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Cruikshank
Cruikshank is a surname of Scottish origin, and is a spelling variation of Cruickshank. Notable people with the surname include: * Brad Cruikshank (born 1979), Canadian ice hockey winger *Chester Cruikshank (1913–1970), American athlete * Dan Cruikshank (born 1949) architectural historian and broadcaster *Dane Cruikshank (born 1995), American football player *George Cruikshank (1792–1878), English caricaturist *Holly Cruikshank (born 1973), American dancer *Isaac Cruikshank (1756–1811), Scottish painter and caricaturist * Isaac Robert Cruikshank (1789–1856), caricaturist, illustrator, and portrait miniaturist *Lucas Cruikshank (born 1993), web producer and creator of ''Fred'', a web-based show on YouTube * Marcus Henderson Cruikshank (1826–1881), Confederate States of America politician * Margaret Cruikshank (born 1940), American feminist writer and scholar *Margaret Mordecai Jones Cruikshank (1878–1955), American academic administrator and teacher * Robert Edward Cru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Cruikshank
George Cruikshank (27 September 1792 – 1 February 1878) was a British caricaturist and book illustrator, praised as the "modern Hogarth" during his life. His book illustrations for his friend Charles Dickens, and many other authors, reached an international audience. Early life Cruikshank was born in London. His father, Edinburgh-born Isaac Cruikshank, was one of the leading caricaturists of the late 1790s and Cruikshank started his career as his father's apprentice and assistant. His older brother, Isaac Robert, also followed in the family business as a caricaturist and illustrator. Cruikshank's early work was caricature; but in 1823, at the age of 31, he started to focus on book illustration. He illustrated the first, 1823 English translation (by Edgar Taylor and David Jardine) of ''Grimms' Fairy Tales'', published in two volumes as ''German Popular Stories''. On 16 October 1827, he married Mary Ann Walker (1807–1849). Two years after her death, on 7 March 1851, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sally Cruikshank
Sarah Cruikshank (born 1949) is an American cartoonist, animator and artist, whose work includes animation for the Children's Television Workshop program ''Sesame Street'', and whose short ''Quasi at the Quackadero'' (1975) was inducted into the United States National Film Registry. Biography Early life and education Sally Cruikshank was born in Chatham, New Jersey, the daughter of parents Rose and Ernest. Her parents were both Southerners, with her father, an accountant who worked in nearby New York City, New York, holding a Phi Beta Kappa key from Duke University, in North Carolina. Ernest's mother had been the president of the boarding school formerly known as St. Mary's College in that state.Dixon, Wheeler Winston, ed. ''Collected Interviews: Voices from Twentieth-Century Cinema.'' Carbondale, Illinois : Southern Illinois University Press, 2001, p. 208. Cruikshank has a brother, and had a sister, Carol, who died in 1991. Their maternal aunt, Bea, was a painter from the 191 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isaac Cruikshank
Isaac Cruikshank ( bapt. 14 October 1764 1811) was a Scottish painter and caricaturist, known for his social and political satire. Biography Cruikshank was the son of Andrew Crookshanks ( 1725 c. 1783), a former customs inspector, dispossessed for his role in the Jacobite rising of 1745 The Jacobite rising of 1745, also known as the Forty-five Rebellion or simply the '45 ( gd, Bliadhna Theàrlaich, , ), was an attempt by Charles Edward Stuart to regain the British throne for his father, James Francis Edward Stuart. It took ... originally from Edinburgh, and Elizabeth Davidson (born 1725), the daughter of a gardener. He was born on 5 October 1764 in Edinburgh, where he was Baptism, baptised on 14 October 1764. Isaac grew up in New North Kirk parish in Edinburgh after his family moved there. He was the youngest child, and was interested in all sorts of hobbies including sports and music. Isaac studied with a local artist, possibly John Kay (17421826). In 1783, Cruiksh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucas Cruikshank
Lucas Alan Cruikshank (born August 29, 1993) is an American YouTuber and actor who created the character Fred Figglehorn and the associated ''Fred'' series for his channel on the video-hosting website YouTube in late 2006. These videos are centered on Fred Figglehorn, a fictional six-year-old who has a dysfunctional home life and "anger management issues". Early life Lucas Alan Cruikshank was born on August 29, 1993, and raised in Columbus, Nebraska, where he attended Lakeview High School. He is the son of Molly Jeanne (née Duffy) and Dave Alan Cruikshank. He has five sisters and two brothers. Career Fred Cruikshank, while testing character ideas, created the Fred character in a Halloween video, and uploaded it to a YouTube channel that he had started with his two cousins. Upon the success of Fred, he started a video series, and set up the Fred channel in April 2008. By April 2009, the channel had over one million subscribers, making it the first YouTube channel to d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dane Cruikshank
Dane Ashton Cruikshank (born April 27, 1995) is an American football safety for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Arizona. Cruikshank was drafted by the Tennessee Titans in the fifth round of the 2018 NFL Draft. College career Cruikshank majored in general studies at Arizona after playing at Citrus College for the 2013 and 2014 seasons. He was named first-team all-state. 2015 season He redshirted the 2015 season at Arizona. 2016 season As a redshirt junior in 2016, he played cornerback, tying the team lead in interceptions with two, finishing fourth in total tackles with 60 and second in pass breakups with seven. 2017 season As a redshirt senior in 2017, he switched to safety, ranking fifth on the team with 75 total tackles, tying for second in interceptions with three and ranking third in pass breakups with five. Professional career Tennessee Titans Cruikshank was drafted by the Tennessee Titans in the fifth round (152n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isaac Robert Cruikshank
Isaac Robert Cruikshank, sometimes known as Robert Cruikshank (27 September 1789 – 13 March 1856), was a caricaturist, illustrator and portrait miniaturist, the less well-known brother of George Cruikshank, both sons of Isaac Cruikshank. Just like them he holds importance as a pioneer in the history of comics for creating several cartoons which make use of narrative sequence and speech balloons. Life He was born in 1789 in Middlesex, where he and his brother George attended school in Edgware. Both brothers were interested in the theatre, and performed in dramas they had written themselves with their friend Edmund Kean. Isaac joined the Loyal North Britons, a volunteer military unit, rising to the rank of sergeant when the volunteers turned out in 1803. During adolescence both brothers attended boxing and fencing matches, cock-fights, and numerous tavern contests. Cruikshank gained a midshipman's commission in the East India Company's ship ''Perseverance''. Midshipman Crui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Cruikshank
Margaret Louise Cruikshank (born 1940) is an American lesbian feminist writer and academic. She was one of the first American academics to be out during a time when gay rights were an unfamiliar concept. Cruikshank played a central role in establishing the importance of lesbian studies within both women's studies and the academy through the publication of her edited anthologies. Early life and education Margaret Louise Cruikshank was born in Duluth, Minnesota on April 26, 1940. Her parents are George Patrick Cruikshank and Louise Marie Wimmer. Cruikshank attended The College of St. Scholastica, obtaining her Bachelor of Arts in English in 1962. She says she started writing during her college years. In the early 1960s she came out as a lesbian within the Minneapolis lesbian-feminist community. She received her Ph.D in Victorian literature from Loyola University in 1969, writing her dissertation on Thomas B. Macaulay. During the 1970s, Cruikshank played an active role in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holly Cruikshank
Holly Cruikshank (born June 18, 1973) is an American dancer. She is known for her role as Brenda in the Billy Joel/Twyla Tharp musical '' Movin' Out'', and has also danced lead roles in two other Tony-award-winning Broadway musicals: '' Fosse'' and '' Contact''. She has appeared as one of the house dancers on the NBC variety-competition show, '' The Singing Bee''. Early life Cruikshank was born in Fountain Hills, Arizona. She envisioned a career as a dancer from an early age, when she idolized the dancing of screen legend Cyd Charisse. She started ballet at the age of 3. By her teen years, she was rehearsing four hours a day and dancing with Phoenix-based "Ballet Arizona". Finally, after a year at the North Carolina School for the Performing Arts in Winston-Salem, she began professional auditions in earnest. Her attempts at a professional ballet career were unsuccessful, culminating in an audition for her "dream company", the Hubbard Street Dance Troupe in Chicago, where founder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chester Cruikshank
Chester "Chet" Cruikshank (May 25, 1913 – November 1970) was an American track and field athlete. Cruikshank was USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, national champion in men's hammer throw in 1939 and 1942 and national junior champion in 1935; he was also a good discus thrower. During World War II he rose to the rank of Lieutenant colonel (United States), lieutenant colonel and was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross (United States), Distinguished Service Cross for his actions in the Battle of Anzio. Athletic career Cruikshank became a top track athlete at Ault High School and remained so at Colorado State University. His main events were the hammer throw and the discus throw, but he also competed in other events, including shot put and high jump. In addition, he played as an End (American football), end on the Colorado State Rams football team, winning Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference, conference football titles in 1933 and 1934. At the 1933 NCAA Men's Track and Fie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Mordecai Jones Cruikshank
Margaret Mordecai Cruikshank (''née'' Jones; October 13, 1878 – December 26, 1955) was an American schoolteacher and college president. She served as the president of the Columbia Institute in Tennessee from 1922 to 1932 and as the president of St. Mary's Junior College in North Carolina from 1932 until her death in 1955. She was the first woman to serve as head of St. Mary's and is the only alumna to have served as president. Cruikshank had degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Columbia University, and Duke University. Biography Cruikshank was born Margaret Mordecai Jones on October 13, 1878, in Hillsborough, North Carolina to Halcott Pride Jones and Olive Echols Jones. She attended the Nash-Kollock School for Young Ladies, a boarding school in Hillsorough, before transferring to St. Mary's School, an Episcopal boarding school in Raleigh, from which she graduated in 1896. She and her twin sister, Mary Pride Jones, had moved to St. Mary's after the de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcus Henderson Cruikshank
Marcus Henderson Cruikshank (December 12, 1826 – October 10, 1881) was a Confederate States of America politician who served in the Confederate States Congress during the American Civil War. Cruikshank was born in Autauga County, Alabama. He later served as the mayor of Talladega, Alabama. From 1864 to 1865, he was the representative from Alabama's fourth district in the Second Confederate Congress. Cruikshank's son, George Cruikshank, was a newspaper editor of the '' Birmingham Chronicle'' and '' Birmingham Ledger''; he also was appointed as US postmaster in Birmingham, Alabama Birmingham ( ) is a city in the north central region of the U.S. state of Alabama. Birmingham is the seat of Jefferson County, Alabama's most populous county. As of the 2021 census estimates, Birmingham had a population of 197,575, down 1% fr .... References The Political Graveyard {{DEFAULTSORT:Cruikshank, Marcus Henderson Members of the Confederate House of Representatives from Alabama 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Cruikshank (other)
William Cruikshank may refer to: * William Cumberland Cruikshank (1745–1800), English anatomist *William Cruikshank (painter) (1848–1922), Scottish painter *William Cruickshank (chemist) William Cruickshank (born circa 1740 or 1750, died 1810 or 1811) was a Scottish military surgeon and chemist, and professor of chemistry at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. William Cruickshank was awarded a diploma by the Royal College o ... (died 1810/11), chemist * William M. Cruikshank (1870–1943), American military officer {{hndis, Cruikshank, William ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
