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Bryden
Bryden is a surname of Lowland Scots origin. Notable people with the surname include: *Beryl Bryden (1920–1998), English jazz singer *Bill Bryden (1942–2022), Scottish stage, film, and television actor *Dave Bryden (1927–2013), Australian rules footballer * James Bryden (1877–1917), New Zealand cricketer; died on active service in World War I * James L. Bryden (1833–1880), British epidemiologist in India *John G. Bryden (1937–2016), Canadian politician from New Brunswick; MP since 1994 *John H. Bryden (born 1943), Canadian historian and politician from Ontario; MP 1993–2004 * Kenneth Bryden (1916–2001), Canadian politician from Ontario * Lewis Bryden (born 1944), American painter *Marion Bryden (1918–2013), Canadian politician from Ontario; MP 1975–90 * Matthew Bryden, Canadian political analyst *Nell Bryden (born 1977), American singer-songwriter * Olivia Mary Bryden (1883–1951), English artist * Philip Bryden, Canadian law professor *Rod Bryden (born 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lewis Bryden
Lewis Bryden (born 1944) is an artist known for naturalistic landscapes – mainly of the Connecticut River valley. He also paints genre scenes and makes realism sculptures. Bryden's ''plein air'' paintings include Mexico, Cuba, Alaska, Russia, New York City and the American West. He has exhibited since 1973 at over 20 solo exhibitions and many group shows. Formally trained as an architect, Bryden is self-taught in the fine arts. His style is informed by his interest in rendering different kinds of light. Curator Martha Hoppin describes Bryden's method: “He paints the light in space, and then fills the space with nature.” Bryden lives in New York City with his wife Elizabeth. His daughter, Nell Bryden, is a singer performing around the UK and Ireland. Bryden maintains studios in New York City and Hadley, Massachusetts. In Hadley, he paints in his home or on a houseboat on the Connecticut River. Background From an early age, Bryden knew he wanted to be an artist. When he w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nell Bryden
Nell Bryden (born March 8, 1977) is an American singer-songwriter. Early life Bryden was born in New York Hospital and grew up in an artist loft on Atlantic Avenue (New York City), Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Heights. Her parents divorced when she was five, and she lived primarily with her father, Lewis Bryden, a painter and sculptor, until she was 12 years old. Bryden then moved in with her mother, Jane, a classical soprano and professor at Smith College in Western Massachusetts. Bryden graduated from Amherst Regional High School (Amherst, Massachusetts), Amherst Regional High School, and deferred going to college for a year to Parachuting, skydive on a drop zone in Arizona, study Italian and opera in Manhattan and eventually travel to Australia for three months of backpacking, where she bought her first guitar. A classically trained musician (she studied the cello for ten years), Bryden dreamed of becoming an opera singer before hearing Jimi Hendrix a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Project Mc2
''Project Mc2'' (pronounced ''Project MC-squared'') is an American streaming television series produced by DreamWorks Animation's AwesomenessTV and MGA Entertainment for Netflix. The series was first released on August 7, 2015. The last set of episodes was released on November 7, 2017. Plot Set in the fictional town of Maywood Glen, California, and revolving around the fields of STEM, the series follows the adventures of McKeyla McAlister and her best friends, who work for a government organization called NOV8 (pronounced "innovate"), a highly secretive group of female government operatives who are trying to protect the world. Cast and characters Main * Mika Abdalla as McKeyla McAlister, the lead girl and an agent of NOV8. At the beginning of Part 4, she was given the name "The Owl". * Ysa Penarejo as Camryn Coyle, the engineer with a high IQ * Victoria Vida as Adrienne Attoms, the culinary chemist from Spain who always wears high heels * Genneya Walton as Bryden Ban ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Bryden
Matthew Bryden is a Canadian political analyst active in the Horn of Africa. He worked for several aid and political organizations in Somalia after spending some time in the region during his leave from the Canadian military in 1987. He served as the Coordinator for the Monitoring Group Eritrea (EMG) from 2008-2012. He is now a Director at Sahan Research, a think tank based in Nairobi. Early life Matthew Bryden was born in the UK and grew up in Canada. He attended Upper Canada College in Toronto, where he graduated in 1985. Bryden joined the Canadian Forces Reserve and became interested in African aid programs after visiting the region during a military leave in 1987. Career Bryden was hired by the Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere (CARE) program in January 1988 and the following year joined the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Berbera, Somalia. He was reassigned to Nairobi, Kenya in August 1990, when the UN evacuated non-essential staff. In 1992, Bryd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Bryden
Thomas James Bryden (1 June 1877 – 12 October 1917) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played two first-class matches for Otago, one in each of the 1912–13 and 1913–14 seasons. He was killed in action during World War I at the First Battle of Passchendaele. Early life Born at Invercargill in 1877, the oldest son of Thomas and Barbara Bryden and of Scottish descent, Bryden attended the Middle and North schools in the city before training as a cabinetmaker at William Smith and Co.The Roll of Honour: Private TJ Bryden, ''Southland Times'', issue 17819, 19 November 1917, p. 3.Available onlineat Papers Past. Retrieved 29 May 2023.)Rifleman Bryden of Dunedin New Zealand Cricket Museum. Retrieved 29 May 2023. As well as cricket, he played |
Marion Bryden
Marion Helen Bryden (2 April 1918 – 12 February 2013) was a politician in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She was a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1975 to 1990. Prior to becoming a politician, she was actively involved in the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and helped found the Ontario New Democratic Party in 1961. She died in Toronto in February 2013 aged 94. Background Bryden was educated at the University of Manitoba, the University of Toronto and the Ontario College of Education. She was a member of the ''Canadian Council of Social Development'', the Elizabeth Fry Society, and the Federation of Ontario Naturalists. Bryden was also active as a union organizer, and as a researcher and statistician for the Canadian Tax Federation. During the 1960s, she served as president of the Ontario Woodsworth Memorial Foundation. Her husband, Kenneth Bryden, was a member of the Ontario Legislature from 1959 to 1967. Politics Marion Bryden was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenneth Bryden
Walter Kenneth (Ken) Bryden (April 9, 1916 – December 17, 2001) was a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation/NDP member of the Ontario legislature from 1959 to 1967, an economist, academic, civil servant and author."Walter Kenneth Bryden: pragmatist, progressive, social democrat and disciple of Christ" by Robert Syme, ''Presbyterian Record'', (September 2002) Background Bryden was one of two sons born to Walter Bryden, a minister and theologian,[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beryl Bryden
Beryl Audley Bryden (11 May 1920 – 14 July 1998) was an English jazz singer, who played with Chris Barber and Lonnie Donegan. Ella Fitzgerald once said of Bryden that she was "Britain's queen of the blues". Life and career Bryden was born in Norwich, Norfolk, England, on 11 May 1920 and was the only child of Amos and Elsie Bryden. Her enthusiasm for jazz music began during her teenage years. She became a member of the National Rhythm Club when she was 17 and became secretary of the local branch in 1941. An ardent jazz fan she established a Nat Gonella fan club in her teens, before taking up the washboard and singing. Her vocal style was influenced by Bessie Smith but she avoided affectation of an American accent. Bryden was a friend of Black Anna Hannant who ran the Jolly Butchers pub in Ber Street, Norwich. In 1942 at the age of 22, she moved to Cambridge. In 1945, after the war had ended, she moved to back to London, hoping to start a music career. She also worked wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Alexander Bryden
Robert Alexander Bryden (7 July 1841 – 14 April 1906) was a Scottish architect, prominent in the second half of the 19th century. He was mainly active in the west of Scotland, where he designed schools, churches and municipal buildings. Early life Bryden was born in Glasgow, Scotland, on 7 July 1841, the son of Robert Bryden and Margaret Ramage.Robert Alexander Bryden at ScottishArchitects.org.uk He was educated at Arthur's Academy in , , and Kirkcaldy Grammar School ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Bryden
William Campbell Rough Bryden (12 April 1942 – 5 January 2022) was a Scottish stage and film director and screenwriter. Early life and career He worked as a trainee with Scottish Television before becoming assistant director at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, in 1965. He then worked as a director at the Royal Court Theatre (1967–1971), the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh (1972–1975), Associate Director at the National Theatre (1975–1985); and as a visiting director in Glasgow and New York. In 1990, he directed Leoš Janáček's ''The Cunning Little Vixen'', at the Royal Opera House. He was Head of Television Drama at BBC Scotland (1984-1993) and has also done other work for film and television, as screenwriter, director and executive producer. Personal life and death In 1970 he married the Hon. Deborah Morris, a potter, who was a daughter of IOC President Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin. They had two children, Dillon and Mary Kate. The couple divorced in 1988. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olivia Mary Bryden
Olivia Mary Bryden (1883–1951) was a British portrait painter and decorative artist. Biography Bryden grew up in Tunbridge Wells and attended West Hill School in Eastbourne before training as an artist in Paris. She studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and the Academie Colarossi under Lucien Simon and Charles Cottet. Returning to England, Bryden studied at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London where she received her teacher training certificate and was awarded a prize by the Royal Drawing Society. Producing portraits and decorative pieces, Bryden became a regular exhibitor at London galleries. She showed works at the Grosvenor Galleries, at Burlington House, with the Fine Art Society and the Royal Society of British Artists and, between 1922 and 1933, with the Society of Women Artists. A number of churches acquired decorative pieces by Bryden. She produced a panel for the altar of a church in Brede in Sussex and a triptych for a church in Highgate, near ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Bryden
David Greenhill Bryden (23 June 1927 – 30 August 2013) was an Australian rules footballer in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Bryden was an old school ruckman-cum- back pocket recruited from Wonthaggi, Victoria who, at his prime was considered one of the best ruckmen in the Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football league in Australia serving as one of the second-tier regional semi-professional competitions which sit underneath the fully professional Australian Football League (AFL). It .... Bryden played for the Victorian interstate team in 1951 and was second best on ground in the 1954 VFL Grand Final. He played for the Bulldogs between 1947 and 1955, kicking 56 goals in 147 games. After leaving Footscray he coached and played for Nhill in country Victoria for three years. He coached to finals in 2 of the 3 years. He then returned to Melbourne and played for Kensington in the Sunday league at the age of 31 fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
