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Nickson
Nickson is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Arthur Nickson (1902–1974), British writer of western fiction * David Nickson, Baron Nickson (born 1929), British businessman * Elizabeth Nickson, Canadian journalist * George Nickson (1864–1924), Anglican bishop * Hilda Nickson aka Hilda Pressley (1912–1977), British writer of romance novels *J. J. Nickson (1915–1985), American physician *Julia Nickson Julia Nickson is a Singaporean–American actress. She first came to the attention of audiences in the United States in the Sylvester Stallone film '' Rambo: First Blood Part II''. She appeared in the 2004 film ''Ethan Mao'' and in the 2008 inde ... (born 1958), Singaporean-born American actress * Nick Nickson (born 1953), American sportscaster * Susan Nickson (born 1982), English television screenwriter See also * Nixon (other) {{DEFAULTSORT:Nickson English-language surnames Patronymic surnames Surnames from given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Nickson, Baron Nickson
David Wigley Nickson, Baron Nickson, (born 27 November 1929) is a British businessman, a former crossbench peer and a former President of the Confederation of British Industry. He was Chairman of the Clydesdale Bank, Scottish & Newcastle, Scottish Enterprise and the Government's Senior Salaries Review Body. Business career Nickson worked from 1954 to 1982 at William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd publishers, made director in 1961, joint managing director in 1967, vice chairman in 1976 and group managing director in 1979. He was director of Scottish United Investors from 1970 to 1983, of General Accident Fire and Life Assurance Corporation from 1971 to 1998, of the Clydesdale Bank 1981 to 1989, of Scottish & Newcastle Breweries 1981 to 1995, of Radio Clyde 1982 to 1985, of The Edinburgh Investment Trust between 1983 and 1994, of the Hambros Bank 1989 to 1998 and of the National Australia Bank from 1991 to 1996. In many companies he was also chairman or deputy chairman at any time. P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Nickson
Elizabeth Nickson is a Canadian writer and journalist. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, she was European bureau chief of ''Life'' magazine. In 1994, Bloomsbury UK, Knopf Canada and Steidl published her novel ''The Monkey Puzzle Tree'', an account of the CIA brainwashing trials in Montreal in the 1950s and 1960s. In 2012, HarperCollins US published Nickson's ''Eco-fascists, How Radical Conservationists Are Destroying Our Natural Heritage'', under editor Adam Bellow's imprint Broadside Books. In 2016, Nickson wrote a series of papers for a Canadian think tank, the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, detailing the policy implication of environmental land use in Canada. Nickson has also written for '' Harpers Magazine'', ''The Sunday Times Magazine'', and ''The Guardian'', and was a weekly columnist for the ''Globe and Mail'' and the ''National Post The ''National Post'' is a Canadian English-language broadsheet newspaper available in several cities in central and wester ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Nickson
Nicholas R. Nickson (born December 21, 1953) is an American sportscaster who currently serves as the radio play-by-play announcer for the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League. Biography Early career A native of Rochester, New York, Nickson attended Ithaca College, where he served as the Sports Director and play-by-play announcer for the school's radio station, WICB. His professional broadcasting career began in 1975 with the Rochester Americans. From 1977–81 he called games for the New Haven Nighthawks. Kings broadcasting career Nickson joined the Kings in 1981, calling games on TV and radio with Bob Miller. When the TV and radio broadcasts were separated in 1990, Nickson became the Kings radio play-by-play announcer. He has called all three of the Kings' appearances in the Stanley Cup Finals. As such, he was the voice Kings fans heard on the radio when they won their first-ever Stanley Cup. At the end of that game, Nickson told the story of the franchise up to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hilda Nickson
Hilda Nickson, née Pressley (18 November 1912 – 1977) was a British writer of over 60 romance novels published from 1957 to 1977, under her married and maiden name, and as Hilda Pressley. She was vice-president of the Romantic Novelists' Association. She was married to the writer Arthur Nickson (1902–1974). Biography Hilda Pressley was born on 18 November 1912 in Maltby, England, UK. She married the Western fiction novelist Arthur (Thomas) Nickson (a.k.a. Arthur Hodson, Roy Peters, John Saunders, and Matt Winstan). She published her first novels as Hilda Nickson at Herbert Jenkins in the 1950s, before being taken on at Mills & Boon under her married name and as Hilda Pressley. Most of her novels were republished under the Harlequin imprint, sometimes with different titles. Her first novels were popular doctor-nurse romances; love triangles frequently feature in her plots, and she also set her novels in Italy or Spain. Hilda Pressley Nickson died in 1977. Bibliography As ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julia Nickson
Julia Nickson is a Singaporean–American actress. She first came to the attention of audiences in the United States in the Sylvester Stallone film '' Rambo: First Blood Part II''. She appeared in the 2004 film ''Ethan Mao'' and in the 2008 independent film ''Half-Life''. Personal life Nickson was married to actor/singer David Soul from 1987 to 1993. They have one daughter, China Soul, a singer/songwriter. She was a practising Scientologist, having joined the Church in 1996. She credited the organization with helping to improve her health. However in 2008, Nickson left the Church of Scientology. Career While attending the University of Hawaii, Nickson was a model in Honolulu. There she appeared in her first play, ''The Winter's Tale''. After acting classes, community theater, and roles on ''Magnum, P.I.'', she won the female lead in '' Rambo: First Blood Part II'' (1985). She appeared with Chuck Norris in '' Sidekicks'' (1992). Her other film appearances have included roles i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Nickson
Arthur Thomas Nickson (4 February 1902 in Liverpool, England – 5 January 1974), was a British western fiction writer as Arthur Nickson, Matt Winstan, John Saunders, Arthur Hodson and Roy Peters, from 1956 to 1968. He married the also English writer Hilda Nickson Hilda Nickson, née Pressley (18 November 1912 – 1977) was a British writer of over 60 romance novels published from 1957 to 1977, under her married and maiden name, and as Hilda Pressley. She was vice-president of the Romantic Novelists' Ass ..., née Hilda Pressley. Bibliography As Arthur Nickson Single novels *Tin Star Sheriff (1956) *Gold Trail (1957) *No Star for the Deputy (1957) *Silver Town (1957) *Dust Was His Shroud (1960) *Guns Blaze at Noon (1960) *Bounty Hunter's Trail (1961) *Lone Killer (1961) *Arizona Gun Feud (1962) *Gunfight at Nolan's Canyon (1963) *Two Deputies Came Riding (1963) *Arizona Hideout (1964) *Gun Trail (1964) *Range Tramp (1965) *Ride a Crooked Trail (1966) *Sandy Creek Rustle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Nickson
Susan Nickson (born 1982) is an English screenwriter and executive producer. Early life Nickson was raised in Runcorn, Cheshire, where she attended The Grange School. Career Nickson began her career aged 14 when she won won the Lloyds Bank Film Challenge with a ten-minute short film called ''Buddah's Legs''. In 1995, her half-hour satirical comedy ''Life's a Bitch'', starring Sean Hughes and Kathy Burke, aired on Channel 4. Her first original sitcom, Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, ran for ten years, across 9 series, with Nickson writing the majority of the episodes. The series enjoyed enormous popular success, helping to launch the careers of its stars Sheridan Smith, Ralf Little and Will Mellor. It can still regularly be seen on BBC Three, and is currently available on BBC iPlayer. Nickson also created the BBC Three sitcom Grownups, script edited Coming of Age, and contributed episodes to series 11 and 12 of Birds of a Feather. In 2022, her latest original ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Nickson
George Nickson (9 May 1864 – 23 February 1949) was an Anglican bishop. Nickson was born on 9 May 1864 and educated at Trinity College, Dublin and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He was ordained in 1889. His first post was as a curate at Holy Trinity, Cambridge, after which he was successively Vicar of St Benedict, Cambridge, St John the Divine Fairfield, Liverpool and St Andrew's Southport before being appointed Rural Dean of West Derby in 1905. In 1906 he became the first Suffragan Bishop of Jarrow Jarrow ( or ) is a town in South Tyneside in the county of Tyne and Wear, England. It is east of Newcastle upon Tyne. It is situated on the south bank of the River Tyne, about from the east coast. It is home to the southern portal of the Tyne .... In 1911, he was nominated for translation to the post of Bishop of Southwark but a breakdown led to him withdrawing his acceptance of the offer.The Times obituary,25.2.1949. The Times Digital Archive,web 9.3 2013 After his recovery ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nixon (other)
Richard Nixon (1913–1994) was the president of the United States from 1969 to 1974. Nixon may also refer to: Places Canada *Nixon, Ontario, a hamlet United States *Nixon, Nevada, a US census-designated place *Nixon, New Jersey, an unincorporated community * Nixon, Pennsylvania, a US census-designated place *Nixon, Texas, a city * Lake Nixon, a lake and private recreation area near Little Rock, Arkansas * Nixon Lake, a lake in Minnesota Arts and entertainment * ''Nixon'' (film), a 1995 American drama directed by Oliver Stone *'' Nixon: Ruin and Recovery, 1973–1990'', a 1991 book by Stephen Ambrose *The Nixons, an American rock band * ''Nixon'' (album), a 2000 album by Lambchop Other uses *Nixon (surname), a list of people and fictional characters with that name *Nixon Nitration Works, a group of plants near New Brunswick, New Jersey, site of a disastrous explosion and fire *Nixon (company), American company for watches, accessories and audio See also *Nixon Doctrine, also kno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English-language Surnames
English is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots language, Scots, and then closest related to the Low German, Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is Genetic relationship (linguistics), genealogically West Germanic language, West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by Langues d'oïl, dialects of France (about List of English words of French origin, 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patronymic Surnames
A patronymic, or patronym, is a component of a personal name based on the given name of one's father, grandfather (avonymic), or an earlier male ancestor. Patronymics are still in use, including mandatory use, in many countries worldwide, although their use has largely been replaced by or transformed into patronymic surnames. Examples of such transformations include common English surnames such as Johnson (son of John). Origins of terms The usual noun and adjective in English is ''patronymic'', but as a noun this exists in free variation alongside ''patronym''. The first part of the word ''patronym'' comes from Greek πατήρ ''patēr'' "father" (GEN πατρός ''patros'' whence the combining form πατρο- ''patro''-); the second part comes from Greek ὄνυμα ''onyma'', a variant form of ὄνομα ''onoma'' "name". In the form ''patronymic'', this stands with the addition of the suffix -ικός (''-ikos''), which was originally used to form adjectives with the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
