Richard Morrison (politician)
Richard Morrison may refer to: * Richard Morrison (ambassador) (c. 1513–1556), Edward VI's ambassador to Charles V * Richard Morrison (architect) (1767–1849), Irish architect * Richard Morrison (film titles designer) (born 1953), English designer of film title sequences * Richard Morrison (music critic), music critic of ''The Times'' * Richard Morrison (''Neighbours''), a character from the soap opera ''Neighbours'' * Richard James Morrison (1795–1874), English astrologer * Richard T. Morrison Richard Thane Morrison (born June 10, 1967) is a senior judge of the United States Tax Court. Born in Kansas, Morrison received a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Kansas in 1989 and was a visiting student at Man ...

Richard Morrison (ambassador)
Sir Richard Morrison (or Morison or Morysine) (ca. 1513 – 1556) was an English humanist scholar and diplomat. He was a protégé of Thomas Cromwell, propagandist for Henry VIII of England, Henry VIII, and then ambassador to the German court of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V for Edward VI. Life Richard Morrison was the son of Thomas Morison of Hertfordshire by a daughter of Thomas Merry of Hatfield, Hertfordshire, Hatfield. He had a sister, Amy, who married Stephen Hales (d. 27 March 1574), esquire, of Newland, Warwickshire, brother of John Hales (died 1572), John Hales. Morrison attended Cardinal College, Oxford (now Christ Church) ca. 1526 and met Nicholas Udall, who became the master of Eton College and was known as the father of English comedy. He graduated B.A. at Oxford on 19 January 1527–8, and directly entered the service of Thomas Wolsey; but he soon left the cardinal, visited Hugh Latimer at Cambridge, and went to Italy to study Greek. He attended the Univ ...
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Richard Morrison (architect)
Sir Richard Morrison (1767 – 31 October 1849 / 1844Philip Smith (writer), ''An Introduction to the Architectural Heritage of County Wicklow'' (Dublin: Wordwell Press / Government of Ireland, Department of the Environment, Heritage, and Local Government, National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, 2004). p.24.) was an Irish architect. Life He was born at Midleton, County Cork, the son of John Morrison, also an architect. Originally intended for the church, he was eventually placed as a pupil with James Gandon, the celebrated architect, in Dublin. He obtained through his godfather, Richard Boyle, 2nd Earl of Shannon, a post in the ordnance department at Dublin, but this he abandoned. when he entered into full-time practice as an architect. He married Elizabeth Ould, daughter of the Reverend William Ould, and granddaughter of the noted physician Sir Fielding Ould, and had at least four children. Having resided for some time at Clonmel, where his second son, William Vitruvius was ...
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Richard Morrison (film Titles Designer)
Richard Morrison (born September 1953) is an English designer of film title sequences. He has created over 150 feature film title sequences in a career of more than thirty years. Having studied graphics, photography and film, Morrison's initial career began on the James Bond film series collaborating with an American graphic designer Maurice Binder. He has worked on film openers ever since for film directors including Franc Roddam, Ridley Scott and Jean-Jacques Annaud. His title sequences include films such as ''Batman'', ''Enemy at the Gates'', ''Gandhi'', ''Brazil'' and ''The Killing Fields''. Describing his work in an interview with ''Empire'' (August 2008) Morrison explained: "I look for a nuance, a subliminal energy in a film that I can then work into an idea. A lot of my title sequences don’t give much away, but they give you a flavour. So the viewer thinks - Oh, this is intriguing, show me more…"Osmond, A., 2008. ''Title Recall'', p.84-88. Empire magazine, August 2008 ...
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Richard Morrison (music Critic)
Richard Duncan Morrison (born 24 July 1954) is an English music critic who specializes in classical music. As chief music critic of ''The Times'' since 1992, he "has long been admired for his penetrating cultural column". He also writes for the monthly publication ''BBC Music Magazine'' and has previously written for ''Classical Music'', '' The Listener'' and (as deputy editor) the ''Early Music'' journal. In 2004, he published a history of the London Symphony Orchestra entitled ''Orchestra: The LSO: A Century of Triumph and Turbulence''; Charlotte Higgins of ''The Guardian'' described it as "a pungent, immensely readable first book." Life and career Richard Duncan Morrison was born in London, England, on 24 July 1954. His first classical music experience was attending a 1960 London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) concert at the age of five. He was educated at University College School in Hampstead, and after studying music at Magdalene College, Cambridge worked variously as a pianist, ...
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Richard Morrison (Neighbours)
The following is a list of characters that first appeared in the Australian soap opera ''Neighbours'' in 1985, by order of first appearance. They were all introduced by the show's creator and executive producer Reg Watson. The 1st season of ''Neighbours'' began airing on 18 March 1985. The first episode introduced the members of the Ramsay and Robinson families as well as bachelor Des Clarke, and his soon-to-be wife and former stripper Daphne Lawrence. Max Ramsay, his wife Maria and their sons, Shane and Danny lived at Number 24. Jim Robinson lived next door with his children; Paul, Julie, Scott and Lucy. They were joined by Jim's mother in law, Helen Daniels. Myra De Groot joined the cast as Des's mother, Eileen and Maxine Klibingaitis arrived as plumber's assistant, Terry Inglis. Philip Martin began appearing from June and his children, Debbie and Michael, arrived in July and October respectively. Con man Douglas Blake played by Anne Haddy's real-life husband James Condon ...
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Richard James Morrison
Richard James Morrison (15 June 1795 – 5 April 1874) was an English astrologer, commonly known by his pen name Zadkiel and best known for the series known as ''Zadkiel's Almanac''. Early life The son of Richard Caleb Morrison, Morrison joined the Royal Navy in 1806 serving as a first class volunteer until 1810, master's mate until 1815 and resigned due to ill-health with the rank of lieutenant in 1829. He then devoted himself to the study of astrology which he termed as astro-meteorology. He became a member of the Meteorological Society's Council in 1840. Career Morrison in 1831 issued ''The Herald of Astrology'', subsequently known as ''Zadkiel's Almanac''. In this annual pamphlet, he published predictions of the chief events of the coming year. Morrison wrote with the signature ''Zadkiel Tao-Sze''. Morrison wrote such articles as ''The New Principia, or true system of astronomy, in which the Earth is proved to be the stationary centre of the Solar System'' (1868) which made hi ...
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