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Pearce (surname)
Pearce is a surname, from knights of the Norman lord Mansfield prior to the invasion of England. It derives etymologically from the Germanic word to pierce, and was a name commonly given to warrior caste in Saxon/Jute, p-celtic and oil languages. Another etymology is from Piers, the medieval vernacular form of Peter, and may refer to: People *Adam Pearce (born 1978), American professional wrestler * Adrienne Pearce, South African actress *Al Pearce (1898–1961), American comedian, singer and banjoist * Alec Pearce (1910–1982), English cricketer *Alex Pearce (born 1988), English footballer * Alexander Pearce (1790–1824), escapee from Macquarie Harbour Penal Station *Alice Pearce (1917–1966), American actress * Allan Pearce (born 1983), New Zealand soccer player *Andy Pearce (born 1966), English footballer * Austin Pearce (1921–2004), British manager * Barcley Pearce (born 1970), Canadian ice hockey player *Beth Pearce, Vermont government official * Bill Pearce (1926–2010) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surname
In some cultures, a surname, family name, or last name is the portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family, tribe or community. Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name, as the forename, or at the end; the number of surnames given to an individual also varies. As the surname indicates genetic inheritance, all members of a family unit may have identical surnames or there may be variations; for example, a woman might marry and have a child, but later remarry and have another child by a different father, and as such both children could have different surnames. It is common to see two or more words in a surname, such as in compound surnames. Compound surnames can be composed of separate names, such as in traditional Spanish culture, they can be hyphenated together, or may contain prefixes. Using names has been documented in even the oldest historical records. Examples of surnames are documented in the 11th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobby Pearce (rower)
Henry Robert Pearce (30 September 1905 – 20 May 1976) was an Australian three-time world champion sculler of the 1920s and 1930s. He won consecutive Olympic gold medals in the single sculls at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam and the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. He won the World Sculling Championship in 1933, and twice successfully defended that title in 1934 and 1938. He was a three-time Australian national champion and won the Diamond Sculls at the 1931 Henley Royal Regatta. Early life and sporting pedigree Pearce was born in Sydney, Australia, into a family with an extraordinary sporting pedigree. His great-grandfather emigrated from England in 1850 and settled in Double Bay where he worked as a fisherman and ran a boatshed. Pearce's grandfather Henry John "Harry" Pearce, Sr. was an Australian champion in sculling. Harry Pearce had five sons and seven daughters. Pearce's father, Henry J "Harry, Jr" Pearce Jr., was an Australian sculling champion and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colby Pearce
Colby Pearce (born June 12, 1972) is an American professional cyclist. Known as a time trial specialist, he excelled on the road and on the track, where he won a number of national and international events around the globe. Biography Born in Boulder, Colorado, Pearce began riding in the Red Zinger Mini Classics series for 10–15 year olds in 1988. He rode his first race at what was to become his "home track", the USOTC velodrome in Colorado Springs, in 1990. He competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, finishing 14th in the points race. In November 2005 he retired from the national team and became the US National Endurance Coach, saying he wanted to put something back into the sport. But in April 2007, he resigned from his position as coach to return to competitive cycling, although he would still be involved in developing the sport. Colby Pearce continues to coach bike riders of all ages and experience in his hometown of Boulder, Colorado. In February 2012, he tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Col Pearce
Colin Frederick Pearce (1917 – 10 June 2004) was an Australian rugby league referee. He is one of the most widely known and widely respected referees in the history of rugby league. Pearce, born in Newtown, New South Wales, was originally more interested in cricket but that changed to rugby league due to his fascination with the rules and interpretations of the rules of rugby league. He began refereeing in 1946, he was promoted to the first grade fixtures towards the end of the 1947 season. He then took charge of nine test matches between 1960 and 1967, three World Cup matches in 1968 and six Grand Finals, his first being in 1955, and then the others between 1964 and 1968. He enjoyed a career of 343 first grade games. He was authoritative yet he allowed the game to flow. He had a keen relationship with the players where they would show him respect due to his fair and consistent decision making. His motto was that rugby league referees should "eat, sleep and drink the rul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cliff Pearce
Clifford George Pearce (1907-1976) was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. His primary position was as a . Club career He first played for Western Suburbs in 1929 and played 65 games for the club between 1929 and 1937, scoring nineteen tries and kicking six goals. During his time at Western Suburbs, Pearce won a premiership in 1930. He then played for Norths between 1938 and 1940 where he played five first grade games, scoring three goals. Representative career Pearce represented for New South Wales between 1928 and 1933, playing a total of fifteen matches, scoring four tries and two goals. Pearce represented Australia in 1928 and between the years 1932 and 1934, playing seven Tests against England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from cont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clancee Pearce
Clancee Pearce (born 23 October 1990) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Fremantle Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). After attending Chisholm Catholic College and then Guildford Grammar School, Pearce made his senior debut in the WAFL for Swan Districts in Round 17, 2008 and played in eight league games, including the 2008 WAFL Grand Final, which the Swans lost to Subiaco. He had played in Swan District's colts premiership winning side in 2007. Pearce represented Western Australia at the 2008 AFL Under 18 Championships and was named in the All-Australian Team. He was also named as the captain of the 2008 WAFL Colts Team of the Year, but was overlooked in the 2008 National Draft and instead was drafted to Fremantle in the 2009 Rookie Draft with Fremantle's fourth round selection, number 48 overall. After displaying good form during the 2009 WAFL season, including a career high 26 disposals against Peel Thunder in la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Pearce (other)
Chris Pearce is the name of: * Chris Pearce (politician) (born 1963), Australian politician * Chris Pearce (footballer) (born 1961), Welsh footballer * Christopher Pearce (cricketer) (born 1984), English cricketer * Christopher Pierce (rower) (born 1942), British rower who competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics See also *Chris Pierce Chris Pierce is an American singer, songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist, public speaker, wine producer and officiant born and based in California. Early life Pierce is from Pasadena, California. He grew up singing in church and playing ... (fl. 2000s–2020s), American musician * Chris Peirce (fl. 1990s), Canadian political candidate {{hndis, Pearce, Chris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Pearce (other)
Charles Pearce may refer to: * Charlie Pearce, New Zealand rugby league international * Charles Pearce (calligrapher) (born 1943), calligrapher * Charles E. M. Pearce (1940–2012), New Zealand mathematician * Charles Edward Pearce (1842–1902), United States Congressman from Missouri * Charles H. Pearce, African Methodist Episcopal clergyman in Florida * Charles Sprague Pearce (1851–1914), American painter * Charles Thomas Pearce (1815–1883), English physician and opponent to mandatory vaccination See also * Charles Ormerod Cato Pearse (1884–1953), South African cricketer *Charles Sanders Peirce Charles Sanders Peirce ( ; September 10, 1839 – April 19, 1914) was an American philosopher, logician, mathematician and scientist who is sometimes known as "the father of pragmatism". Educated as a chemist and employed as a scientist for t ... (1839–1914), American logician, mathematician, scientist, philosopher * Charles Pierce (other) {{DEFAULTSORT:P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Pearce
Caroline Pearce (born 1 September 1981 in Cambridge, England) is an English athlete, sports host, model, published author, and is the presenter for BT Sport's ''UFC: Beyond The Octagon'' and reporter for Fox Sports and UFC Fight Pass. She played the character Ice in Sky One's version of ''Gladiators''. Biography Pearce competed for England in the World Pentathlon Championships at the age of 15. She had competed as a professional heptathlete in the 2004 European Cup Heptathlon Finals. Pearce has also represented Great Britain as a bobsledder in the 2005 World Bobsleigh Championships. In 2008, Pearce was chosen to compete as a gladiator in Sky One's relaunch of the TV series ''Gladiators'' under the gladiator name "Ice", but she left the show after the first season. Pearce has earned a first class honours degree in Sports Science and a master's degree in Physiology and Nutrition from Loughborough University. She has modelled in advertisements for Nike, Reebok, Adidas, Ron Hill and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bunny Pearce
William Charles Pearce (March 17, 1885 – May 22, 1933) was a professional baseball player. He was a catcher for two seasons (1908–1909) with the Cincinnati Reds. For his career, he compiled no hits in 4 at-bat In baseball, an at bat (AB) or time at bat is a batter's turn batting against a pitcher. An at bat is different from a plate appearance. A batter is credited with a plate appearance regardless of what happens during their turn at bat, but a bat ...s. References 1880s births 1933 deaths Cincinnati Reds players Major League Baseball catchers Baseball players from Ohio Minor league baseball managers Evansville River Rats players Terre Haute Hottentots players Springfield Senators players Bloomington Bloomers players Newark Newks players Dayton Veterans players Oakland Oaks (baseball) players Indianapolis Indians players Louisville Colonels (minor league) players Jersey City Skeeters players {{US-baseball-catcher-1880s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bryan Pearce
Walter Bryan Pearce (25 July 1929 – 11 January 2007) was a British painter. He was recognised as one of the UK's leading naïve artists. Early life Bryan Pearce was born in St. Ives, Cornwall, which remained his home for the rest of his life. His father, Walter, was a butcher in St Ives, played rugby for Cornwall, and was later mayor of St Ives. His mother, Mary Warmington, was a painter from another local family. Pearce suffered from the congenital disease phenylketonuria, which affects the normal development of the brain. He attended a special needs school in the 1940s and 1950s and then, encouraged by his mother and, later, by other St. Ives artists, he began drawing and painting in watercolours in 1953 before moving on to oil paint on board and, later, conté crayon. He attended Leonard Fuller's St. Ives School of Painting from 1953 to 1957. Artistic career Pearce specialised in paintings of his home town, and the surrounding Penwith area, drawn in typically ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Pearce
Brian Leonard Pearce (8 May 1915 – 25 November 2008) was a British Marxist political activist, historian, and translator. Adept and prolific in Russian-to-English translation, Pearce was regarded at the time of his death as "one of the most acute scholars of Russian history and British communism never to have held an academic post." Early years Pearce was born in Weymouth, Dorset on 9 May 1915. His father was an upwardly mobile engineer, his mother a domestic servant of Irish extraction. Brian was their only child, a shy and precocious boy, poor at athletics and not popular among his peers. His father's growing prosperity allowed Brian the freedom to travel. In 1931 he went to Germany and in 1933 to France, where he further developed the language skills he had learned in school.Brotherstone, "In Memoriam: Brian Pearce," pg. 82. Although his parents were Tories, Brian's father investigated a few early issues of the Communist Party of Great Britain's organ, ''The Daily Worker ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
