Prance

	Prance Prance is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Bertram Prance (1889–1958), British artist and illustrator * George Prance (1827–1885), sailor in the U.S. Navy during the American Civil War * Ghillean Prance Sir Ghillean Tolmie Prance (born 13 July 1937) is a prominent British botanist and ecologist who has published extensively on the taxonomy of families such as Chrysobalanaceae and Lecythidaceae, but drew particular attention in documenting the ... (born 1937), British botanist and ecologist * Miles Prance ( fl. 1678), English Roman Catholic craftsman {{Surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Ghillean Prance Sir Ghillean Tolmie Prance (born 13 July 1937) is a prominent British botanist and ecologist who has published extensively on the taxonomy of families such as Chrysobalanaceae and Lecythidaceae, but drew particular attention in documenting the pollination ecology of ''Victoria amazonica''. Prance is a former Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Early life Prance was born on 13 July 1937 in Brandeston, Suffolk, England. He was educated at Malvern College and Keble College, Oxford. In 1957, he achieved BSc Biology. In 1963 he received a D. Phil. in Forest Botany from the Commonwealth Forestry Institute, Oxford. Career Prance worked from 1963 at The New York Botanical Garden, initially as a research assistant and, on his departure in 1988, as Director of the Institute of Economic Botany and Senior Vice-President for Science. Much of his career at the New York Botanical Garden was spent conducting extensive fieldwork in the Amazon region of Brazil. In 1973 he coordinated th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Bertram Prance Bertram Stanley Prance (5 December 1889 – 9 August 1958) was a British artist, poster artist and illustrator who worked as a cartoonist for ''Punch'' magazine among others. Early life Prance was born in Bideford in Devon in 1889, one of five children of Deera Lock ''née'' Hollway (1861–1952) and Captain Fredrick William Prance (1859–1939) who was the owner and skipper of the fishing trawler 'Deera' (named after his wife), which operated out of the quayside in Bideford. Prance attended Bideford Art School and was a subscriber to the Press Art School, a correspondence course for drawing founded by Percy Bradshaw. The 1911 Census for Bideford lists Prance at the family home at 66 High Street with an occupation of Art Pupil Teacher employed by Bideford Council. In 1915 in Lambeth he married Kate 'Kitty' Lily Macfarlane (1895-1979) from Barnstaple and with her had two children: Barbara Valerie Prance (1920–1982) and Christopher Paul MacFarlane Prance (1927–). From 191 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Miles Prance Miles Prance (''fl.'' 1678) was an English Roman Catholic craftsman who was caught up in and perjured himself during the Popish Plot and the resulting anti-Catholic hysteria in London during the reign of Charles II. Life Prance was born on the Isle of Ely, the son of a Roman Catholic, and he rose quickly from his humble origins as an apprentice goldsmith to servant-in-ordinary to Catherine of Braganza, Charles II's queen. He was married with a family, living in Covent Garden at the time of his arrest. Popish Plot Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey died in October 1678; he disappeared from his home and was found dead at Primrose Hill, having apparently been strangled and run through with a sword some days before his death. Godfrey, though normally tolerant in matters of religion, had been militating against the Jesuits around the time of the Popish Plot, the great wave of anti-Catholic hysteria which swept across England in 1678 due to the lies of Titus Oates about a Catholic conspirac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	George Prance George Prance (1827 – April 3, 1885) was a sailor in the U.S. Navy during the American Civil War. He received the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Second Battle of Fort Fisher on January 15, 1865. Military service Immigrating from his native France, Prance volunteered for service in the U.S. Navy and was assigned to the Union sloop-of-war . His enlistment is credited to the state of Massachusetts. On January 15, 1865, the North Carolina Confederate stronghold of Fort Fisher was taken by a combined Union storming party of sailors, marines, and soldiers under the command of Admiral David Dixon Porter and General Alfred Terry. Prance directed fire from the Ticonderoga's guns upon Fort Fisher. Medal of Honor citation Death and burial Medal of Honor recipient George Prance died April 3, 1885 of a self-inflicted gunshot and was buried in Mountain View Cemetery (Oakland, California). Prance's death notice in the April 4, 1885 Daily Alta newspaper read: An inquest was hel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]