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The business was founded in 1888 in Geelong, Victoria, Australia, by Godfrey Hirst, an English immigrant from Meltham, West Yorkshire, England. His Excelsior Mill, on the north bank of the Barwon River , manufactured various wool textiles until it was sold in the 1966, continuing in operation as Godfrey Hirst Carpets. [ 2 ]
In 1012 his son Godfrey II was appointed Duke of Lower Lorraine by the East Frankish king Henry II, in order to protect the lands against claims raised by West Francia . With Godfrey's uncle Duke Theodoric, both Lower and Upper Lorraine then were held by the House of Ardennes.
Gilbert de Brionne was son of Geoffrey, Count of Eu (otherwise cited as 'Godfrey'), who was an illegitimate child of Richard I of Normandy. [3] He inherited Brionne, becoming one of the most powerful landowners in Normandy. Gilbert was a generous benefactor to Bec Abbey founded by his former knight Herluin in 1031.
John Henry Hirst (29 April 1826 – 6 July 1882) was an English architect who designed civic, commercial and domestic buildings, mainly in Bristol and Harrogate.He is known in Harrogate for the designs which he created for the developer George Dawson, including large Neoclassical buildings, and the Gothic Revival St Peter's Church.
The Murderme collection, which Hirst has been acquiring since the late 1980s, contains over 3,000 works and features art by Francis Bacon, Banksy, Tracey Emin, Richard Hamilton, Jeff Koons, Sarah Lucas, Pablo Picasso, Richard Prince, Haim Steinbach and Gavin Turk, as well as a number of young and emerging artists such as Helen Beard, Sadie Laska and Boo Saville [8] [9] and a significant ...
The following is an incomplete list of works by Artemisia Gentileschi.Catalogue numbers abbreviated "WB" are taken from the 1999 publication by Raymond Ward Bissell, [1] and number abbreviated "MET" are from the 2001 publication by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Taylor Swift did “something bad” — and it just felt so good for Swifties!. On Saturday, Aug. 17, the 34-year-old pop star surprised the crowd during her sixth Eras Tour show at London's ...
Lady Mary Capell (née Bentinck), Countess of Essex, circa 1698 from the studio of Sir Godfrey Kneller and now in the Watford Museum. On 28 February 1692 Algernon Capell married Mary Bentinck, a daughter of William Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland by his wife Anne Villiers, by whom he had three children: [3] [4]