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Rendell
Rendell is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Alexander Rendell (born 1990), Thai-British actor, singer and environmentalist *Don Rendell (1926–2015), English jazz musician and arranger *Ed Rendell (born 1944), American lawyer and politician, former Governor of Pennsylvania *James Rendell (born 1980), English cricketer *Joan Rendell (1921–2010), English historian, writer and phillumenist *Marjorie Rendell (born 1947), American federal judge, former First Lady of Pennsylvania *Martha Rendell (1871–1909), Australian murderer *Matt Rendell (1959–2023), Australian rules footballer *Ruth Rendell (1930–2015), British mystery writer *Scott Rendell (born 1986), English footballer *Stephen Rendell (1819–1893), English-Canadian merchant and politician *Stuart Rendell (born 1972), Australian hammer thrower See also * Rendell (given name) * Rendel * Rendall * Randall (other) * Rundle {{surname [Baidu] |
Ed Rendell
Edward Gene Rendell (; born January 5, 1944) is an American lawyer, prosecutor, politician, and author. He served as the 45th Governor of Pennsylvania from 2003 to 2011, as chair of the national Democratic Party, and as the 96th Mayor of Philadelphia from 1992 to 2000. Born in New York City to a Jewish family from Russia, Rendell moved to Philadelphia for college, completing his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and J.D. from Villanova University School of Law. He was elected District Attorney of Philadelphia for two terms from 1978 to 1986. He developed a reputation for being tough on crime, fueling a run for Governor of Pennsylvania in 1986, which Rendell lost in the primary. Elected Mayor of Philadelphia in 1991, he inherited a $250 million deficit and the lowest credit rating of any major city in the country. As mayor, he balanced Philadelphia's budget and generated a budget surplus while cutting business and wage taxes and dramatically improving services to Phil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Rendell
Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, (; 17 February 1930 – 2 May 2015) was an English author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries. Rendell is best known for creating Chief Inspector Wexford.The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Sixth edition. Ed. by Margaret Drabble. Oxford University Press, 2000, p. 847. . A second string of works was a series of unrelated crime novels that explored the psychological background of criminals and their victims. This theme was developed further in a third series of novels, published under the pseudonym Barbara Vine. Life Rendell was born as Ruth Barbara Grasemann in 1930, in South Woodford, Essex (now Greater London). Her parents were teachers. Her mother, Ebba Kruse, was born in Sweden to Danish parents and brought up in Denmark; her father, Arthur Grasemann, was English. As a result of spending Christmas and other holidays in Scandinavia, Rendell learned Swedish and Danish. Rendell was educated at the Cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Rendell
Scott David Rendell (born 21 October 1986) is an English footballer who plays as a striker for AFC Totton. Career Early career Rendell was born in Ashford, Surrey, but lived in Basingstoke, Hampshire. He started his career with Staines Albion, where he played until the age of 16. After this, Rendell was signed onto the books of Aldershot Town before joining nearby Reading. Unable to break into the Reading first-team, he was loaned back to Aldershot, and had work experience loans at Forest Green Rovers and Hayes. While at Forest Green, Rendell scored the club's first ever goal as a professional side on the opening day of the 2005–06 season against Cambridge United, who he would later go on to sign for. Rendell had a successful spell with Crawley Town, initially on loan, before making the move permanent until the end of the 2006–07. He scored 11 goals in 42 league games for Crawley throughout the season. Cambridge United He joined Cambridge United on a free transfer in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marjorie Rendell
Marjorie "Midge" Rendell ( ''née'' Osterlund; born February 13, 1947) is an American attorney and jurist serving as a Senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and a former First Lady of Pennsylvania. In 2003, she was named to the PoliticsPA list of "Pennsylvania's Most Politically Powerful Women". Early life and education Rendell was born in Wilmington, Delaware. Her father was employed as a DuPont executive and she attended Ursuline Academy. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree, ''cum laude'', from the University of Pennsylvania in 1969 and a Juris Doctor from Villanova University School of Law in 1973. Career Private practice After graduating from law school, she practiced as an attorney for 20 years as a partner at the Philadelphia firm of Duane, Morris & Heckscher, where she focused her practice on bankruptcy and commercial litigation. She also served as a mediator for the United States District Court. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martha Rendell
Martha Rendell (10 August 1871 – 6 October 1909) was the last woman to be hanged in Western Australia, for the murder of her ''de facto'' husband's son, Arthur Morris, in 1908. She was also suspected of killing his two daughters, Annie and Olive, by swabbing their throats with hydrochloric acid. Although the children died slow and agonizing deaths, they had been treated by a number of doctors during their illness, only one of whom expressed any doubts about their deaths. Beginnings Martha Rendell moved in with Thomas Nicholls Morris at 23 Robertson St, East Perth after he had separated from his wife, who had moved out and lived elsewhere. Morris had custody of his four children at the time. Rendell, who had known Morris in Adelaide, South Australia, and had followed him west, moved into the house and posed as his wife. The children were told to call her "Mother". Rendell brutally abused Morris' children, once beating Annie so savagely that she could not walk. Arresting offi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Rendell
Donald Percy Rendell (4 March 1926 – 20 October 2015) was an English jazz musician and arranger. Mainly active as a tenor saxophonist, he also played soprano saxophone, flute, and clarinet. Career Rendell was born in Plymouth, England, and raised in London where he attended the City of London School, to which he gained a choral half-scholarship. The school was evacuated during the Second World War to Marlborough College, where Rendell heard Jazz for the first time. His father, Percy, was the musical director of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company; his mother Vera (née Trewin) was also a musician. His father died when Rendell was 16. Rendell had begun to play the piano aged five, but switched to saxophone in his teens. While he began his working life in the Southgate branch of Barclay's Bank, he soon left to become a professional musician. He began his career on alto saxophone but changed to tenor saxophone in 1943. During the rest of the 1940s, he was in the bands of George E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Rendell
Matthew Rendell (18 April 1959 – 28 June 2023) was an Australian rules footballer who played in the Australian Football League and South Australian National Football League (SANFL). Rendell played as a ruckman and made his debut with the West Torrens Football Club in the SANFL in 1977 where he played 79 games. He left South Australia in 1981 to play with the Fitzroy Football Club in the VFL, wearing the No. 9 guernsey. In his first year, he played mainly at full forward and kicked forty-five goals, but he admitted in later years he did not enjoy it. With the return of Ron Alexander to Western Australia, however, Rendell was to make the ruck position his own, barring injuries, until 1987. Rendell did have quite a number of injuries, however, after 1983, with the result that he played only 26 of 43 games in 1984 and 1985. Rendell won Fitzroy's 1982 and 1983 best and fairest awards, and was appointed captain from 1985 to 1987. In one game, Rendell, who had not kicked a goal i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Rendell
Alexander Simon "Alex" Rendell ( th, อเล็กซานเดอร์ ไซม่อน เรนเดลล์; born January 9, 1990) or Nirawit Rendell ( th, นิรวิทย์ เรนเดลล์), is a Thai actor and singer who has starred in films such as ''The Tesseract'' (2003), ''Indiana Joai: Elephant Cemetery'' (2003), '' Pisaj'' (2004) and ''13 Beloved'' (2006). He is of English and Thai descent. Life He was born in Jakarta, Indonesia and moved back to Bangkok, Thailand when he was 4 years old. Rendell began his acting career aged 4. Rendell graduated from Bangkok Patana School in 2008, and attended Faculty of Communication Arts, International Program, Chulalongkorn University. He graduated in 2012 and has diverted his full attention to series/movies. Rendell enjoys playing football and supports Manchester United. He has played for his Highschool - Bangkok Patana and helped clinch multiple BISAC & SEASAC trophies. An interesting fact to point o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Rendell
Stephen Rendell (May 24, 1819 – April 4, 1893) was an English-born merchant and politician in Newfoundland. He represented Trinity Bay in the Newfoundland House of Assembly from 1859 to 1873. He was born in Coffinswell, Devon, the son of John Rendell. In 1834, he was apprenticed to the merchants Bulley, Job and Company operating in St. John's. In 1859, he became a partner. Rendell, a supporter of union with Canada, was named to the colony's Legislative Council in 1874. He served as a founding member and president of the St. John's Agricultural Society. As a hunter, Rendell helped implement the introduction of snowshoe hares, now an important small game animal and food source on the island, from Nova Scotia. He resigned from business and returned to England in 1881 because of ill health due to asthma Asthma is a long-term inflammatory disease of the airways of the lungs. It is characterized by variable and recurring symptoms, reversible airflow obstruction, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Rendell
James Phillip Rendell (born 24 January 1980) is a former English cricketer. Rendell was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm off break. He was born in Bristol. Rendell represented the Gloucestershire Cricket Board in List A cricket. His debut List A match came against the Yorkshire Cricket Board in the 1999 NatWest Trophy. From 1999 to 2002, he represented the Board in 4 List A matches, the last of which came against the Surrey Cricket Board in the 1st round of the 2003 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy which was played in 2002. In his 4 List A matches, he took 7 wickets at a bowling average of 20.85, with best figures of 3/36. References External linksat Cricinfo ESPN cricinfo (formerly known as Cricinfo or CricInfo) is a sports news website exclusively for the game of cricket. The site features news, articles, live coverage of cricket matches (including liveblogs and scorecards), and ''StatsGuru'', a ...James Rendellat CricketArchive {{DEFAULTSORT:Rendell, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Rendell
Joan Rendell MBE (1921 – 4 May 2010) was an English historian, writer (mainly on Cornish subjects), and phillumenist. Life Rendell was born in Plymouth, Devon, in 1921. She was the daughter of Gervase Rendell, born 1879 in Eastry, Kent. For most of her life her home was at Werrington, Cornwall. She was the author of more than 30 books, mainly on Cornish subjects. In September 1980 she was made a Bard of Gorsedh Kernow, taking the name ''Scryfer Weryn'' (Writer of Werrington). She was also an avid collector of matchbox covers and had an estimated collection of 300,000. Another interest was corn dolly making, on which she also wrote a book. Rendell died in a fire at her bungalow in Yeolmbridge, near Launceston, Cornwall, on 4 May 2010. Awards Rendell was awarded the MBE in 1958, for raising £100,000 in National Savings In economics, a country's national saving is the sum of private and public saving. It equals a nation's income minus consumption and the governme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuart Rendell
Stuart Rendell (born 30 June 1972 in Canberra to Carole and Ralph Rendell) is an Australian retired hammer thrower. He competed in the 2000 and 2004 Olympics, but failed to qualify from his pool. His personal best throw is 79.29 metres, achieved in July 2002 in Varaždin ) , image_photo = , image_skyline = , image_flag = Flag of Varaždin.svg , flag_size = , image_seal = , seal_size = , image_shield = Grb_Grad .... This is the current Oceanian record. He retired from athletics in 2006 after winning his second Commonwealth Games gold medal at the Melbourne Commonwealth Games, Australia, with a Games Record distance of 77.53m. Rendell taught at Miles Franklin Primary School from 2005 to 2008, before moving to the Garran Primary School at the start of 2009, but then moved to Calwell Primary School. Achievements ReferencesProfile* 1972 births Living people Austr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
