Robert Nixon (1759–1837)
Robert Nixon may refer to: * Bob Nixon (Zimbabwean politician), Zimbabwean politician * Robert A. Nixon (1900–1948), American politician * Robert Nixon (politician) (born 1928), retired Canadian politician * Robert Nixon (comics) (1939–2002), British comics artist * Robert Nixon (prophet), 15th or 17th century prophet in Cheshire, England * Robert Samuel Nixon (1909–1998), MP in the Northern Ireland Parliament for North Down * Robert Nixon (serial killer) (1919-1939), American serial killer * Robert Nixon (filmmaker) Robert Henry Nixon (born 1954) is an American film director, writer and conservationist. His films, often focused on the battles of tribal peoples and field biologists, include ''Amazon Diary'', ''America The Beautiful'', ''The End of the Game'' ...

Bob Nixon (Zimbabwean Politician)
Robert Nixon may refer to: * Bob Nixon (Zimbabwean politician), Zimbabwean politician * Robert A. Nixon (1900–1948), American politician * Robert Nixon (politician) (born 1928), retired Canadian politician * Robert Nixon (comics) (1939–2002), British comics artist * Robert Nixon (prophet), 15th or 17th century prophet in Cheshire, England * Robert Samuel Nixon (1909–1998), MP in the Northern Ireland Parliament for North Down * Robert Nixon (serial killer) (1919-1939), American serial killer * Robert Nixon (filmmaker) Robert Henry Nixon (born 1954) is an American film director, writer and conservationist. His films, often focused on the battles of tribal peoples and field biologists, include ''Amazon Diary'', ''America The Beautiful'', ''The End of the Game'' ...

Robert A
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown" and ''berht'' "bright, light, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin. It is also in use as a surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert. After becoming widely used in Continental Europe it entered England in its Old French form ''Robert'', where an Old English cognate form (''Hrēodbēorht'', ''Hrodberht'', ''Hrēodbēorð'', ''Hrœdbœrð'', ''Hrœdberð'', ''Hrōðberχtŕ'') had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto. Robert is also a common name in many Germanic languages, including English, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Scots, Danish, and Icelandic. It can be use ...
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Robert Nixon (politician)
Robert Fletcher Nixon (born July 17, 1928) is a Canadian retired politician in the province of Ontario, Canada. The son of former Premier of Ontario Harry Nixon, he was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in a 1962 by-election following his father's death. The younger Nixon was elected leader of the Ontario Liberal Party in 1967 and led them through three provincial elections, the first two where the Liberals retained their standing as the second-largest party and official opposition in the legislature. Nixon resigned as party leader in 1976, and was succeeded by Stuart Lyon Smith, Stuart Smith after a leadership convention. Nixon remained a prominent member of the Liberal caucus after standing down from the party leadership, including two stints as interim opposition leader, and served as Treasurer of Ontario, Provincial Treasurer and Deputy Premier of Ontario, Deputy Premier in the government of David Peterson from 1985 to 1990. Background Nixon is the son of ...
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Robert Nixon (comics)
Robert Nixon (7 July 1939 – 22 October 2002) was an artist who worked on several British comics. Biography Early life and education Nixon was born in South Bank, Middlesbrough, in North Yorkshire on 7 July 1939. He was the fifth of six children born to Arthur Nixon and Phylis Thompson. Robert's mother Phylis worked as a housewife while his father worked locally as a steelworker. As a child, Nixon spent much of his time drawing and sketching, and his artistic skills were recognised when he was seven years old by teachers at Cromwell Road School which he attended in South Bank. During his early years as an artist, and supported by teachers at the Central Secondary Modern School (Victoria Street, Southbank), Nixon won several art competitions and a scholarship to Middlesbrough Art College in 1955 when he was sixteen. Although his time at art college was cut short by the death of his father, Nixon gained employment locally as a lithographic artist and left in 1965 to pursue h ...
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Robert Nixon (prophet)
Robert Nixon was a legendary prophet of Cheshire. Many accounts about him appear to be in conflict with each other. At least one account has Robert Nixon being born in c. 1467. In this account, he is the son of John Nixon during the time of Edward IV, who leased a farm in the parish of Over, Cheshire, Over from Vale Royal Abbey. Another account of Nixon states that he was born during the reign of James I of England, James I (1603–25) and that he was for some time in the service of Thomas Cholmondeley, master of Vale Royal after 1625. There are also two claimed homes for Robert Nixon: one says he was an illiterate boy who was born in Bark House on a hill between Over and Whitegate, Cheshire, Whitegate. Alternatively, another source claims Robert Nixon lived at Bridge House near the Delamere Forest, Forest of Delamere. He is the claimed source of various prophecies circulating in the early 18th century and published in leaflet form. Some of his prophecies relate to Vale Royal ...
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Robert Samuel Nixon
Robert Samuel Nixon (22 May 1909 – 21 September 1997) was a unionist politician in Northern Ireland. Bob Nixon studied at Mountjoy School in Dublin, then at Queen's University, Belfast, where he qualified as a doctor of medicine. At the 1953 Northern Ireland general election, he was elected for the Ulster Unionist Party in North Down. In 1965, Nixon revealed that unionists in Derry had helped convince the Government of Northern Ireland to site the New University of Ulster in Coleraine, rather than their own city, which had a Roman Catholic majority. In response to this, he was suspended from the Parliamentary party for several months.Tim Pat Coogan, ''The Troubles'', p.43 He stood down at the 1969 Northern Ireland general election, but stood unsuccessfully as an independent Unionist Independent Unionist has been a label sometimes used by candidates in elections in the United Kingdom, indicating a support for British unionism (not to be confused with trade unionism). I ...
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Robert Nixon (serial Killer)
Robert Nixon (July 19, 1919June 16, 1939) was an American serial killer, born in the small town of Tallulah, Louisiana, who confessed to five murders and multiple assaults, including the Los Angeles "brick bat murders" of 1937. Depicted with racist imagery in the mainstream press after his arrest, he was given the nickname the "Brick Moron" as he killed his victims with bricks and was depicted as dimwitted. Convicted of murder, he was executed in Chicago in 1939. Nixon served, in part, as the basis of the character of Bigger Thomas in Richard Wright's 1940 social protest novel ''Native Son''. Los Angeles murders On April 4, 1937, Edna A. Worden (age 48) and her 12-year-old daughter, Marguerite Estelle, a junior high school student, were murdered in their apartment in the neighborhood of Bunker Hill, Los Angeles. Their bodies were discovered on Sunday, April 5, 1937, by the manager of their building, the Astoria Apartments, which was located next to the Angel's Flight stairs. Wo ...
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