User:TheoClarke

Biog

How to contact me

• Web: www.theoandsonia.co.uk
• Mail: wiki AT tignosis.com

I am Theo Clarke born in Southampton, England and educated at King Edward VI School, Southampton, the University of Leicester, the Open University and the University of Oxford.

My education, work, travel and enthusiasms cover the following areas:

• Archaeology
• Chemistry,
• Geology,
• History particularly Local history, Family history and House history,
• Places in Dorset, Hampshire, London, Norfolk, Somerset and Suffolk,
• Belgium, Egypt, Germany, Madeira, Mexico, Norway and United States,
• Journalism
• Radio production and Television production,
• British theatre,
• Comics
• Baseball, Cricket, Association Football
• Management
• Information and Communications Technology
• Accounting
• Marketing
• Project Management

My contributions

I tend to float around at random, picking off things that attract my interest. I am particularly interested in Dead End articles.

New articles

• Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe arose because I had researched him for a Dead Celebrities draw.
• Worshipful Company of Management Consultants flowed from my membership.
• BAPA flowed from expanding Amateur Press Association.
• Arthur Lake, Bishop of Bath and Wells, after whom my school house was named.
• Thomas Lake was the (probably more significant) brother of Arthur.
• Charles Herbert Mayo was the vicar of Longburton, which was one of my stub expansions.
• Genevieve Blanchett came from a random hit on Cate Blanchett.
• Yaron Lifschitz worked with Genevieve Blanchett.
• Raffæle Marcellino worked with Genevieve Blanchett.
• Mainstage was a discipline within which Yaron Lifschitz had worked.
• Eric Griffiths, who had just died.
• Peter Collinson FRS, a resident of Peckham, of which I had just expanded the history.
• Treaty of Windsor 1522, to populate a link from the Mary I of England article of the day.
• Bruniquel, to populate a link from the Graffiti article of the day.
• Gladys Mitchell, a favoured author.
• Philip Turner, after reading a Stephen Chance novel.
• Robert Carrier, after picking up a cookbook.
• Edward Hirsch came from expanding Poetry analysis, which had been flagged as needing attention.
• Mandatory sentencing was a policy that Genevieve Blanchett opposed.
• Fleur Beale after an article on the fictional Children of the Faith sect from her book I am not Esther was VFD.
• V. S. Pritchett after reading a recent biography of this Ipswich native.
• List of Parliamentary constituencies in the United Kingdom because I could not find a list of all constituencies past and present when writing the A. L. Rowse article.
• Guildford pub bombing to populate a link in the Guildford Four article.
• Prestige dialect to populate a link in the International English article.
• Arthur Baker (financier) flowed from Little Pub Company.
• Arthur Baker (calligrapher) flowed from Arthur Baker (financier).
• Debra Hill, who had just died.
• Antis after reading Music of Lithuania
• Nipah palm to populate a link in the Attap dwelling article.
• Bedsit flowed from fixing an article on the Austrian equivalent.
• Hugh Lloyd arose because I had researched him for a Dead Celebrities draw.
• Niccolo Antonio Colantonio because someone had created a Colantonio dead end stub.
• Matthias Ringmann in response to a question at Wikipedia:Reference desk
• Cosmographiae Introductio to populate a redlink in Matthias Ringmann.
• Blue Frontier Campaign to populate a redlink in David Helvarg.
• Seaweed rebellion to populate a redlink in David Helvarg.
• Walter Nugent Monck after reading David Holbrook's novel Play of Passion.
• Environmental Law Service to populate a redlink in EPS, which I had just refactored.
• GE Capital Bank after cleaning up GE Capital Bank AB.
• Kung Fu Master in response to a question at Wikipedia:Reference desk.
• Duke the Lost Engine flowed from The Railway Series.
• Gourmand World Cookbook Award flowed from transwikiing Gourmand to Wiktionary.
• Ligue des Gourmands flowed from transwikiing Gourmand to Wiktionary.
• Wikipedia:History of Wikipedian processes and people arose from discussion at Wikipedia_talk:Wikipedia_Signpost.
• Gene Frankel, who had just died.
• Charles Horace Mayo to differentiate him from the unrelated Charles Herbert Mayo.
• Jack Beddington whilst watching the television series Animation Nation.
• North Elmham was the birthplace of John Mills.
• Blue Mink having seen Madeline Bell singing on television and remembering how my school teacher said in 1970 that Blue Mink would be forgotten by 1974.
• Mary Hayley Bell having researched her for a Dead Celebrities draw.
• Dead Celebrities for reasons that should be apparent!
• H. R. F. Keating after expanding Inspector Ghote.

Plus stub expansions and material additions to other articles, which are listed on a subpage.

Works in Progress

• Pub name origins flows from a discussion of this topic in a pub!
• Local history
• Athenaeum Club and Athenaeum (magazine) having disambiguated these from the rock group Athenaeum
• Gentlemen's club
• Poetry analysis
• Keeping the United Kingdom definitive—eliminating "in UK" and "for UK".

Stuff to do

• Ad hoc edits
• dab Tony Jackson, the pianist from Tony Jackson (bass player)