Liz Bird | |
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Born | Elizabeth Bird 1945 |
Died | 11 November 2021 75–76) | (aged
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Oxford |
Academic work | |
Institutions | University of Bristol |
Elizabeth Bird MBE (1945 - 2021) was a British academic. She was dean of arts at the University of Bristol. [1]
She studied at University of Perugia,Oxford University,University of Sussex,and Cornell University. [2]
She was a co-founder member of the Bristol Women’s Studies Group. [1] [3] She co-edited the book,Half the Sky. [4] She was a printmaker with Spike Print Studio. [5] [6]
Zara Anne Elizabeth Tindall is a British equestrian,an Olympian,and the daughter of Anne,Princess Royal,and Captain Mark Phillips. She is the eldest granddaughter of her mother's parents Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip,Duke of Edinburgh,and is 21st in line of succession to the British throne.
Elizabeth Nuttall is a Scottish former middle-distance and long-distance track and road-running athlete. She won the gold medal for the 10,000 metres at the 1991 World Championships,and a silver medal over the same distance at the 1988 Olympic Games. She was also a two-time gold medallist over the distance at the Commonwealth Games,as well as winning the 1992 World Half Marathon Championships,1991 New York City Marathon,1992 Tokyo Marathon and 1996 London Marathon. Her 10,000 metres best of 30:57.07 set in 1991,moved her to second on the world all-time list at that time and stood as the Scottish record until 2022,when it was broken by her daughter Eilish McColgan. Her marathon best of 2:26:52 in 1997,stood as the Scottish record until 2019.
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Mary Elizabeth Sutherland Carpenter was a writer,feminist,reporter,media advisor,speechwriter,political humorist,and public relations expert. As the first woman executive assistant to Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson from 1961 to 1963,and then as press secretary for First Lady Lady Bird Johnson from 1963 to 1969,Carpenter was a prominent member of the Johnson White House and also a close personal friend of the Johnsons.
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Chinwe Ifeoma Chukwuogo-Roy MBE was a visual artist who was born in Awka (Oka),Anambra state,Nigeria,but spent much of her young life in Ikom on the Cameroon border,before moving back to the family home at Umubele in Awka. She lived in Britain from 1975. Her paintings,prints and sculptures are predominantly figurative,in the genres of portraiture,still-life,landscape and narrative subjects. She won international attention in 2002 for being the first of only two Nigerian artists to have been allowed to paint official portraits of Queen Elizabeth II.
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Jessica Anne Fishlock is a Welsh professional footballer and coach who plays as a midfielder for OL Reign and the Wales national team. She previously played for Bristol Academy in England's FA Women's Super League,AZ Alkmaar in the Dutch Eredivisie,Glasgow City in the Scottish Women's Premier League,Melbourne Victory and Melbourne City in Australia's W-League,as well as Bundesliga club FFC Frankfurt in Germany.
Elizabeth Mary Morris,,also known as Liz Morris,is a glaciologist and Senior Associate at the Scott Polar Research Institute,University of Cambridge. She has been a visiting professor at the University of Reading since 1995. She was head of the ice and climate division at the British Antarctic Survey,from 1986 to 1999,and president of the International Glaciological Society,from 2002 to 2005.
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Mary Elizabeth Truss is a British Conservative politician who has served as Secretary of State for Foreign,Commonwealth and Development Affairs since 2021 and as Minister for Women and Equalities since 2019. She has been Member of Parliament (MP) for South West Norfolk since 2010. She has served in various cabinet positions under David Cameron,Theresa May and Boris Johnson.
Elizabeth Fritsch CBE is a British studio potter and ceramic artist born into a Welsh family in Whitchurch on the Shropshire border. Her innovative hand built and painted pots are often influenced by ideas from music,painting,literature,landscape and architecture.
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