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Haddon (surname)
Haddon is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: A * Alfred Cort Haddon (1855–1940), British anthropologist * April Haddon, fictional character * Arthur Langan Haddon (1895-1961), New Zealand Church of Christ minister * Arthur Trevor Haddon (1864-1941), British painter C * Caroline Haddon (1837-1905), philosophical writer * Celia Haddon (born 1944), British journalist and writer D * Damita Haddon (born 1971), American gospel singer * Dayle Haddon (born 1948), Canadian model and actress * Deitrick Haddon (born 1973), American gospel singer E * Elizabeth Haddon (1680–1762), American colonist and Quaker F * Frederick William Haddon (1839-1906), Australian journalist and newspaper editor H * Harry Haddon (1871-after 1896), English professional footballer J * James Haddon (fl. 1556), English clergyman * Jenny Haddon (born 1933), English writer of romance novels under the name Sophie West K * Kathleen Haddon (1888-1961), British scholar of string-figures L * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Cort Haddon
Alfred Cort Haddon, Sc.D., FRS, FRGS FRAI (24 May 1855 – 20 April 1940, Cambridge) was an influential British anthropologist and ethnologist. Initially a biologist, who achieved his most notable fieldwork, with W.H.R. Rivers, C.G. Seligman and Sidney Ray on the Torres Strait Islands. He returned to Christ's College, Cambridge, where he had been an undergraduate, and effectively founded the School of Anthropology. Haddon was a major influence on the work of the American ethnologist Caroline Furness Jayne. In 2011, Haddon's 1898 ''The Recordings of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits'' were added to the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia's Sounds of Australia registry. The original recordings are housed at the British Library and many have been made available online. Early life Alfred Cort Haddon was born on 24 May 1855, near London, the elder son of John Haddon, the head of a firm of typefounders and printers. He attended lectures at King' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathleen Haddon
Kathleen Haddon Rishbeth (13 May 1888 – 6 September 1961) was a British zoologist, photographer and collector of string figures.Henry Rishbeth (1999) 'Kathleen Haddon (1888–1961)', ''Bulletin of the International String Figure Association'', Vol. 6, pp.1–16. She was the wife of Australian geographer Oswald Rishbeth. Early life and education Kathleen Haddon was born in Kingstown, County Dublin, Ireland,''1911 England Census''''Ireland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1620–1911'' the daughter of anthropologist and zoologist A. C. Haddon. She was educated at the Perse School for Girls and Newnham College, Cambridge, where she began studying zoology in 1907. She and her sister Mary accompanied their parents to the United States in 1909, where the sisters helped collect string games from coastal communities in Alaska. As a woman, Haddon was ineligible to receive a degree from Cambridge University in 1911,Beizer, Janet, "Thinking through the Mothers: Reimagining Women's Biograph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vivien Haddon
Vivien Joan Haddon now Vivien Boyd (born 14 August 1945) is a former swimming representative from New Zealand. At the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games, she won the silver medal in the women's 110 yards breaststroke. She also won the bronze medal in the 220 yards breaststroke. Four years later at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica, she won the bronze medal in the 220 yards breaststroke. She competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics coming second in her heat of the 200 m breaststroke. She was educated at Freyberg High School in Palmerston North Palmerston North (; mi, Te Papa-i-Oea, known colloquially as Palmy) is a city in the North Island of New Zealand and the seat of the Manawatū-Whanganui region. Located in the eastern Manawatu Plains, the city is near the north bank of the .... References 1945 births Living people Olympic swimmers of New Zealand Swimmers at the 1964 Summer Olympics Commonwealth Games si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Haddon
Brigadier Thomas Haddon (19 February 1913 – 12 April 1993) was a British Army officer who served with the airborne forces during the Second World War, most notably during Operation Market Garden in September 1944. Following the war he raised the Singapore Military Forces and served as Chief of Staff of Hong Kong Land Forces. Early life and military career The son of Major J. T. Haddon of the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), Thomas Haddon was born in Farnham, Surrey, England, on 19 February 1913. He was educated at Hamilton Academy, described by the Cambridge University Press as "one of the finest schools in Scotland", and then at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He passed out from Sandhurst where he was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the Border Regiment on 2 February 1933. He served initially with the 1st Battalion, Border Regiment, in Northern Ireland, until 1935 when he was sent to the 2nd Battalion of the regiment, where he served in India, seeing active s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam E
Sam, SAM or variants may refer to: Places * Sam, Benin * Sam, Boulkiemdé, Burkina Faso * Sam, Bourzanga, Burkina Faso * Sam, Kongoussi, Burkina Faso * Sam, Iran * Sam, Teton County, Idaho, United States, a populated place People and fictional characters * Sam (given name), a list of people and fictional characters with the given name or nickname * Sam (surname), a list of people with the surname ** Cen (surname) (岑), romanized "Sam" in Cantonese ** Shen (surname) (沈), often romanized "Sam" in Cantonese and other languages Religious or legendary figures * Sam (Book of Mormon), elder brother of Nephi * Sām, a Persian mythical folk hero * Sam Ziwa, an uthra (angel or celestial being) in Mandaeism Animals * Sam (army dog) (died 2000) * Sam (horse) (b 1815), British Thoroughbred * Sam (koala) (died 2009), rescued after 2009 bush fires in Victoria, Australia * Sam (orangutan), in the movie ''Dunston Checks In'' * Sam (ugly dog) (1990–2005), voted the world's ugliest dog in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan Haddon
Ryan Haddon (born April 17, 1971) is an American journalist, news presenter, and television producer. Early life Haddon is the daughter of businessman Glenn Souham and former model Dayle Haddon. She grew up in Toronto and Paris, and graduated from Boston University with a degree in communications. Career Haddon had a series of entertainment-based reporting jobs for various newspapers, magazines, and eventually television. She has also worked at '' MacNeill/Lehrer NewsHour,'' on Roseanne Barr's talk show ''The Roseanne Show,'' and on ''Good Morning America.'' She has hosted the French television show ''Chronicles from California,'' NBC's ''Extra!,'' and Court TV's ''Hollywood Heat.'' Personal life In 1998, Haddon started dating actor Christian Slater. The couple married on February 12, 2000, and have two children, Jaden Christopher (1999) and Eliana Sophia (2001). They announced their separation over Christmas 2004, while Slater was performing in a stage play of ''One Flew Over ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Tahupotiki Haddon
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown" and ''berht'' "bright, light, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin. It is also in use as a surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert. After becoming widely used in Continental Europe it entered England in its Old French form ''Robert'', where an Old English cognate form (''Hrēodbēorht'', ''Hrodberht'', ''Hrēodbēorð'', ''Hrœdbœrð'', ''Hrœdberð'', ''Hrōðberχtŕ'') had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto. Robert is also a common name in many Germanic languages, including English, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Scots, Danish, and Icelandic. It can be use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Joseph Haddon
Robert Joseph Haddon (1866–1929) was an England-born architect who practised in Victoria, Australia, Victoria in the 1900s-1910s. He was a major figure in the profession in Victoria, championing the Arts & Crafts in his writing and teaching. He designed some of the most original buildings of the period, featuring restraint, balanced asymmetry and Art Nouveau details. Biography Haddon was born in London, and training there in the early 1880s, before emigrating to Australia in 1889 when he was 25. After a few years in Melbourne, faced with the crash of the 1890s, he relocated a number of times around southern Australia, including Perth for a while as the Assistant Architect at the Public Works Department, Western Australia, Department of Public Works, He finally settled back in Melbourne in 1899, setting up his own practice in 1902. Haddon worked extensively on councils, examining boards and committees, while writing a number of articles in technical magazines, as well as a bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Haddon
Peter Haddon (31 March 1898 – 7 September 1962) was an English actor. Personal life Haddon was born Peter Haddon Tildsley in Rawtenstall, Lancashire. He was the son of Alfred and Mary Tildsley and he had a brother, Vincent Harvey (1894), and two sisters, Edna and Mary. His father was a clergyman. In 1925, he married Rosaline Jane Courtneidge (1903–1926), a daughter of Robert Courtneidge and her eldest sister was Cicely Courtneidge. Peter and Rosaline Tildsley had a daughter, Rosaline (1926–2011). In 1932 as a widower, he married divorcée Edith Ralston Hicks Lyon, née Huxtable. By 1945 she had married another husband. Career He first became associated with the theatre as a member of the Footlights Dramatic Society while reading medicine at Caius College, Cambridge. His first professional appearance was at the Adelphi Theatre, London in 1920, and went on to appear at almost every London theatre. Among his stage credits for the 1920s are ''Charlot's Revue'' (1925) and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oriwa Tahupotiki Haddon
Oriwa Tahupotiki Haddon (7 November 1898–17 June 1958) was a New Zealand Methodist minister, pharmacist, artist, cartoonist and broadcaster. Of Māori descent, he identified with the Ngati Ruanui iwi. He was born in Waitotara, Wanganui, New Zealand on 7 November 1898. Haddon's cartoons were published in the ''New Zealand Artists' Annual'' in the 1930s. His cartoons of Maori were those of an 'insider', and 'laughed at Maori in a gentler fashion than his contemporaries'. References 1898 births 1958 deaths New Zealand artists New Zealand Methodist ministers Ngāti Ruanui people New Zealand Māori religious leaders New Zealand broadcasters New Zealand pharmacists 20th-century New Zealand Methodist ministers 20th-century New Zealand writers {{NewZealand-artist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Haddon
Mark Haddon (born 28 October 1962) is an English novelist, best known for ''The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time'' (2003). He won the Whitbread Award, the Dolly Gray Children's Literature Award, Guardian Prize, and a Commonwealth Writers Prize for his work. Life, work and studies In 2003, Haddon won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award—in the Novels rather than Children's Books category—for ''The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time''. He also won the Commonwealth Writers Prize in the Best First Book category, as ''The Curious Incident'' was considered his first book written for adults; he also won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a once-in-a-lifetime award judged by a panel of children's writers. The book was furthermore long listed for the 2003 Man Booker Prize. ''The Curious Incident'' is written from the perspective of an autistic 15-year-old boy, Christopher John Francis Boone. In an interview at Powells.com, Haddon claimed that this was t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lloyd Haddon
Lloyd Ward Haddon (born August 10, 1938) is a Canadian former ice hockey player who played 8 games in the National Hockey League with the Detroit Red Wings The Detroit Red Wings (colloquially referred to as the Wings) are a professional ice hockey team based in Detroit. The Red Wings compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Atlantic Division (NHL), Atlantic Division in the East ... during the 1959–60 season. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1959 to 1965, was spent in the minor leagues. Career statistics Regular season and playoffs External links * 1938 births Living people Canadian ice hockey defencemen Detroit Red Wings players Edmonton Flyers (WHL) players Hamilton Tiger Cubs players Hershey Bears players Los Angeles Blades (WHL) players St. Louis Braves players Ice hockey people from Sarnia {{Canada-icehockey-defenceman-1930s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
