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- Robert VenablesRobert VenablesRobert Venables , was a soldier during the English Civil War and noted angler.Venables was lieutenant-colonel in the parliamentary army. He was wounded at Chester in 1645. He was appointed governor of Liverpool in 1648. He served with success in Ireland from 1649 until 1654...
(c. 1613–1687), English soldier & writer - Edward Venables-Vernon-Harcourt (1757-1847), British religious leader
- George Venables-Vernon, 1st Baron VernonGeorge Venables-Vernon, 1st Baron VernonGeorge Venables-Vernon, 1st Baron Vernon was a British politician.Vernon was the son of Henry Vernon, of Sudbury, Derbyshire, and his wife Anne, daughter and heiress of Thomas Pigott by his wife Mary, sister and heiress of Sir Peter Venables, Baron of Kinderton, Cheshire...
(1709-1780), British politician - George Venables-Vernon, 2nd Baron VernonGeorge Venables-Vernon, 2nd Baron VernonGeorge Venables-Vernon, 2nd Baron Vernon was the Second Lord Vernon, Baron of Kinderton. He acceded to the title in 1780 after the death of his father George Venables-Vernon, first Baron of Kinderton....
(1735-1813), British politician - George John Venables-Vernon, 5th Baron VernonGeorge Venables-Vernon, 5th Baron VernonGeorge John Warren Vernon, 5th Baron Vernon was the only son of George Charles Venables-Vernon, 4th Baron Vernon of Sudbury, Derbyshire, and Frances Maria, only daughter of Admiral Sir John Borlase Warren. He was one of the last Members of Pariament for Derbyshire and the first for South Derbyshire...
(1803-1866) - Anthony VenablesAnthony VenablesAnthony J. Venables, CBE, born April 25, 1953, is a British economist and the BP Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford.Venables is known as one of the pioneers of New Economic Geography...
(born 1953), English economist - Brent VenablesBrent VenablesThomas Brent Venables is an American college football coach.He is currently the associate head coach, defensive coordinator and linebackers coach for the University of Oklahoma Sooners football team. In 2006, he was one of five finalists for the prestigious Broyles Award for the nation's top...
(born 1970), - Clare VenablesClare VenablesClare Rosamund Venables was an English theatre director. She was artistic director of regional theatres in Lincoln, Stratford East , and Sheffield; she became Director of Education at the Royal Shakespeare Company, and she also directed a number of operas.-Early life:She was born in...
(1943-2003), British theatre director - Terry VenablesTerry VenablesTerence Frederick "Terry" Venables , often referred to as "El Tel", is a former football player and manager, as well as being a media pundit. During the 1960s and 70s, he played for various clubs including Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur and Queens Park Rangers, and gained two caps for England...
(born 1943), British football manager - Archbishop Gregory James VenablesGregory James VenablesGregory James Venables is a British-born Anglican bishop and served as the Primate of the Southern Cone in South America from 2001 until 2010...
(born 1949), British religious leader -- Primate of the Southern ConeSouthern ConeSouthern Cone is a geographic region composed of the southernmost areas of South America, south of the Tropic of Capricorn. Although geographically this includes part of Southern and Southeast of Brazil, in terms of political geography the Southern cone has traditionally comprised Argentina,... - Stephen VenablesStephen VenablesStephen Venables is a British mountaineer and writer, and is a past president of the South Georgia Association and of the Alpine Club.-Mountaineer:...
(born 1954), British mountaineer and writer - Ian VenablesIan VenablesIan Venables is a British composer of songs and chamber music.-Biography:Ian Venables was born in Liverpool in 1955 and was educated at Liverpool Collegiate Grammar School. He studied music with Professor Richard Arnell at Trinity College of Music, London and later with Andrew Downes, John Mayer...
(born 1955) British composer - Raissa VenablesRaissa VenablesThe photographs of New Yorker Raїssa Venables portray distorted rooms with intoxicating colours in a surreal manner. Despite the absence of people in her photographs, we still feel their souls in the rooms. Although her work is contemporary, involving the engagement of the latest technology,...
(born 1977), American photographer - Philip Venables (born 1979), British composer
- Jon Venables (born 1982), British murderer of James BulgerMurder of James BulgerJames Patrick Bulger was a boy from Kirkby, England, who was murdered on 12 February 1993, when aged two. He was abducted, tortured and murdered by two ten-year-old boys, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables .Bulger disappeared from the New Strand Shopping Centre in Bootle, near Liverpool, while...
- Guy Venables (born 1968), satirical cartoonist and comedian