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Old Bryanstonians
The alumni of Bryanston School are known as Old Bryanstonians or OBs. Bryanston School is a co-educational independent school for both day and boarding pupils in Blandford, north Dorset, England, near the village of Bryanston. Notable OBs * Adrian Heath (1920–1992), painter * Amy Studt (born 1986), singer * Angus John Mackintosh Stewart (1936-1998), author of ''Sandel'' * Anne Marie Morris (born 1957), politician * Ben Fogle (born 1973), television presenter, adventurer * Carolyn Fairbairn (born 1961), director-general of the Confederation of British Industry * Cerys Matthews (born 1969), singer-songwriter * Charles Handley-Read (1916-1971), architectural critic * Chris Beckett (born 1955), science fiction author * Clive Barda OBE (born 1945), photographer * Clive Seale (born 1955), sociologist * David Campbell Bannerman (born 1960), Conservative MEP * David Lipsey, Baron Lipsey, (born 1948) politician, journalist, Labour life peer * Drummond Matthews (1931–1997), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bryanston School
Bryanston School is a public school (English independent day and boarding school for pupils aged 13–18) located next to the village of Bryanston, and near the town of Blandford Forum, in Dorset in South West England. It was founded in 1928. It occupies a palatial country house designed and built in 1889–94 by Richard Norman Shaw, the champion of a renewed academic tradition, for Viscount Portman, the owner of large tracts in the West End of London, in the early version of neo-Georgian style that Sir Edwin Lutyens called "Wrenaissance", to replace an earlier house, and is set in . Bryanston is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference and the Eton Group. It has a reputation as a liberal and artistic school using some ideas of the Dalton Plan. History Founding ethos Bryanston was founded in 1928 by a young schoolmaster from Australia named J. G. Jeffreys. Armed only with his confidence and enthusiasm, he gained financial support for the school duri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clive Barda
Clive Blackmore Barda OBE, FRSA (born 14 January 1945) is a London-based, British freelance photographer best known for capturing the performances of classical musicians and artists of the stage (opera, ballet and theatre). During his career spanning over five decades, Barda has created a collection of over a million photographs of performers, composers, and conductors. Early life Barda was born in 1945 and spent his early childhood in Alexandria, Egypt, where his father was a lawyer and his mother a painter. The family returned to England in 1956.Exhibition leaflet for ''An Eye for an Ear''. Royal Festival Hall, London (1 March – 8 April 1979). Barda attended Bryanston School and graduated from Birkbeck College, University of London (BA Hons Modern Langs), aspiring to apply his knowledge of modern languages as a commodities broker in the City. His early interest in photography was mostly documentary; while studying for his degree, he travelled to Romania to photograph th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biochemist
Biochemists are scientists who are trained in biochemistry. They study chemical processes and chemical transformations in living organisms. Biochemists study DNA, proteins and cell parts. The word "biochemist" is a portmanteau of "biological chemist." Biochemists also research how certain chemical reactions happen in cells and tissues and observe and record the effects of products in food additives and medicines. Biochemist researchers focus on playing and constructing research experiments, mainly for developing new products, updating existing products and analyzing said products. It is also the responsibility of a biochemist to present their research findings and create grant proposals to obtain funds for future research. Biochemists study aspects of the immune system, the expressions of genes, isolating, analyzing, and synthesizing different products, mutations that lead to cancers, and manage laboratory teams and monitor laboratory work. Biochemists also have to have the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Sanger
Frederick Sanger (; 13 August 1918 – 19 November 2013) was an English biochemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry twice. He won the 1958 Chemistry Prize for determining the amino acid sequence of insulin and numerous other proteins, demonstrating in the process that each had a unique, definite structure; this was a foundational discovery for the central dogma of molecular biology. At the newly-constructed Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, he developed and subsequently refined the first-ever DNA sequencing technique, which vastly expanded the number of feasible experiments in molecular biology and remains in widespread use today. The breakthrough earned him the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, which he shared with Walter Gilbert and Paul Berg. He is one of only three people to have won multiple Nobel Prizes in the same category (the others being John Bardeen in physics and Karl Barry Sharpless in chemistry), and one of five persons with two No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freddie Fox (actor)
Frederick Samson Robert Morice Fox (born 5 April 1989) is an English film and stage actor. His prominent screen performances include roles as singer Marilyn in the BBC's Boy George biopic '' Worried About the Boy'' (2010), Freddie Baxter in series ''Cucumber'' (2015) and ''Banana'' (2015), and Jeremy Bamber in ''White House Farm'' (2020). His many notable theatre credits include starring as Simon Bliss in ''Hay Fever'' (2012) at the Noël Coward Theatre; as Oscar Wilde's young lover Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglas in '' The Judas Kiss'' (2012–2013) at the Hampstead Theatre, during a UK tour, and in a West End transfer; as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet (2015) at the Sheffield Crucible and in Kenneth Branagh's 2016 production at the Garrick Theatre; as Tristan Tzara in ''Travesties'' (2016–2017) at the Menier Chocolate Factory and Apollo Theatre; as Lord Goring in ''An Ideal Husband'' (2018) at the Vaudeville Theatre; and as Edmond Rostand in Edmond de Bergerac (2019) at the Birmin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emilia Fox
Emilia Rose Elizabeth Fox (born 31 July 1974) is an English actress and presenter whose film debut was in Roman Polanski's film '' The Pianist''. Her other films include the Italian–French–British romance-drama film '' The Soul Keeper'' (2002), for which she won the Flaiano Film Award for Best Actress; the drama film '' The Republic of Love'' (2003); the comedy-drama film '' Things to Do Before You're 30'' (2005); the black comedy '' Keeping Mum'' (2005); the romantic comedy-drama film '' Cashback'' (2006); the drama '' Flashbacks of a Fool'' (2008); the drama film ''Ways to Live Forever'' (2010); the drama-thriller '' A Thousand Kisses Deep'' (2011); and the fantasy-horror drama film '' Dorian Gray'' (2009). Fox's television roles include the BBC drama ''Pride and Prejudice'' (1995), the PBS British/German television serial ''Rebecca'' (1997), ITV Granada's ''Henry VIII'' (2003), BBC's '' Gunpowder, Treason & Plot'' (2004), the 2005 BBC miniseries '' The Virgin Queen'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ella Marchment
Ella Marchment (born 30 May 1992) is a British opera director, artistic director, and an associate professor. She is a co-founder of the campaign charity SWAP'ra, Supporting Women and Parents in Opera, and the artistic director of Opera Festival of Chicago, and Opera in the Rock, Arkansas. She previously founded the opera company Helios Collective. She has directed the International Opera Awards since 2017. Career In addition to directing engagements in Europe and the US, Marchment is artistic director of the Opera Festival of Chicago and Opera in the Rock in Arkansas, Creative Associate and co-founder of SWAP’ra, and Director of Opera and Associate Professor at Shenandoah Conservatory. She created ''Toi Toi'', a festival series of operatic club nights held at the CLF Art Cafe in Peckham, London; and ''Formations Masterclasses'', a series of workshops that commissioned and staged new operas, with sessions led by figures from the opera world including Janis Kelly (soprano), Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Blame Coco
Eliot Paulina Sumner (born 30 July 1990) is an English singer, songwriter and actor. Career I Blame Coco Sumner began writing songs at the age of 15, and signed a multi-record deal with Island Records at age 17. They spent six months writing and recording a debut album, ''The Constant'' (2010), in Sweden with producer Klas Åhlund, keyboardist Emlyn Maillard, and multi-instrumentalist and producer Al Shux under the band name I Blame Coco. The album included elements of pop music, electronic music, ska, and punk. The first single, "Caesar", featured Swedish pop singer Robyn. The next single, "Self Machine", was released in July 2010. According to Christian Wåhlberg, Sumner's manager, Åhlund, had been keen to work with Sumner because she saw the "punk rocker" in them. Wåhlberg said that the electropop sound of the album was influenced by Darcus Beese, president of Island Records, and that if Sumner had signed to a different record label, the music would have been different ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geophysics
Geophysics () is a subject of natural science concerned with the physical processes and physical properties of the Earth and its surrounding space environment, and the use of quantitative methods for their analysis. The term ''geophysics'' sometimes refers only to solid earth applications: Earth's shape; its gravitational and magnetic fields; its internal structure and composition; its dynamics and their surface expression in plate tectonics, the generation of magmas, volcanism and rock formation. However, modern geophysics organizations and pure scientists use a broader definition that includes the water cycle including snow and ice; fluid dynamics of the oceans and the atmosphere; electricity and magnetism in the ionosphere and magnetosphere and solar-terrestrial physics; and analogous problems associated with the Moon and other planets. Gutenberg, B., 1929, Lehrbuch der Geophysik. Leipzig. Berlin (Gebruder Borntraeger). Runcorn, S.K, (editor-in-chief), 1967, Interna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geologist
A geologist is a scientist who studies the solid, liquid, and gaseous matter that constitutes Earth and other terrestrial planets, as well as the processes that shape them. Geologists usually study geology, earth science, or geophysics, although backgrounds in physics, chemistry, biology, and other sciences are also useful. Field research (field work) is an important component of geology, although many subdisciplines incorporate laboratory and digitalized work. Geologists can be classified in a larger group of scientists, called geoscientists. Geologists work in the energy and mining sectors searching for natural resources such as petroleum, natural gas, precious and base metals. They are also in the forefront of preventing and mitigating damage from natural hazards and disasters such as earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis and landslides. Their studies are used to warn the general public of the occurrence of these events. Geologists are also important contributors to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drummond Matthews
Drummond Hoyle Matthews FRS (5 February 1931 – 20 July 1997), known as "Drum", was a British marine geologist and geophysicist and a key contributor to the theory of plate tectonics. His work, along with that of fellow Briton Fred Vine and Canadian Lawrence Morley, showed how variations in the magnetic properties of rocks forming the ocean floor could be consistent with, and ultimately help confirm, Harry Hammond Hess's 1962 theory of seafloor spreading. In 1989 he was awarded the Geological Society of London's highest honour, the Wollaston Medal. Early life During World War II he went to school at The Downs in Malvern, and then Bryanston School in Dorset. He became head boy at both. Career Alfred Wegener's theory of continental drift had never gained much scientific support due to its lack of any satisfactory mechanism to drive the process. During the 1950s, however, extensive surveys of the ocean floor revealed a global, linked system of mid-ocean ridges, all o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Lipsey, Baron Lipsey
David Lawrence Lipsey, Baron Lipsey (born 21 April 1948) is a British journalist and Labour Party politician. After attending Bryanston School, Dorset (1962–67), Lipsey won an Exhibition in Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE) at Magdalen College, Oxford in 1968 and graduated with a First Class degree, winning the University Gibbs Prize in Politics in 1969. He went on to become a political adviser to Anthony Crosland in Opposition and an adviser to 10 Downing Street. He has worked as a journalist for a variety of different publications including the ''Sunday Times'', ''Sunday Correspondent'', ''The Times'', ''The Guardian'' and ''The Economist''. From 1982 to 1983 he was Chairman of the Fabian Society and from 1970 to 1972 Secretary of the Streatham Labour Party. David Lipsey was awarded a Special Orwell Prize in 1997 for his work as ‘Bagehot’ in ''The Economist''. Lipsey has held numerous senior posts in public life. As well as his economic and social interests, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
