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Ryther
Ryther is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Augustine Ryther (died 1593), English engraver and translator * Megan Ryther (born 1979), American freestyle swimmer See also * Ryther, North Yorkshire, in Ryther cum Ossendyke Ryther cum Ossendyke is a civil parish from Tadcaster and from Selby, North Yorkshire, England. It includes the village of Ryther. The civil parish population at the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 census was 241. History Ryther-with-Ossend ..., England * Rytter {{Surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryther Cum Ossendyke
Ryther cum Ossendyke is a civil parish from Tadcaster and from Selby, North Yorkshire, England. It includes the village of Ryther. The civil parish population at the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 census was 241. History Ryther-with-Ossendyke is a parish in the wapentake of Barkston Ash historically in Yorkshire but now in the county of North Yorkshire. The parish is situated on the south side of the River Wharfe, which forms part of the parish boundary. It covered 1,074 hectares and contained the township of Lead Hall about six miles to the west, where there is St Mary's Chapel, Lead, St Mary's Chapel, a chapel of ease of Ryther's parish church, All Saints Church (13th century). The origin of the village name 'Ryther' is uncertain. Eilert Ekwall, in the ''Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names'', rejected an earlier derivation from a putative Old English word ''gytheru'' ('clearing'); he instead proposed ''hryther-ea'', 'cattle-isle'. However, more modern scholar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augustine Ryther
Augustine Ryther (died 1593) was an English engraver and translator. He engraved some of Christopher Saxton's maps of English counties. He also made scientific instruments. Works Ryther was associated with engraving maps of the counties of England published by Saxton in 1579. His name appears as the engraver of the maps of County Durham and Westmoreland (1576), Gloucester and York (1577), and that of the whole of England, signed ‘Augustinus Ryther Anglus Sculpsit Ano Dñi 1579.’ His name appears in 1588 with those of Jodocus Hondius, Theodore de Bry, and others, among the engravers of the charts to ''The Mariner's Mirrour'' by Sir Anthony Ashley. In 1590 Ryther published a translation of Petruccio Ubaldini's ''Expeditionis Hispaniorum in Angliam vera Descriptio''. The book was printed by A. Hatfield. This work is dedicated by Ryther to Lord Howard of Effingham, and in the dedication he apologises for the two years' delay in its publication. The plates consist of a title and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Megan Ryther
Megan Ryther (born July 3, 1979, in Kankakee, IL) is a female freestyle swimmer from United States. She represented her native country at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships in Perth, Western Australia Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth is ..., competing in one individual events (5 km). She competes in open water and her last result was 17th place in World Open Water Championship in 2003. ReferencesUSA Swimming*https://www.the-sports.org/megan-ryther-nuoto-spf81755.html 1979 births Living people American female freestyle swimmers American female swimmers {{US-swimming-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
