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List Of People From Chichester
Chichester is a cathedral city in West Sussex, England. The following is a list of those people who were either born or live in Chichester, or had some important contribution to make to the town. Notable people from Chichester __NOTOC__ A * Alan Arnell (1935–2013) - Association Football Player * Michael Ashcroft (born 1946) - Pollster, Businessman and Conservative Peer B * Peter Baldwin (1933–2015) - actor * Harriet Barber (1968–2014) - painter * Geoffrey Beevers (1941- ) - actor * John Blund (c. 1175 – 1248) - philosopher * Cordelia Bugeja (born 1976) - actress * John Bullokar (1574–1627) - physician and lexicographer C * William Cawley (1602–1667) - politician; signatory to death warrant of King Charles I * Steve Clamp (born 1976) - freelance journalist and newsreader * Tiberius Claudius Cogidubnus - local ruler in Roman Britain * William Clowes (1779–1847) - printer * William Collins (1721–1759) - poet. * Holly Colvin (born 1989) - cricketer * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chichester
Chichester ( ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city and civil parish in the Chichester District, Chichester district of West Sussex, England.OS Explorer map 120: Chichester, South Harting and Selsey Scale: 1:25 000. Publisher:Ordnance Survey – Southampton B2 edition. Publishing Date:2009. It is the only city in West Sussex and is its county town. It was a Ancient Rome, Roman and Anglo-Saxon settlement and a major market town from those times through Norman dynasty, Norman and medieval times to the present day. It is the seat of the Church of England Diocese of Chichester and is home to a 12th-century cathedral. The city has two main watercourses: the Chichester Canal and the River Lavant, West Sussex, River Lavant. The Lavant, a Winterbourne (stream), winterbourne, runs to the south of the city walls; it is hidden mostly in culverts when close to the city centre. History Roman period There is no recorded evidence that Chichester was a settlement of any ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Cudmore
Richard Cudmore (1787 – 29 December 1840) was an English musician. Primarily a violinist, he also played cello and piano, and was a composer. Life Cudmore was born in Chichester in 1787. He developed a talent for music at a very early age. His first instructor was James Forgett, a local organist, under whom he learnt the violin, acquiring such proficiency that at the age of nine he played a solo at a concert in Chichester. About 1797 he was placed under Joseph Reinagle, and shortly afterwards became a pupil of Johann Peter Salomon, with whom he studied the violin for two years. In 1799 he led the band at the Chichester theatre, and in the same year was engaged as a first violin in the orchestra at Italian Opera in London. He returned soon afterwards to Chichester, where he remained until 1808; in that year he moved to London, studied the piano under Joseph Woelfl, and appeared as a solo pianist and violinist at the principal concerts. He also became a member of the Philharmonic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Harrison (cricketer)
Edward Ernest Harrison (25 May 1910 – 12 December 2002) was an English cricketer and squash player. In cricket, Harrison was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm fast-medium. The son of Ernest Redford Harrison, he was born at Chichester, Sussex, and educated at Harrow School. Harrison made his first-class debut for Sussex against Worcestershire in the 1946 County Championship, having played for the county during wartime matches. He made eight further first-class appearances for the county in that season, before playing his final first-class match the following season against Cambridge University, in what was his only appearance in that season. Predominantly a bowler who "bowled with indefatigable persistency", Harrison usually bowled with the new ball and took 17 wickets in his ten first-class matches, which came at an average of 29.29, with best figures of 2/28. With the bat, he scored 120 runs at a batting average of 10.00, with a high score of 23. Following ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Harington (British Army Officer, Born 1872)
General Sir Charles Harington Harington (31 May 1872 – 22 October 1940) was a British Army officer most noted for his service during the First World War and the Chanak Crisis. During his 46 years in the army, Harington served in the Second Boer War, held various staff positions during the First World War, served as Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff between 1918 and 1920, commanded the occupation forces in the Black Sea and Turkey, and ultimately became Governor of Gibraltar in 1933. Respected by his peers and remembered as an "outstanding soldier", Harington served the entirety of the First World War in a staff capacity, most notably as Chief of Staff to General Herbert Plumer, commander of the Second Army, with whom he had a strong mutual understanding. As Commander-in-Chief of the Allied occupation army, based in Constantinople (Dersaadet İşgal Orduları Başkumandanı General Harington in Ottoman Turkish), Harington was instrumental in averting a war between th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Hannah
Ian Campbell Hannah (16 December 1874 – 7 July 1944) was a British academic, writer and Conservative Party politician. Background He was born in Chichester, the eldest son of Rev. Prebendary John Julius Hannah, the Vicar of Brighton and later Dean of Chichester. He was educated at Windlesham House School, Winchester College and Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1899 his younger brother, William, became one of the early casualties of the Second Boer War when he was killed by a falling shell the day after the Battle of Talana Hill. Hannah was president of the University of King's College, in Windsor, Nova Scotia, from 1904 to 1906. In 1904 he married American artist Edith Brand. After a spell in England, Hannah returned to America in 1915 to become professor of church history at the Oberlin Theological Seminary. He returned to the UK again in 1925, to live on his family estate near Edinburgh. He first stood for parliament as a Liberal candidate for Sunderland at the 1924 Genera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Hammond (actress)
Lisa Jayne Hammond (born 3 June 1978) is an English actress, known for her roles as Donna Yates in ''EastEnders'' and as Tina in ''Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere''. In 2005, she had a minor role in the BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens' ''Bleak House''. In 2009, she appeared in the first series of '' Psychoville''. Career She played the character Denny in ''Grange Hill'' between 1994 and 1996. Hammond did not star in any major roles again until 2004 when she played Tina in ''Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere''. However, she had minor appearances in television programmes such as ''Holby City'', '' Where the Heart Is'' and ''Casualty'', and in the film '' Quills''. Hammond also played the major role of the herald in the Royal Shakespeare Company revival of ''Marat/Sade'' in 2011. In 2004 she co-starred with Mat Fraser in the TV movie ''Every time you look at me'' In 2005, she played Harriet in the BBC TV mini series, ''Bleak House'', whilst in 2009 and 2011 Hammond played Kerr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamie Hall (cricketer)
James William Hall (born 30 March 1968) is a former English cricketer. Hall was a right-handed batsman In cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the cricket ball, ball with a cricket bat, bat to score runs (cricket), runs and prevent the dismissal (cricket), loss of one's wicket. Any player who is currently batting is, since Septembe ... who bowled right-arm off break. He was born in Chichester, Sussex. Hall made his first-class cricket, first-class debut for Sussex County Cricket Club, Sussex against Glamorgan County Cricket Club, Glamorgan in the 1990 County Championship. He made 96 further first-class appearances for Sussex, the last of which came against Yorkshire County Cricket Club, Yorkshire in the 1996 County Championship. In his 97 first-class matches, he scored 4,997 runs at an batting average (cricket), average of 30.28, with a high score of 141 not out. This score, which was one of six first-class century (cricket), centuries he made, came again ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
