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Richard Fuller (environmentalist), Richard Fuller
Richard or Dickie Fuller may refer to: *Richard Fuller (politician, died 1782), MP for Steyning 1764–68, Stockbridge 1768–74 * Richard Fuller (Conservative politician) (born 1962), British Conservative Member of Parliament for Bedford from 2010 to 2017 and North East Bedfordshire from 2019 * Richard Fuller (footballer) (1913–1983), English footballer * Richard Fuller (environmentalist) (born 1960), founder, Blacksmith Institute * Richard Fuller (pianist) (born 1947), American classical pianist * Richard Fuller (minister) Richard Fuller (April 22, 1804 – October 20, 1876) was an American Baptist minister and one of the founders of the Southern Baptist movement. Early life Richard Fuller was born on April 22, 1804, in Beaufort, South Carolina. He received his ... (1804–1876), founder of the Southern Baptist movement * Richard Buckminster Fuller, American engineer, author and designer * Richard Fuller, founder of the Seattle Art Museum See also * Dickie Fuller ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Fuller (politician, Died 1782)
Richard Fuller ('' c.'' 1713 – 2 January 1782) was an English banker and politician. Early life Some sources say he was the third son of the Reverend Joseph Fuller, a Baptist minister of Harwell in Berkshire and his wife Martha Hanson. More likely he was the third surviving son of Thomas Fuller, a landowner at FitzHarris outside Abingdon, then in Berkshire, and his wife Hester Alder. This makes him the brother of the banker William Fuller and of Martha Fuller (1717–1805) who married the stationer George Flower (1715–1778), becoming the mother of Benjamin Flower and Richard Flower as well as mother-in-law of the Reverend John Clayton. Career With Frazer Honywood in 1737 he became founding partner of a private bank in Lombard Street, City of London, known initially as Atkins, Honeywood & Fuller. The firm moved to Birchin Lane about 1754 and to Cornhill about 1774. In 1746 it became Honeywood & Fuller and went through several name changes until at his death it was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Fuller (Conservative Politician)
Richard Quentin Fuller (born 30 May 1962) is a British politician who served as the Economic Secretary to the Treasury from July to October 2022. He has been Member of Parliament (MP) for North East Bedfordshire since 2019. A member of the Conservative Party, he represented Bedford from 2010 to 2017. He had previously achieved prominence as a leader of the Young Conservatives. Early life Fuller was educated at Hazeldene School and Bedford Modern School (then a direct grant school), followed by University College, Oxford (1981–84), where he studied Politics, Philosophy & Economics, and Harvard Business School (1987–89) for his MBA. Fuller was President of the Oxford University Conservative Association (OUCA) in 1983. Following the failed nomination of Conservative candidates for the Oxford University Student Union (OUSU), Oxford's student paper '' Cherwell'' ran the headline "OUCA falls apart" and Fuller lost a vote of confidence but remained in office. As President, Fuller ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Fuller (footballer)
Richard J. Fuller (2 March 1913 – 1983) was an English footballer who played at centre-forward for Stockport County and Port Vale. Career Fuller played for Stockport County before joining Third Division South club Port Vale in May 1938. His only game for the club was on 28 January 1939, in a 2–0 defeat by Mansfield Town at Field Mill. Failing to make an impression at The Old Recreation Ground, he left on a free transfer in April 1939. During the war he guested for Doncaster Rovers and Darlington Darlington is a market town in the Borough of Darlington, County Durham, England. The River Skerne flows through the town; it is a tributary of the River Tees. The Tees itself flows south of the town. In the 19th century, Darlington underwen .... Career statistics Source: References {{DEFAULTSORT:Fuller, Richard 1913 births 1983 deaths People from Burwell, Cambridgeshire Footballers from Cambridgeshire English men's footballers Men's association footb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Fuller (environmentalist)
Richard Fuller (born 1960) is an Australian-born, United States-based engineer, entrepreneur, and environmentalist known for his work in pollution remediation. He is founder and President of the nonprofit Pure Earth (formerly known as Blacksmith Institute), Co-Chair of The Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health, and the Co-Chair of the Pure Earth-founded group the Global Alliance on Health and Pollution. Fuller also founded and serves as the President of waste management consultancy firm Great Forest. Early career Richard Fuller graduated with a degree in Engineering from Melbourne University. Following university, he worked for IBM. He left Australia in 1988 to work in the Amazon rainforest of Brazil with the United Nations Environment Programme for two years. In 1989, he established New York City-based waste management consultancy firm Great Forest. Pure Earth Despite the success of Great Forest, Fuller felt that there was more he can do to bring about me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Fuller (pianist)
Richard Fuller (born July 14, 1947) is an American classical pianist and interpreter of the fortepiano repertoire. Early life and musical education Born in Washington, Fuller initially studied piano with his mother, Georgette Fuller. After studying piano and musicology at Central Washington University, he went on to receive a master's degree in music from the University of Oregon in 1971. Subsequently, he studied harpsichord and fortepiano in San Francisco, New York and Vienna. Life and career Since relocating to Vienna, Austria, over three decades ago, Fuller has emerged as an interpreter of the fortepiano repertoire. He has performed in Vienna's Konzerthaus, Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, London's Wigmore Hall and many other major venues and festivals in Europe, the United States, Japan and Central America. Fuller is one of the few who has sought to address himself exclusively to the interpretive potential of the fortepiano, its subtle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Fuller (minister)
Richard Fuller (April 22, 1804 – October 20, 1876) was an American Baptist minister and one of the founders of the Southern Baptist movement. Early life Richard Fuller was born on April 22, 1804, in Beaufort, South Carolina. He received his early instruction from Dr. William T. Brautly. At the age of seventeen, Fuller entered Harvard University in Massachusetts. Despite health problems, he graduated with his class in 1824.Henry Mitchell MacCracken, ''Lives of the leaders of the church universal, from Ignatius to the present time'' (1880), p. 697-703. He then studied law in Beaufort, was admitted to the bar and soon rose to eminence in his profession. Career Despite his success, during a period of great religious interest in Beaufort he felt it his duty to abandon the law and devote himself to the Christian ministry. At the same time, he decided to leave the Protestant Episcopal Church in which he had been brought up. He converted to the Baptist Church under the guidance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buckminster Fuller
Richard Buckminster Fuller (; July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983) was an American architect, systems theorist, writer, designer, inventor, philosopher, and futurist. He styled his name as R. Buckminster Fuller in his writings, publishing more than 30 books and coining or popularizing such terms as " Spaceship Earth", "Dymaxion" (e.g., Dymaxion house, Dymaxion car, Dymaxion map), "ephemeralization", " synergetics", and "tensegrity". Fuller developed numerous inventions, mainly architectural designs, and popularized the widely known geodesic dome; carbon molecules known as fullerenes were later named by scientists for their structural and mathematical resemblance to geodesic spheres. He also served as the second World President of Mensa International from 1974 to 1983. Fuller was awarded 28 United States patents and many honorary doctorates. In 1960, he was awarded the Frank P. Brown Medal from The Franklin Institute. He was elected an honorary member of Phi Beta Kappa in 1967, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seattle Art Museum
The Seattle Art Museum (commonly known as SAM) is an art museum located in Seattle, Washington, United States. It operates three major facilities: its main museum in downtown Seattle; the Seattle Asian Art Museum (SAAM) in Volunteer Park on Capitol Hill, and Olympic Sculpture Park on the central Seattle waterfront, which opened in January 2007. History The SAM collection has grown from 1,926 pieces in 1933 to above 25,000 as of 2022. Its original museum provided an area of ; the present facilities provide plus a park. Paid staff have increased from 7 to 303, and the museum library has grown from approximately 1,400 books to 33,252. SAM traces its origins to the Seattle Fine Arts Society (organized 1905) and the Washington Arts Association (organized 1906), which merged in 1917, keeping the Fine Arts Society name. In 1931 the group renamed itself as the Art Institute of Seattle. The Art Institute housed its collection in Henry House, the former home, on Capitol Hill, of the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
