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Richard Boyer (other)
Richard Boyer may refer to: *Richard Boyer (broadcaster) Sir Richard James Fildes (Dick) Boyer, (24 August 1891 – 5 June 1961) was an Australian grazier and broadcasting chief. From 1945 until his death he served as chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Commission and the annual Boyer Lectures on ... (1891–1961), Australian broadcaster * Richard O. Boyer (1903–1973), American journalist * Rick Boyer (1943–2021), American author * Richard Delmer Boyer (born 1958), American convicted murderer {{Hndis, Boyer, Richard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Boyer (broadcaster)
Sir Richard James Fildes (Dick) Boyer, (24 August 1891 – 5 June 1961) was an Australian grazier and broadcasting chief. From 1945 until his death he served as chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Commission and the annual Boyer Lectures on Radio National are named in his honour. Early life, student career and military service Boyer was born at Taree, New South Wales, the third and youngest son of a Wesleyan minister. He attended Wolaroi College, Orange, and Newington College (1901–1909). At the University of Sydney he graduated BA in 1913 and MA Hons in 1915. Boyer joined the Methodist ministry and in 1914 and 1915 was a probationer in the Canberra circuit. Boyer enlisted in the Australian Army Australian Imperial Force on 2 September 1915 having previously served in the Sydney University Regiment. He was a member of the 24th reinforcements for the 1st Battalion serving on the Gallipoli Peninsula from 16 September 1915. He was commissioned holding the rank of Lieu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard O
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] |
Rick Boyer
Richard Lewis Boyer (194319 January 2021) was an American writer, best known for series of crime novels featuring Charlie "Doc" Adams, a dental surgeon in New England. His debut novel '' Billingsgate Shoal'' received the Edgar Award for best novel in 1983. Boyer was born in Evanston, Illinois. He majored in English at Denison University and earned an MFA in creative writing at the University of Iowa, studying under Kurt Vonnegut. Boyer worked as a high school teacher, a sales representative for publishing company and taught English at Western Carolina University Western Carolina University (WCU) is a public university in Cullowhee, North Carolina. It is part of the University of North Carolina system. The fifth oldest institution of the sixteen four-year universities in the UNC system, WCU was founded ... until his retirement in 2008. Mr. Boyer died on January 19, 2021, after a long battle with Alzheimer's Disease. Bibliography Doc Adams novels *'' Billingsgate Shoal'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |