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Birkhead is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Edith Birkhead, lecturer in English Literature at the University of Bristol and a Noble Fellow at the University of Liverpool *George Birkhead (died 1614), English Roman Catholic priest, archpriest in England from 1608 *Harry Birkhead (died 2013), South African philatelist *Henry Birkhead (1617–1696), English academic, lawyer and Latin poet *Leon Milton Birkhead (1885–1954), American Unitarian minister *Martin Birkhead (died 1590), English politician *Tim Birkhead, Professor of Zoology at the University of Sheffield and author See also *Dannielynn Birkhead paternity case *Burkhead (surname) {{surname, Birkhead ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Edith Birkhead
Edith Birkhead (1889-1951) was a lecturer in English Literature at the University of Bristol and a Noble Fellow at the University of Liverpool. She wrote a pioneering work on Gothic literature: ''The Tale of Terror'' (1921). This work described the fascination with supernatural fiction in English literature from the publication of Horace Walpole's ''The Castle of Otranto'' in 1764 to Charles Maturin's ''Melmoth the Wanderer'' in 1820 on to modern times. She included works from Europe as well as America, including Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe (; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales involving mystery and the macabre. He is widely re .... Works *''Imagery and style in Shelley''. Liverpool: University of Liverpool, 1912. *''The Tale of Terror: A Study of the Gothic Romance''. London: Constable, 1921. *"Sentiment and ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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George Birkhead
George Birkhead or Birket, alias Hall, Lambton, and Salvin (1553–1614) was an English Roman Catholic priest who served as the archpriest of England from 1608 until his death in 1614. Life He was a native of County Durham. He entered the English College, Douai in 1575, and was ordained priest on 6 April 1577. In January 1578 he set out from Reims, accompanied by Richard Haddock and four students, for the English College at Rome, which had just been founded by William Allen under the auspices of Pope Gregory XIII. He left Rome for Reims in September 1580, passing by way of Milan where he and his companions enjoyed the hospitality of Archbishop charles Cardinal Borromeo He was sent in the same year on the English mission. In 1583 he took relics of Edmund Campion to Reims. On 22 January 1608 Pope Paul V Pope Paul V (; ) (17 September 1552 – 28 January 1621), born Camillo Borghese, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 16 May 1605 to ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Harry Birkhead
Harry Birkhead (1931-2013) was a South African philatelist who signed the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists of South Africa in 1982 and was a Fellow of The Royal Philatelic Society London. He was Honorary Life President of the Philatelic Federation of South Africa. Harry was a specialist in the stamps and postal history Postal history is the study of postal systems and how they operate and, or, the study of the use of postage stamps and Cover (philately), covers and associated postal artifacts illustrating historical episodes in the development of postal system ... of the Anglo-Boer War and the Rhodesias. His Rhodesian collection was sold by Christie's Robson Lowe in 1986. Selected publications *''The wherewithal of Wolmaransstad'', Philatelic Federation of South Africa, 1999. (With John Groenewald & Richard Stroud) *''The pseudo-siege of Schweizer-Reneke'', Philatelic Federation of South Africa, 2005. (With John Groenewald) *''The riddle of Rustenburg'', Philatelic Fede ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Henry Birkhead
Henry Birkhead (1617?–1696) was an English academic, lawyer and Latin poet. He is now known as the founder of the Oxford Chair of Poetry. Life Birkhead was born in the parish of St. Gregory, near St. Paul's Cathedral, London. His parents were Margaret and John Birkhead. His father died and his mother remarried and his half sister was the singer Mary Knight. His mother was said to have had eleven children but only Mary and Henry survived childhood. Having been educated in grammar learning by Thomas Farnabie, he became a commoner of Trinity College, Oxford, in Midsummer term 1633, and was admitted scholar on 28 May 1635. A convert to Catholicism, he shortly afterwards entered the college of St. Omer; but his conversion was short-lived. In 1638, by the influence of Archbishop William Laud, he was elected fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, being by then bachelor of arts. After taking his master's degree (5 June 1641), he devoted himself to the study of law. In May 1643 h ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Leon Milton Birkhead
Rev. Leon Milton Birkhead (April 28, 1885– Dec. 1, 1954) was an American Unitarian minister who founded the Friends of Democracy in 1937 "after two trips to Germany had caused him alarm over the growth of the Nazi movement and what he believed to be its associations in the United States." He opposed Nazi sympathizers in America in the 1930s. He was in dispute with Gerald Burton Winrod from the 1920s. As the author of ''The Religion of Free Man'' (1929) he suggested dropping "God out of consideration," and represented the humanist rather than theist Theism is broadly defined as the belief in the existence of at least one deity. In common parlance, or when contrasted with ''deism'', the term often describes the philosophical conception of God that is found in classical theism—or the conc ... wing of the modern Unitarian church.Man the measure: an essay on humanism as religion Arthur Hazard Dakin - 1939 "been powerful enough to threaten a rift between theists and non-theists ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Martin Birkhead
Martin Birkhead (died 1590), of Wakefield and York, was an English politician. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Ripon Ripon () is a cathedral city and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. The city is located at the confluence of two tributaries of the River Ure, the Laver and Skell. Within the boundaries of the historic West Riding of Yorkshire, the ... in 1571 and 1572. References Year of birth missing 1590 deaths Politicians from Wakefield Politicians from York English MPs 1571 English MPs 1572–1583 Members of the Parliament of England for constituencies in Yorkshire {{1572-England-MP-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tim Birkhead
Timothy Robert Birkhead One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: (born 1950) is a British ornithologist. He has been Professor of Behaviour and Evolution at the University of Sheffield since 1976. Education Birkhead was awarded a Bachelor's degree in Biology from Newcastle University in 1972, followed by a Doctor of Philosophy degree from University of Oxford in 1976 for research on the breeding biology and survival of guillemots ''Uria aalge'' supervised by E.K. Dunn and Chris Perrins. He was subsequently awarded a Doctor of Science from Newcastle in 1989. Research and career Birkhead's research on promiscuity in birds redefined the mating systems of birds. Focusing initially on the adaptive significance of male promiscuity and female promiscuity, he later switched to the study of mechanisms and resolved the mechanisms of sperm competition in birds. He provided some of the first evidence of: cryptic female choice in ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Dannielynn Birkhead Paternity Case
The Dannielynn Hope Marshall Birkhead paternity case, a.k.a. ''Birkhead v. Marshall'', was a high-profile legal battle that revolved around the paternity of Anna Nicole Smith's daughter, Dannielynn. Larry Birkhead, Smith's former love interest, filed a lawsuit against Howard K. Stern, Smith's live-in partner who was listed as the father on the birth certificate, seeking to establish his paternity rights. Dannielynn stood to inherit a substantial fortune if Smith's estate succeeded in its ongoing legal battle to claim inheritance from her late husband, an affluent oil tycoon. Given its significant implications and media coverage, the case involved various legal proceedings and garnered substantial public attention. G. Ben Thompson, a former boyfriend of Smith's who worked as a real-estate developer in South Carolina, claimed that pregnant Smith approached him to inform him that he was the father of her unborn child, but he balked telling Smith that was impossible because he had a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |