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The Suspicions Of Mr Whicher
''The Suspicions of Mr Whicher'' is a British series of television films made by Hat Trick Productions for ITV, written by Helen Edmundson and Neil McKay. It stars Paddy Considine in the title role of detective inspector Jack Whicher of the Metropolitan Police. The first film, ''The Murder at Road Hill House'' (broadcast in 2011), was based on the real-life Constance Kent murder case of 1860, as interpreted by Kate Summerscale in her 2008 book ''The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House'', which was the winner of Britain's Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction in 2008, and was read as BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week in April the same year. Subsequent TV episodes are fictionalised accounts of Whicher's career as a private inquiry agent. McKay wrote the first of these, ''The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: The Murder In Angel Lane'', which was filmed in early 2013 and was broadcast on 12 May 2013. It was followed by two episodes written by Edmundson, ''The Suspicions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Summerscale
Kate Summerscale (born 2 September 1965) is an English writer and journalist. She is best known for the bestselling narrative nonfiction books The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, which was made into a television drama, '' The Wicked Boy'' and The Haunting of Alma Fielding. She has won a number of literary prizes, including the Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction in 2008. Biography Summerscale was brought up in Japan, England and Chile. After attending Bedales School (1978–1983), she took a double-first at Oxford University and an MA in journalism from Stanford University. She lives in London with her son. Writing She is the author of ''The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill House'', based on a real-life crime committed by Constance Kent and investigated by Jack Whicher, a book described in '' Literary Review'' as an altogether "deft 21st-century piece of cultural detection" which won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction in 2008. Summerscale also wrote the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scotland Yard
Scotland Yard (officially New Scotland Yard) is the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police, the territorial police force responsible for policing Greater London's London boroughs, 32 boroughs. Its name derives from the location of the original Metropolitan Police headquarters at 4 Whitehall Place, which had its main public entrance on the Westminster street called Great Scotland Yard. The Scotland Yard entrance became the public entrance, and over time "Scotland Yard" came to be used not only as the common name of the headquarters building, but also as a metonym for the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) itself and police officers, especially detectives, who serve in it. ''The New York Times'' wrote in 1964 that, just as Wall Street gave its name to New York's financial district, Scotland Yard became the name for police activity in London. The force moved from Great Scotland Yard in 1890, to a newly completed building on the Victoria Embankment, and the name "New Scotland Yard" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Sumpter
Donald Sumpter (born 13 February 1943) is a British actor who has appeared in film and television since the mid-1960s. His credits include three appearances in ''Doctor Who'' (1968, 1972, 2015), '' The Black Panther'' (1977), ''Bleak House'' (1985), '' The Queen's Nose'' (1995–1998), ''Great Expectations'' (1999), '' Nicholas Nickleby'' (2001), '' Enigma'' (2001), '' K-19: The Widowmaker'' (2002), '' The Constant Gardener'' (2005), '' Being Human'' (2009–2010), '' Ultramarines: The Movie'' (2010), ''Black Mirror'' (2011), ''Game of Thrones'' (2011–2012), '' Endeavour'' (2018), ' (2018), and '' Chernobyl'' (2019). Early life Sumpter was born on 13 February 1943, in Brixworth, Northamptonshire, England. Career One of Sumpter's early television appearances was the 1968 ''Doctor Who'' serial '' The Wheel in Space'' with Patrick Troughton as the Doctor. Sumpter appeared in ''Doctor Who'' again, in the 1972 serial '' The Sea Devils'' with Jon Pertwee. Sumpter also appeared in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolphus Williamson
Adolphus Frederick "Dolly" Williamson (1830 – 9 December 1889) was the first head of the Detective Branch of the Metropolitan Police and the first head of the Detective Branch's successor organisation, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID). He joined the force in 1850 and eventually became Chief Constable.Stewart Evans and Donald Rumbelow (2006) ''Jack the Ripper: Scotland Yard Investigates'': 19 Williamson was buried in Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey. In the television film A television film, alternatively known as a television movie, made-for-TV film/movie, telefilm, telemovie or TV film/movie, is a film with a running time similar to a feature film that is produced and originally distributed by or to a Terrestr ...s '' The Suspicions of Mr Whicher'' (2011) and '' The Suspicions of Mr Whicher II'' (2013) he was played by William Beck. In the Steampunk book series ''The Guild Chronicles'' by J.M. Bannon, Williamson is used as a character. The prequel to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seal Of The Confessional And The Anglican Church
Seal may refer to any of the following: Common uses * Pinniped, a diverse group of semi-aquatic marine mammals, many of which are commonly called seals, particularly: ** Earless seal, also called "true seal" ** Fur seal ** Eared seal * Seal (emblem), a device to impress an emblem, used as a means of authentication, on paper, wax, clay or another medium (the impression is also called a seal) * Seal (mechanical), a device which helps prevent leakage, contain pressure, or exclude contamination where two systems join ** Hermetic seal, an airtight mechanical seal * Security seals such as labels, tapes, bands, or ties affixed onto a container in order to prevent and detect tampering Arts, entertainment and media * ''Seal'' (1991 album), by Seal * ''Seal'' (1994 album), sometimes referred to as ''Seal II'', by Seal * '' Seal IV'', a 2003 album by Seal * '' Seal Online'', a 2003 massively multiplayer online role-playing game Law * Seal (contract law), a legal formality for contrac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Wagner
Arthur Douglas Wagner (13 June 1824 – 14 January 1902) was a Church of England clergyman in Brighton, East Sussex, England. He served for more than 50 years at St Paul's Church, Brighton, St Paul's Church in the town—first as a curate, then from 1873 as its vicar. As the only son of the Rev. Henry Michell Wagner (Vicar of Brighton for 46 years) and his wife Elizabeth Harriott, who died when he was a child, Arthur Wagner inherited considerable wealth. Following the pattern set by his father—who founded several churches in Brighton—he was able to pay for the construction and endowment of four churches in the town, three of which survive, and another in rural East Sussex where he owned a Estate (land), country estate. Like his father, he became embroiled in disputes and controversy: he held strongly Oxford Movement, Tractarian views and was often criticised for the advanced Ritualism in the Church of England, ritualism of the services he held at St Paul's, while his involvem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clergyman
Clergy are formal leaders within established religions. Their roles and functions vary in different religious traditions, but usually involve presiding over specific rituals and teaching their religion's doctrines and practices. Some of the terms used for individual clergy are clergyman, clergywoman, clergyperson, churchman, cleric, ecclesiastic, and vicegerent while clerk in holy orders has a long history but is rarely used. In Christianity, the specific names and roles of the clergy vary by denomination and there is a wide range of formal and informal clergy positions, including deacons, elders, priests, bishops, cardinals, preachers, pastors, presbyters, ministers, and the pope. In Islam, a religious leader is often known formally or informally as an imam, caliph, qadi, mufti, sheikh, mullah, muezzin, and ulema. In the Jewish tradition, a religious leader is often a rabbi (teacher) or hazzan (cantor). Etymology The word ''cleric'' comes from the ecclesia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Fielding
Emma Georgina Annalies Fielding (born 7 October 1970) is an English actress. Early life and education The daughter of a British Army officer, Fielding spent some of her childhood in Nigeria, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Northern Ireland and other places, also living above a betting shop in Malvern. She went to school at Berkhamsted Collegiate boarding school and worked as an usherette at the Apollo Theatre Oxford as a teenager. She studied law at Cambridge University, abandoning her studies after two terms, and worked at a kibbutz in Israel before embarking on the study of acting at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. Career After graduation Fielding worked for the Royal National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company, coming to the attention of critics in 1993's National Theatre production of Tom Stoppard's '' Arcadia,'' in which she created the role of Thomasina, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Saville-Kent
William Saville-Kent (10 July 1845 – 11 October 1908) was an English marine biologist, naturalist, Commissioner and Inspector of Tasmanian Fisheries and author. He is perhaps best-known for his work in the development of the artificial pearl industry. Early life Born in the town of Sidmouth in Devon, South West England on 10 July 1845, William Saville-Kent was the son of Samuel Saville Kent (7 July 1800 – 5 February 1872) and Mary Ann Windus (b. 1808 – May 1852), who was Samuel's first wife. William was the youngest of ten children from his father's first marriage. Samuel was employed as a "Factory Commissioner" for the Home Office, and inspected factories to ensure that they were properly implementing the worker safety measures regulated in the Factory Acts of 1833. As the acts sought to alleviate the harm done to children that were caused by unregulated working conditions in the factories, Samuel's “duties required him to inspect factories that employed women and ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Miles
Benjamin Charles Miles (born 29 September 1966) is an English actor, best known for his starring role as Patrick Maitland in the television comedy '' Coupling'', from 2000 to 2004, as Montague Dartie in '' The Forsyte Saga'', from 2002 to 2003, as propagandist and television executive Roger Dascombe in 2005 film ''V for Vendetta'', as Peter Townsend in the Netflix drama ''The Crown'' (2016–2017), George in episode 8 "The One That Holds Everything" in the TV drama '' The Romanoffs'' (2018), and Tay Kolma in the ''Star Wars'' series '' Andor'' (2022–2025). Early life Miles was born in Wimbledon, London, and lived as a young man in Ashover, Derbyshire, attending Tupton Hall School. He began acting in school productions, which he pursued mainly because it allowed him to miss classes. Career He moved into television roles in the 1990s, playing supporting roles in such series as ''Zorro'', ''Soldier Soldier'', '' Is It Legal?'', ''The Bill'', '' Peak Practice'' and '' Wonderf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laundress
A washerwoman or laundress is a woman who takes in laundry. Both terms are now old-fashioned; equivalent work nowadays is done by a laundry worker in large commercial premises, or a laundrette (laundromat) attendant, who helps with handling washing machines. Description As evidenced by the character of Nausicaa in the Odyssey, in the social conventions depicted by Homer and evidently taken for granted in Greek society of the time, there was nothing unusual or demeaning in a princess and her handmaidens personally washing laundry. However, in later times this was mostly considered as the work of women of low social status. The Magdalene asylums chose laundering as a suitable occupation for the "fallen women" they accommodated. In between these two extremes, the various sub-divisions of laundry workers in 19th-century France (''blanchisseuse'', ''lavandière'', ''laveuse'', ''buandière'', ''repasseuse'', etc.) were respected for their trade. A festival in their honour was hel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandra Roach
Alexandra Elizabeth Roach (born 20 August 1987) is a Welsh actress best known for her roles as Becky in ''Utopia'' and DS Joy Freers in '' No Offence''. She has also made appearances in series including '' Being Human'', ''Inside No. 9'', '' Black Mirror'' and '' Killing Eve''. Life and career Roach was born in Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, Wales. A number of her relatives, including her father Jeff (who went on to work for the Welsh Rugby Union), her brother and her sister, have been part of the police force at one point. A fluent Welsh speaker, Roach appeared in long-running television soap '' Pobol y Cwm'' in her early teens and won Best Juvenile Actor in a Soap at the Children in Entertainment Awards. After leaving the series in 2005, she spent time with the National Youth Theatre of Wales before going on to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She has described how her Welsh accent counted against her in an early audition for a television role. "This old guy was the directo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
