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Bernard Jocelyn Brooke (30 November 1908 – 29 October 1966) was an English writer and naturalist. He wrote several unique, semi-autobiographical novels, as well as some poetry. His most famous works include the Orchid Trilogy— The Military Orchid (1948), A Mine of Serpents (1949), and The Goose Cathedral (1950)—and The Image of a Drawn ...
Dame Jocelyn Anita Barrow DBE (15 April 1929 – 9 April 2020) was a British educator, community activist and politician, who was the Director for UK Development at Focus Consultancy Ltd. She was the first black woman to be a governor of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and was founder and Deputy Chair of the Broadcasting Standards ...
Jocelyn Bell, June 1967. Bell Burnell was born in Lurgan, Northern Ireland, to M. Allison and G. Philip Bell. [5] [6] [4] Their country home was called "Solitude" and she grew up there with her younger brother and two younger sisters. [17] Her father was an architect who helped design the Armagh Planetarium, [18] and during her visits there ...
Jocelyn Mary Catherine Toynbee, FSA, FBA (3 March 1897 – 31 December 1985 [1]) was an English archaeologist and art historian. "In the mid-twentieth century she was the leading British scholar in Roman artistic studies and one of the recognized authorities in this field in the world." [1] Having taught at St Hugh's College, Oxford, the ...
Henry (Harry) Jocelyn Seymour, 9th Marquess of Hertford DL (born 6 July 1958) is a British peer, the son of Hugh Seymour, 8th Marquess of Hertford. He was educated at Harrow School and the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester. He currently resides at Ragley Hall, Warwickshire, where he has been in charge of the estate since 1991.
Jocelyn Hunt (born 1994) is a British artistic gymnast. As a member of the England team she won the silver medal in the team all-around event at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. Gymnast. Hunt was part of the England Team at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in India where they were placed second.
Jocelyn Adburgham was known as Jocelyn Abram until 1936, when her mother changed the family name by deed poll. She was born in 1900 in Peaslake, Surrey, the youngest of three children of Edward William Abram (1869–1929) and his wife, Lucy, née Ashton (1865–1942). The family was then prosperous, and Jocelyn was sent to several boarding ...
Jocelyn Burton was born in Wales in 1946 and was the daughter of RAF officer Roland (Monty) Burton. Although she intended to study modern languages at Cambridge, she developed an interest in art and applied to study silversmithing at Sir John Cass College in London in 1966, but was rejected for being female. Burton instead enrolled in a ...