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Empson is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Derek Empson GBE KCB (1918–1997), Commander-in-Chief Naval Home Command *Ernest Empson (1880–1970), New Zealand pianist and piano teacher *Hetta Empson (1915–1996), South African sculptor *Jackie Empson (born 1974), British former field hockey player * Richard Empson (died 1510), minister of Henry VII, King of England * Ruth Empson, New Zealand physiology academic *Susan Empson, American mathematics education academic * Tameka Empson (born 1977), British actress (stage and screen) and comedian * Walter Empson (1856–1934), New Zealand educator * William Empson (1906–1984), English literary critic and poet * William Empson (lawyer) (1791–1852), barrister, professor and journalist See also *Empson River, river in the Canterbury Region of New Zealand *Seven Types of Ambiguity (Empson) ''Seven Types of Ambiguity'' is a work of literary criticism by William Empson which was first published in 1930. It was one o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derek Empson
Admiral (Royal Navy), Admiral Sir Leslie Derek Empson, (29 October 1918 – 20 September 1997) was a senior officer in the Royal Navy who served as Commander-in-Chief, Naval Home Command (Royal Navy), Commander-in-Chief Naval Home Command from 1974 to 1975. Naval career Educated at Eastbourne College, Empson joined the Royal Navy at as a pilot 1940.Sir Leslie Derek Empson Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives He served in the Fleet Air Arm during the Second World War. Empson was appointed Naval Assistant to the First Sea Lord in 1957 and then became commanding officer of in 1963. He went on to be Flag Officer, Aircraft Carriers in 1967 and then Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff (Operations and Air) in 1968. He was made Eastern Fleet, Commander-in-Chief, Far East Fleet in 1969 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Empson
Ernest Charles Empson (9 March 1880 – 23 June 1970) was a New Zealand pianist and piano teacher. He was born in Ashburton, New Zealand, on 9 March 1880. In the 1958 Queen's Birthday Honours, Empson was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established ..., in recognition of his service as president of the New Zealand Registered Music Teachers' Association. References 1880 births 1970 deaths People from Ashburton, New Zealand New Zealand educators New Zealand musicians New Zealand Officers of the Order of the British Empire {{NewZealand-musician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hetta Empson
Hester Henrietta (Hetta) Crouse Empson (1915–1996) was a South African sculptor. She was described as a "sculptor, political activist, adventurer and socialite" in her obituary in the Times. She and her husband William Empson were involved in the London bohemian group that included George Orwell, Louis MacNeice, Jill Neville, Fay Weldon, Lewis Wolpert and Kathleen Raine. Life Crouse was born in Kroonstad, South Africa on 18 September 1915. She attended Bloemfontein University and also studied art in Germany. She returned to South Africa where she worked on a newspaper. Crouse returned to Europe with her then-fiancé . After touring France and Switzerland, she went on, by herself to England. She stayed there throughout World War II, working as an ambulance driver and then at the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). At the BBC she met her future husband William Empson, the literary critic, with whom she had two sons. The couple married and they moved to China in 194 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jackie Empson
Jacqueline 'Jackie' Empson (born 1974) is a female British former field hockey player. Hockey career Empson represented England and won a silver medal, at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur , anthem = ''Maju dan Sejahtera'' , image_map = , map_caption = , pushpin_map = Malaysia#Southeast Asia#Asia , pushpin_map_caption = , coordinates = , sub .... References 1974 births Living people British female field hockey players Commonwealth Games medallists in field hockey Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England Field hockey players at the 1998 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 1998 Commonwealth Games {{UK-fieldhockey-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Empson
Sir Richard Empson (c. 1450 – 17 August 1510), minister of Henry VII, was a son of Peter Empson. Educated as a lawyer, he soon attained considerable success in his profession, and in 1491 was a Knight of the shire for Northamptonshire in Parliament, and Speaker of the House of Commons. Career Richard Empson, born about 1450, was the son of Peter Empson (d. 1473) and Elizabeth (Joseph) Empson. John Stow claimed that his father was a sieve maker, but there is no evidence of this. His father, Peter Empson, held property at Towcester and Easton Neston in Northamptonshire. Early in the reign of Henry VII he became associated with Edmund Dudley in carrying out the King's rigorous and arbitrary system of taxation, and in consequence he became very unpopular. Retaining the royal favour, however, he was knighted at the creation of the future Henry VIII as Prince of Wales on 18 February 1504, and was soon High Steward of the University of Cambridge, and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Empson
Ruth Mary Empson is a New Zealand physiology academic, and as of 2019 is a full professor at the University of Otago. Academic career After a 1993 PhD PHD or PhD may refer to: * Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), an academic qualification Entertainment * '' PhD: Phantasy Degree'', a Korean comic series * ''Piled Higher and Deeper'', a web comic * Ph.D. (band), a 1980s British group ** Ph.D. (Ph.D. albu ... titled '' 'Primary and secondary epileptic foci from hippocampus and neocortex in the tetanus toxin model of chronic epilepsy' '' at the University of London, Empson moved to the University of Otago, rising to full professor. Selected works * Macaskie, Lynne E., Ruth M. Empson, Anthony K. Cheetham, Clare P. Grey, and A. Jerome Skarnulis. "Uranium bioaccumulation by a Citrobacter sp. as a result of enzymically mediated growth of polycrystalline HUO2PO4." Science 257, no. 5071 (1992): 782–784. * Jefferys, J. G., and RUTH M. Empson. "Development of chronic secondary epileptic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Empson
Susan Baker Empson is an American scholar of mathematics education whose work includes longitudinal studies of children's mathematical development, the use of Cognitively Guided Instruction in mathematics education, analyses of childhood understanding of the concept of fractions, and research on the professional development of mathematics educators. She is a professor emerita in the Department of Learning, Teaching, and Curriculum at the University of Missouri, where she held the Richard Miller endowed chair of mathematics education. Education and career Empson majored in art at Queens College, Charlotte in North Carolina, with a minor in mathematics; she graduated summa cum laude in 1983. After two years teaching mathematics in Morocco through the Peace Corps, she became a mathematics teacher at A. Philip Randolph Campus High School in New York City in 1987. While in New York, she also went to Teachers College, Columbia University for a master's degree in mathematics edu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tameka Empson
Tameka Empson (born 16 April 1977) is an English actress and comedian. She appeared as one of the three protagonists in the hidden-camera comedy sketch show ''3 Non-Blondes''. In 2009, she began portraying the role of Kim Fox in the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders''. Career As well as her television work, Empson has appeared in a number of films. In 1996, she appeared in the film '' Beautiful Thing'' as Leah Russell, the next-door neighbour of the main characters. Empson worked alongside Linda Henry, both of whom would eventually join the cast of ''EastEnders''; in 1998 she appeared as the love rival to the main character in the film ''Babymother''. Empson is an experienced theatre actress having performed as Billie in the original cast of '' Our House'', a musical featuring songs from the ska/pop band Madness, which premiered at The Cambridge Theatre in October 2002 and ran on until August 2003. She has since been a mainstay of the Hackney Empire annual pantomimes. In 2008, Em ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Empson
Walter Empson (19 February 1856 – 14 June 1934) was a New Zealander teacher, headmaster and educationalist. Early life and family Empson was born in Eydon, Northamptonshire, England, on 19 February 1856. He was the eldest of the eight children of Anna Delicia Hook and her husband, Arthur John Empson, an Anglican clergyman. Education and career Empson was educated at Charterhouse before entering Trinity College, Oxford, where he gained a second-class honours degree, graduating in 1880. Weak eyesight had forced him to abandon his earlier intention of entering the army, and with no particular career in mind he sailed for New Zealand, probably in 1879. After a brief period with a survey party at Patea he worked on sheep stations in Canterbury, including his brother Arthur's farm on Rangitata Island. Finding this life tedious Empson tried banana growing in Fiji. On his return to Christchurch two years later, having lost his capital and contracted Malaria, he became secre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Empson
Sir William Empson (27 September 1906 – 15 April 1984) was an English literary critic and poet, widely influential for his practice of closely reading literary works, a practice fundamental to New Criticism. His best-known work is his first, '' Seven Types of Ambiguity'', published in 1930. Jonathan Bate has written that the three greatest English literary critics of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries are Johnson, Hazlitt and Empson, "not least because they are the funniest". Background and education Empson was the son of Arthur Reginald Empson of Yokefleet Hall, Yorkshire. His mother was Laura, daughter of Richard Mickelthwait, JP, of Ardsley House, Yorkshire. He was a first cousin of the twins David and Richard Atcherley. Empson first discovered his great skill and interest in mathematics at his preparatory school. He won an entrance scholarship to Winchester College, where he excelled as a student and received what he later described as "a ripping education" in spite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Empson (lawyer)
William Empson (1791 – 10 December 1852) was an English barrister, professor and journalist. William Empson was educated at Winchester, and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was Professor at the East India Company's College from 1824 to 1852. He contributed regularly to the ''Edinburgh Review'' (1823–49) and was for some years its editor (1847–52). Life He was educated at Winchester School, where he was a schoolfellow of Thomas Arnold, and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He graduated B.A. 1812, and M.A. 1815. On 2 July 1824 he became professor of "general polity and the laws of England" at the East India College, Haileybury, a chair which had been formerly occupied by Sir James Mackintosh. He was a close friend of his colleague, Robert Malthus. Empson died at Haileybury 10 December 1852. ''Edinburgh Review'' Empson began to contribute to the ''Edinburgh Review'' in 1823, and by 1849 had written over sixty articles for it on law, politics, and literary topics. Empson is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Empson River
The Empson River is a stream in the Canterbury Region of New Zealand. It arises near Grey Hill in the Hanmer Range and flows south into the Waiau Uwha River Waiau Uwha River, previously known as the Waiau River, is a river in north Canterbury in the South Island of New Zealand. The Waiau Uwha River rises in the Spenser Mountains and flows eastward to the Pacific Ocean. The Waiau Uwha River has th .... The name is not official. See also * List of rivers of New Zealand References Land Information New Zealand- Search for Place Names Hurunui District Rivers of Canterbury, New Zealand Rivers of New Zealand {{CanterburyNZ-river-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |