Shelford

Shelford

Shelford may refer to:

Family names:
*Adrian Shelford, New Zealand rugby league footballer
* Angus Shelford (b.1976), New Zealand boxer
* Buck Shelford, see: Wayne Shelford
* Robert Walter Campbell Shelford (1872-1912), British museum administrator and naturalist
* Victor Ernest Shelford (1877-1968), American zoologist
* Wayne Shelford (b.1957), New Zealand rugby player

Given names
* Shelford Bidwell (1848–1909), English physicist and inventor

Places
* Great Shelford, village in Cambridgeshire, England
* Little Shelford, village in Cambridgeshire, England
* Shelford, Nottinghamshire, village in Nottinghamshire, England
* Shelford Priory, priory in Nottinghamshire, England
* Shelford railway station, in Cambridgeshire, England
* Shelford Girls' Grammar, a private school for girls in Caulfield, Victoria, Australia


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  • Shelford — This interesting name is of Anglo Saxon origin, and is a locational surname deriving from either of the places called Shelford in the counties of Cambridgeshire and Nottinghamshire. The placenames are recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as… …   Surnames reference

  • Shelford, Nottinghamshire — Shelford is a village in the Rushcliffe borough of Nottinghamshire. It is near Radcliffe on Trent. It has an old manor house (built on the site of Shelford Priory, a church and a [http://www.shelfordnurseriescaravanpark.co.uk camping site] . It… …   Wikipedia

  • Shelford Priory — Shelford Priory, a house of Augustinian Canons, was founded by Ralph Haunselyn around 1160 80 in Nottinghamshire. He dedicated it to the Virgin Mary.Shelford was subjected in 1536 to a visitation. They estimated the annual income at £100.Shortly… …   Wikipedia

  • Shelford Bidwell — (1848 1909) was an English physicist and inventor. He is best known for his work with telephotography , a precursor to the modern fax machine. In the late 1870s, Shelford Bidwell carried out a number of experiments with selenium photocells. In… …   Wikipedia

  • Shelford Bidwell — (1848 1909) était un physicien et inventeur anglais. Il est surtout connu pour son travail sur la « phototélégraphie »[1] un précurseur du télécopieur. Notes et références ↑ Le terme anglo saxon est « telephotography », mais… …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Shelford Girls' Grammar — Infobox Aust school private name = Shelford Girls Grammar motto = Quaerite Primo Regnum Dei (Latin: Seek ye first the Kingdom of God ) established = 1898 type = Independent, Single sex, Day school denomination = Anglican slogan = Shelford...Top… …   Wikipedia

  • Shelford railway station — Infobox UK station name = Shelford code = SED manager = National Express East Anglia locale = Great Shelford borough = South Cambridgeshire lowusage0405 = 107,537 lowusage0506 = 111,283 lowusage0607 = 111,852 platforms = 2 start = 1845Shelford… …   Wikipedia

  • Shelford, Victor Ernest — ▪ American zoologist born Sept. 22, 1877, Chemung, N.Y., U.S. died Dec. 27, 1968       American zoologist and animal ecologist whose pioneering studies of animal communities helped to establish ecology as a distinct discipline. His Animal… …   Universalium

  • Robert Walter Campbell Shelford — (3 August 1872 – 22 June 1912), was a British entomologist and museum administrator and naturalist, with a special interest in entomology and insect mimicry; he specialised in cockroaches and also did some significant work on stick insects.… …   Wikipedia

  • Robert Walter Campbell Shelford — (* 3. August 1872 in Singapur; † 22. Juni 1912 in Margate), war ein britischer Entomologe, Museumsdirektor und Naturforscher mit dem Spezialgebiet Entomologie und …   Deutsch Wikipedia

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