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Rippon (surname)
Rippon is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Adam Rippon (born 1989), American figure skater *Angela Rippon (born 1944), British journalist *Geoffrey Rippon (1924–1997), British politician *John Rippon (1751–1836), English Baptist minister *Peter Rippon (born 1965), British broadcasting executive *Robert Henry Fernando Rippon (1836–1917), English zoologist and illustrator *Ted Rippon Edward Charles Rippon (29 April 1914 – 12 December 1991) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Essendon—and for St Kilda after World War II began to draw to a close—in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Family The son of ... (1914–1991), Australian footballer See also * Rippin (surname) {{surname, Rippon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Rippon
Adam Richard Rippon (born November 11, 1989) is an American figure skater. He won the 2010 Four Continents Championships and the 2016 U.S. National Championships. Earlier in his career, he won the 2008 and 2009 World Junior Championships, the 2007–2008 Junior Grand Prix Final, and the 2008 U.S junior national title. Rippon was selected to represent the United States at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. At the 2018 Winter Olympics, Rippon won a bronze medal as part of the figure skating team event. Later that year, he won season 26 of ''Dancing with the Stars'' with professional dancer Jenna Johnson. Rippon announced his retirement from competitive figure skating in November 2018. He was included in ''Time'' magazine's ''100 Most Influential People of 2018.'' Early life Adam Rippon was born on November 11, 1989, in Scranton, Pennsylvania, the first child in his family of six children. His parents divorced in 2004. He attended an elementary Catholic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angela Rippon
Angela May Rippon (born 12 October 1944)"Angela Rippon," ''Contemporary Authors Online'', Detroit: Gale, (2008) ''Gale Biography In Context'' is an English television journalist, newsreader, writer and presenter. Rippon presented radio and television news programmes in South West England before moving to BBC One's '' Nine O'Clock News'', becoming a regular presenter in 1975. She was the first female journalist permanently to present the BBC national television news, and the second female news presenter on British television after Barbara Mandell on Independent Television News (ITN) in 1955. Rippon appeared on a Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show in 1976, presented the first two series of ''Top Gear'' and also presented ''Come Dancing''. She hosted the Eurovision Song Contest in 1977. She was a presenter on, and co-founder of, breakfast television franchisee TV-am. In the 1990s, she moved to radio, presenting daily news programmes for LBC Newstalk between 1990 and 1994, and appea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Rippon
Aubrey Geoffrey Frederick Rippon, Baron Rippon of Hexham, PC, QC (28 May 1924 – 28 January 1997) was a British Conservative Party politician. He is most known for drafting the European Communities Act 1972 which took the United Kingdom into the European Communities on 1 January 1973. He was Chairman of the European-Atlantic Group. Early life Born in Penn, Buckinghamshire, the son of the Somerset cricketer Sydney Rippon, Geoffrey Rippon was educated at King's College, Taunton, and Brasenose College, Oxford, where he was president of the University Conservative Association. He was called to the Bar in 1948 and was Mayor of Surbiton 1951–52 and a member of the London County Council from 1952, representing Chelsea. From 1958, he was the leader of the Conservative Party group on the council. Parliamentary career After unsuccessfully contesting the seat of Shoreditch and Finsbury in both 1950 and 1951, he became MP for Norwich South in 1955. As Minister for Public Buildi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Rippon
John Rippon (29 April 1751 – 17 December 1836) was an English Baptist minister. In 1787 he published an important hymnal, ''A Selection of Hymns from the Best Authors, Intended to Be an Appendix to Dr. Watts’ Psalms and Hymns'', commonly known as ''Rippon's Selection'', which was very successful, and was reprinted 27 times in over 200,000 copies. Many hymns originally published in Rippon's ''Selection'' are preserved in the Sacred Harp. Life At the age of 17, Rippon attended Bristol Baptist College in Bristol, England. After the death of John Gill, he assumed Gill's pastorate, the Baptist meeting-house in Carter Lane, Tooley Street, Southwark, from 1773 at the age of 20 until his death, a period of 63 years. During these times, the church experienced great growth and became one of the largest congregations in the country. The congregation moved to New Park Street from Carter Lane in 1833. The New Park Street Chapel could seat 1,200 people. Rippon's church was later past ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Rippon
Peter William Rippon (born 22 August 1965) is a British broadcasting executive. He is Editor of BBC Online Archive. Prior to this he was Editor of BBC Television's current affairs programme ''Newsnight''. Early life Peter Rippon was born in Henley-on-Thames.John Plunket"Peter Rippon: Newsnight editor thrown into centre of Jimmy Savile row" ''The Guardian'', 22 October 2012 He is the son of Robin Rippon and Susan Westcott. He has an older sister and younger brother and sister. He attended the Gillotts School, a comprehensive school, in Henley on Thames in the South Oxfordshire district of south-eastern Oxfordshire. He graduated from the University of East Anglia (UEA) with a BA in Philosophy and Politics, and gained an MSc in International Politics from the University of Southampton. BBC career Rippon joined the BBC in 1989 as a trainee. At Radio 4 he became (concurrently) the Editor of ''The World At One'', '' PM'', '' iPM'', ''Broadcasting House'' and ''The World This We ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Henry Fernando Rippon
Robert Henry Fernando Rippon (c. 1836 – 16 January 1917) was an English zoologist, entomologist and illustrator. He was a musician for a while but took a keen amateur interest in entomology and published a major multi-volume work on the birdwing butterflies, the ''Icones Ornithopterum'' (1898-1906)''.'' He also wrote ''Lilliebright; or, Wisdom and Folly: A Fairy Tale, and Other Tales'' (1856), and a semi-autobiographical novel, ''Victor; Or, Lessons of Life. a Tale Founded on Fact (1864). Life and work Rippon was born in Bocking, Essex, the first son of John and Martha. His father John is recorded in the 1841 census as a professor of music at Braintree, Essex. Robert Rippon's interests included poetry and music, with several piano compositions to his credit. In 1861 Robert's lived in Reading, Berkshire and his profession was recorded as professor of music. Around 1876 he moved to London and took to zoological illustration for a living. He produced several plates for Frederic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ted Rippon
Edward Charles Rippon (29 April 1914 – 12 December 1991) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Essendon—and for St Kilda after World War II began to draw to a close—in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Family The son of Edward Charles Rippon (1869–1946), and Florence Georgina Rippon (1876–1964), née Kenney, Edward Charles Rippon was born on 29 April 1914. He married Jen Brenda Watson on 26 November 1938. Football Ted Rippon was recruited by Carlton from Cheltenham; however, a series of injuries prevented him from breaking into Carlton Seniors. He moved to Essendon in 1933, and made his senior debut against St Kilda on 22 July 1933 (Round 13 of the home-and-away season). He was a good, hard-working, reliable player for Essendon, winning Essendon's Most Serviceable Player award in 1935, who played most of his 69 senior games in the ruck. He was often referred to as "Autumn Leaves" because of his propensity to fall over after contesting the ball in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
