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Cundell
Cundell is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Edric Cundell (1893–1961), British music teacher, composer and conductor * Henry Cundell (1810–1886), Scottish painter, artist, and early photographer * Len Cundell (1879-1939), English horse trainer * Nora Cundell (1889–1948), English painter * Pamela Cundell Pamela Isabel Cundell (15 January 1920 – 14 February 2015) was an English character actress. She played Mrs Fox in the long-running TV comedy ''Dad's Army''. She was a descendant of Henry Condell, one of the managers of the Lord Chamberla ... (1920–2015), English character actress See also * Cundall (other) {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edric Cundell
Edric Cundell (29 January 1893 – 19 March 1961) was a British music teacher, composer and conductor. Early life and academic career Born in London, Edric Cundell came from a musical family: his grandmother worked in Paris as an opera singer and both his parents were talented amateur musicians. He was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School in Hertfordshire, and went on to study at the London Trinity College of Music, taking French horn with Adolf Borsdorf and piano with Henry Richard Bird (1842-1916). As a horn player, Cundell performed in the 1912 Covent Garden Opera season. He served as a lieutenant in the artillery in World War I, during which he wrote the symphonic poem ''Serbia'', which was dedicated to King Alexander of Serbia. In Salonika his unit was attached to the Serbian Army and he was awarded the Serbian Order of the White Eagle for his distinguished conduct. While at the front line, Cundell made a cello out of petrol cans and boxes, using a horse's tail fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pamela Cundell
Pamela Isabel Cundell (15 January 1920 – 14 February 2015) was an English character actress. She played Mrs Fox in the long-running TV comedy ''Dad's Army''. She was a descendant of Henry Condell, one of the managers of the Lord Chamberlain's Men, the playing company of William Shakespeare. Henry Condell also helped put together the first folio of Shakespeare's works after his death. Career Making her first television appearance in 1957 with Peter Sellers and Michael Bentine, she worked with many of the comic performers of her time, including Frankie Howerd, Benny Hill and Bill Fraser, the last of whom she married in 1981; he died in 1987. A semi-regular in ''Dad's Army'' as Mrs Fox, her character married Lance-Corporal Jones ( Clive Dunn) in the final episode. Cundell appeared in many television shows, including '' Bless This House,'' as Peggy, ''The Bill'', ''On the Buses'', '' Potter'', ''Are You Being Served?'' '' Casualty'', ''Z-Cars'', and '' Big Deal'', '' The Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Cundell
Henry Cundell (1810-1886) was a Scottish painter, artist, and early photographer. He exhibited for a short time in the 1850s. Biography Trade card in the British Museum collection says Henry Cundell's photographs are often attributed to either his brothers—George, Joseph, and Edward—or to his contemporary, Joseph Cundall. Sara Stevenson and A. D. Morrison-Low wrote that Henry Cundell "figured in touring exhibitions set up by the London Society of Arts between 1852 and 1854. His photographs ranged from pictures taken in North Wales, to Perthshire, Durham, and Kensington." His best-known photo of London in 1844 was wrongly attributed to Joseph Cundall. Julie L. Mellby of the Princeton University wrote about that calotype: Notes References Further reading *{{cite book , last1=Stevenson , first1=Sara , title=Scottish photography : the first thirty years , date=2015 , location=Edinburgh , isbn=978-1905267972 External links Photo of Henry Cundell at National P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nora Cundell
Nora Lucy Mowbray Cundell (20 May 1889 – 3 August 1948) was an English painter of figure subjects, flowers and landscapes in oil and watercolours. Biography Cundell was born in London and was the granddaughter of the artist Henry Cundell. She attended the Blackheath School of Art and the Westminster Technical Institute where she was taught by Walter Sickert. Cundell studied part-time at the Slade School of Art from 1911 to 1914, and then again in 1919. At the Slade, she won the Melvill Nettleship Prize for figure composition in 1914. In 1925, Cundell had her first solo exhibition at the Redfern Gallery in London. Her painting ''Maggie'' was exhibited at the salon of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris during 1929. In 1930 Cundell was among the founding members of the National Society of Painters, Sculptors and Gravers/Printmakers. Cundell visited America on a regular basis and in particular painted portraits of Native Americans and also landscapes in Arizona and Colorado. M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Len Cundell
Leonard Ambrose Cundell (1879 Liddington, Wiltshire - 15, December 1939 Blewburton Hall, Aston Tirrold, Berkshire (now Oxfordshire)) was a well known English racehorse trainer in the 1930s. Early years Len was the second son of farmer and butcher, Matthew Henry Cundell, and his wife, Emma Willis, of Coley Park Farm, near Reading in Berkshire, where he grew up. Racehorse training Len had stables at Chilton in Oxfordshire which were taken over, by compulsory purchase, by the British government about 1937 in order to build RAF Harwell. A stone marking the end of the runway records that aircraft of No 38 Group RAF took off on the night of 5 June 1944 with troops of the 6th Airborne Division who were the first British soldiers to land in Normandy in the main assault for the liberation of Europe. After World War II RAF Harwell was taken over by the UK Atomic Energy Authority. Len Cundell moved from the Bungalow stables at Chilton to Blewburton Hall stables at Aston Tirrold. His b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
