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Rhind Mathematical Papyrus 2 N Table
Rhind may refer to: * Aaron Rhind (born 1991), Australian swimmer * Alex Rhind, Scottish footballer, played in the 1872 Scotland v England football match * Alexander Rhind (1821–1897), American naval officer ** , US destroyer named after Alexander Rhind * Alexander Henry Rhind (1833–1863), Scottish lawyer ** Rhind Lectures, a series of lectures on topics of archaeology originally funded by a bequeath from Alexander Henry Rhind ** Rhind Mathematical Papyrus, Egyptian papyrus named after Alexander Henry Rhind * David Rhind (1808–1883), Scottish architect * David William Rhind (born circa 1945), British geographer * Ethel Rhind, Irish artist * James Robert Rhind (1854–1918), Scottish architect * John Rhind (architect) (1836–1889), Scottish architect * John Rhind (sculptor), John Rhind (1828–1892), Scottish sculptor, father of William Birnie Rhind and J. Massey Rhind * John Stevenson Rhind, Scottish sculptor * J. Massey Rhind (1860–1936), Scott ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aaron Rhind
Aaron Rhind (born 13 February 1991) is an Australian swimmer. He was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in the 200 m individual medley and 50 m butterfly swimming events. He did not medal at the 2012 Games. Personal Rhind was born on 13 February 1991 and is from Yass, New South Wales. His mother has multiple sclerosis. He had a ruptured cerebral aneurysm when he was ten years old, which largely affects the left side of his body. Prior to his stroke, he played rugby union. He went to high school at Canberra's St Francis Xavier College and Mount Carmel High School. He has a Certificate III in Childcare. Swimming Rhind is an S6 classified swimmer competing in the 100 m freestyle, 100 m backstroke, 200 m individual medley and 50 m butterfly events. He trains with Australian Olympic swimming medalist Adam Pine at the Canberra International Swimming and Aquatic Centre, has a scholarship with the Australian Capital Territory Academy of Sport, and i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Robert Rhind
James Robert Rhind, architect, was born in Inverness, Scotland in 1854 and trained as an architect in his father's local practice. He was successful in the architectural competition for new libraries to be constructed in Glasgow following Andrew Carnegie’s gift of £100,000 to the city in 1901. His designs were selected for 7 libraries, allowing him to demonstrate his individual interpretation of Edwardian Baroque architecture. Rhind’s libraries were all built with locally quarried sandstone, which blended in with the existing tenement neighbourhoods. His landmark buildings were greatly enhanced by his liberal use of columns, domes and sculpted features. Many of the façades were decorated with stone and bronze statues by the noted Glasgow sculptor, William Kellock Brown. Rhind retained his base in Inverness while he temporarily occupied offices in Glasgow city centre during the construction of the new Carnegie libraries. In Scotland the Carnegie libraries were typically bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Rhind
Robert Rhind was a Scottish amateur football inside forward who played in the Scottish League for Queen's Park. Personal life Rhind served as a corporal in the Highland Light Infantry during the First World War World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fig .... Career statistics References Year of birth missing Scottish footballers Scottish Football League players British Army personnel of World War I Association football inside forwards Queen's Park F.C. players Highland Light Infantry soldiers Place of death missing Place of birth missing Year of death missing Third Lanark A.C. players {{Scotland-footy-forward-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Rhind
Neil Biron Rhind (born 9 January 1937) is an English journalist, writer and an authority on the social and historical development of Blackheath and surrounding areas of south east London. Rhind was awarded an MBE in the 1998 New Year Honours for services to the preservation of the historical character of Blackheath. He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in June 2005 and, in January 2011, appointed an Honorary Fellow of the University of London, Goldsmiths College for his work in the conservation and historic research of south east London. Early life Rhind was born and has lived most of his life in Blackheath, London. He is the youngest of four siblings born to Doris Pamela and William Alexander, a naval officer. During World War II, Rhind was evacuated and separated from his siblings for a time. He returned to Blackheath in 1951. Rhind was educated at St Marylebone Grammar School. He married Elizabeth on 3 September 1960, has two children, and lives i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julian Rhind-Tutt
Julian Alistair Rhind-Tutt (born 20 July 1967) is an English actor, best known for playing Dr "Mac" Macartney in the comedy television series ''Green Wing'' (2004–2006). Early life Rhind-Tutt was born in West Drayton, Middlesex, the youngest of five; there was a 10-year gap between him and his two brothers and two sisters. He attended the John Lyon School in Harrow, Middlesex, where he acted in school productions, eventually taking the lead in a school production of ''Hamlet'' that played at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in the mid-1980s. After reading English and Theatre Studies at the University of Warwick, he attended the Central School of Speech and Drama in London where he won the 1992 Carleton Hobbs Award from BBC Radio Drama. Career Rhind-Tutt's first significant acting role was as the Duke of York in '' The Madness of King George'' (1994). This was followed by a succession of lesser television and film roles. He then landed a major role in William Boyd's First World ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Stevenson Rhind
:''for others with the same name see Rhind'' John Stevenson Rhind (1859 – 1937) was a Scottish sculptor based in Edinburgh. Life Less is known of John Stevenson than of his family counterparts in Edinburgh but he was a nephew of John Rhind and cousin of William Birnie Rhind and J. Massey Rhind, all sculptors in Edinburgh. He would appear to also connect to the family of David Watson Stevenson and apparently links between these two prominent Scottish sculpting families. He is known to have attended the Royal Scottish Academy Life School 1881–7.Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain In 1886, he won the RSA prize for modelling. He exhibited in the Royal Scottish Academy from 1877 to 1920. His sculpture is however well-represented across the city. From 1901 until death he lived and worked from Belford Road in Edinburgh, working from the Dean Studios. He is buried in Dalry Cemetery in the south-west of Edinburgh with his wife, Janet Scott Brun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Rhind (sculptor)
John Rhind ARSA (1828–1892) was a Scottish sculptor, based in Edinburgh. He was born in Banff the son of a master mason. He was trained under Alexander Handyside Ritchie (1804–1870). He served this apprenticeship in a yard at 4 East Broughton Place. He was master of the masonic lodge on Hill Street in Edinburgh from 1864 to 1868. He lived his final years at "St Helens" on Cambridge Street, just south of Edinburgh Castle.Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1891 He died on 5 April 1892 a few days after being elected an Associate of the RSA, and is buried in Warriston Cemetery, Edinburgh, with a monument by his son John Massey Rhind. The grave lies just off the main southern path, near its centre, facing east on a north-south path. He was the father of the sculptors William Birnie Rhind and J. Massey Rhind, and of the architect Sir Thomas Duncan Rhind. Works * Portrait heads (Victoria, Albert, James Watt, Charles Darwin, Michelangelo, and Sir Isaac Newton), Nationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Rhind (architect)
John Rhind (10 March 1836 – 10 August 1889) was an architect from Inverness, Scotland. Biography John Rhind was born in Banffshire in 1836, son of the Inverness architect builder George Rhind and his wife Isabella Milne. He was probably initially articled to his father, but around 1854 he went to Glasgow, where he became an assistant to Campbell Douglas, remaining with him during the early years of his partnership with J. J. Stevenson. At Douglas' he became acquainted with Bruce James Talbert and took an interest in the work of Alexander 'Greek' Thomson whose influence was later to be reflected in Rhind's Imperial Hotel and Union Street buildings, both in Inverness. While in Glasgow he is said to have been a Vice-President of the Young Architectural Association of Glasgow, perhaps a junior branch of the Glasgow Architectural Society. Around 1863 Rhind returned to Inverness and took over the architectural side of his father's business. His Glasgow experience, and bold if u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethel Rhind
Ethel Rhind (1 December 1877 – 6 March 1952) was an Irish stained-glass and mosaic artist, who was associated with An Túr Gloine. Life and education Rhind was born 1 December 1877 in Arrah, Bihar, India. Her father was Robert Hunter Rhind, a civil engineer born in Edinburgh, who was working in the Indian civil service. Her mother, Hannah Rhind (née Tate), was from White Abbey, County Antrim, and was a relative of the Gore-Booth family of Lissadell House, County Sligo. Rhind was educated at Londonderry High School, and later the School of Art, Belfast where she earned an art teacher's certificate in 1900. In 1902, she was awarded a scholarship to study mosaic under Miss Holloway at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art. Rhind was an early student of Alfred E. Child, who taught stained glass craft. Her student work was exhibited at the Irish International Exhibition in 1907. She entered Sarah Purser's An Túr Gloine in 1907–1908 to work on stained glass and '' opus sec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Rhind
Alexander Rhind (20 September 1849 – 22 January 1922) was a Scottish footballer who played as a forward. Career Born in Aberdeen, Rhind played club football for Queen's Park, and he made only one appearance for Scotland Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the ... in 1872 during the first official international football match. He later served as president of Caledonian. References 1849 births 1922 deaths Scottish footballers Scotland international footballers Queen's Park F.C. players Association football forwards Footballers from Aberdeen {{Scotland-footy-forward-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David William Rhind
David William Rhind is a British geographer and expert on geographic information systems (GIS). He was Vice-Chancellor of City University, London, until July 2007. Rhind graduated in geography and geology from the University of Bristol in 1965 and received a PhD in geomorphology from the University of Edinburgh in 1969. Rhind held academic posts at Edinburgh, the Royal College of Art and Durham, before becoming a professor of geography at the University of London in 1982. In this position he was a major contributor to the Chorley Committee, the UK Government committee of enquiry "Handling of Geographical Information", which reported in 1987. He subsequently became Director General of Ordnance Survey, overseeing the completion of the digitisation of the last of its paper maps. Work on GIS led to the awarding of a DSc from the University of London in 1991. Rhind has also received honorary doctorates from universities including Bristol, Loughborough, Southampton, Kingston, Durha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Rhind
David Rhind FRSE (1808 – 26 April 1883) was a prominent Scottish architect, mainly remembered for his public buildings, banks, churches and schools, most of which are now listed buildings. Life Rhind was born at 15 Gayfield Place in Edinburgh in 1808, the son of John Rhind. His father at the time of his birth is listed as a "writer" (a standard Scots term for a lawyer) but later became a cashier to the Edinburgh Friendly Insurance Company). His wife, David's mother, was named Marion Anderson. David Rhind was married twice: firstly to Emily Shoubridge in 1840; then to Mary Jane Sackville-Pearson in 1845. He lived until 1883 and was survived by eight of his children. He is believed to have trained in the London drawing office of Augustus Charles Pugin and was a friend of Charles Barry. His practice began in Edinburgh, but examples of his work were constructed all over Scotland. David worked in conjunction with Alexander Handyside Ritchie who executed much of the sculptura ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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