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Lakin (surname)
Lakin is a surname. Notable people with the surname are as follows: * Arad Simon Lakin (1810–1890), American Methodist minister, and university president * B. R. Lakin (1901–1984), American Baptist preacher and evangelist * Barklie Lakin (1914–2011), British industrialist * Charlie Lakin (born 1999), English footballer * Charles Ernest Lakin (1878–1972), English physician * Christine Lakin (born 1979), American actress * Cyril Lakin (1915–1993), Welsh politician and farmer * Daniel Lakin (born 1834), American Civil War sailor and Medal of Honor recipient * George W. Lakin (1816–1884), American schoolteacher and lawyer * Kenneth Meade Lakin (1941–2014), American physicist * Mervyn Lakin (1888–1954), Australian politician * Michael Henry Lakin (1846–1931), British businessman * Rita Lakin (born 1930), American screenwriter * Thomas Lakin (1840–??), U.S. Navy officer * Travis Lakins Sr. (born 1994), American professional baseball player * William Lakin Turner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arad Simon Lakin
Rev. Arad Simon Lakin (May 10, 1810–January 22, 1890) was an American minister, and university president. He was a Methodist minister from New York state, sent to Alabama in order to reestablish the national Methodist Church in the state, and was labeled a "carpetbagger" by Southerners. He was appointed president of the University of Alabama for a period during the Reconstruction era. Biography Arad Simon Lakin was born in 1810 in Hancock, Delaware County, New York. He grew up in New York state in rural poverty. Lakin served as the Chaplain of the 8th Indiana Cavalry, Union Army, during the American Civil War. He was a reverend from Ohio and had been active in the political organizing of freed slaves. The Bishop of Ohio send minister Lakin to Alabama as a missionary for the national Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC). His goal was to establish a biracial congregation at MEC in Alabama and as a result, the Ku Klux Klan targeted Lakin. On September 1, 1868, Lakin and Alabama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barklie Lakin
Richard Barklie Lakin, DSO, DSC & Bar (8 October 1914 – 1 March 2011) was a British industrialist, chairman of Vickers Armstrong and an officer in the Royal Navy during the Second World War. Life As an 8 year old child, Lakin survived a car accident in France which claimed the life of his father, Edward Lyon Lakin. He graduated from Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth in 1932 and joined the cruiser . He transferred to submarines, initially joining and in 1938 as navigating officer. He was due to transfer to the new submarine but this appointment was cancelled before her loss in an accident on 1 June 1939. On the outbreak of war Lakin transferred to and was mentioned in dispatches. He then transferred to in November 1940 serving in the Mediterranean. A successful series of patrols which sank Italian supply ships and landed or recovered agents on three occasions resulted in the award of Lakin's first Distinguished Service Cross. Returning to Britain, Lakin was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Lakin
Charlie Lakin (born 8 May 1999) is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for League Two club Sutton United, on loan from club Burton Albion. He joined Birmingham City as a nine-year-old, went on to make his senior debut for the club in the 2017–18 FA Cup, and played ten times in the 2018–19 Championship. Despite missing two months with injury, Lakin managed 25 appearances on loan at League Two club Stevenage before the 2019–20 season ended prematurely because of the COVID-19 pandemic. He spent the 2020–21 season on loan to Scottish Premiership club Ross County, before leaving Birmingham on a permanent basis for Burton Albion in August 2021. He had loan spells at Doncaster Rovers and AFC Wimbledon in 2023. Club career Birmingham City Lakin was born in Solihull where he attended Langley School. He joined Birmingham City's Academy from Walsall's under-nine team, and took up a scholarship with the club in July 2015. In his first season, he fea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Ernest Lakin
Charles Ernest Lakin (1878–1972) was an English physician, surgeon, pathologist, and anatomist. Biography After education at Carter’s School and the Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys, Leicester, Charles Ernest Lakin entered in 1896 the Middlesex Hospital Medical School. He qualified in 1901 MRCS, LRCP. He graduated in 1902 MB BS (Lond.) and in 1903 MD. For some years Lakin was a demonstrator of anatomy and a clinical assistant in the skin department at the Middlesex Hospital and also a clinical assistant at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street. He was also curator of the Middlesex Hospital's pathological museum and wrote its history in 1908. In 1908 he qualified MRCP. From 1904 to 1912 he performed all the autopsies at the Middlesex Hospital. There in 1912 he was appointed assistant physician and lecturer in morbid anatomy. He later also joined the London Fever Hospital's staff and became advisory physician to London's Royal National Throat, Nose and E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christine Lakin
Christine Helen Lakin (born January 24, 1979) is an American actress and director. She is best known for her role as Alicia "Al" Lambert on the 1990s ABC/CBS sitcom '' Step by Step''. She also played Joan of Arc on Showtime's ''Reefer Madness'', was the sidekick on Craig Kilborn's 2010 Fox talk show ''The Kilborn File'', and provides the voice of Joyce Kinney in ''Family Guy''. Early life Lakin was born in Dallas, Texas, the daughter of Karen (née Niedwick) and James Daley Lakin, and raised in Roswell, Georgia. She graduated from UCLA with a B.A. in Communication. Career Lakin got her start acting in commercials, before landing her first major role as Young Rose in the American Civil War drama ''The Rose and the Jackal''. That movie aired in 1990, one year before she was cast as Alicia Lambert, the tomboyish daughter, on '' Step by Step''. After ''Step by Step'' was cancelled (retired) in 1998, she continued to appear in television movies, such as Showtime's ''Reefer Madness' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyril Lakin
Cyril Harry Alfred Lakin (29 December 1893 – 23 June 1948) was a Welsh politician and farmer who was the Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Llandaff and Barry in South Wales. He won the seat at a by-election in June 1942, with a 5,655 majority over an independent Labour candidate, but was defeated at the 1945 general election by the official Labour Party candidate Lynn Ungoed-Thomas. Lakin lived in London, his family lived at Highlight Farm in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan Barry ( cy, Y Barri; ) is a town in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, on the north coast of the Bristol Channel approximately south-southwest of Cardiff. Barry is a seaside resort, with attractions including several beaches and the resurrected Bar .... His wife was Vera Marjory Savill, whom he married in 1926. They had one daughter Bridget, who was born in 1927. He died in France and his wife died on the Isle of Wight in 1990. References Sourceswww.barrywales.co.uk External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Lakin
Daniel Lakin was a Medal of Honor recipient in the Union Navy from 1861–1865 US Navy Lakin enlisted in the Union Navy from New York (state), New York on 15 October 1861. For his actions at the Joint Expedition Against Franklin while serving aboard , Lakin was promoted from seaman (rank)#United States, seaman to acting rank, acting master's mate (date-of-rank 25 October 1862) and received the Medal of Honor on 3 April 1863. The citation therefor reads:On board the U.S.S. ''Commodore Perry'' in the attack upon Franklin, Va., 3 October 1862. With enemy fire raking the deck of his ship and blockades thwarting her progress, Lakin remained at his post and performed his duties with skill and courage as the ''Commodore Perry'' fought a gallant battle to silence many rebel batteries as she steamed down the Blackwater River. Lakin was promoted to acting ensign (rank), ensign on 18 August 1864, and was honorable discharge, honorably discharged a year later on 25 September 1865. See ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George W
George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009. A member of the Republican Party, Bush family, and son of the 41st president George H. W. Bush, he previously served as the 46th governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. While in his twenties, Bush flew warplanes in the Texas Air National Guard. After graduating from Harvard Business School in 1975, he worked in the oil industry. In 1978, Bush unsuccessfully ran for the House of Representatives. He later co-owned the Texas Rangers of Major League Baseball before he was elected governor of Texas in 1994. As governor, Bush successfully sponsored legislation for tort reform, increased education funding, set higher standards for schools, and reformed the criminal justice system. He also helped make Texas the leading producer of wind powered electricity in the nation. In the 2000 presidential election, Bush defeated Democratic incum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenneth Meade Lakin
Kenneth Meade Lakin (January 14, 1941 - November 24, 2014) was a U.S. physicist credited as the inventor of the solidly mounted resonator (SMR). Biography He was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He died at home in Redmond, Oregon, on November 24, 2012, from prostate cancer. See also * Thin-film bulk acoustic resonator A thin-film bulk acoustic resonator (FBAR or TFBAR) is a device consisting of a piezoelectric material manufactured by thin film methods between two conductive – typically metallic – electrodes and acoustically isolated from the surrounding medi ... References 1941 births 2014 deaths American physicists People from Grand Rapids, Michigan People from Redmond, Oregon Stanford University alumni {{physicist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mervyn Lakin
Mervyn George Lakin (9 November 1888 – 19 June 1954) was an Australian politician. He was born in Launceston. In May 1954 he was elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council as the independent Independent or Independents may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Artist groups * Independents (artist group), a group of modernist painters based in the New Hope, Pennsylvania, area of the United States during the early 1930s * Independ ... member for Mersey, but he died the following month, having served one of the shortest terms in the history of the Legislative Council. References 1888 births 1954 deaths Independent members of the Parliament of Tasmania Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council 20th-century Australian politicians {{Australia-Independent-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Henry Lakin
Sir Michael Henry Lakin, 1st Baronet, JP, DL, was a Warwickshire cement manufacturer who was created a Baronet in 1909. Early life and family Born in 1846, he was the elder son of Henry Lakin and his wife Rebecca Mary Greaves, sister of the slate mine proprietor John Whitehead Greaves and of Celina Greaves, wife of the brewer Edward Fordham Flower. On 1 July 1869 at Withington in Lancashire, he married Alice Emma Dewing. Career Lakin joined the business of his uncle Richard Greaves, who had no legitimate children. The firm called Greaves Bull & Lakin quarried limestone and manufactured lime and cement, the main works being at Bishop's Itchington and Harbury. He served as a magistrate and deputy lieutenant of Warwickshire, mayor of Warwick, chairman of Warwickshire County Council and, in 1899, as High Sheriff of Warwickshire This is a list of sheriffs and high sheriffs of the English county of Warwickshire. The Sheriff is the oldest secular office under the Crown. Formerly the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rita Lakin
Rita Lakin (born January 24, 1930) is an American screenwriter, active from around 1962 to 1981. She has credits for 474 produced television scripts spanning 30 productions. She is also a novelist and author of "The Only Woman In The Room," a memoir of her life as one of the first female show runners and one of the first women in television (released October 2015, Applause publishing). In fiction, Lakin created the Gladdy Gold Mystery seven-book series (published by Bantam Books), including ''Getting Old Is Murder'', ''Getting Old Is The Best Revenge'', and ''Getting Old Can Kill You''. Lakin began writing regularly during the early 1960s for such television shows as '' The Doctors'', ''Dr. Kildare'' and '' Peyton Place''. In 1968, she began working as story editor and head writer of ''The Mod Squad''. In 1972, she created ''The Rookies''. In 1977, she served as executive producer of the CBS TV adaptation of the 1954 film ''Executive Suite''. She wrote numerous "Movies of the W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
