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Austen (surname)
Austen is surname deriving from the Latin ''Augustine'', and first used around the 13th century. Notable people with the surname *Abigail Austen (born 1964), British Army officer *Alice Austen (1866–1952), American photographer *Augusta Amherst Austen (1827–1877), British composer * Bob Austen (1914–1999), Australian rules footballer *Cassandra Austen (1773–1845), English painter * Cecil Austen (1918–2017), Australian cricketer *Charles Austen (1779–1852), English admiral *Chuck Austen, American writer *Col Austen (1920–1995), Australian rules footballer and coach * Dale Austen (1910–?), New Zealand actress *David Austen, English cricketer *Don Austen (born 1958), English puppeteer * Edmund Godwin Austen (1854–1932), English cricketer * Edward Austen (1820–1908), English cricketer * Eric Austen (1922–1999), English designer * Ernest Austen (1900–1983), Australian cricketer *Ernest Edward Austen (1867–1938), English entomologist *Ernie Austen (1891–19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Language
French ( or ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French evolved from Gallo-Romance, the Latin spoken in Gaul, and more specifically in Northern Gaul. Its closest relatives are the other langues d'oïl—languages historically spoken in northern France and in southern Belgium, which French ( Francien) largely supplanted. French was also influenced by native Celtic languages of Northern Roman Gaul like Gallia Belgica and by the ( Germanic) Frankish language of the post-Roman Frankish invaders. Today, owing to France's past overseas expansion, there are numerous French-based creole languages, most notably Haitian Creole. A French-speaking person or nation may be referred to as Francophone in both English and French. French is an official language in 29 countries across multiple continents, most of which are members of the ''Organisation internationale de la Francophonie'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Edward Austen
Ernest Edward Austen DSO (1867 in London – 16 January 1938) was an English entomologist specialising in Diptera and Hymenoptera. His collection of Amazonian and Sierra Leonian insects is in the Natural History Museum, London. He wrote ''Illustrations of British Blood-Sucking Flies'' (1906) illustrated by Amedeo John Engel Terzi. Austen was a frequent correspondent of Ethel Katharine Pearce, dipterologist, daughter of Thomas and granddaughter of Charles Henry Blake. Patronymic taxa Taxa named for Austen include: * ''Glossina Tsetse ( , or ) (sometimes spelled tzetze; also known as tik-tik flies), are large, biting flies that inhabit much of tropical Africa. Tsetse flies include all the species in the genus ''Glossina'', which are placed in their own family, Glos ... austeni'' References *Blair, K. G. 1938: usten, E. E.''Entomologist's Monthly Magazine'' (3) 74 42-43 Obit. External links Internet Archive''Report of the Malaria Expedition of the Liverpool ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Austen
Margaret Christine Austen (born 1947), is a female former diver who competed for England. Diving career She represented England and won a silver medal in the 10 metres platform at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Perth Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth is ..., Western Australia. She also participated in the 3 metres springboard. As a 15-year-old she won the British High-board Diving Championship which led to her selection for the Commonwealth Games. Personal life During 1963 she and a fellow diver saved a boy from drowning after jumping into rough seas on the North Shore at Blackpool. References 1947 births English female divers Commonwealth Games medallists in diving Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England Divers at the 1962 British ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louie Austen
Louie Austen (born Alois Luef on 19 September 1946) is an Austrian classically trained bar and jazz crooner who has been active in the electronic music scene. Biography Austen was born on 19 September 1946 in Vienna, Austria. Austen, among other cultural and musical activities, played a part in an adaption of Johann Nestroy's play "Höllenangst" at the Viennese Burgtheater and is regularly still performing every Saturday at the Cascade Bar of the Marriott hotel in Vienna. Since 1999, Louie Austen also is a performer in electronic music and has released many albums and singles in this genre he refers to as electrocrooning. His last album ''Iguana'' has been released on Klein Records in 2006 and his new double album "Last Man Crooning / Electrotaining You!" got released in 2010 along with two singles and is his 7th studio album on his own label LA Music – Louie Austen Music he had founded back in 2007 as a home for his musical releases. Austen has a cameo as gambler in Stefan R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katherine Austen
Katherine Austen (née Wilson; 1629 – ca. 1683) was a British diarist and poet best known for ''Book M'', her manuscript collection of meditations, journal entries, and verse. She also wrote the country-house poem, "On the Situation of Highbury" (1665). Personal life Early life Katherine Wilson was one of at least seven children born to Katherine Wilson (née Rudd; d. 1648) and her husband Robert Wilson (d. 1639), a draper. After her father's death, her mother remarried John Highlord, an Alderman of the City of London and a Committee member of the East India Company, thereby raising the family's status. Austen lived in London through the period of the Civil War and Restoration. She married Thomas Austen (1622–1658), barrister, also from a wealthy family, on 10 July 1645. Her husband would seem to have shared her social ambitions; however, he died at the age of thirty-six in 1658 and left Katherine, under the age of thirty, with three young children and the complicated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Austen (other)
John Austen may refer to: * John Austen (illustrator) (1886–1948), English book illustrator * John Austen (died 1572), MP for Guildford * Sir John Austen, 2nd Baronet (c. 1640–1699), MP for Rye 1667–1679 and 1689– (Austen Baronets of Bexley, Kent) * Sir John Austen, 1st Baronet (died 1742), MP for Middlesex 1701–1702, 1709–1710 and 1722–1727 (Austen Baronets of Derehams, Middlesex) See also * John Austin (other) {{hndis, Austen, John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Austen
Joseph Gerard "Joe" Austen is a British artist, writer, producer and director from St Andrews, Scotland. Since 1976, a collection of his paintings have been on display in The Gallery of Champions within the Rusacks Hotel, St Andrews, Scotland. For the 150th The Open Championship in St. Andrews in 2010, six of golf’s greatest champions were made Honorees of The Gallery of Champions when Joe Austen painted their portraits. Those portraits are now a permanent part of the gallery. Honorees included Tony Jacklin CBE, Arnold Palmer, Gary Player DMS; OIG, Sandy Lyle MBE and Roberto De Vicenzo. Roberto De Vicenzo attended the opening of the Gallery, along with Tony Jacklin CBE and Sandy Lyle MBE, and commented on the day, 'Joe Austen - your paintings will get you in to Heaven'. In the Rusacks Hotel, St Andrews, Joe Austen’s painting collections are grouped into four separate categories; the Macdonald Collection, the Historical Collection, the Portraits of the Royal Captains a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Austen
Jane Austen (; 16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique, and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen's plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage in the pursuit of favourable social standing and economic security. Her works critique the novels of sensibility of the second half of the 18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century literary realism. Her use of biting irony, along with her realism and social commentary, have earned her acclaim among critics, scholars and readers alike. With the publication of ''Sense and Sensibility'' (1811), '' Pride and Prejudice'' (1813), ''Mansfield Park'' (1814), and '' Emma'' (1816), she achieved modest success but only little fame in her lifetime since the books were published anonymously. She wrote two other novels—''Northanger Abbey'' and '' Persuasion'', both published posthumou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Austen
James Austen was an English clergyman, best known for being the eldest brother of celebrated novelist Jane Austen. His father George Austen's living had been in Steventon, Hampshire, and James succeeded him in this position, in 1801. Austen's mother, formerly Cassandra Leigh, was a member of a prominent Oxford family, and was a descendant of one of the founders of St. John's College. Cassandra's family connection entitled her sons to be legacy students, who did not have to compete for admission, and who were entitled to attend tuition free. Austen attended Oxford University and his younger brother Henry both attended, and shared accommodation. Like his more famous sister, Austen was a writer. According to Felicity Day, writing in ''The Telegraph'', for a year in the 1790s, he published a weekly periodical called ''The Loiterer'', and wrote much of its content. He published several pieces by his brother Henry, and Day speculated that he may have published one piece by his t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howard Austen
Howard Austen (born Howard Auster; January 28, 1929 – September 22, 2003) was the longtime companion of American writer Gore Vidal. They were together for 53 years, until Austen's death. Early life and career Austen was born into a working-class Jewish family and grew up in The Bronx, New York. Reportedly, Austen wanted to have a career as a singer. In 1950, when Vidal met Austen, Austen had just graduated and was struggling to find work writing advertising copy. At Vidal's suggestion, he changed his surname from "Auster" to "Austen" "after advertising firms refused to hire him because he was Jewish". Immediately after he changed his name, he was hired at Doyle, Dane & Bernbach, which was considered a very good house and is known as DDB today. Austen would go on to become a stage manager for Broadway shows in the 1950s and 1960s. He also worked in film, assisting with the casting of the classic 1962 film ''To Kill a Mockingbird''. Personal life Austen was described as red- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Austen (other)
Henry Austen may refer to: * Henry Thomas Austen (1771–1850), one-time militia officer, then clergyman, brother of Jane Austen * Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen (1834–1923), English topographer, geologist and surveyor * Henry Austen, brother-in-law of Charles Dickens and co-worker of Edwin Chadwick Sir Edwin Chadwick KCB (24 January 18006 July 1890) was an English social reformer who is noted for his leadership in reforming the Poor Laws in England and instituting major reforms in urban sanitation and public health. A disciple of Uti ... See also * Henry Austin (other) {{human name disambiguation, Austen, Henry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Austen (other) (1931–2019), British Anglican priest, broadcaster and author
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George Austen may refer to: *George Austen (cleric) (1731–1805), Church of England clergyman and the father of Jane Austen *George Austen (MP) (c. 1548–1621), MP for Guildford and Haslemere See also *George Austin (gardener) (died 1789), gardener *George Austin (priest) George Bernard Austin (16 July 1931 – 30 January 2019) was a British Anglican priest, broadcaster and author. He was Archdeacon of York from 1988 to 1999. Austin was educated at St David's College, Lampeter and Chichester Theological College. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
