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Geraint Evans. Sir Geraint Llewellyn Evans CBE (16 February 1922 – 19 September 1992) was a Welsh bass-baritone noted for operatic roles including Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro, Papageno in Die Zauberflöte, and the title role in Wozzeck. Evans was especially acclaimed for his performances in the title role of Verdi's Falstaff.
Lieutenant-General Sir Charles William Wilson, KCB, KCMG, FRS (14 March 1836 – 25 October 1905) was a British Army officer, geographer and archaeologist. Early life and career [ edit ]
Charles B. Wilson, photograph by Menzies Dickson. In 1866 Wilson joined the Honolulu Rifles, a militia unit. He was a Sergeant during the 1873 Barracks Revolt and was present in the standoff. He later joined the Royal Guard where he became one of a squad of personal bodyguards to King Kalākaua.
In 1985 Wilson became Tong-Po Kan Professor of Neurosurgery. [5] He was profiled by Malcolm Gladwell for The New Yorker in 1999, where Gladwell argued that Wilson was an example of “physical genius,” and compared him to such figures as Wayne Gretsky, Yo-Yo Ma and Tony Gwynn. [6] Wilson performed over 2,000 transsphenoidal surgeries.
Charles McMoran Wilson, 1st Baron Moran, MC, PRCP (10 November 1882 – 12 April 1977) was personal doctor to Winston Churchill from 1940 until the latter's death in 1965. His book The Struggle for Survival revealed much about Churchill's physical and psychological state, possibly including clinical depression, while coping with the strain of ...
Geraint, with his wife Enid, from Idylls of the King (1868) Geraint is most famous as the protagonist in the Welsh tale Geraint and Enid, where he becomes the lover of Enid. Geraint and Enid is one of the three Welsh Romances associated with the Mabinogion. Its story closely parallels the French writer Chrétien de Troyes's Erec and Enide. [3]
Grave of Sir Charles Rivers Wilson in Kensal Green Cemetery. Wilson was born in London on 19 February 1831. He studied at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford.He entered the Treasury in 1856, and was private secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Robert Lowe) from 1868 to 1873.
They were married by one of Wilson's elder brothers, the Rev. William Wilson, a Wesleyan minister. [2] Wilson's sister Catherine was married to Queensland parliamentarian Thomas Johnson [3] and his niece Emily Maud Wilson, daughter of his younger brother Wesley, [4] was married to Sir Robin Edward Dysart Grey, 6th Baronet [5] Grey of Fallodon.