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Fountaine
Fountaine is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Andrew Fountaine (1918–1997), English far-right activist and politician *Andrew Fountaine (art collector) (1676–1753), English antiquarian, art collector and amateur architect *Charles Fountaine (1879–1946), British Royal Navy officer *Jamal Fountaine (born 1971), American football player *John Fountaine (1600–1671), English civil servant and tax resister *Margaret Fountaine (1862–1940), English lepidopterist See also *Fountain (other) *Fountaine-Pajot, a French shipbuilding company *Fontaine (other) Fontaine is a French word meaning fountain or natural spring or an area of natural springs. Places France *Beaulieu-les-Fontaines, in the Oise ''département'' *Bierry-les-Belles-Fontaines, in the Yonne ''département'' *Cailloux-sur-Fontaines, ... {{surname English-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Fountaine
Margaret Elizabeth Fountaine (16 May 1862 – 21 April 1940), was a Victorian lepidopterist (a person interested in butterflies and moths), natural history illustrator, diarist, and traveller who published in The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation. She is also known for her personal diaries, which were edited into two volumes by W.F. Cater for the popular market and published posthumously. Fountaine was an accomplished natural history illustrator and had a great love and knowledge of butterflies, travelling and collecting extensively through Europe, South Africa, India, Tibet, America, Australia and the West Indies, publishing numerous papers on her work. She raised many of the butterflies from eggs or caterpillars, producing specimens of great quality, 22,000 of which are housed at the Norwich Castle Museum and known as the Fountaine-Neimy Collection. Her four sketch books of butterfly life-cycles are held at the Natural History Museum in London. The butterfly genus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Fountaine
Andrew Fountaine (7 December 1918 – 14 September 1997) was an activist involved in the British far right. After military service in a number of conflicts Fountaine joined the Conservative Party and was selected as a parliamentary candidate until his outspoken views resulted in his being disowned by the party. He was subsequently involved with a number of fringe rightist movements before becoming a founding member of the National Front in 1967. He had several roles within the party and was involved in a number of internal feuds until he left in 1979. He briefly led his own splinter party before retiring from politics. Early years Born into a land-owning Norfolk family who had resided in ancestral Narfold Hall, Fountaine was educated at the Army College in Aldershot and was the son of Vice Admiral Charles Fountaine who had been Naval ADC to King George V. One of Fountaine's ancestors was an art collector. Fountaine drove an ambulance for the Abyssinians during the Second Ita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Fountaine (art Collector)
Sir Andrew Fountaine (1676 in Salle, Norfolk – 4 September 1753 in Narford Hall, Narford), son and heir of Andrew Fountaine M.P. of Salle, Norfolk and Sarah Chicheley, one of the daughters of Sir Thomas Chicheley, was an English antiquarian, art collector and amateur architect. Life Attending Eton College (as a King's Scholar) and then Christ Church, Oxford (graduating BA in 1697), William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire (a friend of his father) introduced him at court and he received a knighthood in 1699 for the Latin oration he had made to William III on his entry to Oxford the previous year (a task he had been selected for by Christ Church's dean Henry Aldrich). When shortly afterwards Lord Macclesfield took the Act of Settlement to the elector of Hanover in 1701, the younger Andrew Fountaine accompanied him and thus became known in the courts of Europe in what became the first of his two grand tours. He was in correspondence with Gottfried Leibniz between 1701 and 1704 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamal Fountaine
Jamal Fountaine (born January 29, 1971) is a former NFL defensive end. High school Fountain attended Lincoln High School in San Francisco, California where he ran track and played basketball, playing football beginning in his junior year. Collegiate career Fountaine played defensive end for the Washington Huskies and was a starter for the 1992 and 1993 seasons and letterman from 1990 to 1993. In 1989, he was awarded the team's Mark Drennan Memorial Award as special teams scout squad MVP, also later awarded to his younger brother Matt Fountaine in 2002. He played in the Rose Bowl as a member of 1990, 1991, and 1992 teams. He finished his career as a team captain during the 1993 season, which concluded with the 1994 Hula Bowl. Fountaine earned a construction engineering degree at Washington. NFL career He was not selected in the 1994 NFL Draft, but signed as a free agent with the San Francisco 49ers where he spent two seasons including their 1995 Super Bowl team. He later w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fountaine-Pajot
Fountaine-Pajot is a major French maritime construction company specialising in catamarans both for private leisure, cruising and offshore chartering. The company was founded in 1976 by Jean François Fountaine and Yves Pajot, in the town of Aigrefeuille-d'Aunis, in Charente-Maritime. It also now has a factory at La Rochelle. The Fontaine-Pajot business Fontaine-Pajot has become a world renowned cruising catamaran manufacturer. The company started on an industrial estate in Aigrefeuille d'Aunis, and today is the town's largest employer, with some 250 employees; the group as a whole having about 430. The company started to make public transport catamarans in 1983. Since then, the company has built 21 models and delivered 1,668 catamarans. Nowadays the company makes between 150 and 180 catamarans a year, both sail and power craft. In 2018, the company bought Dufour Yachts, a manufacturer of monohull sailing vessels. Innovation Seeking to keep abreast of the competition, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Fountaine
Vice-Admiral Charles Andrew Fountaine, CB, DL, JP (25 May 1879 – 24 March 1946) was a Royal Navy officer during the First World War. Fountaine was born at Narford Hall, Norfolk. He joined the Royal Navy in 1893, and was a Lieutenant when in early 1900 he was posted to the destroyer HMS ''Fairy'', serving in the Devonport Instructional flotilla. He later served with distinction during the First World War, first as a gunnery officer on HMS ''Lion'', and latterly in command of HMS ''Cambrian''. He was Naval Aide de Camp to King George V from 1925–1926. He was appointed High Sheriff of Norfolk in March 1946, just before his death. He had married Louisa Constance Catherine (31 August 1890 - 28 December 1968) in 1918. England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1995 She was the younger daughter of Sir Douglas Maclean, of Hawke's Bay in New Zealand. The Neo-Nazi Andrew Fountaine was their son. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Fountain, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Fountaine
John Fountaine (1600–1671) was commissioner of the great seal of England from 1659 to 1660. He was imprisoned for refusing to pay the parliament's war tax in 1642, during the First English Civil War. Admitted to the bar in 1629, Fountaine distinguished himself by refusing to pay the war tax levied by parliament and, pursuant to a resolution of the House of Commons was "secured and disarmed" and imprisoned in the Gatehouse. He is thought to have been a member of parliament, due to having been granted the privilege of attending services in St. Margaret's Church while imprisoned, though he does not appear on surviving lists of members. He was involved in royalist organizing in 1645, but later recommended compromise, and joined the anti-royalist government. For this, Edward Foss Edward Foss (16 October 1787 – 27 July 1870) was an English lawyer and biographer. He became a solicitor, and on his retirement from practice in 1840, devoted himself to the study of legal antiquities. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fountain (other)
A fountain is a piece of architecture that pours or jets water for drinking or for decorative effect. Fountain or Fountains may also refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Fountain'' (1988 film), a Russian film directed by Yuri Mamin * ''Fountain'' (Duchamp), a 1917 sculpture by Marcel Duchamp * Fountain (juggling), a juggling pattern * "Fountain", a song by PJ Harvey from the 1992 album '' Dry'' * "Fountain (I Am Good)", a song by Mosaic MSC from the 2020 album ''Human'' * "Fountains", a song by Drake from the 2021 album ''Certified Lover Boy'' People *Albert Jennings Fountain (1838–1896), American lawyer and politician * Ben Fountain (born 1958), American fiction writer * Clarence Fountain (1929–2018), American gospel singer of The Blind Boys of Alabama * Daurice Fountain (born 1995), American football player *Hyleas Fountain (born 1981), American heptathlete *Nigel Fountain (born 1944), British writer and journalist *Pete Fountain (1930–2016), American jazz clarinetist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fontaine (other)
Fontaine is a French word meaning fountain or natural spring or an area of natural springs. Places France *Beaulieu-les-Fontaines, in the Oise ''département'' *Bierry-les-Belles-Fontaines, in the Yonne ''département'' *Cailloux-sur-Fontaines, in the Rhône ''département'' *Druyes-les-Belles-Fontaines, in the Yonne ''département'' * Fontaine, Aube, in the Aube ''département'' *Fontaine, Isère, in the Isère ''département'' *Fontaine, Territoire de Belfort, in the Territoire de Belfort ''département'' * Fontaine-au-Bois, in the Nord ''département'' *Fontaine-au-Pire, in the Nord ''département'' *Fontaine-Bellenger, in the Eure ''département'' *Fontaine-Bonneleau, in the Oise ''département'' *Fontaine-Chaalis, in the Oise ''département'' *Fontaine-Chalendray, in the Charente-Maritime ''département'' * Fontaine-Couverte, in the Mayenne ''département'' *Fontaine-de-Vaucluse, in the Vaucluse ''département'' *Fontaine de Vaucluse (spring), a spring in the Vauc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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