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Maturin Province
Maturin may refer to: Places * MaturÃn, city in the state of Monagas in Venezuela ** Maturin Airport * MaturÃn Municipality, Monagas, Venezuela People Given name * Maturin Murray Ballou (1820–1895), American writer and publisher * Maturin Cordier ( Corderius) (c. 1479–1564), French-Swiss theologian, teacher, humanist, and pedagogue * Maturin Veyssière La Croze (1661–1739), French Benedictine historian, orientalist, royal librarian and professor * Maturin Le Petit (1693–1739), French Jesuit priest and missionary * Maturin Livingston (1769–1847), American lawyer and politician from New York * Maturin Livingston Jr. (1816–1888), American merchant, son of the above Surname * Basil W. Maturin (1847–1915), Irish-American-British priest and writer * Charles Robert Maturin (1782–1824), Irish author * Edward Maturin (1812–1881), Irish-born American poet, novelist and professor of Greek * Eric Maturin (1883–1957), British actor * Gabriel Maturin (died 1746), Irish An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MaturÃn
MaturÃn () is a city in Venezuela, the capital of the Venezuelan state of Monagas and a centre for instrumental exploration and development of the petroleum industry in Venezuela. The metropolitan area of MaturÃn has a population of 401,384 inhabitants. MaturÃn is also a busy regional transportation hub, connecting routes from the northeastern coast to the Orinoco Delta and the Gran Sabana. History Founding December 7, 1760, is the official date of the founding of MaturÃn (according to the Venezuelan Academy of History) by the Franciscan missionary Lucas de Zaragoza. However, the Jesuit priest Pablo Ojer found a document in the General Archive of the Indies which proves an earlier founding date for the city in 1722.González Oropeza, Hermann (1985): Historia del Estado Monagas. Ediciones Amon C.A., Caracas. (Biblioteca de Temas y Autores Monaguenses; Colección Guanipa; ensayos e investigación). This primitive town was called and its founder was the Spanish governor Juan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Maturin
Edward Maturin was born in Dublin, Ireland, on 18 June 1812 and died in New York City on 25 May 1881. He was naturalised as an American and worked as a professor of Greek. His fiction and poetry generally dealt with historical themes, while his work as a Gothic novelist often had an Irish background. Life and works The Maturin family was descended from a Huguenot clergyman who fled to Ireland after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Edward's father, Reverend Charles Robert Maturin, was curate of St. Peter's church, Dublin, and well known as a preacher, as well as a poet and Gothic novelist. Born the second son, Edward entered Trinity College, Dublin at the age of 15 and graduated at 20. Immediately afterwards he emigrated to the US in 1832 with letters of introduction from the poet Thomas Moore and other Irish writers. Having studied law under Charles O'Conor, he was called to the bar but later became professor of Greek in the College of South Carolina and applied for America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dark Tower (series)
''The Dark Tower'' is a series of eight novels, one short story, and a children's book written by American author Stephen King. Incorporating themes from multiple genres, including dark fantasy, science fantasy, horror fiction, horror, and Western fiction, Western, it describes a "gunslinger" and his quest toward a tower, the nature of which is both physical and metaphorical. The series, and its use of the Dark Tower, expands upon multiverse (Stephen King), Stephen King's multiverse and in doing so, links together many of his other novels. In addition to the eight novels of the series proper that comprise 4,250 pages, many of King's other books relate to the story, introducing concepts and characters that come into play as the series progresses. The series was chiefly inspired by the poem "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" by Robert Browning, whose full text was included in the final volume's appendix. In the preface to the revised 2003 edition of ''The Dark Tower: The Gun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick O'Brian
Patrick O'Brian, Order of the British Empire, CBE (12 December 1914 – 2 January 2000), born Richard Patrick Russ, was an English novelist and translator, best known for his Aubrey–Maturin series of sea novels set in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, and centred on the friendship of the English naval captain Jack Aubrey and the Irish–Catalan physician Stephen Maturin. The 20-novel series, the first of which is ''Master and Commander'', is known for its well-researched and highly detailed portrayal of early 19th-century life, as well as its authentic and evocative language. A partially finished 21st novel in the series was published posthumously containing facing pages of handwriting and typescript. O'Brian wrote a number of other novels and short stories, most of which were published before he achieved success with the Aubrey–Maturin series. He also translated works from French to English, and wrote biographies of Joseph Banks: A Life, Joseph Banks and Picasso. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Maturin
Stephen Maturin () is a fictional character in the Aubrey–Maturin series of novels by Patrick O'Brian. The series portrays his career as a physician, naturalist and spy in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, and the long pursuit of his beloved Diana Villiers. Maturin was played by Paul Bettany in the 2003 film '' Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World'' and by Richard Dillane in the BBC Radio 4 adaptations of O'Brian's novels. Bettany was nominated for a British Academy Film Award for his performance. Biography Early life Stephen Maturin, called by his Catalan family Esteban Maturin y Domanova, a Roman Catholic, is the illegitimate son of an Irish officer serving in the Spanish Army and a Catalonian lady. He is cousin to the historical Lord Edward FitzGerald. As a boy he lived in Ireland, fostered by a family of pig-herders in Cahirciveen and County Clare, and spent his teenage years in Catalonia – most notably with his grandmother in Lleida, his uncle in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Maturin
William Henry Maturin, (1814 – 5 March 1889) was a senior public servant in the early days of the colony of South Australia and had a further career in Great Britain. He and his brother Augustus arrived in Adelaide on the brig ''Elizabeth Buckham'' on 22 June 1843, and took the place of W. C. Darling in the Commissariat Department under administrator Sir Henry E. Fox Young, acting as his private secretary and holding the position of Deputy Assistant Commissary General and Auditor General, was promoted to Assistant Director in 1847, then Private Secretary to the Lieutenant Governor in May 1849, and at the same time appointed to the Legislative Council, but almost immediately relinquishing both when he was made acting Colonial Treasurer, reverting to Private Secretary in 1851. In 1850 his assistant William Edward Beddome was convicted of embezzling £4,000, which could only have happened because of lax security on Maturin's part. In 1857 the Commissariat Department was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Maturin
Peter Maturin was an Anglican priest in Ireland during the 18th century. Maturin was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He was appointed a prebendary of Rosserkbeg in Killala Cathedral in 1722; and was Dean of Killala from 1724 until 1741. He was also Vicar-general of the Diocese of Killala and Achonry The Bishop of Killala and Achonry was the Ordinary of the Church of Ireland diocese of Killala and Achonry in the Ecclesiastical Province of Tuam. The diocese comprised part of Counties Mayo and Sligo in Ireland. The Episcopal see was a union of ...."Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 4" Cotton, H. p80: Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878 Notes Alumni of Trinity College Dublin 18th-century Irish Anglican priests Deans of Killala {{Ireland-Anglican-clergy-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Óscar MaturÃn
Oscar Natalio Maturin Landeros (born 30 June 1979) is a Mexican footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le .... External links * 1979 births Living people Footballers from Culiacán Footballers from Sinaloa Men's association football defenders Atlante F.C. footballers Alacranes Del Norte footballers Expatriate men's footballers in El Salvador Mexican expatriate sportspeople in El Salvador Mexican men's footballers Mexican expatriate men's footballers {{Mexico-footy-defender-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Maturin
Henry Maturin (5 April 1842 — 24 February 1920) was an Irish first-class cricketer and physician. Life and first-class cricket The son of The Reverend Benjamin Maturin, he was born in Ireland at Clondevaddock. He was educated in England at Marlborough College, where he played for the college cricket team. From there, he undertook his medical education and training at St Bartholomew's Hospital. He was appointed a MRCS in 1864 and was appointed to the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries in 1865, before being appointed an LRCP and a fellow of Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1872. He held a number of medical posts within Hampshire, including as medical officer of the 1st District of the Hartley Wintney Union and the 7th District of the Basingstoke Union. In cricket, Maturin made his debut in first-class cricket for an early Middlesex county team against the Marylebone Cricket Club at Lord's in 1863, in what was his only appearance for Middlesex. In that same season ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriel Maturin
Gabriel Maturin, D.D. was an Irish Anglican Dean. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, he was Dean of Kildare from 1737 to 1745 and Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, from 1745 until his death on 9 November 1746.''Handbook of British Chronology'' By Fryde, E. B;. Greenway, D.E;Porter, S; Roy, I: Cambridge, CUP A cup is an open-top used to hold hot or cold liquids for pouring or drinking; while mainly used for drinking, it also can be used to store solids for pouring (e.g., sugar, flour, grains, salt). Cups may be made of glass, metal, china, clay, ..., 1996 , 9780521563505 References Christian clergy from Dublin (city) Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Deans of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin 1746 deaths {{Ireland-Anglican-clergy-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Maturin
Eric Bagot Maturin (30 May 1883 – 17 October 1957) was a British actor whose acting career began in 1905 and whose first film appearance was in 1919 during the era of silent films. Early life Maturin was born in Nainital, India in 1883,Maturin on the the oldest of three sons born to Edith Emily (née Money; 1863–1945) and Colonel Frederick Henry Maturin (1848–1936) of the , who married on 1 August 1882 at St Andrew's church in |
Charles Robert Maturin
Charles Robert Maturin, also known as C. R. Maturin (25 September 1780 – 30 October 1824), was an Irish Protestant clergyman (ordained in the Church of Ireland) and a writer of Gothic plays and novels.Chris Morgan, "Maturin, Charles R(obert)." in ''St. James Guide to Horror, Gothic, and Ghost Writers'', ed. David Pringle. Detroit and New York: St. James Press, 1998. (396–97) His best known work is the novel ''Melmoth the Wanderer''. Early life Maturin was descended from Huguenots who found shelter in Ireland, one of whom was Gabriel Jacques Maturin who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin after Jonathan Swift in 1745. Charles Robert Maturin was born in Dublin and attended Trinity College. Shortly after being ordained as curate of Loughrea, County Galway, in 1803, he moved back to Dublin as curate of St Peter's Church. He lived in York Street with his father William, a Post Office official, and his mother, Fedelia Watson, and married on 7 October 1804 the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
