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Richard Best (golfer)
Richard Best may refer to: *Richard Best (film editor) (1916–2004), British film editor *Richard Best (judge) (1869–1939), Irish barrister, Unionist politician, and Lord of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Northern Ireland * Richard Irvine Best (1872–1959), Irish Celticist * Richard Halsey Best (1910–2001), United States Navy officer and World War II dive bomber pilot *Richard Best, Baron Best Richard Stuart Best, Baron Best, (born 22 June 1945) is a British social housing leader and member of the House of Lords. Biography The son of late Walter Best DL and Frances Chignell, Best was educated at Shrewsbury School and the Universi ... (born 1945), English social housing leader * Dick Best (born 1954), British rugby union coach and journalist * Richard Best (diplomat) (1933–2014), British Ambassador to Iceland *Richard Best Pencil Company, Inc. {{hndis, Best, Richard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Best (film Editor)
Richard Best (28 June 1916 – 19 December 2004) was a British film editor and television editor. He had about 50 feature film credits, and also edited the 1965-66 season of the television series ''The Avengers''. He is known particularly for three films: '' The Dam Busters'' (1955), '' Ice Cold in Alex'' (1958), and '' Look Back in Anger'' (1959), as well as for his long collaboration with director J. Lee Thompson. Selected filmography Feature films * '' Fame is the Spur'' ( Boulting-1947) * '' The Guinea Pig'' (Boulting-1948) * '' The Dancing Years'' (French-1950). The first of thirty-three films from Associated British Picture Corporation (ABPC) that Best edited. * ''The Magic Box'' (Boulting-1951) * '' The Yellow Balloon'' ( Thompson-1953) * '' The Weak and the Wicked'' (Thompson-1954). Released as ''Young and Willing'' in the U.S.. * '' The Dam Busters'' ( Anderson-1955). Film cited in 1999 as one of the hundred best British films. Kevin Brownlow considers it to be the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Best (judge)
Richard Best PC(Ire) KC (11 December 1869 – 23 February 1939) was an Irish barrister, politician and Lord Justice of Appeal. Best was born in Richhill, County Armagh, son of farmers Robert and Anne Best. He was educated at the Educational Institution, Dundalk (now Dundalk Grammar School) and Trinity College, Dublin where he was Senior Moderator (BA) in mathematics in 1892, and was called to the bar by the King's Inns, Dublin in 1895. He took silk in 1912 and was elected a bencher in 1918. In 1921 he was elected to the House of Commons of Northern Ireland as Unionist member for Armagh and later the same year he was appointed Attorney General for Northern Ireland. He was appointed to the Privy Council of Ireland in the 1922 New Year Honours, entitling him to the style "The Right Honourable". In 1925 he was appointed a Lord Justice of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Northern Ireland The courts of Northern Ireland are the Civil law (common law), civil and Criminal law ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Irvine Best
Richard Irvine Best (17 January 1872 – 25 September 1959), often known as R. I. Best, was an Irish scholar who specialised in Celtic Studies. Best was born into a Protestant family in Derry and educated at Foyle College before working for a time in a bank. As a young man he went to Paris to study Old Irish, where he met Kuno Meyer and attended Henri d'Arbois de Jubainville's lectures at the Collège de France. On his return to Ireland he translated the latter's ''Le Cycle Mythologique Irlandais et la Mythologie Celtique'' into English and became Assistant Director at the National Library of Ireland in 1904. He married Edith Oldman, a musician, in 1906 and the couple were active in the administration of the Feis Ceoil. Edith was six years Best's senior and the sister of Professor C. H. Oldman of University College Dublin University College Dublin (commonly referred to as UCD) ( ga, Coláiste na hOllscoile, Baile Átha Cliath) is a public research university in Du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Halsey Best
Richard Halsey Best (March 24, 1910 – October 28, 2001) was a dive bomber pilot and squadron commander in the United States Navy during World War II. Stationed on the aircraft carrier , Best led his dive bomber squadron at the 1942 Battle of Midway, sinking two Japanese aircraft carriers in one day, before being medically retired that same year due to damage to his lungs caused by breathing bad oxygen during the battle. Early life His grandfather Edward Best emigrated to the United States from England in the 1800s, living first in Wisconsin where he mustered into "F" Company of the 13th Wisconsin Infantry during the American Civil War, and later moving to California and then Oregon in his old age. Edward's son Burt Best, born in California in 1878 would later be the father of Richard H. Best. Richard H. Best was born in New Jersey in 1910. Richard married Doris Avis Albro (November 21, 1914 - December 6, 1968) on June 24, 1932, in Washington, D.C and they divorced on January 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Best, Baron Best
Richard Stuart Best, Baron Best, (born 22 June 1945) is a British social housing leader and member of the House of Lords. Biography The son of late Walter Best DL and Frances Chignell, Best was educated at Shrewsbury School and the University of Nottingham. He married Ima Akpan in 1970, divorcing in 1976, then Belinda Stemp in 1978. He had two daughters and two sons with his two wives. From 1970 to 1973, Best served as Director of the British Churches Housing Trust, then of the National Federation of Housing Associations 1973–88. From 1988 to December 2006, he led the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust. He has written extensively on housing and been involved with commissions on housing for Northern Ireland, Westminster, Birmingham, Glasgow and Hull. Best is a member of the House of Lords EU Home Affairs Committee. He is also Chair of The Property Ombudsman and the All Party Parliamentary Group on Housing and Care for Older People and serve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Best
Dick Best (born 22 September 1954) is a former rugby union coach, and current journalist. Best was Director of Rugby at London Irish. He coached the England national team. England won 13 and lost two of the 17 games played when Best was their coach. He was a coach on the 1993 British Lions tour to New Zealand In 1993 the British Lions rugby union team toured New Zealand. This was the last Lions tour in the sport's amateur era. The Lions were managed by Geoff Cooke, coached by Ian McGeechan and Dick Best, and captained by Gavin Hastings. The Lions .... References External links '' The Daily Telegraph'' article by Best. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
