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Jean Robertson (Royal Navy Officer)
Jean or Jeannie Robertson may refer to: People * Jean Robertson (author) (Jean Bromley, 1913–1990), British scholar of English renaissance literature *Jean Robertson (actress) (c.1894–1967), Australian stage and screen actress * Jean Robertson Burnet (1920–2009), Canadian academic's maiden name * Jean McKenzie (Jean Robertson McKenzie, 1901–1964), New Zealand diplomat * Jean Forbes-Robertson (1905–1962), British actress * Jeannie Robertson (1908–1975), Scottish folk singer Characters * Jean Robertson-Holley (née Jean Robertson), a fictional character from '' Unclaimed'' * Jean Robertson, a character and teratology of novels from Jane Duncan Jane Duncan (10 March 1910 – 20 October 1976) was the pseudonym of Scottish author Elizabeth Jane Cameron, best known for her ''My Friends'' series of semi-autobiographical novels. She also wrote four novels under the name of her principal hero ... See also * John Robertson (other) ("Jean" is French for "John") * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Robertson (author)
Jean Robertson (also known as Jean Bromley; 27 September 1913 – 23 August 1990 Birmingham) was a British scholar of English Renaissance literature. She won the British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay Prize in 1974. Life Jean Robertson was born in 1913 to Ainslie Robertson and Phyllis Mary Raeghton. She attended Howell's School, Denbigh and graduated from the University of Liverpool. She was an assistant lecturer at Liverpool between 1937–1942 in the English department. In 1939, she married J. S. Bromley, a naval historian (1913–1985). By 1942, she was working for the Board of Trade on war service. She was a research fellow at the Huntington Library in California, publishing articles, among others, on Nicholas Breton. Robertson taught English literature at Liverpool till 1949. She was in Oxford, where her husband was a Fellow of Keble College, from 1949–1960. In 1964, she became a lecturer at the University of Southampton, and Reader in 1972. From the 1950s, she was an assi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Robertson (actress)
Jean Robertson (16 February 1893 – 24 August 1967) was an Australian stage and screen actress. Biography Robertson was born on 16 February 1893 and grew up in Adelaide, South Australia. She performed with the Adelaide Repertory Theatre, before moving to Melbourne in 1914 to begin her professional career with the Julius Knight Company. She also appeared with the George Willoughby Co. and J. C. Williamson Ltd. Her first screen role was as the angel in George Willoughby's first film, '' The Joan of Arc of Loos'' and followed up as Margaret Rolfe in the 1916 Australian silent film, '' The Woman in the Case''. In 1917, she moved to America, where she starred as a Babylonian siren in ''The Wanderer'' on the New York stage the following year. She played the dope fiend in ''The Unknown Woman'', with Lumsden Hare as her husband in New York in 1919. While overseas she toured in productions to San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia and Toronto. She appeared in the American 1922 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Robertson Burnet
Jean Robertson Burnet (1920 – September 14, 2009) was a Canadian academic specializing in ethnic studies. Burnet, a specialist in Canadian ethnic relations, founded the Glendon Sociology Department at York University. Burnet was a native of Toronto and studied for her undergraduate degree in Sociology at Victoria College, Toronto, including under Harold Innis. She received her master's degree and PhD at the University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chicago is consistently ranked among the b .... She left the University of Toronto in 1967 to join York University and was the founding chair of the Glendon Department of Sociology. Death and legacy Burnet died on September 14, 2009. Her archival papers are held at the University of Toronto Archives and Record Management Services. References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean McKenzie
Jean Robertson McKenzie, (19 January 1901 – 1 or 2 July 1964), was a New Zealand diplomat. She was the first woman to head a New Zealand diplomatic post. Biography Born in Edendale, Southland, and originally named Jane, McKenzie attended Edendale School and Southland Technical College. She worked for a time as a secretary and administrator for the Post Office in Invercargill, and later for the Public Works Department. She was eventually transferred to Wellington, and when the Prime Minister's Department was founded in 1926, she took up a position with the nascent New Zealand diplomatic service. Initially, McKenzie was secretary to Carl Berendsen, head of the Imperial Affairs Section. The IAS was responsible for relations with the rest of the British Empire — other diplomatic activity was handled by Britain at the time. She was part of New Zealand's delegation to an economic conference in Ottawa, and in 1936, she was posted to London, serving under High Commissioner Bil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Forbes-Robertson
Jean Forbes-Robertson (16 March 1905 – 24 December 1962) was an English actress. A versatile Shakespearean actress, she was often cast in boys' roles because of her slim build, playing Jim Hawkins in a stage version of ''Treasure Island'', Puck in ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' and, most famously, the title role in ''Peter and Wendy, Peter Pan''. After beginning her career in 1921 on tour in South Africa and Australasia with her mother's theatre company, she made her London debut in 1925, gaining wide notice by 1927. She played mostly in Shakespeare works and other classic plays, and was often employed by the actor-director Robert Atkins (actor), Robert Atkins. Her father was the actor Johnston Forbes-Robertson, her mother the actress Gertrude Elliot, her aunt the actress Maxine Elliott, and her daughter is the actress Joanna Van Gyseghem. Early years and ''Peter Pan'' Forbes-Robertson was born in London, the second daughter of the actors Johnston Forbes-Robertson and Gertrude ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeannie Robertson
Jeannie Robertson (1908 – 13 March 1975) was a Scottish folk singer. Her most celebrated song is "I'm a Man You Don't Meet Every Day", otherwise known as "Jock Stewart", which was covered by Archie Fisher, The Dubliners, The McCalmans, The Tannahill Weavers and The Pogues. Variants are known from the US in the 1880s and Australia in the 1850s. Hamish Henderson and Alan Lomax Robertson was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, and in her early life she sometimes lived at 90 Hilton Road, where a plaque now commemorates her. Like many of the Scottish Travellers from Aberdeen, Glasgow and Ayrshire, she went to Blairgowrie to pick raspberries once a year. Hamish Henderson was born in Blairgowrie and tried to track down the best singers there. In 1953, he followed her reputation to her doorstep in Aberdeen. According to legend Jeannie was reluctant to let him in. She challenged him to tell her the opening line of Child ballad no 163, "The Battle of Harlaw", and he complied. In November ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unclaimed
Unclaimed may refer to: * ''Unclaimed'' (2013 film), a documentary * ''Unclaimed'' (2016 film), a TV film *The Unclaimed, a project under which a 1967 single was released by Milan the Leather Boy Milan Radenkovich (December 15, 1941 – March 14, 1971), who was always credited mononymously as Milan, was an American record producer, songwriter and recording artist on numerous songs made throughout the 1960s, mostly though not exclusively ... * Lost, mislaid, and abandoned property, also known as unclaimed property *'' Terra nullius'', also known as unclaimed territory {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Duncan
Jane Duncan (10 March 1910 – 20 October 1976) was the pseudonym of Scottish author Elizabeth Jane Cameron, best known for her ''My Friends'' series of semi-autobiographical novels. She also wrote four novels under the name of her principal heroine Janet Sandison, and some children's books. Biography Elizabeth Jane Cameron was born in Renton, West Dunbartonshire on 10 March 1910 and brought up in the Scottish Lowlands. Her father Duncan Cameron was a police officer in the Vale of Leven, eventually as a sergeant. He had a brother, George. Her mother, Janet Cameron née Sandison died of influenza when Duncan was 10 years old, and her brother, John, was sent to live with their grandparents.CAMERON, Elizabeth Jane -LSB-JaneDuncan,JanetSandison-RSB-. (2018). In E. Ewan, R. Pipes, & J. Rendall, ''The new Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women'' (2nd ed.). Edinburgh University Press. Credo Reference: https://ezproxy.monmouth.edu/login?url=https://search.credoreference.com/content/en ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Robertson (other)
John, Jon, or Jonathan Robertson may refer to: Politicians United Kingdom politicians *J. M. Robertson (John Mackinnon Robertson, 1856–1933), British journalist and Liberal MP for Tyneside 1906–1918 *John Robertson (Bothwell MP) (1867–1926), MP for Bothwell, Lanarkshire 1919–1926 * John Robertson (Berwick MP) (1898–1955), Labour Party MP 1945–1951 for Berwick and Haddington, then Berwick and East Lothian * John Robertson (Paisley MP) (1913–1987), Labour Party MP 1961–1979, co-founder of the Scottish Labour Party * John Home Robertson (born 1948), former MP and MSP *John Robertson (Glasgow MP) (born 1952), former Labour Member of Parliament for Glasgow North West Australian politicians *John Robertson (premier) (1816–1891), fifth Premier of New South Wales *John Robertson (politician, born 1962), former Labor leader in New South Wales and opposition leader Canadian politicians * John Robertson (Nova Scotia politician) (1784–1872), MP in the Nova Scotia House of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jen Robertson (other)
Jennie, Jenny, or Jennifer Robertson may refer to: People * Jennifer Robertson, Canadian actress, also known as Jenn * Jennie Smillie Robertson (1878-1981), Canadian physician *Jennifer Robertson (athlete) in 1989 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Junior women's race * Jennifer Robertson (Quadriga), heir to Quadriga cryptocurrency fund *Jennifer Ellen Robertson on List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 2011 Fictional characters *Jennifer Robertson, character in ''A Smile Like Yours'' *Jennifer Robertson, character in ''The Seán Cullen Show'' *Jenny Robertson, character in ''Jenny Robertson, Your Friend is not Coming'', story in ''Free Love and Other Stories'' *Jenny Robertson, character in ''Attack of the Herbals'' See also *Jennifer Roberson (born 1953), American author *Jean Robertson (other) Jean or Jeannie Robertson may refer to: People * Jean Robertson (author) (Jean Bromley, 1913–1990), British scholar of English renaissance literature *Jean Robertso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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