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Elizabeth Reid (other)
Elizabeth Reid may refer to: * Elizabeth Anne Reid (born 1942), Australian development practitioner and academic * Elizabeth Jesser Reid (1789–1866), English social reformer, founder of Bedford College * Elizabeth Julia Reid Elizabeth Julia Reid (24 February 1915 – 23 December 1974) was an Australian journalist and a lay leader in the Grail (women's movement), Grail movement for Catholic woman. Early life and education Elizabeth Julia Reid was born on 24 Februa ... (1915–1974), Australian journalist and Grail movement leader * Elizabeth Reid, Lady Hope (1842–1922), British evangelist * Elizabeth Reid (volleyball) (born 1989), British volleyball player See also * Elizabeth Reed (other) {{hndis, Reid, Elizabeth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Anne Reid
Elizabeth Anne Reid AO, FASSA, (born 3 July 1942) is an Australian development practitioner, feminist and academic with a distinguished career in and significant contribution to national and international public service. She founded, established and worked with a number of pioneering and specialised United Nations institutions, government agencies and non-governmental organisations. Reid was appointed the world's first advisor on women's affairs to a head of government by the Australian Labor Government of Gough Whitlam in 1973. Early life and education Reid was born in Taree, New South Wales. At 19 she began a Statistics Cadet and became a Program Officer for the Australian Bureau of Statistics and from 1964 to 1966 she was a computer programmer and training officer. She went on to complete a Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours at the Australian National University in 1965. Subsequently she was awarded a Commonwealth Travelling Scholarship and completed a Bachelor of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Jesser Reid
Elizabeth Jesser Reid (; 25 December 1789 – 1 April 1866) was an English social reformer, anti-slavery activist and philanthropist. She is best remembered as the founder of Bedford College. Biography Early life Elisabeth Jesser Sturch was born in 1789 in London. Her father, William Sturch, was a wealthy Unitarian ironmonger. In 1821, she married Dr John Reid. Dr Reid had inherited land in Northumbria and on the River Clyde at Glasgow that had become valuable as the port grew in size. His death in July 1822 gave Mrs Reid an independent income, which she used to help various philanthropic causes. Activism Active in liberal Unitarian circles, Reid was an anti-slavery activist, attending the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London in 1840. She met Lucretia Mott and the other American female delegates who had been denied the right to speak at the convention. and taking a close interest in the American Civil War. She was also in contact with leading figures in the revolutions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Julia Reid
Elizabeth Julia Reid (24 February 1915 – 23 December 1974) was an Australian journalist and a lay leader in the Grail (women's movement), Grail movement for Catholic woman. Early life and education Elizabeth Julia Reid was born on 24 February 1915, in Waverley Council, Waverley, Sydney, New South Wales. She was the second child born to John Francis and Annie Catherine Reid. Her father was a journalist, and her father's uncle was Sir George Reid, George Houstoun Reid, the fourth prime minister of Australia. Career Reid studied to be a nurse at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Brisbane General Hospital but decided not to pursue a nursing career. She began studying with a Catholic women's organization, known as the Grail, which had been established in Australia in 1936. In 1939, she moved to Melbourne where she became more actively involved in the organization. She edited the ''Torchlight'' magazine, published by the National Catholic Girls' Movement. She also partici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Reid, Lady Hope
Elizabeth Reid Cotton, (9 December 1842 – 8 March 1922) who became Lady Hope when she married Sir James Hope in 1877, was a British evangelist active in the Temperance movement. In 1915, she claimed to have visited the British naturalist Charles Darwin shortly before his death in 1882, during which interview Hope said Darwin spoke of second thoughts about publicising his theory of natural selection. That Hope visited Darwin is possibly true, though denied by Darwin's family, but her interpretation of what Darwin said at the putative interview is much less likely. Early life and ministry Elizabeth Cotton was born on 9 December 1842 in Tasmania, Australia. She was the daughter of British irrigation engineer, General Sir Arthur Cotton, and spent her childhood in Madras, India, while her father supervised water management and canal projects in Andhra Pradesh. Returning to England after her father's retirement in 1861, the family resided in Hadley Green and came under th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Reid (volleyball)
Elizabeth Reid (born 21 March 1989, London) is a retired British volleyball player. She competed for Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the .... References British women's volleyball players Volleyball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic volleyball players for Great Britain 1989 births Living people Sportspeople from London {{UK-volleyball-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
