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Winkworth Collection , an estate agents in London, England
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Winkworth may refer to: Places * Boxhill (Louisville), also known as "Winkworth", a Georgian Revival house in Glenview, Kentucky * Winkworth Arboretum, a National Trust-owned arboretum in Surrey, England People * Catherine Winkworth (1827–1878), an English translator * Ronald Winkworth (1884–1950), a British natural historian * Susanna Winkworth (1820–1884), an English translator and philanthropist Fictional characters * Dame Daphne Winkworth, a recurring character in the stories of English comic writer P. G. Wodehouse Organizations * Winkworth plc Winkworth plc is an international estate agent listed on the AIM London Stock Exchange. History Winkworth was founded in 1835 by the brothers Henry St John and Edward Henry Thomas Winkworth. The original head office was on Curzon Street, Mayfai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boxhill (Louisville)
Boxhill, also called Winkworth, is a Georgian Revival house in Glenview, Kentucky, a small city east of Louisville, Kentucky. It was built in 1906 or 1910 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. and As with other nearby mansions such as Lincliff, Boxhill reflects a period of Louisville history around the turn of the 20th century where wealthy Louisvillians built showcase homes along the Ohio River above Downtown Louisville. The 29 remaining mansions constitute the largest such collection along the 981-mile long river, and are among the best-preserved collections of turn-of-the-century estates in the United States. History William E. Chess, president of the Chess and Wymond Cooperage Company, built Boxhill on a tract on the Ohio River that he bought in 1906. The house, located on a bluff above the river, was completed by 1910. The Georgian revival house is reputed to have been designed by Boston architect Joseph E. Chandler. The landscap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winkworth Arboretum
Winkworth Arboretum is a National Trust-owned arboretum in the spread-out civil parish of Busbridge between Godalming and Hascombe, south-west Surrey, England. The arboretum was founded by Dr Wilfrid Fox, starting in 1938 and continuing through World War II. He cleared the land and planted it with carefully chosen trees and shrubs to maximise its autumnal appearance. Once it was established, he presented it to the National Trust in 1952. Winkworth Arboretum exhibits over 1000 species of trees as well as large collections of azalea, rhododendron ''Rhododendron'' (; from Ancient Greek ''rhódon'' "rose" and ''déndron'' "tree") is a very large genus of about 1,024 species of woody plants in the heath family (Ericaceae). They can be either evergreen or deciduous. Most species are nati ..., and holly on slopes leading down to landscaped garden lakes. Gertrude Jekyll explored the woods in the early 20th century. References External linksWinkworth Arboretum- Offic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Winkworth
Catherine Winkworth (13 September 1827 – 1 July 1878) was an English hymnwriter and educator. She translated the German chorale tradition of church hymns for English speakers, for which she is recognized in the calendar of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. She also worked for wider educational opportunities for girls, and translated biographies of two founders of religious sisterhoods. When 16, Winkworth appears to have coined a once well-known political pun, ''peccavi'', "I have Sindh", relating to the British occupation of Sindh in colonial India. Early life Catherine Winkworth was born on 13 September 1827 at 20 Ely Place, Holborn on the edge of the City of London. She was the fourth daughter of Henry Winkworth, a silk merchant. In 1829, her family moved to Manchester, where her father had a silk mill and which city figured in the Industrial Revolution. Winkworth studied under the Rev. William Gaskell, minister of Cross Street Chapel, and with Dr. James Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronald Winkworth
Ronald Winckworth (1884 – 6 September 1950) was a British natural historian who became President or Vice-President of three learned societies in the field, and who wrote on the topic of British and Indian mollusca. Life Winckworth was born in Brighton in 1884 and attended Epsom College. He then taught in Weymouth (1902), Eastbourne (1903–1905) and at St. Bees School (1905–1906) before winning an open exhibition to Jesus College, Oxford. He then taught at Radley College and Wellington College (1911) and Brighton Technical School (1912–1914). He served in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve during the First World War, reaching the rank of paymaster lieutenant, before working at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Plymouth. After teaching navigation at Pangbourne Nautical College, he worked for the Royal Society on publications, later becoming librarian, assistant secretary (1932–1937) and assistant editor (1937–1944). After retiring in 1944, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susanna Winkworth
Susanna Winkworth (13 August 1820 – 25 November 1884) was an English translator and philanthropist, elder sister of translator Catherine Winkworth. Early life and education Susanna Winkworth was born in London, the eldest daughter of silk merchant Henry Winkworth and his wife Susanna Dickenson.Susan Drain"Catherine and Susanna Winkworth"in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford University Press 2004). She was educated at home; among her tutors were prominent English Unitarians James Martineau and William Gaskell. Career Writer Winkworth translated the memoir and essays of German theologian Barthold Georg Niebuhr, in ''Life and Letters'' (1851 and 1852). She followed with more German religious literature, with translations of the ''Theologia Germanica'' (1854) and twenty-five sermons of medieval mystic Johannes Tauler (1858). She completed an unfinished biography of Martin Luther by Julius Hare (1855), and collaborated with her sister on ''Signs of the Times'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daphne Winkworth
The following is an incomplete list of fictional characters featured in the books and stories of P. G. Wodehouse, by series, in alphabetical order by series name. Due to overlap between the various classifications of Wodehouse's work, some characters appear more than once. Blandings Castle Threepwood family * Clarence Threepwood, 9th Earl of Emsworth Emsworth's siblings and their families * The Hon. Galahad Threepwood, Emsworth's unmarried younger brother * ''The Hon. Lancelot Threepwood'', Emsworth's deceased brother ** Millicent Threepwood, his daughter * Lady Ann Warblington, Emsworth's sister, sometime châtelaine at Blandings * ''Jane'', deceased sister of Emsworth ** Angela, daughter of Jane, Emsworth's niece *Lady Constance Keeble, later Schoonmaker, Emsworth's bossiest sister ** Joseph Keeble, her first husband, Phyllis Jackson's stepfather. *** Phyllis Jackson, Joe Keeble's stepdaughter **** Michael "Mike" Jackson, her husband, an old friend of Psmith ** James S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
