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Crosse
Crosse is a surname, and may refer to: * Andrew Crosse (1784–1855), British amateur scientist * Charles Crosse, British rugby * Charles G. Crosse, American physician and politician * Edmond Francis Crosse (1858–1941), first Archdeacon of Chesterfield * John Crosse (announcer) (born 1939), English radio DJ, presenter and continuity announcer * John Crosse (antiquary) (1786–1833), British antiquary and music writer * John Green Crosse (1790–1850), English surgeon * Joseph Charles Hippolyte Crosse (1826–1898), a French conchologist * Lavinia Crosse, founder of the Community of All Hallows religious order * Roger Crosse, character in James Clavell's novel ''Noble House (book), Noble House'' * Rupert Crosse (1927–1973), American television and film actor * Victoria Crosse, a pseudonym of novelist Annie Sophie Cory (1868–1952) See also * Crosse Baronets, title in the Baronetage of Great Britain * Lacrosse stick, sometimes known as a ''crosse'' * Cross (surname) * Cross (dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Crosse
Andrew Crosse (17 June 1784 – 6 July 1855) was a British scientist who was born and died at Fyne Court, Broomfield, Somerset. Crosse was an early pioneer and experimenter in the use of electricity. He became known after press reports of an electrocrystallization experiment he conducted in 1836, during which insects "appeared". Early life Crosse was the first son of Richard Crosse and Susannah Porter. In 1788 he accompanied them on a trip to France, where he went to school for a time in Orléans. From the age of six until he was eight he stayed with a tutor, the Reverend Mr White, in Dorchester, where he learned Greek. On 1 February 1792 he was sent to boarding school in Bristol. Around the age of 12, Crosse persuaded one of his teachers to let him attend a series of lectures on the natural sciences, the second of which was on the subject of electricity. This was the cause of his lifelong interest in the subject. Crosse first began experimenting with electricity during his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Crosse
Charles William Crosse (13 June 1854 – 28 May 1905) was an English sportsman who played international rugby union for England and first-class cricket. Crosse was capped twice for England, first against Scotland in 1874 and the other against Ireland a year later, both times as a forward. In 1875, Crosse played a first-class cricket match for Oxford University. A right handed top order batsman, he made just five and eight in the only two innings of his first-class career. He also represented Scotland at cricket, playing a match against Yorkshire in 1878. Previously, he had played cricket while at Rugby School before going up to Trinity College, Oxford Trinity College (full name: The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity in the University of Oxford, of the foundation of Sir Thomas Pope (Knight)) is a Colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent college of the University of Oxford in E .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Crosse, Charles William 1854 births 1905 deaths ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles G
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''. Etymology The name's etymology is a Common Germanic noun ''*karilaz'' meaning "free man", which survives in English as wikt:churl, churl (< Old English ''ċeorl''), which developed its deprecating sense in the Middle English period. Some Germanic languages, for example Dutch language, Dutch and German ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmond Francis Crosse
The Venerable Edmond Francis Crosse (1858–1941) was the first Archdeacon of Chesterfield and, from 1914, he was a Companion of the Memorial of Merit of King Charles the Martyr. He was the great grandson of the famous Norwich surgeon John Green Crosse. From 1905 he was the Vicar of Chesterfield and then Archdeacon from 1910. He retired in 1929. He is buried in the graveyard at Little Barrington, Gloucestershire Gloucestershire ( , ; abbreviated Glos.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by Herefordshire to the north-west, Worcestershire to the north, Warwickshire to the north-east, Oxfordshire .... Notes 1858 births 1941 deaths Archdeacons of Chesterfield {{Anglican-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Crosse (announcer)
John Crosse (February 1941 – January 2025) was a British radio DJ, presenter and continuity announcer, known for being one of the voices of the Yorkshire Television region of Independent Television for nearly 30 years. Life and career Crosse was born in Ballymena, Northern Ireland in February 1941. He began his broadcasting career on pirate station Radio London in the 1960s, (where, he used the pseudonym John Sedd). He then moved to work for sales company Radiovision, which sold airtime for a couple of pirate radio stations. Later, he read the news on BBC Radio 4, and then joined Southern Television for a short stint as continuity announcer for the channel. In the early 1970s, he joined Yorkshire Television where he was noted for his authoritative RP accent, shared by a number of his colleagues at YTV, such as Redvers Kyle; the company's presentation was much more similar to BBC Television (out-of-vision announcers with RP accents) than that of other ITV companies at the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Crosse (antiquary)
John Crosse (7 July 1786 – 20 October 1833) was an English musical amateur, known for his work on the York Musical Festival. He was born at Kingston upon Hull on 7 July 1786, the son of John Norman Crosse, a business partner of Samuel Thornton. He was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He died at Hull on 20 October 1833, and was buried at St. James's Church, Sutton-on-Hull. In 1825, Crosse published ''An Account of the Grand Musical Festival, held in September, 1823, in the Cathedral Church of York''. Besides recording details of that festival, it contained a history of the development of music festival A music festival is a festival, community event with music, performances of singing and instrument playing that is often presented with a theme such as musical genre (e.g., rock music, rock, blues, folk music, folk, jazz, classical music), nation ...s in England. A satirical reply, ''The York Musical Festival: A D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Green Crosse
John Green Crosse, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, FRCS, Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (6 September 1790 – 9 June 1850) was a well-known English surgeon of his day, at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. After completing his apprenticeship in Stowmarket, he studied at St. George's Hospital and at the Windmill Street School of Medicine in London. He then moved to Dublin and Paris, finally settling in Norwich in 1815. In 1823 he became assistant-surgeon to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, and in 1826 surgeon. His reputation as a lithotomist, and in 1836 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Among his publications were ''Sketches of the Medical Schools of Paris'', describing hospital practice there, and ''A History of the Variolous Epidemic which occurred in Norwich in the year 1819''. Crosse worked on bladder stones. In 1833 he won the Jacksonian prize of the Royal College of Surgeons of England for ''The Formation, Constituents, and Extraction of the Urinary C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Charles Hippolyte Crosse
Joseph Charles Hippolyte Crosse (1 October 1826 in Paris – 7 August 1898) was a French conchologist. With Paul-Henri Fischer (1835–1893) he was co-editor of ''Journal de Conchyliologie'' (from 1861). Crosse was the author of over 300 works on Mollusca. He lived in the Château d'Argeville near Fontainebleau and died there on 7 August 1898. The first ''Journal de Conchyliologie'' issue of 1899 was dedicated to his life and work. vol 67 no. 1, 1899, pages 21-2 Works *Notice sur les bulimes de la Nouvelle-Calédonie, et description de deux espèces nouvelles (1855). *Descriptions de coquilles nouvelles (1859). *Un Mollusque bien maltraité, ou Comment M. Victor-Hugo comprend l'organisation du poulpe (1866). *Diagnoses molluscorum novo ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lavinia Crosse
Lavinia Crosse (16 December 1821 – 26 June 1890) was an English Anglicanism, Anglican nun and foundress. She founded the Community of All Hallows in Ditchingham, Norfolk in 1855. Biography Crosse was born on 16 December 1821. She was the daughter of the Norwich surgeon and physician John Green Crosse (1790–1850) and his wife Dorothy Crosse (, 1792–1870), the daughter of Thomas Bayly of Stowmarket. She had three sisters and four brothers. Alongside Catherine Hansell, Crosse volunteered as a district visitor among the poor in the parish of St Peter Mancroft. In March 1854, Crosse heard John Armstrong speak at the Norwich Assembly Rooms in support of the founding of a penitentiary at Shipmeadow, near Beccles in Suffolk, to rescue girls and women in "moral danger." Shortly after, on 9 January 1855, Crosse was asked by the council of the penitentiary to supervise this home, as the founder wished to withdraw.Bonham, Valerie. (23 September 2004). Visits to similar penitentiarie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noble House (book)
''Noble House'' is a novel by James Clavell, published in 1981 and set in Hong Kong in 1963. It is the fourth book published in Clavell's ''Asian Saga'' and is chronologically the fifth book in the series. The "Noble House" in the title is the nickname of Struan's, the trading company first introduced in Clavell's '' Tai-Pan''. The novel is over a thousand pages long, and contains dozens of characters and numerous intermingling plot lines. In 1988, it was adapted as a television miniseries for NBC, starring Pierce Brosnan. The miniseries updates the storyline of the novel to the 1980s. Plot summary ''Noble House'' is set in 1963 and serves as a sequel to Clavell's novel '' Tai-Pan''. Ian Dunross, the 10th tai-pan of Struan's and a descendant of founder Dirk Struan, struggles to rescue the company from the precarious financial position left by his predecessor. To this end, he seeks partnership with American millionaire Lincoln Bartlett, while trying to ward off his arch-rival ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rupert Crosse
Rupert Crosse (November 29, 1927 – March 5, 1973) was an American television and film actor noted as the first African American to receive a nomination for a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award — for his role in the 1969 adaptation of William Faulkner's ''The Reivers''. Background Born Robert A. Crosse, Jr. in New York City, Crosse was raised by his grandparents in Nevis after the death of his father. He returned to the United States to serve in the Army for two years before entering Bloomfield College. Crosse later worked at Brooklyn College as a counselor. In 1970, Crosse married singer Chris Calloway, daughter of Cab Calloway. They had one son, Rupert Osaze Dia Crosse, who was nine months old at the time of Crosse's death. Their son died in 2002 from a heart condition brought on by prior drug abuse. Calloway died of breast cancer in August 2008. Crosse died March 5, 1973, of lung cancer in Nevis. Career After studying acting under John Cassavetes, Crosse appeared in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie Sophie Cory
Annie Sophie Cory (1 October 1868 – 2 August 1952)Ancestry Library Edition was a British author of popular, racy, exotic New Woman novels under the pseudonyms Victoria Cross(e), Vivian Cory and V.C. Griffin. Life Annie Sophie Cory was the youngest of three daughters born to Colonel Arthur Cory and his wife Fanny Elizabeth Griffin. Her older sisters were the poet Adela Florence Nicolson and the editor Isabell Tate, who edited the ''Sind Gazette'' in India. She was born in Rawalpindi, Punjab, and was also baptized there on 27 October 1868. Her father was employed in the British army at Lahore, where he was editor of the Lahore arm of ''The Civil and Military Gazette''. Despite her parents' sojourn in India, they eventually returned to England, having maintained ties to their native country. Cory attended London University at nineteen years old in 1888, but did not graduate. In the 1891 England Census, Cory is listed as residing at 35 Tavistock Crescent, Paddington, London w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
