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Percy Dowse, 1958
The English surname Percy is of Norman origin, coming from Normandy to England, United Kingdom. It was from the House of Percy, Norman lords of Northumberland, derives from the village of Percy-en-Auge in Normandy. From there, it came into use as a given name. It is also a short form of the given name Percival, Perseus, etc. People Surname * Alf Percy, Scottish footballer * Algernon Percy (other) * Charles H. Percy (1919–2011), American businessman and politician * Eileen Percy (1900–1973), Irish-born American actress * George Percy (1580–1632), English explorer, author, and colonial governor * Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland (1341–1408), son of Henry de Percy, 3rd Baron Percy, and a descendant of Henry III of England * Henry Percy (Hotspur) (1364–1403), eldest son of Henry Percy * Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland (1742–1817), British lieutenant-general in the American Revolutionary War * James Gilbert Percy (1921–2015), Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Normans
The Normans (Norman language, Norman: ''Normaunds''; french: Normands; la, Nortmanni/Normanni) were a population arising in the medieval Duchy of Normandy from the intermingling between Norsemen, Norse Viking settlers and indigenous West Francia, West Franks and Gallo-Roman culture, Gallo-Romans. The term is also used to denote emigrants from the duchy who conquered other territories such as England and Sicily. The Norse settlements in West Francia followed a series of raids on the French northern coast mainly from Denmark, although some also sailed from Norway and Sweden. These settlements were finally legitimized when Rollo, a Scandinavian Viking leader, agreed to swear fealty to Charles the Simple, King Charles III of West Francia following the Siege of Chartres (911), siege of Chartres in 911. The intermingling in Normandy produced an Ethnic group, ethnic and cultural "Norman" identity in the first half of the 10th century, an identity which continued to evolve over the ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Gilbert Percy
James Gilbert Percy (July 26, 1921 – September 16, 2015) was a United States Marine Corps officer. He was a flying ace credited with shooting down six Japanese aircraft and was awarded the Navy Cross during World War II. Early life James G. Percy was born on July 26, 1921 in Ventura County, California. He was raised in Northern California, and began attending New Mexico Military Institute in 1937. Percy graduated from the high school division in 1939 and the junior college division in 1941. In August 1941, Percy was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps and was designated as a Naval aviator. World War II Cactus Air Force ace During World War II, First Lieutenant Percy was assigned to Marine Fighting Squadron 112 (VMF-112). VMF-112 arrived at Henderson Field in Guadalcanal on November 2, 1942, making up part of the Cactus Air Force. Lieutenant Percy began to engage in combat missions in F4F Wildcats on November 14, when he participated in overwatc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Percy Williams Bridgman
Percy Williams Bridgman (April 21, 1882 – August 20, 1961) was an American physicist who received the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the physics of high pressures. He also wrote extensively on the scientific method and on other aspects of the philosophy of science. The Bridgman effect, the Bridgman–Stockbarger technique, and the high-pressure mineral bridgmanite are named after him. Biography Early life Bridgman was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and grew up in nearby Auburndale. Bridgman's parents were both born in New England. His father, Raymond Landon Bridgman, was "profoundly religious and idealistic" and worked as a newspaper reporter assigned to state politics. His mother, Mary Ann Maria Williams, was described as "more conventional, sprightly, and competitive". Bridgman attended both elementary and high school in Auburndale, where he excelled at competitions in the classroom, on the playground, and while playing chess. Described as both shy and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Percy Barnevik
Percy Nils Barnevik HonFREng (born 13 February 1941) is a Swedish business executive, best known as CEO and later Chairman of Asea Brown Boveri (ABB) 1988–2002, and for being the centre of a giant pension dispute that shook Sweden in 2003. He is the co-founder of the non-profit organization Hand in Hand. Background Born in Simrishamn in southern Sweden, the youngest of three children, he grew up in Uddevalla, north of Gothenburg, where his parents operated a small printing company. Barnevik was educated at the University of Gothenburg's School of Business, Economics and Law and at Stanford Graduate School of Business. He has received seven honorary doctorates in Sweden, Finland and the U.S., including from Linköping University (1989) and the University of Gothenburg (1991). In 1993, Barnevik received the IEEE Engineering Leadership Recognition Award. Career Barnevik started his professional career in the Swedish company Datema, but soon moved to Sandvik. In Sandviken, wher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Percy Adlon
Paul Rudolf Parsifal "Percy" Adlon (; born 1 June 1935) is a German director, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known for his film ''Bagdad Cafe''. He is associated with the New German Cinema movement (ca. 1965–1985), and has been noted for his strong female characters and positive portrayals of lesbian relationships. Early life Adlon was born in Munich, Germany. He grew up in Ammerland/ Starnberger See. He studied art, theater history, and German literature at Munich's Ludwig-Maximilian University; took acting and singing classes; and was a member of the student theater group. Career Percy's films are shown and compete regularly at international film festivals, such as the Cannes Film Festival, the Berlin International Film Festival, and others. He started his professional career as an actor, became interested in radio work, was a narrator and editor of literature series and a presenter and voice-over actor in television for 10 years. In 1970, he made his first short ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Percy Addleshaw
Percy Addleshaw (1866 in Bowdon, Cheshire – 1916) was an English barrister and writer. A graduate of Christ Church, Oxford, Addleshaw was called to the bar in 1893. He was an admirer and friend of Roden Noel Roden is a name of Germanic origin, originally meaning "red valley" or an anglicization of the Gaelic name "O'Rodain". It may refer to: Places *Roden, Bavaria, a town in the Main-Spessart district of Bavaria, Germany * Roden, Netherlands, a town .... He wrote articles, poems and reviews for various publications and, under the pseudonym of Percy Hemingway published ''Out of Egypt'', a volume of short stories (1894) and ''The Happy Wanderer and other Poems'' (1895). References Further reading * ''A Victorian Anthology'', Houghton, Mifflin and Company (1895) External links * * English male journalists 1866 births 1916 deaths Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford English male short story writers English short story writers English male poets {{england-w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Percy Abercrombie
Percy John Abercrombie (1 January 1884 – 22 May 1964) was an Australian rules footballer of the 1900s who played with Essendon and South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Early life Percy Abercrombie was born on New Year's Day in 1884, the second son of teacher Ralph Abercrombie and Mary Pearsall Lear. He was educated at Kew State School and Camberwell Grammar School. Football career Abercrombie was a member of Hawthorn's first ever team in 1902 in the Metropolitan Junior Football Association (MJFA) and established himself as a leading player, being selected as part of a MJFA representative team. Abercrombie was then promoted to senior ranks, making two appearances for Essendon in the 1903 VFL season. He was reported as promising “to become a fine footballer” and “greatly pleasing the critics”, however failed to secure a regular place in the Essendon team. He continued at Hawthorn, playing 30 games for them, and then in 1905 returned to the VFL com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Percy (other)
William Percy may refer to: * William de Percy (d.c. 1096/9), Anglo-Norman nobleman, crusader and founder of Whitby Abbey * William Percy (c.1337-1407), MP for Sussex *William Percy (bishop) (1428–1462), British bishop * William Percy (writer) (1574–1648), English poet and playwright * William Percy (portrait artist) (1820–1903), of Manchester, England *William Henry Percy (1788–1855), British naval officer * William Alexander Percy (politician), (1834–1888) American politician and grandfather of the below *William Alexander Percy (1885–1942), American lawyer, planter and poet *William Armstrong Percy III (born 1933), American historian and gay activist See also *William Percy Carpmael (1864–1936), founder of The Barbarians football club * Percy The English surname Percy is of Norman origin, coming from Normandy to England, United Kingdom. It was from the House of Percy, Norman lords of Northumberland, derives from the village of Percy-en-Auge in Normandy. From t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walker Percy
Walker Percy, OSB (May 28, 1916 – May 10, 1990) was an American writer whose interests included philosophy and semiotics. Percy is noted for his philosophical novels set in and around New Orleans; his first, ''The Moviegoer'', won the National Book Award for Fiction. Trained as a physician at Columbia University, Percy decided to become a writer after a bout of tuberculosis. He devoted his literary life to the exploration of "the dislocation of man in the modern age."Kimball, RogerExistentialism, Semiotics and Iced Tea, Review of Conversations with Walker PercyNew York Times, August 4, 1985. Retrieved 2010-06-12. His work displays a combination of existential questioning, Southern sensibility, and deep Catholic faith. He had a lifelong friendship with author and historian Shelby Foote and spent much of his life in Covington, Louisiana, where he died of prostate cancer in 1990. Early life and education Percy was born on May 28, 1916, in Birmingham, Alabama, the first of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Percy (other)
Thomas Percy may refer to: *Thomas Percy, 1st Earl of Worcester (1343–1403), English medieval nobleman *Thomas Percy (Pilgrimage of Grace) (1504–1537), executed as a leader of the Pilgrimage of Grace * Thomas Percy (fl. 1563), MP for Plympton Erle *Thomas Percy (died 1572), MP for Westmorland *Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland (1528–1572), led the Rising of the North and was executed for treason, beatified by the Catholic Church *Thomas Percy, 1st Baron Egremont (1422–1460), son of Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland and Lady Eleanor Neville *Thomas Percy (bishop of Norwich) (died 1369), Bishop of Norwich *Thomas Percy (Gunpowder Plot) (c.1560–1605), one of the conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot * Thomas Percy (bishop of Dromore) (1729–1811), Bishop of Dromore and collector of ''Percy's Reliques'' *Thomas George Percy (1704–1794), American cotton planter and settler of Alabama See also * Percy The English surname Percy is of Norman origin, coming from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Percy
Samuel Percy (1750–1820) was an Irish-born sculptor mainly working as a wax-modeller in England. He has a unique style, creating three dimensional miniature portraits in coloured wax. Life He was born and raised in Dublin and trained at the Dublin Society's Schools, exhibiting from 1772. He left Ireland and moved to London around 1785 and lived there for the rest of his life.Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851 by Rupert Gunnis p.299/300 He exhibited in the Royal Academy from 1786 to 1804. He died suddenly of apoplexy in 1820. Works *Abraham offering Isaac (1772) *Portrait of the Emperor and Empress of Russia (1788) *Portrait of Louis XVI *Portrait of King George III (1795) at Windsor Castle *Portrait of Queen Charlotte (1795) at Windsor Castle *Model for Monument to Admiral Nelson (1806) *Portrait of Joshua McGough of Drumsill (1811) *A Woman with Children Gathering Apples at Victoria and Albert Museum *Portrait of Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales (1814) Nationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Percy
Sir Richard Percy (died 1648) was an English soldier who served in Ireland during the 1590s.Falls p.216 He was part of the Percy Family, the son of Henry Percy, 8th Earl of Northumberland and younger brother of Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland. Following the outbreak of Tyrone's Rebellion in Ireland, he raised a regiment, of which the majority were drawn from Wales, to supplement the under-strength Irish Army. The regiment was badly mauled during the Battle of the Yellow Ford in 1598 when, as the advance guard of the relief expedition to a besieged fort on the River Blackwater, they were attacked by Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone's rebel forces. Percy's regiment suffered heavy losses in what amounted to a major defeat in which the Marshal of Ireland, Sir Henry Bagenal Sir Henry Bagenal PC (c. 1556 – 14 August 1598) was marshal of the Royal Irish Army during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Life He was the eldest son of Nicholas Bagenal and Eleanor Griffith, daughter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
