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Boyce (surname)
Boyce is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Ann Boyce (1827–1914), New Zealand pioneer and herbalist * Carla Boyce (born 1998), Scottish footballer * Cameron Boyce (1999–2019), American actor * Cameron Boyce (cricketer) (born 1989), Australian cricketer * Charles Boyce (born 1949), American cartoonist * Charles Boyce (footballer) (1899–1964), Scottish footballer * Christopher John Boyce (born 1953), American who sold spy satellite secrets to the USSR * Darryl Boyce (born 1984), Canadian ice hockey player with the Toronto Marlies of the AHL * Emmerson Boyce (born 1979), English footballer * Ethel Boyce, Canadian ballplayer in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League * Francis Bertie Boyce "Archbishop Boyce" (1844–1931), Australian social reformer * Francis Stewart Boyce (1872–1940), his son, Australian politician and judge * Frank Cottrell-Boyce (born 1959), British writer * Frank M. Boyce (1851–1931), New York politician * George Boyce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Boyce
Ann Boyce (20 November 1827 – 28 February 1914) was a New Zealand founding mother and herbalist. She was born Ann Cave in Sydney, Australia, on 20 November 1827. In 1837 she came to Port Underwood in Marlborough, New Zealand, with her family. She married William Boyce when she was 16 or less, and they lived in the Nelson area, and later Motueka. She had 13 children. Boyce had close contact with Māori people from the time she came to New Zealand. In Motueka, she was known as a herbalist especially knowledgeable about the medicinal use of plants, and provided medical assistance to Māori. She died at Motueka on 28 February 1914 aged 87, having outlived her husband by nearly 19 years. She was written about in a two-page story by her granddaughter Flora Park Cave Spurdle Flora Park Cave Spurdle (1883–1973) was a notable New Zealand journalist, museum worker and local historian. She was born in Whanganui, New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island countr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George W
George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009. A member of the Republican Party, Bush family, and son of the 41st president George H. W. Bush, he previously served as the 46th governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. While in his twenties, Bush flew warplanes in the Texas Air National Guard. After graduating from Harvard Business School in 1975, he worked in the oil industry. In 1978, Bush unsuccessfully ran for the House of Representatives. He later co-owned the Texas Rangers of Major League Baseball before he was elected governor of Texas in 1994. As governor, Bush successfully sponsored legislation for tort reform, increased education funding, set higher standards for schools, and reformed the criminal justice system. He also helped make Texas the leading producer of wind powered electricity in the nation. In the 2000 presidential election, Bush defeated Democratic incum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Boyce, Baron Boyce
Admiral of the Fleet Michael Cecil Boyce, Baron Boyce, (2 April 1943 – 6 November 2022) was a British Royal Navy officer who also sat as a crossbench member of the House of Lords until his death in November 2022. Boyce commanded three submarines and then a frigate before achieving higher command in the Navy and serving as First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff from 1998 to 2001 and then as Chief of the Defence Staff from 2001 to 2003. As Chief of Defence Staff he is believed to have had concerns about US plans for a national missile defence system. In early 2003 he advised the British Government on the deployment of troops for the invasion of Iraq, seeking assurances as to the legitimacy of the deployment before it was allowed to proceed. Early life Michael Cecil Boyce, the first son of Commander Hugh Boyce DSC and his Afrikaner wife, Madeline (née Manley), was born in Cape Town on 2 April 1943. His two brothers were Philip Boyce, a professor of psychiatry in Austr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Boyce (field Hockey)
Michael Boyce (born 1980 in Perth, Western Australia) is a field hockey player from Australia, who was a member of the team that won the silver medal at the 2006 World Hockey Cup. School At school level Michael represented the Scotch College in the Public Schools Associations, 'Ray House Hockey Cup' competition. He was selected to represent the PSA Combined XI against the HOTSPURS in 1997. He was a member of the Ray House Hockey Cup winning teams in 1995 & 1997. Club At club level Michael plays for The University of Western Australia Hockey Club (UWAHC), where he was selected at Right Halfback in the Legends Team at the club's 80th anniversary in 2004. He has represented the Club more than 250 times at 1st Grade level, and played in Premiership teams in 2002, 2004, 2005 & 2007. Michael became the club president in 2014. National Michael has represented Western Australia at underage and open level, having played for the SmokeFree WA Thundersticks 1999–2007, including Natio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Boyce (other) (born 1980), Australian field hockey player
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Michael Boyce may refer to: *Michael Boyce, Baron Boyce (born 1943), former First Sea Lord of the Royal Navy and Chief of Defence Staff *Michael Boyce (field hockey) Michael Boyce (born 1980 in Perth, Western Australia) is a field hockey player from Australia, who was a member of the team that won the silver medal at the 2006 World Hockey Cup. School At school level Michael represented the Scotch College ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Boyce
Maxwell Boyce, (born 27 September 1943) is a Welsh comedian, singer and entertainer. He rose to fame in the mid-1970s with an act that combined musical comedy with his passion for rugby union and his origins in a South Wales mining community. Boyce's '' We All Had Doctors' Papers'' (1975) remains the only comedy album to have topped the UK Albums Chart and he has sold more than two million albums in a career spanning four decades. Early life Max Boyce was born in Glynneath. His family was originally from Ynyshir in the Rhondda Valley. His mother was Mary Elizabeth Harries. A month preceding Boyce's birth, his father, Leonard Boyce, died in an explosion in the coal pit where he worked. At the age of fifteen, Boyce left school, went to live with his grandfather, and worked in a colliery "for nearly eight years". In his early twenties, he managed to find alternative work in the Metal Box factory, Melin, Neath, as an electrician's apprentice, but his earlier mining experiences were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Boyce
Martin Boyce (born 1967) is a Scottish sculptor inspired by early 20th century modernism. Boyce was born in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire and educated at Holy Cross High School in Hamilton. He studied at the Glasgow School of Art, graduating with a BA in environmental art in 1990, then a MFA in 1997. He lives in Glasgow with his wife and children. Boyce won the 2011 Turner Prize for his installation ''Do Words Have Voices'', displayed at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead. The installation is a recreation of a park in autumn. Books * ''Martin Boyce: When Now is Night'', Princeton Architectural Press Princeton Architectural Press is a small press publisher, specializing in books on architecture, design, photography, landscape, and visual culture, with over 1,000 titles on its backlist. In 2013, it added a line of stationery products, including ..., 2015 () References External linksMartin Boyce – Tanya Bonakdar Gallery [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Cunningham Boyce
Mary Cunningham Boyce is a professor of engineering at Columbia University. She has been provost of Columbia University since July 2021. Previously, she was dean of the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science from 2013 to 2021. Her research focuses on materials and mechanics, particularly in the areas of multi-scale mechanics of polymers and soft composites, both those that are man-made and those formed naturally. Background Boyce received a bachelor of science in engineering science and mechanics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1981. She also received a master of science and a doctor of philosophy in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1984 and 1987. Prior to joining Columbia University, Boyce spent twenty-five years as a faculty member at MIT. During her last years at MIT, she was the Head of Department for Mechanical Engineering and the Ford Professor of Engineering. Boyce's research interests i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Boyce
Nora Elisabeth Mary Boyce (2 August 1920 – 4 April 2006) was a British scholar of Iranian languages, and an authority on Zoroastrianism. She was Professor of Iranian Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) of the University of London. The Royal Asiatic Society's annual Boyce Prize for outstanding contributions to the study of religion is named after her. Early years She was born in Darjeeling where her parents were vacationing to escape the heat of the plains during the summer. Her father, William H. Boyce, was a Judge at the Calcutta high-court, then an institution of the British imperial government. Her mother Nora (née Gardiner) was a granddaughter of the historian Samuel Rawson Gardiner.John R. Hinnells, ‘Boyce, (Nora Elisabeth) Mary (1920–2006)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Jan 2010; online edn, Sept 201accessed 8 Jan 2017/ref> Boyce was educated at Wimbledon High School and then Cheltenham Ladies' C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lola Boyce
Lola Boyce (born 1944) is an American mechanical engineer whose research concerns mechanical fatigue and strength degradation in materials for nuclear and aerospace applications. Education and career Boyce was born on December 10, 1944, in Bay Shore, New York; her father was aerospace engineer Richard Bennett (1918–2002). After attending several other universities, she studied mechanical engineering at Texas A&M University, earning a bachelor's degree in 1973, a master's degree, in 1975, and in 1980 a Ph.D. Her dissertation, ''Probabilistic Analysis of Foundation Forces for a Class of Unbalanced Rotating Machines'', was supervised by Thomas J. Kozik. She worked for three years in the Nuclear Test Engineering Division at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and then joined the mechanical engineering department at the University of Texas at San Antonio in 1983, eventually becoming full professor and department chair there. Her activities at the university included founding the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Boyce
Kevin L. Boyce (born October 5, 1971) is an Americans, American politician of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party. He currently serves as President of the Franklin County, Ohio, Franklin County Board of Commissioners. Formerly he was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives, serving the 25th District from 2012 to 2016, a member of Columbus City Council, and was Ohio State Treasurer from 2009 to 2010. In the March 2016 Democratic primary election, Boyce was selected as the Democratic nominee to run for incumbent Paula Brooks (politician), Paula Brooks' seat on the Franklin County, Ohio Board of Commissioners in the 2016 general election. Boyce ran for, and was elected to a second term in 2020. Education Boyce graduated from East High School (Columbus, Ohio), Columbus East High School in 1990. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the University of Toledo in 1995 and a Master of Public Administration degree from Central Michigan U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Petigru Boyce
James Petigru Boyce (January 11, 1827 – December 28, 1888) was an American pastor, theologian, professor and chaplain who was one of the founders of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Biography Early life James Petigru Boyce was born in 1827. He was educated at Brown University under Francis Wayland, whose evangelical sermons contributed to Boyce's conversion, and at Princeton Theological Seminary under Charles Hodge who led Boyce to appreciate Calvinistic theology. Career After completing studies at Princeton, he served as pastor of the Columbia S.C. Baptist Church and as a faculty member at Furman University. In 1859 he founded the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Greenville, South Carolina, to establish a seminary that did not view owning slaves as disqualifying in becoming a missionary After the war ended, he resumed office as chair of the seminary and relocated it to Louisville, Kentucky. He taught theology from 1859 until his death in 1888 and se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
