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Richard Ryan (other)
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Richard Ryan may refer to: * Richard Ryan (biographer) (1797–1849), British biographer, poet and playwright of Irish descent * Richard Ryan (Medal of Honor) (1851–1933), American sailor and Medal of Honor recipient * Richard Ryan (Royal Navy officer) (1903–1940), British Royal Navy officer awarded the George Cross, 1940 * Richard Ryan (diplomat) (born 1946), Irish poet and diplomat * Richard Ryan (politician), politician in Montreal, Quebec, Canada * Richard M. Ryan (born 1953), American professor of psychology See also * Richie Ryan (other) Richie Ryan may refer to: * Richie Ryan (footballer) (born 1985), Irish footballer * Richie Ryan (politician) (1929–2019), Irish former politician * Richie Ryan (''Highlander''), a character on the TV series ''Highlander: The Series'' See also * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Ryan (biographer)
Richard Ryan (18 April 1797 – 20 October 1849) was a British writer of Irish descent. He was the son of Oxford Street, London bookseller and publisher Richard Ryan and was educated at St Paul's School, London. Ryan produced the first Irish biographical dictionary ''Biographia Hibernica, a Biographical Dictionary of the Worthies of Ireland, from the earliest periods to the present time'' in 1819 and 1821. He was also a poet, writing for newspapers and publishing books on poetry, a biographer of poets and playwrights, an editor, a lyricist for popular music and a playwright of several plays in the West End of London. Richard Ryan lived in Camden Town, London, from 1819 until his death in 1849. Early life Richard Ryan was the son of bookseller Richard Ryan (1750–1818) and Elizabeth Ryan (1759–1830). He was born at their home in Oxford Street near the Pantheon, London. It was one of several locations on Oxford Street where his father ran a book-selling business for 34 years ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Ryan (Medal Of Honor)
Richard Ryan (c. 1851–1933) was a United States Navy sailor and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor. Biography Born in about 1851 in Waterbury, Connecticut, Ryan joined the Navy from that state. By March 4, 1876, he was serving as an ordinary seaman on the . On that morning, while ''Hartford'' was at Norfolk, Virginia Norfolk ( ) is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. Incorporated in 1705, it had a population of 238,005 at the 2020 census, making it the third-most populous city in Virginia after neighboring Virginia Be ..., Landsman James Mullen fell from a gun port into the water. Mullen, who could not swim, was being swept away by a strong tidal current. Ryan jumped overboard, swam to the drowning crewman, and kept him afloat until they were rescued by the ship's launch. For this action, he received the Medal of Honor weeks later, on March 23. Ryan's official Medal of Honor citation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Ryan (Royal Navy Officer)
Lieutenant-Commander Richard John Hammersley Ryan, GC (23 July 1903 – 21 September 1940) was a Royal Navy officer who was posthumously awarded the George Cross along with Chief Petty Officer Reginald Vincent Ellingworth for the "great gallantry and undaunted devotion to duty" they displayed while attempting to defuse a mine which had fallen on Dagenham in Essex on 21 September 1940. Early life and career Ryan was from a naval family, the son of Admiral Frank Edward Cavendish Ryan. He joined the Royal Navy in the early 1920s, was promoted to lieutenant in 1925, and lieutenant commander on 1 August 1933. Second World War The pair had defused many such devices together, and had just successfully defused a device in Hornchurch which was threatening an aerodrome and explosives factory when they were called to Dagenham. The bomb there was hanging from its parachute on a warehouse. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Ryan (diplomat)
Richard Ryan (born 1946) is an Irish poet and former diplomat. Born in 1946 and educated in Dublin, he was an English professor and visiting poet at the University of St. Thomas, Minnesota, USA from 1970 to 1971, and published two volumes of poetry in the early 1970s. In 1974 he joined the Irish diplomatic service. In the 1980s he served as counsellor in the Irish Embassy in London where, according to Garret FitzGerald Garret Desmond FitzGerald (9 February 192619 May 2011) was an Irish Fine Gael politician, economist and barrister who served twice as Taoiseach, serving from 1981 to 1982 and 1982 to 1987. He served as Leader of Fine Gael from 1977 to 1987, and ..., he did very useful work in the run up to the Anglo-Irish Agreement. One of his talents was that he was an excellent shot. This gave him a ready entrée to several segments of British society, including important sections of the Tory party. His role was to influence a wide range of MPs, particularly Conservatives ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Ryan (politician)
Richard Ryan is a politician in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He has served on the Plateau-Mont-Royal borough council since 2009 and on the Montreal city council since 2013 as a member of Projet Montréal. Private career Ryan was a prominent member of the Mile End Citizens' Committee before entering political life. He helped to organize a series of meetings in Montreal's Mile End neighbourhood in early 2009 to encourage greater citizen involvement in urban planning, after the Plateau-Mont-Royal borough council announced a nine-million dollar revitalization program for the area's former industrial zone. Political career Borough councillor Ryan was first elected to the Plateau-Mont-Royal borough council in the 2009 Montreal municipal election, defeating Union Montreal incumbent Eleni Fakotakis-Kolaitis for the Mile-End borough council seat. Projet Montréal won ten city council seats in this election to become the third-largest party at the municipal level; in Plateau-Mont-Royal, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard M
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) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
