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Peter Harrison (ornithologist)
Peter Harrison or Pete Harrison may refer to: * Peter Harrison (architect) (1716–1775), British-born colonial American architect * Peter Harrison (businessman) (born 1966), British businessman, CEO of Schroders * Peter Harrison (footballer) (fl. 1995–2012), English footballer, manager and football agent * Peter Harrison (city planner) (1918–1990), Canberra city planner * Peter Harrison (historian) (born 1955), professor at the University of Queensland * Peter Harrison (priest) (born 1939), archdeacon of the East Riding * Peter Harrison (rugby union) (1934–2011), Bradford RFC player * Peter G. Harrison (born 1951), professor of computing science at Imperial College London * P. S. Harrison (1880–1966), also known as Pete Harrison, founder and publisher of ''Harrison's Reports'' * Pete Harrison (1885–1921), English-American baseball umpire See also * Peter Harrison Planetarium, digital laser planetarium situated in Greenwich Park, London * Peter Harrison (''Brookside' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Harrison (architect)
Peter Harrison (June 14, 1716 – April 30, 1775) was a colonial American architect in New England who is credited with bringing the Palladian architectural movement to the colonies. Early life and education Born in York, England, Harrison immigrated to the colony of Rhode Island in 1740 with his brother Joseph Harrison. They initially established themselves as merchants and captains of their own trading vessels. Having gained a stake, between 1743 and 1745, Harrison returned to England to receive formal training as an architect. He studied under the direction of an English lord (it is not known which one), among those who trained architects through private studio-schools. They used architectural pattern books, taught drafting and coloring skills, and conducted grand tours of Italy and Greece, where students could see classical structures firsthand. They were taught to become expert draftsmen. These private studio-schools drew from the works of such masters such as the 16th-cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Harrison (businessman)
Peter Harrison (born May 1966) is a British businessman, and the chief executive (CEO) of Schroders, a British multinational investment management company. Education Peter Harrison was born in May 1966. He studied at the University of Bath, graduating in 1988 with a degree in business administration. Career Harrison began his career at Schroders as a graduate in 1988, before moving to Newton Investment Management in 1991. Prior to returning to Schroders in 2013 as global head of equities, Harrison worked in a number of senior roles at JPMorgan, Deutsche Asset Management and latterly chairman and CEO of RWC Partners. He became head of investment at Schroders in 2014 and then CEO in 2016, when he succeeded Michael Dobson, who had been CEO for 15 years and became the chairman. Dobson's move from CEO to chairman was widely criticised, for example in '' The Independent'', "City in uproar as Schroders tycoons flout the rules on good governance". Harrison faced controversy in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Harrison (footballer)
Michael Peter Harrison, better known as Peter Harrison, is an English former footballer, manager and football agent. In 2006, he came to the public's attention after being filmed by an undercover reporter for a Panorama documentary entitled ''"Undercover: Football's Dirty Secrets"''. Career Playing and managerial career Harrison had a reasonably short football career, playing for Nottingham Forest, Gateshead and Belgian side Charleroi. He then moved on to manage Hebburn, before taking a year out away from football. In 1995, he was appointed as Harry Dunn's replacement at Blyth Spartans. Harrison kept the caretaker managers Tony Lowery and David McCreery on as part of the backroom staff, with the intention of Lowery being his assistant coach and McCreery in a consultant role. However, after a few weeks, Lowery joined Bedlington Terriers and McCreery took up a new role in the US to help promote the inaugural Major League Soccer season. Harrison brought in his former Gateshea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Harrison (city Planner)
Peter Firman Harrison (21 October 1918 — 13 October 1990), town planner, was a champion of the Griffin Plan for Canberra and an influential advocate for the public interest in the development of Australia's national capital. Early career Harrison grew up in Sydney during the Great Depression. Between 1934 and 1951, he undertook part-time architecture studies, before switching to town planning studies, while working as a draftsman at AGL, the Commonwealth Department of the Interior, Commonwealth Department of Works and Housing, and the Cumberland County Council. He was appointed senior lecturer in town planning at the University of Sydney in 1951. Harrison was a member of the Royal Australian Planning Institute committee which argued in a submission to the Senate Select Committee on the Development of Canberra in 1955 that the Griffin Plan for the national capital should be adopted. Professional life in Canberra The Menzies Government established the National Capital Develo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Harrison (historian)
Peter D. Harrison (born 1955) is an Australian Laureate Fellow and director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Queensland. Career Peter Harrison holds a DLitt from the University of Oxford, a PhD from the University of Queensland, and master's degrees from Yale and Oxford. His academic career began at Bond University on Australia's Gold Coast, where for a number of years he was professor of history and philosophy. From 2007 to 2011 he was the Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at the University of Oxford. During his time at Oxford, he was a fellow of Harris Manchester College and director of the Ian Ramsey Centre where he continues to hold a senior research fellowship. He became the inaugural director of the University of Queensland's Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities in July 2015. He is fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, a corresponding member of the International Academy of the Histor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Harrison (priest)
Peter Reginald Wallace Harrison (born 22 June 1939) was Archdeacon of the East Riding from 1999 until 2006. He was educated at Charterhouse, Selwyn College Cambridge and Ridley Hall Cambridge; and ordained in 1965. After a curacy in Barton Hill, he was involved in Youth Work within the Church of England. He was in London from 1969 to 1977 and then at Mirfield from 1977 to 1984. After this, he was Team Rector A rector is, in an ecclesiastical sense, a cleric who functions as an administrative leader in some Christian denominations. In contrast, a vicar is also a cleric but functions as an assistant and representative of an administrative leader. A ... of the Drypool Ministry, a post he held until 1999.‘Harrison, Ven. Peter Reginald Wallace’, Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016 ; online edn, November 201accessed 24 September 2017/ref> References 1939 births People ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Harrison (rugby Union)
Peter Harrison was an English rugby union footballer who played in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s who played rugby union (RU) for Bradford RFC, as a prop, i.e. number 1 or 3. Early life Peter Harrison was born at Coal House Nursing Home in Odsal, Bradford on 27 July 1935 - 12 May 2011. Peter attended Horton Bank Primary School and after passing his 11-plus went to Grange Boys Grammar School. He gained the Queen's Scout Award. In 1958 after leaving school at 16 he took a job in the Wool Trade as a Yarn salesman with James H Woods, before being called up for National Service. He went on to be a member of the Bradford Junior Chamber of Commerce and in later life set up his own fuel companies Holmfield and Brent Petroleum. During his early life he became great friends and wrestling partner with Tony Orford the son of the wrestling legend Sandy Orford. National Service Harrison was called up for Military Service, and joined the Royal Artillery where he did his two-year service. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter G
Peter may refer to: People * List of people named Peter, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Peter (given name) ** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church * Peter (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) Culture * Peter (actor) (born 1952), stage name Shinnosuke Ikehata, Japanese dancer and actor * ''Peter'' (album), a 1993 EP by Canadian band Eric's Trip * ''Peter'' (1934 film), a 1934 film directed by Henry Koster * ''Peter'' (2021 film), Marathi language film * "Peter" (''Fringe'' episode), an episode of the television series ''Fringe'' * ''Peter'' (novel), a 1908 book by Francis Hopkinson Smith * "Peter" (short story), an 1892 short story by Willa Cather Animals * Peter, the Lord's cat, cat at Lord's Cricket Ground in London * Peter (chief mouser), Chief Mouser between 1929 and 1946 * Peter II (cat), Chief Mouser between 1946 and 1947 * Peter III (cat), Chief Mouser between 1947 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pete Harrison
Peter Alfonsus Harrison (February 1, 1885 – March 10, 1921) was an English-American professional baseball umpire. He worked in the National League from 1916 to 1920. He was an active NL umpire at the time of his premature death. Biography Early life and career Harrison was born in England and his family moved to Youngstown, Ohio, when he was a child. Harrison took up umpiring as a young adult, spending 1911 to 1915 in minor league baseball. His minor league experience included the Ohio–Pennsylvania League, New York State League and International League. National League career Although an Ohio newspaper reported in 1914 that Harrison would undoubtedly join the National League by the end of that season, the umpire actually made his major league debut in 1916. A June 1916 ''New York Sun'' article described a game in which fans hurled pop bottles and seat cushions at the new major league umpire: "A nervy fellow this Harrison. He stood with arms folded facing center field and n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Harrison Planetarium
The Peter Harrison Planetarium is a 120-seat digital laser planetarium, situated in Greenwich Park, London and is part of the National Maritime Museum. It opened on 25 May 2007. The planetarium uses Digistar 3 software with blue, red and green lasers and grating light valve (GLV) technology to create a 4,000 pixel strip. This strip is swept to produce a 5,000 by 4,000 pixel image, refreshed 60 times per second. The image is projected through a fisheye lens onto the dome of the planetarium. This planetarium is housed inside a 45-ton bronze-clad truncated cone, with the north side tilted at 51.5o to the horizontal (the latitude of Greenwich), the south side pointing at the local Zenith (i.e. at 90 degrees to the local horizon) and the top being slanted to be parallel to the celestial equator. The construction stands parallel to (but 50 metres east of) the prime meridian. It was conceived under the then Director, Roy Clare CBE, as the centrepiece of the "Time and Space" project, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Harrison (Brookside)
This is a comprehensive list of characters from the Channel 4 soap opera '' Brookside'' in alphabetical order by the character's surnames. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T V W Y {{Brookside * Brookside Brookside Brookside ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Harryson
John Peter Kaj Harryson (born 2 April 1948) is a Swedish actor, singer and entertainer. He is the son of actor John Harryson (1926–2008). From 1994 until 2001, Harryson played antagonist Pehr Silver in the soap opera ''Rederiet''. He is also known from hosting the game show ''Så ska det låta''. In the 1980s, he worked extensively with dubbing cartoons into Swedish. Three of his most famous roles are that of pilot Roy Focker in the Swedish dub of the film '' Macross: Do You Remember Love?'' , Shaggy Rogers in the ''Scooby-Doo''-series, and Ernie in Svenska Sesam (The second Swedish version of Sesame Street ''Sesame Street'' is an American educational children's television series that combines live-action, sketch comedy, animation and puppetry. It is produced by Sesame Workshop (known as the Children's Television Workshop until June 2000) a ...). External links * 1948 births Living people Swedish male television actors Swedish male voice actors Swedish ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
