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Elizabeth Scott (other)
Elizabeth Scott may refer to: *Elizabeth Scott (author) (born 1972), American novelist *Elizabeth Scott (hymnwriter) (1708-1776), English, American hymnwriter *Elizabeth Scott (mathematician) (1917–1988), American mathematician *Elizabeth Scott (swimmer) (fl. 1990s), American Paralympic swimmer *Elizabeth Scott (poet) 17 July 1729 – 1789), Scottish poet *Elizabeth Scott (politician) (born 1966), member of the Washington House of Representatives, 2013–2017 *Elizabeth Talford Scott (1916–2011), American folk artist *Elizabeth Scott (textile manufacturer), (died 1795) Scottish organiser of weaving *Elizabeth Scott, Duchess of Buccleuch (1743–1827) *Elizabeth Scott, Countess of Eldon (c. 1754–1831) See also *Elisabeth Scott (1898–1972), British architect *Lizabeth Scott (1922–2015), American actress *Elisabeth Alden Stam (née Scott), missionary murdered in 1934, see Murder of John and Betty Stam {{hndis, Scott, Elizabeth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Scott (author)
Elizabeth Scott (born 1972) is an American author of Young adult fiction, young adult novels. Life Born in a small town, Scott grew up near Hopewell, Virginia, Hopewell in Southern Virginia. Both of her parents were teachers, which she ended up taking classes from both of them. She majored in European Studies and met her future husband in her freshman year. Along with writing novels Elizabeth Scott has also been an editor and an office manager. She has also sold hardware and pantyhose. Bibliography Novels * ''Bloom'', (2007), Simon Pulse, * ''Perfect You'', (2008), Simon Pulse, * ''Stealing Heaven'', (2008), HarperTeen, * ''Living Dead Girl (novel), Living Dead Girl'', (2008), Simon Pulse, * ''Something, Maybe'', (2009), Simon Pulse, * ''Love You Hate You Miss You'', (2009), Simon Pulse, * ''The Unwritten Rule'', (2010), Simon Pulse, * ''Grace'', (2010), Dutton Books, * ''Between Here and Forever'', (2011), Simon Pulse, * ''As I Wake'', (2011), Dutton Books, * ''Mirac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Scott (hymnwriter)
Elizabeth Scott Williams Smith (, Scott; after first marriage, Williams; after second marriage, Smith; 1708 – June 13, 1776) was an 18th-century British-born American poet and hymnwriter. Prior to 1750, she wrote many hymns with the largest of her known manuscript collections containing 90 of these. The first publication of her hymns was in ''The Christian's Magazine'', edited by William Dodd, 1763. Nineteen of her hymns were given in John Ash and Caleb Evans' baptist ''Collection'', Bristol, 1769, and twenty in John Dobell's ''New Selection'', 1806. Of these, one of the best known is "All hail, Incarnate God". Smith died in 1776. Early life Elizabeth Scott was born at Norwich, England, probably in 1708. Her father was Thomas Scott (1680-1746), an independent, dissenting minister of that city. A brother Thomas, was likewise a hymnwriter, while another brother, Joseph Nicol Scott, was a physician, dissenting minister and writer. Her father's brother, Daniel Scott, was a le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Scott (mathematician)
Elizabeth Leonard Scott (November 23, 1917 – December 20, 1988) was an American mathematician specializing in statistics. Scott was born in Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Her family moved to Berkeley, California when she was 4 years old. She attended the University of California, Berkeley where she studied astronomy. She earned her Ph.D. in 1949 in astronomy, and received a permanent position in the Department of Mathematics at Berkeley in 1951. She wrote over 30 papers on astronomy and 30 on weather modification research analysis, incorporating and expanding the use of statistical analyses in these fields. She also used statistics to promote equal opportunities and equal pay for female academics. In 1957 Scott noted a bias in the observation of galaxy clusters. She noticed that for an observer to find a very distant cluster, it must contain brighter-than-normal galaxies and must also contain a large number of galaxies. She proposed a correction formula to adjust for (what came to be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Scott (swimmer)
Elizabeth Scott is a United States Paralympian. She learned how to swim at age 5, and in college was elected as captain of her college swim team (Ball State), where she also set school records and won a conference title. She earned a place on the Dean’s list while studying Sport Administration and Adapted Physical Education. Scott earned 17 Paralympic medals (10 gold, 2 silver and 5 bronze) in three Paralympic Games between 1992 and 2000 ( Barcelona, Atlanta and Sydney Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about towards the Blue Mountain ...). seven world records In 1993 and 1996, she was chosen as the USOC Blind Athlete of the Year. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Scott, Elizabeth Paralympic swimmers for the United States Living people Year of birth missing (living people) S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Scott (poet)
Elizabeth Scot(t) (17 July 1729 – 1789), born Elizabeth Rutherford, was an eighteenth-century Scottish poet who composed stanzas from a young age. Biography Elizabeth was born 17 July 1729 in Edinburgh, Scotland, the daughter of Alice Watson and advocate David Rutherford. Her aunt Alison Cockburn was also a poet and she was encouraged to write by the Scottish poet Allan Ramsay Allan Ramsay may refer to: *Allan Ramsay (poet) or Allan Ramsay the Elder (1686–1758), Scottish poet *Allan Ramsay (artist) or Allan Ramsay the Younger (1713–1784), Scottish portrait painter *Allan Ramsay (diplomat) (1937–2022), British diplom .... Elizabeth married Walter Scot in 1768. Together they lived in Jedburgh, Scotland. Scot is most known for the poetic epistle titled ‘The Guidwife of Wauchope-house to Robert Burns', which she wrote for Scottish poet Robert Burns in 1787. Burns visited her on his Scottish tour. Other correspondents who supported her work include Enlightenment auth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Scott (politician)
Elizabeth K. Scott (née Warfel, born February 11, 1966) is an American politician and educator who served as member of the Washington House of Representatives, representing the 39th district from 2013 to 2017. A member of the Republican Party, she ran unsuccessfully for the state house in 2010 in the "heavily Democratic" 21st district, but since moved to the 39th district and was first elected to office there in 2012. Background A self-identified strong proponent of individual rights and liberties, she has been a featured speaker at Tea Party events in Everett, Monroe, Olympia, and Puyallup from Tax Day 2009 until the present, speaking to audiences as large as four thousand people. In 2009, Scott served on the Edmonds Citizens' Levy Review Committee, where she argued against a proposed multimillion-dollar tax increase. A self-described "Midwest farm girl," Scott is also a member of the Washington State Farm Bureau, the National Rifle Association, and the Snohomish County ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Talford Scott
Elizabeth Talford Scott (February 7, 1916 – April 25, 2011) was an American folk artist, known for her quilts. Early life Elizabeth Caldwell was born near Chester, South Carolina, where her family lived as sharecroppers on the Blackstock Plantation, on the land where her grandparents had been enslaved. She was the sixth of fourteen children (seven brothers and seven sisters) born to Mary Jane and Samuel Caldwell, and the third female. Elizabeth grew up in a family of craftspeople who practiced pottery, metalwork, basketry, quilting and knitting. They were also storytellers. Both her parents made quilts, and Elizabeth learned to quilt by the age of 9.Oral history interview with Joyce J. Scott, 2009 July 22. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Her father was a railroad worker who collected fabric scraps in his travels, and he colored the scraps using natural dyes that he made from berries and clay. In 1940, during the Great Migration, Elizabeth moved north to Balti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Scott (textile Manufacturer)
Elizabeth Scott (''née'' Chalmers; died 6 April 1795) was a British textile manufacturer based in Scotland. Life Scott's birth date is unknown, but her father was William Chalmers who was the provost of Aberdeen in 1738 and 1746. She married an Edinburgh surgeon named Archibald Scott in 1744. Her husband, Archibald Scott, is thought to be in his forties when he married. She became involved in Musselburgh Musselburgh (; sco, Musselburrae; gd, Baile nam Feusgan) is the largest settlement in East Lothian, Scotland, on the coast of the Firth of Forth, east of Edinburgh city centre. It has a population of . History The name Musselburgh is Ol ...'s weaving industry. She would employ 1,200 people to make un-decorated cloth which she then used to supply textile printers in Scotland and England. Her workers were weaving linen and cotton. In 1761 she successfully applied for a grant to support her linen business from the board of trustees for fisheries, manufactures and impr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Scott, Duchess Of Buccleuch (1743–1827)
Elizabeth Scott, Duchess of Buccleuch (29 May 1743 – 21 November 1827), formerly Lady Elizabeth Montagu, was the wife of Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch.G. E. Cokayne, Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, ''The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant'', new ed., 1910-1959, reprint, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000, volume IV, p. 442. Biography Lady Elizabeth was the eldest daughter of George Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu, and his wife, Mary. She was baptised at St George's, Hanover Square. Her maternal great-grandparents were John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough and his wife Sarah. The death of her brother, John Montagu, Marquess of Monthermer, unmarried and without heirs, in 1770, resulted in the barony of Montagu passing to her children. The couple were married on 2 May 1767, at Montagu House, Whitehall. They had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Scott, Countess Of Eldon
Elizabeth "Bessie" Scott, Countess of Eldon (c.1754 – 28 June 1831), formerly Elizabeth "Bessie" Surtees, was the wife of John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon. She was the daughter of Aubone Surtees, a banker of Newcastle upon Tyne, and his wife, formerly Elizabeth Stephenson, and was baptised at St Nicholas, Newcastle upon Tyne, on 26 November 1754. She married John Scott in Blackshiels, Scotland, on 19 November 1772. The marriage was officially blessed two months later at St Nicholas, Newcastle upon Tyne. The couple had eloped when the earl, who was from a relatively poor Newcastle family, was training to be a clergyman. His occupation as a curate was inadequate to keep a wife and he trained instead as a lawyer. His success both in law and business was such that by the 1790s he was wealthy enough to buy the Eldon estate near Sedgefield, but the couple did not live there. The couple had three, or possibly four, children: *Lady Elizabeth Scott (c.1790-1862), who married George ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisabeth Scott
Elisabeth Whitworth Scott (20 September 1898 – 19 June 1972) was a British architect who designed the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon, England. This was the first important public building in Britain to be designed by a female architect. Early life Scott was born in Bournemouth, England, one of ten children of Bernard Scott, a surgeon. She was a great-niece of the architects George Gilbert Scott and George Frederick Bodley and second cousin of Giles Gilbert Scott, the architect of Liverpool Cathedral. She was educated at home until the age of fourteen, when she enrolled at the Redmoor School, Bournemouth. In 1919, she became one of the early students at the Architectural Association's new school in Bedford Square, London, graduating in 1924. Career Scott's first position was with the architects David Niven and Herbert Wigglesworth, a practice specialising in the Scandinavian style. In turn she became an assistant to Louis de Soissons, a progressive ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lizabeth Scott
Lizabeth Virginia Scott (born Emma Matzo; September 29, 1921 – January 31, 2015) was an American actress, singer and model for the Walter Thornton Model Agency, known for her "smoky voice" and being "the most beautiful face of film noir during the 1940s and 1950s". After understudying the role of Sabina in the original Broadway and Boston stage productions of ''The Skin of Our Teeth'', she emerged in such films as ''The Strange Love of Martha Ivers'' (1946), ''Dead Reckoning'' (1947), ''Desert Fury'' (1947), and ''Too Late for Tears'' (1949). Of her 22 films, she was the leading lady in all but one. In addition to stage and radio, she appeared on television from the late 1940s to early 1970s. Early life Emma Matzo (Ema Macová in Slovak) was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania,Carole Langer (Soapbox & Praeses Productions, 1996; accessed May 23, 2014), ''Lizabeth Scott 1996 Interview Part 1 of 8'' the oldest of six children born to Mary PenyakJanice H. McElroy (Pennsylvania Division, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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