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Moyra
Moyra is a female given name. Notable people with this name include: * Moyra Allen (1921–1996), Canadian nurse * Moyra Barry (1886–1960), Irish artist * Moyra Browne (1918–2016), British nurse * Moyra Caldecott (1927–2015), British author * Moyra Davey (born 1958), American artist * Moyra Donaldson (born 1956), Northern Irish author * Moyra Fraser Moyra Fraser (3 December 1923 – 13 December 2009) was an Australian-born English actress and ballet dancer, who is best known for playing Penny in the long-running sitcom '' As Time Goes By''. Early life Moyra Fraser was born in Sydney, Aust ... (1923–2009), Australian-born English actress * Moyra Hiscox (born 1937), British middle-distance runner {{given name Irish feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moyra Davey
Moyra Davey (born 1958, Toronto, ON) is an artist known for her experimental films that take root in written monologues, her portraits, and her essays that pair photography and language. She works across photography, video, and writing, and has been living in New York City since 1988. Early life and education Davey was born in 1958 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She grew up in Montreal, where she studied photography and received a BFA from Concordia University in 1982. She then achieved an MFA from the University of California, San Diego in 1988. In 1989, she attended The Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program. Work Davey was one of twelve co-organizers of the alternative exhibition space, Orchard, which ran from 2005–2008 on a storefront on Orchard St. in New York's Lower East Side. The venue presented more than two dozen exhibitions, one of them Davey's self-organized project “Reality / Play.” She edited the anthology '' Mother Reader: Essential Writings ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moyra Caldecott
Moyra Caldecott (1 June 1927 – 23 May 2015)Kevan Manwaring"Moyra Caldecott obituary" ''The Guardian'', 8 June 2005. was a British author of historical fiction, fantasy, science fiction and non-fiction. Her works include ''Guardians of the Tall Stones'' and ''The Egyptian Sequence''. She was born in Pretoria, South Africa, and moved to London in 1951. She married Oliver Caldecott and raised three children. She had degrees in English and Philosophy and an M.A. in English Literature. In 2000, she became one of the earliest proponents of commercial e-books when she contracted with Mushroom eBooks to re-publish most of her titles in electronic formats. She had a reputation as a novelist who wrote as vividly about the adventures and experiences to be encountered in the inner realms of the human consciousness as she did about those in the outer physical world. To Moyra, reality was multidimensional. In her later years she suffered from progressive aphasia. She died peacefully on 23 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moyra Fraser
Moyra Fraser (3 December 1923 – 13 December 2009) was an Australian-born English actress and ballet dancer, who is best known for playing Penny in the long-running sitcom '' As Time Goes By''. Early life Moyra Fraser was born in Sydney, Australia to John Newton Mappin Fraser, a director of Mappin & Webb, and Vera Eleanor (née Beardshaw)Who's who in theatre, John Parker, 12th ed., 1957, p. 526 on 3 December 1923. Her sister was the actress Shelagh Fraser. Her family emigrated to the United Kingdom in June 1924. She was educated at St Christopher's, Kingswood, and Eversfield, Sutton. She left school at 14 to take up a scholarship with Sadler's Wells Ballet, where she was befriended by ballet dancer Robert Helpmann. Stage career Fraser joined the Sadler's Wells Ballet after training, dancing the title role in ''Giselle'', the Lilac Fairy in '' The Sleeping Princess'' and creating the role of Hope in ''The Quest'' ( Ashton/ Walton after Spenser). She left the company to play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moyra Browne
Lady Moyra Blanche Madeleine Browne (née Ponsonby; 2 March 1918 – 4 December 2016) was a British nurse and the only daughter of the 9th Earl of Bessborough, an Anglo-Irish peer, and his wife Roberte. On 10 December 1945, she became the second wife of Sir Denis Browne (widower of Helen Simpson since 1940), a distinguished paediatric surgeon based at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) from 1922 to 1967. The Sir Denis Browne Gold Medal from the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons was named in his honour. After her husband's death in 1967, Lady Moyra was vice-president of the Royal College of Nursing from 1970 to 1985, Superintendent-in-Chief of St. John Ambulance from 1970 to 1983 and Governor of Research into Ageing from 1987 to 1989. Lady Moyra and Sir Denis had two children, a son and a daughter. Her son was barrister Desmond John Michael Browne (b. 1947), a former chairman of the bar of England and Wales. Death Lady Moyra Browne died on 4 December 2016, age ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moyra Barry
Moyra Barry (1886 – 2 February 1960) was an Irish artist, most noted for her paintings of flowers. Early life and education Moyra Aloysius Barry was born in 1886 in Dublin, the eldest of eleven children of Bernard and Jane Barry. Her father worked as a merchant. Although she was named Moyra, she was always known as Mary to her family. Barry attended Loreto Convent, North Great George's St., going on to the Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA) Schools from 1908 to 1909. Whilst studying with the RHA she won a number of prizes for composition and drawing, later moving to London to attend the Slade School of Fine Art from 1911 to 1914, being awarded first prize for painting from the cast 1913 to 1914. She lived and tutored English privately in Quito, Ecuador in the 1920s, before returning to the family home in Rathmines, Dublin in the 1930s. Artistic career From 1908 to 1952 Barry was frequently exhibited by the RHA, holding a number of individual shows at the Angus Gallery from 1932 onw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moyra Donaldson
Moyra Donaldson (born 1956) is a poet and short story writer from Northern Ireland. Early life and education Moyra Donaldson was born in 1956 in, Newtownards, County Down. She attended Queen's University Belfast and the University of Ulster Ulster University (; Ulster Scots: or ), legally the University of Ulster, is a multi-campus public research university located in Northern Ireland. It is often referred to informally and unofficially as Ulster, or by the abbreviation UU. It i .... Donaldson works in social work. She had her first collection published in 1998 to critical acclaim. Donaldson has won a number of awards including the Allingham Award, the National Women's Poetry Competition and the Cuirt New Writing Award as well as four awards from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. She has had work short listed for the Hennessy New Irish Writing Awards. Donaldson has had her work featured on BBC Radio and television and on the Channel 4 production, Poems to Fall in Lov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moyra Hiscox
Moyra "Molly" Eileen Hiscox (born 27 April 1937) is a British former middle distance runner who was a member of the Spartan Ladies club. Biography Hiscox finished second behind Heather Young in the 220 yards event at the 1957 WAAA Championships. Hiscox broke the world record in 440 yards in an invitation race at the White City Stadium, London, on 2 August 1958. Hiscox competed for England in the 1958 Commonwealth Games finishing fourth in the 220 yards The 200 metres, or 200-meter dash, is a sprint running event. On an outdoor 400-metre racetrack, the race begins on the curve and ends on the home straight, so a combination of techniques is needed to successfully run the race. A slightly ... semi final. References 1937 births Living people English female sprinters British female sprinters Athletes (track and field) at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games athletes for England European Athletics Championships medalists 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moyra Allen
F. Moyra Allen, (1921 – May 2, 1996) was a Canadian nurse and professor. She helped develop the McGill Model of Nursing. She received her nursing education at the Montreal General Hospital School of Nursing. She also received a Bachelor of Nursing from McGill University, a Master's degree from the University of Chicago, and a Ph.D. in education from the Stanford Graduate School of Education in 1967. In 1954, she became an assistant professor at the McGill University School of Nursing. She became acting director of the School of Nursing in 1983, shortly before she retired in 1984. In 1969, she founded the '' Nursing Papers'', now called the '' Canadian Journal of Nursing Research''. In 1986, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 1979, she was awarded the Canadian Nurses Association The Canadian Nurses Association (CNA), known in French as the Association des infirmières et infirmiers du Canada (AIIC), is the national professional association representi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |