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Delmar (surname)
Delmar is a surname of Spanish origin, meaning "of the sea". Notable people with the surname include: * Eugene Delmar (1841-1909), American chess master * Ferdinand Moritz Delmar Baron Ferdinand Moritz Delmar born Salomon Moses Levy (21 March 1781 – 27 November 1858) was a wealthy Prussian banker. He also owned coffee and tea plantations in Sri Lanka (Ceylon) including the namesake Delmar Estate. Salomon Moses Levy was bo ... (1781 - 1858), Prussian banking baron * Viña Delmar (1903–1990), American novelist * Kenny Delmar (1910–1984), American actor * Elaine Delmar (1939–), British singer {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spanish Language
Spanish ( or , Castilian) is a Romance languages, Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from colloquial Latin spoken on the Iberian peninsula. Today, it is a world language, global language with more than 500 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain. Spanish is the official language of List of countries where Spanish is an official language, 20 countries. It is the world's list of languages by number of native speakers, second-most spoken native language after Mandarin Chinese; the world's list of languages by total number of speakers, fourth-most spoken language overall after English language, English, Mandarin Chinese, and Hindustani language, Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu); and the world's most widely spoken Romance languages, Romance language. The largest population of native speakers is in Mexico. Spanish is part of the Iberian Romance languages, Ibero-Romance group of languages, which evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin in I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugene Delmar
Eugene Delmar (September 12, 1841, New York – February 22, 1909, New York), was one of the leading United States chess masters of the 19th century and the four-time New York State champion in 1890, 1891, 1895 and 1897. He won a match against Robert Henry Barnes Robert Henry Barnes (2 October 1849 – January 1916) was a British–German chess player. He played in Germany, at Frankfurt 1884 (4th scoring 7.5/11); at Frankfurt 1887 (5th DSB Congress, ''Hauptturnier A'', 1st scoring 8/9, and ''Sieger ... with only a single draw (+7 –0 =1). References External links * 1841 births 1909 deaths American chess players 19th-century chess players {{US-chess-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferdinand Moritz Delmar
Baron Ferdinand Moritz Delmar born Salomon Moses Levy (21 March 1781 – 27 November 1858) was a wealthy Prussian banker. He also owned coffee and tea plantations in Sri Lanka (Ceylon) including the namesake Delmar Estate. Salomon Moses Levy was born in Charlottenburg, Berlin to a Jewish family that came from Poznan. His father was Moses Salomon Levy, also a banker and grain merchant and his mother Belle was the daughter of the court banker Ruben Hesse Goldschmidt in Kassel. Delmar was also a banker and financier involved in the Prussian war tributes after the Treaties of Tilsit. He inherited Delmar and Co in 1809 and along with his brothers, he adopted the name of "Delmar" (meaning "of the sea") and converted to Christianity. He then became a councilor for Berlin and was a friend of the French aristocracy there. In 1810 he received the Prussian title of ''Freiherr'' (baron) von Delmar. He moved around 1815 to Paris where he married Emily (1790-1861), the daughter of Sir George Rumbo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viña Delmar
Viña Delmar (born Alvina Louise Croter; January 29, 1903 – January 19, 1990) was an American short story writer, novelist, playwright, and screenwriter who worked from the 1920s to the 1970s. She rose to fame in the late 1920s with the publication of her suggestively titled novel, ''Bad Girl,'' which became a bestseller in 1928. Delmar also wrote the screenplay to the screwball comedy, ''The Awful Truth'', for which she received an Academy Award nomination in 1937. Early years Viña Delmar was born Alvina Louise Croter on January 29, 1903, in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of vaudeville performers Isaac "Ike" Croter and Jennie A. Croter, née Guran or Guerin. Her parents were regulars on the vaudeville circuit as well as performers in the Yiddish theater in New York City and other major cities in the United States. Ike Croter went by the stage name of "Charlie Hoey" (or "Chas Hoey"), and formed half of the musical duo "Hoey and Lee," alongside partner Harry Lee. Jennie Cro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenny Delmar
Kenneth Howard Delmar (born Kenneth Frederick Fay Howard, '''', May 17, 1948 September 5, 1910, Boston, Massachusetts – July 14, 1984, Stamford, Connecticut) was an American active in radio, films, and animation. An announcer on the pioneering radio news series '' |
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