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Shairp
Shairp is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Christian Fraser-Tytler (née Shairp; 1897–1995), Scottish military officer * James Shairp (died 1795), British Marines officer and member of the First Fleet to Australia * John Campbell Shairp (1819–1885), Scottish critic and man of letters * Mordaunt Shairp (1887–1939), English dramatist and screenwriter See also *Sharp (surname) *Sharpe (surname) Sharpe is a surname. Notable people with the name include: Government * Alfred Sharpe (1853–1935), British colonial administrator * Edward M. Sharpe (1887–1975), Associate Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court * George Sharpe (politician) ( ... {{surname, Shairp English-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Shairp
James Maitland Shairp (died 1795) was an officer in the British Marines and a member of the First Fleet which founded European settlement in Australia. Commissioned as a Marines officer in 1778, Shairp volunteered for Australian service in 1787 and spent two years as second in command at Rose Hill, New South Wales, the colony's only inland settlement. In 1789 he was a principal protagonist in the "Criminal Court Affair," a dispute between civilian and military authorities which was a catalyst for the 1792 replacement of the colony's Marine detachment with the New South Wales Corps. His colonial deployment at an end, Shairp returned to England in 1792 and resumed his service with the Chatham Division of Marines. He was promoted to captain of Marines in 1795, but died later that year. Early life Shairp was initially commissioned as a second lieutenant, 55 Company, Portsmouth Division on 12 June 1778. On 25 October 1780 he was promoted to first lieutenant and transferred to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Campbell Shairp
John Campbell Shairp (30 July 1819 – 18 September 1885) was a Scottish critic and man of letters. Life He was born at Houstoun House, Linlithgowshire, the third son of Major Norman Shairp of Houstoun, and was educated at Edinburgh Academy and the University of Glasgow. Shairp gained a Snell exhibition to Balliol College, Oxford in 1840. In 1842 he won the Newdigate prize for a poem on Charles XII of Sweden, and took his degree in 1844. During these years the "Oxford Movement" was at its height. Shairp was stirred by John Henry Newman's sermons, and admired the poetry of John Keble, on whose character and work he wrote an essay; but he remained faithful to his Presbyterian upbringing. After leaving Oxford he took a mastership at Rugby School under Archibald Campbell Tait. In 1857 Shairp became assistant to the professor of humanity in the University of St Andrews, and in 1861 he was appointed to that chair. In 1868 he was presented to the principalship of the United Col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Fraser-Tytler
Christian Helen Fraser-Tytler CBE (née Shairp; 23 August 1897 – 1 July 1995) was a member of the Scottish landed gentry and a senior officer in Britain's Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) during World War II. Early life Christian Fraser-Tytler was born at Elie in Fife, the daughter of John Campbell Shairp, a lawyer and the 9th Laird of Houstoun, Uphall, in Linlithgowshire, and his wife Harriet Caroline, daughter of Sir Thomas Erskine, 2nd Baronet of Cambo. She was educated at home by a governess. In 1917, during World War I, she joined the Foreign Office as a clerical officer.'Christian Fraser-Tytler', ''Times'', 13 July 1995.'Shairp of Houstoun', ''Burke's Landed Gentry'', 1937.'Erskine', ''Burke's Peerage and Baronetage'', 1953. Marriage In 1919 she was working with the British delegation to the negotiations for the Treaty of Versailles. There she met Major Neil Fraser-Tytler of Aldourie and Balnain, Inverness-shire, who had won a DSO and Bar with the Royal Field ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mordaunt Shairp
Mordaunt Shairp (13 March 1887 – 18 January 1939) was an English dramatist and screenwriter born at Totnes. Educated at St Paul's School, London, and Lincoln College, Oxford, he spent much of his life as a schoolmaster in London and wrote many plays for pupils to perform. His adult plays dealt with darker interpersonal relationships and ''The Green Bay Tree'' (premièred at St Martin's Theatre in London's West End on 25 January 1933 and also performed on Broadway) was originally controversial because of its gay subtext. Shairp also spent a short spell in Hollywood as a screenwriter. He died at Hastings. Selective filmography * '' The Dark Angel'' (1935, directed by Sidney Franklin; cowritten with Lillian Hellman) * '' The White Angel'' (1936, directed by William Dieterle) * ''Wee Willie Winkie'' (1937, directed by John Ford) Plays *''The Crime at Blossoms'' (1932) *''The Green Bay Tree ''The Green Bay Tree'' is a 1933 three-act drama written by Mordaunt Shairp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharp (surname)
Sharp is an English language surname, cognate to the German '. It is also akin to words which have the sense of scraping, e.g. Latin ' 'ditch', Russian ' 'to scrape'. Recorded variations of the surname include Sharp, Sharpe, Shairp, Sharps and the diminutives Sharpin, Sharplin and Sharpling. It originates from a medieval nickname, with the derivation from the Old English word "scearp", meaning sharp and used to describe a "sharp or smart" person. People bearing the surname Sharp A * Abraham Sharp (1651–1742), English schoolmaster, mathematician and astronomer * Alan Sharp (1934–2013), Scottish author * Alex Sharp (actor) (1921–2008), American actor, stuntman and writer * Anne Sharp (1916-2011), Scottish soprano * Anthony Sharp (Quaker) (1643–1707), Dublin Quaker * Anthony Sharp (1915–1984), English actor * Archie Sharp (born 1995), British boxer * Arthur Sharp (footballer) B * Bartholomew Sharp (c. 1650–1702), English buccaneer * Billy Sharp (born 1986), E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharpe (surname)
Sharpe is a surname. Notable people with the name include: Government * Alfred Sharpe (1853–1935), British colonial administrator * Edward M. Sharpe (1887–1975), Associate Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court * George Sharpe (politician) (c. 1907 – 1985), Canadian politician, mayor of Winnipeg * George H. Sharpe (1828–1900), American lawyer, soldier, secret service officer, diplomat and politician * Henry A. Sharpe (1848–1919), Associate Justice of the List of justices of the Alabama Supreme Court, Alabama Supreme Court * Horatio Sharpe (1718–1790), British Royal Governor of Maryland * James Sharpe (Australian politician) * Larry Sharpe (politician) (born 1968), American business consultant and political activist * Merrell Q. Sharpe, American politician * Montagu Sharpe (1857–1942), English lawyer and antiquarian * Nelson Sharpe (1858–1935), Associate Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court * Penny Sharpe, Australian politician * Peter Sharpe (1777–1842), Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
