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Lancelot (other)
Lancelot was a knight of the mythical Round Table. Lancelot or Launcelot may also refer to: People Given name * Lancelot Andrewes (1555–1626), English bishop and scholar * Lancelot Addison (1632–1703), English clergyman and writer * Lancelot Addison (Archdeacon of Dorset) * Lancelot Baugh Allen (1774–1845), British educator * Lancelot Barrington-Ward (1884–1953), British surgeon and rugby union player * Lancelot Blackburne (1658–1743), Archbishop of York and alleged pirate * Lancelot Blondeel (1498–1561), Flemish painter * Lancelot Stephen Bosanquet (1903–1984), British mathematician * Lancelot van Brederode (died 1573), Dutch military leader * Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1807–1862), English Bible translator * Lancelot "Capability" Brown (1716–1783), English landscape architect * Lancelot Browne (–1605), English physician * Lancelot Bulkeley (1568?–1650), Welsh archbishop * Lancelot de Carle (1508–1568), French scholar, poet and diplomat * Lancelot Car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lancelot
Lancelot du Lac (French for Lancelot of the Lake), also written as Launcelot and other variants (such as early German ''Lanzelet'', early French ''Lanselos'', early Welsh ''Lanslod Lak'', Italian ''Lancillotto'', Spanish ''Lanzarote del Lago'', and Welsh ''Lawnslot y Llyn''), is a character in some versions of Arthurian legend, where he is typically depicted as King Arthur's close companion and one of the greatest Knights of the Round Table. In the French-inspired Arthurian chivalric romance tradition, Lancelot is an orphaned son of King Ban of the lost Kingdom of Benoic, raised in the fairy realm by the Lady of the Lake. A hero of many battles, quests and tournaments, and famed as a nearly unrivalled swordsman and jouster, Lancelot becomes the lord of the castle Joyous Gard and personal champion of Arthur's wife, Queen Guinevere, despite suffering from frequent and sometimes prolonged fits of madness. But when his adulterous affair with Guinevere is discovered, it ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lancelot Curran
Major Sir Lancelot Ernest Curran (8 March 1899 – 20 October 1984, leighrayment.com; accessed 26 September 2017.) was a Northern Ireland High Court judge and parliamentarian. He was elected as Ulster Unionist Member of Parliament for Carrick in the Stormont Parliament serving from 1945–49,Mystery coverup (part 2) BelfastTelegraph.co.uk; accessed 26 September 2017. and was Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance () (17 July 1945 - 12 June 1947). Curran was Attorney General for Northern Ireland (6 June 1947 – 4 November 1949), the youngest in the history of that parliament. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lancelot Hansen
Lancelot Hansen (1885–1928) was an Australian rugby league Rugby league football, commonly known as just rugby league and sometimes football, footy, rugby or league, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field measuring 68 metres (75 yards) wide and 112 ... footballer who played in the 1900s. He played for North Sydney in the NSWRL competition and was a foundation player of the club. Playing career Lance Hansen played in North Sydney's inaugural season featuring in 9 matches throughout the season. Hansen played 2 games for Norths in 1909 and then retired from rugby league. Hansen played 1 game for New South Wales in 1908 and played 1 match for Metropolis in 1 the same year. References North Sydney Bears players Rugby league players from Sydney Rugby league halfbacks 1885 births 1928 deaths New South Wales rugby league team players {{Australia-rugbyleague-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lancelot Grove
Lancelot Townley Grove (22 August 1905 – 9 February 1943) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer. Attending the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, Grove was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1925. He later played first-class cricket for the British Army and the Combined Services cricket team in the last 1930s. He served in the Second World War, during which he was killed in a plane crash in 1943. Life and military career Grove was born at Satara in what was then British India to Colonel Percy Lynes Grove and his wife, Lorina. He was educated in England at Charterhouse School, before deciding on a career in the military and attending the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. He graduated from Woolwich in September 1925, and was commissioned into the Royal Engineers as a second lieutenant. He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant in September 1927. He had to wait nearly a decade for his not promotion, which came in September 1936 when he was promoted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lancelot Graham
Sir Lancelot Graham, KCSI, KCIE (1880–1958) was an Indian civil servant during the British Raj. He served as the first Governor of Sind from 1 April 1936 to 31 March 1941. During his governorship, in order to encourage notables of the province, letters of appreciation were issued to various politicians and landlords of Sind for their public service to their territories and the country as a whole. One of his principal advisers was Sir Shah Nawaz Bhutto, father of the later prime minister of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. Khan Sahib Shahal Khan Khoso also received letters of appreciation from Graham. Graham appointed Khan Bahadur Ghulam Nabi Kazi MBE as his first Director of Public Instruction to head the Education Sector in Sindh. Upon Kazi's retirement in 1939, he appointed Dr Umar Bin Muhammad Daudpota to that position. While governor, he laid the foundation stone for the Sind Assembly building on March 11, 1940. He was appointed a CIE in 1924, knighted with the KCIE in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Launcelot Goody
Launcelot John Goody (5 June 1908 – 13 May 1992), an Australian metropolitan bishop, was the sixth Roman Catholic Archbishop of Perth, serving from 1968 to 1983. Prior to his election as Archbishop of Perth, Goody served as the inaugural Bishop of Bunbury from 1954 to 1968. Early years and background When Goody was aged eight years, together with his parents he migrated to Australia from England due to his father starting to feel the effects of creeping spinal paralysis. The family arrived in Perth and were met by representatives of Archbishop Patrick Clune, having converted from Anglicanism to Catholicism some years yearlier. Goody was ordained a priest in Rome by Archbishop Giuseppe Palica on 20 December 1930 in Rome, aged 22. On 2 August 1951 he was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Perth, as well as Titular Bishop of Abydus, and was consecrated three months later. Bishop and Archbishop On 12 November 1954, aged 46, he was appointed the first Roman Catholic Bishop of B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lancelot Gittens
Lancelot Gittens (born 28 October 1974) is a Guyanese Olympic middle-distance runner and hurdler. He represented his country in the men's 400 metres hurdles at the 1996 Summer Olympics, as well as in the men's 4 × 400 metres relay. He qualified to run the 400IH with a time of 47.9. His clocked a time of 54.79 in the intermediate hurdles. His team's time was a 3:07.19 in the relay as he ran a split of 46.53. Gittens is currently an assistant principal at Eastside High School in Covington, Georgia Covington is a city in the U.S. state of Georgia and the seat of Newton County, and is part of the Atlanta metropolitan area. As of the 2010 Census, its population 14,113. History Covington was founded by European immigrants to the United Stat .... References 1974 births Living people Guyanese male hurdlers Olympic athletes for Guyana Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics 20th-century Guyanese people {{Guyana-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lancelot Fish
Lancelot John Fish (2 August 1861 – 9 September 1924) was Archdeacon of Bath from 1909 until his death on 29 September 1924. Lancelot was born in Whitchurch, Shropshire''1911 England Census'' to John Dent Fish and Henrietta Barnes Chesterman. He was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was Chaplain at Christ Church, Cannes from 1900 to 1903; Vicar of Bathampton until 1907; He was Chaplain at St Andrew, Biarritz from 1907 to 1909; and then Vicar A vicar (; Latin: '' vicarius'') is a representative, deputy or substitute; anyone acting "in the person of" or agent for a superior (compare "vicarious" in the sense of "at second hand"). Linguistically, ''vicar'' is cognate with the English pr ... of St Stephen Lansdown, Bath until 1923. from 1902 to 1938.‘FISH, Ven. Lancelot John’’, ''Who's Who 2016'', A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2015 ; online edn, Nov 201accessed 9 Sept 2016/ref> Refere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lancelot Errington
Lancelot Errington, also ''Launcelot'' or ''Lancelott'', (1657–1745) was a master mariner noted for his capture of Lindisfarne during the Jacobite rising of 1715. Background After the Glorious Revolution of 1688–89 resulted in the Roman Catholic Stuart king, James II of England and VII of Scotland, fleeing to exile in France, James' daughter and her husband, William III and Mary II, ascended the British throne as joint sovereigns, and were succeeded by the Protestant House of Hanover. In 1715, James II's son James Francis Edward Stuart, also known as the ''Old Pretender'', attempted to regain the throne by launching a Jacobite rising in Scotland. Lancelot Errington is known to have come from Denton in Newburn, an "ancient and respectable family in Northumberland."Magnússon, Magnús ''Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lancelot Elphinstone
Sir Lancelot Henry Elphinstone (2 September 1879 – 11 October 1965) was the 22nd Attorney General of Ceylon. The son of Sir Howard Elphinstone, 3rd Baronet and Husband of Jane E Jamieson. Elphinstone was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was appointed Attorney General of British Honduras in 1913, Solicitor General of Trinidad in 1919, and Attorney General of Tanganyika Territory in 1921. He was appointed Attorney General of Ceylon on 6 October 1924, succeeding Henry Gollan, and held the office until 1929. He was succeeded by Edward St. John Jackson. From 1929 to 1932 he was the Chief Judge of the Federated Malay States. He was knighted in the 1931 New Year Honours The 1931 New Year Honours were appointments by King George V to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of the United Kingdom and British Empire. They were announced on 30 December 1930. The recipients of honour .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Elp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lancelot Driffield
Lancelot Townshend Driffield (10 August 1880 – 9 October 1917) was an English cricketer who played in first-class cricket matches for Cambridge University and Northamptonshire between 1900 and 1908. He was born in Old, Northamptonshire and died in Leatherhead, Surrey. He appeared in 61 first-class matches as a left-handed batsman who bowled left-arm orthodox spin. He scored 851 runs with a highest score of 56 and took 137 wickets with a best performance of seven for 7. Driffield was educated at St John's School, Leatherhead, and St Catharine's College, Cambridge St Catharine's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1473 as Katharine Hall, it adopted its current name in 1860. The college is nicknamed "Catz". The college is located in the historic city-centre of Cam .... He returned to St John's School as a teacher in 1911 and taught there until his death. Notes 1880 births 1917 deaths People educated at St John's School, Leath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lancelot Dowbiggin
Lancelot Dowbiggin (born in 1685 in Melling, near Lancaster in Lancashire, England - died 24 July 1759 in London, England) was an English architect. He designed St Mary's Church in Islington, London,John Richardson, ''Islington Past'', Revised Edition, Historical Publications Limited, 2000; pp. 59–60. Fortiscue Lodge in Enfield, and several houses in Gentleman's Row. He is also responsible for finishing, in 1747, St. Mary's Church in Rotherhithe Rotherhithe () is a district of south-east London, England, and part of the London Borough of Southwark. It is on a peninsula on the south bank of the Thames, facing Wapping, Shadwell and Limehouse on the north bank, as well as the Isle of ..., also in London. He was buried in St. Mary's Church, Islington. References 1685 births 1759 deaths People from Lancaster, Lancashire 18th-century English architects Architects from Lancashire {{England-architect-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
