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David Gill (film historian)
British film historian
David Ian Gill (9 June 1928 – 28 September 1997) was a British film historian, preservationist and documentarian who documented the history of motion pictures and helped restore many early, silent films.
He was born in Papua New Guinea, the son of Cecil Gill, a missionary doctor. His uncle was the sculptorEric Gill. The family returned to England in 1933 where Gill attended the Belmont Abbey School, Hereford.
Gill died at his home in Huntingdon, England, aged 69, after a heart attack.
Career
Gill trained as a dancer and joined Britain's Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet in 1946, appearing in The Sleeping Princess, which opened in Covent Garden that year. In 1953, he married dancer Pauline Wadsworth, who later taught at The Royal Ballet School.
Gill left ballet in 1955 to work in television, producing his mime play, The Way of the Cross, for the BBC before joining Associated-Rediffusion as an editor. As a result of that year's franchise changes, he moved to Thames Television in 1968, working mainly on news an
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About Me
David is a Mediterranean archaeologist and heritage professional. He was a Rome Scholar at the British School at Rome and Sir James Knott Fellow at Newcastle University before moving to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge where he had curatorial responsibility for the Greek and Roman collection. He was Reader in Mediterranean Archaeology at Swansea University (Prifysgol Abertawe) where he helped to establish the Egypt Centre housing the Egyptian collection of the pharmaceutical millionaire Sir Henry Wellcome. He returned to East Anglia as head of humanities at the University of Suffolk with his chair in archaeological heritage awarded through the University of East Anglia (UEA). He is currently Honorary Professor in the Centre for Heritage at the University of Kent, and Honorary Research Fellow in the School of History at UEA.
My biography of Dr John Disney considers the founder of the Disney Chair of Archaeology at Cambridge University as well as the background for his collection (‘The Disney Marbles’) that was donated to the Fitzwilliam Museum. Winifred Lamb was the
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David Gill (football executive)
British football executive
David Alan GillCBE (born 5 August 1957) is a British football executive, formerly chief executive of Manchester United and a vice-chairman of The Football Association. He served as vice-chairman of the G-14 management committee until the G-14 was disbanded. He sits on the UEFA Executive Committee as of 2013. Gill was elected as a FIFA Vice-President sitting on the FIFA Council in 2015; rejecting this position in protest at Sepp Blatter until Blatter announced his resignation as FIFA President, following the 2015 FIFA corruption case.
Career
Born and raised in Reading, Berkshire,[2] Gill studied at the University of Birmingham (BCom Industrial, Economic and Business Studies, 1978), becoming a Chartered Accountant with Price Waterhouse in 1981. After a two-year spell in San Francisco, he left the firm in 1986 to join BOC in its corporate finance department, and then Avis in 1990. At Avis, he was responsible for the disposal of the European leasing business to GE Capital for US$1 billion in Aug
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