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Cant (surname)
Cant is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Andrew Cant (educator) (died 1728), Principal of the University of Edinburgh from 1675 to 1685 * Andrew Cant (footballer) (born 1899), Scottish professional footballer * Andrew Cant (minister) (1590–1663), Presbyterian minister and leader of the Scottish Covenanters * Brian Cant (1933–2017), British actor and writer * Colin Cant (f. 1980s), British television producer * Gilbert Cant (1909–1982), British-born US journalist * Harry Cant (1907–1977), Australian politician * Leslie Cant (1908–1943), British footballer * Richard Cant (f. 1980s), British actor, son of Brian Cant * Robert Cant (1915–1997), British politician * Sanne Cant (b. 1990), Belgian cyclist * William Cant (musician) (1753-1821), English piper * William Alexander Cant (1863–1933), US federal judge See also * Cant (other) Cant, CANT, canting, or canted may refer to: Language * Cant (language), a secret language * Beurla Reagaird ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Cant (educator)
Andrew Cant (c.1626–1685) was a Scottish clergyman and scholar, and Principal of the University of Edinburgh from 1675 to 1685. Life He was born in Aberdeen the son of Andrew Cant (1584–1663). He graduated MA from Marischal College in Aberdeen in 1644. He served as Regent of the college from 1649 to 1658. In March 1659 he was ordained as minister of Liberton Church just south of Edinburgh. After 14 years he was translated to Trinity Parish in Edinburgh in 1673, replacing Joshua Meldrum. In 1675 he was elected Principal of Edinburgh University. On 29 September 1675 the Town Council of Edinburgh appointed him "second charge" of St Giles Cathedral under William Annand. As an Edinburgh minister during the reign of Charles II, and consequently is assumed to have been an adherent of Episcopacy. He died on 4 December 1685. Publications *Theses Philosophical *De Libero Arbitrio *Oratio de Concordia Theologorum et Discordia Family He married three times: Firstly in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Cant (footballer)
Andrew Cant (born 1899) was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a centre forward. Career Born in Glasgow, Cant played for East Fife and Bradford City. For Bradford City, he made 14 appearances in the Football League The English Football League (EFL) is a league of professional football clubs from England and Wales. Founded in 1888 as the Football League, the league is the oldest such competition in the world. It was the top-level football league in Engla ..., scoring three goals; he also made 1 appearance in the FA Cup.Frost, p. 380 Sources * References 1899 births Year of death missing Scottish men's footballers East Fife F.C. players Bradford City A.F.C. players English Football League players Men's association football forwards {{Scotland-footy-forward-1890s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Cant (minister)
Andrew Cant (1584–1663) was a Presbyterian Presbyterianism is a part of the Reformed tradition within Protestantism that broke from the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland by John Knox, who was a priest at St. Giles Cathedral (Church of Scotland). Presbyterian churches derive their nam ... minister and leader of the Scottish Covenanters. About 1623 the people of Edinburgh called him to be their minister, but he was rejected by James I of England, James I. Ten years later he was minister of Pitsligo in Aberdeenshire, a charge which he left in 1638 for that of Newbattle in Midlothian. In July of that year he went with other commissioners to Aberdeen in the vain attempt to induce the university and the presbytery of that city to subscribe the National Covenant, and in the following November sat in the general assembly at Glasgow which abolished episcopacy in Scotland. In 1638 Cant was minister of Pitsligo in Aberdeenshire. In 1640 he was chaplain to the Scottish army and then ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Cant
Brian Cant (12 July 1933 – 19 June 2017) was an English actor of stage, television and film, television presenter, voice artist and writer. He was best known for his work in BBC television programmes for children from 1964 onward, most notably '' Play School'' and in later years '' Dappledown Farm.'' Early life and education Cant was born on 12 July 1933 in Ipswich and educated at Northgate Grammar School for Boys, a state grammar school, since renamed Northgate High School. He trained with Ipswich Town F.C.'s youth team. He worked as a printer before starting to act in the late 1950s. Television and film Cant was performing in BBC Schools drama television programmes about the Romans for the corporation when he heard that auditions were being held for a new pre-school children's programme which was to be shown on the new BBC 2 channel. This was '' Play School''. At his audition he was asked by programme creator and the series' first producer Joy Whitby to get in a cardboard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Cant
Colin Cant is a British television director, producer and scenic designer, best known for his work for the children's department of BBC Television from the 1970s to the 1990s. After beginning his career as a designer, he moved to directing and worked on many BBC children's series. He was involved for several years as both a director and producer on the long-running school-based drama series ''Grange Hill''. He remained active in television into the 21st century, directing for the ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street'' in 2005. Career Cant initially trained as an architect, but switched to working in television design after watching a documentary programme about it, and realising how much more quickly his work could be realised in that area as opposed to the longer construction time of architecture. He began his career in television in the 1960s, earning his earliest credits as a scenic designer on programmes such as the BBC Scotland series ''This Man Craig''. He was encouraged by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilbert Cant
Gilbert Cant (September 16, 1909 – August 1, 1982)"Gilbert Cant." ''Contemporary Authors Online''. Detroit: Gale, 1998. Gale Biography In Context. was a London-born American journalist. Cant arrived in the U.S. in 1934 and began working for the ''New York Post'' in 1937. He was a war correspondent in the Pacific during World War II and wrote three books on the subject, ''The War at Sea'', ''America's Navy in World War II'', and ''The Great Pacific Victory''. He joined ''Time'' in 1943 and was their medical editor from 1949 to 1969. Cant was a member of the all-male literary banqueting club the Trap Door Spiders, which served as the basis of Isaac Asimov's fictional group of mystery solvers the Black Widowers. Cant himself was the model for the Thomas Trumbull character. After Cant died, Asimov dedicated the collection ''Banquets of the Black Widowers'' (1984) to his memory and to that of Frederic Dannay Ellery Queen is a pseudonym created in 1929 by American crime fiction write ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Cant
Hartley Gordon James "Harry" Cant (19 November 1907 – 3 March 1977) was an Australian politician. Born at Mount Magnet, Western Australia, he was educated at state schools and then the Kalgoorlie School of Mines, becoming a miner. He was an official with the Australian Workers' Union. In 1958, he was elected to the Australian Senate as a Labor Labour or labor may refer to: * Childbirth, the delivery of a baby * Labour (human activity), or work ** Manual labour, physical work ** Wage labour, a socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer ** Organized labour and the la ... Senator for Western Australia. He held the seat until 1974, when he retired. Cant died in 1977. References Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Australia Members of the Australian Senate for Western Australia Members of the Australian Senate 1907 births 1977 deaths People from Mount Magnet, Western Australia 20th-century Australian politicians {{Austra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie Cant
John Leslie Cant (20 February 1908 – 19 June 1943) was an English professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper in the Football League for Southport. Personal life Son of Thomas and Mary Ann Cant, Cant was married with a wife Ella, and served as a lance corporal in the Durham Light Infantry (DLI) during the Second World War, having enlisted after employment at a steel works. While serving with the 16th Battalion, DLI, part of the 46th Infantry Division, he was severely wounded, losing limbs, by an explosion during the final stages of the Tunisian campaign and died of wounds nine weeks later on 19 June 1943. He is buried at Bone War Cemetery, Annaba Annaba ( ar, عنّابة, "Place of the Jujubes"; ber, Aânavaen), formerly known as Bon, Bona and Bône, is a seaport city in the northeastern corner of Algeria, close to the border with Tunisia. Annaba is near the small Seybouse River .... Career statistics References 1908 births 1943 deaths Military ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Cant
Richard Cant is a British actor. He is the son of actor and children's television presenter Brian Cant. Cant made two appearances on the long-running murder mystery series '' Midsomer Murders'', appearing in the 1997 pilot episode ''The Killings at Badger's Drift'' as undertaker Dennis Rainbird, alongside Elizabeth Spriggs who played his mother, and then again as Dennis Rainbird's cousin, Alistair Gooding, in the 2006 story ''Dead Letters''. In the second story, he appeared alongside Jason Hughes, who played Detective Sergeant Ben Jones; Richard had previously appeared with Jason Hughes in an episode of the cult BBC 2 TV series ''This Life'', where he played Phil, a friend of Hughes's character Warren. Other television and film appearances include " Stan and Ollie", "Mary, Queen of Scots", 'The Crown", "It's a Sin",''The Way We Live Now'', ''Bleak House'', '' Gimme Gimme Gimme'', and ''Gunpowder Treason and Plot''. In 2007 he appeared in an episode of '' Doctor Who'', " Blin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Cant
Robert Bowen Cant (24 July 1915 – 13 July 1997) was a British Labour politician. Early life Cant was educated at Middlesbrough High School for Boys and the London School of Economics, and served with the Royal Corps of Signals. He became a university lecturer, and wrote ''American Journey'', a study of American high schools. Political career Cant was elected a councillor on Stoke-on-Trent City Council in 1953. He contested Shrewsbury in 1950 and 1951. He was Member of Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent Central from 1966 to 1983, preceding Mark Fisher Mark Fisher (11 July 1968 – 13 January 2017), also known under his blogging alias k-punk, was an English writer, music critic, political and cultural theorist, philosopher, and teacher based in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsm .... References *''The Times Guide to the House of Commons 1966'' External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Cant, Robert 1915 births 1997 deaths Alumni of the London School of Economics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanne Cant
Sanne Cant (born 8 October 1990) is a Belgian Cycle sport, racing cyclist, who currently competes in cyclo-cross for UCI Cyclo-cross Team IKO–Crelan, and in road cycling for UCI Women's Team, UCI Women's Continental Team . Cant's cousin Loes Sels is also a professional cyclist. Cant won the World Championship cyclo cross in the elite category in 2017, 2018, 2019, and won the European Cyclo-cross Championship in 2014, 2015 and 2017. Career Competing at youth level In her youth Cant competed in both athletics and duathlon. In 2002, she started cycling, focusing mainly on cyclocross and mountain biking. In her first year as a cyclist she immediately won the provincial championship at the age of 12. In 2003 and 2004, she repeated this feat. Also in 2004, Cant achieved her first major victory, becoming Belgian champion in the 14-year-old category. She then moved into the youth category, continuing her provincial title run, while also capturing the youth Mountain bike, MTB title. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Cant (musician)
William Cant (1753–1821) was a Northumbrian piper and violinist in the early part of the 19th century. Biography William Cant was born in Morpeth, Northumberland on 4 February 1753. He had studied the pipes with Old William Lamshaw, 'at an early age', according to the account of William Green (piper), his nephew, who was writing in the 1850s – Green's mother Isabel was Cant's sister. Thomas Bewick, the engraver, who knew him, confirms in his memoirs that Cant was Old Lamshaw's pupil. Green also stated that Cant had been postboy to Joseph Turnbull, and learned with him, when the latter was postmaster at Alnwick. Green's account also tells us that Cant played the Northumberland pipes 'in the Regiment', 'in the American War'. He appears in the earliest surviving records of the 1st Northumberland Militia in 1780, as a drummer. This Militia regiment was posted to the south of England around this time, but does not seem to have been posted overseas. He seems to have left the arm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
