Anne Gilchrist was born Anne Burrows in 1828 to John Parker and Henrietta Borrows. She was a descendent of an upper-class family, a fact which enabled her to receive a formal education. Anne was interested in literature and exchanging theoretical ideas with intellectuals: an interest that her father enthusiastically encouraged. At the age of eleven she suffered the death of her father, who died from an illness which ensued after a fall from a horse. Anne had had a close and supportive relationship with him, and his death affected her deeply. Living with her mother Henrietta in London, Anne met Alexander Gilchrist. Alexander (known as Alex) was born in 1828 to James and Dorothy Gilchrist. James Gilchrist, the son of a Scottish farmer, was a writer and philosopher, whose most successful work was titled The Intellectual Patrimony (Alcaro 1991, 49). According to a biographer of Anne Gilchrist, Marion Walker Alcaro, Alex and Anne had a comfortable intellectual friendship, but Anne was not interested in marriage. Because of Anne's social stature many suitors were vying for her hand in marriage. The first time Alex proposed marriage to Anne, she refused. There is not much known of the courtship between Anne and Alex, but Anne finally agreed to marry Alex because of their intellectually-compatable friendship. Alex encouraged and respected Anne's academic interests, and Anne often aided Alex in his work. Although Anne may not have had a deep and unwavering love for Alex, they shared the same scholarly interests and both had lost the supportive relationships they had shared with their fathers through a saddening early demise.
After a two-year engagement during which Alex was finishing his law degree, Anne Burrows finally wedded Alex Gilchrist in February of 1851. Alex chose not to pursue a career in law and decided to fulfill his life-long aspiration to become a writer. Numerous poems written by Alex between 1843 and 1850 and contained in this collection demonstrate his love for writing. At the time Alex and Anne Gilchrist were married, Alex was working on a book entitled The Life of Etty (William Etty, British painter, 1787-1849). While spending the initial years of their marriage traveling in England, Alex conducted research for the biography of William Etty, and Anne gave birth to their first son, Percy Carlyle Gilchrist (1851-1935). Alex relays the news of the event in a cheerful letter to a life-long friend of Anne's, Julia Mary Newton.
The Gilchrist children maintained close relationships with each other and pursued their own interests in life after the death of their mother. Grace Gilchrist, through voice training,becamean average contralto. She also became a member of the Fabian Society, a socialist political group, along with her brother Herbert. Through the Fabian society Grace met and became enamored with writer George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950). Emma Brookes, a novelist,intruded on this relationship to find out Shaw's intentions. Herbert--also aware of this--may have had words with Shaw. A argumentativeletter from Shaw to Herbert from 1888 indicates that there was a desire to break off Shaw's involvement with Grace. In 1897 Grace married Albert Henry Frend, an architect. Herbert and Percy not were fond of the man Grace wanted to wed. As Grace's diaries in the collection reveal, the marriageendedtwelve years later with a long and bitter divorce. Grace lived the rest of her life with closecompanions and pursued the study of theosophy. She died at the age of eighty-eight in 1947.
Herbert continued painting. His portraits of Walt Whitman, his mother Anne, and a group-portrait are now housed in the Department of Special Collections, Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania. Herbert never became a member of the Royal Academy as he had dreamed. In 1887 he published Anne Gilchrist: Life and Writings. Included in the biography of Anne, relayed through her correspondence, is a preface by close friend of the family, William Michael Rossetti. Even though Herbert appeared to be a rather successful painter, he--like his sister Beatrice--took his own life at the age of fifty-nine i n 1914.Percy continued his eminent career in the mining and steel industry. He lived a comfortable life and died at the age of eighty-four in 1934.
Like all families the Gilchrists experienced tragedy and happiness, but the Gilchrists' accomplishments and unique relationships make them an intriguing family for further study.Aaron Gilchrist anchors News4 Today, the #1 morning newscast in Washington, along with Eun Yang. Aaron’s day starts in the middle of the night, as he’s on the air at 4:26 every morning.
Gilchrist joined News4 in March 2010 as a weekend morning anchor and general assignment reporter. He moved to weekday mornings in April 2012. Gilchrist continues to provide special reports across News4 broadcasts and hosts special programs for the station.
Before coming to Washington, Gilchrist spent 11 years in his hometown at WWBT, NBC’s affiliate in Richmond. He began working there as a desk assistant and worked his way up to morning anchor for which he was honored with an EMMY.
Gilchrist’s reporting and anchoring has covered many of the major events of the last two decades. He’s reported on everything from the Beltway sniper attack in central Virginia to the funeral of Ronald Reagan to the inauguration of Barack Obama. In 2005, he spent several days reporting from the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina. Two years later, he made several trips to Virginia Tech to cover the mass shooting there and its aftermath.
During his time on the anchor desk in Washington, Gilchrist has guided viewers through wall-to-wall coverage of tropical storms, the retirement trip to northern Virginia of the space shuttle Discovery and the mass shooting at the Navy Yard. Gilchrist also provide live reports from NBC’s Education Nation summit in New York City in 2012 and the Republican National Convention in Tampa, FL in 2013. He also contributed as panelist in Virginia senate and gubernatorial debates.
Gilchrist graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond with a degree in mass communications. He also taught journalism courses there. Today, Gilchrist commits much of his time to working with local youth organizations and talking to students about the value of education and a strong work ethic.
Eric Gilchrist plays alto sax, tenor sax, clarinet and sings. For over 40 years he has played with jazz groups, rock bands and blues bands and in the early 70's toured Europe extensively with an Australian jazz band called theYarra Yarra Band.
When the band returned to Australia he began forming his own jazz groups made up with musicians he particularly respected and admired. At this time he also returned to full time employment in the advertising industry and worked as a writer and as a lyricist and composer for jingles, trade shows, videos and radio programmes. He was fortunate to be able to work closely with such well-known composers as Harry South, Jeff Wayne and Roger Greenaway.
In the 1980's he formed a swing band called Route 66 which made several tours of Germany, Holland and Belgium. This band developed into a jazz funk band called Hot Licks which played around various London venues and featured many well-known London jazz musicians.
He was also invited to be a guest musician with Chris Hodgkins' Jazz Band in Cardiff where he made several TV and radio broadcasts and worked with and supported visiting American musicians such as Buddy Tate, Wild Bill Davidson and Bud Freeman. During this period Eric also formed his own music company and was commissioned to write original compositions and lyrics for a wide range of clients including General Motors, Levi's, and Coca-Cola etc. He also worked closely with composer Martin Koch on lyrics for a number of BBC programmes. A musician who can play in various styles his particular favourite is 30's and 40'swing, plus ballads from the American song book and of course the blues.From the 1990's to the present time he has worked primarily with his own quintet featuring the musicians on the CD. Martin Blackwell on piano, Max Brittain on guitar, Harvey Weston on bass and Steve Rushton on drums. This quintet has played mainly for private functions and corporate events as well as in London venues such as Pizza on The Park and the Spice of Life. In January 2005 American singer Joe Francis particularly requested the quintet to back him at the Pizza on the Park for a 6 night residency.
"The CD reflects the quintet's various influences and styles including blues, ballads and swing, as well as compositions from Stevie Wonder and Joe Sample." Chris Sheridan, Jazz Review, July 2002.
Biography of Ellen Gilchrist
According to Wendell Brock, in her acclaimed novels and short story collections, the Mississippi writer Ellen Gilchrist “taps the human heart with unmistakable empathy — and unerring humor.” She was born on February 20, 1935, near Vicksburg, Mississippi, in Issaquena County. Her parents were Aurora (Alford) and William Garth Gilchrist. At the age of fourteen, she wrote a column called “Chit and Chat About This and That” for a local Franklin, Kentucky, paper. She attended Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, where she received a Bachelor’s degree in philosophy. At nineteen, Gilchrist married Marshall Walker, an engineering student, and they had three children. When she divorced Walker, she enrolled in a creative writing course at Millsaps College in Jackson, where she was taught by Eudora Welty. She also studied creative writing at the University of Arkansas, where today she is a faculty member.
Ellen Gilchrist’s first collection of short stories, In the Land of Dreamy Dreams, was published by the University of Arkansas Press in 1981 and reissued in hardcover and paperback by Little, Brown and Company in 1985. Her first novel, The Annunciation, was published in 1983, and her second collection of short stories, Victory Over Japan, for which she received the National Book Award for Fiction, was published in 1984. She now has more than seventeen books of her work published. Ellen Gilchrist has received numerous awards, including the Mississippi Arts Festival Poetry Award; the New York Quarterly Craft in Poetry Award; the National Endowment of the Arts Grant in Fiction; and the Mississippi Academy of Arts and Science Award for Fiction. In addition, she has received the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Literature Award three times for the books In the Land of Dreamy Dreams, Victory Over Japan, and I Cannot Get You Close Enough.
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Ellen Gilchrist continues to teach in the Creative Writing and Translation program of the Department of English at the University of Arkansas. Her book The Writing Life was published by The University Press of Mississippi in 2005 and Nora Jane: A Life in Stories was published by Little Brown also in 2005. Her novel, A Dangerous Age, was published in 2008. It is the story of three women of the Hand family who are cousins in a “Southern dynasty rich with history and tradition who are no strangers to either controversy or sadness,” according to the publisher Algonquin of Chapel Hill. Other more recent works include Acts of God (2014), Ellen Gilchrist: Collected Stories (2009), Nora Jane: A Life in Stories (2005), and I, Rhoda Manning, Go Hunting with My Daddy, And Other Stories (2003).
She has been married and divorced four times (two to the same man) and has three children. Although Gilchrist presently lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas, she maintains a house in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, as well.Ellen Gilchrist’s “Revenge” is a short story about overcoming obstacles. “Revenge” is set in mid-summer during World War I in Issaquena County, Mississippi. The tone chosen for this story changes from the light feel of childhood to the mature feelings of war. The story changes from third-person omniscient to first-person point of view very quickly. The narrator is the main character. The theme of the story is that no matter how big a challenge seems, it can always be accomplished. In this short story, Gilchrist develops character as well as plot. The characters in the story are dynamic as they change during the course of the story. The main character is Rhoda. Other important characters are Rhoda’s four cousins: Philip, Bunkey, Saint John, Oliver, and her brother, Dudley. Rhoda’s grandmother, Miss Onnie Maud, and Lauralee also play a part in the literary work. The characters who change are her cousins and brother. Before they realize Rhoda’s abilities, they think that girls can’t do any of the things that guys do. The grandmother, Miss Onnie Maud, and Lauralee realize that women do not have to follow the strict standards of Southern women after Rhoda overcomes her obstacle. Although the plot develops over a short time period, it is very elaborate. The story begins with Gilchrist reminiscing about the summer of Broad Jump Pit. Then Rhoda tells the story of her summer with her grandmother in the Delta. The main conflict occurs when Rhoda and Dudley’s father writes to tell them to build an Olympic training field. The four cousins and Dudley guard the field from Rhoda day and night. A battle is started between Rhoda and the five boys. The highlight of the story is when Rhoda finally defeats the boys and gets to pole vault on the field.
Career and Achievements
Adam Gilchrist made his bow on the international stage by replacing the injured wicketkeeper of the Australian team, Ian Healy. This marked his opening One Day International (ODI) where they faced South Africa in India, in the year 1996. He announced himself at this stage by dismissing Hansie Cronje for a duck after making his first catch. Healy returned in the 1996-97 season, later Gilchrist played in the first two ODIs as Australia toured South Africa in 1997. He upheld his position in the squad after their batsman got injured. This series gave Gilchrist his first ODI half century and 77 innings in Durban. His position in the team was not in any threat as the selectors preferred to select different teams for Test cricket and ODIs.
The Australian Team toured New Zealand in 1998, and it is here that he achieved his highest average of 50, no other Australian batsman had attained this fete. He became the first batsman in cricket to score 100 sixes in a test match. In the 1999 World Cup, he developed into one of Australia’s key players even though he had shown some struggling signs earlier. The player was moderately successful in his first Test matches but his highlight moments began when he made 272 runs at 27.20 as Australia beat India.
He was excellent in their New Zealand tour, where he was named the man of the match in both games. He continued this trend in the year 2001 as he recorded the 3rd best performance by a wicketkeeper (after of course Sobers) and the best by an Aussie. He took the captaincy later that year after Steve Waugh sustained an injury as Australia toured West Indies and after they had won that match with him as captain, he described that moment as his best ever. In the 2001 Ashes series, Adam Gilchrist produced one of his best displays and inspired his team to win the series by 4-1.
He picked up 8585 runs in 257 matches in One Day Internationals, averaging about 35.26. He made 172 runs in their ODI against Zimbabwe to mark his highest tally. In international cricket, he notched 17 test and 15 One Day International centuries; he also picked up 50 half centuries. He is the only wicketkeeper to have captained the Australian national team; he also has the fastest century as they faced England in 2006. Gilchrist has won numerous awards that culminated with him voted as the 9th best all rounder of the century in the year 2007. After setting a new record for the highest dismissals in 2008, he announced his retirement.
Adam Gilchrist family and personal life Adam Gilchrist was the youngest of four children from his father, Stan and mother, June. Gilchrist later married his high school sweetheart Melindra (Mel) Gilchrist who is a dietitian. They have three sons, Harrison, Archie and Ted, and a daughter, Annie Jean together. His family had come under spotlight during the 2007 Cricket World Cup when one of his sons, Archie’s approaching birth had threatened his presence in the squad. However, at the end he was able to take part in the tournament. Adam Gilchrist was not only an impeccable batsman, he is also equally a good bowler and coach. Gilchrist was also interested in other sport besides cricket. During his retirement announcement, he had hinted to be a part of baseball team in the future. He loved to go out on a long vacation with his family and that is exactly what he did soon after his retirement. Adam Gilchrist started out as a captain of cricket team of Kadina High School at the age of 13. However, he was formally introduced by New South Wales Team during 1992. His first appearance in the ODI team was on 1996 as the player of Western Australian Team whereas his first test debut was on 1999. During his entire cricketing career he has been the captain of the Australian team for a short period of time and had always been appreciated as the vice-captain of the team. He had scored of 15000 runs, averaging 47.60 in the test cricket and his ODI average is 35.89. He has been an important part of two ICC World Cups in 2003 and 2007. He took the retirement in 26 January, 2008 despite being asked for the reconsideration by the team and even the former Prime Minister of the country. The reason for which gave was he felt like he had lost his competitive age. Before his retirement he had been facing the disappointing loss, one after another. Even after his retirement, he couldn’t keep away from the cricket. He was the part of Indian Premier League (IPL) in which he played as the part of team Deccan Chargers in 2008 and Kings XI Punjab in 2012. He had also signed the short time contract with Middlesex in November 2009 to play English T20 cricket of which he was appointed as an interim captain. Adam Gilchrist Net Worth Adam Gilchrist’s approximate net worth is said to me $8 million. He was auctioned $700,000 by Deccan Chargers in 2008 and $900,000 in 2012 during the IPL matches. Adam Gilchrist’s Achievements and Contributions He was awarded with 7 man of the match awards in test matches and 3 in test match series. Similarly, He was awarded with 28 man of the match awards in ODI matches and 3 in ODI match series. His autobiography, True Colors was published in 2008 which was the matter of controversy because of his mention of Sachin Tendulkar, questioning his integrity, relating to one of the disputes relating to racism against Harbajan Singh. Adam Gilchrist is regarded to be socially active and responsible. He has been a part of various social and charitable events. He is an ambassador for the charity World Vision in India. He had donated $20,000 towards the kids with disabilities. He also sponsors a boy whose father has died.