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Covell (other)
Covell is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Charlie Covell (born 1984), British actress, writer and producer *Daniel Covell (born 1970), American professional wrestler *John Collins Covell (1823–1887), American educator and school administrator *Louis Chapin Covell (1875-1952), American military officer and salesman *Luke Covell (born 1981), Australian-New Zealand professional rugby league footballer *Phyllis Covell (1895–1982), English tennis player *Ralph Covell (1911–1988), English architect *Roger Covell (born 1931), Australian musicologist, critic and author *Thomas Covell ( - 1639), keeper of Lancaster Castle and mayor of Lancaster six times. *William Covell (died 1613), English clergyman and writer *Ralph R Covell (1922-2013) - American missionary to China and Professor of Missions See also *Covell, Illinois, unincorporated community in Dale Township, McLean County, Illinois, United States *Covell, former name of Easton, California *Covel (disambiguat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Covell
Charlotte "Charlie" Covell (born circa 1984) is a British actress and writer, best known for her adaptation of the graphic comic series ''The End of the F***ing World'' for Channel 4. Biography Covell was born in Blackheath, London. She studied English at Oxford University Oxford () is a city in England. It is the county town and only city of Oxfordshire. In 2020, its population was estimated at 151,584. It is north-west of London, south-east of Birmingham and north-east of Bristol. The city is home to the .... Filmography Actress Writer Producer References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Covell, Charlie 1984 births Living people 21st-century English writers 21st-century English actresses British film actresses British producers British television actresses People from Blackheath, London English LGBT actors English LGBT writers English lesbian actresses British lesbian actresses 21st-century LGBT people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Covell
Daniel Covell represented Dedham, Massachusetts in the Great and General Court The Massachusetts General Court (formally styled the General Court of Massachusetts) is the state legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The name "General Court" is a hold-over from the earliest days of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, w .... References Works cited * Members of the Massachusetts General Court Year of birth missing Year of death missing {{Massachusetts-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Collins Covell
John Collins Covell (December 19, 1823 – June 4, 1887) was a 19th-century American educator and school administrator specializing in deaf education in the U.S. states of Virginia and West Virginia. Born in 1823 in Rhode Island, Covell was the son of Episcopal minister Reverend Joseph S. Covell and the grandson of Rhode Island Governor John Collins. Covell attended Trinity College and graduated from the institution in 1847. He was recommended as a candidate for Holy Orders in the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut and received the orders of a deacon. Covell accepted a teaching position in the Deaf Department of the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind and relocated there in 1847. Covell was made a vice-principal of the institution and given charge of the entire Deaf Mute Department in 1852. During the American Civil War, Covell entered the Confederate States Army with the rank of major and served on the staff of Brigadier General Henry A. Wise. Covell served on Gene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Chapin Covell
Louis Chapin Covell (June 22, 1875 – August 26, 1952) was a United States army officer and business. He served in the Spanish–American War and World War I, and later worked for several automotive companies, including General Motors. Early life Covell was born on June 22, 1875 in Grand Rapids, Michigan to Elliot Franklin Covell and Laura (Chapin) Covell. After graduating from Grand Rapids High School in 1893, he worked at the Macey Company as an advertising and sales manager. In 1915 he was the organizer and president of Covell-Hensen Company, an advertising and printing company. Military career Covell enlisted in the Michigan National Guard on April 6, 1892. On June 26, 1895 he was commissioned as a second lieutenant. Covell served as a captain in the Spanish–American War, advanced to major in 1900 and was promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1911. Covell became a brigadier general in the National Guard on February 7, 1917 and the National Army on August 5, 1917. He served ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luke Covell
Luke Covell (born 9 November 1981) is a former New Zealand international rugby league footballer who played as a goal-kicking winger for the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks and Wests Tigers in the NRL. He also played at representative level for NSW Country and was described as one of the most respected players in the NRL. Although born and raised in Australia, Covell was eligible to play for New Zealand through his father, making one appearance for the Kiwis in 2007. Early life Covell was born in Goondiwindi, Queensland, to a New Zealand father and an Australian mother. He was raised in Murwillumbah, New South Wales, and attended Mt St Patrick's College. Covell played early football for the Murwillumbah Colts. NRL career Covell debuted with the Wests Tigers in 2003 at the age of 21. The winger's limited game time saw him join the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks in 2004. In 2007, Covell made his Test Debut for New Zealand against Australia, in which a young Australian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phyllis Covell
Phyllis Lindrea Covell ( Howkins. 22 May 1895 – 28 October 1982) was a female tennis player from Great Britain. She is best remembered for her silver medal at the Paris Olympics of 1924 in the women's doubles event partnering with Kitty McKane. In 1923 she won the women's doubles title at the U.S. National Championships with McKane defeating the American pairing of Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman and Eleanor Goss in three sets. She was also a runner-up in the mixed doubles event at Wimbledon Wimbledon most often refers to: * Wimbledon, London, a district of southwest London * Wimbledon Championships, the oldest tennis tournament in the world and one of the four Grand Slam championships Wimbledon may also refer to: Places London * ... in 1921, partnering Max Woosnam. In 1924 she was part of the British Wightman Cup team who defeated the United States 6–1 at Wimbledon. Covell won both her singles matches against Helen Wills and Molla Mallory. Personal life Phyllis How ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Covell
Ralph George Covington Covell (6 May 1911 – 16 December 1988) was an English modern architect, active during the post-war period to the early 1970s. Early life and family Ralph was born in Lee, London, on 6 May 1911, the son of George William and Elsie Covell née Covington. The family lived in Lee High Road in the 1930s In late 1935 Ralph married Marguerite Latter but, after World War II, they had separated and both remarried. Covell married Lurline Stanley Knowles (1913–2005) in 1947. Early career and military service Covell won the Ashpitel Prize in 1934 and was admitted ARIBA the following year. Covell founded an architectural practice in 1937 in Westminster where he worked until drafted into the Army. During this period he taught architecture at Croydon College of Art. citing: During World War II he served with the Royal Engineers and was promoted to the rank of second lieutenant in 1940. He was evacuated from Dunkirk and later posted to Orkney where he was invol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Covell
Roger David Covell AM FAHA (1 February 1931 – 4 June 2019) was an Australian musicologist, critic and author. He was Professor Emeritus in the School of the Arts and Media at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney, and continued until shortly before his death to contribute articles and reviews to ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', where he served as principal music critic from 1960 until the late 1990s. Biography Published in 1967, Covell's monograph ''Australia's Music: Themes of a New Society'' was the first comprehensive study of the history, development and performance of Western serious (classical) music in Australia, and is now regarded as a seminal text in Australian musicology. It has been widely referenced among succeeding generations of Australian composers, practitioners and critics of serious music, and by Australian cultural historians generally. Covell died in Sydney on 4 June 2019. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Covell
Thomas Covell ( – August 1, 1639) was the keeper of Lancaster Castle for 48 years and mayor of Lancaster six times. He is known for jailing the Pendle witches. Biography Career Thomas Covell was well known in Lancaster during the 17th Century. He held a number of positions in the city including magistrate, coroner, keeper of Lancaster Castle, and mayor of the city. Covell was keeper of Lancaster Castle for 48 years, from 1591 until his death. Whilst keeper of the castle he would have been responsible for the Pendle witches' time there. He was also Mayor of Lancaster six times during his life, though the only known years are 1621 and 1628, and a coroner for 46 years from 1593. Personal life Covell married Dorothy Watson, with whom he had one daughter named Elizabeth in 1601. There are records of the birth of a son named Phillip, but no further information is available on him. He built Judges' Lodgings in Lancaster where he lived at the time of his death on August 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lancaster Castle
Lancaster Castle is a medieval castle and former prison in Lancaster in the English county of Lancashire. Its early history is unclear, but it may have been founded in the 11th century on the site of a Roman fort overlooking a crossing of the River Lune. In 1164 the Honour of Lancaster, including the castle, came under royal control. In 1322 and 1389 the Scots invaded England, progressing as far as Lancaster and damaging the castle. It was not to see military action again until the English Civil War. The castle was first used as a prison in 1196 although this aspect became more important during the English Civil War. The castle buildings are owned by the British sovereign as Duke of Lancaster; part of the structure is used to host sittings of the Crown Court. Until 2011 the majority of the buildings were leased to the Ministry of Justice as HM Prison Lancaster, after which the castle was returned to the Duchy's management. The castle is now open to the public seven days a w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lancaster, Lancashire
Lancaster (, ) is a city and the county town of Lancashire, England, standing on the River Lune. Its population of 52,234 compares with one of 138,375 in the wider City of Lancaster local government district. The House of Lancaster was a branch of the List of English monarchs, English royal family. The Duchy of Lancaster still holds large estates on behalf of Charles III, who is also Duke of Lancaster. Its long history is marked by Lancaster Castle, Lancaster Priory, Lancaster Priory Church, Lancaster Cathedral and the Ashton Memorial. It is the seat of Lancaster University and has a campus of the University of Cumbria. The Port of Lancaster played a big role in the city's growth, but for many years the outport of Glasson Dock has become the main shipping facility. History The name of the city first appeared in the Domesday Book of 1086, as ''Loncastre'', where "Lon" refers to the River Lune and "castre" (from the Old English ''cæster'' and Latin ''castrum'' for "fort") to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Covell
William Covell (died 1613) was an English clergyman and writer. Life He was born in Chadderton, Lancashire, England, and proceeded MA at Queens' College, Cambridge in 1588. In the 1590s Covell took part in the controversy about how far the newly reformed Church of England should abandon the liturgy and hierarchy of the past, to which debate he contributed several broadly anti-puritan works. In his later career he allied himself with Archbishop John Whitgift and afterwards with his successor, Richard Bancroft, who, like Covell, was Lancashire-born. William Covell died in 1613 at Mersham, Kent, where he was rector. Works Covell's interest to modern scholars now largely depends on one polemical work published in 1595, ''Polimanteia''. In the course of this work, dedicated to the 2nd Earl of Essex, Covell briefly mentioned contemporary authors such as Thomas Nashe, Samuel Daniel and William Shakespeare. Covell published in 1603 a religious volume which weighed in on the t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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