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Anne Smith (other)
Anne or Ann Smith may refer to: People In arts and media * Anne Smith (silversmith) ( 1770s), English silversmith *Ann Eliza Smith (1819–1905), American author and patriot * Anne Mollegen Smith, American magazine editor and writer *Anne Smith ( 1955), actress in ''The Time of His Life'' In sport * Anne Smith (runner) (1941–1993), middle-distance runner * Anne Smith (footballer) (born 1951), New Zealand footballer * Anne Smith (tennis) (born 1959), American tennis player In other fields * Ann Smith (activist) ( 1682–1686), funded Argyll's Rising and Monmouth Rebellion *Lady Anne Smith (1775–1844), sister of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington *Dame Anne Beadsmore Smith (1869–1960), British Army nurse * Anne Ripley Smith (1881–1949), co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous * Anne Briar Smith (1940–2016), New Zealand children's rights researcher * Ann Alexander Smith (born 1947), Louisiana educator * Anne Smith, Lady Smith (born 1955), Scottish Supreme Court judge Fict ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Smith (silversmith)
Anne Smith was an English silversmith working in partnership with Nathaniel Appleton. Unusually, Smith does not appear to have been the widow of a silversmith when she registered her mark on 26 July 1771; her marital status at the time is given instead as "unknown". She lived in Aldersgate Street and was classified as a smallworker. Her partnership with Appleton appears in the Parliamentary Report list of 1773. The couple specialized in the making of saltcellars and small cream jugs. A George III cream jug of 1773 and a set of four George III saltcellars of 1782 by the partners are owned by the National Museum of Women in the Arts, while a collection of saltcellars is owned by the National Gallery of Victoria The National Gallery of Victoria, popularly known as the NGV, is an art museum in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1861, it is Australia's oldest and most visited art museum. The NGV houses an encyclopedic art collection across two .... Numerous other piece ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Beadsmore Smith
Dame Anne Beadsmore Smith (1869 – 12 July 1960), also known as Ann or Annie, was a British nurse and British Army officer. She was a military nurse during the Second Boer War and the First World War. She then served as Matron-in-Chief of the Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service from 1917 to 1924 and Matron-in-Chief of the Territorial Army Nursing Service from 1925 to 1931. Honours In the 1918 New Year Honours, Smith was awarded a bar to her Royal Red Cross (RRC*) "in recognition of ervery valuable services during the war". She was also made a Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur by France for her war service, and she was granted permission to wear the award in 1920. In the 1925 King's Birthday Honours, she was made Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in recognition of her work as Matron-in-Chief of Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service, and thereby granted the title of ''dame ''Dame'' is an honorific title and the feminine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Smith Franklin
Ann Smith Franklin (October 2, 1696 – April 16, 1763) was an American colonial newspaper printer and publisher. She inherited the business from her husband, James Franklin, brother of Benjamin Franklin. She published the ''Mintunt'', printed an almanac series. She was the country’s first female newspaper editor, the first woman to write an almanac, and the first woman inducted into the University of Rhode Island's Journalism Hall of Fame. Personal life Ann Smith Franklin was married to James Franklin, a printer and the brother of Founding Father Benjamin Franklin. They had five children including daughters Mary and Elizabeth, and son James Jr. (c.1730-1762). James Jr. attended Philadelphia Academy with his cousin William, Benjamin's son, before James Jr. was apprenticed in the printing trade to his uncle Benjamin. After a long illness, James died in Newport in 1735, leaving Ann a widow, aged 39, with three young children to support, one child having died earlier. Career In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Easter Smith
Anne Easter Smith is an English-American historical novelist known for her series of novels set in England in the 15th C. Biography Easter Smith grew up in England, Germany and Egypt. Her brother John Easter was England's No. 1 squash player in the 1970s, and she is the aunt of England's retired rugby No. 8, Nick Easter. She has worked as an executive secretary in London, Paris, New York, and Sacramento; as a newspaper reporter/editor at the Press-Republican in Plattsburgh, N.Y.; and variously as a folk singer and theater director. Her lifelong fascination with King Richard III led her to write six books set during the Wars of the Roses, featuring Richard and various members of his York family. Easter Smith's best-selling first novel, ''A Rose for the Crown'', has as its central theme the love story between Richard, while he was Duke of Gloucester and during the reign of his brother Edward IV, and the woman who gave birth to Richard's pre-marriage illegitimate children. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Smith, Lady Smith
Anne Smith, Lady Smith, (born 16 March 1955) is a Scottish lawyer, and a judge of the Supreme Courts of Scotland. Early life Smith was educated at Jordanhill School and Cheadle County Grammar School for Girls, before attending the School of Law of the University of Edinburgh, where she graduated with an LL.B. (Hons.). She served a two-year apprenticeship with Shepherd and Wedderburn WS, and was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1980. Legal career Smith worked as Standing Junior Counsel to the Countryside Commission, before becoming a Queen's Counsel in 1993. She served as a Temporary Sheriff from 1995 to 1999, as Chairman of the Scottish Partnership on Domestic Abuse from 1998 to 2000, and as an Advocate Depute from 2000 to 2001. In April 2001 she was blamed by Donald Findlay QC for falling dress standards in the courts. In 1997, she had been the first woman to appear before the Court of Session in trousers; Findlay said that "The drop in standards began when f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Alexander Smith
Tangipahoa Parish School Board is a school district headquartered in Amite City, Louisiana, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, United States. The district serves Tangipahoa Parish. Robert L. Frye (1927-2011), the Republican nominee for state education superintendent in 1972, was a former member of the Tangipahoa Parish School Board. The Board has a long history of racial discrimination in the hiring of teachers. In 1975, it was ordered to ensure one-third of the teaching staff were Black. Both the Board and the Court ignored the mandate for more than thirty years. During the period from 1998 to 2008, the Board hired fewer Black teachers than any other school system in the state. In 2010, a second ruling strengthened the first. In 1994, the Board adopted a requirement that a disclaimer be read aloud before any instruction on the theory of evolution. Local parents sued. In 2000, the Supreme Court declined to revise a lower court ruling striking down the policy. School uniforms All s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Briar Smith
Anne Briar Smith (née Riddall, 13 August 1940 – 22 May 2016) was a New Zealand professor at the University of Otago, and was a pioneering children's rights researcher. Early life and education Smith was born on 13 August 1940 in Porthcawl, Wales, to Dora and Geoff Riddall. Her father worked for the Iraq Petroleum Company, and when that necessitated the family move to Syria, Smith boarded at the Welsh Girls' School in England, aged nine. The family moved to New Zealand in 1954, and Smith attended Te Aroha College, where she was dux in both 1956 and 1957. Academic career Smith completed a BHSc in Home Science at the University of Otago in 1963, and then completed a BA in Education at both Otago and Auckland Universities in 1965. She then undertook an MEd at the University of Alberta in 1969, and then completed a PhD titled ''Verbalization and selective attention in discrimination shift problems'' there in 1971. She was supported during her PhD by a Commonwealth Schola ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Ripley Smith
Anne Ripley Smith (March 3, 1881 – June 1, 1949) was a Co-founder of AA, along with her husband, Dr. Bob Smith, and Bill Wilson. Anne Smith's influence in AA became widely known through her publication, ''Anne Smith's Journal, 1933-1939''. She compiled and shared with early AAs and their families the materials comprising early AA's spiritual program—the Bible, Quiet Time, the teachings of Sam Shoemaker, the principles of the Oxford Group, and Christian literature of the day. Anne became one of the first members of Al-Anon when another founder, Bill W.' wife Lois Wilson visited her in Akron, Ohio Akron () is the fifth-largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Summit County, Ohio, Summit County. It is located on the western edge of the Glaciated Allegheny Plateau, about south of downtown Cleveland. As of the 2020 C ... during his stay at their house. Al-Anon officially began in 1951, after Anne’s death. External links * Anne Smith - Anne Smith' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lady Anne Smith
Lady Anne Culling Smith (''née'' Wellesley, previously FitzRoy; 13 March 1768 - 16 December 1844) was the sister of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. She was born Lady Anne Wesley, the only daughter of Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington, and Anne Hill, daughter of Arthur Hill-Trevor, 1st Viscount Dungannon. On 7 January 1790 she married Henry FitzRoy, son of the first Baron Southampton and Anne Warren, the daughter and co-heir of Peter Warren (Royal Navy officer) and a descendant of the Schuyler family, the Van Cortlandt family, and the Delancey family, all from British North America. They had two daughters: * Anne Caroline Fitzroy, died 16 December 1835 * Georgiana Frederica Fitzroy (3 October 1792 – 11 May 1821), married 25 July 1814 Henry Somerset, Marquess of Worcester, with two daughters. FitzRoy died on 19 March 1794 in Lisbon due to consumption. Anne's brother Henry came down to Lisbon to bring her back to England. However, on their way back, their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Eliza Smith
Ann Eliza Smith ( pen name, Mrs. J. Gregory Smith; October 7, 1819 – January 6, 1905) was an American author. She was president of the board of managers for the Vermont woman's exhibit at the Centennial Exposition of 1876, at Philadelphia, and was frequently chosen in similar capacities as a representative of Vermont women. During the Civil War, she coordinated a response to the Confederate raid on St. Albans on October 19, 1864. In 1870, Governor Peter T. Washburn, who had served as adjutant general of the Vermont Militia during the war, recognized her efforts and presented her with an honorary commission as a lieutenant colonel on his military staff. Early life and education Ann Eliza Brainerd was born in St. Albans, Vermont on October 7, 1819. The daughter of Senator Lawrence Brainerd and Fidelia B. Gadcombe, she was raised and educated in St. Albans. Career In 1842, she married J. Gregory Smith, who served as Governor during the Civil War. They were the parents of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Smith (activist)
Ann Smith ( 1682–1686) was an English anti-Catholic political activist. A devout Baptist, she and her family sheltered the rebel 9th Earl of Argyll when he was in hiding in London and fled with him to the Spanish Netherlands in 1683. She lived with her husband in Utrecht and following his death funded Argyll's Rising in Scotland and the contemporaneous Monmouth Rebellion in England. She hosted fellow conspirator Elizabeth Gaunt in Amsterdam and received a royal pardon for her activism in 1686, after which time records of her life cease. Early life Nothing is known of Ann Smith's early life before 1682. At that time, it was recorded she was married to a prosperous sugar-baker in London and involved in the business, pursuing a debt owed by the nephew of the Spanish ambassador. Together they had at least one child. Political activism After the Exclusion Crisis ended in 1681, King Charles II cracked down upon religious dissenters and this may have motivated Smith to take p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Smith (tennis)
Anne Smith (born July 1, 1959) is an educational psychologist and a former professional tennis player from the United States. Smith's highest women's doubles ranking was world No. 1 in 1980 and 1981. Her highest singles ranking was world No. 11 in 1980. Major finals Grand Slam finals Doubles: 9 (5–4) Mixed doubles: 5 (5–0) Year-End Championships finals Doubles: 1 (0–1) WTA Tour finals Singles 4 (0–4) Doubles 69 (32–37) Grand Slam performance timeline Singles Doubles Mixed doubles Note: The Australian Open was held twice in 1977, in January and December. Education She received a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from Trinity University and a PhD. in educational psychology from The University of Texas. Career Smith is a licensed psychologist in Texas and Massachusetts. She was director of the Learning Center at Dean College in Franklin, Massachusetts. She was the coach of the WTT Boston Lobsters team in 2005, 2006, and 2007. Smith is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
