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Corfield
Corfield is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Bernard Corfield (1890–1965), Anglican Bishop of Travancore and Cochin *Conrad Corfield (1893–1980), British civil servant *Corrie Corfield (born 1961), British newsreader *David Corfield, British philosopher * Ella Corfield (nee Caird), British pharmacist *Frederick Corfield (1915–2005), British politician * Hermione Corfield (born 1993), British film and television actress * Joe Corfield (1895–1970), Australian rules footballer * John Corfield (1893–1953), British film producer *Kenneth Corfield (1924–2016), British camera designer, engineer and businessman * Lu Corfield (born 1979/80), Welsh actress *Richard Corfield (1882–1913), British colonial police officer * Richard Corfield (scientist) (born 1962), British scientist, science writer, and broadcaster * Sid Corfield (1883–1941), English footballer * William Henry Corfield (hygienist) (1843–1903), English hygienist * William Henry Corfield ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Corfield
Bernard Conyngham Corfield (189022 July 1965) was an Anglican bishop who served as Anglican Bishop of Travancore and Cochin, Bishop of Travancore and Cochin from 1938 to 1944. Corfield was born into an ecclesiastical family – the second son of Egerton Corfield, a Church Mission Society (CMS) priest in India, and grandson to two priests, F. C. Corfield and T. A. Anson, both of Derbyshire – and educated at St. Lawrence College, Ramsgate and Jesus College, Cambridge. After World War I service as a temporary Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery, RFA (during which he was mentioned in dispatches twice) he was ordained in 1920. He was Principal (school), Principal of the Church Mission Society, CMS School at Batala from then until 1928; and then held a similar post at Dera Ismail Khan until 1935. Returning to England he was Vicar of Christ Church, Nutfield, Surrey, South Nutfield until 1938 when he was appointed to the episcopate. He was consecrated a bishop on 18 October 1938, at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lu Corfield
Lucy "Lu" Corfield (born 1979 or 1980) is a Welsh actress from Powys, Wales, known for her roles as Freya Wilson in ''Doctors'', Ruth in ''Last Tango in Halifax'' and Joyce Edevan in ''Clink''. In 2020, she appeared in the BBC Three series '' In My Skin''. Career Raised in Four Crosses near Llanfair Caereinion, Powys, she became head girl at Welshpool High School. Due to study English at university, she caught the acting bug through appearances with the Montgomeryshire Youth Theatre. After A-Levels, she approached Amnesty International to set up a theatre in education company, with which she toured for two years. She then relocated to London and studied acting at RADA for three years. Since her graduation, Corfield has worked in both stage and television. Television roles include ''Vera'', ''Agatha Raisin'', ''Game of Thrones'', ''Candy Cabs'', ''Rev'', ''EastEnders'', ''The Wrong Mans'', '' Watson and Oliver'', ''Stella'', ''Holby City, ''Casualty''. and Last Tango in Halifax ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilmot Corfield
William Wilmot Corfield (1859 - 27 October 1919)"Wilmot Corfield." in ''The London Philatelist'', Vol. XXVIII, No. 335, November 1919, p. 253. was a British philatelist who was an important figure in Anglo-Indian philately. By his own account, he was an auditor by profession. Early life Corfield was born in Birmingham in 1859 and educated at King Edward's School. His mother was Jemima Corfield (''nee'' Randell) who died in 1862. Subsequently, he was the editor in that city of ''Ye Manual'', ''Birmingham Town Crier'' and ''Birmingham Faces and Places''Corfield, W. (1910) ''Dâk dicta: a selection from verses written in Calcutta, 1907-1910''. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co., p. iii. and he was a friend of George Bernasconi. Philately Corfield started to collect stamps aged six and later acquired his brother, Winter's, collection after Winter died following an accident on a cricket pitch. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Corfield (footballer)
William Corfield was a footballer with tough-tackling abilities who played in defence for Burslem Port Vale. Career Corfield joined Burslem Port Vale in October 1893. He was only used in three Second Division games of the 1893–94 season. He claimed a goal in a 6–1 victory over Grimsby Town Grimsby Town Football Club is a professional association football club based in Cleethorpes, North East Lincolnshire, England, that competes in , the fourth level of the English football league system. Nicknamed "the Mariners", the club was f ... at the Athletic Ground on 4 December. He left the club in the summer of 1894. Career statistics References {{DEFAULTSORT:Corfield, William Year of birth missing Year of death missing English men's footballers Men's association football defenders Port Vale F.C. players English Football League players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Henry Corfield (politician)
William Henry Corfield (1843–1927) was a carrier, publican, storekeeper and politician in Queensland, Australia. at www.adb.online.anu.edu.au He was a Member of the . Early life William Henry Corifield was born at , |
William Henry Corfield (hygienist)
William Henry Corfield (14 December 1843 – 26 August 1903) was an English public health physician. Appointed Professor of Hygiene and Public Health at University College London in 1869, Corfield had a major influence on public health and household sanitation in Victorian England before there was extensive knowledge of bacteriology and a clear understanding of infectious disease transmission. He was also an early advocate of land filtration and sewage farms. Life William Henry Corfield was born at Shrewsbury on 14 December 1843. He was the eldest son of Thomas Corfield, a chemist, and Jane Corfield (née Brown). He was educated at Cheltenham Grammar School; he was a precocious scholar and obtained a Demyship to study Natural Science at Magdalen College, Oxford in March 1861 and matriculated on 12 October 1861 at the age of 17.The Corfields: A history of the Corfields from 1180 to the present day In 1863 he took a first class in Mathematics at Moderations. In the same year he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sid Corfield
Sidney Corfield (24 June 1883 – 1941) was an English footballer who played in the Football League for both Black Country rivals, West Bromwich Albion and Wolverhampton Wanderers. Career Corfield began his career with amateur side Toll End Wesley, before Football League side West Bromwich Albion in 1902. He made only eight first team appearances though, before quitting football at the request of his parents. He returned to the game in 1905 when he signed for Wolverhampton Wanderers. He made his Wolves debut on 21 October 1905 in a 2–1 win against Blackburn Rovers. He made 29 appearances during this season which saw the club suffer relegation for the first time. After a further 18 appearances during the following campaign, he found himself out of first time contention. He left Molineux to join Welsh League side Wrexham in 1909. He helped the club to two successive Welsh Cup The FAW Welsh Cup (), currently known as the JD Welsh Cup for sponsorship reasons, is a knock-out ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Corfield (scientist)
Richard Corfield (born 22 January 1962) is a scientist, science writer, and broadcaster, based in Oxford, United Kingdom. Early life Corfield attended an all boys' grammar school, William Ellis School, in Highgate, London. He received his BSc in Zoology in 1983 from Bristol University and his PhD in biogeochemistry in 1987 from Cambridge University, where he worked with Professor Sir Nicholas Shackleton FRS on the greenhouse effect during the Paleocene Epoch. Career Corfield is the managing director of the Science and Media consultancy Hanborough Consultants. He has written three books: ''Architects of Eternity: The New Science of Fossils'', ''The Silent Landscape: In the Wake of HMS Challenger,'' and ''Lives of the Planets; A Natural History of the Solar System''. As well as contributing to magazines, on-line publications and newspapers such as ''Physics World'', ''Chemistry World'', Astrobiology.net, Space.com, and ''The Washington Post'' he also wrote and appeared in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Corfield
Richard Conyngham Corfield (27 April 1882 – 9 August 1913) was a British colonial police officer who saw service in South Africa, Nigeria, India, Kenya and Somalia in the early 20th century. Early life Corfield was born in Heanor, Derbyshire, the eldest of three children of the rector of Heanor, Conyngham William George Corfield and Henrietta, née Edwards. Corfield was only six years old when his father died. He first attended a dame school. In 1892 he attended Spurlings Preparatory School and then in 1896 went to Marlborough College. Early career After leaving school, Corfield worked for a shipping company in Liverpool, the T. & J. Harrison Line, run by an uncle, Thomas Fenwick Harrison. Soon after starting work the Anglo-Boer war broke out in South Africa. Corfield immediately joined the Volunteers camped on Salisbury Plain, but later enlisted in the Baden Powell Police, sailing for Africa in December 1900. In June 1902, he was recommended for a commission, but this w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenneth Corfield
Sir Kenneth George Corfield (27 January 1924 – 11 January 2016) was a British camera engineer and industrialist. Born in Rushall near Walsall, Corfield attended the South Staffordshire College of Advanced Technology and worked in management development in ICI's Metals division from 1946 until 1950, when with his brother John he established K. G. Corfield Ltd in Wolverhampton. The company first made accessories for photographers, then launched the Periflex camera in 1953; it also imported Exacta Varex and Minox cameras from East Germany. After a majority holding in the company was bought by Guinness in the early 1960s, he led the expansion of Parkinson Cowan, a maker of gas meters and gas appliances. In 1966 he moved to American company ITT, becoming managing director of their British subsidiary Standard Telephones and Cables in 1969 and then executive chairman from 1979. Here he followed an ambitious expansion strategy, including in 1984 the ill-fated acquisition of compu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conrad Corfield
Sir Conrad Laurence Corfield KCIE, CSI, MC, (15 August 1893 – 3 October 1980), was a British civil servant and the private secretary to several viceroys of India, including Lord Mountbatten. He also was the author of the book ''The Princely India I Knew, from Reading to Mountbatten.'' Early life and wartime service Corfield was born in Heanor, Derbyshire on 15 August 1893, the son of the Rev. Egerton Corfield, a Church of England missionary and later rector of Finchampstead, Berkshire, in England. He was educated at St. Lawrence College, Ramsgate, where he would later serve as a member of the governing body. On 8 October 1914, Corfield was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the 1st Cambridgeshire Regiment. During the First World War, he saw active service on the Western Front. He was promoted to the temporary rank of lieutenant on 16 March 1915 (antedated and made substantive from the same date on 4 August 1916), and promoted to the temporary rank of captain on 17 J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Corfield
John Corfield (22 March 1893 – 10 January 1953) was a British film producer.MacNab, Geoffrey (1993) ''J. Arthur Rank and the British Film Industry''. Routledge. p.15 For more than a decade he oversaw production at British National Films. Selected filmography * '' Turn of the Tide'' (1935) * ''Debt of Honour'' (1936) * '' Mr. Reeder in Room 13'' (1938) * '' Meet Mr. Penny'' (1938) * ''Lassie from Lancashire'' (1938) * '' Night Journey'' (1938) * '' Secret Journey'' (1939) * '' Dead Men Tell No Tales'' (1939) * '' What Would You Do, Chums?'' (1939) * ''Old Mother Riley Joins Up'' (1939) * ''Contraband'' (1940) * '' The Second Mr. Bush'' (1940) * ''Gaslight'' (1940) * ''He Found a Star'' (1941) * '' One of Our Aircraft Is Missing'' (1942) * ''Headline The headline is the text indicating the content or nature of the article below it, typically by providing a form of brief summary of its contents. The large type ''front page headline'' did not come into use until the late 19th cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
