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Antony (name)
Antony is a Danish, English, Finnish, German, Norwegian and Swedish given name that is a form of Anthony. As a surname it is derived from the Antonius root name. People with this name include the following: Given name * Mark Antony (83–30 BC), Roman politician and general * Anthony the Great (c. 251–356), also known as Antony, Egyptian saint * Antony the Younger (785–865), Byzantine soldier, monk and Eastern Orthodox saint * Anthony of Sourozh (Bloom, 1914–2003) of Sourozh, Russian Orthodox bishop * Antony (Khrapovitsky) (1863–1936) of Kiev, Russian Orthodox bishop * Antony (footballer, born 2000) (Antony Matheus dos Santos), Brazilian footballer * Antony (footballer, born 2001) (Antony Alves Santos), Brazilian footballer * Antony Acland (born 1930), British diplomat and Provost of Eton College * Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon (1930–2017), English photographer and filmmaker, husband of Princess Margaret * Antony de Ávila (born 1962), Colombian footbal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danish Language
Danish (; , ) is a North Germanic language spoken by about six million people, principally in and around Denmark. Communities of Danish speakers are also found in Greenland, the Faroe Islands, and the northern German region of Southern Schleswig, where it has minority language status. Minor Danish-speaking communities are also found in Norway, Sweden, the United States, Canada, Brazil, and Argentina. Along with the other North Germanic languages, Danish is a descendant of Old Norse, the common language of the Germanic peoples who lived in Scandinavia during the Viking Era. Danish, together with Swedish, derives from the ''East Norse'' dialect group, while the Middle Norwegian language (before the influence of Danish) and Norwegian Bokmål are classified as ''West Norse'' along with Faroese and Icelandic. A more recent classification based on mutual intelligibility separates modern spoken Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish as "mainland (or ''continental'') Scandinavian", while I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antony Acland
Sir Antony Arthur Acland (12 March 1930 – 8 September 2021) was a British diplomat and a provost of Eton College. Early life Antony Acland was the second son of Bridget Susan (Barnett) and Brigadier Peter Acland. He was educated at Eton College, then in 1948 joined the Royal Artillery with a post-war "emergency commission". After short army service he went up to Christ Church, Oxford, gaining a BA degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics in 1953 (later upgraded to MA). After leaving Oxford in 1953 he went straight into the Foreign Office (FO). Career After studying at the Middle East Centre for Arab Studies, Acland was posted to Dubai and then Kuwait, then back to the FO as Assistant Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary ( Selwyn Lloyd, then Lord Home) 1959–62. He then served at the UK Mission to the UN, first in New York City 1962–66, then at Geneva 1966–68. Back at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) he was head of the Arabian department 197 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antony Jay
Sir Antony Rupert Jay, (20 April 1930 – 21 August 2016) was an English writer, broadcaster, producer and director. With Jonathan Lynn, he co-wrote the British political comedies ''Yes Minister'' and ''Yes, Prime Minister'' (1980–88). He also wrote ''The Householder's Guide to Community Defence Against Bureaucratic Aggression'' (1972). For his career as a broadcaster and in public relations, Jay received a knighthood in the 1988 New Year Honours. He also wrote the 1969 BBC television documentary ''Royal Family'' and wrote a 1992 book about Elizabeth II called ''Elizabeth R'', after which he was appointed a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order for personal services to the Royal Family in the 1993 New Years Honours list. Early life and education Jay was born in Paddington, London, the son of Ernest Jay, a character actor, and Catherine (Hay) Jay. He was educated at St Paul's School and Magdalene College, Cambridge, graduating with first-class honours in Classics and compar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antony Hewish
Antony Hewish (11 May 1924 – 13 September 2021) was a British radio astronomer who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974 (together with fellow radio-astronomer Martin Ryle) for his role in the discovery of pulsars. He was also awarded the Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1969. Early life and education Hewish attended King's College, Taunton. His undergraduate degree, at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, was interrupted by the Second World War. He was assigned to war service at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, and at the Telecommunications Research Establishment where he worked with Martin Ryle. Returning to the University of Cambridge in 1946, Hewish completed his undergraduate degree and became a postgraduate student in Ryle's research team at the Cavendish Laboratory. For his PhD thesis, awarded in 1952, Hewish made practical and theoretical advances in the observation and exploitation of the scintillations of astronomical radio sources, due ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antony Hämäläinen
Antony Hämäläinen (born August 28, 1980) is a Finnish metal vocalist living in the United States. Biography In the early 1990s, he started playing bass, drums, and singing for multiple bands based both in the US and Finland. September 2007, Hämäläinen joined the Gothenburg based melodic death metal band Nightrage. In March 2015, Armageddon, a Swedish melodic death metal band led by former Arch Enemy guitarist Christopher Amott, announced him as their permanent vocalist. In February 2022, on the Rock Talks podcast it was revealed he had auditioned to be the new vocalist for the industrial metal band Fear Factory. He occasionally provides guest vocals for bands ranging in all genres of extreme metal both live, and in studio. Style In reference to his work on the Nightrage album '' Wearing A Martyr's Crown'', Sputnikmusic wrote "''Hämäläinen, from Finland, who has a lot of vocal similarities to Tomas Lindberg, which brings back a resemblance to their original sound ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antony Green
Antony John Green (born 2 March 1960) is an Australian psephologist and commentator. He is the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's chief election analyst. Early years and background Born in Warrington, Lancashire, in northern England, Green emigrated to Australia with his family in 1964. He attended James Ruse Agricultural High School in Sydney, graduating in 1977. Green graduated with a Bachelor of Science in mathematics and computing, and a Bachelor of Economics with honours in politics from the University of Sydney. He worked initially as a data analyst in the computing industry and for a polling company before joining the ABC in 1989. Green recalls he saw an ad for a six-month position as an ABC election researcher and applied, along with 150 other applicants. His experience and his “slightly bubbly personality” helped him get the position. ABC producer Ian Carroll and journalist Kerry O’Brien recommended he stay on and he remains with the ABC until today. Career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antony Gormley
Sir Antony Mark David Gormley (born 30 August 1950) is a British sculptor. His works include the ''Angel of the North'', a public sculpture in Gateshead in the north of England, commissioned in 1994 and erected in February 1998; ''Another Place'' on Crosby Beach near Liverpool; and ''Event Horizon'', a multipart site installation which premiered in London in 2007, then subsequently in Madison Square in New York City (2010), São Paulo, Brazil (2012), and Hong Kong (2015–16). Early life Gormley was born in London, the youngest of seven children, to a German mother and a father of Irish descent. His paternal grandfather was an Irish Catholic from Derry who settled in Walsall in Staffordshire. The ancestral homeland of the Gormley Clan (Irish: ''Ó Goirmleadhaigh'') in Ulster was East Donegal and West Tyrone, with most people in both Derry and Strabane being of County Donegal origin. Gormley has stated that his parents chose his initials, "AMDG", to have the inference ' – " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antony Flew
Antony Garrard Newton Flew (; 11 February 1923 – 8 April 2010) was a British philosopher. Belonging to the analytic and evidentialist schools of thought, Flew worked on the philosophy of religion. During the course of his career he taught at the universities of Oxford, Aberdeen, Keele and Reading, and at York University in Toronto. For much of his career Flew was known as a strong advocate of atheism, arguing that one should presuppose atheism until evidence suggesting a God surfaces. He also criticised the idea of life after death, the free will defence to the problem of evil, and the meaningfulness of the concept of God. In 2003, he was one of the signatories of the Humanist Manifesto III. However, in 2004 he changed his position, and stated that he now believed in the existence of an Intelligent Creator of the universe, shocking colleagues and fellow atheists. In order to further clarify his personal concept of God, Flew openly made an allegiance to Deism, more specifica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antony Duff
Sir Arthur Antony Duff (25 February 1920 – 13 August 2000) was a senior British diplomat and Director General of MI5. Early life and naval service Born in 1920 to Admiral Sir Arthur Allen Morison Duff KCB and Margaret Grace Dawson at Var Trees House, Moreton. Educated at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Duff started his career in the Royal Navy where he was a submarine commander during the Second World War; he briefly commanded and in 1942 before commanding from December 1942 to July 1944. Diplomatic career After the war Duff joined the Diplomatic Service in January 1946. He was Counsellor and Head of the Chancery of the United Kingdom Embassy in West Germany from 1962 to 1964, the British Ambassador to Nepal from 1964 to 1965; the Head of the South Asia Department of the Foreign Office from 1965 to 1969; the Deputy High Commissioner to Malaysia from 1969 to 1972; and the British High Commissioner to Kenya from 1972 to 1975. Duff was the Deputy Under Secretary fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antony Clark
Antony Roy Clark MA (Cantab.) (born 7 November 1956) is a South African schoolmaster and educationalist, formerly a first-class cricketer, currently Rector (headmaster) of Michaelhouse, KwaZulu-Natal. Early life Born at Grahamstown, Cape Province, South Africa, in 1956, Clark is the son of Roger and Betty Clark. He was educated at St. Andrew's College, Grahamstown, and Rhodes University, where he graduated BA and HDE, then at Downing College, Cambridge, where he held the Douglas Smith Scholarship and graduated MA in 1981. At Cambridge he, on occasion, played for Cambridge University Cricket Club and was president of the Downing College MCR. Schoolmaster Clark taught at Westerford High School, Cape Town, from 1984 to 1990. He then worked at Liberty Life before being appointed as Headmaster of St Joseph's Marist College, Cape Town, in 1992 and of his own old school, St Andrew's College, in 1994. In 2002 he moved as head to Gresham's School in Norfolk, England. Thereafter in 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antony Caceres
Antony Caceres Claure (born January 31, 2000) is a Canadian professional soccer player who plays for Hamilton United in League1 Ontario. Early life Caceres began playing youth soccer with Edmonton Juventus, before joining the FC Edmonton Academy. In August 2016, he joined the Vancouver Whitecaps Academy, before returning to the FC Edmonton youth program. In the fall of 2019, he trained with the FC Edmonton first team. Club career In March 2020, Caceres signed a professional contract with FC Edmonton in the Canadian Premier League. He made his professional debut for Edmonton on August 15 against Forge FC. He was nominated for the Assist of the Year in the 2020 season. At the end of the season, Edmonton picked up his option for the 2021 season. In 2023, he played with Hamilton United in League1 Ontario League1 Ontario (L1O) is a semi-professional men's association football, soccer league in Ontario, Canada. The league began play in 2014 and is sanctioned by the Canadian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antony Blinken
Antony John Blinken (born April 16, 1962) is an American government official and diplomat serving as the 71st United States secretary of state since January 26, 2021. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under President Barack Obama. During the Clinton administration, Blinken served in the State Department and in senior positions on the National Security Council from 1994 to 2001. He was a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies from 2001 to 2002. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for Joe Biden's 2008 presidential campaign, before advising the Obama–Biden presidential transition. From 2009 to 2013, Blinken served as deputy assistant to the president and national security advisor to the vice president. During his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
