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Hurd (surname)
Hurd is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Andrew Hurd (born 1982), Canadian Olympic swimmer * Anthony Hurd, Baron Hurd (1901–1966), former British politician in the Conservative Party * Clement Hurd (1908–1988), American illustrator of children's books * David Hurd (born 1950), American composer, concert organist * Douglas Hurd (born 1930), British politician in the Conservative Party * Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, American academic * Ethel Edgerton Hurd (1845–1929), American physician, suffragist, and social reformer * Gale Anne Hurd (born 1955), American film producer * Helen Marr Hurd (1839–1909), American educator, poet * Hugh Lincoln Hurd (1925–1995), an American actor and civil rights activist, and Michelle Hurd's father * Jalen Hurd (born 1996), American football player * Jud Hurd (1913–2005), American cartoonist * Karen Hurd (born 1958), Wisconsin politician * Mark Hurd (1957-2019), American CEO of Oracle Corp. * Michael Hurd (1928-2006), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Hurd
Andrew Hurd (born August 12, 1982) is a Canadian former freestyle swimmer. He began swimming at age 8 and was a student at the University of Michigan. He won a gold medal on the world cup circuit in 2000 in Edmonton, Alberta in the 1500-metre freestyle event. He was born in Cambridge, Ontario. He was a member of the Canadian team that finished in fifth place in the 4 × 200 m freestyle at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Sports, Athletes Andrew Hurd Retrieved May 16, 2015. See also * List of Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming (men) * List of University of Michigan alumni A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby union ... References 1982 births Living people Canadian male freestyle swimmers Commonwealth Games silver medallists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artistic Gymnastics
Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics in which athletes perform short routines on different apparatuses. The sport is governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), which designs the Code of Points and regulates all aspects of elite international competition. Within individual countries, gymnastics is regulated by national federations like British Gymnastics and USA Gymnastics. Artistic gymnastics is a popular spectator sport at many competitions, including the Summer Olympic Games. History The gymnastic system was mentioned in writings by ancient authors, including Homer, Aristotle, and Plato. It included many disciplines that later became independent sports, such as swimming, racing, wrestling, boxing, and horse riding. It was also used for military training. In its present form, gymnastics evolved in Bohemia and what is now known as Germany at the beginning of the 19th century. The term "artistic gymnastics" was introduced to distinguish fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Hurd
Thomas Hannaford Hurd ( bapt. 30 January 1747 – 29 April 1823) was an officer of the Royal Navy, who rose to the rank of captain, becoming the second Hydrographer of the Navy, a Superintendent of Chronometers and a Commissioner on the Board of Longitude. Hurd Peninsula is named after him due to his role in the discovery of Antarctica. Life Hurd joined the navy on 1 September 1768, serving as an able seaman aboard , which was then under the command of Captain Molyneux Shuldham. He served on the Newfoundland and North American stations between 1771 and 1774, part of the time aboard the armed vessel , under Lieutenant Henry Mowat. While with ''Canceaux'' Hurd helped Samuel Holland conduct hydrographic surveys. Hurd passed his lieutenant's examination on 1 March 1775, and went on to serve aboard Lord Howe's flagship, . Howe appointed Hurd as lieutenant of HMS ''Unicorn'' on 30 January 1777. ''Unicorn'' was a frigate under the command of Captain John Ford, which ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theodore A
Theodore may refer to: Places * Theodore, Alabama, United States * Theodore, Australian Capital Territory * Theodore, Queensland, a town in the Shire of Banana, Australia * Theodore, Saskatchewan, Canada * Theodore Reservoir, a lake in Saskatchewan People * Theodore (given name), includes the etymology of the given name and a list of people * Theodore (surname), a list of people Fictional characters * Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell, on the television series ''Prison Break'' * Theodore Huxtable, on the television series ''The Cosby Show'' Other uses * Theodore (horse), a British Thoroughbred racehorse * Theodore Racing, a Formula One racing team See also * Principality of Theodoro, a principality in the south-west Crimea from the 13th to 15th centuries * Thoros (other), Armenian for Theodore * James Bass Mullinger James Bass Mullinger (1834 or 1843 – 22 November 1917), sometimes known by his pen name Theodorus, was a British author, historian, lecturer and scholar. A l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thaddeus B
Thaddeus (Latin ''Thaddaeus'', Ancient Greek Θαδδαῖος ''Thaddaĩos'', from Aramaic תדי ''Ṯaday'') is a male given name. As of the 1990 Census, ''Thaddeus'' was the 611th most popular male name in the United States, while ''Thad'', its diminutive version, was the 846th most popular. Alternate forms *Taco – Dutch *Tadeu ( ind. Tade) – Albanian *Թադէոս ("Tadeos"), Թադևոս ("Tadevos"), Թաթոս ("Tatos") – Armenian *Tadija – Croatian *Tadeáš – Czech *Thaddée – French *თადეოზი (''tadeozi'') Georgian *Thaddäus – German *Tádé – Hungarian *Tadáias (Biblical), Tadhg (given name) – Irish *Taddeo, Tadzio – Italian *Tadejs – Latvian * Tadas – Lithuanian *Thadhewoos – Malayalam *Tadeusz – Polish *Tadeu – Portuguese *Тадэвуш ("Tadevush") – Belarusian *Фаддей ("Faddey") or Фадей ("Fadey") – Russian *Фадей ("Fadey") – Ukrainian *Тадеј (Tadej), Тадија (Tadija) – Serbian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thacher Hurd
John Thacher Hurd (born March 6, 1949) is an American artist and the creator of children's picture books including ''Mama Don't Allow'' and ''Art Dog''. Biography Thacher Hurd was born in Burlington, Vermont, the son of children's book creators Clement Hurd and Edith Thacher Hurd. He has referred in an interview to the "wonderful aura of creativity" surrounding his father and the Vermont farm that was their home. Leonard S. Marcus (1997)"Meet Clement Hurd" ''Enter the World of Margaret Wise Brown''. HarperCollins Children's. Retrieved 2014-10-01. Apparently citing Marcus's book, ''Dear Genius, The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom''. Margaret Wise Brown's 1949 '' My World'' is dedicated to the recently born Thacher by Brown. (The original dedication "to Hiram Hurd" was altered just before press to read "to John Thacher Hurd when he comes (he's here)".) After attending the California College of Arts and Crafts, he turned his talents to picture books. His first book was ''The Old Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Hurd
Robert Philip Andrew Hurd (29 July 1905 – 17 September 1963) was an influential conservation architect. His original aim was to be an architectural author specialising in traditional forms. He came to Scotland in 1930 and worked at the Edinburgh College of Art for two years as assistant to the architect and planner Frank Mears. He was an early and highly respected conservation architect and wrote and broadcast on Scottish architecture, planning and reconstruction. Life Hurd was of Anglo-Scottish parentage, the son of Sir Percy Angler Hurd MP and Hannah Swan Cox. He suffered from polio in early life and walked his whole life with a limp. He was educated at Marlborough College and then the LCC Central School of Arts. Thereafter he studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge becoming a close friend of Raymond McGrath and Mansfield Forbes. He had developed a love of Scotland during childhood holidays with his grandparents in Dundee and on student walking holidays in the Highland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Melancthon Hurd
Richard Melancthon Hurd (June 14, 1865 – June 6, 1941) was a pioneer real estate economist and political activist. Hurd was born in New York City and attended St. Paul's School. He graduated from Yale University in 1888, where he was a member of Skull and Bones and an editor of ''The Yale Record''. Particularly in his youth he was an avid hiker and mountain climber and visited Europe during summer with his father to enjoy the activity. He headed the mortgage department of the U.S. Mortgage & Trust Company in 1895. He married Lucy Gazzam of Seattle, Washington in Mobile, Alabama in 1898 and had five children. He was president of the Lawyers' Mortgage Insurance Company in 1903 when he published ''Principles of City Land Values''.Richard Melancthon Hurd, ''Principles of City Land Values'' (NY: Real Estate Record Association, 1903), archive.orgView accessed May 24, 2010 During the First World War he was active as an officer of the American Defense Society, an organization that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Hurd (educator)
Richard Hurd is a professor of labor relations emeritus and former director of Labor Studies at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Hurd has a Ph.D. in economics from Vanderbilt University. Prior to his appointment at Cornell, Hurd was an economic policy fellow at the Brookings Institution. Hurd's research focus is on the modern labor movement, organizing strategies, and organizational change in unions. He also has an interest in the organization of professional and technical workers. Hurd is frequently quoted in mainstream newspapers and magazines. Hurd has been a consultant for the Canadian Labour Congress, AFL-CIO, Department for Professional Employees, the Albert Shanker Institute, the New York State United Teachers, the Service Employees International Union, UNITE HERE, and the American Guild of Musical Artists. Memberships Hurd serves on the executive committee of the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Ed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Hurd (bishop)
Richard Hurd (13 January 1720 – 28 May 1808) was an English divine and writer, and bishop of Worcester. Life He was born at Congreve, in the parish of Penkridge, Staffordshire, where his father was a farmer. He was educated at Brewood Grammar School and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He took his B.A. degree in 1739, and in 1742 he proceeded M.A. and became a fellow of his college. In the same year he was ordained deacon, and given charge of the parish of Reymerston, Norfolk, but he returned to Cambridge early in 1743. He was ordained priest in 1744. In 1748 he published some ''Remarks on an Enquiry into the Rejection of Christian Miracles by the Heathens'' (1746), by William Weston, a fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. He prepared editions, which won the praise of Edward Gibbon, of the ''Ars poetica'' and ''Epistola ad Pisones'' (1749), and the ''Epistola ad Augustum'' (1751) of Horace. A compliment in the preface to the edition of 1749 was the starting-point ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Hurd-Wood
Rachel Clare Hurd-Wood (born 17 August 1990) is an English actress, best known for her film roles as Wendy Darling in ''Peter Pan'' (2003) and more recently for her television role as Rachel Maddox in ''Clique'' (2017–2018). Early life Background Hurd-Wood was born in the Streatham district of South London, England, the daughter of Philip and Sarah Hurd-Wood. She lived in London till the age of eight, when she and her family moved to a Victorian cottage in Godalming, Surrey. She has a younger brother, Patrick who appeared with her in ''Peter Pan'' as one of the sleeping children in the "I Do Believe In Fairies" scene. He also plays the role of Samuel Crowthorn alongside his sister in her later film, '' Solomon Kane'' in which she plays Meredith Crowthorn. Her father's work involves performing, writing scripts and doing voice-overs for commercials. He appears in one of her films, An American Haunting, as one of the guests in the Christmas party scene towards the beginni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Hurd
Peter Hurd (February 22, 1904 – July 9, 1984) was an American painter whose work is strongly associated with the people and landscapes of San Patricio, New Mexico, where he lived from the 1930s. He is equally acclaimed for his portraits and his western landscapes. Early in his life, Hurd studied in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania under the noted illustrator N. C. Wyeth, along with two of his grown children. Hurd later married the painter's eldest daughter, Henriette Wyeth, who also is known as an accomplished painter. During World War II, Hurd worked for ''Life'' magazine as a war correspondent attached to the US Air Force. He created hundreds of "War Sketches". Life Born in Roswell, New Mexico, Peter Hurd originally attended military school before he realized he loved painting and wanted to pursue it professionally. After graduating from the New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell, he was halfway through West Point when he changed course to follow his true calling. He moved to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
