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James Flint (organist)
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James Flint may refer to: * James Flint (architect) (1862–1894), Australian architect * James Flint (novelist) (born 1968), British novelist * James Flint (merchant), 18th century British diplomat and merchant * Captain Flint, a fictional character, created by Robert Louis Stevenson * Captain James Flint, a fictional character in the ''Swallows and Amazons'' series of books * Bruiser Flint (James Flint, born 1965), American basketball coach * James Flint (RAF officer) (1913–2013), British businessman and officer * James Flint (1733–1810), Scottish surgeon, co-founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh The Royal Society of Edinburgh is Scotland's national academy of science and letters. It is a registered charity that operates on a wholly independent and non-partisan basis and provides public benefit throughout Scotland. It was established i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Flint (architect)
James Flint was a British and Australian architect. A number of his works are heritage-listed. Early life Flint was born in 1862 in Eppleworth, Hull, Yorkshire, England, the son of James Flint . Architectural career Flint was articled to the Manchester firm of architects and building surveyors, Sherwood and Peverley. He had then moved to London and practiced there for a period of about eighteen months. Following this period of work, Flint emigrated, arriving in Victoria in December 1883, and entered into partnership with Mr Horsley in Melbourne. In 1887 he moved to Rockhampton to practice as an architect and surveyor. He took up offices in Central Chambers in East Street. At this time he and John William Wilson were the main architects active in Rockhampton. In the booming economy of Rockhampton and Mount Morgan Flint designed several notable buildings. Politics Flint was also a member of the Rockhampton Municipal Council, as well as the Central Separation League, the l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Flint (novelist)
James Flint is a British novelist and journalist. Born in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1968, he did a journalistic apprenticeship on the ''Times of India'' in New Delhi before studying philosophy and psychology at Wadham College, Oxford. On graduating he spent a year in New York City studying jazz theory and technique, returning to the UK to take an MA in Philosophy and Literature at the University of Warwick. After graduating, he worked at ''The Independent'' newspaper in London, before becoming a contributing editor of the ''Mute'' magazine and a section editor of ''Wired UK''. Flint is the author of the novels ''Habitus'', ''52 Ways to Magic America'', which won the Amazon.co.uk Bursary Award for the year 2000; and ''The Book of Ash'', which was inspired by the life of the nuclear artist James Acord and won the 2003 Arts Council Writers’ Award. He has also published a short story collection ''Soft Apocalypse – Twelve Tales from the Turn of the Millennium'' (2004: Au Diable V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Flint (merchant)
James Flint (Chinese name: 洪任輝, ''Hóng Rènhuī'', 1720 — unknown) was an 18th-century British merchant and diplomat employed by the East India Company and noted for his role in precipitating the Canton System of Chinese trade with the West. One of the first English people to learn the Chinese language, Flint broke Qing dynasty court protocol through a direct complaint to the Qianlong Emperor, which led to three years of detention in the Portuguese colony of Macau. In later life, he was jointly responsible for the introduction of the soybean to North America. Biography Early life Left in China as a teenage boy by Captain Rigby of the Honourable East India Company ship ''Normanton'' in 1736, Flint grew to adulthood speaking Mandarin Chinese. For reasons unknown, he adopted or was given the Chinese name Hóng Rènhuī (洪任辉) and in 1739 departed for Bombay and other East India Company run locations. Three years later he returned to China to continue his language s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Captain Flint
Captain J. Flint is a fictional golden age pirate captain who features in a number of novels, television series, and films. The original character was created by the Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894). Flint first appears in the classic adventure yarn ''Treasure Island'', which was first serialised in a children's magazine in 1881, and later published as a novel in 1883. In ''Treasure Island'' Captain Flint is a fictional character in the book ''Treasure Island'', created by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1883. In Stevenson's book, Flint, whose first name is not given, was the captain of a pirate ship, ''The Walrus'', which accumulated an enormous amount of captured treasure, approximately £700,000. On August 1, 1750, Flint and six members of his crew bury the plunder on an island located somewhere in the Caribbean Sea. Flint then murders his six assistants, leaving the corpse of one, Allardyce, with its arms outstretched in the direction of the buried treasure. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Captain James Flint
This is a listing of characters from the ''Swallows and Amazons'' series of books by Arthur Ransome. The Swallows *John Walker — eldest of the Walker children and Captain of the ''Swallow'' *Susan Walker — Mate of the ''Swallow'' and the cook and domestic organizer *Titty Walker — Able Seaman of the ''Swallow'' and the most imaginative of the Walkers. This name was the nickname of the real life Mavis Altounyan, taken from Joseph Jacobs's children's story ''Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse''. It has caused titters among generations of children since, causing it to be changed to ''Kitty'' in the original 1963 television series of ''Swallows and Amazons'', and ''Tatty'' for a 2016 BBC Films adaptation (but in the 1974 BBC adaptation she was Titty). *Roger Walker — initially Ship's Boy, later Able Seaman (and Ship's Engineer in '' Great Northern?''), mischievous, mechanical and very fond of chocolate. He is the second-youngest of the children. *Bridget Walker — Ship's Baby ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruiser Flint
James "Bruiser" Flint (born July 23, 1965) is an American men's college basketball coach, currently an assistant coach at Kentucky. He was most recently the head coach at Drexel University in west Philadelphia, where he was born and raised. Collegiate playing career Flint is a 1987 graduate of Saint Joseph's University. While attending St. Joe's, Flint was a member of the school's varsity basketball team. Flint was named to the all-Atlantic 10 team as a senior, and was inducted into the St. Joe's athletic hall of fame in 1988. Early coaching career In 1987, Flint became an assistant coach at Coppin State University. Two years later, Flint became an assistant coach under John Calipari at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (or UMass). After Calipari left UMass for the NBA in 1996, Flint was named his successor, becoming the school's 17th head coach. While coach of the Minutemen, Flint compiled an overall record of 86–72. He won an NABC District Coach of the Year award ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Flint (RAF Officer)
Wing Commander James Flint, (24 May 1913 – 16 December 2013) was a British businessman and decorated Royal Air Force officer. During active service in World War II, he gained the unique distinction of receiving two gallantry awards for separate actions during the same operation. Early life Flint was born on 24 May 1913 in Nottingham, England. He was one of four children of William and Edith Flint. He was educated at Trent Bridge Central School. He left school at 14 and began work. However, the company soon went bust and he was offered a job by the company that undertook the liquidation. He then trained as an accountant with the firm, R. A. Page. Military service In August 1938, he joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve and was accepted for pilot training. When World War II broke out in September 1939, he was called up for full-time service and continued his pilot training at RAF Tollerton and RAF Brize Norton. In January 1941, he completed pilot training and received h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
