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Forsyth (given Name)
Forsyth is a given name. It may refer to: * Peter Forsyth Christensen (born 1952), American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church in Idaho * Joseph Forsyth Johnson (1840–1906), English landscape architect and disciple of John Ruskin *Robert Forsyth Macgeorge (1796–1859), early settler of South Australia, founder of the Adelaide suburb of Urrbrae *David Forsyth Main (1831–1880), 19th-century member of parliament in Otago, New Zealand * Charles Immanuel Forsyth Major (1843–1923), Swiss zoologist and vertebrate palaeontologist * Frederick Forsyth Pardee, KC (1866–1927), Ontario barrister and political figure * Ivor Forsyth Porter CMG, OBE (1913–2012), British Ambassador and author *Robert Forsyth Scott (1849–1933), mathematician, barrister and Master of St John's College, Cambridge * Sharpe, William Forsyth (born 1934), American economist * Thomas Forsyth Torrance, MBE, FRSE, FBA (1913–2007), Scottish Protestant theologian * John Forsyth Wright (1892–1947), Tasmanian p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Forsyth Christensen
Peter Forsyth Christensen (born December 24, 1952) is an American prelate of the Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Church who has been serving as bishop (Catholic Church), bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Boise, Diocese of Boise in Idaho since 2014. He previously served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Superior, Diocese of Superior in Wisconsin from 2007 to 2014. Christensen was ordained into the priesthood on May 25, 1985, by Archbishop John Roach (bishop), John Roach. On November 4, 2014, Pope Francis named Christensen as the eighth bishop in the Diocese of Boise. He was installed as bishop by Archbishop Harry Joseph Flynn, Harry Flynn in Boise on December 17, 2014, at St. John's Cathedral. Biography Early life and education Peter Christensen was born on December 24, 1952, in Altadena, California, Altadena, California. He was the fourth of eight children; his parents were Robert and Ann (née Forsyth) Christensen. The family later moved to Palos Verdes, Palo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Forsyth Johnson
Joseph Forsyth Johnson (1840 – 17 July 1906) was an English landscape architect and disciple of John Ruskin.Joseph Forsyth Johnson " ''Gardening Magazine'' (August 1, 1906) p. 349. via Internet Archive. He "played a pivotal role in introducing the notion of naturalistic planting." Early life Johnson was English, and was possibly born near Liverpool. His Scottish maternal grandfather John Forsyth was a florist. His great-grandfather was William Forsyth, a botanist who co-founded the |
Robert Forsyth Macgeorge
Robert Forsyth Macgeorge (1796 – 26 October 1859) was an early settler of South Australia who is remembered for founding the property which is now the Adelaide suburb of Urrbrae. A number of his children were prominent in the early history of South Australia and other Australian colonies. History Robert Forsyth Macgeorge, a tailor of Glasgow, and his wife Elizabeth M. Macgeorge, née Duncan (1801–) and their family emigrated to South Australia aboard the ''Ariadne'', arriving on 13 August 1839. They developed the property they named "Urr brae", now known as Urrbrae. R. F. Macgeorge took over Shepherd's draper's shop on Hindley Street. On what was intended as a visit to the "Old Country", he narrowly avoided being involved in the ''Admella'' disaster, then perished when the ''Royal Charter'' was wrecked. Family Their children included: *John MacGeorge (1821 – 1 January 1844) died from tuberculosis *Robert Forsyth Macgeorge, Jnr (1822 – 17 September 1917) married Emily Nic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Forsyth Main
David Forsyth Main (1831 – 27 July 1880) was a 19th-century member of parliament in Otago, New Zealand. Main was one of three candidates in the electorate in the , when he came a close second to James Benn Bradshaw. Main represented the Port Chalmers Port Chalmers is a town serving as the main port of the city of Dunedin, New Zealand. Port Chalmers lies ten kilometres inside Otago Harbour, some 15 kilometres northeast of Dunedin's city centre. History Early Māori settlement The origi ... electorate from to 1870, when he retired. He was a barrister and died in Dunedin aged 48. References 1831 births 1880 deaths Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives New Zealand MPs for Dunedin electorates 19th-century New Zealand politicians Unsuccessful candidates in the 1866 New Zealand general election 19th-century New Zealand lawyers Members of the Otago Provincial Council {{NewZealand-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Immanuel Forsyth Major
Charles Immanuel Forsyth Major (15 August 1843, Glasgow – 25 March 1923, Munich) was a Scottish-born, Swiss physician, zoologist and vertebrate palaeontologist. Major was born in Glasgow and studied at Basel and Zurich Universities in Switzerland and later Göttingen in Germany. He graduated in medicine at Basel in 1868 and became a physician in Florence, Italy. Like many early naturalists he spent his free time studying fossil mammals. His first publication was on fossil primates in 1872. The Italian government supported him in 1877 and he collected fossils from Calabria, Corsica, Sardinia, and Sicily. In 1886, he stopped practising as a physician and began to study fossils in the Greek Archipelago with his collections going to the College Galliard at Lausanne and to the British Museum (Natural History). In the British Museum collections he took a keen interest in material from Madagascar. He studied the lemur fauna, both extant and extinct, discovered the new family Megaladap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Forsyth Pardee
Frederick Forsyth Pardee, (December 29, 1866 – February 4, 1927) was an Ontario barrister and political figure. He represented Lambton West in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1898 to 1902 as a Liberal member and in the House of Commons of Canada from 1905 to 1918 as a Liberal member and from 1918 to 1921 as a member of the Unionist Party. He was a member of the Senate of Canada from 1922 to 1927. He was born in Sarnia, Ontario in 1866, the son of Timothy Blair Pardee. He was educated at Upper Canada College, studied law and was called to the bar in 1890. He was named King's Counsel in 1908. In 1891, he married Mary E. Johnston. Pardee was elected to the House of Commons in a 1905 by-election held after the death of Thomas George Johnston Thomas George Johnston (August 4, 1849 – July 4, 1905) was a Canadian physician and politician. Born in Sarnia, Canada West, was educated at the public and grammar schools of Sarnia. He graduated in medicine from McG ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivor Forsyth Porter
Ivor Forsyth Porter CMG, OBE (12 November 1913 – 29 May 2012) was a British Ambassador and author. Education Porter was brought up in the Lake District and educated at Barrow-in-Furness Grammar School and Leeds University where he studied English. Special Operations Executive In 1939, Porter was sent to Bucharest, Romania on an academic post with the British Council to teach English at the University of Bucharest. In 1940 he was transferred to the Legation, and remained there until it was withdrawn from Romania on 12 February 1941. On 1 March 1941, Porter was recruited by SOE, and was one of a covert three-man mission that was parachuted into Romania in December 1943 to instigate resistance against the Nazis at "any cost" (Operation Autonomous). The SOE agents were captured and held as prisoners-of-war until, on 23 August 1944, King Michael of Romania carried out his anti-German coup d'état. Porter met King Michael that night and remained in the country during the King ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Forsyth Scott
Sir Robert Forsyth Scott (28 July 1849 – 18 November 1933) was a mathematician, barrister and Master of St John's College, Cambridge Life Scott was born in Leith, near Edinburgh, the eldest son of Reverend George Scott, a Minister in the church at Dairsie and Mary Forsyth, daughter of the Edinburgh advocate Robert Forsyth. Scott was educated at the High School, Edinburgh, then in Stuttgart before becoming a student at University College, London. In 1870, while a student at University College, London, he was awarded a Whitworth Exhibition. He went on to read mathematics at St John's College, where he was fourth wrangler in the Tripos in 1875 and was elected to a fellowship in 1877. After publishing ''The Theory of Determinants and Their Applications'' in 1880, Scott turned his attention to the law, become a barrister in 1883, and to institutional history, including histories of St. John's College, Cambridge, published between 1882 and 1907. In 1908 he was appointed as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharpe, William Forsyth
William Forsyth Sharpe (born June 16, 1934) is an American economist. He is the STANCO 25 Professor of Finance, Emeritus at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Sharpe was one of the originators of the capital asset pricing model (CAPM). He created the Sharpe ratio for risk-adjusted investment performance analysis, and he contributed to the development of the binomial method for the valuation of options, the gradient method for asset allocation optimization, and returns-based style analysis for evaluating the style and performance of investment funds. Early years William Sharpe was born on June 16, 1934 in Boston, Massachusetts. As his father was in the National Guard, the family moved several times during World War II, until they finally settled in Riverside, California. Sharpe spent the rest of his childhood and teenage years in Riverside, graduating from Riverside Polytechnic High School i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Forsyth Torrance
Thomas Forsyth Torrance (30 August 1913 – 2 December 2007), commonly referred to as T. F. Torrance, was a Scottish Protestant theologian and minister. Torrance served for 27 years as professor of Christian dogmatics at New College, in the University of Edinburgh. He is best known for his pioneering work in the study of science and theology, but he is equally respected for his work in systematic theology. While he wrote many books and articles advancing his own study of theology, he also edited the translation of several hundred theological writings into English from other languages, including the English translation of the thirteen-volume, six-million-word '' Church Dogmatics'' of Swiss theologian Karl Barth, as well as John Calvin's New Testament ''Commentaries''. He was a member of the famed Torrance family of theologians. Torrance has been acknowledged as one of the most significant English-speaking theologians of the 20th century. In 1978, he received the Te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Forsyth Wright
John Forsyth Wright (29 June 1892 – 16 January 1947) was an Australian politician. Born at Castra, Tasmania, he was the elder brother of Roy Douglas Wright and Senator Reginald Wright, both of whom were knighted. He was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as a Nationalist Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state. As a movement, nationalism tends to promote the interests of a particular nation (as in a group of people), Smith, Anthony. ''Nationalism: The ... member for Darwin in 1940, in a recount following the resignation of Frank Edwards. Defeated in 1941, he died in 1947 at Ulverstone. References 1892 births 1947 deaths Nationalist Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Tasmania Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly 20th-century Australian politicians {{Australia-Nationalist-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie Forsyth Wyatt
Annie Forsyth Wyatt (3 January 1885 – 27 May 1961) was an Australian community worker, conservationist and Red Cross worker. She is celebrated as the driving force behind the establishment of the National Trust movement in Australia, establishing the organisation in 1945 to protect Sydney's historic natural and built sites. As a conservationist, lover of colonial history, and humanitarian, Wyatt observed women working effectively in the community during World War I, and came to believe that women could make a difference in community issues. Over her lifetime she worked for many causes apart from the National Trust of Australia (NSW), including the Red Cross and the NSW Prisoners' Aid Association (for 20 years). She donated the proceeds of her book ''Doors that slam: a romance of early Sydney'', to the Prisoners' Aid Association. Early life Wyatt was born in Redfern, New South Wales in 1885, lived for much of her life in a cottage in Gordon, and died in St Ives. Annie resi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
