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Gregory (surname)
Gregory is an English, Scottish and Slovenian surname, variants of the name include McGregor, MacGregor, Gregor, Gregson, Gregg, Grigg, Greig and may refer to: * Adam Gregory, Canadian entertainer * Alyse Gregory (1884-1967), American suffragist and writer * Andre Gregory * Andy Gregory, English rugby league player * Augustus Charles Gregory, Australian explorer * Benji Gregory * Bernard Gregory, French physicist, CERN Director General * Bob Gregory (other), multiple people * Brad Stephan Gregory * Bud Gregory * Caspar René Gregory (1846–1917), German theologian * Celia Gregory * Charles Hutton Gregory, British civil engineer * Christine Gregory, British sculptor * Conal Gregory * Cynthia Gregory * Dave Gregory, Australian cricketer * Dave Gregory, guitarist for XTC * David Gregory (mathematician), Scottish mathematician * David Gregory (BBC) * David Gregory, American journalist * David Gregory, English footballer * Deborah Gregory * Derek ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greek Language
Greek ( el, label=Modern Greek, Ελληνικά, Elliniká, ; grc, Ἑλληνική, Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, southern Italy (Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean. It has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning at least 3,400 years of written records. Its writing system is the Greek alphabet, which has been used for approximately 2,800 years; previously, Greek was recorded in writing systems such as Linear B and the Cypriot syllabary. The alphabet arose from the Phoenician script and was in turn the basis of the Latin, Cyrillic, Armenian, Coptic, Gothic, and many other writing systems. The Greek language holds a very important place in the history of the Western world. Beginning with the epics of Homer, ancient Greek literature includes many works of lasting impo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augustus Charles Gregory
Sir Augustus Charles Gregory (1 August 1819 – 25 June 1905) was an English-born Australian explorer and surveyor. Between 1846 and 1858 he undertook four major expeditions. He was the first Surveyor-General of Queensland. He was appointed a lifetime Member of the Queensland Legislative Council. Early years Augustus Charles Gregory was born at Farnsfield, Nottingham, England. He was the second of five brothers born to Joshua Gregory and Frances Churchman. Among his brothers were Francis Thomas Gregory, who also became a noted explorer. #Joshua William Gregory, born 1815, died 20 September 1850 aged 35. #Augustus Charles Gregory, born 1 August 1819, died 1905 aged 86 #Francis (Frank) Thomas Gregory, born 1821. #Henry Churcham Gregory, born 1823, died London 29 July 1903 aged 79 years #Charles Frederick Gregory, born 1825. A. C. Gregory was educated privately by tutors and later by his mother. In 1829, the family emigrated to Western Australia on board the '' Lotus'', arri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Gregory (cricketer)
David William Gregory (15 April 1845 – 4 August 1919) was an Australian cricketer. A right-handed batsman, Gregory was the first Australian national cricket captain, leading the side for the first three recognised Test matches between England and Australia in March and April 1877 and January 1879. Gregory was also the captain of the New South Wales team, notably during the Sydney Riot of 1879 when he rebelled against an unpopular decision by Victorian umpire George Coulthard during a game against the touring English team. Gregory was part of a large cricketing family: his father, Edward William Gregory, was a "capable cricketer" with eight sons, five of whom played for New South Wales in international or intercolonial matches between 1861 and 84; in all, twenty of Edward William Gregory's descendants represented New South Wales in cricket and other sports.Rae Else-Mitchell'Gregory, David William (1845–1919)' ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'', National Centre of Biogr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cynthia Gregory
Cynthia Kathleen Gregory (born July 8, 1946) is an American former prima ballerina. Career Born in Los Angeles, Gregory took up dancing when she was five, with the encouragement of her parents, who hoped exercise would stem her history of childhood illnesses. A performance by Margot Fonteyn and Rudolph Nureyev had inspired young Cynthia to study ballet. By age six, she was ''en pointe''; and at age seven, she first appeared on the cover of Dance Magazine. She would eventually go on to dance with Nureyev in a production of ''Romeo and Juliet,'' which he had originated with Fonteyn as Juliet. He has called Gregory "America's Prima ballerina assoluta." Much of Gregory’s early training was with Carmelita Maracci. Awarded a Ford Foundation scholarship at age 14 to study with the San Francisco Ballet, she quickly rose to soloist and became shortly thereafter a principal dancer, while also dancing with the San Francisco Opera. Gregory joined American Ballet Theatre (ABT) in 1965. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conal Gregory
Conal Robert Gregory (born 11 March 1947) was Conservative Party (UK) Member of Parliament for York from 1983 to 1992,‘GREGORY, Conal Robert’, Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 201accessed 1 Jan 2013/ref> when he lost the seat to Labour Party candidate Hugh Bayley. He was educated at King's College School, Wimbledon and the University of Sheffield. He is a Master of Wine Master of Wine (MW) is a qualification (not an academic degree) issued by The Institute of Masters of Wine in the United Kingdom. The MW qualification is generally regarded in the wine industry as one of the highest standards of professional knowle ... and has worked for many years in the wine trade. He is the author of a number of publications on the subject. He became a journalist writing for the Financial Times, Guardian and was made the personal Financial Editor of the Yorkshire Post winning Region ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christine Gregory
Christine Gregory (1879–10 February 1963) was a British sculptor and potter. She was among the first women elected as a member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors. Biography Gregory was born and lived in London. Her father was a mineralogist from London while her mother was from Berkshire and together they raised a family of seven. Gregory taught model making at the Hammersmith School of Art from 1918 to 1937 while working as a sculptor and potter. Working in bronze, terracotta and plaster she created busts, statuettes, plaques and earthenware pieces. In 1922 she was among the first women elected as a member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors and became a Fellow of that society in 1948. Gregory won a number of awards and medals including the Feodora Gleichen Award in 1945 for her coloured plaster sculpture ''A Child of Africa''. Between 1900 and 1949 Gregory exhibited some 37 works at the Royal Academy in London and 24 works with the Society of Women Artists. Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Hutton Gregory
Sir Charles Hutton Gregory (14 October 1817 – 10 January 1898) was an English people, English civil engineer. He was president of the Institution of Civil Engineers between December 1867 and December 1869. Charles was the son of Olinthus Gregory, Dr Olinthus Gilbert Gregory, a master of mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. The chair of mathematics at that time was held by Charles Hutton, who acted as Dr. Gregory's patron. It was in Hutton's honour that Charles was named. Gregory was consulting engineer of several major railway construction works, including those in Ceylon, Trinidad, Cape Colony, Perak and Selangor. He was the first to use railway semaphore signalling which he employed first at New Cross on the London and Croydon Railway in 1841, and the South Eastern Railway (UK), South Eastern Railways in 1842-3. This method later superseded all others and was dominant from 1870. In 1882 he was a member of the Channel Tunnel#Historical proposal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celia Gregory
Celia Christine Gregory (23 September 1949 – 8 September 2008) was a British stage, film and television actress, who became a faith healer later in life. Best known for her role as Ruth Anderson in the 1976 BBC television drama '' Survivors'', she also appeared in such television series as ''Hammer House of Horror'', '' The Professionals'', '' Bergerac'', '' Tales of the Unexpected'', ''The Problem of Thor Bridge'' and ''Reilly, Ace of Spies'', among many others. She also worked as a stage actress in London's West End opposite Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright and Frank Finlay in 1973 in Eduardo De Filippo's play, ''Saturday, Sunday, Monday''. In 1991 she played Calphurnia in ''Julius Caesar Gaius Julius Caesar (; ; 12 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC), was a Roman general and statesman. A member of the First Triumvirate, Caesar led the Roman armies in the Gallic Wars before defeating his political rival Pompey in a civil war, ...'' and Lady Capulet in '' Romeo a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caspar René Gregory
Caspar René Gregory (November 6, 1846 – April 9, 1917) was an American-born German theologian. Life Gregory was born to Mary Jones and Henry Duval Gregory in Philadelphia. He was the brother of the American zoologist Emily Ray Gregory. After completing his bachelor's degree at the University of Pennsylvania in 1864, he studied theology at two Presbyterian seminaries: in 1865–1867 at the Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, and in 1867–1873 at the Princeton Theological Seminary. In 1873, he decided to continue his studies at the University of Leipzig under Constantin von Tischendorf, to whose work on textual criticism of the New Testament he had been referred by his teacher Ezra Abbot. He administered the scientific legacy of Tischendorf, who died in 1874, and continued his work. In 1876, he obtained his PhD with a dissertation titled '' Grégoire the priest and the revolutionist''. The first examiner for it was the historian Georg Voigt. He comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bud Gregory
Milton Edward Charles "Bud" Gregory (March 9, 1926 – June 17, 2016) was a Canadian politician in Ontario. He served as a Progressive Conservative member in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario who represented the riding of Mississauga East from 1975 to 1987. He served as a cabinet minister in the governments of Bill Davis and Frank Miller. Background Gregory was born in Toronto and educated at Western Technical-Commercial School. He worked as an insurance broker. Politics Gregory was a councillor in Mississauga from 1971 to 1975, and in the County of Peel from 1972 to 1973, and in the Regional Municipality of Peel from 1974 to 1975. He was elected to the Ontario legislature in the 1975 provincial election, defeating Liberal candidate Irene Robinson by 1,331 votes in Mississauga East. He defeated Robinson again with an increased majority in the 1977 election, and was named a minister without portfolio in Bill Davis's government on August 30, 1979. Easily returned in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brad Stephan Gregory
Brad Stephan Gregory (born May 28, 1963) holds the Dorothy G. Griffin Collegiate Chair in European History at the University of Notre Dame. After spending the spring 2002 semester as a visiting scholar with the Erasmus Institute at Our Lady's University, Gregory came to Notre Dame in 2003 after teaching at Stanford University, where he received early tenure in 2001. He became a full professor of history at Notre Dame in 2012. Gregory formerly served as the director of the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Studies, which was founded in 2008, from 2013 to 2019. Together with Randall C. Zachman, Gregory also serves as the North American editor of the Archive for Reformation History. Educational background and personal life Gregory was born in Woodstock, Illinois, on May 28, 1963. He attended grade school through eighth grade in the Woodstock Community Unit School District 200 and graduated from Marian Central Catholic High School. He received a BS in history from Utah State Univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Gregory (other)
Bob Gregory may refer to: * Bob Gregory (comics) (1921–2003), American comics artist and writer * Bob Gregory (cricketer) (1902–1973), English cricketer * Bob Gregory (politician) (born 1936), Australian politician * Bob Gregory (American football) (born 1963) American college football coach and former player See also * Bob Gregor Robert Lee Gregor (born February 10, 1957) is an American former professional football player who was a defensive back for the San Diego Chargers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Washington State Coug ... (born 1957), American former pro football player * Robert Gregory (other) {{hndis, Gregory, Bob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
