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Royce (surname)
Royce is a surname, and may refer to: B * Bill Royce (born 1971), American college football player E * Ed Royce (politician) (born 1951), American politician * Eden Royce, American gothic horror writer * E. W. Royce (1841–1926), British actor, singer and dancer * Edward Royce (director) (1870–1964), English director and choreographer * Edward Royce (director) (1870–1964), British director and choreographer of musical theatre * Elwyn E. Royce (1868–1960), American politician G * George E. Royce (1829–1903), American businessman H * Henry Royce (1863–1933), Baronet Royce of Seaton, cofounder of the Rolls-Royce automobile company * Homer Elihu Royce (1820–1891), American lawyer, politician and jurist J * James Royce (composer) * James Royce (Designated Survivor), fictional character * John Royce (born 1944), British judge * Josiah Royce (1855–1916), American historian and idealist philosopher * Julian Royce (1866–1946), British stage and film actor K * Kenneth R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Royce
Bill Royce (born July 14, 1971) is an American former college football player. He is currently a sales executive for Astec Industries Materials Solutions Group. While at Northmor High School, Royce had top eight finishes during the 1989 Ohio High School Athletic Association championship. At Ashland College, Royce was fourth at the shot put held during the 1992 NCAA Division II men's indoor track and field championships. With the Ashland Eagles football team, he was a Player of the Year for the Midwest Intercollegiate Football Conference and nominated for the Harlon Hill Trophy twice. Royce's 71 sacks became a career record the school and the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Outside of football, Royce began his recycling career with Eagle Crusher during 2002. He held executive positions with the company before joining KPI-JCI and Astec Mobile Screens in 2011. Royce continued to work in sales there throughout the 2010s before joining Astec. Royce joined the College Footba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Royce
Marie Royce, (born Marie Thérèse Porter), is an American businesswoman, diplomat, and educator. She was the Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs from 2018 to 2021. She was nominated by President Donald Trump and was unanimously confirmed by the US Senate. Royce was succeeded by Lee Satterfield on November 23, 2021. Education Royce graduated from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, with a bachelor of science degree in marketing management and management human resources. She earned an MBA in international business from Georgetown University in 1996. Royce is a lifetime member of the international honor societBeta Gamma Sigma (BGS) which honors academic achievement. Career Royce was a faculty member at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. While working in the private sector for over 30 years, Royce held senior management positions at Marriott International, Choice Hotels International, Procter & Gamble, and Alcatel-Lucent. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William James Royce
William James Royce is an American playwright/director, screenwriter, and novelist. Career Television William Royce began his television career writing for the NBC television series '' In the Heat of the Night'', starring Emmy Award winning actor Carroll O'Connor as Chief William O. Gillespie and Academy Award nominee Howard Rollins as Detective Virgil Tibbs. Royce wrote 22 episodes while serving as Executive Story Editor, a position he inherited from writer Matt Harris (Carroll O'Connor). In 1991, Royce wrote the screenplay, as well as the music and lyrics, for the award winning episode entitled, '' Sweet, Sweet Blues'', inspired by the real life saga of Medgar Evers. That season '' In the Heat of the Night'' won its first NAACP Image Award for ''Outstanding Dramatic Series''. In 1994, after the seventh season, Royce left the show to write for Dick Van Dyke on the mystery series '' Diagnosis: Murder'', and later for the Emmy Award winning mystery series '' Murder, She Wro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Royce (politician)
William Stapleton Royce (13 December 1858 – 23 June 1924) was an England, English Labour Party (UK), Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament for the Holland with Boston (UK Parliament constituency), Holland with Boston constituency from 1918 until 1924. He was born in Spalding, Lincolnshire, and was educated at the Willesby School and at Pretty's Commercial School, Spalding. On leaving school he was apprenticed to a joiner, but served only two years of his apprenticeship before running away to London, where he worked on the construction of the General Post Office, London, General Post Office building in St Martin's-le-Grand. Three months later, he learned that the Government of Cape Town was offering free passage to South Africa for men to build the railways in that country. He accepted a three-year contract, at the end of which he had saved enough money to set up in business on his own account. During the next thirty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suzanne Royce
Suzanne Royce (born November 19, 1946) is the former Chief Scrutineer in the United States for Formula One, FIA Formula 1, Grand Prix motorcycle racing#MotoGP class, FIM MotoGP, Formula E, the FIA World Endurance Championship, and other international motorsports events. She was the first woman to be granted an FIA International Chief Scrutineer License in the world, when she received it in 1986. While no definitive list exists, it is believed that (through 2020) she was the only woman to have held this role for Formula One. On November 28, 2020, Royce was honored by the FIA as the Best Chief Scrutineer of the year during its annual Volunteers Weekend recognition. Royce was recognized by COTA and the FIA on October 24, 2021, at the US Grand Prix as she retired from active involvement with international motorsport. Royce died on March 5, 2022, due to complications from COVID-19. She was fully vaccinated, but contracted the virus while in the hospital for routine surgery. Moto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Royce
Stephen Royce (August 12, 1787November 11, 1868) was an American lawyer, judge and politician. Originally a Democratic-Republican, and later a Whig, he became a Republican when the party was formed in the mid-1850s. Royce served as an associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court from 1829 to 1846, chief justice from 1846 to 1852, and 23rd governor of Vermont from 1854 to 1856. Born and raised in Tinmouth, Vermont, Royce attended the local schools and the Addison County Grammar School. He taught school while attending Middlebury College, from which he graduated in 1807. He then studied law, attained admission to the bar 1809, and practiced in East Berkshire, Sheldon, and St. Albans. He represented Sheldon in the Vermont House of Representatives from 1815 to 1817 and served as State's Attorney of Franklin County from 1816 to 1817. Royce represented St. Albans in the Vermont House from 1822 to 1825, when he was selected to serve as an associate justice of the Vermont Sup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Royce
Simon Ernest Royce (born 9 September 1971) is an English football coach and former professional footballer who is goalkeeping coach at Leyton Orient. As a player he was a goalkeeper who played in the Premier League for Charlton Athletic and Leicester City, although he spent the rest of his career in the Football League with notable spells at Southend United, Queens Park Rangers and Gillingham. He also played for Brighton & Hove Albion, Manchester City and Luton Town. Since taking up coaching he has been registered as a back-up player for both Brentford and back with Gillingham. Playing career Royce began his career with non-League Heybridge Swifts and after claiming the number one jersey off long standing Albie Bridge while still a teenager soon attracted the interest of many Football League sides. He joined Southend United for a £35,000 fee in October 1991 and became the first Heybridge player to be sold to a professional club. He spent a few seasons as understudy to Paul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Royce
Sarah Eleanor Bayliss Royce (March 2, 1819 – November 23, 1891) was an American writer, teacher and pioneer. She and her family set out for California in 1848 as part of the gold rush. Her autobiographical account of the journey was published as ''A Frontier Lady: Recollections of the Gold Rush and Early California''. Her son was the philosopher Josiah Royce. Biography Sarah Eleanor Bayliss was born on March 2, 1819, in Stratford-upon-Avon, England to Mary T. and Benjamin Bayliss. Her family moved to America when she was six weeks old, settling in Rochester, New York. She attended the Phipps Union Female Seminary in Albion. Sarah married fellow English immigrant Josiah Royce in 1847. They had a daughter, Mary, and set out towards California in 1848. They reached Iowa in April 1849 and were among many others travelling west as part of the California Gold Rush. They started their journey as part of a wagon train, but lagged behind as they stopped on Sundays to observe the Sabbath. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Royce
Ruth Royce (February 6, 1893 – May 7, 1971) was an American vaudeville performer and silent film actress from Versailles, Missouri. Career Royce appeared in the serial, '' The Vanishing Dagger'' (1920), which starred Eddie Polo and C. Norman Hammond. In 1923, Royce, along with other Hollywood actors, participated in a vaudeville show at Universal City. Royce assisted Joe Bonomo with a Strong Man act. She performed in a number of western movies over the years like ''California in '49'' (1924), ''Warrior Gap'' (1925), ''Fort Frayne'' (1926), '' The Oregon Trail'' (1923), '' In the Days of Buffalo Bill'' (1922), '' Perils of the Yukon'' (1922), ''Rawhide'' (1926), ''Wolves of the Desert'' (1926), and ''Code of the Cow Country'' (1927). The latter was Royce's final film. Ruth Royce died in Los Angeles, California on May 7, 1971. Selected filmography * '' The Girl in Number 29'' ( 1920) * '' The Vanishing Dagger'' (1920) * '' Blue Streak McCoy'' (1920) * '' 'If Only' Jim'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Royce (arbitrator)
Robert Dunlop Royce (14 March 1914 – 10 July 2008) was an Australian botanist. He was curator of the Western Australian Herbarium from 1960 to 1974. Born in Perth, Western Australia, he began his botanical career with the Western Australian Department of Agriculture in 1937. He transferred to the Western Australian Herbarium in 1944, and was appointed curator in 1960. One of his main research interests was the application of botany to agriculture, and to this end he undertook substantial research into toxic plants. He published numerous papers on a range of subjects, but does not appear to have described any new taxa. He also oversaw the planning and construction of the current herbarium building. He retired in 1974. The genus ''Roycea ''Roycea'' is a genus of plants formerly in the family Chenopodiaceae, and now in the Amaranthaceae. The genus was first described in 1948 by Charles Austin Gardner, and the genus name honours Robert Dunlop Royce (a helper at the Perth H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Royce
Ralph Royce (28 June 1890 – 7 August 1965) was a United States Army Air Forces general during World War II. A West Point graduate who learned to fly in 1915–16, he served with the 1st Aero Squadron in the Pancho Villa Expedition and later led it on the Western Front. During World War II as a brigadier general, he led the Royce special mission to Mindanao, in which a small force of bombers flew from Australia to attack Japanese targets in the Philippines. Later he was Deputy Commander of the Ninth Air Force and commanded the 1st Provisional Tactical Air Force. Early life Ralph Royce was born in Marquette, Michigan on 28 June 1890 and attended school at Hancock, Michigan. He entered the United States Military Academy at West Point on 1 March 1910. During his senior year, he served as captain of the ice hockey team. He graduated 12 June 1914, ranked 89th in merit in a class of 107 cadets, and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the 26th Infantry. Among h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
