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Brinton Bryan
Brinton may refer to: Places * Brinton (crater), on Pluto * Brinton, Michigan, United States * Brinton, Norfolk, England People * Anna Cox Brinton (1887–1969), American classics scholar, Quaker worker * Crane Brinton, American historian of France and the history of ideas * Daniel Garrison Brinton, American archaeologist and ethnologist * Donna M. Brinton, American linguist * Edward Brinton (1924–2010), oceanographer and biologist * Ellen Starr Brinton (1886–1954), pacifist, speaker and archivist * Emma Southwick Brinton (1834–1922), American Civil War nurse, traveller, correspondent * Henry G. Brinton, American minister and author * Howard Brinton (1884–1973), Quaker activist * John Brinton, British Liberal politician * Laurel J. Brinton, Canadian-American linguist * Maurice Brinton, writer for libertarian socialist group Solidarity * Sal Brinton, British Liberal Democrat politician * Sam Brinton, American nuclear engineer and LGBTQ activist * Willard C. Brinton Willa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brinton (crater)
This is a list of named geological features on Pluto, identified by scientists working with data from the ''New Horizons'' spacecraft. The International Astronomical Union (IAU) officially approved the first 14 names on 8 August 2017 (announced 7 September 2017), with additional names following in each subsequent year, but many of the names listed on this page are still informal. The IAU has determined that names will be chosen from the following themes: * Names for the underworld from the world's mythologies * Gods, goddesses, and dwarfs associated with the underworld * Heroes and other explorers of the underworld * Writers associated with Pluto and the Kuiper belt * Pioneering space missions and spacecraft * Scientists and engineers associated with Pluto and the Kuiper belt Cavi A cavus is a hollow or steep-sided depression. The following is a list of official and unofficial names chosen by the ''New Horizons'' team. Colles A collis (planetary nomenclature), collis is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Southwick Brinton
Emma Southwick Brinton (, Southwick; April 7, 1834 – February 25, 1922) was an American Civil War army nurse, traveler, and foreign correspondent. Early years and education Emma Dexter Southwick was born in Peabody, Massachusetts, April 7, 1834. She was a daughter of Philip R. and Amelia D. Southwick, and the oldest of seven children. Her ancestors, (Lawrence and Cassandra) were among the earliest colonists to the U.S. from England. Lawrence received a gift of land for the first tanning establishment in the settlement, near Salem, Massachusetts, on which he built the first house with glass windows. They were also the first in the Colonies to be persecuted for their belief, being Quakers, and for harboring a preacher. Brinton entered the activities of New England home life at an early age. She was educated in Bradford Academy (now, Bradford College). Career When shots were fired during the Battle of Fort Sumter, Brinton was on the alert to aid those who were injured and by the col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sal Brinton
Sarah Virginia Brinton, Baroness Brinton (born 1 April 1955), known as Sal Brinton, is a British politician who served as president of the Liberal Democrats from 2015 to 2020. In November 2010 she was nominated to the House of Lords, taking her place on 10 February 2011 having been created Baroness Brinton, ''of Kenardington in the County of Kent'' on 4 February. After Jo Swinson lost her seat at the 2019 United Kingdom general election, Brinton and Sir Ed Davey became acting co- leaders of the Liberal Democrats. Early life and education Brinton was born in Paddington, London, in 1955. She is the daughter of former Conservative MP Tim Brinton, and the cousin of Mary Stocks, Baroness Stocks. Brinton was educated at Benenden School and studied stage management at the Central School of Speech and Drama. She subsequently completed a degree in English literature at Churchill College, Cambridge, in 1981. Career Beginning her career in the mid 1970s at the BBC as a television floor m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Brinton
Christopher Agamemnon Pallis (2 December 1923, in Bombay – 10 March 2005, in London) was an Anglo-Greek neurologist and libertarian socialist intellectual. Under the pen-names Martin Grainger and Maurice Brinton, he wrote and translated for the British group Solidarity from 1960 until the early 1980s. As a neurologist, he produced the accepted criteria for brainstem death, and wrote the entry on death for ''Encyclopædia Britannica''. Life Chris Pallis was born to a prominent Anglo-Greek family, "of whose intellectual achievements he was always extremely proud". The poet Alexandros Pallis was a great-uncle, and so the writers Marietta Pallis and Marco Pallis were also relatives. His father Alex was general manager of the family firm of merchant bankers, Ralli Brothers; when he retired, he returned from India to settle in Switzerland. Educated there, Chris Pallis became fluent in French, English and Greek. In 1940 the family managed to take the last boat out of France, and sett ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurel J
Laurel may refer to: Plants * Lauraceae, the laurel family * Laurel (plant), including a list of trees and plants known as laurel People * Laurel (given name), people with the given name * Laurel (surname), people with the surname * Laurel (musician), British indie musician Laurel Arnell-Cullen (born 1994) Places United States * Laurel, California, a ghost town * Laurel, Oakland, California, a neighborhood of Oakland * Laurel, Delaware, a town * Laurel, Florida, a census-designated place * Laurel, Indiana, a town * Laurel Township, Franklin County, Indiana * Laurel, Iowa, a city * Laurel County, Kentucky * Laurel River, Kentucky * Laurel, Maryland, a city * Laurel, Mississippi, a city * Laurel micropolitan area, Mississippi * Laurel, Montana, a city * Laurel, Nebraska, a city * Laurel, New York, a census-designated place * Laurel, North Carolina, an unincorporated community * Laurel, Ohio, an unincorporated community * Laurel Township, Hocking County, Ohio * Laurel, Oregon, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Brinton
John Brinton (25 January 1827 – 2 July 1914) was an English carpet manufacturer and a Liberal politician. Brinton was born at Kidderminster, the son of Henry Brinton a carpet manufacturer. He joined the family carpet manufacturing firm John Brinton & Co as a partner in 1848. Brintons had a large factory at Stourport a town noted for its carpet manufacture. In time he became chairman of Brintons Ltd. He became J.P. for Kidderminster in 1856 and was chairman of the Kidderminster School of Art from 1863 to 1869. In 1866 he was made Chevalier of the Legion of Honour for France. Sometime before 1871 he purchased Moor Park at Stourport. There he carried out considerable alterations to the house and grounds, planting an avenue of trees from Lickhill Road to Bewdley Road (Avenue Road) and erecting three pairs of ornamental iron gates. Brinton became a member of King Charles I School Kidderminster School Board in 1871, remaining until 1888. He became J.P. for Worcestershire in 1876 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
