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Gyles
Gyles is a masculine given name and a surname. Bearers of the name include: Surname * Abbey-Anne Gyles (born 1997), English model * Alfred William Gyles (1888–1967), New Zealand chess player * Althea Gyles (1867–1949), Irish poet * Ced Gyles (1926–2023), Canadian football player * George Gyles (1877–1959), Canadian sailor * Harry Gyles (1880–1959), Australian rules footballer * Henry Gyles (1640–1709), English glass painter * John Gyles (1678–1755), American interpreter * John Gyles (MP) (died 1406), English politician * Mascal Gyles (1595–1652), English polemic * Roger Gyles (1938–2025), Australian judge * Thomas Gyles, English politician Given name * Gyles Brandreth (born 1948), English writer * Gyles Isham (1903–1976), English actor * Gyles Longley (1918–2015), British officer * Gyles Mackrell (1889–1959), British tea planter See also * Giles (given name) * Giles (surname) {{given name, type=both Masculine given names English-language masculine given ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gyles Brandreth
Gyles Daubeney Brandreth (born 8 March 1948) is a British broadcaster, writer and former politician. He has worked as a television presenter, theatre producer, journalist, author and publisher. He was a presenter for TV-am's '' Good Morning Britain'' in the 1980s, and has been regularly featured on Channel 4's game show '' Countdown'' and the BBC's ''The One Show''. On radio, he makes frequent appearances on the BBC Radio 4 programme ''Just a Minute''. In 1992 Brandreth was elected as a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for the City of Chester constituency. Representing Chester in the House of Commons until his defeat at the 1997 general election, Brandreth then resumed his career in the media. He has written both fiction and non-fiction books, and makes appearances as a public speaker. Early life Born in 1948 at Wuppertal, Germany, where his father, Charles Brandreth (1910–1982) was serving as a legal officer with the Allied Control Commission, his mother Alice, ''n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Althea Gyles
Althea Gyles (January 1867 – 23 January 1949) was an Irish poet and artist. She is known for her book cover designs, for writers who included W. B. Yeats. Early life Margaret Alithea Gyles was born in Bath, Somerset, and christened there at Walcot, Bath, Walcot on 5 February 1867. She had two older sisters, Lena Louisa and Maud Mary, both also born in Bath. Her family home was Kilmurry, County Waterford. George Gyles, her father, was from a prominent Anglo-Irish family, which according to W. B. Yeats was "so haughty that their neighbours called them the Royal Family." Her mother, Alithea Emma Gyles, was the daughter of a Bishop of Hereford, Edward Grey (bishop), Edward Grey, and a niece of Charles Grey, 1st Earl Grey. The family moved to Dublin in 1889. Gyles severed ties with her family and reportedly supported herself by selling a watch and writing stories for an Irish paper. At this time, she attended an art school on St Stephen's Green. Due to her poor living conditions a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gyles
John Gyles (1680 at Pemaquid, Maine1755 at Roxbury, Boston) was an interpreter and soldier, most known for captivity narrative, his account of his experiences with the Maliseet tribes at their headquarters at Meductic Indian Village / Fort Meductic, Meductic, on the Saint John River (Bay of Fundy), Saint John River. King William's War During King William's War, in 1689, when he was nine years of age, he was living with his family at Fort William Henry (Pemaquid Beach, Maine), Fort Charles. On 2 August, while labouring with his father Thomas near the new fort, he was taken prisoner by Maliseets in the Siege of Pemaquid (1689). His father was killed, one brother James was taken by the Penobscot, and only one brother escaped. John was conveyed up the Penobscot River, across portages to the Chiputneticook Lakes, and on to the main Maliseet village Meductic Indian Village / Fort Meductic, Meductic. , held in slavery by Madockawando for attempting to escape, were tortured by fire, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Gyles
Henry Gyles or Giles (1640?-1709), was an English glass painter based in York. Life He was the fifth child of E. (perhaps Edmund) Gyles, a glazier from York, and lived in Micklegate in the city. His entry in the first edition of the ''Dictionary of National Biography'' credits him with "the revival of the art of pictorial glass painting, which had become quite extinct in England." His earliest dated window (1682) is the large west window of York Guildhall. His best-known work is the east window in the chapel of University College, Oxford, presented by Dr. Radcliffe in 1687. Gyles also presented some stained glass for the hall of University College, and did work for Wadham College, Oxford, and for Trinity College and St. Catharine's Hall at Cambridge. In 1700 he painted a large window for Lord Fairfax at Denton, Yorkshire. There were some figures painted by Gyles in the grammar school at Leeds, but these were disposed of in 1784 to a local antiquary. According to the ''Dictionary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Gyles
Roger Vincent Gyles (22 August 1938 – 2 March 2025) was an Australian judge who was the Independent National Security Legislation Monitor. In that role he was tasked to monitor and examine the Australian Government's new counter-terrorism legislation. He had previously been an Acting Judge of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, a judge of the Federal Court of Australia and a Royal Commissioner. Background Gyles was educated at Newington College (1950–1954) and graduated from the University of Sydney with First Class Honours in Law in 1961. Gyles died in Sydney on 2 March 2025, at the age of 86. Legal career After practising as a solicitor, Gyles was admitted to the New South Wales bar association, Bar in 1964 and took Queen's Counsel, silk in 1975. He acted as Master (judiciary), Master in Equity in 1975 and as a Judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales in 1989. Between 1982 and 1984, he acted as Special Commonwealth Prosecutor into Bottom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ced Gyles
Cedric George Edward Gyles (December 23, 1926 – September 24, 2023) was a Canadian football player who played for the Calgary Stampeders. He won the Grey Cup with them in 1948. Gyles played junior football in Vancouver, British Columbia with the Junior Vancouver Blue Bombers. From 1968 to 1969, Gyles was president of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. An avid sailor, he was a long time member of the Royal Canadian Yacht Club in Toronto, Ontario. He served as Club Commodore in 1985-86. Gyles skippered the yacht Norseman to the Sira Cup at the 1999 8-Metre World Cup in Rochester, New York Gyles died on September 30, 2023 at the age of 96. Gyles resided in Collingwood, Ontario Collingwood is a town in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada. It is situated on Nottawasaga Bay at the southern point of Georgian Bay. Collingwood is well known as a tourist destination, for its skiing in the winter, and limestone caves along the Nia ... and was one of the last surviving members of the 1948 Grey Cup cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abbey-Anne Gyles
Abbey-Anne Gyles-Brown (born 12 March 1997) is an English model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned as Miss Earth England 2018. She represented England at Miss Earth 2018 Abbey-Anne was awarded the Ms Junca Beauty 2018 sponsor award. Life and career Abbey-Anne Gyles studied performing arts at Northampton College and worked as match day hostess at Leicester Tigers, Leicester City Football Club Gyles works as an International model. She has modelled all over the UK, Europe, South Pacific & Asia. Gyles passed all of her British Theatre Dance Association exams with platinum and distinction. Gyles is the Lead Youth Activist For Clean Up Britain organisation, which organises school tours to teach children about litter, television guesting and radio interviews, by posting on social media, and attending/organising events or by organising events. She also launched the first inland 2 Minute Litter pick boards in leamington spa for the Now Or Never Campaign which is a new pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Gyles
Harry John Willmott Gyles (28 June 1880 – 2 February 1959) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football competition in Australia operated by the Australian Football League (AFL) as a second-tier, regional, semi-professional competition. It includes teams from clubs based in east ... (VFL). Family One of his sons, Nathaniel Thomas Gyles, who served in the RAAF in World War II, was killed in action in Europe. Municipal councillor He was a councillor with the Essendon City Council for 12 years, and was Mayor in 1942–1943. Notes References De Bolfo, Tony, "Carlton, Community and Harry Gyles", ''carltonfc.com.au'', 20 January 2012.* Holmesby, Russell & Main, Jim (2009). ''The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 (8th ed.)'', (Seaford), BAS Publishing. External links * Harry Gyles's profileat Blueseum 1880 bir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gyles Isham
Sir Gyles Isham, 12th Baronet (31 October 1903 – 29 January 1976) was an English aristocrat, actor, and historian. Life and career Gyles Isham was born 31 October 1903 in Lamport, Northamptonshire, England to Sir Vere Isham, the 11th Baronet of Lamport, and his wife Millicent Vaughan. Educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1926 he was President of the Oxford Union and graduated as a Bachelor of Arts (promoted to M.A. in 1930). He became an actor, appearing from 1929 to 1938 in several Shakespeare plays at the Old Vic Theatre in London, the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, and other venues. He also appeared from 1933 to 1937 in ten films, including the acclaimed ''Anna Karenina'' of 1935. Enlisting in the British Army during the Second World War, in 1940 he was commissioned as an officer into the King's Royal Rifle Corps and served in Libya in the Western Desert Campaign, by 1943 reaching the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He also succeeded in 1941, during his Libyan servic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gyles Longley
Oliver Gyles Longley CBE MC (30 September 1918 - 28 May 2015) was a British Army officer of the Second World War who won the Military Cross in 1943 for his actions in Italy while commanding a squadron of 44th Reconnaissance Regiment near Battipaglia. Longley had a number of narrow escapes during his military service, including stepping on a mine that failed to explode.Gyles Longley, Reconnaissance officer - obituary. '''', 15 June 2015. Retrieved 18 June 2015. Longley was born in the London district of Streatham, the son of an officer in the |
Mascal Gyles
Mascal Gyles (died 1652), was an English polemic. Gyles was vicar of Ditchling, Sussex, from 1621 till about 1644. In 1648 he became vicar of Wartling, also in Sussex, as appears by an order of the House of Lords, 2 March of that year. Gyles was buried at Wartling 14 August 1652. By Sarah his wife (died 1640) he had a numerous family of sons and daughters. Gyles was engaged in a controversy, carried on with the usual personalities and violent invective of the period, with Thomas Barton, rector of Westmeston in Sussex, as to the propriety of bowing at the name of Jesus. He wrote: * &c., dedicated to Anthony Stapley, M.P. for Sussex, London, 1642, 4to, reprinted with Barton's reply, 1643. * ''A Defense of a Treatise against Superstitious Jesu-Worship, falsely called scandalous, against the truly scandalous Answer of the Parson of Westmenston icin Sussex,'' &c., dedicated to the House of Commons The House of Commons is the name for the elected lower house of the Bicameralism, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Gyles
Thomas Gyles (fl. 1402–1406) of Dover, Kent, was an English politician. Family He was the son of John Gyles, also an MP for Dover and Mayor of Dover. The name of Thomas' mother is unrecorded. At some point before February 1413, Thomas married a woman named Martha. Career He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Dover Dover ( ) is a town and major ferry port in Kent, southeast England. It faces France across the Strait of Dover, the narrowest part of the English Channel at from Cap Gris Nez in France. It lies southeast of Canterbury and east of Maidstone. ... in 1402 and 1406. He was mayor of Dover in 1406–1408 and 1413–14. References 14th-century births 15th-century deaths English MPs 1402 Mayors of Dover English MPs 1406 {{15thC-England-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
