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Sybil (given Name)
Sybil or Sibyl is a feminine given name of Greek origin given in reference to the sibyls, oracles of Ancient Greece. It has been in common use in Christian countries since the Middle Ages. Latinate forms of the name in use by 1381 included ''Sibilla'' and ''Sibilia''. It was thought suitable as a name for girls by Christians, despite its pagan origins, because the sibyls had delivered messages from a deity and were thought to have been blessed by God with partial understanding of the coming of Jesus Christ. It became more common in the 1800s. Usage of the name recently increased due to a character on the popular TV series ''Downton Abbey''. Sibylle, a French version of the name, is considered a ''bon chic bon genre'' name more likely to be given to girls from upper class French families. Notable people with the name Sybil include A–F * Sybil Andrews (1898–1992), English-Canadian artist, specialised in printmaking, best known for her modernist linocuts * Sybil Arundale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Stuart Church
Frederick Stuart Church (1842–1924) was an American artist, working mainly as an illustrator and especially known for his (often allegorical) depiction of animals. Biography He was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His father was an important figure in politics as well as a well-known lawyer. At the age of 13 he left school and took a job at the then newly established American Express Company in Chicago, with his parents intending him to have a business career. Being nineteen at the outbreak of the Civil War he served in the Union Army. After his discharge he returned to Chicago, having decided to devote his life to art, and started studying drawing under Walter Shirlaw at the city's Academy of Design. In 1870 he took the decision to continue his studies in New York City, which became his home for the rest of his life. He enrolled at the National Academy of Design, where he was taught by Lemuel Wilmarth. He joined the Art Students League, headed by his old teacher W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Megan Sybil Baker
Linnea Sinclair (born 1954 in New Jersey, United States) is an American writer of Science Fiction Romance, Fantasy romance and Paranormal romance. Sinclair's ''Gabriel's Ghost'' was the winner of the 2006 RITA Award in the Best Paranormal Romance category. She has used the pseudonym Megan Sybil Baker. Formerly, she has been a news reporter and a private detective. Personal life early career Linnea Sinclair was born in New Jersey, USA. She studied journalism and criminology at Indiana University Bloomington (1972–1975) and Florida State University. Sinclair is a former investigative news reporter and private investigator in the Central Florida area who has written for many private investigative journals. She owned Island Investigations. Her first professional sale was the Fantasy romance Wintertide in 1999 to LTDBooks. Since 2004 she has been published by Bantam Books. Writing career While she was still a practicing PI and publishing with LTDBooks, she used the pen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sybil Chaplin
Sybil Judith Chaplin , known as Judith Chaplin (née Schofield; 19 August 193919 February 1993), was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. Career Chaplin was elected councillor for Norfolk County Council 1975, following her husband into the role. There she became chairman of the education committee. She took on a role in 1986 with Institute of Directors, becoming head of policy for the group. in 1988 she became special advisor to Nigel Lawson, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, and remained in the role when John Major took over the following year. When Major became Prime Minister, she acted as his Private Secretary and political assistant. She was elected to Parliament for Newbury at the 1992 election. In the following June, she was appointed OBE, and she was considered likely to become chancellor of the exchequer herself in the future. However, her death less than a year later meant that she did not achieve the role. Personal life Sybil Judith Schofield ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sybil Carmen
Carmen Regina Revnes ( née Attkisson; December 23, 1896 — April 14, 1929https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1616/images/31070_171172-00691?pId=183230 ), known professionally as Sybil Carmen, was an American actress, dancer, and Ziegfeld girl. Early life Sybil Carmen was born Carmen Regina Attkisson on December 23, 1896 in Parkersburg, West Virginia, and was raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Russell Attkisson and Agnes Gertrude Attkisson (née Haggerty, 1875–1952)."Sybil Carmen Dies in Paris" ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'' (April 18, 1929): 2. via She had two brothers, Charles and Edgar, and one sister, Dagmar. She moved to New York as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sybil Campbell
Sybil Campbell (9 October 1889 – 29 August 1977) was the first woman to be appointed as a stipendiary magistrate in Britain when she became metropolitan police magistrate at Tower Bridge Magistrate's Court in 1945. She was thus the first woman to be a professional magistrate or judge in Britain, and remained the only full-time woman magistrate or judge in England until her retirement in 1961 and the appointment of Elizabeth Lane as a county court judge in 1962. Early life Campbell was born on 9 October 1889 in British Ceylon, where her father was an agent of a tea company, but she had family roots in Argyll. Her maternal grandfather was Sir William Bovill, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, who presided at the long-running Tichborne case. She was educated at home and then from the age of 13 at a school in North Berwick. She studied Natural Sciences and Economics at Girton College, Cambridge from 1908, after some preparatory study in Paris and Edinburgh. Legal career S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethel Sybil Burwell
Ethel Turner (24 January 1870 – 8 April 1958) was an English-born Australian novelist and children's literature writer. Life She was born Ethel Mary Burwell in Doncaster in England. Her father died when she was two, leaving her mother Sarah Jane Burwell with two daughters (Ethel and Lillian). A year later, Sarah Jane married Henry Turner, who was 20 years older and had six children of his own. Sarah Jane and Henry had a daughter, Rose. Henry Turner died suddenly, leaving Sarah Jane with nine children and little income. In 1879 Sarah Jane moved to Australia with Ethel, Lillian, and Rose; within the next two years she married Charles Cope and gave birth to his son Rex. Ethel Turner was educated at Paddington, New South Wales Public School and Sydney Girls High School—she was one of the school's original thirty-seven pupils. She started her writing career at eighteen, founding the ''Parthenon,'' a journal for young people, with her sister Lillian. As 'Dame Durden' she wrote c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sybil Buck
Sibyl Buck (born May 27, 1972) is an American musician, yoga instructor, and fashion model. Biography Born in Versailles, France, Buck started her modeling career in 1992 and has worked for Yves Saint-Laurent, Chanel, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Alexander McQueen, and many other fashion houses. After quitting the modeling industry in 1998, Buck became a mother and began playing rock music in bands. She played bass and sang in Champions of Sound with Chris Traynor of Orange 9mm and Helmet, and with Sergio Vega of Quicksand. In 2007 she recorded and performed with Joseph Arthur as a member of his backing band The Lonely Astronauts, appearing on his '' Let's Just Be'', '' Temporary People'', and '' The Graduation Ceremony'' albums. Buck played bass guitar for Bush in 2012, filling in for Corey Britz for a few shows. She is currently performing with the band High Desert Fires', and appears on the debut album Light is the Revelation. Buck also acted, playing the personal assis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sybil Le Brocquy
Sybil le Brocquy (21 December 1892 – 4 September 1973) was an Irish playwright, patron of the arts and conservationist. One of her three children was the painter Louis le Brocquy. Life and work Born Helen Mary Sybil Staunton in Herbert Street, Dublin to Dorothy Eleanor Redington and Peter Maurice Staunton. Her father was barrister who later became a solicitor. Though he moved to Aram Lodge, Castlerea, County Roscommon where he practised law, le Brocquy grew up in Dublin and Howth, going to secondary school in Loreto Abbey, Rathfarnham, and later at Loreto Convent, St. Stephen’s Green. She went on to study German and singing in Coblenz. She married Albert le Brocquy on 30 December 1915 and settled in Dublin. They had three children, Louis, Noel and Melanie. le Brocquy became involved in various women's movements helping to organise the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in July, 1926. She was involved with the League of Nations Association as well as helping ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sybil Brintrup
Sybil Brintrup Kruger (1954 – 12 August 2020) was a Chilean conceptual artist who worked with both traditional and digital media. Early life Brintrup was born in Puerto Montt, Chile in 1954. She received a BA degree in painting from the Catholic University of Santiago in 1978. In 2004 she became a professor of art at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. The youngest daughter of three brothers, she lived during her childhood, until the age of five, in the vicinity of the town of Fresia, Llanquihue. Shortly after her fifth birthday, she moved with her family to the town of Puerto Varas. At the age of 17, she entered the Catholic University of Santiago in the career of education, but after four years of studies she decided to pursue a career in the Arts by studying for a Bachelor of Arts with a mention in painting, from which she graduated in 1978. During the years 1979–80, in the middle of the dictatorship, she attended the Taller de Artes Visuales (TAV) organize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sybil G
Sibyls were oracular women believed to possess prophetic powers in ancient Greece. Sybil or Sibyl may also refer to: Films * ''Sybil'' (1921 film) * ''Sybil'' (1976 film), a film starring Sally Field * ''Sybil'' (2007 film), a remake of the 1976 film starring Tammy Blanchard and Jessica Lange * ''Sibyl'' (2019 film), a French comedy-drama film Literature * ''Sybil'' (novel) or ''The Two Nations'', an 1845 novel by Benjamin Disraeli * ''Sybil'' (Schreiber book), a book by Flora Rheta Schreiber about Shirley Ardell Mason, an alleged sufferer from multiple personality disorder * ''Sybil'', a 1952 novel by Louis Auchincloss * ''The Sybil'' or ''Sibyllan'', a 1956 Swedish novel by Pär Lagerkvist * ''The Sybil'', an American dress reform periodical founded by Lydia Sayer Hasbrouck Music * ''Sybil'' (album), a 1989 album by American singer Sybil * ''Sybil'' (operetta) adaptation of ''Szibill'' by Victor Jacobi * Sibyl Vane (band), indie rock band from Pau, France created in 2002 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sybil Brand
Sybil Brand (née Morris; May 8, – February 17, 2004) was an American philanthropist and activist, best known locally for her work in improving jail conditions for women in Los Angeles. She was the namesake of the Sybil Brand Institute (SBI), a women's jail in Los Angeles County. SBI was closed after the 1994 Northridge earthquake. Early life Sybil Morris was born in Chicago, Illinois to Jewish immigrant parents Abraham "A.W." Morris (–1951) and Hattie Morris (–1969) sometime between 1899 and 1903, with some of her friends favoring the earliest year. Her father, a stockbroker, relocated the family to Los Angeles when Sybil was two years old. At age twelve, she began what would become a lifelong pursuit of charity and volunteering when she organized a diaper hemming program with the other girls in her class. Brand would later recall being inspired by meeting a young triple amputee in a hospital at the insistence of her mother. Prison reform Already well-known in cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sybil Moseley Bingham
Sybil Moseley Bingham (September 14, 1792 — February 27, 1848) was an American teacher in the Hawaiian Islands, a member of the first company of missionaries sent by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM). Early life Sybil Moseley was born in Westfield, Massachusetts, the daughter of Pliny Moseley and Sophia Pomeroy Moseley. She was an orphan by age twenty, left to support three younger sisters.H. B. Restarick"Sybil Bingham, As Youthful Bride, Came to Islands in Brig Thaddeus"''Honolulu Star-Bulletin'' (August 15, 1931): 6. via Newspapers.com She was a teacher for nine years as a young woman,Barbara Bennett Peterson"Sybil Moseley Bingham"''American National Biography''. some of that time living in Canandaigua, New York. Mission years in Hawaii Hiram Bingham I was a missionary in Honolulu for twenty years, from 1820 to 1840, and founder of the Kawaiahaʻo Church. As his wife, Sybil Moseley Bingham shared the work. "I believe God appoints my work," she wro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
