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Livesay is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * A. F. Livesay (died 1879), British architect * Dorothy Livesay (1909–1996), Canadian poet, daughter of Florence * Florence Randal Livesay (1874–1953), Canadian writer, mother of Dorothy, born Florence Hamilton Randal * John Frederick Bligh Livesay (1875–1944), English-born Canadian journalist and author * Michael Livesay Admiral Sir Michael Howard Livesay, (5 April 1936 – 6 October 2003) was a senior Royal Navy officer who served as Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel from 1991 to 1992. Naval career Educated at Acklam Hall Grammar School and Royal ... (1936–2003), senior Royal Navy officer * Richard Livesay (1750–1826), British painter and engraver * Robert Livesay (1876–1946), British Army officer, rugby international and first-class cricketer See also * Livesey (other) {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Livesay
Dorothy Kathleen May Livesay, (October 12, 1909 – December 29, 1996) was a Canadian poet who twice won the Governor General's Award in the 1940s, and was "senior woman writer in Canada" during the 1970s and 1980s.Mathews, R.D.. "Dorothy Livesay". ''The Canadian Encyclopedia'', 16 December 2013, ''Historica Canada''. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/dorothy-livesay. Accessed 15 May 2020. Life Livesay was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Her mother, Florence Randal Livesay, was a poet and journalist; her father, J.F.B. Livesay was the General Manager of Canadian Press. Livesay moved to Toronto, Ontario, with her family in 1920. She graduated with a BA in 1931 from Trinity College in the University of Toronto and received a diploma from the University of Toronto's Faculty of Social Work in 1934. She also studied at the University of British Columbia and the Sorbonne. In 1931 in Paris, Livesay became a committed Communist. She joined the Communist Party of Can ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florence Randal Livesay
Florence Hamilton Randal Livesay (November 3, 1874 – July 28, 1953) was a Canadian writer. The daughter of Mary Louisa Andrews and Stephen Randal, she was born Florence Hamilton Randal in Compton, Quebec. She was educated at the Compton Ladies' College. She taught one year at a private school in New York City, then worked seven years as society editor and women's page editor for the '' Evening Journal'' in Ottawa. In 1902, she was one of forty Canadian teachers sent to teach in Boer concentration camps in South Africa. She came to Winnipeg in 1903 and worked three years for the ''Winnipeg Telegram''. Livesay then worked for the ''Manitoba Free Press''. She also contributed short stories, poetry and articles to magazines and newspapers in Canada and the United States. Livesay was also known for translating poetry from Ukrainian to English. She was a member of the Canadian Women's Press Club. The family moved to Clarkson, Ontario near Toronto in 1920. She married John Fre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Frederick Bligh Livesay
John Frederick Bligh Livesay (January 23, 1875 – June 15, 1944) was an English-born Canadian journalist and author. Livesay held a number of management positions with The Canadian Press. He was born on the Isle of Wight and came to Canada when he was 20. He worked for the ''Winnipeg Tribune'' and later the ''Winnipeg Telegram''. He was the general manager for the Canadian Western Associated Press from its establishment in September 1907 until it merged with The Canadian Press (CP) in September 1917. During World War I. Livesay served as Press Censor for Western Canada. In 1918, he went overseas as war correspondent for CP, returning to Winnipeg in early 1919. Livesay was named assistant general manager for CP's Winnipeg bureau in 1917. In 1920, he moved to Toronto and he served as CP's general manager there until his retirement in 1939. Livesay married Florence Randal Livesay in 1908. The couple had two daughters, Sophie and the poet Dorothy Livesay Dorothy Kathleen May Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Livesay
Admiral Sir Michael Howard Livesay, (5 April 1936 – 6 October 2003) was a senior Royal Navy officer who served as Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel from 1991 to 1992. Naval career Educated at Acklam Hall Grammar School and Royal Naval College Dartmouth, Livesay was commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1957.Obituary: Admiral Sir Michael Livesay Daily Telegraph, 9 October 2003 He was made of the HMS ''Hubberston'' in 1966 and of the |
Richard Livesay
Richard Livesay (1750–1826) was a British portrait and landscape painter, and engraver. Life Livesay was a pupil of Benjamin West, and began his career in London, exhibiting for the first time at the Royal Academy in 1776. Between 1777 and 1785 he lodged with Jane Hogarth in Leicester Fields. Engaged by West to copy pictures at Windsor, Livesay moved there about 1790, and gave lessons in drawing to some of the royal children. In 1796 he was appointed drawing-master to the Royal Naval Academy at Portsmouth, and lived in Portsea. On an address card which he issued at that time he described himself as "Portrait, Landscape, and Marine Painter, Drawing-Master to the Royal Academy, Portsmouth, 61 Hanover Street, Portsea." Livesay died at Southsea in 1826. Works Livesay executed for Jane Hogarth a series of facsimiles of drawings by William Hogarth, her late husband, among them seven illustrating the well-known ''Tour'', published in 1782. While at Windsor he painted portraits of y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Livesay
Brigadier General Robert O'Hara Livesay (27 June 1876 – 23 March 1946) was a British Army officer and English sportsman who played international rugby union for England and first-class cricket. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order and later appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George. Attached to the New Zealand Division during many of the major battles of World War I, he was mentioned in despatches three times and received the French Legion of Honour in recognition of that unit's successes. Early life Livesay was born at Old Brompton, then part of Gillingham in Kent. His father Robert Livesay was a Colonel in the Royal Engineers based in the town. Livesay was educated at Wellington College, where he played in the rugby XV and the cricket XI, leaving school in 1894 before attending the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. He continued to play both sports at Sandhurst.Lewis P (2013) ''For Kent and Country'', pp.243–245. Brighton: Reveille Press. Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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