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Grierson (name)
Grierson is a surname of Scottish origin. The name is possibly a patronymic form of the personal name Grier or Grere, which may have reflected the Scots pronunciation of ''Gregor''.Grierson Name Meaning and Origin Retrieved on 2007-11-26 The earliest known spellings are Grersoun and Greresoun.Hamilton-Grierson, Sir Philip: The Lag Charters (1958), p. 9, no. 3 It was common practice in SW Scotland, particularly in the 16th and 17th centuries, for the name to be abbreviated to Grier, and there are many instances of the two forms being used in reference to the same man in the same document. This usage was further modified to Greer by a cadet branch of the Lag family who migrated to Ireland. People surnamed Grierson * |
Surname
In some cultures, a surname, family name, or last name is the portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family, tribe or community. Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name, as the forename, or at the end; the number of surnames given to an individual also varies. As the surname indicates genetic inheritance, all members of a family unit may have identical surnames or there may be variations; for example, a woman might marry and have a child, but later remarry and have another child by a different father, and as such both children could have different surnames. It is common to see two or more words in a surname, such as in compound surnames. Compound surnames can be composed of separate names, such as in traditional Spanish culture, they can be hyphenated together, or may contain prefixes. Using names has been documented in even the oldest historical records. Examples of surnames are documented in the 11th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Grierson
Edward Grierson (9 March 1914 - 24 May 1975) was a Northumberland barrister and a writer of crime novels. His debut crime novel is the outstanding '' Reputation for a Song'', a classic inverted detective story. Grierson also wrote five novels, six works of non-fiction and two plays. He also wrote as Brian Crowther and John P. Stevenson. Works ; Crime novels * ''Shall Perish with the Sword'' (as Brian Crowther). London, Quality Press, 1949. * '' Reputation for a Song''. London, Chatto and Windus, and New York, Knopf, 1952. See also the film ''My Lover, My Son'' * '' The Second Man''. London, Chatto and Windus, and New York, Knopf, 1956. Gold Dagger Award (dramatised on television: 'The Second Man' on Playhouse 90 in 1959 - starred James Mason and Diana Wynyard) * ''The Massingham Affair''. London, Chatto and Windus, 1962; New York, Doubleday, 1963. * ''A Crime of One's Own''. London, Chatto and Windus, and New York, Putnam, 1967. ; Novels * ''The Lilies and the Bees''. London, C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Storrs Grierson
Margaret Storrs Grierson (June 29, 1900 – December 12, 1997) was an American archivist, philosophy professor, and the founder and first director of the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College. In this capacity, she traveled extensively, in the United States and abroad, assembling manuscripts that document the history of women. Personal life Grierson was born in Denver, Colorado. Her father was railway executive Lucius Seymour Storrs and her mother was Mary Cooper Storrs, daughter of Job Adams Cooper, sixth Governor of the State of Colorado. Grierson had one sibling, a brother, Lucius ("Luke") Seymour Storrs, Jr. Because of her father's career, the family moved several times during Grierson's childhood. She attended seven schools before entering Misses Masters' School, Dobbs Ferry, New York. In 1918 Grierson began her undergraduate study at Smith College. She graduated in 1922 with a degree in English. She then did graduate work at Bryn Mawr, receiving a Ph.D. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Grierson (Dominican)
John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Epistle of John, often shortened to 2 John * Third Epistle of John, often shortened to 3 John People * John the Baptist (died c. AD 30), regarded as a prophet and the forerunner of Jesus Christ * John the Apostle (lived c. AD 30), one of the twelve apostles of Jesus * John the Evangelist, assigned author of the Fourth Gospel, once identified with the Apostle * John of Patmos, also known as John the Divine or John the Revelator, the author of the Book of Revelation, once identified with the Apostle * John the Presbyter, a figure either identified with or distinguished from the Apostle, the Evangelist and John of Patmos Other people with the given name Religious figures * John, father of Andrew the Apostle and Saint Peter * Pope John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Grierson (pilot)
John Grierson (2 January 1909 – 21 May 1977) was an English long-distance flier, test pilot, author, and aviation administrator. Grierson started his flying lessons at Brooklands while still a schoolboy, graduated from RAF Cranwell in 1929, and flew out to India in 1930 in his own Gypsy Moth, named ''Rouge et Noir'', to join his RAF Squadron. In the same aircraft he established a record in 1931 with a 41½-day flight from Karachi, India to Lympne, England, and in 1932 flew 8,800 miles across the USSR to Samarkand. He had asked his friend Bernard Shaw to lobby the Soviet authorities to grant him passage. He met the Lindberghs in Reykjavík, Iceland in 1933. He was at that time attempting to fly solo to America in ''Rouge et Noir'', now fitted with floats, but overturned on take-off. His next effort was in a Fox Moth named ''Robert Bruce''. On his third try, Grierson successfully made the first London - Ottawa flight, at the same time making the first solo flight across ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Grierson
John Grierson (26 April 1898 – 19 February 1972) was a pioneering Scottish documentary maker, often considered the father of British and Canadian documentary film. In 1926, Grierson coined the term "documentary" in a review of Robert J. Flaherty's '' Moana''.Ann Curthoys, Marilyn Lakebr>Connected worlds: history in transnational perspective, Volume 2004p.151. Australian National University Press Early life Grierson was born in the old schoolhouse in Deanston, near Doune, Scotland, to schoolmaster Robert Morrison Grierson from Boddam, near Peterhead, and Jane Anthony, a teacher from Ayrshire. His mother, a suffragette and ardent Labour Party activist, often took the chair at Tom Johnston's election meetings. The family moved to Cambusbarron, Stirling, in 1900, when the children were still young, after Grierson's father was appointed headmaster of Cambusbarron school. When the family moved, John had three elder sisters, Agnes, Janet, and Margaret, and a younger brot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jasmine Grierson
Jasmine Grierson (born 16 May 1998) is an Australian rules footballer playing for Greater Western Sydney in the AFL Women's (AFLW) competition. She has previously played for Melbourne and North Melbourne. AFLW career Grierson was drafted by Melbourne with their eighteenth selection and 135th overall in the 2016 AFL Women's draft. She made her debut in the fifteen point loss to at Casey Fields in the opening round of the 2017 season. After the six point win against at Casey Fields in round four—in which she recorded sixteen disposals, five marks and two tackles—she was the round nominee for the AFLW Rising Star. She played every match in her debut season to finish with seven games. Melbourne signed Grierson for the 2018 season during the trade period in May 2017. In May 2018, Grierson was traded to North Melbourne. In June 2021, Grierson was traded to Greater Western Sydney in exchange for pick #28. Personal life Grierson is currently studying a Bachelor of Psycho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Grierson (minister, Born 1791)
James Grierson (2 July 1791–22 January 1875) was a Scottish minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly to the Free Church of Scotland in 1854/55. Early life He was born in Ruthwell in Dumfriesshire on 2 July 1791. He studied divinity at the University of Edinburgh. He was licensed by Presbytery of Stirling on 22 September 1816. He subsequently became tutor to Sir David Kinloch of Gilmerton, Bart. He was presented by John Lee Allen of Errol, 15 January, and ordained on 12 August 1819. In 1816 he was licensed to preach and began his ministry in Stirling as a minister for the Church of Scotland. In 1819 he moved to Errol and remained minister of the established church there until the Disruption of 1843. Post Disruption In 1843 he (and the bulk of the congregation) established the Free Church of Scotland in Errol. He remained in this role until his death in 1875. He was elected as Moderator of Free Church General Assembly on 18 May 1854. He was awarded a doct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Grierson (British Army Officer)
Lieutenant-General Sir James Moncrieff Grierson, ADC (Gen.) (27 January 1859 – 17 August 1914) was a British soldier. Life He was born in 1859 the son of George Moncrieff Grierson and his wife Allison Lyon Walker. Grierson was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1877. He served in the Egyptian War including the actions at Kassassin and Tel el Kebir, as Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General with the Indian contingent in 1882. He was Deputy Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster General for the Sudan expedition and was involved in actions at Suakin, Hasheen and Tamai in 1885. He was Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General for 2nd Brigade during the Hazara expedition in 1888. He was appointed Deputy Assistant Adjutant General, Intelligence, at Army Headquarters in 1890 and then became Brigade Major for the Royal Artillery at Aldershot from 1895 to 1896 when he became Military Attaché in Berlin acquiring what Sir John French later described as "an intimate knowledge o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert John Clifford Grierson
Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson, FBA (16 January 1866 – 19 February 1960) was a Scottish literary scholar, editor, and literary critic. Life and work He was born in Lerwick, Shetland, on 16 January 1866. He was the son of Andrew John Grierson and his wife, Alice Geraldine (''née'' Clifford) Grierson. In 1896 he married Mary Letitia (née Ogston) Grierson, daughter of Sir Alexander Ogston, Professor of Surgery at Aberdeen. They had five daughters including Molly Dickins, author of ''A Wealth of Relations'', about family history, writer Flora Grierson who co-founded the Samson Press, and writer and pianist Janet Teissier du Cros. He was educated at King's College, University of Aberdeen and Christ Church, Oxford. On graduating from the latter he was appointed Professor of English Literature at his Aberdeen alma mater, where he taught from 1894 to 1915, and subsequently became Knight Professor of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh (1915–1935). In 1920 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Grierson
Henry Grierson (26 August 1891 – 29 January 1972) was an English cricketer, barrister and author, who played cricket for Bedfordshire County Cricket Club, Bedfordshire between 1909 and 1921 and for Cambridge University Cricket Club, Cambridge University from 1911 to 1912. Early life Born on 26 August 1891 in Chertsey, Surrey, Henry Grierson was educated at Bedford School. E. H. D. Sewell, a friend who lived locally, thought he should have been in the school cricket eleven in 1906, aged 15, on the strength of his consistent bowling. Grierson went on to Pembroke College, Cambridge. His first Minor Counties Championship appearances for Bedfordshire County Cricket Club, Bedfordshire came in 1909. He played 11 matches of first-class cricket for Cambridge University Cricket Club, Cambridge University and gained his Blue (university sport), Blue in 1911 and 1912. He continued to play for Bedfordshire until 1921. He was also a rugby union player, for Bedford, Leicester and Rosslyn Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Abraham Grierson
Sir George Abraham Grierson (7 January 1851 – 9 March 1941) was an Irish administrator and linguist in British India. He worked in the Indian Civil Service but an interest in philology and linguistics led him to pursue studies in the languages and folklore of India during his postings in Bengal and Bihar. He published numerous studies in the journals of learned societies and wrote several books during his administrative career but proposed a formal linguistic survey at the Oriental Congress in 1886 at Vienna. The Congress recommended the idea to the British Government and he was appointed superintendent of the newly created Linguistic Survey of India in 1898. He continued the work until 1928, surveying people across the British Indian territory, documenting spoken languages, recording voices, written forms and was responsible in documenting information on 179 languages, defined by him through a test of mutual unintelligibility, and 544 dialects which he placed in five languag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
