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Graydon (name)
Graydon is a name. Notable people with the name include: Given name * Graydon Eggers (1903–1994), American football coach * Graydon Henning, Australian maritime historian * Graydon Hoare, software developer who designed the programming language Rust * Graydon Nesfield (born 1944), Barbadian cricketer * Graydon Nicholas (born 1946), former Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick * Graydon Oliver (born 1978), retired American professional tennis player * Graydon Parrish (born 1970), American figurative painter * Graydon Smith, Canadian politician * Graydon Staniforth (born 1973), Australian rugby union player Middle name * Benjamin Graydon Allmark (1911–2004), Canadian politician * Edward Graydon Carter (born 1949), Canadian-born American journalist and author * Julia Graydon Sharpe (1857–1939), American female portrait artist * Michael John Graydon Soroka (born 1997), Canadian baseball pitcher * Louis Graydon Sullivan (1951–1991), American author and activist Surname * Alexan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graydon Eggers
Graydon Poe Eggers Sr. (October 13, 1903 – January 11, 1994) was an American college football and college basketball coach and professor of English. He was the first head football coach at Appalachian State Normal School–now known as Appalachian State University–located in Boone, North Carolina. He coached the team for one season, in 1928, compiling a record of 3–6. Eggers was also the head basketball coach at Appalachian State, for one season in 1944–45, tallying a mark of 6–13. Eggers, a native of Watauga County, North Carolina, was a longtime English professor at Appalachian State University, serving there from 1927 to 1970. He obtained his Ph.D. in English from Duke University in 1935. His specialty was translating Middle English. In 1955 Eggers published a translation of ''The Owl and the Nightingale ''The Owl and the Nightingale'' ( la, Altercatio inter filomenam et bubonem) is a twelfth- or thirteenth-century Middle English poem detailing a debate betw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Graydon
Gordon Graydon (December 7, 1896 – September 19, 1953) was a Canadian politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Peel from 1935 to 1953. Background Graydon received his early education at S.S. No. 6 Chinguacousy in the County of Peel, Ontario. He attended Brampton High School and was a student at University of Toronto in political science. He graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1924. He then became a partner of the late Justice William Raney, one-time Attorney General of Ontario. In 1933, at the age of 36, Graydon became the President of the Peel County Conservative Association. He was the youngest man ever to hold that position. In 1934, he helped rejuvenate the Conservative Party of Ontario by forming Young Conservative Clubs at a time when the party's existence was threatened. Optimism, confidence, acumen and an appealing manner were some of his assets. He was a member of Grace United Church, Brampton, of several local lodges, including Campbel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
What Planet Are You From?
''What Planet Are You From?'' is a 2000 American science fiction comedy film directed by Mike Nichols and written by Michael Leeson, Garry Shandling, Ed Solomon, and Peter Tolan based on a story by Leeson and Shandling. The film stars Shandling, Annette Bening, Greg Kinnear, Ben Kingsley, Linda Fiorentino, and John Goodman. Plot A denizen ( Garry Shandling) of a faraway planet occupied only by highly evolved males is ordered by his superior, Graydon (Ben Kingsley), to find a female human, impregnate her and bring the baby back to the planet. The visitor to Earth ends up in Phoenix, Arizona, where he assumes the name Harold Anderson and takes a job in a bank. There he meets a womanizing co-worker Perry Gordon (Greg Kinnear), who goes to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings strictly to meet women. Harold accompanies him to one and meets Susan (Annette Bening), a recovering alcoholic. He must marry her before he can try to mate. After their wedding in Las Vegas, Susan finds herself w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Graydon (other)
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William Graydon may refer to: * William Edward Graydon or 220 Kid (born 1989), English record producer and DJ * William Murray Graydon (1864–1946), American writer See also * Graydon (other) * Graydon (name) Graydon is a name. Notable people with the name include: Given name * Graydon Eggers (1903–1994), American football coach * Graydon Henning, Australian maritime historian * Graydon Hoare, software developer who designed the programming language ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Graydon
Thomas Hetherington "Blondy" Graydon (March 30, 1881 – October 1949) was an All-American football player. While attending Harvard, he was selected as fullback on the All-American teams of 1901 and 1902. Early years Graydon was the son of Ann H. Graydon and Dr. Thomas W. Graydon. His father was a doctor in Cincinnati, Ohio who had emigrated to the United States from Ireland in 1868.Cincinnati, the Queen City, 1788–1912, Volume 3 By Charles Frederic Goss, Clarke, S. J., Publishing Company, S.J. Clarke Publishing Company Graydon's father later became a prominent Republican politician and manufacturer of patent medicines. Graydon was educated in the private schools of Cincinnati and at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, from which he graduated in 1899. All-American at Harvard In the fall of 1899, Graydon entered Harvard University. He played fullback on the Harvard football team in 1900, 1901 and 1902. He was selected by Walter Camp as an All-American at that posit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Graydon (other)
Robert Graydon may refer to two Irish politicians: * Robert Graydon (1671–1725) Robert Graydon (1671 – 1725) was an Irish politician. Graydon sat as a Member of Parliament for Harristown in the Irish House of Commons The Irish House of Commons was the lower house of the Parliament of Ireland that existed from 1297 ..., member of Parliament for Harristown from 1692 to 1693 and from 1695 to 1699 * Robert Graydon (1744–1800), member of Parliament for Harristown from 1768 to 1776, then for Kildare Borough from 1790 to 1797 {{hndis, Graydon, Robert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Graydon
Richard Graydon (12 May 1922 – 22 December 2014) was a British stunt performer and stunt coordinator best known for his work in the ''James Bond'' film series. Early life He was educated at Stowe School in Buckinghamshire and was an amateur jockey and a dancer. He was rejected for service in the RAF in World War II due to a childhood eye injury. Career His acting, dancing and horse-riding skills were used to good effect in the 1952 film ''The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men'', and he then developed a career as a stunt performer. His stunts for James Bond films included tobogganing down the Cresta Run in '' On Her Majesty's Secret Service,'' doubling for George Lazenby, and later for Roger Moore in a cable car fight scene 1,000 ft above ground on Sugarloaf Mountain, Brazil, in '' Moonraker.'' At in height, Graydon was shorter than Moore, but it was necessary to maintain the height difference with the stuntman doubling for the Richard Kiel Richard Dawson Kiel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Graydon
Raymond Jack Graydon (born 21 July 1947) is an English former footballer and manager. In a 16-year professional career in the English Football League and North American Soccer League he scored 139 goals in 484 league and cup appearances. A winger, he began his career at hometown club Bristol Rovers in 1965, and scored 38 goals from 155 league and cup competitions in a six-season stay. He was sold on to Aston Villa for £50,000 in July 1971, and went on to help Villa to win promotion out of the Third Division as champions in 1971–72 and then out of the Second Division in 1974–75. He scored the only goal of the 1975 League Cup Final, and won the League Cup for a second time in 1977. He was also nominated for the Second Division PFA Team of the Year in 1974–75, and featured on the losing side in the 1972 FA Charity Shield. He was sold on to Coventry City for a fee of £35,000 in 1977, and then moved to the United States to play for the Washington Diplomats in 1978, where ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Graydon
Air Chief Marshal Sir Michael James Graydon, (born 24 October 1938) is a retired Royal Air Force (RAF) officer. He was a fast jet pilot in the 1960s, a squadron commander in the 1970s and a station commander in the 1980s before serving as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief RAF Strike Command during the Gulf War. He was Chief of the Air Staff from 1992 to 1997 in which role he advised the British Government on the implementation of No Fly Zones in Iraq and Bosnia and implemented the Front Line First initiative. RAF career The son of James Julian Graydon and Rita Mary Graydon (née Alkan), Graydon was educated at Wycliffe College, in the town of Stonehouse in Gloucestershire, and became a flight cadet at the Royal Air Force College Cranwell in January 1957 before being commissioned into the Royal Air Force on 15 December 1959. His potential as a flying instructor was noticed early in his career and, after completing his Qualified Flying Instructor course at the Central Flying Scho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Graydon
Keith Graydon (born 10 February 1983) is an Irish footballer who plays for Morpeth Town as a midfielder and a striker. Club career Born in Dublin, County Dublin, Graydon was a member of the Home Farm youth system before joining English club Sunderland on a professional contract on 28 February 2000. He joined Third Division side York City on a one-month loan on 27 March 2003. His debut came on 29 March 2003 after starting York's 2–0 defeat at home to Southend United. In the following game, a 2–2 home draw with Rochdale on 12 April 2003, Graydon scored his first and only goal for York with a 35th minute penalty kick. Graydon finished the loan spell at York with one goal in seven appearances, and in May 2003 he was released from his Sunderland contract. Graydon went on trial with Football Conference side Scarborough before signing on non-contract terms on 25 September 2003. He signed a contract for the rest of the 2003–04 season the following month and made his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katharine Merrill Graydon
Katharine Merrill Graydon (14 April 1858 – 25 January 1934) was an American classical scholar who specialised in teaching Greek and Latin literature, as well as a professor of English Literature. Career Graydon was graduate from the Classical course at Butler University in 1878 and began teaching Greek at a school in Indianapolis school replacing her own professor, John O. Hopkins, after his death in November 1877. In 1883 she gained her master's degree from Indiana University Bloomington and was subsequently appointed as the assistant professor of Latin and Greek there. Graydon's teaching career at Indiana was cut short after her relationship with Lemuel Moss, President of the university, was exposed by a group of students who spied on the couple through peep holes drilled into the attic above her seminar room. The relationship was published in several national newspapers. Graydon resigned under protest, stating that Moss had threatened her with dismissal from her position if s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Graydon (other)
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John Graydon (1666–1726) was an English navy officer. John Graydon may also refer to: * John Graydon (politician) (1693–1774), Irish politician * Michael John Graydon Soroka (born 1997), Canadian baseball pitcher See also * Graydon (other) * Graydon (name) Graydon is a name. Notable people with the name include: Given name * Graydon Eggers (1903–1994), American football coach * Graydon Henning, Australian maritime historian * Graydon Hoare, software developer who designed the programming language ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
