Purdo

Bernice Lynn Purdo, age 72, Sarasota, FL View Details

Cities: Sarasota FL, Rochester MI Possible Relatives: Valerie Nicole Denyes, James Michael Purdo, Kay Ellen Purdo

Andy Purdo, age 89, Sarasota, FL View Details

Cities: Sarasota FL, Palm City FL, Boynton Beach FL Possible Relatives: Louise Purdo

Bl L Purdo, age 64, Sarasota, FL View Details

Cities: Sarasota FL, Rochester MI, Sterling Heights MI Possible Relatives: James Michael Purdo, Kay Ellen Purdo, Robert Michael Purdo

Anita C Purdo, age 87, Little River, SC View Details

Cities: Little River SC, Hartland MI Possible Relatives: Micheline M Cossette, Rene Norbert Cossette, Stephan M Cossette

Ashley Purdo, Auburn, MI View Details

Cities: Auburn MI Possible Relatives: Ashley Diane Purdo, Daniel Eugene Purdo, Renee Yvonne Wood

Alvina Margaret Purdo, Sterling Heights, MI View Details

Cities: Sterling Heights MI

Charles Purdom

Charles Benjamin Purdom was a British author, drama critic, town planner, and economist. He was one of the pioneers and founders of the first garden cities, Letchworth and Welwyn Garden City, the lattread more...er of which he was appointed Finance Director between 1919–1928. He was then made Honorary Secretary, then Treasurer of the International Federation for Housing and Planning (1931–1935). He was also founder of the Letchworth and Welwyn Garden City Theatre Society, now the Welwyn Drama Club. He won the Howard Walden cup at the Welwyn Garden City Drama Festival and the David Belasco cup in New-York in 1927. He was an author of many books on city development, on Shakespeare and Bernard Shaw plays, Harley Granville-Barker, and on producing plays. He was editor of an English literary periodical called Everyman, covering books, drama, music and travel and featured articles by renowned authors such as Ivor Brown, Arthur Machen, G. K. Chesterton, A. E. Coppard, and Bertrand Russell. He was General Secretary of British Equity (1939–1940) and joint secretary of the London Theatre Council. He was also the earliest biographer of Meher Baba. He was father of the actor Edmund Purdom. He died in Welwyn Garden City in 1965.read less...

Purdon

Purdon may refer to:

Purdown

Purdown is a hill in the north east of Bristol, England. The suburb of Lockleaze lies on its western flanks, and the Stoke Park estate occupies its eastern flanks. The M32 motorway crosses the easternread more... side of the hill.read less...

William Purdon

Major-General William Brooke Purdon was an Irish soldier, physician and medical administrator. Towards the end of his life he was a representative of the Northern Ireland Government in London and for read more...four years was an Honorary Surgeon to the King. In his youth Purdon was a rugby footballer of some note, representing several Irish clubs and was selected to play international rugby for Ireland on three occasions in 1906.read less...

William Purdom

William Purdom was a British plant explorer. After being apprenticed as a gardener at Brathay Hall in the English Lake district, he travelled to London to work at the Hugh Low, Enfield Nursery, then read more...onto the Veitch establishment at Coombe Wood. In 1902, Purdom took up a position as a gardener at Kew Botanic Garden soon becoming promoted to a sub-foreman (leading-hand) position. Purdom became heavily involved with early Union activities particularly promoting the rights of junior workers which eventually led to his unjustified dismissal. Despite being a bane to the, then, Kew Director, David Prain, the latter recognized the talents of William Purdom and recommended his employee as being very suitable as a plant collector for a joint venture by Veitch and the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University to the northern provinces of China in 1909.read less...

Charles Purdon

Charles Purdon planted the first pineapples in the Eastern Cape of South Africa in 1865, which led to the commercial pineapple industry in the country.