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Charles Reid (other)
Charles Reid may refer to: *Charles Reid (Indian Army officer) (1819-1901), British army officer and GCB *Charles Reid (rugby union) (1864-1909), Scottish rugby player * Charles Reid (snowboarder) (born 1990), Canadian snowboarder * Charles C. Reid (1868–1922), U.S. Representative from Arkansas * Charles Carlow Reid (1879-1961), Scottish mining engineer and father of Sir William Reid * Chip Reid, American news reporter * Tony Reid (Charles Anthony Reid, born 1962), Barbados-born American former cricketer * Charles Reid (photographer) (1837–1929), Scottish photographer * Charles Warwick Reid, involved in Attorney General for Hong Kong v Reid, Hong Kong legal case 1993 *Charles Reid (painter) (1937-2019), American painter, illustrator, and teacher. *Charles Reid Barnes (1858-1910), American botanist, and bryologist. See also *Charlie Reid (other) Charlie Reid may refer to: *Charlie Reid of The Proclaimers *Charlie Reid (ice hockey) (died 1953), ice hockey goaltender * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Reid (Indian Army Officer)
General Sir Charles Reid (19 March 1818 – 23 August 1901) was an officer in the East India Company and later Indian Army, and aide-de-camp to Queen Victoria. Personal life Reid was born in London on 19 March 1818. His father George Reid (c.1778 – 25 January 1827) owned the Bunker's Hill and Friendship sugar plantations in Jamaica and rented Watlington Hall, Norfolk (destroyed by fire in 1940 and rebuilt). His mother Louisa (1786–1879) was the daughter of Sir Charles Oakeley (1751–1826), a former governor of Madras. He had five sisters including Louisa Elizabeth (the eldest daughter), Helena Catherine (born 1814 or 1815), Amelia Maria (1821–1896, the sixth child) and Georgina Ann, and three brothers. Reid was educated at Repton School, and joined the East India Company as a cadet in 1835, aged 16. In Mussoorie, Bengal, India, on 24 September 1846 Reid married Lavinia Lucy Fisher ( Deyrah Dhoon, India 1829 – London 24 August 1888), daughter of Captain John Fisher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Reid (rugby Union)
Charles Reid (14 January 1864 - 25 October 1909) was a Scotland international rugby union player.Bath, p37 Rugby Union career Amateur career Reid attended Edinburgh Academy, and played rugby union for the Edinburgh Academicals . He was still a schoolboy of the academy when first capped by Scotland. In the match against in 1881, he played against his classmate Frank Wright at Raeburn Place. Frank Wright was also seventeen at the time but - as a boarder from Manchester - represented the England side. At the end of the match, both of the boys were carried on the shoulders of their fans back to Edinburgh Academy. He acquired a nickname of Hippo at the school; this does not refer to his being like a hippopotamus, but the fact that he didn't know the word for a horse, when asked once in an Ancient Greek class at the Edinburgh Academy.Bath, p101 After his schooling, he still played for Edinburgh Academicals. He later played for Perthshire. Provincial career He played for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Reid (snowboarder)
Charles Reid (born April 12, 1990) is a Canadian snowboarder. He competes in slopestyle and represented Canada in this event at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi where he finished in 22nd place in the Olympic inaugural slopestyle Slopestyle is a winter sport in which athletes ski or snowboard down a course including a variety of obstacles including rails, jumps and other terrain park features. Points are scored for amplitude, originality and quality of tricks. The disci ... event. References 1990 births Living people Canadian male snowboarders Sportspeople from Quebec Snowboarders at the 2014 Winter Olympics Olympic snowboarders for Canada {{Canada-snowboarding-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles C
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English language, English and French language, French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic, Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "free man". The Old English descendant of this word was ''Churl, 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 Latinisation of names, Latinized as ''Karolus'' (as in ''Vita Karoli Magni''), later also as ''Carolus (other), Carolus''. Some Germanic languages, for example Dutch language, Dutch and German language, 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Carlow Reid
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] |
William Reid (mining Engineer)
Sir William Reid FRSE FIME DSc DCL (20 June 1906–2 October 1985) was a 20th century Scottish businessman and mining engineer. He served as President of the Mining Institute of Scotland 1951/2 and as President of the Institute of Mining Engineers 1956/7. He was Chairman of the County Durham, Durham Division of the National Coal Board. Life He was born on 20 June 1906 the son of Sir Charles Carlow Reid (1879-1961), a mining engineer and author of the "Reid Report" on British mining, and cousin to mining entrepreneur Charles Augustus Carlow. William was educated at Dollar Academy. He studied mining and metallurgy at the University of Edinburgh graduating with a BSc in 1929 and gaining a doctorate (PhD) in 1933. In 1956 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Robert McAdam, Edmund Hirst, Sir Edmund Hirst, James Pickering Kendall, and Hugh Bryan Nisbet. He received honorary doctorates from Heriot-Watt University in 1967 (DSc) and from Durha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chip Reid
Charles Henry "Chip" Reid Jr. was named CBS News National correspondent in June 2011. Prior to his current position, he was the White House Correspondents' Association, Chief White House Correspondent for CBS News. He assumed that position on January 5, 2009. Previously, Reid was the network's congressional correspondent. Prior to his association with CBS, he was employed by NBC News, where he covered politics and Capitol Hill. Education Reid was educated at Concord High School (Wilmington, Delaware), Concord High School, a public secondary school in Wilmington, Delaware, followed by Vassar College, a private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in the town of Poughkeepsie (town), New York, Poughkeepsie in New York (state), New York state, from which he graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in psychology in 1977. He then attended Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton, New Jersey, in 1982, graduating with a Master's of Public Affairs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Reid
Charles Anthony "Tony" Reid (born 9 April 1962) is a Barbados-born American former cricketer. A right-handed batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler,Tony Reid at CricketArchive he played for the from 2000 until 2005.Teams played for by Tony Reid at CricketArchive He was the first man to take a wicket for the USA in a |
Charles Reid (photographer)
Charles Reid (20 September 1837 – 1929) was one of the first and most successful commercial photographers in Scotland. He pioneered the photography of livestock and wildlife in an era when very long exposures were generally required. In a 50-year career, he travelled all over the UK.Angus McDonald The Scottish Farmer December 1997 Reid was born in Turriff, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, the son of William Reid, a plasterer and labourer, and Isabella Findlater. Reid married and had seven children. Reid began work as a cattle herds boy at the age of 10. An apprenticeship to a shoemaker followed and then work as a post runner. The gift of a camera from a lodger started him on the career that would occupy the remainder of his days. The local trade directory indicates that Reid had a studio in Turriff until around 1876, after which he settled in Wishaw and set up a studio in Shand Street. He travelled the length and breadth of Britain photographing the prize race horses and breeding sto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Warwick Reid
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 depre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Attorney General For Hong Kong V Reid
was a Court of Appeal of New Zealand, New Zealand-originated trust law case heard and decided by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, where it was held that bribe money accepted by a person in a position of trust, can be traced into any property bought and is held on constructive trust for the beneficiary. After a period of legal uncertainty, this case was finally and unquestionably accepted and adopted into Law of England and Wales, domestic English jurisprudence by the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, UK Supreme Court in . Facts Mr Charles Warwick Reid was a New Zealand citizen who was employed as a Hong Kong Deputy Crown Prosecutor and then Acting Director of Public Prosecutions, so in a fiduciary relationship with the Hong Kong government. He took bribes to obstruct prosecution of some criminals, and used the money to buy land in New Zealand. Some was kept by Mr Reid and his wife, Mrs Judith Margaret Reid, some conveyed to Reid’s solicitor. The Hong Kong gover ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Reid (painter)
Charles Clark Reid (August12,1937 June1,2019) was an American painter, illustrator, and teacher, notable for his watercolor style. He won numerous national and international awards for both his watercolor and oil works, and also hosted many workshops in the US and abroad. He published numerous books and instructional DVDs and created a postage stamp and an iconic ad campaign with his watercolor depictions. His watercolor works and oil paintings are in private and college museum collections. Early life Reid became interested in painting at the age of 14 when his parents encouraged him by letting him use a room in the family home for his art. His father gave him illustrated history books and books about Charles Marion Russell and Frederic Remington, both known for their paintings of the American Old West. Reid's father enrolled him in a correspondence course at the Famous Artists School, when he was 16 years old. Reid also attended South Kent School and the University of Vermont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
