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Sisson
Sisson is a surname that appeared in rural England around West Riding, Yorkshire in the 15th century. Notable people with the surname include: * C. H. Sisson (1914–2003), British writer * Fred Sisson (1879–1949), United States Representative from New York * Jeremiah Sisson (1720–1783), British instrument maker * John Richard Sisson (born 1936), acting president of the Ohio State University * Jonathan Sisson (1690–1749), British instrument maker * Marshall Sisson (1897–1978), British architect * Rosemary Anne Sisson (1923–2017), British writer and screenwriter * Rufus Sisson (1890–1977), American college basketball player See also * Sisson Documents, forged Russian documents which purported that Trotsky and Lenin were agents in the pay of the German government * Sisson, California, now Mount Shasta, California Mount Shasta (also known as Mount Shasta City) is a city in Siskiyou County, California, at about above sea level on the flanks of Mount Shasta, a promine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Sisson
Jonathan Sisson (1690 – 1747) was a prominent English instrument maker, the inventor of the modern theodolite with a sighting telescope for surveying, and a leading maker of astronomical instruments. Career Jonathan Sisson was born in Lincolnshire around 1690. He was apprenticed to George Graham (1673–1751), then became independent in 1722. He remained an associate of Graham and of the instrument maker John Bird (1709–1776). All three were recommended by the Royal Society and received some funding from the state, which recognised the value of instruments both to the Royal Navy and to merchant ships. After striking out on his own in 1722 and opening a business in the Strand in London, Sisson gained a reputation for making highly accurate arcs and circles, and for the altazimuth theodolites that he made to his own design. He became a well-known maker of optical and mathematical instruments. In 1729 Sisson was appointed mathematical instrument maker to Frederick, Prince of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosemary Anne Sisson
Rosemary Anne Sisson (13 October 1923 – 28 July 2017) was an English television dramatist and novelist. She was described by playwright Simon Farquhar in 2014 as being "one of television's finest period storytellers", and in 2017 fellow dramatist Ian Curteis referred to her as "the Miss Marple of British playwriting". Early life Sisson was born in Enfield Town, Middlesex to Shakespeare scholar Charles Jasper Sisson (1885–1966), Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of London, who edited the complete works of Shakespeare and published a textual study, ''New Readings in Shakespeare'', and his wife Vera Kathleen (1895–1995), daughter of David George Ginn. She had an elder sister. She attended Cheltenham Ladies' College, where she developed a love of literature. She started reading English at University College London during the Second World War and took a two-year hiatus from her course to volunteer for the Women's Auxiliary Air Forc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremiah Sisson
Jeremiah Sisson (1720-1783) was an English instrument maker who became one of the leaders of his profession in London. Jeremiah Sisson was the son of Jonathan Sisson, also a respected instrument maker, who trained him in the craft. Sisson worked at a time when demand from the Royal Observatory, Greenwich and the Ordnance Survey, and assistance from the Royal Society, had brought London instrument makers to a dominant position in supply of the technically demanding work of making instruments for astronomy, survey and navigation. Sisson's father also employed John Bird, another supplier of instruments to the Royal Observatory. Sisson employed Jesse Ramsden in his workshop, later to become a leading instrument maker in his own right. According to Jean Bernoulli, among the London instrument makers in 1769 Sisson ranked after John Bird but ahead of Ramsden in his skill. Jeremiah Sisson supplied sectors and other astronomical instruments to Nevil Maskelyne, Astronomer Royal at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Richard Sisson
John Richard Sisson (born October 16, 1936) was the acting President of Ohio State University from December 15, 1997, to June 30, 1998, after Elwood Gordon Gee left the office. Sisson graduated from Ohio State with a Bachelor of Arts in international studies in 1958 and a Master of Arts in political science in 1960. He went on to the University of California, Berkeley and received a Ph.D. in 1967. After completing his education, Sisson held administrative and academic positions at the United States Military Academy, UCLA, and Ohio State University. At Ohio State Sisson was Provost from 1993 to 1998. Sisson returned to teaching comparative politics at Ohio State University until his retirement in 2002. In 2002 the political science department at Ohio State University honored Sisson as its "Distinguished Alumnus". of the year. Sisson served as editor alongside Stanley Wolpert of the volume of papers presented at the University of California, Los Angeles March 1984 internation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sisson Documents
The Sisson Documents () are a set of 68 Russian-language documents obtained in 1918 by Edgar Sisson, the Petrograd representative of the United States Committee on Public Information. Published as ''The German-Bolshevik Conspiracy'', they purported to demonstrate that during World War I, Trotsky and Lenin as well as other Bolshevik leaders were agents directed by the German Empire to bring about Russia's withdrawal from the conflict. Their authenticity was debated even as they were widely publicized to discredit the Russian Revolution. In 1956, George F. Kennan, in an article in the ''Journal of Modern History'', demonstrated that they were forgeries. Various analyses however, including that of Kennan did not exclude the possibility that the Bolsheviks received some German logistical or financial support up to 1917, as opposed to following the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk in 1918. History Sisson had worked as a reporter for the ''Chicago Tribune'', as managing editor of ''Collier's Wee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marshall Sisson
Marshall Arnott Sisson RA (14 February 1897 – 26 January 1978) was a British architect, active in 1928–70. Although his earliest buildings were modernist, after around 1935 he used only traditional styles and became known for his restoration work. He served as the Royal Academy's surveyor (1947–65) and treasurer (1965–70). Early life and education Sisson was born in 1897 in Gloucester. He was educated at Leighton Park, the Quaker school at Reading, Berkshire. After working in Gloucester, he studied under Albert Richardson and James Burford at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London (1920) and the British School at Rome (1924). He researched Jerash's Roman architecture in the Middle East in 1926 and spent time in John Russell Pope's practice in New York in 1927. Career His early commissions, after opening his practice in London in 1928, were modernist in style. They include two cubical houses in Cambridge and a small residential development in Carlyon Bay, Cornwall, i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Shasta, California
Mount Shasta (also known as Mount Shasta City) is a city in Siskiyou County, California, at about above sea level on the flanks of Mount Shasta, a prominent northern California landmark. The city is less than southwest of the summit of its namesake volcano. Its population is 3,223 as of the 2020 census, down from 3,394 from the 2010 census. __TOC__ Commerce and tourism The city of Mount Shasta is located in the Shasta Cascade area of Northern California.Welcome to Mount Shasta Mount Shasta Chamber of Commerce, accessed April 23, 2013 Visitors use the city as a base for in the nearby |
Fred Sisson
Frederick James Sisson (March 31, 1879 – October 20, 1949) was an American educator, lawyer, and politician who served two terms as a United States representative from New York from 1933 to 1937. Biography Born in Wells Bridge, Otsego County, New York, he attended the public schools at Unadilla and was graduated from Hamilton College in 1904. He was principal of Vernon High School from 1904 to 1910, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1911 and commenced practice in Utica. He was sheriff's attorney in 1913 and corporation counsel for the city of Utica in 1914. In 1922, he was an unsuccessful candidate for election up to the 68th United States Congress and in 1928 to the 71st United States Congress. He was member of the Whitesboro Board of Education from 1925 to 1933, serving as president from 1926 to 1930. Congress Sisson was elected as a Democrat to the 73rd and 74th Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1933, to January 3, 1937. He was an unsuccessful candidat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rufus Sisson
Rufus Sisson (September 11, 1890 – March 1977) was an NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans, All-American basketball player at Dartmouth College in 1911–12. He led the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League in scoring at 12.8 points per game in 10 games played. He was the first Dartmouth player to lead the league in scoring, and only the second All-American (George Grebenstein was named an All-American in 1906 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans, 1906). References # # # 1890 births 1977 deaths All-American college men's basketball players Basketball players from New York (state) Dartmouth Big Green men's basketball players People from Potsdam, New York American men's basketball players {{collegebasketball-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
