"Bluesology Bluesology was a 1960s English R&B popular music group, best remembered as being the first professional band of which Reginald Dwight – later known as Elton John – was a member. From about 1960, organist Reginald Dwight – then aged 13 – and his neighbour, singer and guitarist Stewart ""Stu"" Brown, performed with a local group, the Corvettes, in Pinner, Middlesex, a suburb of London. After that group separated, the pair formed a new group, Bluesology, with Rex Bishop (bass), and Mick Inkpen (drums). According to Dwight, the band's name was in homage to the Django Reinhardt album ""Djangology""."
"born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 March 1947, in Pinner, Middlesex, the eldest child of Stanley Dwight (1925–1991) and only child of Sheila Eileen (née Harris; 1925–2017), and was raised in a council house by his maternal grandparents, in Pinner. His parents married in 1945, when the family moved to a nearby semi-detached house. He was educated at Pinner Wood Junior School, Reddiford School and Pinner County Grammar School, until the age of 17, when he left just prior to his A-Level examinations to pursue a career in the music industry. When he began to consider a career in music"
"Reginald Newton Lieutenant Colonel Reginald William James Newton, (22 December 1906 – 31 July 1994) was an Australian Army officer noted for his leadership while in Japanese prisoner of war camps during the Second World War. He became well known among Australian military circles, where he was affectionately known as ""Roaring Reggie."" Reginald Newton was born in the Sydney suburb of Balmain on 22 December 1906 to Charles and Mary Newton ( Knight). He joined the Australian military at 15 years of age as a camp cadet at Coonabarabran. At the outbreak of the Second World War he was a"
"books, and ghost-wrote several novels published under the names of well-known sportsmen. He died in Haywards Heath, Sussex, in 1971. Reginald Alec Martin Reginald Alec Martin (11 January 1908 – 27 June 1971) was a British author of a children's series and other novels. He wrote under a series of pseudonyms, including E. C. Eliott and Rex Dixon. Martin was born in South London in 1908. He claimed to have started work at 13, and spent time in various countries, working as a cowboy, gold prospector, and wild-horse trader, among numerous other occupations. During the Second World War he lived"
"his Battalion's view of Roaring Reggie: ""He was the greatest officer that ever pulled boots on."" Newton married twice – first to Valeda Doreen Maxwell and then to Florence Alice Whiteside. Reginald Newton Lieutenant Colonel Reginald William James Newton, (22 December 1906 – 31 July 1994) was an Australian Army officer noted for his leadership while in Japanese prisoner of war camps during the Second World War. He became well known among Australian military circles, where he was affectionately known as ""Roaring Reggie."" Reginald Newton was born in the Sydney suburb of Balmain on 22 December 1906 to Charles and"
"Reginald Alec Martin Reginald Alec Martin (11 January 1908 – 27 June 1971) was a British author of a children's series and other novels. He wrote under a series of pseudonyms, including E. C. Eliott and Rex Dixon. Martin was born in South London in 1908. He claimed to have started work at 13, and spent time in various countries, working as a cowboy, gold prospector, and wild-horse trader, among numerous other occupations. During the Second World War he lived in Nottingham, working for the Ambulance Service. He began writing full-time after the war, publishing his first novel in 1949"
"Reginald Underwood Reginald (""Reg"") Underwood, member of the Tsawout First Nation, near Victoria, British Columbia, made his name known as an elite athlete competing in softball as an outfielder for the Victoria Bate team from 1974 to 1984. During that time, he helped the team to a string of successes at the senior ""A"" men's level, winning 10 Provincial Championships, 6 National Championships, and the 1979 Pan Am Games. The team was also named Co-World Champions at the 1976 World Championships in Wellington, New Zealand, where twelve nations competed, but bad weather forced the cancellation of the tournament before it"
"June 1888. He was related to Orde Wingate, who led British commando units in Palestine, Sudan and Burma before and during the Second World War. Wingate was succeeded in his baronetcy by his son Sir Ronald. Wingate is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of lizard, ""Trachylepis wingati"", which is endemic to Ethiopia and Sudan. Reginald Wingate General Sir Francis Reginald Wingate, 1st Baronet, (25 June 1861 – 29 January 1953) was a British general and administrator in Egypt and the Sudan. He earned the ""nom de guerre"" Wingate of the Sudan. Wingate was born at Port Glasgow,"
"Reginald Maudling Reginald Maudling (7 March 1917 – 14 February 1979) was a British politician who held several Cabinet posts, including Chancellor of the Exchequer. From 1955 until the late-1960s, he was spoken of as a prospective Conservative leader, and was twice seriously considered for the post; he was Edward Heath's chief rival in 1965. He also held directorships in several British financial firms. As Home Secretary, he was responsible for the UK Government's Northern Ireland policy during the period that included Bloody Sunday in 1972. Shortly thereafter, he left office due to an unrelated scandal in one of the"
"Reginald W. James Reginald William James, FRS (9 January 1891 – 7 July 1964) was a student, researcher, and teacher of physics in England and South Africa. He is best known for his service in the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914–1916, for which he was awarded the Silver Polar Medal. James was born on 9 January 1891 in London. After displaying adolescent skills as a maths prodigy, he was awarded a stipend to pursue studies in St. John's College, Cambridge. James signed on as an expedition naturalist in the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition led by Sir Ernest Shackleton, which departed England"
"Reginald Hart General Sir Reginald Clare Hart, (11 June 1848 – 18 October 1931), was an Irish British Army officer and recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Hart was born at Scarriff, County Clare, son of Henry George Hart and educated at Cheltenham College. He was commissioned in the Royal Engineers. He was 30 years old, and a lieutenant in the Corps of Royal Engineers, British Army during the Second Anglo-Afghan War when the following deed took place"
"Reginald Denny (actor) Reginald Denny (born Reginald Leigh Dugmore, 20 November 1891 – 16 June 1967) was an English stage, film and television actor as well as an aviator and UAV pioneer. He was once an amateur boxing champion of Great Britain. Born in Richmond, Surrey, England, Denny (sources differ on his birth name giving variously Reginald Daymore, Reginald Leigh Daymore and Reginald Leigh Dugmore Denny, but he is listed in birth records as Reginald Leigh Dugmore) began his stage career at age seven in ""The Royal Family"". At age 16, he appeared in ""The Merry Widow"". That year he"
"It is awarded by the American Council on Education's Center for Advancement of Racial and Ethnic Equity. Reginald Wilson (psychologist) Reginald Wilson (born 1927) is an American psychologist who has served as Senior Scholar Emeritus at the American Council on Education since 1988. Prior to his appointment, Wilson was president of Wayne County Community College in Detroit for 10 years. He is the author of ""Think About Our Rights: Civil Liberties and the United States"" (1988) and other books, and editor of ""Race and Equality in Higher Education"" and other journals. An award named after Wilson, the Reginald Wilson Diversity"
"along with his wife and son. There are some streets and squares in The Coombe, Dublin, named in his honour: Reginald Street, Reginald Square and Brabazon Square. Reginald Brabazon, 12th Earl of Meath Reginald Brabazon, 12th Earl of Meath, (31 July 1841 – 11 October 1929) was a British politician and philanthropist. The Honourable Reginald Brabazon was born into an old Anglo-Irish family in London, the second son of Lord Brabazon. When his father succeeded as 11th Earl of Meath in 1851, Reginald, now heir (his elder brother, Jacques, died of diphtheria in 1844), was styled Lord Brabazon. He was"
"in literary journals and magazines including ""Ploughshares"", ""Crab Orchard Review,"" and ""Poet Lore."" Reginald Dwayne Betts Reginald Dwayne Betts (born February 1, 1980) is an American poet, memoirist, and teacher. As a result of a carjacking he committed at the age of sixteen, he spent over eight years in prison. He has gone on to author several award-winning works, including poetry, a memoir, and legal scholarship. Born in Maryland, Betts was in gifted programs throughout his youth, and in high school was an honors student and class treasurer at Suitland High School in the Washington, D.C. suburb of District Heights,"
"four goals, he was on the winning side, England prevailing 5–4. The following year, Clapham Rovers once again made it to the FA Cup final. The opposition this time was Oxford University A.F.C.. Clopton Lloyd-Jones scored for Clapham and combined with Birkett's clean sheet, Clapham prevailed 1–0. Reginald married Lizette Crunden in 1881 in Cuckfield, West Sussex. They had at least two sons, Gerald (born 1883) and John (who would later captain the England rugby union side) (born 1884). A skin and fur broker by profession, he died at his Wimbledon home following an accident; whilst suffering from diphtheria, he"
"Reginald Wilson (psychologist) Reginald Wilson (born 1927) is an American psychologist who has served as Senior Scholar Emeritus at the American Council on Education since 1988. Prior to his appointment, Wilson was president of Wayne County Community College in Detroit for 10 years. He is the author of ""Think About Our Rights: Civil Liberties and the United States"" (1988) and other books, and editor of ""Race and Equality in Higher Education"" and other journals. An award named after Wilson, the Reginald Wilson Diversity Leadership Award, was established in 2001 by the Board of Directors of the American Council on Education."
"Arthur Desmond Arthur Desmond (c. 1859 – 26 January 1929), also Arthur Uing, Ragnar Redbeard (speculated), Richard Thurland, Desmond Dilg, and Gavin Gowrie, was a British-born politician, poet, and author. He is believed to be the author of the book ""Might Is Right"", written under the pen name Ragnar Redbeard. ""Might Is Right"" is an essay illustrating the author's support of Social Darwinism and its belief that power, strength, and dominance are the mark of a superior human being and that inherent human rights are nonexistent. He is also known for his book ""Rival Caesars"". As with most aspects of"
"Reginald Mount Reginald Mount (1906–1979) was a British graphic designer. Mount was born Edward Reginald Mount, on 4 July 1906. He worked as a designer for various advertising agencies in London in the 1930s, then joined the Ministry of Information at the outbreak of the Second World War. Throughout the war, Mount worked extensively with the designer Eileen Evans. Together, they produced many posters for the Ministry's public awareness and propaganda campaigns, including their renowned anti-venereal disease campaign of 1943–1944. Other designer colleagues in the Ministry of Information's ""general division"" included Maurice V. Bennett and Kenneth Bird, better known as"
"Reginald Hayward (VC) Reginald Frederick Johnson Hayward, (17 June 1891 – 17 January 1978) was a British Army officer and a First World War recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest military award for gallantry in the face of the enemy given to British and Commonwealth forces. Hayward was born in Swartberg, East Griqualand, South Africa. He was educated at Hilton College. He was 26 years old, and an acting captain in the 1st Battalion, The Wiltshire Regiment, British Army during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC. On 21/22"
"Reginald Taylor (engineer) Sir Reginald William Taylor, CMG (1 December 1895 – 19 October 1971), known informally as Rex Taylor, was a British civil engineer and civil servant who worked in several British colonies. Reginald William Taylor was born on 1 December 1895 to John Edward Taylor and his wife Mary Houldsworth, ""née"" Alexander. He attended St Lawrence College in Ramsgate before studying at University College London, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree. After serving in France during the First World War, he began working for the Public Works Department in the Uganda Protectorate in 1921. He moved to"
"in Air Raid Precautions and in a mobile hospital unit. Reginald Reynolds Reginald Arthur Reynolds (1905 – 16 December 1958) was a British left wing writer, a Quaker and an anti-colonial activist who collaborated with M.K. Gandhi and Horace Alexander. A Quaker, he was General Secretary of the No More War Movement 1933-1937. He was perhaps best known as a critic of British imperialism in India, and for his 1937 work ""The White Sahibs in India"". For many years he was also New Statesman's weekly satirical poet. He married the left wing novelist Ethel Mannin in 1938. He was a"
"immediately wrote a second obituary for ""The Times"" revealing his true identity. A large number of Teague-Jones's papers are in the British Library, under various headings, and can be found via the Access to Archives website. Reginald Teague-Jones Reginald Teague-Jones MBE (30 July 1889 – 16 November 1988) was a British political and intelligence officer. He was active in the Caucasus and Central Asia during the Russian Civil War. For the last 66 years of his life he was known as Ronald Sinclair. Teague-Jones was born in Lancashire. He was brought up in the former Russian capital, St Petersburg. His"
"Reginald Wingate General Sir Francis Reginald Wingate, 1st Baronet, (25 June 1861 – 29 January 1953) was a British general and administrator in Egypt and the Sudan. He earned the ""nom de guerre"" Wingate of the Sudan. Wingate was born at Port Glasgow, Renfrewshire (now Inverclyde), the seventh son of Andrew Wingate, a textile merchant of Glasgow, and Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Turner of Dublin. His father died when he was a year old, and the family, in straitened circumstances, moved to Jersey, where he was educated at St James's Collegiate School. He entered the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and"
"ran true north-south or east-west. This created two odd triangles of land where these streets met the diagonal streets at the center of town. The southeastern triangle became the site of Dwight’s waterworks. The early depot was on the northwest side of the tracks. The best remembered event in the early history of Dwight was the time England's Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, son of Queen Victoria and heir to the British throne came to stay for a few days in the town. (At that time, the town was known as Dwight's Station.) The prince was supposedly traveling incognito"
"Raymond Harold Sawkins Raymond Harold Sawkins (14 July 1923 – 23 August 2006) was a British novelist, who mainly published under the pseudonym Colin Forbes, but also as Richard Raine, Jay Bernard and Harold English. He published only three of his first books under his own name. Sawkins wrote over 40 books, mostly as Colin Forbes. He was most famous for his long-running series of thriller novels in which the principal character is Tweed, Deputy Director of the Secret Intelligence Service. Born in Hampstead, London, Sawkins attended The Lower School of John Lyon in Harrow, London. At the age of"
"George Sanders George Henry Sanders (3 July 1906 – 25 April 1972) was a British film and television actor, singer-songwriter, music composer, and author. His career as an actor spanned over forty years. His upper-class English accent and bass voice often led him to be cast as sophisticated but villainous characters. He is perhaps best known as Jack Favell in ""Rebecca"" (1940), Scott ffolliott in ""Foreign Correspondent"" (1940) (a rare heroic part), Addison DeWitt in ""All About Eve"" (1950), for which he won an Academy Award, Sir Brian De Bois-Guilbert in ""Ivanhoe"" (1952), King Richard the Lionheart in ""King Richard"
"– John Leicester Warren, Lord de Tabley – Rosamund Marriott Watson – Theodore Watts-Dunton – Oscar Wilde – Margaret L. Woods – Theodore Wratislaw – W. B. Yeats Richard Aldington Richard Aldington (8 July 1892 – 27 July 1962), born Edward Godfree Aldington, was an English writer and poet. Aldington was known best for his First World War poetry, the 1929 novel, ""Death of a Hero"", and the controversy resulting from his 1955 ""Lawrence of Arabia: A Biographical Inquiry"". His 1946 biography, ""Wellington"", was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Aldington was born in Portsmouth, the son of a"
"Robert Jordan James Oliver Rigney Jr. (October 17, 1948 – September 16, 2007), better known by his pen name Robert Jordan, was an American author of epic fantasy. He is best known for the ""Wheel of Time"" series, which comprises 14 books and a prequel novel. He is one of several writers to have written original Conan the Barbarian novels; his are highly acclaimed to this day. Rigney also wrote historical fiction under his pseudonym Reagan O'Neal, a western as Jackson O'Reilly, and dance criticism as Chang Lung. Additionally, he ghostwrote an ""international thriller"" that is still believed to have"
"Reginald Reynolds Reginald Arthur Reynolds (1905 – 16 December 1958) was a British left wing writer, a Quaker and an anti-colonial activist who collaborated with M.K. Gandhi and Horace Alexander. A Quaker, he was General Secretary of the No More War Movement 1933-1937. He was perhaps best known as a critic of British imperialism in India, and for his 1937 work ""The White Sahibs in India"". For many years he was also New Statesman's weekly satirical poet. He married the left wing novelist Ethel Mannin in 1938. He was a conscientious objector during the Second World War, when he worked"
"grand-uncle of the historian, Emma Elizabeth Thoyts, of Sulhamstead House, also in Berkshire. Reginald entered the Navy in 1877, qualified as a torpedo lieutenant, and first came to wider notice as commander of a flotilla of torpedo boats in the British naval manoeuvres of 1896. In 1897 he served as a member of the British punitive expedition to Benin, and on his return from active service wrote the book ""Benin, the City of Blood"" (1897), describing the campaign. Promoted to captain in 1900, he left the Mediterranean Station and, was appointed to the new position of Inspecting Captain of Submarines"
"a man to win. He was not beaten until he began to fail in health"". Both brothers apparently suffered from respiratory problems throughout their lives. R.F. and his brother had been urged to take up lawn tennis by their father, reportedly for health reasons. Reginald Doherty Reginald ""Reggie"" or ""R. F."" Frank Doherty (14 October 1872 – 29 December 1910) was a British tennis player and the older brother of tennis player Laurence Doherty. He was known in the tennis world as ""R.F."" rather than ""Reggie"". He was a four-time Wimbledon singles champion and a triple Olympic Gold medalist in"
"papers are held by Churchill College, Cambridge. Reginald Victor Jones Reginald Victor Jones , FRSE, LLD (29 September 1911 – 17 December 1997) was a British physicist and scientific military intelligence expert who played an important role in the defence of Britain in Reginald Jones was born in Herne Hill, south London, on 29 September 1911. He was educated at Alleyn's School, Dulwich, and Wadham College, Oxford, where he studied Natural Sciences. In 1932 he graduated with First Class honours in physics and then, working in the Clarendon Laboratory, completed his DPhil in 1934. Subsequently, he took up a Skynner"