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Eames
Eames is a surname which may refer to: People * Aidan Eames, Irish solicitor and former politician (1982–1983) * Alan D. Eames (1947–2007), American writer and anthropologist of beer * Albert Eames (born 2005), English footballer * Aled Eames (1921–1996), Welsh maritime historian * Anna Eames (born 1990), American Paralympic swimmer * Arthur Johnson Eames (1881–1969), American botanist and academic * Benjamin T. Eames (1818–1901), American politician * Billy Eames (born 1957), English former footballer * Chalnessa Eames (born 1978), American ballet dancer * Charles Eames (1907–1978), American designer, architect and filmmaker, husband and professional partner of Ray Eames * Charles Eames (diplomat) (1812–1867), American lawyer and diplomat * Charles Gladstone Eames (1860–1943), English tennis player * Clare Eames (1894–1930), American actress * David Eames (born 1937), English former first-class cricketer * E. J. Eames (1813–1856), American writer and poet * Eliz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Eames
Ray-Bernice Alexandra Kaiser Eames (née Kaiser; December 15, 1912 – August 21, 1988) was an American artist and designer who worked in a variety of media. In creative partnership with her husband, Charles Eames, and The Eames Office, she was responsible for groundbreaking contributions in the fields of architecture, graphic design, textile design, film, and furniture. The Eames Office is most famous for its furniture, which is still being produced. Together as a couple, the Eameses are considered one of the most influential creative forces of the 20th century. During her lifetime, Ray Kaiser Eames received less credit than she has been given posthumously in art and design literature, museum shows, and documentary films. Biography Early life Ray Eames was born in Sacramento, California, to Alexander and Edna Burr Kaiser and had an older brother named Maurice. Edna was Episcopalian and Alexander had been raised Jewish, but did not practice. Eames and Maurice were brought ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Netta Eames
Netta Eames (September 26, 1852 – March 6, 1944) was born Ninetta Wiley, in Wisconsin on September 26, 1852. She is commonly known as Netta. She is best known as a writer and magazine editor in the late 1800s and early 1900s. As the editor of the San Francisco based ''Overland Monthly'' magazine (founded by Bret Harte), she became an early proponent of Jack London as a writer. She wrote the 1900 biography and a promotional biography of London in ''Overland Monthly'' in 1900, which helped to establish his career. Later she was his business manager and neighbor. Netta was the aunt and foster mother of author Charmian Kittredge, whom she raised from the age of six. It was through Netta that London met Charmian, who became his lover and later his second wife. Netta also introduced London to the town of Glen Ellen, where he settled, developed a ranch, and spent his final years. Early years Netta was born in Delhi, Wisconsin, fourteen miles outside of Oshkosh. In April 1865, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Eames
Emma Eames (August 13, 1865 – June 13, 1952) was an American first lyric soprano, later dramatic soprano renowned for the beauty of her voice. She sang major lyric and lyric-dramatic roles in opera and had an important career in New York City, London and Paris during the last decade of the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th century. Early life The daughter of an international lawyer, Eames was born in Shanghai, China, and raised in Portland, Maine, Portland and Bath, Maine, Bath in the American state of Maine. The promising quality of her voice was recognised early by her mother and she received singing lessons as a small girl. She attended school in Boston where she studied singing under Clara Munger, and later with Charles R. Adams. Later she took voice lessons in Paris with the highly successful but autocratic teacher of bel canto sopranos, Mathilde Marchesi. It was noted in the press at the time of Marchesi's death in 1913 that Eames had praised the tuition she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Eames
Mark Ian Neil Eames (born 19 August 1961) is a former international cricketer who represented the Hong Kong national side between 1988 and 2007. He played as a left-handed top-order batsman. Eames was born in Coventry, Warwickshire, and played club cricket in England before relocating to Hong Kong. He made his international debut for Hong Kong at the 1988 South East Asian Tournament, which also featured Bangladesh and Singapore. Over the next few years, Eames made regular appearances for Hong Kong in regional tournaments, including the Tuanku Ja'afar Cup.Miscellaneous matches played by Mark Eames – CricketArchive. Retrieved 10 March 2016. His first global tournament was the |
Marion Eames
Marion Eames (born Gwladys Marion Griffith Eames, 5 February 1921 – 3 April 2007)Dictionary of Welsh BiographRetrieved 29 September 2018./ref> was a Welsh novelist writing mainly in Welsh. She was also a talented musician. Biography Marion was born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, of Welsh parents – William Griffith Eames (1885–1959) and his wife Gwladys Mary (née Jones) (1891–1979) – but she was brought up from the age of four at Dolgellau, Merionethshire (Sir Feirionnydd), where she attended Dr Williams' School. A talented musician, who played the harp and the piano, she graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. Marion worked as a librarian in Dolgellau, then at Aberystwyth University, before becoming a radio producer with the BBC in Cardiff from 1955 to 1980. She also served for a time as a regional organizer for the political party Plaid Cymru. In 1955 she married the Quaker journalist Griffith Williams, with whom she moved to Pimlico, then back to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Emeline Eames Chase
Laura Emeline Eames Chase (1856–1917), one of the few women dentists in St. Louis, Missouri in the 1890s, was the first female member of the American Dental Association. Birth and early life Laura Emeline Eames was born on February 12, 1856, and died October 12, 1917. She also used the name Emma Eames Chase. The Eames family were living near Lebanon, Tennessee, when counted on the 1860 Census; they remained there until 1862. She married the artist Henry Seymour Chase Jr. on January 23, 1877, in St. Louis. She and her husband were living with her parents in St Louis, Missouri when counted on the 1880 census . Her son, Irwin Chase, was the designer of the a small boat known as a "sea wasp" or "Chaser", at least 300 of them were sold to the British for hunting enemy submarines in World War I. Dental practice Chase is reported to be the first woman accepted as a full member of the American Dental Association and wrongly as the only woman dentist in St. Louis, Missouri in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Eames
John Eames (2 February 1686 – 29 June 1744) was an English Dissenting tutor. Life Eames was born in London on 2 February 1686. He was admitted to Merchant Taylors' School on 10 March 1696–7, and was subsequently trained for the dissenting ministry. He preached only once and seems never to have been ordained. In 1712 Thomas Ridgley, D.D., became theological tutor to the Fund Academy, in Tenter Alley, Moorfields, an institution supported by the congregational fund board. Eames was appointed assistant tutor, his subjects being classics and science. On Ridgley's death (27 March 1734) he succeeded him as theological tutor, handing over his previous duties to Joseph Densham, one of his pupils. His reputation as a tutor, especially in natural science, was great; it appears that Thomas Secker attended his classes (in 1716–17, at the time when he was turning his thoughts towards medicine as a profession). He enjoyed the friendship of Sir Isaac Newton, through whose influence he w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Eames
Eric James Eames, MBE (11 April 1917 – 10 April 2010); (date on archive page is incorrect) was Lord Mayor of Birmingham for the year 1974–1975. He was also an Honorary Alderman and a magistrate. A former steam engine driver, Eames represented the city's Small Heath ward on Birmingham City Council from 1949 to 1992, without break. The Birmingham pub bombings of 1974 occurred while he was Lord Mayor and his 'calm leadership' in the aftermath was widely praised. He was made MBE for services to the community. He was founder President of the Ackers Trust, a Birmingham charity which runs an outdoor activity centre. He died the day before his 93rd birthday in 2010. Midland Metro named an AnsaldoBreda T-69 The West Midlands Metro is a passenger light rail line in the West Midlands conurbation in England, which opened in 1999. Its rolling stock consists of 21 CAF Urbos#CAF Urbos 3, CAF Urbos 3 trams which came into service in 2014/15, replacing the ... tram in his honour.< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Anthony Eames
Jane Anthony Eames ( – ) was an American travel writer. Jane Anthony was born on , in Wellington, Massachusetts (now part of the town of Dighton), the daughter of Hezekiah Anthony, a merchant in Providence, Rhode Island, and Sallie Bowers Anthony. She married Rev. James Henry Eames, an Episcopal clergyman who served as rector of St. Stephen's Church in Providence and St. Paul's Church in Concord, New Hampshire. He was also responsible for establishing Episcopal mission churches in New Hampshire's White Mountains region, such as at Littleton and Lancaster. She wrote a number of travel books about her trips abroad with her husband, including ''A Budget of Letters'' (1847), about their trip to Europe, ''Another Budget'' (1855), about Egypt and the Middle East, ''The Budget Closed'' (1855), and ''Letters from Bermuda'' (1875). Eames' "budget" is an obsolete use of the word to refer to a small bag, and is not used in a financial sense. Eames also wrote books for children and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Eames
Jack Eames (22 December 1922 – 16 January 2017) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Eames was one of many present and future VFL footballers who served in World War II. He enlisted in the Australian Army in 1942 and served until he was discharged in 1946. A follower, he made himself available to VFL clubs prior to the 1946 season when he decided to move from his home in Albury, to Melbourne, for work purposes. Four clubs tried to get his signature and it was with Richmond who were successful. However, he would spend only one season at Richmond, playing 14 games. He accepted an offer to captain-coach Wodonga in 1947 and returned home to the Ovens & Murray Football League The Ovens and Murray Football Netball League (OMFNL or O&MFNL) is an Australian rules football and netball competition containing ten clubs based in north-eastern Victoria, Australia, Victoria, the southern Riverina region of New South Wale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haine Eames
Haine Anthony Eames (born 27 February 2008) is an Australian soccer player who plays as a midfielder for the Central Coast Mariners. In late 2024, he became his club's youngest player, starter and goalscorer of all time, all while aged 16. Club career A student at the Central Coast Sports College, Eames joined the Central Coast Mariners academy at under-15 level, having previously played for Camden Haven Redbacks. In his second season in the youth ranks, he played in the under-18 and under-20 teams. In June 2024, having already been involved in training with the first team, he signed a three-year scholarship contract for the reigning champions under head coach Mark Jackson. He mentioned Max Balard as a first-team player he aimed to replicate. In October 2024, Eames was named by New South Wales newspaper ''The Daily Telegraph'' as one of the state's teenagers likely to break through in the upcoming A-League Men season. He made his debut on 18 October as the campaign began with a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Eames
Geoffrey Michael Eames (born 26 November 1945) is an Australian jurist, who was a judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria. He served in the trial division of the Court from 1992 to 2002, and was then a member of the Court of Appeal until 2007. He subsequently served as an Acting Judge of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory, and as Chief Justice of Nauru. Early life Eames was born in Melbourne in 1945. He was educated at St. Bernard's College in Essendon, then studied law at the University of Melbourne, graduating with a Bachelor of Laws. Career Eames did articles at the firm of Slater and Gordon, and was admitted to the Victorian Bar in 1969. In the 1970s he joined the Central Australian Legal Service as its principal Solicitor, and was then seconded to the Central Land Council in Alice Springs where he pioneered all early land claims made under the Aboriginal Land Rights Act, Northern Territory, 1976 and the passage of the legislation itself, before heading to the ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
