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Richard Turner (actor)
Richard Turner may refer to: Politicians * Richard C. Turner (1927–1986), American politician, who served Senator and Attorney General of Iowa * Richard Turner (New Jersey politician), American politician, and Mayor of Weehawken, New Jersey * Richard Turner (Kentucky politician) (born 1935), member of the Kentucky House of Representatives * Richard Turner (MP for Reigate) for Reigate * Richard Turner (Canadian politician) (1843–1917), Canadian merchant and politician * Richard Turner (MP for Bletchingley), in 1393, MP for Bletchingley Sports * Dick Turner (1932–2008), Australian rugby league footballer, coach and administrator * Dick Turner (footballer) (1866–after 1891), Wrexham A.F.C. and Wales international footballer * Richard Turner (footballer) (1882–1960), British footballer * Richard Turner (Worcestershire cricketer) (1886–1967), English cricketer * Richard Turner (Cambridge University cricketer) (born 1932), English cricketer * Richard Turner (American footba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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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 ''*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", " Ricky", and more. Richard is a common English, 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 Catalan "Ricard" and the Italian "Riccardo", among others (see comprehensive variant list below). People named Richard Multiple people with the same name * Richard Andersen (other) * Richard Anderson (other) * Richard Cartwright (disambiguati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Turner (musician)
Richard Turner was a jazz trumpeter who died in 2011 aged 27 of a ruptured aortic aneurysm while swimming. He led the contemporary jazz quartet Round Trip and played with indie-pop band Friendly Fires. He was a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, Leeds College of Music Leeds () is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds district in West Yorkshire, England. It is built around the River Aire and is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines. It is also the third-largest settlement (by populatio ..., and Allerton Grange School. A documentary film about his life ''Richard Turner: A Life in Music'' was released in 2019. The Richard Turner Jazz Fund awards £1,000 to a jazz student towards a specific area of help with their studies. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Turner, Richard 1984 births 2011 deaths ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Ernest William Turner
Lieutenant General Sir Richard Ernest William Turner, (25 July 1871 – 19 June 1961) was a senior Canadian Army officer who served during the Second Boer War and the First World War, and was a recipient of the Victoria Cross. While Turner always displayed great personal courage while under fire, he lacked the acumen for brigade- and division-sized tactics, and the men under his command during the First World War suffered grievous losses in several battles before he was moved into administrative roles. Early life Turner was born in Quebec City, the son of Richard Turner, and worked at his father's grocery and lumber business, rising to partner before the First World War. He later took over the business, when he returned from the War. Turner joined the militia as a second lieutenant in 1892, his regiment of choice for commissioning being the Queen's Own Canadian Hussars. Boer War Turner was 29 years old and a major in the Militia cavalry regiment the 10th Queen's Own Canadian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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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 ''*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", " Ricky", and more. Richard is a common English, 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 Catalan "Ricard" and the Italian "Riccardo", among others (see comprehensive variant list below). People named Richard Multiple people with the same name * Richard Andersen (other) * Richard Anderson (other) * Richard Cartwright (disambiguati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Turner (geologist)
Dr Richard Turner MD FRSE OBE (1856 - April 1940) was a Scottish physician, archaeologist and geologist. Life He was born in Ratho, west of Edinburgh, in 1856, the son of John Turner, a farmer. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh graduating with an MB ChB in 1880. He practiced as a general practitioner in York. In the First World War he served the military hospitals in the York area. He received a military OBE in 1919. He was President of the Yorkshire branch of the British Medical Association. He retired to Peebles in 1921 and began to indulge his geological interests. He contributed many samples to the Royal Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh and reorganised and catalogued the entire geological collection. He undertook archaeological excavations at Romanno and Dunsyre in 1928. He was made a Burgess of Peebles in 1923. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1924. His proposers were John Horne, David Balsillie, Sir John Smith Flett and T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Turner (producer)
Richard Turner is a radio producer for the BBC. He is one of the co-creators of the BBC Radio 4 panel show ''The Museum of Curiosity'', along with John Lloyd, who also presents the series, and Dan Schreiber, who co-produces the series with Turner. He also worked as script editor for the BBC Radio 7 series '' The Penny Dreadfuls Present...''. References External linksRichard Turner'sTwitter Twitter is an online social media and social networking service owned and operated by American company Twitter, Inc., on which users post and interact with 280-character-long messages known as "tweets". Registered users can post, like, and ... page. Living people BBC people British radio producers Year of birth missing (living people) {{UK-radio-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Turner (computer Scientist)
Richard Turner (born 1954) is a distinguished service professor in the School of Systems and Enterprises of Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey.Stephens Web Campus bio Turner has a BA in mathematics from Huntingdon College, an MS in computer science from the University of Louisiana-Lafayette, and a DSc in engineering management from the George Washington University. Before joining Stevens, he was a Fellow of the Systems and Software Consortium Inc., a Research Professor at The George Washington University, a computer scientist at the Federal Aviation Administration, and technical manager and practitioner with various DC area businesses working with defense, intelligence, and commercial clients. He has also served as a visiting scientist at the Software Engineering Institute of Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One of its predecessors was established in 1900 by A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Turner (magician)
Richard Edward Turner (born June 16, 1954) is an American expert card mechanic who is known for his card trick performances. He was the subject of the documentary ''Dealt''. Early life Turner was born in San Diego in 1954, which he dubbed "the year of the full deck" (referring to a standard 52-card deck of playing cards, plus the two jokers). At the age of seven, he became infatuated with the television show '' Maverick''. His eyesight began failing at the age of nine following his recovery from a bout with scarlet fever. The macula of each of Turner's eyes was completely destroyed, preventing forward vision. By the age of thirteen, his vision deteriorated to 20/400; over the years, what little vision Turner possessed gradually deteriorated to the point where he presently can no longer distinguish between a fully lit room and total darkness. Turner attended a special school for the visually impaired in Santee, California, where he refused to learn Braille. His younger br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Progressive Art Movement (Australia)
Ann Foster Newmarch (9 June 1945 – 13 January 2022) , known as "Annie", was a South Australian painter, printmaker, sculptor and academic, with an international reputation, known for her community service to art, social activism and feminism. She co-founded the Progressive Art and the Women's Art Movement (WAM) in Adelaide, and is especially known for her iconic 1978 colour screenprint piece titled ''Women Hold Up Half the Sky!''. Early life and education Ann Foster Newmarch was born on 9 June 1945 in Adelaide, South Australia. She graduated with a teaching diploma from the Western Teachers College in 1966 after three years' attendance there, after which she studied philosophy and psychology at Flinders University in Adelaide for a year. She spent 1968 teaching art, at Croydon and Mitcham Girls High Schools, and became a lecturer at the South Australian School of Art in 1969, continuing there until 2000. In 1973 to 1974 Newmarch continued to study philosophy, and also too ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Turner (Australian Artist)
Richard Turner may refer to: Politicians * Richard C. Turner (1927–1986), American politician, who served Senator and Attorney General of Iowa * Richard Turner (New Jersey politician), American politician, and Mayor of Weehawken, New Jersey * Richard Turner (Kentucky politician) (born 1935), member of the Kentucky House of Representatives * Richard Turner (MP for Reigate) for Reigate (UK Parliament constituency), Reigate * Richard Turner (Canadian politician) (1843–1917), Canadian merchant and politician * Richard Turner (MP for Bletchingley), in 1393, MP for Bletchingley (UK Parliament constituency), Bletchingley Sports * Dick Turner (1932–2008), Australian rugby league footballer, coach and administrator *Dick Turner (footballer) (1866–after 1891), Wrexham A.F.C. and Wales international footballer * Richard Turner (footballer) (1882–1960), British footballer * Richard Turner (Worcestershire cricketer) (1886–1967), English cricketer * Richard Turner (Cambridge Universit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Turner (artist)
Richard Turner (29 December 1940 – 11 January 2013), also known as Turneramon, was a British artist and poet. Life and work Richard Turner was born in Derby, England and was educated at Bemrose Grammar School, before moving to study at the School of Navigation in Warsash, Southampton. In 1958, he went on to join the Merchant Navy, as a Navigation Cadet Officer, sailing with Ellerman Lines. In 1960, he decided on a career change, and enrolled at the Derby College of Art. Turner won the J. Andrew Lloyd scholarship for Landscape, enabling him to study at the Royal College of Art in London, from 1963. There, he was tutored by Carol Weight and Sir Peter Blake. He graduated in 1966 with an Associate of the Royal College of Art Degree, as well as prizes in Life Drawing, Life Painting, and Landscape Painting. For the next two years, Turner was a lecturer at the Guildford School of Art; working on environmental installation projects with Australian artist Tony Underhill. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Turner (iron-founder)
Richard Turner (1798–1881) was an Irish iron founder and manufacturer of glasshouses, born in Dublin. He is rated as one of the most important glasshouse designers of his time. His works included the Palm House at Kew Gardens (with Decimus Burton), the glasshouse in the Winter Gardens at Regent's Park in London, the Palm House at Belfast Botanic Gardens and the Curvilinear Range at the Irish National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Ireland. Life Turner was born in Dublin around 1798, the son of a merchant Timothy Turner and Catherine (née Sissons). Both his grandfather and great-grandfather were also ironsmiths, the elder of which worked on the provost's house at Trinity College, Dublin. Turner inherited the ironworks from his uncle, also named Richard Turner. Turner became a property speculator, building houses on Pembroke Road, Leeson Street and Rathmines Road in Dublin. All of the houses were known for their geometric fanlights. He married Jane Goodshaw in 1816, and the cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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