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Ponting is a surname. Notable people with the name include: *Charles Ponting (1850–1932), English architect * Chris Ponting, British biologist *Clive Ponting (1946–2020), UK civil servant and writer *Herbert Ponting (1870–1935), British photographer *Nick Ponting, British badminton player *Ricky Ponting (born 1974), former Australian cricket player and captain *Thomas Ponting, British entrepreneur, founder of Pontings department store *Tom Ponting (born 1965), Canadian swimmer *Tom Candy Ponting (1824-1916), cattleman and pioneer cattle driver *Walter Ponting (1913–1960), English footballer *William Ponting William Robert Ponting (1872 – 21 March 1952) was an English amateur footballer who played as a half-back for Southampton St. Mary's in 1896–97, when they won the Southern League title for the first of six occasions over the next eight y ... (1872–1952), English footballer {{surname, Ponting English-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Ponting
Charles Edwin Ponting, F.S.A., (1850–1932) was a Gothic Revival architect who practised in Marlborough, Wiltshire. Career Ponting began his architectural career in 1864 in the office of the architect Samuel Overton. He was agent for Meux brewing family's estate from 1870 until 1888. After Admiral Hedworth Meux inherited Theobalds House in Hertfordshire in 1910, Ponting enlarged the house for him. In 1883 the Diocese of Salisbury appointed Ponting Surveyor of Ecclesiastical Dilapidations for the Archdeaconry of Wiltshire. Part of the Diocese of Bristol was added to his responsibilities in 1887 and the Diocese of Salisbury added the Archdeaconry of Dorset to his duties in 1892. He resigned from his post with the Bristol Diocese in 1915 and from that with the Salisbury Diocese in 1923. Family Ponting married Overton's daughter Martha Margaretta in 1872. She died in 1873 at the age of 20 while giving birth to their twin daughters Martha and Mary. Ponting never remarried, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Ponting
Christopher Paul Ponting is a British computational biologist, specializing in the evolution and function of genes and genomes. He is currently Chair of Medical Bioinformatics at the University of Edinburgh and group leader in the MRC Human Genetics Unit. He is also an Associate Faculty member of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His research focuses on long noncoding RNA function and evolution, on single cell biology and on disease genomics. Outside of science, Chris is an amateur novelist and wrote an unpublished, science fiction novel about engineered viruses.The Bioinformatics CRO Podcast'. Episode 2, 2020. Education After receiving his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Science in physics from University of Oxford and the University of British Columbia, respectively, he returned to Oxford, completing his Doctor of Philosophy in bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clive Ponting
Clive Sheridan Ponting (13 April 1946 – 28 July 2020)Richard Norton-Taylor, "The Ponting Affair", Cecil Woolf, London, 1985, p. 14. was a senior British civil servant and historian. He was best known for leaking documents about the sinking of the ARA ''General Belgrano'' in the Falklands War in 1982. At the time of his resignation from the civil service in 1985, he was a Grade 5 (assistant secretary), earning £23,000 per year (£70,214 in 2020). He wrote a number of books on British and world history. His most influential works include a ''Green History of the World'' (1991), which was revised as ''A New Green History of the World'' in 2007, and a biography of Winston Churchill (1994) and '' 1940: Myth and Reality'' (1990). Early life Ponting was born in Bristol, the only child of Charles Ponting, who is thought to have worked in sales, and his wife, Winifred (née Wadham). He was educated at Bristol Grammar School and the University of Reading. Bureaucratic career '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert Ponting
Herbert George Ponting, FRGS (21 March 1870 – 7 February 1935) was a professional photographer. He is best known as the expedition photographer and cinematographer for Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova Expedition to the Ross Sea and South Pole (1910–1913). In this role, he captured some of the most enduring images of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Early life Ponting was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire in the south of England, on 21 March 1870. His father was a successful banker, Francis Ponting, and his mother was Mary Sydenham. From the age of eighteen Herbert was employed at a local bank branch in Liverpool, where he stayed for three years. That time was long enough to convince him that he did not wish to follow in the profession of his father. He emigrated to California where he ran a fruit ranch and worked in mining. In 1895 he married a California woman, Mary Biddle Elliott; their daughter Mildred, was born in Auburn, California in January 1897. Pon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Ponting
Nicholas Ponting (born 13 June 1966) is a former professional badminton player from England. Career Olympic Games He was ranked No. 1 in the world at mixed doubles during 1993 and represented Great Britain at the 1992 and 1996 Olympic Games in Barcelona and Atlanta. All England Open Badminton Championships He won the mixed doubles event at the 1994 All England Open Badminton Championships with Joanne Wright. World Championships He won the bronze medal at the 1993 IBF World Championships in mixed doubles with Gillian Clark. Commonwealth Games He represented England and won a gold medal in the mixed team event and a bronze medal in the mixed doubles with Joanne Wright, at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-larg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ricky Ponting
Ricky Thomas Ponting (born 19 December 1974) is an Australian cricket coach, commentator, and former cricketer. Ponting was captain of the Australian national team during its "golden era", between 2004 and 2011 in Test cricket and 2002 and 2011 in One Day Internationals (ODIs) and is the most successful captain in international cricket history, with 220 victories in 324 matches with a winning rate of 67.91%. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest batsmen of all time and in December 2006 reached the highest rating achieved by a Test batsman for 50 years, although this was surpassed by Steve Smith in December 2017. He stands third in the list of cricketers by number of international centuries scored, behind Sachin Tendulkar and Virat Kohli. Domestically, Ponting played for his home state of Tasmania as well as Tasmania's Hobart Hurricanes in Australia's domestic Twenty20 competition, the Big Bash League. He played as a specialist right-handed batsman, an excellent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pontings
Pontings was a department store based in Kensington High Street, London and operated from 1863 to 1970. Early history Pontings started out as a small drapery business by Thomas Ponting in Archer Street, just off Westbourne Grove, as Thomas H Ponting & Co. Thomas was one of four brothers and had been born in Gloucester. By 1868, the business had moved to 123 Westbourne Grove and Thomas had been joined by his brothers, William, Sydney and John. In 1873, Ponting Brothers, a milliner's, was opened at 125 Kensington High Street. The profits made from this venture saw the business expand into 127 (1876) and 123 Kensington High Street (1890). The business had changed from just a millinery and drapery to a seller of retail fancy goods and silks. In 1893 the premises grew again with the purchase of the adjacent Scarsdale House, the former mansion of the Curzons of Kedleston. In 1898 the company was incorporated, with William Ponting listed as the biggest shareholder, followed by his bro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Ponting
Thomas Harold Ponting (born January 28, 1965) is a Canadian former competitive swimmer who specialized in the butterfly stroke. Ponting competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics for Canada starting with the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles, California. At every occasion he won a medal with the men's 4 × 100 m medley relay team: two silver and one bronze. At the Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) swimming championships in 1989, Ponting broke the world and Canadian records in the 100-metre butterfly, with a time of 52.62 seconds. The record still stands as the CIS record. Ponting is the only swimmer in Canadian history to win three Olympic medals in three different Olympic Games (1992, 1988 and 1984). World Record Short Course: 4 × 100 m medley relay (1991) 4 × 100 m medley relay (1992) 100 m butterfly - 52.62 (1989) See also * List of Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming (men) * List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men) * World record progression 4 � ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Candy Ponting
Tom Candy Ponting (August 26, 1824 - October 11, 1916) was an American rancher, farmer and cattle driver. In 1853–1854, together with his business partner, Washington Malone, they were the first people to drive a herd of Texas Longhorn cattle from Texas to New York City, the longest cattle drive in American history. Early years Tom Candy Ponting was born at Hayden Farm, Perish of Kilsmeredo, near Bath, England on August 26, 1824. He was the fourth of nine children of John and Ruth Shearn Ponting. He was christened “Tom” not Thomas. Candy was his paternal grandmother's family name. His family were cattle breeders, a profession that he followed all of his life. He and his brother John sailed to United States on a clipper ship in 1847. The trip took six weeks. Arriving in New York City, they traveled by train and boat through Albany, Buffalo and Cleveland. They traveled by wagon through Ohio where Tom's brother John settled in Knox County. Tom continued his travels wes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Ponting
Walter Thomas Ponting (13 April 1913 – 17 August 1960), Access individual season statistics via Season Stats dropdown menu. also known as Wally Ponting, was a professional footballer who scored 53 goals from 116 appearances in the Football League playing as a centre forward for Grimsby Town, Chesterfield and Lincoln City. Football career Ponting was born in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, and made his debut for home-town club Grimsby Town, then playing in the Football League First Division, in the 1930–31 season while still a teenager. He remained with Grimsby for another five seasons, but appeared only rarely for the first team. Ponting joined Second Division club Chesterfield in the 1936 close season for a transfer fee of £1,015, plus an additional £200 payable if Chesterfield reached the Fourth Round of the 1936–37 FA Cup. They were drawn against Arsenal in the Third Round, and failed to progress further. He went straight into the starting eleven, and finished the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Ponting
William Robert Ponting (1872 – 21 March 1952) was an English amateur An amateur () is generally considered a person who pursues an avocation independent from their source of income. Amateurs and their pursuits are also described as popular, informal, autodidacticism, self-taught, user-generated, do it yourself, DI ... footballer who played as a half-back for Southampton St. Mary's in 1896–97, when they won the Southern League title for the first of six occasions over the next eight years. Football career Ponting was born in Andover, Hampshire where he became a schoolmaster. He was a leading amateur player for his local club and had been captain of the Hampshire County Junior XI in 1893. In March 1897, John Hodgkinson, the Southampton St. Mary's left-half was injured and the "Saints" called Ponting into the side for the remaining five matches of the season. Ponting made his debut in a 5–1 victory at Reading on 31 March and played his part in the run-in to So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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