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Bess (name)
Bess is both a surname and a feminine given name (usually as the shortened Hypocorism form of Elizabeth). Notable people with the name include: Given name * Elizabeth I (1533-1603), also known as "Good Queen Bess" * Bess of Hardwick (1527-1608), daughter of John Hardwick of Hardwicke * Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1759-1824), early female novelist * Bess Armstrong (born 1953), American actress * Elizabeth Austin (other), several people * Bess Berman (1902-1968), American record label executive * Bess Bolden Walcott (1886-1988), African American educator, librarian, museum curator, and activist * Bess Bonnier (1928-2011), American jazz pianist, composer, and music educator * Bess Bukodi, British professor * Elizabeth Davies (other), several people * Elizabeth Davis (other), several people * Bess Flowers (1898-1984), American actress * Bess Gearhart Morrison (1875-1968), American actress, educator, and speaker * Elizabeth Holland (died ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hypocorism
A hypocorism ( or ; from Ancient Greek: (), from (), 'to call by pet names', sometimes also ''hypocoristic'') or pet name is a name used to show affection for a person. It may be a diminutive form of a person's name, such as ''Izzy'' for Isabel or ''Bob (given name), Bob'' for Robert, or it may be unrelated. In linguistics, the term can be used more specifically to refer to the morphological process by which the standard form of the word is transformed into a form denoting affection, or to words resulting from this process. In English, a word is often Clipping (morphology), clipped down to a closed monosyllable and then suffixed with ''-y/-ie'' (phonologically /i/). Sometimes the suffix ''-o'' is included as well as other forms or templates. Hypocoristics are often affective in meaning and are particularly common in Australian English, but can be used for various purposes in different semantic fields, including personal names, place names and nouns. Hypocorisms are usually ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bess Johnson
Bess Johnson ( circa 1902 - January 3, 1975) was an American actress best known for her work on old-time radio. During her time on the air, "she was the highest paid daytime radio artist." Early years Johnson was born in Keyser, West Virginia, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herman J. Johnson. She grew up in Elkins, West Virginia, with theatrical family roots: her father owned two theaters in addition to publishing a newspaper and being a state senator, while her mother was actress Ann Barnes. Johnson graduated from Davis & Elkins College. Her plans for a career as a singer ended when she lost her voice and learned after a tonsillectomy that she would not be able to sing again. Turning to drama as an alternative, she studied at Carnegie Mellon University, Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts (AADA) in New York. Johnson's income from jobs as an artists' model and a restaurant worker paid her way as a student at the AADA. Career Beginning in 1923 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bess Streeter Aldrich
Bess Streeter Aldrich (pen name, Margaret Dean Stephens; February 17, 1881 – August 3, 1954) was an American author. Life and career Bess Genevra Streeter was born in Cedar Falls, Iowa. She was the last of the eight children of James Wareham and Mary Wilson Anderson Streeter. Attending high school in Cedar Falls, she was the winner of two magazine fiction-writing contests prior to graduating at age 17. After graduating from Iowa State Normal School with a teaching certificate, she taught school at several locations in Utah, later returning to Cedar Falls to earn an advanced degree in education. In 1907, she married Charles Sweetzer Aldrich, who had graduated with a law degree from Iowa State University and had been one of the youngest captains in the Spanish–American War. Following the war, he served for years as a U.S. Commissioner in Alaska. They had four children — Mary, Robert, Charles and James. In 1909, they moved with their children and Bess's widowed mother to El ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bess Stinson
Bessie Bryant Stinson (December 24, 1902 – July 19, 1996) was an American politician and businesswoman. Born in Hammon, Rogers Mills County, Oklahoma Territory, Stinson went to the University of Oklahoma and Draughon's Business College in Clinton, Oklahoma. In 1938, Stinson moved to Phoenix, Arizona. She worked in financial and business offices of various businesses in Arizona and Oklahoma. During World War II, Stinson served in the Women's Army Corps. She was involved in the Republican Party. From 1976 to 1971, Stinson served in the Arizona House of Representatives. Then, she served in the Arizona State Senate from 1971 to 1975. Stinson died in Elk City, Oklahoma Elk City is a city in Beckham County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 11,693 at the 2010 census, and the population was estimated at 11,577 in 2019. Elk City is located on Interstate 40 and Historic U.S. Route 66 in western Oklahom ... in 1996. Notes {{DEFAULTSORT:Stinson, Bess 1902 births 1996 d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bess Rogers
Bess Rogers is an American indie rock musician from New York City. Early life and education Rogers was born into a musical family on Long Island, New York, and attended the Conservatory of Music at the State University of New York at Purchase for recording and composition. Career Bess Rogers has released three full-length albums, two EPs, and several individual song releases. She has released official music videos for four songs: Math and Science, Come Home, Favorite Day, and I Don't Worry. She regularly tours nationally and internationally, plays at venues on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and maintains a blog. In 2012, Rogers' submission was selected from among a group of more 80 entries to update the classic Cheerios jingle "The One and Only." In addition to her solo work, she has several side projects. Most notably, she was part of the backup band for indie rocker Ingrid Michaelson. In 2013 she formed the band The Secret Someones with Hannah Winkler, Lelia Broussard, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Raleigh
Elizabeth, Lady Raleigh (''née'' Throckmorton; 16 April 1565 – c. 1647) was an English courtier, a Gentlewoman of the Privy Chamber to Queen Elizabeth I of England. Her secret marriage to Sir Walter Raleigh precipitated a long period of royal disfavour for both her and her husband. History Elizabeth, known also as "Bess", was the daughter of the diplomat Sir Nicholas Throckmorton and Anne Throckmorton (''née'' Carew). Bess and her brother Arthur were courtiers to Elizabeth I. In her book, ''The Life of Elizabeth I'' (1998), British author and historian Alison Weir states Throckmorton and Raleigh's first child was conceived by July 1591, the couple were married "in great secrecy" in the autumn of 1591, and their son was born in March 1592. The boy was christened Damerei, after Sir Walter's claimed ancestors, the D'Ameries. Damerei is believed to have died during infancy. Weir states that Queen Elizabeth first became aware in May 1592 of the secret marriage and of Damere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bess Price
Bess Nungarrayi Price (born 22 October 1960) is an Aboriginal Australian activist and politician. She was a Country Liberal Party member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from 2012 to 2016, representing the electorate of Stuart, and was Minister for Community Services in the Giles Ministry. She lives in Alice Springs in Central Australia, in the Northern Territory. Biography Born on 22 October 1960 in Yuendumu, Price's first language is Warlpiri. She also knows Luritja, Western Arrernte and Anmatyerre. Price lived in humpies (traditional Aboriginal dwellings) until she was nine and became a mother at thirteen years of age. A survivor of domestic violence, she left the father of her child when she was 19 and began studying to be a teacher. She attained a Bachelor of Applied Science in Aboriginal Community Management and Development from Curtin University and has worked in education and training, public administration, the media, community development, interpreting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bess Phipps Dawson
Bess Phipps Dawson (1916 - April 15, 1994) was an American painter and gallerist. She was a member of the "Summit Trio" in Summit, Mississippi, in the 1960s, and she later owned an art gallery in McComb, Mississippi. Early life Bess Phipps Dawson was born in 1916 in Tchula, Mississippi. She graduated from Belhaven College in Jackson, Mississippi. By 1951, she studied at the Southwest Mississippi Junior College in Summit, Mississippi, alongside Halcyone Barnes and Ruth Atkinson Holmes. Career Dawson was an abstract painter. In the 1960s, she co-founded the "Summit Trio" alongside Barnes and Atkinson in Summit, Mississippi. The three painters exhibited their work at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia, the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art in Memphis, Tennessee, the Delgado Museum of Art in New Orleans, Louisiana, and the Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson, Mississippi. By 1971, Dawson moved to McComb, Mississippi, where she was the co-owner of the Gulf/South Gallery alongsi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bess Norriss
Elizabeth May Norriss, later Bess Norriss Tait, (17 May 1878 – January 1939) was an Australian artist. Life Norriss was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1878. She studied at Melbourne Art Gallery School and in 1905 at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. She specialised in watercolours and miniatures. In 1907, she was made a member of the Royal Society of Miniature Painters. She became a member of the British Watercolour Society and Society of Women Artists. In 1908, she married the Australian entrepreneur J. Nevin Tait (1876–1961), the UK representative of and partner in the theatrical company J. & N. Tait. They travelled to South Africa in 1909 before returning to Australia. The National Portrait Gallery hold a self-portrait c.1900-10. Norriss Street in the Canberra suburb of Chisholm is named in her honour. Life in London In 1911, she returned to London and resided in Church Street, Chelsea. She exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts and the Paris Salon between ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bess Nkabinde
Baaitse Elizabeth "Bess" Nkabinde (born 1959 in Silwerkrans) is a former judge on the Constitutional Court of South Africa. Early life Nkabinde (née Motsatsi) was born in 1959 in Silwerkrans, in what was then the western Transvaal (and is now part of the North West province). She matriculated at Mariasdal High School in Tweespruit in 1979. Thereafter she obtained a BProc degree at the University of Zululand in 1983, an LLB from the North-West University in 1986, and a Diploma in Industrial Relations at Damelin College in 1988. She worked as a legal adviser to the Bophutatswana government for four years, before becoming an advocate in 1988. She worked at the North West Bar for ten years before her first appointment as an acting judge in 1999. Judicial career In November 1999, Nkabinde was appointed to the Bophuthatswana division of the High Court of South Africa. She served acting stints on the Labour Court, Labour Appeal Court, and, in 2005, the Supreme Court of Appeal. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bess Myerson
Bess Myerson (July 16, 1924 – December 14, 2014) was an American politician, model and television actress who in 1945 became the first Miss America who was also Jewish. Her achievement, in the aftermath of the Holocaust, was seen as an affirmation of the Jewish place in American life. She was a heroine to parts of the Jewish community, where "she was the most famous pretty girl since Queen Esther." Myerson made frequent television appearances during the 1950s and 1960s. She was a commissioner in the New York City government, served on presidential commissions from the 1960s through the 1980s, and ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate. Her career in public service ended in the late 1980s when she was indicted on bribery and conspiracy charges. She was acquitted after a highly publicized trial. Biography Myerson was born in The Bronx, New York to Louis Myerson and Bella (née Podell), who were Jewish immigrants from Russia. Myerson's father worked as a housepainter, ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bess Motta
Bess Motta (née Bess Motter) (born February 10, 1958) is an American actress, singer, choreographer, and exercise demonstrator who appeared in the Canadian produced television series ''20 Minute Workout'', which aired for two seasons in 1983 and 1984. Biography Motta was born in Woodland Hills, California. She has been credited with putting TV aerobics on the map, and has been called the "Aerobics queen of the 1980s", having become a fitness advocate after returning from England 30 pounds overweight. She had a small role in ''The Terminator'', playing Linda Hamilton Linda Carroll Hamilton (born September 26, 1956) is an American actress. She played Sarah Connor in the '' Terminator'' film series and Catherine Chandler in the television series ''Beauty and the Beast'' (1987–1990), for which she was nomina ...'s roommate, Ginger, in 1984. She played Rita, a friendly and bubbly waitress in a mansion's kitchen, on the syndicated show '' New Monkees'' in 1987. She also appear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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