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Richard Taylor (campaigner)
Richard Taylor may refer to: Entertainment *Richard Taylor (cartoonist) (1902–1970), Canadian cartoonist, ''The New Yorker'' magazine *Richard Norton-Taylor (born 1944), British editor, journalist, and playwright *Richard Taylor (British writer) (born 1967), writer and broadcaster * Richard Taylor (film director) (1933–2015), British documentary film director * Richard John Taylor (born 1985), British film editor, writer, and director *Richard Taylor (filmmaker) (born 1965), head of Wētā Workshop special effects studio *Richard Taylor (Hollyoaks), a character in UK soap opera ''Hollyoaks'' *Richard Taylor, former member of American rock band Gin Blossoms Military * Richard Taylor (colonel) (1744–1829), father of U.S. president Zachary Taylor *Richard Taylor (Confederate general) (1826–1879), son of U.S. president Zachary Taylor, Confederate general in the American Civil War * Richard Taylor (Medal of Honor) (1834–1890), American Civil War soldier and Medal of Honor reci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Taylor (cartoonist)
Richard Taylor (1902–1970) was a Canadian cartoonist best known for his cartoons in the magazine ''The New Yorker'' and in Playboy. He signed his work R.Taylor. Canadian comics historian John Bell (historian), John Bell called Taylor "one of the greatest ''New Yorker'' cartoonists". Taylor was born in 1902 in Fort William, Ontario, in Canada. In the 1920s, he contributed to Toronto-based publications; he contributed for a year to ''Toronto Telegram'' newspaper, from 1927 to the University of Toronto's humour magazine ''The Goblin (magazine), The Goblin'', and the Communist Party of Canada newspaper ''The Worker''. Aside from cartooning, he produced commercial art and in his spare time painted. In 1935, ''The New Yorker'' began publishing his work, and he thereafter moved to the United States, where there were more opportunities for better pay for cartoonists. He married Maxine MacTavish in Toronto, Ontario and they had no children Taylor died in West Redding, Connecticut, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Taylor (Royalist)
Richard Taylor (1620 – 30 November 1667) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1661 to 1667. He supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War. Taylor was the son of Richard Taylor, counsellor at law, of Grymsbury, Bolnhurst, Bedfordshire and his wife Elizabeth Boteler daughter of William Boteler of Biddenham, Bedfordshire. He was baptised on 20 March 1620. He matriculated at Magdalen College, Oxford on 17 June 1636 aged 16 and was a student of Lincoln's Inn in 1637. He succeeded to a share in his father's estate at Clapham, Bedfordshire in 1641. He served in the Royalist army in the Civil War under Sir Ralph Hopton without apparently any military rank. His share of the Clapham estate was sequestered and in 1647 he was fined £450 for delinquency. In 1655 was assessed at £90 for decimation. At the Restoration it was written that he had "continued faithful in the late war to the surrender of Oxford, and hath been several times since imprisoned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Taylor (mathematician)
Richard Lawrence Taylor (born 19 May 1962) is a British mathematician working in the field of number theory. He is currently the Barbara Kimball Browning Professor in Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University in California. Taylor received the 2002 Cole Prize, the 2007 Shaw Prize with Robert Langlands, and the 2015 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics. Career He received his B.A. from Clare College, Cambridge.SAVILIAN PROFESSORSHIP OF GEOMETRY in NOTICES, University Gazette 23.3.95 No. 435 During his time at University of Cambridge, Cambridge, he was president of The Archimedeans in 1981 and 1982, following the resignation of his predecessor. He earned his Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University in 1988 after completing a doctoral dissertation, titled "On congruences between modular forms", under the supervision of Andrew Wiles. He was an assistant lecturer, lecturer, and then reader at the University of Cambridge from 1988 to 1995. From 1995 to 1996 he held the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard E
Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic language">Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'strong in rule'. Nicknames include " Richie", " Dick", " Dickon", " Dickie", " Rich", " Rick", "Rico (name), Rico", " Ricky", and more. Richard is a common English (the name was introduced into England by the Normans), German and French male name. It's also used in many more languages, particularly Germanic, such as Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, and Dutch, as well as other languages including Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Finnish. Richard is cognate with variants of the name in other European languages, such as the Swedish "Rickard", the Portuguese and Spanish "Ricardo" and the Italian "Riccardo" (see comprehensive variant list below). People named Richard Multiple people with the same name * Richard Andersen (other) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Clyde Taylor
Richard Clyde Taylor (November 5, 1919 – October 30, 2003) was an American philosopher renowned for his contributions to metaphysics and virtue ethics. He was also an internationally known beekeeper. Biography Richard C. Taylor was born in Charlotte, Michigan on November 5, 1919 and earned his B.A. at the University of Illinois in 1941 and subsequently earned his M.A. from Oberlin College in 1947. In 1951, he received his PhD at Brown University, where his supervisor was Roderick Chisholm. During World War II he served his country as a commissioned submarine officer."Obituary: Richard Taylor Remembered" by Robert L. Holmes, Barry Gan, Tim Madigan, ''Philosophy Now'', Issue 44, 2004. Over the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Charles Taylor
Richard Charles Taylor is an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at Marquette University. He is known for his works on medieval philosophy, ancient Greek philosophy, and Islamic philosophy. He is a former president of the American Catholic Philosophical Association The American Catholic Philosophical Association (ACPA) is an organization of Catholic philosophers established in 1926 to promote the advancement of philosophy as an intellectual discipline consonant with Catholic tradition. Among the means used t ... and a former president of the Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy. Works Translations * ''Averroes (Ibn Rushd) of Cordoba. Long Commentary on the De Anima of Aristotle'', Richard C. Taylor, trans. & intro., Therese-Anne Druart, subeditor. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009 * ''St. Thomas Aquinas. Commentary on the Book of Causes''. Vincent A. Guagliardo, O.P., Charles R. Hess, O.P., and Richard C. Taylor, trans. Washington, D.C.: Catholic U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Cowling Taylor
Richard Cowling Taylor (18 January 1789 – 26 October 1851) was an English surveyor and geologist. Life Taylor, third son of Samuel Taylor, farmer, was born at Hinton, Suffolk, on 18 January 1789. He was educated at Halesworth, and articled to Mr. Webb, land surveyor at Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire, in July 1805. He received further instruction from William Smith (1769–1839), the "Father of British geology", and finally became a land surveyor at Norwich in 1813, moving to London in October 1826. In the early part of his career he was engaged on the Ordnance Survey of England. Subsequently he was occupied in reporting on mining properties, including that of the British Iron Company in South Wales, his plaster model of which received the Isis medal of the Society of Arts. In July 1830 he went to the United States of America, and, after surveying the Blossburg coal region in Pennsylvania, spent three years in the exploration of the coal and iron veins of the Dauphin and S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Taylor (editor)
Richard Taylor (18 May 1781 – 1 December 1858) was an English Natural history, naturalist and publisher of scientific journals. He became joint editor of the ''Philosophical Magazine'' in 1822 and went on to publish the ''Annals of Natural History'' in 1838. From 1837 to 1852, he edited and published ''Scientific Memoirs, Selected from the Transactions of Foreign Academies of Science''. In 1852, he was joined by the chemist Dr William Francis to form Taylor & Francis. Life Richard Taylor was born at Norwich on 18 May 1781, the second son of John Taylor (Unitarian hymn writer), John Taylor. He was educated in a day school in that town by the Rev. John Houghton. He was then apprenticed, on the recommendation of Sir James Edward Smith, to a printer named Davis, of Chancery Lane, London. He studied the classics, mediæval Latin and Italian poets, and modern languages. On the expiration of his apprenticeship, he for a short time carried on a printing business in partnership with a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard S
Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic language">Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'strong in rule'. Nicknames include " Richie", " Dick", " Dickon", " Dickie", " Rich", " Rick", "Rico (name), Rico", " Ricky", and more. Richard is a common English (the name was introduced into England by the Normans), German and French male name. It's also used in many more languages, particularly Germanic, such as Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, and Dutch, as well as other languages including Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Finnish. Richard is cognate with variants of the name in other European languages, such as the Swedish "Rickard", the Portuguese and Spanish "Ricardo" and the Italian "Riccardo" (see comprehensive variant list below). People named Richard Multiple people with the same name * Richard Ander ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Vickerman Taylor
Richard Vickerman Taylor (1830-1914) was an English schoolteacher and clergyman; and a biographer of Leeds worthies, and author on Yorkshire topics. Biography Richard Vickerman Taylor was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, on 10 October 1830, the eldest son of John Taylor and his wife Ann Vickerman. He was educated from the age of eleven at Leeds Grammar School. Taylor held a variety of teaching jobs; in 1851 in Rawdon for six months, before in the same year returning to Leeds Grammar School as an Assistant Master for two and a half years. In 1854 he moved to the Classical and Commercial school in Queen Square, Leeds. For the first six months of 1855 he taught at Somerset House, Kingsdown, Bristol. In the same year he passed exams at the College of Preceptors and matriculation exams for London University, moving to the capital and teaching in Blackheath whilst attending lectures at University College, London. In July 1856 he became Senior Classical Master at Bramham College, Tadcaster; a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Taylor (missionary)
Richard Taylor (21 March 1805 – 10 October 1873) was a Church Missionary Society (CMS) missionary in New Zealand. He was born on 21 March 1805 at Letwell, Yorkshire, England, one of four children of Richard Taylor and his wife, Catherine Spencer. He attended Queens' College, Cambridge and after graduating BA in 1828, he was ordained as a priest on 8 November 1829. In 1835, he was conferred MA and appointed a missionary in New Zealand for the CMS. Church Missionary Society Taylor was present at the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi on 6 February 1840. In 1840, he was appointed as head of the school at Te Waimate mission, then in 1842 posted to the CMS mission station at Whanganui. By 1844, the brick church built by the Revd John Mason was inadequate to meet the needs of the congregation and it had been damaged in an earthquake. A new church was built under the supervision of the Revd Richard Taylor with the timber supplied by each pā on the river in proportion to it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Taylor (Canadian Politician)
Richard Allan Hugh Taylor (January 13, 1915 – April 7, 1991) was a Canadian politician, who represented Timiskaming in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1963 to 1967 as a Liberal member. Background Prior to his election, he led George Taylor Hardware Limited, one of the largest post-war wholesale hardware enterprises in Canada supplying the expanding mining and forestry industries across northern Ontario and Quebec. He served on boards of numerous northern mining and business ventures. He was also actively involved in the expansion of telecommunication services throughout northeastern Ontario. During the war he served as a "dollar a day" professional as director and administrator for the Non-Ferrous Metal and Fabricated Steel group of the national Wartime Prices and Trade Board. Taylor served as a trustee on the local school board and he was a director on the Board of Temiskaming Hospital in New Liskeard, Ontario. He was a highly respected, generous community m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
