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Jardine Prize For Poetry
Jardine is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Al Jardine (born 1942), member of the Beach Boys * Alexander Jardine (Medal of Honor) (1874–1949), American Medal of Honor recipient * Antonio Jardine (born 1988), NCAA college basketball player for the Syracuse Orange * Cassandra Jardine (1954–2012), British journalist and writer * Christine Jardine (born 1960), British politician * David Jardine (other), several people: :* David Jardine (1840–1892), of David and John Jardine, US architect :* David Jardine Jardine (1847–1922), Scottish landowner and racehorse owner :* David Jardine (barrister) (1794–1860), English barrister and magistrate :* David Jardine (footballer) (born 1867), Scottish football goalkeeper :* David Jardine (merchant) (1818–1856), taipan of the Jardine, Matheson & Co. * Don Jardine (1940–2006), American professional wrestler * Douglas Jardine (1900–1958), English cricketer * Sir Ernest Jardine, 1st Baronet (1859–1947), Sco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Jardine
Alan Charles Jardine (born September 3, 1942) is an American musician, singer, and songwriter who co-founded the Beach Boys. He is best known as the band's rhythm guitarist and for occasionally singing lead vocals on singles such as "Help Me, Rhonda" (1965), " Then I Kissed Her" (1965), "Cotton Fields" (1970), and "Come Go with Me" (1978). His song "Lady Lynda" was also a UK top 10 hit for the group in 1978. Other Beach Boys songs that feature Jardine on lead include "I Know There's an Answer" (1966), "Vegetables (song), Vegetables" (1967), and "From There to Back Again" (2012). Following the death of fellow band member Carl Wilson in 1998, Jardine left the The Beach Boys (touring band), touring Beach Boys and has since performed as a solo artist, rejoining the band only for their 2012 50th anniversary tour. Since 2013, Jardine has toured as part of Beach Boys founder Brian Wilson’s band. He has released one solo studio album, ''A Postcard from California'' (2010). Jardine was i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Jardine (rugby League)
George Jardine (8 November 1926 - 29 May 2015 ) was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s and 1950s. Jardine played in the New South Wales premiership competition and won a premiership with St. George in 1949. Career A Wollongong, New South Wales junior, Jardine played five seasons for St. George between 1947-1950 and 1952. He became a premiership winner when he played at lock-forward in 1949 Grand Final win over South Sydney.Alan Whiticker/Glen Hudson: Encyclopedia of Rugby League Players, 1995 () After playing 70 grade games for St George, George Jardine returned to the Illawarra league in 1953 joining the Northern Suburbs Wollongong club.South Coast Times: "George Jardine Returns to Northern Suburbs". (article) 26/06/1952 He also had a long association with the Helensburgh Tigers The Helensburgh Tigers are an Australian rugby league football team based in Helensburgh, a country town of the Illawarra region. The club are a part of Country ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Jardine
Ray Jardine (born in 1944) is an American rock climber who, along with Bill Price, in May 1979, was the first to free climb the ''West Face'' of El Capitan in Yosemite Valley. Jardine is also a mountaineer, sea kayaker, sailor, hang glider pilot, sailplane pilot, small aircraft pilot, skydiver, long-distance hiker, bicyclist, motorcyclist, and gear designer. Jardine is noted for inventing and developing the spring-loaded camming devices called Friends with the late Mark Vallance, which revolutionized rock climbing in the late 1970s. He is also noted for his major contributions to the ultralight backpacking community through his books and his "make-it-yourself" gear company, Ray-Way Products. Early life Born in Colorado Springs, Colorado, as a youth, Jardine climbed Colorado's Pikes Peak dozens of times, mostly solo, and with the Boy Scouts of America. In 1959, Jardine achieved Eagle Scout (Boy Scouts of America). During his Junior and Senior years (1959-1961) at General William ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Jardine
Nicholas Jardine FBA (born 4 September 1943) is a British mathematician, philosopher of science and its history, historian of astronomy and natural history, and amateur mycologist. He is Emeritus Professor at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science (HPS) at the University of Cambridge. Career Jardine was educated at Monkton Combe School in Somerset and read natural sciences at King's College, Cambridge. He then worked as a King's College and Royal Society Research Fellow on the automation of classification and information retrieval and its applications to biological taxonomy and diagnosis. In 1975 he moved to Darwin College, Cambridge and to the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Since then he has developed a question-based pragmatic philosophy of science (inspired by the work of Ian Hacking), as well as studying the history of early-modern astronomy and natural history, and reflecting on the methodology of the history of the sciences. From 1987–201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Jardine
Lisa Anne Jardine (née Bronowski; 12 April 1944 – 25 October 2015) was a British historian of the early modern period. From 1990 to 2011, she was Centenary Professor of Renaissance Studies and Director of the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters at Queen Mary University of London. From 2008 to January 2014 she was Chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA). Jardine was a Member of Council of the Royal Institution, until 2009. On 1 September 2012, she relocated with her research centre and staff to University College London (UCL) to become founding director of its Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in the Humanities. Education and personal life Jardine was born on 12 April 1944 in Oxford, the eldest of four daughters of mathematician and polymath, Jacob Bronowski, and the sculptor, Rita Coblentz.Lisa Jardin.html" ;"title="oblentz">Obituary: Rita Bronowski [Coblentz/nowiki>">oblentz">Obituary: Rita Bronowski [Coblentz/nowiki> ''The Guardian'', 22 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Jardine
Keith Jardine (born October 31, 1975) is an American actor and retired mixed martial artist who most notably competed in the UFC and Strikeforce. Jardine was known for upset victories in bouts he took at short notice against highly rated fighters. His best wins were in contests with former UFC Light Heavyweight Champions and UFC Hall of Famers Chuck Liddell and Forrest Griffin. Jardine's unorthodox attacking style wrongfooted opponents, but left him vulnerable in some career-crucial contests, and by his mid-30s he had effectively retired from competing to concentrate on a ' Paleo' business venture. Building on experience as a stuntman and in non-speaking parts, Jardine has established himself as an actor in film and television and goes by the nickname of “the Dean of Mean.” Background Jardine was born in Butte, Montana, moved to Oregon, and finally settled in Los Angeles, California, where he attended Canoga Park High School. Jardine played football and competed in Greco-R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir John Jardine, 1st Baronet
Sir John Jardine, 1st Baronet, KCIE (27 September 1844 – 26 April 1919) was a British Liberal politician and colonial civil servant in India. Biography Early life and career in India Jardine was the son of William Jardine of Bedford (but originally of Dumfriesshire, Scotland) and was educated at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he won the Chancellor's Gold Medal for English Verse in 1864. He joined the Bombay Civil Service in 1864, and was Political Officer in Native States of Kattywar in 1871, Secretary for the trial of the Gaekwar of Baroda in 1875, Secretary to Treaty with Portugal and Law Officer to Government of India in 1877; Judicial Commissioner of Burma in 1878, President of the Burma School Board in 1881, and Chief Secretary to Bombay Government, holding the Political, Secret, Educational, Persian, and Judicial portfolios in 1885. Jardine was elected Fellow of the University of Bombay in 1872, and was sometime the University's Dean of Arts and Dean of Law. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Jardine (football Coach)
John Jardine (July 20, 1935 – March 23, 1990) was an American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ... player and coach. He served as the head football coach at the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 1970 to 1977, compiling a record of 37–47–3. Jardine's best season came in 1974, when his Wisconsin Badgers football, Wisconsin Badgers went 7–4 and placed fourth in the Big Ten Conference. Noteworthy was the Badgers' 21–20 victory over the perennial powerhouse 1974 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Nebraska during the second week of the season. Jardine was a graduate of Purdue University where he was a starting Guard (gridiron football), guard in 1956 and 1957. He began his coaching career at Lafayette Central Catholic Jr/Sr High School, Central Catho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Willoughby Jardine
His Honour Willoughby Jardine KC (29 October 1879 – 15 October 1945), was a British Judge and Liberal Party politician. Background Jardine was born the eldest son of James Jardine, KC. He was educated at Eton School and King's College, Cambridge. In 1910 he married Lettice Joyce Sutton. They had three sons and one daughter. One of his sons was senior civil servant Christopher Willoughby Jardine. Professional career Jardine was appointed as a King's Counsel in 1927. He served as Solicitor-General of the County Palatine of Durham, from 1932–39 and Attorney-General of the County Palatine of Durham, from 1939–40. He was a Judge of Bow County Courts from 1940-45. Political career Jardine was Liberal candidate for the Whitby division of the North Riding of Yorkshire at the January 1910 General Election. He was Liberal candidate for the Maldon division of Essex Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Bruce Jardine
Brigadier General James Bruce Jardine (1870 – 17 March 1955) was a British soldier and diplomat. He earned the rank of Brigadier-General in the service of the 5th Lancers. Family life Jardine was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1870 and was educated at Charterhouse School and then the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. Jardine was the grandson of the explorer James Bruce who traced the source of the Nile River; and he was named for that maternal ancestor. In December 1908, he married Agnes Sara Hargreaves Brown.Burke, John ''et al.'' (1914). His wife was the daughter of Sir Alexander Brown, 1st Baronet.Merchant Networks (Anglo-Australian genealogy website) Career Jardine joi ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Jardine (Medal Of Honor)
James Jardine (April 16, 1837 – December 9, 1922) was a Union Army soldier during the American Civil War. He received the Medal of Honor for gallantry during the Siege of Vicksburg on May 22, 1863. Union assault On May 22, 1863, General Ulysses S. Grant ordered an assault on the Confederate heights at Vicksburg, Mississippi. The plan called for a storming party of volunteers to build a bridge across a moat and plant scaling ladders against the enemy embankment in advance of the main attack. The volunteers knew the odds were against survival and the mission was called, in nineteenth century vernacular, a "forlorn hope". Only single men were accepted as volunteers and even then, twice as many men as needed came forward and were turned away. The assault began in the early morning following a naval bombardment. The Union soldiers came under enemy fire immediately and were pinned down in the ditch they were to cross. Despite repeated attacks by the main Union body, the men of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Jardine (judge)
James Jardine (6 June 1846 – 6 January 1909) was an English first-class cricketer, academic, barrister and judge. The son of William Jardine, he was born at Dunstable in June 1846. He was educated at Dunstable School, before going up to Caius College, Cambridge. He became a fellow at Caius in 1870. A student of the Inner Temple, he was called to the bar in January 1871. Jardine played first-class cricket for the Marylebone Cricket Club on four occasions between 1870 and 1874, scoring 53 runs with a highest score of 21. Jardine was appointed the Perry Professor of jurisprudence at Bombay University in British India in 1877, where he later served as the dean of the Faculty of Law. He was appointed a judge of the Bombay High Court in January 1886. Jardine died in Switzerland at St Moritz in January 1909, following a short illness with pneumonia Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung primarily affecting the small air sacs known as alveoli. Symptoms typically ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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