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Honor (given Name)
Honor is a primarily Grammatical gender#Personal names, feminine given name derived from the word "honour", taken from a Latin language, Latin root word ''honos'', ''honoris''. It was a virtue name in use by the Puritans. It is still in occasional use in England, but is an extremely rare name in the United States, where it has never ranked among the top 1,000 names for girls or boys. Variants *Annora (Irish language, Irish) *Hanora (Irish language, Irish) *Honora (given name), Honora (English language, English), (Irish language, Irish) *Onorata (Italian language, Italian) *Honorata (Polish language, Polish) *Honoré (boy) (French language, French) *Honorée (girl) (French language, French) *Honorina (Filipino language, Filipino) *Honorine (French language, French) *Honour (English language, English) *Nora (English language, English), (Irish language, Irish) *Onóra (Irish Gaelic language, Irish) *Onur (Turkish language, Turkish) *Onur (Azerbaijan language, Azerbaijani) People named ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honour (given Name)
Honor is a primarily Grammatical gender#Personal names, feminine given name derived from the word "honour", taken from a Latin language, Latin root word ''honos'', ''honoris''. It was a virtue name in use by the Puritans. It is still in occasional use in England, but is an extremely rare name in the United States, where it has never ranked among the top 1,000 names for girls or boys. Variants *Annora (Irish language, Irish) *Hanora (Irish language, Irish) *Honora (given name), Honora (English language, English), (Irish language, Irish) *Onorata (Italian language, Italian) *Honorata (Polish language, Polish) *Honoré (boy) (French language, French) *Honorée (girl) (French language, French) *Honorina (Filipino language, Filipino) *Honorine (French language, French) *Honour (English language, English) *Nora (English language, English), (Irish language, Irish) *Onóra (Irish Gaelic language, Irish) *Onur (Turkish language, Turkish) *Onur (Azerbaijan language, Azerbaijani) People named ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Gaelic 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 Irish h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honor McKellar
Winifred Honor McKellar (born 10 November 1920) is a New Zealand former mezzo-soprano opera singer and singing teacher, and was the first full-time lecturer in singing at the University of Otago in Dunedin. Her students have included Jonathan Lemalu, Patrick Power and Matt Landreth. In 1989, she was awarded a Queen's Service Medal for services to music, and in 2012, she was made a life member of the New Zealand Association of Teachers of Singing. Early life and education McKellar was born in Dunedin on 10 November 1920. Her mother was musical although McKellar does not recall hearing her sing. McKellar was taught piano by Miss Allen, and dancing by Dorothy Dean. At 16, she had her first singing lesson, from Dunedin musician Ida White. McKellar graduated with a BA from the University of Otago in Dunedin in 1942 and a MusB in 1944. She would illustrate examples at the weekly public music class given by the head of the Music Department, Victor Galway. From 1946 to 1949, McKe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honor Kneafsey
Honor Kneafsey is a British actress, best known for her voice role as Robyn Goodfellowe in ''Wolfwalkers''. Kneafsey started her career as a child actress, such as her role as June, the youngest child of historical figure George Mottershead, in the BBC1 drama ''Our Zoo ''Our Zoo'' is a British drama television series from BBC One, first broadcast on 3 September 2014. The six-part series, written by Matt Charman and directed by Andy De Emmony, is about George Mottershead, his dreams of creating a cage-free z ...'' (2014), or the young character Christine who works in, and later burns down, the eponymous '' The Bookshop'' (2017). She has made numerous television, film and West End stage appearances. Filmography Film Television Theatre Awards and nominations References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kneafsey, Honor Living people British film actresses British television actresses 21st-century British actresses British child actresses 2004 birt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honor Jackson
Honor W. Jackson (born November 21, 1948) is a former American football defensive back in the National Football League for the New England Patriots and New York Giants. He was drafted by the Dallas Cowboys in the ninth round of the 1971 NFL Draft. He played college football at the University of the Pacific. Early years Jackson attended Tamalpais High School where he played defensive end. Although he received interest from division I schools, because of grades, he opted to go to College of Marin where he was converted to wide receiver. In 1969, he transferred to the University of the Pacific, lettering in football and track. As a senior, he registered 55 receptions for 931 yards, 5 touchdowns, ranked 12th in the nation in receiving average (16.9 yards) and earned All-PCAA honors. He finished his college career with 74 receptions for 1,236 yards and 8 touchdowns. In 2005, he was inducted into the Pacific Athletics Hall of Fame. Professional career Dallas Cowboys Jacks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honor Harger
Honor Harger (born 1975 in Dunedin) is a curator and artist from New Zealand. Harger has a particular interest in artistic uses of new technologies. She is currently the executive director of the ArtScience Museum in Singapore. Harger was included in The Guardian's 'The Hospital Club 100 list' for 2013, which lists innovative and influential people in the creative industries. Career Early career In the mid-1990s, while based in New Zealand, Honor edited the artistic publication, SPeC; co-founded sound art collective Relay, worked with radio station, Radio One and with the art gallery, Artspace (New Zealand). In 1997, she relocated to Australia to work with the Australian Network for Art and Technology, before relocating to Europe in 1999 and then Singapore in 2014. r a d i o q u a l i a Harger is one of the co-founders (with Adam Hyde in 1998) of r a d i o q u a l i a, a group which explores how broadcasting technologies can create new artistic forms and how audio can b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honor Fraser
Honor Fraser (born 1973) is a Scottish art dealer in California and a former fashion model. She is the sister of Simon Fraser, 16th Lord Lovat and chief of Clan Fraser of Lovat, and the granddaughter of British Commando Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat. She was brought up at the family seat Beaufort Castle in Scotland. She left St. Mary's School, Calne with three A Levels. After school she began an internship at British ''Vogue'', where it was suggested that she try modelling. Fraser was the cover girl on the Bryan Ferry & Roxy Music compilation album '' More Than This'', released in 1995. Her first magazine cover was for French ''Elle'' (11 March 1996). From 1997–2002, she wrote a column for the Scottish magazine ''Spectrum''. Fraser married Stavros Merjos in 2004. She lives in Marina del Rey, California, and owns an art gallery, Honor Fraser Inc., in Los Angeles. References Sources * {{DEFAULTSORT:Fraser, Honor 1973 births Living people Honor Honour (British Eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honor Ford-Smith
Honor Maria Ford-Smith (born 1951 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Jamaican actress, playwright, scholar, and poet. The daughter of a brown Jamaican mother and an English father, Ford-Smith is sometimes described as "Jamaica white," signalling a person of mixed race who appears white. Ford-Smith, who studied theatre at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, was a co-founder and artistic director of Sistren, a theatre collective of working-class Jamaican women established in 1977. Sistren created its own plays collaboratively, and performed in Jamaica and abroad; the group also worked extensively in community theatre and popular education, particularly around issues affecting women. Sistren played a leading role in the Caribbean women's movement, providing feminist analysis of women's issues in Jamaica and entering into transnational alliances with women's organizations in the Caribbean region, North America, the UK, and Europe. Ford-Smith was also a member of the Groundwork Theatre Com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honor Flaherty
Honor Flaherty ( – 11 March 1848) was an Irish Famine victim. Biography Flaherty and her husband, Bart, lived in Kilkieran, which at the time was suffering from the famine and widespread fever. The family had gone to the workhouse for help, but had been discharged on 9 December. Since then, Bart had received daily rations but soon after returning home three of their four children - Martin, Mary, and Pat - all died. Overseer James Cooke and a Mark Connelly had gone to the Flahertys' hut in search of a calf recently stolen from his land. Looking through an opening in the wall of the hut, ''heysaw Bart Flaherty, his wife Honor, a woman named Bridget Marmion, and Margaret Flaherty, daughter of Bart Flaherty, lying on the floor, and the hide of the calf placed over them.'' Bart, and the following day, Honor, were arrested and delivered to Clifden Bridewell in atrocious conditions. Honor "was in a very sickly condition ... the day was extremely cold and severe ... he did ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honor Fell
Dame Honor Bridget Fell, DBE, FRS (22 May 1900 – 22 April 1986) was a British scientist and zoologist. Her contributions to science included the development of experimental methods in organ culture, tissue culture, and cell biology. Early life and education Fell was born to Colonel William Edwin Fell and Alice Fell at Fowthorpe near Filey in Yorkshire on 22 May 1900, the youngest of nine children. She had six sisters and two brothers, the younger of the two brothers, with down syndrome, died at the age of eight. Fell was known as the baby of the family. Her father was a minor landowner but cannot be said to have been a successful farmer. On the other hand her mother was a very practical and capable carpenter. Both school and family records highlight her childhood love of pet ferrets. Fell carried her pet ferret, Janie, to her sister Barbara's wedding when she was only thirteen. Fell had little contact with her family until the 1960s when one of her nephews, Henry Fell, and h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honor Crowley
Honor Mary Crowley (; 19 October 1903 – 18 October 1966) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Kerry South constituency from 1945 to 1966. She was one of five daughters of the MP John Pius Boland, who won gold medals in Tennis at the 1896 Olympics in Athens. He was a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party, and represented South Kerry from 1900 until 1918. A social worker before entering politics, Crowley was first elected to the 12th Dáil at the by-election on 4 December 1945 caused by the death of her husband, Fianna Fáil TD Frederick Crowley. She was re-elected at the next six general elections, and died in 1966 while still in office. She was the first woman to represent Ireland on a delegation to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, which she did between 1954 and 1957. The 1966 by-election following her death was won by the Fianna Fáil candidate, John O'Leary. Her sister Bridget Boland was a playwright. See also *Famil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honor Carter
Honor Louisa Carter (née Dillon, born 14 July 1982 in Blenheim) is a field hockey player from New Zealand. She has competed for the New Zealand women's national field hockey team since 2004, including for the team at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia, the 2004 Champions Trophy Tournament in Rosario, Argentina and the 2006 Champions Trophy Tournament in Amstelveen, Netherlands. Carter was first selected for the Black Sticks Women in November 2004 on the back of her performance for Canterbury in the National Hockey League that year. She played her first match for the Black Sticks on 6 November 2004, against Argentina in Rosario, Argentina, as part of the 2004 Champions Trophy Tournament (top 6 teams in the world). International tournaments * 2004 – Champions Trophy, Rosario * 2005 – Champions Challenge, Virginia Beach * 2006 – Commonwealth Games, Melbourne * 2006 – World Cup Qualifier, Rome * 2006 – Champions Trophy, Amstelveen Personal life B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
