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Charles Ryan (editor)
Charles Ryan may refer to: * Sir Charles Lister Ryan (1831–1920), English civil servant * Sir Charles Ryan (surgeon) (1853–1926), Australian surgeon and army officer * Charles Ryan (mayor) (1927–2021), American politician and mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts * Charles Ryan (game designer), American game designer of role-playing games * Charles Ryan (footballer), English footballer {{hndis, Ryan, Charles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Lister Ryan
Sir Charles Lister Ryan (30 September 1831 – 20 November 1920) was a British civil servant. He served as Comptroller and Auditor-General of the Exchequer from 1888 until his retirement in 1896. Life He was born in St John's, Worcester,''1901 England Census'' the son of barrister Sir Edward Ryan and Louisa Whitmore. Ryan was a Clerk in the Treasury (1851–65), also serving as private secretary to Benjamin Disraeli (1858), Sir Stafford Northcote (1859), and William Ewart Gladstone when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer (1859–65). He was appointed secretary to the Board of Audit in 1865. He served as Assistant-Comptroller and Auditor (1873-88), followed by Comptroller and Auditor of the Exchequer and Audit Department (1888–96). He was also a governor of Wellington College, Berkshire. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1881 Birthday Honours and knighted in the same order in the 1887 Golden Jubilee Honours The Golden Jubilee Honours for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Ryan (surgeon)
Major General Sir Charles Snodgrass Ryan, (20 September 1853 – 23 October 1926) was an Australian surgeon and army officer. Early life Ryan was born at Killeen station, Longwood, Victoria, second son of Charles Ryan, an Irish overlander from New South Wales who founded the stock and station firm of Ryan & Hammond, and his wife Marian, daughter of John Cotton, a British poet, ornithological writer and artist, who became an early pastoral settler in Victoria, Australia. Ryan was educated at the Melbourne Church of England Grammar School, and subsequently at the University of Melbourne, as a student of medicine; afterwards he proceeded to Edinburgh, where he graduated in medicine and surgery, and took the degrees of Bachelor of Medicine and Master of Surgery. He then travelled on the Continent and studied medicine in France, Austria, and Italy. In Turkey In September 1876 Ryan entered the Turkish service, and was forthwith sent to Nisch, where he was placed in charge of a lar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Ryan (mayor)
Charles V. Ryan (September 15, 1927 – October 18, 2021) was an American politician who served as Mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts, from 1962 to 1967, and again from 2004 to 2008. Ryan served as the city's mayor during the 1960s for three terms and for two additional terms beginning in 2004, making him the only Springfield mayor to serve in two different centuries. His terms in the 1960s occurred during a time of civil unrest and controversial urban renewal projects. Ryan was unsuccessful in preventing the closure of the Springfield Armory, a major economic blow to Springfield that he blamed on then Congressman Edward P. Boland. Ryan ran against Boland for Congress in 1968, but was defeated in a landslide. After leaving office he became a prominent attorney and continued to be active in public affairs, serving as a member of the downtown economic development group Springfield Central and leading efforts to successfully defeat attempts to institute casino gambling. He also le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Ryan (game Designer)
Charles M. Ryan is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games. Career Charles Ryan's company Chameleon Eclectic had been publishing games such as '' Millennium's End'' (1992) and ''Psychosis'' (1994) in Blacksburg, Virginia. Ryan was later working at Last Unicorn Games when Wizards of the Coast purchased the company, and was the only employee to relocate to Seattle when Bill Slavicsek opted to close down the Los Angeles office of Last Unicorn in December 2000. In 2011, Cubicle 7 increased its staff by hiring experienced game designers like Ryan, Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, Walt Ciechanowski, and Neil Ford. His ''D&D'' editing and design work includes the 3.5 revisions of the ''Player's Handbook'', ''Monster Manual'', and ''Dungeon Master's Guide'' (2003), the ''Miniatures Handbook'' (2003), the ''Dragonlance Campaign Setting'' book (2003), ''Draconomicon'' (2003), ''Unearthed Arcana'' (2004), and ''Monster Manual III ''Monster Manual III'' is a manual publishe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |