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John Rickman (psychoanalist)
John Rickman may refer to: *John Rickman (activist) (1910–1937), British communist activist *John Rickman (broadcaster) (1913–1997), British broadcaster and journalist *John Rickman (parliamentary official) (1771–1840), British statistician and parliamentary official *John Rickman (psychoanalyst) (1891–1951), British psychoanalyst {{DEFAULTSORT:Rickman, John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Rickman (activist)
John Pascal Rickman (1910–1937) was a British communist activist who was killed during the Spanish Civil War. Before the war, he dropped out from Lincoln College, Oxford, Lincoln College of the University of Oxford, and became an expert on English church architecture, took part in the Battle of Cable Street, and became involved in various religious and political organisations which aimed to better the conditions of the working class, including the Communist Party of Great Britain, Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB). In 1937 he was killed outside Madrid from injuries he sustained during the Battle of Jarama. In 2017 his name was included on the newly erected Oxford Spanish Civil War memorial. Early life and political activism Rickman was born in Powerstock, a small village near Melplash in Dorset, England. He was the only son of Annie Maide Rickman and her husband William Francis Rickman who was the vicar of Powerstock church. In 1929 he enrolled onto a degree in Philos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Rickman (broadcaster)
John Rickman (28 May 1913 – 13 October 1997) was a British journalist, broadcaster and author. The majority of his career was as a print journalist initially for the Bristol Evening News and then later with the ''Daily Mail'' and ''The Daily Sketch.'' He was a racing tipster, often featuring to the top of the unofficial Sporting Life naps table, a competition held between journalists to select winners. A broadcaster with London Weekend Television's '' World of Sport'' for 23 years, he was the first person to introduce the sport of horse racing on an independent television channel in the UK and is considered one of the pioneer television broadcasters of that sport. Rickman penned several books during his career including ''Homes Of Sport'' (1952) and ''Eight Flat Racing Stables'' (1979). Early years John Eric Carter Rickman was born in Wimbledon, the elder son of Eric Rickman, a writer and racing correspondence with The Daily Mail and the Evening Standard. His family lore wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Rickman (parliamentary Official)
John Rickman (22 August 1771 – 11 August 1840) was an English government official and statistician of the early nineteenth century. He was born in Newburn, Northumberland, son of the Rev Thomas Rickman, and educated at Guildford Grammar School, Magdalen Hall, Oxford, and Lincoln College, Oxford. The poet Robert Southey was one of his friends. From 1799 to 1801 he edited the ''Commercial, Agricultural, and Manufactures' Magazine'' which published his article "On ascertaining the population" in 1800. An earlier version of this paper entitled "Thoughts on the Utility and Facility of a general enumeration of the People of the British Empire". Rickman, was living at Burton in Christchurch, in 1792, when he first published ‘Thoughts on the Utility and Facility . . . etc’. It was Christchurch’s MP George Rose who raised this in Parliament with Charles Abbot MP (later Lord Colchester), leading in 1800 to the Bill ‘An Act for taking an Account of the Population of Great Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |