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Garry (surname)
Garry is an Irish surname. It is a reduced Anglicized form of McGarry or O’Gara. Notable people with the surname include: * Ben Garry (1956–2006), American football player *Chief Garry ( 1811–1892), Native American leader of the Middle Spokane tribe *Charles Garry (1909–1991), American civil rights attorney * Colleen Garry (born 1962), American politician *Flora Garry (1900–2000), Scottish poet *Jim Garry (1869–1917), American baseball player *Robert Campbell Garry (1900–1993) Scottish physician *Ryan Garry (born 1983), English footballer * Ted Garry (born 1885), Scottish footballer *Vivien Garry Vivien Garry (1920 – December 1, 2008) was a jazz bassist. She led the Vivien Garry Quintet (which, on at least one date, included Edna Williams of the International Sweethearts of Rhythm on trumpet and Ginger Smock on violin) and the Vivien Ga ... (died 2008), American jazz bassist {{surname, Garry Anglicised Irish-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Language
Irish ( Standard Irish: ), also known as Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Insular Celtic branch of the Celtic language family, which is a part of the Indo-European language family. Irish is indigenous to the island of Ireland and was the population's first language until the 19th century, when English gradually became dominant, particularly in the last decades of the century. Irish is still spoken as a first language in a small number of areas of certain counties such as Cork, Donegal, Galway, and Kerry, as well as smaller areas of counties Mayo, Meath, and Waterford. It is also spoken by a larger group of habitual but non-traditional speakers, mostly in urban areas where the majority are second-language speakers. Daily users in Ireland outside the education system number around 73,000 (1.5%), and the total number of persons (aged 3 and over) who claimed they could speak Irish in April 2016 was 1,761,420, representing 39.8% of respondents. For most of recorded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Garry
Benjamin Earl Garry (February 11, 1956 – June 24, 2006) was an American football running back who played two seasons with the Baltimore Colts of the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the Baltimore Colts in the sixth round of the 1978 NFL Draft. He played college football at Southern Mississippi University and attended Pascagoula High School in Pascagoula, Mississippi Pascagoula ( ) is a city in Jackson County, Mississippi, United States. It is the principal city of the Pascagoula Metropolitan Statistical Area, and is part of the Gulfport–Biloxi–Pascagoula Combined Statistical Area. The population was 22 .... References External linksJust Sports Stats* {{DEFAULTSORT:Garry, Ben 1956 births 2006 deaths Players of American football from Mississippi American football running backs African-American players of American football Southern Miss Golden Eagles football players Baltimore Colts players People from Hazlehurst, Mississippi 20th-century Afri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chief Garry
Spokane Garry (sometimes spelled Spokan Garry, Spokane: Slough-Keetcha) ( 1811 – 1892) was a Native American leader of the Middle Spokane tribe. He also acted as a liaison between white settlers and American Indian tribes in the area which is now eastern Washington state. Early life and education Slough-Keetcha was born at the junction of the Spokane and the Little Spokane Rivers in or around 1811. He was the son of the tribal chief of the Middle Spokanes, whose name is given by various sources as Illum-Spokanee, Illim-Spokanee"The Treaty Trail, Context for Treatymaking: Biography of Spokan Garry". Washington State Historical Society. and Ileeum Spokanee. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Garry
Charles R. Garry (March 17, 1909 – August 16, 1991) was an Armenian-American civil rights attorney who represented a number of high-profile clients in political cases during the 1960s and 1970s, including Huey P. Newton during his 1968 capital murder trial and the Peoples Temple during the 1978 Jonestown tragedy. Early life Born in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, to Armenian immigrant parents who had escaped the Hamidian massacres in the Ottoman Empire, Garry grew up in a farm town in California's Central Valley. The family name was originally Garabedian.Reiterman, Tim, and John Jacobs. '' Raven: The Untold Story of Rev. Jim Jones and His People''. Dutton, 1982. . p. 373. He worked his way through law school at night at a cleaning shop and was a Great Depression-era socialist who began his legal career defending militant trade unions.Waggoner, Diana (December 11, 1978)"Attorney Charles Garry Is Still a Believer—If Not in Jim Jones, Then in His 'Utopia'" '' People'', Vol. 10, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colleen Garry
Colleen M. Garry (born July 21, 1962, in Lowell, Massachusetts) is an American politician who represents the 36th Middlesex District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Early life and education Garry was born on July 21, 1962, in Lowell Massachusetts. She graduated from the University of Lowell and Suffolk University Law School. Career She was an aide to State Representative John Cox, who represented Dracut and part of Lowell. In 1994 she was elected to represent a new district consisting of Dracut, Tyngsborough, and Dunstable. Dunstable has since been transferred to a neighboring district so the current district consists only of Dracut and Tyngsborough. She is a conservative member of the House Democratic Caucus. In 2015, Representative Garry came under fire focommentscriticizing an act of civil disobedience which obstructed a major Massachusetts highway. Representative Garry accused protestors affiliated with the Black Lives Matter movement of being "terrori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flora Garry
Flora Garry (30 September 1900 – 16 June 2000) was a Scottish poet who mostly wrote in the Scots dialect of Aberdeenshire. Well known for her poetry, she played an important role along with Charles Murray and John C. Milne in validating the literary use of Scots. Biography Flora Garry was the daughter of Archie Campbell, a freelance writer who used the ''nom de plume'' of "The Buchan Farmer", and Helen Campbell, who wrote plays for radio. She was brought up at Mains of Auchmunziel, near to New Deer, Buchan in Abderdeenshire. She went to school in New Deer, then went on to the Peterhead Academy and the University of Aberdeen. She became a school teacher, and taught at Dumfries and Strichen. She married Robert Campbell Garry, who was the first to use insulin in Scotland while a house doctor at Western Infirmary, Glasgow and who became Regius Professor of Physiology at the University of Glasgow. They had one son, Frank. Flora Garry did not start to write poetry until World ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Garry
James Thomas Garry (September 21, 1869 – January 13, 1917) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball for the 1893 Boston Beaneaters. He had an extensive career as a minor league baseball player, which stretched from 1891 through 1913. He played primarily in the Eastern League but also played in the Connecticut State League, New England League, Western League, American League, New York State League, Hudson River League The Hudson River League was formed in 1903 as a class D minor baseball league after playing one season in 1886. Upgraded to Class C the next season, it continued through 1907 before collapsing. There were twelve cities that represented the league ... and Eastern Association. He was a player/manager in 1899, 1904 and 1905. External links {{DEFAULTSORT:Garry, Jim 1869 births 1917 deaths 19th-century baseball players Major League Baseball pitchers Boston Beaneaters players Manchester Gazettes players Minneapolis Minnies players Rochester Browns pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Campbell Garry
Robert Campbell Garry DSc (1933) OBE FRSE LLD (1900–1993) was a British physician and Professor of Medicine at the University of St Andrews and the University of Glasgow. During World War II, as an expert on human physiology, he advised on human tolerance of extreme weather conditions and forces, as experienced by high altitude pilots. Life Garry was born in Glasgow on 21 April 1900 the son of Mary Campbell and Robert Garry, both from the north-east of Scotland. His father was a biologist who was Head of Science at Glasgow High School for Girls. He was educated at Queens Park School in Glasgow. In 1917, he went to the University of Glasgow to study medicine, graduating with an MBChB in 1922. While working at the Western Infirmary in Glasgow, he was one of the first clinicians to apply the newly isolated compound, insulin, to a diabetic patient in Scotland. In 1933, he took a role as Head of Physiology working with John Boyd Orr at the University of Aberdeen. In the autumn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan Garry
Ryan Felix Mayne Garry (born 29 September 1983) is an English former professional footballer who played as a defender and could also operate as a midfielder for Arsenal and AFC Bournemouth. He is currently head coach of the England U17s. Club career Arsenal Born in Hornchurch, London, Garry joined Arsenal in 1999 and progressed through their youth academy, winning the FA Youth Cup in 2001. He signed a professional contract with Arsenal on 2 July 2001, and his first team debut came against Sunderland on 6 November 2002 in the League Cup. He made his first starting appearance on 7 May 2003 against Southampton, playing 90 minutes in a 6–1 win which saw hat-tricks from Robert Pires and Jermaine Pennant, the first match of Arsenal's 49-game unbeaten run. However, this proved to be his only league appearance as he was then hit by long-term injury ( shin splints) and spent most of the next four seasons on the sidelines. AFC Bournemouth He was released by Arsenal at the en ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ted Garry
Edward Garry (7 March 1885-28 May 1955) was a Scottish footballer and football manager. He played for Galston, Celtic, and Derby County. He also had loan spells with Ayr, Stenhousemuir, Bradford (Park Avenue) A.F.C. and Dumbarton. Garry later coached Espanyol Reial Club Deportiu Espanyol de Barcelona (; "Royal Spanish Sports Club of Barcelona"), commonly known as Espanyol, is a professional sports club based in Barcelona, Spain, that competes in La Liga, the top tier of the Spanish football league sy ... of Spain.http://hemeroteca.elmundodeportivo.es/preview/1927/04/10/pagina-1/623643/pdf.html?search=garry References {{DEFAULTSORT:Garry, Ted 1885 births 1955 deaths Scottish men's footballers Scottish expatriates in Spain Galston F.C. players Celtic F.C. players Ayr F.C. players Stenhousemuir F.C. players Derby County F.C. players Bradford City A.F.C. players Dumbarton F.C. players Scottish football managers Scottish expatriate football managers RCD Espa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vivien Garry
Vivien Garry (1920 – December 1, 2008) was a jazz bassist. She led the Vivien Garry Quintet (which, on at least one date, included Edna Williams of the International Sweethearts of Rhythm on trumpet and Ginger Smock on violin) and the Vivien Garry Trio (which included her husband, Arv Garrison, on guitar and Wini Beatty on piano). Discography *Please note the various different spellings of Ms. Garry's name...these are taken from the actual record labels. Premier Records: *29006 Vivien Gary Trio- Flying Home // Mop Mop (rec. 1944) *29007 Vivien Gary Trio- Seven Come Eleven // I've Got To, That's All (rec. 1944) - note: these four songs feature Lex Zaharik (p), Arv Garrison (g), Vivien Gary (b, vocal). Guild Records: *124 Vivian Garry Trio- Relax Jack // Altitude (rec. 1945) - note: these two songs feature Teddy Kaye (p, vocal), Arv Garrison (g, vocal), Vivian Garry (b, vocal). Black & White Records: *1216 Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
