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Viners is a United Kingdom brand of cutlery, kitchenware and dinnerware products, founded in 1901 in Sheffield, England by Adolphe Viener and his sons. By the 1960s, it had expanded to subsidiaries in Ireland, Australia and France.
Sir Robert Viner and his family, as painted by John Michael Wright.. Sir Robert Vyner, 1st Baronet (alternatively Viner) (1631 – 2 September 1688) was an English banker, goldsmith and Lord Mayor of London.
Sporting successes in the past have included successive English Schools Senior Netball Championships – 1970 and 1971; a British Athletics International, Mark Naylor, who held the British National Record in the high jump and competed in the Moscow and Los Angeles Olympic Games, a British Youth Shot Put champion [1970], trained by 'Pete' Ferguson, who also taught Latin and English Literature ...
The UK licensee for the manufacturing and distribution of splayds during the 1970s was Viners of Sheffield. At that time they were one of the biggest cutlery manufacturers in Great Britain. [ 2 ]
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He also created cutlery for Viners. [2] He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1995 New Year Honours, "for services to art". [7] His son Simon Benney (born 1 January 1966) now runs the business; he has also held four Royal Warrants simultaneously. [8] An older son, Paul Benney (born 30 May 1959), is an artist.
The memorial to Charles Viner, his wife Raleigh Viner and brother-in-law John Elwes Weekes in St Michael's church in Aldershot. Charles Viner (1678 – 5 June 1756) was an English jurist, known as the author of Viner's Abridgment, and the benefactor of the Vinerian chair and the Vinerian Scholarship at the University of Oxford.
St Catherine's Court is a manor house in a secluded valley north of Bath, Somerset, England.It is a Grade I listed property. [1] [2] The gardens are Grade II* listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of special historic interest in England.