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H. M. Harwood
Harold Marsh Harwood (29 March 1874 – 19 April 1959) was a British businessman, playwright, screenwriter and theatre manager. He was the son of the businessman and politician George Harwood and the husband of F. Tennyson Jesse who co-wrote some of Harwood's work. ''The Pelican'' was a successful play credited to the couple. Screen writing credits include '' The Iron Duke'' and '' Queen Christina''. Early life He was born at Ellesmere Park, the son of George Harwood MP and his first wife Alice Marsh, and grandson of the founder of the cotton-spinning business Richard Harwood & Son at Halliwell. As a boy he saw Mary Anderson and Barry Sullivan at Manchester, and followed the Compton Comedy Company at Southport. He was educated at Marlborough College and matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1892. He graduated B.A. in 1895, and M.B.B.Ch. and M.A. in 1900. As an undergraduate he led drama groups that went annually to the Oxford House Settlement in London. A medical st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Harwood
George Harwood (14 September 1845 – 7 November 1912) was a British businessman and Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Party politician. He was born the second son of Richard Harwood who founded a firm of cotton spinners and who was at one time Mayor of Bolton and twice Mayor of County Borough of Salford, Salford. Education George Harwood went to school locally in Lancashire and then entered his father's cotton business while still finding time to continue his education at Owens College, the establishment founded with a bequest left by John Owens, a successful Manchester cotton merchant and first set up in a house in Deansgate, Manchester, once occupied by Richard Cobden. Owens College developed into the Victoria University of Manchester, which later combined with UMIST to become the University of Manchester. Religion Harwood loved learning and, while still running a cotton mill as his main source of income, (he eventually became chairman of Richard Harwood & Son, Ltd, cotton spinners ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambassadors Theatre (London)
The Ambassadors Theatre (known as the New Ambassadors Theatre from 1999 to 2007) is a West End theatre located on West Street, London, West Street, next to St Martin's Theatre and opposite The Ivy (United Kingdom), The Ivy, in the City of Westminster. Opened in 1913, it is one of the smallest of West End theatres, seating just over four hundred people. Building Previous applications to build a new theatre on the site of the Ambassadors had been rejected due to the narrowness of the surrounding streets. In 1912 architect W G R Sprague was granted permission for his "comparatively small theatre" (506 seated, 40 standing) on the condition that the adjacent Tower Court was widened to twenty feet. The theatre was designed by Sprague with a Classical style exterior and Louis XVI style interiors, and built by Kingerlee and Sons of Oxford; its intended height had to be lowered due to a neighbouring building's "right to light, ancient lights," resulting in the stalls being situated below ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Residency (medicine)
Residency or postgraduate training is a stage of graduate medical education. It refers to a qualified physician (one who holds the degree of MD, DO, MBBS/MBChB), veterinarian ( DVM/VMD, BVSc/BVMS), dentist ( DDS or DMD), podiatrist ( DPM), optometrist ( OD), pharmacist ( PharmD), or Medical Laboratory Scientist ( Doctor of Medical Laboratory Science) who practices medicine or surgery, veterinary medicine, dentistry, optometry, podiatry, clinical pharmacy, or Clinical Laboratory Science, respectively, usually in a hospital or clinic, under the direct or indirect supervision of a senior medical clinician registered in that specialty such as an attending physician or consultant. The term ''residency'' is named as such due to resident physicians (resident doctors) of the 19th century residing at the dormitories of the hospital in which they received training. In many jurisdictions, successful completion of such training is a requirement in order to obtain an unrestricted l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Cross
The organized International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is a Humanitarianism, humanitarian movement with approximately 16million volunteering, volunteers, members, and staff worldwide. It was founded to protect human life and health, to ensure respect for all human beings, and to prevent and alleviate human suffering. History Foundation Until the middle of the nineteenth century, there were no organized or well-established army nursing systems for casualties, nor safe or protected institutions, to accommodate and treat those who were wounded on the battlefield. A devout Calvinism, Calvinist, the Swiss businessman Jean-Henri Dunant traveled to Italy to meet then-French emperor Napoleon III in June 1859 with the intention of discussing difficulties in conducting business in French Algeria, Algeria, which at that time was occupied by France. He arrived in the small town of Solferino on the evening of 24 June after the Battle of Solferino, an engagement in the Second Itali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sinai And Palestine Campaign
The Sinai and Palestine campaign was part of the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I, taking place between January 1915 and October 1918. The British Empire, the French Third Republic, and the Kingdom of Italy fought alongside the Arab Revolt in opposition to the Ottoman Empire, the German Empire, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It started with an Ottoman attempt at raiding the Suez Canal in 1915 and ended with the Armistice of Mudros in 1918, leading to the cession of Ottoman Syria. Fighting began in January 1915, when a German-led Ottoman force invaded the Sinai Peninsula, then occupied by the British as part of a Protectorate of Egypt, to unsuccessfully raid the Suez Canal. After the Gallipoli campaign, British Empire veterans formed the Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) and Ottoman Empire veterans formed the Fourth Army, to fight for the Sinai Peninsula in 1916. In January 1917 the newly formed Desert Column completed the recapture of the Sinai at the Battle o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Army Medical Corps
The Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) was a specialist corps in the British Army which provided medical services to all Army personnel and their families, in war and in peace. On 15 November 2024, the corps was amalgamated with the Royal Army Dental Corps and Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps to form the Royal Army Medical Service. History Origins Medical services in the British armed services date from the formation of the British Army#The Founding of the Army, Standing Regular Army after the English Restoration, Restoration of Charles II of England, Charles II in 1660. Prior to this, from as early as the 13th century there are records of surgeons and physicians being appointed by the English army to attend in times of war; but this was the first time a career was provided for a Medical Officer (MO), both in peacetime and in war. For much of the next two hundred years, army medical provision was mostly arranged on a regimental basis, with each battalion arranging its o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St John Hankin
St. John Emile Clavering Hankin (25 September 1869 – 15 June 1909) was an English Edwardian essayist and playwright. Along with George Bernard Shaw, John Galsworthy, and Harley Granville-Barker, he was a major exponent of Edwardian "New Drama". Despite success as a playwright he died by his own hand, and his work was largely neglected until the 1990s. Early years Hankin was born in Southampton, England. During Hankin's youth, his father suffered a nervous breakdown and became an invalid.information provided bThe Mint Theater/ref> Hankin attended Malvern College and then Merton College, Oxford.''The British and American Drama of Today''. Barrett H. Clark. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1915. pp. 107-8. Following his graduation in 1890, he became a journalist in London for the ''Saturday Review''. In 1894 he moved to Calcutta and wrote for the ''India Daily News'', but he returned to England the next year after contracting malaria. Hankin became a drama critic for ''The Time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Githa Sowerby
Katherine Githa Sowerby (6 October 1876 – 30 June 1970), also known under her pen name K. G. Sowerby, was an English playwright, children's writer, and member of the Fabian Society. A feminist, she was well-known during the early twentieth century for her 1912 hit play ''Rutherford and Son, Rutherford & Son'', but lapsed into obscurity in later decades.Barbara Hodgson"Author Is Brought Back to Life" ''The Journal'', 17 September 2009. ''Rutherford & Son'' was first revived in 1980, and since then there have been several productions, including one at the Royal National Theatre in 1994 and, most recently, by Sheffield Theatres. A biography of Sowerby by Pat Riley, ''Looking for Githa'', appeared in 2009, with a revised edition in 2019. In addition to several plays, Sowerby wrote books of poetry and short stories for children, illustrated by her sister Millicent Sowerby. Her papers and memorabilia are in the collections at the Tyne and Wear Archives. Life and career Sowerby was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rutherford & Son
''Rutherford and Son'' is a play by Githa Sowerby (1876–1970), written in 1912. It premiered in London in the same year with four matinee performances at the Royal Court Theatre, Royal Court followed by a run of 133 performances at the Vaudeville Theatre. The production was directed by Norman McKinnel who also took the role of Rutherford. The same production opened at the Hayes Theater, Little Theater, New York, on Christmas Eve, 1912 and ran for 63 performances. ''The Times'' theatre critic, Arthur Bingham Walkley, called it "a play not easily forgotten, and full of promise for the future as well as of merit in itself", while the ''Saturday Review (London), Saturday Review'' thought it showed "what can be done in the modern theatre by keeping strictly to the point." Journalist Keble Howard, after an interview with Sowerby in 1912, wrote that, "''Rutherford and Son'' is a marvellous achievement...". Plot Rutherford, "a bull-headed capitalist who crushes his own children be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maude Royden
Agnes Maude Royden (23 November 1876 – 30 July 1956), later known as Maude Royden-Shaw, was an English preacher, suffragist and campaigner for the ordination of women. Early life and education Royden was born in Mossley Hill, Liverpool, the youngest daughter of shipowner Sir Thomas Bland Royden, 1st Baronet. She grew up in the family home of Frankby Hall, Wirral Peninsula, Wirral with her parents and seven siblings. She was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford where she gained a degree in History. While at Oxford she started a lifelong friendship with fellow suffragist Kathleen Courtney who had the same ''alma mater''. Career After university, Royden worked for three years at the Settlement movement, Victoria Women's Settlement in Liverpool and then in the country parish of South Luffenham, Rutland, as parish assistant to the Rector, George William Hudson Shaw. She lectured on English literature for the university extension movement and in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Abadam
Alice Abadam (2 January 1856 – 31 March 1940) was a Welsh Suffrage, suffragist, feminist and public speaker. Early life Alice Abadam was born in London in 1856 to Edward Abadam and his wife, Louisa ( Taylor) Abadam. Her father was the eldest son of Edward Hamlin Adams, a Jamaican-born banker and merchant who made his money overseas before settling in Britain. In 1825 Edward Hamlin Adams bought National Botanic Garden of Wales, Middleton Hall in Carmarthenshire following the death of its owner, William Paxton (MP), Sir William Paxton. The Hall was passed down to his son Edward in 1842, who added the old Patronymic, Welsh patronym, Ab, to the family name. Abadam's cousins included writer Vernon Lee (real name Violet Paget) and poet Eugene Lee-Hamilton, children of her paternal aunt Mathilda Paget (née Adams). Abadam, by her own account, had a happy childhood and was educated by a governess at Middleton Hall. She was the youngest of seven children, and saw little of her mother ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
