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Railton (surname)
Railton is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * David Railton (1884–1955), Church of England clergyman, a military chaplain and the originator of the idea of the tomb of The Unknown Warrior *Dennis Railton (born 1940), Australian rules footballer * George Scott Railton (1849–1913), Salvation Army Commissioner and second in command after General William Booth * Herbert Railton (1857–1910), English artist and illustrator * Mary Railton (1906–1992), British army officer *Nathaniel Railton (1886–1948), British Anglican archdeacon * Peter Railton (born 1950), American philosopher * Reid Railton (1895–1977), British automotive engineer *Richard Railton, 16th-century English politician * Ruth Railton (1915–2001), British music director and composer * William Railton (1800–1877), English architect who designed Nelson's Column *Victor Railton Samuel Victor Railton (28 February 1906 – 23 July 1996) was a Liberal party member of the House of Commons o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Railton
The Reverend David Railton MC (13 November 1884 – 30 June 1955) was a Church of England clergyman, a military chaplain and the originator of the idea of the Tomb of The Unknown Warrior in Britain. Early life Railton was the son of George Scott Railton, the first Commissioner of The Salvation Army and Second in Command after its Founder General William Booth,Railton on the Salvation Army International Heritage Centre website and his wife, Marianne Deborah Lydia Ellen Parkyn. Although he saw little of him, David Railton shared his father's faith and concern for the poorest in society. He was educated at The King's School, Macclesfield, and at Keble College, Oxford, matriculating in 1904 and obtaining his BA degree in 1908, and was further educated at Bishop's Hostel, in Liverpool. Having joined the Church of England he was ordained in Liverpool in 1908 and took up the curacy of Edge Hill in Liverpool. World War I In 1910, he moved to Ashford, Kent, and in the followi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis Railton
Denis Railton (28 December 1940 – 19 November 2023) was an Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...er who played with North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Notes External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Railton, Dennis 1940 births 2023 deaths North Melbourne Football Club players Echuca Football Club players Australian rules footballers from New South Wales ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Scott Railton
George Scott Railton (6 July 1849 – 19 July 1913) was a Scottish-born Christian missioner who was the first Commissioner in The Salvation Army, Commissioner of The Salvation Army.Railton on the Salvation Army International Heritage Centre website Early life Born in the manse of St. John's Methodist Church, Arbroath, St. John's Methodist Church at Arbroath in Scotland, he was the son of Methodism, Methodist Missionary, missionaries Lancelot Railton and his wife, Margaret Scott.Elizabeth Baigent, 'Railton, David (1884–1955)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2005 Railton was educated at Woodhouse Grove School in Leeds, which was established to provide an education for the sons of itinerant ministers of the Wesleyan Methodist Church (Great Britain), Wesleyan Methodist Church. His father and mother both died on 8 November 1864 at Peel, Isle of Man, probably of cholera. The death of his parents left the 15-year-old Rai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert Railton
Herbert Railton (21 November 1857 – 15 March 1910), was an English artist and leading black and white illustrator of books and magazines. Life and work Railton was born in Pleasington, near Blackburn, Lancashire, and educated at Mechlin in Belgium and Ampleforth College in North Yorkshire (England). He trained as an architect at the firm of W.S. Varley in Blackburn. He joined the local literary club where he met artist Charles Haworth, who became his mentor, and gave him further instruction in working in black and white. After his drawings of a railway accident at Blackburn station (1881) were published in the ''Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News'', Railton went on to become one of the leading illustrators of his day. He moved to London and married Frances, another illustrator - they had one child, Ione, who also became an illustrator. Railton provided many black and white illustrations for magazines and books - including editions of books by famous authors such Thomas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Railton
Brigadier Dame Mary Railton, (28 May 1906 – 12 November 1992) was a senior British Army officer. She served as Director of the Women's Royal Army Corps (WRAC) from 1954 to 1957, and its Deputy Controller Commandant from 1961 to 1967. She had joined the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry as a driver in 1938, and at the outbreak of the Second World War was a corporal in the WRAC's predecessor, the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS): she was the first WRAC director to have served in the other ranks. From 4 September 1954 to 2 October 1957, she was an Honorary Aide-de-Camp to the Queen (ADC). In the 1956 Queen's Birthday Honours, she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ... (DBE). References External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathaniel Railton
Nathaniel Gerard Railton (10 February 1886 – 8 September 1948) was Archdeacon of Lindsey from 1941 until his death. Railton was educated at Keble College, Oxford; and ordained in 1912. He began his career as Curate of St John, Fitzroy Square after which he was Rector (ecclesiastical), Rector of Toddington, Bedfordshire, Toddington from 1916 to 1920. He became a Royal Army Chaplains' Department, Chaplain to the British Armed Forces, Forces in 1920 serving at Aldershot, York, Tidworth, and Gibraltar.‘RAILTON, Ven. Archdeacon Nathaniel Gerard’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 201accessed 6 May 2017/ref> Notes 1886 births 1948 deaths Archdeacons of Lindsey Alumni of Keble College, Oxford Royal Army Chaplains' Department officers {{Canterbury-archdeacon-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Railton
Peter Albert Railton (born May 23, 1950) is an American philosopher who is Gregory S. Kavka Distinguished University Professor and John Stephenson Perrin Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he has taught since 1979. Education and career He earned his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1980, writing a dissertation under the supervision of David K. Lewis. He has a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley and Princeton University. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2004 and the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in 2016. A public lecture he gave concerning his own struggles with depression attracted widespread notice and praise in the academic community. Philosophical work His dissertation concerned scientific explanation. His main research since centers on contemporary metaethics and normative ethics (especially consequentialism). He is the author of the book ''Facts, Norms, and Values'' (C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reid Railton
Reid A. Railton (1895–1977) was a British automotive engineer, and designer of land and water speed record vehicles. Biography Reid Antony Railton was the son of a Manchester stockbroker: Charles Withingon Railton and his wife Charlotte Elizabeth (née Sharman), Reid was born in Chorley, Alderley Edge, Cheshire and was christened on 13 August 1895 at the local parish church. He was educated at Rugby School and Manchester University. He joined Leyland Motors in 1917 where he worked with J.G. Parry-Thomas on the Leyland Eight luxury car. He left in 1922 to set up the Arab Motor Company where he was chief designer. Only about twelve cars were built, of which two low-chassis cars survive. One is in the Isle of Man and the other one (chassis number 6, engine number 10, registration UW 2) is now in Austria having been rebuilt and rebodied by David Barker in the early 1990s. In 1927, on the death of his friend Parry-Thomas, Railton closed the Arab factory and moved to Brooklands w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Railton
Richard Railton (by 1522 – will proved 1575), of Canterbury, Kent, was an English politician. Career He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Canterbury Canterbury (, ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city and UNESCO World Heritage Site, situated in the heart of the City of Canterbury local government district of Kent, England. It lies on the River Stour, Kent, River Stour. .... References 1575 deaths English MPs 1554–1555 Politicians from Canterbury Year of birth uncertain {{16thC-England-MP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Railton
Dame Ruth Railton (14 December 1915 – 23 February 2001) was a British music director and conductor. After St. Mary's School, Wantage, and the Royal Academy of Music, she became director of music or choral work for several schools including St. Catherine’s, Bramley. She founded the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain in 1948. She was an adjudicator of the Federation of Music Festivals from 1946-74. She was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1966. She was one of four daughters and one son, David, born to the Rev David Railton, the son of George Scott Railton, who was second in command of William and Catherine Booth's Salvation Army. In 1962, she married Cecil Harmsworth King; he died in 1987 at their home in Dublin, where they had relocated. After his death, she became patron of the Cecil King Award for the Young Manager of the Year, promoted jointly by the Irish Management Institute, the Institute of Management in Northern Ireland and ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Railton
William Railton (1800–77) was an English architect, best known as the designer of Nelson's Column. He was based in London, with offices at 12 Regent Street for much of his career. Life He was born in Clapham (then in Surrey) on 14 May 1800, the son of Isaac Railton and his wife, Margaret Maria Railton, née Scott. He was a pupil of the London architect and surveyor William Inwood. In 1825 Railton set off for a tour of Greece and Egypt. On his return to England he prepared for publication some drawings he had made of the remains of the recently excavated Kardaki Temple on Corfu. They were printed as a supplementary volume to James Stuart's ''Antiquities of Athens'' under the title of ''The newly-discovered Temple at Cadachio Illustrated''. In the mid-1830s, Railton carried out several commissions for Ambrose March Phillipps, a Leicestershire landowner who had converted to Catholicism at an early age. On his marriage his father, Charles March-Phillipps of Garendon Park, had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Railton
Samuel Victor Railton (28 February 1906 – 23 July 1996) was a Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Kelvin, Ontario and became a physician and surgeon by career. Railton studied medicine at the University of Toronto after graduation from Brantford Collegiate Institute. After establishing a medical practice at Port Colborne, Ontario, he served in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps between 1940 and 1945. Following World War II, he became a surgeon in Welland, Ontario, and volunteered his skills in 1970 for the Nigerian Civil War. He was first elected at the Welland Welland is a city in the Regional Municipality of Niagara in Southern Ontario, Canada. As of 2021, it had a population of 55,750. The city is in the centre of Niagara and located within a half-hour driving distance to Niagara Falls, Niagara-o ... riding in the 1972 general election and was re-elected there in the 1974 election. He left federal politics after completing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
