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Bryden Allen
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] |
Scots Language
Scots ( endonym: ''Scots''; gd, Albais, ) is an Anglic language variety in the West Germanic language family, spoken in Scotland and parts of Ulster in the north of Ireland (where the local dialect is known as Ulster Scots). Most commonly spoken in the Scottish Lowlands, Northern Isles and northern Ulster, it is sometimes called Lowland Scots or Broad Scots to distinguish it from Scottish Gaelic, the Goidelic Celtic language that was historically restricted to most of the Scottish Highlands, the Hebrides and Galloway after the 16th century. Modern Scots is a sister language of Modern English, as the two diverged independently from the same source: Early Middle English (1150–1300). Scots is recognised as an indigenous language of Scotland, a regional or minority language of Europe, as well as a vulnerable language by UNESCO. In the 2011 United Kingdom census, 2011 Scottish Census, over 1.5 million people in Scotland reported being able to speak Scots. As there are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
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] |
Rod Bryden
Rod, Ror, Ród, Rőd, Rød, Röd, ROD, or R.O.D. may refer to: Devices * Birch rod, made out of twigs from birch or other trees for corporal punishment * Ceremonial rod, used to indicate a position of authority * Connecting rod, main, coupling, or side rod, in a reciprocating engine * Control rod, used to control the rate of fission in a nuclear reactor * Divining rod, two rods believed by some to find water in a practice known as dowsing * Fishing rod, a tool used to catch fish, like a long pole with a hook on the end * Lightning rod, a conductor on top of a building to protect the building in the event of lightning by taking the charge harmlessly to earth * Measuring rod, a kind of ruler * Switch (corporal punishment), a piece of wood as used as a staff or for corporal punishment, or a bundle of such switches * Truss rod, a steel part inside a guitar neck used for its tension adjustment Arts and entertainment * ''Read or Die'', a Japanese anime and manga ** ''Read or Die'' (O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Bryden
Philip Bryden, BA ( Dalhousie) 1975, BA (Jurisprudence) (Oxford) 1978, B.C.L. (Oxford) 1979, LL.M. (Harvard) 1985 is a lawyer, and Deputy Minister.Sankey, Derek (2010)An Interview with the University of Alberta’s Dean of Law: Recognizing that Access to Justice is a Global Issue", ''The Advisory'', Vol. 8, Issue 2, April 2010, retrieved 2010-11-18 The Government of Alberta confirmed an Order in Council appointing former Dean and Professor Phil Bryden as Deputy Minister of Justice and Deputy Solicitor General effective July 6, 2015. Before this appointment, he previously held the position of dean of law at the University of Alberta, and at the University of New Brunswick The University of New Brunswick (UNB) is a public university with two primary campuses in Fredericton and Saint John, New Brunswick. It is the oldest English-language university in Canada, and among the oldest public universities in North Americ ..., each for five years. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Bryden, ... [...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] |
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] |
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] |
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] |
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] |
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] |
John H
John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Epistle of John, often shortened to 2 John * Third Epistle of John, often shortened to 3 John People * John the Baptist (died c. AD 30), regarded as a prophet and the forerunner of Jesus Christ * John the Apostle (lived c. AD 30), one of the twelve apostles of Jesus * John the Evangelist, assigned author of the Fourth Gospel, once identified with the Apostle * John of Patmos, also known as John the Divine or John the Revelator, the author of the Book of Revelation, once identified with the Apostle * John the Presbyter, a figure either identified with or distinguished from the Apostle, the Evangelist and John of Patmos Other people with the given name Religious figures * John, father of Andrew the Apostle and Saint Peter * Pope Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
