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Richard Johnston (political Scientist)
Richard Johnston may refer to: Politics * Richard Johnston (died 1706), MP for Clogher (Parliament of Ireland constituency) * Sir Richard Johnston, 1st Baronet (1743–1795), MP for Kilbeggan and Blessington * Archibald D. Johnston (1940–2003), popularly known as Dick Johnston, provincial politician, Alberta, Canada * Richard Johnston (Ontario politician) (born 1946), provincial politician, Ontario, Canada * Ricky Johnston (born 1943), Australian politician Other * Richard C. Johnston, U.S. Air Force general * Richard F. Johnston (1925–2014), American ornithologist, academic and author * Richard Johnston (composer) (1917–1997), Canadian composer, arts administrator, music critic, and music educator * Richard Johnston (musician), American blues musician * Rich Johnston, comic book columnist * Richard Malcolm Johnston (1822–1898), American writer and educator * Dick Johnston (1863–1934), baseball player *Dick Johnston (journalist) (1919–2008), Canadian sports journali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Johnston (died 1706)
Richard Johnston may refer to: Politics * Richard Johnston (died 1706), MP for Clogher (Parliament of Ireland constituency) * Sir Richard Johnston, 1st Baronet (1743–1795), MP for Kilbeggan and Blessington * Archibald D. Johnston (1940–2003), popularly known as Dick Johnston, provincial politician, Alberta, Canada * Richard Johnston (Ontario politician) (born 1946), provincial politician, Ontario, Canada * Ricky Johnston (born 1943), Australian politician Other * Richard C. Johnston, U.S. Air Force general * Richard F. Johnston (1925–2014), American ornithologist, academic and author * Richard Johnston (composer) (1917–1997), Canadian composer, arts administrator, music critic, and music educator * Richard Johnston (musician), American blues musician * Rich Johnston, comic book columnist * Richard Malcolm Johnston (1822–1898), American writer and educator * Dick Johnston (1863–1934), baseball player *Dick Johnston (journalist) (1919–2008), Canadian sports journali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Johnston (composer)
Richard Johnston (7 May 1917 – 16 August 1997) was a Canadian composer, conductor, editor, folklorist, music critic, music educator, music producer, and university administrator of American birth. He became a naturalized Canadian citizen in 1957. An associate of the Canadian Music Centre, he was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in February 1997. The library at the University of Calgary holds a substantial amount of his papers, manuscripts, and transcripts in its "Richard Johnston Canadian Music Archives Collection". His original fieldwork tapes and transcripts made during his research as a folklorist are part of the collection at the Canadian Museum of Civilization. Early life and education Born Albert Richard Johnston in Chicago, he began his musical education with Ruth Crazier-Curtis. He entered Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois in 1934 but left the school after just one year. He later matriculated to Northwestern University where he earned a Bachelor of Mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ritchie Johnston
Richard Elsdon Johnston (2 January 1931 – 18 July 2001) was an Olympic Games, Olympic track cyclist from Dannevirke, New Zealand, who participated in the New Zealand at the 1956 Summer Olympics, 1956 Summer Olympic games. He competed in the Cycling at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's tandem, 2 kilometre tandem event with his brother Warren Johnston, and was the flag-bearer for New Zealand. References External links * 1931 births 2001 deaths Cyclists at the 1956 Summer Olympics New Zealand male cyclists Olympic cyclists for New Zealand Sportspeople from Dannevirke 20th-century New Zealand people {{NewZealand-cycling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Johnston (journalist)
Richard W. Johnston (June 11, 1919 – November 6, 2008), was a Canadian sports journalist. A columnist for ''The Buffalo News'', he won the Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award in 1986 and is a member of the media section of the Hockey Hall of Fame , logo = Hockey Hall of Fame Logo.svg , logo_upright = 0.5 , image = Hockey Hall of Fame, Toronto.jpg , caption = The Hall's present location on Yonge Street since 1992 , map_type = , former_name = , established = 1943 , location = 30 Y .... He joined the paper in 1939 and retired in 1984.Bailey, Budd. "Longtime News Hockey Writer Johnston Dies", The Buffalo News, November 2008 References 1919 births 2008 deaths Canadian sports journalists Cornell University alumni Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award recipients {{Canada-journalist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Johnston
Richard Frederick Johnston (April 6, 1863 – April 4, 1934) was a 19th-century center fielder in Major League Baseball. He played eight seasons in the majors, for five different teams in three different leagues. In 746 games over eight seasons, Johnston posted a .251 batting average (751-for-2992) with 453 runs, 33 home runs, 386 RBIs and 151 stolen bases In baseball, a stolen base occurs when a runner advances to a base to which they are not entitled and the official scorer rules that the advance should be credited to the action of the runner. The umpires determine whether the runner is safe or .... See also * List of Major League Baseball annual triples leaders Sources References 1863 births 1934 deaths Major League Baseball center fielders Baseball players from New York (state) Richmond Virginians players Boston Beaneaters players Boston Reds (PL) players New York Giants (PL) players Cincinnati Kelly's Killers players 19th-century baseball players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Malcolm Johnston
Richard Malcolm Johnston (March 8, 1822 – September 23, 1898) was an American author. Biography Johnson was born in Powelton, Hancock County, Georgia. His father was a Baptist minister, and his early education was received at a country school and finished at Mercer University. After graduating there he spent a year teaching and then took up the study of law and was admitted to the bar in 1843. In 1857, he accepted an appointment to the chair of belles-lettres and oratory at the University of Georgia in Athens, retaining it until the opening of the Civil War, when he began a school for boys on his farm near Sparta. This he kept going during the war, serving also for a time on the staff of Confederate general Joseph E. Brown, and helping to organize the state militia. At the close of the war he moved to Maryland, where he opened the Pen Lucy School for boys in Baltimore. One of his teaching staff was Georgia-born poet Sidney Lanier, who persuaded him to begin to write ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rich Johnston
Richard Johnston is a British comics creator, columnist, and founder of the comics news site ''Bleeding Cool''. ''The Comics Journal'' described Johnston as having claimed to be "the oldest extant comics news reporter on the Internet." His past columns include "All The Rage" (for Silver Bullet Comic Books), and "Lying in the Gutters" (for Comic Book Resources). Early life Johnston grew up in Pontefract, West Yorkshire. He subsequently moved to London. Career Comics journalism/gossip ''Rich's Revelations'' was originally a simple relisting of British magazine comics news. Johnston began writing gossip on USENET newsgroups in 1994 as ''Rich's Ramblings''. He then took the column, around onto the burgeoning World Wide Web, with "Rich's Revelations" on the now-defunct Twist And Shout Comics website. He later started the comics gossip column "All The Rage" for '' Silver Bullet Comic Books'', later ''Comics Bulletin''. Johnston wrote the column "Lying in the Gutters" for ''Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Johnston (musician)
Richard Wayne Johnston is an American country blues musician. In 2001 he won the Blues Foundation's International Blues Challenge and its Albert King Award for most promising blues guitarist. His work as a street musician on Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee, was documented in the Alabama PBS film ''Richard Johnston: Hill Country Troubadour''. The film, directed by Max Shores, featured Johnston singing and playing his Lowebow cigar box guitar. It won first place in the professional documentary film category at the 2007 George Lindsey/UNA Film Festival. Johnston studied under blues artists including R.L. Burnside, Junior Kimbrough and Jessie Mae Hemphill. His first album, ''Foot Hill Stomp'' (2002), featured Hemphill on vocals and tambourine, with assistance from R.L. Burnside's grandson, Cedric Burnside, and others. His second album, ''Official Bootleg #1'' (2004), was assisted by Hemphill, Cedric Burnside, and other artists. Richard also works under the name Boozer Ramirez in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard F
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) * Ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clogher (Parliament Of Ireland Constituency)
Clogher was a borough constituency in the Irish House of Commons until 1800. It represented the "city" of Clogher in County Tyrone. The city, actually no more than a village, gained its importance as the site of the cathedral of the Church of Ireland diocese of Clogher. The constituency was a rotten borough in the gift of the bishop A bishop is a person of authority in a Christian church. Bishop, Bishops or Bishop's may also refer to: Religious roles * Bishop (Catholic Church) * Bishop (Eastern Orthodox Church) * Bishop (Latter Day Saints) * Bishop (Methodism) Places An .... When the constituency was disestablished, bishop John Porter's claim for £15,000 compensation was disallowed. Members of Parliament, 1264–1801 Notes References Parliamentary Memoirs of Fermanagh and Tyrone, from 1613 to 1885 Bibliography * * {{County Tyrone constituencies Constituencies of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) Historic constituencies in County Tyrone 1264 establishments ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard C
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) * Ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ricky Johnston
Henrike "Ricky" Johnston (; born 29 September 1943) is a former Australian politician. A member of the Liberal Party, she represented the Western Australian seat of Canning in the House of Representatives from 1996 to 1998. Early life Johnston was born on 29 September 1943 in Meissen, Germany (East Germany after 1949). She is the daughter of Maya and Henry Heppekausen. She and her family immigrated to Australia in 1954. Johnston completed a diploma of nursing at Fremantle Hospital and was the director of a nursing employment agency from 1975 to 1981. She later worked as marketing manager for a food processing company (1987–1989), divisional manager with the Australian Bureau of Statistics for the 1991 census, and human resources manager at an aged care company (1994–1996). Politics Johnston was introduced to the Liberal Party by her father-in-law Fred Johnston, a former state president. She served several terms on the party's state council and was also a member of its pol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
