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Amory (name)
Amory is both an English given name – derived from the Old German name Amalric via the French form Amaury – and a surname derived from it. Given name * Slats Gill, real name Amory Gill (1901–1966), American sports coach * Amory Hansen (1887–1961), Danish tennis player * Amory Nelson Hardy (1835–1911), American photographer * Amory Holbrook (1820–1856), American lawyer and politician * Amory Houghton (1899–1981), American diplomat * Amo Houghton (1926–2020), American diplomat; son of Amory Houghton * Amory Lovins (born 1947), American physicist * Amory Kane, otherwise Jack Kane (born 1946), American musician * Amory Dwight Mayo (1823–1907), American Unitarian clergyman Surname * Alan Amory, South African academic * Anthony Amory (born 1963), Bermudan cricketer * Cleveland Amory (1917–1998), American author * Estelle Mendell Amory (1845–?), American author, educator * Katharine Greene Amory (1731–1777), Boston diarist * Patrick Amory (born 1965), Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cleveland Amory
Cleveland Amory (September 2, 1917 – October 14, 1998) was an American author, reporter, television critic, commentator and animal rights activist. He originally was known for writing a series of popular books poking fun at the pretensions and customs of society, starting with ''The Proper Bostonians'' in 1947. From the 1950s through the 1990s, he had a long career as a reporter and writer for national magazines and as a television and radio commentator. In the late 1980s and 1990s, he was best known for his bestselling books about his adopted cat, Polar Bear, starting with ''The Cat Who Came for Christmas'' (1987). Amory devoted much of his life to promoting animal rights, particularly protection of animals from hunting and vivisection; the executive director of the Humane Society of the United States described Amory as "the founding father of the modern animal protection movement." Early life Amory was born September 2, 1917, into a privileged and established Boston Brahmin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viscount Amory
A viscount ( , for male) or viscountess (, for female) is a title used in certain European countries for a noble of varying status. In many countries a viscount, and its historical equivalents, was a non-hereditary, administrative or judicial position, and did not develop into a hereditary title until much later. In the case of French viscounts, it is customary to leave the title untranslated as vicomte . Etymology The word ''viscount'' comes from Old French (Modern French: ), itself from Medieval Latin , accusative of , from Late Latin "deputy" + Latin (originally "companion"; later Roman imperial courtier or trusted appointee, ultimately count). History During the Carolingian Empire, the kings appointed counts to administer provinces and other smaller regions, as governors and military commanders. Viscounts were appointed to assist the counts in their running of the province, and often took on judicial responsibility. The kings strictly prevented the offices of their coun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heathcoat-Amory
Heathcoat-Amory is a double-barrelled English surname. Notable people with this surname include the following: *David Heathcoat-Amory (born 1949), English politician *Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory (1899–1981), English politician *Sir John Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Baronet (1824–1914), English politician *Sir John Heathcoat-Amory, 3rd Baronet (1894–1972), English cricketer *Joyce Wethered, Lady Heathcoat-Amory (1901–1997), English golf champion *Ludovic Heathcoat-Amory, English first-class cricketer See also *Amory (name) *Heathcoat-Amory baronets The Heathcoat-Amory Baronetcy, of Knightshayes Court in Tiverton in the County of Devon, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created for John Heathcoat-Amory on 21 March 1874. The businessman and Liberal politician was ... * {{surname Compound surnames English-language surnames Surnames of English origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Song Of Ice And Fire
''A Song of Ice and Fire'' is a series of epic fantasy novels by the American novelist and screenwriter George R. R. Martin. He began the first volume of the series, ''A Game of Thrones'', in 1991, and it was published in 1996. Martin, who initially envisioned the series as a trilogy, has published five out of a planned seven volumes. The fifth and most recent volume of the series, ''A Dance with Dragons'', was published in 2011, six years after the publication of the preceding book, ''A Feast for Crows''. He is currently writing the sixth novel, ''The Winds of Winter''. A seventh novel, ''A Dream of Spring'', is planned. ''A Song of Ice and Fire'' takes place on the fictional continents Westeros and Essos. The point of view of each chapter in the story is a limited perspective of a range of characters growing from nine in the first novel, to 31 characters by the fifth novel. Three main stories interweave: a dynastic war among several families for control of Westeros, the risin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amory Lorch
George R. R. Martin's ''A Song of Ice and Fire'' saga features a large cast of characters. The series follows three interwoven plotlines: a dynastic war for control of Westeros by several families; the rising threat of the superhuman Others beyond the northern border of Westeros; and the ambition of Daenerys Targaryen, the exiled heir of the previous ruling dynasty. The Great Houses of Westeros represent the Seven Kingdoms which exist on the continent: the North, the Iron Islands, the Vale of Arryn, the Westerlands, the Stormlands, the Reach, and Dorne. A massive wall of ice and old magic separates the Seven Kingdoms from the largely unmapped area in the most northern portion of the continent. Each chapter is narrated in the third-person limited point of view through the eyes of a single character. Beginning with nine POV characters in ''A Game of Thrones'' (1996), a total of thirty-one such characters have narrated over the course of the first five volumes of the series. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amory Blaine
''This Side of Paradise'' is the debut novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1920. It examines the lives and morality of carefree American youth at the dawn of the Jazz Age. Its protagonist, Amory Blaine, is an attractive middle-class student at Princeton University who dabbles in literature and engages in a series of romances with flappers. The novel explores the theme of love warped by greed and status-seeking, and takes its title from a line of Rupert Brooke's poem ''Tiare Tahiti''. Within months of its publication, ''This Side of Paradise'' became a cultural sensation in the United States, and reviewers hailed the work as an amazing debut novel. The book went through twelve printings and sold 49,075 copies. It became especially popular among American college students, and the American national press depicted its 23-year-old author as the standard-bearer for "youth in revolt". Overnight, F. Scott Fitzgerald became a household name. His newfound fame en ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vance Amory
Vance Winkworth Amory (22 May 1949 – 2 April 2022) was a Saint Kitts and Nevis politician and cricketer. He served two stints as Premier of Nevis, from 1992 to 2006 and from 2013 to 2017, and served as the Minister of Sports in the Nevis Island Administration. He founded and led the Concerned Citizens' Movement. The airport in Nevis, Vance W. Amory International Airport, bears his name. Early life and career Amory was born on 22 May 1949 in Rawlins Village. He received his elementary, primary and secondary school education in Nevis. He has been an active member of a local church in Nevis since childhood. Amory was known for his fondness for cricket. An opening batsman, he played first-class cricket for the Combined Islands and the Leeward Islands from 1969 to 1981. His highest score was 88, for Leeward Islands against Windward Islands in 1977-78, when he helped to ensure a draw after Leeward Islands trailed by 167 runs on the first innings. In his last match he captained ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Amory (other) (1828–1864), American Civil War officer
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Thomas Amory may refer to: * Thomas Amory (author) (1691–1788), Irish writer * Thomas Amory (tutor) (1701–1774), English dissenting tutor, minister, and poet * Thomas Coffin Amory (1812–1889), American lawyer and biographer * Thomas J.C. Amory Thomas Jonathan Coffin Amory (November 27, 1828 – October 7, 1864) was an officer in the Regular Army of the United States prior to and during the Civil War. Early service and Utah War After graduating from West Point in 1851, as 30th out of 4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Amory
Samuel Amory (1784–1857) was an English lawyer and one of the founding partners of the law firm now known as Travers Smith. London-born Amory married Ann Heathcoat, the daughter of the well-known and highly successful industrialist John Heathcoat (born 1783), known for inventing lace-making machinery in Nottingham. Amory qualified as a lawyer in London in 1810, and went into partnership with John Coles, which lasted until 1839 when John became ill, and he was paid out his capital in installments. A short partnership with Isaac Sewell and Samuel Moores lasted only for eleven years. Samuel and Ann had two children, John (1829-1914) and Ann (1827–69). John, who took the surname Heathcoat-Amory, became a very eminent landowner in Somerset and the owner of a rather splendid estate in Devon known as Knighthayes. He was made a baronet in 1876. Ann married John Travers, a member of the most famous produce family in the City of London The City of London is a city, ceremonia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Amory
Peter Amory (born Peter Walton on 2 November 1964) is an English actor best known for playing the role of Chris Tate in ITV's soap opera ''Emmerdale''. He was born in Norwich, Norfolk. Personal life He was married to actress Claire King, who played his stepmother Kim Tate, but the couple separated after ten years, they are however still good friends. He has a son, Thomas, from a previous relationship. He was good friends with his former on-screen sister Leah Bracknell (Zoe Tate Zoe Tate is a fictional character from the British soap opera ''Emmerdale'', played by Leah Bracknell. She made her first screen appearance during the episode broadcast on 12 December 1989. Zoe was involved in many major storylines during her t ...). Filmography Film Television References External links * 1964 births English male television actors Living people Actors from Norwich Actors from Norfolk People associated with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art Alumni of the Royal Acade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Amory
Patrick Amory (born 1965) is a historian and an executive in the recorded music industry. Early life Patrick Amory was born in New York City on July 10, 1965, to literary parents. His father, the late Hugh Amory, was noted as the most "rigorous" and "methodologically sophisticated" historian of the book in early America. He attended the Commonwealth School in Boston, Massachusetts. Academia Patrick Amory graduated from Commonwealth School in Boston, gained a bachelor's degree in history from Harvard University where he founded the Record Hospital program on radio station WHRB. Amory subsequently earned an M. Phil. and Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge in late antique and early medieval history and published ''People and Identity in Ostrogothic Italy, 489-554'' (Cambridge University Press). Amory's book was considered an "illustration of the recent interest of historians in ethnogenesis" and described as "brilliant and remorseless" by Peter Brown. The book attempted to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
