|
Down (surname)
Down is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Alec Down (1914–1995), British archaeologist * Alisen Down (born 1976), Canadian actress *Angela Down (born 1946), English actress * Bill Down (born 1934), British Bishop * Billy Down (1898–1977), English footballer *Blaine Down (born 1982), Canadian ice hockey player *Dru Down (born 1969), American rapper and actor *Elissa Down, Australian filmmaker *Ernest Down (1902–1980), British Army officer * J.H. Down, English cricketer * James Blair Down ( fl. 1999), Canadian citizen who operated a large telemarketing scam * James Down (born 1987), British rugby union player *John Langdon Down (1828–1896), British physician * John Thornton Down (1842–1866), British Army officer *Lesley-Anne Down (born 1954), English actress, model, and singer *Linda Down, American runner with cerebral palsy *Percy Down (1883–1954), English rugby union player * Philip Down (born 1953), Australian-English priest *Rick Down (1950 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Langdon Down
John Langdon Haydon Down (18 November 1828 – 7 October 1896) was a British physician best known for his description of the genetic condition now known as Down syndrome, which he originally classified in 1862. He is also noted for his work in social medicine and as a pioneer in the care of mentally disabled patients. Early life Down was born in Torpoint, Cornwall, the youngest of seven children of the merchant Thomas Joseph Down. His father was originally from Derry in Ireland, and his mother, Hannah Haydon, from North Devon. His father was descended from an Irish family, his great-great grandfather having been the Protestant Bishop of Derry and Raphoe. John Down went to local schools including the Devonport Classical and Mathematical School. At 14 he was apprenticed to his father, the village apothecary at Anthony St Jacob's. The vicar gave him a present of Arnott's ''Physics'' which made him determined to take up a scientific career. In 1846 he had a chance encounter with a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Down (other)
Down most often refers to: * Down, the relative direction opposed to up * Down (gridiron football), in American/Canadian football, a period when one play takes place * Down feather, a soft bird feather used in bedding and clothing * Downland, a type of hill Down may also refer to: Places * County Down, Northern Ireland, UK ** Down (Parliament of Ireland constituency), abolished 1800 ** Down (Northern Ireland Parliament constituencies) ** Down (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency), 1921–1929 ** Down (UK Parliament constituency), 1801–1885 and 1922–1950 ** Down (civil parish) ** Down county football team, Gaelic football * Down, County Westmeath, Ireland * Downe, Greater London, England, formerly called "Down" People * Down (surname) * John Langdon Down (1828–1896), British physician best known for his description of Down syndrome * Down AKA Kilo (born 1985), American rapper Film and television * ''Down'' (film), a 2001 English remake of the film ''De Lift'' * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Downing (surname)
Downing is an Irish and English surname. In Ireland it is anglicized of the Gaelic ''Ó Duinnín''. List of people surnamed Downing * Antoinette Downing (1904–2001), Rhode Island architectural historian and preservationist * Andrew Jackson Downing (1815–1852), American landscape designer, horticulturalist and writer * Arthur Matthew Weld Downing (1850–1917), Irish astronomer * Ben Downing (writer) (born 1967), American writer * Benjamin W. Downing (1835–1894), American lawyer * Brian Downing (born 1950), American baseball player * Burton Downing (1885–1929), American racing cyclist * Caroline Lowder Downing (fl. 1912), British suffragette, sister of Edith Downing * Charles Downing (died 1845), American politician * Charles Downing (pomologist) (1802–1885), American pomologist and horticulturalist * Charles W. Downing Jr. (1825–1862), Florida politician * Coe S. Downing (1791–1847), New York politician * Dean Downing (born 1975), English bicycle racer * Edi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Downes (surname)
Downes ( ga, Ó Dubháin), is a surname of Irish and English origin, and may refer to: * Aaron Downes (born 1985), Australian footballer * Aidan Downes (born 1988), Irish footballer * Alexander Downes (18681950), Australian-born rugby player and cricketer who relocated to New Zealand * Andrew Downes (scholar) (1628), English classical scholar * Andrew Downes (composer) (1950–2023), British classical composer * Arthur Downes (18831956), Scottish sailor who competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics * Arthur Downes (police officer) (18951984), British-born New Zealand soldier, clerk, salesman and policeman * Austin Downes (active 193031), American football player at the University of Georgia * Bessie Downes (1860-1920) Elizabeth (Bessie) Downes, botanical artist, Southport, UK * Bob Downes (born 1937), English avant-garde jazz flautist and saxophonist * Bobby Downes (footballer) (born 1949), English footballer * Bobby Downes (born before 1983), American movie producer, elder brother ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Downs (surname)
Downs is a surname of Old English origin. Notable people with the surname include: * Alexander Downs (1876–1924), Scottish cricketer * Anthony Downs (born 1930), American economist * Bertis Downs, IV (born 1956), American e–ntertainment lawyer * Bill Downs (1914–1978), American war correspondent * Charles E. Downs (1898–1967), American politician * Cathy Downs (19241976), American actress * Christopher Downs (born 1974), American boxer * C. H. "Sammy" Downs (1911–1985), American lawyer and politician * Dave Downs (born 1952), American baseball player * David Downs (fl. 1970s), British rugby player * Deidre Downs (born 1980), American physician and winner of Miss America 2005 * Devante Downs (born 1995), American football player * Donald Downs (born 1948), American professor * Dorothea Downs (1917–1968), American baseball player * Ephraim Downs (1787–1860), American clockmaker * George W. Downs (physicist) (fl. 1946), American businessman * George Woodrow Downs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rick Down
Richard John Down (December 14, 1950 – January 5, 2019) was an American professional baseball hitting coach. He was the hitting coach for the New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Mets, and the Baltimore Orioles. Early life Down never made the majors as a player, making it only to AAA ball (1971 and 1973). Down later went on to coach at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas from 1979 to 1984. He went to professional baseball in 1985–88 as a special assignment coach and roving hitting instructor for the Angels organization. He returned to the Yankees organization in 1989, beginning the season as the club’s roving minor league hitting instructor before being promoted to manager at Triple-A Columbus for the final 16 games of the season when Bucky Dent was named manager of the Yankees. In 1990, his Double-A Albany club was at a 24-21 mark when he was promoted to manage Columbus in June after Stump Merrill Carl Harrison " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Down
Philip Roy Down (born 28 March 1953) is a retired priest in the Church of England. He served as the Archdeacon of Maidstone and then the first Archdeacon of Ashford, both in the Diocese of Canterbury. Life in Australia Down was born and raised in Australia – his parents were Keith and Ivy Down. From 1971 until 1976, he was a Medical Scientist at the Austin Hospital, Melbourne. He received a Diploma in Applied Science from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 1976. In 1972, he married Christine Oakley. They have one son and three daughters. Down moved to Macleod Pathology Services in Melbourne, where he remained until 1978. Afterwards, he studied for ordained ministry at the Melbourne College of Divinity, graduating BTheol and being ordained a Uniting Church in Australia minister in 1982. He became minister in Brighton, Victoria from 1983 until his emigration and was awarded a MTheol degree by the same college in 1988. Career in the United Kingdom Upon moving to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Percy Down
Percy John Down (14 October 1883 – 24 June 1954) Scrum.com was an player, best known as a commanding in the pack in the first decade of the twentieth century. He spent the major part of his playing career at the club, and in later life became club chairman. Rugby career Down joined |
Linda Down
Linda Down is an American woman born with cerebral palsy. She completed the 26.1 mile 1982 and 1984 New York City Marathon on crutches, because of her lack of motor coordination as well as muscle spasticity. At a White House The White House is the official residence and workplace of the president of the United States. It is located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., and has been the residence of every U.S. president since John Adams in ... reception on October 27, 1982, President Ronald Reagan welcomed her with the thought that :"no one in that marathon showed more heart and more courage. Linda, the victim of cerebral palsy, is more familiar with the word 'victory' than 'victim'. She did the 26 miles of the marathon in 11 hours -- the first person ever to attempt to do that with the aid of crutches. And, Linda, if all of those people out there wouldn't say I was being political, I'd say you truly 'stayed the course.'" http://www.reagan.utexas.e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lesley-Anne Down
Lesley-Anne Down (born 17 March 1954) is a British actress, singer and former model. She achieved fame as Georgina Worsley in the ITV drama series '' Upstairs, Downstairs'' (1973–75). She received further recognition for her performances in the films ''The Pink Panther Strikes Again'' (1976), ''A Little Night Music'' (1977), ''The First Great Train Robbery'' (1979), '' Hanover Street'' (1979), ''Rough Cut'' (1980), ''Sphinx'' (1981) and ''Nomads'' (1986). She is also known as Madeline Fabray in the miniseries ''North and South'' (1985–86), for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award in 1986. In 1990, Down played the role Stephanie Rogers in the CBS drama series ''Dallas''. During 1997–99, she played Olivia Richards in the NBC series '' Sunset Beach''. From April 2003 to February 2012, she portrayed Jackie Marone in the CBS soap opera ''The Bold and the Beautiful''. Life and career Early life and career Down was born on 17 March 1954 and brought up in Wandsworth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Thornton Down
John Thornton Down VC (2 March 1842 – 27 April 1866) was a British Army officer and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Victoria Cross Down was 21 years old, and an ensign in the 57th Regiment of Foot (later The Middlesex Regiment), British Army during the Second Taranaki War (one of the campaigns in the New Zealand Wars), when the following deed took place on 2 October 1863 at Poutoko, New Zealand for which he and Drummer Dudley Stagpoole were awarded the VC: Down died of fever at Camp Otahuhu on 27 April 1866. His grave in Ōtāhuhu (Holy Trinity) Churchyard is maintained by the New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage The Ministry for Culture and Heritage (MCH; ) is the department of the New Zealand Government responsible for supporting the arts, culture, built heritage, sport and recreation, and broadcasting sectors in New Zealand and advising gove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
