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Hepworth Pictures Films
Hepworth may refer to: Places * Hepworth, Suffolk * Hepworth, West Yorkshire (in Kirklees, near Huddersfield) * Hepworth, Ontario, Canada People * Dame Barbara Hepworth (1903–1975), British sculptor and artist * Cecil Hepworth (1874–1953), British film director, producer and scriptwriter * David Hepworth David Hepworth (born 27 July 1950) is a British music journalist, writer, television presenter, and publishing industry analyst. He was instrumental in the foundation of a number of popular magazines in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. Along with the j ... (born 1950), British music journalist * David Hepworth (racing driver), British racing car driver * Dorothy Hepworth (1898–1978), British painter and associate of Patricia Preece * James Hepworth (born 1975), British professional golfer * John Hepworth (born 1944), Australian Archbishop and Primate of the Traditional Anglican Communion * John Hepworth (writer) (1921–1995), Australian left-wing author and journali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hepworth, Suffolk
Hepworth is a village and civil parish in the West Suffolk (district), West Suffolk district of Suffolk, England. It is situated on the Suffolk/Norfolk border and nearby settlements include the villages of Stanton, Suffolk, Stanton, Barningham, Suffolk, Barningham and Wattisfield. For transport there is the A143 road nearby. Hepworth has a place of worship. The population at the 2021 Census was 570. Hepworth has two hamlets to the North and South of the village visible on Joseph Hodskinson's Map 1783, suitably named North Common, Hepworth and Hepworth Common to the South. History Hepworth was a settlement recorded in the Domesday Book, within the hundred of Blackburn and the county of Suffolk. Recorded under the name "''Hepworda"'' the settlement had a population in 1086 of 31.5. The Hepworda means "Heppa's enclosure or hip enclosure in ''Old English'' ".Walter William Skeat within his book on The Place-Names of Suffolk, suggested the village name may be "hip-worth,' or ' farm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Hepworth (tailor)
Joseph Hepworth (1834–1911) was the clothing manufacturer who founded ''Joseph Hepworth & Son'', a company which grew to become the United Kingdom's largest clothing manufacturer and which is now known as Next plc. Career Born at Lindley in Huddersfield, Joseph Hepworth left school at ten to join George Walker's Mill in Leeds in 1844. In 1864 Joseph Hepworth went into business with his brother-in-law James Rhodes as a tailor in Leeds. By 1881 their factory in Wellington Street employed 500 people and, unusually for the time, made all three pieces of a gentlemen's three-piece suit. In the 1880s they innovated further establishing shops to sell their suits direct to the public. By 1890 they employed 2,000 operatives who sold their stock through 107 shops. Joseph Hepworth died in Harrogate in 1911 and within 6 years of his death ''Joseph Hepworth & Son'' was the largest clothing manufacturer in the United Kingdom. He donated several paintings to Leeds Art Gallery including work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hepworth Pictures
Hepworth Picture Plays was a British film production company active during the silent era. Founded in 1897 by the cinema pioneer Cecil Hepworth, it was based at Walton Studios west of London. In February 1909 the company took part in the Paris Film Congress, a failed attempt by leading European producers to form an organisation similar to the Motion Picture Patents Company, MPPC cartel recently established in the United States. Around the time of the First World War, the company gradually switched from traditional short films to the feature films that increasingly dominated the world market. It also developed many early stars of British cinema, including Alma Taylor, Stewart Rome, Violet Hopson, Chrissie White, Henry Edwards (actor), Henry Edwards and Gerald Ames. The company attempted to expand after the war, as part of a wider boom in the British industry. Many of the company's most popular works were directed by Edwards, who starred in many of them. In 1923 the company went b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vaillant Group
The Vaillant Group is a company that develops products for heating, cooling and hot water. The company employs ~17,000 people worldwide and generates an annual turnover of approximately 3.7 billion euros. This makes the Vaillant Group one of the largest companies in its sector in Europe. The family-owned company is a global market leader in the wall-hung boiler segment. The Group's activities focus on the development of green products, and energy-saving and environmentally friendly products in particular, with the aim of achieving sustainable and profitable growth. The Vaillant Group's headquarters are located in Remscheid, North Rhine-Westphalia. The company is still one-hundred per cent family owned today. History The history of the Vaillant Group dates back to 1874, when Johann Vaillant set up a master fitter's business. In 1894 Johann Vaillant patented a new "closed-system" gas-fired bathroom boiler. This was the first device that made it possible to heat water hygienica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valerie Hepworth
Valerie Hepworth () is a British charitable trustee. She was a founding member of the Yorkshire Gardens Trust and formerly served as Chairman of the Association of Gardens Trusts. Hepworth was awarded the British Empire Medal for services to the Yorkshire Gardens Trust in the 2019 Birthday Honours The 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours are appointments by some of the 16 Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. The Birthday Honours are awarded as .... References Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Trustees of charities Recipients of the British Empire Medal {{UK-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Stanley Hepworth
Tom Stanley Hepworth D.Ed. (29 June 1916 – 1 September 1985) was an Australian teacher, author and editor. History Hepworth was born in Brisbane, Queensland to Tom Hepworth and his wife Martha May Hepworth, née Russell (1881–1966), of "The Palms", Park Road, South Brisbane. His father died when Tom was quite young; his mother married again, to William Robert McGregor (died 1948). He began his working life as a teacher at Colamba, near Chinchilla, Queensland. By 1948 he was senior History and Economics master at Brisbane Grammar School and undertook further studies in education at Harvard University, from where he graduated as Doctor of Education. In 1951 he was appointed Education Officer with the Commonwealth Office of Education. He was employed as editor by Educational Press, of Sydney, and was responsible for the '' Australian Children's Newspaper'' (1953– ) and ''The ABC Children's Hour Annual #1–#5'' (1956–58, 1960–61), and ''The Australian Children's Annual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sally Hepworth
Sally Hepworth (born 1980) is an Australian writer. She wrote seven books, most notably '' The Secrets of Midwives'', a novel published in 2015, and ''The Good Sister'', which won the 2021 Adult crime novel Davitt Award. Hepworth and her works have been featured in media outlets that have included ''USA Today'', ''The New York Times'', and ''The Sydney Morning Herald''. Career Hepworth worked in both event management and Human Resources prior to becoming a writer. While on maternity leave with her first child, Hepworth wrote ''Love Like the French'', a novel about a British woman who goes to France after an accident leaves her husband in a coma. The character goes to France to see what the French could teach her about living. Hepworth was unable to finish the book immediately after her son Oscar was born, but the book was eventually published in Germany in 2014. In 2015, Hepworth released a second book, '' The Secrets of Midwives'', that she wrote while pregnant with her second ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Hepworth
Philip Dalton Hepworth (12 March 1888 – 21 February 1963) was a British architect. He studied in both the UK and France, at the Architectural Association School of Architecture and the École des Beaux-Arts, and returned to work as an architect after serving in the First World War. He rose to prominence in the 1930s, featuring in a book by architectural critic Trystan Edwards and winning the commission in 1932 to design Walthamstow Town Hall, which was eventually completed in 1942. Another civic building of this period was Wiltshire County Hall at Trowbridge. He also designed a handful of private houses, including Pemberley, in Loughton, 1936. He lived in Zoffany House in Strand-on-the-Green, Chiswick, London, from 1936. During the Second World War, he was appointed one of the Principal Architects of the Imperial War Graves Commission (now the Commonwealth War Graves Commission). In this post-war stage of his career, he designed several war memorials and numerous cemeteries ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorne Hepworth
Lorne Henry Hepworth (born December 20, 1947) is a farmer, veterinarian and former political figure in Saskatchewan, Canada. He represented Weyburn from 1982 to 1991 in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan as a Progressive Conservative. He was born in Assiniboia, Saskatchewan and studied veterinary medicine at the University of Saskatchewan. In 1970, he married Fern Presber. Hepworth operated a farm near Assiniboia and was a veterinarian in Weyburn. He served in the provincial cabinet as Minister of Public Participation, as Minister of Agriculture, as Minister of Energy and Mines, as Minister of Advanced Education and Manpower, as Minister of Education and as Minister of Finance. He was defeated by Ronald Wormsbecker when he ran for reelection to the Saskatchewan assembly in 1991. Hepworth was previously the president of CropLife Canada and is a former chair of the board of Genome Canada. He lives in London, Ontario. Hepworth was appointed to the Saskatchewan Order of M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Hepworth
Joseph Hepworth (c. 1876 – 11 May 1945) was a British Conservative Party politician. At the 1931 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bradford East, defeating the sitting Labour Party MP Fred Jowett. He was re-elected at the 1935 general election, and served in the House of Commons The House of Commons is the name for the elected lower house of the Bicameralism, bicameral parliaments of the United Kingdom and Canada. In both of these countries, the Commons holds much more legislative power than the nominally upper house of ... until his death shortly before the 1945 general election. He served as Bradford Northern R.F.C. Chairman for four years. References * External links * 1870s births 1945 deaths Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1931–1935 UK MPs 1935–1945 Politicians from Bradford {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1890s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hepworth (writer)
John Hepworth (4 September 1921 – 24 January 1995) was an Australian author and journalist, best known for his "Outsight" column in ''Nation Review'' magazine, which he edited for several years. Career He was born in Pinjarra, Western Australia, and moved to Perth as a young boy. He attended Perth Modern School. With the outbreak of World War II, he enlisted and served in South-west Asia, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), and New Guinea. He wrote the regular "Outsight" column for ''Nation Review'' and was its editor for several years, then contributed to ''Toorak Times'', the eccentric weekly newspaper published by Jack Pacholli (1929–2004). He also worked for the ABC, earning the attention of ASIO as a Communist sympathiser. He died from lung cancer. Family He had a longterm relationship with writer Oriel Gray, with whom he had two sons, Peter and Nicholas. Peter Hepworth (1948 – 2011) had a successful career as a television screenwriter, including writing episodes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hepworth, West Yorkshire
Hepworth is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Holme Valley, in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees, in West Yorkshire, England. It is southeast of Holmfirth and southwest of Jackson Bridge. In 1931 the parish had a population of 840. Although it started as a fairly small hamlet it has grown considerably through the 1980s and 1990s with new housing and small businesses. It has been extensively used as one of the locations in the BBC's long-running comedy series ''Last of the Summer Wine'', much of which has centred on the village pub the 'Butchers Arms', which provides a central meeting place for the village residents. History Toponymy The name Hepworth is Anglo-Saxon. H. T. Moorhouse states, in his ''History of Kirkburton and the Graveship of Holme'' (1861), that the name is derived from the Anglo-Saxon “Hep” meaning high and “worth” meaning place of residence. The Oxford Dictionary of Place Names has ''–worth'' as meaning an enclosure, henc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
