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Charles Knight (actor)
Charles Knight may refer to: *Charles Knight (engraver) (1743–c. 1827), English engraver *Charles Knight (publisher) (1791–1873), English author and publisher *Charles Knight (doctor) (1808–1891), New Zealand doctor, public servant and botanist * Charles Parsons Knight (1829–1897), English painter *Charles Knight (civil servant) (1863–1941), British civil servant * Charles Landon Knight (1867–1933), American lawyer, publisher and United States Representative from Ohio *Charles Yale Knight (1868–1940), American engineer, inventor of the Knight engine *Charles R. Knight (1874–1953), American artist who specialized in dinosaur paintings * Charles Joseph Knight (born 1931), Canadian Surgeon General *Charles F. Knight (1936–2017), American businessman, former chairman of Emerson Electric *Charles Ray Knight (born 1952), American former Major League Baseball player * Charles T. Knight (fl. 1964–1994), American sound engineer *Charles Knight (cardiologist), cardiologist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Knight (engraver)
Charles Parsons Knight (1743–1827?) was an English engraver. Life Knight resided in 1781 in Berwick Street, Soho, London, enrolled in London's Royal Academy Schools in 1788, and in 1792 resided in Brompton. He is best known for his engravings, but he also worked as a miniature painter. In 1803 Knight was one of the original governors of the Society of Engravers. While residing in Hammersmith, at 83 years of age (1826), he published a portrait of the Rev. Thomas Stephen Attwood, minister of Hammersmith. This is presumed to be one of his last works. His daughter Martha also practised as an engraver. Works Knight was at first employed on downmarket prints, for such works as Sylvester Harding's ''Shakespeare Illustrated'' and the ''Memoirs of Grammont''. He later obtained a better reputation. He engraved subjects after Henry William Bunbury, Angelica Kauffman, Francis Wheatley, Thomas Stothard, John Hodges Benwell, John Hoppner, James Northcote, John Raphael Smith, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Knight (publisher)
Charles Knight (15 March 1791 – 9 March 1873) was an English publisher, editor and author. He published and contributed to works such as ''The Penny Magazine'', ''The Penny Cyclopaedia'', and ''The English Cyclopaedia'', and established the ''Local Government Chronicle''. Early life The son of a bookseller and printer at Windsor, he was apprenticed to his father. On completion of his indentures he took up journalism and had an interest in several newspaper speculations, including the '' Windsor, Slough and Eton Express''. In 1823, in conjunction with friends he had made as publisher (1820–1821) of ''The Etonian'', he started ''Knight's Quarterly Magazine'', to which Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Derwent Coleridge and Thomas Macaulay contributed. It lasted for only six issues, but it made Knight's name as publisher and author, beginning a career which lasted over forty years. The periodical included an 1824 review of ''Frankenstein'' in which Percy Bysshe Shelley was attribut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Knight (doctor)
Charles Knight ( 1808 – 3 September 1891) was a New Zealand doctor, public servant and botanist. He was born in Rye, Sussex, England in 1808. He studied medicine at University College, London from 1828 until 1830. In 1840 he became a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland and a Fellow in 1869. Between 1830 and 1840 Knight worked as a doctor and spent time in America. Administrative career In 1841 he sailed to Australia as ship's surgeon on the ''Lord Glenelg''. After arrival, he was employed by the Governor of South Australia, George Grey as a clerk. Knight moved with Grey when the latter was appointed Governor of New Zealand. In February 1846 Knight was appointed as the country's inaugural auditor-general and in 1855 became manager of the Colonial Bank of Issue and then auditor of public accounts and chaired many official commissions into subjects as diverse as flax production, meteorology and civil servant employment conditions. He later re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Parsons Knight
Charles Parsons Knight (15 February 1829 – 22 January 1897) was an English painter. Biography He was born at Bristol, the fifth son of the Rev. Canon Knight, rector of Saint Michael's. He was educated by his father, who was a scholar, and the friend of the artists and literary men of Bristol: George Cumberland, Sr., the Rev. John Eagrles, John Bird, R.A., and others. As a boy Charles Knight loved and drew the shipping of the old Port of Bristol. He entered Messrs. Green's service as a midshipman, but after one voyage to Calcutta and back he gave up the profession. This experience strengthened his love of the sea as a subject for art. He then pursued art studies under no regular master, but drew and painted in the life school of the Bristol Academy. His first works were studies of scenery in Somerset and Devon. He first exhibited in London, at the Suffolk Street Galleries, in 1853, a picture called “The Mumbles Head, Glamorganshire.” His first contribution to the Royal Ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Knight (civil Servant)
Charles Knight CB (1863–25 March 1941) was a British civil servant. Born in Roche, Cornwall, Knight served as Assistant Secretary of the Local Government Board from 1918 to 1919 and then its successor, the Ministry of Health, from 1919 to 1922. He was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the 1920 New Year War Honours. Footnotes References *Obituary, ''The Times'', 28 March 1941 *''Who Was Who ''Who's Who'' is a reference work. It is a book, and also a CD-ROM and a website, giving information on influential people from around the world. Published annually as a book since 1849, it lists people who influence British life, according to i ...'' 1863 births 1941 deaths People from Cornwall Civil servants in the Local Government Board Civil servants in the Ministry of Health (United Kingdom) Companions of the Order of the Bath {{UK-gov-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Landon Knight
Charles Landon Knight (June 18, 1867 – September 26, 1933) was an American lawyer and newspaper publisher who represented Ohio in the United States House of Representatives from 1921-1923. His sons built his newspaper business into what would become Knight Ridder. Early life Born near Milledgeville, Georgia, "C.L." graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1889 and from Columbia University Law School in 1890. He was admitted to the bar in 1892 and commenced practice at Bluefield, West Virginia. Journalism and politics Knight joined the ''Philadelphia Times'' in 1896 and remained until 1900. In 1903, Knight purchased the ''Akron Beacon Journal'' in Akron, Ohio. According to his obituary in ''The New York Times'', "Mr. Knight was well known for his opposition to the Taft nomination in 1912, the election of Woodrow Wilson, America's entry into the World War, the country's proposed membership in the League of Nations and prohibition." He was a delegate to the Republican Natio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Yale Knight
Charles Yale Knight (born 1868-1940 in Indiana) was an entrepreneur and inventor of the sleeve valve technology. His engines would be used in the early cars, British tanks, and British aircraft. The Knight engine technology for automobiles was used by John Willys and his company, Willys Company, the second largest car manufacturer after Henry Ford, as well as by Daimler, Mercedes, Peugeot and others. He was a millionaire by the time he was 44 years of age, in 1912. History Knight was originally an American printer and newspaper publisher, publishing a Midwest farm journal called ''Dairy Produce''. To cover dairy activities during 1901–02, he bought an early Knox automobile, a three-wheeler with an air-cooled, single-cylinder engine whose noisy valves annoyed him. He believed that he could design a better engine and proceeded to do so. Knight was familiar with the slide valves used on early Otto engines, having repaired the similar valve mechanism in his father's sawmill. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles R
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "free man". The Old English descendant of this word was '' Ċearl'' or ''Ċeorl'', as the name of King Cearl of Mercia, that disappeared after the Norman conquest of England. The name was notably borne by Charlemagne (Charles the Great), and was at the time Latinized as ''Karolus'' (as in ''Vita Karoli Magni''), later also as '' Carolus''. Some Germanic languages, for example Dutch and German, have retained the word in two separate senses. In the particular case of Dutch, ''Karel'' refers to the given name, whereas the noun ''kerel'' means "a bloke, fellow, man". Etymology The name's etymology is a Common Germanic noun ''*karilaz'' meaning "free man", which survives in English as churl (< Old English ''ċeorl''), which developed its depr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Joseph Knight
Surgeon Rear-Admiral Charles Joseph Knight (September 11, 1931 – September 1, 2023) was a Canadian admiral who was the 30th Surgeon General of Canada. Life Born in Dawn Township, Lambton, Ontario, Knight was educated at the University of Western Ontario, where he graduated with his Bachelor of Arts Degree in 1953 and his Medical Degree in 1957. He also completed post-graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania from 1966 to 1968. Knight joined the military during his undergraduate studies in 1950 with the Armoured Corps, and transferred into the Medical Corps in 1956 while attending medical school. His first posting was to Her Majesty's Canadian Ship (HMCS) Naden in 1957. Knight was next posted from 1963 to 1966 to HMCS Shearwater. He was then posted to the Institute of Aviation Medicine, in Toronto, Ontario, with the diving team. Knight left for a brief period of time to return to university, and then upon completion, resumed his duties at the institute in 1970. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles F
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "free man". The Old English descendant of this word was '' Ċearl'' or ''Ċeorl'', as the name of King Cearl of Mercia, that disappeared after the Norman conquest of England. The name was notably borne by Charlemagne (Charles the Great), and was at the time Latinized as ''Karolus'' (as in ''Vita Karoli Magni''), later also as '' Carolus''. Some Germanic languages, for example Dutch and German, have retained the word in two separate senses. In the particular case of Dutch, ''Karel'' refers to the given name, whereas the noun ''kerel'' means "a bloke, fellow, man". Etymology The name's etymology is a Common Germanic noun ''*karilaz'' meaning "free man", which survives in English as churl (< Old English ''ċeorl''), which developed its depr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Knight
Charles Ray Knight (born December 28, 1952) is an American former Major League Baseball infielder best remembered for his time with the Cincinnati Reds and New York Mets. Originally drafted by the Reds in the tenth round of the 1970 Major League Baseball Draft, he is best remembered to Reds fans as the man who replaced Pete Rose at third base, whereas Mets fans remember Knight as the man who scored the winning run of game six of the 1986 World Series and as the MVP of that series. He was most recently a studio analyst and occasional game analyst for the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network's coverage of the Washington Nationals from 2007 to 2018. Early life Knight grew up in Albany, Georgia, and attended Dougherty High School and Albany Junior College. Career Cincinnati Reds Knight made his major league debut with Cincinnati as a September call-up in . He spent all of and with the triple A Indianapolis Indians. In 1976, with only one home run coming into the final month of the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles T
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "free man". The Old English descendant of this word was '' Ċearl'' or ''Ċeorl'', as the name of King Cearl of Mercia, that disappeared after the Norman conquest of England. The name was notably borne by Charlemagne (Charles the Great), and was at the time Latinized as ''Karolus'' (as in ''Vita Karoli Magni''), later also as '' Carolus''. Some Germanic languages, for example Dutch and German, have retained the word in two separate senses. In the particular case of Dutch, ''Karel'' refers to the given name, whereas the noun ''kerel'' means "a bloke, fellow, man". Etymology The name's etymology is a Common Germanic noun ''*karilaz'' meaning "free man", which survives in English as churl (< Old English ''ċeorl''), which developed its depr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
