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Leith (surname)
Leith is a surname of Scottish origin. Notable people with the surname include: * Belinda Leith, British singer *Bob Leith, drummer in Cardiacs *Charles Kenneth Leith (1875–1956), American geologist * Damien Leith (born 1976), Irish-born Australian singer/songwriter *Emmett Leith (1927–2005), American scientist and electrical engineer *Gordon Leith (1885–1965), South African architect *Hilary Leith (born 1983), Canadian rugby union player *Jack Leith (1872–1935), Australian rules footballer *James Leith (VC) (1826–1869), British soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross *John H. Leith (1919–2002), American theologian *Leith Baronets *Leith-Buchanan Baronets *Linda Leith, Montreal-based writer, translator, and publisher * Lloyd Leith (1902–1974), American basketball referee and coach *Oliver Leith (born 1990), British composer * Prue Leith (born 1940), South African-born restaurateuse, TV broadcaster and cookery writer *Remington Leith (born 1994), singer in Palaye Roya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is an American digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge". It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and millions of books. In addition to its archiving function, the Archive is an activist organization, advocating a free and open Internet. , the Internet Archive holds over 35 million books and texts, 8.5 million movies, videos and TV shows, 894 thousand software programs, 14 million audio files, 4.4 million images, 2.4 million TV clips, 241 thousand concerts, and over 734 billion web pages in the Wayback Machine. The Internet Archive allows the public to upload and download digital material to its data cluster, but the bulk of its data is collected automatically by its web crawlers, which work to preserve as much of the public web as possible. Its web archiving, web archive, the Wayback Machine, contains hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oliver Leith
Oliver Leith (born 1990) is a British composer of Classical music, classical and electronic music. His work has been commissioned and performed by many international ensembles including Apartment House (musical ensemble), Apartment House, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Plus-minus ensemble, Plus Minus and Philharmonia Orchestra. He was appointed Doctoral Composer-in-Residence at the Royal Opera House in 2019. Education and career Leith studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (2009-2015), where his teachers included Julian Philips and Paul Newland. His music has been performed at music venues including the Royal Festival Hall, the Barbican Centre, Wigmore Hall, Kings Place and Snape Maltings. His music has been broadcast by BBC Radio 3. In October 2022, Leith's debut opera, Last Days (opera), ''Last Days'' premiered at the Linbury Theatre. It was a co-production between the Royal Opera House and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. The title and concept for the opera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvia Leith-Ross
Sylvia Hope Leith-Ross (30 September 1884 – 12 February 1980) was an English anthropologist and writer who worked primarily in Nigeria. Early life Sylvia Hope Ruxton was born in London, the daughter of William Fitzherbert Ruxton and Sylvia Howland Grinnell Ruxton. Her father was an admiral in the Royal Navy; her mother was American-born, the daughter of Henry Grinnell and the sister of Henry Walton Grinnell. Sylvia and her mother moved to Paris in 1896, where she attended school. Sylvia's memoir, ''Cocks in the Dawn'' (1944), recalls this time as the beginning of her lifelong attachment to France.Helen Callaway"Ross, Sylvia Hope Leith"in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 23 September 2004. Career In 1907, as a new bride, she moved to Zungeru in Nigeria, where her husband was the chief transport officer for the British protectorate. She returned to Nigeria in 1910 as a widow, to stay with her brother and his wife Geneviève. The two women pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Leith-Macgregor
Lieutenant Colonel Robert Leith-Macgregor MC DFC (23 August 1917 – 14 November 2008) was a British Army officer and Royal Air Force pilot. He fought in the Second World War, initially as an infantry officer in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, before training as a pilot and transferring to the Royal Air Force. He was shot down several times and eventually became a prisoner of war. Post-war, he returned to the army, serving again with the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers in the Korean War, and later commanding a battalion of that regiment. Early life and Second World War The stepson of an admiral, Leith-Macgregor initially trained at the Nautical College, Pangbourne, but could not deal with the five hours of mathematics a day, and after three years transferred to the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. On passing out, he was commissioned into the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers as a second lieutenant on 25 August 1938, and was posted to the 2nd Battalion. He served in Belgium i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Forbes-Leith
Colonel Sir Charles Rosdew Forbes-Leith, 1st Baronet (20 February 1859 – 2 November 1930), known as Charles Burn until 1923 and as Sir Charles Burn, Bt, between 1923 and 1925, was a British army officer and Conservative Party politician who was Member of Parliament for Torquay from 1910 to 1923. Biography Burn served in the 8th Hussars and the 1st Dragoons, before he was transferred to the 3rd (Militia) Battalion of the Gordon Highlanders in 1899. He was seconded for service with the Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa on 31 January 1900, after the outbreak of the Second Boer War, and was in command of a Battalion. He later commanded the Westminster Dragoons. Burn was elected to Parliament at the December 1910 general election and held his seat until it was won by the Liberal Party in 1923. As well as his work with the Conservative Party Burn also joined the British Fascisti upon its formation in 1923 and sat on the Grand Council of what was initially a group with close ties to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baron Leith Of Fyvie
Baron is a rank of nobility or title of honour, often hereditary, in various European countries, either current or historical. The female equivalent is baroness. Typically, the title denotes an aristocrat who ranks higher than a lord or knight, but lower than a viscount or count. Often, barons hold their fief – their lands and income – directly from the monarch. Barons are less often the vassals of other nobles. In many kingdoms, they were entitled to wear a smaller form of a crown called a '' coronet''. The term originates from the Latin term , via Old French. The use of the title ''baron'' came to England via the Norman Conquest of 1066, then the Normans brought the title to Scotland and Italy. It later spread to Scandinavia and Slavic lands. Etymology The word ''baron'' comes from the Old French , from a Late Latin "man; servant, soldier, mercenary" (so used in Salic law; Alemannic law has in the same sense). The scholar Isidore of Seville in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Brain That Wouldn't Die
''The Brain That Wouldn't Die'' (also known as ''The Head That Wouldn't Die'' or ''The Brain That Couldn't Die'') is a 1962 American science fiction horror film directed by Joseph Green and written by Green and Rex Carlton. The film was completed in 1959 under the working title ''The Black Door'' but was not theatrically released until May 3, 1962, when it was released under its new title as a double feature with '' Invasion of the Star Creatures''. The film focuses upon a mad doctor who develops a means to keep human body parts alive. He keeps his fiancée's severed head alive for days, and also keeps a lumbering, malformed brute (one of his earlier failed experiments) imprisoned in a closet. The specific plot device of a mad doctor who discovers a way to keep a human head alive had been used in fiction earlier (such as ''Professor Dowell's Head'' from 1925), as well as other variants on this theme. It shares several key plot devices with the West German horror film '' The Head ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginia Leith
Virginia Leith (October 15, 1925 – November 4, 2019) was an American film and television actress. Career Leith starred in a few films, with her most productive period coming in the 1950s. Her debut was also the first film directed by Stanley Kubrick, a self-financed art house film, ''Fear and Desire'' (1953). She signed a contract with 20th Century-Fox in 1954 and had leading roles in films such as ''Violent Saturday'' (1955), ''Toward the Unknown'', ''On the Threshold of Space'', and opposite Robert Wagner and Joanne Woodward in the crime drama ''A Kiss Before Dying (1956 film), A Kiss Before Dying'' (all 1956). Her most recognizable role may have been that of a decapitated woman whose head is kept alive in ''The Brain That Wouldn't Die'' (1962, shot 1959). She left acting after her 1960 marriage to actor Donald Harron. Following her divorce from Harron, in the 1970s Leith resumed her career and appeared mainly in television shows, including ''Starsky and Hutch'', ''Bar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tricia Sullivan
Tricia Sullivan (born July 7, 1968 in New Jersey, United States) is a science fiction writer. She also writes fantasy under the pseudonym Valery Leith. She moved to the United Kingdom in 1995. In 1999 she won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for her novel ''Dreaming in Smoke''. Her novels ''Maul'', ''Lightborn'', and ''Occupy Me'' have also been shortlisted for the Clarke award, in 2004, 2011, and 2017 respectively. Sullivan has studied music and martial arts. Her partner is the martial artist Steve Morris, with whom she has three children. They live in Shropshire Shropshire (; alternatively Salop; abbreviated in print only as Shrops; demonym Salopian ) is a landlocked historic county in the West Midlands region of England. It is bordered by Wales to the west and the English counties of Cheshire to th .... Bibliography Science fiction *''The Question Eaters'' (1995) (Short Story) *''Lethe'' (1995) *''Someone to Watch over Me'' (1997) *''Dreaming in Smoke'' (1999) *''Maul'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Leith
Tom Leith was an American football and basketball coach. He was the head football coach at Adrian College in Adrian, Michigan for two seasons, from 1911 to 1912, compiling a record of 12–4. Leith was also the head basketball coach at Adrian from 1911 to 1913, tallying a mark of 4–9. Athletics Leith was a star athlete while at Michigan State Normal College, now known as Eastern Michigan University Eastern Michigan University (EMU, Eastern Michigan or simply Eastern), is a public research university in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Founded in 1849 as Michigan State Normal School, the school was the fourth normal school established in the United Sta .... It was reported that he never lost a track event he competed in and was player-coach for the football team. His athletic accomplishments earned him a scholarship to Syracuse University in 1909 where he was a member of the football, baseball, and track teams. Leith returned to Michigan in 1911 and became the head coach for the fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Leith
Sam Leith (born 1 January 1974) is an English author, journalist and literary editor of ''The Spectator''. After an education at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford, Leith worked at the revived satirical magazine ''Punch'', before moving to the ''Daily Mail'' and ''The Daily Telegraph'', where he served as literary editor until 2008. He now writes for several publications, including the ''Financial Times'', ''Prospect'', ''The Spectator'', '' The Wall Street Journal Europe'' and ''The Guardian''. He had a regular column in the Monday London ''Evening Standard''. and appeared as a panellist on BBC Two's '' The Review Show''. Leith has published several works of non-fiction, including ''Dead Pets'', ''Sod's Law'', ''You Talkin' to Me?'' and a book of poetry entitled ''Our Times in Rhymes: A Prosodical Chronicle of Our Damnable Age'' ''The Coincidence Engine'', his first novel, was published in April 2011. Leith succeeded Mark Amory as literary editor of ''The Spectator'' in Septem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosemary Leith
Rosemary Blaire Leith, Lady Berners-Lee (born in September 1961) is a director of both profit and nonprofit organizations. Leith co-founded the World Wide Web Foundation together with her husband-to-be, Tim Berners-Lee in 2009. Life Leith was born in September 1961, in Toronto, Ontario, and studied at Queen's University at Kingston. She moved to London in the late 1980s. During the dot-com bubble at the end of the twentieth century, Leith co-founded the webzine ''Flametree'' with Jayne Buxton, an acquaintance from Queen's who also lived in West London. At this time Leith is quoted as saying: "Women go on the net with a purpose, not to play. They have less free time and are solution-driven. They want well-grounded advice that will help them to get things done." In 2009 Leith co-founded the World Wide Web Foundation with Tim Berners-Lee, who had invented the web. She is a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. Leith is active in a number of arts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
