Charles Curran (other)
Charles Curran may refer to: * Charles Curran (television executive) (1921–1980), BBC Director-General 1969–1977 * Charles Curran (politician) (1903–1972), British Conservative politician, MP for Uxbridge 1959–1966 * Charles Curran (theologian) (born 1934), American Catholic moral theologian * Charles Arthur Curran (1913–1978), American psychologist and Jesuit priest * Charles Courtney Curran (1861–1942), American painter * Charles Howard Curran (1894–1972), Canadian entomologist * Chuck Curran Charles J. Curran (born June 1, 1939 in Galion, Ohio) is an American politician. He was born in 1939 in Galion, Ohio, the son of a railroad construction worker. He graduated from Bellefontaine High School in Bellefontaine, Ohio in 1958. Afte ...

Charles Curran (television Executive)
Sir Charles John Curran (13 October 1921 – 9 January 1980) was an Irish-born British television executive and Director-General of the BBC from 1969 to 1977. Early years Curran was born in Dublin. His father, Felix Curran, was an army schoolmaster and his mother, Alicia Isabella Bruce, came from Aberdeen. Three weeks after his birth, the family moved to Aberdeen, then his family moved to Yorkshire in 1924. He was the eldest child in a family of four siblings. He attended Wath Grammar School, before obtaining a first-class honours degree at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Career He served in the Indian Army from 1942 to 1945, but left to work in the BBC Talks department. He resigned following a dispute to edit the ''Canadian Fishing News'', but he returned in 1951 to join BBC Monitoring. Subsequent posts included Secretary and Director of External Broadcasting. While Director-General, he served three terms as President of the European Broadcasting Union. He succeeded Ron ...
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Charles Curran (politician)
Leslie Charles Curran (19 April 1903 – 16 September 1972) was a barrister and British Conservative Party politician. Background He was the son of C. J. Curran, and educated at Cardiff High School and Stonyhurst College, a large independent school. Career Curran was a sub-editor of the ''Evening Express'', before becoming a barrister in 1932 of Gray's Inn. Curran was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Uxbridge for three terms: from 1959 to 1966, when he lost to Labour; he regained the seat in 1970, holding it until he died in 1972. Michael Shersby of his party was elected to succeed him in the subsequent by-election. Curran published one satirical novel, ''You Know You Can Trust Me'' (Jonathan Cape, 1938). Curran is probably most remembered for a speech he made in the House on 19 June 1964, in which he mistook deliberately nonsensical poems written by John Lennon that had been published in the United States and the UK, as a sign of Lennon being illiterate. Fellow Conserv ...
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Charles Curran (theologian)
Charles E. Curran (born March 30, 1934) is an American moral theologian and Catholic priest. He currently serves at Southern Methodist University as the Elizabeth Scurlock University Professor of Human Values. Biography Curran grew up in Rochester, New York, and was ordained there in 1958 for the Diocese of Rochester. After intensive graduate work and earning two doctorates in theology in Rome, Curran taught at the seminary in Rochester, New York. In 1965 he joined the theology faculty at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Contrary to some sources, he did not serve as a ''peritus'' or expert at the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965); that distinction belonged to Charles Arthur Curran, a member of the psychology department at Loyola University Chicago. In April 1967, university trustees voted to let Curran's tenure stream appointment lapse rather than reappoint him, primarily because of his dissenting views on contraception. After a faculty-led strike that ...
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Charles Arthur Curran
Charles Arthur Curran (1913–1978) was a priest of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Columbus and psychologist who is best known as the creator of Community Language Learning (CLL), a method in education and specifically in Second Language Teaching. He was a central member of the psychology faculty at Loyola University Chicago, and a counseling specialist. Career Curran received a Doctorate in Psychology from Ohio State University in 1944. As a psychologist and educator, he worked along with Carl Rogers, and took certain principles from person-centered therapy and applied them to the field of education. In 1952, Curran proposed the essential idea of the ''"Counseling-Learning"'' approach, or "counselearning". He incorporated counseling techniques that take into account the students' feelings toward their learning experience, and are meant to lower the affective filter. In the early 1970s he proposed Community Language Learning as a method based on his approach. His views, w ...
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Charles Courtney Curran
Charles Courtney Curran (13 February 1861 – 9 November 1942) was an American painter. He is best known for his canvases depicting women in various settings. Biography Curran was born in Hartford, Kentucky in February, 1861, where his father taught at the school. A few months later after the beginning of the Civil War, the family left there and returned to Ohio, eventually settling in Sandusky on the shores of Lake Erie where the elder Curran served as superintendent of schools. Charles Curran showed an early interest and aptitude for art, and in 1881 went to Cincinnati to study at the McMicken School (later the Fine Arts Academy of Cincinnati). He stayed there only a year before going to New York to study at the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League. Many of the pictures he created during this period featured young attractive working-class women engaged in a variety of tasks. One was particularly noteworthy: ''Breezy Day'' (1887, collection of Pennsylva ...
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Charles Howard Curran
Charles Howard Curran (20 March 1894 – 23 January 1972) was a Canadian entomologist who specialised in Diptera. Curran's main taxonomic interests were in brachyceran flies, particularly the flower flies Syrphidae, in which he described 723 species. From 1922 to 1928 he worked as a specialist service in Diptera Entomology of Canada. In 1928, he was hired by the American Museum of Natural History as Assistant Curator and, from 1947 until his retirement in 1960, as Curator of Insects and Spiders. In 1931, he donated his collection to that institution: it has 10,000 specimens representing about 1,700 species including 400 types. He received in 1933 a Doctorate of Science at the University of Montreal with a thesis entitled The Families and Genera of North American Diptera. He was vice-president of the New York Entomological Society The New York Entomological Society was founded in 1892. The Brooklyn Entomological Society merged with the Society in 1968. The Society publishes '' En ...
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