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Colquhoun ( ) is a surname of Scotland, Scottish origin. The "l" is typically silent per developments in the Phonological history of Scots, Scots language. Phonetically, MacOlquhoun is similar to McElhone, MacElhone/MacIlhone and therefore Colquhoun may sometimes derive from the Gaelic name ''Mac Giolla Còmhghan''. ''Còmhghan'' is derived from ''comh'' ("together") and ''gan-'', ''gen-'' ("born").. Calhoun (surname), Calhoun, Colhoun (other), Colhoun, Calhoon, Colhoon, Cohoon, Hoon, Cahoun, and Cahoon are variants of the surname Colquhoun. They are generally found as simplifications and respellings, though all of them can occur from unrelated sources. In particular, Calhoun (surname), Calhoun is from the Irish language, Irish variant of Colquhoun. People with the surname Arts and entertainment * Alan Colquhoun, architect and architectural theorist * Alexander Colquhoun (artist) * Archibald Colquhoun (translator), Archibald Colquhoun, translator * Amalie Sara Colquhoun, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surname
In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several given names and surnames are possible in the full name. In modern times most surnames are hereditary, although in most countries a person has a right to name change, change their name. Depending on culture, the surname may be placed either at the start of a person's name, or at the end. The number of surnames given to an individual also varies: in most cases it is just one, but in Portuguese-speaking countries and many Spanish-speaking countries, two surnames (one inherited from the mother and another from the father) are used for legal purposes. Depending on culture, not all members of a family unit are required to have identical surnames. In some countries, surnames are modified depending on gender and family membership status of a person. C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amalie Sara Colquhoun
Amalie Sara Colquhoun (20 March 1894 – 16 June 1974) was an Australian landscape and portrait painter who is represented in national and state galleries. In addition to painting landscapes, portraits and still lifes, Colquhoun designed and supervised the construction of stained glass windows for three of Ballarat's churches, St Andrew's Kirk, Lydiard Street Uniting Church and Mount Pleasant Methodist Church. She studied in both Melbourne and Sydney, exhibited in England and Australia and taught in the school she started with her husband in Melbourne. Biography She was born Amalie Sara Field in Murtoa, a town in the Wimmera region of Victoria, Australia to parents Alfred Francis Field, a blacksmith, and Louisa Caroline, née Degenhardt, both Australian born. They moved to Ballarat in 1904 where Amalie studied drawing and design at the Ballarat Technical Art School, becoming the Art Mistress there in the mid-1920s. She was described by Harold Herbert as one of the most brillia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archibald Colquhoun (politician)
Archibald Campbell Colquhoun (8 September 1756 – 8 December 1820) was a Scottish politician and lawyer from Glasgow. He served as Lord Advocate—the highest position in the Scottish legal system. Life He was born Archibald Campbell in Glasgow in 1756, the only son of John Campbell of Clathick, Perthshire, (later Lord Provost of Glasgow 1788/90), and his wife Agnes Colquhoun, the only child of Laurence Colquhoun of Killermont, Dumbartonshire. On succeeding to the estate of Killermont upon the death of his father in 1804, he assumed the additional surname and arms of Colquhoun. He studied Law at Glasgow University graduating in 1769 and was admitted an advocate in 1768 and appointed Sheriff of Perth from 1793 to 1807 and Rector of Glasgow University from 1807 to 1809. On the downfall of the ministry of All the Talents, he was appointed Lord Advocate on 28 March 1807. At this time, a high ratio of the Scottish patronage of high level legal positions was in the hands of the Du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie Colquhoun
Sophie Colquhoun is a British actress from Liverpool, England. She is best known for her role as Cynthia in the first two series of the ITV2 comedy series ''Plebs''. Early life In 2005, she studied at Central St. Martins of the University of the Arts London. At the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, she studied with ''The Bill'' director, Peter Cregeen, and attended the site-specific workshop at , along with Charlotte Munksø in Italy. Career Colquhoun's film credits include '' Captain America: The First Avenger'', '' Anti-Social'', ''The Inbetweeners Movie'' and '' Freaks of Nature''. From 2013 to 2014, she played Cynthia in the television programme ''Plebs''. Her television credits include '' EastEnders: E20'', ''Holby City'', '' Law & Order: UK'', ''Death in Paradise'', '' Crackanory'', '' The Royals'' and ''Cuckoo''. In 2017, she joined the voice cast of ''Thomas & Friends ''Thomas & Friends'' is a British children's television series which aired from 9 October 1984 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Colquhoun
Robert Colquhoun (20 December 1914 – 20 September 1962) was a Scottish painter, printmaker and theatre set designer. Colquhoun was born in Kilmarnock and was educated at Kilmarnock Academy. He won a scholarship to study at the Glasgow School of Art, where he met Robert MacBryde with whom he established a lifelong homosexual relationship and professional collaboration, the pair becoming known as "the two Roberts". In the summer of 1938 Colquhoun and MacBryde set off on a travelling scholorship to France and Italy. Whilst in Paris they met up with their friend from Arbroath, the Irish realist painter Patrick Hennessy also on a similar scholorship, the three travelling south together that autumn slowly by train to Marseille and some months later to Genoa and Rome. Colquhoun served as an ambulance driver in the Royal Army Medical Corps during the Second World War. After being injured, he returned to London in 1941 where he shared studio space with MacBryde. The pair ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Colquhoun
Joe Colquhoun (7 November 1926 – 13 April 1987) was a British comics artist best known for his work on '' Charley's War'' in ''Battle Picture Weekly''. He was also the first artist to draw ''Roy of the Rovers''. Biography Born in Harrow, Middlesex, Joe Colquhoun served in the Royal Navy during World War II, and won a place at Kingston School of Art on his return. His career in comics began in 1951 in Jungle Trails, and he went on to work for IPC Media on titles such as ''Lion'', and later ''Tiger'', where he drew ''Roy of the Rovers'' for six years, from 1954 to 1960, despite having no interest in football. In the early 1970s he worked mainly for IPC's humour comics '' Buster'' and ''Cor!!'', until Battle Picture Weekly came along in 1976. For Battle he drew ''Soldier Sharp: the Rat of the Rifles'' and ''Johnny Red'' before editor Dave Hunt assigned him to work on Pat Mills' First World War story ''Charley's War'' in 1978. After ''Charley's War'' finished in 1986 Colquhoun d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ithell Colquhoun
Ithell Colquhoun ( 9 October 1906 – 11 April 1988) was a British painter, occultist, poet and author. Stylistically her artwork was affiliated with Surrealism. In the early 1930s she met André Breton in Paris, and later started working with Surrealist automatism techniques in her writing and painting. In the late 1930s, Colquhoun was part of the British Surrealist Group before being expelled because she refused to renounce her association with occult groups, including the Ordo Templi Orientis and the Fellowship of Isis. Despite her break with the movement, Colquhoun was a lifelong adherent to Surrealism and its automatic techniques. Colquhoun was born in Shillong in British India, but brought up in the United Kingdom. After studying at Cheltenham Ladies College and the Slade School of Art, she lived briefly in Paris before moving back to London. She spent the latter part of her life in Cornwall, where she died in 1988. Biography Margaret Ithell Colquhoun was born in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Colquhoun (Scottish Author)
Ian Colquhoun ( ) is a neurodivergent author, actor, stuntman and historian originally from Craigshill in Livingston in Scotland. He lost his legs and was almost killed in an unprovoked assault and arson attack whilst living in the Republic of Ireland in 2002 and now wears prosthetic legs. He gives lectures to physiotherapy students at an Edinburgh University about his conditions. Colquhoun appeared on Tiger Aspect Productions ''Men in White'' shown in the UK in October 2006 on Channel 4, as well as playing a badly wounded sailor in the film '' Ocean of Fear'', which is about the sinking of in 1945. Colquhoun appeared on Channel 4's Richard & Judy in August 2007 promoting his book and talking about his life. In October 2007 he played 'MacHendry' in episode 92 of the long running SMG drama 'Taggart ''Taggart'' is a Scottish detective fiction television programme created by Glenn Chandler, who wrote many of the episodes, and made by STV Studios for the ITV netwo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
General Practitioner
A general practitioner (GP) is a doctor who is a Consultant (medicine), consultant in general practice. GPs have distinct expertise and experience in providing whole person medical care, whilst managing the complexity, uncertainty and risk associated with the continuous care they provide. GPs work at the heart of their communities, striving to provide comprehensive and equitable care for everyone, taking into account their health care needs, stage of life and background. GPs work in, connect with and lead multidisciplinary teams that care for people and their families, respecting the context in which they live, aiming to ensure all of their physical health and mental health needs are met. They are trained to treat patients to levels of complexity that vary between countries. The term "primary care physician" is used in the United States. A core element in general practice is continuity of care, that bridges episodes of various illnesses over time. Greater continuity with a gen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glenn Colquhoun
Glenn Morton Colquhoun (born 1964) is a New Zealand poet and general practitioner. Life Colquhoun was born in Papakura, Auckland, and practises medicine on the Kāpiti Coast. He lives in Waikawa Beach. Colquhoun's first book of poems, ''The Art of Walking Upright'', was published in 1999. It has been said the book is a love letter to the people of Te Tii, the Northland town where he was living at that time. ''An Explanation of Poetry to My Father'' was published and written in 2001. Written in the middle of his work on ''Playing God'', the book was a distraction for Colquhoun from that work. The poems are an explanation of why the son of a builder would go and write poetry. ''Playing God'', Colquhuoun’s third book, was published in 2002 to critical acclaim and popular support. It has sold over 10,000 copies in New Zealand and in 2007 was published in the United Kingdom. ''How We Fell'' (2006) is a collection of love poems written to Colquhoun’s ex-wife. It is the candid s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frances Mary Colquhoun
Frances Mary Colquhoun (28 February 1836 – 29 July 1920) was a Scottish writer. Early life Known as Mary, she was born in Edinburgh in 1836, the eldest daughter and second child of John Colquhoun and Frances Sarah Fuller Maitland. Her father was a sportsman, author of ''The Moor and the Loch'' and former army officer. Her mother was the author of ''Rhymes and Chimes''. She grew up in Duddingston and then Royal Terrace, Edinburgh in a "sternly Presbyterian" and well-connected family. She and her siblings also spent time in stately homes in England and Scotland. She had four sisters and four brothers. Her sister Lucy Bethia Walford became a popular Victorian novelist and wrote about the family in ''Recollections of a Scottish Novelist.'' Her aunt was the Scottish novelist Catherine Sinclair. Clan and the Highlands Mary was the granddaughter of Sir James Colquhoun, Baronet of Luss and Clan Chief of the Colquhouns of Luss. She was 'intensely Highland in her sympathies, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YouTuber
A YouTuber is a content creator and social media influencer who uploads or creates videos on the online video-sharing website YouTube, typically posting to their personal YouTube channel. The term was first used in the English language in 2006, and subsequently appeared in the You (Time Person of the Year), 2006 ''Time'' Person of the Year issue. Influence Influential YouTubers are sometimes described as Celebrity, microcelebrities. Since YouTube is widely conceived as a bottom-up social media video platform, microcelebrities do not appear to be involved with the established and commercial system of celebrity culture; rather, they appear self-governed and independent. This appearance, in turn, leads to YouTubers being seen as more relatable and authentic, also fostered by the direct connection between artist and viewer using the medium of YouTube. In 2014, the University of Southern California surveyed 1318-year-olds in the United States on whether ten YouTube celebrities o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
