walter Cheesman (1838–1907) was an American businessman who was involved in railroad, finance, real estate, and water industries. After beginning his career in New York and Chicago, he lived in Denver, where Cheesman Dam, Cheesman Reservoir, and Cheesman Park are named for him. Early years Walter Scott Cheesman was born at Hempstead Harbor, New York on June 27, 1838. He was a member of a prominent Long Island family and attended public high school. He received private tutoring before entering into family businesses, including banking and mercantile. Career Cheesman moved to Chicago in 1854 to start a pharmacy business with William Henry and Edward Talbot Cheesman, his older brothers. His brothers came to Denver in 1859 and opened a pharmacy store, but they were not very successful, so Cheesman came to Denver in 1861 and took over the business. He added bottled water and liquor to the store's merchandise. The town's first drug store was located near the corner of Fifteenth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jenny Cheesman
Jennifer "Jenny" Cheesman (born 2 November 1957) is a former Australian women's basketball player and coach. Biography Cheesman played 167 games for the national team between 1975 and 1988, competing at two Olympic Games, in 1984 and 1988. Cheesman described making the 1984 Olympic Games as "a life-long dream come true... Since I was twelve years old my aim has been to play basketball at an Olympic Games". At the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games, Cheesman and her husband, Phil Smyth, became the first husband and wife to captain Australian teams at the same Olympics. Cheesman also represented Australia at four World Championships, in 1975, 1979, 1983, and 1986. She was the captain of the team from 1980 until the end of her career and went on to be the Opals assistant coach from 1993 to 2000. While she was still playing at the highest level with the Opals, Cheesman was an assistant coach with the AIS program, taking over the head coach role for one year in 1990. As a talented ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edith Cheesman
Florence Edith Cheesman (1877–1964) was a British artist and author, noted for her watercolours of Arabian birdlife and for producing a series of Iraqi postage stamps and postcards featuring wildlife. Life and career Florence Edith Cheesman was born in 1877 at Wistwal in Kent. She was one of the five children of Florence Maud Tassell (d. 1944) and Robert Cheesman (d. 1915), a gentleman farmer of modest means. She and her siblings received their early education from a governess. Later, Edith and her sister, Evelyn Cheesman, attended a school in Brighton run by the Misses Collingwood. There, they acquired a grounding in French and German. Both sisters became governesses, Edith in Surrey and Evelyn in the Midlands. Her sister, Evelyn Cheesman was a noted entomologist and prolific author. Her brother was Colonel Robert Ernest Cheesman, a British a military officer, explorer, author and ornithologist. The British entomologist and traveller Evelyn Cheesman was her younger sister. Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Entwistle Cheesman
Ernest Entwistle Cheesman (21 September 1898 Wood Green - 9 January 1983 Weybridge), was an English botanist noted for his work on the family Musaceae. He was the son of Charles Cheesman and Grace Lizzie Davies. About August 1936 he married Ellen Elizabeth B. Weston (1892-1966). Cheesman collected in Trinidad and Tobago in 1925-1937, working as professor of botany at the Trinidad ''Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture'' and publishing ''Flora of Trinidad and Tobago'' with R. O. Williams in 1929. He became interested in the cultivation of cocoa while in Trinidad and wrote a number of papers on the subject - *Cheesman E.E. 1935. ''The vegetative propagation of cocoa.'' Tropical Agriculture 12(9): 240-246. *Cheesman E.E. 1936. ''The vegetative propagation of cocoa. VII.- Root systems of cuttings.'' Page 7, plates 3 & 4 in Fifth Annual Report on Cocoa Research 1935, Trinidad. *Cheesman E.E. 1941. ''General notes on field experiments CRB1 to CRB6.'' Pages 4–11 in Tenth Annual R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clive Cheesman
Clive Edwin Alexander Cheesman (born 1968) is a British officer of arms at the College of Arms in London. He is currently Richmond Herald, having been appointed to that position on 7 April 2010. Cheesman was formerly a curator in the Department of Coins and Medals in the British Museum. He served as Rouge Dragon Pursuivant-of-Arms in Ordinary from 17 November 1998 to 7 April 2010. Background Son of architect Wilfrid Henry Cheesman and his wife Elizabeth Amelia (née Hughes), a biochemist, Cheesman has a degree in '' Literae Humaniores'' (Classics or 'Greats') from Oxford University, where he was at Oriel. In 1993, he was awarded the degree of PhD from the Scuola Superiore di Studi Storici di San Marino, with a doctoral thesis on Roman history. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Ernest Cheesman
Major Robert Ernest Cheesman CBE (1878, Ashford, Kent – 13 February 1962) was an English military officer, explorer, ornithologist and author. He is noted for being one of the first to map the Arabian coast and credited with the discovery of a rodent, named after him, Cheesman's gerbil (''Gerbillus cheesmani''). Life and career He was one of the five children of Florence Maud Tassell (d. 1944) and Robert Cheesman (d. 1915), a gentleman farmer of modest means. Cheesman was Private Secretary to Sir Percy Cox during his tenure as High Commissioner in Iraq. In 1923, during a journey into the Arabian Peninsula, Cheesman collected over 300 specimens from the Al-Ahsa Oasis, several of them previously unknown to science. These specimens are currently in the British Museum. During this period, he was accompanied by his sister, Evelyn Cheesman, a noted entomologist, painter and prolific author. He is credited with discovering Cheesman's gerbil (''Gerbillus cheesmani''). Cheesman wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darren Cheesman
Darren Cheesman (born 23 February 1986 in Hackney, London) is an ex-England and Great Britain Hockey field hockey International who is now a High Performance Coach for England Hockey and FIH, as well as a Coach Educator for FIH. Life As well as previously being a member of the England and Great Britain Hockey Teams, he was also a member of the Great Britain U21 team that won Silver Medal at the 2007 Junior Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia. The Midfielder / Forward plays club hockey at Southgate, after spells at Reading, East Grinstead and Old Loughtonians. After playing in the 2005 Junior World Cup, Cheesman was signed by Oranje Zwart, a Premier League club in Netherlands. He spent a year there playing with and against the best players in the world. During his first spell at East Grinstead, Cheesman was voted 'Premier League Player of the Year'. Cheesman played an instrumental role in East Grinstead's successes both domestically and in the Euro Hockey League. Cheesman ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheesman's Gerbil
Cheesman's gerbil (''Gerbilus cheesmani'') is a small rodent in the subfamily Gerbillinae of the family Muridae. It is distributed mainly in Arabian Peninsula to southwestern Iran. It has orange-brown fur, white underparts, large eyes and a very long tail. Taxonomy Cheesman's gerbil was first described by the British zoologist Oldfield Thomas in 1919. It was named in honour of its discoverer, the British military officer, explorer and ornithologist Robert Ernest Cheesman who collected it while on an exploratory expedition in Saudi Arabia. Description This gerbil is similar in appearance to the lesser Egyptian gerbil (''Gerbillus gerbillus'') and Anderson's gerbil (''Gerbillus andersoni''). It has a head-and-body length of between and a tail of between , and like them, the soles of the feet are hairy. The dorsal pelage is orange-brown and the underparts are white. Distribution and habitat Cheesman's gerbil is native to the Arabian Peninsula and the Middle East. Its range i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Cheesman (cricketer)
Thomas CheesmanMoore D (1988) ''The History of Kent County Cricket Club'', p. 243. London: Christopher Helm. (1816 – 15 August 1874) was an English amateur cricketer who played in one first-class cricket match for Kent County Cricket Club in 1854. Cheesman was born in Luddesdown in Kent in 1816, one of seven children of William and Henrietta Cheesman. He worked as a solicitor in Gravesend and played most of his cricket in the town, including for Gravesend Cricket Club between 1840 and around 1863.Carlaw D (2020) ''Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914'' (revised edition), pp. 107–108.Available onlineat the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2021-07-25.)Milton H (1999) ''The Bat and Ball Gravesend: a first-class cricket history'', p. 128. Gravesend: Gravesend Cricket Club. His only first-class appearance was at the town's Bat and Ball Ground in 1854 against a United England Eleven, one of fifteen players on the Kent team. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wendy Foster
Wendy Ann Foster, ''née'' Cheesman, (1937 – 15 January 1989) was a British architect and co-founder of Team 4 and Foster Associates. Career Team 4 was an architectural firm, established in 1963 by architecture graduates Su Rogers (''née'' Brumwell), Wendy Cheesman, Norman Foster and Richard Rogers.Ian Lambot (Ed.), "Norman Foster: Buildings and Projects Volume 1 1964-1973", Watermark Publications (1991), . Chapter 1 "Team 4" by Sir Richard Rogers, pp. 14-15 The firm originally included Wendy Cheesman's sister Georgie Wolton who, as the only qualified architect of the group, allowed the practice to function. Georgie Cheesman left after only a few months, leaving the remaining members to try to pass their professional exams while continuing to practice. The notable buildings that she worked on while at Team 4, includes the first ever house to win a RIBA award - Creek Vean House, Feock, Cornwall, England (1966), Reliance Controls factory, Swindon (1967), Jaffe House ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
