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Mungo (name)
Mungo is a Scottish masculine given name and, more rarely, a surname. It may refer to: Given name * Saint Mungo (died 614), Scottish saint * Mungo Bovey (born 1959), Scottish lawyer * Mungo Lewis (1894–1969), Canadian politician * Mungo Wentworth MacCallum (1941–2020), Australian journalist * Mungo William MacCallum (1854–1942), Australian university president and literary critic * Mungo Mackay (1740–1811), American privateer and businessman * Mungo McKay (born 1971), Australian actor * Mungo Martin (1879–1962), Canadian First Nations sculptor and painter * Mungo Melvin, Scottish major-general and historian * Mungo Murray, 7th Earl of Mansfield (1900–1971), Scottish politician * Mungo Park (explorer) (1771–1806), Scottish explorer of Africa * Mungo Park (golfer) (1835–1904), Scottish golfer * Mungo Park Jr. (1877–1960), Scottish golfer and golf course architect * Mungo Ponton (1801–1880), Scottish inventor * Hugh John Mungo Grant (born 1960), English actor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Mungo
Kentigern ( cy, Cyndeyrn Garthwys; la, Kentigernus), known as Mungo, was a missionary in the Brittonic Kingdom of Strathclyde in the late sixth century, and the founder and patron saint of the city of Glasgow. Name In Wales and England, this saint is known by his birth and baptismal name Kentigern ( cy, Cyndeyrn). This name probably comes from the British *''Cuno-tigernos'', which is composed of the elements *''cun'', a hound, and *''tigerno'', a lord, prince, or king. The evidence is based on the Old Welsh record ''Conthigirn(i)''. Other etymologies have been suggested, including British *''Kintu-tigernos'' 'chief prince' based on the English form Kentigern, but the Old Welsh form above and Old English ''Cundiʒeorn'' do not appear to support this. Particularly in Scotland, he is known by the pet name Mungo, possibly derived from the Cumbric equivalent of the cy, fy nghu 'my dear (one)'. The Mungo pet name or hypocorism has a Gaelic parallel in the form Mo Choe or Mo Cha, und ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mungo Park (explorer)
Mungo Park (11 September 1771 – 1806) was a Scottish explorer of West Africa. After an exploration of the upper Niger River around 1796, he wrote a popular and influential travel book titled ''Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa'' in which he theorized the Niger and Congo merged to become the same river. He was killed during a second expedition, having successfully traveled about two-thirds of the way down the Niger. With Park's death, the idea of a Niger-Congo merger remained an open question although it became the leading theory among geographers. The mystery of the Niger's course, which had been speculated about since the Ancient Greeks and was second only to the mystery of the Nile's source, was not solved for another 25 years, in 1830, when it was discovered the Niger and Congo were in fact separate rivers. If the African Association was the "beginning of the age of African exploration" then Mungo Park was its first successful explorer; he set a standard for al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Mungo
Raymond Mungo (born 1946) is an American author, co-author, or editor of more than a dozen books. He writes about business, economics, and financial matters as well as cultural issues. In the 1960s, he attended Boston University, where he served as editor of the ''Boston University News'' in 1966-67, his senior year; and where, as a student leader, he spearheaded demonstrations against the Vietnam War. In 1967, Mungo co-founded the Liberation News Service (LNS), an alternative news agency, along with Marshall Bloom. LNS split off from Collegiate Press Service (CPS) in a political dispute. The founding event was a notably tumultuous meeting that transpired not far from the offices of CPS on Church Street in Washington, D.C. Mungo descriptively details this event in his book, ''Famous Long Ago: My Life and Hard Times with the Liberation News Service''. In 1968, he moved to Vermont with Verandah Porche and others as part of the back-to-the-land movement. Mungo continued to write ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mungo Thomson
Mungo Thomson (born 1969, Woodland, California) is a contemporary visual artist based in Los Angeles. Education Thomson attended the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and the UCLA MFA program, where he gained a master of fine arts degree. Career and works Thomson has had solo exhibitions at the UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2008); the Kadist Art Foundation, Paris (2007); and Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (GAMeC), Bergamo, Italy (2006). He participated in the Istanbul Biennial (2011), the Whitney Biennial (2008), and the Performa Biennial of Visual Art Performance (2005). His book ''Font Study (TIME)'' was published by Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2011), ''The White Album'' was published by RITE Editions (2008), and ''Negative Space'' was published by Christoph Keller Editions and JRP, Ringier (2006). Thomson self-published the comic book ''Einstein #1'' in 2008. In 2012 Thompson created a helium-filled copy of a sculpture by Michael Heizer, for an offic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh John Mungo Grant
Hugh John Mungo Grant (born 9 September 1960) is an English actor. He established himself early in his career as both a charming, and vulnerable romantic lead and has since transitioned into a dramatic character actor. Among his numerous accolades, he has received a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, Volpi Cup, and an Honorary César. , his films had grossed a total of nearly US$3 billion worldwide. In 2022 ''Time Out'' magazine listed Grant as one of Britain's Greatest Actors of all time. Grant first received attention for his early roles in acclaimed costume dramas such as Merchant-Ivory's ''Maurice'' (1987), for which he won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor, and ''The Remains of the Day'' (1993), as well as ''Sense and Sensibility'' (1995) and ''Restoration'' (1995). Grant then reached global stardom as a leading man in Richard Curtis's romantic comedy film ''Four Weddings and a Funeral'' (1994), whereupon he received the Golden Globe Award and the BAFTA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mungo Ponton
Mungo Ponton FRS FRSE (20 November 1801 – 3 August 1880) was a Scottish inventor who in 1839 created a method of permanent photography based on potassium dichromate. Life and family Ponton was born in the Balgreen district of west Edinburgh, the son of John Ponton, a farmer. He was named after the explorer Mungo Park, then a new Scottish hero. In 1815 he was apprenticed as a lawyer to James Balfour WS (of Pilrig House), working at chambers at 17 Broughton Street in the eastern New Town of Edinburgh. He finished his apprenticeship at GL Finlay WS at 18 Queen Street. He was created a Writer to the Signet on 8 December 1825. He then went into partnership with AW Goldie to create Goldie & Ponton WS based at 58 India Street in the western New Town. He married Helen Scott Campbell on 24 June 1830 and together they had seven children. In the 1830s Ponton was listed as living at 30 Melville Street, a large new terraced townhouse in Edinburgh's west end, presumably the family's ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mungo Park Jr
Mungo may refer to: People * Mungo (name), a list of people with the given name or surname * Mungo people, an ethnic group in Cameroon Places * Mungo, Angola, a town and municipality * Mungo National Park, Australia * Lake Mungo, Australia * Mungo River, Cameroon * Mungo River, New Zealand Other uses * Mungo bean * Mungo ESK, an armoured transport vehicle used by the German Army * Mungo, an oil field in the North Sea * Mungo, a fictional character from the animated television series '' Heathcliff'' * Mungo, a fibrous woollen material generated from waste fabric See also * Mungo Man and Mungo Woman, names of two sets of prehistoric human remains found in Australia - see Lake Mungo remains * John Mungo-Park (1918–1941), British fighter pilot * Mungo Jerry, a 1970s British rock group * ''Mungos'', a mongoose genus * Mongo (other) * St. Mungo's (other) * Moengo, Suriname, a town * Moungo (department) Moungo is a department of Littoral Province in Camero ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mungo Park (golfer)
Mungo Park (22 October 1836 – 19 June 1904) was a member of a famous family of Scottish golfers. He won the 1874 Open Championship held at Musselburgh Links. Early life He was born 22 October 1836 to farm labourer and occasional golfer James Park (1797–1873) and his wife Euphemia, née Kerr (1806–1860), at Quarry Houses in Musselburgh, which was to become one of the three towns that shared hosting responsibilities for The Open Championship through the 1870s and 1880s. He learned golf at the age of four, but then spent 20 years as a seaman. Golf career After his career as a seaman concluded he returned to his home town in the early 1870s and won the 1874 Open Championship on the Musselburgh Links. His winning score was 159 for 36 holes. He spent his later life working as a teacher, golf course designer and clubmaker. Park would go on to post four more top-10 finishes in The Open Championship between 1875 and 1881. Golf course design Park was the first club professional at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mungo Murray, 7th Earl Of Mansfield
Mungo David Malcolm Murray, 7th Earl of Mansfield and Mansfield (9 August 1900 – 2 September 1971), styled Lord Scone from 1906 to 1935, was a Scottish Unionist Party politician. Mansfield was the son of Alan Murray, 6th Earl of Mansfield and Mansfield, and his wife Margaret Mary Helen, daughter of Rear-Admiral Sir Malcolm MacGregor, 4th Baronet. He was active in the extreme anti-Catholic Scottish Protestant League before breaking with them following the 1929 United Kingdom general election. This came about when the SPL leader Alexander Ratcliffe offered to support the Unionist candidate for Stirling and Falkirk if he supported the partial repeal of the Education (Scotland) Act 1918 which allowed Catholic schools into the state system funded through education rates. When this didn't happen Ratcliffe stood as an 'Independent Protestant', coming in third behind the Unionist and Labour Party candidates. Scone entered Parliament for Perth in 1931, a seat he held until 1935, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mungo Bovey
Mungo Bovey, KC (born 1 May 1959) is a Scottish advocate (lawyer). He is Keeper of the Faculty of Advocates' Library. He is a graduate of the University of Glasgow, in his time there he was involved in student politics, and opposed the twinning with Beir Zeit University. He is involved in the Scottish National Party, and has represented them in court cases (e.g. SNP, Petitioners). He stood as the SNP candidate in Edinburgh East. His father was Keith Bovey, who was the SNP candidate in the 1978 Glasgow Garscadden by-election The 1978 Glasgow Garscadden by-election was a parliamentary by-election held on 13 April 1978 for the British House of Commons constituency of Glasgow Garscadden, in the north west periphery of the City of Glasgow. It was won by Donald Dewar of .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Bovey, Mungo Living people Scottish King's Counsel Members of the Faculty of Advocates Alumni of the University of Glasgow 1959 births Scottish National Party parliamentar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mungo Melvin
Major-General Robert Adam Mungo Simpson Melvin (born 1955) CB OBE is a retired British Army officer, and a noted military historian. He is best known for his biography of German field marshal Erich von Manstein. He is an editorial board member of the '' Journal of Intelligence and Terrorism Studies''. Military career Educated at Daniel Stewart's College in Edinburgh, the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, Downing College, Cambridge and the German Armed Forces Command and Staff College in Hamburg, Melvin was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1975. He became Director, Land Warfare in June 2002, Director of Operational Capability at the Ministry of Defence in 2004 and General Officer Commanding United Kingdom Support Command (Germany) in 2006.Army Commands He went on to be Chief Army Instructor at the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mungo Martin
Chief Mungo Martin or ''Nakapenkem'' (lit. ''Potlatch chief "ten times over"''), ''Datsa'' (lit. ''"grandfather"''), was an important figure in Northwest Coast Art, Northwest Coast style art, specifically that of the Kwakwaka'wakw Aboriginal peoples in Canada, Aboriginal people who live in the area of British Columbia and Vancouver Island. He was a major contributor to Kwakwaka'wakw art, especially in the realm of wood sculpture and painting. He was also known as a singer and songwriter. Personal life Martin was born in 1879 in Fort Rupert, British Columbia, to parents of the Kwakwaka'wakw First Nations in Canada, Nation. He was the son of Yaxnukwelas, a high-ranking native from Gilford Island. His mother was Q'omiga, also known by her English name, Sarah Finlay, who was the mixed-race daughter of a Kwakwaka'wakw woman and a Scottish people, Scottish man working with the Hudson's Bay Company. Martin's father died when he was in his teen years. His mother married ''Yakuglas,'' also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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