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Liggins Biography (1906β1976), English footballer
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Liggins is a surname. Notable people with this surname include: * DeAndre Liggins (born 1988), American basketball player * Ethel Liggins (1886β1970), British pianist, also known by her stage name Ethel Leginska * Frederick Liggins (1873β1926), New Zealand cricketer * Graham Liggins (1926β2010), New Zealand medical scientist * Granville Liggins (born 1946), American American football player * Jamalcolm Liggins (born 1996), American football player * Jimmy Liggins (1918β1983), American R&B guitarist * Joe Liggins (1916β1987), American R&B, jazz and blues pianist * John Liggins (1829β1912), English episcopalian missionary * John Liggins Rev. John Liggins (11 May 1829 β 8 January 1912) was an English-born Episcopalian missionary to China and Japan. The first Protestant missionary and ordained representative of Anglican Communion to reach Japan, together with his seminary c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DeAndre Liggins
DeAndre Desmond Liggins (born March 31, 1988) is an American professional basketball player for Al-Ahli of the Saudi Premier League. He played college basketball for Kentucky. High school career Considered a four-star recruit by Rivals.com, Liggins was listed as the No. 6 point guard and the No. 28 player in the nation in 2008. College career Liggins played three years at the University of Kentucky. He spent his first two years mostly coming off the bench, but in his junior year, coach John Calipari decided to start him. After his junior season, he elected to enter the 2011 NBA draft. Professional career Orlando Magic (2011β2012) On June 24, 2011, Liggins was selected with the 53rd overall pick in the 2011 NBA draft by the Orlando Magic. Liggins made his NBA debut for Orlando on February 20, 2012 in a road game against the Milwaukee Bucks where he recorded three points and two rebounds in 10 minutes on the court. In July 2012, he joined the Magic for the 2012 NBA Summer Leagu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethel Liggins
Ethel Liggins (13 April 188626 February 1970) was a British pianist, conductor and composer. A student of Theodor Leschetizky, she became widely known as the βPaderewski of woman pianistsβ and (from 1923) established herself as one of the first female conductors.Neuls-Bates, Carol. 'Leginska iggins Ethel', in ''Grove Music Online'' (2001) She studied composition with Rubin Goldmark and Ernest Bloch, and conducting with Eugene Goossens, Robert Heger and Gennaro Papi and conducted many of the world's leading orchestras from the mid-1920s. She was a pioneer of women's opportunity in music performance, composition and conducting. Education and marriage Ethel Liggins was born in Hull, Yorkshire, England, to Thomas and Annie Peck Liggins. With support from wealthy patron Mary Emma Wilson, the wife of the shipping magnate Arthur Wilson, she attended the Hoch conservatory in Frankfurt, where she studied piano under James Kwast, and composition under Bernhard Sekles and Iwan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Liggins
Frederick Collingwood Liggins (5 June 1873 – 28 May 1926) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played eight first-class cricket, first-class matches for Otago cricket team, Otago between the 1896β97 and 1900β01 seasons. Liggins was born at Dunedin in 1873 and educated at Otago Boys' High School in the city.McCarron A (2010) ''New Zealand Cricketers 1863/64β2010'', p. 80. Cardiff: The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Available onlineat the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 5 June 2023.) He was described as a "batsman of the steady and slow order". His highest score for Otago was the 25 he scored against the touring Australian cricket team in New Zealand in 1896β97, Australians in 1896β97 when Otago needed 82 to win the match in their second innings but were dismissed for 64. Described in an obituary as "well known throughout New Zealand as a cricketer", in his eight first-class matches he scored a total of 129 runs. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graham Liggins
Sir Graham Collingwood "Mont" Liggins (24 June 192624 August 2010) was a New Zealand medical scientist. A specialist in obstetrical research, he is best known for his pioneering use of hormone injections ( antenatal steroids) in 1972 to accelerate the lung growth of premature babies. This made it possible for many preterm babies with lung problems to survive. Liggins was educated at the University of Auckland obtaining a PhD in 1969. His doctoral thesis was titled ''The Role of the foetal adrenal glands in the mechanism of initiation of parturition in the ewe''. In the 1983 Queen's Birthday Honours, Liggins was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to medical research. He was made a Knight Bachelor, also for services to medical research, in the 1991 Queen's Birthday Honours. The Liggins Institute , mottoeng = By natural ability and hard work , established = 1883; years ago , endowment = NZD $251 million (31 December 2020) , budget = ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Granville Liggins
Granville "Granny" Liggins (born June 2, 1946 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is a former American football and a Canadian Football League player. College At the University of Oklahoma, Liggins was not only a football player, but also a wrestler. In 1967, he was an NCAA Division I All-American wrestler, a Consensus All-American with the Sooners football team, where he played noseguard, 7th in Heisman Trophy voting, UPI Lineman of the Year, and an All-Big Eight Conference All-Star. He was a member of the Sooners' squad when it upset the #2 ranked Tennessee Volunteers 26-24 in the 1968 Orange Bowl. A highlight feature of the game was nose-guard Liggins squaring off against Tennessee's All-American center Bob Johnson. By the 2nd half of the game, Tennessee was forced to double-team Liggins in an attempt to shut-off his quarterback pass rush. In his autobiography, ''Fighting Back'', former Pittsburgh Steelers running back Robert "Rocky" Bleier lauded Liggins as perhaps the fastest defensive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamalcolm Liggins
Jamalcolm "Jay" Liggins (born 26 April 1996) is an American football defensive back for the Frankfurt Galaxy. He played college football at Dickinson State. Youth and college career Liggins attended Bismarck High School in North Dakota's capital city. He had also competed in track and field (long jump and triple jump) in high school and college, earning All-American honors. On the football team, he excelled as a senior and became a first-time starter for the Demons and was subsequently selected to the All-Region Team. As a result, he participated in the North Dakota Shrine Bowl in April 2014. In 2014, Liggins committed to Dickinson State University in of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). He sat out his first year as a redshirt. In the following years, he won the conference four times with the Blue Hawks. In 2019, they advanced to the quarterfinals of the NAIA playoffs but were eliminated. During his collegiate career, Liggings was selected to the A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Liggins
Jimmy Liggins (born James L. Elliott; October 14, 1918 β July 21, 1983) was an American R&B guitarist and bandleader. His brother was the more commercially successful R&B/blues pianist, Joe Liggins. Career The son of Harriett and Elijah Elliott, he was born in Newby, Oklahoma, United States, and adopted his stepfather's surname, Liggins, as a child. He moved with his family to San Diego, California in 1932, and graduated from Hoover High School. He fought under the name of Kid Zulu as a professional boxer until age 18, when he began as a driver for his brother Joe's band, the Honeydrippers. Liggins started his own recording career as a singer, guitarist, and leader of the Drops of Joy, on Art Rupe's Specialty label in 1947. One of his early releases, "Cadillac Boogie" was a direct forerunner of "Rocket 88", itself often called the first rock and roll record. Recordings such as "Tear Drop Blues" (1948) and, later, "I Ain't Drunk" (1954), featuring leading saxophone players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Liggins
Joseph Christopher Liggins, Jr. (born Theodro Elliott; July 9, 1916 β July 26, 1987) was an American R&B, jazz and blues pianist and vocalist who led Joe Liggins and his Honeydrippers in the 1940s and 1950s. His band appeared often on the ''Billboard'' magazine charts. The band's biggest hit was "The Honeydripper", released in 1945. Joe Liggins was the older brother of R&B performer Jimmy Liggins. Music career The son of Harriett and Elijah Elliott, he was born in Seminole, Oklahoma, and took his stepfather's surname, Liggins, as a child. He apparently dropped the name Theodro and adopted the names Joseph Christopher during the 1930s. The family moved to San Diego in 1932.Michael Jack Kirby, "Joe Liggins β Pink Champagne", ''Wayback Attack'' Retrieved November 15, 2016 He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Liggins
Rev. John Liggins (11 May 1829 β 8 January 1912) was an English-born Episcopalian missionary to China and Japan. The first Protestant missionary and ordained representative of Anglican Communion to reach Japan, together with his seminary classmate Channing Moore Williams, he helped found the Nippon Sei Ko Kai. Background and early life Liggins was born in 1829 in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England. In 1841, following the death of his father, Liggins emigrated to the United States of America, initially residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was among 14 people confirmed at Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Philadelphia's then-developing Holmesburg neighborhood by Alonzo Potter on April 4, 1848. Missionary in China In June 1855, Liggins graduated from the Virginia Theological Seminary (VTS) at Alexandria, Virginia, which had sent several missionaries to China to assist VTS graduate bishop William J. Boone after that country opened to foreigners following the First Opium Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
