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Rawson (surname)
Rawson is a surname. Notable people and characters with the surname include: A * Albert Rawson (1900–1949), English footballer * Amán Rawson (1792–1847), American physician and merchant *Anna Rawson (born 1981), Australian professional golfer and model *Arturo Rawson (1885–1952), Argentine army officer and ''de facto'' president C *Charles A. Rawson (1867–1936), unelected United States Senator from Iowa for nine months in 1922 *Christopher Rawson (born Christopher Comstock Hart, birthdate unknown), American writer, university teacher and theater critic *Clayton Rawson (1906–1971), American mystery writer, editor, and amateur magician *Sir Alfred Cooper Rawson (1876–1946), British businessman and Conservative Party MP D * Don Rawson (born 1937), former Australian rules footballer who played with Footscray in the Victorian Football League * Donald Strathearn Rawson (1905–1961), Canadian limnologist E * Edward Rawson (other), several people * Edward R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Rawson
Albert Noble Rawson (27 November 1896 – 10 August 1949) was an English professional association football, footballer who played as a forward (association football), forward in the Football League for Sheffield United F.C., Sheffield United, Birmingham City F.C., Birmingham and Barnsley F.C., Barnsley. Rawson was born in West Melton, which was then in the West Riding of Yorkshire. He made his Football League debut with Sheffield United. He joined Birmingham in February 1923, and scored in each of his first five games, making a significant contribution to the club's remaining in the Football League First Division, First Division. In 1924 he returned to Yorkshire and signed for Barnsley. He later worked as a foreign and colonial correspondent. He died in 1949 and was survived by his widow, Lorna. References 1896 births 1949 deaths People from Brampton Bierlow Sportspeople from the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham Footballers from South Yorkshire English men's footballers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Rawson
George Rawson (18071889) was an English hymn writer and Congregationalist lay person, who was born in Leeds on 5 June 1807 and died in Clifton, Bristol on 25 March 1889. He qualified as a lawyer and practised law in Leeds, but also lived in Bristol. Rawson devoted his leisure time to writing and collating hymns. He worked with the Congregational ministers of Leeds to compile a collection of ''Psalms, Hymns, and Passages of Scripture for Christian Worship'' commonly known as the 'Leeds Hymn-book'. He also compiled ''Psalms and Hymns for the Use of the Baptist Denomination'' in conjunction with Baptist denominational leaders. His hymn collections include ''Hymns, Verses, and Chants'' and ''Songs of Spiritual Thought'', published by the Religious Tract Society in 1885. He wrote or reworded a large number of hymns, including 'With Gladness we Worship'. A review of ''Songs of Spiritual Thought'' published in ''The Congregationalist'' stated: "There are few who have contributed hymn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Rawson
Raymond D. Rawson is a former State Senator within the State of Nevada, serving from 1985 to 2001. He is known for providing forensic evidence that led to the wrongful imprisonment of Ray Krone. Rawson was born in Utah and attended the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and Loma Linda University Dental School. He is a dentist and a visiting professor of General Practice Residency There are two forms of institution-based training for general dentistry available for dental school graduates in the United States: * General practice residency (GPR) * Advanced education in general dentistry (AEGD) Program details Both GPRs an ... at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas School of Dental Medicine, where he teaches a course in forensic dentistry.https://www.unlv.edu/people/raymond-rawson References 1940 births Living people Nevada Republicans University of Nevada, Las Vegas alumni Loma Linda University alumni {{Nevada-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Rawson
Peter Walter Edward Rawson (born 25 May 1957 in Salisbury, Rhodesia) is a former Zimbabwean cricketer. He played ten ODIs for Zimbabwe between 1983 and 1987. An opening bowler and useful lower-order batsman, Rawson represented Zimbabwe at the 1983 and 1987 Cricket World Cups. In 1983 he took early wickets in the matches against India and West Indies that in each case briefly put Zimbabwe in a strong position. In 1984 he played for Rishton in the Lancashire League, taking 102 wickets at 14.08 and scoring 539 runs at 22.46, and he also played Minor Counties cricket for Suffolk. He left Zimbabwe in 1989 and played the rest of his career with Natal in South Africa, retiring after the 1994–95 season. His highest first-class score was 95 for Natal against Transvaal in 1989–90. His best innings bowling figures were 7 for 30 for Zimbabwe against the touring Lancashire team in 1988–89, and his best match figures were 13 for 143 (7 for 55 and 6 for 88) for Zimbabwe against Young ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Rawson
Reverend Norman Rawson was a World War I veteran, attaining the rank of captain, and minister at Centenary Church in Hamilton, Ontario from 1937 until 1954. In 1938, he was a candidate in the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership conventions, 1938 Conservative Party of Ontario leadership convention receiving 22 votes and coming in last of four candidates behind the winner, George A. Drew, George Drew. He subsequently became a speaker for the Leadership League, a conservative movement established by ''The Globe and Mail'' publisher George McCullagh, which proposed one party rule in Canada under direction of business leaders.''Bassett'', By Maggie Siggins, page 43. Published by James Lorimer & Company, 1979 , References Ministers of the United Church of Canada {{Canada-mil-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Rawson
Michael Arthur Rawson (26 May 1934 – 26 October 2000) was an English track and field athlete. Athletics career He represented Great Britain in the men's 800 metres at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. He won the gold medal in that event, two years later at the 1958 European Championships in Stockholm, Sweden. He represented England and won a bronze medal in the 880 yards at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff Cardiff (; cy, Caerdydd ) is the capital and largest city of Wales. It forms a principal area, officially known as the City and County of Cardiff ( cy, Dinas a Sir Caerdydd, links=no), and the city is the eleventh-largest in the United Kingd ..., Wales. He represented Birchfield Harriers and on his retirement from the sport spent many years coaching at Birchfield and working as an athletics reporter for the BBC and local newspapers. Rawson worked for the British Olympic Association at a number of Olympic Games. He died afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Anne Rawson
Mary Anne Rawson (1801–1887) was a slavery abolitionist above all. She was also a campaigner with the Tract Society and the British and Foreign Bible Society, for Italian nationalism and against child labour. She was first involved with a Sheffield group, which successfully campaigned for people to boycott sugar from the West Indies, as it was produced by slave labour. She is pictured attending the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London in 1840. Early life Mary Anne Read was born to Joseph Read (1774-1837), of Wincobank Hall, Sheffield, and his wife Elizabeth, wealthy parents who encouraged her involvement in good causes. Joseph Read had taken over his father's business- which would later become the Sheffield Smelting Company- but later experienced financial difficulties and had to sell Wincobank Hall, which Mary, as the widow of a banker, was able to reclaim. Her sister, Elizabeth (1803-1851), was married to William Wilson (1800-1866), chairman of the Nottingham Anti-Slave ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Rawson
Mary Rawson is an American actress. She played Cousin Mary Owl on the Neighborhood of Make-Believe on the children's television program '' Mister Rogers' Neighborhood''. External linksList of Mr. Rogers characters - Cousin Mary Owl * Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American television actresses Place of birth missing (living people) 20th-century American actresses {{US-tv-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marion Nicholl Rawson
Marion Nicholl Rawson (June 24, 1878 – December 4, 1956) was an author, illustrator, artist and lecturer. Personal life She was born Edna Marion Nicholl on June 24, 1878, and grew up in Scotch Plains, New Jersey. She first started sewing blocks for quilts at two years of age, carefully making two squares a day. She graduated from Swarthmore College in 1898 and then taught drawing in New York City. On June 15, 1907, Edna Marion Nicholl married Jonathan Ansel Rawson, Jr., the son of Jonathan Ansel Rawson and Charlotte Fletcher Rawson. Jonathan was an Amherst College graduate and journalist. From 1907 to 1910, Jonathan was in the export business. Then, he worked in publishing and journalism. During World War II, he did YMCA war work and was a member of the home defense organization, Riverside Reserves. The couple had two children, Jonathan, who was born in 1910, and Priscilla. In 1917, Marion Nicholl Rawson served on the Executive Committee of the National Birth Control League. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Rawson, 1st Viscount Clontarf
John Rawson, 1st and only Viscount Clontarf (–1547) was an English-born statesman in sixteenth-century Ireland, and was regarded as one of the mainstays of English rule in the Kingdom of Ireland. He was the last Prior of the Kilmainham house of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. The Knights Hospitaller, as they were usually known, were a fighting order of monks, and Rawson himself was an experienced soldier who took part in the Siege of Rhodes (1522). Despite taking holy orders, he was not celibate, and he fathered several illegitimate children. At the Reformation, with no apparent reluctance, he surrendered all his Order's properties to the English Crown in return for a pension and the title of viscount. Background He came from a family which had long been settled at New Fryston in the West Riding of Yorkshire. His father, Richard Rawson, moved to London, where he became an alderman and a warden of the Mercers' Company.Cokayne, G. E. ''The Complete Peerage'' Reprinted Glouces ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessica Rawson
Dame Jessica Mary Rawson, (born 20 January 1943) is an English art historian, curator and sinologist. She is also an academic administrator, specialising in Chinese art. After many years at the British Museum, she was Warden (head) of Merton College, Oxford, from 1994 until her retirement in 2010. She served as pro-vice-chancellor at University of Oxford from 2006 for a term of five years. Biography Rawson's academic background is in Sinology with a particular research focus on the cosmology of the Han period (206 BC-AD 220) and its relation to tombs and their decoration. Educated at St Paul's Girls' School in Hammersmith, West London, New Hall, Cambridge and the University of London, Rawson began her career in the civil service. Between 1976 and 1994, she served as Deputy Keeper and then Keeper of the Department of Oriental Antiquities at the British Museum. From 1994 to 2010 she was Warden of Merton College, Oxford, and from 2006 to 2011 she served as pro-vice-chancellor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Rawson
James Rawson (born 7 July 1965 in Newark, Nottinghamshire) is a British table tennis player who competed at every Summer Paralympic Games between 1984 and 2008, winning five medals. He has also competed at World Championships in Assen 1990,Taipei 2002 where he won Team silver with Neil Robinson and individual Bronze defeating Guertler from Germany Table tennis career He won a gold medal in the men's team Class 3 event at the 1992 Barcelona Paralympics, alongside Neil Robinson and Phillip Evans, defeating Germany in the final. At the 1996 Atlanta Paralympics, he won a bronze medal in the Class 3 team event, again with Robinson, and a further bronze in the Class 3 singles event, with Robinson taking the silver. Rawson won silver in the Men's Class 3 team event at the 2000 Sydney Paralympics alongside Robinson and Stefan Trofan. The same trio retained their silver medal at the 2004 Athens Paralympics, losing in the gold medal match to South Korea. Rawson competed at the 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
