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Gulland
Gulland is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *John Gulland (1864–1920), British politician *John Masson Gulland (1898–1947) Scottish biochemist *Robin Milner-Gulland (born 1936), British scholar *Sandra Gulland Sandra Gulland (born November 3, 1944) is an American-born Canadian novelist. She is the author of ''The Shadow Queen'' and ''Mistress of the Sun'', novels set in the court of Louis XIV, The Sun King, and a trilogy of novels based on the life o ... (born 1944), American-born Canadian writer * Elizabeth Gulland (1857–1934), British artist See also * HMT ''Gulland'' (T239), Isles-class trawler of the Royal Navy * Gulland - an old name for the Swedish island of Gotland when it was under Danish rule. See :da:Gotland {{surname, Gulland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Milner-Gulland
Robert Rainsford "Robin" Milner-Gulland, FBA, FSA, (born Mill Hill, 24 February 1936) is a British scholar of Russian and Byzantine literature, culture, and art. His main areas of expertise are Russian modern & medieval cultural history, modern Russian literature (especially poetry), Russian & Byzantine art history, the Russian language, English romanesque art & architecture and Sussex history. He is currently the Emeritus Professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Sussex. Biography Having trained as a linguistic interpreter during his national service, Milner-Gulland went on to study Modern Languages at New College, Oxford (specialising in German and Russian) being taught by Professor John Fennell and Sir Dimitri Obolensky. He also took a one-year postgraduate course at Moscow State University in 1960–61, researching Russian and Balkan culture in the 14th–15th centuries, where he was taught by Professor Nikolai Gudziy. Milner-Gulland joined the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Masson Gulland
John Masson Gulland (14 October 1898 – 26 October 1947) was a Scottish chemist and biochemist. His main work was on nucleic acids, morphine and aporphine alkaloids. His work at University College Nottingham on electrometric titration was important in leading to the discovery of the DNA double helix by James Watson and Francis Crick, and he was described as "a great nucleic acid chemist." He established the Scottish Seaweed Research Association and the Lace Research Council. Life Gulland was born at 6 Alva Street in Edinburgh's West End, the only son of Helen Orme Masson and Dr. George Lovell Gulland. His maternal grandparents were David Masson and suffrage campaigner Emily Rosaline Orme, his maternal uncle was David Orme Masson and maternal aunts Flora Masson and Rosaline Masson. His paternal uncle was John William Gulland MP. His father later became Professor of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. He attended Edinburgh Academy 1906 to 1917 and was then conscripted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Gulland
Elizabeth Gulland (1857 – 6 November 1934) was a Scottish-born printmaker and painter. Background Elizabeth Gulland was born in 1857 in Edinburgh, Scotland. She attended Edinburgh Ladies’ College and Edinburgh Atelier, before moving to the Herkomer School of Painting in Bushey, Hertfordshire to study under Hubert von Herkomer, a well-known portrait painter. Gulland was a freelance artist whose primary work was as a genre painter and mezzotinter. She continued to live in Bushey and was an active artist from 1887 until her death at age 77 in 1934. Art style Gulland produced oil and water color paintings, book covers for American authors, sketches, and mostly mezzotint engravings. The subjects of her paintings included portraits, figures and flowers. Most of Gulland’s pieces were inspired, and even modeled, by 18th-century Rococo portraits. A portrait that best illustrates her work is titled ''The Strawberry Girl after Joshua Reynolds''. The piece was created in 1921 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gulland
John William Gulland (1864 – 26 January 1920) was a British Liberal Party politician. Life Gulland entered Parliament as Member for Dumfries Burghs at the 1906 general election. He was a junior Lord of the Treasury from 1909 until 1915, when he was promoted to Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (Chief Whip) upon the unexpected death of Percy Illingworth. However, the Coalition Government that formed in May resulted in his sharing the post with the Conservative Lord Edmund Talbot until Asquith's Liberals left the government in 1916. He was made a Privy Counsellor in 1917. When his constituency was abolished in 1918, he contested Dumfriesshire, but was defeated by William Murray. He lived at 8 Claremont Crescent in north-east Edinburgh.Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1898-99 He died in 1920. He is buried with his family in the south-east corner of Grange Cemetery in Edinburgh, facing the south path. His nephew John Masson Gulland, killed in the Goswick r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandra Gulland
Sandra Gulland (born November 3, 1944) is an American-born Canadian novelist. She is the author of ''The Shadow Queen'' and ''Mistress of the Sun'', novels set in the court of Louis XIV, The Sun King, and a trilogy of novels based on the life of Josephine Bonaparte: ''The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B.''; ''Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe''; ''The Last Great Dance on Earth''. To date, Gulland's novels have been published in fifteen countries and translated into thirteen languages. ''The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B.'' was a bestseller in the UK. Biography Born November 3, 1944, in Miami, Florida, Sandra Gulland (née Zentner) was brought up in Berkeley, California. After graduating from Berkeley High School, she attended San Francisco State College, the University of California, Berkeley, and Roosevelt University in Chicago, graduating with a BA in English literature and a minor in mathematics. She emigrated to Canada in 1969, teaching for a year in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMT Gulland (T239)
HMT ''Gulland'' was an s built for the Royal Navy during the Second World War for a variety of tasks, including anti-submarine patrol. She was launched placed on the disposal list after the war and sold to Belgian owners in March 1946. Design The Isles-class ships were long, with a beam of and a draught of at deep load. They displaced was at normal load, which increased to at deep load. A single cylindrical boiler fed steam to a triple-expansion steam engine that drove a single propeller shaft. The engine was rated at which gave the ships a speed of . They carried up to of coal and had a complement of 35–40 officers and ratings.Preston, p. 66 Postwar The following year the ship changed hands and was renamed ''Henken'' and two years later sold to Arab Navigation & Transport Co. in Aden and renamed ''Arab Trader''. On 13 April 1951 the ship grounded three miles north of Mombasa, Kenya, while on a voyage from Aden to Mauritius Mauritius ( ; french: Mauric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gotland
Gotland (, ; ''Gutland'' in Gutnish), also historically spelled Gottland or Gothland (), is Sweden's largest island. It is also a province, county, municipality, and diocese. The province includes the islands of Fårö and Gotska Sandön to the north, as well as the Karlsö Islands ( Lilla and Stora) to the west. The population is 61,001, of which about 23,600 live in Visby, the main town. Outside Visby, there are minor settlements and a mainly rural population. The island of Gotland and the other areas of the province of Gotland make up less than one percent of Sweden's total land area. The county formed by the archipelago is the second smallest by area and is the least populated in Sweden. In spite of the small size due to its narrow width, the driving distance between the furthermost points of the populated islands is about . Gotland is a fully integrated part of Sweden with no particular autonomy, unlike several other offshore island groups in Europe. Historically there was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
