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Richard Taunton Sixth Form College
Richard Taunton Sixth Form College, until 2012 called Taunton's College, is a sixth form college in Upper Shirley, Southampton attended by approximately 750 students. It is part of the Lighthouse Learning Trust, along with St Vincent Sixth Form College in Gosport. Admissions It offers a range of T levels and vocational courses, but mostly A Levels. It is to the west of Southampton Common next to the ''Bellemoor'' pub at the junction of ''Hill Lane'' and ''Bellemoor Road''. Near to the south is King Edward VI School, Southampton. History Foundation ''Taunton's School'' was founded in 1760 by Richard Taunton, former mayor of Southampton. In 1864 it moved to a specially built premises on New Road. In 1875 it was established as an endowed school, to be called ''Taunton's Trade School''. The school became a public secondary school and the name changed once more to ''Taunton's School''. Grammar school In 1926, the school moved to a new site on Highfield Road. It was officially open ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sixth Form College
A sixth form college (pre-university college in Malaysia) is an educational institution, where students aged 16 to 19 study typically for advanced post-school level qualifications such as GCE Advanced Level, A Levels, Business and Technology Education Council level 3 (BTEC), and the International Baccalaureate Diploma, or school-level qualifications such as General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) examinations and BTEC level 2 qualifications. In many countries this type of educational institute is known as a junior college. The municipal government of the city of Paris uses the phrase 'sixth form college' as the English name for a lycée (high school). In England and the Caribbean, education is currently compulsory until the Year 13, the school year in which the pupil turns 18.Previously in England, education was compulsory only until Year 11 before August 2013 and until Year 12 between August 2013 and 2015. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Bell (poet)
Vincent Martin Oliver Bell (2 February 1918 – 1 February 1978) was an English poet who was a key member of The Group, an informal group of poets who met in London from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s. Biography Bell was born in Hampshire, England. He attended the University of Southampton, then called University College, Southampton, where he read for an external London Honours degree in English, followed in 1939 by a diploma in Education. He served from 1939 to 1946 with the Royal Engineers in Lebanon, Syria and Italy. From the mid-1950s, Bell became a member of The Group in London, having been introduced by Peter Redgrove following a chance meeting outside Chiswick Library. Bell regularly attended The Group's meetings until leaving for Leeds in 1967, and was influential in its workings. He was later described by Philip Hobsbaum as "much older than the rest of us, and much the best linguist;" and by Peter Porter as "the father and tone-setter of Group discussions." During this ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denis Henry Desty
Denis Henry Desty (21 October 1923 - 18 January 1994) was a British scientist and inventor, known primarily for his work in the fields of chromatography and combustion science.http://www2.royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqSearch=RefNo'EC%2F1984%2F10'&dsqCmd=Show.tcl, Biography at the Royal Society Desty twice won the Tswett Medal for Chromatography, in 1974 and 1978, and the Royal Society of Chemistry The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is a learned society and professional association in the United Kingdom with the goal of "advancing the chemistry, chemical sciences". It was formed in 1980 from the amalgamation of the Chemical Society, the ... Award for Combustion Chemistry in 1982. Desty's contributions to the field of chromatography are remembered to this day by the presentation of an annual Desty Memorial Award for Innovation In Separation Science http://www.desty.org.uk/Desty_Memorial_Lecture/Desty.html , Desty Memorial L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Robert Graham Conway
George Robert Graham Conway (1873–1951) was a civil engineer and a historian of Mexico. He is particularly known for his researches on ''Englishmen and the Mexican Inquisition'' (though the subjects were not all English). Biography G. R. G. Conway was born in Southampton, and educated at Taunton's School and Hartley University College, both in Southampton. After completing his engineering training he worked as assistant to James Mansergh and then became Resident Engineer to the City of Aberdeen in 1895. He worked in Monterrey, Mexico from 1907–1910, in British Columbia, Canada, from 1910–1916, and in Mexico City from 1916 until he retired in 1942. He died in Mexico City on 20 May 1951. Engineering Work In Aberdeen, Conway worked on the Girdleness Outfall Scheme, and on the rebuilding of the Union Bridge. In Monterrey he developed the Water-Works and Sewerage systems. In Canada, he worked on the Coquitlam-Buntzen hydro-electric scheme. Mexican History Conway spent much of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenneth Connell
The Star Brand is the name of a number of similar objects of power in the world of the Marvel Comics. The name "Star Brand" is also often adopted by the wielders of these objects. Three of these Star Brands have been prominently featured in series published by Marvel. The original Star Brand is a black star-shaped tattoo-like mark that first appeared in the comic book series ''Star Brand'', published by Marvel Comics as a part of its New Universe imprint (trade name), imprint from 1986 to 1989. All of the other Star Brands are alternates of this original version. The Star Brand gave its bearer infinite, god-like powers, limited only by the wielder's imagination. After the end of the series and the New Universe imprint, this specific Star Brand made appearances in Marvel's main shared universe, the Marvel Universe. The second Star Brand is a glowing glyph, shaped like the original Star Brand and giving identical powers. This Star Brand is featured in ''newuniversal'', a series fea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Cole (footballer)
Norman Philip Cole (7 November 1913 – 29 November 1976) was an English footballer who played in the 1930s at centre-forward, spending most of his career with Southampton. Football career Cole was born in Woolston, Southampton and was educated firstly at Sholing School and then at Taunton's School in Shirley, Southampton. He played football for both schools as well as the local Itchen Sports, before joining the works team from the Thornycroft shipbuilding works at Woolston. From there he joined the Isle of Wight side, Newport, before signing as an amateur for Southampton, then playing in the Football League Second Division, in August 1932, aged 18. His professional contract came a few months later and after starring in the reserves, he made his first-team debut on 30 December 1933, when he took Ted Drake's place at centre-forward in a 2–2 draw at Bradford City. When top-scorer Drake was sold to Arsenal in March 1934, the "Saints" forward line was rather depleted – despi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Chivers
Martin Harcourt Chivers (born 27 April 1945) is an English retired professional association football, footballer who played as a Forward (association football), forward. He began his career with his hometown club Southampton F.C., Southampton, before being sold to Tottenham Hotspur F.C., Tottenham Hotspur, but also had a prolific stint with Swiss club Servette FC, Servette. From 1971 to 1973, he played for the England national football team, England national team, scoring thirteen goals in 24 appearances, but did not represent his country at a major tournament. Playing career Southampton Chivers attended Taunton's College, Taunton's Grammar School, Southampton, and wrote to his local club, Southampton F.C., Southampton for a trial. He spent a brief period in the club's nursery side, CPC Sports, and signed as a professional footballer in September 1962, making his debut against Charlton Athletic F.C., Charlton Athletic on 8 September 1962 (aged 17). He failed to score on his debut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Augustus Levi Caesar
Alfred Augustus Levi Caesar (1914–1995), also known as Gus Caesar, was an English geographer noted particularly as a teacher. He spent most of his life based in St Catharine's College, Cambridge. Life and career Caesar was born in Southampton, and educated at Taunton's College, at that time a grammar school in that town. He studied geography at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, gaining a double first. He was elected to a postgraduate scholarship in 1936. He then taught for a year at the University of Durham (Newcastle). During World War II he was seconded to the Admiralty, working as a cartographer in Bath. In 1942 he came up with the idea of providing charts for ships' lifeboats. These were small scale charts covering the worlds' oceans, and showing prevailing currents and winds, to help the crew of a sunken ship to find their way to safety. These were issued to merchant ships. Caesar later received letters from mariners whose lives had been saved by these charts. Afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Butters
Sir John Henry Butters, CMG, MBE (23 December 188529 July 1969) was an Australian electrical engineer notable for his role in the Tasmanian Hydro-electric Department from 1914 to 1924, and as the head of the Federal Capital Commission, which developed Canberra between 1925 and 1930. Biography Butters was born in Hampshire, England, and trained as an electrical engineer at Hartley College, Southampton. He moved to Australia in 1909. He is best known for his role as Chief Commissioner of the Federal Capital Commission. The FCC was active during the early expansion of the new federal capital, Canberra, and was successful in planning and building many significant buildings. For his role in the city's development he is sometimes referred to as the 'Founder of Canberra'. Butters left Canberra in 1929 for Sydney, where he made a career as a consulting engineer, which continued until his retirement in 1954. When he died, personal papers and diaries were not available, and the sub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GHQ Liaison Regiment
GHQ Liaison Regiment (known as Phantom) was a special reconnaissance unit of the British Army first formed in 1939 during the early stages of World War II. The regiment's headquarters were at The Richmond Hill Hotel in Richmond, Surrey (now in London); its base (including the officers' mess and billet) was at Pembroke Lodge, a Georgian house in Richmond Park, London. History It had its origins as the No 3 British Air Mission in France in 1939. Moving with the Belgian General Staff, its role was to report information about the Allied forward positions from Belgian GHQ to the Advanced Air Striking Force HQ so as to pinpoint the changing locations of "bomb lines". These were the battle areas not occupied by Allied troops and suitable targets for bombs and shells. In November 1939, Lieut-Col George 'Hoppy' Hopkinson was sent as a military observer to the No 3 British Air Mission and subsequently changed the method of operations to focus upon greater use of wireless commu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Brain
Geoffrey, Geoffroy, Geoff, etc., may refer to: People * Geoffrey (given name), including a list of people with the name Geoffrey or Geoffroy * Geoffroy (surname), including a list of people with the name * Geoffroy (musician) (born 1987), Canadian singer and songwriter Fictional characters * Geoffrey the Giraffe, the Toys "R" Us mascot * Geoff Peterson, an animatronic robot sidekick on ''The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson'' * Geoff, a character from the cartoon series ''Total Drama'' * Geoff, Mark Corrigon's romantic rival on ''Peep Show'' Other uses * Geoff (Greyhawk), a fictional land in the World of Greyhawk ''Dungeons & Dragons'' campaign setting See also * Galfrid * Geof * Gofraid/Goraidh * Godfrey (name) * Gottfried * Godefroy (other) * Goffredo * Jeffery (name) * Jeffrey (name) * Jeffries * Jeffreys * Jeffers * Jeoffry (cat) * Jeff Jeff is a masculine name, often a short form (hypocorism) of the English given name Jefferson or Jeffrey, which comes f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugene Bernard
Eugene Henri Georges Bernard (3 June 1914 – 31 August 1973) was an English amateur footballer who made two first-team appearances as a goalkeeper for Southampton in 1936. Football career Bernard was born in Southampton and educated at Taunton's School. He joined Southampton as an amateur in November 1933, and made frequent reserve-team appearances. At the start of the 1936–37 season, both regular custodian Bert Scriven and new signing Len Stansbridge were unavailable, so Bernard was drafted into the first team for matches at home to Chesterfield (won 3–2) and away to Doncaster Rovers Doncaster Rovers Football Club is a professional association football club based in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England. The team currently competes in EFL League One, the third level of the English football league system after winning the 202 ... (lost 2–0), before Scriven's return. He remained on the club's books as a player until 1942, making nine first-team appearances in wart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |