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Levison
Levison is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alan Wendell Levison, birth name of Alan Wendell Livingston (1917–2009), American music executive * Catherine Levison, American writer and public speaker * David Levison (1919–2012), Scottish minister * Ejnar Levison (1880–1970), Danish fencer * Harold F. Levison (born 1959), planetary scientist * Iain Levison (born 1963), Scottish-American writer * Jay Livingston (born ''Jacob Harold Levison'', 1915–2001), songwriter * Levison Wood (born 1982), British Army officer and explorer * Mary Levison, (1923–2011), Church of Scotland minister * Nat Levison, British actor * Sarah Rachel Russell (1814–1880), British con artist who went by Levison * Stanley Levison (1912–1979), American businessman * Wilhelm Levison (1876–1947), German medievalist See also * Leveson Leveson is a surname. The name as printed can represent two quite different etymologies and pronunciations: #A Leveson family who were Me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Levison
Stanley David Levison (May 2, 1912 – September 12, 1979) was an American businessman and lawyer who became a lifelong activist in progressive causes. He is best known as an advisor to and close friend of Martin Luther King Jr., for whom he helped write speeches, raise funds, and organize events. Early life Levison was born in New York City on May 2, 1912, to a Jewish family. Levison attended the University of Michigan, Columbia University, and the New School for Social Research. He received two law degrees from St. John's University. While serving as treasurer of the American Jewish Congress in Manhattan, he aided in the defense of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. During this period, he worked for a variety of liberal causes. Career Civil Rights Movement Levison was instrumental in all the activities of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the organization established by Dr. King and other Southern black preachers to further the cause of civil rights. He h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Levison
Leon David Levison (1919–2012) was a Church of Scotland minister. During the early 1970s he was Convener of the Church of Scotland's Moral and Social Welfare Board. Family background and early life Leon David Levison was born in Edinburgh in 1919, third son of Leon and Lady Kate Levison. Leon Levison (1881–1936) was a convert from Judaism much involved with the Church of Scotland's missionary activities. Several of his descendants and relatives were subsequently to become Church of Scotland ministers, notably including his daughter-in-law, Mary Levison, who in 1973 became the first female minister ordained by the Church of Scotland. In 1942, David Levison married Cecilia, an English honours graduate. He was subsequently dispatched to St John's Kirk of Perth, where he was ordained in 1943. Early career In 1946, Levison moved to his first parish at Gorebridge. In 1954 he joined the secretariat of the Church of Scotland's Foreign Mission Committee. Three years later he was appoi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Levison Wood
Major Levison James Wood VR (born 5 May 1982) is a British Army officer and explorer. He is best known for his extended walking expeditions in Africa, Asia and Central America. He has also undertaken numerous other overland journeys, including a foot crossing of Madagascar and mountain climbing in Iraq. He documents his journeys through books, documentaries and photography. Life The son of teachers Janice Wood (née Curzon) and Levison Wood Sr., Wood was born on 5 May 1982 at the North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary in Hartshill, Staffordshire, and grew up in nearby Forsbrook. Levison was educated at Painsley Catholic College, before obtaining an honours degree in history at the University of Nottingham. He was commissioned as an officer into the Parachute Regiment on 13 April 2006 where he spent four years, serving in Afghanistan in Helmand, Kandahar and Zabul. Wood was promoted to Captain on 13 October 2008. He left the army in April 2010, took up a career in writing and ph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilhelm Levison
Wilhelm Levison (27 May 1876, in Düsseldorf – 17 January 1947, in Durham) was a German medievalist. He was well known as a contributor to ''Monumenta Germaniae Historica'', especially for the vitae from the Merovingian era. He also edited Wilhelm Wattenbach's ''Deutschlands Geschichtsquellen im Mittelalter''. In 1935 he was forced to retire from his professorship at Bonn University because of the Nuremberg Laws. He fled Nazi Germany in the spring of 1939, taking a position at Durham University. He delivered the Ford Lectures at the University of Oxford in 1943, and they were published as ''England and the Continent in the Eighth Century''. He died during the preparation of ''Aus Rheinischer und Fränkischer Frühzeit'' (1948). Reputation and influence Conrad Leyser described Levison as "one of the giants of twentieth-century historical scholarship, his ''England and the Continent in the Eighth century'' one of its canonical texts"; Nicholas Howe, in 2004, called that book of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Levison
Mary Irene Levison (8 January 1923 – 12 September 2011) was the first person to petition the Church of Scotland for the ordination of women to the Ministry of Word and Sacrament in 1963. This was achieved five years later and Levison became a minister in 1973. In 1991 she was appointed as Queen's Chaplain, the first woman to hold the position. Life Born Mary Irene Lusk in Oxford on 8 January 1923, she was the fourth child of Mary Theodora Colville, and her husband Reverend David Colville Lusk (1881-1960). Her father was ordained in the United Free Church and at the time of her birth was the Chaplain to the Presbyterian members of the University of Oxford. One of her siblings was the pioneering social worker Janet Lusk (1924 - 1994). She attended the Oxford High School for Girls for her early education. When the family moved from Oxford to Edinburgh she attended St Monica's School. While there she sat the entrance examination for St Leonard's School in St Andrews which s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iain Levison
Iain Levison is a Scottish-American writer born in Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1963. Biography Levison graduated from Villanova University, where he received an English degree that became part of the premise for his first commercial success, the memoir ''A Working Stiff's Manifesto.'' Since that book's publication in 2002, he has published six additional books, mainly fast-paced crime novels with themes such as economic inequality, workers' rights, alienation, and gun control in the United States. ''Since the Layoffs'' was published by Soho Press in July 2003, followed by ''Dog Eats Dog'', from Bitter Lemon Press in October 2008, and ''How To Rob An Armored Car'', published by Soho Press a year later in October 2009. Levison's writing is known for crisp sentences and at times acerbic wit. ''The Cab Driver'', in French ''Arretez-Moi La,'' was published in French by Liana Levi, ed., in May 2012. The novel is loosely based on the 2002 kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart, told from the perspec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Levison
Catherine Levison is the author of four books. She is also a public speaker to parenting, homeschooling and educational audiences throughout the United States and Canada. She is also a columnist for The Link magazine. Levison lives with her family in the Puget Sound region of Washington state. Career Levison's workshops, articles, books and seminars are based on her extensive research into the teaching methods and educational philosophies of Charlotte Mason Charlotte Maria Shaw Mason (1 January 1842 – 16 January 1923) was a British educator and reformer in England at the turn of the twentieth century. She proposed to base the education of children upon a wide and liberal curriculum. She was ins ..., a British educator from the last century whose techniques are currently receiving renewed interested, especially in American private and home schools. "Homeschooling and parenting are intertwined in such a way that they can hardly be seen as separate concepts. ... As one overl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ejnar Levison
Ejnar Levison (15 May 1880 – 3 August 1970) was a Danish fencer. He competed at four Olympic Games. References 1880 births 1970 deaths Danish male fencers Olympic fencers of Denmark Fencers at the 1908 Summer Olympics Fencers at the 1912 Summer Olympics Fencers at the 1920 Summer Olympics Fencers at the 1924 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Copenhagen {{Denmark-fencing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nat Levison
Nat Levison was a British actor. He worked for the BBC in London then moved to Australia where he worked on stage, radio, television and film. Select Credits *''Pardon Miss Westcott'' (1959) *''The Slaughter of St Teresa's Day'' (1960) *''Inn of the Damned'' (1975) References External linksNat Levisonat IMDbNat Levisonat Ausstage AusStage: The Australian Live Performance Database is an online database which records information about live performances in Australia, providing records of productions from the first recorded performance in Australia (1789, by convicts) up unt ... Australian male actors {{Australia-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leveson
Leveson is a surname. The name as printed can represent two quite different etymologies and pronunciations: #A Leveson family who were Merchants of the Staple became very influential in Wolverhampton in the late Middle Ages, supplying both lay support and clergy to St Peter's Collegiate Church. They were the ancestors of a number of important landed gentry and peers, in various branches, including the Leveson-Gowers. Their name could be rendered in numerous ways in the early modern period: Levison, Leweson, and Luson are all common. To modern readers, the latter represents the pronunciation most accurately. An example of its use is a letter to Robert Cecil, dated 5 August 1602, which reports that "eight of the galleys which fought with Sir Richard Luson were repaired." Leveson is an example of an English surname with counterintuitive pronunciation. The generally accepted pronunciation is . It is a patronymic from Louis or Lewis. #Leveson can also be a patronymic from the Hebrew n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Wendell Livingston
Alan Wendell Livingston (born Alan Wendell Levison; October 15, 1917 – March 13, 2009) was an American businessman best known for his tenures at Capitol Records, first as a writer/producer best known for creating Bozo the Clown for a series of record-album and illustrative read-along children's book sets. As Vice-President in charge of Programming at NBC, in 1959 he oversaw the development and launch of the network's most successful television series, ''Bonanza''. Early years Livingston was born in the Pittsburgh suburb of McDonald, Pennsylvania on October 15, 1917. He was the youngest of three children, whose mother encouraged reading books and playing musical instruments. He had an older sister, Vera, and an older brother, Jay Livingston (1915–2001), who wrote or co-wrote many popular songs for films and television, including "Buttons and Bows", "Mona Lisa", "Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)", as well as the popular Christmas song " Silver Bells". Alan Livingst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Rachel Russell
Sarah Rachel Russell or Leverson or Levison, best known as Madame Rachel (c.1814 – 12 October 1880), was a British criminal and con artist in Victorian-era London during the late 19th century. She operated a prominent beauty salon from which she sold fabulous preparations, such as her magnetic rock water dew from the Sahara Desert. She personally guaranteed her clientele everlasting youth as a result of the use of these products, which would later be revealed as consisting of water and bran. She would later become well known for blackmailing many wives of London's upper class. Life Born to a Jewish theatrical family in London around 1814, a cousin of the musician Henry Russell, she was married to an assistant chemist in Manchester and in 1844 to Jacob Moses, who deserted her in 1846 and later drowned when the ''Royal Charter'' sank in 1859. She lived with, and took the surname of, Philip Levison. She worked as a clothes dealer and later was briefly jailed for procurement bef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
