"early 1970s he became Principal of Dyfed College of Art. Following his resigning from Dyfed College he moved to the Stoke-on-Trent, where he concentrated on his own sculptures, working in limestone, wood, clay and steel. At the age of 60 he enrolled as a student at the Sir Henry Doulton School of Art. Following the school's closure in 1993, Everington, and Rosemary Barnett, the former head of the Doulton School, set up the Frink School (named after Dame Elizabeth Frink). It opened in 1996. Simon Everington, a British sculptor living in Japan, is his youngest son. Harry Everington Harry Everington"
"named as one of 35 people worldwide who have made a difference in terms of animal husbandry and wildlife conservation. Queen Elizabeth II promoted Daphne Sheldrick a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2006 New Year’s Honours List, ""[f]or services to the conservation of wildlife, especially elephants, and to the local community in Kenya"", the first damehood to be awarded in Kenya since the country received Independence in 1963. Sheldrick appeared as herself in the 2011 documentary ""Born to Be Wild"". She also had an appearance talking about an orphan elephant, which she took care"
"Secretary-General Ann Kenrick CBE. Following fifteen years in the private sector selling Hydro Electric Plants to West Africa and managing top Information Technology Accounts at IBM, Ann has been running the British Section of the FBC for 20 years. In 2015 she received the Honour of the Chevalier de L'ordre national du Merite for her outstanding work in bringing France and Britain together over the past two decades. In addition to her interest in Franco-British relations she has also developed a strong portfolio in the Environmental Transport arena as Chair of the London Cycling Campaign and founder/chair of a South"
"dedicated. The wakes were abolished in 1879, but soon revived by popular demand. Tunstall was home to the independent Frink School of Figurative Sculpture, which occupied a fine old factory (and former Old Court) in Roundwell Street for a number of years until about 2004. The Frink School was named after Elisabeth Frink, British sculptress, and was a small intimate academy with a specific discipline of study closer in spirit to a ""master and apprentice"" structure than an educational institution. This has since moved to nearby Leek. Today, the area is served by many primary schools, and secondary schools include"
"community"". The board of directors of Women of the Year issued a statement saying: ""Women of the Year would like to reiterate that we are proud to recognise their remarkable achievement and wish them all our continued support"". The Frink Award, a bronze eagle sculpted and donated by Elisabeth Frink, is presented in recognition of “women enriching other people's lives while overcoming their own problems”. Recipients include the author of the Adrian Mole books Sue Townsend. In 2008, the organisation established the Women of the Year Lectures. The inaugural Lecture was given in February of that year by Mary Robinson,"
"Empire, and elevated to Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1993 Queen's Birthday Honours. She is also noted for her charity work, being the New Zealand Patron on the Muscular Dystrophy Association. In 1988 she walked the entire length of New Zealand, over seven weeks, and raised $500,000 for that charity. Other achievements include being named New Zealand Sports Person and Sports Woman in 1985. In 1998, she became a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, the youngest New Zealander since Sir Edmund Hillary to receive a titular honour. In between her charity"
"especially in the Street Sleepers' Society, St John's Cathedral Women's Guild and the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Since the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937, the refugee camps in Hong Kong had also become a chief interest to Lady Pollock. In 1940, Lady Pollock, Soong Ai-ling and others initiated a campaign in Hong Kong and Canton to set up cooperatives which could accommodate 6,000 refugees to restore production. Lady Pollock was subsequently appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the New Year Honours of 1941 for her eminent contribution."
"Florence Nightingale Foundation The Florence Nightingale Foundation (FNF) is a charity organisation in the United Kingdom that provides scholarships to nurses, midwives and other health professionals while serving as a living memorial of the work of Florence Nightingale. In 1912 a memorial to Florence Nightingale was first proposed by Mrs Ethel Bedford-Fenwick at an International Council of Nurses Congress in Cologne. The intention was to create a foundation to provide educational support for nurses. Due to the 1914-1918 War, it was not until 1929 that the memorial proposal was activated at the ICN Grand Council in Montreal. In 1931 the"
"Elizabeth II in the 1989 Birthday Honours, and separately elevated to UNEP's Global 500 Roll of Honour in 1992, where she was among the first 500 people worldwide to have been accorded this particular honour. Sheldrick was also awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine and Surgery by Glasgow University in June 2000. In December 2001 her work was honoured by the Kenyan Government through the prestigious Moran of the Order of the Burning Spear (MBS) decoration. In 2002, the BBC recognized Sheldrick with their Lifetime Achievement Award. In the November 2005 issue of the ""Smithsonian"" magazine, Daphne Sheldrick was"
"made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to historical research. She was appointed a Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, also for services to historical research, in the 2009 New Year Honours. She accepted re-designation as a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in August 2009 following the restoration of titular honours by the New Zealand government. In 2018 she was made a Companion of the Royal Society Te Apārangi in recognition of her work to improve awareness, knowledge and understanding of the Treaty of Waitangi, of New Zealand"
"in 2000 for her work in human rights and elevated to Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours. In 2010, she was appointed to the position of Chairman of Clinks, a charity that supports the work of the voluntary and community sector working with offenders and their families. She is also a Trustee of The Butler Trust. She was appointed head of the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) in March 2012. In July 2012, she gave the 2012 John Harris Memorial Lecture, hosted by the Police Foundation. Also in 2012, she"
"Elisabeth Frink created the bronze sculpture ""The Eagle"" which sits outside the main entrance today. It features a William Blake quote and a plaque which reads, ""Placed in memorial by the friends of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy who awaited his arrival at the Dallas Trade Mart Nov. 22, 1963."" By the late 1980s, Dallas Market Center comprised six buildings with of space housing 3,200 tenants employing 60,000. Dallas Market Center hosts dozens of trade events throughout the year, including nine major markets attracting some 200,000 retail buyers. The Accessories Resource Team (ART), the trade association for home decorative accessories, partners"
"For her role in building a new children's hospital in Melbourne, she was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Civil Division (DBE) in the 1963 New Year Honours list. In June 1989, she was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia, Civil Division (AC) for services to the community also receiving the Centenary Medal in 2001 for her philanthropic services to the Australian arts community. She also held an award from the French government for funding an exhibition of works by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin in Melbourne in 2002. She was an honorary"
"the age of 98 she was still an honorary fellow of St Anne's College and she was planning her next book when she died in Oxford on 27 November 2003. In 1974, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. She was given the Medlicott Medal by the Historical Association in 1993 for improving history education. In the 1996 Birthday Honours she was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). She had also been awarded honorary citizenship of the commune of San Giovanni."
"Warwickshire and buried on 27 October in the family plot at the Monks Kirby Roman Catholic cemetery. Dorothie Feilding Lady Dorothie Mary Evelyn Feilding-Moore, MM (6 October 1889 – 24 October 1935) was a British heiress who shunned her aristocratic background to become a highly decorated volunteer nurse and ambulance driver on the Western Front during World War I. She was the first woman to be awarded the Military Medal for bravery in the field. She also received the 1914 Star, the Croix de guerre from the French and the Order of Leopold II from the Belgians for services to"
"her teachers was Federico Caffè. In October 2000 she was awarded the title """"Grant of the dignity of an Honorary Dame Commander of the Civil Division of the Order of the British Empire"""" by the Queen Elizabeth the Second and in July 2003 """"Officier de la Legion d’Honneur"""" by the President of the French Republic, Jacques Chirac. In February 2014, she was awarded """"Architect"" ""ad honorem"""" by the Italian National Council of Architects, due to her work for promotion of architectural quality. From 1983 to 1987, she was a coordinator for the work group on industrial and technological politics for"
"Meadows, Kenneth Armitage and Eduardo Paolozzi. Frink’s subject matter included men, birds, dogs, horses and religious motifs, but very seldom any female forms. ""Bird"" (1952; London, Tate), one of a number of bird sculptures, and her first successful pieces (also ""Three Heads and the Figurative Tradition"") with its alert, menacing stance, characterizes her early work. Although she made many drawings and prints, she is best known for her bronze outdoor sculpture, which has a distinctive cut and worked surface. This is created by her adding plaster to an armature, which she then worked back into with a chisel and surform."
"Dorothie Feilding Lady Dorothie Mary Evelyn Feilding-Moore, MM (6 October 1889 – 24 October 1935) was a British heiress who shunned her aristocratic background to become a highly decorated volunteer nurse and ambulance driver on the Western Front during World War I. She was the first woman to be awarded the Military Medal for bravery in the field. She also received the 1914 Star, the Croix de guerre from the French and the Order of Leopold II from the Belgians for services to their wounded. Born on 6 October 1889 to Rudolph Feilding, 9th Earl of Denbigh and the Countess"
"but your Serene Highness is also aware of her devoted services to the Belgian Army and to the French – notably to the Brigade des Marins."" This citation ultimately resulted in Feilding becoming the first woman awarded the Military Medal for bravery on 1 September 1916 as notified in the ""London Gazette"". Five days later she was decorated with the medal by King George V himself at Windsor Castle. She was also decorated by King Albert I of Belgium with the Order of Leopold II, Knights Cross (with palm) for service to his country's wounded. In her letters, which she"
"her work with the Anglo-Italian Red Cross on the Italian–Austrian front during the First World War from 1916–19. She was awarded the [OBE] in 1920. From 1920–22, she was in Turkey where she started a committee to deal with Russian refugees and later ran a co-operative farm colony in Asia Minor. She went to Russia in 1932, with Lady Muriel Paget’s Mission. She was instrumental in securing Ashridge Estate to the National Trust. In 1937 she took over joint ownership of Kiplin Hall in North Yorkshire. She retained an interest in the estate throughout the rest of her life. She"
"League from 1945 to 1972, and of the Australian council of the Save the Children Fund from 1962 to 1967. On 11 June 1960, she was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire ""for services to nursing in Victoria"". Mary Herring Hall at Toorak College was named in her honour in 1964. Before her death on 26 October 1981, aged 86, following a long illness, Mary planned her own funeral service, requesting that no announcements be made until after she was buried. In her final days, she moved to Ned's nursing home in Camberwell, Victoria, to"
"the museum has had a chequered history ever since, fighting off closure in 2003 with the support of local residents. In the visual arts, painter Copley Fielding lived at 5 Park Crescent in the mid-18th century. and more recently Jamie Hewlett and Alan Martin created cult comic figure ""Tank Girl"" while at college in the town in the 1980s. The town has a famous work by sculptor Elisabeth Frink. Uniquely in England, Desert Quartet (1990), Frink's penultimate sculpture, was given Grade II* listing in 2007, less than 30 years from its creation. It may be seen on the building opposite"
"""though Miss Holden was a student of exceptional originality and promise she was much more than that—a chivalrous and noble woman whom it was a privilege to count a friend""; Miss Moberly, an administrator of the medical unit in Russia wrote in Common Cause (a Women's Suffrage newspaper) that ""[Holden] greatly loved the people and the land for which she has given her life, and she told me more than once that nothing in the future could ever make her regret having volunteered for this work."" On 5 October 1919 a bronze tablet was unveiled in Capron Park, Attleboro, commemorating"
"and British civilians. She traveled throughout England lecturing for the American Embassy and for the Ministry of Information on American life to schools, civil defense units and other groups. She also gave a course on American history on BBC schools programmes. In 1946, she was awarded the King's Medal for Freedom in recognition of her services to international understanding. She was noted for her work in several organizations, including serving as a trustee of Mount Holyoke from 1949 to 1959. She had always hankered after an academic career, and returned to Mount Holyoke College in 1970. She worked for nine"
"as a teacher-trainer, at Furzedown College and at the Institute of Education in the 1960s, she pioneered the introduction of multi-cultural education, stressing the needs of the various ethnic groups in the UK. She was instrumental in the establishment of the North Atlantic Slavery Gallery and the Merseyside Maritime Museum in Liverpool. She was a Trustee of the National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside and a Governor of the British Film Institute. In 1972, she was awarded the OBE for work in the field of education and community relations. In 1992, she received the DBE for her work in broadcasting"
"their failure to take new ground. For this she was appointed Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (military division) in 1919. She was appointed a ""Lady of Grace"" of the Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem in England (L.St.J.) on 13 August 1902. She was also noted for her role as an advocate for penal reform. After the war she continued to work for those wounded in the war and she died of heart failure in 1920 after suffering from influenza. She had no children and was buried in the churchyard at Chenies,"
"in 1842 and the monument was raised over her grave in the same year. It is a Grade II* listed structure. Grace Darling's rescue, with her father, of nine survivors from the ""SS Forfarshire"" made her a national heroine. Darling received the Gold Medal for Bravery from the Royal Humane Society, the Silver Medal for Gallantry from the precursor of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, and a tribute fund included a contribution of £50 from Queen Victoria. Her death from tuberculosis four years later was an occasion of national mourning. Buried in the churchyard of St Aidan's, her grave was"
"Empire (Knight Grand Cross (G.B.E.), 1919) and the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (Dame of Grace, D.G.St.J.) These honours were given in recognition of her work as a hospital administrator during the First World War. She died of heart disease; her husband's reaction to her death was greater than friends of the couple had anticipated. Beatrix Beauclerk, Duchess of St Albans Beatrix Frances Beauclerk, Duchess of St Albans, Marchioness of Waterford, GBE, DGStJ (25 March 1877 – 5 August 1953), born Lady Beatrix Frances Petty-FitzMaurice, was a member of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy, both by birth and through her two"
"that involved many of the 300 organisations of which she was patron. In 1995, she attended events commemorating the end of the war fifty years before, and had two operations: one to remove a cataract in her left eye, and one to replace her right hip. In 1998, her left hip was replaced after it was broken when she slipped and fell during a visit to Sandringham stables. Queen Elizabeth's 100th birthday was celebrated in a number of ways: a parade that celebrated the highlights of her life included contributions from Sir Norman Wisdom and Sir John Mills; her image"
"Doctor of Philosophy degrees. Partridge was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1996 and appointed CBE in 2003. Her husband, Michael J. Morgan was also elected FRS in 2005. She was elected to the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2004, and was awarded the Linnean Society of London's prestigious Darwin-Wallace Medal in 2008. In 2009, she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE), while also receiving the Croonian lectureship from the Royal Society. In March 2009, the UKRC announced Dame Linda as one of six Women of Outstanding Achievement in Science, Engineering and"
"more than twenty pamphlets and other works on subjects as diverse as bull-baiting, prison reform, war, the plight of the poor, vagrancy, wages, corporal punishment and electoral reform. Towards the end of her life she became involved in the campaign against capital punishment. It was said that she fell in love with a slave. Elizabeth Heyrick never lived to see the passing of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833. She died on 18 October 1831 and is buried in Leicester, where she was born. Elizabeth Heyrick Elizabeth Heyrick (née Coltman; 4 December 1769 – 18 October 1831) was an English philanthropist"
"and Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Anglo-Hellenic League. She was Vice-President and Director of the London Philharmonic Society. She was Vice-President of the National Playing Fields Association and a member of the Grants and Children’s Playground Sub-Committee. At a parliamentary General Election she contested, as a Liberal party candidate Islington North in 1929; She did not stand for parliament again. In 1938, she was awarded the Golden Cross of the Order of George I (Greece). She was made a Commander of the Order of the Phoenix (Greece) and the Diploma of Commander of Order of Welfare (Greece). She"
"the King’s Commendation for Brave Conduct by Britain. During the war she received a personal letter of appreciation from Prime Minister Winston Churchill. She was presented with the Medal of Freedom by President Eisenhower. She received the Légion d'honneur from her brother, four-star General Maurice Virot, in 2004. On 3 February 2005 she received a note from the Queen as she had just turned 100 years old. In 2010 she turned 105 and fractured her hip two weeks later after a bad fall and had to undergo surgery. She died peacefully at the Lampton House nursing home on 5 March"