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[edit] Archive for Selected biography
The following biographies have featured as the Selected biography at the Cheshire Portal:
[edit] Daniel Craig
Daniel Craig (born 2 March 1968) is an English actor. Born in Chester and brought up on the Wirral, he joined the National Youth Theatre at the age of sixteen and graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1991.
His early film roles include The Power of One, A Kid in King Arthur's Court and the television episodes Sharpe's Eagle and The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: Daredevils of the Desert. His breakthrough performances were in Layer Cake and opposite Angelina Jolie in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.
Craig is the sixth actor to portray the fictional secret agent James Bond in the long-running Eon Productions film series. His debut appearance as the character in the 2006 film Casino Royale gained critical acclaim and was nominated for a BAFTA award. Earning US$593 million worldwide, Casino Royale is the highest-grossing film of the franchise to date. Craig is currently filming the 22nd James Bond film, Quantum of Solace.
[edit] Sir John Tomlinson Brunner, 1st Baronet
Sir John Tomlinson Brunner, 1st Baronet (8 February 1842 – 1 July 1919) was a chemical industrialist and Liberal Party politician.
Born in Liverpool, he worked at Hutchinson's alkali works in Widnes, rising to general manager. In 1873, in partnership with Ludwig Mond, he started the chemical company Brunner Mond & Co. at Winnington near Northwich, initially making alkali by the Solvay process. It became the wealthiest British chemical company of the late 19th century and, after Brunner's death, was one of the four companies that merged to found Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI).
Brunner represented Northwich in Parliament in 1885–86 and 1887–1910. He was a prominent Freemason, a paternalistic employer and a generous benefactor to the towns in his constituency and to the University of Liverpool. He is the great grandfather of HRH The Duchess of Kent.
[edit] Thomas Brassey
Thomas Brassey (7 November 1805 – 8 December 1870) was an English civil engineering contractor and manufacturer of building materials who was responsible for building a large portion of the world's railways.
Born in Buerton, near Chester, Brassey's business was in Birkenhead. He was responsible for building about one-third of Britain's railways, three-quarters of those in France, and major lines across Europe as well as in Canada, Australia, S. America and India, with their associated docks, bridges, viaducts, stations, tunnels and drainage works. His other works included steamships, mines, locomotive factories, marine telegraphy and water supply and sewage systems.
[edit] Adrian Boult
Sir Adrian Cedric Boult (April 8, 1889 – February 22, 1983) was an English conductor. Born in Chester, he was educated at Westminster School, Christ Church, Oxford, and the Leipzig Conservatory, where he learned to conduct by watching the eminent Hungarian conductor Arthur Nikisch. He made his concert debut in 1918 and conducted the first performance of Holst's The Planets that same year.
Boult conducted the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra 1924–30 and 1959–60, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra for twenty years from its inception in 1930. After his controversial enforced retirement from the BBC Symphony, he became Principal Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, a position he held until 1957. He continued to conduct and make recordings until 1981.
Particularly associated with 20th century British music, Boult's prolific recordings include the complete Vaughan Williams symphonies, as well as many works by Elgar and Holst.
[edit] Michael Owen
Michael James Owen (born December 14, 1979, in Chester, Cheshire) is an English football player currently with Newcastle United. He previously played for Liverpool (1996–2004) and Real Madrid (2004–5). He plays as a striker and has enjoyed a hugely successful and high-profile career at both club and international level and was the European Footballer of the Year in 2001. Owen is currently England's fourth highest scorer of all time, with 37 goals in 82 games for his country, with him being England's leading competitive goalscorer on 23 goals.
Pace and clinical finishing were Owen's greatest assets early in his career, though he has since lost pace due to injuries. Owen returned from a year and a half of recurrent injuries, sustained since December 2005, towards the end of the 2006–7 season.
[edit] Lewis Carroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (January 27, 1832 – January 14, 1898), better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican clergyman, and photographer.
His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass as well as the poems "The Hunting of the Snark" and "Jabberwocky".
His facility at word play, logic, and fantasy has delighted audiences ranging from children to the literary elite. But beyond this, his work has become embedded deeply in modern culture. He has directly influenced many artists.
There are societies dedicated to the enjoyment and promotion of his works and the investigation of his life in many parts of the world including North America, Japan, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand.
His biography has recently come under much question as a result of what has come to be termed the "Carroll Myth".
