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Robert Palmer (writer)
Robert Allen Palmer (1949–2003) was an English singer-songwriter and musician. Robert Palmer may also refer to: Academics * Robert Roswell Palmer (1909–2002), historian of France * R. E. A. Palmer (1933–2006), classical scholar and ancient historian Businessmen * Robert Palmer (computer businessman) (born 1940), CEO of Digital Equipment Corporation * Robert W. Palmer, land appraiser for Madison Guaranty; pleaded guilty in Whitewater controversy * Robert Palmer (vintner) (1934–2009), American advertising executive and vintner Politicians * Robert Palmer (MP) (1793–1872), English Conservative member of parliament * Robert Moffett Palmer (1820–1862), American diplomat and politician * Robert Palmer, 1st Baron Rusholme (1890–1977), general secretary of the British Co-operative Union and member of the House of Lords * Robert John Palmer (1849–1928), tailor and politician in South Carolina Sportsmen * Robert Palmer (skier) (born 1947), New Zealand Olympic sk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Palmer
Robert Allen Palmer (19 January 1949 – 26 September 2003) was an English singer and songwriter. He was known for his powerful and soulful voice, sartorial elegance and stylistic explorations, combining soul, funk, jazz, rock, pop, reggae and blues. His 1986 song " Addicted to Love" and its accompanying video came to "epitomise the glamour and excesses of the 1980s". Having started in the music industry in the 1960s, including a spell with Vinegar Joe, Palmer found success in the 1980s. It came both in his solo career and with the Power Station, scoring Top 10 hits in the United Kingdom and the United States. Three of his hit singles, including "Addicted to Love", featured music videos directed by British fashion photographer Terence Donovan. Palmer received a number of awards throughout his career, including two Grammy Awards for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance and an MTV Video Music Award. He was also nominated for the Brit Award for British Male Solo Artist in b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Roswell Palmer
Robert Roswell Palmer (January 11, 1909 – June 11, 2002) was an American historian at Princeton and Yale universities, who specialized in eighteenth-century France. His most influential work of scholarship, ''The Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760–1800'' (1959 and 1964), examined the Atlantic Revolutions, an age of democratic revolution that swept Europe and the Americas between 1760 and 1800. He was awarded the Bancroft Prize in History for the first volume. Palmer also achieved distinction as a history text writer. Life Born in Chicago, Illinois, Palmer accelerated through the public schools. By winning a citywide contest for a play written in Latin, he earned a full scholarship to the University of Chicago where he studied with the historian Louis Gottschalk and earned his bachelor's degree ( Ph.B.) in 1931. He received his Ph.D. in History from Cornell University three years later, studying with Carl L. Becker. His disser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Palmer (computer Businessman)
Robert B. Palmer (born September 11, 1940) is an American businessman in the computer industry. Palmer was the final Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Digital Equipment Corporation. Education Palmer majored in Math and Physics at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas. Career Mostek Corporation Palmer was a founder of Mostek Corporation, founded in 1969 by former employees of Texas Instruments. Mostek manufactured logic, memory, and microprocessor chips. In 1980, United Technologies Corporation (UTC) acquired Mostek Corporation, and Palmer became executive vice president of semiconductor operations. Digital Equipment Corporation In 1985, Palmer joined Digital, and in 1992, he was appointed president and chief executive officer (CEO). From 1995 to 1998, Palmer served as chairman of the board until Digital was sold to Compaq. Digital Equipment Corporation restructuring From 1993 to 1998, Palmer undertook numerous restructurings, massive layoffs of more than 60,000 people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert W
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' () "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown, godlike" and ''berht'' "bright, light, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin.Reaney & Wilson, 1997. ''Dictionary of English Surnames''. Oxford University Press. It is also in use as a surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert. After becoming widely used in Continental Europe, the name entered England in its Old French form ''Robert'', where an Old English cognate form (''Hrēodbēorht'', ''Hrodberht'', ''Hrēodbēorð'', ''Hrœdbœrð'', ''Hrœdberð'', ''Hrōðberχtŕ'') had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto. Robert is also a common name in many Germanic languages, including En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Palmer (vintner)
Robert Palmer (July 16, 1934 – January 16, 2009) was an American advertising executive who became a vintner and one of the pioneering developers of the wine industry on the North Fork of New York's Long Island. He was born Robert Joseph Prignano on July 16, 1934, in Forest Hills, Queens. He adopted the surname Palmer when he started working as he felt people found it too hard to spell. He went to school in Queens Village, Queens and attended Chaminade High School in Mineola, New York. He did not attend college and started employment in the advertising industry in his early teens. By 1970, he was president and chief executive of Kelly Nason, growing its billings from $14 million to $140 million by the time he left the position in 1978. He started a media buying service, called RJ Palmer, in 1979, which he sold in the 1990s but remained active in the business until two years before his death.Weber, Bruce"Robert Palmer, Ad Executive Turned Vintner, Dies at 74" ''The New York Time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Palmer (MP)
Robert Palmer, JP (31 January 1793 – 24 November 1872) was an English gentleman from Berkshire and Tory/Conservative Member of Parliament. The son of Robert Palmer Senior and Jane Bowles, he lived at Holme Park in Sonning. Active in county politics, he was a magistrate in 1815 and High Sheriff of Berkshire The High Sheriff of Berkshire, in common with other counties, was originally the King's representative on taxation upholding the law in Anglo-Saxons, Saxon times. The word Sheriff evolved from 'shire-reeve'. The title of High Sheriff#United King ... in 1818. In his will, he endowed 'Robert Palmer's Almshouse Charity,' which remains active today. Notes 1793 births 1872 deaths Tory MPs (pre-1834) Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies High sheriffs of Berkshire People from Sonning UK MPs 1820–1826 UK MPs 1826–1830 UK MPs 1830–1831 UK MPs 1832–1835 UK MPs 1835–1837 UK MPs 1837–1841 UK MPs 1841–1847 UK MPs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Moffett Palmer
Robert Moffett Palmer (December 14, 1820 – April 26, 1862) was an American diplomat. Biography Palmer was born in Mount Holly, New Jersey on December 14, 1820 to a family of judges and politicians. At age 9 his father moved the family to Pottsville, Pennsylvania and Palmer began learning the trade of printing Printing is a process for mass reproducing text and images using a master form or template. The earliest non-paper products involving printing include cylinder seals and objects such as the Cyrus Cylinder and the Cylinders of Nabonidus. The .... He would eventually become editor of the Pottsville Emporium, a local paper, and later marry Isabelle Seitzinger in 1840. In 1845 he would join the Bar (law), bar before going on to be appointed District attorney, District Attorney of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, Schuylkill County in 1850. Palmer would act as a Republican Party (United States), Republican delegate for Pennsylvania to the Republican National Conven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Palmer, 1st Baron Rusholme
Robert Alexander Palmer, 1st Baron Rusholme (29 November 1890 – 18 August 1977) was a senior official of the British co-operative movement and a Labour Co-operative member of the House of Lords. Career Born in November 1890, Palmer left school at the age of 14. By the age of 21 he was a director of the Manchester and Salford Co-operative Society, the largest consumer co-operative in Manchester. During the First World War he served with the Manchester Regiment (Territorial Force) in Egypt, Belgium and France, and was commissioned as a second lieutenant on 30 October 1918. At the age of 30, Palmer was appointed Cashier and Financial Adviser of the Co-operative Union, the trade body of the consumer co-operative movement. In 1929 he became the body's general secretary. He continued in the role until 1947. He also became President of the International Co-operative Alliance. In 1945 Palmer was raised to the peerage as Baron Rusholme, of Rusholme in the City of Manchester, becoming th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert John Palmer
Robert John Palmer (born January 18, 1849 – May 12, 1928) was a tailor and politician born into slavery in South Carolina. Career Palmer was a state representative from 1876 to 1878 and had a tailor shop opposite the post office on Main Street in Columbia, South Carolina.vitabrevis.americanancestors.org Personal life He had a daughter, Rosina C. Palmer, with Julia Simons in Columbia in the 1870s. He subsequently married Adelaide Perry and had eight children. After Adelaide died he married Leila P. Bruce January 12, 1913. He is the great-great-grandfather of stand-up comedian Dave Chappelle.Child, Christopher Challender, He is buried in Randolph Cemetery along with eight other Reconstruction Era legislators. See also *African American officeholders from the end of the Civil War until before 1900 More than 1,500 African-American officeholders served during the Reconstruction era (1865–1877) and in the years after Reconstruction before white supremacy, disenfranchise ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Palmer (skier)
Robert Palmer (born 1947) is an alpine skier from New Zealand. In the 1968 Winter Olympics The 1968 Winter Olympics, officially known as the X Olympic Winter Games (), were a winter multi-sport event held from 6 to 18 February 1968 in Grenoble, France. Thirty-seven countries participated. The 1968 Winter Games marked the first time ... at Grenoble, he came 42nd in the Downhill but did not finish in the Giant Slalom. References * ''Black Gold'' by Ron Palenski (2008, 2004 New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame, Dunedin) p. 106 External links * * Living people 1947 births New Zealand male alpine skiers Olympic alpine skiers for New Zealand Alpine skiers at the 1968 Winter Olympics 20th-century New Zealand sportsmen {{NewZealand-alpine-skiing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Palmer (cricketer)
Robert William Michael Palmer (born 4 June 1960) is a Hong Kong born former English cricketer. Palmer was a right-handed batsman who bowled left-arm medium pace. Palmer made his first-class debut for Cambridge University against Worcestershire in 1981. Palmer played 10 further first-class matches for the university, the last coming against Northamptonshire. In his 11 first-class matches, he took 16 runs at a bowling average of 59.62, with best figures of 4/96. He played Minor Counties Championship and MCCA Knockout Trophy matches for Buckinghamshire Buckinghamshire (, abbreviated ''Bucks'') is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England and one of the home counties. It is bordered by Northamptonshire to the north, Bedfordshire to the north-east, Hertfordshir ... in 1986. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Palmer, Robert 1960 births Living people Hong Kong cricketers English cricketers Cambridge University cricketers Bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyriel Buysse
Cyrillus Gustave Emile "Cyriel" Buysse (; 20 September 1859 – 25 July 1932) was a Flemish naturalist author and playwright. He also wrote under the following pseudonyms: Louis Bonheyden, Prosper Van Hove and Robert Palmer. Biography Buysse was born on 20 September 1859 in Nevele, Belgium in a well-to-do family. Before he could complete his studies at the Atheneum in Ghent, he joined the family's chicory factory at the request of his father. At the suggestion of his aunt Virginie Loveling, herself an author, he started writing when he was twenty-six. When his father found out that he was dating a girl he had met in a local bar, he was told to leave the ancestral home. Between 1886 and 1896 he emigrated to the United States several times, but he returned more disillusioned each time. The written account of his travels is known as ''Twee Herinneringen uit Amerika'' (Two memories from America), written in 1888. Buysse became known as a naturalist writer in the tradition of Sti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
