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Lucy (surname)
Lucy is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Autherine Lucy (1929-2022), first black student to attend the University of Alabama * Charles Lucy, English historical painter of the Victorian era * Donny Lucy, baseball player * Gary Lucy, English television actor and model * Sir Henry Lucy JP, an English journalist and humorist * Jeffrey Lucy, former Chairman of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission * Judith Lucy, Australian comedian * Julie Ashton-Lucy, international field hockey umpire from Queensland, Australia * Sir Thomas Lucy, builder of Charlecote Park in 1558 * Tom Lucy Thomas David Lucy (born 1 May 1988 in Bristol) is a British international rower from Llangovan near Monmouth. He won a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics for Great Britain in the Men's eight. He attended Monmouth School for seven year ..., international rower * William Lucy, English clergyman {{surname English-language surnames French-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Autherine Lucy
Autherine Juanita Lucy (October 5, 1929 – March 2, 2022) was an American activist who was the first African-American student to attend the University of Alabama, in 1956. Her expulsion from the institution later that year led to the university's President Oliver Carmichael's resignation. Years later, the University admitted her as a master's student and in 2010 a clock tower was erected in her honor on its campus. Early life Lucy was born in Shiloh, Alabama. Her father Milton Cornelius Lucy and mother Minnie Maud Hosea were sharecroppers; she was the youngest child in a family of five sons and four daughters.Autherine J. Lucy, "Miss Autherine Lucy Tells of Hectic Alabama U. Crusade." Atlanta Daily World, February 9, 1956, p. 1. The family owned and farmed 110 acres, and Lucy's father also did blacksmithing, and made baskets and ax handles to supplement their income. After attending public school in Shiloh through grade ten, she attended Linden Academy in Linden, Alabama. She g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Lucy
Charles Lucy (July 1814 – 19 May 1873) was a British artist during the Victorian era who, while he was a talented portraitist, mainly focused on the history painting genre and whose work was mainly exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, England. Early life Charles Lucy was born at Norton Canon, Herefordshire in England in July 1814 and according to family records, he was his parents' first born child. His family descended from the Lucys of Charlecote, Warwickshire, who afterwards settled in Worcestershire. Charles Lucy had a natural affinity for painting. He spent his spare time painting anything he could get his hands on. As a child, he was even known to prepare his own colours and manufacture his own brushes. His memoriam in ''The Hereford Times'' noted that "his natural bent from a very early age was towards painting, and he began to practice it without instruction, until aided by friends, he devoted his life to art. With that view he decided to go to Lon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donny Lucy
Donald Hassett Lucy (born August 8, 1982) is a former Major League Baseball catcher. During his career, he appeared on three brief stints with the Chicago White Sox. High School and College Donny attended Fallbrook Union High School in San Diego, California. He was named the 2001 San Diego County Male Athlete of the Year. He was a catcher and an infielder in baseball and was a running back and a linebacker in football. After graduating from high school, he attended Stanford University. In 2002 and 2003, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Hyannis Mets of the Cape Cod Baseball League. In his junior year, he was All-Pac-10 when he hit .313 with 12 home runs and 47 RBIs in 56 games. After his junior year, he was selected by the Chicago White Sox in the 2nd round (59th overall) in the 2004 Major League Baseball Draft. Professional career He began his professional career for the White Sox with the White Sox Rookie League in 2004. He hit .239 in 50 games at the rookie level. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Lucy
Gary Edward Lucy (born 27 November 1981) is an English actor, television personality and model who is best known for playing Will Fletcher in the ITV police drama ''The Bill'', Luke Morgan in ''Hollyoaks'', Kyle Pascoe in ''Footballer's Wives'' and Danny Pennant in the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders''. He also played a part in the show ''The Dumping Ground'' as a footballer named Billy. Career Lucy was born in Chigwell, Essex. He appeared in ''Grange Hill'' and ''Dream Team'' before getting the role that brought him to public attention, Luke Morgan in the Channel 4 soap opera ''Hollyoaks''. Lucy undertook a male rape storyline, for which he won the Best Newcomer award at the 2000 British Soap Awards. Lucy then went on to do three series of the ITV football drama ''Footballers' Wives'' where he played Kyle Pascoe, a football player for fictional football club Earl's Park. In 2004, Lucy starred as Michael Sands with Ray Winstone in the ITV drama ''She's Gone''. From 2005 to 2010, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Lucy
Sir Henry William Lucy JP, (5 December 1842 – 20 February 1924) was a famed English political journalist of the Victorian era In the history of the United Kingdom and the British Empire, the Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria's reign, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901. The era followed the Georgian period and preceded the Edwardia ..., acknowledged as the first great lobby correspondent. He wrote for ''Punch (magazine), Punch'', ''The Strand Magazine'', ''The Observer'', ''The New York Times'' and many other papers. He also wrote books, detailing the workings of the Houses of Parliament and two autobiographies. He was knight, knighted in 1909. Lucy was widely known also in North America. President Woodrow Wilson said Lucy's articles in ''The Gentleman's Magazine'' inspired his mind and propelled him into public life. Lucy was a serious parliamentary commentator, but also an accomplished humorist and a Parliamentary sketch writing, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeffrey Lucy
Jeffrey John Lucy (born 6 November 1946) is the former Chairman of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), Australia's Capital Markets and Corporations Regulator. He is the first non-lawyer Chairman of ASIC. He was succeeded by Tony D'Aloisio in early 2007. Lucy has had extensive experience in the Australian business community, particularly in the Accounting Profession. He has a background as a Chartered Accountant and is also a former Chairman of the Financial Reporting Council (FRC), a former President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia (ICAA), a member of the Business Regulation Advisory Group, a member of the CPA Australia/ICAA Joint Standing Committee (JSC) and also the Managing Partner of the Adelaide office of now Big Four Accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers. His awards and accreditations include: * AM - Member of the Order of Australia for services to the accounting profession, business sector and community, 2001 * FCA - Fellow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judith Lucy
Judith Mary Lucy (born 25 March 1968) is an Australian comedian and actress, known primarily for her stand-up comedy. Lucy joined the team of the ABC's ''The Weekly with Charlie Pickering'' in 2019. Early life Lucy's adoptive parents emigrated from Ireland to Perth in the early 1950s, and she was born and raised in Perth. She is the sister of Australian writer and scholar Niall Lucy. Lucy attended Curtin University and studied theatre, moving to Melbourne at the age of 20. At 25, she discovered she was adopted and later made contact with her biological mother. Lucy is quoted as saying they have a good relationship. Career Live comedy After arriving in Melbourne, Lucy embarked on a career as a stand-up comedian, leading to a series of highly successful one-woman shows, including ''No Waiter I Ordered the Avocado'' (1991), ''King Of The Road'' (1995), ''An Impossible Dream'' (1996), ''The Show'' (1998), ''The Show 2'' (1999), ''Colour Me Judith'' (2000), ''I'm Going to Lear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julie Ashton-Lucy
Julie Ashton-Lucy (born 29 November 1965) is an international field hockey umpire from Queensland, Australia. She was honored as Hockey Australia 2005 Official of the Year. She has umpired at 2002 and 2006 Commonwealth Games, the 2002, 2006 and 2010 Hockey World Cup, as well as the 2004, 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics, where she umpired the final of the 2012 tournament. On 13 September 2000, Ashton-Lucy was awarded the Australian Sports Medal The Australian Sports Medal is an award given to recognise achievements in Australian sport to commemorate Australian participation in major sporting events. Original recipients of the award included competitors, coaches, sports scientists, offi .... References External links Hockey Australia websiteMelbourne 2006 Commonwealth games website 1965 births Living people Women's field hockey umpires Australian field hockey umpires Recipients of the Australian Sports Medal Australian female field hockey players Australian wom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Lucy
Sir Thomas Lucy (24 April 15327 July 1600) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1571 and 1585. He was a magistrate in Warwickshire, but is best known for his links to William Shakespeare. As a Protestant activist, he came into conflict with Shakespeare's Catholic relatives, and there are stories that the young Shakespeare himself had clashes with him. Early life Thomas Lucy was the eldest son and heir of William Lucy (died 1551) of Charlecote near Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, and Anne Fermer, the daughter of Richard Fermer of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire. His paternal grandparents were Sir Thomas Lucy (died 1525) and Elizabeth Empson, the daughter of Richard Empson, one of Henry VII's chief ministers. The family were descended from the Anglo-Norman de Lucy family. On his father's death, Lucy inherited Sherborne and Hampton Lucy in addition to the house of Charlecote Park, which was rebuilt for him in red brick by John of Padua, known as John T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Lucy
Thomas David Lucy (born 1 May 1988 in Bristol) is a British international rower from Llangovan near Monmouth. He won a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics for Great Britain in the Men's eight. He attended Monmouth School for seven years, starting at age 12, and left the school after completing his A levels at age 18. He left to study in Oxford at Oxford Brookes University. At 17, he won bronze at the world 2005 junior rowing championships in Brandenburg, Germany, racing in the GB coxless four. A year later, he won gold in the same event at the world juniors in Amsterdam. In 2007, he finished third at the senior British final trials regatta with Colin Smith, earning a place in the GB men's eight that won bronze at the World Cup regatta in Amsterdam and the world championships in Munich, where at 19 he became the second youngest British rower ever to land a senior world championship medal. Called up into the GB flagship four after injury to bowman Tom James, Lucy won ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Lucy
William Lucy (1594–1677) was an English clergyman. He was Bishop of St David's after the English Restoration of 1660. Life Lucy was a student at Trinity College, Oxford. He belonged to the Arminian party, and became Rector of Burghclere in 1619, Highclere in 1621. He became Bishop of St Davids upon the Restoration in 1660 — he was elected to the See on 11 October 1660, confirmed 17 November, and consecrated a bishop on 2 December 1660. In the mid-1660s, Lucy clashed with William Nicholson, Bishop of Gloucester, over Nicholson's visiting rights as Archdeacon of Brecon. Lucy won the resulting court case. William Lucy's tomb and wall monument are at Christ College, Brecon. The tomb is by William Stanton. He rebuilt the church there, demolished in the Civil War period. Opponent of Hobbes In 1657, William Lucy published an attack on the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes, and in particular on ''Leviathan'' (1651), using the pseudonym ''William Pyke, Christophilus'', and ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English-language Surnames
English is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots language, Scots, and then closest related to the Low German, Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is Genetic relationship (linguistics), genealogically West Germanic language, West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by Langues d'oïl, dialects of France (about List of English words of French origin, 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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