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Storrs (surname)
Storrs is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Margaret Storrs Grierson (1900–1997), American academic and archivist * Cherilla Storrs Lowrey (1861–1918), American educator and clubwoman *Elizabeth Storrs Mead (1832–1917), American educator *Charles and Augustus Storrs, business partners and brothers who founded the University of Connecticut in 1881 * Charles Backus Storrs (1794–1833), first President of Western Reserve College and Preparatory School * Francis Storrs (1883–1918), British academic and intelligence agent *George Storrs (1796–1879), American preacher, Christian writer, and editor * George Harry Storrs (1860–1909), British murder victim *Henry R. Storrs (1787–1837), U.S. Representative from New York *John Storrs (sculptor) (1885–1956), American modernist sculptor *John Storrs (architect) (1920–2003), America architect who designed the World Forestry Center in Oregon *John Storrs (priest) (1846–1928), Anglican priest, Dean of Rocheste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Storrs Grierson
Margaret Storrs Grierson (June 29, 1900 – December 12, 1997) was an American archivist, philosophy professor, and the College Archives (Smith College), founder and first director of the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College. In this capacity, she traveled extensively, in the United States and abroad, assembling manuscripts that document the history of women. Personal life Grierson was born in Denver, Denver, Colorado. Her father was railroad, railway executive Lucius Seymour Storrs and her mother was Mary Cooper Storrs, daughter of Job Adams Cooper, List of governors of Colorado, sixth Governor of the Colorado, State of Colorado. Grierson had one sibling, a brother, Lucius ("Luke") Seymour Storrs, Jr. Because of her father's career, the family moved several times during Grierson's childhood. She attended seven schools before entering Misses Masters' School, Dobbs Ferry, New York. In 1918 Grierson began her undergraduate study at Smith College. She graduated in 1922 wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Storrs (sculptor)
John Henry Bradley Storrs (June 25, 1885 – April 26, 1956), also known as John Bradley Storrs and John H. Storrs, was an American modernist sculptor best remembered for his art deco sculptures that examined the relationship between architecture and sculpture. Life Storrs was born in Chicago in 1885, son of architect D.W. Storrs. In 1905, he traveled to Berlin to study singing, but he soon decided to become a sculptor. He studied with Lorado Taft at the Art Institute of Chicago, with Bela Pratt at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and with Charles Grafly at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. By 1911, he was living in Paris, where he studied with Auguste Rodin and also attended the Académie Julian. He gradually moved from representational sculpture and wood engravings to the machine-like sculptures for which he is best known. During his time in France, Storrs became friends with Jacques Lipchitz. In 1914, Storrs married the novelist and writer Margue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Ronald Storrs
Sir Ronald Henry Amherst Storrs (19 November 1881 – 1 November 1955) was an official in the British Foreign and Colonial Office. He served as Oriental Secretary in Cairo, Military Governor of Jerusalem, Governor of Cyprus, and Governor of Northern Rhodesia. Biography Ronald Storrs was the eldest son of John Storrs, priest of the Church of England and later Dean of Rochester. His mother was Lucy Anna Maria Cockayne-Cust, sister of the fifth Baron Brownlow.Ritchie Ovendale, ‘Storrs, Sir Ronald Henry Amherst (1881–1955)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Storrs was educated at Charterhouse School and Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he gained a first-class degree in the Classical Tripos. Foreign service Egypt Storrs entered the Finance Ministry of the Egyptian Government in 1904, five years later becoming Oriental Secretary to the British Agency, succeeding Harry Boyle in this post. In 1917 Storrs became Political Officer representing the Egyptian Expeditionar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Salter Storrs
Richard Salter Storrs (August 21, 1821 – June 7, 1900) was an American Congregational clergyman. Biography Storrs was born in Braintree, Massachusetts. He bore the same name as his grandfather (1763–1819), pastor at Longmeadow, Massachusetts, from 1785 to 1819, and his father (1787–1873), pastor at Braintree, Massachusetts, from 1811 to 1873 (except the years 1831–1836), both prominent Congregational ministers, who were descendants of Richard Mather. He graduated at Amherst in 1839, studied law in Boston under Rufus Choate, graduated at Andover Theological Seminary in 1845, and was pastor of the Harvard Congregational church of Brookline, Massachusetts, in 1845–1846, and of the Church of the Pilgrims in Brooklyn, New York, from 1846 until shortly before his death. He was a conservative in theology, and an historical writer of considerable ability. From 1848 to 1861, he was associate editor of the ''New York Independent'', which he had helped to establish; from 1887 t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nancy Storrs
Nancy Storrs (March 24, 1950 – September 8, 2023) was an American rower. She competed in the women's coxed four event at the 1976 Summer Olympics, the first Olympics to include women’s rowing, as well as being named to the boycotted 1980 Olympic Team. Storrs died in St. Catharines, Ontario, on September 8, 2023, at the age of 73. Nancy found her lifelong passion for rowing while a student at Williams College Williams College is a Private college, private liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Williamstown, Massachusetts. It was established as a men's college in 1793 with funds from the estate of Ephraim Williams, a col .... References External links * 1950 births 2023 deaths American female rowers Olympic rowers for the United States Rowers at the 1976 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Huntington, New York 21st-century American women World Rowing Championships medalists for the United States {{US-rowing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monica Storrs
Monica Melanie Storrs (February 12, 1888 – December 14, 1967) was a British-born Canadian pioneer and Anglican missionary. She was born at St Peter's Vicarage, Grosvenor Gardens, in the City of Westminster, London to John Storrs and Lucy Cust. Her elder brother was Ronald Storrs. Monica, at two years of age, developed a medical condition which left her unable to walk for ten years. Not physically capable of attending school during this time, her parents educated her themselves. She was later educated at Francis Holland School and St Christopher's College, Blackheath, London. After her parents died, Storrs, although educated for upper-class English life, arrived in Fort St John, British Columbia in October 1929 as the Great Depression began. She was the first missionary to teach Sunday school and take regular Christian services. The group of women, the Companions of the Peace, were funded by the Fellowship of the Maple Leaf (which still promotes links between churches in Can ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Storrs (priest)
John Storrs (1846 - 29 February 1928) was an Anglican priest at the end of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century. Storrs was born in Nova Scotia, Canada, as the eldest son of the Rev. John Storrs of Wolfville, Nova Scotia. He was educated in England at The King's School, Rochester, matriculating in 1865 and going up to Pembroke College, Cambridge. He obtained his BA in 1869, his MA in 1873 and received a DD in 1913. Storrs was ordained deacon in 1871 and a priest in 1873. He was a curate at St Mary's Bury St Edmunds. and then at St Peter's, Eaton Square, London. From 1880 he was the vicar of St James' (now St Edmundsbury Cathedral), Bury St Edmunds and, from 1883, at St Peter's, Eaton Square before becoming the Dean of Rochester in 1913. Whilst at St Peter's he served as the rural dean from 1891 to 1902, then was the Rural Dean of Westminster from 1902 until his move to Rochester. In 1912 and 1913 he was an honorary chaplain to King George V. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Storrs (architect)
John W. Storrs (1920 – August 31, 2003) was an American architect in Oregon. A native of Connecticut, the World War II veteran was known for designs in the Northwest Regional style. His notable works include Salishan Lodge, the original tasting room at the Sokol Blosser Winery, and the campus of the Oregon College of Art & Craft, among others. Early life Storrs was born in 1920 in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Growing up he joined the Boy Scouts and achieved the rank of Eagle Scout. He then attended Dartmouth College in New Hampshire where he was an all-American swimmer, and graduated in 1942. Storrs then joined the United States Navy where he was in command of a sub chaser during World War II. Following the war, he graduated from the Yale School of Architecture with a master's degree in architecture in 1949. He married Frances, and had four children. Career After hearing a lecture by Oregon architect Pietro Belluschi, Storrs moved to Portland, Oregon, in 1954 after practicing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry R
Henry may refer to: People *Henry (given name) *Henry (surname) * Henry Lau, Canadian singer and musician who performs under the mononym Henry Royalty * Portuguese royalty ** King-Cardinal Henry, King of Portugal ** Henry, Count of Portugal, Henry of Burgundy, Count of Portugal (father of Portugal's first king) ** Prince Henry the Navigator, Infante of Portugal ** Infante Henrique, Duke of Coimbra (born 1949), the sixth in line to Portuguese throne * King of Germany **Henry the Fowler (876–936), first king of Germany * King of Scots (in name, at least) ** Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley (1545/6–1567), consort of Mary, queen of Scots ** Henry Benedict Stuart, the 'Cardinal Duke of York', brother of Bonnie Prince Charlie, who was hailed by Jacobites as Henry IX * Four kings of Castile: **Henry I of Castile **Henry II of Castile **Henry III of Castile **Henry IV of Castile * Five kings of France, spelt ''Henri'' in Modern French since the Renaissance to italianize the name and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cherilla Storrs Lowrey
Cherilla Lillian Storrs Lowrey (August 18, 1861 – January 9, 1918) was an American educator and clubwoman based in Hawaii. She was a founder and first chairwoman of The Outdoor Circle, "Hawaii's oldest environmental organization". Early life Storrs was born in Utica, New York. She moved to California as a girl with her widowed mother. Career Lowrey moved to Hawaii in 1882 to teach at Kawaiahao Seminary, a girls' school. She also taught at the Punahou School, and was an assistant principal there in 1883. She was active in the Free Kindergarten and Children's Aid Association (FKCAA), the Women's Board of Missions, the YWCA, and Women's War Council.Margit Misangyi Watts, High Tea at Halekulani: Feminist Theory and American Clubwomen' (PhD dissertation, University of Hawai'i, 1989): 91-96, quote on page 95. Published as a book by Carlson Publications in 1993. She was one of the first two women to serve on the Honolulu Planning Commission. In 1912, Lowrey was one of the origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Harry Storrs
George may refer to: People * George (given name) * George (surname) * George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George * George Washington, First President of the United States * George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States * George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States * George V, King of Great Britain, Ireland, the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 1910-1936 * George VI, King of Great Britain, Ireland, the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 1936-1952 * Prince George of Wales * George Papagheorghe also known as Jorge / GEØRGE * George, stage name of Giorgio Moroder * George Harrison, an English musician and singer-songwriter Places South Africa * George, Western Cape ** George Airport United States * George, Iowa * George, Missouri * George, Washington * George County, Mississippi * George Air Force Base, a former U.S. Air Force base located in California Characters * George (Peppa Pig), a 2-year-old pig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Storrs
George Storrs (December 13, 1796 – December 28, 1879) was a Christian teacher and writer in the United States. Biography George Storrs was born in Lebanon, New Hampshire on December 13, 1796, son to Colonel Constant Storrs (a wheelwright in the Revolutionary Army) and the former Lucinda Howe (his wife). A Congregationalist since age 19, George Storrs was received into the Methodist Episcopal Church and commenced preaching at age 28; by 1825 Storrs had joined their New Hampshire Conference. His biography notes, "Storrs, while a member of the New Hampshire Conference, was a strong man, able and influential in its councils, and the beloved pastor of several important churches." Storrs also engaged in the debate over anti-slavery preaching by ministers. In his article, "Desecrating the Sabbath," he defended abolitionists from the charge they were desecrating the Sabbath by preaching against slavery from the pulpit. "I solemnly believe the Sabbath belongs, in a peculiar sense, to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
