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Pound (surname)
Pound is the surname of: * Albert Pound (1831-?), American politician and businessman * Cuthbert Winfred Pound (1864–1935), American lawyer and politician from New York * Dick Pound (born 1942), Canadian lawyer * Dudley Pound (1877–1943), British naval officer * Ezra Pound (1885–1972), American expatriate poet and critic * Glenn Simpson Pound (1914-2010), American educator * James Pound (1669–1724), English clergyman and astronomer * Jessie Brown Pounds (1861–1921), American writer of gospel songs * Louise Pound (1872–1958), American folklorist and college professor * Omar Pound (1926–2010), Anglo-American writer, teacher, and translator * Robert Pound (1919–2010), American physicist * Roscoe Pound (1870–1964), American legal scholar and educator * Stephen Pound (born 1948), British Labour Party politician * Stephen Bosworth Pound (1833–1911), lawyer, senator and judge * Thaddeus C. Pound Thaddeus Coleman Pound (December 6, 1832 – November 20 or 21, 1914 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Albert Pound
Albert E. Pound (June 2, 1831 - December 1913)Albert E. Pound at findagrave.com was an American politician and businessman. Born in , he moved with his family to New York. In 1847, the family again relocated to Rock County, and then back to New York in 1851 where he went to school. He settled in 1855 in |
Cuthbert Winfred Pound
Cuthbert Winfred Pound (June 20, 1864 – February 3, 1935, Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York) was an American lawyer and politician from New York. He was Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals from 1932 to 1934. Life He was born on June 20, 1864, in Lockport, Niagara County, New York, the son of Alexander Pound and Almina (Whipple) Pound. He was educated at Lockport High School; and graduated from Cornell Law School in 1887. While a student, Pound was a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. He studied law in the office of his brother John Pound (died 1904), was admitted to the bar in 1886, and practiced law in Lockport in partnership with his brother. Pound was a Republican member of the New York State Senate (29th D.) in 1894 and 1895. Afterwards he moved to Ithaca, New York and became a Law Professor at Cornell from 1895 to 1904. In June 1900, he was appointed by Governor Theodore Roosevelt to the New York State Civil Service Commission, and remained in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Pound
Richard William Duncan Pound (born March 22, 1942), better known as Dick Pound, is a Canadian swimming champion, lawyer, and spokesman for ethics in sport. He was the first president of the World Anti-Doping Agency and vice-president of the International Olympic Committee. He is currently the longest-serving member of the IOC. Pound is a staunch advocate of strict drug testing for athletes, and has made many allegations of cheating and official corruption, some of them challenged, owing to disputes over the testing and reporting procedures. ''Time'' magazine featured him as one of the " 100 Most Influential People in the World". He was a chancellor of McGill University and was chairman of the board of Olympic Broadcasting Services. Early life and education Pound was born on March 22, 1942, in St. Catharines, Ontario, the eldest of four children. His father was an engineer at a pulp-and-paper mill, and the family moved often. His family moved to numerous Quebec tow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dudley Pound
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Alfred Dudley Pickman Rogers Pound, (29 August 1877 – 21 October 1943) was a British senior officer of the Royal Navy. He served in the First World War as a battleship commander, taking part in the Battle of Jutland with notable success, contributing to the sinking of the German cruiser . He served as First Sea Lord, the professional head of the Royal Navy, for the first four years of the Second World War. In that role his greatest achievement was his successful campaign against the German U-boats and the winning of the Battle of the Atlantic but his judgment has been questioned over the failed Norwegian Campaign in 1940, and his dismissal of Admiral Dudley North in 1940. His order in July 1942 to disperse Convoy PQ 17 and withdraw its covering forces, to counter a threat from heavy German surface ships, led to its destruction by submarines and aircraft. His health failed in 1943 and he resigned, dying shortly thereafter. Early life Born the son of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ezra Pound
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a fascist collaborator in Italy during World War II. His works include ''Ripostes'' (1912), ''Hugh Selwyn Mauberley'' (1920), and his 800-page epic poem, '' The Cantos'' (c. 1917–1962). Pound's contribution to poetry began in the early 20th century with his role in developing Imagism, a movement stressing precision and economy of language. Working in London as foreign editor of several American literary magazines, he helped discover and shape the work of contemporaries such as T. S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, and James Joyce. He was responsible for the 1914 serialization of Joyce's '' A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man'', the 1915 publication of Eliot's " The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", and the serialization from 1918 of Joyce's '' Ulysses''. Hemingway wrote in 1932 that, for poets born in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glenn Simpson Pound
Glenn Simpson Pound (March 7, 1914 – July 6, 2010) was an American educator and acting chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1977. Born in Hector, Arkansas, Pound worked as a Sharecropping, sharecropper in the Rio Grande Valley (Texas), Rio Grande Valley in Texas, where he worked his way up to running a farm producing vegetables and cotton. He graduated from University of Arkansas in 1940, and then moved to Wisconsin that year, where he received his doctorate degree from University of Wisconsin in 1943. In 1946, Pound was named professor of plant pathology and was dean of the UW College of Agriculture from 1964 until 1979. In 1977, Pound was acting chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Pound retired in 1979 and moved to La Jolla, California. He served as an adjunct professor of plant pathology at University of California, Riverside. He died in La Jolla, California in 2010. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Pound
James Pound (1669–1724) was an English clergyman and astronomer. Life He was the son of John Pound, of Bishops Cannings, Wiltshire, where he was born. He matriculated at St. Mary Hall, Oxford, on 16 March 1687; graduated B.A. from Hart Hall on 27 February 1694, and M.A. from Gloucester Hall in the same year; and obtained a medical diploma, with a degree of M.B., on 21 October 1697. Having taken orders, he entered the service of the East India Company, and went out to Madras in 1699 as chaplain to the merchants of Fort St. George. Whence he proceeded to the British settlement on Pulo Condore (now Côn Sơn Island) near the mouth of the Mekong River. On the morning of 3 March 1705 the company's local troops at Pulo Condore mutinied, and only eleven of the English residents escaped in the sloop ''Rose'' to Malacca, and ultimately reached Batavia. Pound was among the refugees, but his collections and papers were destroyed. A year after his return to England, in July 1707, Pou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessie Brown Pounds
Jessie Hunter Brown Pounds (August 31, 1861 – March 3, 1921) was an American lyricist of gospel songs. Life Jessie Hunter Brown was born into a farm family in the village of Hiram, Portage County, Ohio. A staff writer for ''Christian Standard'', she often collaborated with composer James Henry Fillmore, Sr. (1849–1936). In 1897 she married John E. Pounds, minister of the Central Christian Church in Indianapolis, IN. As a college-educated, frontier woman, she's considered by some to be part of the "first generation" of "New Women." She died at her home in Hiram on March 3, 1921. Family Her parents were Holland Brown and Jane Abel Brown. Holland Brown was baptized after hearing Walter Scott preach; and the couple were abolitionists. A notable guest of her parents was James A. Garfield. Works "Her pen produced upwards of eight hundred hymns, eighty short stories, seven novels, lyrics, and scripts for cantatas, and numerous brief essays and non-fiction articles." H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise Pound
Louise Pound (June 30, 1872 – June 28, 1958) was an American folklorist, linguist, and college professor at the University of Nebraska. In 1955, Pound was the first woman elected president of the Modern Language Association, and in the same year, she was the first woman inducted into the Nebraska Sports Hall of Fame. Early life Pound was born in Lincoln, Nebraska to Stephen Bosworth Pound and Laura Pound. Alongside her older brother, noted legal professor Roscoe Pound, and her younger sister, Olivia Pound, Pound was instructed by her mother in various disciplines including the natural sciences, ancient and modern languages, and literature. Pound studied at a preparatory school, the Latin School, in the School of Fine Arts, transitioning in 1888 to the University of Nebraska (B.B. 1892 and M.A., 1895). Pound was an active student throughout the university. Along with her siblings and her colleague Willa Cather, she was a member of the University Union Literary Society at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omar Pound
Omar Shakespear Pound (10 September 1926 – 2 March 2010) ''The New York Times'', 10 March 2010. was an Anglo-American writer, teacher, and translator. The son of Dorothy Shakespear and her husband, Ezra Pound, Pound was the author of ''Arabic & Persian Poems'' (1970) and co-author of ''Wyndham Lewis: A Descriptive Bibliography'' (1978). He also wrote poems of his own and published material about his parents.Pound, Omar (2005). "Pound, Omar Shakespear (b. 1926)". In Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos and Stephen Adams (eds.). The Ezra Pound Encyclopedia '. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 239. Early life and education Omar was born in the American Hospital of P ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Pound
Robert Vivian Pound (May 16, 1919 – April 12, 2010) was a Canadian-American physicist who helped discover nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and who devised the famous Pound–Rebka experiment supporting general relativity. He became a tenured professor of physics at Harvard without ever having received a graduate degree. Pound was born in Ridgeway, Ontario. The discovery of NMR won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1952, though, due to the limitation on the number of recipients and the simultaneous achievements of Felix Bloch's group, only two recipients were designated. In his address to recipient Ed Purcell, Professor Hulthén nevertheless celebrated the "very interesting experiment you performed together with Dr. Pound", making Pound one of only two collaborators explicitly named in the speech. Pound received the National Medal of Science in 1990 for his lifetime contributions to the field of physics. Pound was the Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics emeritus at Harvard Univers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
