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Vacher
Vacher is a surname of French origin. Its literal translation means a keeper of stock or cattle or a herdsman but is generally used by people whose ancestry is traced to the cow-herders. It is also used by a small group of people in India. People with the name include: *Antoine Vacher (1873–1920), French geographer * Charles Vacher, (1818–1883), watercolour painter *Chris Vacher (born 1951), British television news presenter * Georges Vacher de Lapouge (1854–1936), French anthropologist and theoretician of eugenics and racialism * Joseph Vacher (1869–1898), French serial killer * Laurent-Michel Vacher (1944–2005), French Canadian philosopher, writer, and journalist * Paul Vacher (before 1936–1975), French perfumer *Polly Vacher (born 1944), English aviator *Sydney Vacher (fl. 1886–1890), English architect *Thomas Brittain Vacher (1805–1880), English lithographer, legal stationer, and printer *William Herbert Vacher William Herbert Vacher (ca.1826 in London – 189 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoine Vacher
Antoine Vacher (18 November 1873 – 16 September 1920) was a French geographer, mainly interested in physical geography, and particularly in hydrography. Early years (1873–1905) Antoine Vacher was the brilliant son of a family of tailors from Montluçon, Allier. His paternal grandfather was a farmer in the Allier, while his maternal grandfather was a craftsman. His father experienced serious financial difficulties and had to go into debt to save his small business. Antoine Vacher was an honorary scholar at the Lycée de Lyon (1880), and a scholar at the Lycée Henri-IV in Paris (1891). He studied at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS). While at the ENS he had to work in various casual jobs during the summer holidays to help repay the family loans. He was a student of Paul Vidal de La Blache, but in his doctorate wrote almost exclusively about physical geography, and ignored human geography. Vacher's fieldwork was mostly concerned with valley forms and measurements of river ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Vacher De Lapouge
Count Georges Vacher de Lapouge (; 12 December 1854 – 20 February 1936) was a French anthropologist and a theoretician of eugenics and Racialism (racial categorization), racialism. He is known as the founder of anthroposociology, the anthropological and sociological study of race as a means of establishing the superiority of certain peoples. Biography While a young law student at the University of Poitiers, Vacher de Lapouge read Herbert Spencer and Charles Darwin. In 1879 he gained a doctorate degree in law and became a magistrate in Niort (Deux-Sèvres) and a prosecutor in Le Blanc. He then studied history and philology at the École pratique des hautes études, and learned several languages such as Akkadian language, Akkadian, Egyptian language, Egyptian, Hebrew language, Hebrew, Chinese language, Chinese, and Japanese language, Japanese at the École du Louvre and at Paul Broca#Anthropology research, School of Anthropology in Paris from 1883 to 1886. From 1886 Vacher de Lap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Vacher
Joseph Vacher (16 November 1869 – 31 December 1898) was a French serial killer and necrophile, sometimes known as "The French Ripper" or "L'éventreur du Sud-Est" ("The South-East Ripper") owing to comparisons to the more famous Jack the Ripper murderer of London, England, in 1888. His scarred face and plain, white, handmade rabbit-fur hat composed his trademark appearance. He killed 11 to 27 people, many of whom were adolescent farm workers, between 1894 and 1897. Life The son of an illiterate farmer, young Joseph Vacher was sent to a very strict Catholic school where he was taught to obey and to fear God. Seeking escape from the intense poverty of his childhood as the 15th child of a peasant family, he joined the army in 1892. Frustrated by slow promotion and no recognition, and infused with the grandiose belief that he was not receiving the attention he deserved, Vacher attempted to kill himself by slicing his throat. This was the first of two suicide attempts. While Vach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Vacher
Christopher George Vacher (born 3 December 1951) is a British television presenter, best known as a long-serving main anchor of BBC West's flagship regional news programme '' Points West'' for 28 years. Early life Brought up near Axminster on the Somerset-Devon border, Vacher attended Sherborne School and the Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth (in the same year as Prince Charles) before joining the Royal Navy The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against ... in 1969 as a seaman officer. Broadcasting career Vacher joined the BBC in 1981 working for Radio Bristol before becoming a freelance reporter and newsreader for ''Points West'' a year later. He joined the main presenting team in 1983 and holds the record as the programme's longest serving main presenter. Vacher, a pas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Brittain Vacher
Thomas Brittain Vacher (1805–1880) was a British lithographer, legal stationer, and printer. He founded ''Vacher's Parliamentary Companion'', a parliamentary reference work which continues to this day as ''Vachers Quarterly'', published by Dods. Biography Vacher was the son of the stationer Thomas Vacher of Parliament Street, Westminster, where he was born. He went into business with his brother George; the third son Charles Vacher was known as an artist. Thomas Brittain Vacher was himself an amateur artist. He married in 1850. Vacher was the author of ''Brief Prayers for Travellers'' (1868). His son, the architect Sydney Vacher, designed the elaborate pulpit in St Margaret's church, Westminster as a memorial to him. See also * William Herbert Vacher William Herbert Vacher (ca.1826 in London – 1899 in Hastings, England) was a prominent British merchant and banker who was a member of the Shanghai Municipal Council, a chairman of the British Chamber of Commerce in Shan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Vacher
Charles Vacher (1818–1883) was a British painter in watercolours. Life He was the third son of the well-known stationer and bookseller, Thomas Vacher, of 29 Parliament Street, Westminster, where he was born on 22 June 1818. He studied art at the Royal Academy. Between 1839 and 1843 he pursued his studies in Rome. Many tours followed, in which he visited Italy, Sicily, France, Germany, Algeria, and Egypt, making large numbers of sketches in all these countries. These sketches furnished him with materials for his numerous drawings, which were highly finished and had an excellence of composition and an abundance of interesting details that gave his works a considerable popularity. His speciality was Italian views, but Egyptian and some Algerian subjects were also sketched and painted. The marine painter Edward William Cooke visited his Italian studio in 1846. He was a rapid worker, and, besides over two thousand sketches which he left at his death, he often executed twelve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney Vacher
Sydney Vacher (2 April 1854 – 11 January 1935) was an English architect. Biography Vacher was born in Kensington, the son of Thomas Brittain Vacher (1805–80). He entered a partnership with Evelyn Hellicar in the late 1880s. Their office was at 35 Wellington Street, The Strand, London. Together they won the competition to design the Valley Primary School, Shortlands, Kent in 1889. He died at Portsmouth, aged 80. Publications *''Fifteenth Century Italian Ornament'', London, Bernard Quaritch, 1886. Architectural designs *1888: 96 Plaistow Lane, Bromley *1890: Valley Primary School, Beckenham Lane, Shortlands, Kent *Measured Drawings of Westminster Abbey *Pulpit (in Memory of Thomas Brittain Vacher) in St Margaret's Church, Westminster, London *1890: 99 Plaistow Lane, Bromley Work exhibited at RA Vacher's work exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts included:The Royal Academy of Arts - A complete distionary of contributors and their work from its foundation vol 8 *1882: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polly Vacher
Polly Vacher (born 1944) is an English aviator specialising in long-distance solo flights. She was awarded the MBE for services to charity in 2002. She lives in Oxfordshire. Born in south Devon, she trained in physiotherapy and spent twenty years in music education. Her interest in aviation developed from a charity skydiving event. She obtained her private pilot licence with her husband Peter in Australia in 1994 and they followed this up by a circumnavigation of the continent. In 1997 she toured the United States by plane, flying solo across the North Atlantic in both directions. Her first ''Wings Around the World Challenge'' in aid of the charity Flying Scholarships for the Disabled was in January–May 2001 when she made a solo eastbound circumnavigation of the world in her single-engine Piper PA-28 Cherokee Dakota G-FRGN, the smallest aircraft flown solo by a woman around the world via Australia, including a 16-hour segment from Hawaii to California. On 6 May 2003 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Vacher
Paul Vacher () (died 1975) was a French perfumer. Vacher created Le Galion fragrances, trademarked in 1936. He worked at Guerlain, among other perfume houses. He is best known for his parts in the creations of Miss Dior for Christian Dior in 1947 with Jean Carles, and Arpège for Lanvin in 1927 with André Fraysse André Fraysse (1902-1984) was a French perfumer. He was noted for his work with Lanvin. His creations included: * Arpège (1927) with Paul Vacher * Eau de Lanvin * Prétexte (1937) * Rumeur (1934), relaunched in a new formulation 2006 * Scandal ( .... Until 1990, Le Galion created and distributed 24 fragrances, the best known of which was Sortilège. ReferencesFragrantia French perfumers 1975 deaths Year of birth missing {{France-business-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurent-Michel Vacher
Laurent-Michel Vacher (26 May 1944 – 8 July 2005) was a French-born, French Canadian philosopher, writer, journalist (''Le Devoir, Hobo-Québec, Chroniques, Spirale'') and teacher (Ahuntsic College, Montreal). He was a proponent of scientism, rationalism, positivism, pragmatism and materialism, a critic of mainstream schools of today's philosophy and the usual history-centered pedagogy in the field of philosophy. He was one of the few contemporary philosophers who possessed sufficient scientific knowledge to fairly assess the unique role of modern science and scientific method as a knowledge-acquiring mechanism; in his opinion, all recent or less recent scientific knowledge should be considered by philosophers in any of their philosophical approaches as the necessary starting point to avoid the mythical speech and the metaphysical empty talk. He often criticised the attitude of some French philosophers concerning what in Francophone literature is labelled somewhat pej ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |