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List Of British Sport Shooters
This is a list that includes people involved in all varieties of clay pigeon shooting and olympic trap. The following people are involved, or have been involved in sport shooting in the United Kingdom: * Alister Allan * Edward Amoore * David Ball * George Barnes * Richard Barnett * John Bellamy * Maurice Blood * Henry Burr * Henry Burt * John Butt * Arthur Carnell * Geoffrey Coles * Malcolm Cooper * Hugh Durant * Richard Faulds * John Faunthorpe * John Fleming * Arthur Fulton * William Grosvenor * Aaron Heading * Harold Humby * Albert Kempster * William Russell Lane-Joynt * Edward Lessimore * Henry Lynch-Staunton * Cyril Mackworth-Praed * Alexander Martin * Maurice Matthews * Alexander Maunder * John MacGregor * Joshua Millner * William Milne * Robert Murray * Philip Neame * Charles Nix * Anita North * Harcourt Ommundsen * Charles Palmer * Rachel Parish * Edward Parnell * Joseph Pepé * Herbert Perry * Prince Philip * William Pimm * Horatio Poulter * Jan Powell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clay Pigeon Shooting
Clay pigeon shooting, also known as clay target shooting, is a shooting sport involving shooting a firearm at special flying targets known as clay pigeons, or clay targets. The terminology commonly used by clay shooters often relates to times past, when live-pigeon competitions were held. Although such competitions were made illegal in the United Kingdom in 1921, a target may still be called a "bird", a hit may be referred to as a "kill", and a missed target as a "bird away"; the machine which projects the targets is still known as a "trap". History Clay targets began to be used in place of live pigeons around 1875. Asphalt targets were later developed, but the name "clay targets" stuck. In 1893, the Inanimate Bird Shooting Association was formed in England. It was renamed to the Clay Bird Shooting Association in 1903. It held annual clay-pigeon-shooting contests and lasted until the outbreak of World War I. In 1921, the British parliament passed a bill without opposition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Durant
Hugh Durant (23 February 1877 – 20 January 1916) was a British sport shooter and modern pentathlete who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. In 1912 he won the bronze medal as member of the British team in the team 30 metre military pistol event as well as in the team 50 metre military pistol competition. In the individual 50 metre pistol event he finished 20th. He also participated in the first contested modern pentathlon event and finished 18th. He was killed in action during World War I. See also * List of Olympians killed in World War I A total of 144 Olympians are known to have been killed during World War I. See also * List of international rugby union players killed in World War I Notes A.This includes Hermann von Bönninghausen and Paul Berger, who both died following ... References 1877 births 1916 deaths British male sport shooters British male modern pentathletes ISSF pistol shooters Olympic shooters of Great Britain Olympic modern pen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Martin (British Sport Shooter)
Alexander Elsden Martin (29 January 1895 – 28 October 1962) was a British sport shooter. He competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics The 1924 Summer Olympics (french: Jeux olympiques d'été de 1924), officially the Games of the VIII Olympiad (french: Jeux de la VIIIe olympiade) and also known as Paris 1924, were an international multi-sport event held in Paris, France. The op ..., finishing ninth in the 600 metre free rifle competition. His father is John Martin, who won a silver medal in shooting at the 1908 Olympics. References External links profile 1895 births 1962 deaths British male sport shooters ISSF rifle shooters Olympic shooters for Great Britain Shooters at the 1924 Summer Olympics {{UK-sportshooting-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyril Mackworth-Praed
Cyril Winthrop Mackworth-Praed (21 September 1891 – 30 June 1974) was a British sport shooter who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics. He was also a naturalist and ornithologist who specialized on the birds of Africa. Life and work Mackworth-Praed was born in Herefordshire to Robert Herbert and Mary Josephine Jolliffe. where he became interested in shooting and natural history which was also encouraged at school in Sandroyd. After studying at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, he settled in East Africa as a farmer. In 1919 he married, Edith Mary Henrietta, the daughter of Stephenson Robert Clarke and began to help identify African birds in his father-in-law's collection. This brought him to the bird room of the British Museum. He later joined the Scots Guards and served in World War II, rising to the rank of Major in 1941. He returned to live in Castletop, Burley, Hampshire. In the 1930s he began a collaboration with Claude H. B. Grant to produce a 6 volume work on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Lynch-Staunton
Henry George Lynch-Staunton (5 November 1873 – 15 November 1941) was a British sport shooter who competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics The 1908 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the IV Olympiad and also known as London 1908) were an International sport, international multi-sport event held in London, England, United Kingdom, from 27 April to 31 October 1908. Th .... In the 1908 Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the team pistol event and was 13th in the individual pistol event. References External linksprofile* 1873 births 1941 deaths British male sport shooters Olympic shooters for Great Britain Shooters at the 1908 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medallists for Great Britain Olympic medalists in shooting Medalists at the 1908 Summer Olympics 20th-century British sportsmen {{UK-sportshooting-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Lessimore
Edward John Lessimore (20 January 1881 – 7 March 1960) born in Barton Regis, Gloucestershire was a British sport shooter who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics The 1912 Summer Olympics ( sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1912), officially known as the Games of the V Olympiad ( sv, Den V olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Stockholm 1912, were an international multi-sport event held in Stockholm, Sweden, be .... In 1912 he won the gold medal with the British team in the team 50 metre small-bore rifle competition. In the 50 metre rifle, prone event he finished fourth and in the 25 metre small-bore rifle competition he finished 12th. References External linksprofile 1881 births 1960 deaths British male sport shooters ISSF rifle shooters Olympic shooters for Great Britain Shooters at the 1912 Summer Olympics English Olympic medallists Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain Olympic medalists in shooting Medalists at the 1912 Summer Olympics 20th-century Brit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Russell Lane-Joynt
William Russell Lane-Joynt (27 March 1855– 6 June 1921), born in Limerick, was an Irish barrister, philatelist and Olympic shooter. He founded the Irish Philatelic Society in Dublin and assisted the Duke of Leinster to form his collection which was bequeathed to the Dublin Museum of Science and Art. Lane-Joynt was one of only two Irish philatelists to be honoured by signing the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists. Life He was the son of William Lane-Joynt, Mayor of Limerick (1862) and Lord Mayor of Dublin (1867). He had four brothers and a sister. One of his brothers was the surgeon and radiologist, Richard Lane Joynt. Educated at Windermere College, Wales, Lane-Joynt graduated with a B.A. and M.B. from Trinity College, Dublin in 1878. After attending King's Inns, Dublin, he was called to the bar as a barrister-at-law in April 1879. He married in 1882 and had two children, Evelyn and William (b.24 August 1886). Lane-Joynt was Revolver Champion of Ireland four times and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Kempster
Albert Joseph Kempster (23 August 1874 – 2 January 1952) was a British sport shooter who competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics and the 1912 Summer Olympics. In 1908 he finished fifth in the running deer single shots competition as well as in the running deer double shots event. Four years later he won the bronze medal as member of the British team in the team 30 metre military pistol event as well as in the team 50 metre military pistol competition. In the individual 50 metre pistol event he finished 24th. RSM Royal Jersey Militia. Personal life Albert Joseph Kempster came to Jersey Channel Islands in the early 1890s. He was attached to the Northampton Regiment at the time and married a Breton, Eleanor Grosvalet in 1898 not long before being sent to South Africa where war had broken out and from where he was later invalided home with enteric fever. In 1900 he was appointed to the permanent staff of the Royal Jersey Militia Formed in 1337, the Royal Militia of the Island o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Humby
Harold Robinson "Harry" Humby (8 April 1879 – 23 February 1923) was a British sport shooter, who competed at the 1908, 1912 and 1920 Summer Olympics The 1920 Summer Olympics (french: Jeux olympiques d'été de 1920; nl, Olympische Zomerspelen van 1920; german: Olympische Sommerspiele 1920), officially known as the Games of the VII Olympiad (french: Jeux de la VIIe olympiade; nl, Spelen van .... In the 1908 Olympics he won a gold medal in the team small-bore rifle event, silver medal in the stationary target small-bore rifle event and was eighth in the disappearing target small-bore rifle event. Four years later he won a silver medal in the team clay pigeons event and was fourth in individual trap event. References External links *profile 1879 births 1923 deaths British male sport shooters ISSF rifle shooters Trap and double trap shooters Olympic shooters for Great Britain Shooters at the 1908 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 1912 Summer Olympics Shoot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aaron Heading
Aaron Heading (born 21 May 1987) is a clay-pigeon shooter, specialising in the Trap discipline. He represents England and Great Britain. In 2010 Heading earned selection for the England shooting team for the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India. Straddling the Yamuna river, primarily its western or right bank, Delhi shares borders wi ... from 3–14 October 2010. He won Bronze when competing in the men's trap pairs, with partner David Kirk, and Gold in the singles event. He has qualified to represent Great Britain at the 2020 Summer Olympics. References External links *Aaron Headingat British Shooting * * * 1987 births Living people English male sport shooters Sportspeople from King's Lynn People from Spalding, Lincolnshire Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Grosvenor
William Percy Grosvenor (18 July 1869 – 5 June 1948) was a British sport shooter who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics and 1920 Summer Olympics The 1920 Summer Olympics (french: Jeux olympiques d'été de 1920; nl, Olympische Zomerspelen van 1920; german: Olympische Sommerspiele 1920), officially known as the Games of the VII Olympiad (french: Jeux de la VIIe olympiade; nl, Spelen van .... Grosvenor was born 18 July 1869 in Hackney, London the son of William and Emily Harriett Grosvenor. In 1912 he won the silver medal with the British team in the team clay pigeons competition. In the individual trap event he finished 16th. At the end of 1912 he married Ida Vincent in Stroud Green, Haringey, London. Eight years later he finished fourth as a member of the British team in the team clay pigeons competition. References External linksWilliam Grosvenor's profile at databaseOlympics 1869 births 1948 deaths British male sport shooters Olympic shooters for Grea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Fulton (sport Shooter)
Arthur George Fulton MBE (16 September 1887 – 26 January 1972) was a British sport shooter, who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics and 1912 Summer Olympics The 1912 Summer Olympics ( sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1912), officially known as the Games of the V Olympiad ( sv, Den V olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Stockholm 1912, were an international multi-sport event held in Stockholm, Sweden, be .... In the 1908 Olympics he won a silver medal in the team military rifle event. Four years later he won silver medal in the team military rifle event, was sixth in the 300 metre military rifle, three positions event and 9th in the 600 metre free rifle event. References External linksprofile 1887 births 1972 deaths British male sport shooters ISSF rifle shooters Olympic shooters for Great Britain Shooters at the 1908 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 1912 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medallists for Great Britain Olympic medalists in shooting Medalists at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
