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Tarrant may refer to: Places United Kingdom *River Tarrant, a river in Dorset, after which several villages are named: **Tarrant Crawford, Dorset **Tarrant Gunville, Dorset **Tarrant Hinton, Dorset **Tarrant Keyneston, Dorset **Tarrant Launceston, Dorset **Tarrant Monkton, Dorset ** Tarrant Rawston, Dorset **Tarrant Rushton, Dorset * Tarrant Abbey, Dorset *Hill Forts and Upper Tarrants (ward) * Hurstbourne Tarrant, Hampshire, with associations to Tarrant Abbey United States *Tarrant, Alabama * Tarrant, Wisconsin *Tarrant County, Texas People * Ambrose Tarrant (1866–1938), Australian cricketer * Blair Tarrant (born 1990), New Zealand field hockey player * Brenton Tarrant (born 1990), Australian mass shooter * Chris Tarrant (born 1946), British radio broadcaster and television presenter * Chris Tarrant (footballer) (born 1980), Australian footballer * Colin Tarrant (1952–2012), British actor * Dick Tarrant (born 1931), American basketball coach * Dorothy Tarrant (1885–1973), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
River Tarrant
The River Tarrant is a 12 km long tributary of the River Stour, Dorset, River Stour in Dorset. The valley lies to the east of Blandford Forum. The river rises near Cranborne Chase, an area of chalk downland, and flows broadly from north to south before joining the river Stour. The eight Tarrant Valley villages/hamlets all bear the name of the river. Listed in order from the river's source they are: * Tarrant Gunville: the source of the river is in the grounds of Gunville House, now demolished. The parish church is dedicated to St Mary. * Tarrant Hinton: a village at a crossroads. The parish church is dedicated to St Mary. * Tarrant Launceston: a Hamlet (place), hamlet with a 17th-century three-arched bridge. The church, dedicated to St Mary, was demolished in the 1700s (the site is on Higher Dairy Farm). Now part of the parish of Tarrant Monkton. * Tarrant Monkton: a village with a parish church dedicated to All Saints. * Tarrant Rawston: a very small settlement. This once h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brenton Tarrant
Two consecutive mass shootings took place in Christchurch, New Zealand, on 15 March 2019. They were committed by a single perpetrator during Friday prayer, first at the Al Noor Mosque in Riccarton, at 1:40p.m. and almost immediately afterwards at the Linwood Islamic Centre at 1:52p.m. Altogether, 51 people were killed and 89 others were injured; including 40 by gunfire. The perpetrator, Brenton Tarrant, was arrested after his vehicle was rammed by a police car as he was driving to a third mosque in Ashburton. He live-streamed the first shooting on Facebook, marking the first successfully live-streamed far-right terror attack, and had published a manifesto online before the attack. On 26 March 2020, he pled guilty to 51 murders, 40 attempted murders, and engaging in a terrorist act, and in August was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parolethe first such sentence in New Zealand. The attacks were mainly motivated by white nationalism, anti-immi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Tarrant
Margaret Winifred Tarrant (19 August 1888 – 28 July 1959) was an English illustrator, and children's author, specializing in depictions of fairy-like children and religious subjects. She began her career at the age of 20, and painted and published into the early 1950s. She was known for her children's books, postcards, calendars, and print reproductions. Biography Tarrant was born in Battersea in South London, England, on 19 August 1888, the only child of landscape painter and illustrator Percy Tarrant and his wife Sarah Wyatt. She began drawing at an early age and never lost her love of drawing or interest in art in general. As a child she used to play at art shows and invite her parents inside a tent she made of a clothes horse and dust sheets to view her drawings pinned up inside. She attended Clapham High School (18981905), where she won several prizes for her art. She then attended the Clapham School of Art, where she started to train as an art teacher in 1905 (presum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Tarrant
Loris Bernard Napoleon Tarrant (29 December 1903 – 23 August 1943) was an Australian cricketer who both played and umpired first-class matches in India during the 1930s. Unusually, he made his debut as a first-class umpire before making his debut as a first-class player. Personal life Born in Clifton Hill, Victoria, Tarrant was the son of Frank Tarrant, who played 329 first-class matches in Australia (for Victoria), England (for Middlesex), and India (for the Europeans and Patiala). Frank Tarrant's uncle, Ambrose Tarrant, also played at first-class level for Victoria. Tarrant moved to England at the age of six months, returning to Australia as a young man. He later accompanied his father to India and became guardian and tutor to Yadavindra Singh, the Yuvraj (Crown Prince) of Patiala. He coached the prince in cricket, swimming, soccer and boxing. Yadavindra succeeded his father as Maharaja of Patiala in 1938 and the following year Tarrant was appointed as his aide-de-camp w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Tarrant (athlete)
John Tarrant (4 February 1932 – 18 January 1975) was an English long-distance runner, nicknamed "The Ghost Runner" .He was given the nickname for his habit of "gatecrashing" races from which he was barred due to his "non-amateur" status, acquired during a brief career as a teenage prize-fighter.Jones, Bill (2011) ''The Ghost Runner: The Tragedy of the Man They Couldn't Stop''. Mainstream Publishing, Early life John Tarrant was born in Shepherd's Bush, London, in 1932 to John and Edna (). During the Second World War, with his father away on active service, his mother died of tuberculosis. John and his younger brother Victor (born 1934) were raised in a children's home in Kent until his father was demobilised at the end of the war. In 1947 his father remarried, and the family moved to Buxton in the Peak District in Derbyshire. Sporting career In 1950, at the age of 18, John took up boxing in Buxton, and earned a total of £17 at prize-fights in his local Town Hall. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeffrey Tarrant
Jeffrey Glynn Tarrant (April 4, 1956 – August 5, 2019) was an American investor. He was the founder and chairman of MOV37 and Protégé Partners, firms specializing in identifying, seeding and early stage investing in investment funds. He was also a founding partner of film production company Candescent Films. He died from brain cancer in 2019. Education Tarrant received a BA in economics from the University of California, Davis in 1978, and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1985.Christine Williamson"Smaller is better,"''Pensions & Investments'', February 4, 2013. Career Early career After graduating from Harvard Business School, Tarrant joined Berkeley Asset Management in Berkeley, California, as vice president, co-managing the Sequoia Fund, one of the first fund of hedge funds in the United States.Randolph B. Cohen and Brian DeLacey"Protégé Partners: The Capacity Challenge,"Harvard Business School Case 205-100, Brighton, MA: Harvard Business Publishing, April 2005 (re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ingrid Tarrant
Ingrid Dupre Tarrant (born 15 October 1954) is an English television personality and former wife of Chris Tarrant. She has appeared on such programmes as ''TV Mail'', ''Wish You Were Here?'' and '' This Morning''. She has also appeared on a special version of '' What Not to Wear'' where she received a makeover from fashion advisors Trinny and Susannah. She had two children with her first husband, Tony Walsh, and two with her second husband Chris Tarrant, including Toby. After her marriage was ruined in 2006, she received much media attention, and she has since gone on to appear in a number of reality television programmes which include '' The Race'', ''The Verdict'', '' Deadline'' and '' Celebrity Coach Trip'' partnered with friend Carol Harrison. Tarrant has appeared as a regular contributor on GB News. See also *Capital Radio Capital London is an Independent Local Radio station owned and operated by Global Media & Entertainment as part of its national Capital (radio ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Tarrant Sr
George may refer to: Names * George (given name) * George (surname) People * George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George * George Papagheorghe, also known as Jorge / GEØRGE * George, stage name of Giorgio Moroder * George, son of Andrew I of Hungary Places South Africa * George, South Africa, a city ** George Airport United States * George, Iowa, a city * George, Missouri, a ghost town * George, Washington, a city * George County, Mississippi * George Air Force Base, a former U.S. Air Force base located in California Computing * George (algebraic compiler) also known as 'Laning and Zierler system', an algebraic compiler by Laning and Zierler in 1952 * GEORGE (computer), early computer built by Argonne National Laboratory in 1957 * GEORGE (operating system), a range of operating systems (George 1–4) for the ICT 1900 range of computers in the 1960s * GEORGE (programming language), an autocode system invented by Charles Leonard Hamblin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Tarrant
George Frederick Tarrant (7 December 1838 in Cambridge – 2 July 1870 in Cambridge) was an English professional cricketer who played first-class cricket First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is of three or more days scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officially adju ... from 1860 to 1869. Mainly associated with Cambridge Town Club (''aka'' Cambridgeshire), Tarrant made 71 known appearances in first-class matches. Tarrant was a member of the second All England XI to tour Australia, travelling out on the SS Great Britain in 1863. The team played several matches in Australia before travelling to New Zealand where they played five games. They returned to Australia to complete the remainder of the 19 tour matches. Tarrant was a right arm fast bowler who was for a time rated the second fastest bowler in England after John Jackson. He bowled r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Tarrant
Francis Alfred Tarrant (11 December 1880 – 29 January 1951) was an Australian cricketer whose first-class career spanned from 1899 to 1936, and included 329 matches. From Melbourne, Tarrant began his career with Victoria in Australia's Sheffield Shield, but found fame playing in England, with a long career as an all-rounder for Middlesex in the County Championship. After the First World War, he was mostly active in India, appearing for the Europeans in the Bombay Quadrangular tournament. Tarrant played his final first-class match at the age of 56, during the 1936–37 season. He had also umpired in two England–India Test matches (and several first-class games) several seasons earlier. Considered one of the best players never to play at Test level, Tarrant scored almost 18,000 runs and over 1,500 wickets during his long career, and completed "the double" of 1,000 runs and 100 wickets in a season on eight separate occasions. Biography A nephew of ex-Victoria player Ambro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Tarrant
Dorothy Tarrant (1885–1973) was a British classical scholar, specialising in Plato. She was the first female Professor of Greek in the United Kingdom, teaching at Bedford College, London from 1909 to 1950. She researched the work of Plato, pioneering the use of stylistic analysis to conclude that he had not written all the work previously attributed to him. She was active in the Classical Association and became its first woman president in 1958. She was also an active Unitarian and campaigned especially against alcohol, becoming the president of the Unitarian Temperance Association, the Unitarian Assembly and the Unitarian College. Early life and education Dorothy Tarrant was the daughter of a Unitarian minister, the Reverend William Tarrant, who edited ''The Enquirer'' – the fortnightly newspaper of that denomination. His wife, Alice née Stanley, gave birth to her on 7 May 1885 in Wandsworth. She was educated at home before attending Wandsworth high school from 1895 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Tarrant
Richard Joseph Tarrant Jr. (born September 15, 1928) was the head men's basketball coach at the University of Richmond from 1981 through 1993. Tarrant, led the Spiders to five NCAA tournament and four NIT berths in his twelve seasons as head coach—the first postseason appearances in school history. Tarrant was raised in Englewood, New Jersey.Staff"Richmond to name Robins Center hardwood after coach Dick Tarrant" NCAA, July 30, 2015. Accessed August 12, 2016. "A native of Englewood, New Jersey, Tarrant came to Richmond as an assistant coach in 1978, and he became head coach in 1981." He attended St. Cecilia High School in Englewood, where his basketball coach was Vince Lombardi. Under Tarrant, the Spiders gained a reputation as giant killers. In their first NCAA appearance, in 1984, they upended an Auburn team led by Charles Barkley in the first round. In 1988, they defeated defending national champion Indiana and Georgia Tech to advance to the Sweet Sixteen—the deepest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
