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Sheila K McCullagh
Sheila Kathleen McCullagh MBE (3 December 1920 – 7 July 2014) was a British author of children's literature. Biography McCullagh was born in Surrey, and during her 'teens the family moved to Woodside House, just outside Felmersham on the road to Chellington. She wrotA Survey of the Parish of Felmersham in the year 1939-1940 over 120 pages handwritten on lined paper. It included samples of aggregate taken from the river and pressed flowers and crops collected from the land. Her work was first published in the 1950s, when she was working as a lecturer at Leeds University. From 1958 to 1963 she taught at a teacher's college in London, Ontario before taking up writing full time. She went on to write many children's fantasy and educational books, the '' Puddle Lane'' series being among the most popular and successful. A television adaptation of the book series starred and featured original music by Neil Innes. McCullagh spent many years lecturing in Canada and travelled to mos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Member Of The Most Excellent Order Of The British Empire
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding valuable service in a wide range of useful activities. It comprises five classes of awards across both civil and military divisions, the most senior two of which make the recipient either a Orders, decorations, and medals of the United Kingdom#Modern honours, knight if male or a dame (title), dame if female. There is also the related British Empire Medal, whose recipients are affiliated with the order, but are not members of it. The order was established on 4 June 1917 by King George V, who created the order to recognise 'such persons, male or female, as may have rendered or shall hereafter render important services to Our Empire'. Equal recognition was to be given for services rendered in the UK and overseas. Today, the majority of recipients are UK citizens, though a number of Commonwealth realms outside the UK continue to make appointments to the order. Honorary awards may be made to cit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Scott
Sir Peter Markham Scott (14 September 1909 – 29 August 1989) was a British ornithologist, conservation movement, conservationist, painter, naval officer, broadcaster and Sportsperson, sportsman. The only child of Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott, he took an interest in observing and shooting wildfowl at a young age and later took to their breeding. He established the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust in Slimbridge in 1946 and helped found the World Wide Fund for Nature, the logo of which he designed. He was a yachting enthusiast from an early age and took up gliding in mid-life. He was part of the UK team for the 1936 Summer Olympics and Sailing at the 1936 Summer Olympics – O-Jolle, won a bronze medal in sailing a one-man dinghy. He was knighted in 1973 for his work in Conservation biology, conservation of wild animals and was also a recipient of the WWF Gold Medal and the J. Paul Getty Wildlife Conservation Prize. Early life Scott was born in London at 174, Buckingham Pala ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2014 Deaths
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1920 Births
Events January * January 1 ** Polish–Soviet War: The Russian Red Army increases its troops along the Polish border from 4 divisions to 20. ** Kauniainen in Finland, completely surrounded by the city of Espoo, secedes from Espoo as its own market town. * January 7 – Russian Civil War: The forces of White movement, Russian White Admiral Alexander Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk; the Great Siberian Ice March ensues. * January 10 ** The Treaty of Versailles takes effect, officially ending World War I. ** The League of Nations Covenant enters into force. On January 16, the organization holds its first council meeting, in Paris. * January 11 – The Azerbaijan Democratic Republic is recognised de facto by European powers in Palace of Versailles, Versailles. * January 13 – ''The New York Times'' Robert H. Goddard#Publicity and criticism, ridicules American rocket scientist Robert H. Goddard, which it will rescind following the launch of Apollo 11 in 1969. * Janua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derek Collard
Derek is a masculine given name. It is the English language short form of Diederik, the Low Franconian form of the name Theodoric. Theodoric is an old Germanic name with an original meaning of "people-ruler" or "lead the people". Common variants of the name are Derrek, Derik, Deryck (included here), as well as Derrick and Derick. History The English form of the name arises in the 15th century, via import from the Low Countries. The native English (Anglo-Saxon) form of the name was ''Deoric'' or ''Deodric'', from Old English ''Þēodrīc'', but this name had fallen out of use in the medieval period. During the Late Middle Ages, there was intense contact between the territories adjacent to the North Sea, in particular due to the activities of the Hanseatic League. As a result, there was a lot of cross-pollination between Low German, Dutch, English, Danish and Norwegian. The given name ''Derk'' is found in records of the Low Countries from the early 14th century, and in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buccaneers (series)
Sheila Kathleen McCullagh MBE (3 December 1920 – 7 July 2014) was a British author of children's literature. Biography McCullagh was born in Surrey, and during her 'teens the family moved to Woodside House, just outside Felmersham on the road to Chellington. She wrotA Survey of the Parish of Felmersham in the year 1939-1940 over 120 pages handwritten on lined paper. It included samples of aggregate taken from the river and pressed flowers and crops collected from the land. Her work was first published in the 1950s, when she was working as a lecturer at Leeds University. From 1958 to 1963 she taught at a teacher's college in London, Ontario before taking up writing full time. She went on to write many children's fantasy and educational books, the ''Puddle Lane'' series being among the most popular and successful. A television adaptation of the book series starred and featured original music by Neil Innes. McCullagh spent many years lecturing in Canada and travelled to most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim And The Hidden People
Tim and the Hidden People by Sheila K. McCullagh is a 1970s and 80's reading scheme, also known as Flightpath to Reading, originally devised for young children and intended for children with a reading age of eight-and-a-half to nine years. It consists of 32 books, each 32 pages long and illustrated by Pat Cook (1974-1979) and later Ray Mutimer (1980), written in a simple vocabulary. Four paperback "novella" books intended for older readers were also published in 1983 by Arnold-Wheaton. Sheila McCullagh also wrote many other books, including '' Puddle Lane, The Village with Three Corners, Dragon Pirate Stories, and Griffin Pirate Stories''. Plot The ''Tim and the Hidden People'' books are about a boy called Tim who lives in a house in The Yard. The books begin with Tim finding a key which enables him to see the Hidden People, he befriends Tobias the black cat and has many adventures. Tobias has a son, Sebastian, who also has special power as one of the "strange ones" - those ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One Two Three And Away
One, Two, Three and Away () is a series of books for children written by Sheila K. McCullagh, often known as the Roger Red Hat Books, or The Village with Three Corners. Illustrated mostly by Ferelith Eccles Williams and published by Collins in the 1960s–90s and more recently bThe Reading Hut Ltd with new ISBNs Characters include Roger Red Hat, Billy Blue Hat, twins Johnny and Jennifer Yellow Hat, and Percy Green. The books were written at a number of levels of increasing difficulty for those learning to read. After the Pre-readers and Introductory book, there are 4 coloured sections, in increasing order of difficulty, blue, red, green, yellow. Accompanying the red, green and yellow levels there are the Main Readers following a loose story arc, 1–3 in pink are aligned with red books, 4–5 with the green, and 6–10 with the yellow. List of books Pre-readers * (1) Red * (1a) Green * (1b) Roger Red Hat and Mrs. Green's hat * (2) Blue * (2a) Red, Green, Blue, Yellow, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Griffin Pirate Stories
Sheila Kathleen McCullagh MBE (3 December 1920 – 7 July 2014) was a British author of children's literature. Biography McCullagh was born in Surrey, and during her 'teens the family moved to Woodside House, just outside Felmersham on the road to Chellington. She wrotA Survey of the Parish of Felmersham in the year 1939-1940 over 120 pages handwritten on lined paper. It included samples of aggregate taken from the river and pressed flowers and crops collected from the land. Her work was first published in the 1950s, when she was working as a lecturer at Leeds University. From 1958 to 1963 she taught at a teacher's college in London, Ontario before taking up writing full time. She went on to write many children's fantasy and educational books, the ''Puddle Lane'' series being among the most popular and successful. A television adaptation of the book series starred and featured original music by Neil Innes. McCullagh spent many years lecturing in Canada and travelled to most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Shackleton
Keith Hope Shackleton MBE (16 January 1923 – 17 April 2015) was a British painter who concentrated on landscape views and animals. He has also produced limited edition prints. He was a friend of the conservationist and fellow painter Peter Scott, with whom he travelled to Antarctica. Like Scott, he went to Oundle School. He was also a presenter on the BBC children's television programme '' Animal Magic'' and of the Children's ITV series ''Animals in Action'', produced by Anglia Television using footage from its ''Survival'' series. A retrospective exhibition of his "Polar Art", depicting creatures and scenery from both the Arctic and Antarctic was open at the Scott Polar Research Institute in May and June 2007. Shackleton was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding valuable service in a wide range of useful activities. It comprises five classes of awards across both ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surrey
Surrey () is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Greater London to the northeast, Kent to the east, East Sussex, East and West Sussex to the south, and Hampshire and Berkshire to the west. The largest settlement is Woking. The county has an area of and a population of 1,214,540. Much of the north of the county forms part of the Greater London Built-up Area, which includes the Suburb, suburbs within the M25 motorway as well as Woking (103,900), Guildford (77,057), and Leatherhead (32,522). The west of the county contains part of Farnborough/Aldershot built-up area, built-up area which includes Camberley, Farnham, and Frimley and which extends into Hampshire and Berkshire. The south of the county is rural, and its largest settlements are Horley (22,693) and Godalming (22,689). For Local government in England, local government purposes Surrey is a non-metropolitan county with eleven districts. The county historically includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
