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Nicholas Brown (swimmer)
Nick or Nicholas Brown may refer to: * Nicholas Brown Sr. (1729–1791), American signer of the 1764 charter of what became Brown University * Nicholas Brown Jr. (1769–1841), Brown University was renamed for him in 1804 * Nicholas Brown III (1792–1859), American Consul to Italy * Nicholas Brown (pirate) (died 1726), English pirate * N. E. Brown (Nicholas Edward Brown, 1849–1934), Kew Gardens plant taxonomist * Nicholas John Brown (1838–1903), Australian politician, Speaker of the Tasmanian House of Assembly * Nicholas W. Brown (politician) (1821–1889), manufacturer and political figure in Ontario * Nicholas W. Brown (lawyer), American lawyer * Nicholas Brown (actor) (born 1980), Australian actor, singer, songwriter and screenwriter * Nicholas Brown (historian), Australian historian and biographer of Sir John Crawford * Nicholas Brown, an alias of Nicholas Alahverdian, American convicted sex offender who faked his death See also * Nicholas Browne (other) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Brown Sr
Nicholas is a male given name and a surname. The Eastern Orthodox Church, the Roman Catholic Church, and the Anglican Churches celebrate Saint Nicholas every year on December 6, which is the name day for "Nicholas". In Greece, the name and its derivatives are especially popular in maritime regions, as St. Nicholas is considered the protector saint of seafarers. Origins The name is derived from the Greek name Νικόλαος (''Nikolaos''), understood to mean 'victory of the people', being a compound of νίκη ''nikē'' 'victory' and λαός ''laos'' 'people'.. An ancient paretymology of the latter is that originates from λᾶς ''las'' ( contracted form of λᾶας ''laas'') meaning 'stone' or 'rock', as in Greek mythology, Deucalion and Pyrrha recreated the people after they had vanished in a catastrophic deluge, by throwing stones behind their shoulders while they kept marching on. The name became popular through Saint Nicholas, Bishop of Myra in Lycia, the inspirati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Brown Jr
Nicholas is a male given name and a surname. The Eastern Orthodox Church, the Roman Catholic Church, and the Anglican Churches celebrate Saint Nicholas every year on December 6, which is the name day for "Nicholas". In Greece, the name and its derivatives are especially popular in maritime regions, as St. Nicholas is considered the protector saint of seafarers. Origins The name is derived from the Greek name Νικόλαος (''Nikolaos''), understood to mean 'victory of the people', being a compound of νίκη ''nikē'' 'victory' and λαός ''laos'' 'people'.. An ancient paretymology of the latter is that originates from λᾶς ''las'' ( contracted form of λᾶας ''laas'') meaning 'stone' or 'rock', as in Greek mythology, Deucalion and Pyrrha recreated the people after they had vanished in a catastrophic deluge, by throwing stones behind their shoulders while they kept marching on. The name became popular through Saint Nicholas, Bishop of Myra in Lycia, the inspirati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Brown III
Nicholas Brown III (October 2, 1792 – March 2, 1859) was the United States Consul to the Papal court from 1845 to 1853 and later was Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island from 1856 to 1857, serving under Governor W. W. Hoppin. Early life Nicholas Brown III was born on October 2, 1792, in Providence, Rhode Island, the eldest of three surviving children born to Nicholas Brown Jr. (1769–1841), the namesake patron of Brown University, and Ann Carter, daughter of John Carter, a prominent printer in Providence. His younger brother was John Carter Brown II (1797–1874). His grandfather was Nicholas Brown Sr. (1729–1791), brother of John Brown, Moses Brown, and Joseph Brown, who was a merchant and slave trader who co-founded the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations which is today known as Brown University. He graduated from Brown University, which was founded by his family, in 1811 and attended the Litchfield Law School. Nicholas Brown ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Brown (pirate)
Nicholas Brown (died 1726, first name also Nicolas) was an English pirate who was active off the coast of Jamaica during the early 18th century. History Brown was among a large group of pirates who accepted the 1717-1718 pardon offered to pirates by King George. Like several others, he soon returned to piracy, surrendering to the Spanish on Cuba before sailing in their service out of Trinidad. Governor Nicholas Laws of Jamaica wrote to Spanish magistrates in Trinidad in 1722 demanding “Satisfaction of you for so many notorious Robberies which your People have lately committed on the King's Subjects of this Island; particularly by those Traytors, Nicolas Brown and Christopher Winter, to whom you have given Protection.” In 1723 he captured an English ship near Hispaniola with over 300 slaves aboard. He set the captain and crew adrift and brought the ship to Baracoa, Cuba. Brown paid another sailor to pretend to be the ship's captain so he could have Spanish officials in Bar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas John Brown
Nicholas John Brown (9 October 1838 – 22 September 1903) was a pastoralist and politician in colonial Tasmania, a Speaker of the Tasmanian House of Assembly. Brown was the son of Richard Brown, was born at Hobart and educated at the Hutchins School, Hobart, and later engaged in pastoral pursuits. Brown was a member for the Cumberland District in the Tasmanian House of Assembly from January 1875. He was Minister of Lands and Works in the first Philip Fysh Ministry from August 1877 to December 1878, and held the same post in the William Giblin Ministry from December 1882 to August 1884, and in the Douglas and Agnew Ministries from that date till March 1887. Mr. Brown was one of the representatives of Tasmania at the Sydney Convention of 1883, at which the draft of the Federal Council Bill was agreed to. In March 1886 he was appointed one of the Tasmanian representatives in the Federal Council; but when the Fysh Ministry came into power he was objected to as a political oppone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas W
Nicholas is a male given name and a surname. The Eastern Orthodox Church, the Roman Catholic Church, and the Anglican Churches celebrate Saint Nicholas every year on December 6, which is the name day for "Nicholas". In Greece, the name and its derivatives are especially popular in maritime regions, as St. Nicholas is considered the protector saint of seafarers. Origins The name is derived from the Greek name Νικόλαος (''Nikolaos''), understood to mean 'victory of the people', being a compound of νίκη ''nikē'' 'victory' and λαός ''laos'' 'people'.. An ancient paretymology of the latter is that originates from λᾶς ''las'' ( contracted form of λᾶας ''laas'') meaning 'stone' or 'rock', as in Greek mythology, Deucalion and Pyrrha recreated the people after they had vanished in a catastrophic deluge, by throwing stones behind their shoulders while they kept marching on. The name became popular through Saint Nicholas, Bishop of Myra in Lycia, the inspirati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Brown (actor)
Nicholas Brown is an Australian actor, screenwriter, playwright, singer and songwriter. Personal life Brown grew up in the Western Sydney suburb of Greystanes with parents Roy and Patricia Brown and older sister Tracey. He attended Newtown High School of the Performing Arts in years 11 and 12. Whilst at NHSPA he represented the school in various drama and music festivals including OnStage and was elected School Captain in 1997. In 1998 Brown was accepted into the prestigious Australian drama school the National Institute of Dramatic Art and was said to be both one of the youngest students and the first student to be accepted directly from high school. In 2007 Brown moved from Sydney to Mumbai where he lived on and off until 2015. He appeared in several Bollywood films including Kites, Love You To Death, Unindian, Prattichaya and Sedition. In 2011 Brown lived in Los Angeles where he recorded and performed with the funk bands Knuckle Funk and Luck Now. In 2010 Brown was a C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Brown (historian)
Nick or Nicholas Brown may refer to: * Nicholas Brown Sr. (1729–1791), American signer of the 1764 charter of what became Brown University * Nicholas Brown Jr. (1769–1841), Brown University was renamed for him in 1804 * Nicholas Brown III (1792–1859), American Consul to Italy * Nicholas Brown (pirate) (died 1726), English pirate * N. E. Brown (Nicholas Edward Brown, 1849–1934), Kew Gardens plant taxonomist * Nicholas John Brown (1838–1903), Australian politician, Speaker of the Tasmanian House of Assembly * Nicholas W. Brown (politician) (1821–1889), manufacturer and political figure in Ontario * Nicholas W. Brown (lawyer), American lawyer * Nicholas Brown (actor) (born 1980), Australian actor, singer, songwriter and screenwriter * Nicholas Brown (historian), Australian historian and biographer of Sir John Crawford * Nicholas Brown, an alias of Nicholas Alahverdian, American convicted sex offender who faked his death See also * Nicholas Browne (other) * Ni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Crawford (economist)
Sir John Grenfell Crawford (4 April 1910 – 28 October 1984) was an agricultural economist and a key architect of Australia's post-war growth. Early life, education and family Born in Hurstville, Sydney, Crawford was the tenth of twelve children of Henry Crawford and Harriet Isabel Crawford, née Wood. Crawford was educated at Sydney Boys High School and the University of Sydney. Crawford married Jessie Morgan on 18 May 1935 and together they had a daughter. Career In 1941 Crawford helped to create the Agricultural Economics Section of the New South Wales Government's Department of Agriculture. In 1942 he began working at the Department of War Organisation of Industry, before being appointed Director of Research at the Department of Post-War Reconstruction in 1943. In 1945 he was appointed inaugural Director of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, followed by Secretary of the Department of Commerce and Agriculture (later Department of Trade), and then Secretary of the Dep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Alahverdian
Nicholas Alahverdian (born July 11, 1987), also known as Nicholas Rossi and Arthur Knight, among other aliases, is an American sex offender who faked his own death in 2020. Alahverdian alleged that he suffered abuse and negligence in the Department of Children Youth and Families (DCYF), Rhode Island's social service system. In support of this allegation, he unsuccessfully sued the DCYF in federal court in 2011, then voluntarily dismissed the lawsuit when Rhode Island waived his medical expenses debt of around $200,000. In January 2020, Alahverdian said that he had been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma. In February 2020, news outlets reported Alahverdian's death, citing his family's anonymous testimony and his obituary. The reports of his death were disputed, as they occurred after the FBI initiated a fraud investigation against him, while Rhode Island police had a warrant on him for failure to register as a sex offender. In October 2021, he was discovered in a hospital in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Browne (other)
Nicholas Browne (1947–2014) was a British diplomat. Nicholas Browne may also refer to: *Nick Browne (American football) (born 1980), former American football placekicker *Nick Browne (cricketer) Nicholas Laurence Joseph Browne (born 24 March 1991) is an English cricketer who plays for Essex as a left-handed batsman who bowls leg breaks. He studied at Trinity Catholic High School, Woodford Green, and has played for South Woodford CC si ... (born 1991), English cricketer See also * Nicholas Brown (other) {{hndis, Browne, Nicholas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Brown (other)
Nick Brown (born 1950) is British Labour Party politician, MP for Newcastle upon Tyne and former government minister. Nick Brown may also refer to: * Nick Brown (tennis) (born 1961), British tennis player and coach * Nicholas W. Brown (lawyer) (born 1977), United States Attorney and former ''Survivor'' contestant * Nick Brown (academic) Nicholas David Leimu-Brown (born 4 December 1962) is a British botanist and academic. Since 2010, he has been Principal (academia), Principal of Linacre College, Oxford. He is also a Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan, Commonwealth Sch ... (born 1962), British botanist and academic * Nick Brown (umpire), Australian rules football umpire * Nick Allen Brown (born 1978), American author and speaker See also * Nicholas Brown (other) {{DEFAULTSORT:Brown, Nick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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