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Mallet (surname)
Mallet is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Alain Manesson Mallet (1630–1706), French cartographer and engineer *Alexandre Mallet (born 1992), Canadian ice hockey player * Anatole Mallet (1837–1919), Swiss mechanical engineer *Sir Bernard Mallet (1859–1932), British civil servant *Sir Charles Mallet (1862–1947), British historian and politician * David Mallet (writer) (c.1705–1765), Scottish dramatist and poet * David Mallet (director) (born 1945), British director * Demond Mallet (born 1978), American basketball player * Elizabeth Mallet (fl.1672–1706), British printer and bookseller *Ernest Mallet (1863–1956), French banker *Félicia Mallet (1863–1928), French comedian, singer and pantomime artist *Francis Mallet (died 1570), English churchman * Frederick Richard Mallet (1841-1921), Irish geologist who worked in India *Sir George Mallet (1923–2010), Saint Lucia politician *Grégory Mallet (born 1984), French swimmer *Sir Ivo Mallet (1900–1988) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alain Manesson Mallet
Alain Manesson Mallet (1630–1706) was a French cartographer and engineer. He started his career as a soldier in the army of Louis XIV , house = Bourbon , father = Louis XIII , mother = Anne of Austria , birth_date = , birth_place = Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France , death_date = , death_place = Palace of Ver ..., became a Sergeant-Major in the artillery and an Inspector of Fortifications. He also served under the King of Portugal, before returning to France, and his appointment to the court of Louis XIV. His military engineering and mathematical background led to his position teaching mathematics at court. His major publications were ''Description de L'Univers'' (1683) in 5 volumes, and ''Les Travaux de Mars ou l'Art de la Guerre'' (1684) in 3 volumes. His ''Description de L'Universe'' contains a wide variety of information, including star maps, maps of the ancient and modern world, and a synopsis of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Mallet
James Mallet (born 15 March 1955 in London) is an evolutionary zoologist specialising in entomology. He was educated at Winchester College. He became professor of biological diversity at the Department of Biology, University College London. He was co-director of the Centre for Ecology and Evolution, a centre of excellence in research and teaching formed by University College London, the Institute of Zoology (Zoological Society of London), Natural History Museum, Imperial College, Queen Mary, Royal Holloway and Kew Gardens. In 2013 he was distinguished lecturer on Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. His research has included work on the species concept central to evolutionary biology, along with hybridization and the process of speciation. He was awarded the Darwin-Wallace Medal by the Linnean Society of London The Linnean Society of London is a learned society dedicated to the study and dissemination of information concerning natural history, evo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tania Mallet
Tania Mallet (19 May 1941 – 30 March 2019)''England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916–2007'' was an English actress and model, best known for playing Tilly Masterson in the James Bond film '' Goldfinger'' (1964). Early life and ancestry Mallet was born on 19 May 1941 in Blackpool, the daughter of Russian noblewoman and former chorus girl Olga Mironoff and English millionaire car salesman Henry Mallet. Her maternal grandfather Pyotr, who owned a family estate near Gzhatsk (now Gagarin, Smolensk Oblast), was a member of the Russian aristocracy. His mother was Countess Lydia Andreevna Kamenskaya, aristocrat and a descendant of Count Mikhail Fedotovich Kamensky, a prominent Russian general in the Napoleonic Wars. Tania Mallett signed her name with the double "-tt" when giving autographs and her modelling card as a Lucie Clayton model in 1968 was as "Tania Mallett". Her half-brothers Paul and Peter both spell their names as 'Mallett'. She was a cousin of actress ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Mallet
Robert Mallet (3 June 1810 – 5 November 1881) was an Irish geophysicist, civil engineer, and inventor who distinguished himself in research on earthquakes and is sometimes called the father of seismology. His son, Frederick Richard Mallet was a geologist who worked in India. Early life Mallet was born in Dublin, on 3 June 1810, the son of factory owner John Mallet. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, entering it at the age of 16 and graduating in science and mathematics in 1830 at the age of 20. Career Following his graduation, he joined his father's iron foundry business and helped build the firm into one of the most important engineering works in Ireland, supplying ironwork for railway companies, the Fastnet Rock lighthouse, and a swing bridge over the River Shannon at Athlone. He also helped manufacture the characteristic iron railings that surround Trinity College and which bear his family name at the base. Mallet was elected to the Royal Irish Academy in 1832 at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Antoine And Paul Mallet
Pierre Antoine and Paul Mallet, brothers and French Canadian voyageurs, were the first Europeans known to have crossed the Great Plains from east to west. They first journeyed to Santa Fe, New Mexico from Kaskaskia, Illinois in 1739. First expedition Pierre Antoine Mallet (b. 20 June 1700, d. after 1750) and his brother Paul Mallet (b. ?, d. 1753, Arkansas Post, Arkansas), were born in Montreal, Canada and moved to Detroit in 1706 and Kaskaskia, Illinois in 1734. From Kaskaskia, in 1739, they attempted to travel to Santa Fe, New Mexico with six companions and nine horses loaded with trade goods. They followed the Missouri River north to South Dakota to the villages of the Arikara. It was believed at the time that the Missouri River flowed all the way to the Spanish colonies in New Mexico. Told by the Indians that New Mexico was to the southwest, they backtracked to the Pawnee villages on the Loup River in Nebraska. From there on May 29, 1739, they embarked for Santa Fe. The M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Republic Of Geneva
The Canton of Geneva, officially the Republic and Canton of Geneva (french: link=no, République et canton de Genève; frp, Rèpublica et canton de Geneva; german: Republik und Kanton Genf; it, Repubblica e Cantone di Ginevra; rm, Republica e chantun Genevra), is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of forty-five municipalities and the seat of the government and parliament is in the City of Geneva. Geneva is the French-speaking westernmost canton of Switzerland. It lies at the western end of Lake Geneva and on both sides of the Rhone, its main river. Within the country, the canton shares borders with Vaud to the east, the only adjacent canton. However, the borders of the canton are essentially international, with the French region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. As is the case in several other Swiss cantons (Ticino, Neuchâtel, and Jura), Geneva is referred to as a republic within the Swiss Confederation. One of the most populated cantons, Genev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Henri Mallet
Paul Henri Mallet (20 August 1730 – 8 February 1807) was a Genevan writer. Life He was born and educated in Geneva. He became tutor in the family of the count of Calenberg in Lower Saxony. In 1752 he was appointed professor of ''belles lettres'' to the academy at Copenhagen. He was naturally attracted to the study of the ancient literature and history of Denmark, his adopted country, and in 1755 he published the first fruits of his researches, under the title ''Introduction à L'histoire du Danemarch où l'on traite de la religion, des moeurs, des lois, et des usages des anciens Danois''. A second part, more particularly relating to Danish literature, ''Monuments de la mythologie et de la poesie des Celtes, et particulierement des anciens Scandinaves'', was issued in 1756, and was also translated into Danish. A translation into English, with notes and preface, by Bishop Thomas Percy, was issued in 1770 under the title of ''Northern Antiquities'' (republished with additio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pardal Mallet
João Carlos de Medeiros Pardal Mallet (December 9, 1864 – November 24, 1894) was a Brazilian journalist and novelist. He is the patron of the 30th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. Life Mallet was born in the city of Bagé, in Rio Grande do Sul, in 1864. His father was the General João Nepomuceno de Medeiros Mallet, and his grandfather was the French-born Marshal Émile Mallet. He was also of Portuguese and Irish descent. From childhood, he had a strong affinity for literature. He also learned to speak English and French. After completing his primary studies, he moved to Rio de Janeiro in order to study medicine at the Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, but he would not finish the course, because his teacher, the Viscount of Saboia, threatened to expel him because of his Republican ideals. He then abandoned medicine to devote himself to literature and journalism. He then moved to São Paulo, to study law at the Faculdade de Direit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathalie Mallet
Nathalie Mallet is a Canadian mystery, science fiction and fantasy writer. Early life Mallet grew up in Shippagan, New Brunswick, and resides in Prince George, British Columbia. Career Mallet's debut novel, '' The Princes of the Golden Cage'' published by Night Shade Books Night Shade Books is an American, San Francisco–based imprint, formerly an independent publishing company, that specializes in science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Among its publications have been the U.S. edition of Iain M. Banks' novel ''T ... in 2007, is the first installment in the Prince Amir Mystery series. The second book in the series, ''The King's Daughters'', is scheduled for 2008. Bibliography The Prince Amir Mystery Series # '' The Princes of the Golden Cage'' (2007)() # ''The King's Daughters '' (summer 2009) () # ''Death in the Traveling City '' (summer 2011) () Others # ''The Digging Crew'' (LTDBooks, 2005) () External linksInterview with Nathalie Mallet at SCI FI Wire [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Mallet
Maurice Mallet (1861–1926) was a cofounder of the company later called Zodiac Aerospace. In 1896, Mallet joined with Henry de La Vaulx and other associates to launch the company ''Mallet, Mélandri et de Pitray''. The company made gas balloons for sport and tourism. In 1899, it was renamed ''Ateliers de Constructions Aéronautiques Maurice Mallet''. The Mallet workshops prospered thanks to regular orders from the Aéro-Club de France, the French flying club. In 1902–3, Mallet collaborated with Victor Tatin to construct the dirigible ''La Ville de Paris'' for Henri Deutsch de la Meurthe. It was not successful and Deutsch de la Meurthe sponsored a later more successful one with the same name. Mallet held patents for inventions related to dirigibles. Around 1908, the company became ''Société française des ballons dirigeables'' (i.e. ''French airship company'') then in 1911 the company changed its name to become ''Zodiac''. In 1909, the name Zodiac (with an English spelling ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie-Anne-Marcelle Mallet
Marie-Anne-Marcelle Mallet (March 26, 1805 – April 9, 1871) was a Roman Catholic nun and founder of the Sisters of Charity of Quebec. Her surname also appears as Maillet or Maillé. Biography Marie was born to Vital Mallet and Marguerite Sarrazin in Montreal, Lower Canada. Her father died when she was five and she spent the rest of her childhood living with an aunt and uncle in Lachine and in boarding with the Congregation of Notre Dame. Mallet joined the Sisters of Charity of the Hôpital Général of Montreal as a novice in 1824 and became a nun in 1826. During the 1847 typhus epidemic in Montreal, she assumed full responsibility of the hospital. In 1849, she was chosen to be the founder and mother superior for a new congregation at Quebec City. Mallet established a relief service for needy children. The Sisters also provided a home for orphan children, as well as aged and infirm people. They also operated boarding schools for girls and an out-patient service for the poor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Du Pan Mallet
Sir Louis du Pan Mallet (10 July 1864 – 8 August 1936) was a British diplomat who was Ambassador to Turkey at the outbreak of World War I. Career Louis du Pan Mallet was the third son of Sir Louis Mallet, a British civil servant. He was educated at Clifton College and privately before going up to Balliol College, Oxford after which he entered the Foreign Office in 1888. He served in Brazil, Rome and Cairo before holding the posts of précis writer to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Lord Lansdowne, 1902–05 and subsequently Private Secretary to Lansdowne's successor, Sir Edward Grey, 1905–07. He was assistant Under-Secretary of State, in charge of Near and Middle Eastern affairs, 1907–13. In 1913 Mallet was appointed Ambassador at Constantinople. "The appointment caused no little surprise, as it had been expected that it would be given to a member of the Diplomatic Corps with experience of Constantinople. Conditions in Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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