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Probyn Gregory
Probyn or Probin may refer to the following people: ;Given name * Probin Deka (born 1943), Indian politician * Probin Kumar Gogoi, Indian politician * Probyn Inniss (born 1935), Governor of Saint Kitts and Nevis ;Surname * Major Cyril Probyn Napier Raikes (1875–1963), Military Cross recipient * Dighton Probyn (1833–1924), English Victoria Cross recipient *Dudley Probyn (1912–2005), Australian rules footballer *Edmund Probyn (1678–1742), British judge * Elspeth Probyn (born 1958), Australian academic * Jeff Probyn (born 1956), English international Rugby Union player *Leslie Probyn (1862–1938), an administrator for the British Empire * May Probyn (1856–1909), English poet * Siaka Probyn Stevens Siaka Probyn Stevens (24 August 1905 – 29 May 1988) was the leader of Sierra Leone from 1967 to 1985, serving as Prime Minister of Sierra Leone, Prime Minister from 1967 to 1971 and as President from 1971 to 1985. Stevens' leadership was ofte ... (1905–1988), president ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Probin Deka
Probin Deka (1 October 1943) is an Indian politician. He was elected to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian Parliament, from the Mangaldoi constituency of Assam in 1991 and is a member of the Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British E ....- - - References External links Official biographical sketch in the Lok Sabha website 1943 births Living people India MPs 1991–1996 Lok Sabha members from Assam People from Darrang district Indian National Congress politicians from Assam {{Assam-INC-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Probin Kumar Gogoi
Probin Gogoi is an Asom Gana Parishad politician from Assam, India. He was elected to the Assam Legislative Assembly election in 1985, 1996, 2002 and 2006, specifically to the Khumtai constituency. He was the minister of sports and civil supply in the Prafulla Kumar Mahanta cabinet during its first term in 1995. He died on 12 October 2016 at Guwahati Medical College Hospital, Guwahati Guwahati (, ; formerly rendered Gauhati, ) is the biggest city of the Indian state of Assam and also the largest metropolis in northeastern India. Dispur, the capital of Assam, is in the circuit city region located within Guwahati and is the ..., after a prolonged illness. He was 66. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Gogoi, Probin 1949 births 2016 deaths Asom Gana Parishad politicians Assam MLAs 1985–1991 Assam MLAs 1996–2001 Assam MLAs 2001–2006 Assam MLAs 2006–2011 People from Nagaon district ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Probyn Inniss
Sir Probyn Ellsworth Inniss MBE (18 November 1936 – 12 March 2017) was the Governor of Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla from 1975 to 1980, and then, following the separation of Anguilla, the Governor of Saint Christopher and Nevis from 1980 to 1981. Early life Inniss was born in Saint Kitts, where he attended secondary school, and went on to study at the University College of West Indies, graduating in 1961. After working as a schoolteacher for a period, he went to England to study law, eventually being called to the bar as a member of the Middle Temple. He entered the civil service on returning to Saint Kitts,"Probyn Ellsworth Inniss" – Caribbean Elections. Retrieved 24 April 2016. and in June 1967 was made a |
Cyril Raikes
Cyril Probyn Napier Raikes (1875–1963) was a British Army officer who was awarded the Military Cross in the World War I Mesopotamian campaign flying in the British army's Royal Engineers monitoring the oil pipelines there. He had previously fought in the Boer War. Cyril Raikes was born 12 November 1875 in Swanmore, Hampshire, England the son of General Robert Napier Raikes. He was a Lieutenant in the Boer War, South Africa 1900-1902, gaining a medal and four bars. Before World War I, he developed water services in Egypt. He became the Overseas Director of the British Oxygen Company traveling extensively throughout the Middle East, Europe, South Africa and South America to develop business there. He lived at The Mount, Godalming, Surrey. During the 2nd World War while still working for the British Oxygen Company and staying at the Thatched House Club, St James's, he served as a fire watcher in London, for instance on the top of St Paul's Cathedral. He then lived in Rolle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dighton Probyn
General Sir Dighton Macnaghten Probyn, (21 January 1833 – 20 June 1924) was a British Army officer and an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Early career The son of Captain George Probyn and Alicia Workman, daughter of Sir Francis Workman Macnaghten, 1st Baronet, Dighton Probyn entered the light cavalry arm of the East India Company's Bengal Army as a cornet in 1849, being posted into the 6th Light Cavalry. In 1852, he was appointed adjutant of the newly raised 2nd Punjab Cavalry which formed part of the 11,000 strong Punjab Irregular Force responsible for policing the Trans-Indus Frontier. At the time of the outbreak of the Indian Rebellion of 1857, on 10 May 1857, Dighton Probyn was at Jullundur, the station of the 6th Bengal Light Cavalry. Probyn's squadron of the 2nd Punjab Cavalry fought throughout the uprising, with Probyn being 'Mentioned in Desp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dudley Probyn
Dudley Charles "Doug" Probyn (1 October 1912 – 13 December 2005) was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Probyn was recruited to St. Kilda via Prahan FC after playing in their 1940 VFA grand final loss to Port Melbourne. Probyn coached the Wodonga Football Club in 1945, winning the club best and fairest award and also the Border Football Association best and fairest award, The Border Mail Medal in 1945. Probyn then won the 1949 - K J Azzi Medal in the Hume Football League when playing the Brocklesby Football Club Probyn also won the Benalla & District Football League's best and fairest award as captain of the Tolmie Football Club in 1952. Probyn played with Milawa in the Ovens & King Football League The Ovens & King Football Netball League is a minor country Australian rules football league based in North-Eastern Victoria in the vicinity of Wangaratta and more recently Benalla. History The ''Ovens & K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmund Probyn
Sir Edmund Probyn SL (1678 — 17 May 1742) was a British judge. Born to William Probyn and his wife Elizabeth, Probyn was baptised on 16 July 1678, and is next recorded as having matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford on 23 April 1695, joining the Middle Temple on 27 November. He was called to the Bar on 15 May 1702, and in 1720 married Elizabeth Blencowe, daughter of Sir John Blencowe. After 20 years of "the usual forensic drudgery", Probyn secured appointment as a justice of the Brecon, Glamorgan, and Radnor circuit court in 1721, and became a Serjeant-at-Law on 27 January 1724, defending Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield at his trial for embezzlement. On 3 November 1726 he became a Justice of the King's Bench, succeeding Sir Littleton Powys, and on 24 November 1740 became Chief Baron of the Exchequer, succeeding Sir John Comyns. After his death on 17 May 1742, Probyn's estate was left to his nephew, John Hopkins, on the condition that he took the last name Probyn. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elspeth Probyn
Elspeth Probyn (born 1958) is an Australian academic. She is currently Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. Staff Profile, University of Sydney. Early life and education In a 2019 ''Feminism & Psychology'' interview, Probyn spoke of growing up in an army family and moving frequently. She described her father as upper middle class and her mother as a Canadian whose own father had been "a staunch socialist". Probyn credited her father's concern that she and her sister speak in English accents appropriate to their class status with having awakened her early awareness about class differences. Probyn attended state schoo ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Probyn
Jeff Probyn (born 27 April 1956 in Bethnal Green, London) is an English former Rugby Union player. The Old Albanian, Streatham and Wasps prop was selected in England's squad for the 1987 Rugby World Cup, but Probyn did not make his international debut until 1988, at the age of 31, against France. Inexblicably left out of the 1993 Lions squad that toured New Zealand, Probyn toured South Africa with a World XV in 1989, played for the Lions against France in 1989 and was a member of the Wasps FC side that won the English Courage league in 1990. Along with Stuart Barnes, Wade Dooley, Mike Teague, Peter Winterbottom and Jon Webb, Probyn wore the England shirt for the last time in a 17–3 defeat by Ireland at Lansdowne Road in 1993. In total, he won 37 caps for England and scored 3 tries. Probyn was fairly slight for a modern international prop, and a good part of his effectiveness can be explained by his unusual physique: his bony shoulders sloped at a sharp angle, he was s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie Probyn
Sir Leslie Probyn (23 February 1862 – 17 December 1938) was an administrator for the British Empire. Career Probyn was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1884. He began his career as a British colonial administrator in the Caribbean. From 1893 to 1896, he served as Attorney-General of British Honduras. In 1896, he was appointed Attorney General of Grenada. He was then moved to west Africa, serving successively as Secretary and Acting High Commissioner of Southern Nigeria (1901-1904) and governor of Sierra Leone (1904-1910). Sierra Leone In Sierra Leone, he increased native suffrage and sought to make sure that laws were not enacted without active native participation in the process. During his six years as governor of Sierra Leone (1904 to 1910) he held "referendums" amongst "natives" to judge whether or not there was popular support for policies amongst the indigenous population. As a matter of policy in Sierra Leone, Probyn would not enforce rules unless he felt th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
May Probyn
Juliana Mary Louisa Probyn, known as May Probyn (12 April 1856 – 29 March 1909) was an English poet, one of a group of lively and somewhat political British ''fin de siècle'' poets. She was born in Avranches, France. Her parents were the writer John Webb Probyn and Mary Christiana ''née'' Spicer; and the novelist and short-story writer Sophie Dora Spicer Maude was a cousin. She was the first love of William Satchell,Stafford, Jane and Williams, Mark, ''Maoriland: New Zealand Literature 1872–1914'' (Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2006), p. 232. who published the first two of her three books of poetry. She published a novel in 1878, and became a Catholic convert in 1883.''The Selected Letters of Katharine Tynan: Poet and Novelist'', edited by Damian Atkinson (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016), p. 84, n. 133. Among her friends were W. B. Yeats, Thomas Westwood, the fishing writer, Vernon Lee, and Katharine Tynan, with whom in 1895 she published ''Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siaka Stevens
Siaka Probyn Stevens (24 August 1905 – 29 May 1988) was the leader of Sierra Leone from 1967 to 1985, serving as Prime Minister of Sierra Leone, Prime Minister from 1967 to 1971 and as President from 1971 to 1985. Stevens' leadership was often characterized by patrimonial rule and self-indulgence, consolidating power by means of corruption and exploitation. Stevens and his All People's Congress (APC) party won the closely contested 1967 Sierra Leone general elections over incumbent Prime Minister Sir Albert Margai of the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP). In April 1971, Stevens made Sierra Leone a republic and became president a day after the constitution had been ratified by the Sierra Leone Parliament. Though generally considered as the first president of Sierra Leone, technically he was the second President of the Republic after Christopher Okoro Cole, a judge, who was sworn in for a day after which he resigned, paving the way for Stevens. Stevens served as Chairman of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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