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Sully (surname)
Sully is a surname, and may refer to: * Alfred Sully (1820–1879), American Civil War and Indian Wars officer and actor * Anthony Sully (born 1944), American serial killer * Brian Sully (1936–2019), Australian judge law professor * Damien Sully (born 1974), Australian rules football field umpire * Daniel Sully (1855–1910), American circus performer, stage actor and playwright * David John Sully (born 1947), Welsh chess player * Eugene Sully (born 1977), runner-up in ''Big Brother'' Series 6, UK * François Sully (1927/28–1971), French journalist and photographer * Frank Sully (1908–1975), American film actor * Haydn Sully (1939–2006), English cricketer * Henry Sully (1680–1729), English clockmaker * Ivory Sully (born 1957), American football player * Jack Sully (c.1850–1904), American cattle rustler, outlaw and sheriff born Arthur McDonald * James Sully (1842–1923), English psychologist * Jeanne Sully (1905–1995), French actress * John Sully (c.1283–c.1388), E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Sully
Alfred Sully (May 22, 1820 – April 27, 1879), was a military officer during the American Civil War and during the Indian Wars on the frontier. He was also a noted painter. Biography Sully was the son of the portrait painter, Thomas Sully, of Pennsylvania. Alfred Sully graduated from West Point in 1841. During and after the American Civil War, Sully served in the Great Plains, Plains States and was widely regarded as an Indian Wars, Indian fighter. Sully, like his father, was a watercolorist and oil painter. Between 1849 and 1853, he became chief quartermaster of the U.S. troops at Monterey, California, after California came under American jurisdiction. Then, Sully created a number of watercolor and some oil paintings reflecting the society, social life of Monterey during that period. Commands Sully headed US troops out of Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, in June 1861 as Captain (United States), captain and Military occupation, occupied the city of St. Joseph, Missouri, St Joseph, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Sully
Sir John Sully (c.1283 – c.1388), KG, of Ruxford and Iddesleigh in Devonshire, was an English knight. He was one of the many deponents who gave evidence in ''Scrope v Grosvenor'' (decided in 1389), one of the earliest heraldic law cases brought in England, at which time he stated his age as 105. In about 1362, he was appointed by King Edward III as the 39th Knight of the Garter. Origins According to Nicolas (1832), he descended from a younger branch of the family of Sully, lords of the manor of Iddesleigh in Devonshire, and appears to have succeeded to that property as heir male. According to Pole, he possessed Iddesleigh in 1356. According to Nicholas: "Nothing can with certainty be said of his parents, nor is it positively known whether he left descendants". He may have been a descendant of Reymode de Sully, the son of Walter de Sully, who in 1291 held a fifth moiety of the feudal barony of Great Torrington in Devon, on which he paid feudal relief of £20 to the king, pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Sully
Thomas Sully (June 19, 1783November 5, 1872) was a portrait painter in the United States. Born in Great Britain, he lived most of his life in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He painted in the style of Thomas Lawrence. His subjects included national political leaders such as United States presidents: Thomas Jefferson, John Quincy Adams, and Andrew Jackson, Revolutionary War hero General Marquis de Lafayette, and many leading musicians and composers. In addition to portraits of wealthy patrons, he painted landscapes and historical pieces such as the 1819 ''The Passage of the Delaware''. His work was adapted for use on United States coinage. Life and career Early life Sully was born in Horncastle, Lincolnshire, England in 1783 to actors Matthew Sully and Sarah Chester. In March 1792, the Sullys and their nine children emigrated to Charleston, South Carolina, where Thomas's uncle Thomas Wade West managed a theater. Sully made his first appearance in the theater as a tumbler at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siergot Sully
Siergot Sully (born 27 February 1951) is a former boxer from Haiti, who competed in the light welterweight (- 63.5 kg) division at the 1976 Summer Olympics. Sully lost his opening bout to Ismael Martinez of Puerto Rico Puerto Rico (; abbreviated PR; tnq, Boriken, ''Borinquen''), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico ( es, link=yes, Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, lit=Free Associated State of Puerto Rico), is a Caribbean island and unincorporated .... References 1951 births Living people Light-welterweight boxers Olympic boxers for Haiti Boxers at the 1976 Summer Olympics Haitian male boxers {{Haiti-boxing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandra Sully (songwriter)
Sandra Sully is a former member of the all-female band from the 1970s, ''The Love Machine''. She is a songwriter. The Love Machine era In the very diverse landscape of music genres of the 1970s, The Love Machine was an all-female band that "specialized" mainly in funk music. The members of the band were Bernice Givens, Kathy Bradley, Mary Hopkins, Paulette Gibson, Renee Gentry, Sandra Sully and Sheila Dean. "The Love Machine" performed in Europe, Asia, and Africa for many years recording with and releasing albums under many labels, such as Arista, Buddah, le trois Musketeers, Phillips, Barclay, and Motowon Songwriter Sandra Sully co-wrote Bobby Womack's "If You Think You're Lonely Now". In 2006 she was credited as a co-writer of Mariah Carey's Grammy Award–winning song "We Belong Together" which incorporated part of "If You're Think You're Lonely Now". Sandra received a Grammy certificate for "We Belong Together" and the BMI "Song of the Decade" award. The album "The Eman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandra Sully
Sandra Sully (born 18 February 1965) is an Australian news presenter and journalist and editor for '' 10 News First'' in Sydney and Queensland. Sully attended Brisbane State High School, graduating in 1978. Life and career Sully was the first Australian television journalist to cover news of the 11 September terrorist attacks. She was on air when the first attack occurred and, shortly afterwards, began presenting live breaking coverage. She also hosted ''Cool Aid Australia's National Carbon Test''. She was the first woman to co-host the broadcast of the Melbourne Cup carnival and did so for seven years. In June 2013, Sully and a fellow Channel Ten journalist, Matt Doran Matthew James Doran (born 30 March 1976) is an Australian television and film actor. He is perhaps best known for his roles as Damian Roberts in the Australian soap '' Home and Away'' from 1991 to 1996, "Mouse" in the 1999 film ''The Matrix'', ..., headed a new police crime program on Monday nights c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royston Sully
Royston Cyril John Sully (born 10 April 1951), played one List A Cricket match for Somerset in the 1985 season. Sully, who was born at Taunton, was a right-arm medium-pace bowler and a right-handed lower order batsman who had played occasional matches for Somerset's second eleven in the Minor Counties Championship and the Second Eleven Championship from 1977, often opening the bowling and making useful lower order runs. He was brought into Somerset's first team for the Sunday League match against Glamorgan in May 1985 at Taunton Taunton () is the county town of Somerset, England, with a 2011 population of 69,570. Its thousand-year history includes a 10th-century monastic foundation, Taunton Castle, which later became a priory. The Normans built a castle owned by the .... He scored two runs in Somerset's innings and bowled two overs that cost 15 runs, failing to take a wicket. References 1951 births Living people English cricketers Somerset cricketers Cricketers fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosalie Sully
Rosalie Sully (June 3, 1818 – July 8, 1847) was a nineteenth century American painter who had a lesbian relationship with Charlotte Cushman. Early life Rosalie Sully was born on June 3, 1818. She was the daughter of painter, Thomas Sully, and Sarah Annis Sully. She had three sisters: Jane Cooper Sully Darley, Blanche Sully, and Ellen Oldmixon Sully Wheeler as well as one brother, Alfred Sully. She also had two half-siblings, Mary Chester Sully Neagle and Thomas Wilcocks Sully, from her mother's previous marriage to her father's elder brother, Lawrence Sully. Career Rosalie Sully was a painter. She exhibited landscapes in New York in 1839, and painted several miniatures for actress Charlotte Cushman. Her work was created in a small studio adjoining her father's larger studio. However, due to Rosalie's premature death her promising career never fully blossomed. Personal life Rosalie Sully met Charlotte Cushman in the summer of 1843, while Cushman was getting her portrait p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Matthew Sully
Robert Matthew Sully (17 July 1803, Petersburg, Virginia - 28 October 1855, Buffalo, New York)Biographical data @ RootsWeb was an American portrait painter who worked mostly in Virginia. He is best remembered for his depictions of Native Americans. The famous English-born artist, , was his uncle. Biography He was one of six children born to Matthew Sully (1773-1812) and his wife, Elizabeth (1775-1851), who was from Scotland. He was sent to school in |
Mary Sully
Mary Sully (1896–1963) was a Yankton Dakota avant-garde artist. Her work was largely unknown until the early 21st century. Sully is best known today for colored-pencil Triptych, triptychs and "personality portraits" which often depicted celebrities such as Amelia Earhart, Gertrude Stein, and Greta Garbo. Using abstract forms and symbols coupled with rich and mesmerizing colors and symmetry, many of her panels appear like a kaleidoscope. Her designs draw from and incorporate classic Native American designs — specifically Navajo textiles or Plains parfleches, painted rawhide containers — while also aligning with the Art Nouveau and Bauhaus movements. Although she was active in the early decades of the 20th century when Native American art and Art Nouveau were making a parallel climb into mainstream fine art exhibitions, Sully was considered revolutionary in marrying these two genres. Biography Susan Mable Deloria was born to father Tipi Sapa (Black Lodge), or Philip J. Delo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariette Sully
Mariette Sully (1878–1950) biography at the ''Association l'Art Lyrique Français'' website (in French)SULLY (Mariette) in the ''Encylopédie multimédia de la comédie musicale théâtrale en France 1918–1944'' (in French) was a Belgian soprano who was principally active in operetta in France.O’Connor P. Mariette Sully. In: ''The New Grove Dictionary of Opera.'' Macmillan, London and New York, 1997. Career Sully was born in on December 9, 1878. After leaving school she began working in the theatre, ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaretta Sully West
Margaret Sully West or Margaretta Sully West, née Sully, (d. 1810), was an American stage actress and theater director. She was the director of the Virginia Comedians and as such the leader of the theatrical activity within contemporary Virginia. Life Margaret Sully West was married to Thomas Wade West, mother of Ann West Bignall and mother-in-law of John Bignall. Her spouse, in companionship with Thomas Bignall, had broken the theater monopoly of the Old American Company in 1790 by establishing the Virginia Comedians. The Virginia Comedians established the so called "Virginia circuit", and regularly performed in Richmond- Fredericksburg- Charleston (1794)-Norfolk (1795)- Petersburg (1796)- Alexandria (1797), cities where they also constructed playhouses. Margaret Sully West took over the management of the Virginia Comedians when she was widowed in 1799, and as such played an important role, being the managing director of one of few theater companies existent in America at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
