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Broderick
Broderick is a surname of early medieval English origin, and subsequently the Anglicised versions of names of Irish and Welsh origin. English origin The name was originally derived from "son of Baldric (or Baldrick)". Broderick or Broderic may also refer to a person living at or near a broad ridge. Irish origin It is an Anglicised form of the Irish ''Ó Bruadair'', meaning "descendant of ''Bruadar''". The Irish ''Bruattar'' /''Bruadar'' /''Brodur'' is first recorded in 853, in the name of Bruattar mac Aeda, an Irish princeling from the south-east of Ireland. As a Norse personal name, ''Brodir'' is found in the name of a particular participant in the Battle of Clontarf and of a particular King of Dublin who was killed in 1160. Welsh origin The name is an Anglicised form of the Welsh ''Prydderch'', meaning "son of ''Rhydderch''". The Welsh personal name ''Rhydderch'' was originally a byname meaning "reddish brown". Notable people with the surname A *Alanna Broderick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betty Broderick
Elisabeth Anne Broderick (née Bisceglia; born November 7, 1947) is an American woman who murdered her ex-husband, Daniel T. Broderick III, on November 5, 1989, as well as his new wife, Linda. Betty Broderick committed the murder as an act of revenge after Daniel left her and divorced her. At a second trial that began on December 11, 1991, she was convicted of two counts of second-degree murder and later sentenced to 32-years-to-life in prison. The case received extensive media attention. Several books were written on the Broderick case, and a TV movie was televised in two parts. In 2020, an 8-episode miniseries was produced and aired about Broderick. Early life Betty Broderick was born Elisabeth Anne Bisceglia on November 7, 1947, and grew up in Bronxville, New York. She was the third of six children born to Marita (née Curtin; 1919–2007) and Frank Bisceglia (1915–1998), who owned a successful plastering business with relatives. Her mother was Irish American and her father ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Broderick
Christopher Alan Broderick (born March 6, 1970) is an American musician, best known as a former guitarist of the thrash metal band Megadeth. He is also formerly the lead guitarist for Jag Panzer, appearing on four albums between 1998 and 2004. He also served as a touring guitarist for Nevermore in the 2000s. Following his departure from Megadeth, Broderick formed Act of Defiance in 2014. He joined Swedish metal band In Flames in 2019 as a touring guitarist, before becoming the band's permanent guitarist in 2022. Biography Early years Broderick started playing guitar when he was 11 years old, with one of his first guitar influences being Eddie Van Halen. His playing styles range from metal, classical, neoclassical, and jazz. As a teenager, Broderick took lessons in electric guitar, classical guitar, piano and violin several times a week and practiced each instrument for hours every day during the summer. He was a notable musician in the Denver music scene from 1988 and on, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bonaventure Broderick
Bonaventure Finnbarr Francis Broderick (December 25, 1868 – November 18, 1943) was an American Catholic prelate who served as Auxiliary Bishop of San Cristóbal de la Habana from 1903 to 1905. He later ran a gas station for several years until Archbishop Francis Spellman restored his ministry, putting him in service in the Archdiocese of New York. Effective December 1, 1939, Spellman assigned the bishop to the chaplaincy of the Frances Schervier Home and Hospital in Riverdale and in 1942 named him vicar for religious in the archdiocese. Early life and education Bonaventure Broderick was born in Hartford, Connecticut. He was the son of John Harris Broderick and Margaret Healy. Broderick completed his undergraduate seminary studies at St. Charles College in Ellicott City, Maryland. The bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hartford sent him to the Pontifical Athenaeum S. Apollinare of Propaganda Fide while a seminarian at the North American College. In 1897, Broderick earned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Damien Broderick
Damien Francis Broderick (22 April 1944 – 19 April 2025) was an Australian science fiction and popular science writer and editor of some 74 books. ''The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction'' credits him with the first usage of the term ''virtual reality'' in science fiction, in his 1982 novel ''The Judas Mandala.'' Background Broderick held a Ph.D. in Literary Studies from Deakin University, Australia, with a dissertation (''Frozen Music'') comparing the semiotics of scientific, literary, and science fictional textuality. He was for several years a Senior Fellow in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. He was the founding science fiction editor of the Australian popular science magazine ''Cosmos'' from mid-2005 to December 2010. Broderick lived in San Antonio, Texas, with his wife, tax attorney Barbara Lamar, before they moved to Portugal in 2022. He died in Castelo Branco on 19 April 2025, at the age of 80. Career Five of Broderick's books ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Broderick
Elizabeth Broderick is an Australian lawyer, who was the Australian Sex Discrimination Commissioner for over eight years from 2007 to 2015 and has been a United Nations special rapporteur for Discrimination against Women and Girls since 2017. She is a former partner and head of legal technology at Ashurst Australia (then called Blake Dawson Waldron), a global commercial law firm. Early life and education Broderick grew up in Caringbah, New South Wales as the daughter of a doctor and physiotherapist, Frank and Margot. She has two sisters including an identical twin, emeritus Professor Jane Latimer , and Carolyn Broderick. Elizabeth Broderick was head girl in 1978 at Meriden School, Strathfield while Jane Latimer was head girl at MLC School in neighbouring Burwood in the same year. Career Broderick is trained as a lawyer. She has spoken publicly about her own experiences of sexual harassment by a client as a young lawyer. At law firm Blake Dawson Waldron (now Ashurst) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Broderick (realtor)
Henry Broderick (October 12, 1880 – October 7, 1975) was a Seattle, Washington realtor, civic leader, memoirist, and Seattle historian. He arrived in Seattle in 1901 and, in 1908, founded the real estate firm that he would turn into the city's largest.Paula BeckerBroderick, Henry (1880-1975) HistoryLink, 2006-04-11. Accessed online 2009-07-04. Life and achievements Broderick was born and raised in Minneapolis, where he attended the public schools until the financial panic of 1893 caused him to drop out at age 13. From that time, he worked to help support his family, but continued to study informally on his own (including Greek classics). He would later describe himself as "a graduate of the Minneapolis Public Library". Following a brief stint composing advertisements for agency Lord and Thomas in Chicago, he married Mary Barclay of St. Louis, Missouri October 4, 1901; the couple moved to Seattle before the end of the year. Broderick went to work for a prominent local real est ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Broderick
Helen Broderick (August 11, 1891 – September 25, 1959) was an American actress known for her comic roles, especially as a wisecracking sidekick. Career Broderick began on Broadway as a chorus girl in the ''Follies of 1907'', the first of Florenz Ziegfeld's annual revues. She went on to perform in the vaudeville duo "Broderick & Crawford" (with her husband) until the entertainment form went out of style, moving to a solo career in her first play ''Nifties of 23''. By the late 1920s, she was playing leads and featured roles, most notably in ''Fifty Million Frenchmen''. In the early 1930s, she starred in the revues ''The Band Wagon'' and '' As Thousands Cheer''. Her move to Hollywood came when her stage successes such as ''Fifty Million Frenchmen'' were made into movies, and an image as the quick-quipping friend soon followed in support roles for the Astaire- Rogers movies ''Top Hat'' and ''Swing Time''. She had leading roles in a few B movies, such as amateur sleuth Hilde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edwin Broderick
Edwin Bernard Broderick (January 16, 1917 – July 2, 2006) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Albany in New York from 1969 to 1976. He previously served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of New York from 1967 to 1969. Early life and education Edwin Broderick was born in the Bronx, New York, to Patrick S. and Margaret M. (née O'Donnell) Broderick. His father was a member of the New York City Fire Department who later died during a mass celebrated by his son in 1948. Broderick received his early education at the parochial school of St. Anselm Church in the Bronx, graduating in 1930. Broderick attended Regis High School in New York City from 1930 to 1934, then began his studies for the priesthood at Cathedral College in Queens, where he remained for two years. He continued his studies at St. Joseph's Seminary in Yonkers, New York. Priesthood On May 30, 1942, Broderick was ordained a priest for the Archdi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Broderick
Colin Broderick (born ) is a Northern Irish writer and filmmaker. Early life and education Colin Broderick was born around 1968 and grew up County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. He moved to New York City in 1988 when he was 20. Career Books Broderick's first memoir, ''Orangutan'', was published by Random House in 2009. It describes his first twenty years as an immigrant in New York City, in Broderick's words, "working construction, the drinking, the failed marriages, jail, the usual stuff." His 2013 follow-up memoir detailing his childhood growing up in Northern Ireland, entitled ''That's That'', was also published by Random House. Films Broderick's first feature film, ''Emerald City'', premiered at the Curzon Cinemas theatre in Soho, London on 27 November 2016 as part of The London Irish Film Festival. The movie is loosely based on his own experiences of working in the construction trade in New York City while trying to establish a career as a writer. It was produced with suppo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beth Broderick
Elizabeth Alice Broderick (born February 24, 1959) is an American actress. She portrayed Zelda Spellman in the ABC/ WB television sitcom ''Sabrina the Teenage Witch'' (1996–2003)." Yes, You Recognize That Sharp Objects Actor From Your Childhood" ''Pop Sugar'', August 4, 2018, by Stacey Nguyen She also had recurring roles as Diane Janssen in the mystery drama series '' Lost'' (2005–2008) and as Rose Twitchell in the |
Case Broderick
Case Broderick (September 23, 1839 – April 1, 1920) was an American politician and jurist who served as Associate Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court, Idaho Territorial Supreme Court from 1884 to 1888 and as United States House of Representatives, U.S. Representative from Kansas from 1891 to 1899. Early life, education and marriage Case Broderick was born in 1839 near Marion, Indiana, a son of Samuel Broderick and Mary (Snider or Snyder) Broderick. Broderick attended the common schools in Indiana. He was a cousin of David Colbreth Broderick, of Washington, DC; New York, and California; and Andrew Kennedy (American politician), Andrew Kennedy of California, who also became national politicians. He moved at age 19 to Holton, Kansas, in 1858, engaging in agricultural pursuits. Case Broderick married Mary Ann Ewbank on August 23, 1860 in Jackson County, Kansas Territory. Mary was born in Dearborn County in Southeast Indiana, May 12, 1831, and died November 13, 1888.Ronald R. Hall, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlfred Broderick
Carlfred Bartholomew Broderick (April 7, 1932 – July 27, 1999) was an American psychologist, sociologist, and family therapist, a scholar of marriage and family relations at the University of Southern California, and an author of several books. He was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1932, and he died of cancer in 1999 in Cerritos, California, at the age of 67. Personal Although his given name was "Carlfred" (one name) he was known as "Carl" in many circles. He and his wife Kathleen had eight children (four sons and four daughters). He was an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and served in the capacity of bishop, stake president, and stake patriarch. Broderick died on July 27, 1999, at his home in Cerritos, California."Carlfred B. Broderick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
