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Franklyn (name)
Franklyn is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: Surname: * Charles Franklyn (1896–1982), British medical doctor * Delano Franklyn, Jamaican politician * George Woodroffe Franklyn (1800–1870), British politician * Harold Franklyn (1885–1963) British soldier of the world wars * John Franklyn-Robbins (1924–2009), British actor * Milt Franklyn (1897–1962), Musical composer and arranger * Sabina Franklyn (born 1954), English actress and William Franklyn's daughter * William Franklyn (1925–2006), British actor Given name: * Franklyn Ajaye (born 1949), American stand-up comedian * Franklyn Barrett (1873–1964), Australian film director and cinematographer * Franklyn Baur (1903–1950), vocal recording artist * Franklyn Bellamy, British actor * Franklyn Dennis (born 1947), Canadian international cricketer * Franklyn Farnum (1878–1961), American screen character actor * Franklyn Germán (born 1980), Dominican Republic baseball pitcher * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Franklyn
Charles Aubrey Hamilton Franklyn (25 August 1896 – ) was a British medical doctor, and scholar of genealogy, heraldry, and academic dress. He was the son of Captain (later Major) Aubrey Hamilton Franklin and his wife Ethel Mary Franklin (née Gray), altering the spelling of his surname in 1932, as a result of his research into his own family history. He traced his interest in academic dress to September 1910, when he became a pupil at Tonbridge School, and it retained considerable fascination for him for the rest of his life. Between 1949 and 1956 he designed complete systems of academic dress for the universities of Malaya (which bestowed upon him an honorary MA in 1951), Southampton, Hull, the Australian National University, and the Chichester Theological College. At various times he contributed to the academic dress schemes of several other universities (in particular, the universities of Cambridge and Nottingham, and the New University of Ulster). He also served as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franklyn Germán
Franklyn Miguel Germán Madé (born January 20, 1980) is a Dominican former professional baseball relief pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Detroit Tigers, Florida Marlins, and Texas Rangers over parts of six seasons. Career Germán joined the Oakland Athletics organization on July 2, 1996. He made his professional debut with the Arizona League Athletics in 1998, serving as the starting pitcher in 12 of his 14 appearances. In 1999, he was promoted to the low Class–A Southern Oregon Timberjacks, where he recorded a 3–5 record and an earned run average (ERA) of 5.99 in 15 starts. Germán split the 2000 season between the Vancouver Canadians and the Modesto A's. He started in 16 of his 26 appearances, tallying a 6–5 record and a 4.68 ERA. Germán spent the entire 2001 season with the Visalia Oaks. Having converted from a starting pitcher to a reliever, he posted a 3.98 ERA in 53 appearances. Germán was acquired by the Detroit Tigers on July 5, 2002, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franklyn, South Australia
Franklyn is a rural locality in the Mid North region of South Australia, situated in the Regional Council of Goyder. It was established in August 2000, when boundaries were formalised for the "long established local name". It comprises the northern section of the cadastral Hundred of Wonna. The name stems from a Franklyn House in Devonshire. Franklyn was surveyed as a government town in May 1880, but the town was formally declared to have ceased to exist on 9 February 1984. Franklyn Post Office opened on 1 October 1883, was downgraded to a receiving office in January 1910, and closed on 9 July 1917. A second post office, Pandappa Dam, operated in the south-east of the locality from 1 April 1883 until around 1908. A school opened under the name of Wonna in 1883, was renamed Franklyn in 1886, and closed in 1916, while Pandappa Dam School opened in 1893 and closed in 1898. In October 1908, a correspondent to '' The Chronicle'' in Adelaide wrote that "there used to be a lot of peopl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franklyn Stephenson
Franklyn DaCosta Stephenson (born 8 April 1959) is a former cricketer from Barbados who played as a right handed batsman and pacer. Stephenson played as an allrounder for his native Barbados national cricket team, Barbados together with Tasmanian Tigers, Tasmania, Orange Free State cricket team, Orange Free State, Gloucestershire County Cricket Club, Gloucestershire, Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club, Nottinghamshire and Sussex County Cricket Club, Sussex in his cricketing career. As an aggressive middle-order batsman and genuinely quick pacer, he's also noted for being one of the greatest exponents of the slower ball. Playing career Stephenson played for the West Indian cricket team, West Indies Young Cricketers team on their 1979 English tour. During 1981 he made his first-class debut, playing for Tasmanian Tigers, Tasmania. He also started to feature, in that year, for his native Barbados cricket team, Barbados and English side Gloucestershire County Cricket Club, Glouceste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franklyn Bliss Snyder
Franklyn Bliss Snyder (July 26, 1884 – May 11, 1958) was the 18th President of Northwestern University (1939–1949) and an American scholar of Scottish literature. Personal life Snyder was the son of a Congregational minister, Peter Miles Snyder, from Connecticut and grew up in Rockford, Illinois. His sister, Alice D. Snyder, was also an academic. She chaired the English Department at Vassar College. Education and career He received his undergraduate degree from Beloit College and a Ph.D. in English from Harvard University in 1909. Snyder's dissertation was on Robert Burns and was published as ''The Life of Robert Burns'' in 1932. Snyder joined the Northwestern faculty in 1909, became dean of the Graduate School in 1934, and was elected president of the University in 1939, succeeding Walter Dill Scott Walter Dill Scott (May 1, 1869 – September 24, 1955) was one of the first applied psychologists. He applied psychology to various business practices such as personnel selecti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franklyn Seales
Franklyn Seales (July 15, 1952 – May 14, 1990) was an American film, television and stage actor. He was known for his portrayals of business manager Dexter Stuffins in the 1980s sitcom ''Silver Spoons'', and real-life convicted cop killer Jimmy Lee (Youngblood) Smith in the 1979 film ''The Onion Field''. Early life and education Franklyn Vincent Ellison Seales was born on July 15, 1952, the fifth eldest of eight siblings, in Calliaqua to Francis Seales, a merchant seaman and government employee, and Olive Seales (née Allen), a homemaker. Seales was of English, Scottish, African, Portuguese and Native Caribbean descent. He and his family left the West Indies in 1960 and settled in New York City. He attended Lincoln High School in Brooklyn. Seales originally intended to study at the Pratt Institute to pursue a career in art. However, in the early 1970s, Seales agreed to accompany an aspiring-actress friend to an audition at the Juilliard School. As Seales helped his friend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franklyn Rose
Franklyn Albert Rose (born 1 February 1972) is a former West Indian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a fast right-arm bowler who possesses a lot of power with his full-length outswing. International career In the first innings in which he participated, he achieved figures of 6 for 100, but for Test after Test beyond this, his bowling disappointed in comparison, only picking up during a Test match in Durban, where he achieved figures of 7 for 84. Rose hit a match-turning 69 against Zimbabwe in 2000. Coming in at 170 for 7, in reply to the visitors' 308, he and Jimmy Adams (101 n.o.) added a record 148 for the eighth wicket in the Windies 10-wicket victory. He was subsequently named Man-of-the-Series. Later that year, his aggression cost West Indies the second Test at Lord's when his attempts to shake England's Dominic Cork with short-pitched bowling leaked valuable runs in a low-scoring game. Although he was dropped for good at age 28, his final Test bowling averag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Modell
Franklyn Bruce Modell (September 6, 1917 – May 27, 2016) was an American cartoonist who contributed over 1,400 cartoons to ''The New Yorker'' during a period of over 50 years from 1946. Franklyn Bruce Modell was born on September 6, 1917 in Philadelphia. He was a graduate of the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art, after which he served in the US Army in World War II in a signal radio intelligence company as a sergeant. Modell died on May 27, 2016 at his home in Guilford, Connecticut Guilford is a town in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States, that borders Madison, Branford, North Branford and Durham, and is situated on I-95 and the Connecticut seacoast. The population was 22,073 at the 2020 census. History Guilfo .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Modell, Frank 1917 births 2016 deaths American cartoonists American magazine illustrators Artists from Philadelphia The New Yorker cartoonists People from Guilford, Connecticut University of the Art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franklyn MacCormack
Franklyn MacCormack (March 8, 1906 – June 12, 1971) was an American radio personality in Chicago, Illinois, from the 1930s into the 1970s. After his death, Ward Quaal, the president of the last company for which MacCormack worked, described him as "a natural talent and one of the truly great performers of broadcasting's first 50 years." Early years MacCormack was born Franklin H. McCormick on March 8, 1906, in Waterloo, Iowa, and had four siblings. He attended the University of Iowa. Radio MacCormack began his radio career in South Bend, Indiana, and in 1930 had his first large-market job with WIL in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1933, he moved to WBBM in Chicago, Illinois, where he was "an actor, announcer and producer." His obituary in the Chicago Tribune said, "He developed his technique of lacing music with poetry while announcing in his native Waterloo, Ia." MacCormack was the announcer of the long-running old-time radio serial ''Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy''. He was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franklyn Kilome
Franklyn Kilomé (born June 25, 1995) is a Dominican professional baseball pitcher in the Washington Nationals organization. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Mets. Professional career Philadelphia Phillies Kilomé signed with the Philadelphia Phillies as an international free agent in 2013. He made his professional debut in 2014 with the Gulf Coast Phillies where he posted a 3.12 ERA in 40 innings pitched. He pitched in 2015 for the Williamsport Crosscutters where he posted a 3–2 record with a 3.28 ERA in 11 starts. Kilomé spent 2016 with the Lakewood BlueClaws, pitching to a 5–8 record and 3.85 ERA. in 23 games started. Kilomé began 2017 with the Clearwater Threshers, and after posting a 6–4 record and a 2.59 ERA in 19 starts, was promoted to the Reading Fightin Phils where he finished the season, going 1–3 with a 3.64 ERA in five starts. The Phillies added Kilomé to their 40-man roster after the 2017 season. He began 2018 with Reading. New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franklyn Hinds
Franklyn Hinds (born 8 May 1967) is a Cayman Islands cricketer Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki .... A right-handed batsman and right-arm Fast bowling, medium pace Bowler (cricket), bowler, he has played for the Cayman Islands national cricket team since 2000. Career Hinds first played cricket for the Cayman Islands in August 2000, when he played against Bermuda national cricket team, Bermuda and the United States national cricket team, USA in the ICC Americas Championship, Americas Championship at the Maple Leaf Cricket Club in King City, Ontario, King City, Ontario.Other matches pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |