Pound (surname)

Pound is the

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Albert Pound Albert E. Pound (June 2, 1831 - December 1913)Albert E. Pound
at findagrave.com was an ...

(1831-?), American politician and businessman *

Cuthbert Winfred Pound Cuthbert Winfred Pound (June 20, 1864 – February 3, 1935, Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York) was an American lawyer and politician from New York. He was Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals from 1932 to 1934. Life He was born on June 20 ...

(1864–1935), American lawyer and politician from New York *

Dick Pound Richard William Duncan Pound (born March 22, 1942), better known as Dick Pound, is a Canadian swimming (sport), swimming champion, lawyer, and Spokesperson, spokesman for ethics in sport. He was the first president of the World Anti ...

(born 1942), Canadian lawyer *

Dudley Pound Admiral of the Fleet Sir Alfred Dudley Pickman Rogers Pound, (29 August 1877 – 21 October 1943) was a British senior officer of the Royal Navy. He served in the First World War as a battleship commander, taking part in the Battle of Jutland ...

(1877–1943), British naval officer *

Ezra Pound Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a Fascism, fascist collaborator in Italy during World War II. His works ...

(1885–1972), American expatriate poet and critic *

Glenn Simpson Pound Glenn Simpson Pound (March 7, 1914 – July 6, 2010) was an American educator and acting chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1977. Born in Hector, Arkansas, Pound worked as a sharecropper in the Rio Grande Valley in Texa ...

(1914-2010), American educator *

James Pound James Pound (1669–1724) was an English clergyman and astronomer. Life He was the son of John Pound, of Bishops Cannings, Wiltshire, where he was born. He matriculated at St. Mary Hall, Oxford, on 16 March 1687; graduated B.A. from Hart Hall ...

(1669–1724), English clergyman and astronomer *

Jessie Brown Pounds Jessie Hunter Brown Pounds (August 31, 1861 – March 3, 1921) was an American lyricist of gospel songs. Life Jessie Hunter Brown was born into a farm family in the village of Hiram, Portage County, Ohio. A staff writer for ''Christian Stan ...

(1861–1921), American writer of gospel songs *

Louise Pound Louise Pound (June 30, 1872 – June 28, 1958) was an American folklorist, linguist, and college professor at the University of Nebraska. In 1955, Pound was the first woman elected president of the Modern Language Association, and in the same y ...

(1872–1958), American folklorist and college professor *

Omar Pound Omar Shakespear Pound (10 September 1926 – 2 March 2010)
''The New York Times'', 10 March 2010. was an Anglo-American ...

(1926–2010), Anglo-American writer, teacher, and translator *

Robert Pound Robert Vivian Pound (May 16, 1919 – April 12, 2010) was a Canadian-American physicist who helped discover nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and who devised the famous Pound–Rebka experiment supporting general relativity. He became a tenured p ...

(1919–2010), American physicist *

Roscoe Pound Nathan Roscoe Pound (October 27, 1870 – June 30, 1964) was an American legal scholar and educator. He served as Dean of the University of Nebraska College of Law from 1903 to 1911 and Dean of Harvard Law School from 1916 to 1936. He was a membe ...

(1870–1964), American legal scholar and educator *

Stephen Pound Stephen Pelham Pound (born 3 July 1948) is a British former Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ealing North from 1997 to 2019. Background His father, Pelham Pendennis Pound (1922–1999) was a BBC sub-editor and ...

(born 1948), British Labour Party politician *

Stephen Bosworth Pound Stephen Bosworth Pound (January 14, 1833 – May 14, 1911) was a pioneer lawyer, senator and judge in Nebraska, USA. Early life and education Pound was born at Farmington, New York, son of farmer Nathan King Pound and Hannah (née Lane). The Poun ...

(1833–1911), lawyer, senator and judge *

Thaddeus C. Pound Thaddeus Coleman Pound (December 6, 1832 – November 20 or 21, 1914) was an American businessman from Wisconsin who served in both houses of the Wisconsin legislature, as the tenth Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin, and as a U.S. Representative ...

(1833–1914), American politician and businessman, brother of Albert Pound and grandfather of Ezra Pound {{surname, Pound