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Chown (surname)
Chown is a surname. It may refer to: People * Samuel Dwight Chown (1853–1933), Methodist minister instrumental in the formation of the United Church of Canada * Alice Amelia Chown (1866–1949), Canadian pacifist, social feminist and author * Bruce Chown (1893–1986), Canadian scientist * Chris and Gunna Chown, co-owners of the Plas Bodegroes restaurant in Wales * Gordon Chown, member of Parliament for Winnipeg South, Manitoba, Canada, 1957–1963 * Jeffrey Chown, American professor of communication studies at Northern Illinois University, biographer of director Francis Ford Coppola * Kevin Chown (born 1969), American musician, bassist for Chad Smith's Bombastic Meatbats and others * Marcus Chown (born 1959), British science writer and broadcaster * Nick Chown, bassist for the 1980s English music group The Bolshoi Places * Mount Chown, a mountain in Alberta, Canada * Chown Creek, a tributary of the Smoky River in Western Alberta, Canada * Mackenzie Chown Complex at Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surname
In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several given names and surnames are possible in the full name. In modern times most surnames are hereditary, although in most countries a person has a right to name change, change their name. Depending on culture, the surname may be placed either at the start of a person's name, or at the end. The number of surnames given to an individual also varies: in most cases it is just one, but in Portuguese-speaking countries and many Spanish-speaking countries, two surnames (one inherited from the mother and another from the father) are used for legal purposes. Depending on culture, not all members of a family unit are required to have identical surnames. In some countries, surnames are modified depending on gender and family membership status of a person. C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Dwight Chown
Samuel Dwight Chown (11 April 1853 – 30 January 1933) was a Methodist minister who led the Methodist Church of Canada into the United Church of Canada in 1925. Early years Samuel Dwight Chown was born on 11 April 1853 in Kingston, then in Canada West. At the age of four he took the pledge to abstain from alcohol. As a youth Chown resisted attending Methodist classes, but he promised he would do so to his dying father, and was converted at the Sydenham Street Church in Kingston in 1868 soon after his father had died. He graduated from the Kingston Military School, and for a short period served in the Prince of Wales Own Rifles. He then worked in his father's hardwood and sheet metal company. He was accepted on probation by the Wesleyan Methodist Church in 1874, attended Victoria College in 1876-77 and was ordained a minister in 1879. Chown served in a number of churches. In 1875, he helped Richard Hammond in his revival meetings. Later he led services himself. He said that gu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Amelia Chown
Alice Amelia Chown (3 February 1866 – 2 March 1949) was a Canadian feminist, pacifist, socialist and author. She was brought up in a strict Methodist family, and remained at home until she was forty attending her mother, who died in 1906. Chown then embarked on a life of travel and involvement in many reform causes. She was an original and iconoclastic thinker, and became one of the leading social feminists of her day. She is best known for her 1921 book ''The Stairway'' in which she recounts her life and growing freedom after 1906. Early years Alice Amelia Chown was born in Kingston, Ontario, Kingston, Province of Canada on 3 February 1866 to merchant Edwin Chown (1821-1903) and Amelia Anning (1828-1906).Canada’s Early Women Writers. ''Alice Amelia Chown''. Canada’s Early Women Writers, 18 M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Chown
Bruce Chown (; November 10, 1893 – July 3, 1986) was a Canadian medical doctor who researched the blood factor known as the Rhesus factor and discovered an Rh immune vaccine, Rh gamma globulin, which helps to prevent Erythroblastosis fetalis. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, the son of Havelock Chown and Katherine (Farrell) Chown, he received a B.A. from McGill University in 1914. During World War I, he served in the Canadian Field Artillery and received the Military Cross. After the war, he received his medical degree from the University of Manitoba in 1922. He completed his postgraduate work in pediatrics at Babies' Hospital, Columbia University (1922–1923); Harriet Lane Home, Johns Hopkins University; and Nursery and Child's Hospital, Cornell University (1925–1926), becoming one of only a few trained pediatricians in Canada and the only one in Manitoba. From 1926 to 1977, he was on the staff of the University of Manitoba. From 1944 to 1977, he was the director of the R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plas Bodegroes
Plas Bodegroes is a former Georgian country house which stands in its own grounds near Pwllheli, Gwynedd on the Llŷn Peninsula. The grade II* listed building, previously a restaurant is now a self catering holiday home. The house was built in 1780 for William Griffith (1748–1816), probably designed by Joseph Bromfield, and probably incorporating elements of a previous house. It is built in two storeys with attics, rendered and painted white. Like the other two houses thought to have been designed by Bromfield (Broom Hall and Nanhoron), the house has a long verandah at the rear supported by elegant iron pillars. A notable feature of the grounds is the avenue of beech trees leading up to the house. By the end of the 19th century the house belonged to a John Savin. In the 1940s it belonged to a show-business dancer who created a Japanese garden at the rear. The gardens are designated Grade II on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winnipeg South
Winnipeg South () is a electoral district (Canada), Canadian federal electoral district in Manitoba, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1917 to 1979, and since 1988. It covers the southernmost part of the city of Winnipeg. The riding is a bellwether, electing an MP from the party that formed government nationally in every election since it was re-formed in 1988. In its earlier incarnation, it only elected opposition MPs three times, in 1925 Canadian federal election, 1925, 1953 Canadian federal election, 1953, and 1965 Canadian federal election, 1965. History The electoral district was created in 1914 from parts of the electoral district (Canada), ridings of Winnipeg (federal electoral district), Winnipeg, Provencher, and Macdonald (electoral district), Macdonald. It first elected a Member of Parliament (Canada), Member of Parliament in 1917 Canadian federal election, 1917. In 1976, it was abolished when it was redistributed into the rid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola ( ; born April 7, 1939) is an American filmmaker. He is considered one of the leading figures of the New Hollywood and one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. List of awards and nominations received by Francis Ford Coppola, Coppola is the recipient of five Academy Awards, a British Academy Film Awards, BAFTA Award, three Golden Globe Awards, and two Palme d'Or, Palmes d'Or, in addition to nominations for two Emmy Awards and a Grammy Award. Coppola was honored with the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 2010, the Kennedy Center Honors, Kennedy Center Honors in 2024, and the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2025. Coppola started his career directing ''The Rain People'' (1969) and co-writing ''Patton (film), Patton'' (1970), the latter of which earned him and Edmund H. North the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Coppola's reputation as a filmmaker was cemented with the release of ''The Godfather'' (1972) and ''The Godfather Part II'' (1974) which bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Chown
Kevin Chown (born December 24, 1969) is an American bass player best known for his work with Finnish vocalist Tarja Turunen, funk/rock/fusion quartet Chad Smith's Bombastic Meatbats, and progressive metal bands Edwin Dare and Artension. In addition to the Bombastic Meatbats, he is a member of Steelheart, instrumental groups Cosmosquad and Der Elefant as well as L.A. blues rockers Bleeding Harp, and has performed and recorded with artists such as Paul Gilbert, Sebastian Bach, Uncle Kracker, Chuck Berry, Ted Nugent, Tony MacAlpine, Jeffrey Kollman, Jeff Kollman, and Tiles (band), Tiles. Chown currently resides in the Los Angeles area where he works as an in-demand session player, writer, producer and sometime television actor in addition to his band commitments. He was one of the cast members of season 8 of Swedish reality show ''Allt för Sverige'' and became a regular on WDBC radio with host Craig Woerpel during the COVID-19 pandemic. Biography Chown was born and raised in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
