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Burnard may refer to: *Philip Burnard Ayres (1813–1863), British physician, botanist and plant collector *Bonnie Burnard (1945–2017), Canadian short story writer and novelist *Lou Burnard (born 1946), expert in digital humanities, text encoding and digital libraries *Neville Northey Burnard (1818–1878), 19th-century English sculptor *Norah Telford Burnard (1902–1979), New Zealand school dental supervisor and journal editor *Robert Burnard (1799/1800–1846–1847), Cornish painter *Trevor Burnard (born 1961), professor of American history at the University of Melbourne *Verna Burnard (born 1956), Australian sprinter *Richard Burnard Munday (1896–1932), English flying ace with nine aerial victories during World War I *Renfrey Burnard Potts (1925–2005), Australian mathematician notable for the Potts model *Hector Burnard White (1900–1969), Australian politician See also *Barnard *Bernard {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Burnard Ayres
Philip Burnard Ayres (1813–1863) was a British physician, botanist and plant collecting, collector. He was born at Thame in Oxfordshire on 12 December 1813. He initially began to collect plants in his native United Kingdom and also in France. In 1856 Ayres was appointed by Queen Victoria to superintendency of quarantine on Flat Island, Mauritius under governor Robert Townsend Farquhar. Ayres is particularly well known for his extensive plant collections made while in this position. He is also credited for finding the first sub fossil remains of the dodo in 1860. From 1856 to 1863 he traveled through Madagascar, the Seychelles, and the Mascarenes to develop this rich collection of Indian Ocean plant specimens. These specimens are now in the herbarium, herbaria collections of the Natural History Museum, London, Natural History Museum, London, the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the Missouri Botanical Garden and the Muséum National d'Histoire Nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bonnie Burnard
Bonnie Burnard (January 15, 1945 – March 4, 2017) was a Canadian short story writer and novelist, best known for her 1999 novel, ''A Good House'',Bonnie Burnard at . which won the . Born in Petrolia, Ontario, she grew up in , and moved to < ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lou Burnard
Lou Burnard (born 1946 in Birmingham, England) is an internationally recognised expert in digital humanities, particularly in the area of Markup language, text encoding and digital libraries. He was assistant director of Oxford University Computing Services (OUCS) from 2001 to September 2010 where he officially retired from OUCS. Prior to that, he was manager of the Humanities Computing Unit at OUCS for five years. He has worked in ICT support for research in the humanities since the 1990s. He was one of the founding editors of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) and continues to play an active part in its maintenance and development, as a consultant to the TEI Technical Council and as an elected TEI board member. He has played a key role in the establishment of many other key activities and initiatives in this area, such as the UK Arts and Humanities Data Service, and the British National Corpus and has published and lectured widely. Since 2008 he has also worked as a Member of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neville Northey Burnard
Nevil or Neville Northey Burnard (11 October 1818 – 27 November 1878) was a 19th century English sculptor best known for his portrait figures. Life Burnard was born in the village of Altarnun, on the edge of Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. He was the son of George Burnard, a local stonemason. He trained under his father and showed a talent from an early age. Aged sixteen years, he sculpted a relief portrait of John Wesley over the doorway of Altarnun Wesleyan chapel next to his home. He went on to win the Silver Medal of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society for his group Laocoon and His Sons. Around 1835 Sir Charles Lemon MP became his patron and took him to London where he persuaded Francis Chantrey to take him and train him further in his studio. Burnard exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1848 to 1873.Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851 by Rupert Gunnis He became a celebrated society sculptor, was introduced to Queen Victoria, and his work was exhibited at the Royal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norah Telford Burnard
Norah Telford Burnard (14 July 1902–27 February 1979) was a New Zealand school dental supervisor and journal editor. She was born in Clareville, Wairarapa, New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ... on 14 July 1902. References 1902 births 1979 deaths New Zealand writers New Zealand dentists 20th-century dentists {{NewZealand-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Burnard
Robert Burnard (1799/1800 – 1846/1847 or 13 April 1876) was an English painter. Burnard painted houses as well as portraits. Burnard was born in 1799 or 1800 in Laneast, the son of Elizabeth Westlake Burnard and Richard Parnell Burnard. He emigrated to Australia in 1840. The year of his death is uncertain, as his son with the same name had a very similar career; some sources state that he died by 1847 (an article in the ''South Australian Register ''The Register'', originally the ''South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register'', and later ''South Australian Register,'' was South Australia's first newspaper. It was first published in London in June 1836, moved to Adelaide in 1837, and f ...'' said he was "departed") whereas others list 13 April 1876. The '' John Gubbins Newton and His Sister, Mary Newton'' painting is the only known English painting (prior to Australian emigration) that can with certainty be ascribed to Burnard. References External links JOHN ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trevor Burnard
Trevor Graeme Burnard (born 15 October 1961) is professor of history at the University of Hull. He is a specialist in the history of slavery in the Atlantic world. He was formerly at the University of Warwick. and the University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne is a public research university located in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest university and the oldest in Victoria. Its main campus is located in Parkville, an inner suburb no .... Selected publications * ''The Plantation Machine: Atlantic Capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica'' * ''Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World'' * ''Creole Gentlemen: The Maryland Elite, 1691-1776'' * ''The Idea of Atlantic History: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide'' * ''Colonization of English America: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide'' * ''British Atlantic World: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Gu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verna Burnard
Verna Burnard (born 19 August 1956) is an Australian sprinter. She competed in the women's 400 metres at the 1976 Summer Olympics Events January * January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 11 – The 1976 Phi .... References External links * 1956 births Living people Athletes (track and field) at the 1976 Summer Olympics Australian female sprinters Olympic athletes of Australia Place of birth missing (living people) Olympic female sprinters {{Australia-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Burnard Munday
Major Richard Burnard Munday was an English flying ace credited with scoring nine aerial victories during World War I. He was notable for scoring Britain's first night victory; he also excelled as a balloon buster at the rare feat of shooting down enemy observation balloons at night. Early life Richard Burnard Munday was born in Plymouth, England on 31 January 1896. He was the eldest son of Major General and Mrs. R. C. Munday of Port Royal, Plymouth. World War I Details of Munday's entry into military service are unknown. However, on 16 February 1915 he lost his probationary status as his rank of flight sub-lieutenant in the Royal Naval Air Service was confirmed, and on the same day he was awarded Royal Aero Club Aviator's Certificate No. 1085. He had trained in a Maurice Farman biplane at the military flight school at Brooklands. Having completed his pilot's training, he began his aviation duties. He was slightly wounded on 28 December 1915, though details are unknown. Munday ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renfrey Burnard Potts
Renfrey Burnard (Ren) Potts AO (1925–2005) was an Australian mathematician and is notable for the Potts model and his achievements in: operations research, especially networks; transportation science, car-following and road traffic; Ising-type models in mathematical physics; difference equations; and robotics. He was interested in computing from the early days of the computing revolution and oversaw the first computer purchases at the University of Adelaide. Personal The fourth child of Gilbert MacDonald Potts and Lorna Potts (née West), named after family friend and medical doctor Renfrey Gershom Burnard, Potts was educated at Rose Park Primary School and Prince Alfred College, where his father was Second Master. Potts was an outstanding lecturer who drew large audiences to his talks. In addition to mathematics, he was interested in sports and music. His sporting activities included long distance and marathon running, hockey, tennis, squash, badminton, bushwalking, and sw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hector Burnard White
Hector Burnard White (18 June 1900 – 9 June 1969) was an Australian politician who represented the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Murray from 1953 to 1956 for the Liberal and Country League. In local politics, he was mayor of the Corporate Town of Murray Bridge The Corporate Town of Murray Bridge was a local government area in South Australia from 1924 to 1977. It was established in February 1924, when the town of Murray Bridge was severed from the District Council of Mobilong, of which it had been the c ... from 1951 to 1956. References 1900 births 1969 deaths Members of the South Australian House of Assembly Liberal and Country League politicians 20th-century Australian politicians Mayors of places in South Australia {{Australia-Liberal-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barnard
Barnard is a version of the surname Bernard, which is a French and West Germanic masculine given name and surname. The surname means as tough as a bear, Bar(Bear)+nard/hard(hardy/tough) __NOTOC__ People Some of the people bearing the surname Barnard in England are thought to have arrived after the time of the Norman Conquest (1066), Changing their surnames from Bernard to Barnard. Some of whom, it has been suggested, can be traced back to Hugo Bernard. Some of the Barnard family in England may have been Huguenots who fled from the Atlantic coast region of France ''circa'' 1685 (the time of the revocation of the edict of Nantes) or earlier than that date. By contrast, the Barnard family in Holland (the western provinces of the Netherlands) can be definitively traced back to ''circa'' 1751 (Izaak Barnard) of Scheveningen.The surname Barnard is also found in South Africa among the Afrikaner community. An example of this is Christiaan Barnard, A South African Cardiac Surgeon who pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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