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Elspeth Diederix
Elspeth or Elspet is a feminine given name, which is the Scottish form of Elizabeth. It means "chosen by God" or "consecrated by God". The name may refer to: People * Elspeth Attwooll (born 1943), English politician *Elspeth Ballantyne (born 1939), Australian actress *Elspeth Barker (1940–2022), Scottish writer *Elspeth Beard (born 1959), English motorcyclist * Elspeth Buchan (1738–1791), Scottish religious leader * Elspeth Cameron (born 1943), Canadian writer *Elspeth Campbell (1940–2023), English political spouse *Elspeth Champcommunal (1888–1976), English fashion designer and editor * Elspeth Denning (born 1956), Australian field hockey player *Elspeth Duxbury (1909–1967) English actress *Elspeth Eric (1907–1993), American actress *Elspeth Garman (born 1955), English scientist *Elspeth Gibson (born 1963), English fashion designer * Elspeth R. M. Dusinberre (1968), American professor of classics *Elspet Gray (1929–2013), Scottish actress * Elspeth Hanson (born 1986 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scotland
Scotland is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It contains nearly one-third of the United Kingdom's land area, consisting of the northern part of the island of Great Britain and more than 790 adjacent Islands of Scotland, islands, principally in the archipelagos of the Hebrides and the Northern Isles. To the south-east, Scotland has its Anglo-Scottish border, only land border, which is long and shared with England; the country is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, the North Sea to the north-east and east, and the Irish Sea to the south. The population in 2022 was 5,439,842. Edinburgh is the capital and Glasgow is the most populous of the cities of Scotland. The Kingdom of Scotland emerged as an independent sovereign state in the 9th century. In 1603, James VI succeeded to the thrones of Kingdom of England, England and Kingdom of Ireland, Ireland, forming a personal union of the Union of the Crowns, three kingdo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elspeth R
Elspeth or Elspet is a feminine given name, which is the Scots language, Scottish form of Elizabeth (given name), Elizabeth. It means "chosen by God" or "consecrated by God". The name may refer to: People *Elspeth Attwooll (born 1943), English politician *Elspeth Ballantyne (born 1939), Australian actress *Elspeth Barker (1940–2022), Scottish writer *Elspeth Beard (born 1959), English motorcyclist *Elspeth Buchan (1738–1791), Scottish religious leader *Elspeth Cameron (born 1943), Canadian writer *Elspeth Campbell (1940–2023), English political spouse *Elspeth Champcommunal (1888–1976), English fashion designer and editor *Elspeth Denning (born 1956), Australian field hockey player *Elspeth Duxbury (1909–1967) English actress *Elspeth Eric (1907–1993), American actress *Elspeth Garman (born 1955), English scientist *Elspeth Gibson (born 1963), English fashion designer *Elspeth R. M. Dusinberre (1968), American professor of classics *Elspet Gray (1929–2013), Scottish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elspeth Thompson
Elspeth Thompson (26 June 1961 – 25 March 2010) was a British author and journalist. Early life and education Elspeth Susan Thompson was born on June 26, 1961, at Staplehurst, Kent. She grew up on a farm. The family moved to Bromley, and she was sent to Mary Datchelor Girls' School in Camberwell Grove. She won a place at Trinity College, Cambridge, where she studied History and the History of Art. Career She was the author of many books including ''A Tale of Two Gardens'' (2003), ''The London Gardener'' (2004) and ''The Wonderful Weekend Book'' (2008). She also presented a four-part series on trees for BBC Radio 4, and wrote on gardening and interiors for ''The Sunday Telegraph'', ''the Observer'' and ''the Guardian ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in Manchester in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'' and changed its name in 1959, followed by a move to London. Along with its sister paper, ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardi ...''. P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elspeth Seton Cochrane
Elspeth Seton Cochrane (27 April 1916 – 16 May 2011) was a British actress, playwright, stage manager, and agent. She was born in England, and in 1946 married Peter Potter, who was the director of the Glasgow Citizens' Theatre. Career Actor Cochrane trained as an actress at the Webber Douglas Academy. She acted in theatres across the UK as well as in the West End and in Canada. In 1941, she put together a company of actors from London, including Harold Scott and Mary Pratt, to perform the London Concert Party's show The Moonrakers, and they toured villages in Somerset, entertaining troops, evacuees and villagers who would otherwise have difficulty making it to a theatre due to travel restrictions during the war. Writer Though she had been writing since the age of twelve, it took some time for Cochrane to gather the courage to submit her work for production. Her first play, ''The Catherine Wheel'', which took her two years to write, had its world premiere at the Connaug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elspeth Sandys
Elspeth Somerville Sandys (born 1940) is a New Zealand author and script writer. Background Born in Timaru in 1940, she grew up in Dunedin. She was adopted by the Alley family and was exposed to literature from a young age by Rewi Alley. She uses the surname Sandys as a pseudonym. Sandys received an MA (First Class Honours) in English from the University of Auckland, an Associate Diploma (FTCL) in Speech & Drama and a Fellowship Diploma (LTCL) in Music, both from Trinity College London. Works Sandys's fiction often focuses on personal, social, and political relationships. While some of her novels are historical fiction their motivating themes remain contemporary. In addition to her published works, Sandys has taught creative writing and worked as an editor at Oxford University Press. Novels * ''Obsession'' (Upstart Press, 2017) * ''A Passing Guest'' (Flamino, 2002) * ''Enemy Territory'' (Hodder Moa Beckett, 1997) * ''Riding to Jerusalem'' (in New Zealand: Hodder Moa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elspeth Rostow
Elspeth Rostow (born Elspeth Vaughan Davies; October 20, 1917 – December 10, 2007) was Dean of the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin from 1977 to 1983. Early life and education Elspeth Vaughan Davies was born October 20, 1917. She graduated from Barnard College in 1938. She received a master's degree in history from Radcliffe College in 1939 and a master's degree from University of Cambridge in 1949. World War II While teaching at Barnard in 1939, she was among the founders of American studies as an academic discipline and later authored the book, ''European Economic Reconstruction'' (1948). During World War II, she worked for the Office of Strategic Services in Washington, analyzing dispatches from the French Resistance. She had met Walt Whitman Rostow at a Paris seminar in 1937. After their marriage a decade later, the couple lived in Geneva for three years. Massachusetts Institute of Technology When she was being considered as MIT's first fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elspeth Reoch
Elspeth Reoch (died Kirkwall 1616) was an alleged Scottish witch. She was born in Caithness but as a child spent time with relatives on an island in Lochaber prior to travelling to the mainland of Orkney. The implementation of the Scottish Witchcraft Act of 1563, made witchcraft a capital offence in Scotland, therefore punishable by death. The early years of the 17th century were a time of political turmoil on the islands as the transition of power between Patrick Stewart, 2nd Earl of Orkney and the staunch episcopalian Bishop James Law took place. Once in control, Bishop Law instigated court reforms in 1614 that academics considered had a significant impact on witchcraft trials in Orkney. Any references to a fairy in statements given to interrogators by alleged witches were routinely changed to read devil or demon. At her trial in Kirkwall on 12 March 1616 Reoch confessed to charges of witchcraft and deceiving islanders by pretending she was mute. Asserting she had rece ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elspeth Probyn
Elspeth Probyn (1958-2025) was an Australian academic. She was most recently Professor Emeritus of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. She was a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. Early life and education In a 2019 ''Feminism & Psychology'' interview, Probyn spoke of growing up in an army family and moving frequently. She described her father as upper middle class and her mother as a Canadian whose own father had been "a staunch socialist". Probyn credited her father's concern that she and her sister speak in English accents appropriate to their class status with having awakened her early awareness about class differences. Probyn attended state schools. Career Concurrently, she held positions as adjunct professor of cultural geography at the University of Western Australia [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elspeth McLachlan
Elspeth McLachlan (born 22 July 1942), an Australian neuroscientist, is a world authority on neural pathways within the autonomic nervous system. Her work has included detailed analyses of transmission in autonomic ganglia to studies of the organisation of autonomic nervous pathways and their disorder in pathological states, particularly injuries to peripheral nerves and the spinal cord. McLachlan was born in Bowral, New South Wales, Australia. Education McLachlan was educated at the University of Sydney, from which institution she received Bachelor of Science degree in 1962, and a PhD in 1973, and a Doctor of Science degree in 1994. Career *1985–1993 – Visiting Professor, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany *1987–1988 – National Health and Medical Research Council Principal Research Fellow and Associate Professor, School of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of New South Wales, Australia *1988–1993 – Professor and Head, Department of Physi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elspeth March
Elspeth March (5 March 1911 – 29 April 1999) was an English actress. Early years March was born as Jean Elspeth Mackenzie in Kensington, London, England, the daughter of Harry Malcolm and Elfreda Mackenzie. She studied speech and drama under Elsie Fogerty at the Central School of Speech and Drama, then based at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Career and marriage She led a long stage, film and television career as a character actress, making her professional debut in ''Jonah and the Whale'' at London's Westminster Theatre in 1932. She met and married actor Stewart Granger in 1938. As his film career blossomed, the marriage faltered, and the couple divorced in 1948. They had a son, Jamie, and a daughter, the theatrical agent Lindsey Granger, who died in 2011. She resumed her career in 1944, continuing to play supporting roles in plays, films and television into her eighties. She appeared with the National Theatre in 1977, playing roles in ''The Madras House'' and '' Don ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elspeth Kennedy
Elspeth Mary Kennedy, MA, DPhil, FSA (6 August 1921 – 10 March 2006) was a British academic and a prominent medievalist. She is best known as the editor and author of works on medieval French literature. Early life and education Elspeth Kennedy was born in Berkshire. Her academic career was delayed by World War II, during which she worked for the government — in 1940, while still 18 years of age she began working for MI5, domiciled initially at Wormwood Scrubs and later at Bletchley Park. Because the work, though essential, was repetitive, Kennedy studied Russian in her spare time, and initially laid plans to become a Russian historian. However, when she engaged a tutor to prepare her for entrance to Oxford, the tutor's enthusiasm for French medieval history swayed Kennedy in that direction. Kennedy attended Somerville College, Oxford, from 1945 to 1947 on a scholarship. She went on to do research, and 1948 embarked on her life's main theme, the Lancelot en pros ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elspeth Huxley
Elspeth Joscelin Huxley CBE (née Grant; 23 July 1907 – 10 January 1997) was an English writer, journalist, broadcaster, magistrate, environmentalist, farmer, and government adviser. She wrote over 40 books, including her best-known lyrical books, ''The Flame Trees of Thika'' and ''The Mottled Lizard'', based on her youth in a coffee farm in British Kenya. Her husband, Gervas Huxley, was a grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley and a cousin of Aldous Huxley. Early life and education Nellie and Major Josceline Grant, Elspeth's parents, arrived in Thika in what was then British East Africa in 1912, to start a life as coffee farmers in colonial Kenya. Elspeth, aged six, arrived in December 1913, complete with governess and maid. Her upbringing was unconventional; she was "almost treated as a parcel, being passed from hand to hand". Huxley's 1959 book ''The Flame Trees of Thika'' explores how unprepared for rustic life the early British settlers really were. It was adapted into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |