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Richard Robinson (priest)
Richard Robinson may refer to: Government * Richard Robinson (Municipal Reform politician) (1849–1928), English politician and chemist *Richard A. Robinson (born 1957), Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court *Richard Earl Robinson (1903–1991), U.S. federal judge *Richard H. Robinson (California politician) (born 1943), California politician *Richard H. Robinson (New Mexico Attorney General), Attorney General of New Mexico from 1953 to 1956 Sports * Dicky Robinson (1927–2009), English footballer *Rich Robinson (Canadian football) (born 1946), Canadian football player * Richie Robinson (born 1946), Australian cricketer *Richard Robinson (cricketer) (1950–2002), English cricketer * Richard Robinson (chess player) (1956-2009), American and Bermudian chess player Others * Richard Robinson (actor) (died 1648), English actor * Richard Robinson, 1st Baron Rokeby (1708–1794), Irish theologist *Richard Robinson (philosopher) (1902–1996), English secularist *Richard Robinson (B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Robinson (Municipal Reform Politician)
Sir Richard Atkinson Robinson DL (16 October 1849 – 28 April 1928) was a retail chemist and druggist, who later became a local politician and was the first member of the Municipal Reform Party (linked to the Conservatives) to lead the London County Council (1907–1908). Early life He was the eldest son of a Whitby family engaged in the owning and operating of sailing ships. His father died when he was 18, and with four sisters and four younger brothers, there was no money for expensive higher education. He apprenticed himself to a chemist and druggist in Bootle, migrating to a Kensington firm in 1870 and qualifying for registration in 1872. The firm's owner died and he bought it, going on to acquire also a shop in Tunbridge Wells and later a fashionable pharmacy near St. James's Palace. As a chemist and druggist, he could not become a full member of the Pharmaceutical Society, but in 1898 he and others in the same position became able to do so under an amending Act of Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Robinson (actor)
Richard Robinson (died March 1648) was an actor in English Renaissance theatre and a member of Shakespeare's company the King's Men. Biography Robinson started out as a boy player with the company; in 1611 he played the Lady in their production of ''The Second Maiden's Tragedy.'' He was cast in their production of Ben Jonson's ''Catiline'' in the same year, and in their ''Bonduca,'' c. 1613. He became a sharer in the King's Men in 1619, perhaps succeeding Richard Cowley; and he was cast in their revival of Webster's ''The Duchess of Malfi'' c. 1621. Robinson reportedly played the part of Wittipol in Jonson's '' The Devil is an Ass'' in 1616. In the printed text of that play ( 1631), Jonson praises Robinson's acting of female roles and calls him an "ingenious youth." Robinson played the role of Aesopus in the company's 1626 production of Massinger's '' The Roman Actor,'' and Count Orsinio in Lodowick Carlell's ''The Deserving Favourite'' ( 1629). Robinson is included in the cast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Robinson (fashion Designer)
Richard Robinson is a Canadian fashion designer based in Ottawa, Ontario. He is the proprietor of Richard Robinson Haute Couture, and operates the Richard Robinson Academy of Fashion Design. Career Robinson entered the fashion business by working for Christian Dior and Yves Saint Laurent in their Paris ateliers. In 1969 he started his own fashion company in Ottawa. In 1972, Robinson opened the Richard Robinson Fashion Design Academy. Each year in May the Academy mounts a fashion show to display the work of both Robinson and his students. The event is usually held at the Lac Leamy Hotel. As well as ready-to wear clothing lines and his haute couture ''Haute couture'' (; ; French for 'high sewing', 'high dressmaking') is the creation of exclusive custom-fitted high-end fashion design that is constructed by hand from start-to-finish. Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, Paris became th ... collections, Robinson has designed clothing for various celebrities, including the w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'strong in rule'. Nicknames include "Richie", "Dick", "Dickon", " Dickie", "Rich", "Rick", "Rico", "Ricky", and more. Richard is a common English, German and French male name. It's also used in many more languages, particularly Germanic, such as Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, and Dutch, as well as other languages including Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Finnish. Richard is cognate with variants of the name in other European languages, such as the Swedish "Rickard", the Catalan "Ricard" and the Italian "Riccardo", among others (see comprehensive variant list below). People named Richard Multiple people with the same name * Richard Andersen (other) * Richard Anderson (other) * Richard Cartwright (other) * Ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Robinson (festival Director)
Richard Robinson (born 1953 in Halifax, West Riding of Yorkshire, England) is an actor, writer and puppeteer. He is also the Director of the Brighton Science Festival. Puppetry As a puppeteer, Robinson is best known for building and voicing puppets for the television series ''Spitting Image'', ''The Riddlers'', ''Dizzy Heights'', and ''Puddle Lane''. In ''The Riddlers'', he built the puppets Mossop, Middler, Glossop, Eesup, and Tiddler (Tiddlup), also voicing Mossop and Middler. On ''Dizzy Heights'' he played Victor Gristle, and on ''Puddle Lane'' he played Toby the Dragon and other puppets. He also played Bungle in the 1994-1995 revival of the children's series ''Rainbow''. Before his puppeteering career, Richard was a busker. In the mid-1990s, after years taking his children to the Science Museum and related educational events he found a new outlet as a science busker, visiting schools and festivals with science cabaret acts. Author He has written nearly twenty books on scie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Robinson (chief Executive)
Maurice Richard Robinson Jr. (May 15, 1937 – June 5, 2021) was an American business executive and educator. From 1975 until his death in 2021, Robinson was the chief executive officer of Scholastic Corporation. Robinson was noted for bringing many book franchises to younger readers, such as ''Harry Potter'' and ''Captain Underpants''. Early life Robinson was born in 1937 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was the oldest of five children of Florence ''née'' Liddell and Maurice R. Robinson; he had three sisters and one brother. He was raised in Manhattan. He was educated at Harvard College and later at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, in England, and at Teachers College, Columbia University; he would later become a benefactor of Teachers College. After graduating, he became a high school English teacher in Evanston, Illinois. In the mid-1960s, he began working as a classroom magazine editor at Scholastic Corporation. Business career In 1971, Robinson became a board memb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Robinson (Buddhism Scholar)
Richard Hugh Robinson (21 June 1926 – 6 August 1970) was a scholar of Buddhism and the founder of the first Buddhist studies program in the United States that awarded a dedicated doctorate degree. In the 1950s he informally studied Sanskrit with Edward Conze. He died in 1970 after an accident in his home. Nearly two years after his death, the journal ''Philosophy East and West ''Philosophy East and West'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering non-Western traditions of philosophy in relation to Anglo-American philosophy, integrating the discipline with literature, science, and social practices. Special issues have ...'' published a memorial tribute to him, in an issue that also included three of Robinson's previously unpublished papers. Charles Prebish, in his 1975 edited introductory volume to Buddhism, wrote that in assembling the team of contributors to the volume Nearly fifty years after his death, in 2019, Robinson was profiled in '' Tricycle: The Buddhist Revie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Robinson (philosopher)
Richard Robinson ( Watton, Norfolk, 12 April 1902 – 6 May 1996, Oxford) was an English secularist philosopher. Biography Robinson was educated at Repton School and Oxford University.The Independent - Obituary 14 June 1996. He taught at Cornell University from 1928 to 1946, then returned to Oxford University for over 20 years. He translated and edited books and articles on Plato and Aristotle. Most of his books were academic, but ''An Atheist's Values'' gave him a popular audience. Nicolas Walter, writing in '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Robinson, 1st Baron Rokeby
Richard Robinson, 1st Baron Rokeby (1708 – 10 October 1794), was an Anglo-Irish churchman. Life He was a younger son of William Robinson (died 1720) of Rokeby, Yorkshire and later of Merton, Surrey and Anne Walters (died 1730), daughter and heiress of Robert Walters of Cundall. Sir Thomas Robinson, 1st Baronet (1703-1777) was his elder brother. He was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford (BA 1730, MA 1733, BD & DD 1748). Robinson came to Ireland as chaplain to Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset in 1751 when Dorset was reappointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and was swiftly raised to the Irish episcopate as Bishop of Killala and Achonry. He was translated from the See of Kildare, which he had occupied since 1761, to the Archbishopric of Armagh in 1765. In 1777 he was created Baron Rokeby, of Armagh in the County of Armagh, in the Peerage of Ireland, with special remainder to Matthew Robinson (1694–1778) of West Layton, in the North Riding of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Robinson (chess Player)
Richard Robinson was an American and Bermudian chess player, Chess Olympiad individual gold medal winner (1996). Biography Richard Robinson was from New York City but he worked in Bermuda for many years. He is known as a regular member of US chess tournaments. His peak success in chess was in 1996 in Yerevan, where he won the gold medal at second board in the Chess Olympiad individual rankings, ahead of his percentage Grandmaster Alex Yermolinsky Alex Yermolinsky (russian: Алексей Ермолинский, translit=Alexey Yermolinskiy; born April 11, 1958) is an American chess player. Awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1992, he is a two-time U.S. champion. Career Yermoli .... References External links *Richard Robinsonchess games at 365Chess.com 1956 births 2009 deaths American chess players Bermudian chess players 20th-century chess players {{Bermuda-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'strong in rule'. Nicknames include "Richie", "Dick", "Dickon", " Dickie", "Rich", "Rick", "Rico", "Ricky", and more. Richard is a common English, German and French male name. It's also used in many more languages, particularly Germanic, such as Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, and Dutch, as well as other languages including Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Finnish. Richard is cognate with variants of the name in other European languages, such as the Swedish "Rickard", the Catalan "Ricard" and the Italian "Riccardo", among others (see comprehensive variant list below). People named Richard Multiple people with the same name * Richard Andersen (other) * Richard Anderson (other) * Richard Cartwright (other) * Ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Robinson (cricketer)
Richard John Robinson (5 May 1950 – 20 March 2002) was an English cricketer. Robinson was a hard hitting right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium-fast. He was born in Ipswich, Suffolk. Robinson made his debut for Suffolk in the 1968 Minor Counties Championship against Norfolk. Robinson played Minor counties cricket for Suffolk from 1968 to 1989, which included 95 Minor Counties Championship appearances and 2 MCCA Knockout Trophy appearances. He made his List A debut against Sussex in the 1978 Gillette Cup. He made 7 further List A appearances, the last of which came against Northamptonshire in the 1989 NatWest Trophy. In his 8 List A matches, he scored 95 runs at an average of 15.83, with a high score of 40 not out. With the ball, he took 8 wickets at a bowling average of 35.75, with best figures of 3/59. He died in the town of his birth on 20 March 2002. References External linksRichard Robinsonat ESPNcricinfo ESPN cricinfo (formerly known as Cricin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
