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Layng Martine, Jr
Laing () is a variant of the surname Laing. Notable people with the surname include: * Kathryn Layng (born 1960), American actress * Mabel Frances Layng (1881–1937), British artist * Thomas Layng (1892–1958), British soldier and clergyman The American songwriter James Layng Martine Jr. is known by his middle name, Layng. {{surname, Laing Surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laing (surname)
Laing () is a Scottish surname, commonly found in countries settled by Scots, such as Canada and New Zealand. It is often wrongly described as a descriptive surname, cognate with the English surname [Long (Scots lang) but this is a mispronounciation of the name, which is pronounced layng. The name eminates from Normandy. Notable people with the surname include: *Alex Laing (footballer), New Zealand footballer *Alexander Laing (architect), Scottish architect *Alexander Gordon Laing (1794–1826), Scottish explorer *Andrew Laing (born 1966), New Zealand actor *Annie Rose Laing (1869–1946), Scottish artist *Arthur Laing (1904–1975), Canadian politician *Bert Laing, New Zealand rugby league footballer *Billy Laing (born 1951), Scottish footballer *Bobby Laing (1925–1985), Scottish footballer *Bonnie Laing (1937–2016), Canadian politician *Brent Laing (born 1978), Canadian curler *Catriona Laing, British ambassador *Corky Laing (Laurence Gordon Laing, born 1948), Canadian music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathryn Layng
Kathryn Anne Layng (born September 20, 1960) is an American actress. Early life Layng was born in Rockford, Illinois. She attended Thomas Jefferson High School and was the Class of 1978 Homecoming Queen. Layng also graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Career Layng is best known for her role as nurse Mary Margaret "Curly" Spaulding in the ABC comedy-drama series ''Doogie Howser, M.D.'' The series aired from 1989 to 1993, and was her first major screen role. In 1991, Layng guest starred in the television series '' Pro and Cons'' and appeared in the feature film ''The Marrying Man''. After ''Doogie Howser, M.D.'' ended in 1993, Layng would guest star in the television series '' Joe's Life'' and '' Diagnosis: Murder''. She also performed in the television short film ''Traveler's Rest'' in 1993. In 2012, Layng co-starred in the independent film '' White Frog'', which was produced by her husband, David Henry Hwang. Personal life In 1993, Layng married ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mabel Frances Layng
Mabel Frances Layng (9 November 1881 – December 1937) was an English landscape and figure painter.Staffordshire Past Track (http://www.staffspasttrack.org.uk/). Staffordshire Archives & Heritage. Retrieved 12 January 2017. Early life and education Layng was born at the Grammar School House, Cumberland Street, Macclesfield, Cheshire; she was the eldest of two daughters of Alfred Edward Freestone Layng and Ada Mary Coates. Alfred Layng was widowed in 1883 and in March 1884 he took up the post of headmaster of King Edward VI School in Stafford, Staffordshire, taking his daughters with him. In 1902 Mabel Layng left Stafford to study at the St. John's Wood Art School. She then went on to study under Frank Brangwyn at the London School of Art in Kensington between 1906 and 1908. Career From 1914 until her death in 1937 she lived with her sister Ada in Ealing, Middlesex, earning a living as a professional artist. Her work was first exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1916 ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Layng
Thomas Malcolm Layng, CBE, MC & Bar (23 April 1892 – 21 April 1958) was an Anglican soldier and clergyman who served as Deputy Chaplain-General to the Forces, Archdeacon of York and chaplain to King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II. Early life and education Layng was the son of Dr Henry Layng of Swatow, China, and nephew of Thomas Layng, headmaster of Abingdon School. He was educated first at Abingdon School (1900–06) and then at Clifton College (1906–11) before entering Balliol College, Oxford. Career Layng joined the Indian Army, and was awarded a Military Cross in the First World War. His brother George Reginald Stuart Layng was killed during the war in 1916. Thomas was Brigade Major on the Afghan frontier (1919) and then involved in the campaign against the Waziris (1920 and 1923). Abandoning his military career he was ordained (1932) and became curate of Berkeley and dock chaplain at Sharpness (1933), rector of Duloe, Cornwall (1934–38) and chaplain and fellow of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Layng Martine Jr
James Layng Martine Jr. (born March, 1942) is an American songwriter whose compositions have appeared on the country and pop music charts over a four-decade span beginning in the late 1960s. His songs, "Way Down" and "Rub it In", have each been recorded by over 20 artists. In 2013, he was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. Some of Martine's writing credits include Elvis Presley's million-selling "Way Down"; The Pointer Sisters' Top Ten "Should I Do It" and Trisha Yearwood's "I Wanna Go Too Far". Early life Martine Jr. was born in New York City in 1942. The eldest of five children, he grew up in Stamford, Connecticut. His mother wrote for a movie magazine and later a column called "Teen Scene" for '' Family Circle Magazine''; his father sold advertising for a magazine called ''Babytalk'' and later worked for Dell Publishing Company. George T. Delacorte Jr., Dell founder, gave young Martine bundles of comic books; while reading those, Martine saw an advertisement ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |