Trubshaw

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Trubshaw (or Trubshawe) is a family name, and may refer to:

People:

Brian Trubshaw (1924—2001), British pilot
Charles Trubshaw (1841—1917), English architect
James Trubshaw (1777—1853), British architect and civil engineer
Roy Trubshaw (born 1959), computer specialist
Wilfred Trubshaw (died 1944), British solicitor and police officer
Rodney Trubshaw (born 1980), Accountant

Ernest Brian Trubshaw, CBE, MVO was a leading test pilot, and the first British pilot to fly Concorde, in April 1969.

Charles Trubshaw FRIBA was an architect specifically associated with railway buildings on the London and North Western Railway and Midland Railway lines.

James Trubshaw was an English builder, architect and civil engineer. His civil engineering works include the construction of the Grosvenor Bridge in Chester, Cheshire, then the longest stone span. He also pioneered the technique of underexcavation with the straightening the leaning tower of St Chad's in Wybunbury, Cheshire.

Fictional characters:

Nicholas Anthony Kemble in Eric Malpass's novel Oh My Darling Daughter (1970), commonly referred to as Trubshaw
Chief-Inspector Eustace Trubshawe, in two whodunits by Gilbert Adair, The Act of Roger Murgatroyd (2006) and A Mysterious Affair of Style (2007)

Oh My Darling Daughter is a humorous coming-of-age novel by Eric Malpass first published in 1970. Set in the fictitious Derbyshire village of Shepherd's Delight during Harold Wilson's first term as Prime Minister (1964–1970), Oh My Darling Daughter is about the Kembles, a well-to-do, conservative and church-going family of five, and in particular about Viola, the eponymous daughter of the house who, at 17, suddenly finds herself in a position of having to care for the rest of the family when her mother Clementine walks out on them after a row with her husband.

<i>The Act of Roger Murgatroyd</i> novel by Gilbert Adair

The Act of Roger Murgatroyd: An Entertainment is a whodunit mystery novel by Scottish novelist Gilbert Adair first published in 2006. Set in the 1930s and written in the vein of an Agatha Christie novel, it has all the classic ingredients of a 1930s mystery and is, according to the author, "at one and the same time, a celebration, a parody and a critique not only of Agatha Christie but of the whole Golden Age of English whodunits", but also "a whodunit in its own right, so that those readers who were completely uninterested in literary games of the so-called postmodern type could nevertheless settle down comfortably with a good, gripping and intentionally old-fashioned thriller." The Act of Roger Murgatroyd is also a "locked room mystery" and is also apart Adair's Evadne Mount trilogy.

<i>A Mysterious Affair of Style</i> novel by Gilbert Adair

A Mysterious Affair of Style is a whodunit mystery novel by British writet Gilbert Adair, first published in 2007. A homage to the Golden Age of Detective Fiction in general and Agatha Christie in particular, the novel is a sequel to Adair's 2006 book, The Act of Roger Murgatroyd.

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