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Steven Gilbert (comics)
Stephen Gilbert (1910–2007) was a British painter and sculptor. Steve or Stephen Gilbert may also refer to: * Stephen Gilbert (novelist) (1912–2010), Northern Irish novelist * Stephen Gilbert, Baron Gilbert of Panteg (born 1963), Conservative member of the British House of Lords * Steve Gilbert Stephen David John Gilbert (born 6 November 1976) is a British Liberal Democrats (UK), Liberal Democrat politician. He was elected at the 2010 United Kingdom general election, 2010 general election the Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Mem ... (born 1976), British politician * Steve Gilbert (American football), head football coach at Jacksonville University {{hndis, Gilbert, Stephen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Gilbert
Stephen Gilbert (15 January 1910 – 12 January 2007) was a painter and sculptor from Scotland. He was one of the few British artists fully to embrace the avant-garde movement in Paris in the 1950s. Early years Gilbert was born in Wormit, in the north-east of Fife, Scotland, of English parents. His father was a commander in the Royal Navy; his grandfather was the sculptor Sir Alfred Gilbert. Education He studied architecture at the Slade School of Art in London from 1929 to 1932, where he befriended fellow student Roger Hilton. Gilbert won the Slade Scholarship at the end of his first year, and the principal Sir Henry Tonks encouraged him to start painting from 1930. He also met sculptor Jocelyn Chewett at the Slade, and they were married in 1935. Career He exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1936, and put on an early solo show in London, at the Wertheim Gallery in 1938. He moved to Paris in 1937, where his wife studied under Ossip Zadkine, leaving before the Second W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Gilbert (novelist)
Stephen Gilbert (22 July 1912 – 23 June 2010) was a Northern Irish novelist, businessman and nuclear disarmament activist. On the strength of his early novels in the 1940s, Gilbert was accounted by E. M. Forster as "a writer of distinction", but he is chiefly remembered as the author of '' Ratman's Notebooks'' (1968) which sold over 1 million copies and was twice made into a horror film named ''Willard'' (1971 and 2003) in the United States. Early life Stephen Gilbert was born in Newcastle, County Down in 1912 into a prosperous Irish Protestant mercantile family and grew up mainly in an affluent district of Belfast East. Like his near-contemporaries C. S. Lewis and Louis MacNeice, the young Gilbert was sent "across the water" to school. From age 10 he attended The Leas, Hoylake on Merseyside in England and from age 13 Loretto School, Musselburgh in Scotland. He returned from Musselburgh without a Leaving Certificate, but not before manifesting his budding literary talent. Gilb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Gilbert, Baron Gilbert Of Panteg
Stephen Gilbert, Lord Gilbert of Panteg (born 24 July 1963) is a British Conservative politician and member of the House of Lords. Gilbert was brought up in Pontypool and became active in politics in the town. After attending West Monmouth School he worked in Cwmbran and soon became involved in local politics. He said in an interview: "I saw in Pontypool that politics was about public service. It was a Labour town but with an active Conservative Party and thriving community organisations. "I saw that so often the same people who were involved in the stuffing of envelopes for political parties one day would be at the counter of the charity shop the next. I felt then, as I do now, that getting involved in and working for any political party and fighting for your beliefs is valuable, decent and honourable." Gilbert first came into the Conservative Party with the old cadre of Tory officials, under the doyenne of Conservative elections Sir Tony Garrett, who headed the Conservativ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Gilbert
Stephen David John Gilbert (born 6 November 1976) is a British Liberal Democrats (UK), Liberal Democrat politician. He was elected at the 2010 United Kingdom general election, 2010 general election the Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for the new constituency of St Austell and Newquay (UK Parliament constituency), St Austell and Newquay, but lost his seat at the 2015 United Kingdom general election, 2015 general election to the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party candidate Steve Double. He now teaches politics at Highgate School, having previously taught history and politics at the King's School, Worcester. Background Gilbert was born in Truro, Cornwall and was educated at schools in Lostwithiel, Fowey and St Austell. He went on to study International Politics at University of Wales, Aberystwyth and completed a master's degree, also in International Politics, at the London School of Economics. He is a former Restormel Borough Councillor, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
