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Gosling (surname)
Gosling is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Armine Nutting Gosling (1861–1942), Canadian women's-rights activist *Sir Audley Charles Gosling (1836-1913), British diplomat * Charles Gosling (1868-1917), British Army officer * Clint Gosling (born 1960), New Zealand footballer *Dan Gosling (born 1990), English footballer *R. Cunliffe Gosling (1868–1922), nineteenth century England football captain *Harry Gosling (1861–1930), British politician and trade union leader *Jake Gosling, English producer and songwriter *Jake Gosling (born 1993), British footballer *James Gosling (born 1955), Canadian software developer, considered father of Java * Joanna Gosling (born 1971), British journalist * John Gosling (other) *John Gostling (1644–1733), English singer *Mark Gosling (1886-1980), Australian painter and politician * Mike Gosling (born 1980), United States former Major League Baseball pitcher *Paula Gosling(born 1939), English crime writer *Ray ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Gosling
Mark Gosling (7 August 1886 – 3 May 1980) was an English Australian painter, building contractor and Labor member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for the districts of St George (1920–1927), Oatley (1927–1930) and Kogarah (1930–1932). He served as Colonial Secretary of New South Wales from May to October 1927 and again from November 1930 to May 1932. Biography The son of labourer Samuel Gosling and Hannah Nelms, Mark Gosling was born on 7 August 1886 in Birmingham, England. In 1913 he married Florence Thorneycroft, daughter of William Joseph Thorneycroft and Esther Morgan of Warwickshire and Staffordshire, England, and they had three sons, Ronald, Derek and Robert. He received only a primary education, but would later attend tutorials at the University of Sydney from 1916 to 1919. He became a building contractor and painter, joining the Painters' Union and serving as its vice president from 1915 to 1918. Later, he directed St George Hospital from 192 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Gilbert Gosling
William Gilbert Gosling (September 8, 1863 – November 5, 1930) was a politician, businessman and author. From 1916 to 1920, he served as the mayor of St. John's, Newfoundland. Early life William Gilbert Gosling was born in Paget Parish, Bermuda to Charles Gray Gosling and Elizabeth Gilbert. The second of their six sons, Gosling attended Pembroke Grammar School in Hamilton, Bermuda. On June 22, 1881, he moved to St. John's, Newfoundland (now a province of Canada) to work as a clerk for the fish exporting firm Harvey and Company. Taking charge of the wholesale side of the business, Gosling was described as having a "marked aptitude" for the job.Gosling, William Gilbert - |
William Gosling (engineer)
William Gosling (born 1932) is a British electrical engineer, Emeritus Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Bath, and pioneer of system design in electrical engineering. Biography Gosling received his ARCS at the Imperial College in London in 1953 under George Paget Thomson, and spent his career both in industry and education. Early 1960s he wrote a series of books, which contributed to the establishment of systems design and systems engineering. In 1967 Gosling became Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Swansea University. From 1969 to 1971 he was Chair of the Design Research Society. In 1974 he became Professor of Electronic Engineering at the University of Bath.,William Gosling (1999) ''Radio Spectrum Conservation: Radio Engineering Fundamentals'General info/ref> where he remained affiliated for the rest of his career. In the 1970s he also became Technical Director of Plessey, a British-based international electronics, defence and telecommunic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Gosling (VC)
Major William Gosling VC (15 August 1892 – 12 February 1945) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. William Gosling was born in Wanborough, Wiltshire, one of four children to farmer Albert Gosling and his wife Elizabeth. After his education in the village school he worked alongside his father as a wheat farmer. Following his father's death in a farming accident, the family relocated to Wroughton where Elizabeth, assisted by William and his two elder brothers, took up tenancy of Artis Farm. In 1908, Gosling enlisted with the Territorial Force. At the age of 18 he emigrated to Canada, where he worked on grain silos before becoming a fireman on the Canadian Pacific Railway. Following the outbreak of the First World War, he paid for his passage home and enlisted with the 3rd Wessex Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. He departed for Fra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Gosling
Simon "Goose" Gosling (born 9 April 1969) is a British designer and builder of special effects Scale model, models and props. He is best known for his work on the Millennium Falcon cockpit for ''Star Wars: The Force Awakens'' in 2014. Also his work on commercials featuring stop-frame animation for Brisk (beverage), Brisk, Apple Jacks and Chips Ahoy in America, and the Windy Miller adverts for Quaker Oats in Britain. Gosling has created Theatrical property, props and models for films including ''The Brothers Grimm (film), The Brothers Grimm'' (2005), ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (film), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' (2005) and ''Stormbreaker (film), Stormbreaker'' (2006). In 2006, he supervised the building of Hex (Discworld), Hex during the Sky One production of ''Terry Pratchett's Hogfather, Hogfather'', an adaptation of the ''Discworld'' novel by author Terry Pratchett. On 22 April 2007, ''Hogfather'' won the BAFTA Television Craft Award for best special e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan Gosling
Ryan Thomas Gosling (born November 12, 1980) is a Canadian actor. Prominent in independent film, he has also worked in blockbuster films of varying genres, and has accrued a worldwide box office gross of over 1.9 billion USD. He has received various accolades, including a Golden Globe Award, and nominations for two Academy Awards and a BAFTA Award. Born and raised in Canada, he rose to prominence at age 13 for being a child star on the Disney Channel's ''The Mickey Mouse Club'' (1993–1995), and went on to appear in other family entertainment programs, including ''Are You Afraid of the Dark?'' (1995) and ''Goosebumps'' (1996). His first film role was as a Jewish neo-Nazi in '' The Believer'' (2001), and he went on to star in several independent films, including ''Murder by Numbers'' (2002), ''The Slaughter Rule'' (2002), and ''The United States of Leland'' (2003). Gosling gained wider recognition and stardom for the 2004 romance film ''The Notebook''. This was followed by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Gosling
Richard Gosling (born 1974) is the winner of Britain's Strongest Man contest in 2003. He currently lives in Cannock, England. Injury Gosling was seriously injured in August 2001 when he was working as a doorman at a nightclub in Cannock. His attacker was given a life sentence for wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm. External linksCannock man is Britain's strongestat BBC News BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world. The department is the world's largest broadca ... {{DEFAULTSORT:Gosling, Richard 1974 births Living people English strength athletes Sportspeople from Cannock ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Gosling
Raymond George Gosling (15 July 1926 – 18 May 2015) was a British scientist. While a PhD student at King's College, London he worked under the supervision of Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin. The crystallographic experiments of Franklin and Gosling, together with others by Wilkins, produced data that helped James Watson and Francis Crick to infer the structure of DNA. Early years He was born in 1926 and attended school in Wembley. He studied physics at University College London from 1944 to 1947 and became a hospital physicist at the King's Fund and Middlesex Hospital between 1947 and 1949 before joining King's College London as a research student, from which he eventually received his PhD. Career Work at King's College London and DNA When he arrived at King's College London, Gosling was directed by Sir John Randall to work on the problem of the structure of DNA. Randall was convinced that DNA was the material which transmitted the genetic code. Randall assigned h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Gosling
Raymond Arthur Gosling (5 May 1939 – 19 November 2013) was an English broadcaster, journalist, author, and gay rights activist. He wrote and presented several hundred television and radio documentaries and regional programmes for BBC Radio 4 and Granada Television from the 1960s to 1980s on quirky aspects of life in different British towns and cities. His later documentaries focused on his personal life and his emergence as a gay activist. He was described as "one of the most uniquely talented figures in the history of British broadcasting." In February 2010, he claimed during a local BBC television programme to have killed a lover in an act of euthanasia. He was briefly arrested,Robert Boot"Ray Gosling arrested on suspicion of murder after televised revelations" ''The Guardian'', 17 February 2010 but the claims were false and he was later given a suspended sentence for wasting police time. Early life Gosling was born in Northampton in 1939. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paula Gosling
Paula Gosling (born October 12, 1939) is a United States-born crime writer. She has lived in the United Kingdom since the 1960s. In 1957, Gosling graduated from Mackenzie High School in Detroit, Michigan. Following her high school career, she obtained her English degree at Wayne State University, graduating in 1962. Gosling began her writing career as a copy-writer. In 1974, she published her first novel, ''A Running Duck, ''which won the John Creasey Award for the best first novel of the year. In 1985, Gosling received the Gold Dagger for her subsequent book, ''Monkey Puzzle. ''She is a past Chairman of the Crime Writers' Association. ''A Running Duck, ''also published as ''Fair Game,'' has been adapted twice into films; once as a Sylvester Stallone vehicle, '' Cobra'', and the second time as a film with Cindy Crawford entitled '' Fair Game''. Bibliography Jack Stryker series * ''Monkey Puzzle'' (1985); Gold Dagger The Gold Dagger is an award given annually by the Crime ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Gosling
Michael Frederick Gosling (born September 23, 1980) is an American former Major League Baseball (MLB) left-handed pitcher who played for the Arizona Diamondbacks, Cincinnati Reds, and Cleveland Indians from 2004 to 2009. Amateur career Gosling was originally drafted by the Minnesota Twins in the 14th round of the 1998 Major League Baseball Draft, but chose to go to college at Stanford University, where he graduated with a degree in Human Biology. In 1999, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Orleans Cardinals of the Cape Cod Baseball League. Professional career Arizona Diamondbacks He was drafted again, by the Arizona Diamondbacks in the 2nd round of the 2001 Major League Baseball Draft. Gosling began his career in AA with the El Paso Diablos, and led the Texas League in wins in 2002. After shoulder surgery in 2003, he made his Major League Baseball, major league debut with the D-backs on September 9, . He went 1–1 with a 4.62 earned run average in six appearances (fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
