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Landor
__NOTOC__ Landor may refer to: People * Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864), English poet * Robert Eyres Landor (1781–1869), English writer and clergyman, brother of Walter Savage Landor * Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1865–1924), English painter, anthropologist and travel writer, grandson of Walter Savage Landor * Walter Landor (1913–1995), German-American brand designer * Rosalyn Landor (born 1958), English actress * Henry Landor (1815–1877), Western Australian settler, and later first medical superintendent of the Asylum for the Insane, London, Ontario Places * Landor River, a river in Western Australia * Landor Station, a pastoral lease in Western Australia * Lándor, the Hungarian name for Nandra village, Bichiș Commune, Mureș County, Romania Other uses * Landor (company), a global branding agency * A piece in the game '' Stratego: Legends'' by Avalon Hill See also * Landauer, a surname * Landore Landore () is a district and community in Swansea, Wales. The d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Savage Landor
Walter Savage Landor (30 January 177517 September 1864) was an English writer, poet, and activist. His best known works were the prose ''Imaginary Conversations,'' and the poem "Rose Aylmer," but the critical acclaim he received from contemporary poets and reviewers was not matched by public popularity. As remarkable as his work was, it was equalled by his rumbustious character and lively temperament. Both his writing and political activism, such as his support for Lajos Kossuth and Giuseppe Garibaldi, were imbued with his passion for liberal and republican causes. He befriended and influenced the next generation of literary reformers such as Charles Dickens and Robert Browning. Summary of his work In a long and active life of 89 years Landor produced a considerable amount of work in various genres. This can perhaps be classified into four main areasprose, lyric poetry, political writings including epigrams, and Latin. His prose and poetry have received most acclaim, but critic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Eyres Landor
Robert Eyres Landor (10 May 1781 – 26 January 1869) was an English writer, dramatist, poet, and Anglican clergyman. Life Landor was the third son of Dr Walter Landor, a physician, and his wife Elizabeth Savage, and thereby the brother of Walter Savage Landor. He was born at Warwick and went to Bromsgrove School, then as a scholar, to Worcester College, Oxford in 1797. He became a Fellow of Worcester College and a clergyman. In 1815 Landor went to Italy and met his brother Walter and his wife as they made their temperamental journey through France. He became vicar of Hughenden Buckinghamshire in 1817 until 1825, and was also Chaplain in ordinary to the Prince Regent. He became Rector of Nafford in Birlingham in 1829 and remained there until his death. Birlingham is situated at the foot of the Bredan Hills and within sight of the Malverns. He is noted as never having been absent from Sunday Duty and the church at Birlingham was restored with money left by him. He was somewhat re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnold Henry Savage Landor
Arnold Henry Savage Landor (2 June 1865 – 26 December 1924) was an English painter, explorer, writer, and anthropologist. Life and career Arnold H. S. Landor was born to Charles Savage Landor in Florence, Italy, where he spent his childhood. The writer Walter Savage Landor was his grandfather. He left for Paris at age fifteen to study at the Académie Julian directed by Gustave Boulanger and Jules Lefebvre. He then traveled the world, including America, Japan, and Korea, painting many landscapes and portraits. His 1895 travel memoirs from Korea included accounts of appointments to portray two Princes of the ruling Min clan, each of whom received him more graciously than they had the British consul. The gifts from one of his sitters included a white leopard skin and a set of screens that were of especial rarity. Upon his return to England, he was invited to Balmoral Castle, Balmoral by Queen Victoria to recount his adventures and show his drawings. He later traveled to Nepa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Landor
Walter Joseph Landor (born Walter Landauer, July 9, 1913 – June 9, 1995) was a brand designer and the founder of Landor & Fitch. He was a proponent of branding and consumer research techniques widely used to this day. Landor Associates, Landor, the company he founded as Landor Associates in 1941, has offices around the world. "Products are made in the factory, but brands are created in the mind," Walter Landor memorably stated. He had a particular gift for creating designs with broad popular appeal, such as the Coca-Cola script. Brands as diverse as General Electric, Japan Airlines, Levi Strauss, and Shell Oil all benefited from his vision and commitment. Early years Landor was born to Fritz and Elsie Landauer, a Jewish family, in Munich in 1913. Fritz Landauer was a prominent architect, and Landor grew up drawing in his father's studio; he realized he wanted to study industrial design instead of architecture early on.Gallagher, Bernard"Walter Landor" In ''Immigrant Entreprene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosalyn Landor
Rosalyn Landor (born 7 October 1958) is an English film, television and stage actress and audio book narrator. Early life Landor was born in 1958 in Hampstead, London, the daughter of English actor and radio presenter Neil Landor and of an Irish mother. Landor was educated at the Royal Ballet School, Richmond, and at Tolworth Girls' School, in Surbiton, London. A child actress in films in the late 1960s and early 1970s, she began her career at the age of nine, when she appeared in the Hammer Horror film '' The Devil Rides Out'' (1968). Career Landor appeared in ''Jane Eyre'' (1970), playing Helen Burns, with Susannah York as the adult Jane Eyre. She co-starred in the film '' The Amazing Mr. Blunden'' (1972), based on the book '' The Ghosts'' by Antonia Barber, and appeared opposite Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in the TV film '' Divorce His, Divorce Hers'' (1973). She made many appearances on British and American television during the 1980s, with roles including Allison i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Landor
Henry Landor (1815 – 6 January 1877) was the first medical superintendent of the Asylum For The Insane, London, Ontario, which was built to his specifications. He was one of those at the forefront in North America of the movement for moral treatment of mental patients. Earlier in life, he was a settler, farmer, physician, scientist, and explorer in Western Australia, and then he became a naval surgeon in South Africa. Early years Henry Landor was born in 1815 in Anglesey in Wales. He was educated in Liverpool under the care of Dr Prince. He graduated in the session of 1835–36 from the Aldersgate School of Medicine in London, England, receiving a Silver Medal.H M Hurd: ''The Institutional Care of the Insane in the United States and Canada'' (Volume 4) onlineThe American Journal of Insanity, p.206 Western Australia Landor and his brothers Edward Wilson Landor, a lawyer, and George W Landor, arrived in the Swan River Colony, Colony of Western Australia on ''Advocate'' on 27 A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Landor River
The Landor River is a river in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia. The headwaters of the Landor rise north of Mount Erong and flow generally north, joined by two minor tributaries, Flinerty Creek and Fleury Creek. The river forms confluence with the Gascoyne River near the Landor Station homestead. The river descends over its course. The first European to find the river was the surveyor, Henry Carey in 1882. It is thought that he named the river after a prominent Perth barrister, E. W. Landor. See also *List of watercourses in Western Australia Western Australia has many watercourses with gazetted names, including rivers, streams, stream, brooks, stream, creeks, gully, gullies, anabranches and Backwater (river), backwaters. This lis is complete with respect to the 1996 Gazetteer of Au ... References Rivers of the Gascoyne region {{WesternAustralia-river-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Landor Station
Landor or Landor Station is a pastoral lease and sheep station located in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia. The station is situated approximately by air north west of Meekatharra. The distance by road is considerably longer, via the Great Northern Highway. The station occupies an area of and has double frontage to the Gascoyne River, Landor Creek and Aurila Creek over a total distance of over with the property mostly composed of flood plain country. It is well grassed with buffel, saltbush, bluebush, cotton bush and other vegetation, including mulga, acacia and currara. The property was established prior to 1925 as a cattle station, but then swapped to sheep. Approximately 12,00 sheep were shorn in 1925, with numbers increasing to 40,000 in 1926 and 50,000 in 1927. In 1998 the property was acquired by Richie Brennan from Malcolm McCusker. In 2013 Brennan had reported that cattle worth 500,000 had been stolen from the property over the last decade. The statio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bichiș
Bichiș (, Hungarian pronunciation: ) is a commune in Mureș County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of four villages: Bichiș, Gâmbuț (''Gombostelke''), Nandra (''Lándor''), and Ozd (''Magyarózd''). The commune is situated on the Transylvanian Plateau, at an altitude of , on the banks of the river Ațintiș. It is located in the southwestern part of Mureș County, south of the town of Luduș and from the county seat, Târgu Mureș, on the border with Alba County. Bichiș had a population of 1,039 at the 2002 census, and 805 at the 2011 census. 2011 census results, |
Landor (company)
Landor is a brand consulting firm founded in 1941 by Walter Landor, who pioneered some research, design, and consulting methods that the branding industry still uses. Headquartered in London, the company maintains 32 offices, including China, France, Germany, India, Italy, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Singapore, Australia, Japan, South Africa, Spain and the United States. Landor is a member of the network WPP plc, the world's largest advertising company by revenues. Landor's work includes brand research and valuation, brand strategy and architecture, brand purpose and design, corporate identity and packaging design, innovation, naming and writing, branded experience, brand equity management, employee engagement, and digital branding. History Origin German immigrant Walter Landor and his wife Josephine (the original "associate") founded the company in 1941. Walter Landor intended to "...concentrate on designing everyday products that would make life more pleasant and more beau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legends
A legend is a historical narrative, a symbolic representation of folk belief. Legend(s) or The Legend(s) may also refer to: Narrative * A fictitious identity used in espionage Books, comic books, and theater * ''Legend'' (Gemmell novel), a 1984 fantasy novel by David Gemmell * ''Legend'' (comic imprint), a comic-book brand-name * ''Legend'' (Lu novel), the first novel in ''Legend: The Series'': A trilogy by Marie Lu * ''Legend'' (1958 play), an Australian play by Ric Throssell * ''Legend'' (1976 play), a Broadway play by Samuel A. Taylor * Legend Books, an imprint of Random House * ''Legends'' (comics), comic-book limited series published by DC Comics * ''Legends'' (anthology), a 1998 collection of short novels edited by Robert Silverberg ** ''Legends II'' (anthology), a 2003 second collection * ''Legends!'', a 1986 stage play by James Kirkwood, Jr. * ''Dragonlance Legends'', trilogy of books central to the Dragonlance series * ''The Legend'', a 1969 novel by Evelyn Ant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Landauer
Landauer is a surname, originally referring to somebody from Landau. It may refer to: * Gustav Landauer (1870–1919), German anarchist, writer, and critic * Karl Landauer (12 October 1887 – 27 January 1945) was a German psychoanalyst * Kurt Landauer (1884–1961), German football official * M. H. Landauer (1808–1841), German rabbi and writer on Jewish mysticism * Robert S. Landauer (1924–2004), American scientist specializing in radiation measurement * Rolf Landauer (1927–1999), German-American physicist * Samuel Landauer (1846–1937), German orientalist and librarian * Thomas Landauer (1932–2014), American professor of psychology * Walter Landauer (1910–1983), Austrian pianist best known as half of the Rawicz and Landauer piano duo See also * * Landau (surname) * Landauer's principle * Landor (other) __NOTOC__ Landor may refer to: People * Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864), English poet * Robert Eyres Landor (1781–1869), English writer and clergyman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
