Chute (surname)
Chute is a surname, and may refer to: * Anthony Chute (fl. 1590s–1595), Elizabethan poet and pamphleteer * B. J. Chute (1913–1987), American writer and academic * Carolyn Chute (born 1947), American writer and activist * Chaloner Chute (died 1659), English lawyer and Speaker of the House of Commons * Chaloner Chute (died 1666) (1632–1666), English lawyer and politician * Charles Chute (1879–1956), English barrister, landowner, and politician * Christopher G. Chute (born 1955), American biomedical informatics researcher * Desmond Chute (1895–1962), English poet, artist and Catholic priest * Harris H. Chute (c. 1823 – 1892), merchant and political figure in Nova Scotia * Hillary Chute (born 1976), American academic * Marchette Chute (1909–1994), American biographer * Philip Chute (1506–1567), English Member of Parliament * Trevor Chute General Sir Trevor Chute, KCB (31 July 1816 – 12 March 1886) was an Irish-born officer who served in the British Army during ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Anthony Chute
Anthony Chute (fl. 1590s – 1595) was an English poet and pamphleteer. Very little is known about him. Life Chute appears to have been a protégé of Gabriel Harvey. Harvey refers to him in his work ''Pierces Supererogation'', saying that Chute was an orator and a herald. He also states that Chute had participated in Francis Drake's 1589 English Armada expedition to Portugal.Robert J. Kane, "Anthony Chute, Thomas Nashe, and the First English Work on Tobacco", ''The Review of English Studies'', 1931, p.151-159. In 1593, Chute published ''Beauty Dishonoured, written under the title of Shore's wife'', a narrative poem supposed to be the lament of Jane Shore, whose ghost tells her life story and makes moral reflections. In a dedication he called the poem, "the first invention of my beginning muse" implying that it was his earliest work. Chute supported Harvey in his literary war against Thomas Nashe. ''Pierces Supererogation'' contains two poems by Chute and letters in which ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Carolyn Chute
Carolyn Chute (born Carolyn Penny; June 14, 1947) is an American writer and populist political activist who is strongly identified with the culture of poor, rural western Maine. Rod Dreher, writing in '' The American Conservative'', has referred to Chute as "a Maine novelist and gun enthusiast who, along with her husband, lives an aggressively unorthodox life in the Yankee backwoods." She is a recipient of the PEN New England Award. Life and work Chute's first, and best known, novel, ''The Beans of Egypt, Maine'', was published in 1985 and made into a 1994 film of the same name, which was directed by Jennifer Warren. Chute's next two books, ''Letourneau's Used Auto Parts'' (1988) and ''Merry Men'' (1994), are also set in the town of Egypt, Maine, as are the books in the ''Heart's Content'' series (''The School on Heart's Content Road'' 008 ''Treat Us Like Dogs and We Will Become Wolves'' 014 and ''The Recipe for Revolution'' 020. Her 1999 novel ''Snow Man'' deals with the under ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Chaloner Chute
Chaloner Chute I (died 14 April 1659) of The Vyne, Sherborne St John, Hampshire, was an English lawyer, Member of Parliament and Speaker of the House of Commons during the Commonwealth. Origins Chute was the son of Charles Chute of the Middle Temple, a lawyer, by his wife Ursula Chaloner, a daughter of John Chaloner of Fulham in Middlesex. Career He was admitted to the Middle Temple and was called to the bar. He developed a great reputation as a defence lawyer in several high-profile cases including those of Sir Edward Herbert (the king's attorney-general), Archbishop Laud, the eleven members of the House of Commons charged by Fairfax and his army as delinquents, and James Duke of Hamilton. In 1653 he bought from Lord Sandys The Vyne, a very large Tudor manor house in Hampshire. He demolished much of the northern part of the decaying building and employed the architect John Webb, a pupil of Inigo Jones, to add the portico to the north front in the 1650s, the first of its k ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Chaloner Chute (died 1666)
Chaloner Chute (1632–1666) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1659 and 1661. Chute was the only surviving son of Chaloner Chute of Sutton Court, Chiswick, Middlesex and his first wife Anne Scory, daughter of Sir John Scory of Wormesley, Herefordshire. He was baptised on 15 December 1632. He entered Middle Temple in 1645 and was called to the bar in 1656. In 1659, Chute was elected Member of Parliament for Devizes when his father was speaker. His father died in April 1659, and Chute succeeded to the estates including The Vyne. He was a Justice of the Peace for Hampshire from 1659 to July 1660 and a commissioner for militia for Hampshire and Middlesex in 1659. He was a commissioner for assessment for Wiltshire in January 1660 and a commissioner for militia for Middlesex in March 1660. In 1661 he was elected as a Member of Parliament for Haslemere The town of Haslemere () and the villages of Shottermill and Grayswood are in south ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Charles Chute
Sir Charles Lennard Chute, 1st Baronet MC (6 May 1879 – 29 September 1956), was an English barrister, landowner, farmer, politician, and baronet. Life Chute was the son of Chaloner William Chute, a barrister.''Marriages solemnized in the parish church of Radley in the County of Oxford''p. 84, no. 168, 6 August 1912 “Charles Lennard Chute”, in ''Oxfordshire, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1930'', ancestry.co.uk, accessed 4 June 2022 He was educated at Eton, where in 1898 he was Captain of the School, and at Magdalen College, Oxford, then qualified as a barrister at the Inner Temple. In August 1912, at Radley, he married Laura Joan Baker, the daughter of the late Robert Lowbridge Baker, Vicar of Ramsden. Serving in the British Army during the First World War, Chute rose from staff captain to brigade major of 164 Infantry Brigade and in 1919 was awarded the Military Cross. The citation stated that the decoration was awarded “for great gallantry ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Christopher G
Christopher is the English version of a Europe-wide name derived from the Greek name Χριστόφορος (''Christophoros'' or '' Christoforos''). The constituent parts are Χριστός (''Christós''), "Christ" or "Anointed", and φέρειν (''phérein''), "to bear"; hence the "Christ-bearer". As a given name, 'Christopher' has been in use since the 10th century. In English, Christopher may be abbreviated as "Chris", "Topher", and sometimes "Kit". It was frequently the most popular male first name in the United Kingdom, having been in the top twenty in England and Wales from the 1940s until 1995, although it has since dropped out of the top 100. The name is most common in England and not so common in Wales, Scotland, or Ireland. People with the given name Antiquity and Middle Ages * Saint Christopher (died 251), saint venerated by Catholics and Orthodox Christians * Christopher (Domestic of the Schools) (fl. 870s), Byzantine general * Christopher Lekapenos (died 931), ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Desmond Chute
Desmond Macready Chute (1895–1962) was an English poet and artist, who became a Catholic priest in 1927. Early life He was born in Bristol, the son of James Macready Chute (1856–1912) and his wife Abigail Philomena Henessy (1855–1931). His father ran the Prince's Theatre, Bristol, the family business. His mother was the second daughter of Joseph Henessy of Richmond Terrace, Clifton, Bristol, a cattle-dealer: the Henessy family were Irish Catholics, Liberal in politics. Abigail Chute was on good terms with Grace Mary Welch of Cheltenham, mother of Werburg Welch who later became a close friend of Desmond. Chute was educated from 1906 at Downside School, where he was taught by the classicist Nevile Hunter Watts. He went on in 1912 to the Slade School of Art in London. In 1913 he exhibited some paintings, and in 1914 he had a show of portraits at the New English Art Club. His mother had taken over the Bristol theatre on his father's death in 1912, and on the out ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Harris H
Harris may refer to: Places Canada * Harris, Ontario * Northland Pyrite Mine (also known as Harris Mine) * Harris, Saskatchewan * Rural Municipality of Harris No. 316, Saskatchewan Scotland * Harris, Outer Hebrides (sometimes called the Isle of Harris), part of Lewis and Harris, Outer Hebrides * Harris, Rùm, a place on Rùm, Highland United States * Harris, Indiana * Harris, Iowa * Harris, Kansas * Harris Township, Michigan * Harris, Minnesota * Harris, Missouri * Harris, New York * Harris, North Carolina * Harris, Oregon * Harris, Wisconsin Elsewhere * Harris, Montserrat Other places with "Harris" in the name * Harrisonburg, Louisiana * Harrisonburg, Virginia * Harris County (other) * Harris Lake (other) * Harris Mountain (other) * Harris Township (other) * Harrisburg (other) * Harrison (other) * Harrisville (other) People * Harris (Essex cricketer) * Harris Jayaraj, an Indian music director * Harris (given name ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hillary Chute
Hillary Chute (born 1976 in Boston, MA) is an American literary scholar and an expert on comics and graphic narratives. She is Distinguished Professor of English and Art + Design at Northeastern University. She was formerly Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Chicago and an Associate Faculty member of the University’s Department of Visual Arts, as well as a Visiting Professor at Harvard University. She was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows from 2007 to 2010. Writings and career Chute's first book ''Graphic Women'' (2010) covers the work of Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Phoebe Gloeckner, Lynda Barry, Marjane Satrapi, and Alison Bechdel. Her second academic book ''Disaster Drawn'' (2016) investigates how hand-drawn comics has come of age as a serious medium for engaging history. It explores graphic narratives that document the disasters of war by such artists as Jacques Callot, Francisco Goya, Keiji Nakazawa, Art Spiegelman, and Joe ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Marchette Chute
Marchette Gaylord Chute (1909 – May 6, 1994) was an American writer. As a biographer, she specialized in English literary figures; she published biographies of Geoffrey Chaucer, Ben Jonson, and William Shakespeare. As a children's writer, she specialized in tales written during the periods described in her biographies, and in rhyming verses for children. Biography Marchette Chute was born in Wayzata, Minnesota, to an upper-middle-class family. Her father William Chute was a realtor, and her English mother Edith Mary Pickburn Chute had been a hospital nurse in London. She attended Central High School in Minneapolis, and was then a student at the University of Minnesota. After her father's death in 1939 her mother moved the family to New York City to pursue her daughters' literary careers. Her older sister Mary Grace (b. 1907) (writing as "M. G. Chute") published, among other work, at least twenty stories in a series about "Sheriff John Charles Olson" in the ''Saturday Evening Pos ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Philip Chute
Philip Chute or Chowte (born by 1506 – 1567), of Horne Place, Appledore, Kent, was an English member of parliament in Elizabethan England. He is the progenitor of Chute dynasty in England and Ireland from the Chutes of Hampshire and Norfolk, and during the plantation of Limerick a branch moved to settled at Chute Hall. After the dissolution he was an MP for Winchelsea 1542 and 1545. Philip was standard bearer to King Henry VIII. Philip Chute was given Horne's Place by the Queen Mary Mary may refer to: People * Mary (name), a feminine given name (includes a list of people with the name) Religious contexts * New Testament people named Mary, overview article linking to many of those below * Mary, mother of Jesus, also call .... References Bibliography * John Burke, History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, (London 1838) vol.III 1567 deaths Year of birth uncertain People from Appledore, Kent English MPs 1542–1544 English MPs 1545–1547 { ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |