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Eley (name)
Eley is a surname and a given name. People with the name are as follows: Surname * Brian Eley (1946–2022), British chessplayer *Bridget Cracroft-Eley (1933–2008), British secretary and farmer and Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire * Bryan Eley (born 1939), British racewalker * Clifton Eley (born 1961), American football player *Dan Eley (1914–2015), British chemist and academic * Donald Hill-Eley, American football coach and former player *Sir Frederick Eley, 1st Baronet (1866–1951), English banker *Frederick Eley (architect) (1884–1979), American architect *Geoff Eley (born 1949), British-born historian of Germany *Geoffrey Eley (1904–1990), British banker * Gladys Pearl Baker Mortensen Eley (1902–1984), mother of American actress Marilyn Monroe *Jim Eley (1932–2014), Australian rules football player *Jon Eley (born 1984), British speed skater * Maxwell Eley (1902–1983), British rower *Monroe Eley, American football player *Robin Eley (born 1978), Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Eley
Brian Ratcliffe Eley Edward Winter's Chess Noteitem 9034 citing Brian Eley interview conducted for (6 July 1946 – 6 April 2022) is a former British Chess Champion. He was wanted by the British police on suspicion of sexual offences against underage boys, and had been a fugitive from justice since 1991. Chess Brian Eley belonged to the wave of talented chess masters who came to the fore in Britain in the 1970s, after the dominance of Jonathan Penrose ended—a group that included Raymond Keene, William Hartston, George Botterill, Robert Bellin and others. He took part in domestic chess tournaments, was a chess coach and gave simultaneous exhibitions. For a period around 1971, he wrote an infrequent chess column in the weekly '' Morning Telegraph'' of Sheffield. He ran his own chess retail business, supplying books, chess sets, scorebooks and similar items. In a major upset, Eley won the 1972 British Chess Championship, held in Brighton. Eley's peak FIDE rating of 2350 in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Eley
Jim Eley (5 November 1932 – 28 September 2014) was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). It ... (VFL). Notes External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Eley, Jim 1932 births 2014 deaths Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) St Kilda Football Club players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eley Williams
Eley Williams is a British writer. Her debut collection of prose, ''Attrib. and Other Stories'' (Influx Press, 2017), was awarded the Republic of Consciousness Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize 2018. With writing anthologised in ''The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story'' (Penguin Classics, 2018), ''Liberating the Canon'' (Dostoevsky Wannabe, 2018) and ''Not Here: A Queer Anthology of Loneliness'' (Pilot Press, 2017), she is an alumna of the MacDowell Colony, MacDowell workshop and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She teaches at Royal Holloway, University of London, and supervises ''Jungftak'', a journal for contemporary prose poetry. Her first novel, ''The Liar's Dictionary'', was published in 2020, described in ''The Guardian'' as a "virtuoso performance full of charm... a glorious novel – a perfectly crafted investigation of our ability to define words and their power to define us". Stuart Kelly (literary critic), Stuart Kelly in a revi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Eley
William Eley was an English professional footballer who played as an outside right. Career Eley played for Matlock Town and Bradford City. For Bradford City he made 1 appearance in the Football League The English Football League (EFL) is a league of professional football clubs from England and Wales. Founded in 1888 as the Football League, the league is the oldest such competition in the world. It was the top-level football league in Engla ....Frost, p. 381 Sources * References Year of birth missing Year of death missing English men's footballers Matlock Town F.C. players Bradford City A.F.C. players English Football League players Men's association football outside forwards Place of birth missing {{England-footy-forward-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thalia C
Thalia, Thalía, Thaleia or Thalian may refer to: People * Thalia (given name), including a list of people with the name * Thalía (born 1971), Mexican singer and actress Mythological and fictional characters * Thalia (Grace), one of the three Graces (Charities) * Thalia (Muse), the muse of comedy and idyllic poetry * Thalia (Nereid), one of the fifty daughters of Nereus and Doris * Thalia (nymph), daughter of Hephaestus, and minor goddess of vegetation * Thalia Menninger, a fictional character from the TV series ''The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis'' * Thalia Grace, in mythology novels by Rick Riordan Places * Thalia, Victoria, Australia * Thalia, Texas, U.S. * Thalia, Virginia, U.S. Arts and entertainment * Thalia Awards, issued by the Czech Actors' Association * ''Thalia'' (magazine), a former German magazine * ''Thalia'', a book by Arius in the 1st century AD *'' The Muse Thalia'', a painting by Michele Pannonio c. 1546 * ''Thalía'' (1990 album), by Thalía * ''Thalía ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Eley
Stanley Albert Hallam Eley (1904–1990) was a British Anglican bishop who served as Bishop of Gibraltar (in the Church of England) from 1960 to 1970. He was made a deacon by Harold Bilbrough, Bishop of Dover, on St Matthew's Day (21 September) 1924, at St Andrew's, Croydon; ordained a priest by Randall Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury, in Advent 1925 (19 December), at Canterbury Cathedral; and consecrated a bishop by Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, on Lady Day (25 March) 1960, at Westminster Abbey Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is an historic, mainly Gothic church in the City of Westminster, London, England, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is one of the United .... Eley married Doreen Bourne, a scion of the Judkin-Fitzgerald baronets; they had no children. References 1904 births 1990 deaths 20th-century Anglican bishops of Gibraltar { ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Eley
Robin Eley (born in London, England in 1978) is an Australian hyperrealist painter. Personal life Eley was born to an Australian father and Chinese mother. In 1981 his family migrated to Australia where he completed his secondary education at Pembroke School. In 1997 he moved to the United States where he would attend Westmont College, captaining the basketball team and earning a bachelor of arts degree, majoring in fine art in 2001. Exhibitions Eley is currently represented by Hill Smith Gallery in Australia and 101/exhibit in the United States. He has held two solo exhibitions at Hill Smith Gallery. In 2012, his debut solo exhibition "Singularity" sold out prior to the opening. His second solo exhibition "Idolatry" opened at Hill Smith Gallery in June, 2013. He has also participated in several group exhibitions, most notably "Chinese Australia" at Ausin Tung Gallery in Melbourne, Australia in 2012, "Journeys - Westmont Alumni Artists Invitational" at The Westmont Ridley-Tree M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monroe Eley
Monroe Eley (April 17, 1949 – May 2, 2019) was a former running back who played in the Canadian Football League (CFL) and the National Football League (NFL). Having played his college football with Arizona State University, Eley was not drafted by the NFL, so he headed north to play with the British Columbia Lions. In his first year, 1972, he rushed for 517 yards and led the West Conference with 1033 kickoff return yards. His totals fell in 1973, to 373 rushing yards, as he played behind 1000 rusher Johnny Musso. The next season Musso was injured and Eley had his best year, racking up 1176 yards. His fellow running back, Lou Harris also rushed for 1239 yards, giving the Lions one of the most productive backfields in CFL history. He wasn't able to reach contract terms with the Lions, so he headed south to the Atlanta Falcons The Atlanta Falcons are a professional American football team based in Atlanta. The Falcons compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maxwell Eley
Charles Ryves Maxwell Eley (16 September 1902 – 15 January 1983) was a British rower who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics, winning a gold medal with the British coxless four. Family Eley was born in Samford, Suffolk, the eldest of four sons of Charles Cuthbert Eley, a barrister and noted gardener, and Ethel Maxwell Ryves. His great-grandfather co-founded the Eley Brothers company. Maxwell was the older brother of banker Sir Geoffrey Eley. Education and rowing Eley was educated at Eton College and first rowed at Henley Royal Regatta in 1921, when Eton won the Ladies' Challenge Plate. He then went to Trinity College, Cambridge. At Cambridge, Eley, James MacNabb, Robert Morrison and Terence Sanders, who had rowed together at Eton, made up the coxless four that in 1922 at Henley won the Stewards' Challenge Cup as Eton Vikings and the Visitors' Challenge Cup as Third Trinity Boat Club. They won the Stewards' Challenge Cup again in 1923. Eley rowed for Cambridge in the Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Eley
Jon Eley (born 19 August 1984 in Solihull) is a British short track speed skater who competed at the 2006 Winter Olympics, the 2010 Winter Olympics and the 2014 Winter Olympics. Eley finished fifth in the 500 metres in Torino, and was a member of the British team that finished sixth in the 5000 metre relay in Vancouver. Eley was part of the British 5,000m relay team that broke the world record in February 2011. On 6 February 2014 it was announced that Eley would be the flagbearer for the Great Britain team at the 2014 Winter Olympics The 2014 Winter Olympics, officially called the XXII Olympic Winter Games (russian: XXII Олимпийские зимние игры, XXII Olimpiyskiye zimniye igry) and commonly known as Sochi 2014 (russian: Сочи 2014), was an international ... in Sochi, Russia. After retiring, he took up a role as Performance & Talent Manager for British Ice Skating. References External links * 1984 births Living people British male shor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe (; born Norma Jeane Mortenson; 1 June 1926 4 August 1962) was an American actress. Famous for playing comedic " blonde bombshell" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s, as well as an emblem of the era's sexual revolution. She was a top-billed actress for a decade, and her films grossed $200 million (equivalent to $ billion in ) by the time of her death in 1962. Long after her death, Monroe remains a major icon of pop culture. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked her sixth on their list of the greatest female screen legends from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Multiple film critics and media outlets have cited Monroe as one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Monroe spent most of her childhood in a total of 12 foster homes and an orphanage; she married at age sixteen. She was working in a factory during World War II when she met a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bridget Cracroft-Eley
Bridget Katharine Cracroft-Eley CVO JP (29 October 1933 – 29 August 2008) was a British secretary, farmer and magistrate. Born in Lincolnshire, she was the daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Weston Cracroft-Amcotts and his wife Rhona Clifton-Brown, daughter of Edward Clifton-Brown. In 1995, she received an honorary doctorate from De Montfort University and in 2003 from the University of Lincoln. Cracroft-Eley was appointed High Sheriff of Lincolnshire for 1989 and served as justice of the peace of that county. She was appointed the first female Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire in 1995, an office she held until her death. In 1997, she became High Steward of Lincoln Cathedral. On 31 October 1959, she married Robert Peel Charles Eley (1931-1996), son of Charles Ryves Maxwell Eley. They had two children, one son and one daughter. Cracroft-Eley became a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) in the 2008 New Year Honours. She died in August of that year at her home in Hackthorn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
