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Francis Browne (other)
Francis Browne (1880–1960), was an Irish photographer and Jesuit priest. Francis or Frank Browne may also refer to: * Francis Browne (died 1541), Member of Parliament (MP) for Stamford * Francis Browne (MP for Bodmin) (fl. 1560s), MP for Bodmin *Francis Browne, 3rd Viscount Montagu (1610–1682) *Francis Browne, 4th Viscount Montagu (1638–1708), English peer *Francis Browne, 4th Baron Kilmaine (1843–1907), Anglo-Irish politician and landowner. *Francis Fisher Browne (1843–1913), American editor, poet, and critic *Francis Aubrey Browne (1878–1953), English-born accountant and political figure in British Columbia *Frank Browne (journalist) (1915–1981), Australian journalist * Francis Browne (cricketer) (1899–1970), English cricketer, schoolteacher and clergyman *Francis James Browne (1879–1963), professor of obstetrics and gynaecology * Francis Browne (priest, died 1797), Anglican priest in Ireland * Frank Styant Browne (1854–1938), Australian pharmacist, artist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Browne
Francis Patrick Mary Browne, (3 January 1880 – 7 July 1960) was a distinguished Irish Jesuit and a prolific photographer. His best known photographs are those of the RMS ''Titanic'' and its passengers and crew taken shortly before its sinking in 1912. He was decorated as a military chaplain during the First World War. Early life Francis Browne was born to a wealthy family in 1880 at Buxton House, Cork, Ireland, the youngest of the eight children of James and Brigid (née Hegarty) Browne. His mother was the niece of William Hegarty, Lord Mayor of Cork, and a cousin of Sir Daniel Hegarty, the first Lord Mayor of Cork. She died of puerperal fever eight days after Francis's birth. After the death of his father in a swimming accident at Crosshaven on 2 September 1889, Browne was raised and supported by his uncle, Robert Browne, Bishop of Cloyne, who bought him his first camera shortly before the younger man embarked on a tour of Europe in 1897. Education He spent his format ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Browne (journalist)
Francis Courtney Browne (9 September 1915 Р14 December 1981) was an Australian journalist. In 1955 case, Browne was jailed by parliament for three months under the doctrine of parliamentary privilege. Life and career Frank Browne was born in the Sydney suburb of Coogee to New Zealand-born tailor Courtney Brown and Linda Veronica, ''n̩e'' Heckenberg. He attended Christian Brothers' College in Waverley and went on to enter the Royal Military College, having failed to win a bursary for university. In August 1935 he was discharged and described as "temperamentally unsuited to the military profession"; Browne would later claim that he was in fact expelled as a result of an affair with an officer's wife. He also claimed (falsely) to have won a "gold pocket" for sporting excellence. After leaving the military Browne became a cadet journalist on ''Smith's Weekly'' and then travelled to the United States, writing for the ''Chicago Tribune''. He boxed professionally as "Buzz Brow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Brown (other)
Frank Brown may refer to: * Frank Brown (governor) (1846–1920), governor of Maryland *Frank Herbert Brown (1868–1959), English journalist *Frank Clyde Brown (1870–1943), American folklorist and university administrator * Frank Edward Brown (1908–1988), American archaeologist *Frank Brown (alpine skier) (1937–2016), American Olympic skier *Frank Brown (footballer, born 1890) (1890–?), English footballer * Frank Brown (cyclist) (1890–1969), Canadian Olympic cyclist *Frank Chouteau Brown (1876–1947), American architect * Frank Paterson Brown (1887–1928), Australian sportsman and journalist *Francis Harold Brown (1943–2017), American geologist and geochemist *Frank Brown (entertainer) (1858–1943), clown, acrobat and circus entrepreneur in Argentina *Frank Brown (journalist) (born ), American journalist *Frank J. Brown (1956–2020), African-American visual artist *Frank A. Brown Jr. (1908–1983), American researcher of biological rhythms *Frank London Brown (1927â ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Brown (other)
Francis Brown may refer to: *Francis Brown (theologian) (1849–1916), American Semitic scholar * Francis Brown (college president) (1784–1820), president of Dartmouth College * Francis Brown (mathematician) (1997–), French-British mathematician * Francis Ernest Brown (1869–1939), headmaster for Geelong Church of England Grammar School * Francis David Millet Brown (1837–1895), Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross *Francis Focer Brown (1891–1971), Midwestern American Impressionist painter, Professor and Director of the Muncie Art Museum *Francis Graham Brown (1891–1942), Anglican bishop * F. Taylor Brown (1925–2011), U.S. Navy admiral * Francis Brown (priest) (1670–1724), Canon of Windsor * Francis Shunk Brown (1858–1940), Pennsylvania lawyer and Attorney General *Francis Harold Brown Francis Harold Brown (October 24, 1943 – September 30, 2017) was an American geologist and geochemist who mapped the sedimentary sequence and geology of most of the Turkana Basin in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Styant Browne
Frank Styant Browne (10 July 1854 – 17 April 1938), also known as Styant Browne, was an Australian pharmacist, artist, photographer and X-ray pioneer from Tasmania. In Australia, the medical men of the day took a slow approach in the adoption of the new science that involved X-rays. Many of the early demonstrations were made by investigators outside the medical field. Upon examination of the initial investigators, several key factors were common. The individuals had already either been experimenting along similar lines to Wilhelm Röntgen with Crookes tubes and such, the physicists or scientists, or were actively associated with electrical work, the electricians, which made them particularly receptive to the technical appeal of the new science of X-rays. Records of the events reveal that among the medical men who witnessed the first images produced as radiographs, a rather small number had any great desire to employ X-rays directly in their own medical practice. After the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Browne (priest, Died 1797)
Francis Browne, LL.D. was an Anglican priest in Ireland in the late eighteenth century. Browne was born in Dublin educated at Trinity College there. He was Archdeacon of Kilmacduagh from 1791 to 1794 and Dean of Elphin The Dean of Elphin and Ardagh is based in St John the Baptist Cathedral, Sligo in the Diocese of Elphin and Ardagh within the united bishopric of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh of the Church of Ireland. The dioceses of Elphin and Ardagh were merged i ... from then until his death in 1797."Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 4" Cotton, H. pp 196/7: Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878 Notes Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Archdeacons of Kilmacduagh Deans of Elphin 18th-century Irish Anglican priests Christian clergy from Dublin (city) 1797 deaths {{Ireland-Anglican-clergy-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis James Browne
Francis James Browne (1879–1963) was professor of obstetrics and gynaecology and first director of the obstetric unit at University College Hospital, London, which was opened in 1926. He was known as "FJ". Browne was appointed professor at the University of London and the first full-time director of the newly established Obstetric Unit, opened by the Prince of Wales in 1926. Browne established a modern labour ward service, with one senior sister in charge and improved antiseptic and aseptic techniques. He instituted antenatal and postnatal clinics and recruited many (later distinguished) assistants, including Leslie Williams, Harold Malkin, Chassar Moir, Robert Kellar, Vivian Barnes, Max Rosenheim, Josephine Barnes and Aileen Dickens. He re-organised the teaching of medical students, and residential accommodation was provided. Systematic teaching of obstetric and gynaecological dressers was introduced. Standards of the district obstetric service were greatly improved, an impor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Browne (cricketer)
Canon Francis Bernard Ross Browne (28 July 1899 – 11 March 1970) was an English cricketer/bowler, schoolteacher and clergyman. Cricket career Browne attended Eastbourne College, where he led the bowling in the First XI.'' Wisden'' 1971, pp. 1023-24. He underwent military training at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, towards the end of World War I, receiving a commission in the Royal Garrison Artillery in September 1918. He then went up to Emmanuel College, Cambridge after the war. Despite a bowling action which '' Wisden'' described as "a weird delivery that defies description" in which "he appeared to cross his legs and deliver the ball off the wrong foot", and which earned him the nickname "Tishy" after a racehorse with a strange gait, he was a successful bowler in first-class cricket from 1919 to 1932. He played for Cambridge University in 1921 and 1922, taking 68 wickets at an average of 14.44, with a best performance of 3 for 34 and 6 for 27 in a victory over Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Aubrey Browne
Francis Aubrey Browne (12 December 1878 – 22 October 1953) was an English-born accountant and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Burnaby in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1924 to 1928 as a Canadian Labour Party member. He was born in London, the son of Henry A. Browne and Elizabeth Ada Hurt, and was educated there. Browne was employed in the grain trade on the London exchange. In 1906, he married Jessie Clara Hollands. Browne came to Canada in 1912. He served as accountant for Burnaby from 1914 to 1925. Browne also was president of the New Westminster Trades and Labour Council. He was defeated when he ran for reelection as an independent Labour Party candidate in 1928. He died in Vancouver Vancouver ( ) is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the List of cities in British Columbia, most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Browne (died 1541)
Francis Patrick Mary Browne, (3 January 1880 – 7 July 1960) was a distinguished Irish Jesuit and a prolific photographer. His best known photographs are those of the and its passengers and crew taken before its sinking in 1912. He was decorated as a military chaplain during the First World War. Early life Francis Browne was born to a wealthy family in 1880 at Buxton House, Cork, Ireland, the youngest of the eight children of James and Brigid (née Hegarty) Browne. His mother was the niece of William Hegarty, Lord Mayor of Cork, and a cousin of Sir Daniel Hegarty, the first Lord Mayor of Cork. She died of puerperal fever eight days after Francis's birth. After the death of his father in a swimming accident at Crosshaven on 2 September 1889, Browne was raised and supported by his uncle, Robert Browne, Bishop of Cloyne, who bought him his first camera shortly before the younger man embarked on a tour of Europe in 1897. Education He spent his formative years at Bower Conv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Fisher Browne
Francis Fisher Browne (December 1, 1843 – May 11, 1913) was an American editor, poet, and literary critic. Browne was one of the founders and later, an honorary member of the Chicago Literary Club, the Caxton Club (Chicago) and The Twilight Club of Pasadena (California). He served as the Chairman of Committee on Congress at the World's Congress Auxiliary of the Columbian Exhibition, (Chicago World's Fair) in the summer of 1893. Browne was at the forefront of the 20th century intellectual and literary scene in Chicago, Illinois. A transplant from New England, Browne settled in Chicago in 1867 and founded the literary journal, ''The Dial'', which was a revival of Margaret Fuller's transcendental periodical and served as a venue for modernist literature. Over the years, he had become close friends with John Muir, John Burroughs, Walt Witman, and other notable figures. Biography Early life Browne was born in South Halifax, Vermont, to parents, William Goldsmith Browne and Eu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Browne, 4th Baron Kilmaine
Francis William Browne, 4th Baron Kilmaine (24 March 1843 – 9 November 1907) was an Anglo-Irish politician and landowner. He was an Irish representative peer and Sheriff of County Westmeath in 1870. Life Browne was born in London, the eldest son of John Cavendish Browne, 3rd Baron Kilmaine, and his second wife, Mary Law, daughter of politician Charles Ewan Law (by his father's first wife, he had three half-brothers who died unmarried before their father.) He succeeded to his father's title in 1873. He held in Ireland, and was a member of gentlemen's clubs in both London and Dublin. He was elected as an Irish representative peer, holding that role from 1890 until his death. He was appointed as High Sheriff of County Westmeath in 1870. Personal life In 1877, Browne married Alice Emily, daughter of Col. Dean Shute, sister of Sir Cameron Shute, and niece of General Sir Charles Cameron Shute. They had one son, John Edward Deane Browne, who married Lady Aline Kennedy, daugh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
