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Alice King (public Servant) (born 1934), Taiwanese-born Japanese activist
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Alice King may refer to: * Alice King (novelist) (1839-1894), British novelist * Alice Gertrude King Kleberg (1862–1944), daughter of Richard King (entrepreneur) and wife of Robert Justus Kleberg, Jr. *Alice King, later Alice Ginnell (1882-1967), Irish republican activist *Alice Ross-King (1887–1968), Australian civilian and military nurse *Alice King Chatham (1908–1989), American sculptor * Alice Gore King (1914–2007), American women's rights activist, educator, writer, and artist *Birei Kin is a Taiwan-born Japanese critic and political activist. She is also known by the name Alice King. Kin is the president of the Shibanaga International School-JET Japanese Language School, and served as national policy adviser to President of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice King (novelist)
Alice King (28 March 1839 – 26 April 1894) was a British writer, teacher, and public speaker. Blind since the age of seven, she published over a dozen novels. Life King was born on 28 March 1839 in Cutcombe, Somerset, the youngest child of the Rev. John Myers King, Vicar of Cutcombe and a translator of Virgil. Born with poor and deteriorating eyesight, she went completely blind at age seven. Though she never learned Braille, she learned seven additional languages – French, German, Italian, Spanish, Hebrew, Greek, and Latin – by ear. She wrote with a typewriter (then a fairly new invention) with tactile keys. She said that she published her first work when she was twelve helped by her father. Her early writing was done with the help of a local school child who would transcribe her words. She noted that they had a poor understanding of grammar and composition so she found it necessary to compose half a page or so in her head so that she could instruct her amenuensi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Gertrude King Kleberg
Robert Justus Kleberg (September 10, 1803October 30, 1888), christened Johan Christian Justus Robert Kleberg, was a German Texan from Herstelle, Westphalia, then part of the Kingdom of Prussia. He was a veteran of the Battle of San Jacinto and the brother of Louis Kleberg. He arrived in Texas in 1836 with his wife Philippine Sophie Rosalie "Rosa" von Roeder, who was a child of the at one-time aristocratic von Roeder family, which was allied with the wealthy and aristocratic Sack family of Nordrhein Westphalia. Robert and Rosa had eleven children, seven of whom lived to adulthood; Clara, Johanna, Caroline, Rudolph, Marcellus, and Robert, Jr. He is the namesake of Kleberg County, Texas. His sons also achieved success. Rudolph Kleberg (1847-1924) became a United States congressman, Marcellus Kleberg (1849-1913) studied law and served as city attorney for Galveston, Texas, and the youngest Kleberg son, Robert Justus Kleberg, Jr. (1853-1932) managed the King Ranch and late ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Ginnell
Alice Ginnell (born Mary Alice King; 24 September 1882 – 2 August 1967) was a Republican activist and member of both Cumann na mBan and Sinn Féin. She was the first woman Election Agent in Ireland or Great Britain. Biography Ginnell was born Mary Alice King to James and Georgina King in Kilbride House, Gaybrook near Mullingar, County Westmeath in 1882. She got her education from the Loreto Convent boarding school in Navan, County Meath. Ginnell was the second wife of Laurence Ginnell and married him on 30 January 1902 in Rochfortbridge, County Westmeath. She was active in politics and friends with Constance Markievicz and Maud Gonne. In 1903 the couple lived in France for a time, on the run due to Laurence Ginnell's political activities. Her husband was the Irish Parliamentary Party MP for Westmeath North which brought the couple to London where Ginnell became a member of the local branch of Cumann na mBan. She was also a member of Sinn Féin. Her husband was the Iri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Ross-King
Alys Ross King (5 August 1887 – 17 August 1968), known as Alice Ross-King (later Alice Appleford), was an Australian civilian and military nurse who took part in both World Wars. She has been described as Australia's most decorated woman. During the First World War she served in hospitals in Egypt and France and was one of only seven Australian nurses decorated with the Military Medal for gallantry. In the Second World War she held a senior post within the Australian Army Medical Women's Service. In 1949 she was awarded the Florence Nightingale Medal, the highest award made by the International Committee of the Red Cross. Early life Ross-King was born in Ballarat, Victoria. Her parents, Archibald Ross King and Henrietta King (née Ward), named her Alys Ross King. Finnie (1988) The family moved to Perth but her father and two brothers drowned in an accident and Henrietta King moved, with Alys, to Melbourne. Nursing training was undertaken at The Alfred Hospital in Melb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice King Chatham
Alice King Chatham (March 28, 1908 – July 8, 1989) was an American sculptor who worked for the United States Air Force, NASA, and their contractors to design helmets, oxygen masks and other personal protective equipment. Equipment she designed was used both on humans and on a variety of animal test subjects. Career Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Alice King was a graduate of the Dayton Art Institute. In 1942, she was contacted by officials at the Wright Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB) near Dayton, Ohio to help design breathing masks for pilots. They sought her out because they wanted someone with a sculpture background to be involved with the design. She began work at the Aero Medical Laboratory at WPAFB, where she helped design and build the first successful pressurized breath masks for pilots operating planes above . The pressurized mask was important to keep pilots from passing out at high altitude. Her work improved upon an earlier design by Dr. James P. Henry of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Gore King
Alice Gore King (July 17, 1914 – May 26, 2007) was a women’s rights entrepreneur, educator, writer, artist, and a native New Yorker. King grew up and spent much of her life working in New York City where she became the chairman of the Remedial Reading Department and later assistant head of the prestigious Brearley School, an all girls private school on the Upper East Side. King went on to start and become the Executor Director of the Alumnae Advisory Center, a career counseling and placement organization for women. Early life King was born in New York City on July 17, 1914, to librarian Marion Morrison King (a relative of Elizabeth Cady Stanton) and banker Frederick Gore King (great grandson of Rufus King). After graduating from the Brearley School, King attended Bryn Mawr College and received a bachelor's degree followed by an M.A. in psychology. Career King began her career in 1942 as Warden and Vocational Adviser at Bryn Mawr College. In 1943, she took a job as Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |