Shadwell (name) (born 1968), English international bowls player
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Shadwell is an English surname. Notable people with the name include: *Thomas Shadwell (c. 1642–1692), English poet and playwright *Lancelot Shadwell (1779–1850), British barrister and politician *Charles Shadwell (Royal Navy officer) (1814–1886), Commander-in-Chief, China Station *Charles Shadwell (priest) (1840–1910), jurisprudence lecturer at Oriel College, Oxford * Francis Shadwell (1851–1915), English cricketer * Arthur Shadwell (1854–1936), British physician and writer *Lancelot Cayley Shadwell (1882–1963), English writer and lyricist *Charles Shadwell (musician) (1898–1979), British conductor and bandleader *Graham Shadwell Graham Anthony George Shadwell (born 1975) is an English international bowls player. Bowls career Shadwell won two bronze medals at consecutive World Outdoor Championships in 2008 in the fours with Mark Bantock, Stephen Farish and Robert Ne ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Thomas Shadwell
Thomas Shadwell ( – 19 November 1692) was an English poet and playwright who was appointed Poet Laureate in 1689. Life Shadwell was born at either Bromehill Farm, Weeting-with-Broomhill or Santon House, Lynford, Norfolk, and educated at Bury St Edmunds School, and at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, which he entered in 1656. He left the university without a degree, and joined the Middle Temple. At the Whig triumph in 1688, he superseded John Dryden as poet laureate and historiographer royal. He died at Chelsea on 19 November 1692.Thomas Shadwell He was buried in Chelsea Old Church, but his tomb was destroyed by wartime bombing. A memorial to him with a bust by [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Lancelot Shadwell
Sir Lancelot Shadwell (3 May 1779 – 10 August 1850) was a barrister at Lincoln's Inn and was Member of Parliament (MP) for Ripon from 1826 to 1827 before becoming Vice-Chancellor of England in 1827. He supported Jewish emancipation. Life He was the eldest son of Lancelot Shadwell of Lincoln's Inn, barrister-at-law, an eminent conveyancer, by his wife Elizabeth, third daughter of Charles Whitmore of Southampton, and was born on 3 May 1779. He was educated at Eton, and subsequently went to St. John's College, Cambridge, where, in 1800, he became seventh wrangler, obtained the second chancellor's medal, and graduated B.A. He was elected a fellow of his college on 23 March 1801, graduated M.A. in 1803, and received the honorary degree of LL.D. in 1842. Shadwell was admitted a member of Lincoln's Inn on 30 June 1797, and was called to the bar on 10 February 1803. After practising eighteen years with much success as a junior in the court of chancery, he was appointed a king's ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Charles Shadwell (Royal Navy Officer)
Admiral Sir Charles Frederick Alexander Shadwell, (31 January 1814 – 1 March 1886) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, China Station. Naval career Born the fourth son of Sir Lancelot Shadwell, Charles Shadwell joined the Royal Navy in 1827. He was present during operations off Syria in 1840. In 1850 he became Commander in HMS ''Sphinx '' and took part in the Second Anglo-Burmese War. Promoted Captain in 1853, he commanded HMS ''Highflyer'' from 1856 and took part in the capture of Canton and the Battle of Taku Forts during the Second Opium War. He commanded HMS ''Aboukir'' from 1861 and HMS ''Hastings'' from 1862. He was appointed Captain-Superintendent of Gosport victualling-yard in 1864 and Commander-in-Chief, China Station in 1871. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1861. In 1878 he was made President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich. He retired in 1879 and in retirement lived at Meadow Bank in Melksham in Wiltshire ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Charles Shadwell (priest)
Charles Lancelot Shadwell (16 December 1840, London – 13 February 1919, Oxford) was Provost of Oriel College, Oxford, from 1905 until 1914. Shadwell was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford Christ Church ( la, Ædes Christi, the temple or house, '' ædēs'', of Christ, and thus sometimes known as "The House") is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII, the college is uniqu ..., where he matriculated in 1859 and graduated B.A. in 1863. He was subsequently a Fellow of Oriel. He was called to the bar in 1872 and lectured at Oxford on jurisprudence. References Provosts of Oriel College, Oxford 1840 births 1936 deaths Academics from London People educated at Westminster School, London Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford Fellows of Oriel College, Oxford English barristers Translators of Dante Alighieri {{UOxford-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Francis Shadwell
Francis Bradby Shadwell (4 May 1851 – 9 February 1915) was an English first-class cricketer active 1879–82 who played for Surrey and Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). He was born in Barnes, Surrey Barnes () is a district in south London, part of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, England. It takes up the extreme north-east of the borough, and as such is the closest part of the borough to central London. It is centred west sout ...; died in Windsor. References 1851 births 1915 deaths English cricketers Surrey cricketers Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers {{England-cricket-bio-1850s-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Arthur Shadwell
Arthur Shadwell (September 1854 – 21 March 1936) was a British physician and author, specialising in public health, temperance, and wider problems of economics and politics. Career Arthur Shadwell was an alumnus of Uppingham School and Keble College, Oxford where he matriculated in 1874. He graduated B.A. in 1882, and B.Med.and M.A. in 1883. He completed his clinical training at Saint Bartholomew's Hospital, and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. Shadwell was appointed as a medical advisor to the Metropolitan Asylums Board in 1900. In September 1908 he was appointed a trustee for the Queen Victoria Jubilee Institute of Nurses. Shadwell had worked as an assistant physician in Brighton at the Sussex County Hospital, before he decided to pursue his dream of writing on public health, temperance, and wider problems of economics and politics, He wrote numerous books and articles for publications like Maclean's, and in 1892 he was selected to be a special correspon ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Lancelot Cayley Shadwell
Lancelot Cayley Shadwell (26 April 1882 – 28 October 1963) was an English writer, lyricist, and ceramicist. He wrote the lyrics to a host of popular songs, published three collections of his poetry, and contributed to the popular monthly series ''Books for the Bairns'', published by W.T Stead to provide affordable literature to children and adults. During World War I, he helped launch and nurture one of the most successful concert parties of the war: the Diamond Troupe of the 29th Division. In the mid-1920s, Shadwell co-founded the Broadstone Potters—a small but influential producer of studio pottery with links to some of the most important figures in British ceramics. Early life Shadwell was born in Maida Vale, London in 1882, the son of Captain Thomas Henry John Shadwell (1859–1893) and Mary Feare James (1859–1892). He was born into a family of distinguished legal scholars, amongst whom was the renowned Sir Lancelot Shadwell (1779–1850), barrister, Member ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Charles Shadwell (musician)
Charles Murray Winstanley Shadwell (26 March 1898 – 28 July 1979) was a British conductor and bandleader. Biography Born in Dormans Park, Surrey, he saw military service in the Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire) Regiment before studying at the Royal Academy of Music. He started his professional career playing piano to accompany silent films, before working as a musical director at theatres in Portsmouth, Brighton, and Coventry. From 1932, he conducted the Coventry Hippodrome Orchestra in regular weekly concerts on BBC radio, and in 1936 he was appointed as conductor of the BBC Variety Orchestra in succession to Kneale Kelly.Philip L. Scowcroft, "A Twenty-Third Garland of British Light Music Composers", ''Music Web International'' ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |