This was reinforced when their foremost interpreter and performer, Gervase Elwes ( who had initiated the music festivals at Brigg in Lincolnshire at which Percy Grainger and others had developed their collections of country music ) died in a horrific accident in 1921.

Elwes was born in Westminster, London.

His paternal grandfather was painter Simon Elwes, whose father was the diplomat and tenor Gervase Elwes ( 1866 – 1921 ).

His parents divorced when he was 4 years old, and his father later committed suicide in 1975 when Elwes was 13.

In March 2011, Elwes was selected to appear as Henry Detmer in the pilot episode of NBC's Wonder Woman.

Actor Cary Elwes was brought into the seasons for a six episode recurring role as Brad Follmer.

One, advanced by Katherine Elwes Thomas in 1930 and adopted by Robert Ripley, posits that Humpty Dumpty is King Richard III of England, depicted in Tudor histories, and particularly in Shakespeare's play, as humpbacked and who was defeated, despite his armies at Bosworth Field in 1485.

In the 1998 HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon, he was played by Cary Elwes.

* The man whom Dickens eventually mentions in his letters and who strongly resembles the character portrayed by Dickens's illustrator, John Leech, was a noted British eccentric and miser named John Elwes ( 1714 – 1789 ).

The town was substantially improved and rebuilt in the late 1700s and early 1800s, partly through the demands of the Elwes family, the largest landowner in the town.

Even after the troubled development history of the Bradley additional problems occurred after production started as described in a book by Air Force Col. James Burton, which was adapted for the 1998 film The Pentagon Wars starring Kelsey Grammer and Cary Elwes.

Houseman was portrayed by Cary Elwes in the 1999 Tim Robbins-directed film, Cradle Will Rock.

One of the earliest in London ( possibly the first ) was in January 1913 at the Queen's Hall, under Henry Wood, where it was sung by Gervase Elwes and Doris Woodall: Wood thought it ' excessively modern but very beautiful '.

He was defended by Donald Finnemore, and the Crown was represented by Birkett and Richard Elwes.

Despite being canceled, the director, Orson Welles ( Angus Macfadyen ), and producer, John Houseman ( Cary Elwes ), lead the cast to another theater that was secured at the last minute.

Sir Henry Elwes was announced as the new Pro-Chancellor in addition to the Bishop of Gloucester Michael Perham, who is the University ’ s current Pro-Chancellor.

* John Elwes ( aka " Elwes the Miser "), was a noted British eccentric and miser, believed to be the inspiration for the character of " Ebenezer Scrooge " in Charles Dickens ' A Christmas Carol.

An episode of The Outer Limits titled " Ripper " ( 1997 ) was set in 1888 and starred Cary Elwes as Dr. Jack York, who kills women whom he believes are possessed by an alien entity.

At competitions arranged by Gervase Elwes in 1905-06, several folk singers from the surrounding area — including Joseph Taylor and George Gouldthorpe — sang for the composer Percy Grainger songs such as Brigg Fair and Lisbon.

* George Elwes Corrie ( 1838 )

Her parents were science historian George Sarton and his wife, the English artist Mabel Eleanor Elwes.

These include 3rd Lord Tabley by Frank Holl, Colonel Sir John Leicester, Bart., and the King's Cheshire Yeomanry Cavalry exercising on the Sands at Liverpool by George Jones, Portrait of 2nd Lord de Tabley by Margaret Carpenter, a full-length Portrait of 2nd Lord de Tabley as Colonel Commandant of the Earl of Chester's Yeomanry Cavalry by Francis Grant, Hilda, Mrs Cuthbert Leicester Warren by Simon Elwes, Lt.

Comedian Peter Serafinowicz was cast to voice Paul McCartney, Dean Lennox Kelly as John Lennon, Cary Elwes as George Harrison and Adam Campbell as Ringo Starr.

Elwes returned to the Saw franchise in Saw 3D ( 2010 ), the seventh and final film in the series, as Dr. Lawrence Gordon.

Elwes attending a premiere of Saw 3D

On November 6, 2009, ImageMovers Digital released A Christmas Carol, a performance capture film starring Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, and Cary Elwes, each in multiple roles.

Since the 18th century, particularly during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, some wealthy or ennobled families embraced Catholicism, including branches of the Asquith, Bellingham ( Ireland ), Bowyer ( England ), Calvert ( Maryland ), Cary-Elwes / Elwes ( since 1872 ), Feilding ( England ), Forbes ( Ireland ), Leslie ( Ireland ), Fraser ( Scotland ), Lane-Fox, Meynell, Noel ( Gainsborough ), Ashton Case ( or Ashton-Case ; England ), Radcliffe ( England ), Monckton, Pakenham ( Ireland ), Pontifex ( England ), Crichton-Stuart ( Scotland ) and Strickland ( Counts of Catena, Malta ) families.

With Dominick Elwes ; illus.

* Cary Elwes ( Bryan White, singing ; Chrystal Klabunde, animation ) as Garrett, a blind hermit who once dreamed of becoming a knight.

He married Mabel Eleanor Elwes, an English artist, in 1911 and their daughter Eleanore Marie ( known as: May ) was born the following year.

Henry John Elwes, FRS ( 16 May 1846 – 26 November 1922 ) was a British botanist, entomologist, author, lepidopterist, naturalist, collector and traveller who became renowned for collecting specimens of lilies during trips to the Himalayas and Korea.

On 23 October 2011, Variety reported that Elwes will make his directorial debut with an independent film, Elvis & Nixon.

In 2011, Elwes performed the English voice over for Indian film, Delhi Safari.

Elwes had a recurring role in the final season ( from 2001 to 2002 ) of The X-Files as FBI Assistant Director Brad Follmer.

With Wolf close to death, Murnau is forced to bring in another cinematographer from Berlin, Fritz Arno Wagner ( Cary Elwes ) in order to continue filming.

Meanwhile, Audrey is planning to move to Boston with her new boyfriend Jerry ( Cary Elwes ), and decides that Max is going with them so that she can protect him from getting hurt by Fletcher.

Also among the colonists are Father Horst Elwes, a Christian priest, and a large number of ' Ivets ' ( Involuntary Transportees ), petty criminals from Earth sentenced to work on the colony worlds to repay their debt to society.

They move on and discover Father Elwes and the children from Aberdale in hiding on the savannah.

In 1913 Henry Elwes wrote that " Its true value as a landscape tree may be best estimated by looking down from an eminence in almost any part of the valley of the Thames, or of the Severn below Worcester, during the latter half of November, when the bright golden colour of the lines of elms in the hedgerows is one of the most striking scenes that England can produce ".

The actor Cary Elwes descends from Thomas Byerley.

It is from Bowles ' memoir in Elwes ' posthumous biography that we get most information about the Colesbourne garden, but even this is sadly scanty.

In 1880, he published the magnificent folio Monograph of The Genus Lilium, instigated by Elwes and written with assistance from J. G. Baker at Kew Gardens, but he wrote disappointingly little about his gardening experiences.