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Simpkin
Simpkin may refer to: * Simpkin (surname) * Simpkin, a fictional cat in '' The Tailor of Gloucester'' (1903) by Beatrix Potter * Simpkin, the traditional name of the mouser of Hertford College, Oxford * A. L. Simpkin & Co. Ltd, English confectionery makers * Simpkin & Marshall, British bookseller, book wholesaler, and book publisher {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simpkin (surname)
Simpkin is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Anne Simpkin (born 1969), British tennis player * Chris Simpkin (born 1944), British footballer * George Simpkin (1943–2020), New Zealand rugby coach * Jake Simpkin (born 2001), Australian rugby player * Jonathan Simpkin (born 1987), Australian footballer * Jy Simpkin (born 1998), Australian footballer * Luke Simpkin (born 1979), British boxer * Mark Simpkin (born 1972), English television presenter and businessman * Richard Simpkin (1921–1986), British Army officer * Tom Simpkin (born 1990), Australian footballer See also * Simpkin (other) {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Tailor Of Gloucester
''The Tailor of Gloucester'' is a Christmas Children's literature, children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter, privately printed by the author in 1902, and published in a trade edition by Frederick Warne & Co. in October 1903. The story is about a tailor whose work on a waistcoat is finished by the grateful mice he rescues from his cat and was based on a real world incident involving a tailor and his assistants. For years, Potter declared that of all her books it was her personal favourite. Plot An elderly, impoverished tailor is commissioned by the Mayor of Gloucester to make a finely embroidered coat for his wedding on Christmas Day. After carefully cutting out all the pieces, he realizes he needs one more skein of cherry-colored twist for the last button hole. That evening, he asks his cat Simpkin to take their last penny and go buy some twist. While he's gone, the tailor discovers the cat has trapped some mice under a teacup and frees them. Simpkin returns, onl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simpkin (cat)
Simpkin is the name of the resident cat at Hertford College, Oxford. The college's tradition of keeping a mouser was started in the early 1970s by the former college principal Geoffrey Warnock. The college's cat is named Simpkin after a character in the children's book, ''The Tailor of Gloucester'', by Beatrix Potter. To date, Hertford College has had four college cats called Simpkin. The first three were black with white chest and feet, but the current one, Simpkin IV, is entirely black. Simpkin I (mouser from c.1971 – ?) Simpkin I, originally named Blanca, was given to the daughter of Hertford College's then principal, Geoffrey Warnock, and arrived at the college as a kitten. Renamed Simpkin after the character in ''The Tailor of Gloucester'', he gained public notoriety on one occasion by having to be rescued from a high roof at New College, Oxford by the local fire brigade. Simpkin II (1986 – 17 Dec 1999) Simpkins (aka Simpkin II) was born in Oxford in 1986, and arrived ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
