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Randall (surname)
Randall is a surname of English language, English and Irish language, Irish origin. It is a cognate of the name Randolph (given name), ''Randolph'' meaning "shield-wolf", composed of ''rand'' "shield" plus ''úlfr'' "Wolves in Great Britain, wolf". In Ireland, Randall may be an Anglicisation, anglicized form of the Goidelic languages, Gaelic ''Mac Raghnaill'' meaning "son of Ragnall (name), Raghnall". Randall (given name), Randall is also used as a masculine given name, derived from the surname. Notable people A * Adam Randall, American football player * Addison Randall, American film actor * Adriana Randall, South African politician * Alexander Randall (Wisconsin politician), Alexander Randall, American (Wisconsin) politician * Alexander Randall (Maryland politician), congressman, Attorney General of Maryland * Alice Randall, African American author and songwriter * Anne Randall, American model * Archibald Randall, United States District Court judge * Archibald N. Randall, A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Germanic Languages
The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 515 million people mainly in Europe, North America, Oceania, and Southern Africa. The most widely spoken Germanic language, English language, English, is also the world's most List of languages by total number of speakers, widely spoken language with an estimated 2 billion speakers. All Germanic languages are derived from Proto-Germanic language, Proto-Germanic, spoken in Iron Age Scandinavia, History of Germany#Iron Age, Iron Age Northern Germany and along the North Sea and Baltic coasts. The West Germanic languages include the three most widely spoken Germanic languages: English language, English with around 360–400 million native speakers; German language, German, with over 100 million native speakers; and Dutch language, Dutch, with 24 million native speakers. Other West Germanic languages include Afrikaans, an offshoot of Dutch origi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archibald Randall
Archibald Randall (May 24, 1797 – June 8, 1846) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Education and career Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Randall read law to enter the bar in 1818. He was in private practice in Philadelphia from 1820 to 1842. He was a clerk for the Philadelphia Select Council from 1830 to 1833. He was a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the First Judicial District from 1834 to 1842. Federal judicial service On March 3, 1842, Randall was nominated by President John Tyler to a seat on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania vacated by Judge Joseph Hopkinson. Randall was confirmed by the United States Senate The United States Senate is a chamber of the Bicameralism, bicameral United States Congress; it is the upper house, with the United States House of Representatives, U.S. House of Representatives being the lower house. Together, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Hiram Randall
Charles Hiram Randall (July 23, 1865 – February 18, 1951) was an American newspaper publisher and politician in Los Angeles, California. He represented the city in the California State Assembly from 1911 to 1913 and the U.S. House of Representatives from 1915 to 1921. He was the only Prohibition Party candidate ever elected to Congress. He also served on the Los Angeles City Council from 1925 until 1933 and as President of the City Council for his final term from 1931 to 1933. In 1926, he was the first council member to face a recall election under the present city charter. Biography The son of the Rev. Elias J. Randall and Sarah F. Schooley, Randall was born on July 23, 1865, in Auburn, Nebraska, where he was educated in the public schools. He published the ''Observer'' beginning in 1885 in Kimball and edited a paper in Harrisburg, both in that state, and various independent weeklies, from 1885 to 1892. He worked as a postal clerk with the United States Railway Service, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chad Randall
Chad Randall (born 30 December 1980) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played for the Manly Sea Eagles in the National Rugby League (NRL) and the London Broncos in the Super League. Randall's usual position was at hooker. Currently, he works as an assistant coach at the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, and was formerly an assistant coach for Manly. Background Randall was born in Manly, New South Wales, Australia. His father, Terry Randall, was part of the successful Sea Eagles teams of the 1970s. Randall's junior club was the North Curl Curl Knights. Chad attended St Paul's Catholic College, Manly NRL career *''First Grade Debut:'' Northern Eagles v Canberra Raiders at Northpower Stadium at Grahame Park, 20 April 2002 (Rd 6) coming off the bench. In 2002, Randall played for the now defunct Northern Eagles joint-venture club, before playing for the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles from 2003 to 2005 following Manly's re-entry into the NRL as a single ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brett Randall
Brett Randall Snr (15 September 1884 – c. 1 July 1963) was a British-born Australian actor and theatre director. He was the co-founder of the Melbourne Little Theatre, which became St Martins Youth Arts Centre. Biography Randall was born in England, the only son of Henrietta Randall (c. 1870 – 26 April 1939) who, as stage name "Henrietta Cavendish", played in the Leon Gordon Company and Herbert Randall (c. 1858 – 1 February 1942), at one time manager of Daly's Theatre, London and an old Savoyard who, using stage name "Herbert Ralland", appeared in the first production of ''Utopia, Limited'' and in several other Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. Randall helped his father manage a pantomime company and in 1907 became manager of the Holloway Empire Theatre. He was one of the cast members who came to Melbourne from London to appear in Ian Hay's comedy '' The Sport of Kings'' at the Athenaeum Theatre in 1926, opened at the Palace Theatre, Sydney, in August 1926, followed a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Randall (politician)
Robert John Randall is an Australians, Australian politician. Randall was the Liberal Party of Australia (South Australian Division), Liberal MP for the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Electoral district of Henley Beach, Henley Beach from 1979 to 1982. Randall was also Liberal State President from 2003 to 2005, and a former Liberal Mayor of City of Charles Sturt, Henley and Grange Council. He held membership, c. 1998, with the Christian Democratic Party (Australia), Christian Democrats. Since 2008 he has held membership with Family First Party, Family First. Politics Randall first contested the since-abolished seat of Electoral district of Henley Beach, Henley Beach as a Liberal at the 1977 South Australian state election, 1977 election. Randall won the seat as a Liberal at the 1979 South Australian state election, 1979 election and from the 1980 Norwood state by-election, 1980 Norwood by-election Randall was the one-term David Tonkin, Tonkin Liberal government's mos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Randall (baseball)
Robert Lee Randall (born June 10, 1948) is an American former professional baseball second baseman and college baseball coach. He played five seasons in Major League Baseball from until , all for the Minnesota Twins. The native of Gove, Kansas threw and batted right-handed and was listed as tall and . He graduated from Gove High School and Kansas State University. Professional playing career Randall was selected by the Los Angeles Dodgers in three separate drafts: 1966, 1968, and finally the 2nd round in 1969, after which he signed. For the next five and a half years, he played 744 games in the Dodgers' farm system and batted over .300 four times, but was never promoted to the major league level. Then, on December 23, 1975, he got his first break when he was traded to the Twins in exchange for reserve outfielder Danny Walton. Randall's second, perhaps more important, break was Minnesota manager Gene Mauch's decision to move future Hall of Famer Rod Carew to first base ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Randall (Aboriginal Australian Elder)
Robert James Randall (1934 – 12 May 2015), also known as Uncle Bob, was an Aboriginal Australian elder, singer and community leader. He was a member of the Stolen Generations and became an elder of the Yankunytjatjara people from Central Australia. He was the 1999 NAIDOC Person of the Year. He is known for his 1970 song, "My Brown Skin Baby (They Take 'Im Away)". Early life Randall was born at Middleton Pond on Tempe Downs Station in the Central Desert region of the Northern Territory. His mother, Tanguawa, was a Yankunytjatjara domestic servant at the station. His father, William Liddle, was the White Australian owner of the station. Around the age of seven, Randall was taken away from his mother and family under government policy which forcibly removed thousands of "half-caste" (part-Aboriginal) children from their families. This policy produced what came to be known as the "Stolen Generations". Randall was taken to The Bungalow, an institution for half-caste children ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin H
Benjamin ( ''Bīnyāmīn''; "Son of (the) right") blue letter bible: https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/h3225/kjv/wlc/0-1/ H3225 - yāmîn - Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (kjv) was the younger of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel, and Jacob's twelfth and youngest son overall in Jewish, Christian and Islamic tradition. He was also considered the progenitor of the Israelite Tribe of Benjamin. Unlike Rachel's first son, Joseph, Benjamin was born in Canaan according to biblical narrative. In the Samaritan Pentateuch, Benjamin's name appears as "" (Samaritan Hebrew: , "son of days"). In the Quran, Benjamin is referred to as a righteous young child, who remained with Jacob when the older brothers plotted against Joseph. Later rabbinic traditions name him as one of four ancient Israelites who died without sin, the other three being Chileab, Jesse and Amram. Name The name is first mentioned in letters from King Sîn-kāšid of Uruk (1801–1771 BC), who called himself “King of Amnanum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Randall (Wisconsin Politician)
Benjamin Randall was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly. Biography Randall was born on April 28, 1793, in Hopkinton, Rhode Island Hopkinton is a town in Washington County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 8,398 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. History Hopkinton is named after Stephen Hopkins (politician), Stephen Hopkins, a signer of the Unit .... In 1845, he settled with his family in what would become Lebanon, Dodge County, Wisconsin. Randall died on April 24, 1863. His son, Barber Randall, became a Republican politician. Career Randall was a member of the Assembly during the 1st Wisconsin Legislature. He was a Democrat. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Randall, Benjamin People from Hopkinton, Rhode Island People from Lebanon, Dodge County, Wisconsin Democratic Party members of the Wisconsin State Assembly 1793 births 1863 deaths 19th-century members of the Wisconsin Legislature ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Randall (Maine Politician)
Benjamin Randall (November 14, 1789 – October 11, 1859) was a United States representative from Maine from 1839 to 1843. Early life Randall was born in Topsham (then part of Massachusetts) on November 14, 1789. He pursued an academic course and graduated from Bowdoin College in 1809. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1812. Career Randall commenced practice in Bath in 1812. He served in the Maine State militia in Colonel Reed’s regiment stationed at Cox's Head in September 1814. He was a member of the Maine Senate The Maine Senate is the upper house of the Maine Legislature, the state legislature (United States), state legislature of the U.S. state of Maine. The Senate currently consists of 35 members representing an equal number of districts across the st ... in 1833, 1835, and 1838. He was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1839 – March 3, 1843). Upon his return to Maine, he resumed the practice of law and was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Randall
Benjamin Randall (February 7, 1749 – October 22, 1808) was an American Baptist minister the main organizer of the Free Will Baptists (Randall Line) in the northeastern United States. Biography Early years Benjamin Randall III was born February 7, 1749, at New Castle, Province of New Hampshire to sea captain Benjamin Randall, Jr. (born 1712), and his wife, the former Margaret Mordantt.Frederick Levi Wiley''Life and Influence of the Rev. Benjamin Randall: Founder of the Free Baptist Denomination.''Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, 1915; pg. 5. He was the oldest of 9 children born to the pair, both of whom were of ethnic English heritage. Randall was provided with a "good commercial education" in the primitive public schools of the day, supplemented with extensive personal reading. A considerable part of Randall's youth was spent as a cabin boy aboard his father's ship, but he did not enjoy the experience, being a sensitive and pious youth who read the Bible ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
